skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Open alpha up right now [1]. I'm not pushing it too hard because there are still some usability issues and bugs to work out, but its getting there.

[1] http://penflip.com
MM is a commonly accepted abbreviation. My reasoning is that I am a biologist and m stands for mole and M stands for mole. Confusing? Yes! So I separate the two!
You originally said 0.2% for 3 months. In any case, 2.4%'s a pretty crappy raise, and 90% of projects fail. Success should be worth 10% a year easily.
This post resonates with me. I got into software development when I was working as a tester and the developers didn't have time to fix the things I wanted fixing. I learned how to fix some things myself, mostly UI related issues.

I think it's important that teams have a mechanism for allowing developers time to work on what they most want to work on. When an issue you care personally about gets put on a backlog with a low priority, all that motivation you had for fixing it goes to waste. Who better to fix that issue that the person that feels passionate about fixing it, at the time when they feel most motivated to do so.
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I've got some domains with GoDaddy, that's it. Does that make it ok for you to make an unfounded and wrong accusation?

edit: Adding a reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shill
Link updated! https://www.mashape.com/retsly/rets-ly#!documentation
Hetzner. You should really add it to the options.
Reading stories like these make me sick to my stomach and stay away from big corps.
I was able to become literate in code, but I don't think become a "10x engineer" that a proper technical co-founder should be is feasible for me. I can create a simple, but decent, front-end; and I can understand discussions of back-end code. That is sufficient to me I guess.

But working on a "hot startup" in Brazil won't happen and "sell my startup", well, I am trying to build one. I will never cover all my bases, but you are right, maybe YC isn't for me. That's not that bad either, I can do without. But I can't deny that I want it very badly.
If it's funded by advertising, it will still have pretty major journalistic limitations. I for one hope it's funded some other way (and no, not by Bezos either!)
> Jobs can easily head towards the cheapest, least regulated economy, but workers are prevented both legally and economically from moving towards the places with the best working conditions.

Ah, the ideal of perfect labour mobility. Even if we did remove the legal and economic restrictions, we still can't achieve perfect labour mobility without breaking down a person's social ties to family, friends and community. Although some neoliberals have put a lot of effort into doing so.

> And when workers in these countries do manage to achieve a modest increase in working conditions and therefore wages, the employers can simply pack up shop and head to the next cheap market.

It's true, just as "Made in Japan" and "Made in Taiwan" were once considered how "Made in China" is today. And now we see the rising wages in China triggering manufacturers moving to Indonesia and the Philippines.

In this regard at least, the globalisation of manufacturing is a force for good. I presume that they'll run out of countries to move to eventually.
Just wanted to update here that a /providers endpoint has been added: http://oembed.io/providers
Copyright Basics: Originality & Exclusivity
Hypothetically speaking, could you download the files over Tor from public wifi and be protected? Or, is Tor now considered insecure due to exit node monitoring?
EtherCalc: a web spreadsheet
I agree with you that 'designed' is the word he probably ought to use and that 'invented' is pretentious, ... but I don't think it's wrong.
I think Go will surprise you. Google uses it internally and it is hardly a toy project. However, the ecosystem is currently relatively small.

It sounds like you're looking for something like Java with Play (http://www.playframework.com/). Another langauge based on the JVM may suit you well. I recommend taking a look at Scala.
Does anyone think this might be because the UK has such a terrible record on the free press front in recent months? Such a shame if it is costing UK papers serious talent (which I would not be surprised at).

I mean why the hell work for a UK paper when you could work somewhere else given we have the internet now.
Not being a webapp is a huge plus for me if I'm going to use a piece of software for something important (when the use isn't inherently tied to the web).

The people who make this could sell to GoogleAppleSoft, get hit by a bus, or start charging stupid money for it, and I'll still have a copy and all my data. A webapp by a company I've never heard of before needs to do much more to reassure me that won't happen.
The word "government" being used to mean "government(s) in the USA."
"Bold bets" by having a foot in both camps? That seems more like timidity.
Yes, it is.

