skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have never thought the Diaspora project would succeed, because it's the social network nobody wants.

Honestly I think that in the startup community there has been an enormous failure to understand what makes Facebook so popular.

The most important features of Facebook are not the wall, and they're not sharing statuses or links.

The most important features of Facebook, are:

(1) Chat with a strong mobile app- for many people, Facebook chat has replaced personal (as opposed to work) email, texting, AIM, and Google Talk. It is a simple, sure-fire way to be able to contact anyone you know, and this is the single most important feature of Facebook. Does Diaspora have a strong chat? It doesn't have chat at all.

(2) Facebook groups. It is fairly common for an informal friend group to create a Facebook group for communication, or for an entire class of a university or high school to create an incredibly active group. Most universities have varying groups for varying purposes.

(3) Facebook events. It is common on college campuses for fraternity events and other student activities to be advertised through a Facebook event, and anyone who doesn't get invited to these events might feel out of the loop. Many informal invitations to parties between friends are also sent through Facebook events.

(4) The user's information page. Immediately upon friending someone, you are generally able to discover their religion, their politics, their interests, and, most importantly, their relationship status. In this way, Facebook is a very important tool on both the dating and friend scene for young people.

And, social networks like Google+ and Diaspora have utterly failed to properly address these features. Google+ took months to create events and groups, and honestly now the interface is so cluttered and clunky that I don't think it will ever be accessible to the basic user in its current form. Diaspora has utterly failed to implement any of these features.

Young people want a social network where they can quickly discover what kind of person each other are and what their social situation is, share events and groups with each other, and chat with each other, especially on mobile. Being able to upload photos is also important, but sharing statuses and links is probably the least important feature. A social network which effectively implements all of these in a minimalist, privacy aware way, would without a doubt succeed.
What Disney produces is content made for kids. What SkyDoesMinecraft produces is content made for everyone that happens to be appropriate and relevant for kids. The latter represents what the world is. The former is a fantasy. Minecraft is awosome but the unique appeal here is of YouTube. It is, and has been for years now, a one of a kind window to the world that is especially appealing to kids. It can not be duplicated but it can go wasted. Don't be sad though, you can always skip this ad in 5 seconds.
You can leave your email address in the form if you want to get an update when I post them.

I'll also post the results to HN, of course :)
If I had to bet on this, I'd say Satoshi isn't Japanese.
Yahoo unlike google doesn't gives that much freedom to engineers to work on their own ideas.
Engineers can't make much difference, if same managers who are not doing much now are present. Some major revamp of workforce starting with managers is needed.
And North Korea is a bastion of democracy, as evidenced by the name of their government.
FWIW I do the same thing with my older, more destroyable text books, but I use a table saw to remove the spine and it works great.
It also covers some of the use cases for packages. So, it's half way between a package and a vm.
Saw this one earlier by Fogcreek guy - TOMA where his phrase was that they'd use their blogging to "achieve TOMA" -- still have no idea what it is

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5732024
why should I have to 'disclaim liability'? Because our litigious society would like to take advantage me and sue my pants off for no real reason? Then the flaw is not in my code, is it?
You should use the official API.

http://travelinedata.org.uk/nextbuses.htm
Ugly, dirty, but it works
For kid-friendly minecraft videos I recommend Paul Soares Jr.: http://www.youtube.com/user/paulsoaresjr
"Please sign in to continue"

No.
Lisp is a lot of fun and easy to start with. Don't be afraid by all these nasty (()) and weird (+ 4 5) operations , it will make sense quite fast.

They aren't as ugly as XML ;)

This was a great read convincing me so: http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html

I prefer:
(defun add(a b)
(+ a b))

Over:
<defun name="add"><params><param>a</param><param>b</param></params>
<+><a></a><b></b></+></defun>
(Or some variant thereof)

Any day. The article above improved my understanding and appreciation of Lisp(s) but it made me dislike Java even more than what I already had!
I consider that to be a bright spot in this post. What would a performance comparison for this very specific app prove? The way I read it, the only goal of the rewrite was a more easily maintainable code-base with performance that was "good enough". It sounds like he was successful in meeting that goal.

With that said, comparing Python and Erlang on the basis of performance is a bit like looking for the world's tallest midget isn't it? Performance isn't the point at all, within a certain threshold.
Build a electric paramotor for less than 1k
Something for everyone out there to keep in mind. Reactions are always negative when you talk about doing something risky in the future and are much more likely to be positive when you decided to actually do it.

I dropped out of college a few months ago. Through the different talks I've had with family and friends about it in the past year, you would have guessed that everyone would have criticized the decision tremendously. But the day that I went from "dad, I want to drop out" to "dad, I signed a full time offer and I'm dropping out", I received staggering amounts of support.

