skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don know if its the case that I hang out with deadbeats but people around me do cut back from putting in their best when they feel under appreciated in terms of recognition or reward. It might be because I am currently not working in an aspirational field like Video Game programming where just the privilege of being able to work on a game means that people put in their best no matter what.

Anyway I think that in a interface where there is less than complete communication renegotiation often happens in terms of readjusting deliverables.
FWIW all: in Chrome, the setting is in the Chrome menu, not in preferences.

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And how long would it take before someone blogs about it.
They responded very unprofessionally, but at least they are acknowledging the incident and explaining their side. It's almost exactly what I would do as an individual, but for a company they should have left it at "we cannot discuss the details of your friends account".
If this were a Michael Bay film, this is merely Step 1 in an evil mastermind's plans.

Step 2 is to direct the police away from his crime scene;

Step 3 is to commit the crime.

Think Die Hard With A Vengeance meets Speed 2.
App Inventor was heavily based on the Scratch project which is also housed at MIT so it was only natural that they take it forward.
I've been wanting/needing something like this forever. One thing I noticed is that the '30 days' menu item isn't removed until the app is restarted. Maybe you could automatically restart the app after registration?
A lot of it is thanks to V8 I think.
But an issue commonly raised with EventMachine (and gevent etc. on Python) is that many common libraries contain blocking code that you cant get rid of, whereas Node modules have all been programmed to avoid blocking at all costs.
If you're an entrepreneur or founder and involved in meeting with customers, vendors, partners, employees, etc., it's even worse than for a startup employee or purely engineering person.

I can only count on 0500-0800 or so and weekends as productive time every day. Given that I foolishly am living in Oakland for the summer, and working mainly in MV and SF, I've got an hour commute, and lots of customer, partner, investor, etc. things from ~0900 to ~2130 on various days. If you prefer working in 3-4h unbroken blocks, good luck! Most days there is another block sometime during the day, but it's really easy to have a day where there are meetings or other events every couple hours, so you can spend an entire day working on this kind of stuff.

Hence, why it is really useful for a startup to have multiple founders.
Will do. Thanks :)
Journalism nitpick : Israel is in Western Asia. Just because they compete in the (shudder) Eurovision Song Contest doesn't mean Israel is in Europe.
I'd cancel my account too from that. That's a terrible way to respond to customers and queries.

Totally unprofessional.
Good point. Its hard to believe how long it can take to get set up as a vendor in QuickBooks/with accounting, (i.e., "get you in the system"). But once its taken care of (after you've been paid once) payments become more timely.
I think this is a clever hack, and good clean fun. +1

In the way back times, at a place called Sun Labs, there was a very bright engineer whose name escapes me (he lurks here so perhaps he will fess up) who built a system which would record the full CNN feed and then 'decorate' that feed with the text from the closed caption decoder.

He would store both the text and the SMPTE time codes for the video into a simple round robin database (RRD).

You could then sit down and say "What news stories mentioned X over the last 24 hrs?" and it could cue up video snippets around the places where the CC data had that key word in it. As a bonus (because back then a big disk was 500MB) if the closed captioning was identical it could 'de-dupe' the video (basically it wouldn't store story repeats. I thought it was quite clever at the time. I'm surprised its not part of the DirecTV product or TiVO today.

On a related note, this engineer discovered that generally advertisements were not closed captioned, so he could have the mute follow the close captioning stream and the commercials would automatically be muted. Nice eh? Actually one could probably do that with the Arduino hack too...
Don't forget open courseware:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/

There are similar resources for a lot of top tier universities. I've since lost my bookmarks, but maybe someone can post the ones for Harvard and others.
But it's one of the first things that is presented on the overview so naturally it's going to get lots of focus.
Seeing as we don't know the reason for the disappearance, everything people say about his motives is pure speculation.
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These are unprofessional bargain-basement web hosting customers and unprofessional bargain-basement web hosting providers laying into each other on blog posts, Twitter, and Reddit. I'm flagging this story and anything related to it; there's nothing to learn here, other than "don't be either of those two types of people".
OP and author here. Out of interest, how many of you who read the article were already familiar with what a cooperative is?
Yup - I've had a couple rejected....both were rejected with the old chestnut:

2.12: Apps that are not very useful, are simply web sites bundled as apps, or do not provide any lasting entertainment value may be rejected.

The first, I sort of expected - it wasn't terribly useful, but it was free and reasonably pretty, so I thought it might get through. It was my first app. Oddly enough, my second app was basically a theme on my first app, with the added advantage of an extra button that started and stopped the action. It sailed through.

