skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I remember sitting down with Paul Graham as our startup was failing. I remember how unbelievable difficult it was to get myself to that meeting. The last thing in the world I wanted to do was to tell him my startup was failing. It took him 30 seconds to process the failure and then he moved on. He was so unbelievably supportive and so excited for whatever it was I was going to do next.

And this, my friends, is the fundamental difference between SV and the rest of the world. From my knowledge and experience, something like this simply does not happen outside of America. I haven't decided whether this is universally a good or a bad thing, but one thing is for sure - (us) Americans are very tolerant of failure and that is a good thing for startups.
Twitter sets hybrid Hadoop/Storm Project creation Summingbird into the wild
Not to be snarky but oops, my bad. :-)
Or a GPS.
Thank you! I never heard of this, it's exactly what I was looking for.
Isn't that against the Geneva Convention?
Tangentially related (IronRuby on Microsoft's DLR for dialplan processing), SIPSorcery is a relatively unknown combination project/service for developers looking for a high-level language interface for orchestrating SIP solutions:

http://sipsorcery.codeplex.com/
Sad to hear that there's other people who shared the same situation as me.
Our privacy policy prevents us from disclosing any account or personal information so we can not speak to this customers situation publicly.

If the customer would authorize this disclosure then we can discuss it publicly.

Otherwise, as much as it pains us to get negative feedback, whether or not it is deserved, it is beyond our control as the privacy of our customers is the most important issue at stake in a public discussion.
This doesn't seem like a very fair comparison. Most browsers account for this (by default) by using a different cursor symbol for linked text vs. non-linked text. Some also show the linked url in the browser UI also.

A web developer can override both those conventions and when they do, their links become less recognizable and their apps become less usable. Since there's no cursor on iOS touch screens, losing the visual cues is a similar problem.

[edit] You might argue that just tapping on something serves as the way to discover if a visual element is tappable on iOS. But it doesn't, as the original article states, it just makes the user wonder if something might be broken.
Under the covers with Microsoft's new Surface
Actually, it's not a bad advice for these 2 companies. At least be ready for unexpected account lock and unhelpful support.
How to gently remove a package from PyPI?
Some months ago I forked an abandoned project on github, fixed some bugs and released a package on PyPI. Some days ago I found out that there is another (more advanced) fork. Now I wanted to abandon my fork and withdraw my package.
Is there a "best practice" to retire my package without breaking the dependencies of other users?
Thanks!
But where do you go when you need internet access?
I run a site on DO for about 2 months - last week I got a similar mail to "verify" my account. Luckily they had not taken down my droplet. I am willing to give them the benefit of doubt here - but I am preparing my Plan B right now in case they decide to "verify" me again and take my server down.

We really need to hear from DO to hear the other side of the story though.
its still true that elop planned this all along tho. he added the specific clause. theres just no denying it.
heck, most people would do the same for $25M...
> Why isn't that the point?

I said that IS the point.

> he should have included Digital Ocean's side

OP claims they didn't give any
Would you use this service? (web devs)
> it must be profitable

The airline industry as a whole is not. It's lost about $60 billion since deregulation in 1978.
"Please Provide us with the following:
...
1. Your public Twitter handle
2. Your blog
3. Your company or personal website
4. Your public Facebook profile"

What? Is this a common procedure now?
That's the miracle of fractional reserve banking.
> I didn't see any such clause in the EC2 TOS

See section 10 of http://aws.amazon.com/agreement/

Frankly, none of those terms seems atypical. Amazon does have SLAs[1], but they do not apply if your account has been suspended. Reasons for suspension can include your use of the service adversely affecting any other AWS customer. They may also terminate you if providing services creates a substantial technical burden. Both of those can be triggered by you being "targeted by malicious activity from other other parties".

[1] http://aws.amazon.com/ec2-sla/
Nobody is saying users are idiots or that there is no learning curve for some older people using iOS (I have introduced it to people in their 70s and 80s too).

The assertion is that the author is pretending to be an idiot in the way he is claiming the iOS7 is somehow worse than iOS6.

There are faults in iO7, but there is no evidence that it is harder for people to learn, and plenty of evidence that it is basically more usable.
A demo video: http://vimeo.com/75312418
"When exactly did the government threaten Snowden?"

When it punished Bradley Manning the way it did.

The government doesn't need to make a direct threat, the existing cases are enough to do that.

"is the government not allowed to try and convict people based on the established law of the land"

Of course it is. But there are several cases where the government chose not to.

