skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry but I didn't find this entirely useful. Are they allowing us to use the raw data sources? If so, I wasn't able to download anything, just clicked through and found more documentation.
Can you say noise? How is this remotely startup related?
Great find Brad! I bet a lot of startup founders have tracks like these lying around.
Stop freelancing and join a company - Yeah I said it
>>> As a user, I am a bit worried about rolling releases though. Maybe someone here can alleviate my worries?

As an Arch Linux user, I've had no problems with rolling releases. I know that's not much to go on, but I think with a large known company running the show, there is going to be some responsibility here.

Hopefully others can chime in.
I thought the entire concept was kind of confusing.
Getting disgruntled and indiscriminately dumping whatever you find on sensitive internal networks, in violation of the military law you agreed to be governed by when you VOLUNTEERED for the US military, is not an honorable self-sacrifice.

If we believe that, then we should believe that any employee of any startup has an honorable sacrificial duty to leak that startup's code along with a dump of its databases.
It tests the candidate's ability to work on a vaguely specified problem and also gives them insight on how the candidate feels about working on a lot of poorly specified projects.

If the candidate is not smart enough to get up and leave the interview after being asked such a terrible question, you don't want to hire them. The company's actual business model is to sell the resumes of people who are smart enough to reject working there to companies looking for good coders.

Edit: confusing use of "their".
Overall Andrew has done a awesome job, from just being a guy with a great idea and taking it to be the fastest growing company in history while inventing a new space is quite remarkable. I think everyone on this board would have liked to hit a homerun like this after only a couple hits at the plate.
The argument I took away from this article isn't that we should be afraid that Google is working on some all seeing eye that could be used for evil, but that Glass represents a large step in the erosion of our privacy.

Bit by bit for years we've been uploading our personal information into the public domain. If I tell Facebook I'm a married man who is in to prostitutes and Graph Search exposes it to the world[1], I've erroded my own privacy unwittingly.

If I walk out of a brothel and someone catches me with their Google Glass, now they've eroded my privacy. At first it seems like a small step, no one has Google Glass, what are the odds of me being exposed? But time marches on and technology becomes ubiquitous (especially technology as legitimately useful as Glass). New technology comes along and builds on top of the old and it wears away at our privacy, a little at a time.

I'm sure the married men on Facebook who put they are in to prostitutes did it under the pretence that it would just be shown to whoever they are friends with. Suddenly Graph Search comes along and they're exposed. Apply the same model to Google Glass, and you end up with something like what the author is talking about.

[1] http://actualfacebookgraphsearches.tumblr.com/
Technically he was a traitor to the military, but the military was a traitor to society in general... So it evens out.
Perhaps we should first establish the precise benefits of individual consciousness.
Skillshare's CEO on Platforms and Marketplaces
To be honest, a software patent should be required to include working code. The entire point of the system is not to provide money for trolls and lawyers, but ensure that technical knowledge is disclosed to the public while ensuring the inventors of that knowledge are compensated. That is currently not happening.
Shadow DOM is also turned on for Webkit nightly. This article makes Chrome sound so much more advanced when in reality Webkit is only a couple of weeks behind.

I also have never seen people using -khtml- and -apple- prefixes.
Just curious - How close is WebKit in terms of complexity, to the Linux Kernel?
How many Harlem Shake videos are out there?
Not a scientific experiment or something like that, just tried it on uncompressed jQuery for fun;

Original file: 268381 bytes

Zopfli (with -i1000) 75730 bytes in 950ms

Gzip (with -9) 79388 bytes in 30ms

It's really slow but the difference seems significant enough. (They have more data here: https://zopfli.googlecode.com/files/Data_compression_using_Z...)
I thought Ubuntu's original reason for existing was because Debian releases don't happen often enough?
Bar Sign Prediction: No Under 21 and No Glasses
> No idea why people call this guy a hero. If you read any history of any war, innocent people die because of human error.

You mostly don't read about innocent people dying in war. It's expected and nobody really cares. History books talk about how amazing the Roman or British empires were. When did you ever read anything more than vague lip-service about all the killing of innocent people that involved?
You can't take the grad school out of the boy.

But isn't that Suzanne Somers - Wire interview seriously... whatever it is? Come on, who else am I going to get to watch that? :)
Why do "moderators" feel the need to weigh in then, if they have no visibility of the problem?

There was nothing in that thread that requires moderation (other than the mods themselves)... so why are they even there?
Diet for a Small Planet outlined some of the political issues involved. You could read that. Second, support anything which promotes better education and more independence. A lot of charities worsen the problem by promoting dependence, among other things.
The Shelf Life of Food
I picked this up the day it came out and I have been super impressed with the frequency of the updates that have been made. The book is very well written and useful. It also covers 1.5, which is great.
HN has a good FAQ - link at the bottom - the guiding principle for posting is satisfying intellectual curiosity.