The second is a great little baby rattle that every single baby/toddler I've given it to loves and plays with for ages, but Apple just didn't dig it. I was a bit surprised, especially given the number of other apps out there that are similar in functionality that have clearly been accepted.

I revised it once and added in some extra features and options, but it got rejected again for the same reason. My daughter still asks me if she can play with it about once a week, so I can't complain :)

Good luck on the submission - my best advice is submit and get straight on to either developing the next app or enhancing this one for a version 2 - it can take a while to hear back from Apple and you can waste a couple of weeks hitting the refresh button in gmail instead of working on your next app.
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This is a neat idea, and the visual editor on the page is really neat.

However, I'd love to chat with you on improving your email deliverability - right off the bat I saw that your SPF records aren't set, so let me know if you'd be interested in getting some help in fixing that up. :)

Cheers!
I would have loved to have had this a year ago, or two, etc., but my accidental quits haven't been nearly as frustrating since upgrading to Lion. I can still see this being useful, though, especially with apps that are slow to implement resume functionality.
I don't see how you can interpret my comment as being bitter (there's a smileyface there, for God's sake). I merely point out that httpbin is useless for my stated use case -- there is nothing there implying that it's useless for all use cases.

Sure, I could patch httpbin. But I was explicitly asking whether the tool I described exists so I don't need to write the code myself.
Consider the sausage.

Many sausages are made with the intestinal linings and viscera of animals who live in, root around in, and occasionally even eat their own feces. Shit that's passed through shit that's passed through shit.

And yet, few people bat an eyelash at hot dogs, brats, or cocktail weenies. Of course, there's that old chestnut about not wanting to know 'how the sausage gets made.' But, by and large, people cognitively distance the making-of-the-sausage from the sausage itself. Why? Because they've been trained to think of "sausage" as a wholly separate class of item from "pig's colon." And because they've first encountered -- and enjoyed -- sausage before anyone ever told them about how it got there.

We need to use similar psychology to fight the psychology of contamination thinking w/r/t treated wastewater. The message needs to be about how the input is apples, and the output is oranges. But we have to start with the oranges. It's very tough to sell the story when the story begins with the making-of-the-sausage and not the sausage itself.
They may have been correct in their actions, but they shouldn't have come across as being passive aggressive. This is why you don't answer emails/tweets/phone calls or blog when you're not calm.

EDIT: Wow, these guys certainly aren't helping themselves at all: https://twitter.com/#!/thiswebhost/status/103541959364329472
Er, spoiler?
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I've switched back to Windows from Ubuntu. I found one of the big reasons for me to use Linux was how much easier it was to move around / manage files between my desktop and other machines using the command-line.

With Dropbox, that has become less relevant for me. I just have a Linux server sitting somewhere that is kept automatically in sync with my Windows desktop and I can open an SSH session with a single click. With the pain of moving stuff back and forth in Windows gone, I no longer care for the pain of stuff like getting Flash or a Java plug-in to work in Linux.
Microsoft declared victory? Was there a press release, or some kind of public celebration? Somehow, I missed that. I work at Microsoft, and no one invited me to the party.

Both the original article and this followup are the worst kind of link bait.
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Seems to suffer the same limitation of Chrome's Hold-to-quit in that it doesn't work while in the application switcher.
Happy about websockets.

But mostly excited for FF 7 with the memory management improvements. http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/2011/08/09/firefox-7-is-...

Firebug needs a manual update. see http://getfirebug.com/downloads

[edited to add firebug link]

Learned that
The interesting debate will occur when the police argue that statistics constitute "probable cause" for an otherwise unconstitutional search.
When you run a safari app that way Apple disables the fast javascript engine so that it can't compete with real apps:

http://www.mobilexweb.com/blog/apple-phonegap-html5-nitro
Can someone fix the grotesquely editorialized title on this story? "PreCog"? The software picked a location to patrol. Locations don't have cognition.

The real title of this story is "Sending the Police Before There’s a Crime".
I'd like to detect commercials and reduce volume to 50%. Possible?
>Meanwhile, imagine how these devices will change the world?

you know, man, i want to believe it. Yet, i've just browsed Russian news and with Russia being much more further than Kenya down the road of technology penetration into everyday life there are some things that i sometimes think is impossible to change

http://top.rbc.ru/incidents/16/08/2011/610779.shtml ( google translate http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&h... ) - in Kaluga (near the Moscow, so it isn't deep wild undeveloped far Russia) 5 teenagers (with a girl among them), while drinking, tortured a homeless with cigarette butts and ultimately burned him alive. Before jumping to the conclusion that these 5 are exception, note that only the one who doused and set the homeless on fire was charged. This situation got the attention only because the victim died, otherwise nobody would make any fuss at all.
Not just Vienna but many places have great tap water, much better than what you get in a lot of bottles.

