skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they cannot identify me they don't have to publish.

If they subscribe to one of those services that has a pixel sized session on every page, aggregating all my details - then they have identifiable information, publish and pay up
I'd love to give The Old Reader a try... but when signing in through google, they seem to want "Manage My Contacts" permission.. there is no legitimate reason for needing to see my contacts to sign up. I'm pretty mindful of Android app permissions as well.
Link to the project? I always like to see examples.

Blogging about your experience using it would probably get you some decent traffic, too.
Wish my Pebble was here, I'm getting pretty tired of waiting, seems like it could be another 6+ months before I see it.
Or it's people who have been thinking about using an RSS client and got caught up in the deluge of alternatives suddenly being offered much more loudly. /shrug
So.. give the subscribe/favorite/star portions and take out the recommendations.. most people rarely use that functionality.
The conclusion of the Linux 3.9 merge window
And don't forget all the hardware pushing the bits around!
If you have amazing updates daily, I might do that. If I'm seeing the same thing I read a week ago 90% of the time, and I can't have a feed reader ping me when there's a reason to come back, forget it.
BSD may not be public domain but since StallmaGNU is such an advocate of freedom, I find the fact that the GPL prevents us from selling GPL projects to be decidedly anti-freedom.

I understand the point regarding possible subsequent proprietary projects, but such would seem to be an incentive to improve ones code, as the code is still yours to work with.
When I said 'stuck', I actually meant 'had no other choice anyway' not, 'there were superior technologies but because Qt was in C++ they had to pick C++'. It's true that it's mostly systems programmers who are against C++ but at the same time I feel like it rubs off on the whole FOSS community.
OS X Safari user? Python script to privately list out the sites you visit.
yes I was going to say that also!
Anyways I once (like 2yrs) ago stayed in a hostel in london cant remeber the name but anyways it was filled with young people 20-30 and some of them worked a few days per week for free accomodation and food. Mabye you can try that? Also dont let your pride get in the way I was once stranded in nyc. To make a long story short your friends and family really will help you or at least some of them will. Hope that helps. Ill try to look up the name of the hostel
Because of aggressive spambots and these negative comments, many people are turning off comments on their system.
You can sell GPLed software all you like. You just have to provide source code to the people you sell binaries to, and allow them to redistribute the software under the terms of the GPL.
I am not betting for or against that assumption. I will note that they have nothing as big as search (except maybe YouTube) and Microsoft and Amazon have been competing and rendering ad-supported search irrelevant, respectively.
There's a very big difference between a tool that gets rid of all dust, and a tool that only gets rid of a small subset of dust.

It may be a specific, but so is the fact that it gets rid of dust...

Today on HN: Math analogy spawns discussion on marketing copy and the properties of vacuum cleaners.
> What you'll get is an excerpt of the story with a "click this link to read the rest".

I remember like... what, six years ago? when people were arguing over whether or not this was an evil thing to do.
He's being classy by showing you the goods first before asking you for a tip at the end.
For 1, see point 1 in here: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
Indeed. For example FreeBSD (the kernel and the ports) can now be built with Clang:

An unmodified FreeBSD head and stable/9 can completely be built by clang! (Note that you still need to setup /etc/make.conf or /etc/src.conf properly, see below for the details.) [1]

For 10-CURRENT after OSVERSION 1000024 (svnref 242624) Clang is the default compiler on i386 and amd64. And is installed as cc, c++ and cpp. [2]

[1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClang

[2] https://wiki.freebsd.org/PortsAndClang
Expect this to happen all over Europe. In particular England.
It has happened before and will happen again, until the fuckers in charge understand and learn.

But no one would vote on the guy calling for budget cuts. Everyone likes the guy with the hand outs.
It's absolutely insane. I can't understand how they think this will cause anything other than a catastrophic bank run on Tuesday.

At least they get to skim off a percentage before the banks collapse, I guess? Someone's benefiting, somehow.
That number appears to count only American dead. Those of us who hold every life sacred also mourn the hundreds of thousands of south Asian dead, without respect to political party of the perpetrator.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3274335
Standardization would have happened without Microsoft. The progression of almost every new technology is that it becomes more standardized as it become more mature. Take operating systems as an example. At the beggining, every computer had its own OS and software written for one computer likely would not work on others. This was a problem, so eventually we came up with BIOS, which provided a standard software interface to different hardware.

