skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Edit: Mea culpa on the Honeycomb mention, scratching my head on that... did a find on Android and Honeycomb just to be sure before I hit post.
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The 2.5-Minute FaceCash Mobile Payments Demo at Launch
If the angels on AngelList are happy with 5-10% returns (per Jason Calacanis) and those are the types of companies they're funding and finding on AngelList, doesn't it make sense that VCs would "opt out" of this market given 5-10% is not what they/their LPs are after?

After all the drama and histrionics, it seems that the 2 investor groups may just have different returns expectations. Nothing wrong with that.
eHow has taught me how to tie a tie more than once.
The Micrososft "to the cloud" commercials really drive me nuts (as much as I currently enjoy working this phrase into conversation as much as possible). They could make an argument about providing higher reliability, protection against data loss, etc. But them seem to prefer to just sprinkle "cloud" pixie dust on otherwise ordinary computing tasks.
If I recall correctly, early versions of JavaFX attempts this as well in its data binding, allowing bidirectional binding even in functions.
Warnings about crossing the road tend to be more lax in places where there aren't many cars.
Well at least it's less annoying than the 'cyber-everything' meme from the 90s and the oh-ohs.
To be pedantic, censorship is not limited to the government. Being private does not let you avoid the label of censorship.

And yes I know the metric is called "activity". It is just too suspicious that you let it rank well all these years and let it disappear from the front page just because a far smaller subreddit (by subscriber) was on the front page.
The other day I was driving down the road and saw a plane coming in from a landing right in front of me. That was no big deal. But seeing a rocket blast off into space from one of those at 30,000 feet? That's interesting, but which phone was used to film it is not.
> The entire article, comparing the tablet market,
> never _once_ uses the word Android or Honeycomb.

Read again, please.
Interesting, I would have thought once gone it never returns. Any examples of words or phrases that have come back to a niche definition?
He actually does mention Honeycomb: "No matter how good Google makes Honeycomb, the fact is, almost every company out there will be using it."

It's kind of a shitty argument, though, if you ask me. I don't follow the Android market all that closely, but it seems competitors are, in fact, doing things to differentiate themselves, even if they share the same core OS.
Visiting fairsearch.org I felt trolled. All arguments resolve around Google filtering results to harm competition, but the reasons to why Google would that and why ITA isn't doing that are shallow at best.

Making a big frowning robot squash badly drawn planes with a sign didn't help either.
This is a serious question:

Why do we need Amazon anymore?

If anyone can write a book and make an ebook and accept payment and distribute the book... why do you need an amazon?

Could I buy a reader for $500, pay $5 for ebooks, and the author and publisher still make more money?

It seems like giving away the reader for free with a proprietary format is just an attempt to lock in readers and create need for a service that isnt really needed.
Northern Europe= UK+France+Germany+others
True. But even the subreddits I subscribed to became too vile to stomach, so I -<username>'d myself about 3 or 4 months ago and haven't looked back.
That's a good basic overview on what it takes to keep a site the size of Reddit (a year ago) afloat. I need to think more about caching, personally.

Reddit has done a great job of serving a massive amount of traffic, given the size of their staff especially.
HTML5 audio in Chrome is not at a point where it can be used for game sound effects yet. Rewinding and restarting a sound doesn't work consistently, and creating new Audio() objects too quickly crashes the tab. FF4 is great, though. Star my Chromium bug reports if you want this fixed. http://bit.ly/g9KJNz http://bit.ly/hSXvOj
Concise? All it could say is that "nil" in boolean context is equivalent to false, but nothing else is.
Misuse aside, cloud computing (storage or otherwise) is in its infancy so everyone is trying their own take. Its real use will become apparent. In the 1980s everything had a clock in it because suddenly LCD screens were small enough to put a clock into anything the size of a pen or bigger. Now we've moved on and realised that it's not /clocks/ we wanted to be small, but chips. We'll move on from 'in the cloud' but in its wake will be left something useful.
""If my computer, or server, or laptop dies or really slows down, everything keeps working just fine because there are lots of other computers that remember what the other lost and they start working as soon as I need them."

