skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction

Google doesn't necessarily want the richest companies/developers to attend. Nor are they interested in extracting the maximum amount of money (though of course they could do a few charity auctions). A good mix of small companies, freelancers, corporations is probably what they're aiming for.
Chrome on Windows 7 with U.S. English regional settings... As boring a setup as it gets!
So who else got a ticket, but then timed out at the payment screen?

I managed to find 3 academic tickets, and all of those timed out when I tried to pay for them.
I am still waiting for marquee to be trendy :)
Airbnb founder touts being ‘homeless’ as product testing
You've got to be really careful when doing something like this. Basing the decision to display porn to users based on the value of the referrer (or any technical factor for that matter) is asking for trouble. Valid visitors' browsers should send your site as the referrer, but what if your check fails and a legitimate users is shown porn instead? What if you introduce a bug that causes many, or all, of your users to see porn instead of the intended content?

Serving porn from a business oriented domain is never an option, IMO.

It sucks when someone rips off your content, but you have to carefully evaluate the real impact it has on your business, not just the emotional impact that it has on your sense of ownership.
Given that 99% of the people I could see on Twitter were not able to get through to the checkout, 49 minutes feels like a relatively meaningless number. I suspect that if the system actually worked properly it would have sold out in 30 seconds.
I had 3 of them, and wondered exactly the same thing.

It'd be awesome if an SRE could chime in on this.
You are correct my good man. Came here to say YOU ARE USING NT.
Http://Beeminder.com takes it a step further and takes your lunch money too if you give up...
Having same issue. My bank says they are not declining but the website keeps saying declined...
On a forum like HN, where the audience spends a great deal of time reading and engaging in self-improvement, choosing words that are not simplistic should be fine.
Everytime it comes up, I'm always fascinated that online checkout under demand is still unsolved, even by a giant like Google.

Obviously it's a small chunk of all online sales, but it always seems like the process fails somewhere
This is an absolutely terrible article/advertisement. While I understand the reason they used "safe sex", it wasn't required, AND there was no new knowledge to be gained. Nothing novel, no description of how to solve the issue of coding against an API that can disappear and how to solve that problem.
Thanks. And wow, the CPython source code seems to be very much readable. I've been meaning to dive further into Python internals for a while, maybe this is the time to do so.
More accurately, "Google I/O tickets now available on secondary market for actual market-clearing price."

EDIT: I stand corrected.
Cheddar is a task management app. If I recall, he recently sold the app and he was willing to give his services for $1000/hr.
https://cheddarapp.com/
I keep wondering: Does anyone actually use these social buttons?

I tried a few times but the experience has always been so terrible and inconsistent that I've long reverted to simply sharing the good old copy/paste way.
http://xkcd.com/626/
I actually own a Lumia 920, but I miss Apple's more flexible walled garden (damn Lumia won't let me change my store from china to the USA like the iPhone would). I value phones whose ecosystems are not so spyware/virus infested, so android is out of the question, but we obviously are valuing different freedoms.

The PC era still lives, I guess.
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> If you've been to an I/O before you realize there isn't a whole lot of advantage to being there in person vs. watching live via the free streams they offer

I've never been, that's true - but it's not for a lack of trying. I do disagree that there's not a whole lot of advantage to being there in person; I can't believe that would be true. I built a Top 30 weather app and I've never met a single Android developer in my life; I am certain, 100% certain, that actually meeting fellow developers would be immensely helpful.

> You are assuming he isn't also a developer. Please don't do that next time.

I think it's a fair assumption that the person isn't a developer; it's tough to imagine a developer would have no interest in going to any of the talks but only want to hold new tech devices. You're assuming the poster is male and not female. Please don't do that next time.
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You could have linked to Occam[1,2]...

[1] http://pop-users.org/occam-pi/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam_%28programming_language%...
I think they are non transferable this year.
Not sure how you wound up there. I'm pointing out that swearing to emphasize words is different from swearing at the user. I don't think the problem here is that the software has "Fuck You" and not "Screw You" floating over the middle finger pointing at the user, but that's exactly what David is implying with his disingenuous remark about installing a profanity blocker.
A 10-Week Ruby on Rails Bootcamp is Coming to the Innovation District
If you can get away with only parallelizing the C code that'll work, but if you're replacing individual Python functions calls it won't so much. You could use a lot of Python processes, but that might be awkward depending on how much they need to coordinate and might lead to too much memory usage.
Nothing like that. Something fancier.
Go on the offensive. Instead of just fighting to kill legislation like CISPA, lobby for legislation that will guarantee the freedom of the internet. That will unequivocally protect people's liberties on (and off) the internet.
"every one of us wonders if someone has written an API that can do what they’re asking for"

You keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means.

