skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try GetName, NameHQ, OfficialName, RealName, or some other short word that associates with your company. If you're a bakery named "Flour" in NYC, for example, then try FlourBakery, FlourBread, FlourNYC, etc. Avoid geographic terms if you're a web startup though. Once you get some traction and have legal incorporation documents, contact Twitter. If the handle isn't actively being used by a company, they'll usually give it to you. It'll take a couple months though.

Source: your friendly neighborhood naming expert. I know of a couple companies that went through this exact process. Let me know if you have any other questions.
I also try to enable the dreams of others, but this ultimately makes me happy, too.

[ Taken from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo ]
ERAM is a quite troubled project. Just read the Inspector General's report. Sadly, many decades after the Mythical Man Month and much learned about software project management, we continue to see such efforts flounder.

http://www.oig.dot.gov/sites/dot/files/ERAM%20Final%20Report...
The one thing that I've been unable to find an alternative to is Youtube, weirdly enough. Largely because of the network effect (most of the people I wish to follow that post videos do so on Youtube).
there are 100s of such services out there (most query many more retailers to find the lowest price) + some offer API access so you can do revenue sharing.

the biggest player in the space is http://bigwords.com
Interesting comment about the L, S, and D usage and rhyming. I was particularly surprised by the effort that goes into Eminem's rap that I just contributed to "good flow". Some of that effort explained in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooOL4T-BAg0
Build shit.
Amazon.es is on my todo list. I should get round to it relatively soon…
It gives you 90% of the performance and control, great metaprogramming, all in a language that's much much much less of a minefield than C++.

Like, imagine you could write Python instead of C++, except that it only ran 10% slower instead of 10,000% slower.
2 ex-POWER RANGERS have started a video series.  And it's hilarious.
> But making unsigned types second class only reinforces bad habits (or what I consider bad).

What do you mean by that? Don't you think that having to do "import unsigned" before they use unsigned types, make some people think twice? Don't you think a few people might think "Do I really understand this feature? Should I perhaps read the documentation for this module?"
+1000 for this.

If I could boot up a VPS instance with DO or Linode, set up a bit of DNS and then do apt-get install two-factor-open-gmail then I'd be one serious happy camper.
It looks like it's been around half a years¹. There's also a reference to the Chromium bug² for implementing the same there.

There's also mixed content blocking³ which is a similar but user facing feature.

1: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762593

2: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=327032

3: https://blog.mozilla.org/tanvi/2013/04/10/mixed-content-bloc...
Until reading this article I assumed every 163.com email I saw was just using one of those temporary email inboxes, for fear of spam emails or due to privacy concerns. I, too, dismissed those emails and considered them as useless as seeing blah@blah.com. Now I know they're actual accounts, just based in China.
Going Back in time
I'm generally a fan of Fred's posts, but this one is odd. At least he calls it out at the bottom.

For starters, he's neither an investor in Square nor Box. There is zero evidence that Square was even prepping their IPO. As far as I'm aware, and I keep my ear to the ground, Square hasn't selected any bankers. They are far from even getting ready.

And Box will have no trouble attracting capital. Their valuation is a fraction of Dropbox's.

I'm not sure Fred is really in an authoritative position to write this post. He lacks facts about the two examples he cites. Linking to other news stories that are talking about rumors isn't helping tell a realistic story, it just perpetuates the echo chamber, which is not something he generally does.
It's enough to add a member to a class to break its ABI compatibility. It's possible to expose a stable C++ API but that normally requires extra classes implementing the PIMPL idiom, so basically the 3rd, C++ layer described in the article. PIMPL doesn't require the C API (2nd layer), of course, but if you need the C API anyway, for calling your lib from scripting languages, for example, then the 3 layers make sense. Lots of tedious work, but that's C++...
Thanks for the info. I just checked and I'm using 2.6.31 which seems to be the latest version: https://www.dropbox.com/release_notes

Also just checked permissions on files and they seem to be correct.

I'm running OS X 10.9.2
Girl dances in Small Spaces. This series is awesome.
I would really question the choice of drupal at first place,or any use of the PHP plateform.
I used to use a couple of competitors, but I was pretty dissatisfied with them all. I thought I could do better, hence the site...

bigwords.com also only seems to work for textbooks.
"No one has any intention of diminishing usability or making it hard manipulate URLS"

Except that's exactly what's being done here. You mean that no one is twirling their moustache saying "muahahaha, soon we will make search the only way to navigate the web!" like a bond villain. Of course not, that's stupid. That's not how things happen.

People are concerned that the intention is to make changes to chrome that value the primacy and visibility of URLs fairly low compared to other factors. Everyone involved is well meaning (especially with the "won't somebody please think of the elderly!"-ness of the anti-phishing agenda), they just have an unavoidable institutional bias. It's not a coincidence that these all make the google search bar more prominent. That's valued very highly.

