skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The standard you've broken is to not have some kind of message for those that don't have javascript on. even having a "Please enable javascript to use Skimmer" would be a huge boon to everyone in that boat.
How to re-activate Facebook iPad App
I've been using Mac OS since 1985. Not really interested in flipping all the scroll bars over. I'm sure I'll eventually be forced to upgrade but I'm in no hurry.
If you'd like to tie influencers directly to their accounts with you: you can pass in a unique ID, which will appear in the JSON influencer list.
Relevant one-pager on string theory: http://i.imgur.com/MrSHv.gif
When i was young i wanted to know every detail of the configs pro gamers used in quake, tried their settings, bought the mice they used, etc.
Today its the same with top coders, only difference is that i know now that tools alone dont make you great, but still i can always take a thing or two away from such a list.
Why I quit my cushy corporate job to join a startup
Since we're talking about language use, this quote from Kevin Mitnik:

"What News Corp. did, guess pin codes, spoofing voicemails, that is amateur script kiddie stuff."

Is itself kind of interesting, as there's no use of computer scripting languages at all here. He's using "script kiddie" to mean not "someone who uses pre-written scripts to break into computer systems and then boasts of their skills" but rather "someone whose skills I don't respect."
Create a stereoscopic illustration using Illustrator and Photoshop
Nowadays, 3-D technology is being used a lot in many media. Since James Cameron’s Avatar brought this technique to a whole new level, everybody is using it to try to attract more attention and create a powerful visual experience for consumers.
Think creatively. Create a humble bundle 4 app with an interface that allows you to play any of the included games within the app. Have it be a free download with IAP of various amounts to allow people to show their support that way.

Apple's 30% cut would be a downer, but it could be done.
Hackers have been complaining about that since at least the mid-seventies. Yes, I was there.
This applies to all doctors, when you can artificially limit your supply, of course salaries are high, you make sure of it. If everyone who was qualified to be a doctor -- i.e. residents who should already be but don't have that magic piece of paper --, was made a doctor automatically after X years of residency, wages would be no higher than programmers.
I get it, very cool.
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Looking forward to testing this in a new app =]
Competitors for GitHub gaining traction
Isn't it an amazing interesting coincidence that everybody's personal preference for phone almost always happens to be the same one they get paid to work on?

Seriously, just because you work on something, doesn't mean you have to pretend you're the target market.
Unless spending also rises by 1-2% of GDP.

http://reason.com/archives/2011/02/14/the-19-percent-solutio...
Exactly. nytimes.com gives the visual impression of being dense with fresh content and that's what keeps news junkies coming back for more.

His redesign not only lacks compelling visuals (huffingtonpost.com wins that category, sorry but tabloid style is here to stay) but also advertising: still a necessary evil, got to make room for the ads.
Bill Gates and giving to Africa
Congrats! Adam Rifkin can really make things happen. Definitely worth meeting and knowing him.
Yes, HTML5 is coming fast, and I think we actually have Microsoft to thank because previously their lack of support was hindering adoption. However, they are making incredible strides in IE9 and IE10.

http://html5test.com/results.html

Now, if they would only adopt WebGL.
BSNL System Hacked by Pakistan Cyber Army - Users info at risk
I love this behavior actually. Besides the fact that Flash has had years to get fullscreen right, I've yet to have it worked 100% as expected and I might as well light myself on fire as try to use it in Linux.

