skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First thought: is that serious? The "please enter your credit card to see if it was stolen" page appeared here not long ago.
Then again, giving my email address away is not quite the same as giving away my twicebook credentials.
In any discussion of Flash performance, usually someone posts a report of their CPU fan spinning up each time a web page with Flash is running, or a performance meter getting pegged, or the computer's performance notably degrading. So there's reason to suspect that mobile Flash will suck more battery than a native app.

It's possible that Flash's movie clip-based object model encourages a "polling" approach to interaction over an event-driven approach, making it harder for the CPU to sleep.
How does it work? What does it do technically that blocks facebook, etc from tracking?
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The tone and popularity of this sort of reply really bothers me. The grandparent is the best explanation of the actual business decision in the entire thread. How was any of it "straw man"?

Trying to get paid for your product when someone uses it isn't any more of a "cash grab" than any other company selling any other product for money. In other industries when a maker sees no share of the sale of his work, we usually find a way to call what happened to him what it is: theft.

If EULAs were enforced, the situation would be different since the "non transferable license" would maybe kill the commercial used games market.
More importantly, under the hood almost every one of the projects he mentioned are minor variations on plain linux and so already are co-operating in exactly the manner he proposes.

WebOS is kind of famous for just being a vanilla linux underneath. Android is famous for the opposite, but it's already resubmitted the major point of contention to the main Linux kernel and apparently it will get merged this time.

The fact that Canonical hired this guy is almost enough for me to jump ship to another distro. He's genuinely frightening in his pointy-headed boss-ness.
It isn't. You'd never include this on an actual site due to compatibility, whereas doing it in jQuery would ensure it works on even IE6. All the "cool effect X using browser specific css" posts you see everywhere on the net are pointless.
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I guess Gmail did not release this feature because it might confuse some people. At first, when the filters are not well trained, there are many errors, so I guess, many people would not understand why and would think that Gmail does not work well.
JCoglan's faye (bayeux for node.js) has some built-in "intervals", i.e. timers, which regulate connection reuse and how messages end up bundled together in bulk transmissions -- this can cause an apparent increase in latency, I've run into this problem myself.

By changing the interval and reconnection settings one can reduce the latency, but there are some side-effects, i.e. the faye-client connection seems to become less stable.

I've poked around in the faye codebase myself -- it's non-trivial to try and pull it apart. I've not yet had success in figuring out what could be changed to enhance the library in its service as a near-real-time messaging transport for high bandwidth, very high message count use cases.

The author seems to be a very busy man, but if enough intrest was shown, JCoglan might be willing to work on optimizing it (and documenting it) further.

In a local network setting, in various tests, I've had at times 40Mbps, with message rates in excess of 10,000 requests per second flowing through a single faye process. The latencies were on the order of 10-100 ms And this was sustained over a period of hours.
Seems like a simple business problem: find someone or some company that has the seeds you need in country, set up an account with them to ship to local addresses. Or worse comes to worse, set up an affiliate program, find a citizen of that country here on HN and have them go to a shop, buy the stuff and mail it on time for cut of the action. These people could also become great forum moderators as they want the site to be a success.
In the US, you can get a Droid running Android for $20. Compared to a iPhone 3G for $99 or a 3GS for $199. Both require a 2-year contract.
I'd like to see this again except:

- Way more than 12 seconds long.
- Something more in the range of 90,000 clients.
- With source code.
No, of course, I was just flagging the point that it works via frames and so people wanting to try it would want to be apprised of that, 's'all.
I think you just answered your own question. I'd say just about every Unix box on the planet has Perl holding it together somewhere in there. What you've asked is essentially like asking "How does mortar hold buildings together any more than bricks, steel I-beams, or roofing?"

These things are equally important, and yes you could probably find a substitute, but why?
It's the idea of progressive enhancement. Markup for your content, CSS for your presentation, and JavaScript for behavior/functionality.
While I don't feel that this post brings up anything particularly unique, I think that it is a good reminder to keep away from feature creep and to stick to doing a subset of tasks well. As I work on my side projects, I keep reminding myself that my goal is not to match every possible feature but to do a simple task well.
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What is also important to note is that if someone's data gets compromised, our data is also at risk if we are friends with that person. My fiance uses Yelp and stays logged into to Facebook, and could indirectly compromise any of her friend's data (and even the information in her inbox).
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You could always establish relationships with local mom and pop local growers who can do all the shipping for you locally and deliver pots/soil as well - As a potential iteration.
I don't get this. Care to explain?
I'm currently working with another HN member to develop a startup based around doing things in real life with your real life friends. It is planned to be exact opposite of Facebook. Whereas Facebook is about playing Farmville, and other virtual distractions, our startup is aimed at helping you coordinate real life offline activities and events with your real life friends. Where Facebook harvests your info and violates your privacy, our startup will allow you to have complete privacy, and choose which info you want to share with your friends and which you want to share with the rest of the world.

