skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Has the iPod made us anti-social?
"Pull down the barriers! Share music with all your friends!"

As long as they have an iPhone. Just about everyone I know has an Android-based phone, when they have a smartphone at all. Oops.
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Ask HN: What are good HN apps that people have built?
It seems everyone and their uncle has created a Hacker News iPhone/iPad/Android app. I'm curious as to what are considered the top-rated ones?
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If it's published OTI, you can make a pretty safe claim that it's public. Otherwise, people who short a company based on a newspaper article accusing the CEO of gross misconduct would be guilty of insider trading.
I think the question is: What is the traffic load, and by how much has it increased in the last 6-12 months?
I imagine it won't be as fast? The cool thing about Bitcask is that all of the keys are in memory - I imagine that would also be beneficial with secondary indexes now supported...

LevelDB seems mostly well suited for data that becomes (in terms of key size and number of keys) bigger than your RAM...
What if instead of following a person on Twitter, you could follow an idea?
The encouraging speech for the troops before the battle.
Of course. That's why it makes sense to do things on a small scale before doing them on a large scale, and to act slowly.

If there are regions that need mosquitoes or effects that manifest over decades, we can correct mistakes -- or at least, damage will be limited locally.

It's not that meddling in a complex system is impossible. It's just that you need to proceed at a scale and speed your current understanding justifies.
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We're an alpha stage pre-launch startup planning to launch in Boston - so functionality is limited only to that area right now.

Also, if you're a dev (front or back-end) and are looking for a cash/equity payout, we'd love to fill you in on our larger vision.

We greatly appreciate your feedback regarding the site experience, means for further testing customer (pet owner and veterinarian) demand, and any other relevant thoughts.

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"The other 'a' cookie, a_xs, is now also deleted on logout. a_xs is used to prevent cross-site request forgery."

Does anyone know how this cookie is used to prevent CSRF?
Neat. I came back 5 hours later, and the change was live. Thanks. (I was going to submit a change via Git when I got home, but you beat me to it!)
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FYI: the site link is: http://www.wewowi.com/
Windows Phone Mango update is out — gets Web Marketplace, tethering
I'm curious -- how would you keep spammers out of the new service?
I'm not sure data portability is enough these days. I also need some minimum functionality to remain in the event of a dispute or service shutdown.

In the real world, escrow (sort of) fills this need. Perhaps a hybrid Amazon/Heroku that also acted as an escrow agent? Enforcing that apps/services followed the data access rules and made sure that the service would keep running on that instance, even if the company went under? I'd pay extra (up front) for that.
SAP is trying to "gamificate" the enterprise
It looks like they took short positions in the firm before releasing the report. They may gain a significant profit from this, which I think is perfectly fine as all of the information here is public (but not necessarily easily accessible) information.
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Hi Tim. Everyone I know has an iPhone...but, yeah, it's on our roadmap. We are a bootstrapped startup so had to pick a platform to enter with, and like scores of others, for obvious reasons, chose iOS. Please don't kill us! FWIW, all services and platforms are on our roadmap, and you can still use Rexly on your laptop/desktop with similar functionality.
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I think its the ordering of the installed fonts that matters.

Your browser doesn't report the fonts on your computer in alphabetical order.
but even the most die-hard skeptic can be absolutely certain that they themselves exist.

I could potentially be non-existing or not-me in ways that I'm not clever enough to speculate about, let alone the ways I could speculate about (simulation, Boltzmann brains, Dust theory, dreams).
Y I wonder what constitutes "printed" in the eyes of the law. Web only has no bearing?
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and the one that has proven through history to be correct

Something tells me you didn't apply the scientific method here...

We spend our time on the edge of disaster, but before we can topple over, the lure of riches to the person who can come up with the solution is sufficient to take us to the next plateau.

That's implying the pretty optimistic assumption that we're capable of solving any problem that we create for us.
Oh for the love of Pete. Why are the voting machines connected to the tallying devices?

Wouldn't it be safer to have the voting machine output a machine readable ballot that is then read by a generic non-election specific scantron-like machine that has no understanding of what it is scanning?
Actually, they're _not_ both equal to infinity, in the mathematical sense (which I believe you're discussing) -- X / 0 is undefined.

