skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that's a great explanation of Itercom, and the product actually looks good. I just signed up for the beta test. Things I like:

* The JS required to make this work only requires a user email address and signup date. That's slick.

* Social integration is clutch. This looks to be a very lightweight way to see the social impact of current customers.

* The CRM approach is smart. It's just a beta, but if eventually this integrates with Salesforce, Highrise, et al, it will be super useful.
Yes, I think a lot of this focus on looks is just an exaggerated venting of sexual frustration. When you're not getting any, it can feel like the best thing in the world would be to become a Brad Pitt lookalike so you could have your pick and go out on some huge bacchanalic binge, but there's a reason a guy like Brad doesn't spend much of his time doing that sort of thing--it isn't all that satisfying or fulfilling.

In reality, once you are able to reach a base level of intimacy and satisfaction in one (or multiple) sexual relationship(s), how others perceive your looks in general stops mattering almost completely, and the fortunate truth is that achieving this satisfied state doesn't really require being some sort of Casanova, just moderately socially active, comfortable with yourself, and willing to put yourself out there occasionally. It may be slightly easier to be happy in this aspect of life as a very attractive person, but in the whole scheme of what it takes to be fulfilled, it's a fairly small advantage really.
#4 is a bit disingenuous no? There is a ridiculous gap between the shittiest laptop panels and the best ones. The difference is anything but "marginal".

If I'm going to push 60fps in Crysis 2 on a laptop I want good screen contrast, proper color rendition, proper brightness, no light leaks from the edges, etc. What is the point of the world's most powerful mobile GPU if it feels like I'm looking at the game world through a bad Photoshop filter?
The newer RFC (RFC 3986[1] from 2005, which I assume is being used here) for URIs doesn't specifically mention them in the spec. You have to go back to 1998 and rfc 2396[2].

RFC 3986 (circa 2005):

path = path-abempty ; begins with "/" or is empty
/ path-absolute ; begins with "/" but not "//"
/ path-noscheme ; begins with a non-colon segment
/ path-rootless ; begins with a segment
/ path-empty ; zero characters

path-abempty = *( "/" segment )
path-absolute = "/" [ segment-nz *( "/" segment ) ]
path-noscheme = segment-nz-nc *( "/" segment )
path-rootless = segment-nz *( "/" segment )
path-empty = 0<pchar>

segment = *pchar
segment-nz = 1*pchar
segment-nz-nc = 1*( unreserved / pct-encoded / sub-delims / "@" )
; non-zero-length segment without any colon ":"

pchar = unreserved / pct-encoded / sub-delims / ":" / "@"

RFC 2396 (circa 1998):

path = [ abs_path | opaque_part ]

path_segments = segment *( "/" segment )
segment = *pchar *( ";" param )
param = *pchar

pchar = unreserved | escaped |
":" | "@" | "&" | "=" | "+" | "$" | ","

IIRC, somewhere in RFC 3986 it alludes to the fact that you could still do something like that, but it would be scheme-specific, and not part of the URI spec.

Also of note is that pipes ("|") are no longer even mentioned in RFC 3986, but they were characterized as 'unwise' in 1998.

RFC 2396:

unwise = "{" | "}" | "|" | "\" | "^" | "[" | "]" | "`"

[1] http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.html#sec-3.3

[2] http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.html#sec-3.3
What, an upvote from a 5000 karma user is worth more than an upvote from a 100 karma user? I've never before heard that that's the case.
If we have that much evidence that having no visible comment scores reduces poor quality traffic, I think I may have just switched sides in that particular debate.

I'm not saying that is the case, but it could be a very interesting revelation.
My strategy was to target a well-defined niche and dominate it rather than trying to compete in a saturated category (like games or entertainment). I think overall polish is extremely important. You can't just release an MVP and iterate like you can on the web. You really have to hit a homerun from the get go or you have no chance of survival.
Dino SDK - Think "Olark for Mobile Apps"
For those of us not familiar, what is the full quote?
Entering the search market would require hundreds of employees and a significant upfront capital expenditure. Without going public, I don't think there is any question--they will not enter search.