There are obviously also places where the tap water is of a worse quality or just tastes awful.

(The problem for many Europeans is that they like fizzy water. It’s possible to add CO2 to your own tap water but bottled fizzy water is just do damn convenient compared to that. I would never buy plain water in bottles but I’m too lazy to not buy fizzy bottled water.)
Why wouldn't google want people to access their voicemail,texts,etc and make web calls with their GV number all on the computer when they are outside of the country??
Let's save that interesting debate for when it actually occurs. In this case, any attentive cop would have detained anyone doing what these people were doing. I'm pretty sure Forest Park, IL isn't deployed advanced probabilistic policing technology, but I've gotten pulled over and questioned for pulling my car out of a CTA lot at a weird time of day (turns out there was a catalytic converter theft ring).
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Nowadays advertisements are generally CC'ed. However, since most commercials have music, they have the music symbol in the CC stream, you may want to hunt for cues like that.
I'm impressed that Amazon capitalized on this so quickly. The cost of actually meeting the lowest tiers of certification is pretty low, and with the "you must migrate some applications to the cloud" mandate by the ex-CIO, it's pretty similar to the "meaningful use" HIPAA thing for EHR vendors.
Really appreciate that Jon. Still have some improvements to make with the editor and process, but it's getting there and we've gotten an overwhelming positive response from our users, so far.

I just followed you on Twitter, happy to connect and discuss our current email system in more detail. Obviously we've tried to stick to the bare-minimum with the MVP, but in future iterations we'd talked about more visually, and user appealing emails with more actions built-in to the system.

It seems like we could benefit greatly from your plugin, PostageApp! Feel free to email me, Tweet, whatever. first.last@thankuz.com

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Clojure when viewed as a dialect of Lisp is remarkably clean and well thought out.

Clojure when viewed as a functional programming answer to multicore and concurrency is stunningly beautiful in it's simplicity.

If you haven't read Rich Hickey's prose on State and Identity. I highly recommend it: clojure.org/state
Oldie but goodie. Point #7, "Leverage Event Delegation", was particularly helpful for me.
Have you tried a ChromeBook? The current hardware is a bit slow, the software is still very much a version 1, but in my experience it's like an iPad for "real computing": because it has a keyboard you can use it for emails etc, and in my opinion it has a similar "joy factor" to the iPad - it lets you do what you want without overloading you with superfluous junk.

As someone that has had to deal with far too many Windows machines in the past, a Windows laptop with bolt-ons simply isn't the same experience. Perhaps if you put it into "kiosk mode", set Chrome to boot as the desktop, disabled the task bar, disabled running all other apps etc. But what you've got there is no longer Windows as far as the user is concerned, and so why would the hardware manufacturer pay Microsoft their $15 for the OS license?

Just like with Apple, there's possibly a price premium at the moment, but the scary thing for Microsoft is that - unlike Apple - there's no inherent reason for a price premium with a ChromeBook. Google could actually subsidize the price.
That's all well and good.

But.

But: I've been hearing this for well over a decade. "Microsoft's attitude toward Linux is changing." Again and again and again and again.

And then some new instance of FUD emerges, or a legal attack on a Free Software / open source advocate or company, some trumped-up performance benchmark, chairs in low-earth orbit. Whatever. The behavior has always failed to match the rhetoric.

I'm sure there are people at Microsoft who like Linux and respect it a bunch. With a few tens of thousands of employees, I also suspect there are those who dislike it, hate it, and/or misunderstand it badly.

As for the company as a whole, my read is that the overall attitude remains negative.

I'll believe there's a lovefest for Linux after 5-10 years of non-idiotic behavior from Microsoft.

As for caring: not so much anymore. Microsoft are increasingly irrelevant to the tech landscape. Not that they don't have a huge presence, but it's simiply not as significant to future development as it was ten or twenty years ago. Apple have a bigger market cap and are dominating emerging consumer markets (phones, tablets), Google are beating hard on Apple's heels and are pushing traditional enterprise tools (desktop apps, mail, calendar) into the cloud. Various cloud service providers are abstracting large server farms for many organizations. You can get your job done while only touching on Microsoft products very tangentially in more and more places.

It's no longer a world of "a PC on every desktop and Microsoft Windows on every PC". Not by a long shot.
Latest update from thiswebhost.com:

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Many people have the joy of flexible hours. Many people can have the luxury of working from home. It sounds awesome but it seems like for many this is just not an option. The only way out would be to quit the job and start your own company or move to the areas where jobs are like this: in ships like mine, this can be quite infeasible. This is more an office politics issue but I'd probably be laughed out of the door if I said I wanted to work x - y.

