skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clarification -- as a gateway providers like Braintree, Linkpoint/FDGG, Auth.net, etc are perfectly fine, but their recurring functionality is not robust enough for most subscription or metered businesses. I must have written this before my coffee or something.

Sorry Bryan.
this reminds me of the effort to port erlang to android. both projects are of questionable utility, but so is climbing mount everest

http://www.burbas.se/artiklar/erlang-for-the-android-plattfo...
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Four or five years ago I did some work with a company that provides online banking web platforms to smaller regional banks. I asked the CEO about 1+1 authentication (at the time in the context of a RSAID type keychain fob device) and he said they'd pitched it but there was no interest from the banks. In their defense, maybe those RSA thingies are just too expensive for consumer accounts, I do know Citi now provides them to business accounts.
I work with a company that uses Big Brother and they're not fans of it. Its user interface, ease of use and poor visualizations draw a lot of complaints. I'll keep an eye on your project as it develops, good luck with it.
I posted more as a comment on the original story, but I have covered this issue in depth (from when Google initially proposed it, to when it was launched) here:

http://searchengineland.com/google-proposes-to-make-ajax-cra...

http://searchengineland.com/googles-proposal-for-crawling-aj...

http://searchengineland.com/its-official-googles-proposal-fo...

Of course, a better solution is some type of progressive enhancement that ensures both that search engines can crawl the URLs and anyone using device without JavaScript support can view all of the content and navigate the site.
That sounds like a fun diversion!

No, I most definitely mean that it can actually answer Jeopardy questions. Formulating sentences oddly doesn't turn questions into answers and answers into questions. You could define "question" and "answer" as sentences with a certain syntax but that would be an extremely stupid definition.
If that 'special purpose vehicle' move flies, it won't be small potatoes for long at all.

Further, the article is a very well-thought and argued piece that doesn't remotely veer into hyperbole. Even if you disagree with its conclusions, it strikes me as incredibly disingenuous to dismiss it as "just another Chicken Little".
Hey, I was at the RedSnake meetup where this was presented on Tuesday night!

Go Hunter!
It looks like her company has an official partnership with Google. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/
Endocrine system, oxygen control, proprioception, and sensory deprivation come to mind as important factors that make us human.
I can see why everyone is so happy, but something to note is the erosion of privacy. You you wont be able to use a gmail account without a phone.

In countries(China) where you need your id to get even a prepay phone there will no longer be any anominity.

Top this off with the fact that google doesn't say how often or if at all whether they give information to the chinese government because its against the law in China for them to say so.

State secrecy and all.

I personally think this should be optional and not mandatory. Otherwise I will stop using all of googles account services.
You create unique passwords for each program you use within your account settings. You have a list of all of the accounts, and you can revoke the token at any time
It seems to work in older Python versions (tested with 2.5).
I think the new implementation is more natural:
even%2 = 0, and 0 is false, while uneven%2 = 1, and 1 is true.
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IIRC that does not actually let you play against Watson.
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The internationally-agreed upon plan for the adjacent band was to have all the transmitters in orbit and all the receivers on the ground. So I don't think a 2W transmitter in orbit is going to overpower receivers in a different band.

40,000 of 15KW transmitters on the ground may be another matter.
Apple is a widget factory run by an expert. When Jobs left the company, it took a nose-dive. He came back and immediately things started improving. The man is a dictator, but he knows his stuff. However, if I were an apple shareholder, I would be very worried about his medical condition. Because when he leaves, apple will dive again.
Ask HN: Webdesigns for user experience?
Hey guys, I'm in the process of designing a website, I know this is a little vague, but I was hoping I could get some suggestions for enhancing user experience. Like what are some good CSS strategies for web 2.0 websites nowadays? I know simplicity and easy to use are key aspects, but can you guys provide me some good 2.0 sites w/ good design / user interface / graphics ?

Greatly appreciated
thanks
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"There are jobs for you out there, I promise."

I agree completely. After all, lattes don't make themselves, now do they?
you want to prevent the rest of your codebase from knowing too much about the API - in case you ever need to change gateways

Maybe I'm naive, but I wouldn't usually bother:

1) Maybe I will never change gateways, then there was no point in writing a wrapper.

2) If I do change gateways, I can just write a wrapper that uses the old gateway's API as the interface for the new one.

If the new gateway is sufficiently different than the old one that it can't be mapped to the old API, then whatever wrapper I wrote back in the beginning before I needed it wouldn't have been sufficient anyway.

