skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stop to consider how much data about how you use their site is already available to the operators of the sites you visit, I think this is only a small extension of that.

Heck with mobile apps, some sites/apps can even see where you are using them from.
Depending on definition Europe can have more than 700 million people and it often includes Turkey and Russia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Europe

But I would think that they are referring to European Union nations???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Europe,_EU,_candidates,.pn...

Also does the VC numbers for Israel include the population of the Israeli occupied territories or just those who have full Israeli citizenship?
Because of this "duplicate tab" functionality, you can click the link to open in the current tab, then middle-mouse click the back button to open the previous page in a new tab (complete with the full history). You end up with your new page and the previous page open in separate tabs with the same history. (Still, not as clean as it could be.)
Both my DropZap and DropZap 2 apps are free for a limited time. Any suggestions?
DropZap

http://www.dropzap.com (web demo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkOnq9wEsSk
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dropzap/id338490375?mt=8

DropZap 2

http://www.dropzap2.com (web demo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XWVS6G1RRg
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dropzap-2/id378977964?mt=8
It beautiful, no doubt! But I must admit, it took me a surprisingly long time to figure out what this application does. The landing page doesn't tell me, the screenshot page doesn't tell me either (not by scanning, anyway) (also, every screenshot is two clicks away). In the end, I reluctantly clicked help, and found out.

Still; very esthetically pleasing.
followed by 17 redirects, which is hilarious when managers have sound turned on and you here the "click click click click click" as IE bounces around

I wonder if someone added a few extra redirects just for that reason. Seems like a quick and easy way to remotely identify coworkers that don't customize or disable their sound scheme and use IE.
No wonder. You're doing it wrong.

That's analogous to unsuccessfully learning French by reading French McDonald's menus, then telling everyone that French is stupid.
Well, I think this would be the simplest: the temperature at any given latitude will be the average of the last n years. Period. But maybe I'm too naive.
> But I don't believe this article anyhow. Sure, Google wasn't the first search engine... But they sure did it better than the others at the time.

Er, that's precisely the author's thesis.
Yes. But when Haliburton claims a planet, I don't really care if they fart around with its climate, because I'll never be allowed to go there anyway.
In the past eight months my father's had bowel cancer (surgery worked: currently in remission) and my wife had uterine cancer (surgery worked: hopefully a complete cure). And the cat went blind.

Anyone saying "everything happens for a reason" to me would probably wind up with a black eye. (At the very least, they'd go on my personal do-not-call list.)

Which is to say: you shouldn't say things to immediate relatives that you shouldn't say to the patient, either.
http://venturebeat.com/2011/06/14/valves-steam-online-store-...
From the source of the website:
"<!-- Are you looking at the source code? Like we'd put the answers here. Creative tho... -->"

It was worth a shot.
Tool to compare CSS3 box shadows across browsers
Sorry about that. Working on both. :)
Bitcoin miners have already purchased the available high-end Radeon HD graphics cards in the States. The Radeon HD 5770 is still available however and may be a good choice according to the payback chart.
Google's idea wasn't "search engine", it was "page rank", which gave damn good query results. But some people have it in their best interest to trivialize any idea, so I expect them to do this.
sigh - I always overestimate the willingness of other people to think abstract. Whatever...
Might test the BRIC alliances. Russia and Brazil probably won't agree on this one.
Yup, I have. Don't really see any distinct advantage, though writing new formulas (and contributing) is comparatively easier.
It's obviously easier to "fart around with" the Earth's climate considering we're doing it now to some extent.

Assuming you meant the much higher bar of improving the Earth's climate (sidestepping the obvious question of what we mean by improve), I'm still not convinced colonizing another planet is easier. There's a number of theoretical plans for reducing CO2, or decreasing surface temperature by reflecting some of the sun's light. These plans are much less sci-fi fanciful than building a viable colony (especially if you mean largely self-supporting) on other planets.
I guess that's kind of what it is saying? An Ice Age would be about as bad for civilization as we know it as the ice caps melting (just in different ways), in a time of global cooling, I suppose increased CO2 would keep the Earth warmer then the last ice age.
very true. the funny thing is that americans have no problem taking food they haven't finished from restaurants "to go." in russia, this is seen as a faux pas...you don't have food at home you can eat?
Three problems, algorithm-centric, each solvable with (some intelligent thought and) a few lines of (say) Python. Unsurprisingly, the payoff is "we're hiring; please send us your resume".