If they go public, then it depends on the opportunity costs. Is there a better place for ~5Billion dollar investment? Probably yes. Two things come to mind; an ad distribution network and a 'social' browser.
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Finance. Drawbacks have been well-documented.
Add this amount ($380 million or so at current Apple stock price) to the extrapolated salary for Cook over the next decade, and he will earn right around an even billion dollars in the next 10 years.

Nice work, if you can get it!
Am I the only one who looked at this title and thought they were talking about hurricanes? Seemed topical...
This is excellent insight. As a developer, my gut reaction is to say but look at all these features and people will pay for that. But thats not really the case. In fact, it seems what people actually pay for is an efficient solution to something that takes them far too much time (or makes/saves them money).
This encourages me to write an app for Android.
Wow, this illustration might be the first one ever to help me understand how space can be 'curved'. If you altered the space around the cube to reflect a linear gravitational pull, you'd have a cube with streteched out points and a flat ocean within the curved bason of the cube face.

Correct me if I'm completely imagining things here, but is this how space is 'curved' by gravity? The disorted shape of the ocean and cube would reflect how the cube-planet felt to an observer within its gravitational pull.
It's close to the same thing, but having more named registers does provide more optimization opportunities. It shouldn't be completely ignored as a good thing.

I mentioned function calls because that's a boundary when an optimizer - either in-processor or in-compiler - is often forced to use memory and not registers. The big-N-register "register window" of RISC processors kicks this problem's ass. But with aggressive inlining already common, these boundaries don't come up as often as you'd think. So the x86-64 calling convention does a pretty damn good job too.

Edit: by the way, I guess I haven't really commenting on TinyVM one way or the other when I responded to you. You're absolutely right and the compatibility is not necessary at all. I think the register count limitation especially is just silly. I pointed out in a different thread that they could double their register count and they'd still fit in a single cache line... they even already have a naming convention (r08-r15) they can hijack.
Ask HN: can a user be silently censored here?
Hmm, I've noticed for a few weeks now that none my comments get upvoted nor downvoted nor replied to.

I didn't think too much of it and carried on with my life.

Today, I thought I'd verify just for kicks if in fact I'm being censored here. Surprise! After logging out, none my comments show up when I visit a story where I commented.

In my own logged in view, the "comments" tab shows my comments. And I can see my comment among all the other comments too.

I'm definitely surprised at what I just saw. FAQ doesn't say anything about this. No notice on my profile page that I'm being censored.

Bug or censoring? Amazing.
If Facebook were to get similar margins to Google, then they'd earn $2B in profit on $7.5B in revenues. $25B of value on $2B profit is a 12.5 P/E ratio, which is quite conservative, given search is still an emerging market, and quite strategic for them.
Microsoft may be less than pleased, given the level of Bing integration right now.

In fact, Bing already exists as a Facebook-augmented search engine. I don't use it, but I find the concept fascinating as it's one of the few places that is using Facebook's massive data store of all the pages and sites that users have 'like'd.
PhantomJS is one of the better "headless" browsers out there. Webkit-based, Minimal src codebase (Python), and easy to compile (with QT tools).

