skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Voting system is a great cleaning mechanism (akin to current in a pond), something that keeps mediocre submissions and poor comments out of sight. If this feature is rationed (eg flow of the current is weakened), comments and posts ought to be rationed as well, otherwise HN gets overwhelmed with poor input.
Ask HN: Cheaper SMS rates?
I've got a specific use case where users sign up for a particular type of SMS update. The problem is that even with 1c SMS pricing a list of 10,000 users it would cost $100 to send a single update (I need it to cost like $1).

I'm aware of the provider emails, #@txt.att.net, but it's unreliable and sloppy (messages come in with varied formatting by provider, non-unique reply-to #, etc).

Does anyone have a service with significantly cheaper rates than Twilio, etc? Have you heard of rates being negotiated well below published rates?
That might be fun to claim, but the reality is that it's 2013, not 2007. The Ruby ecosystem is much more robust at this point.
If it were me I'd have the long yubikey password written out on paper in a safe in my house somewhere, or in a bank vault or something. If an adversary is motivated enough to gain access to that, your days are probably numbered anyway.
A Different Paradigm for CTO's
Constrain dragging to a circle with JointJS
this one?? "I dealt with quite a lot of these papers early in my career and they do a wonderful job of backing up grant proposals but a poor job of being correct."

No, I'm pretty sure I meant they can get you grants but are, on the whole, hogwash. I do admit to using these studies to write grants to get money to do things for people. I was a bit of a crusader in my younger years before I realized the end never justifies the means.
I don't know, I think it'd be a nice brand logo but for the reasons you've gone into a poor choice for all type. It would certainly make a good 'impact' font for a header area.
YES!! This is exactly what I've been looking to do!! Going to replicate this to RamNode host where I get 50GB for $1.38/month.
"modern C games use all kinds of multithreading and blocking I/O."

The funny thing here is that gave devs are still kind of weary of threading bugs, and blocking I/O was something that was probably earliest dealt with by the people having to stream content off of spinning plastic discs.
MediaTemple is disgustingly expensive, but I gotta credit their branding and imagery. They invoke visions of security, reliability, and enterprise. Everything from their screenshots to their logo to their copywriting. Still, it's ridiculously overpriced, especially their VPS services
German researchers set 100gbps wireless data transmission world record
I use a Chromecast.
We have them all http://cloud306.com
Not yet officially launched, but anytime now..
Hey, great work! This is awesome! If you're looking to display weather and stock information too, you might want to check out my project here: https://github.com/zachfeldman/digi-lcd-server.

Isn't hardware fun!?1
I imagine if Google weren't effectively subsidizing ChromeOS machines (by not charging for ChromeOS, and instead hoping you'll spend more time on their web properties and ads), most of these machines would cost a bit more.

All the things you mentioned cost money. There are psychological barriers (marketing speak: price points) where people make different decisions.

For example, $500 is a magic point where something stops being either affordable/inexpensive/casual expense (depending on your financial situation) and becomes unaffordable/expensive/notable.
I think it's more of a teaching tool, given that they have the "Why is this question here?" link. You see the statement, click the link, and realize that some assumptions you made about how the average American lives are off base. I doubt the final score matters much at all.
I'm a huge opponent of this form of advertising being pushed down our throats. Here's some reasons why blogging for HN like this is bad:

- Your brand and your blog are not representing your company, the traffic literally doesn't know or care what you do they're just there for the HN porn.

- If you do a venn diagram of HN users and people who need pretty much anything there is going to be a tiny, tiny overlap that shouldn't be confused for your market unless you've failed at all other lead generation and customer acquisition channels.

- HN is for discussing interesting things, there's nothing interesting about being the victim of yours and others on-going attempts to capture a market in the least efficient way you can imagine.
Howto Track (Amazon) Prices with VisualPing.io
Node.js and Mobile News Round-up – October 15, 2013
The term "totally different" is a bit exaggerative here. I hadn't clicked through the slides, but after reading your statement I wanted to see what crazy "totally different" language was being used to test.