ReadyForZero appears to be a company that helps people get out of credit card debt by tracking what you owe to whom and recommending what to pay off in what order. They just got Series A funding.
It's easy to bash PHP.
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Get a Honda Accord V6. Basically the same weight. About 1 second slower in its 0-60 acceleration. Cheaper, better mileage and safer.
I dono. I believed this in high school when I practiced meditation regularly. I think I even compared it's effects to exercise, but I believed a lot of things in high school that I now consider silly and/or obviously untrue. Do you have credible citations?
Is MS's European chairman genuinely concerned about the European economy and education system? In that case, he might have more success at these goals, by becoming a politician instead.

Or... are these economic observations somehow self serving? Perhaps the lower levels of VC investment in Europe (per capita) are inconvenient for him: Implying European investors should greatly increase their investment levels. Would he be happy if VC levels did increase 10x to US levels... But funds were largely directed at companies that MS did not have involvement with?
Pugpig
Older people have, on average, been using stackoverflow for longer. SO rep scales roughly linearly with time spent contributing.

This probably isn't enough to explain the entire effect shown in the graph, but in 10 years (if people still use SO), it would be.
I was more found of the CSS3 that the HTML5.
Point being that making a mess on another planet is more preferable than making a mess of the only one we have - and I have much more faith in our ability to make a mess of things than I do in our ability to "improve" the Earth's climate.
Hmm, testing it out it constantly confuses weather it should be encrypting or decrypting. I've tried to enter a message and had it request a decryption password.

That combined with the poor crypto practices makes it rather unusable, but it's a fantastic concept! Just needs a bit of work.
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Interesting. It worked differently for me, but then, I was using Chrome.
I'm a 20-something without children, and I completely agree with privacy and not controlling your child's life, but I wonder how you would respond to the issue of internet predators. Children without oversight HAVE talked with predators online and agreed to meet them in private.

Being so against privacy, how do you respond to that? Isn't just 1 enough to justify some oversight? Or do you say "It's not my kid"?
The difference being that there is nobody living on a planet like say, Mars.

Last I checked, there are a whole bunch of people with nowhere else to go on Earth as it stands.
Why live
Here are two suggestions that we would have seen, if the underlying assumption was not that {increasing the derivative of user count per day} justifies {poor security}:

1.) Implement bulky external security measures -- like client-side certs or VPNs -- and replace them with more scaleable solutions as the user count grows.

2.) Inform your users that they are interacting with an unsecured fledging service, such that they do not have an expectation of privacy. At the very least, warn them not to use this service on an unsecured coffee-shop WAN.
EU: "Making hacking tools should be illegal"
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The SR Research I can totally understand, since it's head-mounted, proprietary hardware. The Tobii is a bit more impressive, but I think it's using IR emitters to light up the pupil, and I assume it's using their own camera. Very impressive monitoring rates, though.

My doubt concerns claims to track eye movements reliably using a built-in webcam, and available light.
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Thanks, an order of magnitude larger per capita than Israel, as expected. I wasn't aware of the 50% number and too lazy to Google it!
David doesn't say global cooling fyi.

He just points out that, if our best measures to prevent Global Warming, Kyoto Protocol (which itself will not be implemented) themselves intend not to solve the problem, but just to postpone by a decade, we should probably start looking for solutions to live at higher temperature.

Too bad that it is not informing a public debate.
How do you conclude that Netflix is overpriced?

I've said this before but anytime a stock is trading at an earnings multiple significantly higher or lower than average, the burdon of proof should fall on the person arguing for such a multiple.