API: Application Programming Interface

API == the interface, not the service. You don't write an API to do something. You write an API as a way to access a service that does something.

At least have your marketing team use the terminology correctly, if that's what your product is all about.
I must be completely jaded by this point. I had to go back and look at the site again. My mind had completely blocked out the left sidebar and the footer. This crap is so common that I don't even notice it anymore.
This. Unless your form is incredibly simple (e.g. signup or login) you shouldn't just rely on placeholder text.

Apple has a nice solution to this issue on their checkout pages - labels placed on top of inputs, only disappearing once text is entered.
I believe they were made non-transferrable this year, main reason I was hopeful about actually getting one.
You should have bookmarked it. Then you could have posted the link here and we could have found it on Google :)
The GitHub generation: why we're all in open source now
I have no idea. haha ok I'll stop trying to give license advice. I do know the OpenBSD project uses "and/or distribute" on the advice of the FSF.
Thanks for putting this list together. I stand humbly corrected, and am grateful for it. I'll take a look at what these companies are doing and try and figure out how they are managing it.
Isn't that obvious ? Ninjas are fast, so they type faster. That's what coding is all about, after all.
Feel upset after trying about 40 min. I was on conf call and keep jumping back to may personal laptop and trying registration every 6 min once redirected back to main page -- and cannot get one ticket. :-(. Really want to go check out this event but it is so hard to get a seat after years of trying.
Why so much bitching about everything? The conference is popular - they got sold out quickly. All important talks will be streamed live and recorded for later viewing? So what are you all complaining about?
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philosophising really. I guess on the "actually helpful advice" level, I'm all out if the googles cant help.
Learning Emacs, any tips or tricks, best tutorial?
For many many years I used my own, homebrew editor, aptly named 'e' (I don't like typing more than I need to). This worked quite well until about a decade ago when I started to work more and more on other peoples machines and it bothered me that I always had to spend time to move my environment with me. So I decided to standardize on the minimum that is always available, which turned out to be vi(m).<p>This worked really well for a long time, even though I never got to the level of being a poweruser I managed to get through the day.<p>I've used 'leo' for a while, an awesome little project, it is essentially a literate programming editor and I really liked the concepts behind it but it has some serious shortcomings as well (does not work in terminal mode), so I had to let that go.<p>I've decided now to invest serious time into learning a new editor and have chosen to leave vi(m) behind and to move to emacs.<p>Are there any tips & tricks that you think I should be aware of? I've googled a bit for guides on learning Emacs but nothing that strikes me as suitable turned up, however I can't imagine that I'm the first to try this, the key 'emacs tutorial' turns up a wild variety of material, too much to choose from really and lots of it of questionable heritage and/or dated (which may not be bad by itself).<p>What would you use as a starting point if you were to point a new emacs user to today?
This is correct, that rule changed this year. See:
https://developers.google.com/events/io/help#reg_open

> Google I/O tickets must be used by the original registrant and are non-transferable. Tickets may not be sold, bartered, auctioned, or transferred in any way and doing so may result in Google rendering the ticket null and void without any responsibility to Google.

EDIT: to add, last year I bought a ticket and transfered it to a co-worker (my company picks 2 people a year to send, and I wasn't one of them last year. One of the people selected didn't get a ticket but I was able to, so I bought it and transfered it to him). So they've allowed it before, but I guess they wanted to get rid of the scalping market.
Sharon Howell's Magnificent Letter [about Harvard Email Issue]
Is Google's Support Really That Bad?
I really don't think these kinds of bills will end until there is an amendment passed expressly guarenteeing rights relating to internet (or, perhaps more broadly, network) freedom.

In fact, I doubt even that will stop these kinds of laws from being introduced. However, it will give a firm and easy foothold to dismissing them. Similarly, it will become that much easier to retroactively have them removed if they violate an amendment.

The exact text of this kind of amendment would be difficult to craft, frankly, I'm not a lawyer, I have no idea where or how to start crafting this. However, I do fully believe this is the ultimate winning endgame for this kind of legislation.

We need a "legal hacker" a la Richard Stallman to craft something like this.
I got two chances to buy a ticket. I chickened out the first time (about 20 minutes in)... and bit the bullet the second time (40 minutes in). I'll be coming from Toronto. Also my first time visiting San Francisco so this is a perfect excuse to do that. See you all there.
"Tech old-timers like myself fondly remember Windows NT and all it stood for"

This is just rose tinted glasses really.

Remember all the "there must be a better way" conversations that were rampant in the NT3/4 eras. If you're in any doubt, pick up any old IT magazine of the 90s and remind yourself what we were concerned about. Things that Windows 8 does in its stride: hardware compatability, backups, speed - these are distant memories these days.