Next to no one at A16Z is qualified
to review new, correct, significant,
powerful, valuable, useful technical
material, review research papers
in technical fields submitted to
peer-reviewed journals of original
research,
be a problem sponsor at NSF,
NIH, or DARPA, or be even an assistant
professor at a research university in a technical field.

An entrepreneur with some new, correct, significant,
powerful, valuable, useful technical
material as the crucial, core technology
of an information technology startup
would face a serious threat with a
partner at A16Z on their Board because
that person would not be able to evaluate
budgets and projects for new technical
work for the company.
In defence of the technique, the command table is quite succinct and arguably more readable at a glance than if there were a bunch of constants |ed together. I have no idea whether this was the original motivation though.
Maybe not the best example given the focus of the article on inspiring women, since according to Wikipedia Audrey was born male? I thought that might deserve a mention. In fact I wonder if the author even knows? Or maybe better, just focus on the Audrey as an aspiring person?
Thanks for pointing out that calculation - the $143 figure was calculated from absolute impressions and completions, not unique impressions and completions. With unique figures, the eCPM jumps to $222.50.

The survey was worth $0.25 in revenue per completion (response).
Could you tell us about what field this was? :-)
So maybe Bill Gates or Warren Buffet, then?
Episode 006: Doing It de Raadt Way
I have serious reservations about our changing cultural attitudes towards privacy too. But let's be honest here--this would make insurance cheaper for a lot of people, and more expensive for the subset of people who are currently getting subsidized by their peers. I mean, say that playing a couple hours of video games per week really does increase mortality significantly--why should people who don't play video games be forced to subsidize your habits (this is unlikely, anyway--I don't think one's choices of which leisure products to consume are significantly correlated with either positive or negative health outcomes)?

So why not use examples like these? "Oh, you bike to work? Great--your bill is going down! Oh, you have a good credit score? Okay, your premiums just went down again. Oh, you eat salad once in a while? Great, it doesn't take much to eat more healthily than the average American, so--you guessed it--your bill just went down again!"

Less information asymmetry between customers and insurance companies would lead to better prices for safer people, and fairer prices for riskier people (by "fairer" I mean "closer to their average lifetime insurance payout).

Whether it's worth it in terms of the loss of privacy is another question, but we shouldn't stack the deck by pretending everyone's premiums will go up unfairly.
Because that's what Rubinius non-X is for. This is about an experimental Ruby-based language that has the freedom to make breaking changes. It's not just another implementation of Ruby, it's about creating a new language that learns from Ruby and other languages. I expect that we'll see some of these ideas percolate back to Ruby proper, and others will be created and/or wither on their merits within Rubinius X, so long as it remains experimental.

All that said, this simplifies the language spec and implementation by eliminating features that have long been on-the-outs in the Ruby community. Note that the proposals on that page don't break regexes, they just break code that uses the old Perl-esque $1, etc. magic variables. This is almost mechanically trivial to port to use Regexp methods, MatchData, etc. IME, it's rare to see this used in Ruby code in the wild. I find it kind of startling when it does show up.
Correction: Facebook does use Nginx. As does Hulu, Zappos, Zynga and Dropbox.

http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/18/nginx-the-web-server-tech-...
I meant specifically the one that all the press articles are talking about. But fair shout. I had found his bibliography and was being lazy.
Oy, it is. Sorry; my brain is apparently missing its reading comprehension hat today.
A Short History of the Highrise
Beta testing Golang PaaS
Comprehensive list of the entrepreneurially-relevant concepts my MBA taught me
A foot in both camps? Huh?

Paul and Greenwald are only on opposite teams if you believe in myopic labels like conservative vs. liberal (respectively). They're both ardent civil libertarians, and in Greenwald's case, that's the biggest part of his platform. Paul not so much, but it's still a major part.
Very relevant to your thoughts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
Is it possible that the Guardian cannot afford to keep him on anymore?

