skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The relevant question is not “could” they be rendered for less than $5.62 trillion, but “would” they be. From what I have observed, privatization of infrastructure does not typically result in cost savings; corporate profits soak up whatever was previously “government waste”.
If you want Gnome 2 Panels, run one of the Gnome 2 forks.

Personally I love Unity, and I finally have my beloved global menus back, like a freaking Amiga - something I have missed since about '97. I don't want to waste space on menus in every single application window.
I agree, but the writer wasn't extrapolating to today. The article is more than 2 years old. Bartz was still running Yahoo!
Is there a golden ratio in typography?
Depends on your definition of economic success. If you define it as the ability to distribute resources necessary for survival, and extend that to the species, then interplanetary travel is the only eventuality that makes economic sense.
The Next Frontier For 3-D Printing: Helping The Disabled
I did a google search to see if anyone jumped the gun on "for" but I think any action by Yahoo is universally panned. "why yahoo tumblr buy will succeed" produced such gems as:

"If Yahoo Buys Tumblr, What Will It Do With All That Porn ..."

"5 reasons why Yahoo will ruin Tumblr..."

"Yahoo's Reported Tumblr Acquisition Won't Be Easy"

"Why Marissa Mayer Will Fail At Yahoo "
...
And better: http://henryr.github.io/cap-faq/
Hung out w tony hsieh...he is redeveloping Las Vegas
Thanks for sharing this Mr Branding!

We believe for big deployments of cloud to truly work you need a platform with hybrid built in. We currently offer some of the best dedicated hosting in the business and we're currently working hard to integrate our products to be completely hybrid (dedicated/cloud) - that way you can run anything you want however you want without being tied down by technical limitations.
Sure it is: http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-html5-20080610/dom.html#innerht...
Why Yahoo-Tumblr makes sense
Don't the telecoms companies make huge profits on roaming fees? Would this then mean that the companies would be pushing against this move?
Of course it isn't. Emacs is an OS, it just needs an inferior OS to bootstrap it
You should ask it to American wifes: which one they would prefer as their neighbour - Supermodel from Brazil vs "slightly overweight" Software Engineer (which can be asked to reinstall Windows from time to time)?
Understanding Computation: computation theory explained with Ruby
Well, at least she seems to "get" Tumblr.

http://marissamayr.tumblr.com/post/50907453679/the-great-wor...
10 things you may not know about Ethernet
Notes from a prison visit with Weev
Poll: Stable, or Interesting Employment?
Which is a higher priority for you when looking for a new job?

Or put differently, assuming these were somehow mutually exclusive (they're not), and assuming similar pay, benefits, perks, location, etc, would you rather have stable employment, or interesting employment?
With Canoncial doing more and more stuff on their own instead of really contributing to the Linux community, i've recently switched back to Debian and without regrets.

Thanks, but no thanks, for Unity, Upstart, Mir and whatever else you will come up in the future.
Someone buys my house, but asks me to live in it and care for it. I then live it in like I've lived for years. One day they show up and chop down the tree I planted with my child when they were young, and change the color of the paint.

"What are you doing?! Do you know how much passion I've put into this property?"

"Who cares? It doesn't belong to you anymore, and you've got a pretty decent chunk of change in the bank."
Javascript gets a new logo ^_ ^
Windows 8: How to touch-enable your PC without breaking the bank
I figured it was intended to be slides, or printed out on paper.
I think that her personal brand is a plus for Yahoo, so I doubt that she or Yahoo! minds this.
Google+ for Android: 42
Show HN: Sieve - filter webpages and watch changes
From a strictly altruistic perspective that may sound great. From a realistic perspective the truth is a U.N. doctrine on cyber warfare would do nothing but make the various parties dig in deeper and work harder to cover their tracks. The world of CNO (CNE, CNA, CND) is nothing if not a step deeper into the shadow world that covert ops have lived in for decades. We are naive if we don't understand that all parties mentioned are involved in it from some perspective both Defensively and Offensively (the famous phrase holds true, often the best defensive strategy is a good offensive strategy).
I absolutely agree, but I stopped editorializing titles because they were either reverted to the original title, o re-editorialized by the moderators.

