skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's at http://thecupcakeblog.com/ , if you're curious. Personally I don't think the site is worth that, given the demonstrated revenues and what the market is typically like for sites with this model [1], but then again the fair price for most things is where a buyer and seller agree it is.

Here's the auction page on Flippa:

https://flippa.com/2736282-over-1000-ad-rev-199k-visits-475k...

[1] You'd probably be looking at about $10k for it usually: trailing year's proven revenue. Nothing about it is defensible at all.

Incidentally, if you were bound and determined to be the source for cupcakes online rather than a content scraper in the middle, you'd end up producing a site like:

http://www.christmas-cookies.com/

My SEO buddies and I ballparked owning that site as being roughly as lucrative as a full-time job as a cookbook author/editor (though it may have suffered a bit since we spitballed those numbers, due to ranking changes and the like -- it no longer dominates results like I remember it doing in ~2008).
Looks perfect. Thanks!
Language guessing is rather hard when few letters are used especially if you use statistical methods. I think after 20 something letters you enter >%95 accuracy zone. In a simple library I wrote ( https://github.com/ahmetaa/zemberek-nlp/tree/master/lang-id Works for 60 languages but no docs yet) , for Turkish and English test results are:

For 20 letters

TR=95.90 EN=94.96

For 50 Letters

TR=99.44 EN=99.53

If 50 letters are used in a Doc, it identifies about 20000 docs per second in a decent desktop.
Good Vibrations - Mark Mark & The Funky Bunch (Feat. Loleatta Holloway)
http://icontherecord.tumblr.com/ Really?

I didn't realize that our intelligence services were using Tumblr as an official communications channel now.
What kind of music do you guys listen to when you design or code?
In this version, no. But you will be able to do this in the next one.
Lohman/Lohmann was originally a German name [1] (and Lohmann is still very common in Germany).

[1] "Loh"/"Lohe" is an old German word for wood/forest. See also the many German place names containing "loh(e)", such as Gütersloh or Dortmund-Loh.
Save 25 times your annual spending, invest it in index funds, and you are financially independent. Spend the rest of your life working on whatever you think is important.
I haven't started paying, yet. Last year, I bought an HTC phone that gave me a bunch of space (20 gigs?) free for two years. I have 27.5gb and I am using 5.75 of it today. My account will either drop back down to 7.5 or I'll start paying to keep it. At my current rate of usage, I'll certainly be using some of the free space by then.
It is that surprising? When you have limited dev resources it's smart to focus on the platform that would garner the most attention and profit.
Have you look at the metadata returned by a tweet? They also returned language, as well as location of the tweeter, which gives you some clues.
cool, how did she pick her client's and how did she turn a client away that wasn't a good 'fit'?
Obama's Approval Rating at All-Time Low. How Did That Happen?
Moom has worked well for me. http://manytricks.com/moom/
Well, one problem is that publications like the wsws are not news in the strict sense. They do not have the staff and the founding that's necessary to engage in traditional reporting. What those publications are doing is to interpret secondary sources. The article in question does little else than showing us the authors reactions after watching [0]. Some people might find this reaction of the "International Committee of the Fourth International" interesting, but I guess it's safe to say that most are not. About most people here being able to evaluate the accuracy of those sites: That's the problem with posting links like that. People read it, look at the header and dismiss the whole thing as completely blown out of proportions, which sadly isn't true this time.

[0] http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/story/about/id/601700/n/manus...
Your points are good ones for something like GMail (where a single account allows access to many Google services and includes a potentially huge trove of other private data).

For github though, the the repos you have read (or commit if vandalism is the risk) access to are the data in question, so unless you use your github account for other things, I'm still not really seeing the benefit to the end user if you still have to store OAuth tokens everywhere you actually use git.

