skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it has something to do with IP. The way I understood it was that the company Summly licenced the summarisation algorithm was selling it to Yahoo!, but they couldn't do that because Summly was using it, too. So, to get them out of the way, Yahoo! bought them and shut them down.

Disclaimer: This is just the way I understood it, I might be partially or completely wrong.
As someone in the google thread point out, latest csipsimple nightly is worth a shot http://nightlies.csipsimple.com/trunk/ if you are experiencing this issue.
When you were talking to them, did they mention any possibility of just plain up adding extra disk space and paying X extra dollars per month?
300 years in the future kids will be in school, uploading into their brains the story of how in the early 21st century leading psychiatrists and willurd independently discovered the fact that ADHD is actually a super power. Or so I imagine...
How long can Microsoft go on like this?
CS _is_ programming. Just more in-depth.
Everyone around the world was saying 'Yahoo' a fortnight ago for the first time in a long time because of this purchase of summly and coincidentally, Yahoo also quietly became the default search in Safari for iPhones during March. I like to think this is all great marketing and survival positioning by Yahoo as the big 3 companies/partnerships (read on) rear up for an exciting next few years in technology.

Why would Apple change the default search? Well Apple and Google are the main rivals in the mobile market, it makes sense for both Apple to choose an alternative default search engine, as they don't want to strengthen their main rival. I also think Apple's recent 'interest' in robotics (Siri, hiring ex-segway engineer) v.s. Google's robotic cars & Glass, this will be another front that Apple will have to fight Google on.

"1 Billion People Will Use Mobile As Primary Internet Access Point In 2012" http://googlemobileads.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/consumers-lov...

That leaves them with two options, the first being Bing. No way in hell would they choose Microsoft to partner with, with MS' purchase of Skype and close ties with FB you can expect MS to push harder than ever in the Mobile space, over the next few years (assuming they can tie all of their products together neatly).

So that really only leaves Yahoo for search, which works out well for both companies; Yahoo get to survive the battle of the big 3 and still appear somewhat relevant and Apple are no longer strengthening their main rival. I really have no idea what I'm talking about but it sounds interesting.

tl;dr - purchase of summly was marketing and survival by Yahoo
Ditto, I wish I could sign up for fios
Rust is perhaps the only thing that you listed with any real promise. It is bringing in some good ideas from other programming languages, and it does appear to be a language that may eventually offer some practical value.

Asm.js is, at best, a very ugly hack. Instead of going in the right direction and eliminating JavaScript in favor of a proper embedded runtime or virtual machine, it's just promoting further use of bad (even if widespread) technologies.

Firefox OS doesn't appear to be anything but a me-too catch-up effort. Nothing suggests it can truly compete with iOS or Android, never mind the numerous other mobile OSes out there that are available on far more devices and actually have at least some users.

Persona is perhaps a good-hearted effort, but it's pretty clear that it isn't catching on. There are already too many other authentication systems out there, and many of them have far more traction.

The community as a whole would likely get much better value if Mozilla focused on the software that many people actually use on a daily basis, like Firefox and Thunderbird, rather than these side projects that don't really offer much at all.
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Digital currencies will exist as an instrument to hedge against currency fluctuations, commodity manipulation, and to let you deploy liquid money into assets with calculable appreciation/depreciation rates.

National currencies are much less volatile than Bitcoins have shown themselves to be.

In the future, we may not be using bitcoins, but you can bet we're going to be using coins made of bits.

I think we can agree there. "Bits" have nothing to do with it. It's this:

Money pre-1800: metal (usually gold or silver) that can be used to pay taxes and hire killers to defend land.

Money 1800-2075[?]: debt of large institutions, with equity a small player.