Later we had a similar divergence in operating systems. Eventually Bell Labs created UNIX. Excluding windows, the UNIX specification is the standard of most modern operating systems (OS X, GNU, BSD, Solaris, ETC).
And the Bitcoin community did this http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1aes4q/bitcoincentr....
They don't "creep in". The site is designed to let duplicates in after a certain amount of time.
> Chrome is created by an Ad company so that they can make more money selling Ads.

Funny. I thought their goal was to sell Chromebooks. :X
I passed it along to 0-7000 people, depending on how things play out in the noise of G+ and Twitter. It's not something I have a use for, but it looks interesting.
The bank run was an entirely predictable result. And one which the courts may soon have to untangle.

I too expect that capital will move from weaker banks into stronger ones and that will result in a liquidity crisis.

Along one path the European Union dissolves, and along another path nation-state sovereignty dissolves. Either way it seems pretty clear that countries with larger economies don't seem to be particularly willing to continue to let poorly run smaller economies drain them of resources.
I think the cost can be raised, at least, if people not only refuse to take such jobs themselves, but attach some social and professional stigma to those who do. Sure, with enough money you'll likely be able to find someone who will do pretty much anything unscrupulous; even extreme examples, like getting someone to program a human-trafficking back-office app, can be completed if you offer enough money and look in the right places.

But the idea is to reduce the supply of willing workers for surveillance-state applications, and raising the cost of those who can be hired for the job, by making sure it's seen as a somewhat shameful job, rather than just another "regular" one. That at least incrementally slows things down and drains resources of the people building such systems. That would have a real effect, except in the case of an adversary who actually has infinite resources and can solve any staffing problem by just throwing more money at it, without compromising anything else.
Proprietary products are going to exist for a while longer whether we want them or not. There are times when I would rather have proprietary products running some obfuscated but peer-reviewed open source code, than some broken code that the creators decided to piece together under deadlines.
Joel, what are you using for your cohort analysis? An internally-built tool? A third-party service?
Palmer lodge swiss cottage. I dont know if they still do this but I would give it a shot. Good luck!
I'm in a similar situation and it's encouraging to read that this seems to be commonplace. I'm just about on the cusp of having one satisfied customer willing to participate in the develop-deliver-discuss cycle, which makes me very excited, but I'm not sure where to go from there.
I recently hacked together a product that aligns with buffer's philosophy, but is inherently different. I have about 70 users, but zero paid users and not much activity. I've been ignoring it from a development standpoint in favor of other projects. Meanwhile I still use the site daily. I hope I can put some more time into it, but for now I'm just letting it scratch a personal itch. If anyone is interested: https://tweezer.io
It's not just the banks. Cyprus has a huge public debt[1].

The measure is also not the first of its kind in the EU - Italy did it in 1992 to cover a financial emergency. They took "only" 0.6% from all bank accounts back then.

[1] http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/highest-annual-increase-go...
I have a PhD in Classics. My focus was on ancient philosophy, in particular on Epicurean philosophy, in particular on a Roman Epicurean named Lucretius, in particular on Book 3 of his De Rerum Natura, in particular about his arguments against the fear of death in that book, in particular about the structure, formal & logical analysis and evaluation of his argument for the thesis that "death is nothing to us" in the later portion of Book 3. (De Rerum Natura is a Roman philosophical poem from the mid-first century BCE. Lucretius and his poem are getting a lot of press recently because of a book called The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt.)

The linked guide to PhDs made me smile, and it rings true to me for non-sciences. As an undergraduate I was a Comparative Literature major with lots of credits in Latin, Greek and Philosophy. Once I got to graduate school for Classics, my studies became increasingly concentrated in smaller and smaller areas of an already small field (Greco-Roman antiquity).

tl;dr I think literature and philosophy PhDs are also pimples of knowledge.

As for whether or not we expand human knowledge, that depends on how you define "human knowledge" and "expand", I suppose. I think it's charitable to say that (many? some?) people produce PhDs that expand human knowledge of Homer and Dante and James Joyce and Plato and Nietzsche and so on and so on. But of course if your definition of "knowledge" only makes room for numerical or quantifiable or experimental subjects, then you may disagree. I arguably expanded the world's knowledge of De Rerum Natura. My work has been cited at least once that I know of in subsequent work on the Epicureans, and not by me. (That's not just a joke: I remember reading that a large percentage of all research across disciplines is only ever cited again by the original author. I find that depressing.) I've also met a handful of people who tell me that it helped them in some other study.