What's equal to infinity is the limit of 1 / x as x approaches 0, and that's only from the positive side. From the negative side, it's -infinity.
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Ah I see they're already gearing up for their "Republicans stole the election (again)" series when Obama loses next year. Although I think this is jumping the gun a bit. Funny how these lab tests never seem to be done when it look like a Democrat is going to win (or won).
Nice, despite all the nay saying, it's a good and low barrier intro to what always had me wondering, what's so special about vim and the two modes?

Good job.
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Exactly! Thanks for reading, Martin.
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If its a paid service, some of what you say may be reasonable.

But for an money-free service, part of the price you pay ought to be the data you provide the service.
Open about:memory and see where the memory is going. And if you think the use is excessive, please file a bug including the about:memory data and any details you know that would aid in reproducing the problem.
I want to pay for TextMate 2
The most intuitive way to describe this for me is:

You've got 2 things, but you know nothing about them. Does the fact that you know nothing about them alone make them equal?

True, they have a commonality (you know nothing about them) but that's not enough to make them equal.
Interesting. On Rexly, it's sort of less about "making friends," although that could happen, and more about getting social cues from friends about new music to discover. Those cues are likely to be strongest from those whom you trust, and those whom you trust are likely to be those whom you know well, unless they are liars.
Is that a bug or a feature? ;)
It gets fixed when it gets unbearably bad, not before.
You're wasting your time if you worry about legacy browser support. Period. For every legacy browser out there--a number which only grows in spurts when a browser becomes "legacy"--there are maybe a 1,000(,000) shiny new browsers being shipped daily. Which do you care about? A stagnant legacy count, or a growing demand of new, mostly compatible, mostly upgradable browsers?
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Just to add to what you said: RMS and the FSF worked up the GPLv3 in response to this "Tivoization" of Software.

Linus and the kernel crowd at that time were on the other side of the debate.

Linus' quote:
"" [Stallman] calls it "tivoization", but that's a word he has made up, and a term I find offensive, so I don't choose to use it. It's offensive because Tivo never did anything wrong, and the FSF even acknowledged that. The fact that they do their hardware and have some DRM issues with the content producers and thus want to protect the integrity of that hardware.

The kernel license covers the kernel. It does not cover boot loaders and hardware, and as far as I'm concerned, people who make their own hardware can design them any which way they want. Whether that means "booting only a specific kernel" or "sharks with lasers", I don't care. ""

Back then Tivoization was about "consumer devices." Now that "Tivoization"
is threatening to breach the walls of hacking devices, it feels a lot more
personal.
Sorry guys, but this post is silly.
What is modern on "ruby development" on mac?
Why use zsh, xcode?
"ruby development" doesn't mean you are doing rails.
Remember the "web-safe" 216-colour palette? :(
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I agree, but I do not see how one would fit them on an iPhone, and leave room (for both left- and right-handed users) to hold the thing.
This is the chart (I may not agree on the dates) that I had in mind... the issue for me is that the best asset class to invest in, will change over time.

http://northcoastinvestmentresearch.files.wordpress.com/2009...
It couldn't have taken you years. Firefox 4 was only released in March of this year. Firefox 5 came three months later in June. Firefox 6 was two months later in August, and Firefox 7 now comes a little over a month afterwards.
Beef up on your algorithms (repost)
Marco, learn a new editor, don't be lazy and a rockstar.
Google invests $75M (more) into home solar power.
Not surprising given the number of apple fans out there
It's getting about twice as many "new" posts lately as it did last month. There's a lot more spam, but not that much more. I wonder if there's an uptick in traffic for some reason?
And really it's their lack of an interface--it just works.
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It auto-updates, yes, but not like chrome does.

Firefox downloads a ~15MB update that might cause unacceptably bad performance, or even not complete in an ordinary browsing session for users on slow connections.

Chrome downloads a assembly diff on the order of a few kilobytes, disassembles its own binary, patches and rebuilds on the client machine, completely transparently and without intervention of any sort.
MyWebOfTrust = Extortion Racket Aided By Renumerated Basement Dwellers?
Another guys take: http://www.jonathanvolk.com/business/i-am-a-spammer-scammer-and-phisher-why-web-of-trust-is-broken.html

Seems like a bunch of trolls are getting rewarded to "judge" hundreds of sites a day, potentially destroying online businesses.

How "destroying"? Well, MYWOT is now Facebooks' barometer of an external sites' saftey: http://www.mywot.com/en/blog/347-facebook-uses-wot-reputation-ratings-to-protect-users-from-scams-and-malware

So if some troll-psycho dislikes your online business model (or that of a site that resides on the same server as yours), NO Facebook links for you.