Usability was a bigger problem then than now. Fewer people in general had any idea about computers - how many can recall a first hand experience of a new-start talking into the mouse as a microphone (or similar caper).
Have you looked at Big Door?

http://www.bigdoor.com/
Yeah, I wonder what percentage of attendees are actually developers working on Android or API-related projects. If it's a low percentage, that would actually kill a lot of my enthusiasm to go.
one of my co-workers did. He ended up closing the google Wallet popup 4 times and re-trying the payment and was able to get through.
Lots of 500 errors when I "got" a ticket and was being sent to the registration. Unfortunately, that means I instantly appeared to lose the ticket and had to jump back into the ticket lotto machine.
Can anyone explain to me why academic faculty get a discount? And students for that matter also.
But that is on purpose. Sometimes you do want that. In other words they are explicitly set up to monitor/link each other.
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Should we use a the internet bat signal[1] on this issue? What do you guys think? Is it already under discussion?

[1] http://internetdefenseleague.org/
I was a copy editor before I was a techie. I found that it did not pay well. This may have partly been because it was in the association publishing world around Washington, DC. I also reached the point where it was boring me, which definitely was because it was in the association publishing world.

It appears to me that the company I knew as Editorial Experts Inc. long ago is now EEI Communications, http://wwww.eeicom.com. No doubt other metropolitan areas have such organizations; you might check in with one of them to see what sort of work is out there.

I agree with the other posters on paper and pen. Yet Word with track changes isn't bad.
He means the Zurich office - they're known as Zooglers.
This is huge for people who runs multi-region servers. I needed this last summer but had to use an alternative solution.
The placeholder attribute in recent versions of Chrome behaves the same way—possibly longer, but I only started noticing it recently—the placeholder remains in the field until you've typed a character.
Replace "HTML5" with "increasing use of facny JavaScript and CSS3". It's just a generalization for the benefit of the semi-technical.
Supporters include companies like AT&T, Facebook, IBM, Intel, Oracle Corporation, Symantec, Verizon, and Microsoft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Intelligence_Sharing_and_...

I'm envisioning a web dashboard that lets federal agents do fuzzy queries on individuals, to see all the sites visited, emails sent, web searches, browsing habits, etc, from all the IP addresses used by the given individual in the past several years. The system would aggregate information gathered from ISPs and web companies. The government can already get anything they want from an ISP or web company, but they have to do it on a case by case basis and it is probably annoying to correlate information across sources. In the future, I imagine that a federal agent can go to his big brother dashboard, type in a name, and have immediate access to all sorts of information gathered from credit card companies, search providers, ISPs, telecoms.
But how would it return this JSON to you? Through a callback URL specified?
This is very disappointing. I started attempting to reserve at 7:05AM tried for 8 times (waiting 6 mins everytime for it to find a ticket) and finally came back with Sold Out message.
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I'm guessing you didn't spend an hour today waiting in opaque queues that weren't first-come-first-served (and errored out when it seemed likely to succeed).
I didn't know you couldn't make small fonts before HTML5. Very informative, this.
Definitely putting this into v2!
That's also very much the standard in Britain.
Probably because it's a chance to get the latest and greatest hardware for a ridiculously low price.
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Righto, he could be here to make himself feel good by using words he doesn't usually get to.
Or using images for text? Many of these have very little to do with HTML5. Unless it's really about people abandoning Flash and bringing bad design habits to HTML. But even that doesn't explain the 404 "trend."
Not sure about faculty but students is probably because it would be more difficult for them to afford the full ticket price and Google probably wants to introduce them to their technologies at the beginning of their career.
Otter: Run the same code in the browser and on the server
Fairly disheartening to watch the countdown hit 0 - Hit the register button immediately and spend the next hour being thrown back to the start for the progress 7 / 8 times to eventually find they are sold out.
I personally didn't get to see the payment screen but I hear many peoples purchases timing out or making purchases to have them cancelled after they sell out.
There is talk about frames and maps for a while. I noticed there is an upcoming Erlang factory talk from Ericsson about this feature. I suspect those might end up used in place of records in some cases.
Ask HN:Is it okay to post the link of your new product on most visited blog post
I am soon releasing a web app. I also write blog on my personal website. Is it okay to post the link/url of your new product on your most visited blog.

In my case, one of my blog on mobile development is visited around 250-300 times a day but my new product is not mobile related. Would it be okay if I post at the bottom my product page link.

FYI I know it will be okay to post it on the homepage but my homepage is visited only 20 times a day.
I use Java daily on my Mac, and it has never been a problem. I don't remember doing anything special to defeat any blacklisting, either. I believe that Apple's anti-malware agent is simply disabling the Java browser plugin.