Really, a transpiled language isn't much of a stretch.

Edit: Fixed spelling typo.
I'd have a worse service for the same money. It would force the situation to always be exactly the same as the worst possible situation now (everyone using it at the same time), assuming it was done perfectly. How is that their problem? How is me getting a slower service for the same price not my problem?

Second, where did they lie? My terms and conditions explicitly state that speed is dependent on many factors, including the number of active users.
You don't need to install Xubuntu; you just run XFCE on top of Ubuntu in a chroot environment with crouton and you have a full Linux desktop at your fingertips.
I considered the same and will pass.

- battery life

- the like-usb-but-not-really charger is the biggest disappointment for me

- performance sounds horrible (What, cannot even watch a YT video?)
Show HN: Minerva – Better Email. Offshore Mailpile and secure managed server
Are you sure about that? There's an answer to the very question "What about GoDaddy’s reputation in the tech community?"

"They have overhauled their leadership team and attracted tech talent from the best-of-the-best. We love 'the new GoDaddy' that CEO Blake Irving and his team have created, especially their new approach with advertising, product focus and UX."
-- http://weblog.mediatemple.net/2013/10/15/faqs-about-the-goda...

GoDaddy appears to be a very different company than it was a year ago, so I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.
I think he's taking as axiomatic that there only a few people using ruby, thus claiming this demonstrates the general rule people don't use ruby. Thus he is, in fact, using the phrase correctly.

But by taking it as axiomatic that few people use ruby, he is begging the question.
The Lord has a good warrior :(
Goodbye MT
There's also the Verse protocol for networked 3D.

http://verse.github.io/

The Love MMO (http://www.quelsolaar.com/love/index.html) is built on top of it and there was partial support in Blender for it for a while. IDK if that is still there.
Unfortunately, this use of covers is purely skeuomorphic in nature...

That's what kills me about iOS7 -- they declared a jihad against bitmaps that left the Newsstand as a series of flat-shaded rectangles containing, wait for it, bitmapped magazine covers. So we get a texture-mapped image of a newspaper's front page, floating in an ugly partitioned gray space.

It never occurred to any of these rocket artists that skeuomorphism can refer to more than just nonfunctional textures, but shapes as well.

It's as if Jobs really was the only one at Apple with any aesthetic sensibilities. The trolls were right all along.
I'm really confused by the battery life. My Samsung ARM Chromebook last a really long time with only intermittent charging at home. It's also perfectly usable for SSH access to my dedicated server and works well on wifi with my phone and hotspot. I would hope that Google is improving battery life on their flagship devices, not reducing it, perception is everything.
I also hope that they keep an ARM model and don't let Intel's marketing dollars overwhelm their partners, while not delivering a comparable battery life experience. I look forward to replacing this with a quad-core processor with AArch64 support, and hopefully KVM.
>[Ruby] is not best for performance, installation or deployment.

PHP isn't either, except that it's packaged well in Linux.

If there were good packages for Ruby in Debian, the only advantage that PHP would have is in being the shared hosting default. Both are pretty equally performant, and Ruby has the advantage of being a nicely designed language.

>there is absolutely nothing to be gained by not using PHP.

What is there to be gained by using PHP?
"They'll keep things the same and let us run as an independent company" - This is the most told lie during a company acquisition.

1) Media Temple (mt) revealed that they have very slow growth.

2) GoDaddy buys (mt).

Do you think GoDaddy bought (mt) out of the goodness of their hearts? To GoDaddy this is an investment. If they spend $100 million buying your company, they want your company to produce $200+ million back and they'll tinker with whatever they need to to make that happen.

