skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey thanks for the constructive feedback.

The Backbone project page already does a good job of describing the motivation behind it.

From the front-page of the tutorial: "[This tutorial] was designed to provide a smoother transition from zero to the popular Todos example [provided in the Backbone website]."

Also, it's on Github for free - contributions are welcome!
HTML emails already offer both, hidden in the mime message is a plain text version. Clients just usually don't show the plain text one when there is an html version.
Let your site visitors mine BitCoins for you
Ask HN: iOS App Recommendation for idea/project management
I like to write down my ideas in text, sometimes draw out a mock-up, or add PDF's of something (documentation, screen shots etc)

I wish to do this electronically on my iPad, but I dont know on any apps that are sort of an all inclusive notebook. I want to have an app where:

- iPad native to maximize space

- have many project ideas I have (each self contained)

- write text about it

- add existing jpg, png, etc

- free hand draw

- add PDF to the project

- Save a copy to DropBox

- being able to open this on my Mac to edit would be nice too.

Does anone know of anything?
Don't mean to be a buzzkill here, but I don't think anyone with an ounce of a brain will find this funny, which I believe was the original intent.
Tom McEnery: Ireland after President Obama's Visit [video] | New Tech Post
http://twitter.com/johndcook

http://www.johndcook.com/blog
Groupon Raising $750 million in IPO [video] | New Tech Post
Forget Laundering Unauthorized Music Via Music Match, What About AirDrop?
I'm the owner of this website and talking about the numbers. It was about 2000 visits until my account was suspended. And after redirection to http://ennovates.wordpress.com/ visits were 1900 there till writing of this comment. so 44 upvotes and around 4000 visits.
If you care more about how the email looks than the content, then odds are that the people who you are sending the email to do not want to receive it.

It's only when I don't know you and you're trying to sell me something that you need to make the email visually appealing.
In all honesty, reading this makes me want the writer to actually spend some time reading grocery store counter magazines or cosmopolitan, or even watching 5 straight hours of fox news or reality shows or whatever goes completely against his values.

Truth is, no one would come back to a website that showed them uninteresting things.
Furthermore, Google doesn't use IIS, and doesn't release their server publicly. Those 6 million were more than likely new servers picked up, which puts the number of vanished IIS servers at 10 million.
> But anyone who thinks that this effect will last for billions, millions, or even thousands of years has failed to understand evolution.

Oh really? Evolution selects for survival, period. (Actually, survival selects for certain kinds of evolution.) Where is it written that survival implies over-population.
It's an op-ed, not an article. A little bit easier to get.
But we have the jeitinho brasileiro.
When I visit family and friends in the old country, I always find people's attitude depressing. There is a universal sense of dependence on the state, stemming largely from the fact that over 20% of the population is employed directly by the government, but also from a widespread sense of entitlement to welfare and other support.

The state is the source of and solution to all of their problems, and this interferes with their willingness to depend on each-other for support. People will much more readily look to the state for the answers to their problems than to themselves or their peers.

I can only take such an attitude in small doses before I have to leave and breathe some fresh air of freedom and self-determination back stateside. I appreciate the sense of community and interdependence that comes from the state taking a back seat in people's lives. If we have a problem, then the answer is often to address it ourselves rather than petition the state for a solution. Chances are we're not the only ones to feel that way, and help from our peers will materialize from the bottom up.
He should just present his resignation.
Possibly the full dynamic dispatch (AKA multi-methods) that you get with systems like CLOS - where the types of all of the arguments are used to compute matching methods, not just the type of the object you are invoking the method on.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SmalltalkLateBinding
Plenty of people in europe are creating interesting startups...
The effect WHAT would will have on HTML5 development?

And would ruby developers use ruby if given the option? Somehow, I think so.
Only if the engineer picked the wrong part for the job...
It's bad, in the sense that it leads you to write tightly coupled code that depends on it. The whole point of objects are to hide data and instead expose behavior so other code is coupled to the objects behavior rather than its internal implementation on a specific set of chosen data. This leaves you free to fiddle with the internal implementation without breaking the external API, which leads to modular loosely coupled code.
I used to get Slashdot sent to me as plain text. It was a sheer delight to read and I really miss having it formatted that way. I would pay a premium for it.

Maybe it is just that most people have never been exposed to properly formatted text emails?

I'm sure people find most of the websites they visit and the emails they read, filled with columns of extra garbage, to be cumbersome and difficult to read. Executives think that's what people want, but I doubt there has ever been an thorough examination of all the formats and their effects on people.
http://jobs.hasgeek.in has turned out to be a very fine place for finding very fine people. You should try it.

