skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why anyone's baffled, "big overproduced skits" has Samsung written all over it. Or have you forgotten about Zoll?

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/06/live-from-samsungs-ces-20...
Feds Charge Reuters Editor With Aiding Anonymous Attack
In the form of periodically-interspersed sponsor posts which are explicitly stated as being such and which are never mixed with actual content. As feed monetization goes, its about as above board as it can get.

Of course, being as above board as possible would still not be good enough for the anti-Marco brigade stomping around this pale imitation of what HN once was. I certainly wasn't here right from the beginning, so no hipster douchbaggery intended by any stretch, but I swear to those who have arrived more recently: You have no idea how good HN used to be compared to this. Sad, truly sad.
Where do I get a job making stupid crap like this? Obviously no oversight and probably pays better than what I do now.
IronPearl Is Systematizing The Secrets That Have Helped Startups
Sure, they charge for hosting your calendar. I was thinking of the fact that you can write an app against Google's calendar API without having to pay, whereas you would have to pay to write an ActiveSync client.
I know, but it only shows the top 10 of each (which is what I was referring to above). I grew up listening to mostly British music in the 80s, but that's underrepresented in the database - so I searched for the Smiths, Pet Shop boys, and several other bands from that period without getting any results at all.
This article is absolutely spot on.

I often get asked why I chose to incorporate in the U.S and take investor money from U.S based investors and not from Australians. This is article explains why.

There is a lot of talk in Australia but very little action - a lot of people calling themselves Angels, VC's, incubators etc. without actually funding any companies, or any decent companies.
Yes, but if I recall correctly, farmers have been sued because their non-patented plants had been pollenated by neighboring fields of patented plants and so theirs now carried the traits...
http://www.craigslist.org/robots.txt
What anti-Marco brigade? A heavily downvoted post and me pointing out that you would in fact get ads if you subscribed to his site via a feed reader? Dude has like half his posts hit the top here, HN loves him. A very, very tiny minority don't.

But yes, I like nostalgia too.
Roundtable: The Interactive Fiction Renaissance
A Marketer's Guide to Speeding up your Website
There's also the random knockout of neurons, as mentioned in the webinar.
Pretty sure it's a troll. He knows he can get a response out of Arment (http://www.marco.org/2013/03/14/davidpayne) just as another commenter on the Verge did a while ago from a huge personal attack (http://www.marco.org/2012/05/10/crazy-comment)
Web advertisers attack Mozilla for protecting consumers' privacy
What was wrong with the PS4 launch? Except for the cool introduction video and a few minutes of the expected PR BS about the "Playstation experience" it was purely ordinary talk and demoes of the new features/games by the people in charge of them. It often got quite geeky at times actually.

I really enjoyed the PS4 launch, I was actually surprised at how little fluff there were. I really don't understand what you disliked with the launch, I think it was a really good example of how launches should be done in the future.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmaxC1V5gNM
Nope, the demanded permissions are way out of control:

* View basic information about your account

* Manage your data in Google Reader

* View your email address

* Manage your contacts

* Perform these operations when I'm not using the application
Oh that's annoying. When I did the webinar I was sharing my screen and showing both slides and scribbles in onenote. Is there no button to view that in the recording? Sorry I can't check myself now, I'm on my phone.
'Handshake Deal Protocol' inspired website (as proposed by Paul Graham)
This is a small website I created today inspired on the Handshake Deal Protocol, Paul Graham proposed earlier today and I want to share it with you.
Any comments, suggestions, etc. are welcome! :)
I'd say Smashing Magazine is a good start, and check the magazine rack of a local bookstore as well.
Boeing VP details Dreamliner 787 battery fixes
When was 'a while ago'? Who is 'we'? And what do you mean by 'agreed'? (Are you part of the site management which had a discussion/decision on these matters?)

None of these are mentioned in the 'Guidelines' linked at the bottom. On the other hand, the guidelines do mention: "Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site."
- Use a client that supports RSS.