This isn't affecting me... atm. But I see this as a deadly threat to all webmasters. Spread the word.
Interesting guide, one thing I find lacking in ruby is longevity in projects. Too much cool new stuff, why not just work out the bugs in the existing projects instead? Of course it's easier to write a new half-assed implementation than getting the hard last percent done.

Interesting that he roots for homebrew over macports and rbenv over rvm while at the same time voting for capistrano. Of those 3 projects I find macports and rvm to do what I need from them perfectly and capistrano to be really lacking in both performance and complexity.
At prior jobs we would put similar language in our privacy policy, not because we did anything with the data, but because we didn't want someone to claim we violated the policy due to how web browsers worked. Either you trust Facebook to follow their privacy policy or you don't; short of auditing them there is now way to validate otherwise.

If you are really concerned about this why not use a browser extension that randomizes your HTTP headers?
Mangling Robin Hanson's http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/08/reliability-theory.htm... post, happy users have features they use which do what they want well enough and possibly features they ignore, wheras unhappy people have one or more feature which aren't doing what they want, or are missing. But which specific features aren't doing what they want will differ from person to person.
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If you read the article it's hard not to believe that IV is an innovation machine. Hatred of SW patents aside their talent and ideas are pretty cool.
I absolutely agree. TextMate is still my favorite editor. I switched to it from vim in 2007 and have occasionally looked back and around at other editors, but always return to TM.

Everyone on my team also uses TextMate all day, every day. We'd be happy to pay for TextMate 2.
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"You're ripping us off!", Steve shouted, raising his voice even higher. "I trusted you, and now you're stealing from us!"

But Bill Gates just stood there coolly, looking Steve directly in the eye, before starting to speak in his squeaky voice.

"Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it."
My point hinges on the difference between open- and closed-ended questions.
'Steve Ballmer has done to Microsoft what Bush did to the United States'
Actually, it could. If he was on 3.6, he could have waited years to make the leap to 6.

3.6 doesn't force you to auto-upgrade. You're encouraged, but never forced.
Suprised that Rapidshare isn't 2x as popular as the others
Disclaimer: I know nothing of Choada, and for all I know, they'r a fraud. However, I have some problems with this report.

1) So they think they spotted a fraud. This has been happening a LOT lately in China. These days, it's not so hard for bears to do this to a good company and force delisting, even if the company is actualy solid.

2) Ok, so some auditors left, and some executives left. This happens to companies. Certainly cause for some investigation, but not necessarily red flags.

3) There's heavy insider trading happening. This is less regulated/enforced in China. That's bad, but commonplace.

4) The statistical analysis on page 13/14 is extremely weak. On p 14 they've done little more than turn the chart on p13 sideways and throw on some confidence intervals. Smoothing profit margins is something that good management often does. I wouldn't say that it points to fraud.

5) Inflated capital spending can be a sign of growth (lease acquisitions, etc.)

The descriptions of "shell companies," that follows all strike me as sensational, and not necessarily substantial.
Paying for a text editor. Boggles the mind.
not sure if i am re-iterating the obvious, but if I were you I won't quit (at least in this emotional state). My recipe would be:

1. Sit down with a beer, pen and paper
2. Figure out what is the exciting tech that I want to work on
3. Do I have skills for bullet 2
4. If no can I learn it with my day job (something as trivial as writing 'hello world' in a new language)
5. Communicate (talk to a lot of experts in the target technology/industry/area of interest)
6. Generally the above steps should be sufficient to convince me what I want to do. Here one can probably take a break or ask the contacts from bullet 5 to help make a transition.

Obviously, like all plans this might not work ;), but I would start gaining better control of my life/career/aspirations.

Hope this helps... Cheers!
Why? He's clearly so happy with TextMate that he's willing to fork over more money for version 2 voluntarily. That doesn't sound like someone who's in need of a new editor.
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IE6 is down to 1.25% in North America. It's dead. Please stop supporting it

I wish. Our B2B ecommerce system has 34% IE6 usage, as of last week (although this has shrunk by half over the past year or so). I cannot tell 1/3 of our users to shape up -- especially since the ones that aren't upgrading are doing so because they're so big it's incredibly difficult for them. In other words, the ones still in IE6 are also the 800lb gorilla customers, to whom we can't make such demands.
Just put them right next to each other in a 2 x 2. The amount of room is pretty small. They should also improve the camera API to allow full use like the FCam API.

ref: http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/fcam/
> Acting on non-public information constitutes insider trading - wonder if this qualifies.

