skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is currently in beta signups only, but is being used by two sites successfully:

http://editthis.info

http://cueflash.com

The system works using embeded api calls and a MongoDB database on the back-end.
Plural possessive of "customer" is "customers'" and not "customer's"; might want to fix the headline.
> I'd assume that most would simply show your binary the trash can / recycle bin / dev/null and move on.

And this is totally fine. These are the users who consciously decided to run hacked version instead of the original. Why they would do that is beyond me, but I am damn sure I will not ever see a one of them as my customer.

The only drawback is that of that them making a fuss because of the crashes and this is easily mitigated as per above. You just have to keep in mind that checking Referrers in website logs and following up on any product related discussions out there should also be a routine. So for anyone complaining about the crashes - post a link to the support article explain why and when it does that.

> However, I don't understand how it helps paying customers.

Primarily by not needing to spend any time on support/PR issues stemming from the use of hacked versions.
Ruby 1.9.1 was only a development release anyway. Ruby 1.9.2 is a full, production release (and the first of the Ruby 1.9.x releases to be so). Ruby 1.9.2 isn't particularly "in flux" but Ruby 1.9 is generally with Ruby 1.9.3 expected by the end of the year.
this is a good example of the power of madpattern: patterns that scale infinitely and tile infinitely
One other note: it emails me about every change or addition I make to a project. There appears to be no way to opt out of this. By creating a page with 10 user actions, I'd get 11 different emails from you. Please add a way to opt out, and consider instead sending a digest of all changes made daily.
Hey. Thanks for the feedback. The website is horrible...and while we had many variations of the design which looked nothing like this, we went with this design. We're not really trying to sell the product yet, our billing isn't working well so we're not charging anyone until we get that fixed.

The design of this website isn't really that cool, it's more (like you said) a standard SaaS website, as we're still validating our assumptions regarding our solution to the problem with an MVP.
ISP (Comcast) takes over television and movie studio (NBC Universal)
1.9.2 is stable. It, apparently, doesn't work perfectly on Windows though.
Microsoft Mathematics 4.0 - graphing calculator released for free
Great idea. We'll add that to our next release(should be implemented in a matter of a couple hours). I'll disable the email notifications for now.
Cron 101
HTML5 as a buzzword means "not Flash".
The writer obviously hasn't had to deal with input validation of anything ever.

Formats exist so that programs can make good assumptions based on content. Given a good format, the content can be transformed or fitted to the device - for example, web pages on smartphones vs computers.

Also, given a format, the programmer is freed to make performance enhancements that aren't dictated by a specific platform or set of technologies. Want to write a CSV parer in Ruby? Go right ahead! Need to rewrite it in assembler for speed? Sure! You can't easily do that with a closed platform/tech like Flash or MS's binary formats.
I like the fu scheme. Great idea.
Sensei, are you still giving out coupons?

The site is down for me.
/edit: It's now reachable again. Thanks.
If the data is overwhelming, how come you don't cite any of it?

The first few google results that address this point [1] seem to disagree with your claim that the data is overwhelming.

At the college level at least, student performance is unaffected by class size: http://sigmaa.maa.org/rume/crume2010/Archive/Gleason.pdf

In french grades 1-2, teacher education and class size (variation of 10 students) affects outcomes by only 3%, which they claim is statistically significant: http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/international/events/upload/Prost...

But I'm no expert. If you have data, can you cite it? Because a quick google search suggests patrick is right and you are wrong.

[1] A few of the studies at the top of google results don't address student performance, but instead focus on student satisfaction.
All the linked articles in "further reading" are about graduate school in the humanities. Does that mean that it doesn't apply to science, engineering, and business, or that it does, but humanities is just an easier target?
I wouldn't be surprised if the in-house development costs rivaled or exceeded what something like Windows Mobile cost to license.