See that actually kind-of makes sense in a scenario like a desktop virtualization. When Microsoft talks about "to the cloud" with photo editing for example I wish they would just say online backup, why confuse people with to the cloud?
Actually in Scheme, #f is the only false value. (e.g. the documentation for "if" in racket [1] says: "If it produces any value other than #f, then then-expr is evaluated, and its results are the result for the if form. Otherwise, else-expr is evaluated, and its results are the result for the if form. The then-expr and else-expr are in tail position with respect to the if form.")

[1] http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/if.html?q=if&q=fal...)
the blue is the new pink.
Man with ALS writes patch for Gnome using morse code (with touching story)
‘You’ll Have To Pry Covenants From Their Cold, Lifeless Hands’
What has _syntax_ to do with anything being discussed?
The big difference between Android ecosystem and Apple ecosystem is that Android want's to make their ecosystem big so they can make money on ads. Apple want's to make their app market great so they can make it big.

That is a rather fundamental difference and explains why the android marketplace is one big sorry mess with no direction. I wish it would be different but it's not.

The difference between the chaos on the internet and the Android ecosystem is almost non-excisting.

So I think it is fair to not spend much time if any on Androids ecosystem. What is there really to say about it other than it's big?
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Why is it that whenever someone negatively comments on eHow, a bunch of new accounts come out of nowhere to defend it?
Sure, HTTP status codes should be used. But they aren't enough to communicate application-specific messages from an app backend to an AJAX front-end. For example, AJAX on the browser might submit a form and the server returns a 422 (HTTP validation error status code). How will you be able to inform the user that the "email address must contain @" or "foobar is not an acceptable name"? You need to consume some JSON that has a payload of application-specific status messages.

I don't know if this proposal is optimal (smarter guys than me can decide that). But I know that a standard way of communicating application-specific errors would be a big step forward.

A year ago I searched for an adequate in-place editing plugin for Rails that didn't require major surgery to provide error messages to the user. I was surprised at the complexity required to handle a simple error condition. Usually Rails has all the goodness baked in but it seems application-specific status messages with JSON are out of scope. I asked "How to show server errors in Rails with JSON and jQuery" [1] on Stack Overflow and it's received more views than any other question I've ever asked.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2489567/how-to-show-serve...
what is the deal with this noise about content farms? A few years ago Wikipedia was a content farm for me - being very "on-topic" it polluted the search results and the few times i clicked on it i was very disappointed by the content. Fast forward to today - majority of my on-topic search ends with me happily reading Wikipedia. Either i became more stupid or Wikipedia content became much more better. I believe it is the latter :)
Freakonomics: Attitudes Towards (Measuring) Poverty
can you explain 'convertible note' and 'no dividend' 'no cap'
is it somehow possible to put that list into the chrome block list plugin?
They probably have Google Alerts set up on eHow search terms, or something like that.
In terms of Microsoft's external efforts to spur on WP7 development, I haven't been as impressed. Maybe it's just that I'm bitter about sitting through an evening's worth of presentations with a room full of iPhone developers at MS's Mountain View campus and not being offered a free developer phone at the end ;-) But seriously, Google has done a lot of developer outreach to try to catch up with Apple, yet I don't see MS doing much other than expecting us developers upgrade to the latest Windows, buy ourselves a copy of Visual Studio, find and purchase a WP7 handset, etc., etc.
I can attest to this as well. I checked mahalo's quantcast a few weeks ago and it was hidden.
SharePoint: The bug in LookupField control
Antarctica IS inhabited (for my definition of "inhabited").

