skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This whole article is quite silly. It puts a negative spin on his tenure as CEO by downplaying the single most important fact: under Page, Google+ actually shipped, and was actually good! Gundotra and Horowitz led the operation, true, but it's hard to believe Larry Page wasn't heavily involved with that.

All the rest is short term ephemera. 9.1% vs. 8.4% is, as you note, nothing. The Motorala deal is for the patents, and they'll probably spin off the hardware end after the deal closes. Expensive but well within Google's budget. As for the $500 million payment, the federal government is suing every company it's not bailing out. Nowadays some sort of federal shakedown is just a cost of doing business in the US, unfortunately. Heck, some guy even recently tried to get Dropbox in trouble with the FTC. You get big enough and you're just a target for all kinds of this stuff.

In his short tenure, Page cleaned house, fired tons of nonperforming "VP Bizdev" types, and catalyzed nothing short of an engineering renaissance at Google. Google+ in particular is tremendous for internal company morale and has stemmed the tide of defections to FB. Page knows what's important, but Amir Efrati, the author of this Journal piece, clearly does not.
If that's the case, just make them and restock the HP web store. Don't come out and say you're doing another run out of charity to not leave their dear customers disappointed.
They don't make money on software right now. I guess they still have lots of spare parts for future batches around, or contracts with third party suppliers that require them to buy certain amounts of parts. So given the huge demand, they may simply want to make less of a loss (i.e. just trashing the spare parts may be more expensive)
Is that not precisely what I said?
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"The really sad part is that "they" -- who will be different people in different situations -- mean well and only want to help out."

I used to think so, but no longer. It looks to me that issues are merely pasture for politicians to feed on. They don't care about the issues or the people the issues affect, they only notice an issue that can be used to further their career.
I will admit that my CFML experience is limited to studying it for an interview (that made me not want the job) and learning it well enough to read old source code for a new application based off the old. (The app was MX 7)

My primary complaints were (as everyone) the verbosity - I've never seen a more verbose templating system, which led people to copy and paste all around. While there were some CFCs, those were mostly for tying to java backend. All this could happen in ASP, for example, but CF seemed to make it painful to do the right thing.

Of course it could happen in other languages, but my experience let me to cringe whenever CF was mentioned.

The OP used Microsoft already, so I'd look along those lines for him, even though my professional life is in java (95% javascript/HTML application with minimal templating from JSP)and my current weekend project is in rails. Razor looks like a nifty templating engine in ASP.NET MVC, for example.
I think this is because a lot of the file swappers were actually pretty broke. Teenagers don't all simply hemorrhage cash from every poor, only some do. The rest were burning CDs for friends and later downloading off Napster.
This book looks interesting but there is no review on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0750676183

I was wondering if someone can comment on the suitability of this book?
Can you please list out the applications you've created? I'd like to add them to my "never ever register on these sites" list.

If you're only worrying about injection attacks "...after you gain some traction" or "...when it becomes an issue" you're already too late, and I don't ever want to trust any of my private data with you, ever. This is the 21st century. Scrubbing and validating user input is _trivial_ now, framework or no.

Please, please, please, everyone who reads this, spend a day reading the OWASP guidelines, and _use_ their sample code. This isn't difficult, and it makes your applications a million times more secure _on_ _day_ _one_.
This article of a few weeks back adds more about the "not spread by rats" aspect (as well some really typical British humour in the commentary of the article).

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2027347/Black-Deat...
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I agree with dchuk .
We are physical beings, and our physical selves are wasting away the more we neglect them in favor of the electronic world.

Sigh... We were not meant to sit around and play video games all day. Our brains and bodies just don't respond effectively to it. It's not healthy.
"IMHO, this persuasion has convinced other content producers to trust Apple in their walled garden model."

How so?
Actually this is not as far fetched as it may seem. Here's a potential scenario, building on the above, HP may have entered into contracts with manufacturers for 'n' units. When they shut it down, they had only received 'm' units, where m < n. So, they would have had to cancel contracts and pay a penalty.

Here, they see a rather unusual demand and must have made some calculation that making the original 'n' units and earning good will by doing that, per the original contracts is better (even at a loss) than breaking contract and paying the penalty at a loss of goodwill.
You don't need fork for that — just enable ANSI mode.