That implies that Windows Mobile doesn't require similar in-house effort, on top of the OEM license fees. Windows phones still require the same hardware driver development effort, and WM7 is already starting to receive the carrier-bastardization treatment. I'd say Android's licensing being free is the only difference.
Now if 538 can see the light and go back to being independent...
The problem with a vast majority of these Doom and Gloom articles about grad school is that they implicitly lump in all subjects together. The subtitle on this site at least says "its focus is on the humanities and social sciences," but I for one find subtitles easy to overlook. There is a vast difference in employability, debt, and time-to-completion of a Science/Engineering PhD (comparatively High, Low, and Short, respectively) compared to a Social Science/Humanities PhD. I would suspect that most HN readers considering grad school would be pursuing technical degrees anyways (unless they're going after MBAs, which are a totally different class).
Hi there. I just pushed the disabled email notifications. Sorry if Chalkboard flooded you, it's totally our fault.
Some more:

- How are you going to stop people from making private parties public (similar to what happened to that guy in England coupla years back, who posted a private party to his public facebook page, 100s showed up and trashed his parent's place)

- Maybe that's just for site launch, but seems a bit odd that this is NYC-specific, despite the URL having nothing to do with NYC.
Chargify releases referral management "sister company" Spreadable
This is ridiculous. Even if you handwave away security concerns of running arbitrary native code fetched from the web as the operating system's problem, you have locked yourself into a single hardware architecture with (presumably) a single API for those binaries to run against. Even if you expect these things to run on metal you need a standard hardware configuration that exposes known I/O devices, etc. In a world where x86 coexists with ARM, PPC-derivatives and the occasional MIPS machine (not to mention dozens of other variations) native executables are not a sensible option unless you pass that buck to the server and have it spin off a custom binary for any client that may come along.

Ok, ok- so we use a VM that everyone agrees on and- wait, we're back where we started, aren't we? Except, of course, we have a ton of mandatory overhead because browsers are no longer specialized to deal with the kinds of media users expect in a browsing experience.

Unless you honestly expect that everyone, everywhere will use identical computers for everything, standardized formats will always be necessary.
Introduction to Gnome 3
What input-validated your PC's operating system when you booted it?
Ugh. Sounds like mostly working around design decisions and infrastructure. Getting the engines talking to each other sounded straightforward.
That looks nothing like any military logo I've ever seen. Is there some logo in particular it reminds you of?
All the newspapers and TV stations and social media and whatnot create an environment very different from the one we evolved with. This is not the small tribe living in the savanna anymore, yet we react to news exactly the same way.

Hence all the bizarre attitudes like the one described in this article.
reminds me of a redmine option called "stealth mode" . On issue/ticket pages you can choose to enable stealth mode when doing housecleaning tasks or initial setup to stop the deluge of email temporarily
Interview w/ Martin May, Co-founder of Forkly
tl;dr - get yourself on the destination time clock as soon as you're in flight. When you land, eat and sleep like the locals instead of hiding under the covers for a week.

"When traveling east it can take about one day to adjust to each hour of time difference."

That's crap. I've hopped my entire family (including small kids) over the Atlantic multiple times and it's never taken more than a day or two to adjust. Just power through the sleepy phases until you get a second wind.
Last I checked, CPU's generally don't react well to executing random data as instructions.
Classic crackpot formula.
I tried at one point to port some software to Amix, way back when it was released. Mostly the OS was OK, but there were some issues with the floating point handling that stopped the port from working properly.
The site had an out-of-memory error probably from all of the Mashable traffic. It's only been online for 2 days and needs more tuning. Thanks everyone!
My child went to an excellent day care center that got targeted for harassment because it had male workers. The place got inspected by the state and ultimately got a clean bill of health, but it cost them money and caused a lot of worry for them and parents who had children there.

I spoke with the director and we both agreed that children spend too much time with women in school and day care. One of the reasons many young boys don't click with school is that they don't get male role models. Children who don't have a "man in the house" might get all the way to high school before they meet any male role models at all.
I have no idea how the Windows Phone 7 dev kit works, however with CE it literally was configuring some flags and resources, and that was it.