(With HTML5 <video>) I can easily get the video to go fullscreen in the window (as is the behavior of "fullscreening" video in Chrome) which is nice because I can have a video play and not have to have my browser window at the normal size... and if I want, I can press F11 and have it go full screen (without borking my computer in the process). (Who cares what the button is... is the clipboard going to fail because it's Cmd+C in OS X and Ctrl+C in Windows?)

edit: I can't reply any further, but this provides context for why this decision was made. When considering mobile devices, this seems like an even more prudent choice: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1055214/is-there-a-way-to...
Thanks! We're using it on our site now to see who is tweeting about the launch! Real-time results ftw!
Read It Later Raises $2.5 Million
I just wrote a blog post about metrics. We're collecting about a million datapoints every minute, using an open source package (that we're contributing back to) called Graphite.

http://techblog.appnexus.com/2011/metrics/
Awesome indeed - way to go!
I would argue that since no technical or creative skill was required for this, it fails the Model Railroad Club test.
This is neat, will give it spin.
File sharing websites is blocked in India(Mediafire,Rapidshare,..)
The article seemed a bit tedious and overwrought. All that aside, for me it raised the question, "how do the musicians get paid?"

As a musician, this is a matter of great interest. The answer: "Spotify shares it 50/50" according to the first article I found that answered the question.

Last time I checked, Apple was paying 70%; however, if you're not on a major label, you'll likely get to iTunes through a third party such as CDbaby; they pay 91% of that 70%. Even so, 63.7% is better than 50%.

Addendum: as the article I mentioned describes, it may actually be worse than that, because payments aren't on a track basis, but rather more like the airplay payments that BMI and ASCAP pay (in which you only get paid if you have lot of spins).

http://gramtone.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/spotify-a-loss-for-...
Computer programs are constructivist mathematical proofs. Why is this annoying? Why isn't this a good argument against software patents? Should I be able to patent a mathematical theorem and its proof?
Kickstarter for an Open Source Programmer's Text Editor using HTML5
While I don't disagree that the term "HTML5" is overused... I thought it was obvious that the expansion of "HTML5 browsers" was in reference to well performing and compliant WebKit browsers that can leverage the richer and more featureful... features of HTML5.

I also don't see how the native platforms in iOS or Android impede anyone's ability to use purely web technologies. At all. I find that to be a disingenuous or at least off topic insult.

> Or, they'll be poised to take full advantage of their market position and make it very difficult to write any kind of cross-platform app. We'll see.

Are you trying to imply that Apple is going to disregard the HTML5 specs or fork it in some way that makes web apps for Android and iOS incompatible? I guess I don't understand where you're coming from... at all.
Good point. However, that's what botnets are for. Why "wasting" those for distributed denial of service if you could break in instead?
... for political reasons only. Taiwan self-governs, and is economically distinct from China, which is what matters here.
I find your interpretation of that post equally astonishing.
Nice article, but I don't believe in a congress that runs on lobbyists' money will solve the patent troll problem. Even with the section 18 it's too little, too late.
Facebook banns Google links [PIC]
i was talking to a friend and said take a look here
I thought VVVVVV was pretty hardcore. (Or maybe I just suck at platformers!)
ViralHeat and SocMetrics both provide similar features, but they cost money and are more complicated.
Great question.

We're thinking of a couple different model opportunities:

First, a Freemium model where users could upgrade their account in order to unlock additional features (physical sending of notes, additional themes, textures, fonts, using their own handwriting, etc.).

We're also looking into a Virtual Currency (kudos, karma, etc.) model where users would start with a set number of notes, and could "earn" more by reaching certain milestones, using the site, interacting with other users, sharing w/ friends and of course, using real currency to reload their notes. If we went this route I'd personally like to see some Gaming mechanics built in (something like stamps instead of badges).

We're also building a mobile version of the Web App so thanks could be sent wherever the user is, at any time.
I'm fairly certain the point is about getting good (WebKit) browsers into the hands of users... not the attribution of features and commits to WebKit.
Maybe because he does not need to play angry birds while waiting in line somewhere, whatever.

