skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah yeah, we all know there's cost associated with running a site, open-source or not.

The good part (although not very relevant in the grand scheme of things) is that there's no licensing fees. Either way, you'll be depending on someone—in house, consultant, or automated something or other—to manage the system for you. You said it yourself—the "only guy who knows how it works" can disappear whether the project is proprietary/purchased or open-source. Personally, I think open-source apps with a large community have much less chance of disappearing overnight, and the ecosystem of available consultants is much larger.

Plus, sure, added benefit: no up-front license fees. Maintenance is likely to be similar to proprietary solutions, and everyone knows that already. No one is saying "open-source software is freeeeee" anymore, that common misconception was pretty much put to rest around 2001.

Plus, even discussing the cost of the solution up front reinforces the points the author was trying to make: that discussing the technology, its up-front cost, its maintenance cost, whether it's closed- or open-source—none of that matters. What matters is the solution. And one would hope that you'd use the right technology for the right solution, taking cost and technology into account.

The idea that you don't talk about trivial technology details until you've gathered all the requirements and found the true need is still extremely valid, and the fact that he was discussing trivial costs so soon—whether or not they were misconceptions—was a sign that he was doing it wrong.
Not to sound like a gun nut, although in some more liberal areas of the country I might qualify as one, how do you propose protecting the other amendments without the right to keep and bear arms?

Whether the gun control legislation possibly violates those rights is a different question, and frankly is pretty silly considering how easy it is to manufacture many of the things that legislation attempts to control.
It must be that, once you re-arrange the pieces, you transform the rectangle with a hole into a shape that looks like a rectangle with no hole but is slightly caved in.
Girl Scouts to award badge for video game development
Average size is irrelevant. A handful of 1G objects dwarf hundreds of 1 byte objects when computing the average. The overal distribution is interesting. There are actually three: GET sizes, PUT sizes, and stored sizes. They are not identical distributions, especially since the as the PUT size distribution has changed it becomes out of synch with the stored size distribution. Wish I could tell you more, there are some fascinating data points in there but, you know, NDA. Source: form S3 employee.
Not if you're Danish ;)
Sorry for stealing this topic a bit, but could someone suggest a RSS reader which works decently on mobile browsers?

Google Reader on mobile is really good; a heading, site name and first line from the article. I've tried NewsBlur, but it wants you to use an app, and The Old Reader, but it lists all your feeds first and the aggregated list takes way too much space.

EDIT: I'd rather avoid free ones, unless I can host it myself. Don't want to look for a new reader again next year.
TC, at it's inception, was a company about and for the startup community. LSE at a large corporation is about as far from the startup community as you can get. As I said, most LSEs wouldn't even know what it is.
I like to think of the freemium model as two different products. The first one, free, must be enough to attend the user's needs. And, without forcing anything, you use the free environment to showcase your second product, which is the paid one, that have different features (not just better ones).

When you frame like this you have both happy paid and happy free users. I imagine it like doing tourism on a city. You may just walk, doing your own sightseeing, with the free city's touristic brochure in your hands. Or you can look for a paid, professional, touristic sightseeing bus. Tourists don't see it as coercive, or even upselling. They are two different products that you choose between.
Thailand has a decent developer community. Especially Bangkok and Chiang Mai.
Patent Trolls Under Fire
Many of the Smalltalks allow hooking to a running image to do live debugging.
Bemmu, you should really volunteer as a Computer Programming teacher for some local school.
And, in time, be remembered fondly as that guy who managed to start that coder community he sensed the lack of.
Because if someone gets access to your database somehow you're not exposing all of the keys for all of your users.

While you're likely in serious trouble if someone gets your DB this helps minimize damage. Besides to authenticate a request you dont need the plaintext of the key, a hash is fine.
Wow, I didn't know there were that big. But 16 billion visitors? How is that counted?
Because text analysis is very easy compared to audio analysis.

Check YouTube's transcriptions. They suck.
Apple stock is now under $400
It sounds like we need to start a club.