Money post-2075: access to talent (the new limiting factor on getting ideas into implementation). We're starting to see that. I put that at 2075 because people are very conservative when it comes to money, so even though that will be the definition of wealth decades before that, I think it will take a long time before we can come up with a reasonable talent-based currency. What would the proof-of-work model be? It's hard to say.
But startup acquisition news doesn't reach the vast, VAST majority of Yahoo's current, prospective, or desired users. Even pretending news like this reached a broad audience (while also pretending that audience doesn't have the same context you're attributing to HackerNews readers), acquisitions aren't just expensive - they're expensive with a significant risk of creating longterm internal pain of varying types and degrees for what, at best, could be a shortterm positive blip in general opinion.

How does this perceived misuse of funds and focus impact Yahoo employees? Their moral, productivity, and general satisfaction/enthusiasm?

Does it make it easier to attract great new hires who meet Mayer's hiring standards? (http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-employees-worry-that-ma...)

Brand marketing has real value, but this has got to be the least efficient way to do it.
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HN tolerates reposts after a certain period, I think.

Anyway I'm not complaining. This is one of those articles which ought to be required reading for any aspiring programmer.
Telling Google to "Choke on a fucking taint, Google. Choke. On. A. Taint." [1] is also not nice, in any universe, not even HN. Not that two wrongs make a right, but I don't agree with your read on the "STFU" line. I think Googler123 meant it conversationally and casually, not like a not-nice direct challenge to Michael like you read it.

Your argument about management is flawed: a company is made up of people, who ALL have to act the way they want employees to act, and expect the same out of each other. Michael absolutely has a right to express himself, and since he was a Google employee, he had the duty at that time to try to make it the best place in the world to work. That he didn't even confront his manager about his real number doesn't speak well to his willingness to try to improve the place. Especially since he had a safety net job offer. What was his risk?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5508058
There are many better products than Bootstrap. I don't know why they aren't more popular. I guess the real problem is that craftsmanship is out of style.

Using Bootstrap is what is short sighted, because following its recommended implementation will create problems down the road, not just for me, the pedant, but the whole team.
Alternatively, one can imagine a DoS against iMessage (potentially something as subtle as getting a routing table screwed up for some target ISP) with the goal of causing a critical conversation you wish to intercept to be relegated to SMS.
http://www.nephoscale.com/nephoscale-cloud-servers

$7.30 / month for a 0.25G instance (on the members plan)

$11.68 / month for a 0.5G

$22.63 / month for a 1G

I've worked with them a lot, and they are excellent. The underlying hardware is really, really fast, their tech support guys are very competent, and they are highly responsive.
Eh, surely just paying that acquisition money directly to sri would be a better win?
Oh dear. In one of Schneier's previous posts, he mentions graduate students learning the security mindset though analysing everyday products. One of these products was 24/7 video monitoring for elderly care... and the CEO of that company took offense to the security of his product being questioned, eventually pulling the security-through-obscurity card https://cubist.cs.washington.edu/Security/2008/02/10/securit...

Many of the other products such as OnStar have similar responses - security-through-obscurity requires the eternal vigilance of constantly googling your product + "security" ;)
I came here to mention Robocode. I played the hell out of that back in the day. I am currently working on an indie game (RTS) that includes AI in singleplayer mode, and also allows you to program your own AIs by making a class that inherits from my abstract AI class which gives you access to an AI API. With Robocode there is a pretty high barrier to entry, but my goal is to have the game be entirely playable and a fun game, which then entices the user to go mess with the AI code.
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Latch is a popular term in the database world. It's used to avoid confusing with the term Lock in a database. Lock in RDBMS usually associates with transaction, data in the tables, data consistence, etc. It has long term semantic and deadlock can be a problem due to user actions. Latch is same as a lock in the traditional CS sense. It's a mutax or semaphore in memory to protect shared data structure in memory, e.g. a paged in index page in memory. The locked duration usually is very short, and deadlock is not a problem due to user actions.

