skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I lol'd at that. We actually made this joke at a meetup once: "Hi, we're a social network for people that like to share photos of their pets." Guess the joke's on us (or their investors whomever they may be.) Good luck to them if they can make it happen.
I think the difference with this is he isn't following users, he is getting users to follow him.
FWIW, while I was there I ran the first end-to-end usability study. It was... enlightening :)
Tickets for WWDC 2013 Sell Out in Two Minutes
It is also possible that due to a mastectomy menopause onset is accelerated.
I really enjoyed this article. And I will admit that it is because I identified very much. That being said, I am 53 years old, and pretty much in demand as an embedded programmer. I don't have an ardinio, but I have multiple microchip demo boards. The kicker is , I just bought a bottle of silicone oil to attempt making my own silly putty. A few weeks ago I tried a few variations of corn starch modeling clay and wanted to step up my game.
It's an abuse of a messaging channel that degrades it for everyone to benefit a small number of parties. Similar to spam or telemarketing or chain mail. (Or, say, pollution. There's a mismatch between who the benefits accrue to, and who pays for it.)

It's also leveraging the fact that twitter (for now) emails the original user to tell them their tweet was favorited. So it's essentially spamming by proxy.

(Also, we've seen this before. It's just follower spam.)
I got that screen as well - I went over to safari and game over
Not the OP, but I would pick up a copy of Ethernet: the Definitive Guide. Then move on to TCP/IP Illustrated, 1&2.
Sold out :(
While I was trying to buy the ticket, the stupid store gave me a "Could not verify your credit card" message, so I couldn't buy. :(
FinCEN's new regulations are choking Bitcoin entrepreneurs
Same as us here. Just entered our info and bam, request failed.
Undoubtably. If you run out of good talent, then the price of talent goes up. If you increase the pool of good talent, then it stabilizes.

However, I believe (and the point of the H1B program is) that being able to hire great people is a competitive advantage of US companies, and is more important than increasing salaries of existing employees (to the economy).
A few seconds after 10:00am, when I had a link to buy the ticket, I got an error page that told me to restart my browser. When I did, I got the maintenance page. When I tried again a second later, it said they were sold out.

Crazy. They should go to a lottery system.
Launch of the Short Circuit Report
Got the error page too.
You are correct. There is very little half-duplex around these days except in some carrier ethernet situations.
I don't normally post jokes on HN, but this is just too spot on: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/06/18

Also, it's funny how this sort of thing has been going on for a very long time.
http://zapatopi.net/afdb/

As if I still needed reason to, any HN links to amistakes.com are an instaflag for me. Tiresome flagrant linkbait whining.
Okay, since you asked: Your comment doesn't make sense.

The parent comment: "rust unsafe and haskell unsafePerformIO are different!"

Your comment: "You forgot about unsafePerformIO! It's the same as rust unsafe!"
I, too, had to restart my browser. I only couldn't buy because they didn't accept my credit card - which the Apple Store has otherwise always happily accepted :(
That's what I got. I was ready right at 10am, couldn't log in, then sold out. Someone I know managed to get the ticket into his cart, but when he went to check out, it was gone.

It couldn't have been more than 60s, maybe 90s tops.
All the detailed reports for 2013 Green card and H1b visa
I don't follow. Why does any company implement and support a pay-for-access API then? I'm sure there are folks at Square or Stripe who are happy to support their API.

I think employees would be happy to support an API, if it is a revenue producing product.
I wasn't familiar with that. Is that stress-related? Mastectomy without chemo should not induce menopause, as far as I understand the physiological processes at work. If the patients are also being treated with tamoxifen or other estrogen receptor antagonists then the menopause is, I believe, reversible.
Guys checkout how much Facebook is paying to it employees
I got through the entire ordering process. No confirmation email yet but I think i've made it. Hit the front page again immediately after ordering and got the sold out message.. ouch.

