skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well Yahoo Mail could use some love so even if it's an acquihire it seems (potentially) focused on making a particular product better.
Regardless of other arguments, it basically means that threads in python become only a way of thinking about a problem rather than a way yo utilise hardware fully. It's a shame.
> 1) what is the point of OTR in a multi-user chatroom?

I'd assume that Candy works nicely with single-user chats too.
It's the closest you can get to off the grid.
In my experience, switching to a properly configured NGINX server running PHP-FPM with memcached negates much of the need for Supercache to begin with. Caching plugins tend to cause subtle problems all over the place for WordPress plugins, so I prefer to run "bare metal" as much as I can.

Also, I can't imagine anyone running NGINX without having access to the config file.
I'm co-organizing the NYC group, and I've been on the national conference calls for the past few days. Can't speak for others, but I'd be happy to sit down with you or anyone else and talk about what we're doing, what the goals are, and assure you that I'm not a shadowy social media shaper.
You do not need to ever use a credit card to have an excellent credit score. I had a FICO score of 795 when I bought my first house having never used a credit card. These days, most young adults have student loans to establish a credit payment history. If not, simply getting a credit card and leaving it in a drawer still works your "average age of open lines of credit" stat. You don't have to use the credit.
The Royal Mail in the UK quotes ~99.74% reliability (for delivery, not on-time delivery), FWIW.
Yesterday I swapped my Android for an iPhone due to security concerns. No regrets.
All these acquisitions by Yahoo is making it feel like 2005.
Xobni’s Journey from YC to Yahoo
Firstly the term "relevant ads" is good marketing. They are really "ads targeted to extract maximal revenue from this user".

Well targeted ads are basically useless to the consumer since if you actually need something then you know this and you can search for it. The market operating in ad networks optimizes ads that sell enough to pay for more ads while remaining profitable, there is no mechanic that bubbles the best/least expensive offer to consumers since they are not the customer.

To enable all this targeting you need to implement surveillance on your targets as widely as possible.

So nearly all my internet is surveilled, by many parties, in order to spam the web with offers that are marked up enough to pay for winning ad auctions on popular terms for things I don't need, and could easily find if I did.

I get not caring about this. I don't get how anyone who understands how it works would not understanding the popular interest in subverting this mess.
If I'm not mistaken, carrying more of the same weapon doesn't give you any benefits, it only means you get to carry less of other items. I looked at the JS code while playing and found the amount of damage each weapon does. In battle, this amount of damage was dealt when carrying multiple of the same weapon or just a single one.

Carrying one of each weapon does make a huge difference though, because you get new attack buttons.
pirated apps are still subject to Permissions; they aren't less secure than non-pirated apps like, say, Path.
What we look for in students
LOL Hilarious :D :D
The Most Important Radio Station You've Never Heard of Marks 50 Years on the Air
Neat site - Just a FYI- I second the flippa suggestion. You might also want to post relevant data, such as #users, techstack, etc, etc.

GL.
I think you can import libraries directly from github, google code, bitbucket, launchpad. Does it cover your needs?
Code reviews are a much more efficient way of achieving this.
> You loose CPU-bound parallelism with threading, but you gain easy to write C extensions

I'm extremely interested in your thoughts on this subject as a NumPy developer. To what extent do you think C interop designs like Python CFFI (which mimics LuaJIT's FFI) will make this an unimpressive accomplishment?

As a former heavy user of Python for scientific programming (for easy access to C libraries) I have moved everything I do to LuaJIT and C. The ease of writing a LuaJIT FFI (or Python CFFI binding) is at least an order of magnitude greater than that of writing PyObject* style bindings.

Do you think it's possible (or likely) that a mature CFFI will make this tradeoff you describe seem no-longer-positive?

Added in Edit: I should point out that multicore patterns in Lua are already very different from those in Python, e.g. running a Lua VM per core and communicating through shared memory. So I realize that the existence of CFFI won't map one-to-one onto changes in Python multicore design, at least in the short term.
The Best Freebies for Designers (June 2013)
It's supposed to catch leads. I'm trying to get people to click on the "Let's Talk" button and contact me to talk some more about their project.

