skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quoth the article: "Oh yeah, and they have this little feature called “Boost,” which gives celebs the ability to require fans to subscribe to their YouTube channel or follow them on Twitter or Instagram or like them on Facebook before accessing one of their videos."

Ugh. Attempting to force me to subscribe to a youtube channel or do anything "social" before I can view a video is repulsive, and will guarantee that I will not give that artist any of my attention or money.

Base your business model on that if you want, but recognize that you are offending some potential viewers / eyeballs (obviously, your customers are the celebrities paying you, not the fans). I hope you track the viewers who make it to the "you have to sign up/like/friend/follow/etc" page and go no further, AND make those numbers available to your customers so they can see how many (possible) fans their desire to use that "feature" is turning away.
I just did a major SEO audit for our site. Changing title tags and h1 tags are insanely important. It literally looked like we were hiding ourselves from Google. I'll probably do a post soon about this on our/my blog.
If Ahmadinejad decrees that there are no gay people in Iran, does that make it so? If Kim Jung Un went craz(ier) and said that all North Koreans are men, would that make it so? If (when) I become galactic emperor and (for my own amusement) declare that henceforth camus's legal status will be "bird", would that make it so?

Laws are what we make them, they do not influence the nature of reality.
But as a young developer (15 and 362 days old ;)) If you have any ideas you'd like to collab on, I'd be willing to give it a shot :)
Speeding tickets help prevent murder, in an indirect way.

That is, minor traffic violations are the most common way cops catch people who have committed more serious crimes. Some lawyers call it "bootstrapping charges."

If autonomous cars do eliminate (or greatly reduce) minor traffic violations, they could have a very negative impact on crime. Cops would need a new, smarter way of catching these criminals.

While these "speeding ticket robots" might help cities boost revenue, they lack the law enforcement benefits of having cops people physically pull people over.
The post has nothing to do with one-way functions. The point was that its very difficult, if not impossible, to consider all the possible attack vectors in a system, even for someone with a lot of experience, even for a very simple system.

(also, its important to get as many eyeballs as possible to examine the system)
Arch's philosophy:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way

I guess the most notable difference between Arch and Unbuntu is Arch's quest for simplicity as a system, where Ubuntu tries to be simple for the "common man" by abstracting implementation details, adding to overall complexity of the system.
>> As to being excluded in a more social sense, the best way to defeat that is not to care about it. It's basic human psychology that not caring about acceptance will make the other group members wonder why you don't care, which naturally enough and quickly makes you an insider.

> You can't seriously believe this.

Yes, it's true, and it's the most basic kind of psychology. One doesn't need to spend much time as an adult before seeing scores of examples.

> This same argument is made in gaming about issues people have with how women are treated and depicted within that industry: "If you don't bring it up and act like it's a problem, people won't think it's a problem and therefore it won't happen."

You just changed the subject, and it's not remotely the "same argument". I'm talking about perceptions of exclusivity and being or not being an insider on purely psychological grounds. You're talking about proactive behavior toward women.

> Hateful people don't care that they're the minority; they'll type in all-caps, call you a crybaby, show up with their guns out for all to see, call you sheeple and claim their truth is the real truth regardless of their numbers.

Faced with that, you have three choices -- the first two are ignore them or have them arrested. If what they do isn't an arrestable offense, if it's "free speech", then ignore them. If you cannot ignore them and can't arrest them, then we have a case of PyCon syndrome -- an impasse in which everyone gets hurt and no one benefits.

The third choice should be obvious -- for those women who can't stand the behavior of men, they should start their own tech companies -- an occupation for which women are fully qualified -- and turn the tables on the overgrown adolescents. There is venture capital ready to support women's companies, there is plenty of political support, and there are plenty of talented women. Let men collide with a glass ceiling for a change.