I would bet the English/US government has been leaning very heavily on the organization, legally, financially, intimidation, blackmail?

It might have reached a tipping point?
The reality is that unless you are a really big enterprise customer with your own legal team who has negotiated custom contracts and SLA's then the host can destroy your data at any time. You have no comeback unless they admit liability or negligence, that's one of the reasons the support agent could not discuss details.
Though there's no Neopixel library at the level of the current one for Arduino, you could drive the whole system off of the Imp.

Mozilla built two RGB LED tickers, driven by an Imp, and installed them on their blimp: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz3fEYFDl2o
I really like the concept. It desperately needs a new name.

Beacon is a weak word, and Beacon Reader flows really poorly. It doesn't convey impactful journalism. It'd be proper for the #3 newspaper in Sioux Falls (if there were such a thing).

My two cents for what they're worth.
Will Couchsurfing Implode?
Framebase is shutting down
The author has his own negative emotional agenda.

If you got accepted to Stanford, great, go to Stanford. It's just a school, a place where people go to learn, and it's a rather expensive one. So learn, and focus on bigger things than moral guilt and self-doubt over the opportunity you've been given, like your career and developing yourself. That will put you in a much better position to give back to the world.
But the specific example points out the flaw. The data can be misleading, for some people and in some scenarios substantially (buying a round of drinks for clients looks the same as buying yourself 8 drinks at the bar to your credit card).

Plus, with government-run healthcare, the definitions of healthy will be subject to lobbying. Look at the arguments now about what is healthy food... are carbs bad? is fat? what about organic? GMO? Meat? Grains? Eggs are healthy again after being bad for you after being good for you. I have coworkers who swear by paleo diets and somehow everyone doing crossfit is convinced they're in the 2% of humans with a gluten sensitivity.

Now imagine that confusion with lobbyists from every direction trying to prevent their products from being put on the 'bad foods' list.
I use mt for one of my sites, hope this isn't A turn for the worst.
> Since the SSL certificates formerly used to protect access to Lavabit have been compromised, we recommend manually validating the serial number and fingerprint your computer received before using this website. [https://liberty.lavabit.com/]

What? If an active attacker is changing certificates on the fly, he's also surely able to change the values in the HTML content of the page.

This will add absolutely no security for the users, only false sense of security via complex-looking measures, and he should know this.
First up, thanks for the response!

So for myself only, and that is all my post will explain, I've ripped every cd i ever had (never had vinyl so not an issue) into ALAC and FLAC files (did both cause why not).

Then I just let itunes deal with keeping them up to date. I also generally purchase music from itunes or amazon and just dump it into itunes in general for syncing. Itunes radio is also passable for discovering new songs so streaming works ok.

For video, to be honest I have 2 that I have on my phone right now. One is the original star trek remake movie as I wanted to see what an itunes movie was like. The rest are just a bunch of ripped via handbrake dvd files on my nas server.

As to vlc being a pita to setup for streaming, my annoyance with it is in regards to setting up ftp, or http to get it to stream video files that I honestly can't be bothered to convert just so that I can play them on my iphone. I managed to get things working but the amount of effort was quite ludicrous to the point that i'd rather just use ffmpeg and convert the file manually then dump it into itunes to sync it. VLC on ios is not very useful.

My main issue with vlc is that it can't mount the existing afp (or nfs for that matter) share that my fileserver has for all my video files. And setting up transcoding to mp4 just made me realize that there are better uses of my time than dealing with such piddly issues. I'd rather be learning rust for example than dealing with streaming/transcoding issues to my phone.

I'll look at the three apps you mentioned, but overall the music app in particular works for my use cases. The video app is also, ok enough for me not to hate it. But I generally just download some videos and then dump them onto my phone for playback when in a line and then immediately delete them. I'm a pretty basic user in that regard.
If you rely on VirtualBox, I would recommend to hold off on upgrading until you are sure that it will not break your workflow.