Perhaps the first bases on the Moon and Mars will be small Antarctic-like ones, from every big country on Earth. Perhaps Mars will never be "terraformed", instead the enclosed bases will slowly expand to accommodate expanding populations. Some people on Earth already live totally indoors, and in the future, many Asian cities in polluted environments may have roofs outside, as well as inside, to keep the air clean.
YouTube Is A Great Way
For the new sites or blogs YouTube is a great way to get the start in visitors. For your blogs or sites you may link your channel and video. It also applies to search engine ranking as YouTube and social networks.
What indicates it was an iPhone anyway? The video doesn't say that. Is there a clue in the format?
The main problem that Microsoft is facing is the same as they faced with Silverlight.

Developers are only one part of the equation. It's the designers and creative/visual developers that you need to make your platform really stand out.

For what it's worth though I saw the Windows OS on WMC and it looked pretty great especially for games. Although I am not sold on their basic GUI, but time will tell.

I am not saying this to belittle the importance of developers but that is to me rather obvious.
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Agreed.

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No disrespect towards you, Jeremy, you're pretty awesome in my book (literally.. my High Perf MySQL book).

But with Craigslist being the most closed-minded and developer-hating organization I've ever come across, I don't particularly give a rat's ass what it's built on.

I wish it wasn't so, because I generally love posts like this, but if a dictator's employees start giving tours of the mansion, you certainly won't find me dazzled by the motion-sensor water fountains..
These constant articles and discussions about why not to use Photoshop for web design is starting to remind me of this Onion article: http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mention...

But in all seriousness…while Photoshop may not be the best tool for the job, mocking things up on paper, whiteboard, Illustrator, Omnigraffle, Fireworks, or whatever your visual weapon-of-choice is, is invaluable. You learn a lot more about what works and what doesn't when you're not worrying about whether or not that "float" you just put in to your third <section> column will properly align the element with the first two.

There is a real reason UX/UI and designers exist; please don't crap all over these professions just because you know your code better than you know design fundamentals.
College Costs Aren’t the Main Problem
Regarding 'The Hangover'
Francis Fukuyama on Why Analog Is Often Better Than Digital
Photoshop is so lame:)))
Draw your ux logic, than illustrate gui.
Coding is not the way to think about design.
Use prototyping tools. Cleat flow ideas. Than implement them in html/css. Use any graphic editor to illustrate.
For gui stuff i prefer Fireworks. For illustration-painting, accent use sketchbook pro/artrage/pixelmator.
Used to be. Now it's just a content farm. It has been a few different things, none of them useful.
Ha. :) It's taught me how to cook a burger at least twice.
That's not a percentage. It's likely per 1,000 or 100,000 or something.
Which is more crucial to the success of a startup: the idea or the execution?
LG demos transparent LCD
I think it just means "remote" now, the way people use it.
I didn't know about this, thanks!

While we are at it, there is also the 2009 paper: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data by Peter Norvig.
I'm not crapping on anyone.
I came up as a designer, with fundamentals. Actually I was a print designer. Even more fundamental.
I don't know code better than design. Nor do I know design better than code.

I wrote the post to relay the method I use to design, highlight it's efficiencies, express opinions on process, and hopefully inspire more to try it out.
I was about to give this one a try but it seems the price has gone up to $100 now!!

I hope thats as a result of demand because $50 was at a level that I didn't think twice, but $100 has made me reconsider. Hopefully for your sake I am the minority then!
Great post! I had a few questions:

1. Do the slaves write to disk? I assume that would incur no performance penalty, as I believe slave writes don't slow down the master's performance -- only the rate of replication.

2. Async operations seem like a great idea, and in fact I was toying around with implementing something like that myself. How far along is your implementation, and how does it seem to behave so far?

3. About your proposed 'automatic slave read' idea: The way I understand what you wrote, it seems like you would end up incurring the same cost on the master and the slave, i.e., you make the request on the server, and if it takes longer than X msecs, you then issue the request on the slave. Instead, is there any merit to having a redis command that returns how much time is likely going to be required for a given command? It wouldn't have to be very precise -- I imagine even the rough order of magnitude would be helpful for deciding whether to get the data from a given master or its slave?
It seems to be only spam. Flag it and continue with your life.