But you know what? The day when women could blame men for their professional and economic problems has passed. It's unseemly, out of date and it contradicts everyday reality.
When pg comes to your defense, it's a good day ;)
Just as with computers, I'd wager most people don't give a crap. Most people use cars to get from one place to another. Hauling groceries, kids & whatever else. Most people use computers to check email, Facebook, pay bills, write letters and play a couple of casual games. In both cases, there are users and there are enthusiasts.
Apple says that some users may be experiencing iMessage and Facetime issues
Yeah, and I announce intent to build 1 gigabit fiber in my home as well!
I literally did get my car washed last week, and the next evening, we had water 10 feet past the doors at work. Willie Nelson never should've built this place below the parking lot.

This is the worst superpower.
At Google I/O last year they stated that the Google Now cards which show flight arrival times would figure out when a flight lands and how far you are away from the airport (including traffic) to predict the best time to leave.
I find it odd that Emacs is so widely loved. It seems like a way-station between Notepad and a proper text editor that fits in with all the other software on my system, using familiar keyboard and mouse commands so I can get things done instead of having to look up arcane rituals worthy of Git to do any moderately powerful editing task and learning a failed programming language to do any sort of scripting or customisation instead of using a modern one I already know. I would hate to be stuck in the slow world of Emacs limbo because it took so damn long to customise everything instead of just setting it up in a few minutes and then getting on with real work.

Disclaimer: Yes, this post is a sarcastic parody of the parent. Mostly...
As an hourly contractor as well, I back up everything to the cloud and have at least two laptops in a 'ready' state. Trusting hardware to work is... brave.
"The upgrade is not mandatory, so if you’re not down with the 5 cent increase you can keep your existing resources and pricing."
You know, a few months ago I think so, but I could never find the culprit. I've had no issues recently, so maybe they updated it?
$5000 virtual hackathon for HTML/CSS/JavaScript developers: Mobilize GitHub.com
Vudu Headquarters Robbed, Hard Drives With Private Customer Data Stolen
The existing monopoly :) Everyone else loses.
If your business model is complete and utterly depended on a single third-party company, one need to be aware of the risk. It should be in every iphone exclusive company mind that Apple is in complete control, and are the sole dictator in what business models is allowed to exist on the phone.

Startups should thus do risk analyzes as part of creating a business plan. If your depended on a single supplier, then it need to be calculated in. If the supplier ever feels threatened, or has reason to enter your market, then there is nothing one can do to prevents them from cutting you of. The only option is to either gamble that it wont happen, or diversify your business to the point where you are no longer in a fully depended relationship with the supplier.

It should be mentioned that the business model of service providers when they implement a "walled garden" (Closed platform) is to retain a complete level of control. If app developers would refuse to develop to walled gardens, then this kind of problems would not exist.
They pulled AppShopper, now they pull AppGratis. This is stupid. Apple's store sucks. You can't discover anything unless it comes out that week and has the hype of Apple's week one marketing behind it unless someone you follow on Twitter starts pimping it.
Vudu customer information stolen
Seems like the smart thing would be pushing rendering to the client. This is already done in real-time for coarse and simple models like PDB.
Video editing.

This is, in a very real way, relevant to my interests, as someone who has just run out of space on his existing edit SSD.
> (also, its important to get as many eyeballs as possible to examine the system)

More importantly, it's important to get eyeballs that don't have any old knowledge or assumptions.
Natural light, standing desk, large monitors, fast machines, clean whiteboards, and a cultural acceptance that wearing headphones is effectively a "do not disturb" sign.
I use DigitalOcean and really like them:

- Provisioning is conceptually cheap, and this is their killer feature. You click the "Make a new VPS" button, you pick your distro, how much RAM you want, and an SSH key, and they spit out an IP address less than a minute later. `ssh root@198.xxx.xxx.xxx`

This is much nicer than eg. finding or downloading a box to mess with Vagrant or taking who knows how many hours to set up your own distribution in VirtualBox. Just a few minutes ago, I spun up a box, messed around with Gitlab, and destroyed it. Completely seamless; has all but replaced VBox for these "one-off VM experiments" that I sometimes try.

