skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the pointer.

This note in the documentation for that egg looks worrisome [1]: "IMPORTANT: This only works when the code will be run on exactly the same platform as the Scheme compiler ran on. Cross-compilation and compiling to C and compiling that on the target platform is not supported. (You will get an error message when you try to do it anyway)"

Does this mean that cross-compiling for iOS would preclude using this bignum egg ?

[1] http://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/4/numbers#compiled-code
Obama has been more or less the right-center President he was as a candidate. People who are surprised by this wishfully read too much into his rhetoric.

E.g. Obama has continued interventions in Pakistan, etc, even though some people pinned their hopes on him as an "anti-war" candidate. But he was never "anti-war." He was "anti-Iraq war." He ran on a platform of "Bush took us into Iraq instead of hitting the terrorists harder in Afghanistan." So why should anyone be surprised he took troops out of Iraq and put more in Afghanistan?

E.g. re: drone strikes, is it really any worse than the cruise missiles Clinton was fond of using?

"Civil liberties" in the abstract sense, are not a core issue to Obama's base in the same way that say abortion rights are. During Bush, Democrats opposed expansions such as military tribunals in Guantanamo, etc, but things like NSL's have been around since the 1970's. I don't think the bulk of Obama's base have a problem with the status quo circa 1995, or ever did, regardless of what adherent civil libertarians might have hoped.
Would love to see a retrospective. Why didn't it succeed? What did you try? Did you say no to early acquisition offers?
I think the cut of steak is equally as important. I personally prefer a ribeye or filet over a new york or top.

My cooking style is right inline with dorianj (cast iron skillet + oven). I'd add that I like the steak to sit out at room temperature for 30-60 minutes and I pat it dry on the outside.

I'll put a small bit of butter or blue cheese on a filet while it's resting (rib eye doesn't need it).

Also, try dry aging your steak in the fridge. I don't usually remember to do this but it does work:
http://lifehacker.com/5865849/dry+age-steak-at-home-for-stea...
Since when did that matter? ;)
Alternatively use this feature and squash them later when you have access to a terminal.
Google Reader API Documentation
Google acquires Talaria Technologies
What Angel Investors Look for When Evaluating Companies
I am not wrong, and you have misunderstood my claim. See the judgment at https://www.eff.org/document/nsl-ruling-march-14-2013 Page 2, lines 11-13.
Android devices are attached to Google Accounts. Gmail is just one service that can be attached to a Google Account. I don't use Gmail; my login for my Android phone, YouTube, AdWords and all other Google services is my own e-mail address on my own domain.
If you are too stupid to critically assess the constant influx of information the information age has brought with it, then your opinion doesn't really matter anyway.

ITT: Broke morons who don't understand economics.
I think Express website is http://expressjs.com/, not http://expressjs.org/
I guess it just checks the new file in and removes the old one. Git doesn't track file moves, except a posteriori.
Do we need this with Gmail?

I can already use google's Drive storage for email attachments and attach a reference to the file.
Twitter and Facebook killed RSS. It's a far friendlier interface for people to keep up with news and people they find interesting. Geeks may be lamenting the loss of Google Reader, but they make up a very small percentage of the internet population these days. When I suggest that Twitter/Facebook is the new RSS I often catch a lot of flack for it, but honestly, that's how far more people consume information than any other service.
Are we talking about the same press that cheer-led us into the Iraq war? And on a macro scale--the same press that has basically deified Ronald Reagan?