"I am also curious as to how the government is responsible for Snowden fleeing to Moscow"

If the only place Snowden feels safe is Moscow (because the risk of extradition there is much lower than somewhere else), that's where he is going to go! And if he has something that may be interesting to the Russian government, well, isn't it just lucky...
That is so true. Github had a lot of performance issues in their diff pages and they solved by using one-to-one mapping class-names and keeping the specificity as low as possible. Here's more on that: https://speakerdeck.com/jonrohan/githubs-css-performance?sli...
That's not what it says. It says that 1.5% of messages arrived at least 2 hours late. If you got 40 messages yesterday then you probably got at least one that was 2 hours late.
That interface makes my eyes bleed. So low contrast. I can tell the designers have young eyes.
It does; you can see ice over the tip of South America. Note that the ice in the southern hemisphere extends about as far from the pole as that in the northern hemisphere. There's just a lot less ice in the southern hemisphere because there's less land at those latitudes.
That is troubling to know. I have my pretty important website running on DO, and though this is only for the short term, I might have to accelerate my plans to move off DO.
Consider Google Chrome as an example. The title bar is customized to allow for their tabs at the same height as the close, minimize etc. buttons.
The Blog Timestamp is Dying
CSS sucks,period.
When people come up with an improved standard then we can discuss about writing better CSS. Today ,without CSS preprocessors, writing CSS is a nightmare. We'll write proper css when we get a proper language ( and when the box model get fixed on every browser). Until then I dont want to here about "agreeing on a standard for writing CSS". The spec should be the standard.
I haven't seen Maemo so I couldn't talk to its quality vs win phone, but there is more to the argument than product quality. With win phone they got reduced dev costs since they didn't have to support the OS, and reduced marketing costs since MS was promoting win phone so heavily. Add on top of that a larger App ecosystem(sure MS' is pathetic but it beats starting from scratch) without having to run a developer program and you have a strong argument. The only question then is why win instead of android? I think that is easily answered by his background and how well non Samsung android manufactures are doing.
Top Three Mistakes Tech Entrepreneurs Make (says Seedcamp [video])
It's irrelevant, I suppose, but I'm sorta curious how big this database was (or, more specifically, how much traffic he was generating to Dropbox).

There was also no mention in this article (except in one of the screenshots) about whatever -- "[a] UDP flood or so" "at the beginning of this month".

It would certainly suck to have your account locked out when you're serving production sites but it sounds like we haven't heard all of the story (we obviously haven't heard DO's, of course).
Seems like so. I've been a customer of DO for 7 months and they ask me for these.
Thanks. I really want to keep my (10 year old) number. Transferring it to Google Voice sounds a little scary. Is that unfounded? Is it really pretty seamless? I want to cancel my contract and go to a prepaid plan anyways. Which is apparently too difficult for AT&T to do over the phone without risk of losing my number. :-/

So... I could go get a GoPhone plan with a new number. Transfer my existing number to Google Voice. When the transfer is complete my old plan will be cancelled, I can swap in the GoPhone SIM, add it's number to Google Voice as a forwarding number, and I've got it all done with improved text/group-messaging? Does that sound about right?
Im not saying it was less "Usable" using BSD saved them from years of pain transitioning from MacOS to something that was more network/internet savvy.

But there was a price was a hit to the UX and UI. which were actually pretty sensible. All the fancy graphics and lack of helpful text labels and assistance has become more a pain for new users.
First, I don't think we agree what desperate means. Desperate makes it sound like revenues are shrinking or something.

Second, if your theory were true, why is Wikipedia not #1 for "laptop"? Wouldn't that be a more powerful keyword to force people to advertise for?
Neogaf I think almost certainly has the highest quality of discussion in the games space, but you won't notice it on a newsy sort of topic like this because the high level of noise.

The site attracts a lot of developers, game journalists and industry people and you'll find discussion of niche topics that will rarely if ever appear on Reddit. For example there's a weekly Japanese sales thread that has been going on for years where Japanese sales trends are exhaustingly examined.
The DB is pretty small actually just 10 MBish. Is this really a traffic flood for DO ?
It's not about unusual sequences of events, he's saying that Elop had an important incentive to accelerate the landslide of Nokia into irrelevance in order for it to be bought cheaply by his former employer. Things like publicly bashing your company (that well-known memo), abruptly stopping a successful (though declining) line like the Symbian cheap phones and spending a whole year to launch a new line with an unproven and unpopular OS (in mobile). Even before all of that enthusiasts had hacked the N900 and made it run Android (look at NITDroid), so it could hardly be argued that it was difficult task for them to swiftly move to Android and differentiate themselves like Samsung does. He wasn't responsible for Nokia's difficulties in 2010, but it was far from an impossible situation.

