skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Salesforce.com has some ridiculous domain names: work.com, data.com, force.com, do.com, database.com, desk.com, social.com, etc.
I've never seen a corporation go after so many and so generic domain names... I'm assuming GP just meant that "clipboard.com" is yet another trophy domain name on their shelf.
Well the problem is if this tech isn't relevant how are they going to get their next job. The days of company loyalty are done. Insix months if you do a layoff what will they do?
pinboard.in --- from: http://pinboard.in/about/

"Pinboard also offers a personal web archive, at a cost of $25/year. Users who choose archiving get a permanent, cached copy of every bookmark they save, and can search the full text of their saved links. (The one-time signup fee counts towards the first year's subscription.)"

Not sure how much more of a guarantee of permanence you get from them, but the fellow behind Pinboard has a great track record of business model innovation.
Why you’re not spending enough to acquire customers
How to put your money where FWD.us’s mouth isn’t
Pretty neat! http://imgur.com/p1B9Hng But sharing the shift key as the hotkey for erase & panning made Windows's "Sticky Keys" dialog appear a couple times.
Ya. A friend of mine was driving one time and some asshat got all bent out of shape over something he did and started doing all sorts of douchbaggy things while driving. So my friend decided to discreetly follow this guy. When the guy had stopped and parked and was getting out of his car, my friend confronted him and inquired about his problem. The guy nearly crapped himself as he never expected to actually have to deal with someone he had just been a dick to on the road. Classic.

Edit: I guess I need to clarify that my friend was a perfect gentleman to the guy. Very non threatening. Not in the same road-rage way the other guy had been on the road. The situation ended very peacefully and the other guy apologized. This was not one of those "I'll throw your dog into traffic" situations. I can't imagine why confronting a bully like that would be looked down upon but I guess HN is fickle that way.
By telling kids not to make videos of themselves. (Good luck.) There are much more humiliating videos than Star Wars kid, but they never went viral. I'm just glad that in my stupid youth we only had BBSes.
This is so amazing and relevant. Nail. Head.
Given that they're immutable, you cannot change them. Instead all the operations returns a new, modified, string.
I'm now looking around my London room (rent approx $1000/month; other living spaces shared) and realizing that with its L-shape and slight roof overhang, it probably works out smaller than half the ones featured on the NYC blog, though it does have a window.

On the other hand, the ad I responded to mentioned a "roof terrace" which would have elicited a few chuckles if they'd put up a picture of the wobbly ladder leading to the standard flat roof. Funnily enough, its a dubious feature I actually like for the views and the way it catches the sun rather better than the bona fide garden I had in my last place. I quite like walking everywhere too...
Well, what's great about WebDav and org-mode is that there's http://mobileorg.ncogni.to/ which is open-source and works with my org files.

The problem with Gina's solution and any other solution is that the code is proprietary. I don't know what the data-format is used (sounds like it's just text, which is good) but I like that org is all text based.

Gina's solution also doesn't include highly customizable remember-mode templates (I have quite a few of my own elisp extensions to remember-mode).

Another thing that I can do right in emacs with org-mode: Spaced Repetition. Every day I run a spaced repetition routine using org-drill that runs through thousands of vocabulary words I've collected over time that I didn't know at that time (a remember-mode template, of course); I have org-drill cards for math, logic, science, &c... Anything factual that I want to remember I keep in org-drill and run through it every morning.

I also customized the org-drill system: http://ixmat.us/articles/2012-12-01_usable-org-drill.html

[EDIT] Here's the port of mobileorg from iphone to android: https://github.com/matburt/mobileorg-android
Honestly I think it is more an expression of the average 15yo mindset that it is fun to be mean and kick people while they are down.
Well, they'll certainly use it. They didn't just shut down Rypple. They renamed it Work.com, which is a much much much better name.
Can you hack it?
http://pitchfork.com/news/50525-boards-of-canada-mystery-continues-with-new-password-protected-website/
i'm asian american and grew up in california, i knew lots of asian kids growing up.

all the kids that had super-strict parents were screwed up in some way by the age of 25.

dropouts, burnouts, social maladjusts, booksmart losers, drug addicts, delinquents, criminals, etc.

not all asian parents are like that, but a LOT are, i'd say probably 4-5x the rate you'd find in the general population. /anecdata
This would be a great post. On Reddit.
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"Far be it from me to judge other peoples' choices."

"...you seriously need to get some perspective."

you are definitely judging other peoples' choices. that's not a bad thing, but own up to it.

i have a good reason for not living in 'flyover country'. when i was growing up there, i had direct encounters with racist individuals on a regular basis. i have not had those encounters in nyc (i also lived in san francisco and had racist interactions there).

i like walking around people that don't look at me funny. rent in nyc is the best $2000/month i spend.
Checkout source & See this:

http://pitchfork.com/news/50525-boards-of-canada-mystery-con...
Should famous people use Kickstarter? Kickstarter says 'yes'
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> By NYC standards, they aren't that bad. They're unattractive and small, but I've seen a lot worse.

