skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair point, though aren't archival services better for that sort of thing than hoping nobody at Warner says, "I don't think we need to keep the Space Jam site after the next upgrade." or "Make that a redirect to http://www2.warnerbros.com/spacejam " (or some future updated page for the site)?
Erm... for sorting and filtering data in a way that implicitly describes the transformations in the presented dataset caused by said sorting/filtering through the animation effects. Information density++

I honestly see this as obvious. I'm not trying to be funny. And I can't work out if you don't think this is obvious, or you don't agree that this would be useful.

Just imagine it on an ecommerce page: http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=shoes&hl=en&show=...

Also imagine using it to fine tune an optimisation problem: you adjust a series of sliders that define the relative priorities you place on certain properties of the items in the dataset, it then does a weighted sort. You can see directly how the changes on the sliders affect the ranking of the items.

If you didn't have the animation it would not be easy to see which items had risen and which fallen. You would have to compare your memory of the order before the change with what you're looking at. This is cognitively very difficult, and it would lead to you toggling the value back and forth endlessly and comparing the order.

Basically any stat or inventory interface in a game would benefit from this. Or any interface where the task is solving an optimisation problem really.

Not all whizzy effects are gimmicks to be sneered at from the terminal. Don't throw the UX baby out with the eye candy bathwater.

EDIT: Another example - when toggling between different properties to sort the dataset by, the amount and speed of the animation describes the correlation of the two properties, without requiring you to parse any text. Animation is just another way to impart information that doesn't require reading, alongside color, size, and other spatial/physical properties.
Haha, I like how you put that. Yes, I just really want to teach that badly. ;)

It's possible that friendships and collaborations could come out of this, but I'm already working on bootstrapping a startup, and we aren't looking to expand our team. And probably won't have money to hire people for quite a long time.

Although, now that you mention it, I'm going to file this away as an idea for how to find good people in the future. Thanks!
You throw kid A out of the class for behaviour, but you don't throw kid B out because he is usually OK.

But then kid A's parents get mad - or think they can make some money - and it turns out that kid A is belgian/green skinned/three eyed/an FSM worshipper and you have a lawsuit. Or at least the threat of a lawsuit which can go away with a large enough payment.

Throw out all kids that break any rule and you have been perfectly fair
Video is down for fixing so the somewhat vague descriptions on Techcrunch and the Asana blog are left to paint an equally confusing picture.

Free enterprise services that aim to do everything seems to be the general idea.

A talking point would be the period between angel funding (Apr 09) and testing the first incarnation with the first beta customer (Jun 10), especially when the team appear to have very little experience of the arcane business processes and technological incompetence of the average enterprise. Using Facebook Connect as a [temporary] login solution according to their beta signup page sounds like the first inexplicably crazy decision.

On the plus side, the screenshot that replaced the video looks much prettier than most enterprise apps, the team is obviously really smart people and their proprietary webapp scripting language sounds like it could be at least as interesting as the product when it's released into the wild...
Not sure. I'd hope for something like 25-50, perhaps, so that there is a good crowd but finding a space is not impossible.
I'm bootstrapping a startup, and plan to find time for this by using it as a break from coding and designing my own stuff. I think if I'm disciplined and efficient I'll be able to find enough time...I hope. ;)
Hopefully most visitors to the mini-site will realize that it's tongue-in-cheek and that the chaps at Adioso don't really believe that love is quantifiable. Although some might be peeved because $500 isn't a small enough valuation of their relationship.
Thanks! The experience was truly great and left me with something to aim for in all our customer interactions.
I'm glad then that teachers don't go into engineering.

Another plane crashed today - one of the turbine blades was cracked but we decided to give it sensitivity training to get in touch with it's inner strength rather than callously replace it.
> "The treatment was very good, they knew I was a good Egyptian. I was blindfolded for 12 days, "

I don't think his standards for good treatment are in agreement with mine. If he was blindfolded for 12 days I assume that means his arms were also bound since he'd be able to take off his blindfold otherwise.
I had the same thought. Hoglund is a bamf. It'll be interesting to see what goes down.
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Oh I agree. Apple knows if they don't, tons of us are buying a kindle, not an iPad 2. I almost just bought a kindle upon reading this.
Besides the FB / Groupon examples of larger firms and very large valuations, in regards to startups, what would a "burst" look like? The loss of $100M "talent acquisition" buyouts, VC's go turtle, incubators...bust? I don't see the later happening. Thoughts on the "burst"?
Your first point is key, and is what ultimately took me off the fence as to whether or not compulsory education is necessary. I feel like kids also don't need to be in school for 12+ years to only be qualified to work at Walmart. Let's shorten the tube and let people feel valuable to society at an earlier age.
I'd pay $20 for that.
Ah, "It's hard but it can't be difficult"...