Seriously, these events are things many of us saw as soon as he put a foot on Nokia. We have been calling him a Trojan Horse since then, and with Nokia bought and Elop back at Microsoft as Head of Devices with a juicy check who can say we were mistaken? I even bought a Nokia N9 last year considering it my farewell to a once great company destined to be a part of Microsoft. And I'm hardly a clairvoyant.
And I could point to lots of counterexamples like Deepwater Horizon. What's your point, that you would be happier with a riskier aviation industry? As I said, get a PPL, or better yet start an airline and start lobbying against FAA rulings.
Thanks, I've probably made that mistake before, heh
Yes and no. In HTML 5, the hierarchy can be much more local/contextualized than in previous versions, so an h2 in an article can be at quite a different level than an h2 in an aside or at the page level. While it is possible to represent that hierarchy in CSS relative to the local context consistently across the entire page, it's not always desirable. On the other hand, arbitrary styling of headings does throw the baby out with the bath water; there should be a consistent and obvious visual hierarchy (corresponding with the semantic hierarchy) within each of the context types.
I was with you til you introduced the Hoon syntax. Why ruin a great concept with a shit language? WHAT IS WRONG WITH LANGUAGE DESIGNERS?! Just come up with a sane language with a sane syntax on a great platform. This is apparently asking a lot. It's not fucking rocket science.
Accomplish tasks and live in the moment with Finido
Web browsers let you hover over a link to query if it's clickable before clicking it.

Also in this case the problem is if a site has some text that's blue & clickable, and some text that's blue & not clickable. That's more or less what iOS 7 is doing. Colored text doesn't mean it performs an action. It might, it might not. Similarly, black text might be clickable, it might not. It might have a border, it might not. And these are all mixed together in the same app, or even a single screen such as the case of the alarm that the article is talking about.
Dumping your DB daily to dropbox doesnt sound like a production solution. It looks like you violated their TOC somehow but dont state what you did.

This honestly sounds like growing pains, now that we are "taking off" we need to make sure users arent abusing our service. Lets do a user verification process for certain instances that are flagged for whatever reason.

I have experienced similar verify account problems with Pay Pal/eBay. While its a burden on people who are doing legitimate business, if it keeps spammers/scammers off of a service then it is worth it.
We know it was rushed, and we know why. Scott Forstall (the architect of iOS 1-6) was fired, and Jonathan Ive promoted to VP of Design, on 29th October 2012, 11 months ago. 11 months -- really 7 months, as it had to be mostly done in time for the WWDC demo -- is an astonishingly short length of time to do a ground-up UX redesign of an OS. The only way it's possible is to parallelise the design process to some extent, which makes consistency issues inevitable.
>Well... that more or less invalidates the sanctity of the terms.

You'll find the plurality (if not majority) of ToS's out there include such a statement.

>What is the justification for that? Simply being the target of malicious activity means that your account can be terminated? It's not as though one is responsible for malicious activity directed against them.

They don't want to deal with the networking implications of a large scale DDoS. They're providing low priced VPS services, not high bandwidth, high load custom racks. Also, they "reserve the right" not the "always exercise the right". DO likely won't kick you for a small DoS/DDoS but sustained attacks take much more manpower to deal with than you're paying them for.

>I see this a lot with software, but doesn't this mean that DigitalOcean has no actual obligation to provide the cloud or VPS services they advertise?

No, it means you can't sue DO because your VPS went down and you lost 10K is sales because customers couldn't access your storefront. It's an indemnity clause.

>Is this the usual sort of agreement for such a service?

Yes, unless you're paying a good deal of money for something like a Colo with 1hour SLA or an AWS instance with a high SLA.
going to share another unpleasant experience here too. attended a google glasses hackathon and we ended up deciding to use digital ocean for quick prototyping of an AR app. i made the mistake of giving my teammate my paypal account, not knowing that the account had been blacklisted. a day after the successful demo, the exact same "conversation" unfolded and the account was promptly locked. i'm just glad it didn't happen an hour before the demo!
Live coding is so important especially for beginners, I think it demystifies the whole process and shows them that there is nothing "magic" about programming, it's simply translating an idea about how to do something from your head into code.

I find that my students learn the most from interactive sessions where I live code in front of them and they ask questions, we change the code, re-run, etc.

Also debugging live in front of class is SO valuable for them. It not only shows them how to debug but it also shows them that everyone makes mistakes, and teaches them how to spot them.
Being the target of e.g. a DDOS attack can consume considerable resources and affect many other DigitalOcean customers. It may not seem "fair" to terminate your account over that, but having your site unavailable because of an attack on a neighboring customer is no fun either.

IANAL, but I don't think that warranty disclaimer is relevant here. I don't think it means much at all actually. As a business you can say you're not liable for anything bad that happens, but that doesn't necessarily make it true.
That's roughly the procedure I use to make sure people aren't slimeballs when I rent my house out to them on AirBNB. I imagine it would also be very useful for determining that someone's an actual human.
This is extremely useful, I'm very impressed.
Is this comment a joke?

