skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's right, except insofar as they enter into some kind of contractual relationship (eg 'we will host your stuff reliably in accordance with our T&C, in return you allow us to stick adverts on it from time to time.')
BETA Heroico live support launched
I think the this excerpt is a fine description of the problem with secret courts and so on:

"These programs that violate the Bill of Rights can continue because people can’t go out and say, “this is my experience, this is what happened to me, and I don’t think it is right.”"
I feel like almost all SaaS pricing misses the golden rule of pricing: price what the market will bear.

What I believe this implies is roughly 3 tiers:
+ $0 (maybe up to $10 or $20/month) for bootstrappers & micro businesses
+ $10-500/month for companies with a little bit of funding or a marginally profitable small business
+ big bucks for well-funded or highly profitable companies

Then you design the packages based specifically on what those customer types need. Try to avoid stopping out a user based on usage. Keep general features available to all. The obvious features to vary in the tiers are those having to do with administration which are a natural for larger companies.
No, shoot them.
How can enough people add their name to the the suit that it becomes a statistical likelihood to meet the criteria for standing? I would imagine that if you get as many people on the no-fly list as possible to be party to the suit then it is almost a certainty that at least one of the plaintiffs have had their information monitored and the suit can move forward.
Oh yes, those logos were so very close to Apple logo.

Common bully behavior is worse then propitiatory software madness.
Apple Buys HopStop and Immediately Kicks Windows Phone App to the Curb
Question. At what mythical point in time could the people reasonably hold their government accountable for its actions via the court system? I perhaps never got this particular prelapsarian memo as I may have been indisposed at the time.
The South tried that argument 152 years ago and look where it got them.
Indeed, comp.lang.lisp is now irrelevant; but it wasn't irrelevant at the time Erik retired from it, despite his strenuous efforts.

However, I wasn't talking about only Common Lisp users, but about users of all Lisps. Elisp and Clojure have similarly-sized Freenode channels #emacs and #clojure, each substantially bigger than #lisp. Various estimates of the number of Emacs users put them around 5–50k people: there are perhaps around 15000 Elisp users http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3311227/emacs-user-base-s... or 0.5% of Ubuntu users using Elisp http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/35312/emacs-u... (some tens of thousands) or 5300 Github users with Elisp repositories http://www.quora.com/How-many-people-use-emacs-per-day?share....
And FISA court just rubber stamped the continuance of the phone records collection.

NSA will not be stopped, not without a bitter fight. I don't even think they will be stopped if Congress passes a law restricting this. They will just find another way around it.

The only way this whole thing will be stopped is by defunding the agency and shutting it down as if it'll happen.

Best recourse is to disrupt NSA's collecting by using technology against them. I do have hope and faith it'll happen eventually.
Yup! Joey is dedicated as hell which makes me really optimistic about the future of git annex.
The complaints are not about censorship, they are about being de-indexed. "Adult" blogs are a separate category of NSFW, so this response doesn't address the issue - which is specifically regarding "adult" blogs.

In addition to disabling search for adult blogs, Tumblr has enabled robots.txt (Disallow: /) for all "adult" blogs so they're not findable from the outside any more either. On top of all this, Tumblr removed its Erotica category, which was formerly released in January 2010 with much pride on their part.

This all changed sometime early this year, and began to be noticed by sex bloggers both on and off of Tumblr in mid-May.
There are partial solutions to the problem of FB read receipts. You can block the endpoint that the Facebook client sends the receipt to. I wrote a simple Chrome extension (11 LOC) for this: https://github.com/typpo/fb-unsee

There is a more full-featured extension too: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fb-unseen/ihcedcpm...
I adore Nate Silvers work and the presentation for the NYTimes during the Presidential Elections was outstanding.

I do hope they bring him back for future major Elections. His commentary is a delightful respite from the ultra-polarized world of Reddit and Fox News.
I'm surprised no one has put the feet to the fire of those that argue this and ask them if it's ok for police to : 'walk into your house, take pictures of all your possessions and copy all your documents at any given time' and say it's not a warrant because they aren't going to sift through it later.