When walking a B+ tree index, the usual code often uses latches to have exclusive access to the index pages being walked from root on the way down so that the pages won't be split due to overflow caused by other threads since the walking thread itself can cause a split and needs to updates the walked pages. Smarter implementation would shorten the list of locked pages when it finds a page with enough room that won't split even if its child pages split. This shortens the scope of the locking of the walk but there are still pages being locked.

This can be a single point of contention when a lot of index walking happen. Pretty much most db operations touch the index. This is especially problematic in modern memory rich systems where most hot data are paged into memory so the locking of the index during walking stuck out like a sore thumb.

A latch-free B+ tree would allow multiple threads to walk the index at the same time, thus removing the single point of contention and allowing massive scaling with more threads added.
Ok. But my main fear is about backups and DB maintenance. Heroku do it, but wonder who else
This is outstanding!! Man, I would've loved to have this when I was in grade school. I remember being very excited about my one hour per week in front of the LOGO turtle. This goes way beyond. I'm not a big fan of java, but learning how to program in the same language your parents may be using at grown up work is pretty damn awesome.
Ask HN: Key mobile metrics I should monitor?   
Hi,
I launched an app in late December(oncoassist.com) and have seen fluctuations in usage since.
I am wondering, what are the key metrics I should be measuring?
I am using flurry.com and don't find it very good.I am used to google analytics for websites so maybe I am a little spoiled.
Any thoughts or links to good blog posts would be greatly appreciated.
> $20/month is prohibitively expensive

If you're capable of using a bare-bones Linux VPS but are unable to pay $20/mo for your side projects, it's time for you to find a better paying job.
What happened? On an old HDD some where and lost the key to them?

Sounds like there is need for a "Swiss bank account" to hold your bitcoin keys.
> Also, did you know that in many cultures (ancient Greece, Aramaic, Hebrew, Chinese, to name but some) 10,000† just means "a heck of a lot", "more than you can count". So you see, 10,000 is a bit too magical for me to take seriously.

That's the salient point. When Norvig says it takes "10 years" to be a programmer, he means it takes a heckuva long time to master the art, not that it takes 87648 hours with a 95% confidence interval. That figure is not meant to be taken at face value.
I don't think it's ironic. I also don't think managing and coordinating multiple outsourced developers is at all trivial. (Though, true, it's probably not worth millions either.)
How does this affect .ca domains that are relevant in the United States?
> Persona is perhaps a good-hearted effort, but it's pretty clear that it isn't catching on.

This is news to the Persona team.
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Yes, Apple is very sinister & cunning, but I have devised a defense to even their most devilish hardware-standard-defying scheme:

1. Don't buy one.

I wanted to add an SSD in my DVD slot & upgrade the RAM, so I bought a Lenovo and put Ubuntu on it. I know it sounds crazy, but it just might be crazy enough to work.
What makes a "Pro" laptop?
Austinite here. East of I35 is commonly known as the "wrong side of the tracks". If Austin is wiring up for business and residential focus, they'll do west, some limited up north, downtown, and down Congress Avenue & First Avenue. They might extend to the west of MoPac (Loop 1, follows the old Missouri-Pacific line) but I'm not sure that the neighborhoods there are officially part of Austin or incorporated as a small suburb community.
I have no audio issues with my nexus 4 whatsoever for normal calls. It's quite great actually audio wise.

But yes, GrooveIP is unusable. I bought it for 4 bucks or something and hardly use it since the voice quality is terrible.
If there was a PIP involved, you were likely not meeting expectations, and either the new team didn't want the liability, or the transfer was killed by HR to prevent under performers from avoiding a PEP by continually transferring to a new team. It's OK to hate your project but it's not OK to underperform.
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I was sincerely thinking that buying an "official" phone mean't zero problems

(currently having a very bad experience with my LG O2X, where I'm still running CM7 - announced as the "world's first dual core smartphone" or something).
i'm sorry but this is just wrong.

people in the 2nd world and developing world also need to pick people up from airports. they also ALL have phones that are capable of receiving text messages and many of them have smartphones.