Your strategy sounds like YAGNI to me. I only write separate interfaces when I actually have different components that need to be swappable.

But maybe that's just because I'm using Ruby and I can be lazy like that?
> In contrast, Zappos' office seems to say, "You're already home."

I think the worst thing you can do to an employee is start merging the idea of "home" with the idea of "work". It implies sleeping at your desk and never really "leaving". At least, that's how I'd see it, if I still had a FT job.

Full disclosure: I work from home. It's confusing and I'm hoping to get a separate office soon.
no idea why you would get downvoted for this, it is clearly just a well stated opinion without flame etc.

However, PhoneGap shouldn't be completely to blame for any one applications performance. If many PhoneGap applications performed poorly, then you could make the case. PhoneGap apps should perform as well as any web-based app on the same device. It is up to the developer to make efficient use of javascript animations, etc. in order to provide the best user experience.
I live in China, I dont want to tie my email to my phone number because my phone number is tied to my real identity( requirement to get a phone number here).

Can I opt out of this?
What a great way to learn about a complicated, arcane topic.
Neuroscience of free will - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This isn't quite the same thing. The Jak games were built entirely using GOAL (other than a tiny microkernel in C) - gameplay, collision detection, rendering, AI, you name it.

Uncharted is using a LISP-like scripting language for gameplay scripting. Most large games use scripting these days (LUA is pretty common), this just happens to be a lisp-flavored variant of that. There's a huge difference between writing your gameplay scripting in a lisp and building your entire game in it.
You should not worry about hours. You should worry about results produced over months (or even quarters). Whether the wage ends up being $50/hr or $250/hr matters little so long whatever you need done gets done on time.

Caveat emptor: I'm a developer.
in an earlier talk, @drkrab said the project began as an exercise in learning erlang rather than to meet a production need

http://www.infoq.com/interviews/thorup-erjang
If you track traffic sources with high granularity and get lots of traffic from ads or viral channels, you can get actionable data from traffic metrics.

Overall I agree - actionable metrics are the most important. I just take issue with the idea that only revenue related metrics are important.
Often these startups sell services and products that reduce costs and save time for their customers.
Why does it matter where this comes from? It's great technology that will improve people's lives.
Watson is amazing, but I've known for years that it was coming. You just have to look at Google and Wikipedia to know that it was coming. Because answering trivia questions is just not the equivalent of passing the Turing test. Trivia questions are quite guessable.

I played a lot of College Bowl (and its local high-school equivalent) back in my younger days. And there were many running gags about the strategy. For example, if a question contained the words "Name this artist..." there was a strictly limited set of possible answers, defined roughly as "artists whose names appear in a typical high school art appreciation class". Similarly, "name this composer" is more likely to be cluing Beethoven or Bach or Mozart than Grieg or Saint-Saens, and almost certainly not anybody more obscure than that. And Grieg is not that obscure.

There were a lot of common themes: It was a good idea to memorize the names of all the Greek, Roman, and Norse gods; the names of all the types of clouds; the capitals of countries and the names of political leaders. That sort of thing.

In College Bowl (unlike Jeopardy) it is legal to press the buzzer and interrupt the questioner at any point. The questioner just stops reading until you've taken your guess. And so every College Bowl geek knows a story like this: Someone accidentally presses the buzzer before the person reading the questions has said more than one or two words. So, with nothing else to do but guess, the player shouts something out. And that guess is correct.

I've never seen a zero-word guess work in person, but I've seen a few two and three-word guesses succeed. Given just a hint of the topic ("this scientist...") the odds are surprisingly good. The search space is just not that large.

One reason why trivia is easy is that questions that require even the smallest amount of actual thought tend to be too ambiguous for good trivia. Trivia questions are generally read, answered, and judged by people who have no actual expertise in their subject matter, so it's important that the answers be very clear and unambiguous. I used to dread the physics questions, because I was a student physicist, and I understood the questions too well. So it was sometimes difficult to avoid giving answers that were technically correct, but that did not match the one on the card.
The original source is http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2011/01/3... and it does not disclose this is a company manufacturing SSL accelerators. It also does not mention SNI.
At least to me, it's a poor user experience ''and'' a tepid visual design. Incorporating visual design and branding from the beginning certainly would have helped address the tepidness, and might have helped with usability as well (unless they were consciously trying to brand it has 'intimidating to newcomers').
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The only reason I posted this was this line seemed pretty amazing a way to even look at it - It is pretty scary a thought that all the free will decisions are made by the sub conscious and consciousness is just aware of it and thinks it did them!!