Regardless, it doesn't seem to affect desktop development, so Clojure on!
Then he can start charging more or delegating, both have benefits/drawbacks obviously.
Not really much of a problem with the chipsets that I used (ralink ones) - the stock kernel drivers work fine. But I do remember that there used to be some problems with that.

The fact that I use a distro which allows me to painlessly integrate a custom kernel into my system also helps - any sane patches could have been applied without any problem.
Law Suits for Harlem Shake Features Unlicensed Samples
Go is good at keeping all the cores on the machine pumping. Maybe they switched to machines with more cores.
Does it support third party browsers yet? To quote Harvey Anderson, Mozilla’s General Counsel [1]:

The prospect that the next generation of Windows on ARM devices would limit users to one browser is untenable and represents a first step toward a new platform lock-in.

If Windows users deserve choice then surely Firefox OS users deserve choice as well. It can't be a desktop vs mobile thing because Mozilla are campaigning for Firefox to be allowed on iOS [2].

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2012/05/09/windows-on-arm-user...
[2] http://news.cnet.com/8301-14013_3-57573440/mozilla-says-no-p...
It's true that M-backspace is occasionally less convenient, but it's usually more convenient.
The built in tutorial (M-x tutorial) is good.

M aka Meta is generally Alt on a PC keyboard or Alt+Esc on a Mac.
I agree with you. But please, it's "its"... and don't scream.
the problem is with the way they are selling tickets. All they've managed to do is tell a load of developers that Google Wallet is flakey.

I don't know what they are so worried about that they give you 5 minutes to pay. The thing is going to sell out even if they give people a week to pay!
CEO of Auto Trader might have something to say too http://secure-broker-online.eu/escrow-process
I had exactly the same criticism about another post, and I was banned as a result.
"Thank you, we will contact you soon"
uh!
So, because you're most familiar with English syntax, the most readable programming languages are the ones which most closely approximate it? Doesn't sound like a disagreement with Evbn's point.
Well it's kind of double edged, there where a lot of people who where forced to move from Unix workstations to NT because it supported some windows apps and companies wanted to standardize on Windows. Those people generally cuss the advent of NT. On the other hand people that where forced to try to maintain a all Windows shop with only 3.11 and 95 hailed it as a saving grace as trying to serve a Workgroup from 95 or 3.11 was an exercise in frustration so was any serious workstation type work.
That's strange; all of the brogrammers that I know are pretty reasonable people. Sure, they dress strangely, tend to keep their hair in novel styles, have odd preferences for beverages, have quirky catchphrases that don't really make sense, are overwhelmingly men, and generally have problems fitting in at offices full of suits...

...but so do most hackers, right?
here is some timeless web design advice that i wish did make a comeback in html5

http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail51.html
I think it's a fair assumption that the person isn't a developer

Take a look at my profile, at the youtube videos on there.
Then decide what kind of job you think I have.
The problem is that people expect more from Google. People understand the conference is popular and so should Google. If anyone could handle this type of load, you would think they would be near the top of the list. However, every year people need to sit at their computer staring at animated gif or rapidly hitting F5. Even when you get past the first screen and are told that you have tickets waiting for you, the payment processing often fails. That is exceptionally frustrating.
I have a big screen and I didn't see any of the social ad's or even the pop up at the bottom. It was only going back and actually opening my eyes that I noticed it.

I think this is why such buttons are so ineffective. They have been used so badly for so long a lot of people just completely ignore them. Its a bit like ad's on the side of pages. A lot of people won't even register they are there.
I have it installed with Win8 and secure boot enable in a Lenovo machine. And in a secure boot enable dell machine without Windows.
Pirate Bay Founders Case Rejected by Human Rights Court
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Submitted 2 hours prior [1], why repost? Karma whoring? ;)

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5367908
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> Results show that brand-keyword ads have no short-term benefits, and that returns from all other
keywords are a fraction of conventional estimates.

The article on reuters completely ignores the keyword 'short-term'.
Furthermore, if eBay had an actually viable competitor it would be fighting for those ads with every penny.
Fair point. Sorry, I was wrong. So why don't you have any interest in going to the talks or speaking with anybody at I/O?
I'd sure love to be told how this type of attack is any less worthy than buffer overflows, or similar attacks upon old school systems? This guy obviously understands where vulnerabilities can be found and is pretty good at exposing them.
Ditto, I haven't gotten anything off eBay in ages. The last time I did was from a guy who made his own camera grips and, for some reason that I will never understand, exclusively uses eBay to sell his goods.

My other problem with eBay is that in some categories the pricing is just wholly unrealistic. Specifically used/vintage cameras - the initial and ending prices on these items on eBay is often much higher than what the same cameras are trading for on enthusiast forums. The demographic of people collecting these on enthusiast forums vs. those buying the same items on eBay is clearly different.