There's also an API for automatic provisioning if that's your thing.

- Pricing: Cheap, as you'd expect. 512MB for 0.7¢/hr or $5 a month. There's no difference between monthly and hourly pricing so if you want to pay a buck fifty to rent the 24-core 96GB monster for an hour, have at it.

The thing about DigitalOcean is that they're still such a new service that they haven't gotten everything all polished yet:

- No kernel upgrades. The kernel is kept outside of your virtual machine, which means that if you upgrade your kernel, then you'll get mismatched modules and your network interface won't come back. They've pinned kernel updates in ubuntu so this shouldn't be a problem, but you have to say "IgnorePkg = linux" in your /etc/pacman.conf if you're on arch. Security updates will be a pain though...

- You can't boot into a recovery image/liveCD. If the above happens to you, I assume you'll have to either restore from backup or file a ticket and ask them to pick things out of your VM's hard drive. (You do get raw console access provided by an HTML5 VNC client, which can be useful)

- Payments are weird because you can't see your VM or network usage, so it's unclear how much you'll be charged until they bill you at the beginning of your month. If you select to pay via paypal, you can't pay by a credit card linked to your paypal account (at least for the first transaction any way); I had to give them my credit card information directly. (I imagine they do this to cut down on fraud or spam)

- Services are still a bit barebones. You have to roll your own load balancing. There's no support for mounting an image into another VM to recover files. No internal networks; every VM has a public IP address, which makes me curious to see how they're going to handle IP address depletion if they ever get popular. You have to use your own firewall via iptables or similar.

They will manage your DNS for you though, if you like, and you can ask them to take a snapshot and automatically back up your VM every day or so.

My verdict? I think they're lovely and I really reccomend them especially for personal projects, but as of this writing (early april 2013), you should think about these things before you decide to use them in production.
The Past, Present and Future of Scholarly Publishing
It's sad, but I'm afraid the way the repository owner behaves is not uncommon. Frequently people tend to overprotect their repositories and projects as if they were their own children.
I would think this is a classic case of "Follow The Money".

What firms are HQ'd in the Austin and surrounding areas...

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2012/state....
Whole Foods... Dell...
I wonder what types of conversations Google & Dell have been having?
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Hey windsurfer - IIRC you and I did exchange a few emails because of a bug early on that didn't correctly schedule a call with the company from the pitch you liked within the app...sorry about that. I think its been fixed for a while now.

BTW we never share data with recruiters.
I don't understand why people complain about Launchpad. It's no dumber than Front Row, which shipped on Snow Leopard and several versions prior, and like Front Row, it's totally hidden unless you choose to invoke it.
"You can only run our software on our hardware" has already held up in courts. It's been a few years, but I think it was Allen Bradley or Siemens.
512MB (burst), 20GB HDD VPS for 4.99/month

http://quickweb.co.nz/lowendbox.html

I've been using these guys for small projects for about a year now - never a problem.
> smart thing would be pushing rendering to the client

They seem to be doing precisely that:

"This viewer is powered by Three.js and uses WebGL when available, but will fall back to the slower canvas renderer."
Least Resistance problem-solving.
It's rich that ATT, successor company to Southwestern Bell, is complaining about alledged subsidies to another company to enable a fiber rollout.

Southwestern Bell and its sister baby bells were subsidized to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars in the 90s in exchange for a promise to roll out a nationwide network of fiber to the home. Needless to say the network never materialized but the telecoms kept the money.