Microsoft did a tonne of heavy lifting to make it so. There were boxed in drivers for virtually everything, and customization was absolutely minimal.

And when you bought a MotoQ, it was stock CE.
I just got a Master's in engineering and I rejected funding to continue on into the PhD because I could not see myself continue for 4 to 5 more years of the same. I'm looking at jobs right now and of course I'd guess that most places don't really care that I have a Masters since most of the positions available are unrelated to my specialized field. PhD's are far too specialized and it seems there is little collaboration with industry. I'm starting to think that if you don't have a job lined up by the time you graduate your chances are cut in half.
The linked story was celebrating its 20th birthday 11 months ago. Why the post today?
No it's gonna stay and gets a LED behind it, so it can glow in different colors, making a notification system. Calling it now!
Patrick is focusing on class size variations typically encountered in the real world (typically 0-40). You are focusing on class size variation in a world populated by straw men (0-60,000).
China lends more money than the World Bank
i haven't been in college for 10 years now and i still use facebook (and twitter, and livejournal) to broadcast party invites. there are about 5 people whom i like, and see in person regularly who do not get their news that way, and they get an email about those events.

funny enough, i never set facebook status updates or read anyone else's. i guess creating an event posts it in your stream, but the direct-invite and invited-by-friends feature is the extent of my use of facebook (people do message me on there and i reply via email).

my parties generally have a good mix of highschoolers to 60 somethings. i'll grant you that 2/3 of the sixty somethings are my neighbors and they get the email invite, but a lot of the 50-plus social crowd in portland, OR is on facebook.

the other benefit to using a tool like facebook to do (open) party invites is that people can invite their friends. most of my parties are open; i trust my friends' judgment not to bring/invite assholes. and it works out remarkably well. i've hosted thousands of people at around a hundred parties (some are smaller dinner parties, but still open invite) since i started this strategy, at least half of whom i did not know at all, and only 2 things have ever been broken/stolen. total value lost: $80. total connectedness gained & fun had? incalculable (but huge).

WORKSFORME, without being my only or even main method of socialization (which is decidedly in real life).
You do not and can not know how what I was calling a Theity cares. It is itself a very primitive idea that the caring must manifest as heavyweight, visibly-obvious intervention into everyday life.

It turns out my aside does address this. If a theity is said to "care about the welfare of individual humans", the caring must actually be something that humans would actually recognize as caring. Otherwise, you're using the word to connote something that it doesn't, in order to piggyback on the emotional resonance of what it actually does.

Saying God may be caring but we don't know what that looks like is exactly equivalent to saying we don't know anything about God. The entire point of theism is to claim that you do know something about God.
That seems like an edge case, and a strategy predicated upon the US remaining unfriendly to qualified immigrants.
I just crashed it. Signed up for an account with the same username as on here, then tried to create a new project as directed and on submission of that form I got a rails error page. The url was http://chalkboardhq.com/projects/31. Please let me know if there is additional information that would be helpful...

ETA: Sorry, I didn't read the error message. It's a 404, not a 500. Reproducible every time I try to create a project.
In other words, a deal is only good if it's good for both parts.

I would offer a potential partner 100%, but make clear I then wouldn't do any work myself if I didn't got a share. If both are equally dependent on each other, then a 50/50 split sounds just.
Post mortem on a patent filing that went wrong and hurt its inventor
HN is becoming crazy mainstream. Might as well start figuring out how to use multiple servers now before we're really in a bind.
Anybody know if he was right?
This is off topic of this conversation, but I have to say that I absolutely love VLC. Thank you all.
Created a test account and test project, and got redirected to http://chalkboardhq.com/projects/37 :

The page you were looking for doesn't exist.
Yes, because even to hint at how we might climb out of a local-maximum optimization valley is the act of a raving lunatic.
My first *nix was Microsoft Xenix on a TRS-80 / Tandy 6000. I think we had 6 terminals attached to it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80#Model_16.2C_Model_16B.2C...
Quick, someone patent the meta-format.
I knew the Betahouse crew for about 3 - 4 months prior. But from conception of the idea for Viximo to completion of the three items in the title, it was actually less than 4 weeks.

