skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a fundamental difference between investors and customers.

Users are customers, they pay if they feel the value of the product is worth XYZ.

Investors are banking on the idea/product to be worth more in the future than what it is now. They also have an appetite for risk, mainly because they understand investing and diversify.
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I like both, but Vim's modal nature and the consequently far fewer control combinations make it much faster for editing text. On the other hand, emacs' language-specific modes and built-in repl-in-the-editor support is awesome.
I was pondering the same thing myself. At points I found it more distracting than anything.
The details of prisoner mistreatment in the US have been widely reported. The issue isn't that people are keeping it quiet; it is that no one who can do anything about it cares or has the political will to change it. Essentially, everyone knows and no one cares. The fact that prison rape jokes are common and acceptable fodder for comedians in the US shows our society's lack of any form of empathy for prisoners.

The complaints that Weev has are the same complaints that prisoners in the federal system have had for decades. Prisoner treatment in the US has been litigated to death with no significant reform. Courts have made explicitly clear that current law effectively allows for barbaric treatment of inmates. Given the virtual impossibility of changing the status quo in the US political system, it is doubtful that our laws will be changed to upgrade the experience of criminals (which is how the cynical US public views such proposals).

So, when it comes to our unyielding government, I suppose every US citizen is an abused child. It is a bully that will not ever go away, and can and does abuse anyone it wants to without consequence. Ironically, this bully is empowered by its own pool of potential victims, most of whom are in favor of all of this right up until the time they become its target - which is becoming increasingly easy to do.
PR: Fix timing attack in twilio-python
that is a painfully bad gimmick.
High School Student Creates 20-Second Cell Phone Charger
like tumblr?
Whichever company realizes it can brand itself as "newer than startups" will have a marketing boon.
Yes, that's a good catch. I think it was only late into the '80s that full sit-ups began to be deprecated. I did notice the 7-minute work out emphasizes abdominal crouches which is good. However, 5BX did also cause knee and elbow problems (thanks to the crouching jumping jacks and clap happy push-ups). I'd say watch out for routines involving jerky movements.
People is moving to WordPress.com from Tumblr according to Matt Mullenweg
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Grant's memoirs are very well worth reading, too.
maybe because I used a url shrinker
Interesting data but worst presentation ever.

It's tabular data. Put it in a plain old HTML table so we can make sense of it.
Thanks, that seemed to be the case!
They've always archived non-"off the record" chats, difference is that controlling archiving behavior is no longer done by client rather via a new web interface at: https://mail.google.com/mail/#chats

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/05/new-interface-for-g...
Ask HN: who is the biggest winner in the Yahoo-Tumblr merger?

David Karp?

Marco Arment?

Marissa mayer?

Union Square Ventures?

Greylock Partners?

Sequoia Capital?
Addicted to Learning? Hardcore MOOC Students Race to Pass Courses
Hundreds of people are spending 20 or 30 hours a week just taking free Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. They're not looking for credit, just a challenge of learning. This Chronicle of Higher Ed story looks at whether these MOOC addicts think they're learning as much as they would in a traditional college course.
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson for fiction.

The Jeffersonion Transformation (the first and last chapters of a much longer history) by Henry Adams, selected and introduced by Gary Wills.
Heresy! Graphics programmers have gotten used to all kinds of cushy abstractions such as the OpenGL pipeline and high-level shading languages, and you're proposing to throw it all overboard and compute the color value per pixel on the fly using low-level logic. Interesting times.
Won't most FFOS apps talk by definition to a server? I wonder how "local" the native apps will be or whether developers will bother with working in offline mode even when connected to the internet.
Full quote is "We couldn't feed" stops picking the word "A few billion people would have to die if we hadn't come up with fertilizer."

>Not just in this case but he's confusing the cause and effect.