and not everyone drives, but everyone sure as hell can call a cab. in case you didn't notice there are LOTS of cabs in the developing world.

quick top of the head guesses for market population size:

entire US: 300M
entire EU: 700M+
middle class chinese: 300M
middle class africans: 100M (??)
middle class south americans: 300M (??)

what percentage of these people have smartphones? what percentage WILL have smart phones in 5 years?
Dear All Product Managers, You Need Version Control
It's going to be awesome. Austin is growing like crazy.
I pretty much always have a file called TODO in version control.
Fair enough! I'm ignorant as to how ASP.Net works, so it looked like a lot of scaffolding.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned https://sketchfab.com/, which does this for pretty much any 3D file.
I wonder if we'll see a counter measure by cable companies: offer google to run their tv ads and build them set top boxesand share profits, while google stops this broadband stuff ? That would be interesting.
The problem is that you have not enabled a ssl version of that vhost.

How is that Apache HTTPD's problem? Nginx would do the same thing. When you don't define a ssl version of site.com for ip:443, you get whatever the default cert/vhost is for that ip:443. What would you have a webserver do differently?
And my statistics include all of BitPay's transactions, since every bitcoin transaction has already been included in my graph.

Bitpay may be growing, but Bitcoins in general are not.
Although the article claims this was for a DMCA takedown notice, I think we've seen the articles explaining the arrangement between Google and The Media Conglomerates whereby aforementioned Conglomerates get to takedown whatever they want, whenever they want. No courts, no perjury, no fair use. Just outright removal.

What's a creative professional to do? Pay Vimeo or some other site to host your content. Pay a web developer to get you set up to host this stuff on your own site. Turn it into a podcast. If you think YouTube is the only game "in town," you need to get out more.
I think Summly was really started by SRI or at least co-founded by them and then the exec team was brought on to run it. They created the tech, put Nick as the CEO/face of the company as he had previously built/outsourced Trimit & tried to build a consumer startup on it.

There seems to be very little distinction between SRI and Summly.
link to reddit
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1c0xw4/my_first_...
Lived in both Austin and North Dallas. Compared to Austin traffic, Dallas is a parking lot. Austin has random spouts of traffic and a plethora of backroads. Dallas, the side highways are the backroads. Beltline Road would be backed up from 6 AM to 2 AM daily. Awful, awful traffic.

We tried to go from Dallas to Plano one time on a weekday at 4:30. Took 3 hours for a 15-20 mile trip. Nuts to that.
Hi. I'm an admin on Flippa -- I think I already posted some advice for you elsewhere (and I see your auction is doing very well!), but thought I'd contribute here as well and see what others think.

The most important thing is getting more eyes to your listing. One of the ways you can do this is by promoting your sale to your targeted buyers (as you did when emailing potential buyers), letting your site's visitors know that the site is up for sale, sharing the link on forums/blogs/social media, etc.

I mentioned featured listings and other upgrades before, as upgrades boost visibility and sale price (see http://blog.flippa.com/guest-post-what-factors-influence-you... for some data on that). The duration of these upgrades depends on how many other people apply the upgrade; generally, Featured Listings are on the front page for about 12 hours. Generally.
>You just have to use one for a while and only then try going back to a HDD based system, you'll notice immediately and it will drive you up the wall.

I use one every day, work provided laptop has a SSD. It's not that big of a difference. The capacity/price on the other hand is a big difference.
It's not about easiness --learning to code is probably simpler than learning to play such a game.

It's a about motivation.
I have a love/hate relationship with Vim due to that sort of thing. In theory I agree with you; in practice I find it very easy to mis-navigate in Vim and find myself next to the wrong equals sign, or on the wrong side of the equals sign, or what have you. And in my experience, recovering from one of those errors, as quick as it is, makes me wonder why I didn't just use the mouse (or trackball, in my case) to click next to the damn equals sign in the first place. (Keyboard jockeys -- which I'm frequently one of, to be fair -- often underestimate how fast using the mouse actually is, I suspect, because we think of it as, "Oh, I have to move my hand all the way over there and move something and then move back, that's nuts!" Again in practice, I suspect the mouse removes a great deal of the cognitive load involved in navigation, and that may balance out more often than we're inclined to give it credit for.)

