skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For all you know, I (or anyone else you email) could have a simple "forward all email to root@nsa.gov" filter running. If you don't want the second party to share your email with a third party, don't send the second party an email.
No, what oseibonsu was saying is that we're starting with humans in general (who are capable of feeling guilt), to narcissists (still capable), to sociopaths (incapable).
What you're saying is it's designed with the knowledge that it's going to cause false positives, and basically doesn't work well under anything more than minimal packet loss. I think this is probably an important factor to note in the description (and I still fail to see how this is considered highly available or fault tolerant, as described in Intro pages)
yep I was talking to Nick :)
Just being curious here: Is there anything "illegal" in that story? Sure, questionable morals of cause. But it looks a lot like a sexual relationship between two consenting adults.
SEC releases crowdfunding rule
This is exactly what I think I'm proposing to do. If you come across Planscope and think, "Interesting. I'd like to play around with this" you can - quickly - and with no time requirements.

But once you have a real life project that you're getting paid for, then you come back and kick off your formal trial.
Agreed. I find the half-open ranges impossible and stumble over them every time.

They are inconsistent within two characters: closed on one side, then open on the other.

If the notation was
>my_list[0:3)
at least it would be mathematically appropriate.
dotenv allows you to store env values in the .env file. envconfig handles normalizing the various ENV values from providers into a single configuration. Every provider has a different env value, such as POSTMARK_SMTP_SERVER, or SENDGRID_SMTP_SERVER. envconfig knows about these and provides a single service agnostic interface to that information.

.env and envconfig work very well together.
Looks like a good replacement for the vector side of flash and is partnered with Adobe. The SVG looks very clean and it is nice to have it load SVG files and create on the fly. Also awesome that it is made by the developer of the Raphael library.

One problem with intensely declarative content is bad naming, verboseness and strange groupings/ordering. Silverlight had this problem and SVG has it a bit in terms of content from other programs like Illustrator, SVG exporters etc. Adobe will probably be developing tools to edit this maybe? SVG support is still a little lagging and the web is missing vector frameworks since Flash has been sidelined with mobile.
Hackers, this is a case study in anti-patterns for a demo site.

Huge complicated UI, takes multiple clicks and ends at a dead end. Not even an pictures of example output!
Don't forget weaving.
My sister described pinterest as "Reddit for women". I don't expect most of us to understand its value as we're not the target demographic.

Curation is done like subreddits. People have their own pinterest boards. Like Reddit, only the front page is nonsense, but if you have a specific interest, you can find a subreddit/board for it.
Make the level editor open source, and the main site closed source? Make the core game engine open source, but keep the surrounding infrastructure closed? Let people modify and run forks of the game engine (different art, physics, perhaps) on your main site? Open source your last generation work (as applicable)? Just thinking out loud here.
dotenv reads a file into Ruby's ENV.

envconfig reads Ruby's ENV and exposes it as a useful configuration object.
envconfig-rails uses that to e.g. push the SMTP settings into ActionMailer.

The key value, though, is that envconfig knows about Heroku and Broadstack add-on ENV names.

e.g. when you add the MemCachier Addon, it simply puts MEMCACHIER_SERVERS, MEMCACHIER_USERNAME, MEMCACHIER_PASSWORD into your ENV. Envconfig knows those var names, and assigns them to the memcached service.

If you looks at the various provider mappings in e.g. https://github.com/broadstack/envconfig/blob/master/lib/envc... you'll see that it knows about ENV-provided, and static, configuration for each provider.
Yeah, that's understandable, thanks for trying though, we'll have more content soon, and it should be more stable to boot, so perhaps we can impress her at a later date. :)
To play the devil's advocate, how is this any different morally from what Gmail (and Outlook, and Yahoo) do with their external emails feature? In each case, you give them the credentials for your other account, they pull the mail and display it in their interface (which, presumably, adds some new features that doesn't exist in the other account. Like conversations and tags.) LinkedIn is doing pretty much the same thing.
Like a surgery center? They do have those.