Netflix is trading at a P/E of about 75. Right or wrong that should at least give an investor pause. There is a lot of success already baked into that price. At this type of multiple a company has to outperform already sky high expectations in order for an investor to make money(in a fully rational world). This is possible but it becomes increasingly difficult as that multiple expands.
Hacking US Senate website != Hacking the US Senate (period)

That's the real lulz!
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No trolling here,

International > National

Business > Cash

Machines > Registers
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The full statement is available here[1].

[1] - http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdat...
If I can't safely check my mail from random computers anyway, I'd just as soon remove the browser from the equation and use a GPG-compatible mail client.
I abandoned Rails years back because of precisely this problem. Releases would break or arbitrarily drop functionality, with little or no documentation. If you got more than a few point releases behind you were really screwed.

I couldn't explain the dearth of documentation for these changes at all, it seemed so lax compared to other platforms. Then I realised all the incentives for those who would produce the documents were towards producing books and paid-for screencasts, and knew my time was up.
Could that be a booger on the 1 key (numeric keypad)?
It would be nice if you could zoom out somehow?
You guys should switch to Django.
I believe that Rails does sacrifice something in terms of stability compared to other projects, but that is also what allows Rails to be a industry-leading framework 7 years in. If you are a developer stuck supporting a lot of old Rails 1.x and 2.x projects with no budget, then absolutely you will feel the pain of upgrading and marginal legacy support that you wouldn't necessarily feel had you gone with a more venerable Java stack (for instance). That said, if you are actively building an application over several years then the forward development of Rails means greater productivity and functionality on an ongoing basis rather than being stuck with an outdated framework.

My current project is over 4 years old, started in the Rails 1.2 era, 100+ models, 30+ gems, 50k LOC, and I can vouch for the pain that the Rails 3 upgrade caused. That said, the upgrade gave us a lot of immediate benefits: the rails_xss upgrade forced us to close a number of small XSS holes that we probably never would have found otherwise, the Bundler upgrade solved several real-world deployment issues that led to downtime over the years, ActiveRecord 3 allowed us to clean up a ton of hairy querying code we had written with its fantastic composability and laziness, the modularity and instrumentation allowed massive logging and generator improvements to be inline with project standards, the ActionMailer API allowed us to significantly DRY up our extensive email notification suite.

In short, Rails development is still definitely heading in the right direction for my organization. There's no doubt that API stability is better in many other frameworks, but as Yehuda points out here, the changes made in Rails are done for good reason that can benefit a lot of people. If stability is more important than agility for your project (without disparagement), then Rails is probably the wrong choice (I tend to use PHP in those cases).
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>I am curious what you mean that recursion is a natural way of thinking. Can you expand on that?

>I found that recursion made sense to me as well, but that seems like selection bias.

If you look at "describing", some things are naturally described in a recursive fashion. At least a significant part of thinking is encoding non-verbal ideas in natural language. These include the obvious factorial function, but also such things as the chain rule for derivatives, or the use of subordinate clauses in a sentence, such that a grammatically valid sentence may become arbitrarily long, this achieved by continually attaching further thoughts, the process of doing such being predicated on an underlying -- metahumor.

I think recursion is best explained by doing. This is the definition of the divisor function, you implement it like this, etc.
It's pretty hard to measure the speed of a crash after the fact. By the time any third party notices the scene, the speed is generally 0.
Business schools are not failing at the education of entrepreneurship.

The argument just doesn't pass the sniff test. I look back at my B school classmates and see that many of them have started businesses successfully just a few years past graduation. Some bootstrapped, some raised VC. Some were in tech, some not.

Like any business, the various flavors of entrepreneurship require lots of knowledge of things that can't or shouldn't be taught in school. This is by design. The same thing is true of i-banking, consulting, CPG marketing, and the other traditionally MBA-dominated fields.

You can't teach entrepreneurship. You also can't teach toothpaste marketing or oil wildcatting. You can teach business fundamentals that will work anywhere and that will give you a leg up at the vocation you choose to follow.
I get what you're saying - and I think simple scripts uploaded by FTP are good in many contexts.

However, Ruby on Rails was never good for shared hosting. It was never designed or intended for this purpose. The deployment solutions available are not doing so good in a shared hosting environment. Or at least, not as good as PHP (nothing is as good as PHP in shared hosting).