Do you think I should make the promise more obvious? I was afraid I was not being specific enough.
It was a white screen with text, and you managed to get a whole lot of picky Hacker News nerds playing it. You deserve kudos just for that :)
Free Wi-Fi Is Coming to Select Airports via MediaShift
Smint – A simple jQuery plugin for lovers of one-page websites
Waiting for Google to have a doodle about him tomorrow.
Stripe adds beta support for businesses in the UK and Ireland
The shoe shopper could also just go to http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/‎ and add it under the "Interests" section.
Do ya'll think the serif font worked? The goal is to enhance readability for the body-copy. It's straying away from convention (non-serif), but I want to take advantage of the ligatures to get people to keep reading that body-copy.
> some of the worst decisions by the Supreme Court

whose impact is still being felt.

There, I've fixed it. The cases you referenced have clearly been course corrected by amendments to the Constitution and subsequent cases. It would be foolish to suggest now that black people can't exercise judicial standing, or have access to the same water fountains as white people.

It would be equally foolish now to suggest that the government doesn't have the right to take your money and give it to someone else, though that was the case before the New Deal appointments to SCOTUS.

As for Bush v Gore, I understand that O'Connor has regretted granting cert, but not the decision on the whole. Beyond that, I haven't studied the case so I can't speak for its merits (or lack thereof), but either way, my citation of very bad Supreme Court cases is obviously a very incomplete list, but I thought the cases I referenced were particularly appropriate given the question asked.
Goto Switzerland, they vote on everything.
is it just me or does this actually sound like a good idea?
> Write your compute intensive portions in C

This advice is so often given by people, that I suspect that most people don't know what they are talking about, because in fact most people never do that, being unable to drop to C. I dare you to show me a piece of "compute intensive" portion that you optimized with C.

I've worked with Python for about 3 years. After struggling with it to stretch the boundaries of what it could do, I finally gave up in frustration and the final solution was to find a less limiting environment. Worked great thus far and I don't miss anything about Python.
If memory serves you right, then it shouldn't matter :)
is rust-azure the rendering backend for servo?
Yuuuup. I remember discovering nginx/PHP-FPM a while ago. It's a pretty amazing combo, especially in terms of raw performance efficiency. Now it's even easier to do and a lot more sites are catching on.
> Accessing databases, processing data from sockets, are not CPU bound activities?

I work on a product (network device) which involves all of these activities, and they are all memory latency bound. The overhead of task switching is far too high to recover any benefit from task-switching during memory stalls.

To top it off, the product performs a significant amount of computation, almost none of which fits a SIMT GPU model (i.e. there is a lot of branching).

The only performance solution for our product available from today's hardware is CPU parallelism.
Sorry, craigslist predates that definition. It predates wikipedia as well.

I've been in Silicon Valley since 1996, CL is not Web 2.0

/Lawn
Thanks for the reply -- I've looked at Arq before too. I find it interesting Arq (S3) is a third the price of Tarsnap (S3).

Out of interest, if you don't mind me asking, how large is your backup, and do you use S3 or Glacier backend?
The thing I don't understand is that for me, Twitter and Facebook aren't a competition for blogs and RSS. They're different things and they're complementary.

Twitter and Facebook are for posting links to things you've found or broadcasting short messages up to a few sentences. Twitter is for doing those things publicly, Facebook is for doing those things within the circle of your friends.

Blogs (and RSS) are for posting longer pieces of text, articles and such things. When you want to post an article, you don't put it on Twitter (for obvious reasons) or Facebook (because it limits your audience), you put it on your blog (self-hosted or on a service like Blogger or Wordpress) and you post links to it to Twitter and/or Facebook. And when you want to invite your friends to a movie, you don't post that to your blog, you post that on Facebook.