I worked at a hospital for awhile, and one of the things I found interesting, though, is that the departments balance each other out. For example, our hospital did obstetrics more as a service to the community, since other hospitals were much further, but they always lost money on it. So maybe the reason we don't see surgery centers or things like that as often is that medical institutions are more stable providing a broader range of services.
Can someone provide a translation from Garble to English?

My hope is that the party was a troll -- a bunch of hyper-hormonal "hackers" would show up, not see any "hookers", and stop to re-evaluate their assumptions about the world.
Wil Wheaton, John Cusack Campaign Against NSA Surveillance
VBScript is 0 based for some stuff, but 1-based for slicing. Drove me nuts for a day until I figured it out inspite of the criptic error message. Hate VBScript for this reason alone.
No; she's not curating for friends, she's just using it as a pasteboard to collect ideas. But even without the intent to curate a collection for others to view, the purchase influence was there, and strong.
I've been using GMail with Mail for a while. Works fine for me. Upgrading to Mavericks changed absolutely nothing.
Yeah we talked about that as being the obvious next step but we had neither the time nor the skillset off the bat for it. A noSql DB would probably be the better option for that as well. (correct me if i'm wrong)
It's alright haha. Irony intended. I knew the response which is just people being PC without actually offering any substantive change. Tbh, I'd rather be openly sexist than to be socially liberal and closet sexist.
Serious question here, what are the technical limitations in ditching gTLDs and allowing domain names to be any string?
That's not too surprising. People sometimes have ugly face moles and stuff, and it's not too hard to cut it off.
I don't understand why one would not invest in a startup with insane metrics? What is there to not understand?

Has it ever worked out badly when an invesor invested in a startup with insane metrics?
Of course the average user understands that this feature allows LinkedIn to read their email... right?
Like you said, it's all about having everything under one roof.

If you fab the PCBs yourself and pick and place the components yourself, you could make an electronics change in one day as long as you get the design right the first time and you had ordered the components in advance.

Changing the case shape would be harder to do fast, but could still happen in just 2-3 weeks if you have your tool-making and injection molding both in-house.

The reason anything takes longer for most companies is due to outsourcing, with all of its communications delays and shipping delays.
1,1,1 is black, also
Any feedback welcome :)
Knight Capital fined a measly $12M for a software bug that cost $460M
This was nice to read. I only wish itertools count was available by default, in the same manner as range.
There is no "active misleading." On the contrary, the usage of the word "desire" in this context aids layman understanding of the subject.
Can anybody outline what possible justification there is for the continued use of antibiotics not as disease cure, but as prophylaxis and growth promoters in intensive farming? I heard about the stupidity of this as a child, from competent medical professionals, and decades on, nothing has changed. Rather than such socially rapacious short-sighted practices, we ought to be legislating better farming practices and tighter controls on these precious medicines.

I believe this is quite likely a worse issue than the other problem: the blatant overprescription of antibiotics by weak and obsequious family doctors looking to defend themselves from lawsuits and approbation from wealthy and stupid patients with colds and coughs, which has also accelerated resistance.
That comment digressed to discuss whether or not evolution plans ahead and "eventually discovers ways to overcome" as implied by the OP. Keep up with the topic :)
Ah yes, Erin. Everyone knows Erin.
Yeah, those are all definitely on our radar, especially the idea to keep some surrounding infrastructure closed. That might be motivated by the wrong reasons though, if we don't have to open source it, we can keep it at "internal use tool" quality and devote our time elsewhere. :)
Steem is an open source Atari ST Emulator
They spin out developed technologies in new companies. For example, IV spin-out Kymeta just closed a $50 million series C: http://www.intellectualventures.com/insights/archives/kymeta...
I can't help but feel this is an elaborate troll.

When I first encountered computer programming, we were still using line numbers. Now, about 20 years later, we've got Python and Ruby and Haskell and ubiquitous GC and… so many frameworks.