Autotranslation:
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The Technological Singularity and Merging With Machines
WTF is this? I can't decide if this is some personal beef, trolling, or something else.
I use omnigraffle for initial flows. I should have put that in the post.

I don't think Photoshop is lame. I love it for what I use it for.
The denizens of #lisp (and the implementation-specific IRC channels of well) are amazingly helpful.

I miss having such awesome real-time help when I have to perform other tasks (like smartphone-related stuff ... ugh)
"My biggest fear is that people confuse the “social proof” of other prominent investors on AngelList for real insight. Indeed, in a bubble people generally chase what other people are chasing leading to group think."

Indeed.
Isn't regurgitating content from elsewhere and slapping ads on it, is a content farm? Wikipedia can be a notable exception in that they've never served commercial ads (They had donation ads).

By the way, it seems that content farms are synonymous with blogspam. Examples: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=eHow+was+ori...
Maybe? There's something to be said for memcache's simplicity, however.
Great question, I'd love to know that too.
UK National Fraud Authority wants examples of spam.
I love this argument (I saw it in Fooled by Randomness) as it also explains why we can have someone like Warren Buffet. If you have a million people playing Russian Roulette, you are almost guaranteed a number of seemingly invincible people.
That's a bit of a stretch... That "reddit is under heavy load" page is an abomination.
JC, if the startup that is attempting to get me to do a mobile prototype will allow me to attend..sure :)
Because it's not an online backup. The canonical version of the photo now lives on in a remote service, managed and maintained in perpetuity by someone else. The user's local computer has become just a cache.

This a fundamental shift in how people use computers. I think it's reasonable to assign that shift a label, and that label has turned out to be "cloud." (No argument that the term is overhyped and overapplied.)
Aren't all LCDs transparent? Are they demoing anything more than an LCD without a backlight?
Navigational ‘Magic’ of Sea Turtles Explained
Great question. I'm working on finding that out myself.
New Mortal Kombat banned in Australia
Our site was featured on CNN and Mashable this week. Here's what I learned.
Two planets found sharing one orbit
Thanks for writing up the PR process. Interesting, and potentially useful in the future.
In addition to energy efficiency, do whatever you can with your money to make maintenance easier on yourself.

For instance, bathrooms that are easily cleanable. I myself really like the way that Japanese homes generally separate the toilet, sink, and bath/shower into separate rooms. With the bath/shower essentially being a tiled room, it's really easy to clean up without splashing water everywhere.

A continuous hot water heater will pay for itself (and let you take Japanese-style baths).
A 32GB 3G iPad is $729. EDIT The Xoom costs $800, has a higher-resolution screen, two cameras, and the price includes an upgrade to 4G (whenever Verizon and Motorola sort that out). So I think it's actually pretty close. Well, at least the hardware is, which I know is not the whole story :-)
Javascript and Node.js
Congrats, you just re-invented SOAP!
If an ill-conceived client sends HTTP requests yet drops HTTP status codes on the floor, I have no doubt that coddling it by also breaking the server (200 OK, {"status":"fail"}? wtf?) will catch on despite being an amazingly bad idea. This is why we can't have nice things.
All of the examples I gave: e-commerce, WWW/Internet, multimedia, digital, robot, and automatic. They started with a specific meaning, then became overused, and now are back to meaning something specific. Think about to 1995 and remember how multimedia was overused all the time, ever where. Now it means something specific once again.
I love Redis a great deal but I can't wait for the persistence issues to be worked out.

The fact that they're restricting the working memory set to 24GB on a 32GB machine purely to prevent death by SAVE or BGSAVE is quite concerning. For my personal use cases the speed of the SAVE can become drastically long as well - this becomes even worse if you need to factor in a hosting solution with temperamental disk I/O such as Amazon EC2.