If your criteria value X relatively lowly and you evaluate a bunch of things which are judged with those criteria you end up diminishing X. No one cares that you didn't "intend" to do it, they care that you are doing it.
Wouldn't you want to time the market? That's not hopes fading, that's just smart business sense.
OK, but my current build of Chromium also has the subdomain in black, leaving it susceptible to the trick described in the article.

The main point is that there are ways of going about this without having to kill the URL bar.
(Not the author, obviously, these are my own opinions)

Would the author want more realism in porn?

Yes, please!

Should there be more dates in porn? Awkward moments where the conquering male can't decide whether or not to pull his date's chair out for her? (...)

You're confusing "realism" with "boring stuff nobody cares about". A biography is no less realist because it doesn't include the person going to the bathroom.

In fact, I'd say the best porn out there is less shitty because it does away with some of the unrealism that permeates the industry: it allows the performers to acknowledge that they're doing a porn video instead of forcing them to act on a grotesque script written by the directors cousin, all the while sounding like morons because they're told to never shut up.

it communicates to the audience in a way that is immediately recognizable and plausible on a time-scale consistent with the pacing of the action

Good directors can do that without making its audience to be idiotic.

By the way, I'm not saying realism is above everything; like in your space fighter example, I think disregarding realism to achieve a particular stylistic effect is perfectly valid. But it should be a deliberate and well reasoned choice, not something bred out of ignorance and negligence.
Very nice!

Amazon offers multiple different kinds of shipping with different prices. (I expect the other vendors do too, but haven't checked.) It looks as if Piranhas picks the default, but I'm a cheapskate and rarely have an emergency need for a book, and therefore tend to choose "super saver" delivery for any items it's available for. If we're comparing against shipping from overseas, this is clearly pretty reasonable.

It would be very cool if you could, e.g., indicate how quickly you want a book, and have Piranhas choose an appropriate shipping option for each vendor.
My question:

When does a physical system reach a "halting state"?

This question has led me to some confusion when considering the possible isomorphism between physical systems and turing machines.
In Safari, you can tap the address bar and hold down on the url to bring up the pointer and scroll over to whatever you want to edit/copy. It's the same behavior in Chrome on iOS7 (apart from the fact that the pointer is at the beginning of the URL in Safari and in the end in Chrome, which albeit, is preferable).
Not only is the hacking and programming in most screen flicks fake or far from reality, it also continues to amaze me how some shows are completely dependent on the falsehood that some people can use a computer to hack, mine and get everything they want as long as it has a keyboard.

Take for example "Criminal Minds". It is about a group of profilers at the FBI who catch serial killers. There is this one girl on the team who consistently manages to find out ANYTHING with the computer she owns and greatly assists the team of profilers; she can access ANY database on ANY computer. So the team says "give me a list of people with x and y from z between 2000 and 2002" and she gets it (after, of course, fast scrolling green text on a black background).

Rambo movies must give the same feeling to people in the military. A scene which might be cringe-worthy to anyone in tech:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqtbN_VHXVA
True but in business that is still a model. The idea in business is to make money. Just like in sports the idea is to win the game. Which is not the same as saying "at all possible costs" but nothing really inherently wrong with playing the game this way. Imo of course.

For all the stories that you read about business success you never know what happens behind the scenes. But you also don't know about those that played, say, a fairer game, didn't make it (a lot of money that is) and that you've never heard of either.
Um, no. If I want to share a link to a specific page, there's no reason to assume that I want to share any of the query string that is not actually required for somebody else to see the same page (like all of the tracky goodness that seems to be ubiquitous on the web these days) -- and for the same reason, there's no good reason for you to assume that I want to click on a "share" thingy on your page. And while breadcrumbs may aid me in navigation on my visit, the "how did I get here?" stuff has absolutely zero value to anyone who arrived at the page using a deep link. Oh, and if you make any of that compulsory, you won't get a link; your information just became valueless.
A live HTML5 editor made with Node.js
It's not that I trust paypal, AWS or mega or dropbox or hotmail/skype or facebook or OpenDNS, but diversification is important. Do not become dependant on a single services provider, be redundant, always have a fallback service ready to deploy.
> Third case, dealing with raw data from networks, from devices, from flash memory etc. where you actually need to manipulate every bit accurately.

I just started working on this kind of application (well, USB protocols, but same issues) in Nimrod.

First of all: just do "import unsigned" and you can work with unsigned just fine. I don't see why this is an issue, any more than that you have to do "import libusb".