The deployment story got a lot better when Passenger came along in 2008, which is a self-healing and easy to configure server, capable of functioning with Nginx or Apache in front. You wouldn't believe the shit you had to pull before that for reliable servers.

Personally, I hate Heroku because their prices are for the moment too high and I could partly replicate their environment on my own, using already available tools. But such hosting services will become the norm as they are so kick-ass and convenient; for instance I just received an invitation for Gondor, a Heroku-like service for Python and Django.
Sorry I misread the email, you are right it's not that it only works on mac osx but that it is only supported in Safari on MacOSX due to a bug in JOGL. I really misread that the first time ;p
I don't know what it is, but I've got the impression that Clojure is losing steam. I actually hope I'm wrong. But it seems after much interest in the hackerverse, it never really cought on widely. Any opinions? Or even better, proves to the contrary?
The issue was the arrogance it took to tell someone they know of a cure from a 3rd party story, then insisting they are right without even having a basic understanding of the illness.

A basic google search would show is no known "cure" for colitis. Doctors don't even know much about what causes it.

It's fine if they misunderstood a wikipedia article, but that level of research wasn't even done.
It doesn't help in this case, since an attacker can just insert plain old JS. Caja (and similar things) only help for code you can actually put through the Cajoler.

It's still a good, if imperfect, solution for other use-cases.
Apple didn't try to play chicken. As was stated when this all happened back in 2009, Apple was perfectly willing to pay RAND licensing fees, but Nokia wanted fees + rights to Apple's touch patents.

The settlement today only mentions fees being paid, but I'm thinking if Nokia had won patent grants too, they would be bragging about it as well.
i don't like when ppl insult my browser telling me its not modern. (latest Opera) Not supported would be more polite.
What does that look like if we just do the valley?
Ask HN: Anyone looking for a Ghost Rails (remote) developer?
I am bootstrapping my app, so now that I have it launched, I wouldn't mind doing Rails App work to supplement the early days of the app.

But, I don't want to do regular freelancing where I have to look for clients and handle the client relationships, etc.

I also don't want to have to find a designer and deal with 'supporting the app' after.

The most ideal situation is, someone that runs a design studio or is a designer, that has requests to build web apps but has turned them down because they haven't had the expertise/desire to build a web app, gets the request and drafts up the scope document with the client. They then run it by me, I give a quote, you add your markup to it.

You take care of all the comps - send me the PSDs, then I can do everything else according to the scope (or you can do the HTML/CSS/JS, then send those to me also either way doesn't matter).

I finish the back-end, show you working app - demonstrate to client remotely, receive final payment then install it wherever the client wants.

Any takers or any advice on where I can look for an arrangement like that or tips on how I can improve the offering?
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Thanks for posting this. If anyone out there is testing our brand new framework, I'd dearly love to know how it goes, and help you out if you hit any issues.
Are these the same analysts that are right about everything else?
That was not a very good way to view a timeline. An ordered list would have worked wonderfully and could have supported more browsers.
Prior to Rails 3 Rails' versioning scheme left a lot to be desired. However, starting with Rails 3 it is supposed to be following Semantic Versioning. (http://semver.org) This should help with giving people an idea if they can update without fear their app will break.
What's with all the entrepreneur and startup articles? I thought this was Hacker News, not Yuppie News.
Pardon my ignorance, but I find your efforts quite insignificant. If you were to ask me where most people looked on that example, I could accurately tell you what got the most looks first, second, third etc, without ever seeing your heatmap. Do I really need a third party to tell me people like boobs more than Ron Paul?

I'd like to add that the length of eye contact is irrelevant especially to a metric that is more valuable, interpretation. Let's say that we can determine (or even narrow down) users interpretation of content and heatmap the relevance to their visit. If we could take a pro-active stance we could predict future visits and adjust the content accordingly, not be reactionary and simply say (after the user is gone) that people looked at boobs more than Ron Paul.

Just my two cents, sorry if I was a dick.
If this is a suicidal post...I am not sure how to respond.

Is it why live? As in, why be alive ? Or why live, like why push to production ?