The problem is that MySQL-based software doesn't do that and relies on the default "quirks" mode.
You're classing injection attacks with scaling and efficiency? I want to believe I've misread.
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"50 more and double the costs" is exponential; in particular, it's

cost(height) = reference_cost × 2^((height-reference_height)/50),

or simply

cost(height) = k × 1.01395948^height.
I doubt it works like that. I imagine that they have a load of parts already purchased, and probably some spare labour time. Supply chains don't just stop when you click your fingers.
Just a possibility: HP is a large company with deep pockets, it can likely afford to sell TouchPads at a loss for quite a while. That would give them time to work out bugs, recoup some in apps and find a less costly manufacturing process (or let time do that work for them). If all they lose on it is $100 million a year, it might be a worthwhile investment in positioning.
I am not sure this is that much more disturbing than the British Government even thinking about restricting the use of social media apps during times of civil disobedience. And this is extremely disturbing.

How can any global company now do business in Pakistan? Surely there is some kind of back door in there.
Beautiful design.

What was the thought process behind choosing a commission-based business model over a flat monthly subscription?

Are you sure that business model is going to be profitable, and (perhaps more importantly) not negatively affect your clients' conversion rate? I know if I was going to make a sizeable donation and saw that 10% of it was being eaten up in fees I'd be calling around see if I could mail in a check.

Edit: Also, have you looked into getting a referral fee when people sign up for an account with wepay?
While selling at a loss to make profit on software doesn't look feasible in this market, here's an alternative suggestion, though I'm not sure if this is feasible either - just more likely than the first option.

Sell loads at a loss, I mean really loads. Announce that the platform isn't dead after all. Use the fact that so many people have the devices to bring in app developers, make it a more desirable platform. Then, when their future devices sell for a profit, people will actually want them.
Fake! Steve would never say, "Relax, read the iPad, Facetime Tim Cook"...

It'd be "Relax, read iPad..."

:)
They may be using something cheap for their homepage because they (understandably) don't expect to get hit hard there.
A question about down-voting comments...
The web developer at my company is against having down-voting on comments after we spent days writing the code because people are using it to express disagreement over statements, and thinks that'll lead to users leaving the site who don't use the product.

I completely disagree.

The argument is that if a liberal posts a comment on a poll on a day when a lot of conservatives use the site, and the conservatives all down-vote his comment, that he might be turned off and not come back.

I find this to be incredulous. If the liberal were to create a poll that was "Obama vs. Ron Paul" and a lot of conservatives were on the site at the time and beat Obama by a few thousand votes (a likely scenario) then he's probably more likely to be turned off than if someone down-voted his comment because they disagreed.

I am really interested in getting everyone else's opinion on the subject of down-voting comments.
I suspect this is just HP clearing out the supply chain of already purchased parts and units still at the factory. HP's cost is probably just a few dollars per unit to ship and possibly assemble them.

I find it hard to believe anyone approved an entirely new order of parts at $300 BOM just to sell them for $99.
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Honestly when you list the merits of Postgres like that you sound like a used car salesman. "Of course you think you want that but really you want all of this." We all get that Postgres is great. Saying "no we won't implement a feature you, our customer, wants" like this just rubs me the wrong way.

Is there some technical reason that you can't offer both?
nhashem, wow you really hit the nail on the head. So accurate it's scary. I too, thought I was the only one who put DOING before "ramping up and learning some stuff so that I can maybe do some things a few weeks from now." And of course Pud for the courage to be honest about how he's working.

So many times in startups and new endeavors, getting things out is far more important than doing it "right". It's stinky, but it's a reality. If your checkbook, bills and time say one thing but your code says another, your checkbook/bills/time win - always. And the person who can pump out more working (working, not necessarily pretty/proper code-wise or stack-wise) apps wins (even if they lose, they win, based on odds - more attempts means more possible chances at winning).
Ask HN: Open Source Projects & Interaction Design Question *Edited*
I have a Masters degree in Interaction Design but I'm starting a graduate job for a large IT firm doing systems architecture.

However, I would like to carry on doing some work relating to interface design/user experience/interaction model design. I'm kind of new to this whole open source thing and it seems to be quite impenetrable to people who don't write code. As such, I was wondering if anyone had any advice they could give me on how I could contribute to open source projects in a non programming role. I can produce designs, low-fidelity prototypes and advise on usability issues etc.

I don't have a portfolio as most of my academic work has primarily been in the theoretical Human Factors paradigm relating to assistive technologies.

Thanks!