Now I just need to convince my workplace to pay for it/airfairs/accomodation lol
Is Education Worth It for Project Management?
MOSSBERG: The Samsung Galaxy S4 Has 'Especially Weak,' 'Gimmicky' Software
1 minute 8 seconds.
I got this screen in Safari as well.
Went to web inspector to clear cookies, but I was too slow :/
I tried to log in as soon as the site came back up, it offered me team selection for another company, and even then wouldn't let me continue. I switched browsers to try again and they were already sold out. Very frustrating.
Under two minutes. Bonkers.
I got that at first, opened an incognito window and re-logged in and that appeared to have fixed it, perhaps sessions created from before the maintenance were broken?
Isn't the smart search good? We won't need to leave the desktop now to search for a movie on IMDB etc.
This is pretty unbelievable. Refreshed at 10:00 and the site was already down with a "we'll be back soon" message.

Obviously, the bigger devs would have got their tickets days (weeks?) ago.
More like ten seconds. Clicked purchase as soon as refresh loaded the buy option, and still didn't get one. Ridiculous.

They should kick out anyone who hasn't made an app before. Been trying to go to this damn thing for 2 years now and haven't won the lotto yet.
When are they going to move to a bigger venue? This is crazy.
Seems like it was actually less than that. Just enough time for 5,000 (or whatever the max number is) of tickets to be transacted, and then everyone else was locked out.
Same story here. I had a ticket in my cart, all the billing/shipping info filled out, then it was gone when I actually hit the "Purchase" button. I got kicked back out to the Store page.
This is Metonymy:

"Today The White House issued a statement..."

This is not:

"Has an active Wikipedia account"

Metonymy is the use of a name (usually something specific like a building, or a part) to stand for something else (usually more general, like a government or organisation, or the whole thing), not the use of one example website with lots of others implied (I don't see where they are implied anyway, this is quite explicitly listing having a wikipedia account as an attribute of a good programmer - what a curious idea).

Most of the symptoms are just trivia entirely unrelated to whether someone might be talented at programming like owning a certain brand of toys, and this undermines anything serious the writer might want to say.
Nothing exciting, really.

I'm just waiting on the "We've fixed crypto performance" post.

https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/5015
Could something like Namecoin address these concerns?

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Namecoin
Logged in at 10:04. Fuck me.

I thought I barely missed the cut, now I see that I wasn't even close.
If you type [AAPL] in the search box you get some nice information. Under that information, in small grey text, are links to other stuff.

Google Finance - Yahoo Finance - MSN Money

I don't know if this has changed recently.
> no reason to throw out all the great foundations and switch to a different distro just because you don't like one of the default UI settings

Installing Cinnamon on Ubuntu was broken, and many things didn't integrate like they did with the default install, which is why I just switched to Mint in the first place rather than screwing around with UI settings.

I got fed up with the DEs and switched to #! after about 2 months.

I still think it's Openbox, Wmaker, or die.
Well, did anyone get a ticket ?
> Developers are part of the software system.

For that meaning, don't use the word "software". The word software has a well-understood meaning that a developer community surrounding a code base doesn't meet.

> The test for antifragility is this: Does the software improve with the presence of time and when faced with change?

Software cannot do that on its own. Remember, we're using the word with its accepted meaning.
Should we use Abstract class or Interface?
Bigger than Moscone? Cowboys Stadium for the keynote?
I think we need to separate out the term "old boys" from "network." One of the most valuable things you get from going to a top school, whether MIT, Ivy League, or otherwise - is exposure to a network. They're not necessarily the "old boys" you guys are picturing, with money and power and political connections, but the folks who are starting companies, doing the most cutting-edge research... if you go to a school like MIT, you're surrounded by people like this - and you'll be able to reach out to these people for the rest of your life. And this can be very useful... when you're looking for a cofounder, or a guest speaker in a specific field to talk to a group of students, or you want someone to pass on your resume at company X, for example. If you go to a lower tier school, no matter how smart and motivated you are, it will be much harder to forge the same kind of network.
Interesting! So a language might be a failure if it is only for writing OSes/FSes/drivers? That if it is not good for applications, it will never be used by application programmers and the language will never be popular?