- Sync your data with Dropbox and use it on other machines.

Or

FeedHQ.org (Open Source) looks like a fine alternative but I am not sure what it supports yet in terms of your needs. Like they do have list, unread counts, tags(categories). Well, they have support read it later(which you said you don't want, maybe - but it's not that social :P)

Hell, even I do not want a social service or another GR or maybe not another free service that will go kaput anyday.

I guess FeedHQ guys have a real chance here with NewsBlur too cluttered and too slow.
An assumption I have made is that most merchants in the "normals" category would demand near-as-dammit watertight protection from theoretical yet systemic risks. FUD from competing systems would drive this requirement. I cannot imagine a lab experiment to test my assumption; it would need to be demonstrated in the marketplace. The cost of providing a very strong defence is entirely disproportionate to cost of offence, so we are looking at an asymmetric arms race.

Many Game Theory experiments are concerned with discerning underlying morality in economic exchanges. An interesting perspective here is that there should be no room for morality when Bitcoin gets up to scale. (But thanks again for the good guys who saved the day this week). No black/white hats; only those who have been paid to protect and those whose interests lie in exploitation. Eventually no actor will have the resources to do the right thing, unless it is also explicitly in their short term material interests. That ethos seems to be prevalent in the Bitcoin and one of the reasons that I find it interesting to watch.
I just made a little website based on the HDP, check it out:
http://www.hdplist.com
Origins of the tree swing pictures
> United failed big time. First by changing the itinerary (I've never had this happen to me)

This happens pretty often if you are a frequent traveller. Things go wrong! It may be an inconvenience but it is certainly not a "fail".

> and second by not contacting the parents

Right. So that's what this is all about. Someone at United Airlines forgot to make a phone call, or couldn't get through, or maybe the number was illegible, or something. That's all this is about. Absolutely, totally undeserving of this reaction.
I think it was a reference to Qualcomm's bizarre keynote at CES 2013. The Verge produced an article about the highlights:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/8/3850056/qualcomms-insane-ce...
Thanks. It should be interesting to see what new things can be done with the newer features that weren't accessible/viable before.
In fact this doesn't solve the problem of investors who wait and see. If they wait a week, and things look good, they can come back and say "we have this legally binding email that says we're in". Startup comes back and says "well we didn't get your response so as per PG's handshake protocol you're not in." To which their lawyer replies "what is this handshake protocol you speak of?"

Seriously, though, isn't this whole thing giving everyone flashback of interview questions involving philosophers sending stone tablets to each other trying to verify whether the other one got it or not?
Read "Don't make me think" by Steve Krug. It will give you a great foundation to build on.

http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Think-Usability-ebook/dp/B00...
What do you mean they're not explicitly saying that?

They develop an app - often for free, and as-designed it shows ads.

How is this at all ambiguous?
Some more historical echoes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundaneum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yongle_Encyclopedia

(Check out http://www.wolframalpha.com/docs/timeline/, it shows some fascinating landmarks in the history of knowledge)
Bootcamp support for Windows 8! Finally!
A thumbs up for OpenWrt. I had been running a D-Link DIR655 before I got my WDR4300 setup with OpenWRT. Moving to OpenWRT fixed a good amount of problems I had been having with zeroconf announced services on my local zeroconf services. Netatalk, specifically, would only work for the first hour or so on the DIR655, but with OpenWRT on the WDR4300 it works perfectly.

The configuration is really quite fantastic, and you can do pretty much anything you could want.
Hi, I am the author of open source rss reader Rssminer, live demo: http://rssminer.net/demo

How about your guy build on top it, I can contribute the whole source code (anyway, it's open source)

The reasons I do so:

1. Rss Reader needs a lot of hardware resources for storing/fetch feeds. A big company have much better resource than I can offer.
2. I can provide some paid support for rssminer's code.