I view the core group as a long term investment for whatever you are working on. I didn't build the core group just to execute the particular idea for Viximo. In fact, if I think you go into it with that mentality, you are setting yourself up for failure at the beginning.
ntroducing?
To complete the list: http://apps.jgate.de
It is based on AppJet and CouchDB.
Poll: What colours do you use in your shell?
In the movies the hackers almost always have a terminal with a black background and green text. Personally I use black text on a white background. I was wondering what combination is used the most and if there a lot of people actually using the 'matrix' style. Please explain in the comments why you chose your particular colour combination.
Green on black
Black on white
Different combination
The per user costs of technology reduce dramatically as the number of users enlarges; the cost of teachers scales linearly with the number of users. At present, society is not willing to pay enough to provide the average student with quality teachers; if an up-front investment in technology can better that standard--even at the cost of worse-than-usual products of the Florida school system for a few years--it's a net win for society.
I think 37 inspiration is a good thing it ultimately leeds to a good product with familiar feel. There is no trademark on layout or "less is more" is it? That is like saying we can't do gui apps based on the window metaphor because MS.

PS.

I was struck by the same feeling. The layout, the -hq suffix, the big sign-up button, the scroll, the minimalism, the friendly phrase, and not to mention "the product" (collaboration), AND THE PRICING (149$) :) worth building on other's market study.
New twitter page doesn't work on Opera browser
You should make that "Create my account" button bigger, I almost missed it.
Comcast: FCC Approves Comcast-NBC Universal Deal by 4-1 Vote - CNBC
Show HN: Surfboard - A flippable way to experience the web in HTML5/CSS3
I love to use Flipboard on my iPad, but I was bummed that the experience couldn't follow me to the phone or desktop, so I decided to do something about it...

I built http://ridesurfboard.com over the winter holiday and just finished it up last night, so I wanted to share it with the HN community first.

The app turns any website with an RSS feed into a more human, flippable format. It's all HTML5/CSS3/JS and works best in either desktop Safari or on an iOS device, although you can use Chrome if you enable the experimental GPU Accelerated Compositing flag (a how-to is on the Surfboard blog).

Feedback, questions and ideas are all greatly welcomed.
What Hollywood Execs Privately Say About Netflix
Thanks for commenting:

I'm pretty tied up regarding software, like Facebook, Twitter, etc. The programming part is all done by Slinkset, I can only change some design features, the right-side column, and the marketing.

As far as spammers go, I figure I would have to do it manually.

I imagine the power-users would be event promoters, who would try to get their stuff to the top
Sadly, this doesn't explain why my Cliq XT (called Quench down here) will be forever stuck with 1.5.

At least until I decide to crack it and do the upgrade myself. As soon as I find a 1.6+ or 2.x image that pleases me.
NodeFu has just surpassed 150 hosted node.js applications since the launch on yesterday - http://nodefu.com/status
There was a discussion on Stack Overflow about the health benefits of dark vs. light backgrounds. Apparently black on white is best: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/498698/white-light-vs-bla...
Mine is perfectly well-behaved in response to random/mistaken instructions. Executed under VmWare, where they belong. (during OS prototyping, etc.)
Additionally, it's considered OK to slam men in media, where it isn't right to do it to women.