3) GoDaddy sees that (mt) with it's slow growth isn't paying itself off. (and after today's news even slower growth)

4) GoDaddy starts making changes (merging teams, merging products, changing terms, playing with prices and plans) to see an increase in revenue.
No. Sure you get more money, but this is going to be absolutely toxic to your company culture. Now every employee at the company has to wake up and know that they're going to work at GoDaddy, a company that supported SOPA and PIPA a company that was founded by an obnoxious redneck who has a video blog of exploited blonde bimbos doing comedy shtick, a company that took a successful female NASCAR racer and exploited her as a sex object as their spokesperson, a company that outsources all of their customer service to India. The list goes on and on. Who's going to feel good about working there after that?
Hoping for a new Apple TV with a built in LTE router for under $100 per month so I can be rid of Brighthouse forever.
Title is a bit wrong here's one from (mt)
http://weblog.mediatemple.net/2013/10/15/momentous-news-goda...
Or perhaps we've all just had more and more training in filling in the circles on multiple-choice tests.
Show HN: Multiple social networks in one tab: follow your friends in one place
Honest question, how often do people go on to downvote comments and flag threads when discussing memory management schemes?
7 Critical Customer Insights
"Leftist" in the sense of Chavismo does not have any analogue in the US. There's just no comparison.

For example, ACA is an originally Republican plan full of handouts to private companies, not Chavismo or "Socialism".

Please don't worry that we will over-correct with another 10 times more Chavez-like, it will never happen.
not for geek
Perhaps on the efficiency side. On the performance side it would be true even on a small site (unless it was all static, cached content).

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
I was flagbanned because I flag all the blatant content marketing posts. Of which there are many, so that likely tripped a switch.
I don't dismiss the whole of the article, but I do dismiss its premise event.

I get the greater point, but I do not like starting off a perfectly fine argument with such a poor premise. It reeks of wanting to write an article on an important subject and using a poorly chosen event as the "catalyst" or "trigger point" for your need to write it. Also, I am not among those who take that sentence from the article as a "statement of truth".
See discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6554135 .
The problem with that sentence is that "their/they've" is now "our/we've".
Node.JS is great when you simply need to move bits from disk onto the network with minimal processing in between and your app is otherwise I/O bound. This is what gives Node.JS its superficial appeal. The trouble comes when you need to write anything of complexity and you find yourself in callback hell and your code becomes difficult to reason about at an unreasonable rate. This makes adding new features to any large code base a ghastly nightmare.

JavaScript is also a really shitty, poorly conceived language with cruft galore, and this compounds the hell of event-driven programming.

I dropped Node.JS because it made me hate programming.
Had my first chance to play with some of the GeeksPhone devices over the past week. Have to say despite previously being VERY skeptical about Firefox OS, they were really pretty great! The platform holds a lot more promise than I imagined and they have come incredibly far in the past year.

My next device will probably be a Nexus 5, but that just might be my last Android.
eh sorry, fair point. you can guess from the text that the best one is cpython, the two other are not that different anyway ;-)
It's also one of the slowest.
I used to check the New page for spam and content-free posts, and flag obvious stuff. Then one day I lost flagging.

I believe that if you flag an item that then becomes popular it counts against you. If you flag a story that has a strong voter-ring or sock-puppet gang then, guess what: You end up being on the losing end and the sock-puppets win.

Such is life.
On Firefox (which originally introduced it), finding "use asm" at the top of the script makes a subset of JavaScript faster by enabling an Ahead-Of-Time optimizing compiler. See http://badassjs.com/post/43420901994/asm-js-a-low-level-high.... From what I understand, "asm.js" code without the "use asm" directive in Firefox would run slower because it wouldn't check it for compliance with the asm.js subset and enable the specialized AOT codepath.

It's an interesting approach but feels a bit like over-specialization. The V8 guys on the other hand, decided to ignore the directive entirely and have been able to improve their (more "generic") JIT compiler to get it to run the same code almost as fast as Firefox's Ahead-Of-Time compiler in a lot of cases.
Financial revolution? Yes we can.
That definitely counts!
A colleague told me about a Tcl feature called upvar. I contracted epilepsy on the spot. Luckily, this meant i couldn't listen while he told me about uplevel.
I dislike him because of his stated, explicit bias against LGBT folk, and his frequent rants about the "gay agenda". True, I think his Mormonism motivates these things, but many if not most Mormons feel differently (I have no idea the exact statistics), and were he still Mormon and not a homophobic bigot, then I wouldn't have a problem with him.

