skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the app is crap it would make less sense to keep it. Perhaps relaunching the app after an "update" might be a good use of the name and positive press it has.
"Introducing?" These have been around for a while.
Ordering yourself from China is a completely different proposition for these reasons...
- No warranty
- No after sales service and support
- No users forum / community
- Poor manuals and often poor production quality

For me, the premium of $50 or so dollars is well worth it.
This happened to be again, a 2nd time in two days

http://twitpic.com/cefnfb

hows.info has scraped StackOverflow, SEO'd the search results and then baited me into visiting their site followed by a rebounce to some ad mess parking domain.
Quicksilver Mac app launcher sees release after 10 years in beta
Of note, there is a second edition due out in June, its subtitle is "Computer Vision in C++ with the OpenCV Library".
I'd love to hear more discussion about this, but looks like it was submitted at a bad time :(
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well said. It needs to be said more often so that people eventually hear it though :)

Seriously: if a company can't pay its people market, some combination of the following is true: the "biz guy" cofounder is doing a shit job, they don't value people, they don't have enough investor capital to pay people, and/or they're not making money. Realistically, all of the above! (since most startups fail :) )
Oh, according to the tweet, I thought the 15 min were the time when he took a dump.
-1 not sure what you mean by "standards"

HN looks like it was hacked overnight which makes its design perfectly adequate for a community of hacker...

Something becomes a standard when used by the majority. In this case it would be reasonable to make HN's unpolished design the standard for communities of hackers...
An alternative to the OP's recommendation of Hushmail is FastMail.fm. I recently switched to FastMail from GMail and wrote about it: http://reidburke.com/2013/03/25/own-your-email/
If it smells like it doesn't quite make sense, the most likely explanation is that it doesn't make sense and they are spinning a narrative that suits them.
Try http://crowdtilt.com/ then.
2000 wasn't that bad for me. AIM was a decent social network (back then people used their statuses to share what was going on). Mapquest was very competent at providing directions. Pirating music was at least as easy it is today (and finding new music was pretty easy too). Yahoo news and many others like it did a great job of aggregating important news. The path to portable music was arguably pretty mature with portable mp3 cd players and minidisc. My university library let us borrow a 2 MP digital camera; sure, we couldn't afford to buy the camera, but I still have 1000s of photos from that camera, many that look fine printed at 4x6 and 8.5x11.

The true life changers from the article for me: smartphones with always-on internet (these existed in 2000, but they were overpriced and sucked), laptops + wifi, and wikipedia. Also, amazon - I do almost all my shopping online now.
PostgreSQL doesn't do parallel query.
> Why is anyone under the impression that living sans Google is difficult or unrewarding?

Because it plainly is. Let's just take search. I try to switch to Bing or DDG every 3-6 months and can't take it for more than a few days. It is very, very clearly difficult and unrewarding.
Lock button on my iPhone isn't working properly, so I wrote this app
Go is awesome, and I'm glad to see people are having success with it. I wouldn't worry too much about the haters. Every successful project attracts them (they wouldn't spend their time trolling unsuccessful ones).

I think that any startup that chooses Go will attract people who are passionate about their work. Paul Graham wrote about this in connection with Python, but I think it's equally true in this case. That kind of advantage is worth more than having a few extra libraries, most (although not all) of which can be whipped up in a week or two anyway.
I don't see them giving up the copyrights. As it is GPL, nobody else is going to go opencore with it or having a separate commercial license. Which puts a spanner in the works for MariaDB and other MySQL-based competitors (Monty did in fact complain about it a while back).
For your developers to get better, allow time for practice, not just learning
Right. Scala is functional like C# is; yes, the functional abstractions are more powerful than C#, but like C#, its not forced down your throat. I'm still waiting for people to discover how Scala is the best OO language we have so far, traits are incredibly powerful and case matching on top of that is just icing.
The cool thing with EE is, in a lot of cases, the older you get, the more in demand you become (or at least, not any less wanted), since experience is so crucial in EE.

With CS, it seems like every company's looking for young, energetic undergrads fresh out of college who know the latest technologies, in many cases to replace the older people. It's always seemed a little too short-sighted to me... not sure how my generation of CS majors is going to do in the long term.
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I don't think one gets rid of it per se. One learns to understand and recognize it in oneself, and that causes the inflammation gradually to diminish.
The interesting part about this is that MariaDB is only a drop in replacement for MySQL 5.5. MariaDB isn't porting to MySQL 5.6 (which came out last month), instead they are going to try to reimplement all of the functionality from MySQL 5.6 which will probably never finish:

http://blog.mariadb.org/mariadb-10-0-and-mysql-5-6/
Wait a second - Yahoo! couldn't figure out how to algorithmically shorten a long-form story for display on mobile? It took a 17-year old and $30M to make this happen?