The big releases tend to have a way of introducing bugs, that although get fixed, can wreck your day if you depend on it.
There are lots of non-US examples here: http://government.github.com/community/
And again. We had the news about the same emulator one month ago, but without X and Wayland. But of course I like it :)
Believe me or not. The hard part was not to write the emulator. The CPU needs less than 1000 lines of code.
No, the hard part was to compile all those programs with the toolchain which is still in early development. Just to mention one example, shared Libraries are supported since one year.

The other part is the optimization of the emulator. The rules of normal programming don't apply here. In fact the difficult question is how to keep the javascript engine thinking that all variables are integers and not doubles.
"Skill Availability"... riiight.

You know, one of these days this argument might catch on in other industries. For instance you go to the doctor and say "Doctor, I have a sore throat" and the doctor replies "Well, you might need your tonsils removed, but in order to do that we'd need to hire competent surgeons - how about we just punch you in the face until you forget about your throat"
I think it's kind of hilarious how these guys are badmouthing hackers as slinging things together, and then go on to aggrandize the government and payroll systems. Most systems are slung together with lots of duct-tape, and I don't think government/payroll is an exception.
"(Drudge, Mother Jones)"

Holy false equivalence Batman. Drudge is a hardcore propaganda rumormill and linksite. Mother Jones does serious original reporting and opinion.
And there are some exceptions! The CFPB, in particular, has a number of extremely talented young people doing awesome work and in-house development for them -- and they open source a great deal of work: https://github.com/cfpb
> Projects without profit don't exist.

Depends on your industry. In finance there are many, many projects which have to be done for legal compliance. There is no 'profit' for the company; the goal is to be permitted to remain in business.

Funds have to be allocated to do the project, but it brings in no new revenue. It might actually incur new costs, such as ongoing storage for audit logs.
How the Business of Software conference changed my life
New Android Context-Aware Launcher: Aviate By ExGooglers
I can't help but be a structured thinker and I have to exert effort to go with the flow. To be honest I probably rarely, if ever, actually go with the flow. If you're strategically thinking that you are going to "go with the flow" then you are actually still using structured thinking. A bit of a catch 22 there.
Yes. It is certainly more pithy.

ACTUALLY! It reminds me of a technique Bisqwit used when he made his emulator. He used strings to define the behavior of certain instructions, the strings were actually interpreted at compile time. Though I think this is a C++ specific trick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y71lli8MS8s

he brings in the instruction table at 1:30
Twitter chooses NYSE over NASDAQ
I have not find anyone confused or irritated with intents. How do you share something without a list of choices?
Hooray, transmisogyny (as mentioned in the article)! Maybe you should be more respectful to LGBTQ folks and not misgender them. You're like all the self-proclaimed Chelsea Manning "supporters".
Looks perfectly minimalist to me. You don't want a flashy design to distract from important content.
Why not cover all of the bases?
Actually, I think you might need proof by implementation, I don't think it is obvious that purchase patterns have actuarial value, never mind single purchases (for instance, deferred refills and discarded food don't show up at the register, both are strategies for coping with fast food).
Devtools - Jump to Debugger
> For example, the Node community absolutely loves MongoDB for inexplicable reasons, and support for other datastores is terrible

Right, because everybody uses Postgres, right? All of the major database vendors are supported quite well, and just because hash storage in Postgres (which is already a stretch) is not as well maintained doesn't mean "support for other datastores is terrible).
Frax HD: Fractal visualization on iPad
This derivation assumed a uniform distribution of mass in an unstretched slinky, and that all the mass is stretchable. This probably means that in order for this to work with a human attached to the bottom of the bungee cord, the human's mass needs to be negligible compared to the mass of the bungee cord. Thus, the human getting crushed by the bungee cord is not a problem to be dealt with, it is a requirement.
Where is good? A friend who works for Al-Jazzera recently described going through customs in Israel and the US. It's blatant intimidation as far as I see it. Kids with gun holding him in hot rooms while interrogating him when in Israel and only a little better when in the US. Given the way most countries kowtow to the US and Britain, where could one work from without problem? And even then journalists usually need to travel and you're back at the mercy of other countries.
My least horrible experiences have all been with DreamHost as well.