Can github issue OAuth tokens that are restricted to a specific repo? At least that would prevent a token leak exposing other repos that you had access to.
Simple and cool! I'm starting to learn python so I'll definitely be looking through the source, thanks for posting, flask looks like a nice little framework to get started on
Honestly, I'd rather you browse my sites, I don't mind if you disable tracking. Supporting you screwing with my scripts is another matter, it's hard enough to build features, support all the browsers and platforms and realistically people like you are less than 1% of my traffic.

I use tracking to make better products and learn about my audience. Nothing about privacy gets in the way of that.
I actually laughed out loud when I scrolled past the exploded view of its innards. Best use of parallax scrolling I've ever seen.
I'm pretty sure someone involved in fighting Judaism would have a basic understanding of how it spreads. What a weird comment.
Wow, that is interesting. Things are different when the budget is $500/month and position 7 might yield one click a year...
Anglophone countries that have the shittiest attitude towards border control these days

Meh, any Western hand-wringing about the evils of Anglophones has to be counter-balanced with the fact that net migration to those "evil" countries continues at a brisk pace, often illegally.
Bicycle Lights UK
I use it for backups. Put important documents in a truecrypt volume. Copy said volume to dropbox.

For non-sensitive items like books, pdfs, etc... dropbox makes it easy to find items online and then share them across my tablets, phones, and other computers.
Out of curiosity, has there been an accidental detonation of a nuclear bomb yet? I browsed through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_nuclear_accide... but could only find non-nuclear detonations.
Lookout Debuts A Mobile Security Suite For Business
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Alibaba?
Link: http://stage1.io/survey?ref=hn0
You can express your opinion without stooping to crude insults. In fact, people listen to you better when you do, in my experience.
Gutted it's only for Retina & Mini (i.e. not the iPad 2) [1] devices as well :( This would have been an amazing Christmas present for my wife.

[1] http://shop.fiftythree.com/ (System Requirements at the bottom)
I would think it would have to be passion for the job.
Daft Punk - Get Lucky
yt - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NV6Rdv1a3I
You can if you use http://www.macbartender.com - it's really handy for hiding all your taskbar apps.
As a man thinketh
Impressive, especially since it is still fairly readable. On the other end of the spectrum, I give you raytracing on the back of a business card, in C++.

http://fabiensanglard.net/rayTracing_back_of_business_card/
Exactly. If you're using boto.s3.connection or boto.s3.bucket you can change that to mimicdb.s3.connection and mimicdb.s3.bucket.
Disagree. I agree that many current 'Smart TV' efforts are awful, but the concept is very, very sound. There are TVs with Hulu and Netflix just a few remote presses away - people want that. AV nerds are a small market by comparison.

This seems like more of an extension of hardware manufacturers still not being good at software. I'd say Samsung's version of Android proves that they still aren't great at it (but are getting better).
I thought this was making fun of all of the useless products that are marketed with these flashy web pages.

Then I realized that they were actually serious.
Would the 12k Facebook likes and 31k Twitter followers play into the price at all?
As a Canadian I've learned we seem to get practically waved through as well. The most pleasant immigration experiences I've ever had have been in Germany and France over the past few years. By far the least pleasant experiences have been travelling from Canada to the US.
Just tried that (Firefox 25 on OSX). It didn't work. Down arrow does nothing, and there are no AwesomeBar matches, so there is no drop-down. Maybe you have some configuration option set?
Seven ways identity, access management will change in the enterprise
What is so funny about it? I think the first reply is spot on.

In fact, one of the best things about Dropbox is that they worked very hard on removing any barriers, including making sure that it can be installed on a windows machine without requiring administrator privileges.

I am confident that a large percentage of their users would have been unable to use Dropbox had this issue not been addressed.
Twitter: Congrats, thank you and WTF?
Paper is one of my favorite app on ipad. Pencil looks innovative and promising . But I was using the app effectively with stylus, also palm detection is something which can be done at application level.
> If I understand BTC correctly then the return on mining is going down.