Second: I found that, knowing that unsigned types are a second-class citizen lead me towards writing a much better library. It encourages you to expose only signed integers to the next level up in the app. The next thing I realized is that this will very quickly cause Nimrod programmers to write and adopt a "Protocol Buffers"-like library for dealing with network protocols, binary files and similar things. And that will be a much better solution than dealing with things like unsigned integers and endianess in manual code.
List of upcoming Top Level Domains
Yes, the urbanization argument for this time it's different. There is bound to be massive urbanization in China. However what it ignores is the price of housing the newly urbanized can afford. Eventually it will have to settle to the economic value they add in the global marketplace. The price of housing at many of these new ghost cities is already close to the level of heavily developed western cities. So that leaves two possibilities

1.	Every newly urbanized Chinese person moving from the country side will generate the economic potential of a Chicago or London person. So another 200 million investment bankers I suppose.

2.	The property values of these ghost cities will dramatically deflate to measure up to the economic value added by the newly urbanized. Which means the value of these massive properties needs to written down by the banks.

Most people making the urbanization argument assume that option 1 will invariably occur. When in fact it is overwhelming likely that option 2 will occur looking at the massive number of people being urbanized and the massive deflationary pressure on every occupation. Urbanization per se will not cure the ghost cities problem. You have to look at the prices too.
So how do you make it so that text always sizes to fit its container, vertically and horizontally? i.e. Sliding font size and letter spacing. Pixel perfect on any screen?
Couldn't find Aceyalone - I thought he'd be in the top 10, I guess he wasn't included.
The way my brain works, I’d rather update yaml files than debugging shell script. And because I obsess over this stuff anyway, osxc looks quite appealing.
Users value software that works. The driving forces behind featuritis have very little to do with what users want.
I recall part of the Dr Who documentary-ish flick "An Adventure in Space and Time", where the Hartnell character is being given direction to press buttons for a shoot.

"You'll flip a few switches and then do the button for opening the door. OK?

"No... no no, I can't do that. The switch for the door is over there, that panel over there. I have to move around for it after I stand here. The kids will notice, so we have to do it that way. Hm? Yes?"

"... uh... ok sure. Whatever. Go ahead"

I still notice, and it's a more rewarding experience.
Movie Review: Rio 2
A nanorobot is a lot different from what you might think of as a macroscale robot. Most of these systems have perhaps two or three functional states, like an enzyme that can switch more than one active configuration. These are still much much less complicated than even the simplest of viruses.
Bunch of scrolling data

Like in the Matrix?
> "Utility" is absolutely a better word for this, because "pleasure" often has the connotation of immediate physical euphoria

Utility is worthless without getting you something, which is pleasure. I'm just stating it in more fundamental terms than you are, and getting right to the point. Talking about it, intsead, as "utility" is just making it more absract and muddying the waters.

And it doesn't matter what connotation you think pleasure has---I have stated the definition I am using, and it's not the connotation you want to associate with it. If you have a better term than "pleasure," let me know, but "utility" is not it. "Joy" would work. "Happiness" would work. Presuming a certain definition of those things which essentially equates to a generalized form of long-term emotional pleasure.
ICQ is kind of an example of the numbers-website phenomenon in English: the letters themselves are meaningless, but when pronounced sound like "I seek you" (compare to the Alibaba example in the linked article).
It seems to me that the entire benefit to this scheme could better be achieved by say bolding the domain part of the url, or perhaps displaying it in a different color.
Why not just colour the domain?
My claim in this thread, the thing we're ostensibly debating, is this: any reasonable political system will, at some point, have to force someone to do something.

Look, this is just true. We can trot out stupid (but valid) pedantic examples of crazy murderer dudes if you want. And you can try to move the goal posts, and I can object that you're trying to make me prove something much stronger than what I actually stated and also that your system stabilizes somewhere near the status quo because the only fair way to define "global harm not permissible across groups" is by democratic vote, and we can both lose an hour of our time over nothing.

But ultimately, fundamentally, pedantic games aside, if you want a bunch of people to work together closely, you're eventually gonna have to use some force against some bad actors.

This tangent about historical examples is mostly irrelevant, but I'll point out an important concession from your post, which I think underscores our disagreement:

> anarchocapitalist systems would be the first example of individuals within the system being able to freely choose between arbitration and security services

Exactly. So there is no historical evidence that this is feasible. Which was /exactly/ the claim for which you accused me of ignorance.

> Which are effective examples of the concept in history

Examples of polycentric law. Absolutely not examples of lower ranking members of society having carte blanc autonomy to join/create new groups. This much you've conceded above.

You've been conflating these two, which is why you accused me of being ignorant.

I'm not ignorant of the former. Rather, I'm pointing out that it is absolutely absurd to conflate examples of the former with examples of the latter (sans substantial justification, but ultimately I believe any such justification is fundamentally motivated more by ideology than sound, objective scholarship. In general, I am always skeptical history "research" which is both novel and also just happens to validate the author's political ideology.)