It's unfortunate that there is such a disconnect between real and virtual policies. People who can't handle the abstraction shouldn't be making decisions regarding it.
It makes sense we'd refine our theory of story telling. It is modelling an aspect of humanity, analogous to how lossy image compression models human visual perception.

Along the way, we might have a spuriously precise theory, that excludes perfectly good stories that would resonate with us.

But ultimately, when the theory is as accurate as it can be, it does not mean that stories become formulaic. I don't just mean that some variation is still possible. I mean that the theory is merely a way to communicate effectively - like spelling and grammar, like public speaking techniques, and the fundamental ancient story rules, like having a narrative, having characters, having a problem to solve, having help from outside. Is having a narrative - a sequence of events - really that limiting? Yes, it is. But you can still work within that structure. There are infinite possibilities within it, the same for any other framework for communication.

However, a more serious problem is that the "theory" of summer blockbusters is not modelling the human story perception at all - it is modelling the particular demographic of male-adolescent story perception. Who knew? I think it's perfectly fine that some particular demographic is being served - like bubble gum pop music. Other movies are still being made, with the long tail, as are books and blogs etc.

And, really, male adolescents are not completely divorced from the rest of humanity. We can still enjoy their films.
In a a way Evolution itself is debugging by printf. It's actually even more basic - trial and error all the way down.
My first gen still work with the stuff I had in it at the time I moved on from to a different phone. My daughter will find it, charge it and ask me to install games for her on it so I keep hiding it from her.

And, I paid $200 for it with AT&T contract.
This is likely the reason why lots of tech firms give the NSA access to their servers. It's better than having a box installed on your network.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57593538-38/how-the-u.s-fo...
I run Ubuntu, the web service packages are well represented and are reasonably up to date and the setup is nearly no-brainer (well, as no-brainer as webserver setup can be.)

The clincher for ubuntu over others, for me, has been the community support - it is such an active community googling ubuntu and your issue usually finds you effective answers in minutes; not always so easy on some of the other ones.
That chart shows cumulative sales only until early 2008, before the 3G was introduced. This does not show the most interesting aspects of iPhone growth. The subsidy model existed, but it did not apply to the iPhone. Here's a more revealing chart (from Jan 2012):
http://paidcontent.org/2012/01/25/419-chart-apple-iphone-sal...

Note how in '08, when the subsidized iPhone 3G was introduced ("New features, new price") it sold almost more in one quarter than the previous original had sold all year. Of course, it also had a number or new features such as an app store, but the one that really made a difference was the subsidy. Also, as mentioned below, it was sold internationally so that certainly helped, but it was the US smartphone market that first saw phenomenal growth.

As you say, the original iPhone did do well, but that was compared to the rest of the smartphone market, which in ~2007, was tiny by today's standards, because it was mostly limited to business users. The subsidized iPhone suddenly created a consumer smartphone market. Even as the iPhone was gaining market share, the other players were also selling more and more devices every year, which is why they were complacent. Until they weren't. The rest as they say is history.
Ni'ihau is part of the County of Kaua'i, State of Hawaii, USA. Just because the king sold the land doesn't mean the king reliquished sovereingty over it. Then the sovereignty of Hawaii passed to the Republic, then to the Territory and State of Hawaii. So yes, this is incorporated territory of the USA, and the inhabitants are full US citizens--as opposed to the various statuses in unincorporated insular territories[1].

Oddly, I was recently reading about Liechenstein[2] where this was not the case. It was formerly part of the Holy Roman Empire (titular to the Emporer of such), but no one claimed it during the breakup (that's the short version, it's actually more complicated). So the princes of the territory found themselves to be sovereign--and then were able to somehow maintain sovereignty continuing today.