I can't change the title anymore, hope some moderator will.
U.S. reaches 100k plug-in vehicles sold milestone today
That's interesting I never heard of Factor. What do you think about python or ruby?
If we knew ahead of time which tough problems have elegant solutions, it would save us so much time and effort. Alas, that's not the nature of research.
I am interested. I also have a small hobby project that I am working on. I don't want to call it a start up yet. I would like to take part in this.
But this time its Marissa Mayer and i expect some good results from her. Finger Crossed X.
I will admit that this is a tricky area. Children are people and people certainly can choose to come to the aid of someone else who is being abused or harmed. But dealing with children is somewhat special, since it is generally considered the parent's responsibility and prerogative to decide how to raise their children.

Sadly I don't think there is any way to come to any real, objective answer on this issue. It is one, IMO, that will cause conflict as long as there are people.
Sorry, My Code Won’t Last Forever
Again, it's repeated page faults and cache effects.

When you run experiments, you want to draw conclusions. To have confidence in your conclusions, you want to eliminate as many variables as possible. In my work, I set the time of the benchmark high enough that I am confident that it is very unlikely for these effects to have a significant influence on the results. When you're drawing conclusions and publishing the results that will be scrutinized by peers, "overkill" is the way to go.

Also note that I was not the first poster on this subject.
How many different ways have we heard the same thing?

> So what’s new? Simply, Tumblr gets better faster. The work ahead of us remains the same – and we still have a long way to go! – but with more resources to draw from.

Wow, someday someone's going to get caught plagiarizing. An acquisition rarely leads to "more resources to draw from" and more often leads to neglect. Yahoo clearly has a lot riding on this deal and will surely make a strong effort to disprove the doubters on this one. However, unless they're banking the company on Tumblr (doubtful), then it's hard to imagine more resources going into Tumblr.

The only time a large company's resources bring value is when the acquiring company has legal and lobbying resources a small upstart could never afford. YouTube and PayPal are probably the best examples of this.
If Your Shrink Is A Bot, How Do You Respond?
Why science can't be trusted
Mozilla receive ad revenue from Google. AFAIK Google has no control over Mozilla except obviously enabling Google to preemptively place a cookie on users' machines using the default, Googley homepage. Google integration, by definition, defies Mozilla's mission, but it's not because Google controls them. I'm okay with the integration knowing that I can fix it, though I wish there were a start-up option for novices, though.
Question Answering System - based on Dbpedia
I am reasonably familiar with Tizen. Tizen and Firefox OS are Linux-based Web OSs. That is, they expect to run all their apps in the browser as an app runtime.

Tizen development is split between Samsung and Intel, and I have observed instances where they do not communicate well. I think that puts Tizen at a disadvantage relative to Firefox OS. I am also skeptical that Web apps on mobile devices will become as refined and as power and CPU efficient as native apps.
That's not true. There are two latest versions, one of which supports older browsers.
Call me maybe: final thoughts
I disagree - a business that is owned by its customers is probably best described as a mutual company. Examples are the old NYSE, and most other stock markets before modernization, most insurance companies before the wave of demutualization in the 1990's, Savings and Loan companies. The list goes on.

I think it's potentially a good model for some businesses, for example those that do not require a large amount of R&D spending, or where this is not a race to the bottom as happened with stock exchanges.
Sponsor Tomatoes, if you will
Training for Software Developers
The Power of UI -- Even for the Small Things
Did you read OP article even? One of the main ideas is that his 'genius' took years of meticulous work.
Show HN: HNsearch, a ruby gem for searching HN via command-line
I was learning to write RubyGems and this is what I came up with. I know that it doesn't follow the usual convention of lowercase naming but this is what I started with and then I ended up deploying it.

The gem doesn't do a lot other than query the HNsearch.com API and then just pretty prints the results. I am working on making it better and will be introducing some more commands.

I would like to get some review on my code quality and also how can I make this gem better.