In terms of productivity, hours are indeed bullshit. Hours don't mean productivity or anything like that. Some days I can get stuff done in one hour which could take two in my low days.

I will tell you that hours are not meaningless though. In some instances, they're not bullshit. The hours I work, for example, often determines the hours I sleep at night. This isn't because I'm actively reducing the amount hours I sleep but because I just can't sleep knowing that I face any work not completed during the day plus another pile of work tomorrow.

This isn't a rant against my job, I love my job, but it just isn't practical to just work when I feel like I'm good enough to work. I have an employer who'll strictly forbid such things and, in all honesty, I can see where he's coming from: I share an office with other employees who require a rigid structure and definite times - waltzing in at 3pm would be quite unfair in their eyes and would cause undue headache.
Let's see, he did work for his client, never got paid, but handed over the work anyway. That seems like fantastic customer service right there. :-)

If diluting the client's competitive advantage is harmful to the client, then wouldn't anyone who releases a free product with equivalent functionality be responsible for hurting the client? Is in unethical to, say, release Apache because it dilutes Microsoft IIS? That doesn't seem like a reasonable standard.

Now, if the client provided proprietary information to the contractor (wireless toothbrushes are going to be big next year!) and that information was somehow baked into the now-open code (automatically flag all startups building wireless toothbrushes and move them to the top of the pile!) that would be less than ethical. I see no indication that this happened in this case.
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One of the nicest parts of this is the client focus - the idea that you can send a build with BugHerd optimized in to make the issue easier to describe. With the plethora of consumer apps, great idea, but also in enterprise verticals like healthcare, where the users are experts, but not at computers/browsers/technology. For that reason alone - awesome - this would have saved us person-weeks of work, and even in some cases, plane tickets.

Good example from Launch Live Blog, here:
http://launch.is/blog/live-blogging-500-startups-demo-day-au...

1:38pm: Same scenario of sending client the build, but BugHerd is installed. The client clicks new issue, types in the name of problem rather than sending email. BugHerd knows their browser, time they created the issue. BugHerd plays nice with others, over 1,400 users.

1:37pm: Matt of BugHerd takes the stage and says he had difficulty communicating with clients about bugs. Could spend hours trying to figure out what client is talking about -- not time that you can bill.
We have all those radio telescopes built already. Seems silly for humans to let them sit idle. Even if we don't find aliens I'm sure there is something interesting to see with all that gear.
Detection of TV commercials using video analysis is now considered an almost solved problem, which systems having a high rate accuracy. However, you won't be able to such a thing using an Arduino (the BeagleBoard may be an option).

If you want a simpler solution, a better way to detect commercials than trying to analyze CC info, I think, would be to check the average loudness. See this article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17229281/ns/business-consumer_ne..., basically what it says is that commercials seem louder but are actually not (because they are not allowed to). The peak level is the same as normal programs but the average audio level is way higher. This should be easy top detect.
I much prefer 5 * 1024 * 1024. I have to stop and do some reasoning with 5 << 20.
Smartphones don't make people better, they just make it more likely they will record evidence of their crimes themselves.
They had made it public they were working on this awhile ago, and IMHO its the main reason behind booting off wikileaks for utter bullshit reasons. When Lieberman's office made that phone call to ask them what their plan was to take the site down, it was with an unstated but obvious implication that not doing so would jeopardize this. The government loves to contract things out, amazon stands to make a lot of money off this by keeping them happy.
Barbarism is the natural state of the world, we shouldn't be shocked that it continues to exist. Nor should we slack our efforts to roll it back and fight against it at every turn.
Jodie was already one of my most beloved actresses. Now with this, she climbed to the top of the list.
You can never be 100% sure because science has no way to count to that level of accuracy. But you can take samples to validate that a scientifically proven process is working correctly. The ability of chlorine to purify water is quite well understood.
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<return>~? gives you the help screen that lists all the SSH escape sequences.
I haven't tried a Chromebook yet, will try to get my hands on one.

>Just like with Apple, there's possibly a price premium at the moment, but the scary thing for Microsoft is that - unlike Apple - there's no inherent reason for a price premium with a ChromeBook. Google could actually subsidize the price.

That's what the speculation was before they set the price, that it will debut at around $150 to $200. But it didn't happen yet.

Also, did you take a look at Windows 8?
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I have to say that part surprised me. I thought everyone hated MG Seigler.
Ask HN: HIPAA compliant version of Wufoo?
We love Wufoo, but we need a HIPAA compliant version. Does anyone know of such a product?

(If not its a good niche. Consider sign-up forms for doctors offices, dentists, sleep centers, etc..)
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