The code is only about 25% percent done (I'm working on this in my spare time around college classes and freelance web design work) but I hope to get it done within about a months time. I'll definitely be posting it here on HN for you and others to review and join if you desire.
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On a related note; Facebook seems to use all manner of metrics to suggest friends. Here's a view I have been able to pin down:

- common IP addresses (this occurred after about a week of common IP address between two accounts)

- constant geolocation commonality (as above, two accounts with no links, two different IP addresses but geolocated to the same place)

- having a certain number of groups in common (unsure of this one, but it is the only link I can make for one suggestion)
It's not like the whole industry is fighting Apple, they are all fighting for marketshare.

I this the Motorola co-CEO Sanjay Jha is correct:

> I've always felt that owning your OS is important, provided you have an ecosystem, you have all the services and you have an ability and the scale to execute on keeping that OS at the leading edge. And I continue to believe that at some point, if we have all of those attributes, that owning our own OS will be a very important thing.
nope, especially makes me think of "gyro"

maybe make the first C the same as the second C
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I once had a computer running all the time to run POPFile and filter my Gmail messages through IMAP.

At that time POPFile+IMAP was not very stable and POPFile would crash often. And also, it was a pain to have a computer running all the time at home only for this.

Then, there was another problem. POPFile would run every two or five minutes, so when I opened Gmail I used to find not yet filtered mails in the inbox.

If you make a webservice that does this right, I will consider using it. Now I'm using Opera Mail, which is very nice, but the training is local and, therefore, I don't have the same filters and training at home and at the office, which is rather painful, sometimes.

I'm sure there is a succesfull business behind this.
I don't understand. Of all the privacy concerns I may have about facebook, cookies on my browser are the very last.
I don't know much about trading but would there really be any real harm in artifically slowing down trade, like only executing trades once per day?

These events all seem like mass psychosis to me, it's not like anyone can objectively evaluate the condition of the economy in the two minutes that is "a lifetime of trading". I thought for a market economy to work well, the actors need to rationally evaluate the consequences of their actions given all possible information. That's going to take some time for everyone, if trades happen faster then it's just basal instincts like fear that will govern the action.

The market is supposed to reflect the state of the economy, but somehow it's all backwards and more like the economy reflects the state of the market.
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Perhaps you mean increase loading speeds? And perhaps you mean its rather than it's.
Someone in that reddit thread brought up this particular startup that Facebook acquired in February

http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/19/octazen-what-the-heck-did-f...
Wow. What a great weekend project. I think you hit the nail on the head with this one man. Definite problem, definite solution. The only two issues I see with the site are really pretty superficial. And I would be surprised if you weren't already aware.

1) the email us gambit, I think it comes off as a little scamy. My guess is it's just there for simplicity right now, but I could be missing something (happens often) A way you could think of doing it that may be more palatable to your customers is to have a download button and make the user register with you before the download. Even if the result is the same, I think the psychological impact of the email request being 1 more step in would increase conversion. All just my opinion.

2) is pretty silly. Just site aesthetic. I wouldn't currently order from that page if I randomly happened upon it. Just trying to review it in the form o saw it. I'm sure you already have that worked out.

REALLY great idea.

I'm outbin DC. And the facebook privacy implications are HUGE buzz right now. Lots of non tech savy people in politics and it's ancilary industries are simply deleting (or trying to delete) their profile. Your app could get a great response if you can get it in front of them. I see it getting passed along in professional circles.

What is your plan for marketing it? Any plan for monetization?

Thanks for letting us review.
This sounds interesting, but explain it to me using terminology other than contrasting it against Facebook, and tell me what it actually does.
The words you typed were "sell private data." It is an inflammatory phrasing, that evokes clandestine exchanges of cash for information that users are assured is private. Since you apparently know it's bogus, please do your part in keeping discussions reasonable and stop spreading it.
Well, I probably wouldn't use POPFile itself for this anyway because I have a blindingly fast C version of the same classification techniques called polymail which I license to people. Would just have to graft on the IMAP part. Hmm.

Evening project?