I even wrote a small post on the same - http://aniketpant.com/2013/05/hnsearch-my-first-gem/
Please add (2011) to the title. It's really important to understand this wasn't written to contextualize this ac.
I started reading this and i kept thing, why the hell would GitHub be buying a food startup! I know they're doing well but this is really beyond developer tools.
FBI’s proposed wiretapping law effectively bans end-to-end cryptography
Plants Use Fungus To Coordinate Defenses
Air droid. It starts a little webserver on your phone, and lets you do everything from your computer. Copy files, and move things around, as well as manage contacts or even SMS people while typing on the keyboard. I like it.
Andoroid 4.1 supports USB mass storage, at least on the devices I've used. I think it does have to be enabled in the settings though.
I agree with you here! I think Mayer posting on Tumblr is a sign of her commitment and acknowledgement (obviously) to Tumblr....I hope more Yahoo employees (ESP Mayer), continue to use Tumblr consistently to feel what their users feel and be committed.
If you have the time, this video by Basho's CTO will give you a much better understanding of the tradeoffs that are involved in distributed system design:
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Concurrency-Scale-Distrib...

A great alternative to thinking about things in terms of CAP that Justin brings up is harvest-yield, where yield is the probability of completing a request and harvest is the fraction of your data that the response actually represents. Here's the paper:
http://lab.mscs.mu.edu/Dist2012/lectures/HarvestYield.pdf
Get more from mobile app install ads
Founding a start-up on your own is a terrible idea
I was learning to write RubyGems and this is what I came up with. I know that it doesn't follow the usual convention of lowercase naming but this is what I started with and then I ended up deploying it.

The gem doesn't do a lot other than query the HNsearch.com API and then just pretty prints the results. I am working on making it better and will be introducing some more commands.

I would like to get some review on my code quality and also how can I make this gem better.

I even wrote a small post on the same - http://aniketpant.com/2013/05/hnsearch-my-first-gem/
So why do people bother to develop for glass if there is no monetization model?
Got any links? In the UK I was using iii.co.uk - but they recently started imposing fees which were prohibitive for small scale transactions.
32-way Raspberry Pi cluster
Indication of anomalous heat energy production in a reactor device
"The E-Cat HT is a non-conventional source of energy which lies between conventional chemical sources of energy and nuclear ones."
Because next time he will burn AT&T to the ground instead of revealing their mistake.
Cool concept, but name collision: Sieve has been the name of a server-side mail filtering language for quite some time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_%28mail_filtering_langua...
PDF with technical details and some nice pics at:

http://coen.boisestate.edu/ece/files/2013/05/Rasp.-Pi.pdf
He wasn't justifying it, he was explaining it. It's the real world out there. If you live in China in 1989, it's better to be quiet than to be dead in Tiananmen Square, and if you're in the prison system it's better to be quiet than to be in solitary.
Forbes are a huge source of clickbait. Writers are paid on a Gawker-like basis, so we get contrarianism, #slatepitches, and coarse statements in spades.
The problem is that, that article won't get upvotes because it has a generic title 'Ubuntu.com update'.

The "original title" rule actually encourages blogspam to be posted because those tend to have descriptive titles for SEO purposes.
Dirhelp - CLI tool to describe the linux directory structures (FHS)
Maybe I'm insane, but when someone says "is the cash worth it to these founders?" when they presumably have the ability to do another startup AND they now have enough money to finance 100 startups and 3 generations of their family, I have to say a very strong yes.
Hello HN! I am excited to show Sieve. Its in alpha state and under active development.

Would appreciate your feedback. Checkout Visual Selector used to let user filter content from a webpage.
It's not only fast but he pimped it up like a casemodder on a LAN party!
> it's a common term of parole for computer criminals to be denied computer use, even for their work.
He's not sentenced. And he's in Sweden (not common to deny computer use in the same way as in the U.S.) I would be interested in finding out on what grounds they are denying him. It's not that I'm too lazy to find out myself, but I'm on a phone and it's a lot of data to look at.

If the investigation was ongoing they could deny him based on risk of tampering with evidence ("kollusionsfara"), I guess. A bit farfetched, but possible. The investigation is finished, is he still being denied access to a calculator?