If anyone is to make any conclusion from this about android, well, i have nothing good to say.
Do you think this deal was before Safari's "Reading List"? I don't see bright future with ReadItLater, now that we have Safari's built in feature other browsers will follow.
That's multiplies, not divides. Modern CPUs are still faster at shifts than divides, even the pentium4, which lacked a single-cycle shift unit.
Meh, that was the time. Today, the equivalent would be quasi-homeless, just got back from a "blogging" trip backpacking through Thailand, wears board shorts and flip flops, experiments with Provigil.
1.) No you are not dumb, this is an advertisement for their product. (also note the blog posting is either dated in the future or over a year old, not sure which)

2) They make that assumption because they are selling web server monitoring tools, if you don't have a web server you aren't their target user :-)

3) Now you actually want to talk about real details about monitoring performance and the goal of this particular article is to sell their product to people who run web servers and probably don't want to delve too deeply into actual performance analysis.

Hope that helps.
What kinds of comments?
Sweet! Worth a try.... Love the click thru tracking too.
The 20 Hot Silicon Valley Startups You Need To Watch
The midwest is home to several excellent computer science programs. Many of the students in those programs desire to move towards the coast (east or west) upon graduation.

You may not realize this, but to recent grads (outside of new york) your location could be considered one of the primary reasons to take a job, given a livable salary.
Chomsky: In Israel, a Tsunami Warning
It's also leaving La/TeX detritus around, which is pretty annoying. Eqn environments aren't converted properly, diagrams are dropped altogether, some manual linebreaks are left in.

Luckily enough sect 1.4 isn't too mangled.
I don't think so. At the time of writing, they're close to a $100k in sales with many more days still to go. If you multiply that by the average developer share you'll end up above $10k per indie dev (that number also is going to go up significantly over the next days). That makes Humblebundle a nice bonus for developers who already invested their time into making these games. Equally important, it gives them exposure to an audience who might otherwise not have tried those games at all.
Wanted ? Yes. Feasable ? No. At least not with current computing power and technologies. Combinatorial explosion applies here as well (like for "full" input test coverage.

Something like a unit test inverse deduction software would be great instead of blind guessing (using mutations).
Such an approach might work well when writing code for a well-understood feature set. While a lot of software has this characteristic, the problems I personally like to work on have a large number of unknowns. It is only the process of building a complex system do you fully spec it out.
Lame question: What techniques are used to show real-time stats like that on a web page? I assume those are truly real-time, anyway.

I'm no web developer, but this feature really strikes me as cool in this particular instance. I rarely fancy overly-busy web pages, but these stats seem very nicely executed; interesting in and of themselves, yet clean and nice visual presentation.
If I recall it correctly, flash versions also have this problem (intermittently).
Typographic rain
I thought I read somewhere last year that Flash was dead. Yet, Flash is still here.

I think everyone can agree that we all understand that Flash is on its way out as a tool for websites. Those stupid intros and Flash menus are already dying out thanks to javascript. Nothing to do with HTML5 at all.

So HTML5 will offer us similar capabilities to Flash using Canvas. Does that mean in a few years we can start hating on Canvas because it'll do all the same things we hate Flash for? Banner ads in Canvas anyone?

Flash video you say? Not until some form of DRM is in place. Content providers probably wouldn't care for that right-click "Save Video As..." choice we would have. But, most likely, it'll eventually happen.

So, can silly articles like this just stop already? If all you know is Flash on web pages then, yes, Flash is indeed dying. Screw that, as a website tool Flash is already dead. But, if you can think beyond that, Flash is turning into something else entirely. If you pay attention to things Adobe is doing or has done, such as embracing HTML5 with their related technologies, then you shall see that Flash dying on websites is far beyond Adobe's concern.
I love reading stuff like this. As a kind-of sysadmin by need rather than by choice, I'm often confused and intimidated by systems that other sysadmins seem to be born knowing about. It's always refreshing to read a straightforward explanation for one of those important concepts that seems to be common knowledge for everyone but me, and never seems to be explained anywhere.
I checked your comments and you certainly aren't a regular Mozilla flamer, so I'll take what you say here at face value.