So I'm not worried that Twitter and Facebook don't have RSS feeds - I wouldn't even want to see my friends' FB posts when I'm reading longer articles in my RSS reader. And I'm not worried about Facebook killing blogs and RSS - yes, most people post stuff on Facebook and not on their blogs, but that's because most people don't write anything that would resemble an article.

(I do agree though that Twitter should have some open API for getting someone's public tweets in a machine-readable form, but it doesn't have to be RSS, JSON is just fine.)
I believe so. Revel[1] is a great example of what's possible with Go. It's got a ways to go, but it's already quite pleasurable to use and quite competitive with Django/Flask/Rails/Mojolicious, etc. The biggest weakness right now is the lack of a real ORM. Gorp[2] is a decent abstraction, but it's not nearly as nice as something like DBIx::Class or SQLAlchemy.

I find Go more pleasurable to program in than Python, but less pleasurable than Ruby or Perl. You're in a straitjacket, but it's a very simple and clean straitjacket. Python always feels like I'm giving up expressiveness in exchange for very little. Well written Perl or Ruby is just as readable to me, and much more pleasing to my brain.

The performance of Go web apps is rarely necessary, but it does open up possibilities for certain HTTP services that would otherwise not make sense, or would have to be done in a mess of non-blocking event-based callbacks.

It doesn't hurt that it's just plain fun to write really high performance programs in a language that isn't tedious.

1. http://robfig.github.io/revel/

2. https://github.com/coopernurse/gorp
Great post. It's not often you see founders share how they arrived at their equity split.

I highly recommend The Founder's Dilemmas by Noam Wasserman (http://www.amazon.com/The-Founders-Dilemmas-Anticipating-Ent...). The book is very data driven. Noam uses the data he collected over the last 10 years to backup the different scenarios he discusses. Chapter 6 talks about equity split and Noam talks about the difference between 50/50 hand-shake splits, 50/50 designed splits, 51/49 splits, and other splitting scenarios. I got the audiobook and it's an easy listen/read over the weekend. For me, this is not just a "one man's opinion" book. Its data driven nature makes it a must read.

Other parts of the book talks about different co-founder options (family, friends, co-workers, life partners), role divisions and funding choices.
If you're operating in NYC, what is your strategy visa vie NYPD and the $150,000,000 Wall St. TIA system in place[1] [and no, don't attempt to discredit the source, I simply will not post the sensitive documents / location pictures on HN of all places]

Do you have a permit?

Are you aware of the surveillance you'll be under, and have you informed all participants that they will be logged into a surveillance system?

Are you aware that all of your correspondence has already been logged, monitored and Gold / Silver / Bronze Police teams are now running models to negate your impact? [run a search on the papers if you need to understand how modern policing works, the USA is a bit tight-arsed about it, look for the EU white papers, they're much more accessible without being illegal]

Are you aware that traffic and city wide electronic signals will be modified throughout your "march" to control flows?

And so on. If the answer to any of these is "no", then you need to Wise The Fuck Up.

Predators don't play nice.

There's a reason they get to be on balconies with champagne laughing at you, and it isn't "luck". It's called home-game-advantage and owning-the-Power-Structures.

If you're unaware of any of this, you're dog-food. And the Police certainly are the dogs here.

Bottom line: No one important gives a FUCK about your 4th amendment rights. And that's just the truth of it. [Hint: MLK, see what happened to him, and that was a long time ago, "bro"]

[1]http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/02/06/wall-streets-secret-s...
Maybe I am naive but it seems like there would be a pretty small sub-set of the population that could actually do anything with someone's plate number that would be an abuse of the system. There isn't some publicly available API into the DMV records is there?
Adding more locations on the map, procedurally generated minimazes for caves and cities, and either throwing more things/requirements/distance between village and space ship, or even crashing with that spaceship on another planet and exploring that.. until you find another spaceship, and so on :D
If I don't want to see ads, then I don't use the service.
I meant the part about centralized power being highly suspect. We have certainly seen all too well recently that that part is true.
The Many Faces of the Business Model Canvas
Why stop at just a single-hop proxy? Just go full out onion routing. Here's a paper for an anonymous physical delivery system, named APOD, based on that model:

https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/APOD_PETS09.pdf
No, I think he means the young programmers were right in their distrust, not in their prediction of what will win:

The conflict was both technical and social: the younger programmers came from an era where centralized power was highly suspect
I could probably afford law school at a crappy college, but I'm attempting to pass the bar without law school or even a college education, so conversations like this are truly informative to me.