The American press has never been opposed to blowing up foreigners, because Americans believe it is our god-given right to blow up foreigners. This is true regardless of what party is in power. To the extent that there is opposition, it is rooted solely on the impact of military action on Americans--servicemen killed in action, money spent out of the Treasury, etc. That's why the press finally turned against Bush when Iraq continued to drag on. And that's also why the press doesn't care about drone strikes--the American drone operators aren't getting shot at nor do they cost us a lot of money. That's why they didn't care about cruise missiles under Clinton, either.
sorry: "However, she stayed her order for 90 days to give the government a chance to appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals."
Why Dropbox buying Mailbox is a wicked smart move
"slow is smooth and smooth is fast"
Sure the world may get by, but federated IM should be the future of online communications, possibly even more so than email. People love to chat online, SMS, iMessage, etc. But these systems shouldn't be so fragmented into isolated little islands. Apple's iMessage shouldn't even exist and should just redirect people to an XMPP service, while SMS should just be seen as a legacy.
Spoofed telephone calls can't be called back either, exactly like IP.

You are asking that the originator of a call be identifiable somehow. That's not possible, given the number of resellers and levels. That would require even more trust, getting every provider to have a transitive trust relationship and show ID. A single call might go through 3, 4, even more resellers before ending up at the destination.
You will get said timer support in Redis 2.8 with the ability to subscribe to keyspace events, which includes keys expiring (with millisecond resolution). https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/594

psubscribe __keyevent@0__:expired cron_*

psetex cron_run-me-in-1s 1000 0
Interesting. I find the "I'm so offended" rants or the "What just happened?" rants rather amusing. It's easy to pick something to be offended by, but why is that the lede? Would talking about the phone be too dangerous? I don't know, it reminds me of drama for drama's sake.

I found their skits contrived, I wondered if this was how Koreans saw American Culture, I reminded myself that Psy got the YouTube page view record with Gangnam Style. But mostly I was trying to hear how they felt their design choices added value in the phone. Some I found compelling (like picture insets, translation) and others sort of ho-hum (like storybooking) but it didn't bother me that they all had midwestern accents or anything.
My parents are GPs. They somewhat recently had an old man have a heartattack in their waiting room, and basically had to give him CPR + rescue breaths (via one of those squeeze bottle ventilators) for about 10 minutes before the ambulance arrived.

The hell of it was, it did work. The guy kept waking up from it while they were doing it, being very grumpy that people were pressing on his chest, and the moment they stopped he'd go unconscious again. Continued through the normal CPR and the ambulance's CPR apparently.

Unfortunately in the end he didn't make it (heart just would not restart fully).
Installing to a user folder doesn't make the system any more vulnerable to attack.

Of course it does: it means any malware that manages to get onto the machine running as a non-administrator can arbitrarily compromise Chrome.

If Chrome were installed properly as an application under Program Files, the Windows UAC mechanism would intercept attempts to modify it by unprivileged code.

Installing a general executable platform like Chrome under the users directory effectively creates a privilege escalation vulnerability.
swish sucks at crowdfunding
The America that works
Oops. Good catch. Thanks!
It really annoys me when companies delete all the information from their site. Here's what it used to say: "At Talaria, we're building a new, dynamic web application server with a JIT-based runtime at its heart. Today, it supports PHP and runs real-world applications like WordPress and Drupal."
It was a change of life for me too. But a bad one. Instead of checking my favorite websites separately I started checking a hundred websites.

I would eat information. I would get a new post every 30 seconds. I would spend my days just sitting at my desk and archiving what didn't seem of interest and read the rest.

After a few month I started realizing I wasn't enjoying what was written anymore. I wasn't enjoying visiting a website, its design, its UI (And I know the saying, we're not supposed to learn a new UI every time we browse a new website, but I like seeing a websites renovating its design, I like reading an article in its real environment )...

I decided to ditch it. I didn't need the technology. Nobody needed the technology. I didn't mind opening multiple tabs to check different websites.

I use bookmarks, multi row toolbar and tree style tab on Firefox and it's all I need for my big consumption. And I'm a power user. So imagine the normal users, why would they care about Google Reader?
These people are called "startup groupies" and they are a huge problem in Silicon Valley, because that place is infested with them. I thought it funny too that "learn to program" (which the entire article should have been written about) was only given three sentences at the very end of the article.
i do , and all the french journalists i know.
I was just wondering. They have a well made product, nice website, but the app is free.