"It may be possible, then, that our intuitions about the role of our conscious "intentions" have led us astray; it may be the case that we have confused correlation with causation by believing that conscious awareness necessarily causes the body's movement."
It was a great event - there is a short writeup of the other talks here: http://trevmex.com/post/3198570101/redsnake-1st-annual-phill...
So then we've learned their business model:
Hype it to the max until the last possible moment, allude to a business model, and then sell before the truth escapes.
I don't think you fully understand what is going on here. Watson will Process the slang in the sentence, figure out how the words are being used, understand the context of the question and then look through its internal databases to see if it can piece different pieces of knowledge that it has to come up with an answer.

THATS FUCKING HUGE!!!
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No not Balsamiq.

Actually we used Mike Clarke's stencils (http://graffletopia.com/stencils/578) as a valuable base.
We added a little and converted it to a 'stencil' for FireWorks.

You can downlaod the toolkit for free at the site. Use it as you like. And of course we will be extremely happy if you add / shareone new android pattern ;-).
Ahh, but the beauty of GOAL was that the entire game was built using it, including the super-high performance stuff.

GOAL compiled to native code, which made this possible. It also made it easy to mix and match assembly primitives in with your existing code, using the same syntax (much nicer than GCC's intrinsics).

This was before the days of LLVM, so the code generation phase was actually enormous amount of work (Andy spent a lot of time on the register coloring, for example) - not to mention having to write a debugger.
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The problem is that Quora's design is not aligned with the companies motives:

"Quora is a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it. The most important thing is to have each question page become the best possible resource for someone who wants to know about the question." - from Quora's About page

A Question and it's related answers can be archivable (Who invented the atomic bomb?), temporal (What is the current status of Zynga's zLive?), or anywhere in between (Who is the lead UI designer for Mac OS X?). The design is ONLY composed of real-time design patterns, mostly taken from Facebook and Twitter: mandatory account registration, asymmetrical following, news feed, real-time notifications, user messaging system, etc.

There is NO focus on archivable questions. The website is based around questions and answers happening right now, which isn't what Q/A is all about.
Reuters just said that president is not stepping down. He is just transferring power.

Saw this on Al Jazeera, but no source/link yet.
Iranian web developer faces death over photo uploading tool used by porn sites
Why not link to the actual article, instead of a TechCrunch post about it?

http://www.theonion.com/articles/interim-apple-chief-under-f...
If it's so hard for casual and new user, how good is it? As well as the confusing search/post box (which leads to a lot of questions getting posted by mistake), there's also the lack of categories when you create a question (which leads to a lot of orphaned questions) and the way you have to do a lot of editing of tweets to get them to be useful. Plus there's no way to move an answer to be a comment, so when people make a mistake it's a pain to recover. etc. Maybe it's all intentional to keep people out but with everybody highlighting how their business challenge is to attract users who aren't techies, that doesn't seem like the right approach to me.
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So what happens if he keeps the title but relinquishes executive power, as the 2:05 post indicates? Tie?
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Ask HN: I've built a front/back end performance profiler, is there a market?
Hello, all! I'm currently finishing up my M.Sc. thesis and am thinking
of commercializing some of the work that came out of it. I'm trying to
judge whether or not there would be a decent market for it.

I've developed a tool for doing multi-system profiling for web apps.
You've got some JS code for the front-end of your app, some
PHP/Python/Ruby/whatever on the back-end, and a database or two that
actually store content. Maybe you've got a more elaborate setup (async
task queues, a NoSQL document database, whatever). Your application
isn't fast enough, and you're not sure how to speed it up.

The tools I've developed help solve this problem. There's a Firefox
plugin and a number of backend plugins that do performance tracing and
aggregate it all together. For a given user action, you can see how
long everything involved took to serve it: which HTTP requests
happened, which Javascript code executed, and which backend code
executed, which database queries executed, etc. Once you've profiled
it, you can drill down into the specific slow parts to figure out what
to fix.

I've used it on a few open source projects to prove to myself that it
works and I'm just getting ready to do a few case studies with local
companies to demonstrate that it's actually industrially useful.

Right now it's not sufficiently polished to sell as a product, but
it's good enough that I can consult with it: bring me in for a few
days, I'll sit down with your team and help identify and fix the most
significant bottlenecks in your application.