Incidentally, in Sublime Text -- as well as Emacs and most Mac OS X applications, as this is a system-wide keyboard binding -- you could just hit ^K after the equals sign for "delete everything from here to the end of the line."
> CS _is_ programming. Just more in-depth.

CS to Software Engineering to Programming is as Physics to Aerospace Engineering to Aircraft Maintenance

Related, but not the same thing.
filed a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown of the video

An attempt to pre-empt some comments: this seems to be a misunderstanding. The DMCA is not involved at all with these private agreements between Youtube and record labels, Youtube is a private company and can remove any content they want for any reason. They have given these companies permission to remove content they believe breaches their copyright. Anyone can file a DMCA notice with Youtube, what Universal etc. do bypasses it entirely.

If Universal etc. were doing this using a DMCA notice they would be breaching the terms of the DMCA.
Yes, but somo isn't some cheap outsourcing company. They will completely design your app, and then develop it for you. Its isn't a company where you manage a group of contracted coders.
One thing to remember is that the author is not suggesting to learn for 10 years than you start to code.

You can learn to code in 21 days then start your startup it will be very difficult and slow. But if you are dedicated and keep at it you will get somewhere. And 10 years into it you will be an expert.
Isn't vimeo a wholly owned subsidiary of Youtube?
No disagreement from me there! I don't think this was a good way to spend $30M (assuming I know the details behind it, which we all probably don't). But in response to PR qua PR, I think there were benefits.

Possibly because the local media here found an Australian angle, this was above the fold news (today's version of front page!) across a number of mainstream news networks where I am. So it reached a lot of the desired users.

Again - I don't think this was a good way to do it, of course!
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Wow, nice find. I hadn't thought about tracing the cell phone before, of all things.

Practically, it seems like a stretch to try and look at GPS logs through a carrier and prove that someone was at a bank at a given time. It says the precision is down to 2 hours, so you can theoretically get to a bank, not make/receive any calls, and get back before that 2 hour window and nothing would ever be recorded by the cell towers. If anything, this only proves that you were in a geographic region. Plausible deniability?

Also, this problem goes away completely if you leave your cell phone at home. An easy trick to adopt for the Joes looking to buy Bitcoins anonymously.
Constructing a better startup pitch
Google had Eric Schmidt on Apple's board and knew about iPhone way before it was announced. He used this inside information to benefit Google, for instance buying up Android before iPhone was released.
Just a nice emacs theme
an attemt to get something similar to https://github.com/nanotech/jellybeans.vim in emacs24
An iPhone Lover’s Take On The Facebook Phone
Actually, the fact that you cannot appeal for fair use (or at least give rationalization) points to how broken the system is.

On the other hand, I can also understand why his appeals fall to deaf ears. When handling the first few DMCAs for Fork the Cookbook, I would contact the user who uploaded the recipe, and talk to the user (and offer the user to post counter notices)

It was a time consuming, draining process, having to feel fire from your users, and the copyright holders. It's very draining, and I was very tempted to write an automated DMCA process for Fork the Cookbook. In the end, I decided not to for a few reasons.

The way we approach copyright in the information age is broken. I have some ideas to fix it, but you'd have to buy my book (c) Chewxy 2014
Mobile startups needs to build CI and proper build process into their development workflow.
I had never heard the word 'pansexual' before this :) TIL..
Happy to see this on HN.

My company is helping Red Bull out with vetting college teams to participate in Creation.

If you're an engineering student and want to hack this email me: peter@istrategylabs.com

I believe we have 1 or 2 slots left for college teams.
No, Vimeo is owned by IAC (Interactive Corp.).