PS: Amazingly, there is still some unclaimed territory[3] in this world, or you could join seasteaders[4] out in international waters[5].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_area
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unclaimed_Territory
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_waters
This is a stinking remnant from a time we should have put behind us when we transitioned from monarchies to republics. Of the course the fucking king is going to say that the king is immune, the fucking king had a divine right to rule. But we consent ourselves to be governed and we are not divine. This sovereign immunity has to go. How can there be checks and balances if the fucking judiciary cannot be used by the people to rein in the other branches?

This all reminds me of that game we play as kids. Tag, you're it. Except when you get to the base. Then you can't be it. It's fine in a bloody kids game but not in real life. If the game is rigged, you stop playing the game. I'm not advocating revolution, just deprecating the rules that make the playing field totally not level.
If your mother complained about it missing in the initial Windows 8 release would you tell her "So what? nobody owes you a start bar."?

Yes...as a matter of fact that's one reason I have not bothered to upgrade from Windows 7.

Would you tell people in the 80s "So what? nobody owes you classic Coca-Cola."?

I'm petty sure I did tell people that. I'm a big believer in voting with your wallet. Of course, your examples involve things that people pay for, whereas setting up a Tumblr page is free (thus giving you even less of a claim on Yahoo's actions.)
I would think the grandiose gestures of billion dollar investments are meant to have pretty press releases to try to inflate the stock values.
what's the best way to pitch a writer like yourself? Does email work, or do you prefer twitter?
If it were used more often it would lose its efficacy as people would quickly see things for the sham that they are. You don't want to go nuclear too often lest people think you're a completely rogue entity.
Why was this a "fiasco"? The result of the process outlined in that memo was, not to put to fine a point on it, one of the most profitable business decisions in world history.

I admire Gordon Letwin as much as the next guy, but OS/2 was never going to be the commercial success that Windows became, for basically the reasons the memo lays out: Windows 3.0/3.1 absolutely dominated the exploding PC market because it was targeted at hardware that anyone could afford. OS/2 was dependent on a level of hardware that wouldn't be commonplace until another generation or two of Moore's Law cycled through.

Microsoft simply didn't have that time to waste, and neither did their customers. The choice was between abandoning a phenomenally successful OS and API for the "next generation", or slowly building a bridge from that OS into the future carrying their customers with them. They made the right call, even if it did take roughly 11 years until Windows XP for the transition to truly be complete.
Did the NYTimes just break a story about one of their own employees leaving? The tone of the article is really interesting.
I'm not mistaken. Look closer.

Of course Clojure sequences are lazy.

(defn map
([f coll]
(lazy-seq
(when-let [s (seq coll)]
(cons (f (first s)) (map f (rest s))))))

Inside a LAZY-SEQ the operations are just that.

They are also not acting like cons cells:

user=> (cons 1 2)
IllegalArgumentException Don't know how to create ISeq from: java.lang.Long clojure.lang.RT.seqFrom (RT.java:496)

> As far as I know, there hasn't ever been a Lisp system that could parse and run that

What you saw in the file was the source code used by the first Lisp implementation.

> an interpreter

That was no 'interpreter'. Mostly a different reader.

> what you'd write in any modern Lisp looks a lot more like the Clojure version than the LISP 1.5 version.

Not necessarily. See the Lisp source for http://www.shenlanguage.org/Download/download.html

Plain old-style Lisp code.

There are not many modern Lisp books. If you look at PAIP, that is old-style.
PCL is more modern. But neither has the look or feel of Clojure.

But I'm not saying that Lisp's don't contain new stuff. I'm saying that they contain the old stuff + new stuff.

Clojure gets rid of core old stuff:

* names are different

* concepts are removed (mutable cons cells, ...)

* syntax is different from every other Lisp

* semantics is different (persistent data structures, ...)

> By "persistent" Clojure means "immutable"

immutable and persistent are different, but related concepts. A data structure can be immutable, but it does not need to be persistent. 'Persistent' means that an immutable data structure can be updated, keeps all its versions and provides certain performance/space characteristics (one does not do full copies for example).

Imagine a list (f o o b a r). Now I want to insert 1 between f o o and b a r.