Paradoxes like this always frustrated me so I worked-out a more concrete model for these change systems:

You've got "area of behavior" which you've got good conscious control over and where you can plan and work hard. You've got another "another area of behavior" where you don't have much conscious control and you tend to screw-up in.

You want to work hard within the area you do control to create a framework where things are relatively easy for you in the area you don't control.

You don't want to just throw a lot of effort at the area you don't control, you don't want to discourage yourself concerning the area you don't control. You want to have clearly understandable goals in the area you don't control.

And so you want the "heavy lifting" to be within the area you do control.

Now, "hard" is for the work in creating your framework. "not difficult" is for the experience you have within the framework.

Make sense?
This is true, and they also gave away their first laser mouse if I recall. What's nice about WWDC is that its cost tends to act as a fairly decent bozo filter.
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To echo the common criticism of Gladwell, this doesn't seem to have any substance to it.
Or just PGP encrypt any emails with root passwords or other details about your system.

Just make sure you decide before the emergency who needs to be trusted with that information, and be smart about how you exchange keys with everyone involved.
With both HostGator and ASmallOrange I've generally found an automated email and a reply within 6 hours.

Actually, with ASO I usually have a reply from a human being within 15 minutes to an hour, and I don't think I've seen any counterexamples.
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Cross platform mobile solution for a video app?
Hey all,
I have a video-oriented web app, takeoffvideo.com. We are bootstrapped and looking to build mobile apps for the typical

devices - iphone, android, blackberry.

The app is video-centric, which means in order for it to work via web you need strong html5 video support or a Flash

plugin. Today, only iPhone has great html5 video support and it works great with our web app. Android claims to have

html5 video but it's a pathetic implementation (if you don't believe me, try for yourself). It does have the Flash plugin

so at the end of the day we can tell people "we support Android". But that's garbage...it should be a seamless simple

experience for our users to use our app on their phone.

Our resources are super limited. I'd love to have a single code base for all mobile platforms. I wish I could use jquery

mobile, sencha, motherapp, phonegap, or titanium. Then I could literally build all the mobile apps myself. The problem though is in video support.

The only one of the bunch that seems usable is Titanium. It has an API for playing video - not robust but it could work. It claims to build iOS and Android apps in native code (or equivalent of at least) and Blackberry in beta whatever that means. However I've read plenty of bad reviews. I had a bunch of problems installing it myself. I don't want to write it off right away, so I'd love to hear your experiences.

I wish all the mobile OS's had great html5 video support. But they don't. Rather than spin the tires with something like Titanium, I'd like to hear from you great people and decide whether to bet on a cross platform solution or just make apps for each device. Or, if it's possible, can I make everything in my app except the actual video interface in html and the rest in native code?
xhtml2pdf - HTML/CSS to PDF converter (Python)
Killer tech for tropical countries where lamps are needed and flies are hated :)
... was not on or with TechCrunch, it was here:

http://egypt.alive.in/2011/02/07/exclusive-wael-ghonims-firs...
The above link asked me to log in. Try:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/07/technology/07question.html...

or

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
The irony is that Airplane Mode doesn't permit you use your phone on an airplane (at least per US airline policy, despite the FAA indicating that airlines may let passengers use phones in airplane mode).

At least it lets you have a conversation without being interrupted.
The branch predictor is not involved here since there is no branch. A conditional non-branch instruction is, on most implementations, scheduled identically to the unconditional base instruction. A load/store instruction whose condition passes thus executes identically to an unconditional one. If the condition fails, it schedules as though it had hit L1 cache.

The main problem I see here is significantly increased code size, which will put additional pressure on the L1 I-cache.
Less than 200 bucks a year.

Indeed, less than 30 bucks a year [1], with unmetered bandwidth (if slow). I thought it had to be a scam, but I tried it out of curiosity... and it works!

[1] For example, http://rubyringtech.com/vps-solutions/linux-vps/
They also have a fairly powerful route language - http://matrix1.itasoftware.com/cvg/dispatch/help/advanced-to...
If they used your trademark (registered or not) then they broke the law.

If they wrote an app that looks like yours, most likely they've done nothing wrong. Many apps have only one look. Calculators for example. They all have similar or the exact same buttons, layouts, colors, etc.
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I disagree, the number is there to indicate a version, nothing more. The version number in Chrome is not exposed to users in a marketing way.

Google simple decided to go for big version numbers, because what does switching from 2.95 to 3.0 mean if you release new features constantly and major steps thus never happen?
Sticking to decimal point version numbers makes no sense in this case.
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I don't believe making it voluntary would be the solution, though it would for sure unmask the root problem better.