Programming is more futuristic than ever, and the tools available are continuing to evolve.
Just a Product Manager that wants to contribute.
Here's the deal. I'm a senior product manager in Austin. Most of my experience is hardware (semiconductor) or related software (IP, dev tools). I spend every waking moment reading Hacker News / Platformed.info / @asmartbear, playing with Rails/AngularJS/MeteorJS, or scribbling down ideas for new products.

I have plenty of time on my hands thanks to a management team that can't get out from under its own feet. My experience level puts me out of range of most folks' ideas of what a product manager should be. (This isn't a compensation comment. It's more of a seniority/culture comment.) But I've got a serious itch to contribute, and nowhere to burn off all this excess energy.

If anybody reading this has a need for been-there, done-that product skills, I'd like to hear from you. PT or contract basis fine. Just give me a chance to use the creative side of my brain.

@brianpiercy
Definitely, thanks for your understanding!
Setting up a Ruby on Rails development environment on Mavericks
My Fondest Programming Memory
Quite! Another comment has suggested a distributed model, but I haven't seen a social or technical mechanism for this yet. I hope we are inspired to come up with some options and protocols. I'm now putting brain backcycles on this for sure, and others may be work on this as a priority. I'm wondering if there's already an .org dedicated to this.
we spoke with a YC alum that has open sourced 90% of his codebase and recommended keeping a small subset of it proprietary. He said that when he was out fundraising it defused a lot of tension when VCs and angels would ask about his open source policy and he could say "well, I keep some of my hardest algorithms in a closed repo." As a game, we have the art, which I agree is a pretty substantial barrier to copying us (many tens of thousands of dollars in our case), but would you still recommend 100% open source vs 90 or 95%?

Well, you have users beating down your door. Fundraising is never easy, but you'll have a much easier time with it due to your popularity. And if Sequoia are smart, they will invest in you, because you've discovered an entirely new game design. Historically, whenever someone has invented a game design that turns out to be immensely popular (Pong, Doom, Minecraft, etc), that's almost always resulted in the company becoming a hugely successful game studio. So if you focus on growing your community and on keeping the game fun, then it's quite plausible your studio will be hugely successful too.

Additionally, if you release your code 100% open source, you will get an insane amount of goodwill from the gamedev community. Right now the community is starved for examples of open-source games that actually work. Right now newbie programmers can go find some code snippets for various little tasks, little parts of a game's engine, like how to draw a sprite. But a tangible, cohesive product? Something that newbie programmers can git clone and actually run, and which actually functions? That's almost unheard of. (Quake and Doom engines are open source, but they don't provide any art assets, so newbie programmers can't download the code and do anything useful with it.) And that's a very good position to be in, because it's unheard of in the same way Rails was unheard of before it became popular. Meaning, if you do it, then you'll earn the instant loyalty of thousands of indie gamedevs. The wonderful PR you'll receive will be such a huge benefit to your company that it seems totally unjustified for anyone to be concerned that someone will steal your idea by stealing your code. (For what it's worth, I know of exactly zero times it's happened in practice. Code theft is a very overblown concern, especially in a hits-based industry like game development.)

You'll also enjoy many intangible benefits derived from open sourcing a fully functional game. For example, after Rails became popular, 37signals probably found it much easier to find and hire talent, since they were a sexy company to work for. I would bet you'll wind up in the same position. In fact, just thinking about you open sourcing this game makes me want to go work for you. If newbie gamedevs can download it, run it, learn how it works, tweak it, and become inspired to make thier own games... well, that's what gamedev is all about. It's why kids want to be gamedevs rather than other kinds of devs. So you'll be a huge boon to the gamedev community, which means talented people will want to work for you because of it.
That's a big hope, considering the official response.
It's good to be the president!
Id Software, have made hundreds of millions of dollars (if not $1B)

They didn't make that much, far from that. Id Software has been sold to zenimax with all its assets including their IPs and their people for only (edit: and around) 1 hundred million dollar - because they were runnning out of cash.