IMO The API is a little weird though: when evaluating js within a PhantomJS "WebPage" context, it is _completely_ sandboxed. i.e. you can't use closures or otherwise reference any variables outside the scope of your "WebPage" (without work-arounds). This is odd, when you consider that the page is just another var in your script. IMO it kind of breaks some JS paradigms. Not a big deal, but an annoyance none-the-less.
Damn, you are doing well. Is it just you behind this operation?
You'd be surprised, I think, just how much looking (and being?) stereotypically Western is considered a PR advantage in many Asian countries. There is a practice, for instance, of hiring Western males to attend business meetings not for any reason related to that person's business acumen, but because it looks very good for a company if you've got a white English speaking male in attendance.
Regarding #3, I wrote a script that automatically emails the 20% of customers who get their orders declined, asking them to purchase the app directly through me using PayPal. A surprising number of them do. It's not a perfect solution, but at least it recovers some lost revenue. You can have this feature available for your app through http://www.AndroidLicenser.com
Google Chairman Lauds Social TV and New Wave of Multiplatform Engagement
I tend to use heroku's free plan for testing out ideas. I wrote a post detailing how here: http://rawsyntax.com/post/8737142015/host-your-side-project-...
And? Perhaps it is not the life goal of the majority of people to push advertisements to their fellow human beings.

If the criticism came from Knuth - fine - but Eric Schmidt?
Who is he to make such a remark?
I still use a Macbook Pro from 2007 that I play games on via Bootcamp. It's only recently starting to show it's age when I play new games.
In a slightly similar vein, you might enjoy looking at my Dot Net Anywhere project: https://github.com/chrisdunelm/DotNetAnywhere/tree/master/dn... (or http://www.dotnetanywhere.org for an easy to use zip download that will load and compile directly on Windows)

It is an almost complete .NET2.0 CIL interpreter, so it can run your exe's compiled from C#/VB/etc...

I'm not sure it has much practical application, but it was certainly fun to write, and I learnt a huge amount about interpreters and how .NET works.

PS Lots of bugs, a memory leak, an incomplete base class library, etc... so don't try to use this for anything serious!
Speculation. And a bad idea. Facebook is good in social "notworking", and competing with Google in Google's territory is not a good idea.
Since we're in the field of speculation, I predict a huge loss of money.
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I deleted my account yesterday. As a community it has given me nothing back, except pictures of funny cats (ok slight exaggeration)

It seems as if every single comment that hints to insight fulness, knowledge or that comes accompanied with a (scientific) source is ridiculed or downvoted into oblivion. And top comments increasingly are inside jokes. That is all ok, but I am not putting energy in it anymore.

Compare that to HN, where I comment very little, yet nearly every interaction sparked an email or two with people who do cool stuff.

Reddit commenters seems to take some pride that they are not as worse as their cousins at 4chan or youtube. To me they seem to be the internet white noise, and if they don't deviate into the tail, they will be fine. The usenet comparison by blhack is spot on I feel, so new communities will spring to live where others slip.

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Camera stores
I wonder how many other Hackers are Multitaskers too.
I wonder why no one talks about the huge growth for imgur, which has more traffic than reddit...

https://www.google.com/adplanner/planning/site_profile?hl=en...

https://www.google.com/adplanner/planning/site_profile?hl=en...
The group you described does not inherit any interesting structure from exponentiation -- indeed, one can easily see that it is isomorphic to the multiplicative group of reals. You could similarly construct a group isomorphic to an additive group of reals. This is an example of the fact that real exponentiation connects different aspects of real numbers, as well as the fact that just abstract algebra language is not enough to express properties of real numbers. You need to somehow relate the algebraic structure of reals to a topologic one, which stems from order imposed on reals and its continuity.
+1 for Android support!
Good point. If people aren't using Facebook/Bing, what makes you think they'll use Facebook search? Unless they replace the front page with a search box bing/google style no one will notice the difference.
I think--potentially--it matters a lot more if you're not funded and/or if it helps you to get "discovered" by both users and folks who might fund you. We got covered in Mashable very early in our product evolution. It helped us a ton. We're a small startup in Memphis, TN and the coverage gave us some much-needed exposure and, at least partly, an air of legitimacy with VCs. Post-funding there are many more mechanisms for getting the word out about how awesome you are, but before that event happens there's nothing better than a little free advertising from a major tech blog.

And in the end the coverage has helped us become a better company. We have many many more users now than we did before the feature, and the exposure helped us gain quite a few "champion" users whose feedback has been invaluable to us as our product evolves.