[1]: http://books.wwnorton.com/books/The-Swerve/
Seven years is a long time. I am pretty on the same timeframe as well. I took a chance to redo everything over and this time with 5 months I have already launched my new product. My HN launch is kinda depressing as it just gave me 6 visits LOL. That traffic graph is my new motivation factor. I love to improve my writing to write blog like you but for now I am sticking to similar goal and that is to release an upgrade to my product every week.
Using a web server to keep mobile app content fresh
Pricing is tough. Part of setting a price is getting feedback from potential customers. Can I ask why it seems way off to you?
I tend to just use node, and node's repl if I need something quick beyond what a shell can do these days.
I have every intention of charging; it wouldn't be very sustainable, otherwise, y'know? :)
It's down... :-(
Thank you so much for your help. I know my struggle won't be permanent, I just need a place to sleep whilst me & my cofounder get this thing off the ground
I find the fact that the GPL prevents us from selling GPL projects to be decidedly anti-freedom.

That statement is exactly why a lot of developers license their code or contributions under the GPL. They don't want you to have the freedom to sell and unilaterally profit from open source code they contributed to (for free). You can always try to form an arrangement with the contributors to get a different license.
Disclaimer: I'm a hardcore phantomjs user. Add a service that scrapes results and I think you'll be overwhelmed with interest. Scraping is a pain. It takes a special niche talent -- but a ton of people want it. Let people submit what information they want off a page -- you write the script that does it for them. Pay as you go, etc. If it saves people time, they will pay for it. I do full-time consulting -- building out software systems for people, but I could just as easily keep myself 100% busy just building phantom/casper scrapers for people that have no clue how to do it -- and I'm not talking about stuff that falls into the "be evil" bucket. You're just building web services where there are none.
I didn't quite understand his "why biology" section. From what he describes it was advances in sequencing and bioinformatics that helped his child, not biology per se (though I would never want to play down how important biology is in underpinning these two). Perhaps he has a broader definition of biology than a specialist in bioinformatics like myself.
I visit sites manually, and the overhead of doing so is one of the ways I maintain self-control over being overly consumerist about my information. I didn't actually get any benefit from using an RSS reader 5 years ago and I don't think I'd really get much benefit today.
Facebook seeks workers for new office in Vancouver
Like 90% of the past 5 years, this isn't a banking problem, it's a government problem. The IMF can suggest ways to fund a bail out, but the government has to accept it. Confiscating your citizens money is a horrible precedent.
Lying about having an affair (even while under oath) is hardly "undermining the US justice system".

Nixon committed treason, for crying out loud. Before he was elected, even.
One challenge I've noticed is how quickly you can become accustomed to better results. Right now, a 100 sign up day would blow you away. But when that peters out, even to a point elevated from your current state, it isn't as satisfying.

Metrics continue to mess with you, long past the earliest stages.
The article is a lot of fear mongering.
It ignores the fact that before the EURO the Southern European countries had high inflation rates and hence didn't need bail outs. These high inflation rates devalued savings in the local currencies and often created similar runs on banks. Since the smaller economies have a low impact on the EURO inflation this is an alternative adjustment.
API to ship products to anyone, anywhere
Rendering Mr. Schneier on CNN's website caused my browser to send requests to:

- cnn.com and turner.com

- disqus.com

- facebook.net, facebook.com, and fbcdn.net

- imrworldwide.com

- cleanprint.net

- outbrain.com

- twitter.com and twimg.com

- chartbeat.com

- linkedin.com

- googlesyndication.com and google-analytics.com

- scorecardresearch.com

- doubleclick.net

...and yields an unending stream of pings to chartbeat.net just to let them know my tab is still open.
The people who elected a government that made their country a tax haven leading to the crisis in the first place.
You're with David Brin's side as far as the secrecy issue goes, aren't you? It's definitely intriguing response to the traditional cypherpunk response of more secrecy- if you can watch the watchers right back, then the governments and corporations in the world are as vulnerable to surveillance as John Q. Public.
I tried that too. Currently there are 10000+ users in front of me in import queue. I hope they will be able to process it till July...
What exactly is it about Twitter that's indispensable for you?
I work in Palo Alto and looking for roommates. I can move in asap!
According to the article government spending wasn't the problem here, the problem was Cypriot banks making bad investment decisions.
Right, everything is a filesystem in Plan 9. It's really elegant. Many people think Unix is elegant, which it is, but then they realize there is a higher plane of elegance in interface design when they encounter Plan 9.

In case anyone is wondering how the Plan 9 approach could accommodate special devices and so forth (i.e. objects that do not conform exactly to the same interface), there is an escape hatch called a control file, and you can do the equivalent of an ioctl by writing device-specific commands to the control file. But by and large, P9 represents everything as a filesystem and thus makes it really easy to reconnect the piping any which way the user likes.