*Edit: I should also add that if anyone has a small project on the go, particularly if it's related to mobile platforms and would like some help with interface design I would be willing to help. I should say that I favour accessibility over aesthetics. Although you argue that aesthetics affects usability (but that's a rather complex discussion!!)
I'd be curious to hear the alternatives, and the overall process used to arrive at the current language.
Answer "Sure" to "Can I use my own web address?" is a bit misleading. The correct answer would be "No you can't."
Just wanted to add: this is all imo. :)
The first thing that immediately lept out at me as I was reading this was that turning Futures into Functors is great if your future implementation understands that is how they are going to be used. I've seen several naive examples of concurrent Futures that would horribly break if used in this way. Heck, I've seen good future implementations that would execute that code sub-optimally.

To my eye, this article is a microcosm of the fundamental tension of scala. On the one hand, we have a mountain of stable code from the java world; on the other, a strong desire to leverage the more robust techniques of FP. Unfortunately, they have to be mixed with extreme care or you end up creating performance bottlenecks and breaking semantics.
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Ive been using it for about a week now. The home page will start to get cluttered as more people begin to use it. Itll be interesting to see if/how they address the issue, I would guess with some kind of following system where you add people to your main page feed. Another part of reading.am I find interesting is how interesting stories make big blocks on the feed because a bunch of people are reading them, thus attracting more attention and presumably, more readers. You could argue thats just a less efficient upvote system though.
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That's when we came out of beta, didn't you get the release notes?
ah, fair enough. though i'd say that sounds like something socket.io should handle, even if it doesn't already- because now you have the obvious disadvantage of using long polling even when sockets are available.
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I believe that's the case, and that they actually have to pay for ADA upgrades on some buildings if they haven't already. It's still the same kind of housing that other students pay for.
Wind and solar power can never make up the bulk of base load power production on their own. They produce power on their own schedule, not based on when it's needed. Until we have vastly more efficient energy storage systems these will forever be niche power sources. They aren't entirely useless, but they are still 2nd or 3rd string, and this sort of innovation (increasing capacity and efficiency) won't change that.
If labor and shipping per unit costs $50 (totally made up), then $99 ain't lookin so bad
Was going to do Twitter also, but didn't have enough time.
Yes. People use Blekko on GA and AdSense code to find who owns networks of sites.

The solution is to use a different throw-away account for each site.
What about it doesn't work?
in 2031 your secure communicator and your [lethal] personal drone will be the same device. You will talk into the headset of your nokia murderator.
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Primarily because tracking people 24/7 through GPS in their phone is a privacy no-no. Next tot that: GPS is really unreliable in buildings and oldfolks tend to live in appartment blocks. Also hight (floor) is an issue as well as battery life.
this is a case where I'd love to see what your karma is on these comments :)

(I mostly agree with you, as a former CFML developer, who does python/node now)
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Hmm - yeah the docs are sort of unclear, if you're not familiar with the convention.

:categories_suppliers implies that the table is a join table (a many-to-many join between categories and suppliers) - which is why it has no ID and why it only has the two foreign key fields with no other data.
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Apple obviously uses VPN in its non-Cupertino locations, presumably too with its production lines in China. I know that China allows the use of VPN for businesses with a legitimate need. Even though Pakistan was never an ideal location for doing business anyway, they've essentially banned any technical business from conducting operations in Pakistan.
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You may be right, but if it's not an ops guy getting fired, then it should be a PR guy. I mean, look at this:

"Before I share, let me first say thank you for enthusiasm for this product. Since we announced the price drop, the number of inquiries about the product and the speed at which it disappeared from inventory has been stunning. I think it’s safe to say we were pleasantly surprised by the response.

Despite announcing an end to manufacturing webOS hardware, we have decided to produce one last run of TouchPads to meet unfulfilled demand."

They didn't decide to produce one last run to meet unfulfilled demand, they're producing one last run to get rid of unused parts. Just put the new devices up on the store and send out a tweet; don't spin this like some grand gesture to please your adoring fans.
I would hope rather than a single competitor there would be an open standard for this kind of file replication and then multiple implementations and service providers.
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Simple explanation: RFID => reading a chip, NFC => communicating with a chip.
Given that they claim to perform perceptual optimization, I would expect this. Human perception wouldn't come into play if they were just optimizing the image.
If you’re not quoting directly don’t use >. At best it’s misleading at worst it’s dishonest.
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I share your thoughts. It makes a lot of sense from this perspective as WebOS could be worth a billion or more so what is a loss of a few million on ensuring a good sale.
No good if you care about IE6 support
They're doing this under the pre-text of monitoring all internet usage so that they can 'search traffic for terrorist communication'.

At my university, students are required to browse through an authenticated proxy (which we have to sign in to using our university IDs), which logs our browsing history. This is done so that they can comply with the PTA's requirement that an ISP should be able to provide browsing history of all users for the last 45 days upon request.