Clearly, the not yet filtered bit is a nuisance, that's why you really want it to be built into your mail client.
I think you should move this up a few notches in your todo list. If you can generate the pages for every city, do it, publish them, I think you will gain great google juice. Especially as a lot of people are looking at growing there own veggies in the US right now (my opinion, judged by a recent spate of 'grow your own' articles I am seeing nowadays)

Technically this shouldn't be too hard: You have the info from zip codes already, just make a nice template to feed all the info into. Collate by groups of zips that are in, say, the top 100 US cities(by population).
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"What you've asked is essentially like asking "How does mortar hold buildings together any more than bricks, steel I-beams, or roofing?"

Argument by metaphor is a lazy device. I don't see any specific "mortar like" virtues that perl has but other common scripting languages don't. In this metaphor I guess C Code would be the "bricks and steel beams".

Why can't I put a unix box together without perl on it? Is there any specific piece of perl code that has to be on a unix box to enable it to work as an internet server or router? Is there a piece of code that has to be present on a Unix box for me to deploy say Apache or for dns to work? Honest question. Looking for concrete answers.

What specifically does perl do to "hold the internet together" today?

As an aside, I remember some COBOL programmers saying COBOL (running on mainframes) underlies all business on the internet and so COBOL was the real "internet commerce " language. Sure, you can say it and it can be justified by a lot of convolutions and narrowing of vision, but the truth seems to be that if it ever was so critical it is (a) an accident of history and (b) getting less true with every passing day.

I suspect (but am willing to be corrected) that perl is not indispensable to the internet any more (if it ever was).
I recently (a week ago) converted my desk at my day job to a standing desk. It's easily the most ergonomic position I've ever worked in. I have noticed that just to keep my legs from getting stiff and my feet from getting sore I move a lot more throughout the day. At first this was slowing down my typing a bit, but I'm almost back up to speed. I also brought in a bar stool to lean on (not sit on) when my legs get a bit tired. I'd say I'm standing now for about 80-85% of the work day. I have noticed a bit of residual pain in my heels, but I just got a fatigue mat, and hopefully that will help. By and far the hardest thing to get used to had been minor lower back pain - which, from my research, is due to some core muscle weakness from - you guessed it - sitting too much.

One of the best things I've found about standing is that it keeps me more alert and awake throughout the day. This is by far the most immediate plus, for me.

The important thing to remember is to keep moving - change your position often. I have considered the manual treadmill route, but I'm a little concerned my co-workers wouldn't appreciate the noise. Walking in place seems to work just fine - but does earn me some odd looks.
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She might have said two. Oops.
Interesting. So it's not "beat Microsoft" anymore. That must hurt in Redmond...
Is Programming Getting Less Popular?
Some do ;)
> On Sunday, in response, Jimmy Wales voluntarily revoked many of the "permissions" given to him as Wikipedia's founder, to delete and edit "protected" content on Wikimedia Commons.

> In a message to the Wikimedia Foundation mailing list he said this was "in the interest of encouraging this discussion to be about real philosophical/content issues, rather than be about me and how quickly I acted".

That's interesting. I wonder if it's true.
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I meant it in a "huh, that's funny" way, not that he's not perfectly capable of expressing intelligent opinions about Perl, Python or whatever else.
I've worked with Apache, nginx, and Cherokee and I think that Cherokee is the best. The authors have worked hard to make it fast and robust. I agree with jonesy that the gui might be a putoff, but I have actually come to enjoy the gui interface and love the elegant simplicity of it.
Why should I send you an email so I can get some 'free' software which will allegedly improve my online experience? There isn't even a proper description or screenshot.
Why should I trust you with my contact information?
You 'remove the hooks'? Elaborate please. Are you deleting cookies? Are you packaging a Fluid-style browser as facemenot?
You've got great karma (atleast on HN), but it's not enough because you're using some survey link for feedback with no authorship info on the site. Unless I see a reasonable explanation of what your software does (and how it does it), I'm not going to sign up for a beta/alpha release. No, this doesn't at all seem suspicious.
CPAN is the killer app for Perl. Every time I flip across to another language I usually love the syntax and structures but the lack of a CPAN equivalent is always grating and I usually end up right back at Perl to get stuff done fast.
There is a big flaw in CSS3 implementation of animation:

If the animation is interrupted midway (i.e the animation happens on :hover, and the user moves the mouse away), the reversed animation always takes the same amount of time. This can result in the reverse animation proceeding at different speeds (try setting the -webkit-transition-duration to 5s, and hover your mouse over the element for just a second).

Instead, the browser should precisely reverse the animation it has already played, e.g. if half the animation has already occured, for 0.25 seconds, the reverse animation should similarly last only 0.25 seconds.
People experiment with things like that often. Search JStor for market structure or market mircostructure (especially O'Hare).