Suddenly people knew I was serious about what I had been saying for a while. At least that's what I think the difference was caused by.
I probably have a terrible bias there, but most other kids I knew had access to computers, too, at this age and possibly before. That was in 1999/2000, I guess you’re slightly older.
I always say "I run a small company" and leave it as that. I've never really liked the term entrepreneur as it conjures up a certain image in people's minds and it's not always a good one in the UK.

If people want more specifics I say that I am "a technical director, but in a 2 person company that just means I make the coffee before meetings!" I'm normally much more interested in what they have to say about what they do.
Huh, I didn't know that. What command gives the entire history on OS X, then?
Scrum Team Member Golden Rules
It's a page that drops down at the top first time you open Reddit on a device now, not just a subreddit no one will find anyway.
Maybe if they let it die, the service slowly dies too, and then the audience leaves -- Assuming that's kind of what Yahoo is after in the first place; but I'm completely guessing here
Pretty nice article about how "viral" at all the harlem shake was. http://qz.com/67991/you-didnt-make-the-harlem-shake-go-viral...
You only live once :D
Here's the biggest problem with these sorts of ideas:

http://firespotting.com/item?id=341
>tells the employer what you want to do

>it could be a bump in pay but it usually also means a new challenge like working on a particular tech, type of product, domain, etc

Sure, that's _exactly_ what FiveYearItch is all about.

When you register ( http://www.fiveyearitch.com/register?publisher=e0e3f1 ), you will say "what you need in your next job," whether it is learning opportunities, ace colleagues, stock options, a flat hierarchy, or anything else you'd like.

Employers have to commit to provide these if a deal goes through.

The "Hire-a-HN-Hacker" widget has limited space, and so it highlights skills that would interest an employer, but when the employer clicks to search, they'll see the developer's requirements as well.
Adding one to the list: MRR - monthly recurring revenue
While my parents were generally supportive, my dad did tell me "That's fine, but one day you'll have to settle down and get a real job." It's taken a while but he's finally coming around that what I'm doing now is, in fact, a real job.
Be careful if you are in the habit of using environment variables to specify API keys or database passwords. One of my top commands is `FACEBOOK_SECRET=...`.
My 10 year old daughter and 8 year old son are both deep in love with Minecraft, so I most certainly agree with that part. I also have the same disdain for Disney XD, with the same complaints as the linked -- they have truly terrible writing, and are just horrible social models.

I have to add a caveat about the Minecraft videos, however, in that many of them are just as bad or worse than tween shows. While some are just walkthroughs, a growing number are obnoxious cliche fests (e.g. screaming and yelling expletives when a creeper appears, etc). There is a large set of people trying to capitalize on kids watching minecraft videos.
"Hockey stick" is a term for exponential growth that's just starting to explode, named after the shape of its graph. As in, "Our user count just hit two million, and it's a total hockey stick!"

The canonical kind looks like the stick in this orientation:

______/

Sometimes people jokingly use the term to refer to a graph that looks like a hockey stick in this orientation:

______
/

An example of that would be a product that's launched with great hype and sees huge initial growth solely because of that, and then it quickly tapers off because the product turns out to be a flop.
This skips all the commands I pipe through, which excludes over half of the commands I use!
The real value of containers is not security (although lxc does include robust security mechanisms), it's the streamlining of application deployment.

If you don't trust lxc to sandbox untrusted code, don't! Just deploy 1 production container per VM, or even per physical machine. But maybe you don't mind running multiple containers on your local dev vm or on your staging machine - I know I don't.

What containers give you is a constant payload which can be moved across very different hardware setups, from the most shared to the most isolated.
Flickr updated their site a few months ago along with the release with their new iPhone app. It still doesn't feel like a modern site and it doesn't work as well as it should.

Supposedly there is a new Flickr being shown off tomorrow and hopefully Yahoo rebuilt the site from the ground up.
Is this named after Whit Sunday (today this year, 19 May) or is that just a coincidence?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOMA
With CoVim, do all the co-editors see the same screen, or can they view different buffers?
ShowHN: pyrstructs - A simple collection of data structures backed by Redis
Maybe it's just me that noticed or felt this, but often times a service or product builds up a lot of hype and ends up being vaporware. Diaspora got mainstream attention when Zuckerberg donated money to them and when they complained at the height of Facebook's privacy problems. But then didn't deliver until like a year later?

Similar thing happened with Google+. I remember my non-techie friends wanting to get in, but it took weeks for invites to open up until people didn't care anymore.

The lesson in all this: when you have hype, DELIVER THE PRODUCT.
Seems smart--most of what I use Yahoo for nowadays is content (Y!Sports, Y!Finance), and Tumblr adds a lot of content.
All cash does not mean there isn't a portion of it restricted to a time or objective based schedule for key employees (or even all employees and shareholders).