EDIT: OK, after looking into this a bit I'm guessing BrB 24 kap 5a makes it legal.
I chose stable, and I'll tell you why:

When I go home at night and my girlfriend is sat there, the last thing I want to say is "hunny, I'll have to find another job. Super awesome startup-v4 is out of cash, I'll probably have a new job in a month but we'll have to tighten our belts until then."

The question I have to ask myself is this: What's best for my future family? That I 100%, undoubtedly love my job, or that I 100% always put food on the table?

For me it's the latter. For most billionaires, it's probably the former.
We have been experiencing the same thing. Aggressive SSH logins and abusive crawling of URLs. The timing is really, really weird.
Yes, you can recover from lost acknowledgements by asking for the transaction ID from postgres before committing--or by making up your own flake ID and writing it to a table. Given a queue with at-least-once delivery (which includes, say, durable storage on the client), you can check for the presence of that ID at a later time and re-apply the transaction to recover from network errors safely.

The transaction ID does wrap around, so there's a time limit depending on your transaction throughput. You can also ask for certain transactional properties on rows, though this won't allow you to recover in all (most?) cases.
Samsung to unveil laptop with 13.3-inch QHD 3200 x 1800 panel
Why I left Heroku, and notes on my new AWS setup
I was going off of the wikipedia article--I'm sorry if I am misinformed. I make no claims that a wiki is anything more than a useful first-step onto the path of knowledge.
Instead of those arbitrary picks, how about looking at Google Summer of Code?

Those projects have conveniently listed what things they want help on and already have allocated mentors to lead those projects.

While you might not be a student, if you really want to help out, I bet most of those projects would welcome additional involvement and the mentors would be willing to talk with you if you are serious about helping.
Surfing your own brainwaves, the next extreme sport?
I'm trying to do the same with Tomatoes[1].

[1] http://tomato.es/pages/sponsors
Ask HN: VPS web hosting that configures nginx, postgres, Rails for you?
I found this web hosting company this morning:

http://www.webfaction.com/

And I was wondering if anybody here has used them before. Are the good?

Are there any hosting providers you know of that offer this service? I've tried setting up my own VPS's three times in the past year and always hit a different wall that prevents me from moving forwards.
The huge BYOD risk that you're probably ignoring
Open Sourcing the Tubalr iOS App
Dangerous Natural Sweeteners Worse Than High Fructose Corn Syrup
>You don't need invites

Right, today you don't. But for the first several months you did.
First Large Cyber Espionage Activity against Pakistan Emanating From India
Redis is one of those things I both love and love to hate.

I've had good results using Redis as a lock server, but I live in (perhaps misplaced) fear of a client hanging or crashing leaving a lock stranded. Not that this is really Redis's problem.
You have a strange sense of justice. He didn't help anyone commit any crimes. He simply opted out of participating. It's not his problem, and he did nothing wrong. To punish him defies reason.

There is a threshold at which you could make the argument that there is a moral obligation to turn in one's friend if they are committing atrocities, but no one can argue that this is an example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk#Cypherpunk_mailing_l...
Rho-contract.js: Racket-style Higher-Order Contracts in Plain JavaScript
Not according to him as he was technically an employee, I did some analysis...

http://andycroll.com/2013/05/20/tumblr-founder-shares-and-di...
His friends should just keep tweeting as if from him, and pretend it's being leaked. Drive the administration crazy trying to stop it.
I'm not an expert, But I'd imagine the opportunities for growth would override the desire to preserve revenue from roaming.
Blood Banker, my blood donation game
In fact there's even a 1.10 beta out now, so they are not dropping support for IE6/7/8 anytime soon. It's true jQuery 2.0 can't be used with old IE, but if that's what you need to support use the 1.x branch.
It had sounded from the 2.0 announcement that they are only supporting 1.x for purposes of back-porting bug fixes. If the goal is to do some kind of long-term commitment to the mission of cross-browser compatibility, then forking off "2.0" seems pointless and even harmful. To verify, however: if this article then specifically was comparing jQuery 2.0 to native DOM, would you submit that iamjared's complaint would not apply? ;P
I think you are confused ;)

They'll continue to charge roaming fees anyway, right up until they lose a lawsuit over it.
Why would they do anything else?
"top 7 ways the tumblr deal affects YOU"
How I got my first customers without having a product
This article is two years old, sure. But now Mayer, who I respect a lot, is at the helm. So what's happened to these older, still-viable acquisitions? Virtually nothing. A new iOS app here and there. Flickr and Delicious are wasting away.