Never mind that it's trivial to get around that proxy, all it actually does is mess up most stuff like Windows updates, gaming, etc.
To make a significant dent in the market, enough to attract developers in droves (good ones at that) would require a significant user base. Im not sure they can afford to lose $200-300 every time they sell one and expect to recoup it in the lifetime of the product. The life cycle of the PS3 and Xbox 360 have been extended for that very reason. How many iterations of discounted tablet devices would HP have to sell before they could demand profitable prices right off the bat? They certainly wouldnt make it back by selling $2 apps.
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How about something like Slashdot, where you can say why you are downvoting.
+/-1 agree/disagree
+/-1 thoughtful/usless

"Thank you for your thoughtful comment, but I disagree with your conclusion."

"I agree that 'Palin Rocks' but your comment adds nothing of interest to this discussion."
Drone combat seems like an unnecessary step.

I think you'd just float some blimps with various sensors to watch for anything suspicious. [1] If you did spot anything suspicious, you'd simply move your high-value target as if you'd spotted someone with a gun or a suspicious bag in the area.

A jammer could be put into a ground-based vehicle and activated as part of a response, but even if you could engage a suspicious drone with your own, you'd still need to move the would-be target for safety's sake. So why bother?

[1] I'm rather surprised these things aren't already in use. They could be trivially disguised as promotional material for an event and even be tethered to provide superior power/data resources to your spotter blimp.
Ditto guitarists.
What would you like Heroku to do with a MySQL on EC2 offering that Amazon is not currently doing with their MySQL on EC2 offering (Amazon RDS)? They are both local, use the same underlying infrastructure, and have Heroku add-ons, no?

Presumably, their decision to only support Postgres is partly competition (many others provide MySQL on EC2), and partly technical. How would you justify the technical merits of the decision, without sounding "like a used car salesman"?
You're expecting a PR person not to spin it like some grand gesture? Have you ever heard any company say anything to the effect of, "well, we already paid for a bunch of parts, so we might as well?"
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Is Navicat OK? I've been using it for a while simply because it was one binary that did SQLite, MySQL, Oracle, MS-SQL, and PgSQL.
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Look at http://960.gs/ to see some examples of stuff that is done, cross-browser, with a CSS grid framework and without tables.
Stego is detectable. They will move on to scanning for and flagging those communications eventually.
Any chance of PL/python or similar?

I guess I'm probably one of like three users of PL/python, especially since it's untrusted. Worth a check, though!
Typical posts against CFML. "It's old." Well then so is Java, PHP, you name it. Actually, of all of those languages, CFML has the latest iteration (which is the most important stat). Railo and Adobe both have new updates ariving soon. Hey, how bout that JSTL huh? Morbid since the late 90's.
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Pythonbrew is another good option for dealing with Python and multiple versions of Python.

https://github.com/utahta/pythonbrew
I see this argument a lot. You're right, there are situations where tables are semantic. But unless otherwise stated, it's fair to assume that someone who's talking about semantic markup knows that semantic markup includes tables, but simply discourages them for 99% of layout purposes.
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Here are some suggestions of preparatory material:

http://www.aiqus.com/questions/4/hey-guys-what-are-some-prer...
Unfortunately with the acquisition of Autonomy, their pockets arent so deep anymore. They spent about 80% of their cash on the deal, leaving them with not much money to push devices like the Touchpad at a loss.
Priceless! It also puts a human perspective to Y Combinator. I get sweaty palms just by thinking of applying (although I will - again) this year, let alone actually making it. These pics show me you're actually humans instead of, well, deities. It makes me a bit less anxious of applying, if only a little bit.
The people editing the titles just to match the original source are driving me nuts.

I don't care how cute or clever the author was in picking a title. I want to know what the damn thing is about so I can make a good decision whether or not to spend time reading it! A good HN title should efficiently communicate to me why I should click on this link.

The original title was interesting. This one is not: the only reason I clicked on it again was because it had a high number of votes and comments.
Tables are for tabular data. You wouldn't use a spreadsheet to design a web page so by the same token a table is just as unsuitable.

CSS support is a lot better and more consistent across browsers now than it was even just a year ago, and there are CSS 'frameworks' that make grid based design a trivial task without cluttering your page with table markup where it's not required.

There are even plenty HTML5 'frameworks' (or templates if you prefer) that take backwards compatibility and such like into account so you don't have to faff about with all that yourself.

http://www.blueprintcss.org/
http://960.gs/
http://html5boilerplate.com/
http://www.initializr.com/
http://codekickoff.com/