If they intend to continue operating it (highly likely) buying while they are still with cash, all of their staff, and vibrant is quite possibly a better outcome than buying a broken company for less even only a few months later.

Disclosure: I am long Yahoo in my personal portfolio and I've led many M&A activities for Rackspace.
Because those few lines of boilerplate you would have to add exist in order to make explicit your stance on issues you probably don't even know exist, and their inclusion would come at basically zero cost.

Programmers of all people should appreciate that the "plain English" explanation of something is often sorely lacking in comparison to a full and complete implementation.
The Yahoo board are saving Tumblr investors and will expect the favor returned down the line. This is boardroom back scratching. Yahoo is being stripped of its cash for the benefit of VC-istan.

Here are the Yahoo board of directors. http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/directors.cfm

Here are the investors in Tumblr. http://www.crunchbase.com/company/tumblr
Hacking with Ember.js
Since it's a request from the clicker to the commenter, and since negative karma can be recovered by deleting, I see it as self-regulating.
Series A - when you first take money from venture capitalists (even if technically it's "Series B" because a previous round was called your Series A)
"Communism is not Socialism. Marxism is not Socialism. The Marxians have stolen the term and confused its meaning. I shall take Socialism away from the Socialists."

- Adolf Hitler, 1923

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2007/sep/17/greatinter...
A CEO's job is to increase shareholder value. End of story.

This means increasing the stock price. So yes, I do believe that this statement is absolutely true. The CEO needs to figure out a way to increase shareholder value, whether they are Yahoo, or Washington Post, or New York Times, or Groupon. They are not supposed to sit around and maintain dividends. Whether it's breaking into new businesses, selling their current underperforming businesses, etc, that is why they are CEO, to think of new ways to make money and increase stock price. Not to sit on their laurels and collect their paycheck.

3 years is MORE than enough time for any CEO to execute a strategy that increases shareholder value. If they can't, then they should be fired.
The First New Atheist - Kierkegaard
Ask HN: How do you protect yourself from bank fraud?
A friend of mine recently had €1600 stolen from his account in Germany, despite two-factor authentication (SMS Tan is the norm over here), which I always assumed was pretty secure.

Turns out the thieves first hack your web browser (through the usual means) and then alter the web page of your bank to display instructions to install a "security" app on your smartphone (MITB attack). So then they have access to both factors and you're boned. Google "Eurograbber" to find out more.

What I find kind of scary is the usual caution is likely to fail. After all, this is the correct URL and the correct SSL cert, so if the fake visuals are well produced it will appear completely legit.

I suppose one approach is to make sure you always logon with a clean browser, so I was thinking of a portable VirtualBox with a copy of Linux used solely for the purpose of online banking. I could even hand out keys to my friends.

Do you think this would be effective? And what precautions do you take with online banking?
this is probably the most important, and at the same time straightforward advice anyone can get.

The most successful companies start out like this. Some of the most powerful open source projects started like this.

Most importantly this is probably the most powerful way to learn something. As opposed to say a programming assignment in school saying that you should write a point of sale terminal so Fritz Miller can buy his 3 tomatos 2 apples and 2 pizzas.
UsersFreakingOutAboutYahooBuying.tumblr.com
> Their uniting feature of being invisible completely overshadows the comparatively minor differences in wavelength.

Fixed that for you. Congrats on illustrating my point. I mean, are we really trying to argue that communism makes the trains run on time?

In our "more moderate political climate of today", are we just incapable of using the word "totalitarianism"? Are we, as a culture, so laughable under-educated that we don't know what it means and can't use it in favor of butchering nuanced history?

Okay, I guess that's actually true. Carry on.
Bitcoin is engineering, not math. Isn't the crypto all based on 70s and 80s math? Why would a pure mathematician get involved? And Bitcoin took evangelizing, not just the work of a hermit.

Methinks Ted Nelson is pulling someone's chain. Maybe he can tell us the identity of The Joker, or Fuzzy Dunlop from The Wire.
> Texas has this pro-business attitude that makes it bad for employees - little protection legally from being screwed over.

Which makes it good for a start-up; if they need to fire someone, they can without cause.

> Low wages and poor health care systems.

Cost of living is a lot lower compared to New York or Silicon Valley and Houston has the best medical center in the world.

> There is more to life than work. Like being able to live.

Houston has a lot of great opportunities (being the fourth largest city in the United States). I like to consider the IMAX factor. Houston has the most IMAX theaters of any city in the United States.

Disclosure: I grew up in Houston and currently live right outside of Houston. I do hate the traffic however, though according to a recent report [0], it's not even in the U.S.'s top ten, but Austin is.