This does it for the history buff in me - startup or not. Anyway Lincoln was a serial entrepreneur.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/taliban-study-wi...

But it's also common sense, right? It is not controversial that the Taliban operate death squads. If you want to say NATO does too, fine, but that doesn't change the implications of the document dump. It does in fact create a list of specific people subject to reprisal killings by a group that is world famous for targeted reprisal killings on a scale even the US Army (in your least charitable interpretation) would have difficulty rivaling.

Still another response to your criticism is that you've set an unreasonably high bar. How many Pashtun residence of Paktia province do you know? I don't know many. How well reported to you think Ghazni province is compared to LA County? You're suggesting that we not take harm seriously until an extremely thin layer of journalists can document that harm carefully. Well, that's never going to happen. 60% of every Pashtun person identified by the document dump could already have been murdered and we wouldn't know.

History suggests that this concern is more than legitimate. How good do you feel the accounting has been for death squads in South America?

Julian Assange is alleged to have sat in a room full of journalists and said "Well, they're informants. So, if they get killed, they've got it coming to them. They deserve it." That seems like an easy claim for some journalist who was at the table to have knocked down. Has that happened, or is it likely that Assange actually said that? The journalist who made that allegation was David Leigh, investigations editor or The Guardian. FRONTLINE ran the claim in their documentary. Do you think FRONTLINE didn't fact-check?
No. Before it was known as PyPy, PyPy was known as Psyco. I remembered playing with it. In Pressyo's internal documentation there were many mentions of using Psyco (we never actually ended up using it)
I love name.com but I find this irritating enough that I plan to find another provider unless they fix this.
Groupon IPO: Pass on this deal (2011)
The idea is that not all browsers support media queries, javascript, etc. (the things that are required to make responsive design work). So if the responsive design isn't going to work, what is it that you want the client to see as the default/base style? "Mobile First" says that the default/base style should be the simplest one, which is generally the mobile design (single column, not as many "moving parts", etc.).
Mixpanel - Increases in reliability and speed of Notifications
Regardless of the merits of this particular submission, Hacker News is not just for discussing startups, but "anything that good hackers would find interesting" and "that includes more than hacking and startups".
Afternoon Project: arXiv paper titles as fortunes
I was not aware of this. Adblock just showed me a blank page.
How Computer Programming is taught at CIn/UFPE
Part of the problem (as I understand it) is that when patent examiners reject a patent application, they are required to give a reason from an approved list of rejection reasons. The "this already exists" reason requires the examiner to cite some sort of approved publication which describes the invention. Unfortunately, the list of approved publications is essentially "existing patents and nothing else." The patent office recently (less than a year ago) started a wiki to allow experts in certain fields to document the state of the art in that field.

Another part of the problem is that patent examiners are required to examine X number of patents per unit time. Unfortunately, when a patent applicant resubmits a rejected application, the patent examiner does not get credit for examining the patent a second time. So an applicant can troll the patent examiner by repeatedly modifying the application. The examiner becomes so overwhelmed with resubmitted applications that he or she has no choice but to approve the application in order to meet quota.

The result of these rules is that a patent examiner effectively can't reject a patent application unless someone has already tried to patent the exact same thing. Or, "blame the game, not the player."
Pleas are actually very common. If he refused, then there would be people posting on how admirable it was that he stuck to his guns.
Zooming in and clicking on the arrows:

> IP:
Location:
Netblock:
AS Name:
ISP:
Reverse DNS:
50.16.161.238
Ashburn, United States
50.16.0.0/16
AMAZON-AES
AMAZON.COM INC.
ec2-50-16-161-238.compute-1.amazonaws.com

So, not a coincidence, but also not suspicious - it's just Amazon's data center.
At least part of the answer for "Unsubscribe to junk snail mail" exists - https://www.catalogchoice.org/

"Glamera" too, http://www.google.com/glass/

I'd just like the "Time Stopper", a lot of the rest of these could be solved without any effort if that existed.
django is an ecosystem begging for a cookbook of tips and tricks. There is surely something in this that I don't know.
So if a volunteer army is committing mass atrocities in the name of protecting state secrets, nobody should blow the whistle because they volunteered for the position before they knew what they were going to be doing?

I'm just wondering where the line is drawn here.
Yup. Got me too. Beautiful story. Lots of love there.

Neither my wife nor I were ready for any of our kids. I don't think you ever are. What these guys did was, among other things, down-right heroic. Not everyone would be open to changing their lives to such an extent by choice.

It's also a wonderful representation of real values found in the gay community.

This country will be far better off when we start to seriously pull away from fanatical religiously-motivated phobias, discrimination and down-right bigotry.

As an atheist I am actually seen as worst than a gay person by the religious extreme right. I bet you a pile of cash not one of those self-righteous a--holes would even think about adopting a non-white kid someone found in the subway.