Key thing for us was to make sure it was stated explicitly that we were pretty brand new. Huge props to Jolie O'Dell for working with us on that. We got a lot of new users from the article and for the most part they've been patient with us as we improve. And best of all we've started relationships with tech press that will hopefully help us out when we release super awesome feature x, y, and z.

My two cents...
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Strophe.js: XMPP library for JavaScript
Update - the city website now has the following map -
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Search for 'Ruboto IRB' in Android marketplace. Perhaps every Rubyist owning an Android should at least have an IRB in his pocket :).
This whole article is predicated on "social search" being better than pagerank-scored search, which is only sometimes the case.

Sometimes I care what my friends think about a search query, e.g., "sushi restaurants near foo." It might help me to know that my friend Bob, who I trust, has been somewhere and thought it was good.

Sometimes I do not care at all what my friends think about a search query, e.g., "medulla oblongata." In fact, showing results that my friends might have liked in connection with that phrase may distract from the scientific information I am looking for, especially if they are pages of quotes from Fight Club.

Being able to distinguish this intent, and putting a good UX on top of it, is what Facebook needs to do to make a significant entry into the search market. (I'm not holding my breath.)
Is this solving the same problem that LLVM has solved already better (by supporting both interpretation and JIT)?
The 15-year-old fanboys are downvoting in realtime again. Who else has time to guard threads so closely?
This is my PhantomJS experience as well!

What mitigated this a bit though, is the actual Phantom codebase on-top of Webkit is really small. So when you need to figure out exactly what it's doing, it's super easy to just dig into the src.

I'm hoping more visibility as CLI JS (and/or Coffescript) testing becomes more mainstream, it will bump up the # of contributors.
But only if it uses Redis? You probably need a backup solution for folks w/o things like Redis.
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I don't understand why everyone thinks the horror aspect of the film was silly. The captain of the other ship was driven mad by pure light and retreats into the darkness. He then tries to sabatoge the attempt to restart the sun so he (and all of the human race) can be forever encased in the night. These effects were illustrated in some of the characters on the second ship as well.

And the final moment of the film was merely playing with the idea that the intense gravity of the sun would alter time to the point where Capa would experience each nanosecond before his death, observing the nuclear reaction as it occured.

Pretty cool story, at least thats what I thought.
Does anyone else think that this could be one more thing holding back telecommuting?

Lately I have been trying to spot more of the soft factors that keep people coming into offices.
I find the biggest impediment to gaming in this situation is that it's hard to use a mouse on the couch.

Solution: a $5 polypropylene cutting board, still in its shrink wrap, wrapped in patterned contact paper. It's rigid enough to sit on a couch cushion or (wide) chair arm and provides a nice big mousing surface.
I remember reading a little while back that if you get marked as a troll, you can continue to comment on articles but nobody else will see them but you. This makes the troll effectively a ghost, thinking they are commenting normally but really the comments are going into a void. Maybe you were incorrectly designated as such?
State explosion in programming languages
Honestly, even the sushi restaurants example is questionable to me. I think a better algorithm would check to see what/what kind of restaurants I liked in the past, compare that with other people with similar taste, and give me a suggestion. Netflix recommendation for food.

It's what I've always wanted from Yelp and Urban Spoon, but never got. It seemed like Google's Hotpot was going there, but that seems to have fizzled. I guess it's not one of the arrows that Larry Page chose.

But back to the point, that's not a social algorithm. It's not a page-rank one either, but I'd expect Google to be better at this than FB.
Flash is substantially fixed. If you haven't used Flash lately, I encourage you to read the API docs for Flex and have a play around with the Free compiler. It's become very easy to mix standards-compliant markup and Flash in a manner which degrades gracefully/enhances progressively.