The cost in terms of hashing effort expended to produce new bitcoins goes down over time, and eventually no bitcoins can be mined, however, there are two reward systems for mining: first (and by design important in the early stages of bitcoin adoption) is production of new bitcoins, second (and by design important in the late stage of bitcoin adoption) is transaction fees.

Remember that miners are the ones verifying transactions in the bitcoin network, that they can prioritize which transactions to verify, and that all transactions can include an offer of a transaction fee as a reward for verifying them.
Good idea. Maybe in the future it will support different backend databases. For now, Redis is perfect.
I am 35 and I share this mindset about close relationships. Family is similar to a start-up in that founders should be prepared to carry each other through ups and downs pooling the risks and sharing not only profits but losses.

What I learned from failed relationships so far is that you have to be careful who you closely associate with for start-up and family purposes alike. The initial excitement and enthusiasm might be blinding, you owe it to yourself to vet candidates carefully.
I imagine Tesla's firmware code is leaps and bounds ahead of what passes for code in the mobile world. I don't think we appreciate how well written code can be because in consumer electronics half-assed work for making deadlines are the norm. As much as I like Android, I certainly don't want an android powered car or pacemaker. Its a fast moving ugly project that moves fast enough to keep up with its competitors. Its not an example of carefully written code that typifies most embedded systems.

Note I wrote most. I am aware that some organizations like Toyota engage in poor practices, but there's more the exception than the rule.
Kid Loco - Ann
HP research finds vulnerabilities in 9 of 10 mobile apps
One of the most insightful comments I've read on HN. Love your idea of taking the Unix approach to hardware - don't know enough about hardware hacking to know if that's doable but I like the idea!
What do mean by the skill base ?
New Plan for a Disabled Kepler
I would be interested to know how you recorded this. Including the stats.
> illegal immigrants can't vote to begin with

On a related note, this is why there's a rather huge debate over whether or not someone should be required to provide identification when they vote.

Without trying to spark a partisan discussion, those taking positions against voter ID requirements are the ones you'd expect to be opposed to illegal immigrants voting, and those in favor of voter ID requirements are the ones you'd expect to benefit the most from illegal immigrants voting.

Meanwhile, both sides have framed the argument in ways that bring up everything except immigration.

In short, while I won't comment on who's right and who's wrong, the immigration debate in our country has nothing to do with immigration, and everything to do with the political windfall of which party gets to inherit the new voting bloc.
This is one of the areas where heroku does a great job. It's very good at cloning apps, if you're using their addons(memcache, redis, etc.) it'll take care of provisioning new instances automatically. We use amazon rds but that's the only thing we have to setup if we want a new environment. Now that postgres is available on amazon we'll probably switch to that which will mean we can even use a cheapo heroku postgres instance for product demos etc.

With regards to setting up a company to do this, I'm not sure. A staging environment really needs to be as close as possible to production. Perhaps docker will become enough of a standard that it'll be easy to match production apps much easier in different clouds...
The Border agents are paid to be paranoid.

You don't talk to police like you talk to a friend -- you keep the scope of the conversation limited to the question asked. You don't introduce the topic of Al-Qaeda. You don't go into political/religous discussions. Once you do that, you're putting the border agent/cop in a position where he needs to apply subjective judgement. You avoid that by not inserting unrelated noise into the conversation.

This isn't a US issue -- it's a clueless person issue.

Related: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik
Quite a coincidence. I was seriously thinking that I could really use an application precisely like this earlier today, and here it is!

Love it!
This is so wonderful and amazing....
Why non-smart especially ?
You're free not to connect it to the internet. That's exactly what most customers do with their 'smart' tvs : not plugging them or getting their hands dirty with the wifi settings.
Diophantus' Arithmetica
Thanks, that helped to clarify things.
Then, there is no point in buying this particular pen at all.
Twitter followers are just about worthless from a business perspective unless it's a staggering number (in my experience). You get a LOT more direct response from a Linked In group of 4,000 active members than a Twitter account with 100,000 followers.
Sorry, are you saying that had billg not shut down Courier, Microsoft would have made the iPad?