(PS: Hey Nag, ltns :))
I got the circle and after 8 tries on a trackpad I was unable to get it
This technology will theoretically enable fb to approximate your geographical location at a given time: http://kristiandupont.com/blog/2010/10/face-recognition-and-...
I constantly hear of web services shutting down and I feel guilty for not appreciating them at the time. I'm not going to make that mistake this time.

Netcraft has been at it basically as long as I have. I don't read their survey reports regularly but maybe I should. Their archives are awesome. Remember the SCO saga?

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2003/12/15/outages_continu...

Thanks Netcraft!

Also, I love their anachronistic logo.
It's not my first program, it's my first Mac app.

http://shinyplasticbag.com/lidpop
Looking at the privacy, this was unimaginable 5-10 years ago. But Facebook's strategy of little steps is working. I'm quite sure people will accept this and most comments won't go beyond how amazing this is, creepy but still awesome and similar blabla.
Nice to see that having search still doesn't prevent people from submitting the same stories over and over again:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2560148

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2566365

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2604593
How Internet sales taxes in CA could drive VigLink & others out of the state
Hire remote employees in the US?
As the others have been saying, you probably want to limit the width to 600px, just because many email clients will have trouble with larger than that.

However, we actually don't use tables when it comes to our templates; we apply styles to divs and ps when we flatten the HTML and CSS.

Happy to chat further if you're interested!
Daily WTF is all about cringe-worthy programming stories. If you find them funny, so be it... But they're almost all cringe-worthy.
Small businesses decrease corruption and anti-competitive practices in large businesses.
Agreed. ARC is not garbage collection, nor is it an indication in any way that MacRuby on iOS is coming.
Maybe it's the old-school in me, but I don't mind it at all. It only becomes torture when I can't figure out what to type and the cursor continues to blink... mocking me...
Of course it is. No doubt we need news filters, or curation, because there's too much news for us to handpick. You can still do that but you're missing a lot of interesting stuff.

The discussion should be about the way filtering works. Of course you should not get what you "like", but what you are interested in. There's a subtle but big difference in that.
Happy claim chowder for DaringFireball's Gruber
Yeah, it doesn't bother me a bit. In fact, I think I'm the target audience for the blinking cursor because I find it makes it a lot easier to find the cursor. I quite like it.
He is not saying what you think he's saying for #1. He's saying that if in 10 years or whatever, 1 bitcoin is worth $2M, why would you ever spend your 1 bitcoin now when it's going to be worth so much money in the future. This means people are going to horde, or it's not going to become so big.
I think it's getting backed by all the people that are putting money into it.
> Those problems aside, we could do a lot worse than modeling europe, way less gas usage, higher health insurance coverage, 2 months of vacation a year. Sounds a lot more stable to me.

And roughly half the gdp/person of the US.

The US govt already collects about as much (per person) in taxes as European govts. (It collects significantly more than Canada and, iirc, slightly less than France.) Yet, no one would seriously argue that we get anywhere near the same level of benefit for that spending.

As long as the US govt is that inefficient, it's absurd to suggest giving it more money.
I agree, it's quite frustrating to not know where you input location is. I've also had issues using multiple VMs you can have multiple cursors all of which are blinking. Nonetheless the blinking cursor is an important queue when focus doesn't just follow your eyes. (Though even that would be bad when you wanted to read one thing and type to another place.)
I actually had to check if the system I'm on had a blinking cursor. I care so little one way or the other that I don't notice.
Any new platform that isn't ultradoomed is interesting. I might have been waiting for iOS development to become less brittle before getting involved (that is, if their policies towards developers and users weren't so repellent).
I firmly believe the crawler won't download the plusone library for a few reasons.

- It may not run javascript at all.

- It doesn't need to be checked for malicious content.

- If all else fails, it might have it cached already.

Even if external assets are computed into a site's speed, the overhead is negligible when it comes to search ranking.
There's a TED talk on this matter
http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bu...
I'm getting really sick of the stupid Microsoft remarks. I'm a Mac / Apple guy through and through, but it's just so annoying all the people saying things are going to shit the second M$ gets them, even though when the problem obviously has nothing to do with M$.
That doesn't make sense to me at all. Sure, pick a larger part, pay more money, and don't squeeze your code. It's a decision to be made, but don't label the decision for a smaller part as "wrong" until you know the trade-offs being made.

When you talk about huge volumes, that cent or two for the part can make a significant difference. Really, it can. I've been there. I've been part of a team that commissioned silicon and had to contribute to the decision about how much programming space to have. Compromises like this can make a very large difference to the economics.
One core, but the Apple A5 in the iPad 2 and iPhone 4GS/5 (the flagship devices for iOS 5) has two cores.
Fortunately, there are sparks of cultural changes lately, especially with the younger folks, but it's a change that won't happen overnight for sure.

I would like to contribute my personal data point on this. I'm a student in a smallish Dutch town at a university that's mostly focused on economics/business and medicine.