Why do you assume he doesn't understand a trivial thing? "wouldn't be able to live" -> "would have to die" is an easy mistake to do while speaking
This isn't english.stackexchange.com
Javascript URL Object
Yeah I should probably do that instead. Thx for the tip and also with Coinbase!
"I've Been Seeing Someone Else"
Reclaiming Video Games
Bioshock: Infinite, and American politics. Bilal Ahmed, in Monday's Souciant.
Usually I'd agree with you, but I could see that being true for Tumblr. When I was using Tumblr actively, more than half of the content I followed was some expansive form of advertising, e.g. http://magnumfoundation.tumblr.com/
1) My company started getting spam hits a few days ago on our "request a demo" page and they have not let up. I am guessing they are related, only because of timing. The attacks seem super lame to me - random emails, garbage messages, over and over. But I guess there are companies out there with weak security and those are the ones who will wind up giving up information.

2) Reading about this, I am wondering whether the attacks are so clumsy and obvious that the nuisance factor makes them newsworthy. Either that, or perhaps someone wants to drum up antagonism against China. America's allies spy on the US constantly, sometimes with incredibly damaging effects. The Jonathan Pollard case comes to mind.
I don't think Flickr and Facebook/Instragram really compete, except in the situation where people didn't need Flickr but Facebook/Instagram didn't exist yet. Flickr is more for professional photographers, not a social network for youths to share their photos with their group. If Flickr loses professional photogs, then they're hurting. But they haven't yet.

Instagram is not going to replace Flickr for Flickr's core audience.
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I'm curious what the affects of the Sun's radiation would have with people on Mercury. It might not be conducive to vegetation or habitation even if it is underground.
Bah humbuglr!
I think this might be what you are looking for:

http://history.tamu.edu/faculty/coopersmith/coopersmith%20pe...
David Karp: Tumblr founder could be worth up to $220m after Yahoo deal
Success absolutely does not tend to beget success. There are radically more examples of success not begetting success, than the other way around (and that always has to be true numerically). There's nothing about past success that favors future success, and I'd argue it's the opposite: success today makes it even harder to maintain it tomorrow, as the market will assault your profit centers relentlessly with competition.

Just ask AOL.

Or ask Yahoo.

Or talk to HP about Compaq. Or ask Gateway how their success beget success.

Or talk to HTC about how their early Android success beget even more success.

Or ask Borders and Blockbuster.

Or AltaVista and Lycos and Excite.

Or travel back in time to 1992, and ask IBM how all their success delivered them a massive wave of red ink.

Or Netscape.

Or ask Sun what happened to their incredible sales momentum circa 1999.

The list is extraordinarily long in tech alone.
David Karp is a Hero
Absolutely agree. The internet is for everyone, and it's designed to serve people's needs best.

Data from analytics scripts is core to the continued evolution of user interfaces and layout, knowing what people like. People who block such scripts are free to do so, but in the end they are slowing progress. The things you enjoy on the internet today would be in a sorry state if they had been created based purely on guesswork without any solid tracking data.

Don't assume people want to track you for malicious intent. They have no clue who you really are, they just want to see how user #195684 interacted with their site so that they can make it better. They're not out to get you or steal your identity.
The one called "MUCH MORE PRACTIVAL native equivalent" is a mistake, it doesn't do anything. I didn't know documentFragment lacks the innerHTML property so is not doing any parsing like the others.
Non-"off the record" chats were always archived, difference is that controlling the archiving behaviour is no longer done by client rather via a new web interface at: https://mail.google.com/mail/#chats

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/05/new-interface-for-g...
I live and work in central London.

Having seen the poster everywhere for a while now, it has been hard to avoid learning a bit about the image's history, including the recent hilarity with the EU trademark ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8785585/Battle-rages-over-Ke... ) and the image's organic growth in popularity from 2005 ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7869458.stm ).