[0] http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/05/07/top-10-u-s-cities-with-t...
Has anyone done (publicly) any statistical textual comparison between Satoshi's writings and those of any of the plausible candidates?
You do not have to sign in to read articles.
Agree. You still need to add three huge Facebook pillars: Social Connection, Web Sharing and Applications.
Tumblr really has blown up in terms of users and content created (anecdotal evidence from some folks I know that used to intern there) -- however their issue is they waited too long to figure out how to monetize. And to be honest the formula for monetizing requires experimentation and iteration.
"That's an awesome story. I'm only scratching at the surface, and something tells me that it's going to take a lot longer than that, if ever, for me."

Hang on a second, there is no you, how could you not be awakened?

Then why practice? Good question, it must be that delusions are endless; otherwise, we'd be lazy in the most wonderful sense of the word (see Ramana Maharshi for example).
That does not make elux's reasoning flawed, because they did not say that Mochizuki definitely was not Nakamoto.
I'd definitely put:

(0) photos

Not trying to be quick witted here, it's my belief that's what's FB's core is about --- photos and their link to a (genuine) user profile.
Yes! I don't want to know anybody's secrets. I won't be publishing the raw data for this reason, in case anything like this gets through by accident.
Michael,

Thanks for that comment, you've hit it spot on. The focus at FiveYearItch is not the technology, it's the workflow for connecting the two sides.

> recruiters peddling horrible subordinate corporate jobs

That's exactly who we are keeping out.

We work with employers, preferably technically savvy hiring managers, and they have to be smart enough to reach out to developers rather than assuming developers will come begging for a job to them.

They have to be willing to commit to what developers require, which is often not salary or health plans but "ace colleagues" and "flat hierarchy."

And as to finding the folks to bring together: That's the key, we're finding various ways to do it -- and note where we're chatting right now :-)
If the target is first-time contributors, then I would say a consistant process, for them, trumps the potential contribution to the project.

My experience with "dinky" projects is they are inconsistant with accepting help (bug reports, code, features, etc). It is extremely discouraging when you send a pull-request and watch as it sits there for 8-10 weeks without being addressed or acknowledged. Larger projects have a more consistant process, and more consistant/prompt feedback, which is ideal for first-time contributors.
So, settling the Jewish question was more than just killing the jews from one day to the other - the concentration camps were "just" the culmination of years of systematic persecution, beginning with boycotts in 1933, the anti-interracial marriage laws 1935, Kristallnacht 1938. In 1933, 533,000 jews lived in Germany, by the time WWII commenced, it was down to 214,000 - almost all of which were subsequently murdered.

The majority of the jews killed in the Holocaust were not German, they were from all the occupied territories, most notably Poland.

Endlösung didn't kill anywhere near 1/4th of the population - it killed 1/3 %, and that fraction had already been systematically marginalised.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Germany...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust#Victims_and_deat...
Yeah, the overall UX has needed updating for quite some time, but I also imagine their paying customers (photo nuts) are some of the pickier users out there. I wouldn't be surprised if the best course for Flickr is to be as conservative with changes as possible.
Ask HN: Which other large tech companies should Yahoo buy?
Let's fantasize, which we properties should the large tech (Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon) companies buy next? Yahoo is on a buying spree and will do many more, so the competitors should prepare as well. Yelp? Viber? Pinterest? Path?

From the mega deals, either Apple, Microsoft or Google should try to buy Facebook and not settle for Twitter.

On enterprise front, there is potential for someone to start acquiring many smaller B2B tools and integrate just their salesforces, while keeping the services independent.
I ran this in Mac OS without a hitch, gave 100. I use zsh, maybe the default shell doesn't?
Mayer and the boad of directors aren't stupid - they saw an opportunity to further their own careers in the long run. The Tumblr investors now owe them a favor. This is boardroom back scratching.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5733290

Other sources:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5733497

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5733488
> Are there any actual hellbanning tragedies on HN?

Yes, https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=there

Story: https://jcs.org/notaweblog/2012/06/13/hellbanned_from_hacker...

And there are plenty more incidents like this.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5733290

Other sources:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5733499

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5733488
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5733290

Other sources:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5733499

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5733497
No you will just create more problems just like when bounties for rats caused people to set up rat farms.
I think you're wrong. As much as I despise rankings, Scripps was ranked number 1 among chemistry departments my year (my degree is in chemistry). I didn't have to do any TAing. Among my classmates and the class after me (whom I hung out with the most, classes of 20 students tend to do that and at scripps we're really close), there is: A professor at Scripps, A professor at Berkeley, A professor at Stanford, A professor at UCSD. I am in contact with them and will possibly launch a collaboration with the one in Stanford. Finally, at 24k I barely broke even on my expenses. I'm sure I could have survived on 18k, but I'd have more grey hairs.

And "The vast majority of younger faculty I've worked with". Sounds like selection bias. Talk to the postdocs and see how long they've been around.