The thing that frustrates me is how many other people come out of the woodwork on any Mozilla or Firefox related post to give the story, "I used to love Firefox but it uses too much memory so I switched to Chrome and now I'm so happy". My opinion is Google has some amazing marketing and social skills to power that kind of sentiment shift. The big thing that rarely comes up in those threads is that Mozilla is a community. There are memory bugs that have been open in bugzilla for years, but there have been various people in the community working on them, sometimes in their spare time, for years as well. You look at the scope of the project, and it isn't small. It certainly isn't a hack project someone can commit a quick patch to in a day.. There are certainly paid Mozilla employees working on the code base every day, but the number doesn't compare with any of the other major browser vendors. The FirefoxFlippers™ rarely ever follow up with something like, "I tried to look at the problem and realized what a difficult thing memory management is so I took the easy path and decided to let some profit based vendor do it for me and hope that they treat me well."

My personal and probably bias experience is that I have never felt a memory issue. I tend to run a lot of add-ons and I only rarely keep a lot of tabs open because I prefer to follow a pattern of opening up a bunch of things then working my way back down to zero. I feel that most memory issues are related to bad add-ons, bad plug-ins, or bad websites, and I am very happy with the new about:memory stats that show up in Aurora. I just hope that some of the FirefoxFlippers™ who aren't just trolling for Google might take a moment to try out their easily repeatable excessive memory use-cases and drop us a line so we can work together with the community to get rid of them.

I'll now take my downmodding for ranting on a post with a comment that is only tangentially related to the topic. :/
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I knew of each of you separately and have long thought you are brilliant. (How YC passed on you I'll never know.)

I'm really happy to hear you're funded and going. Best of luck!
> Why are women turned off by competitiveness in CS, but not in medicine?

From my experience, the primary thing driving those who aspire to work in the medical field is not so much salary as employment security. They compete early on (in college and in medical school) so they wouldn't have to compete later when they enter the workspace. I think that the promise of job security (guaranteed employment) has a particular appeal to women. I suspect that their thinking is that once they graduate, they can relax at the high-paying secure job and invest their time and resources into growing children. On the other hand, to me, as a young man looking to enter the startup field, ventures with ongoing high risk and high payoff appeal more than employment guarantees.

I dropped out of premed and started programming and studying art sometime in college partly because I was turned off by people whose primary career motivation was job security and who did not have any serious creative pursuits besides their career goals.
We wanted to keep things ultra simple. Oh, and FREE!
Dell Debuts Cloud-ready System
I find this debate/discussion ("who's really a hacker??") boring and pointless; it's a mainstay of 2600 editor "Emmanuel Goldstein" on the 2600 radio show ( http://www.2600.com/offthehook/ ). His view is that once you're a malicious criminal (or do something he doesn't like, e.g. Anonymous ddos's) you're not a hacker. "I don't like what you're doing! You're not a real hacker! You give hackers a bad name!"

Now to make myself a hypocrite: One aspect of this phenomenon that I find amusing is how low the bar is set in terms of programming to qualify as a "hacker." e.g. "I hacked together this RoR site over the weekend" makes me think, "You used a popular, well documented website building framework for it's intended purpose... how exactly is this hacking?" "I hacked together a cake this weekend; even hacked my own cream cheese frosting!" People (like myself) who would once have had to settle for a more boring title like "software engineer" or "computer scientists" are all "hackers" now. :p /my 2¢
Merci beaucoup! - still, you can redirect back to your website for iPhone users!
How Stupid Companies Prey on Ignorance
It's amazing how - I think at least - the web is moving away from framework based technologies to HTML, CSS and Javacsript as primary sources. Indeed, Windows 8 is pushing support for such technologies and actually supporting a move away from framework based technologies to the HCJ combo. Even now with the popularity of HTML5 API's and NodeJS - the push away from traditional frameworks is becomming evident. Just look at Silverlight/Flash as sources of this - MSFT touted Silverlight as the "new future" and now its all but giving it the big middle finger.