Redis Diskstore is something I'm eagerly waiting for but for now the issues with the Redis persistence layer meant I can't use Redis in my recent project. Here's to a speedy release of Redis 2.4! =]
Look under "Cache Settings" in Maps. There's a checkbox for "Prefetch on Mobile". If it's off and you're not using Maps while on Wi-Fi then I wouldn't expect much caching to happen. You can also see how much data Maps has cached.

I don't have a data plan and I find caching works well on my Nexus One when I ask for directions before leaving the house. I haven't tried it on a long road trip though. For comparison, the cache size on my phone is 37M now.
The likely role of AdSense in Google's "Farmer" Update
I'll share my experience raising money with Angellist. As a data point, I've been involved with startups since '99. Before, when you had to raise money, it was a painful slog, you had to set aside months of your life to beg for introductions, nag every contact you had. Basically, you were chasing the VCs (Angels were less prominent then).

This time, raising money for my startup, after our pitch went out on Angellist, it was unlike anything I or most of my friends have ever experienced. Angels and VCs contact you, I had two to three weeks of non-stop meetings, selecting who would be best to take money from, and we raised.

What Angellist did for us was (a) significantly decrease the time to raise money and (b) put us in front of VCs and Angels we never could have met on our own, not without at least dedicating months to the process.

My take - it empowers the entrepreneurs, which is why certain VCs don't like it. Classic internet play - disintermediate the middlemen.

It's just my opinion, but boy, it made my life simple and allowed me to get back to what I love, which is building my company.
Quora? Really?

I mean, look at this page, it has almost no graphic elements
http://www.quora.com/Joel-Lewenstein/Life-Without-Photoshop

The whole site is one color header and bunch of comments.

Good luck designing one of those cssmania.com like sites (when your client ask you to) without Photoshop.
Maybe Google are about to do a push for Knol.

Nyuck nyuck nyuck.
Just looked at this, it looks super useful! Going to try it out.
There is a very big difference between "too smart" and "too complicated". I think Haskell is dangerously close to the former category while C++ is firmly in the second. I appreciate "smart" for many tasks, but sometimes the operational semantics become important (e.g. it's performance-sensitive) and then you have to understand the stack at a pretty deep level and it can be awfully confusing why a tiny source-level change makes a big performance or space difference.

Sometimes I pretty much know what assembly I want and it's much easier to make a C compiler produce it than to get GHC to produce it.
Wikipedia improves over time (or at least attempts to). Because people put time and effort into it. Also, it keeps references and at attempts to be accurate. The aim is to create a wealth of information. Content farms are mostly the opposite. The aim is to make ad money. Making money isn't a sin but who are we kidding, one of these two generates quality content and the other one doesn't.
Many modern-day streaming protocols are built on top of HTTP purely because firewalls don't block it and proxies can forward it. Obviously that's a terrible idea from a performance point of view, but it's a fact of life that things are broken and we can deal with it by moving up the protocol stack.
Looks to me like a pretty heartfelt opinion on the state of affairs at CL, likely by a developer scorned. Wouldn't be the first time this happened.
Does anybody else feel like shorting Demand Media?
Agreed, it does seem like a waste, but I haven't found a better solution that allows the same flexibility. You could split a bunch of speakers out of a bigger amp if you just want the same sound everywhere, but I really like being able to choose any combination of sources and output. My family all have macs and ipod touches or iphones. There's something cool about any of the kids being able to pipe their ipod's music through the deck speakers, for example, while my office plays itunes off my laptop.
>Isn't regurgitating content from elsewhere

how about Wikipedia's "no original research" policy?
DemandMedia supposedly pays their authors for writing the pieces - which supposedly means original content.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not equaling current Wikipedia
and their overall great goal with DemandMedia. I'm just wondering - if the content farm hunt happened several years ago how would Wikipedia survived it.

>and slapping ads on it

well, i'm for one would like it if search engines rated lower any web pages with ads - more ads (like page real estate taken) - more scores taken out. It is like with Congressmen - more money in donations from Shell - less my trust that the Congressmen will support any anti-global warming efforts.