It feels like there's a considerate entrepreneurial spirit among the students here. Many seem to wish to found a startup and there are some there doesn't seem to be the mentioned aversion against success and making it big. From what I can tell, most of this is (still) just hot air, meaning that people have big ideas but don't dare start working on them. On the other hand, this might also be due to the lack of a bigger engineering or CS department with more people that can actually build something.

Maybe this is the beginning of a change of culture. I wonder if students in bigger tech-universities have similar experiences.
I know a few shops where IIS servers were hidden behind an nginx layer, which would agree with your statement - but does not necessarily mean that IIS is no longer used, just not publicly visible.
Why does this get downvoted?

GWEI write on their web site that they are using "robots" for "clicks". If that is the case, it would be criminal, since they would be stealing money from AdWords advertisers.

I don't think its true though, because those kind of accounts usually get banned quickly and the advertisers get their money back.
Oh man, the first thing I thought was of the KXCD comic http://xkcd.com/37/
this isn't guaranteed. for example, when i subscribed to groupon (in chile) there was no text alternative.
Is there an opposite website to The Daily WTF - a collection of short, elegant and clever code?
which while i understand and concur with your hatred of unsolicited sales emails, is the point of them :) much the same as ads on TV, i don't want to see then but if im going to be forced to, at least don't make them offend my eyes,

(not much can be said for badly designed marketing messages though)
Read the article again. It assumes everyone will hoard because they think there's a chance bitcoin might become successful (and in the meantime there's not a lot to spend bitcoins on anyhow).

But this hoarding is exactly what creates a bubble, and the lack of anyone spending means that there will never be mainstream shops using it, so it will never have worth.
I am talking about the marketing (or culture) of entrepreneurship. I.E. what the article is about. Not actual business principles. Spreadsheets and bottom lines aren't going to convince anyone to make the jump.
How Apple gave up on web apps – to make more money with iCloud
You have to remember that iCloud isn’t Apple’s way of entering the web application market, but actually a measure of ensuring the future of their own ecosystem. Apple doesn’t want to make web apps, they want their developers to make more money creating apps for the iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Without a healthy economy, social services, safety, free education, and excellent vacations will eventually go away. I think it's a universal truth that everyone wants a good economy, regardless of whether you're a socialist or a capitalist.
Zootool for iPhone is here
>And it doesn't matter if we have tons of electric if all of our transportation infrastructure requires oil products. Converting all of that infrastructure is going to take lots of capital and energy.

I don't think biofuel represents a viable long-term solution, but butanol is practically ideal when it comes to the search for a short-term transition fuel. It runs in ordinary modern engines without modification, and vehicles from the '90s have been successfully run on 100% butanol without issue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butanol_fuel
http://nabc.cals.cornell.edu/pubs/nabc_19/NABC19_5Plenary2_R...

For the long-term:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery#Variations_...
Oh, very cool. This just got a bunch more fun.
Given that there is a viable option for 64 bit Linux users (i.e. 32 bit browsers), the only practical result from the development of a 64 bit Linux version of Flash Player is to placate a handful of zealots not a significant market segment.

It is inevitable that Flash will not be everywhere - it will not even be on a significant portion of mobile devices, e.g. iphones.
The market that Microsoft directly competes in (using IIS) has never been anywhere near the shared hosting space.

The purpose of collecting these stats is not to find out how IIS is doing in it's target market, but instead to find out how popular web servers are.

If I were to suggest removing all non-Free OSs from the statistics (since one could claim that as a Free web server Apache doesn't compete there), then you'd see totally different numbers aswell, and that would just as deceptive.
Arguable.
For one, iCloud will allow you to keep "the last 1000 pictures", but the mac or pc will be where all of them are supposed to be. I am not a big photographer, but I have at least four times those.

So you will still need a PC, and sadly, a backup system.
I'm fairly certain that it doesn't do cross-translation-unit inter-procedure analysis, so it can't tell if, for example, the function from another file that you call does anything special that would make the removal of a retain before passing the object to the function an invalid optimization.

It doesn't know that the object is only used in a thread-local context, so in many cases (eg, function args) it might not be able to assume that there is no concurrent refcounting action going on elsewhere, which eliminates other optimizations.

By definition, compilers have to be conservative about what callers can do, when humans can simply say "This function is not thread safe", or similar.

This is one reason that "real" GC is generally used instead of reference counting in all high performance garbage collected language. (In throughput-oriented systems, the GC is even a stop-the-world GC, since that removes quite a bit of concurrency/atomic operation overhead).

The other big one is that you need a garbage collector anyways if you want things to work in the presence of cycles.

EDIT: Perhaps someone with a Mac and access to this compiler can post some output of code with this feature enabled. I'd be curious to see what sort of output the compiler actually gives.