Its rather like the Winklevoss twins - if Microsoft could have invented the iPad, they would have invented the iPad.
You can call the .sync() function on an S3Connection or a Bucket object. The MimicDB instance is populated with the current data on S3. Also, syncing is stateless, so you can call it anytime to insure consistency.
The script for the scrolling effet: http://www.fiftythree.com/js/pencil.js
You're not alone, I feel the same. I'm becoming increasingly hesitant to go to the US for a vacation, despite there being some places I really want to visit. I've even turned down two very good job offers in the US.

My other developer friends seem to have similar, though not quite as advanced, feelings about the US. When I mention not wanting to go to the US I get plenty of "yeah, I don't blame you" responses.
Coming from the company who set their SAN switch support passwords to "badgers" by default...

To be fair I didn't know they actually had a research department.
The demo would be more useful if it told me I can drag the boxes after snapping them, and if the page had more vertical scroll space so I could see them stay in place when I scroll.
How many countries have you been to where there are 20+ "official" languages ? The point is that English (even though official) is not the only language of importance and most states/regions/cities have their own languages that are spoken . English glues things together but more like a duct tape. Hence, a lot of people (specially the poor) don't learn English as part of their daily curriculum and that really varies depending on the region.
I... think I agree with you. Can we get a clarity edit?
Dorot Frozen Herb Cubes
My pencil is paper compatible also.
Deduplication to enhance recovery speed and reduce storage costs
I've never experienced this behavior in Firefox. The Ctrl-K (or Cmd-K on OSX) combination this this:

- If the Search Box is in the toolbar, it puts the focus in the Search Box.

- If the Search Box is not in the toolbar, it navigates to Google.com (at least when Google is selected as the default search).

Are you sure you're not getting this from an addon?
Airport Coat Check
Noted. I didn't define that notation, I just simply pasted in what's in the Coq standard library so it would be clear how the triple constructor worked.

Agreed, could use if. I mainly used match with the true/false branches to make it as close to the original Erlang as possible, for readers unfamiliar with the Coq syntax.
The fix is somewhere else.
Fuck 'em. Someone should clone Paper on Android and take all the market share before the original developers port it. If this happens with enough iOS-only apps, the developers will start learning.
It beats the pants off of maintaining your own Wordpress installation, which is likely the next best thing.
Well if your story doesn't seem to add up then you might find yourself explaining things.

My point is really that there is no advantage to lying about being a student vs a rich tourist because they don't favor one over the other. They're not going to think "oh boy this person is really going to help our economy!"

Now, if you are planning to work illegally or overstay your visa - then you might want to make up a story!
Motion City Soundtrack - I am the Movie
PHP RFC: Slim POST data (HTTP payloads with a potential reduction of 200-300%)
Ovnimoon - The Source.
I think electric cars are great technology as well, but some of us are tired of reading about how a what is essentially a heavily-subsidized, California rich-person's "toy" is the greatest thing to happen to the automotive industry ever.

To me it isn't so much about wanting to see them fail, it's bringing expectations in line. I don't see many articles around here about the work the other car companies are doing in the space.
State of Clojure language features
Some "5 hour Energy" is all I need to be mentally strong.
Why would border guards react this way? For some, a job that has arbitrary power attracts people who want arbitrary power.
Yes. All startups evolve, but most that have evolved slowly could have evolved faster.
That's decent revenue. I'm not sure if it's sustainable for a site that basically has no unique content other than generic descriptions.

When you have a site making 'real' revenue on flippa at 1k a month, it usually will go for at least 3x the yearly earnings, if not more. She found a niche and should have kept going with it, outsourced or even took a year off without doing anything. The revenue would have likely still been there. Who knows if it would have lasted 3 years and ended up making her the $30k+ though.
Single Page App Book
Nice work. Might be interesting to be able to add our own backends, e.g. allow a URL to be entered in preferences and then SnappyApp just does a regular POST of multipart/form-data and the "Location: ..." returned by the server is copied to the clipboard as the shareable URL.
The purchase price reflects the fact that 479,000 page views is worth more than $1000 per month.