My advice to the codecombat devs is at the opposite of pg's one: don't talk to the game industry. Most of all those said big players of the game industry aren't at all. They are actually bad software companies with poor revenues. Ubisoft for example never made more than a dozen percents a year or similar - I mean they never made 300%. You could be worth more than Id Software and even Ubisoft "easily" following the valley advices instead of the game industry ones. Really it's a myth the game industry is making well. At least, nothing comparable to the web startups. Only a very very few of them actually does like Valve, Riot and Blizzard.

Edit - a source about Id Software acquisition: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1092835/0001092835090...
I'm paraphrasing a bit, but here's your translation: "Yes, we confirm this is a misogynistic party hosted by assholes. We are upset that people are upset about it, so we're blaming them instead of apologizing properly."
That'll change. Someone is building out the identity right now. But I have a thing for monkeys. Don't judge.
Taking the Concert Home: How it Will Benefit Consumers and Artists Alike
The "w" as well.
Right -- but, like I said, I use multiple accounts that can't be unified into one account, and the logging in/out to access them is a mess.
I don't get it - what's the actual complaint? In my experience, Mail works fine with Gmail - multiple accounts and quite a bit of volume. The web interface seriously pisses me off.
I am sure many investors look to invest in companies that they understand, so they can leverage any expertise they have to evaluate why this startup is the special snowflake that will make a gazillion dollars.

If a startup has insane metrics but you don't "understand" their secret sauce, it may still be a sound investment, but I imagine you'd ask yourself if it was too good to be true, or due to temporary conditions, or rigged data, or something else, since you lack the expertise to understand why the numbers are so good.
Someone has to have root servers that serve the children of the TLD...where would those be looked up? The closest you could do is assume a TLD (i.e. .com) if it's not typed, but then you harm the non-.com names. It needs to be a tree where roots are controlled.
It's Dijkstra, look at the sibling comments.
What is hobbled about them, exactly?
Someone has to maintain a list.
The thing fuel cells have going for them is that "recharging" is at a speed near the current standard; just fill up with hydrogen and go. Batteries are still absurdly slow, and seem likely to remain so.

Musk thinks that some combination of drivers putting up with slow charging and engineering battery charging to be faster will be good enough to sell cars, and easier than getting fuel cells (and their fuel distribution network) up to par.

He seems to be right.

If we all had H2 taps at home, might be a different story. Overnight charging and a decent daily range less than likely use is the only thing that makes battery cars viable.
You could start here http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-27ju...
then why make sociopaths a subset of narcissists? it adds absolutely nothing to what he was saying. they could be completely separate sets and it wouldn't change the argument.

the wikipedia page on narcissists has no mention of sociopaths - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disord... - while the page on sociopaths only mentions narcissists as a possible subtype or coexistence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocial_personality_disorder

in short, when someone on the internet says contradictory things it's much more likely they are half-remembering something they read in a magazine five years ago than that they are a subject expert.
Photographer Captures the Ghosts and Beauty of Abandoned Locations
They seem to put it up after the event on the startup school website - http://startupschool.org/2012/.

The only one I found (a cam) is of the CodeCombat guys at office hours - http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ABuvR...
Zynga had amazing metrics too.
If LinkedIn changes their User-Agent string then they're right back in again.
Just The Beginning, Couples Video
Insane metrics? They might have a lot of shares but only 50 millions monthly active users ...
So happy for these guys! I let my kids play this and they love the game!
Hi guys! I'm one of the primary authors of SmartStack. Happy to answer any questions that aren't covered in the blog post.

We're also doing a Tech Talk on SmartStack today at Airbnb HQ; stop by if you're in SF: https://www.airbnb.com/meetups/33925h2sx-tech-talk-smartstac...
A number of people here all seem to be making the same mistaken assumption.

Just because they refresh their line of phones in batches of 100,000 on a weekly basis does _not_ imply that each change takes only a week to implement. Changes probably land when they're done, like the Linux kernel, no?