Is this a good thing ? I think that Google and Apple are intent on killing Microsoft and Adobe respectively and they believe the best way is to strike at their respective hearts is by reducing their core platform reliance. I'm not necessarily of the view this is the best way forward, and data security and privacy laws having a long way to go before we all start using "Chrome Books". I just sometimes wonder whether Google/Apple self-interest in pushing ahead HTML5 is, and will, benefit the developer community as a whole in development of web technologies or rather create some sort of HCJ hybrid "gadget" '@web application@' community.

Further, I'm not always convinced that writing lines of HTML5 and Javascript will replace the eons of work [flagrant exaggeration intended] that has gone into traditional languages. Just like the HTML4 spec, it will be a while before the HTML5 spec is "truly adopted". A simple DocType switch and you're "technically" in HTML5.

"The HTML5 boom is coming. Fast" - maybe it is, but I don't know whether that represents the "super exciting" future we all dream of - or whether it represents a flood of new poor constructed web technologies aiming to be the next "Facebook". Call me a cynic - I just think we need to preserve our roots as much as we do need to forge a better web future.
Ask HN: How many Dynos does your Heroku app use?
I host all of my Rails apps on Heroku, and they all perform well on 1 Dyno. I'm curious to know what some of you have found to be the needed number of Dynos for your apps - many of which I'm sure are more intensive than mine.

If you can, some details about your Dyno usage and app load would be interesting to know too.
Oh no not that please. It sounds so cheesy and cartoonish.
Straight link to the slides: http://codahale.com/codeconf-2011-04-09-metrics-metrics-ever...

This is a _great_ talk -- if you have any interest in writing code that other people will use, these are the kinds of ideas that you need to keep in mind.
The benchmarks are crap. The loop/function call overhead time dominates. They should list the benchmark for when the implementation is "return x;" That gives a baseline number. On my machine I have to run a few thousand runs before I can distinguish between "return x;" and "return ((x != 0) && !(x & (x - 1)));"

They both take about 10s for 232 iterations.
The press release statements from DHS were bizarre. Is it my imagination, or does the DHS combine the worst traits of a government agency, and a giant corporation? It manages to be banally evil, slow-moving, self-protective and incomprehensibly verbose.
Yes... this is very, very old news.
Not sure what the intention of posting this was but if it was blank curiosity about mutation testing: I built Carma ( http://retroduction.org ) which mutates Java bytecode and looks for undetected mutations (low testcase quality).
I'm looking forward to testing this out. Smart and simple. With thousands of followers I'm always curious who is most influence in their network... and Klout alone doesn't cut it.
Interesting idea. I see that your main competitor is email and other media. People send thank you notes by email or Facebook these days. For me your solutions is less personal and it is crating an overhead: you are still using email/facebook to send the message. Just my $0.02. Unless you plan do add something on top of this to make it more personal or rewarding to use it?
I'd love to be a fly on the wall for the A/B test, but I still think something a wee closer to

http://images1.bingocardcreator.com/blog-images/hn/deep-disc...

would kill both the A/B tested options. Bringing in people's psychological need to be above average is great, but I might do that by putting a nice 37Signals style yellow highlight on one of the expensive options (for some value of expensive which would pay for more than a Big Mac) and say "24% of people went for this"
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Fucking parasites.
Anyone else see the irony in the fact that the very bottom of Rutledge's web page where this article is found is improperly formatted on the iPhone (background color not extended far enough to the right to cover all offered links). Petty? Yes, but if you're going to blast away at NYT, you better make sure your house is in order.
I feel like I want this, but I can only imagine using it on my Mac for technical books, and I buy all of those from stores that offer PDFs anyway.

Somehow reading fiction on my laptop doesn't seem right. My only complaint with the current small-screen versions of iBooks is that it lacks a way to zoom images... maps of Essos, in particular.
Microsoft to unveil first official WP7 Mango handset today
where did you hear this? As far as I know top paid is still total # of downloads over a 3-4 day period.
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