I moved to Paraguay a couple years ago and have been going through some of the same types of stresses and emotions. I spend my mornings working alone, in my apartment, on a personal project that will (hopefully) earn me some income. The afternoons, I do a bit of contract programming for a local company, but am the only person on the project, so I don't interact much with the other programmers. When I come home, it's back to my personal project.

I keep telling myself, once I earn enough semi-automated income to pays my bills, I'll get out more. But it often feels like my life is "on hold".
Not to mention the pages that display actual code.
> If BitCoin can survive long enough to see more widespread adoption of it as a currency

My question is why would it see widespread adoption? The only reasons I can think of are: it allows anonymous online transactions, has low transaction costs, is not backed by a government, and is interesting on a tech level. I am not sure these reasons are good enough to cause widespread adoption.
> Can you clarify when FogBugz on Demand was in two data centers and when not...

> There will probably be a blog post in a couple of months...

That'll be a "no", then.
Sorry, but you can give a car to anyone. You're not responsible for making sure they are a licensed driver, or that the car is registered. That's the recipient's problem, and as long as they aren't driving the car it's perfectly legal for them not to need either of those things.
Not everybody wants to be L Ron Hubbard? Granted, I don't think BTC is as much of a "cult" as that poster is stating, but I don't think your counterargument is very convincing. Critics of the social aspects of technology (let's use Google Glasses as another example, only slightly less polarizing than BTC) aren't hating on technology, just implementation and the less technical predictions/assumptions/evangelism surrounding the technology.
I'm not sure I'd call it "more regulation" - the purpose of this law is to disable in certain cases the regulations that prevent data sharing. In a way, it's less regulation.
I don't think this is something you can mitigate with libraries, especially not as you need client libraries for a dozen or so languages and I (at least) wouldn't be willing to install software just to try out some service -- you pointed out in your blog how much users dread installing software, in my mind client libraries are even worse as you have to install them and their dependencies (which may or may not conflict with your own) which may involve more or less crappy tools (e.g. my JRuby build now depends on maven, because I need to use your client libraries) before you can even test the service.

So just use HTTPS and leave it at that.
Design Specific: How To Manage Client Feedback by Co.Design
Have you tried feedly?
There is a disconnect between what people commonly think a currency is and what laws state a currency is. Regardless of what people feel like Bitcoin should be classified as, it will never be classified as a currency in the eyes of the law written around foreign exchange until it is legal tender in a recognized nation. If that ever happens, then the entire existing body of laws written over decades revolving around the FX market will formally apply.
While HTML might have caused struggles for them with large amounts of users I wanted to just offer up that we have found it to be quite useful in a small/medium business for enterprise apps on smaller subsets of devices. So we do not have to worry about supporting every device and OS flavor under the sun.

We are a small dev team and being able to use a web stack prevents us from being spread too thin across too many different technologies.

Is it as "smooth" as native? No, but it gets the information and functionality, the most important parts, to the people who need it and allows us to quickly turn around projects.

And not being native allows us to customize UI to fit each group's particular needs more easily. At least it seems that way.
Romance as a video game genre: Furthering evolution of game design?
The world could use a few more romance video games.

Oh heavens, the controversy. Let’s trust this publication’s readership is too intelligent to moan, 'Oh gawsh, what a girl thing to say,' but maybe the sexists have a legitimate counter-argument here. Romance readership? Women. Romance viewership? Women. With pizza-covered adolescent white-male stereotypes running rampant through video game culture, do companies have any financial room to aim towards a probably female gamership?

A million times yes. Women make up 47 percent of all gamers, according to a 2012 study by the Entertainment Software Association. Even better, women over 18 make up 30 percent of the community while only 18 percent of gamers are boys under 17. The stereotype is so broken it’s not even money.

With that out of the way, here’s a bigger hurdle: what the heckz0rz is a romance video game, and why would any gamer, irrespective of gender, care about playing it?