Ref: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_0026...
Base types are just CPU operand categories, it's convenient for the CPU to process numbers in 8/16/32/64/128 bit representations, but those only crudely approximate the domain of a function. It's just nicer to be able to statically say "the volume knob is a real-valued number in the closed interval [0, 11] represented as 32 bit floating point" and have the compiler complain if you even could accidentally assign it the floating point representations of -1 or 12 (which are legal in the CPU type but out of domain for all volume functions).
Actually, hypervisor details aside, 8 VCPUs fully pegged at 100% user or system time will consume 4x the capacity of 2 VCPUs fully pegged at 100% user or system time in a domU, assuming comparable chips. Always and regardless of how Xen schedules the VCPUs onto actual nodes.

Your hand-waving about the hypervisor is unwarranted, since hypervisor interference under Xen shows up as its own time from the perspective of the domU (steal%) and nobody worth mentioning actually does hosting with VMware.
Congrats Ryan - this tech has huge potential and is targeting such an important problem to solve.
Professor Tells Student to “get your shit together”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_in_the_Dallas...

AT&T, for one.
Re: Rule 5.6. Aren't all commerce apps - especially Flash Sales apps violating Rule 5.6? I could get an app every day from Fab, Rue La La, Threadflip, Gilt, and others, and every week from Postmates, Instacart, etc...

Rule 5.6 seems crazy to me, unless I have misunderstood something. What are the apps that are using push notifications for other reasons than what Rule 5.6 prevents? Communications apps?
If that's the case, then Urban Airship needs to pivot very fast, because their business is built on something forbidden!
Some users, like myself, used and customised vim before moving to sublime text.I'm not saying you, or anyone else, shouldn't use vim, but some of us feel more productive in ST than vim.T alking about "the slow world of sublime text limbo" seems unnecessarily insulting.
(2001) should be added to the title on HN. It is quite interesting to see things just get reposted again and again.
It's rather frustrating when the core functionality for a quarter billion phones stops working on a monthly basis. But at least I can now understand the hot tears generated when BBM would go down; over-the-top messaging with delivery/read/syndication truly is superior to SMS.
I think the problem with a question like "How many gas stations do you think are in this town" is it is too simple to reach the answer, and the approximations are too vague. The solution for everyone is to google it. The approximation method requires some big assumptions about how many gas stations there are per-capita, or per-car, or per-area. I don't think anyone would be able to easily approach that off the top of their head and expect to get a reasonable answer. Just as approximation is a useful tool, knowing when it doesn't work is also useful.

What would your approach be to work out how many gas stations are in your town? Have you done that calculation, and come out with a reasonable answer? What assumptions did you have to make?
Oh come on. It's certainly "dirty" to push your app up the charts with fake downloads from bots, but this is just advertising. There are much worse things happening in the world... and in the App Store.

Plus however you might feel about apps like this, the much larger issue is that Apple is now pulling apps it doesn't like. While it's of course within their rights, this really shouldn't be just happening like this. With over 400 million or so iOS devices out there, even if it's no monopoly, there should be some regulation to prevent Apple from screwing around like this. There is a difference between rejecting apps based on an intransparent process and pulling apps afterwards because they don't fit with your business model.
All great tools. I think the challenge is fitting into a developer's work flow at that level of intimacy to their app. To that end, we will probably end up targeting a different type of user, but those details are still evolving.
> [1] I'm not the one to start wars. vi might be just as good, but I'm not going to learn it this side of the river Styx

Of course you aren't, as long as it is one of the two editors you approve of.
SEEKING FREELANCER - NORTH CAROLINA OR REMOTE

I need a website created from the iphone app - Earhead.
Visit the appstore to see the app that needs to be turned into a website. appstore.com/earhead
I just wish Sublime didn't have a mine of its own. It has a bad habit of rewriting my config with my comments removed.
Everyone always loses because the winners don't want to be targets.
Head out to some of the Rust Belt states - New York. Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. You'll find towns that are just that - empty and gutted. There are cities that lost more than 80% of their manufacturing jobs in less than 10 years.

It was just the way of the future - the Southeast had lower labor costs, lower cost of land, and advantageous shipping arrangements. The cities just couldn't keep up, and they fell by the wayside.