I also liked Ender's Game as a kid. I like it now. I just think the author is a jackass.
Thanks for the mention (and contributing) Mathias.

A quick clarification:
#1: our endpoint is "community" one. It's free and open for dev purposes, but it's not suggested for production use as one can easily self-host it (though we use same server for number of heavy traffic apps like Iframely for Gmail chrome ext).

#2: Iframely now has the oEmbed endpoint too. We trim much richer infos into oembed format for backwards compatibility.
Open Corp Dev: An Idea Too Bold For Facebook Or Dropbox
That's all very nice, but it ain't gonna happen because of backwards compatibility. One of the main points of asm.js is that it runs everywhere the same as plain JS, whether the platform knows about asm.js or not.
Thanks! Yeah, I love working with hardware. I will definitely check out your project.
I predict Media Temple TV ads in 10...9...8...

As a long time MT customer (and beta tester), good luck guys! Despite the general sentiments regarding GoDaddy I hope it works out and provides the extra juice for whatever is on the horizon.
Appreciate it. I know we can. Our medium size team just got a lot bigger. I think our engineers are the most excited about this because they'll be able to get so much more work done.
As somebody with nearly 8,000 in karma who recently got hellbanned for either A) writing a supportive comment that was misinterpreted by somebody other than the person I was replying to, and given benefit of the doubt or opportunity to respond or B) replying to "Where are the bootstrappers on HN?" with "Many of us have given up on HN" and linking to videos from my bootstrapping conference…

I agree.
Achieving polymorphism in Javascript
Digital Notation, Like You Imagined It'd Work: Draw Into iPhone, iPad, Android
Can sombody please expand on: If there is no competition you’re probably screwed. Are there any cases when this is not applicable?

(I recently started a website that nobody else seems to have done before -- web version of a desktop based tool)
Think I'll be back in Edinburgh by the 6th Nov, but if anyone feels like meeting up before end Oct, give me a shout (I think details are in my profile).

Would be nice to meet other any other hn users over here.
I kind of thought the same thing, but then again he didn't mention the direction of the disparity.
Wow, I'm interested in this, but only three weeks' notice to plan travel to SF, request time off, etc.? Yikes...
I'm surprised that Anand didn't mention anything about the trackpad. The Verge's impression is that it's pretty terrible:

"The trackpad, on the other hand, is pretty bad. It’s sticky and plastic, and doesn’t allow your finger to glide smoothly at all; my fingers jittered around as I tried to move the cursor, and the screen jittered even worse as I tried to scroll with two fingers or pinch to zoom on the screen. It’s a frustrating change from the smooth, responsive Chromebook Pixel, which got all this right — and had a touchscreen too, just in case. Of course, the Pixel is also six times the price."

http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/10/4822576/hp-chromebook-11-...
For the record - presentations are epic content and if you believe a link is a link is a link...

seoslides.com can help you build presentations powered by wordpress with all the embed links (it has a presentation player) going back to your site.

Keep up the good work. I've always loved your blog and candor. If I'm ever in the position to recruit a specific person - I plan on doing a love letter presentation based blog post begging them to join me : )
if your house burns down with the paper and the key in it?
Show HN: Issuepost – Submit GitHub Issues from your Mac, effortlessly
People do care about privacy if they are given fair choice.

When choices are between

1) FREE (in small print, give up privacy)
vs
2) Pay $X (and protect privacy)

FREE overwhelmingly influences the choice.

However, if you find a market where all competitor directly charge comparable prices to consumers for the product and choices are

A) Pay $x and enjoy the product
vs
B) Pay $x, give up privacy and enjoy the product as well ads

then it'd be interesting if option B) would gain significant traction.
- Even very successful people frequently misunderstand their own success

Do you think this is related to impostor syndrome[1], or something different? Perhaps not as "harsh" as impostor syndrome?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
Suing over breaking ToS is an option (and it is done

When has someone sued over ToS for a data leak?
Actually, in your case you still have competition - You're competing against the desktop-based tool. People coming to your service will be choosing between your tool, and the desktop-based variant.