What is going on here..
Sounds more like regression to the mean than anything else.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean
01111111 gets you to ascii art
This is awesome!

Although Firefox seems to ignore media queries that don't have a medium type (just using `@media all and (max-...) { .. }` fixes that though), and using the prefix search of `a[id^="up_"]` is probably more efficient than the full substring search of `id*="up_"`.
Apple's first quarter of negative income growth since 2003
That's not an extraordinary claim at all. It's called marketing. Companies spend millions on it all the time.

And it's far from "completely unsubstantiated." Summly was objectively not very good, and the developer appears to have more family connections than he does raw engineering talent.

Yahoo! has tons of talented engineers working for them who could have easily put together another shoddy summarization app (except Yahoo! isn't even using the app--they're shutting it down). Why would they dish out (reportedly) $30 million for a kid who hasn't even graduated from high school?
Yes, Clojure is a Lisp, and looks like one.

Scala can look like Java or it can look like ML, depending on the author's style. It's very multi-paradigm.
What is it built with?

Edit: It appears to be native and built with https://github.com/probablycorey/wax on ios.
Hey man... hire people, not years of experience in X. Let's not pidgeonhole people because of what languages they've used in the past.
Everything else aside, straight to the core of the product/app, the production, execution, marketing/branding and front is beautiful and well done. From the app to the site to the marketing. A machine that well oiled, no matter who is the public face, should be applauded. The fact they have a real R&D firm providing the tech even more so. This machine may produce some great things and may inspire others. Persistence and production/quality paid off.
I self host my personal email and have to use gmail at work. Spam is actually the one thing that I find gmail weaker at compared with self hosting.

My nearly stock Postfix setup with a few basic anti-spam settings, rejects about 80% of spam. Then stock SpamAssassin config (with a nightly sa-update cron job) gets accuracy somewhere into the 90s. The SpamAssassin Bayes plugin takes it to very close to 100% (maybe 2 or 3 Spams per year).

The best part is that I'm in control -- when someone continues to send annoying email even after being asked to stop (like our daughter's old childcare provider), I can add a Postfix rule to reject their mail at SMTP time and enjoy knowing that for every email they send, they'll get a Non-delivery report from their SMTP server complete with a personal message from me.

Another example: an acquaintance liked to send mass mailers to everyone in his address book of the quality on par with most people's facebook/twitter status updates, followed by a barrage of useless replies from people I don't know. After realizing I never want to see those kinds of messages from anyone, I added a regex to Postfix header_checks to reject messages with more that 15 @ symbols in To: or Cc:.

Another benefit of self hosting is unlimited temporary email aliases (e.g. temp123@example.com). Many places don't accept the standard myemail+temp123@example.com sub-address that gmail supports (and a spammer can easily identify), and it's nice to be able to tell when companies abuse my email.
Pair Design for Creative Teams
How I made 15-year-old Nick D'Alosio (Summly/Yahoo) cry
...morale.
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Changes to law used to prosecute Aaron Swartz gets a cold reception
I have observed in various walks of life that whoever is in "it" for the money ends up being, at best, moderately useful for their organization, moderately effective at growing, moderately effective at learning and ultimately moderately effective at being successful. And that's one of the more optimistic scenarios. As an ironic consequence, they also end up being only moderately successful at getting rich, that is if they even have the mental chops necessary and a healthy dose of luck.

This is like Orwell's double-think: You need to care every once in a blue moon about your well being (compensation, benefits, etc.) and then immediately forget about it and do whatever it is that you're doing for the joy of it. I have found people's sustained focus on their own well-being to be one of the best predictors of their (lack of) contribution to wherever they are in life.
"many founders strut around as if they're writing your yacht check personally with a 0.1-0.2% offer"

It is even worse than you suggest for the not-a-founder-employee, the 0.1-0.2% offer is almost assuredly common stock and could easily turn into 0.001% via dilution that occurs in further fund raising rounds.

Yes, you can still make a fantastic amount of money if you're strapped to a moonshot like Google or Facebook and the founders aren't completely manipulative dicks coughZyngacough, but even calling those "rare" (without a qualifier like 'super duper OMG so rare') as the article does is insulting.
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"To put it bluntly, D'aloisio raped my inbox."
Something Simple
01010011 - 8-bit mode

01110101 - bowling

00101010 - space

00111001 - burger

01111111 - ascii (via heelhook)

01000101 - rocket

10001000 - synth

11011011 - song

11010011 - simone

11100111 - cat

10000001 - pong

10010000 - bacon
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I would put it this way. They're not responding to your ideas, they are responding to you.

A thought experiment: imagine Larry Page, or Jeff Bezos, or Elon Musk is sitting across from one of these people, selling your same idea. The exact same idea, with the same words. Do you think they would respond with that quick reactionary criticism? Of course not.