Every hacker needs to see Plan 9 in action.
I was born and raised in Cyprus and my entire family still lives there. I spoke to a few of them this morning and whether the measures pass or not (parliament still needs to approve) they all plan on making a run to the bank asap.
And, some stuff has been forgotten. Even if it used to seem pretty important.

Speaking about spheres, there's lots of stuff about spherical trigonometry that you can find in old books (say, 1880s to 1920s [1]). They used to think it was math, but it has been determined to not be math any more. It's now stuff that "everyone knows".

[1] http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?...
curiously
"slashdot.org." redirects to "slashdot.slashdot.org"

curiouser and curiouser,
"slashdot.slashdot.org." redirects to "slashdot.slashdot.slashdot.org"

and so on... =)
For what it's worth, I had a similar chance when I was younger and had no children and I passed it up. It is one of my deepest regrets.
If you're young and flexible (no children, not married, no aging parents to care for etc) I'd go for it.
I backed the watch last April. To be fair, they did a kickass job on the hardware itself. But the software leaves a lot to be desired. It's very buggy and the iOS integration has a long way to go.

I too feel that the bad communication regarding the SDK was very poor form. They could've just said, "Hey, sorry for the delay, but we're working hard on bringing the SDK to you. Here's what's going on with it.". Instead, they went totally radio silent, leading to speculations that they're in talks with Apple to be acquired.

When you're a small company, and have springboarded from a platform like Kickstarter, I would've thought that your best advocates are the early adopters who backed you and helped you bring this wonderful product to life. They will live though the rough edges and evangelize to no end if they feel that the company has their interests as customers/developers at heart. Instead if you go to the forums, you feel like the majority feel like they were betrayed. I guess if they were trying to emulate Apple in their communication approach, it backfired on them completely.
I'll grant that it might be related to the company I tend to keep, as established above, but I've seriously never had the impression that there is anywhere near a majority of FOSS developers that actively dislike C++, especially seen vs. C.

I'd say the majority of FOSS developers most likely don't care, because they use higher-level languages doing web-related work for which either language isn't well-suited due to the tooling and deployment realities. So I guess it depends on whether you equate disinterest with dislike and you might be right. But among the developers that reasonably could use C++ I don't think there's a majority explicitly avoiding its use.
I know this is slightly off topic, but it would seem only natural to me to actually place a feed reader in the browser itself - actually have browsers that have smart UIs and are more than just fast javascript processors and rendering engines.
I remember when people started saying this about Apps.

Why the hell haven't people learned yet?
Clearly the idea here is to sell more books. That and the heavily monetized links inside the article itself.

When an author talks about their book sales like their so pathetic I often wonder what exactly did they expect? And more importantly why did they expect that?

If it was possible as a writer to just sit down, spend 3 to 6 months writing something, and then walk away with a million bucks there would be an entire ecosystem built up around finding these authors, then giving them enough money to write their books, in exchange for a cut of the profits down the road.

Currently the only way to do that as an "unknown" is to write code, not prose. And guess what, there is an ecosystem that built up around that activity. Hence the lure of this and other web sites.
Actually title should be "How to scrape an ImageBam gallery for images with 56 lines of Python". This implementation obviously not the best since there is no off-site control and making requests sequentially. I can recommend scrapy for serious web crawling. http://www.scrapy.org
Human Remains and Body Parts Policy
Looks like he is reaching the tenth user today :)
In praise of complexity
Exactly. I'm waiting for word from the Reeder and NetNewsWire developers. Depending on the solutions (and timeframe) they come up with, I'm staying with Reeder or going back to NetNewsWire.
My YC application is specifically to get around this issue. I've been in science for 8 years now and this article is absolutely correct. Our whole system isn't helping this process either. From funding agencies to the "peer review" system, scientists are almost forced into this situation. Also, we are so separated from one another (via specialized publications, jargon, lack of consistency between fields etc) that it's going to continue to happen until someone tries to break that system. That's my goal:) One of my major goals is to use technology to bring the larger perspective back into science so we can focus on our little parts, but continue to see the big picture.
From what I can tell, after you get one satisfied customer, you need to figure out how to get a second satisfied customer, and then a third. You hope that eventually one of you attempts to get one customer actually gets you 100.
How many true innovations have you failed to capitalize on because you had to pay the bills?
Working on a web product for +1 year here and we are still a few months away for release. Personally I think I'll cry when I see the first sign up that isn't a test account. If I ever see it.
Dynamic bookmarks have been around forever...
Actually, what's preventing someone from just putting their savings in bitcoin, waiting on the tax issues to pass, and moving it back?