The reasons why it may be helpful for you guys:

1. Rssminer is fully working, you can save a lot of time, faster product
2. The code is very clean. https://github.com/shenfeng/rssminer
3. The code is very fast. In order for it to be fast, I even write an event driven http clent and server: https://github.com/http-kit/http-kit

If interested, drop me an email: shenedu@gmail.com
As per always, someone has implemented a memex system with emacs and org mode:

https://github.com/novoid/Memacs
Something like http://www.peecho.com/ or http://www.fotomoto.com/ might be a good fit.
When you think it through completely, you'll see there's good reason for
the dupe detector to be lenient. In the early days of HN (or earlier, as
"Startup News"), avoiding dupes was more important since the rate of
submissions to the /newest queue was fairly slow. These days, the rate
of submissions is very brisk, so a lot of really great stuff floats by
basically unnoticed. Allowing for a second chance actually makes sense.

If you have "Show Dead" on, you'll see there are a lot of people
submitting who have their submissions immediately marked [dead]. If
you've studied how HN is built, you'll see pg (et al) tends to follow an
"Enough Rope" design policy -- this is from the old expression "Give him
enough rope to hang himself, and he will." It seems if you intentionally
and repeatedly abuse the lenient dupe detector to promote something, you
will be noticed, silently, and handled accordingly.
Great update. I'm happy that they have addressed some Safari issues.
I get this too. I found if I trace the thoughts back, and write down briefly why I'm worried or upset, the feeling dissipates. Usually it's something trivial.
Two neat modern memex implementations:

http://quantifiedself.com/2009/09/the-social-memex/ - Mark Carrenza's memex implementation that he's been using for decades

https://github.com/novoid/Memacs - memacs, a memex-like implementation using python to turn social streams into searchable emacs org-mode files
Beyond data
Data seems to be everywhere, can anyone recall what was before data? More interesting, what might be in vogue after data?
umm, so does it mean that go now uses epoll for go-routines blocked on i/o ? how was this done earlier ?
I blame a lack of historical knowledge combined with the fact that we mostly exist in harmony with our governments.

First, few of us have taken the time to read accounts of how the political groups of history have used information against people. So we don't know to do addition when we have one and one.

Combine that with the fact that most of us aren't engaged in any sort of activity that incumbent power would like to disrupt. You get a false sense of security, because no one is presently leveraging any of the information they have against you. That could change the moment you had an exciting or disruptive political idea, but for now 'the system' is happy with you keeping your head down and working.

If anyone wants to read a sad tale of how groups of men can use information to hurt each other, check out Out of the Night by Jan Valtin
NBN Corp would become a monopoly like Telstra wholesale (and I hope they don't sell it, just outsource the operation), but at least it would split Telstra wholesale and retail. There was some seriously strange things going on there, like when the retail price goes below the wholesale price and the fine is nothing compared to the dollars lost by competitors.

The copper situation is ok in inner city areas (except some buildings where the wiring is corroded, or the two wires split to different lines which increases noise/slows the connection), but ADSL speeds also depend on distance. Many areas can't even get into an exchange because they're full, and when you do if you're too far away from it your speeds will be quite horrible.

Not to mention upload speeds, NBN would make it possible to send virtual images, giant movie files, HD video and other big chunks of data person to person, rather than this many to one subscriber download model we kind of have at the moment.
Right. I don't recall ever subscribing to one of its recommendations.

Mostly what I got were suggestions for crap pseudo-blogs from the Gawker content farms.
Bizarre. I was constantly reminded of this old soundgarden video; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efc7njKAfgo
Those never fail to crack me up,My question is, has anyone patented any of those designs.:)
You missed my lame attempt at a joke, haskell's unofficial slogan is "Avoid success at all costs!"

Archlinux is doing amazingly well by sticking with the "Arch Way", even when it has user visible side effects (lol haskell). This success is evident from distrowatch, this survey, and others.
Keith Rabois on Startup Hiring
Indeed. This blog just reaffirms what this video shows, that C G Am F (or Fmaj7) is an infectious chord progression.
Definitely can relate to this post, but for me a lot of the stress turns into anxiety, which makes things even worse. How do people deal with controlling their anxiety?
Your suggestion has a nice staccato rhythm, somewhat building pith as it goes. I like the way it flows.