(Because it would further the evolution of game design! More here: http://insertquarterly.com/2013/04/17/make-love-not-war-romance-as-a-video-game-genre/)
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/
Can you email me? Thailand related :)

My email's in my profile.
Yes. I'm the in UK and I have unlimited data (+calls+texts) for £12/month.
It would be nice to pass a law forcing companies to publish their profit and loss accounts amended with the externalities costs (or gains). It would be just for information but the psychological impact would be great.
US bank (Regions) allows domain name to expire
I somewhat agree, I see bitcoins more in the vein of contracts that have market value, like futures and options. The value of these has value based on their underlying stocks and commodities, but that's as far as they go, value wise. Bitcoins, whose value are purely determined by their associated majority holder's currency (US Dollars) are very similar.
You could also argue that physical currency also has intrinsic value for various applications too. Paper currency can be used as quasi-Post-It notes, kindling, etc. Coins can be melted down and used for manufacturing goods, etc.
Interesting data. Surely the WSJ should open up their pages to some long stories written by the Church of Scientology.
I hate to be a grammar nazi, and no offense, but it's very hard to take professional advice from a comment using completely random spacing and capitalization.
I use Google.

https://www.google.com/&q=ask+hn+books+site:news.ycombin...

This question gets asked every couple months on HN, so check out the previous threads. Also, the above search will give you some good book recommendations on a variety of topics.

That would be my starting point. (Actually it wouldn't, I'm more into military history books, but...)
You'd get 50 different answers because those are state laws.
>Media companies need a new way to make money -- one that doesn’t depend on advertising.

There aren't that many business models. You charge for a subscription, you charge per use (e.g. view), you sell your credibility by writing PR pieces, or you put ads. The first two are hard to do because you're competing with free, and the last two is how everyone makes money. There's no magic formula here.
China Thinks Its Bird Flu Might Be Spreading from Human to Human
I preferred amazon.com.....
Apple Shuts Down Push Notifications From AppGratis
Singapore's AGC demands apology from websites over verdict backlash
I was working as a copy editor at Forbes.com while Dan Lyons was still working for the magazine, and he's a very talented guy. When I found out he was taking the head job at ReadWrite, I thought it would really help ReadWrite become a major media presence. Not sure what went wrong there.

I left the journalism world a year and a half ago for many of the same reasons Dan cites. It's possible to LOVE writing and editing for a magazine or newspaper but to recognize that the people who are in charge of operating the publication _as a business_ don't seem to have any idea how to turn things around.

I'm now doing full-time software development -- something that had increasingly become a part of my duties when I was an editor -- and it was totally the right move for my family. I went from being employed by a newspaper that had layoffs and furloughs almost every quarter for several years straight to being employed by a web startup with a significantly higher salary and much more job security.

One small aspect of Dan's piece I want to take issue with, though: Yes, tech companies are hiring former journalists, and yes, they get to do reporting and writing, in a sense. But let's be clear: These are P.R. jobs. Your job, ultimately, is to make your employer look good, not to be objective.
Phone networks were never meant to allow every person to call at the same time
Done, did it this morning. Could use a little more love, but its pretty good for 20 minutes of work :)
In addition to that, I can heartily recommend the ZoomWindowPlugin:

https://github.com/skeept/dotvim/blob/master/plugin/ZoomWinP...

Basically, if you have multiple split windows, it allows you to do a cmd+O to zoom the current split view (i.e. making it the only view visible). That's neat if there's something tricky going on (say a weird bug) and you want to focus just on this piece of code, without seeing anything else. Once you're done, you can hit cmd+O again, and your old split setup comes back. I love this plugin.
12 Fascinating Gorges Around the World
LessConf 2013: How Less Was More
"I found this out by spending $100"

"The target audience for Rewire Attire, the high end fashion marketplace, was women with enough money to afford high end fashion and that are young enough"

Not so fast. Forgetting even the small sample size and methodology I'm wondering whether the OP did any other research at all? And "sharing measurements" is only 1 factor in making this business a success.