Come to think of it, even a "systems" language like Go is still used primarly for writing applications.

How useful is Oberon (the language) for working with filesystem-likes outside of Oberon (the system)?
Another commons, another tragedy. Sigh.
Yeah, I also meant to say that one of the things I appreciated most about Cornell is that, unlike almost all prestigious schools, it is outside the normal "east coast metro area" mentality (i.e. Boston - NY - DC).

Alan Kay (who I previously bashed here) has said "perspective is worth 80 IQ points" and that definitely applies to your education.
Too much growth too early on can be bring up so many issues that aren't core to your business. It forces you to scale out systems that you might not actually need. It introduces tons of support issues. It forces you to recruit quickly to take up slack. These all can be managed, but often it's easier to build a stellar product when you're serving a small cadre of very high-caliber, quality users.
I'm not sure they will have. Perhaps a few of the really major companies like EA, but I know some pretty prominent developers for the platform and none of them have ever mentioned anything about getting priority tickets.
I agree about the lottery system idea. Blizzard has exactly the same problem with BlizzCon tickets every year. I wonder if they don't use a lottery because of some random jurisdiction's gambling laws.
Saying something different doesn't imply disagreement. He's just adding information.
No, if he were a bad citizen, he wouldn't have written this post. He's a morally ambiguous citizen at worst. He's drawing attention to this kind of abuse, so maybe Twitter will do something about it before it starts pissing everyone off and driving them away from the service.
"less, much less, gets created, and we will all be poorer for it"

I have seen no evidence of this. In fact, the Internet boom has been one of the most empowering and prosperous times for creators (distinguished from mere distributors) in my memory. (In fact, I don't recall nearly as much quality music 10 years ago.) Furthermore, the alternative model you seek is simply that of time-tested patronage, which has been the default for anything worth doing since the beginning of history. Today we have the possibility of crowd-funding. I have not been given any reasons to expect less art, only more. Netflix, for example (arguably still a mere distributor), is even producing original series for it's own subscription audience. Copyright is part of the present economy, but Netflix would still want new content for it's channel were it not. Subscriptions are just another form of patronage.
Some logo design with creative concepts
Imaginary Friends is a sad one. I like Cookies for Dogs as well

http://desizntech.info/2013/04/logo-design-with-creative-concepts/
WWDC Sells Out in One Minute
American here using "The Cloud" wifi in Barbican Center in the City of London. Same deal: never loads. However, after connecting to my VPN back home in the U.S. it loads immediately.

Agreed, they seem to be blocking it.
Did anyone get in?

I got the error page that said to restart my browser at 10:00 am. Then the maintenance page at 10:01. At 10:02, it was sold out.

Should they go to a lottery system? It seems like who gets in is pretty arbitrary already, at least it would take the stress out of it. I was nervous about it all morning, and my heart was racing just before 10. Such craziness.
You meant Eclipse, obviously. But I'm not sure that is a good platform for a lisp IDE, cusp probably became abandonware for a reason. Perhaps something half usable can be done with sublime?
Like I said... that seems like stretch to me. They may figure that but that doesn't mean it will happen.

Also, I didn't down vote you. I was just disagreeing with you opinion that MS was pathetic and bashing Google and generally being sneaky-sneaks. But one word of advice that I learned the hard way.... complaining about being downvoted is a very good way to get more down votes. Cheers.
The tickets were in my cart. So close.

The videos are going to be released during the show. Anyone in NYC going to set up a WWDC East event?
Tickets for Apple’s WWDC sold out in three minutes
I think the fact that it remains in the mentions pane has more of an effect than people being turned off because it says "promoted tweet".
> Fundamentally, people like copying things, and some forms of copying are restricted by law. So either the law is bad, or they are a bad person.

This is possibly the least nuanced way to express this.

Good law isn't good if it isn't understood or if it's misunderstood. It may be either or both if people don't learn its history, purpose, and meaning. That isn't the law's fault; it's the people's. But it doesn't make the people bad, either.