3-year New Yorker here.

By NYC standards, most of these are bad. There certainly are worst places that cost more than what's being shown here, but that doesn't make these "not bad". My first apartment here had two separate rooms, a large kitchen, a bathroom and a "foyer", for $1k/month.

The only reason for living in any of the rooms they've shown here is an absolute need to live in that particular neighborhood, whether you're doing it because you need to be next to your job, or because you need to be neck-deep in the "culture" of that particular neighborhood.

I do however agree with you that New York isn't a good fit for most people, but for some people it's the only conceivable place to live.
Does anyone know anything about Ubalo's IP?
It provides an equally special incentive to comply with users; the safe harbor has two sides.

It provides very nearly no incentive whatsoever to comply with users. What provisions it does provide are practically unenforceable due to absurdly high standards for users and absurdly low standards for 'content owners'.

I don't care a whit for your interpretation of the law. Especially when your interpretation flies in the face of the text of the DMCA (see in particular sec 202 on standards for perjury, which differ significantly for notices and counter-notices). I care about results - and the results, across dozens of major content hosts, speak for themselves.

The DMCA has not only failed to protect users and content creators who aren't 'content owners', it has also given rise to independent policing mechanisms modeled on and derived from it but with even fewer protections.
My take is that everyone should be always aware of their market value (the reasons for which you have stated). Friend's salary (especially in different domains), I'm not so sure.
Pinterest grabs images. Clipboard grabs the DOM.
Hear, hear.

> Are they trying to keep people from clamoring for more changes?

If the goal is re-election, then from a game-theoretic standpoint, that would indeed be part of a winning strategy. If gay marriage is ever fully legalized at the federal level, for example, you'd inevitably see lots of light-blue districts in blue states swing to red. In the aggregate, the Dems can only lose votes by legalizing it. (Unless maybe they play the abortion strategy and pretend for 40 years that Roe is going to get overturned any day now.)
As IvyMike pointed out, that is absolutely not a full apartment - that kitchen is going to be used by the other residents, of which there are almost certainly two at the absolute minimum.
Minbox: Dropbox sharing made simpler
It is unfortunate that you can't reverse/undo a vote. I've had several time where I clicked too soon and regretted my choice after rereading and fulling understanding the comment (or when a follow up comment clarifies the first).
They have a great (funny) video of how the app works
The whole adolescence thing is also quite a ridiculous social construct (it didn't exist in the 19th century).

Young people (13-21 year olds) should be seen as adults in training.

Instead they are given the role of adolescents, a role that they gladly take on. When you call someone an adolescent you set a very, very low bar. An adolescent doesn't want to grow, its pleasures are vain, its world secluded. The adolescent doesn't become an adult, since it is already "there" (the place that pop-culture glamorizes). Adolescence is thus seem as an end in itself.

Now if we lived in world where people didn't get old, and bills didn't need to be paid, we could all be adolescents forever and maybe there would not be any problem (though I would object on aesthetic grounds).

But the world being what it is, letting a young person live its youth as an "adolescent" and then forcing it to become an adult is a cruel thing. (And lets not forget all the kids for whom "adolescence" is far from pleasurable.)
Hire people without college degrees to work at Clarium Capital.

Now that I can agree with you on. That would be a good message for him to send, given his current status.
The only difference is fuel. Minor.

There is a world out there which is willing to go to great lengths in order to maintain an oil supply, and a main use of oil is for transportation.
http://fidoalliance.org/

Looks worryingly "closed".
I actually wrote my honours thesis on this topic. In academia it's called Alpha Matting/Image Matting.

There's a great website http://alphamatting.com/ that provides a benchmark dataset and a comparison of a lot of influential methods.

I applaud your work in making a real time and interactive matting algorithm! One day it might be also as accurate as state of the art methods. You guys should write a paper about your method.
What happens when you apply it repeatedly? Does the text keep shrinking?
Eye care for us
EyeCare4US is a free program for Windows, aimed at protecting eyes from computers, it shows us a window to remind us to take a break after a period of staying working in a computer, When it’s time to rest your eyes away from the computer monitor, the program will play a rain sound to relax and show us pictures with relaxing landscapes, When the time to rest the eyes and the eyes gymnastics have finished, the program will be minimized in the Windows system tray and the rain sound will stop
Ah. Good point. We recently changed the shift key from "hold to pan" to toggle between pan / erase. Should probably change it to another key now that the operation is different.
Nobody implied they want (or hope) to cause them to commit suicide.

It's the "upset people" that's disgusting in itself.
> It makes no sense to die from an unregulated medical procedure?