Anyhow, enjoyed the story. Something socially positive to point to for the day. And, yes, I think it definitely belongs on HN's front page. Personally, when I only focus on tech I feel like I become less of a human being. This is one thing my kids taught me by force over the years.
If that was an employee of Enron circa 2000, yes I think she or he should be celebrated. It's not like Manning "indiscriminately dump[ed]" documents from an organization that was clearly honorable and honest -- quite on the contrary, it seems.
Your second paragraph ignores the inference required to go from victim's blood on defendant's shoe to defendant's shoe was in physical proximity to victim's body. It also ignores the inference required to go from blood is measured as matching victim's to blood came from victim's body. It also ignores the inference required to go from blood was deposited onto defendant's shoe directly by victim's body to defendant was wearing shoe at time of blood deposit and thus in presence of victim's still-bleeding corpse.

The (admittedly pedantic) point being made is that proving 'x' never directly supports anything other than the truth of 'x'. Moving from 'x' is true to 'y' is true always requires further inference.
> It's your responsibility as a consultant to pick your clients carefully.

In the mobile industry, (and the web dev industry as well), the market functions on the basis that 90% or so of projects won't make the return, and the industry is carried by the 10%. In some sectors (consumer) this is higher, in others (B2B) it's lower, but it's about the right frame of reference give or take for most projects that ordinary people on HN perform.

Now if you are a professional investor a 90% failure rate is easy because you just do 20 projects at once and you're fine. Similarly, if you are a large size consulting shop you're basically an investor with other people's time, so same story, just do 20 projects and 2 or so blow it out of the park and the rest are a waste and you get the quarterly bonus.

However, if you're an individual or a couple of guys in a broom closet somewhere, 20 projects is a very long time. Unless you are independently wealthy and can just float many years of work, you can't make any money. And if you are independently wealthy, you have a higher chance of success becoming the large consulting shop or being a professional investor (or starting your own startup) than you have doing lots of free projects for other people.

So what you are saying is nice in theory but for the average mobile/web developer thinking about contracting they don't have the volume necessary to assume the risk that the market ordinarily bears for development projects.
Gander: Meteor-based email app, faster email triage for the busy
Yeah I got caught by forcing the /usr/lib update too. Went away for a month, came back and did a full upgrade, failed. Checked the website, the news had dropped of the front page, forced update, broke it horribly.

Despite the problems, I still find rolling release vastly preferable. If Ubuntu can bring some of the commercial support quality to a rolling release, they'd alleviate a lot of the difficulties that I have with Arch.
Sacrifice by definition must be voluntary, otherwise it's just servitude, so saying he volunteered is not a good argument against calling his service sacrifice.

Likewise breaking the law is not necessarily wrong, and what's legal and what's moral don't always overlap. Consider slavery.

As for the last part, it could be a duty to leak code if your startup is doing something highly immoral. No one's arguing for what you said; it seems like trolling.
"Tried". "A blizzard kept him from ... discussing".

Half-heared efforts to contact three media outlets are not cause for dumping intelligence unrelated to this issue you are trying to bring to light.
If that startup is killing civillians, absolutely.
I've been using both of them a lot lately. I'll give you some answers:

Bootstrap is more like a theme to me, if you don't want to bother buying one and you don't mind having a "bootstrap" look go for it. I love doing quick mockup with it. But as soon as you have to design something, it's a trap, it makes you lazy and want to use their styles for everything.

Foundation has a better reset in my opinion (I like box-sizing:border-box). The rows act like a container (size depending of your configs) whereas you can play with row and row-fluid in bootstrap (which might not be a good idea on a project). Also Compass + Sass. Forms look better. Orbit looks better than Carousel...

These past weeks I've been using both since I can't really make up my mind on one. I'm going to dig into Foundation 4 to see if it's going to change the situation.

EDIT : I'm looking at it right now, it does look pretty awesome. It seems they're taking a very different direction from bootstrap:
- you now have to stylize elements through CSS (or SCSS) like it's supposed to be! They provide a long list of example, it seems like their stuff is entirely and easily customizable (which was always the shortcoming of Bootstrap).
- I taught a friend who didn't know HTML nor CSS how to make websites a few day ago. I taught him Bootstrap. He's loving it since then. Looking through Foundation 4 the idea that it would be way too difficult to teach him Foundation 4 has stroke me.
I liked how down to earth it was, but also thought that he is probably laughing all the way to the bank.

Perhaps not laughing, and I don't mean he was malicious, just that I'd surely have a bit of a snicker if I had a run that was half as good as he did.
From what I've read on HN in the past it was Google that walked away from that deal during due diligence and not Groupon.
Not really a fair comparison. Unless the start-up was tax payer funded, and was doing objectionable things like selling customers credit card/personal information to third parties, and you knew about it, maybe then you would be lauded for exposing it. However no one would label you a hero for releasing a companies IP for the sake of it.