I suspect you've failed to communicate first something that is much more important than the idea: why you are impressive. i.e. why it is that they should even be listening to you. You probably just figure you're being humble, when really you should spend more time talking yourself up (not in a douchey way) before talking about your idea.
To my mind, besides all the import guff, the core of that code is more readable than many of the other language implementations and just as concise.
Yet they used getElementById in the JS anyway.
I think it is remarkable that they've assembled a very qualified (looking) executive team to make all of this happen. That is arguably the most "unlikely" bit of the endeavor, especially given the founder's age.
I wanted to start writing. I got so enthusiastic about the idea that I started coming up with all these extra things to do. It wasn't until a month later that I realized I lost sight of my original goal. This happens to me often. In any case, I finally started.
You make great points, and I think you're right. While I think the OP's advice is appropriate for most situations, particularly in general JavaScript code you have to share with other developers, jQuery's use of it is probably entirely appropriate. I skimmed the article, and by the end, I was already starting to grok how they were using the ternary at first glance - and, as others have pointed out, they may have more important considerations, such as execution speed, driving this usage.

Tangentially, I think his point about the descriptive variable names is far more important than avoiding if...else aliases (though it's not an original point, and the examples he shows are appropriate uses of short variable names).

I didn't think you were particularly patronizing. If you were, then I didn't mind.
Google+ adds animated GIF support to profile images
You can now use an animated gif for your profile photo! It will animate on the profile page on both desktop and mobile.
It looks like this scrapes, as opposed go being real time.

Someone above posted a link to http://m.news.ycombinator.com.moovapp.com

I think after being improved a little bit it could do exactly what you're looking for.
> Why does nobody use URIs? At least bittorrent magnet links got this right.

Because a public key on its own isn't that useful as the address of a resource?

> Additionally, without proof-of-work

"In order to send a message through the
network, a proof‐of‐work must be completed in the form of a partial hash collision." - paper, section 3.

> any system in which all nodes receive all messages will not scale

They discuss this in section 4 of the paper.
Prop 30 raised personal income tax (and sales tax, a separate point), which is based on calendar years.
GitHub Issues has been around for a while. Where's GitHub - with all the Android version's features - for iOS?
That's awesome! Good luck with continuing to grow h4 Spanish Lite!
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Wow, that's a really cool app. I really like how easy it is to use.
Forgive me if you already knew this, but Go is open source, and has been from the start.
Running ASP.NET Web API Services under Linux and OS X
Cool! I saw an article on this a little bit ago. I'll definitely give it a go when the iOS version hits the App Store!

How is the transition from Android to iOS?
I didn't know this, yeah that makes sense.
We're not talking about talent here.
It's hard to know when. It depends on what you think a MVP is. Some think its an alpha. Others think its a beta. And some think it's a completely finished and polished product. I wouldn't shy away from doing a Show HN if you want real feedback.
bitmessage does have POW. How does the current setup not scale? Yes it breaks off into streams but that is Scaling.

Also the dev answered your question about URI's here http://www.reddit.com/r/bitmessage/comments/1ay3kh/why_not_u...
I recommend using http://Hover.com.

UI is simple and elegant. They don't charge for a private whois database or try and up-sell on you with emails every other day. Transferring domains over is simple. Check them out! @hover on twitter.
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Bioinformaticians share their own dna in personal genomics textbook
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There is a table here: https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Faq
do you have a bitcoin wallet?

if not you can make one here: https://blockchain.info/wallet/

and i'll send a donation
that's not really how it works
I guess my joke didn't come across. The Constitution already has the words "no ex post facto law shall be passed" in it (my joke is that all that work going back to try to add it would be wasted) right after the words that congress can't just declare someone guilty of a crime without a trial. Just Google "no ex post facto shall be passed."
I allow slight transparency through terminal windows, perhaps 10%. This allows me to see motion in background windows, which is useful for keeping track of processes like lengthy compiles.
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If you want to test your address. There is an echo server with the address: BM-orkCbppXWSqPpAxnz6jnfTZ2djb5pJKDb
If you are already logged in to the casino site, authentication can be done through the query string to the iframe. .

I've browsed with 3'd party cookies disabled for years and very very rarely had any problem. I wouldn't say never, certain widgets do break, but those are less than one in a thousand. Only one i can recall from the top of my head is Discus.

For Discus, authenticating through the parent site will be an issue since one of the reasons for using Discus is to avoid many different logins.
My guess is that if what was reported is close to real, it was basically an SRI spin-out, there was a real team behind it before it even started, and they either merged with Summly or brought on D’Aloisio as 'Founder' as a marketing tactic.