And yes, it's pretty crappy to go to these cities and tell the people who are struggling there that their businesses deserved to go bankrupt or leave, but there's no other way to do it. The alternative is to subsidize them, and that ends up discouraging progress and also creating a culture of dependence on the government. After all, why invent new stuff if the government will increase the subsidy to keep up with your new manufacturing process?

Letting the free market purge badly competing industry is good for the country and also good for everyone in the long term.
Well, the type of sausage wasn't specified; I hear soy-based vegetarian sausages aren't all that bad.
I think the main problem with the ST2 icon is that it looks like a disk drive. I often ignore it because in my brain, I assume it's a disk and not an editor.
> Did you want to maybe let women express what isolates us ...

If you had done that, I wouldn't have replied. "Mansplained" explains nothing, it only argues for a nonexistent distinction between men and women, like the oppressive idea that women think about the world differently, process reality differently, do math and science differently, than men do.

There has never been a more pointlessly divisive idea among the feminist ranks than the idea that there is a uniquely female way to think about the world. It's false and it undermines women -- it encourages sympathy for an idea that oppresses women.

"Mansplained" is just a code word for "ignore him -- he's a man, i.e. the enemy."

> ... instead of declaring what will and won't lead to our isolation?

At present, in a country where women's rights are guaranteed by law, what isolates women more than anything else are those women who dismiss arguments as being either male or female. Truth has no gender.
Also var disqus_shortname = 'hellowallet'. Sad.
Confidential Source Protection 101:

1) Obtain information about a crime via method you don't want made public (classic example is ongoing undercover work or ongoing wiretap)

2) Have someone tell a CI, then have CI report it back

3) use report to follow up and obtain sufficient justification for warrant

4) actual source of the tip is never disclosed in court.

Not saying that's what happened here because the NSA doesn't give two shits about some guy that filled out a few fraudulent tax returns, just pointing out that that shit never show up in court. That's also why very few espionage cases are brought to trial.
I'm sorry you feel attacked. Why can't you post your cure here?
Yeah, it's kind of amazing. At one end of the spectrum, we have ultra-ethical companies like Tesla, who use government loans efficiently and pay them back ahead of schedule. At the other end, we have ethically and morally bankrupt companies like Southwestern Bell that took government funds with the promise of building a nation-wide fiber network, didn't do it, and pocketed the money.
As long as you don't keep too much of a BTC balance, the risk seems minimal. I guess the trick is that with a currency that's increasing in value, it's very tempting to keep a large BTC balance.
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Cubism, Which Changed Art, Now Changes the Met
Talent vs. Tenacity
There are more influences than the parents, though.
It is a small world. Charlie Shrem (CEO of BitInstant) said that the bar founders are some of his childhood friends: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=170710.msg1775228#ms...

BitPay is the #1 Bitcoin payment processor. Either Charlie or the bar founders decided that BitPay was a logical partner.

So no unusual story here. Just like in the non-Bitcoin world, initial investors are often your family/friends.
This is getting ridicoulus
I use this type of calculation all the time. It's often applied to a more scientific problem than piano tuners, but the key is round numbers, approximations and simplified equations. It's an incredibly useful process if you have an idea sloshing around but don't know whether it would yield anything. 10 minutes and a few estimations and you know whether it's feasible or not.
> Do the investors not think about this?

Some do, some don't. The ones that don't get burned like this.
+1

Actually, things are stored in a few directories. It took a while to figure out where Sublime stores everything so I could write a dotfiles script for it.

Having to set things up through Package Manager is a pain. Not sure why that's the first step whenever I read an article on Sublime. A simple package file script that git clones/pulls plugins is more maintainable.
Hooters Sued by former Waitress in Dispute Over Wig
Hmm, even just reading his blog post I think his daily push message promoting a deal on another app violates the guidelines - and that's his side of the story which should be the most favorable, heh.
For you python Sublime users:
http://dechols.com/post/40402860395/sublime-text-2-python-de...