The unfortunate thing about this situation is that I don't believe there is an easy and quick answer. I believe the bad behavior is largely caused by 2 things:

1. Bad influences from the community - parents, siblings, friends, and possibly surrounding media/entertainment.

2. The school system. More than for anyone else, the way the school is structured is (clearly) ineffective for these struggling students.

Even if there were real disciplinary actions taken, the methods of disciplining (that I have observed anyway) are often out-of-date. Our understanding of behavior change has increased greatly in the past several years and needs to be more widely understood.

Solutions I see:

a. Quit making a large part of school so incredibly boring and seemingly pointless. Spend A LOT more time focusing on topics closer to what students care about (and should care about).

b. Behavior issues will happen and are normal. Work on changing bad behaviors by understanding how the environment shapes behaviors. Understand that behavior change is more likely to happen when new behaviors are supported/introduced/allowed to thrive, rather than continuously trying to suppress current behaviors -- there's a reason for those bad behaviors existing in the first place, you can't ignore them. Understand how incredibly ineffective abstract commands are ("don't be bad" as an extreme example), and fear tactics.

c. Bad behaviors are often caused by bad influences in the community (issue #1 from above). Changing the community behaviors changes the student behaviors (perhaps over long periods of time). I realize this is difficult, however very essential.
It's interesting government adopt this approach, seems weird that a government on the other side of the world could be discussing american diplomatic affairs while members of the government in america would be bared unless they are cleared under a classification system that has failed in this case.
Has that speculated "allow dupes after a certain period of time" feature been added? Same URL 790 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=391487

(It's a great widget though and deserves more attention. I've been using it since that last post! :-))
I'd hate to put that "unmetered" thing to the test with a suddenly popular website.
It has already been done. I can't remember exactly, but I believe a Samsung phone came out in Korea recently that lets you hold a button on the side that fakes a phone call to you. No iPhone app yet though.

Edit: screen shot of the samsung manual (apparently this is a feature on a lot of their phones): http://craphound.com/images/e7KOe.jpg
I've used this myself and it's actually really neat. It takes some getting used to though. The way you write your markup will be a little different than for a normal HTML page but there are custom tags for cool things like auto-inserting page numbers and barcodes. They have some custom CSS too that you use for page formatting, but much of the familiar CSS2-type CSS is in there. I recommend this to anyone who wants to programmatically generate PDFs using Python. Especially if you are already familiar with HTML and CSS.

Pro Tip: Use images with a very high DPI. 500 dpi is preferable from my experience.
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Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
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I'm on RapidXen right now. I've had a very good experience with them but you're cheaper ($5.50/mo to get twice what I'm getting at RapidXen for $7.50/mo). How do you do it?

(Edit: RapidXen provides swap as well... would it be viable to run swap on your disks?)

Also, what are your network policies? e.g. is there a bandwidth limit?
The key point to Asana is that unlike basecamp, the info you put onto Asana is firstly meant for you. It's your personal todo, your personal notes, your personal calendar. They make it easy, "low latency", to update your data on Asana so that you will do it readily.

The difference is, when someone updates Basecamp, they're updating the team. They're actively trying to communicate and tell other people what's going on. That's work, that's annoying, people don't want to do that, and the info in Basecamp becomes unreliable and prone to be dated.

But if you're updating your personal data, people do that all the time. Just in this case your personal data is also shared across your organization so that other people know what's going on at the same time.

They pair this with good access controls so that larger groups can share data frictionlessly.
Are they a security company or a forensics company? Different skillsets.
That seems a little silly to me but I do wish the toggle switch on the side of the iphone was a 3-step silent-vibrate-full instead of just full and vibrate.
What are you doing that is different to other VPS providers?

[edit] that popup on your homepage... It just wants to make me jump ship. You have a nice uncluttered design, no need to have a pseudo-popup that makes your website seem it's hosted on geocities :)
I was hoping for something like the stephen king plot generator that maddox made all those years ago
Bitcoin is a p2p-based digital currency. This site visualizes the network state.
>a little demotivated about the site

Don't be! It is both bloody lovely and likely very useful. The magic combo :)
I'm constantly impressed by the quality of the features released in github -- it truly is world class. Great job, as always.
Other than old articles from 2007 and 2008, and a couple of undated anecdotes, I was not able to find any information from any American airline suggesting that phones were prohibited on flights regardless of whether they had an Airplane or Flight mode. What current information I could find about mobile phones generally refer to using them with in-flight wifi, which seems to directly contradict your statement.
Repurpose your blog posts into a series of articles and submit them to other iOS and gaming blogs. Write more about the creation of the game, including tech tips for other developers, design choices, what you learned, etc. Try to actually be informative, and not just focus on pimping your specific game or your company. Try to generalize to a broad audience... [Game developers tend to buy lots of games, and they also often write/review for the more mainstream media. Ideally, you'll get some good PR and make more sales - and, at worst, your networking will pay off in the future.]