The next time you see a commercial that makes use of gender roles, swap the genders and see if the commercial would still be suitable. Most don't hold up to this scrutiny.
my solution: don't read other peoples' status updates, don't have your birthday posted publicly, don't get annoyed.
Hmm, I didn't think about that at all. There's not much I could do about it, except delete it if someone complains and has proof

Events are geographic oriented, and NYC is where our company is, so it made sense to make it only NYC oriented.
two possibilities. Clock on the machine set correct? the appid cookie has a short 3600 second expiration, which means if your timezone is off, or you aren't taking into account Daylight Savings Time, the cookie will expire before it is set.

The other possibility is that the API you're using isn't using the Javascript SDK get_facebook_cookie which initializes the session through FB.Init and parses the data passed to it and sets the cookie locally.

Are you calling the Javascript SDK? I haven't used the PHP Library in quite some time, but, it is possible that you're using a library that is written for the older FBML rather than the IFrame canvas.

Are you able to run liveheaders to see what is actually being sent? or some other network capture tool?
Clicky: http://ridesurfboard.com
I dunno, bochs is pretty fucking slow on my 3GS...
Top 16 Weight Losing Exercises
Think big! Skip straight to patenting the Turing-complete computing machine.
Ask HN: Post goes from #1 to #30 in 1 hour with 170+ points?
Is there something in the algorithm that would make a post go from #1 on the front page to #30 instantly?

Can it be semi-flagged?

It's a popular post with lots of thoughtful comments, no politics, and certainly on-topic. 170+ points and 100+ comments.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2116062
It's not like you don't have control over your participation in this silly ritual... I think automating a meaningless post would be the wrong way to go.
I try to write thoughtful, detailed birthday messages for people who really mean something to me, ignore birthday notifications of more casual friends and temporarily hide my own birthday when it's getting close to prevent the avalanche of hollow wishes.
Your (dbingham) argument is full of subjective arguments. Very judgmental.
Voight-Kampff.
This proves, there is a lot of demand for such a solution and you had an idea, that people like a lot. Congrats.
What is Science?
Ask HN: How to get traction for programmers' community? Or stop doing it?
I made the site for programmers for exchanging information, with a very flexible posts-filter.

I submitted a link to the site on HN and people said that it is interesting and useful.

Later I emailed a message with a link to Guido van Rossum to share with him what I've made in Python. He tweeted about the site: http://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/24148697432457216 and after that there was a little buzz in Twitter, after which approximately 500 users registered on the site.

I received emails and comments that it is very good idea, that they see big potential in it. I saw that people like it, they said that I should continue working on it. But now all is silent.

Please, help me to make a decision: should I continue or stop doing it?
3 comments on this, and 200 on some girl whining that (male) geeks "hurt her feelings".
I don't get this. The story has been in the NYT every day last week, and it's been front-page news there since the weekend, with articles on the Wikileaks cables' relevance and possible similar effects in Egypt.

Was the NYT 2-3 weeks late in giving this story a focus? Were they just waiting to see if it would become relevant among the US wars and domestic political violence? Or did they get caught off guard until Al-Jazeera scooped them? Either way, it doesn't look like they egregiously sandbagged the story, they were just later to it than they could have been.
Scribd Raises Another $13 Million, Aims To Bring Social Reading To Every Device
Ad Tech Startups Banding Together To Take On Google And Microsoft
Students who students think smart vs. students who professors think smart
I still think new information can be created through conversations regarding those subjects better than it can be through facebook. Speaking with someone about your mom dying is bound to be more consoling than having someone comment "My condolences! What a great person" and- hopefully not- "4 people liked this."

Likewise, people will ask interesting questions if you tell them you're moving to a new place, maybe helpful things you wouldn't think of yourself, or just an outside perspective which would be impossible in a change as large as a career change + move. What would your facebook friends contribute? "~Seahawks, represent!~"?
If I recall earlier discussions about the decay of posts, age of the post + age of last upvote is modified by the number of total votes.

As new posts get upvotes, their ranked score is enough to push older posts below. It is lunchtime in California, mid afternoon in the Eastern USA... it is entirely likely people are upvoting newer content.