IMO, the problem is developers. Because of Flash's origins as a tool for designers to make animations, most ActionScript is atrociously bad. The lion's share of Flash is created by people who really don't know how to program. When you have a community where knowing what recursion is marks you out as above-average, it's understandable that the core technology gets a bad rep. The problem is self-reinforcing, as good developers want to use the new shiny HTML5 and don't want to tarnish their CV with Flash development.

A huge spectrum of really high-quality web apps are reliant on Flash. Streaming video is the obvious application, but projects like SoundManager2 are still reliant on Flash for audio in HTML5 apps. It's a very nineties word, but Flash is still the bottom line when it comes to multimedia. Products like Google Street View or Turntable.fm just aren't plausible without Flash and won't be for the forseeable future. Given the glacial pace of the W3C on HTML5 and the likely slow uptake of newer browsers, we're stuck with it. I don't see that as a wholly bad thing.
I'm a fan of the aluminum body. My Macbook Pro is 4 years old and it's a tank. You're right though, it does get pretty hot, but most high-end laptops do. I burned the graphics card out of my old plastic Fujitsu many years ago playing video games. Heat's just the price you pay to have the current fastest hardware.

I use a laptop cooler on my desk and lapdesk on the couch.
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Very fun thought experiment. It reminded me that we did a problem in calculus to compute the effect of gravity inside a hollow sphere. It turns out to be ZERO.

So, if the Earth's mass, was all densely concentrated in a, say, 1 mile thick shell, you could drill a hole through the shell and experience total weightlessness when you popped out on the "inside" (assuming a total vacuum on the inside - if not - you'd experience a very small gravity toward the center based on the mass of the contained atmosphere).
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Legal FAQ for Tor Relay Operators
Salesforce chief gave Steve Jobs "App Store" trademark as token of appreciation
We're planning on making it completely cross-platform. iOS to start though. Thanks for the feedback!
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It's amazing how powerful a combination Node and Redis are. What more could you need?
I agree. Facebook's strategy ought to be to lock down and defend their niche in social networking. The signs seem to indicate a greater emphasis on connecting person to person: I predict more location and mobile-based features, and more aggressive expansion in developing markets.

Only then would a search product make sense, though it would be tempting to rush it out as a partnership with Bing.
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I came across a comment on the CSS in the HTML of the site offering a bounty for the fix, realised I didn't know the answer, and pointed it out to a LUG friend of mine who I thought would. He did and got the sole $5 bounty. :-)
Interview Question: Why do you want to leave your company for this job?
I have an interview for a front-end programmer position this Tuesday and I know they will ask this question. I am not sure how to answer it. My current work is boring and stale maintaining intranet web applications. Been doing this for 5 years. Please help :D
Which account is it?

Failing that, what's its karma? Its average? Do you flame? Troll? Spam?
Sweet! I've known Rob for a little while - it's good to see that he's finally created an eye-camera that doesn't explode.

Rob is a master of PR... I'm constantly amazed at the publicity he's able to drum up (even for the longest time when all he had were a couple of components that could, in theory, be assembled into an eye camera).
I vaguely remember reading a post that patio11 did that before. Correct me if I'm wrong. My memory likes to play tricks on me. In the end, if it turned out it was better, you would give everyone the lower price and offer a discount or moneyback to the people who had to pay more during the test. If the higher price turned out better, you leave everything as is or you could discount the people paying more and just get all new customers to pay the higher price.
If you got no value out of the place, I think you were doing it wrong. My city (DC) has a thriving subreddit that meets up probably 2-3 times a week officially to do things - zombie invasion simulations, drinking, board games, go karting, etc. It's been a fantastic way to just get out and do stuff with people. There is a whole subreddit dedicated to 'Barcraft' which brings watching pro starcraft live to bars (like you would watch any other sport). People are spending their time to put on these live events with help from companies like Justin.tv/Twitch. Those are two examples that hit home close to me, but I am sure you can find stuff for you as well, you just have to look and engage with the proper communities.