I've been studying law for some time, but it only recently occurred to me that I should even attempt the bar, at some point in the future. A friend of mine keeps telling me I should blog about it, which I've agreed is a good idea to cement my findings, but I'm debating whether or not anyone would care about a random asshole trying to pass the bar enough to make the blog public.

Here's[1] some aggregated info on Mehanna, and also his wikipedia entry[2], and ACLU's[3] recap.

[1] - http://archive.recapthelaw.org/mad/119881/

[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarek_Mehanna

[3] - http://aclum.org/usa_v_mehanna
Indeed. That was the first paragraph of my comment.

The second responded to the comment about never using open wifi networks, where I took open to mean unencrypted. My comment is that open and encrypted networks are synonymous (or so I have been told) if the person who wants to capture your traffic knows the network password.

Which loops back to the first point, that you should only use encrypted services on networks you don't have full faith in.
Teenager arrested for Facebook post beaten up in prison
Config file generator (for linux kernel modules)
OK, I get that you want to generate leads. What I mean is what are you trying to express to the end user?

I get the idea that you built it with Ember and that you have some experience on the development side (because I'm a developer and viewed source), but the site doesn't seem to show off your capabilities.
Wouldn't it be better to consider opting out of AT&T altogether? I can understand that for some folks it's the only game in town, but others are staying for some perceived benefit "grandfathered unlimited data" or the shackles of the 2 year contract.

Combined with their adding hidden fees recently, and their general friendliness with the NSA and snooping, I don't see major benefits to staying there as opposed to Verizon (more coverage) or Tmobile (cheaper by far).
I haven't encountered Xobni since I quit Outlook a few years back, but at the time I remember it being a very innovative and interesting layer that I actually got value from.

Pairing the Xobni brains w/the Yahoo Mail product could create a compelling reason to give something other than GMAIL a look.
Just for clarity, the numbers reported by Netcraft in the monthly survey blog post are referencing all sites, active sites, and top 1M sites.

Not to saying that the picture may not be different in the top 1k.
I'm not sure I'd say it's important, in the way that Blender getting open-sourced was important or anything like that. But it's a game that a lot of HN readers liked when it was posted a few days ago, and now the source is available under the GPL, so I thought people might be interested. Not so much a major news story; more of an FYI kind of submission.
The guy is holding the dog from the groin...
ICANN working group seeks to kill WHOIS
There was a book written on Engelbart's work and his philosophies which I enjoyed reading many years ago:

Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing
http://www.amazon.com/Bootstrapping-Engelbart-Coevolution-Pe...
Off the top of my head, Aaron Schwartz, Dennis Ritchie, and Steve Jobs also merited it.
Robert X. Cringely's NerdTV Interview... amazing stuff
http://archive.org/details/nerdtv011
There's an addon called TrackMeNot that does this, though I'm not sure it's very effective.

http://cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/

This also reminds me of the time the FCIC asked Goldman Sachs for some data and they proceeded to send them 5 TB of nearly useless documents.

Dumping people with large amounts of data seems like the modern equivalent of paying your parking ticket with pennies.
Seems like they would have been better off just taking the rumored 20m from microsoft in 2008 (before they raised FIVE additional rounds of funding to the tune of nearly 40m).
"7 years ago they were saving 100% of the information... I can't even imagine how much higher that percentage must be by now"
When Yahoo is on the acquiring end? Yeah.