That is $2.08/1k views (CPM). In a niche space like cupcakes, doubling that to $4.00 is extremely possible.

If someone purchases the site looking at those 500k page views, and expects to be able to monetize at a CPM of $4, then $36,000 is a fine deal. It's a lot of risk, but not insane.
IETF reserved TLDs .test .example .localhost for development and testing
The web site misses one obvious sentence: "Pencil is a ...". I spent 60 seconds on the web site, did not understand what the heck is this thing, and closed the web site. Will never open again I guess.
Most contemporary Ashkenazi Jewish names are German in origin.
Takes a good five minutes to fill in but will be interested to see the results of this.

I suspect it will be people who want a more up to date, more stable sublime. We'll see.
HOOD INTERNET
https://soundcloud.com/duuuuuuuuuuuuuude/likes
SC13: Top500 lists the world's fastest computers
IE still has no support for WebRTC, right? Just checking.
Actually, Congress hasn't been allowed to see the treaty either.
LXC is interesting. It has been around probably for 5 or 7 years or so. At least I remember looking at it then. Then it just kind of made slow progress. It has been in the kernel since probably since 2.6.30, for example. But aside from kernel and virtualization forum discussions, it just didn't get much attention. That was kind of odd because it is a very cool piece of technology.

Then I guess something happened in the last year or so and all of the sudden it became very popular. dotCloud certainly has a lot to do with it. Was it better libvirt integration, too, perhaps: http://libvirt.org/drvlxc.html

Now of course it cannot completely replace KVM because it is more of a container than a full virtualization. So running Windows VMs on will not work. For Linux one could probably have a farm of hosts based on various distros (with LXC enabled) and that would provide the ability to run various Linux OS guests, by picking the hosts that matches it.
The current trends in mobile apps, and smartphones pushed such "silos" of functionalities not open to other devices, forget hacking. It's time for someone to develop an open source hardware and make all the protocol open, and maybe call it "finger"..

Edit: on the other side, we have Rasperry, Arduino etc..
This is not the first ad Google made. Do you remember all those Chrome ads about a family? This one just happens to be even more melodramatic. Nothing sinister going on here.
Reminds me of a prototype I had seen a few years ago, Conté, after the artists crayon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDqT_oKM7j8
A Diver's Rise, and Swift Death, at the Limits of a Growing Sport
Yes, maybe I should have been more explicit, sorry.

I'm now using dedicated servers, so staging is quite straightforward. But before that, I was in a company which had two heroku applications tied together through api, and a dedicated aws for optical processing (also tied through api).

Having two apps was mainly a memory concern with heroku dynos and the third on aws was to install custom software, so we had three applications where we would probably had a single on dedicated machines.

Anyway, the pain in that was we had to replicate the exact same relation between all staging apps, mirroring production apps (so, two heroku apps and one on dedicated server).

I can imagine that such app specialization is something we will see more and more, thus the harder task it may imply in staging env setting.
Quick KDE question from a KDE noob: When you open the KDE Menu, is there any way to make it focus the search textbox by default?
Or is there a faster way of searching an application or file other than opening the KDE menu?
When I tell people about an automated staging deployment platform (let's not talk about a company yet, even if that is indeed the ultimate goal), they often ask "what does your product do that heroku doesn't?". That answer is simple, it's in the vision of the product. Heroku is production platform, and everything is geared toward great performance, ease of setup and scalability. IMHO, only one of these characteristics is essential to a staging platform: ease of setup.

I think the real added value of a successful staging platform will come from staging specific features, like making everything automated, easing feedback gathering, one-click staging/prod mirroring, etc. Docker and other isolation or virtualization technologies are most certainly a step in the good direction, but that's precisely what I'm trying to mesure with that survey and the discussion around it.