I can't help but think that Yahoo's destined-to-fail social network is in the wings. Instead of a @ or + name, it'll be a ! name. Marissa's there, but is there any real progress happening?
Such a classic exit - "and then sell it to Yahoo"..)
True, but whoever posted it to Hacker News right after it was announced Yahoo is buying Tumblr certainly was.
Depends on the startup business model. I work in the "enterprise space" and at my last company, and the one I am just starting this is our plan. We are actually in discussion with two major enterprises who will help fund our initial development through NRE and invest.

This is possible since we are talking 5 figure sums, where the legal hurdles and time negotiating are worth it. IF the sums of money are small, this would not work.
This is a talk I gave last week at NodePDX. My speaker notes and the source code for the various versions of the app are on Github:

https://github.com/pjungwir/node-errors-talk
> No matter if intentions of the business owners are benign or not, when the public invests in companies there is a need for rules governing transparency and control. What the post is referring does exist, it's called the stock market.

When the users are the owners it's a co-op. No need for a stock market there. A lot of grocery stores in BFN are co-ops.
Facebook is free. Google is free. LinkedIn is free. In fact Yahoo is free. Why would the freeness of tumblr have any negative effect on your analysis of this deal?
Do acquisitions ever work? Examples? Why?
Do acquisitions ever work? Examples? If you have an example of a success, please feel free to speculate (wildly even) as to why it was successful. I mean this to be a serious question.

[Update: added "Why?" to title]
Hello, you can easily mount a lock that auto-releases itself after some timeout using the new (2.6.13) extended SET command (see http://redis.io/commands/set) or simply a Lua script.
Hack the human body [HumanAPI project]
but isn't the current standard business plan to get as many 'free' users as possible, monetize them by adding advertising, then selling their eyeballs to Yahoo, etc. for actual money?

No. There may be a lot of people pursuing that sort of thing, but there are plenty of startups selling "stuff" (whether it's software or something else) to people with money to spend (probably businesses) for real money.

Don't fall for the silicon valley groupthink / herd mentality BS. Building a company that makes money the old fashioned way is still very feasible, and - IMO - always will be.
Hey ChrisClark, these are placeholders, so you can type and they will clear out. We'll take this into consideration and maybe change the text color so it's a little more apparent. Dually noted about the cut off "anyone" -- thanks for the feedback!
You're basically describing Piqi: http://piqi.org/
Artificial Humanity
Pretty interesting article on a different approach to AI. I'm curious as to how one would go about testing the proposed approach at the end of the article.
I am a web and graphic designer with an intimate knowledge of the web and technology. I am looking to get beast as JS/software + web development in general. I have programming experience, but missing pieces all over, need someone to ask questions to piece it all together.. Can mentor/help with design/usability/ux. joshua@pixelnautic.com - joshuarice.net
Pretty interesting article on a different approach to AI. I'm curious as to how one would go about testing the proposed approach at the end of the article.
I'm frustrated that when the HN editors deduped the original story, they apparently deleted ALL the instances, leaving only this one. I wanted to read the discussion on the subject of Aphyr's research, not Antirez' response.

It looks bad, HN. We all know that VMWare is litigious as (try looking up benchmarks sometime.) But to (presumably) cave so quickly and effortlessly suggests... well, I'm not sure.

The other possibility is that Aphyr yanked them himself, probably under duress (or else there'd just be an 'update' at the bottom of the research's page.) Aphyr, is this what happened? I figure you probably can't talk freely if so, but say something.
Hey jwarren, we're working on making it more complex -- we wanted to get the MVP out for user feedback. We want to add things like support for multiples of the current criteria we have, as well as more advanced queries like custom fields and custom taxonomy.
IBM Unveils New Software to Enable [COBOL] Mainframe Applications on Cloud