Our company did reseller hosting for about 5 years and went through all of the acquisition stuff Marco mentions. We had to exit SoftLayer because they were horrible, only to be brought right back.

Hosting is a horrible business. To be good at it and have marketplace success you need to deliver over the top support; which is just unsustainable at scale.
Unsigned extensions should run just fine under Mavericks, you'll get an error/warning message on first install but a reboot should load it fine
Boxplots from a list, matplot of a matrix, all the cool default plot methods for various complex objects like clusterings, trees, models...

Maybe I'm alone in that, but I believe the power of R lies in its resilience and the fact that it allows me to write code that is equally obvious in what it does as how it does. The philosophies of one-true-data-structure and natural-language-like expressions doesn't play well with it, though I admit they are very useful for people accustomed to a declarative programming.
I use a bunch of them - AWS, Linode, Rackspace, DigtalOcean - as well as Hetzner and NineFold. I also "self host" both at home and at work with a few linux boxen, a Mac Mini, and a bunch of RaspberryPis.

I also use webhosting (as opposed to a vps) from a bunch of WHM hosting providors, Dreamhost, and for a handful of WordPress our clients who can easily justify the cost - WPEngine.
Yes. You can use local storage.
Since when does BuzzFeed break real news and not just blogspam? That's newsworthy itself.
We're actually building this product over at plaid.io!

Shoot me an email at william [at] plaid.io, always love to talk with people passionate about the space.
If profit correlated to value even most of the time, that would imply that Miley Cyrus and Justin Beiber are better musicians than Bach and Mozart, and that "Scary Movie 4" is a better film than Citizen Kane or Rashoman.
Web hosting customers are nomads. If your host hasn’t been ruined yet, just wait.

This line right here is absolutely sage wisdom. Here are some of the companies I've bought services from, as well as what I remember happening to them:

ClubUptime
Closed in a disastrous closure due to basically being conned.

DirectSpace
Still around, haven't changed much

VolumeDrive
Very sketchy, I don't really know how they're still in business

Fazewire
Local Seattle hosting/colocation company. Originally founded by a guy
when he was 15, he sold the company when he went to college.

URPad.net
Still around, only used them for a short period of time.

OVH
Amazon
Digital Ocean
This is simply not true. People are risk averse, and buy insurance to protect them from unlikely negative outcomes, not because they believe that the insurance company will, on average, pay out more than they pay in premiums.

I can invest $200 a month for the next 10 years, or I can buy health insurance. On average, I will have more money after 10 years of investing. But the additional $24,000 of savings will increase my happiness very little relative to getting the healthcare I need in the case of a catastrophic injury or illness. So I'll gladly lose a little bit of money every month (statistically) to avoid the possibility of that outcome.

Edited to add: one way to think of this is to pose the following thought experiment. Imagine that tomorrow you have a 50% chance of doubling your wealth and income, and a 50% chance of losing everything. What would you be willing to pay to guarantee that you keep your current wealth and income? If you're like most people, the answer is nonzero and positive. That's how insurance companies make money.
It seems like the kind of thing that well-intentioned people can get into without too terribly much capital, only to have things go totally non-linear on them. My own minimal needs have always been perfectly well met by Linode, so I recommend them if anybody asks me (which people rarely do.)

I've heard goodish things about Dreamhost, as well.
I think the Guardian would have published any details of government pressure, and other UK media would have joined in with strong condemnation.

Our publishing industry does have problems, but we're not that bad yet.