I think it's funny to see people use things in apparent ignorance of their historical context; for example I was totally bummed that http://www.gophercon.com/ wasn't about the protocol.
Tnx. It was fixed in new branch. Deployed to current one.
As a matter of fact it works really well. 2008-esque? I really don;t care mate. They word pretty damn well for me with link diversity. It's not the how you build links, but what kind of links you build, and the anchor text and the sort of links. It's all just making it look natural. You're probably just trolling here so I don't really care. Good riddance.
The only vim plugin I use: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1664

With a few mappings:

noremap <leader>b :ls<cr>:buffer
noremap <C-a> :b#<cr>
noremap <C-h> :bprev<cr>
noremap <C-l> :bnext<cr>
Apple Reportedly Testing 1.5-Inch OLED Displays for Smart Watch
I think there's facebook credits or something like that.
Geany here as well. Along with a Guake terminal it's extremely convenient for Python development and doesn't get in your way.

For Android I use Eclipse, but hopefully the new editor from Google will be an improvement.
The extra overhead could be kept pretty small. After being retrieved once, it can be cached in the memory of a server process. So, there's one short SQL query at process startup (or perhaps first request, depending on how you do it), and negligible overhead after that.
How to Use Modules in CSS3
We're an exception in that we learned to alter our environment to increase the total energy-capture capacity usable to us as food.
If Google continues its current growth trajectory and Yahoo! sticks around, I wonder how long it will be before people start rooting for Yahoo! as the "underdog".
I like "Tumblroo!"
Renders instantly in Chrome, looks great, and a PDF is far more practical than an HTML/CSS implementation
Redundancy and continuous rescue are the way to do it.

The standard space program is to talk about it for 20 years (paying salaries all the way) to figure out the "best" way to do it, then do it, once, then fire everyone and destroy all the construction jigs, blueprints, etc.

The way to colonize is to ship them enough "stuff" to build 2 or 3 colonies per shipping season. Every time. And ship somewhat less than 100% staffing so there's plenty of spares. The only safe way to live on a space colony is truly post-scarcity by limited population.

Current aerospace standards would be 5 years in, The air cleaner fails and it'll be 20 years of R+D and one shipping season before we can send you another.

The right way to do it is 5 years in, the air cleaner fails and that's cool because there's 10 spares on site, two shipped for each year the colony has been in operation, and there are 3 backup colonies within one short walk and/or we'd just abandon the one building of this colony because we wisely don't centralize anything. And enough junk will arrive on the next transport ship to set up yet another small colony.
These are good points, but I don't think it's possible to not see Yahoo as a behemoth. It's a big company, with lots of executives and fiefdoms. Just because there's a new CEO doesn't mean the kind of change that needs to happen will happen (and conversely, it's wrong to lay all the blame at Meyer's feet if things don't turn out well).

Case in point, look at how badly JCPenney fared after Apple retail exec, Ron Johnson, became CEO for just 17 months:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/business/ron-johnson-out-a...

The fact that Yahoo can lay down $1.1 billion in cash is a show of how big the company is. That is both an asset and a liability, when it comes to the existing corporate power struggle.

edit: I'll give an example of which I'm familiar with, as a user: Flickr. I joined Flickr after Yahoo acquired it and have been a happy, paying user for nearly 4 years. However, I'd be at a loss to count all the new drastic feature additions that have come in all that time:

1. A new mobile app (which I don't use)

2. a nicer horizontal-masonry-like gallery layout...which, flabbergastingly, only applies to some collections of photos and not others

3. HTML5 uploader

And yet still, I count myself as a happy Flickr user, which means that prior to Yahoo's acquisition, Flickr was a great service to begin with. From what I can tell, as a data-minded person, Yahoo has done very little with all the interesting data that comes in these voluntarily organized and submitted photos. I don't get much help with auto-tagging or auto-grouping of collections. The Flickr logged-in homepage is nothing but a short list of the last few people who "favorited" a photo...there's been almost nothing done in four years to get me to engage more with the Flickr network.

And Flickr's domain covers items of a very discrete nature...easier to do interesting analysis and data-operations on than I feel one could do with Tumblr.

So while Flickr's relative stagnation is not Meyer's fault...the fact that we can say, "Well, it's not her fault that Flickr is meh five years in a row" goes to show you how massive a company Yahoo is and how hard it is for everything to move/change even when a new CEO comes in.
The critical question to be asked in response to your premise is: the superior product for what?