Even in conventional markets there are periods of auctioning and alternative pricing structures. I studied it a while back, but the gist is that single day trading does not nullify panic or mania. At best, it is identical to continuous trading but it is most likely worse. Continuous trading works very well. The problem that is increasingly causing damage is the strong interdependence. Isolated manias and panics may actually be a good thing; when it represents a global tide however...
We don't want to give away our entire idea plan before we even release the first version, but I'll explain some of the details. ;)

The startup is based on the idea of events. It is designed so that extended groups of people who know each other in real life can post event or activity suggestions, either visible just to their friends, or visible to the general public. These events could be anything from a party, where numerous people are invited, to a date, where one person is invited, to a business meet up. For events where multiple people are invited and required to bring something (for example for a party) it will help coordinate people bringing items, by providing a check list that each person can volunteer to fulfill items from.

There are other ideas that we are tying in one at a time, some planned for future releases as well, but that is our basic model, a social network which allows traditional digital association, but heavily encourages offline interaction.
Some email, you absolutely need to respond to immediately, and fair enough. For anything that isn't totally urgent, try replying a day or two later. You can stick a reply in a draft folder and fill it out later. This slows down the flow of new email: it cuts out the sorts of mail where you're going back and forth several times in the same day.
"For those who do sit down all day and don't have back problems a word of caution. Sitting all day makes your lower back very stiff, but you won't notice this until you try to do something and hurt yourself. It may be a lifting task that an unstiff back could cope with. Taking time to exercise and stretch can save you such a disaster, I am healing well now, but still get twinges and have to be carefull."

That is the right caution, but the wrong reason. A stiff lower back (lumbar) is desirable. You want to be mobile at your hips, and upper back (thoracic) and have the ability to keep the lumbar stable. When you lift something your lumbar spine should be immobile.

You are correct that there are problems with sitting but it is that typically your lumbar is rounded so that you are weakening and stretching it all day long making it difficult to maintain proper posture when you lift something from the ground.

A quick rule of thumb for mobility: Ankles (mobile), Knees (immobile), Hips (mobile), Lumbar (immobile) and Thoracic (mobile). Stuart McGill is a great resource for learning about proper back mechanics.

Oh, BTW, I use a stand up desk and love it.
The good thing is that now Gmail's IMAP supports OAuth, so people migh be much less reluctant to give you access to their mailboxes.

Yes, the nuisance is there, but I'm sure there is a way to solve it. The good part is that it does not make the service unusable, so, people can start using the service even though with this nuisance.

Release early and then iterate. ;-)
Article's conclusion: After a short lapse, Perl development is picking up and enthusiasm for Perl 5 is as strong as ever.

I would agree. A little over a decade ago, Perl suffered from the same problems which plagued JavaScript in its early days: ease of writing shitty code, mountains of shitty sample code, and a community which did not vehemently encourage the writing of unshitty code.

This caused a backlash which lasted several years, during which the programming public panned the languages almost universally.

But a funny thing happened; rather than shriveling up and going away, the languages and their practitioners matured. Community focus became less centered on glue code and scrolling effects, and attention was shifted to writing clean, maintainable code which uses the language's best features (metaprogramming, easy hash/object manipulation, etc) in manageable, modular ways.

Now both ecosystems are flourishing, and though Perl doesn't have quite the install base of JavaScript, it's still a viable contender to Ruby and Python in their areas of expertise, and it can be called the best tool for some of those jobs.
They're not "pointless". The articles you're reading now are the future of the web. Handling hover events using JavaScript, when it's strictly presentation, makes much more sense with CSS. You wouldn't use JavaScript to add underlines to links, would you?

In addition (since you mention compatibility), adding this to a site wouldn't "break" it. So a segment of your visitors wouldn't see a "hover" event when they mouse over your images. It still functions properly.
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I recently did a week long stint on a temporary standing desk before ordering new longer legs for my current desk.

For the first few days my feet hurt after standing for an hour or so, however I did find that I felt more energetic throughout the day. I did have an odd feeling of being unsettled the first day, but after that I found it easier to focus, especially with the extra energy.

By the fifth day the pain in my feet was significantly reduced. This week I've returned to my (fairly) ergonomic sitting desk setup and I've noticed posture issues and some discomfort in my lower back.

My experience was that alternating short periods on a tall stool with standing provided the most comfort. The paper, "The benefits of sitting and standing to work" (http://www.ergomotion.com.au/images/PDF/HFESA%20paper%202008...), references a study in which 30 full-time bank tellers came to the same conclusion. Using a chef's mat can also provide some comfort for your feet.
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