Additionally no reason that they couldn't have forked/morphed/pivoted the model built to some other group (say the men who buy custom made suits for thousands - not saying that would or would not work but even if OP is correct about the market info (and I don't think enough research was done to prove out the point anyway) it could work in another group.)
The reason why you don't see people try to quarter troops is because of the 3rd amendment. You can't say it doesn't apply to today's society. The reason why today's society adapted to its current form is because it was agreed that it was a very important issue. How is society supposed to self-improve if we dismiss the way we iterate on it?

Try practicing the first amendment without the third. It won't go so well for you. While I accept the argument that some liberties conflict, some also rely on each other. Most all of the first ten amendments are interdependent.

The system as a whole is what brings the stability and net-benefit. Not cherry picking which ones we feel apply the most to the day at hand. You can argue that freedom of speech is important all you like, but it doesn't mean that it stands on its own without others.
It's not used very often in the US, but it's still a perfectly understood term.
Keep in mind that hammers are a commodity, though.
I'm not saying strongly typed languages are bugfree. But they eliminate whole classes of bugs. The OP was asking about programming techniques to improve code quality or tools to help with debugging. Well, a type system is such a technique/tool that checks for bugs at compile time.
Mr. President: Extortion? 12 Leads Re Patent Trolls for DOJ-FTC Investigation
You have a point. I do technology research, and the analogy there to "solution" is "capability" -- what "capability" does your tech offer? Are there other ways to achieve this or not? Is this a required or just a desired capability for the mission/device?

Like "solution", "capability" keeps the focus off "how does it work" and on "what problem are you solving".

Vocabulary and habits of thought that remind us of the big picture can be helpful.
I'm Biking from Texas to Alaska for Cancer
Option 1 if you're working 10 plus hours a day including being on call 24/7. See if you can get a contractor so you can try for a few months before deciding which way to go (Will be harder to get CTO type person for a shorter duration).

This gives you some room to think about the business and where you should be prioritizing your efforts (sales, product, marketing, biz-dev).
How one tiny hyphen destroyed our SEO efforts (2011)
au VimResized * exe "normal! \<c-w>="
ChuckSpears is a direct reference to a racist insult, "Spear Chucker". They don't generally block names like this but I often wonder where the line is.

In human-moderated systems like XBox Live I've seen some relatively 'sophisticated' offensive names get called out and banned by the moderators.

I was wondering how username-blacklist systems worked, and how they deal with names which are obviously offensive to anyone who's dealt with the likes of Stormfront et al. before, but could theoretically be chosen by a totally innocent unfortunate.
Nice article, but after using leiningen (the clojure solution to a similar problem, based on maven), it's really hard to go back to something like this. I really, really wish there was an equivalent in python (really, every language I use).
I have mapped the Tab key to move between split windows. I also mapped Ctrl+T to open a new tab, and CTRL-H and CTRL-L to move to the left/right tab respectively. It works well and seem pretty natural. I suppose if I had a giant monitor I could use more splits, but realistically more than two of them feels very cramped. My .vimrc is here: https://raw.github.com/ipartola/ipartola-bash-and-vim/master...

The relevant parts are:

" shortcuts
map <Tab> <C-W><C-W>

" Tabs
map <C-t> <Esc>:tabnew<CR>
map <C-l> :tabnext<CR>
map <C-h> :tabprevious<CR>
A public server is not an exit node unless it is specifically configured to be one. If you want to be absolutely certain that you are not an exit node, just check out your torrc configuration file and search for a line beginning with "ExitPolicy".