Tumblr had a vastly superior product for the market it has been focused on.
1. And what would the right way be? Is there a right way to influence a search engine's results? I find it to be wrong/deceiving from the very beginning. The only acceptable things in my opinion are:

* using clean urls, for ease of typing/reading/sharing

* using proper semantic html tags to structure content. I don't really know if search engines look for them but having content neatly structured will help people get the most of a website (especially people with disabilities; screen readers and other accessibility enhancing software)

2. Penguin update... what about other search engines? Shouldn't a SEO "guru" tackle other search engines as well? What if google "dies" tomorrow? I know it's very unlikely, but as programmers we strive to cover all possible issues/scenarios/errors.. why don't SEO "gurus" do the same?

I'm sorry if I come across as offensive but I really don't understand this hype regarding SEO, and more importantly why clients chuck their money towards something that in my opinion is superfluous.

Also, how would you quantify the success of a SEO campaign, how do you differentiate from traffic/sales/success generated by the content of your website and the one generated by a SEO campaign? (I am not being a smart-ass here, I am genuinely curious as I have no idea how you would do that!)
CEOs Say Investing In Innovation Is Not Paying Off
Dell’s $100 thumb-sized Android PC
I certainly enjoy them a lot more. I saw an ad for an inexpensive VPS service on Facebook a few days ago that I wouldn't have heard about otherwise. It's a lot better than random Vistaprint ads.
And in the same way that a car includes many control interfaces but is not itself a control interface, a program that contains text editors is not itself a text editor.
I don't believe that to be true. I have researched the hell out of this for years and I don't believe there is a definitive answer about this weight gain/loss thing.
Yes, otherwise it's copyright infringement. I've been working on a mobile app for some time. As an indie developer, the map license is almost fatal for my project.
Aside from the infrastructure and potential monetization capabilities Yahoo brings to Tumblr, I suspect the major undercurrent here is Mayer becoming a mentor to Dave Karp. I don't see this deal happening w/ just any other pair of CEO's; I don't think the crew running the show before MM could really tell you what Tumblr was. Maybe Jerry Yang, but certainly not the interim team.
See also comments on HN[1] about an "old" post[2] from Hongli Lai (Phusion) about this topic.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5007530

[2] http://blog.phusion.nl/2013/01/04/securing-the-rails-session...
In the UK crowdfunding startups is becoming common using Seedrs or Crowdcube and a few startups I know have raised a few hundred thousand from their users (and wealthy individuals using these sites).
First, I would refer you to masto's comment some ways up for a hint why I posted.

Second, I do not condone such behavior. It is flat wrong, whether done by a coder or by a pilot or salesman. A conference that lets guys get away with this without losing their credentials is at fault.

Third, I do not think that the seriousness of any occupation is a guarantee against bad behavior by its practitioners. It does not take very wide reading to encounter thoroughly bad--criminal behavior--on the part of doctors, for example.
I hope this isn't a silly question... Reports say that tumblr is running low on cash and could only afford to operate for the next few months. This deal is going to take a few months (article says next quarter) to close. Is it not possible that they would run out of money before the deal officially closes?
Bangalore to have cafes exclusively for start-up entrepreneurs
Interesting to see these missing, which are 1 and 1, respectively: [一, 壹]
Not really, but during the '00s Yahoo had a management culture where decisions were made by (painful, painful) consensus. Generally this led to stagnation in the acquired services, and when you're stagnant, you get lapped.

Meyer seems determined to change this, though. Impossible to tell how much headway she's made from the outside, but she's certainly saying the right things here. We shall all see in due time.
Getting paid for your Windows Phone apps is a real pain
They can - it's called an Enterprise license

Many a startup has bootstrapped off one or two customer "investments" - Marc Andressen famously walked a cheque for 11 million USD round the early Netscape offices.