What? No. Your argument doesn't make any sense. I then went on to explain why.

> Let's say it's stitches, and there's no regulation against reusing a stitching needle because in your world the elected body doesn't do that sort of thing. The doctor just washes it off a bit so it's not so gross looking every time.

> You're one of the 1-2% that contracts something horrible from the doctor and you're dead within 24 hours.

> Now sue.

This is precisely the same argument as before, but with an example. My criticism still applies. I'll adopt your example so that my criticism is crystal clear:

> Let's say it's stitches, and since law makers didn't setup regulation against reusing a stitching needle because in your world the elected body is incompetent/ignorant/behind. The doctor just washes it off a bit so it's not so gross looking every time.

> You're one of the 1-2% that contracts something horrible from the doctor and you're dead within 24 hours.

> Now elect a different representative to change or add that regulation. Or lobby your existing one.

In either scenario, the end result is "you're dead, so ANY fix is moot."
Why would you want your phone to be the key to your most secure data?

Also from what I've seen in the past most finger print scanning and cheap, "organic" identity verification tech is not reliable and easily circumvented.

Despite not being perfect, basic password authenication (or even better- pass-phrase) is a security mechanism that's easily understood, easy to implement and can be pretty secure.

(Although still possible to do badly/incorrectly as we keep seeing).
You can try tinmark.com -- disclaimer, I'm a co-founder.
"you should be careful to know that Object Literals are not JSON."

This rule is not only ridiculously pedantic, but the explanation page is twisted to the point of stupidity. An object literal is the source code that compiles/executes directly to an object. JSON is very much an object literal. The runtime element that isn't the same as JSON text is simply called an 'object'. On top of that, the term "JSON Object" has no predefined meaning and using it to mean an object that was created via JSON is perfectly reasonable.
It is indeed. I believe that their API will remain up and be used by many, but it probably won't be used by DropBox for long. Classy move by their CEO to make it clear that DropBox is welcome to use it.
Who Do You Know?
One of the core features I've wanted from a bookmarking service was the capability to store the actual /content/ of the bookmark indefinitely. I want to recall having read an article or paper years later in conversation, say "Let me find the citation for you", and then actually follow up! And still have the original content even if the URL was taken offline, which happens an unfortunate amount.

Luckily, Pinboard (pinboard.in) has this capability, including full text search, with an archival account ($25/yr). As does Evernote, but I find Evernote a bit heavy weight for solely bookmarks. (Note: Pinboard is not Pinterest.)

I save hundreds of bookmarks per month - basically everything interesting that I read and might want to reference later. I reference my bookmarks less than I had expected, but I'm still happy and getting definite value from it.

To be honest, my ideal bookmarking system would record and index literally /every/ website I ever visit. Then I don't need to take any action and can't accidentally fail to find something I viewed before. I've considered implementing this scheme for myself but have not yet followed through, since Pinboard works pretty well, and is easy to activate using a bookmark.

My one complaint about Pinboard is that I found it difficult to obtain support. I contacted them through their advertised support channel about a problem I initially encountered during the signup process, and never heard back.
> Hipsters sound okay in theory but I can't fucking stand them in practice.

i don't know, they sound pretty terrible in theory also
Unlike solitary confinement, you are always free to leave your apartment and enjoy the city. If you rent this sort of apartment then you should be prepared to live a lifestyle that does not involve expecting to be entertained by things that are in your apartment; if you want to do that then you can live anywhere else.
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> Williamsburg loft where there'd literally be a shower curtain separating my "room" (which was filthy) from a dark, tenement-like space with ~12 people in it. Kitchen stuff was at least 50 years old and probably didn't work

Are you talking about McKibbin by any chance? People live there as a sort of "experience" if that makes any sense - look how New York it is.
Yes, on closer inspection I agree.
The service isn't being shut down is it? Please tell me you guys are going to stick around.
this is pretty offensive. you're honestly proposing that the way to fix bullying is to teach the bullied to stop doing "stupid" things?
I think he meant to say an MP3 => OGG JavaScript converter is an odor.
I attempted this a couple times, the cache folder is not modified on my phone. I'm guessing the software indexes free space that has been recently assigned 'empty' status and tries to piece together the image or directory. I could be wrong, though.
they'll deny it all day long but LOTS of areas in the midwest and south are racist as shit. there's HUGE value to just being able to blend in and go about your god damn day without harassment, except you won't know it until you live in a place where you stick out.

people who are from these areas will say "i encountered more racist people in the north/west/whatever" but they're usually just referring to people who shared their racist opinion with them, not actually being on the RECEIVING END of a racist interaction.

which MAKES SENSE if you think about it - white people in manhattan or SF or LA are basically going to feel like a minority, and may seek a little bit of empathetic camraderie by complaining about race X Y or Z. if a white person does this in vastly majority white area they're just going to seem like an asshole with a chip on their shoulder.

the coastal areas make it easy to blend in no matter who you are. nobody is going to hassle you or ask you stupid ass questions.
Define your sizing parameters on any shirt we make
It's a BS baby boomer ideal that everybody should have some "passion" -- and it should be their work too.