I can see how it would be a good thing between Dropbox's legs but how could it be profitable on its own?
>Please read the EFF's press release closely. Specifically

Thanks, I read the Court opinion.

Though I think you need to read my comment more specifically. There is nothing inconsistent with my comment and your comment, I think you just got hung up on the Court declaring the entire NSL law unconstitutional and I reference NSLs being sent in the future without gag-orders.

You are correct there were two issues in the case, but the second issue "the judicial review provision" was only related to the NSL nondisclosure provision. See Page 1 paragraphs 20-22 of the Court Order (issue one and two "collectively refered to as 'NSL nondisclosure provisions).

Therefore, Congress can reauthorize NSL without gag-orders, and they will bc that is what Congress does when a new law is struck down they rewrite it to comply with the Court ruling. Then the NSL without gag-order will be challenged again and this time not under the 1st Amendment like the non-disclosure provisions but under the 4th Amendment.
My gut answer to the title of this post was "acquire skills." I don't know that this really deserved a post all on its own.

Personally, I really disliked the "crash conferences" part.
Why would Google want to maintain and promote an app that makes it easy for people to go to non-Google sites?
How The People Became Stupid
People mock rms for his stubbornness on many issues, but it's becoming increasingly clear that he simply saw further than the rest of us.
In the USA, the main reason it won't go anywhere is the efficiency of the food chain from farm to elevator to processing to destination. The USA really does a good rail system for transporting goods and our trucking is excellent.

// yes, I posted an article I don't believe, but the architecture quest is amazing
"Candidate accepts donations using payment system associated with online drug and child porn peddlers"
nothig else to add , you sum it up perfectly.
Show HN: Boards for Trello - My Chrome Extension Side Project
This is a side project of mine, and came from a need to quickly open any of my Trello Boards without having to manually create a bookmark each time I created a new Board. I'd love to hear your feedback and if you use Trello and find the extension useful it'd be great if you could share it!
California needs to put some effort behind desalination plants or else they will lose some of the most productive farms in the country and a whole wine industry.
Security blogger Brian Krebs suffers simultaneous cyber attack, police raid
well that seems problematic.
know anything about who they are / what "3rd party" they use for removals
I started as a painter working for my father at 16. Sometimes I would take a second job as a line cook as well. I loved computers since my first one (Atari 400) but I never thought anyone would ever pay me to work with them. At 27 I couldn't take sandblasting fuel tanks and flipping burgers anymore.

I took a job as a data entry clerk for $6.50 an hour, worked my way up from there while teaching myself to program (after ten years I only now feel comfortable in my ability). I just finally finished a CS degree at 40. I see so many people here accomplishing so much at so young an age. Please don't take your skills and passion for granted.
One could update the "crash conferences" advice to "volunteer at conferences". Being behind the desk giving out badges is a powerful place to be in terms of developing connections or fitting into a scene.
Whoa, it was still alive? I thought all the cool kids had migrated to Ask.fm.
GTalk does not have "no effect on battery life".

I'm assuming you're on an android device (you didn't say) -- all¹ Android devices are "always" connected to GTalk already. GCM (C2DM) sends all push notifications/wakeup requests over this channel, and therefore the framework ensures the socket remains open even when sleeping.

¹ - ones with Google Services
perhaps their cards didn't, but NES certainly did [revolutionize gaming].
Seriously? 30 million users at FormSpring's peak seems to be executed relatively well. It was no Facebook, Twitter, or Tumblr, but 30 million users is a damn good failure as far as I'm concerned.