Immutable: I need to make a new list with elements from the old list copied.

Immutable and Persistent: I make a new list, but I possibly reference parts of the old data structure. Thus I don't need to make a full copy.

Lisp's lists/vectors/... are not immutable and also not persistent.

Clojure replaces that. Just read http://clojure.org/sequences
Maybe I just don't pay enough attention to this, but this is the first place where I've read that Google and other large companies are being paid for monitoring their customers. This is making my sleaze-o-meter spike. What are the rates like? Is it per user? Per message? Per kilobyte? It certainly couldn't be per arrest...

Sometimes it seems like the rabbit hole just keeps going deeper, but then you realize it's a damned sewer!
Calling a few brave developers (Cincinnati)
Nice dictatorship with a faux democracy attached you have got there, people ... I take it that since the president set up FISA and the NSA spying, which cannot be unrooted by a court, he considers himself completely immune and above the law also.
As far as I understand CSP is not a coroutine model - though you can express it. Hoare covers this in his '78 paper. As far as delving into its utility for UI, it's worth looking at Pike's work and the Concurrent ML eXene work.
Is there a Firefox plugin that will do the same?
The Evernote Logo & Icon: Brand Identity Process
Why Nissan.com Isn’t a Car Website
Interesting move. ESPN actually has a seemingly forward attitude to this sort of "technical" info in sports. They have a regular segment called "Sports Science" where they bring in athletes and hook them up to monitors and measure their output. Unfortunately, this just skims the surface in terms of the actual science since there are no write-ups or documentation on how the data was collected. Hopefully we can get some real stats in written form from Silver like we saw when he was at the NYT.
Practically Groovy: Functional programming with curried closures [2005]
De gustibus non est disputandem (an ancient proverb stating 'in matters of taste, there is nodispute [that can result in an objective conclusion]).

Ironically, the plot of Avatar is largely a retread of an animated 1992 film called Ferngully (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FernGully:_The_Last_Rainforest). Other than showcasing some interesting 3d technology, and high-quality CG, it's not particularly groundbreaking. Come to think of it, the most impressive thing about Avatar (with a few years' perspective to think about it) was the marketing campaign.
So you would have people vote with their wallets, just so long as they don't also complain while doing it?

I don't think you would really tell your mother that. Maybe you would tell your mother to stick with Windows 7 after trying out Windows 8 in the store, but I do not believe for one second that you would say anything to the effect of "Microsoft doesn't owe you that" in response to her reacting to the change.

Vote with your wallets and complain. Why the hell not?

> "Of course, your examples involve things that people pay for"

Admittedly yes, in the Windows 8 case (outside of trying it out in the store). Not so in the New Coke case. Nobody bought a lifetime subscription of Coke. People were upset because they could no longer buy the old Coke, not because they were duped into buying New Coke (well, not for more than a few cents anyway).

Nobody was owed the ability to buy classic Coke. Complain they did though, and can you really fault them for that? Really?
So, mount webcams in the datacenter. Point them at your racks (front and back, to show cables). This isn't a bad idea in any event, because sometimes it's good to know what Figby Tenthumbs recabled on Monday morning when he was hung-over.

Now make access to the cameras public.

"What's that new box?"

"We can't say."

"Ooohh, I see. Noted."

Watch the watchers watching.
There is a correlation between quality and success, it's just not very strong. And when you get to phenomenal success, the only correlation is that it just has to be good enough, to pass some minimal threshold of quality. i.e. to have fantastic success, it doesn't need to be a fantastic book - it just needs to be good book.

You can experience this here on HN or on reddit. My experience is that a good quality insight of mine will almost always get a few upvotes. But when there's wild success (like 1500 votes), it's entirely because of the circumstance. That is, there's a fantastic need for that comment, but almost any good comment could fulfil it.