Oh, and Yoko Ono was also an investor in the series A...
with amazon and a bit of scripting you can get pretty far while keeping the costs low. For my company for example, I transcoded 35 000 minutes of video in 2 days for about 300 euro. Of course it took me a good week to develop the whole system but in the end it was much so cheaper than other services out there. (Zencoder, Amazon Cloud Transcoding etc.) .
I think you nailed it. I definitely under-sell my own value and abilities, I need to work on that.
Huh? Since when do you always use 'ls' after 'cd' - I can think of many times that I don't need to do this, and it would annoy me if every time I called 'cd' it then printed out the directory listing as well.

The popular Unix mantra is "do one thing and do it well" - both these commands, while definitely connected, are each "one thing" and they both perform them very well.
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Why are you treating what they say as a criticism? You are explaining how your ideas are level 10, and they are saying how to take it to level 11. Note that it builds on what is there, and they are excited and positive. To them it probably sounds like you are rejecting what they are saying hence the downward spiral.

A great way to counter this sort of thing is not to reject it, but to pencil it in for later. "That is interesting. Our plan is to get an MVP out the door and find market fit, and then we will be in a better position to do X." You can then discuss whatever is in common between their X and your existing stuff.
Without looking at the link at all id guess getting push pull notifications on the train would be pretty cool. At least seeing whats on order for the day sort of thing.
Maybe people are gauging how much influence they'd have on the end product and it's not as important what you reply, as long as you demonstrate a willingness to listen to feedback, and extract the useful bits.
This looks interesting. Thank you for making this open source.

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I was commenting on his desperate sounding emails when clearly he was not in personal financial peril. After reading more about the project and his background, he seems talented enough.
Working on your project regularly(as in everyday, not even every week) is entirely different from working on it every six months or each month using one of those extra leave days or weeks. So, the extra leave is hardly a worthwhile compensation if you are being paid less and working insanely more hours than normal.
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Is it wrong to ask that? Serious question. Seems to me like a perfectly fair thing for a prospective employer to ask.
In 2000 (or, at least, by 2001) I had a palm v with a CDPD wireless "modem" thing. The minstrel, (I kept mis-spelling it in ways that looked like "menstrual," to the great amusement of my friends and co-workers.) It worked fine; the only problem was that the palm V only had one serial port... if I used the CDPD modem, (which doubled the thickness of the palm v,) I couldn't plug in the keyboard, meaning SSH wasn't really practical. (on-screen keyboards have never worked for me; not then, not now.)

The external keyboard for the palm V was pretty nice, though, assuming you had a flat surface. The serial port made a pretty solid connection and held the phone up at a reasonable angle; something I haven't been able to reproduce with a modern smartphone and external bluetooth keyboard. (To be clear, the bluetooth keyboards work fine; I just haven't figured out how to hold the phone at a reasonable angle while typing with both hands.)

So yeah, really? I wasn't all that less mobile then than I am now. I mean, I had a thinkpad running linux then, just like now; sure, it was slower, but it ran linux just fine. Configuring wireless, sure, was a pain in the ass then, and it's easy now, but eh.
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Definitely a copy -- they even ripped off the Typekit code — which won't load from a different domain. No need to call it alleged.
Well I could have worded that differently. Sometimes it's a good addition like you suggest, I think I handle that gracefully.

More often the response is more "The problem with that is..." which I counter with "here's the answer to that" which after a while gets frustrating, I suspect. I don't do half-baked ideas, I over-plan if anything.
This article would have been incredibly insightful if it had been written in 1994.
I've actually been thinking a lot about this in the past month. I too am transitioning away from Google-everything for various reasons. I only use Gmail via IMAP in Thunderbird, so I've already migrated my address book and calendar to self-hosted webDAV, which was shockingly easy.

The last thing to switch over is Gmail. I used to run a mail server in the past so I know what a pain in the ass it is. I was thinking that something very useful would be some sort of big Bash script that would install and configure webDAV and a mail server using existing packages with smart defaults, specifically for individuals hosting their own personal mail. Kind of like an owncloud, but for address books/calendar/email and using existing packages.

I'll see if I can think of this further once I actually sit down and start running my own mail server again. Anyone with thoughts or suggestions is welcomed to drop me a line :)
The Rio looked absolutely no more ridiculous than the early iPods. It still looks fine, just big.
Yeah, that's much better than mine.
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You're fighting the Good Fight, though I personally think it's fine to use the Play Store. You use FF Nightly?
I think that overhead would be negligible, especially if the other examples are all based on micro-frameworks (i.e. loads of files).

Premature optimisation is the root of all evil, right?
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That’s the problem, they’re just ideas. If you can build an MVP and show some traction, that will be far more effective at recruiting people.
Did anyone else know that about Tim Allen? That is crazy.

Not surprisingly, it seems like the tech entrepreneurs were already on their way at 25. Classic theme of more entrepreneurial vs. corporate America hierarchy?
Yes, agreed. That's a great way to handle it.