I'm not a gamer at all, but I do read a few blogs about the gaming market and iOS development. I've actually purchased games (that I never actually play) just based on interviews and wanting to support people that have taught me something.
Just this week, for example, I bought three games from one publisher (Mika Mobile) based on a couple of blog entries I had read on an iOS games blog. I gave the games to my wife, but it was learning a new technique from one of the developers that prompted me to make the purchases.
The elephant in the room was race. I'd bet 90% of the problems were caused by kids of a particular race. Unfortunately many public discussions involving it devolve into demonization of the messenger or blame gaming.

My second point was that I suspect the easiest fix would be to adopt a zero tolerance policy or three-strikes-then-expelled. The harder solution, though it is better in the long term, is to do something that ensures that the parents take more responsibility and make better life choices and set a better example both for their own kids and their neighborhoods. Ultimately, solving this is not rocket science. Folks are just choosing, explicitly or implicitly, to not implement them. They then reap what they sow.

My third point is that it may be that some percentage of kids can never be made to behave properly (short of brain surgery or cognitive drug therapy, for example) and so we may have to adjust our system to accomodate. Arguably, we already have. If a child misbehaves enough they tend to end up dead or in prison.
"Very rarely, they bring in a whole team of consultants/developers to run the whole show..."

I can vouch this is not rare at all, from my experience.
Justice is meant to break the cycle of vengeance. Justice is based on objective morality whereas vengeance is based on feelings. Justice is what has cause western civilization to be so successful. On the other side you have dictators and despots.
I'd vaguely expect the rise in ATMs to be a factor.

The ability to exist with a minimum of cash would tend to make casual theft much less appealing.
Why would you host your website with a company whose core competancy is DNS? It's like getting your car serviced at a carwash.
I'm loving parts of it so far. Its funny and clever at times. Other times, its just didactic in the worst way.
I've been using DomainSite.com for a decade (at least) now. I don't know when Name.com bought them, or what happened there, or if they were always Name.com. Either way, I just always go back. The UI is simple, it's fast, doesn't get in your way. It just works.
It might be that they have never been hacked in this way before, so they don't even consider it. Probably seen older employees do it when they were new giving them the impression that it's just how thing are done.
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I thought building of the straw man of "people use Notepad" was slightly inaccurate and unnecessary - the software looks very slick on its own.

Yes Basecamp and nameless other pieces of software might already do this, but you could argue this is Bugzilla with a nice flashy Ajax interface on top of it... technically I suppose it is, but the Ajax interface is really functional. I would say as impressive as Gmail was to us when it came out -- keyboard short cuts, drag and drop, intelligent email parsing, tagging/grouping/slicing/dicing.

This is like some marriage between Basecamp, Find Bugz and a Customer Support app all married together.
yeah, i remember waiting in that line. everyone wanted the hero and people were frantically installing the SDK while in line.
I can't help but compare his treatment to the enemies of the state that the good 'ol US of A captures. Being blindfolded for 12 days sounds like it sucks. Im really glad they didn't do much worse.
While it's in very early development stage, Oregon State University is creating an Open Source certificate program that will address some of these issues. The certification as planned will grant Masters degree level course credits and will be offered online. Course content will include LAMP stack development knowledge, basics of the development tool chain (issue tracking, mailing lists, etc.), release practices, and will require a three month hands on 'internship' working with a FOSS project to gain certification. Oregon State University would work to match make between students and FOSS projects looking to on board new contributors as part of this internship requirement.
Apple may plan to move software off its retail store shelves
That is all fun and games under the rationalization of easy, naive moralizing.

Now, if they take down censorship in China or targeted a similar actual oppressive regime instead of going after easy targets, then they'd have my respect.

For example, their attack on Scientology is something I respect, but that was only shortlived since Scientology is actually bad and will cause Anon significant damage.

So, as we can see, it is actually just for the lulz and not a higher ideal.
Cloudy computing with a chance of showers
The name is similar but not exactly the same.
If you constantly kill everything that is weak you destroy your ecosystem. Much better is to build up the weak, which is why the West prospers and other cultures do not. Social and economic Darwinism do not work.
Trademark is probably your best bet. If they haven't used the name, you're probably out of luck.

You can take it as a badge of honor that someone liked your idea enough to copy you. I've had one of my iphone apps copied, not quite as thoroughly as you say, but enough to know that I inspired them. I say, have at it - if they're making the same kind of money I am from it, it definitely cost them more to make than it's worth. ;-)