More competition is a good thing. Different ways of doing things is good - let's wish them well.
gTLDs do allow you to have a domain name that is almost any string - I think the max length is 63 characters after punycode encoding, however it costs a lot of money.
Didn't have much better luck with HTC.

"Hey, you only have the source for Android 1.5 for this phone on your website - can you please provide me the source for the Android 1.6 binaries you released."

"The only source available is that on our website."

"Okay, but under the terms of the GPL (which covers some of the code released as part of that binary), you must provide source code on request. You have the binary on your site and no associated source code. Please either provide the source code or a direct link to where it exists on your website."

"We only provide the source code on our website. Stop contacting us and have a nice day."

I mean, they did make an effort in releasing most of the source code, so they're by no means at the level of this company, however they're still in violation.

Cool story bro, I know. Just really irked me.
Yes - all good qualities to have, it is a two-sided coin (sometimes). Sociopaths are also said to make good businessmen.
> Why is it wrong...

It isn't in the public interest. When it is in the public interest it is only incidental.

> as opposed to giving out personal benefits

But that happens a lot. Campaign contributions, securing lucrative post-public-service jobs on K-Street or elsewhere, etc.
There's another reason that I haven't see anyone bring up. If your native unsigned integer type is the same size as a word (which is common), and a word defines the limits of your address space, and if you have a byte pointer initialized to 0, then 0-based indexing allows you to index into every byte in your address space, whereas 1-based indexing prevents you from indexing the final byte in your address space.

Additionally, assuming an unsigned integer type is used for indexing, 0-based makes every index valid and meaningful, whereas 1-based leaves one index value (0) as invalid.
According to the 2012 Pan-European Private Equity and Venture Capital Activity report[1], DACH (Austria, Germany, Switzerland) VC funds invested only €0.8 billion in late stage, startup, or seed money. The US[2] invested $26.7 billion total, but only 65% or ~$17.36 billion was in seed, early or late stage funds.

Comparing the VC/GDP ratios[3]:

Aus+Ger+Swiss VC $/GDP= $1.1 billion/$4.43 trillion. US VC $/GDP=$17.36 billion/$15.68 trillion. 1.107/.248=4.46

So the US invests ~4.46x more than Austria, Germany, and Switzerland combined .

[1]: pg. 38 http://imgur.com/2yjXmxT http://bit.ly/19wRbSH

[2] http://www.nvca.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl...
http://imgur.com/Axpz43j http://imgur.com/evITTbs

[3]: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD
The data alone must be valuable. If you were a brand and you got an idea of who pins your wares, and what else they pin, and their demo, you could really sharpen your marketing messages. You could also uncover affinities you didn't know about.
This article talks about the problem(s) in greater detail:
http://tidbits.com/article/14219
I made a Firefox add-on that automatically scrapes the GIFs on Meatspace as they come in:

https://github.com/fwenzel/refrigerateur

(Early version! Feedback and contributions welcome!)
Postbox lists a plugin for "Enigmail," described as "Send and receive signed and encrypted messages using OpenPGP provided by GnuPG."

I (obviously!) don't use Enigmail, but I've been a happy Postbox user for years. It also works fairly easily with S/MIME, which is what I've used for signing and encryption in the past.
? lobbyists are exceptionally well payed. Capitol hill is now a farm league for K street...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic,_Lost
It's like an infographic crossed with consumer reports crossed with a best practices post... I had wondered about the value of pages like this in magazines, but if you swap out women's blazers with say iPhone docks, I suddenly see the crack-like appeal of pages like this. Come to think of it, I seem to recall Popular Mechanics having a similar spread for power screwdrivers!
So... If you use it too much just open the phone up, void your warranty, and fix it yourself?

Versus (at least in theory) the design of microusb in which the solution is simply "buy a new $2 cable"?
We have this already. All TLDs are under the root domain, ".".
The Grim Math of the Working-Class Housing Crisis
Firm offers rides to the edge of space for $75,000 a seat