Accusing people of moral failings is not how you start a rational discussion.
How do you deal with filing various fed/state taxes?
Ever since we have hired employee, its getting painful to track all the various taxes to Fed, IRS, State government, even a small startup needs to keep track and file.

Quickbook seems to do some job, but it do not provides notifications for very many things.

I wonder how other folks are handling this? Do they have smart CPAs and bookkeeper who actively monitor and manage this? Or are there other softwares available?
If he wanted to be shut down over guilty feelings, he could, you know, just stop. So that's probably not it.
I don't see what the big deal is. If you pay somebody to commit a crime (e.g., murder), you may be prosecuted for the crime itself.
I had a ticket in my cart, billing/shipping info filled out and everything. I hit the "Purchase" button, and the ticket was gone. It kicked me back out to the store page.
Moscone North alone would be an improvement from Moscone West. Heck, just take over all of Moscone for the week!

I've been told the reason the event has been kept small is to maintain the same ratio of Apple developers to attendees. But I think that overstates the value of the Apple devs a bit. The attendees at this event really are one of a kind.
That concern is addressed in 13.04. Now you can separately enable or disable applications' integration with an online account (e.g. disable facebook integration for Empathy only).
Apple still only uses Moscone West (at least as of last year). They could also use Moscone North & South as the big conferences do (Oracle OpenWorld/Dreamforce/etc)
Really disappointed.

Went to buy a ticket one second after the buy now button became available, then experienced "We were unable to process your request" for the next 2 minutes until they were sold out. Time to knock the student scholarship app out of the park.
I think I've innovated on the Ads UX

What you've done is move ads from the place where they're supposed to be (promoted tweets) to the place where they're not supposed to be (your interactions). Innovative spam is still spam.
Feels ridiculous that this sold out so quickly. It's a shame.
I'm Solving my Problems by Writing
"Flash is not dead" ?
Student wrongly tied to Boston Bombing (thanks Reddit) found dead
Are there any legal implications about publicly admitting that you are knowingly violating a site's Terms of Use? It is surprisingly hard to search for existing precedents if you don't already have a decent knowledge of legalese.
The algorithm also exists to protect a business from the worst ignorance of an anonymous internet public, it requires participation to avoid being filtered.
Yes, that's a good trick. And splicing the RX pair to two different cards only works in rare cases, usually you have to lock the ports to a certain rate/duplex mode.
You're right about the $100,000: I skimmed too quickly. So, 29 cents per download for the ones we know about; the actual number of downloads is probably much greater, as pointed out in the article. And, still not nearly enough to provide livelihoods for the people involved in the project, so my point remains.

"your argument seems to hinge on the idea that they would make more money if they could."

My argument is just that they absolutely need to make much more money if they are to make a living making TV shows, as other people do, and that voluntary donations aren't cutting it, because people don't pay when they are not compelled to. So this case, which was adduced as a counterexample, helps to prove my point.
3% of the Worlds Oceans.
He wasn't convicted of "hacking". He was convicted of fraud, under a law that makes it easier to prosecute fraud when it involves a computer. I haven't read any of the case filings, but Wired's own attempt at a charitable description of the events sure sounds like fraud to me.

From the source 'rayiner provided:

Evidence at trial showed that Nosal, 55, of Danville, entered into an
agreement with other Korn/Ferry employees in 2004 to take confidential
and proprietary materials from Korn/Ferry’s computer system to be used
in a new business that Nosal intended to establish with those
individuals after he left Korn/Ferry’s employment in late 2004. The
evidence showed that two of those employees downloaded large numbers
of “source lists” (essentially, targeted lists of candidates developed
by Korn/Ferry for the purpose of filling particular positions at
particular client-companies) prior to their own departures from
Korn/Ferry. Thereafter, those two employees used the Korn/Ferry login
credentials of another conspirator who was still employed at
Korn/Ferry to download additional source lists and other information
from Korn/Ferry’s computer system in April and July 2005 for use in
Nosal’s new business. The trial in this case occurred after remand
from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which had affirmed
then-District Court Judge Marilyn H Patel’s pre-trial dismissal of
several computer intrusion counts.