Regarding the rest of your post, there's a huge difference between not advocating anarchocapitalism and defending the status quo. You are accusing me of being complicit in every systemic injustice of the status quo because I think your specific alternative is unrealistic. Consider your company.
This poll should be broken into three separate questions:

- Do you trust Facebook?

- Has you usage level increased, remained the same, or declined?

- Did your trust level impacted your usage?
Repetition also seems like an huge issue given a 35,000 lyric limit. If someone repeats the same line 5-7 times it's hardly reasonable to count that when estimating vocabulary.

Edit: A quick check found 7 repetitions of the same 8 word phrase in a DMX song. Which I chose becase he was at the bottom of the list. http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/dmx/whatthesebitcheswant.html
The basics of how to design products that change people’s behavior.
What is the benefit of searching five different national versions of Amazon?
The point is that, "bare metal" is really a special case of programming.

Most general purpose programming languages don't have features specific for web-programming imported by default.

Nimrod supports bare metal programming just as fine as C. You just have to import the relevant modules, just as you'd import the URL module if you were writing a web-server.

Nimrod aims at being approachable to some of the Python/Ruby crowd as well, who are used to numbers that are always signed and can't overflow. Defaulting to the biggest available signed integers, and discouraging library writers from throwing unsigned integers at you for no reason is a decent compromise.
Well, if you ever want to build any real world system other than just a blog or any corporate website (which frankly would better be done with wordpress), then you're confronted with the fact that everything can't simply be done instantly and / or upon an http request.

Think of things like monitoring, reporting, emailing, analytics, cleaning, archiving... the list goes on.

For all those things you need a job system. Celery is (to my knowledge) the most popular one.
Good for him!

I met Alexis last fall when he spoke at Google. Both in person, and in reading his book, he has a lot of good advice for building businesses and also performing work for social good (like his net neutrality campaign). His book is, BTW, a good read - recommended.

I wish we could clone more copies of him :-)
Thanks for the feedback.

A shopping cart approach is something I've thought about, but I'm not sure when I'll have the time and/or energy to get it done…
Posted 1 hour ago, with 38 up votes, and it's on the bottom of HN's second page? This was on the front page minutes ago. HN's ranking algorithms seem to get abused whenever a submission is even remotely critical of Google, I assume because of people "reporting" the thread. What's happening?
Don't think so: it would hide the correlations, which are especially interesting.
OP: Did your analysis of MF DOOM include his work alongside Madlib as Madvillian or his various other pseudonyms (King Geedorah, Viktor Vaughn, etc.)?

I find it a little hard to believe he's not at least in the Wu Tang/Canibus/KK cluster, if not #1 overall.
I'm so going to use it. Thanks for open sourcing it!
> We hide most of that implementation detail from the user because it's non-essential to the task at hand.

and then you have tons of security holes and bugs. Remember when browsers thought it was nice to hide loading from the user, and every site had to add "do not click submit twice" and such? what's next? one page apps relying on a share button and then having to write "do not share via the hidden URL"? ...google maps was like that for ages now that i think of that...

We should be coming up with ways to make information denser and more meaningful. not scarcer.
Fast-forward to today when the red light has been replaced with a picture of a padlock.
It's mostly useful for those of us who don't actually live in a country with an Amazon “presence”, so to speak. I can never really be sure which Amazon will be cheapest for me here in Finland.
From Startup Game to Universal Game
It is interesting to see that both Google and Microsoft were profitable before going public.

The ratio from cash raised/revenue at IPO is something investors should look at before buying stock.

A company should not go public while loosing money, that is what venture capital exists for.
One of the more popular OpenDomains I have is 17m.com - auite a few people ask to use it for a group buying site. This article helped me see the importance of numbers, but when I looked it up on google translate but could not understand what '17m' was supposed to mean. Can anyone tell me?
// Suites of benchmarks consist of a name and the set of benchmarks in
// addition to the reference timing that the final score will be based
// on. This way, all scores are relative to a reference run and higher
// scores implies better performance.

https://github.com/Nubisa/jxdocs/blob/master/benchmarks/core...

For complete clarity, see also the lines

https://github.com/Nubisa/jxdocs/blob/master/benchmarks/core...

The score is (arbitrary reference constant) / (geometric mean of runtime). Bad performance ==> longer runtime ==> lower scores.
Yes, we have already been associated with CRY from past 1 year to collect & monitor this data in Bangalore. We would be surely working to take issue of Malnourished Children in more focus using data analysis & visualization methods.
IOS does that. and for once i want to see apple remove one feature from google via lawsuits :)