So here's my question for HN: Do you think there's a market for
performance consulting like this?
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When the humans playing against Watson get slapped around it'll be a weird moment for humanity.
But you still give Watson too little credit here. You have typically 3s from when the "answer" is shown to when you can click the buzzer. So in 3s Watson has to go through all of its databases and semantic links and formulate the question, from an answer that often doesn't even make sense to probably half of the US population. That's pretty impressive.
I absolutely agree. But what other reasonable choice do the Egyptian people truly have? At some point, a purge of Mubarak's government will just leave you with no-one who knows how to keep the government running sufficiently to even hold orderly elections.

And I certainly wouldn't expect the Egyptians to trust a western stabilizing/interim governmental force moreso than their own military. We were partners to Mubarak's tyranny.
Many Java features are tailored to allow splitting a project in many submodules, and distribute tasks among a lot of coders with a spec. Many dynamic languages features are made to allow the quickest development by only a handful of developers.

Working in large teams with Ruby is harder than with Java. Getting a web app online in a week at 2 people is easier with Python than with Java.

Don't you agree that different languages are more or less adapted to various workflows, teams, applications, or environments?

Then about taste : passionate programmers learn by themselves. They may learn any language, Java, Python, C or Delphi. However the kind of people programming without passion mostly use Java, or C#, because the only matter of choice is language marketability. Therefore there many more poor, bland Java programmers than Python, Perl or Ruby programmers. There are many more Java programmers anyway :)
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Sorry for the delete & resubmit: I realized the original title of the post totally missed the point, i.e., that he is not faced with the death penalty for developing a porn site, but rather because he had developed a photo uploading utility that was subsequently used -- without his knowledge or consent -- by a porn site(s). AND he has a wife back home in Toronto. This is disgusting. That's like saying that a guy who builds beds should be put to death because an unmarried couple made use of one.
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> unless they were consciously trying to brand it has 'intimidating to newcomers')

Haha, sure, that's true enough. I firmly believe that design isn't just something you can do at the end. Design has to happen from the ground up. Having a competent designer involved with real veto power might have helped to get some usable organization of content in there.
Doh! Sam Quigley called it. In the 307 redirect case, which instructs the client to redirect POST data as well as the bare request, Flash can be coerced into honoring the crossdomain.xml file from the REDIRECTOR site instead of the REDIRECTEE site.

* Attackers control redirectors (they can just set up their own).

* Flash will set custom headers if crossdomain.xml allows them to.

* Rails and Django rely on the fact that attackers can't send custom headers (in particular, the XRW header that told Rails and Django "this is Ajax, don't worry about CSRF").

* So attackers can basically forge the crossdomain policy for arbitrary target sites using Flash, bypassing the CSRF security check in Rails and Django.

So much win!
Yeah, I dunno. How about

1. They can repurpose existing infrastructure with just a software change
2. Nobody has to pay for much out of their own budget or build it in anyone's back yard
3. Nobody has to declare it under any treaties or such
4. The system can receive as well as transmit
5. It's engineered and tested for continuous operation. There may even be excess capacity available almost for free
6. The system is massively redundant and supplies its own power and backup generators
7. More is better
8. Why not?
9. If it saves one child...
10. ...
11. Profit!

and so on. Just tossing out wild ideas here.

If only Nikola Tesla were alive to see this plan, he would certainly approve.
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More information is available about this (and the developments that led up to it) at: http://www.openhardwaresummit.org/
I'd wager that humans do the same thing (e.g., when they have an answer and it's on the tip of their tongue)
Subtlety is a art.
So HP is trying to redeem itself from the huge blunder with Woz some 30 years ago!
I'd look at PayPal's new micro-transaction service that has lower rates than listed above. See:
http://venturebeat.com/2010/10/26/paypal-microtransaction-su...
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I dunno if I'd use the term "Web 2.0" anymore.

As for a site with a good UI, I'd look at Quora. It hits all the high marks of UX. Simplicity, speed, ease of use. Others will probably disagree, though.

As for CSS strategies, look into media queries for responsive design on phones/tablets: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/
I'm somewhat biased but after looking long and hard for a good rest documentation system, i think this is the right way to do it.
It's a total mystery to me too. I can see the argument that he people/culture make it special, but why would those people go there in the first place? Is this just like when someone opens a new bar or nightclub and for a while it's 'the place to be' ? Are there any distinguishing features at all?
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Fill me in on the headgear thing? I've never come across either point in regards to headgear / shattering hands.
Not for the virtual Windows instance on my Linux laptop, it isn't.

And my gaming PC is also running just fine on XP. Upgrade unlikely in the foreseeable future.
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