I'd write something like:

> As with carrying, so with owning in general. Poor people aren't too dumb to see the virtue of living with less; they own more to reduce risk.

Keep it focused on ownership (not clutter), with a slight nod back to the original article to which the author is responding.

From my vantage point, 'have clutter' unnecessarily problematizes communicating the core idea--poor people aren't too dumb to appreciate the value of living with fewer possessions. I suggest eschewing 'clutter' altogether, because it implies messiness in addition to more things, increasing the negative tone. This is the only place 'clutter' shows up in the text--a conspicuous word choice in the midst of an article discussing quantity of possessions as a signal of one's wealth (as opposed to the organization and tidiness of one's possessions). A poor person with cleaning compulsions might own more to mitigate risks, but have it neatly tucked away and unobservable, thus making the messy, rich person with fewer possessions look like the one with clutter.

Note: Getting sidetracked by comments on sentence structure may be the signal that I've successfully procrastinated other work long enough.
I think you better expand this in blog post :) I really enjoyed OP post, but your comment is what genuinely I believe most people have as procrastination, it is normal and your way of handling it is very good.
On second look, I agree with you that my statement (while true) does not apply to the grandparent, because as you explained the naturalistic fallacy does seem to apply here.
In fact, it did work. The plant suffered:
1) Massive earthquake
2) Tsunami
3) Fire
4) Total loss of all power to reactor control systems

And still no one was killed due to radiation exposure (two workers suffered radiation burns).

Just how safe do you expect things to be?
We're using Ruby, Sinatra, HTTParty, Twitter Search API, Postgres, and Unicorn on a Heroku instance. Basically requesting the page pulls recent tweets from twitter matching the search '#replacereader', those tweets are checked against the DB to prevent dupe counting or multiple votes from one account, and new votes are added accordingly. Vote counts along with our list of replacements are pulled from the database and passed to a haml view, and unicorn caches page requests (including DB lookups and Twitter lookups) for 60 seconds to prevent exceeding APIs or Heroku's Postgres database limits.
Perhaps it's because the name brand is spelled in all caps.
We fully know about that.
FeedHQ seems very close to what I want, unfortunately it's throwing a 500 error when importing my subscriptions. I'll give it a more closer look later, thanks for that.

Edit: and it's open source. This definitely seems like a good base to start from if it doesn't fit my needs.
Thanks for the shoutout for BlogRoll! :)
> Could you please explain how NBN will pay for itself?

NBNCo gets a cut of the customer's payment to the ISPs for their Voice & Data Service.

> Not to mention, NBN Corp. will not be any different monopoly from Telstra Wholesale.

I believe NBNCo aren't allowed to sell services directly to the consumer.

> And regarding speeds, how is NBN going to solve that? Australia doesn't even have enough international throughput in the current network. NBN will make speeds even worst as the demand will only increase. The bottleneck here is not copper, it is international capacity. What's the point of replacing copper if the weakest link of the network remains.

There is plenty of competition in this area (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Australia...). Capacity has increased, reducing international traffic costs for local ISPs (and hence, the consumer).
I haven't looked into the specifics, but in the corporate plan they expect to pay off the government contribution in 20 to 30 years. And it's been audited by more than two audit firms now, so I expect it must be somewhat realistic.

Yes, it is still a monopoly, but what would you rather have - a fast network that reaches the whole population with open access to providers, or the Coalition granting Telstra and Optus some more money to upgrade parts of the network that they don't want to let other carriers access because they are competing with them in the retail space?