The CFAA is a hugely problematic law. But I'm not a fan of manipulative news stories either.
There's a big difference between being notified that someone favorited a tweet and an email spammer that is attempting to replicate an official email or is lying about a situation.

Favoriting a tweet has no connection with "Hey, I tweet about stuff that you are interested in so you should follow me." It's not even a request for someone to follow you.
Rules For Marketing
Meh. I'm a developer of one of the top 3 grossing music apps in the iOS App Store, and Apple doesn't give us anything.
To PUT or POST?
Insightful Quotes On How To Work With Creative People
Edmonton's Login Radius Joins FounderFuel for Summer 2013 Cohort
Currently, lines with and without semicolons have different semantics, so that doesn't work.

> Basically, ending an expression in Rust with a semicolon ignores the value of that expression. This is kinda weird. I don't know how I feel about it. But it is something you should know about.

http://www.rustforrubyists.com/book/chapter-06.html
Here's my theory -- I bet Apple prioritized accounts based on App Store/sales activity. So if your account has been active for a while, but you haven't put anything in the App Store what's the point in coming? (from Apple's point of view; you can get the videos online).

EDIT: I heard there was a pre-sale yesterday for the "blessed" companies (you may have noticed that the developer centers were down for a bit yesterday as they were again today). So there were probably not that many tickets actually available today.
My understanding that the limiting factor in WWDC size has been the number of Apple engineers, not physical venue constraints.
That which does for you, does to you - The Iron Law of Tools
I got it in Chrome as well, though a sister comment got it in safari. Any ideas on the cause? Would want to avoid this in the future.

The only exceptional thing about my account was that I'm a member of two dev programs, a business and an enterprise, on the same account.
My business card in JSON format
There already is `rustc --pretty`, but it has some bugs and such. I'm sure you could modify it for that purpose.
Everybody's reporting this "sold out in 2 minutes" number, but I got nothing but errors the instant they went on sale. I think they actually sold out immediately (where "immediately" means "as long as it took for the transactions to process).
> There are plenty of great products that never got attention because the devs couldn't find a mass market story behind it or were unable/unwilling to add some spin.

But that agrees with the thesis. A product that "can't find a mass market" is clearly one that people don't need. By contrast, proven over and over again, a product that actually fills a need will certainly find a market with very little ingenuity required by its marketers.

> Frankly, I don't mind the hoax. The media deserves it.

Does the public deserve it? I'm not crazy about this essentially amoral attitude. It's not as thought the media buy the product and face the consequences.

A business can't thrive by cheating people and expecting it will all be forgotten in a fortnight. Not to say that doesn't happen, but I wouldn't want to rely on misbehavior followed by forgetfulness to sustain a business.

I'm not moralizing -- I'm just saying this way of doing things can't create a sustainable business.
Our guess in how this went down:

first 5000 connections with using account/session where the credit card was already on file. This didn't work for us since we were attempting to pay with the corporate credit card.
Back in 2011, there was one guy who waited a few minutes before deciding to purchase, checked the site again minutes later. Then Apple gave the "we're all sold out" message.

He goes to check the Apple Store. It still says that there's something in his shopping cart. So, on a whim, he decides to complete the checkout process. Put in his address, name, info, credit card, clicked through a few screens.

And he got in. All thanks to a cookie.

Alas, it doesn't seem like 2013 will have any "saved by a cookie" moments.
Yeah, understanding this notation was taught in two classes in my undergrad. One of them was even required for all CS majors.
Had two browsers open, got that error in both.
Why would they do that? Selling out in two minutes makes them look good, and the limited number of slots make the attendees feel like they're special.
On Expectation of Privacy
Well, seems like quite a few of the iOS developers I follow on Twitter with thousands of follower seem to have missed out.