Investors and board members know Yahoo is cash rich and sitting in a talent void. I know of a deal where they paid closed to $4 million a head.
I'm far from a "staunch supporter of the government", but I thought that those bits would be pretty hard to understand if you weren't from Argentina.

"Impunity" in English is mostly used in a metaphorical sense in these centuries, for example, and doesn't at all evoke the issue of not "locking up" "those fuckers". Without some kind of note, what I read as Cristina's allusion to her own legal battles would be lost on an English-speaking audience. Do you think I'm imagining the intended allusion, or just that it would be better not to explain it for some reason?

As for the medidas cautelares, I think my summary of what's going on is pretty even-handed. You can certainly argue that presidents shouldn't be trying to take legal acting against their political enemies, especially if they're media companies, or you can argue that breaking up big trusts is a perfectly legitimate thing for the government to do, in general.

I think "propaganda" is a perfectly reasonable description of what Cristina wrote. She's telling her side of the story, not Nicolas Sarkozy's or Anibal Cavaco Silva's. I think it's very informative to know what her side of the story is, and that's why I took the trouble to translate it.
I use jinja templates to generate nginx config files. I don't need yet another proprietary API with its own quirks and interoperability problems.
> I love the US (even though I am not a citizen)

I sometimes find nationalism strange, but it's also understandable and may be constructive on some level. People being patriotic for countries that they are not citizens of? Now that's straight up hilarious...
> All of these problems can be addressed using inter-process shared memory. Shared memory support is built into multiprocessing [1].

Well, sorta. You're still incurring the mighty overhead of multiple processes and all that it entails if you want to dynamically resize the set of workers. One of the reasons that Scala, Erlang and Clojure have it so good on the concurrency AND parallelism front is that from their perspectively, these things are both cheap in terms of the overhead and the syntax.

And of course there's locality to consider.
Well technically an author, too, isn't allowed to scrape content from CL. Just like an author of a book is not authorized to make a copy of his own book. Can't break publisher's rules.

It is just that, with a copy-paste job, it would be impossible to detect this, which is why they seem functionally equivalent. But actually they're not.

Also automation and convenience have huge legal implications. I can, for example buy an iPod in the US and gift it to a friend of mine in Turkey. We have effectively circumvented state tax. I can't, however, write a website that acts as a broker between US passengers landing in Istanbul airport, and people who want cheap iPods. Even though they would be technically paired up with a "friend" and would be within their legal rights to bring valuable goods into the country.

I can have a friend stay a few days at my house, but I can't turn my house into a hotel with Airbnb. Volume and convenience affect the bottom line for different parties.
I want to do code and marketing for local businesses, and coaching in project management. No hi-tech startups for now. The tech stack would be my advantage right now, I think, among all the other small web shops.

Problem is that I don't have a freelance portfolio, so most of my projects actually belong to other people. I put my angel list profile as a pseudo-resume.
"Non-rel databases guarantee 0 data integrity, with very little performance gain over relational-databases."

guarantee ZERO data integrity?
A helicopter carrying a dinosaur
2nd Amendment.
A human would never make "glaring design flaws".
> That's a circular argument. It's only a propaganda channel if the president it's dishonest. And even then, it's only propaganda if she is dishonest in THOSE particular tweets.

I don't think "propaganda" implies dishonesty, just advocacy.
Secure chat among several parties that trust each other. Doesn't really matter if n=2 or n=5.

As for 2), one trivial solution would be to stimulate "true" multi user chat by simply having n x n regular 2-party chats merged into a single view. Should scale for most reasonable chat room sizes.
Sounds like somebody didn't enjoy their celebration of International Mailman Plaintext Password Day this past Monday!
AT&T outsources their billing to AMDOCS. Your metadata isn't only on AT&T premises...
Show HN: a HN clone do cover the protests in Brazil
I would ask who they're going to acquire tomorrow, but that would be ridiculous and silly. Tomorrow's a federal holiday in the States.