MAYBE if it was some company making bucket loads of money off of GPL code they were deliberately and knowingly abusing the license!
I think he's witty and charming too.

But those personality traits do not necessarily make him a good CEO.

In my non-professional opinion, this is what's happening:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute_substitution
They have a title, and that must mean they have authority. Volunteers are a fine thing, but make sure the title listed has the word "volunteer" in it else they will taken for employees.

On a side note, why the heck does dropbox have volunteers running their support forum? At this stage, cost savings isn't worth the reputation hit.
The victim-blaming was shocking to me here.

The bit where Andy Y. says, "Oh, some spammer just guessed it" was funny. As if spammers needed to do dictionary attacks against the sort of tagged addresses that 0.1% of people use.

But it became hilarious when he said the same thing to the guy who uses 10-random-character tags. As if they would hit upon two different Dropbox addresses like that before the sun cooled to a cider.

The original complainant is much more patient than I am. If that's what I'd gotten as "support" on a paid service when reporting a security breach, I would have closed my account and told them to get fucked.
Your body doesn't have permission to violate conservation of mass and energy. If you put yourself in a caloric deficit, you will lose weight, as I have been doing.

Is it easy? Fuck no. Do different bodies react in different ways? Of course. Is there nuance involved in making sure your body reacts optimally for weight loss? Of course Are most overweight people consuming gargantuan proportions of shit? You better fucking believe it.

If you live a sedentary lifestyle and consume many thousands of calories a day, fixing the problem isn't rocket science. Pretty fucking simple, and pretty fucking hard.

The fact that I am a fucking lardass is not conventional wisdom, nor has it essentially shown to be wrong. It is a simple fact. No idea what you were trying to get at there.
Google had a triumvirate structure for quite some time, though with one "official" CEO.
I agree that there are potentially-interesting sociological questions to be asked, but it's possible to ask them in a way that's not loaded. The parent poster asks about whether the kid has "problems with his sexuality," which I take to be asking either whether as a result of having gay parents, the kid is gay (implying that gayness is a "problem"), or alternatively, whether the gay parents have caused some problem other than gayness... like what, one wonders? Is the implication that being around gay people makes one asexual, or that gay people abuse children such that they grow up sexually stunted, or something? I have difficulty envisioning an implication that isn't based on an underlying assumption that gayness is bad. Had the poster instead asked, "did having gay parents make the child gay?", that question would have ended up in the "good-natured but misguided" category, and I would have felt more comfortable just answering the question instead of complaining about it.

Likewise with the race question: if a poster had asked "does the white child raised by black parents identify more strongly with black culture than other white children?" that might be a legitimate sociological question, but the implication that that's a problem is what makes the question problematic.
Nope. Offered perhaps 10,000 and getting no engagement and "sorry not interested in selling" bs. I've dealt with google and that's the only person/company that's not interested in selling any domains and doesn't need the money. (Or once a Fortune 500 company). Everybody else (especially this guy) is interested in selling. I know the "not interested technique" well. And I know this guy is a gambler and there is no end in sight to this. We don't have time to waste with someone who won't even state a price and wants to be chased.

I have found my client another domain that they are happy with.
Homeland, the TV series, is based on a similar premise and, whether you like the show or not, it works.
So does the self-destructing email, and a few others.
The idea that interests me most is Uber for food. The number of times I've wanted Mexican food only to discover my local store doesn't deliver and my clothes stink so I don't want to go outside, too many times too count.
Ask HN: What do you use to manage all your domains and hosting?
Doing a little market research here: Those of you who have a lot of projects, domains, and hosting accounts out there -- how do you keep it all managed?

I am familiar with a mac app called Domain Brain [1], but I was wondering if there were a SaaS app out there that can alleviate this pain of managing this.

[1] - http://domainbrainapp.com/
Many folks also said that Google's deal would have been conditional on numbers that Groupon couldn't meet.

So Groupon walking away from the deal could have been their only option.

That said, Google is one company that could make this sort of product work as one of the major expenses Groupon has is buying advertising.
Well "for the time being" turned out to be until today. Worked out pretty well for his pocket book in any case though, I'd say.
Those aren't Dropbox employees.
I watch Ubuntu's recent steps with trepidation. I love using it for a home Linux machine (indeed upgrading just to LTS-es), and I could not care less about its "convergence" aspirations. I don't want Ubuntu on my phone or my tablet, or at least I don't care.

I worry that eventually its mobile plans will bury the desktop Ubuntu, move it out of focus, so to say. When that happens, I wonder whither I should turn. Debian?
Peter Drucker, actually. Also incorrectly attributed to Deming (who, um, would disagree).