I think we do need to put in more overseas cables, but that's no reason to delay upgrading our local network. Anyone who can't see that bandwidth requirements are rapidly increasing to the point where we'll inevitably need a fibre network is delusional (or doesn't know much about technology). It just seems such a waste to spend billions to put in another system that is not sufficient in the long term, and nowhere near as upgradable as fibre, that will have to be ripped up...
Using Perceptrons in a Trading Algo
And a replacement for Google Reader, ownCloud News, is under development.

http://algorithmsforthekitchen.com/blog/?p=479
A lot of pundits bashed the PS4 launch for not showing the PS4.

I'm skeptical how big a deal it was because the kids I game with online couldn't stop talking about the PS4 that night and not one of them mentioned the "controversy" about not showing the PS4. If I was Sony and I inked a deal to get Blizzard games on my console I'd schedule an event the next week to tell the world about it. Huge coup.
If you've hired a PR agency, make sure to get the most bang for your buck
S4 Eye-Tracking Gimmicky?
Scott Huffman is presenting Google's new direction, formulated by University of California law professor Eugene Volokh: http://www.volokh.com/2012/05/09/first-amendment-protection-...
>The thing that NNs have in their favor that other "20 year old techniques" lack is their ability to model any mathematical equation. There is no fundamental limit to the complexity of systems NNs can model (as there is with other AI techniques).

I'm sure that a decision tree can also be viewed as a [universal approximator](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theorem) if you let tree height go to infinity (just as you need to let layer size grow unbounded with a NN). In practice, this power is at best irrelevant and often actually a liability (you have to control model complexity to prevent overfitting/memorization).

And, importantly, being able to theoretically encode any function within your model is not the same as having a robust learning algorithm that will actually infer those particular weights from a sample of input/output data.
A bit off-topic, but does anyone know where I can find a very simple wordpress theme like diggs blog? It looks so beautiful and simple!
You need money in the system to fund quality startups. But you need quality startups to get money in the first place.

The problem is that we lack a lot in both areas. Chicken/Egg.
So we have established that NBN Corp will be the same as Telstra Wholesale. The only difference will be that NBN Corp will be owned by government rather than being a public listed company (the question is for how long)

Exchanges in some areas are full because nobody wants to invest into building new capacity since government has volunteered $50bn to make it all redundant. The problem has been created by government by announcing NBN in the first place.

I'm still not convinced. How is ability of users being able to send each other high-resolution images, HD video etc. going to be worth $50bn+ to economy?

The reason why upstream is so slow is because there is hardly any demand for it. Some ISPs will double your upstream on ADSL2 by reducing your downstream speeds. Hardly anyone is interested.
I noticed that in the release notes.

Ever since Safari 6 came out, I've been having a problem with display errors. I have a late 2010 MBP, and it only occurs on that computer and when on the Intel graphics. On sites would manipulate the DOM in certain ways (expanding/hiding comments in Reddit, new fields appearing when you fill out existing fields in some sites) you could see things transition but at the end of the update/animation a rectangle of old content would still display.

It was some sort of rendering GPU bug, and it was horribly obnoxious. Reddit was where I noticed it most. Once it happened, re-opening/closing the comment wouldn't do anything because OS X/Safari seemed to cache the result. The only fix was to either switch to the nVidia GPU or to zoom the page in a little bit (to force a re-render) then back out.

But I installed the update a short while ago and I haven't seen it yet. I hope it's fixed, I was starting to consider switching browsers.

Too bad Safari's inspector is still the same terrible one they introduced in 6 and not the good was that was in 5 (and is still in Chrome). I don't know why they decided to change it but it's terrible.
Url shortener for artists
I made this website inspired in the Handshake Deal Protocol: www.hdplist.com for both investors and startups to use it.
I appreciate you taking the time to write out such a thoughtful answer - thanks!
I will try and get you that data :)
How to Kill Wi-Fi
check this: http://austinist.com/2013/03/14/sxsw_interactive_blacks_in_t...
I was completely distracted by the awful dialogue and performances. What a terrible way to show your flagship gadget.
I was expecting someone to give some standard "value is what people pay for it" or "making the product more visible adds value". But the things you listed actually do add value and seem like a win-win for the reseller and the customer. Thank you for a great response to that question.