Harry Potter is a good story, and good stories are good. That's about it. Oh, it's kinda nice to have common ground to relate to others with, and to use as a framework or reference point for discussion - like Moby Dick, Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz. Are they great stories? They are good stories, that everyone knows. (though I really like the cinematography in Star Wars).
While I don't really follow Tumblr enough to know for sure, it's not that hard to turn up blogs that aren't advertising anything, appear to be incredibly popular, and have been blocked from search. (For example http://damn-hot-gay-porn.tumblr.com/ - NSFW, not advertising anything that I can see, first Google result for "tumblr gay porn" and a huge number of reblogs, now completely blocked by robots.txt. Along with, apparently, most of the equally-unspammy blogs that have reblogged their stuff.)

Edit: Salon.com did a feature on the best porn Tumblrs: http://www.salon.com/2013/05/26/the_best_of_tumblr_porn/ It appears a large proportion of the Tumblrs featured there have also been marked as adult and removed from Google search.

Edit 2: I think they've basically marked all porn-heavy blogs as adult and forcibly delisted them from search, exactly like they originally said they were going to do and regardless of how spammy they are.
Tumblr doesn't put ads on the persons blog, just the dashboard - which is the primary way users consume content on the site. The users tumblelog is theirs to do with what they want (within legal limits, and certain TOS limits...) including putting their own ads on them.
UPDATE: Tumblr says this was all a combination of poor design, anti-spam measures, App Store censorship, and plain old misunderstandings. http://staff.tumblr.com/post/55906556378/all-weve-heard-from...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6073519
Having spent a bit of time on Molokai and visiting the Leper Colony late last year, Ni'ihau could be interesting. The diverse history of the islands keeps bringing us back.

For years, we've been spending time in Hilo with an old cattlewoman (recently passed) who introduced us to an amazing array of people who have connections with old Hawaii.

Yes, I've benefited from the tourism (being one), but whenever I hear stories of old Hawaii, I always get Iz's song Hawai'i 78 from the Facing Future album.

Thanks for the added details.
Ask HN: I want to do X, manager is reluctant
Hey all, alt name since my real account is heavily linked to my IRL self.

I've expressed interest in transitioning from my current role (engineering) into something more aligned with my background (applied statistics & machine learning). Both my manager and my boss's boss speak about my interest in this role very cautiously, and either (a) offer suggestions on preparing for this role (stating it could take me "a year or two" to get there) or (b) mention others on our team who are more qualified for this role.

Both are extremely non-committal about this potential shift, despite assuring me I could "easily fill" the role at another company.

I don't know what to make of this. I'm definitely taking my manager's advice on preparing (my previous comments will show you that I've overextended for positions before). Should I read more into this and start thinking about other options, though. or just get to work on improving my skill set?

Thoughts?
Yes: Anything pornographic or even possibly-pornographic (#instahot is banned), and politically incorrect/harmful hashtags such as #thispo.
> I do hope they bring him back for future major Elections. His commentary is a delightful respite from the ultra-polarized world of Reddit and Fox News.

Funny you say that, as Reddit had majorly sided with Nate Silver way before election day. Almost every post of his was frontpaged when political campaigns were in full swing. It's also important to note that Fox News is not in the same category that Reddit is in. Fox News reports new findings, Reddit is a social bookmarking website.
They don't offer anything up with that last point ("bigco's selling data"). As far as I can tell it was pulled from thin air. They're understandably upset -- a lot of us are -- but I don't think that quite justifies making unbased accusations like that (and if it has basis I'd love to hear more).
I like to hear about it when my users dislike a change, even if I don't owe them anything. I also believe that I actually do owe users something when they invest time into my product.
I'm trying to figure out how to monetize it. Affiliate links seem like the best option currently, but they're not doing much for me yet. Eventually I'd love to let publishers and developers promote their games on the site, but I don't feel like it's large enough yet.
It's a refinement of the Hero's Journey (see Vogler's memo; Joseph Campbell).

The formula itself: http://www.slate.com/content/slate/sidebars/2013/07/the_save...
I wonder what the website was... The only one I can think of that might possibly get this treatment might be Maddox, but thats total speculation of course.