Apparently merely living your life like a normal person (going to school, getting a job, enjoying a few hobbies, having kids, watching some tv, etc, as people in all societies have done for centuries) will not do.

And the "passion" better be something grandiose and pretentious too.
Great work! Fast and easy to use.
Just curious why more and more projects dont support opera =(
Or a non well-paid cog. Like 90% of the people out there, you know.

In what universe there are either people that "follow their passion" or "well-paid (!) cogs"?
Not just that, but in lesser-developed countries biometric identification can be dangerous. If you get mugged for your ATM card, you can tell them your PIN and they'll let you go, free to repeatedly use your card until you freeze it. But if you need a fingerprint to authenticate, they're going to let you go too, and maybe with one less finger.

Not really a concern in America, but in other places like Mexico, Latin America, India, Asia...
I admired their innovative way of clipping, DOM manipulation, one of the best engineering teams of our time! Well, this must be a team-hire.

Pinterest did pinning with just images, these guys did for grabbing any web content! Amazing. A great blogger tool. But once you start grabbing web content it starts to look like a bookmarking service. That's were they headed to.

I would have paid them an yearly subscription. And I don't like to bookmark URL's, rather save interesting tit-bits of web-content to my Board. ( grab those useful HN comments and add to my Clipboard)

Clipboard could have emerged as content-grabbing, content-management with collaboration, had they rolled out some paid-service model. They never even tried to speak to their users!

Founders need to be accountable for such drastic shutdowns.
And if such shutdown's happen often, don't users lose trust? Users kinda lose confidence to invest their energy and time on early-starup products. Right?
I don't like LinkedIn for similar reasons but I somehow feel I will offend people if I drop out, and I have had some decent leads from it over the years.

The import contacts feature is particularly nefarious, it says "import" but it actually keeps checking down the track (or at least it used to work like that).
Instantica loads the first Google search result for each search term, as you type it.

This also works as a sort of 'instant search' for most websites. e.g.

"Man of Steel trailer"
"IMDB gattata"
How about a Flash site that exports CSV. That's my favorite.
You might find git-annex useful:

http://git-annex.branchable.com/
Oh man. That is a winner.
I don't think this really speaks to his point though. It's not as if the Tesla is less expensive or disruptive in any way. It's a superior product in almost every way.

I don't think the innovator's dilemma applies here. I think the OP glosses over a lot of very complicated engineering and the fact the founder also happened to found a God damned space company.
A big difference here is that those phrases are long established phrases that people have been using for a while; and even with most people I know, it's "eat feces", not "eat feces and die".

This one is much shorter an, from an outside perspective, much more pointed. I don't really see how anyone could see that demand as anything other than "go end your life [because of these reasons]"
It will probably happen when one of the stock exchanges says "we won't revert fraudulent trades anymore". Until then, I kind of doubt it.
It never hurts to make a small campaign contribution along with voicing your concern, or mention a past donation. Forming your own local donation pool or interest group, even if it's small, is another way to do it. I'm pretty sure if the average HN member formed a small group with local co-workers and agreed to donate just 1 hours worth of wages, it would be taken seriously.

Unless things have changed a lot since I was there, the real advantage of calling a congressional office is that you're entered in a database faster with your associated issue. It's not like your congressperson answers the phones. That's what the interns and staff assistants do, who hold zero influence.

Be patient with the person taking your call. Many people who call don't even do it right. They contact someone who isn't their senator or representative, which gets ignored. They just say "Don't vote for X!" and hang up without providing contact information.

Also, if you don't vote, many representatives have a database from their board of elections saying which registered voters actually showed up to vote. You're put on the bottom of the stack.
A 63-bit floating-point type for 64-bit OCaml
They lacked some of the HTML5 features we needed in the client :-/

(the detection script should be accurate, so if they add them it should "just work")
Research litecoin. It'll have a larger user base, just give it time.
You have Chrome, Firefox, and even Safari. What compels you to use Opera over any of those?
I'm all for keeping things light, but even then we need a time and a place. Otherwise it becomes a slippery slope in what becomes acceptable, and the average submission slowly degrades in quality.
I imagine they were down-voting you because you chose to explain the story that, as far as many could tell, was a bit off-topic; and was spoken in a more 'street' way, that might be perceived as trolling.
You can use https://historio.us/, I built it, it's paid, and I have no intention of shutting it down (it pays for itself).
President Obama signs executive order requiring agencies to publish 'open data'