This speculation is annoying :)
I'm not sure I totally agree. I think we are already possess the best filter that guides us generally to the news we want to read. What we need are better experiences from news apps and sites, and not someone else's idea of the perfect overall filter. However, I do think that better selective filtering will prove helpful. I wrote a blog post on this recently. http://goldbergfam.info/blog/2011/06/03/personalized-news-si...
I've felt for a long time that the tendency to equate "sending a message" and "calling a function/method" has caused a lot of problems - one is more like IPC/RPC and the other is something that happens within the local context (process/thread/etc.).
I think the real answer here is to stand out. She's spectacular, but doesn't market herself well because she's good at everything and doesn't give him an easy hook.

There's something weird about this situation, though. Why is she asking him for job referrals when he obvious doesn't know anything personal about her? He doesn't know anything that she likes or dislikes... This might as well be their first meeting. (And might have been!) Sounds more like a recruiter than a friend.

But it's not a recruiter, because a recruiter would just submit her to anything that even slightly matches... Which for her is everything.

So while I think the advice is good and on-target, I think there's a pretty small window of usability.
Thank you - useful. Perhaps they really didn't need to use that specific trick on that specific occasion. It might be interesting for someone to comb through and find out if they used it lots of times, or just a few. perhaps they simply got into the mindset and used it because they could, in anticipation of needing it.

Certainly that sort of thing is easier to do first time round, rather than having to go round again to find bytes when you find later that you need them. It becomes a habit, much like these days it's a habit to layout code clearly, name variables carefully, and comment tricky code.
The market that Microsoft directly competes in (using
IIS) has never been anywhere near the shared hosting
space

That's not from a lack of trying on Microsoft's part.

And eliminating shared-hosting from a statistic like this is exactly how Microsoft would do it - introducing bias to turn the numbers in their favor.

Does EC2 count as shared hosting btw? What about Heroku?

to remove noise from the dataset

Sure, I'm all for removing parked domains. But there are lots of business and professionals that have their website hosted with shared accounts, websites that are useful for their target audience, even though they may not be in the TOP-whatever. Excluding those websites from such a metric would do a disservice to people.

Otherwise you could end up seeing IIS loose in a
market space that it never was in

Or you could say that you would see IIS win in a market space that's getting crushed by shared hosting.

It's a comparison of popularity between similar front-end web servers, which does have something to say about cost and feasibility of hosting multiple websites on top of cheap servers. Otherwise the comparison is useless, as popularity doesn't really matter to big corporations and startups that know what they are doing and are likely to choose Nginx anyway.
If we have nothing to hide, I think it'll work in our favor. I used to fly a lot, and at one point, I was held at US customs for 3.5 hours. In the end, apparently the reason was because I had too many different kinds of stamps in my passport.

I've also been searched numerous times (although I guess it's small, considering how much I fly). If facial recognition could help in identifying criminals (starting to sound like Lie to Me), I'd be for it.
This is exactly right. There is a great scenario for using nginx out in front of any number of workhorse app servers.
Then try configuring/running mod_wsgi for nginx.
It'll still thrive in all the countries that don't legislate against it, and in the black markets of those which do.
I don't like the subject line either, but he did specify early on that it was a tongue-in-cheek quip and didn't actually confirm anything.

Thanks for clarifying this solidly, though.
I use the 'recommended items' feature on Google Reader quite a lot. It does a good job of finding things I'd like, but also puts in a lot of other random stuff. (Which I occasionally like.) The more things I 'liked', the more random stuff appeared... (Probably because I have such a diverse set of interests that it just can't read me well.)
if you make pirating harder you will undeniably get some of the would be pirates buying instead. and of course you can measure it easily on you sales.

but.

they say the conversion is 1000 pirates vs. one sale. Which only convinces me that im right. think about it. 999 people less will be using the program. yes, you will sell one more copy, but how many future sales you loos because those 999 people are not going around talking about your program, playing it in public, recommending it to friends...

Their sales rose short term but I think the've lost long term for sure.
You're welcome. It's just an example but it should be ready for people to send to themselves, look at on their devices, and see if they like it. That's how HTML 5 Boilerplate works. The first thing I did after I browsed to HTML 5 Boilerplate on my laptop was open it up on my phone.
The White House bunker uses Stormpulse [fast fwd to 3:15]
I don't mind a blinking cursor at all, but a blinking cursor in a non-focused window drives me insane.

Fortunately, I don't run any programs which do such a thing nowadays.
iCloud’s Real Purpose is to Kill Windows
Adobe is not allowed to set standards in my world.

If my main daily experience of dealing with your company is cursing at you when I restart software I feel forced to use (npviewer.bin), I'm probably going to look for alternatives to your other software as well.