I believe he regretted taking the money be ause it made them beholden to features that customer wanted - but try telling the difference between that and a equity investment
Tumblr users flee to Wordpress
That's sad and unwarranted
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The 7 Deadly Sins of Startups -- A confessional.
The way I remember it, Sony refused to let the porn industry print bluray discs, and the HD-DVD backers just didn't care, but bluray started winning as soon as Sony relented.
> but I wonder if anyone has done a study of porn as a predictor of platform success/failure...

For better or worse, FB could be a good example of "platform success" that partially relies on that. It's not porn per se, just beach/bikini photos of one's lady-friends, or his work-mates, or the wife's friends.
I like to daydream about space colonization too. Each world has its own challenges:

* Mercury

Advantages: There's rocks we can mine and water, no need for a heating system in the underground cities, strong-enough gravity and magnetic field.

Inconvenients: Spending over 6 years in a small spaceship is quite insane, the water may be irradiated, underground cities are extremely expensive to build compared with surface cities, there's only room for two megacities at the poles unless we do a Death Star kind of urbanization (then there may not be enough water).

* Venus

Advantages: less than a year of travel away, good gravity and a big atmosphere that compensates the lack of magnetic field, rocks we can mine, the high pressure and heat are manageable with our technology (the Russian probes had insufficient protections against heat), no need for underground cities.

Inconvenients: No water (there's H and O in the sulfuric acid but the collect and transform process may be expensive), there may be no nitrogen sources to cheaply make our air, the cooling system is a critical infrastructure.

* The deep sea of Earth

Advantages: only a few hours of travel away, warm (5 to 0°C), cheap geothermic energy, extremely resilient to asteroid impacts, more than abundant water and rocks we can mine, no need to build underground cities.

Inconvenients: much worse pressure than on Venus, total darkness and the layer of sand/dust make it hard to find potential mines.

* Moon

Advantages: only a few days of travel away, rocks we can mine, gravity may be sufficient.

Inconvenients: water is expensive to extract from the dust layer, requires underground cities (or does the Earth act as a shield?), there may be no nitrogen sources to cheaply make our air.

* Mars

Advantages: less than a year of travel away, water and rocks we can mine, no extreme temperatures thanks to the atmosphere.

Inconvenients: sand tempests, no magnetic field so underground cities may be necessary, the heating system is a critical infrastructure as with all worlds beyond the Earth (but we know how to heat stuff), there may be no nitrogen sources to cheaply make our air.

* Callisto

Advantages: the only Jovian moon we can colonize (it's away from the radiations of Jupiter), water and rocks we can mine, would enable the robotic mining of all Jovian moons.

Inconvenients: several years of travel away (5?), requires underground cities, extremely cold.

* Titan

Advantages: abundant water, nitrogen and hydrocarbons, a thick atmosphere, no need for underground cities, may host life.

Inconvenients: at least 7 years of travel away, there may not be rocks we can mine on its surface (which would make it impossible to build cities), extremely cold.

Those are the low-hanging fruits of our solar system, and they're all hanging higher than we would have liked.
I'm sure Yahoo could help them out with that.
Definitely a standard issue popularity backlash. See: PHP. Once something achieves overwhelming scale in tech, the majority turns on it because: dominance != cool.
So we're too stupid to pick out healthy food, but we're smart enough to vote in people who know what's best for us and are ethical enough to not abuse their power for self-enrichment?

Let's also ignore the fact that most of the food industry's processed low-fat crap was a direct result of the government's earlier attempts to tell us that fat was evil and shove the food pyramid down our throats.
[].filter.call() creates unnecessary Array instance, you should be using Array.prototype.filter.call() instead. Still, such code breaks encapsulation and is plain ugly. It would make much more sense if document.getElementsByTagName() was returning Array instance or if NodeList was inheriting from Array.
Why is it so common to refer to Yahoo! in the first person as "Marissa?"

I know she's the CEO, but I never hear anyone call Microsoft "Steve," Google "Sergey and Larry," AirBnB "Joe," Apple "Tim," etc. Why is Marissa such a big deal?
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