In regards to the original statement -- if there's no competition there's a possible risk that there's no market. It's not always the case (once in a while you really did create something that nobody knew they needed until you give it to them), but it can be dangerous to delude yourself into thinking you came up with that one product.

More often, no competition means no market and no market means it doesn't matter how good your product is -- nobody wants it.
A one-sentence pitch isn't enough to get me to click a button which looks and feels like taking an action. I'd rather see at least a short paragraph go into a bit more detail, first.

As it is, the homepage is basically a splash screen. That might even be okay, but making the only interaction a button that implies it takes an action makes me feel like I need to make a yes/no decision on your product before I even have a good feeling for what it is.
My understanding is that the only way to make that economical is to negotiate rates on a per-carrier basis, which won't happen unless you're providing a service that a large percentage of cell-phone users are clamouring for (e.g. Facebook or Twitter).

Plus, you have to deal with things like handling STOP, anti-SMS-spamming legislation in each jurisdiction, phone number reallocation, cell phone batteries dying, SMSCs that lie about deliverability, SMSCs that spontaneously send messages from 911 instead of from your short code and plenty of other headaches.
Just run the code through a linter that recognises "use asm" as part of the build/test process.
Is the yubikey static secondary password sniffable via a keylogger type exploit? That could be a problem.
Interesting, I didn't know that. What's the WP image based off? (OS, web server, reverse proxies, etc)
A web page that lasts forever: the plan to stop “link rot” in law and science
It literally says that in the first paragraph.
Instagic picks your 10 best Instagram shots and mails them to you each month
Interestingly, Ruby is also approaching its 20-year anniversary. Of course, PHP has been popular much longer than Ruby.
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Yeah, the NY Times should really think about coming out with a tablet app. I'd subscribe.
The content of the almost-hidden Learn More link would easily fit unobtrusively below your call to action button, providing more detail for people like me.
Ahh, that makes sense. Can there be a sliding scale of delay for the ability to comment, or depth of thread allowed (before commenting is disabled for that thread), based on the output of the flamewar detector?

This may also have the side effect of allowing for some opinions to be shared, without being mired in flame-y back and forth. (And, importantly, still allows the story to stay more visible)
Hi there, I'm Mark. From my experience using GitHub Issues as a main bug tracker and project management system, entering new issues was an ordeal when repeated throughout the day. Opening up a new browser window and everything broke my workflow and introduced unnecessary hassle.

So I decided to build a Mac app to do that. This app allows you to submit new GitHub issues effortlessly. Hit a shortcut key, enter the issue repo, details, and label it, and submit, and that's it. Doesn't break your workflow. Effortless to use. And keyboard navigation is fully supported.

—

This is my first Mac app, and I designed and developed this from start to finish, focusing on ease of use. It incorporates some elements of psychology, making the app effortless and reliable, and to make it easy to unobtrusively build this app into your standard workflow. (I'll write something about the psychology aspect soon.)

From a 'philosophical' standpoint, if you're using GitHub Issues as a main issue tracker, the fundamental action is the entering of new issues, which this app streamlines, increasing your ability to use the issue tracker. I think we should all be identifying the problems in the fundamental actions in systems and tools to be able to use those systems more effectively.

I sincerely hope that using app is a good experience for you. I'd love your feedback on the design, functionality, or anything else. Reply here or email me at mark@markbao.com. Thanks so much!
Thank you for the thoughtful contribution.
If you have any data actually worth preserving, it might probably be worth it to

a) Get a fire-resistant lockbox, and
b) have a safe deposit box at a bank.
The Dawn of Stock Marketing
I like Elon's way of thinking, but it's not always easy to determine what the first principles are. In physics you have a couple of centuries to figure it out. In software or apps or whatever it's much less clear.
A Letter From Media Temple Founder