I haven't tried compiling it, but even if large parts of the documentation say "this isn't finished yet" there are code and compilation instructions for Linux and OSX. If it's a joke then it's a joke that two contributors seem to have taken very seriously for a number of months now.

EDIT: Not like, say, Flynn... jab jab
Even in 1500 years, the shape of some coastal areas has changed significantly. See for example the Low Countries in 500 CE and now.

Then: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Frankish_Empire_481_to_814... (Look at the part labeled ‘Frisia’)

Now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Benelux_location_map.svg
Why We're Shutting Off Our Comments
banks don't normally use the fed discount window to finance ordinary loan activity.
Yup. Especially if you're handing the app off to somebody who's just learning to read - even if the tablet is locked-down, the kid will be frustrated and need help if they get trapped in the "unlock" content while they were tapping around randomly and exploring the app.

I'm disappointed so few app developers don't offer a "I just want to pay for this so you can stop marketing at me" option. Free/Freemium/pay-up-front are not mutually exclusive revenue streams for an app, release with multiple revenue strategies.
Tried this app: really great!
I'm not sure what you're referring to. PowerPC? IBM wouldn't sell apple what they wanted, so apple bought from intel. If you don't like what apple is selling, you have the same choice: buy from some somebody else. Feel free to tell the world how much happier you are, too, if that's your thing.
Google has its own funnel, with Analytics, AdSense and all its myriad other web properties. They can track and analyse users much more than specific companies.

A simpler example would be that I would not know which keywords were driving people to my site (it's "learn to remember everything" or is "snickerdoodles recipe"?) A stupid question? In my case yes, but for a company, it's crucial to know. Not even for pinpointing users, just in broad terms, with relevant date data, landing page and some other goodies (which webmaster tools does not offer, and looks unlikely to offer in the future)
Who's the last person you heard of being penalized for ignoring fiduciary duty for personal gain?
I don't do a lot of comparison reading of the TOS on a lot of hosting providers, but this stuff doesn't seem as unusual to me as it does to you.

Most providers will shut you off if you're running a server that attracts a lot of DDOS attempts. Many providers explicitly disallow running irc servers up front to avoid this very scenario. If your site is constantly getting DDOSed for whatever reason that is going to have a big impact on the hoster's entire network and other servers they are hosting and while it may be through no fault of your own, almost all hosters are going to bounce you if it is a recurring problem.
Very nice app. I love the swiping gestures - they allow a very fast interaction with the app.

Would love to be able to edit the "checks" (use case: I checked a task by mistake...)
would like to see a calendar with the different checks.

Good work!
Yes but there are limits in the way. Not saying Apple has reached the limit, but it's not as easy as one might think to reach that point.
My business sends a lot of emails. Yesterday morning we were scheduled to send an email to ~8,000 of our subscribers. I sent an test email to a test list, and it did not go through. This test email went to 4 different Gmail address. None of them received it. Around 40 minutes later, one of the Gmail accounts finally received the message. At this point I sent another email to the test list. Still nothing. I tried emailing from a Yahoo account, to Gmail, and it went through. However, for over 3 hours I couldn't send an email from my server to Gmail. Emails from other servers were able to go through.

The problem does not appear to be with individual user accounts, but from Google's ability to receive emails from certain parts of the internet universe.

The result was lost time and lost money on my end. I imagine this had very little impact on the experience of individual users -- but for businesses that depend on getting emails to their customers, this had a much bigger impact.

My experience was this:

1. This problem was not a 2.6 second delay. It was a multi-hour delay.

2. The problem was not with 1.5% of Gmail users, but with Google's ability to receive messages from other parts of the internet. (A major pipe was down, according to the OP.)

3. No Gmail user had all their incoming mail delayed for a couple hours -- Certain senders to Gmail had all of their mail delayed for several hours.
Your export to PDF feature needs to include the screenshot section you recently added!

Now get to work adding that feature!
Clojure: More core.async goodies: operations on channels, multiplexing, Pub/sub
I wrote like 10 topic sentences for comments about shutting down a company and then just erased them, because what a horrible set of memories that topic brings out. I like reading about failure from Jason because he's had a win and is on his way to another, so he can talk about it with a pretty even mind. Personally, I've only got like 10% of a kind-of-win since shutting my first company down, and it still makes me absolutely ill.
> If I find an author that I like and trust and my kids will read, I'll buy everything they write before going through trial and error again.

Oh God, this. Suffering through bad children's books is a part of parenting, so finding a good author is a life-saver.
One of the reasons I am hesitant (so far) to use IPython Notebook for teaching is that I worry about the longevity of the format. Maybe I'm a worrywart but my current preference is to use old (boring?) formats like html (via org-mode).