I believe this is the default on Ubuntu:

ExitPolicy reject <asterisk>:<asterisk>

(it seems HN filters out the literal asterisks in the above context, so replace <asterisk> with *)
I haven't read and understood the whole bill honestly, but the first paragraph: "The Director of National Intelligence shall establish procedures to allow elements of the intelligence community to share cyber threat intelligence with PRIVATE-SECTOR ENTITIES AND UTILITIES and to encourage the sharing of such intelligence."
I have the impression that it requires an app, even desktop browsers need special add-ons.
IsoHunt Verdict Endangers Innovation, Google Tells Court
Winners quit: How giving up web design trebled our business in a year
Sorry, I did misinterpret your point. Thanks for being so polite about it. /hat-tip

I agree that the importance and relevance of the Constitution does change over time and I agree that Amendments are the tool to deal with those changes.
We Are Born To Choose, Not To Follow
To clarify, the hypocrisy lies in the fact that the Twitter 'internet activists' are supporting freedom for their kind and to protect their common ground (the Internet), while simultaneously lamenting that the freedoms of another coalition ('mouth-breathing, NRA-card-holding gun nuts') are not further imposed upon.

The Constitution in this case is irrelevant; rather, this boils down to the preservation of individual liberty, regardless of what your beliefs are regarding the 2nd or 4th Amendment rights.
I'm also a freelancer in Thailand. Bangkok?
That's not the point. If Bitcoin has no uses other than trade and accounting, it is not a commodity.
So a guy has to blog about in answer to those "lots of people" asking? Or could he have just replied to them in the discussion of HN? I don't know - seems a bit self-serving and like an utter waste of time for me. I like/use {Services A, B, C...Z} as well but I don't need to blog about every one of them. I suppose his next post is something anti what this post is - something like, "Why I use Gmail and am not paying for it" or whatever. Meh.
Also, I use dwm for tiled windows:

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4186
Yeah, Skype is fantastic. I'm on a different continent from my parents (in Budapest, they're in Indiana) and I think I talk to them more now than while we were right next to them for the previous three years.
This is good advice in general, but the trick is knowing what questions to ask. To knowing which of your (many, many) assumptions might just be wrong.

Humans are strange beasts. There are so many seemingly simple things we could do that would vastly improve our lives, yet we refuse to do them.
From the name I was hoping it was a conference for people from lesswrong.com talking about ridiculously awesome things.
"The system as a whole is what brings the stability and net-benefit. Not cherry picking which ones we feel apply the most to the day at hand. You can argue that freedom of speech is important all you like, but it doesn't mean that it stands on its own without others."

You're misreading me.

I'm not arguing for cherrypicking some and dismissing others. I'm arguing that they have different weights. The first amendment is more important than the third, even if they are interdependent. I'm not saying we throw out the third because of that.

[By the same token, I should emphasize that I have not even stated my opinion on the second amendment, let alone called for its revocation.]

I'm simply responding to the author's assertion that all the amendments are equal, therefore, we don't have the moral or intellectual right to accept one without accepting all. That's reductive and fallacious logic.
After years of abusing my little finger for using Ctrl & the RSI that goes with it, I tend to use alt/meta with my thumb more and more nowadays, for this I make it usable in insert mode also, this is probably one of the oldest bits of my .vimrc

"quick window movements
map <a-w> <c-w>
map <a-l> <c-w>l
map <a-k> <c-w>k
map <a-j> <c-w>j
map <a-h> <c-w>h
imap <a-l> <esc><c-w>li
imap <a-k> <esc><c-w>ki
imap <a-j> <esc><c-w>ji
imap <a-h> <esc><c-w>hi
That Stephen Fry quote to open the article is absurd. It's a great example of a quote from someone who has never built or led.

It's like my neighbor who can tell me how he'd never make those passes across the middle -- of course he's never even played high school football, much less be one of the best QBs to ever play the game.

It's just annoying beyond belief how little appreciation people have for how hard it is to build software. Even those that claim they are tech savvy think that yelling at people to "wow" them will suddenly create a great product.
> It is much more fun to put cream cheese on these bagels than on an ordinary bagel. In additional to
the intellectual stimulation, you get more cream cheese, because there is slightly more surface area.

I believe this is winning on all fronts here.
Honestly there is nothing simple about OAuth -- and the specs are horrible (even when you understand them).