Now if you want to talk about social plays that capitalize on trends with without adding any real value that are not executed especially well, then we can talk about Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning"s travesty that is Airtime.
perhaps if worldwide release parties are organized they'll defer taking Reader offline.
America’s Atrocities: Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan 
Incomprehensible atrocities occur in war that seem inevitable but cannot be overlooked. America’s wars are not an exception, and Americans should be shaken up by this reality. War’s brutality clearly points to the fact they must end.
If they dogfood, then it would be in a private repo on github. You could get a job there or, for the impatient, just wait until the next RoR exploit.
Dave Winer: Google shutting down Reader like UAL crashing a 747...
And lack of deviation from the core tech that brings in no immediate profit is what tikhonj called "evil".
I write F# on Windows for a living.
However, I don't get this "give me a job" mentality as you say it - is it wrong that c# is a highly sought-after skill in the market?

There's already a tremendous(but small) community behind F# . I've never seen a question on F# go unanswered in most popular forums. With the start of F# foundation and open-sourcing of F#, I am confident F# will survive even if MS drops the ball.

The taint on F# is that it's a Microsoft language - that's enough to make some people never consider it, and that's okay. That baggage is historical.
Also, I just ran a fully cached build of 0.1.27 and it works flawlessly on the 256MB pi.
I don't see how Gina is a good example. She's been a Twitter fan for a long time. There's too much overlap with GReader, so it makes sense she would pick one over the other. That doesn't make RSS "dead".
You could allow invites, then use subsequent content to determine spam vs non-spam. Block content when its spam and notify the user, blacklist the JID where it came from and eventually domains where there is a high proportion of spam. Also allow users to report spammers. You could possibly even get clever and learn to recognise patterns in the JIDs and domains chosen by spammers, but this is bound to block legitimate content as well.

You could perhaps increase the requirements for sending invites, such as having the recipients server send a CAPTCHA, although spammers seem to be able to get around CAPTCHAs anyway. Perhaps there would be some other solutions that I haven't thought of.
Are you still planning on taking 35% of markup? I commented in a previous post on HN that I thought that was too high for the value you're adding. I don't see this discussed on your website. There is mention of a "wholesale price". What factors determine the wholesale and retail price? Also how do you handle returns/refunds/exchanges?

I still think this has the potential to become a great service, but I'm not convinced you understand (yet) the pain/problem that you've built a solution for.
I think there's probably market traction not only in capturing people who are looking for a lawyer, but in getting people who should be consulting lawyers more often.

Maybe there's a way to standardize the offering to get some of that usage; instead of "chat with a lawyer", "upload a contract" or something.

I think this is a very real problem you're working on, and it has the nice property of being a problem that is common not only to startups but to small tech businesses of all sorts.
> It would mean that you're not allowed to challenge the government in court.

IANAL, but is it not true that you can only sue the government to the extent that it lets you?

Can a lawyer chime in on the extent of sovereign immunity?
I think it works like this. They are not permitted to tell you that they have been served a warrant, but they are always free to tell you that they haven't. If they should suddenly stop doing so, its up to you to draw your own conclusions as to why. That seems reasonable, even in the context of the madness of federal law.

As the text file says however, its always possible that they are being coerced to lie and continue to say that they haven't when they have.
On what basis does it make Google untrustworthy? Was there some kind of announcement that this service would run forever? Or was that simply your expectation?

It's important to differentiate between what other parties are obligated or have promised to do, and what you want them to do. Failing to deliver on the latter is not a violation of trust. It's like saying someone you dated is untrustworthy because they decided to break up with you and they didn't find you someone new to date.
There’s another mobile RSS reader for you out there yet
Well,the fact that the president now has the right to kill an American citizen with no due process is a pretty good example.
Don't tell anyone but we're going to switch to free listings soon. Sellers still have to use our fulfillment, though -- it's the only way we can guarantee delivery.
[Disclaimer: I work at Google in an unrelated area]

Google platforms like Cloud SQL generally have a deprecation policy that will give you an idea of the minimum length of time that they'll be maintained. For Cloud SQL it's 1 year (it's in the Terms of Service), which means that you'd get at least a year's notice before it could be turned off. It's on par or slightly better than what I know of Amazon's policy (they have 1 year deprecation on their APIs and an undefined deprecation policy on their service offerings).

In my opnion having this deprecation policy would make Google Cloud SQL a lower risk proposition than a 'no-name startup', at least until the startup is in a position to make similar guarantees (and the financial resources to stick to those guarantees).

Edit: I guess my point is that some Google products have service agreements as to how long they'll be maintained and so comparing consumer web services to Cloud SQL isn't really appropriate.
> When I suggest that Twitter/Facebook is the new RSS

please explain how twitter and facebook are open protocols so i can suscribe facebook or twitter feeds on the long run without my facebook/twitter reader client breaking because of changes in the api or without having to create an account on their plateform.

RSS exists because it allows free flow of information. I dont recall facebook or twitter being open plateforms that promote interoperability.
bookmarked. good work.
Mailbox Tweets
Instashare – Transfer files the easy way, AirDrop for iOS & OSX
Google Reader got even some of my family on the RSS train - instead of searching for the RSS button the site, I told them to search in Reader for the site, and pick the one with the most subscribers.

It's something that made RSS a whole lot more accessible to everyone. Another thing that will be lost when Reader shuts down.
How much did Dropbox pay for Mailbox?
I'll say this: This behavior by Google has gotten me for the first time to take a deeper look at Microsoft's 365. I'll also be much more careful in the future before using GCE for a real business purpose.
Gagging recipients of National Security Letters found unconstitutional
Unlikely, there's enough big orgs that use exchange etc for all kinds of reasons.

Google apps is fine if you are a small company and just want to get some email working but I've always found it hits limits pretty quick.
If you don't have skills, can you bring experience? Many start-ups try to disrupt existing industries. If you understand how an industry works and why it's vulnerable to disruption, you can join forces with technical people to become that disruption.

You should still learn to code though :-)
I have no experience with it personally, so that might indeed be the case. If anyone mentions otherwise on IRC (#chicken on freenode) I will update this accordingly.
I think that you don't actually disagree with me. Dropbox does not have a short runway, so I don't know why you keep bringing that up.

Obviously, development and design are not mutually exclusive. Loren Brichter for example, is a great designer and a great developer. By not relying on Apple's standard components, he created one of the best Mac apps (Tweetie) which set a new bar for Mac apps and inspired others to do the same (Sparrow).

I like when designers and developers who are perfectionists work together: http://www.cabel.name/2007/09/coda-toolbar-and-three-pixel-c....

If you can't implement the designs that you dream of, don't convince yourself that the dream wasn't a good one. It sounds like the app you were working on was a to-do list of sorts. I suppose that you think that too much thought went into the design of this app, then: http://culturedcode.com/things/iphone/makingof/ Somehow, they managed to ship a finished product in 2008 without sacrificing good design.

This obviously is only capable if you have enough resources, including development talent. Do you think that Dropbox lacks the resources to create a better app? Or is your point that we should quit when it gets too hard?
I don't think that's fair. They're an AI/machine learning company at heart now. Primarily that powers advertising of course, but they have the potential to do so much more.
I agree that "dark side" is over the top. (I never thought Microsoft was so terrible either.)

Maybe some of the resentment here is from the lingering feeling that Google should still be the best thing on the internet. For quite a long time, everything they did, they did so amazingly well. I loved that company.

They got worse, the rest of the internet got better, and they really don't stand out the way they did. But sometimes I forget that the new Google isn't the same as the old Google, and I feel stung about things like this.

(FWIW, I don't blame them for doing something about Reader. I just wish they had tried selling it on subscription before fitting it for concrete shoes.)
Ugh, a 'friend' of mine is doing this. No skills, never worked at a startup. He's put up three landing pages over the course of the past 6 months and now blogs about his experiences 'starting' 3 companies. Its incredibly obnoxious.
30 million users generating no revenue.

edit: and retention rates were abysmal. 30 million people signed up is a vanity metric. actual "users" was a very, very small fraction of that