No. It's often legal to trade on non-public information. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider_trading .
I guess his point was that 3.6 was only released 1.5 years ago.
Tampering attempts could be easily detected with a paper log of votes. All that is needed is a paper based receipt logger installed in each voting machine. If tampering is suspected, review the paper log.
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Why does it say "I need to be dropped off somewhere else" under "Pick-up location"?
"The uptake curve got steeper between 5 and 6, which means more people are updating faster."

You have to wonder how much of that is a selection effect. Since there was a change in the upgrade tempo in firefox, you'd expect to see the uptake curve get steeper even if overall user behavior hasn't changed, because the users that were on 5 when 6 came out would tend to be the more adventurous ones.

Edit: in other words, ff 5 didn't have as much time to accumulate less-adventurous users as ff 4 did, so the 5->6 transition will appear faster than the 4->5 transition.
There's nothing silly about a developer sharing his preferred development configuration.

Also, you glossed over the fact that he's not installing Xcode so that he can use its IDE; rather, he's installing to get LLVM/GCC easily. He makes it clear that ZSH is his preference and that he recommends it.

The vast majority of developers looking for a guide to set up their machine for Ruby development will be Rails developers. Denying that is silly.
I just bought it because I expected the free upgrade, and was patiently waiting. I don't plan on paying for it again.
Ask HN: Looking for international domain registrar.
Curious who folks use for international (.es, .ly, etc) domain registration. Any advice would be much appreciated.
"but if you want to build a good company, an MBA will be a great help along the way."

An easy way to see if this is statistically valid, or just something that MBAs tell themselves, is to make a list of 'good' companies (by your personal definition of 'good') and see if the folks who built them had MBAs. The results might be surprising (either way).
The source code is well commented
The people I know that have been war would not agree with you.
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I look forward for the days of commodity personal choppers.
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When you have a friendship graph and listen info, you can both match users by their taste and recommend music based on their graph. last.fm did both and more. You can also do non-social personal and non-personal recommendations based on artist "similarities" derived from correlating user tastes. Last.fm does that too.

Another thing is that social network tracks social graph, not "friends" in the narrow sense; some of people in my social graph are likely to listen to the same kind of music than I (active friends); some are likely to listen to white noise (extended family, former close friends, collegues and people I studied with). You basically need circles!
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Awesome job!

Yeah, name is slightly confusing. Maybe use jsNES?
Good lookup. There's simply not enough data for something like K-waves. If the average cycle is 50 years, then only 6 or so could have occured since the Industrial Revolution. Way too small sample size to draw any conclusions, especially since it's likely the economy behaves more according to 'rough' fractal and power laws than clean, repeating sin wave cycles.
It seems to me that Homebrew is much more popular than Macports among rubyists. I would like to see actual data though.
Is there reason to think this is one of the same anonymous people as in any other news stories? This sounds like a lower-case-a anonymous person, probably an investor who's taken a short position on this company, or an insider.
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Increasing the dataset of color names doesn't really work as well to address this problem in my opinion. I looked at a pretty large set of colors of 5000+ and I discarded it because it just introduced too many exotic sounding names only a color expert can tell apart - it wasn't an UI improvement and it still doesn't give consistent results for the darkest and lightest colors.

I think working with HSL values works better in principle. Just adjusting the lightness value can be used to arrive at a more sensible color description. The most common lightness values for color names hover around 50% (at least in the 3000+ dataset I compiled). One solution is to have a simple formula that takes in account how accurate the nearest color name match is and if it is too inaccurate, to find the color name for the color's HSL with the L adjusted to 50%. I guess you could call it staying true to the hue. I think that would make the color naming script even more useful though.
I think it will be a welcome change for anyone who runs a decent sized Riak deployment. We are currently adding machines simply to increase available RAM in the cluster.
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WTF?
Is this supposed to be ironical? "Puff Puff" inhalers for asthmatic children because "Coal Cares"? That's gonna leave a mark.
I can't read Mandarin - does the text along the side translate to 'Deathtrap'?
This is an example of grassroots innovation, jugaad is the Hindi word for it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad). Countless millions are spent each year on "how to foster innovation" etc., most of which is BS. As seen here it only takes a hacker that doesn't know that what everyone else believes, i.e. what s/he is building is impossible/very hard.

EDIT: Most comments here are missing the main point, he doesn't care if the center of gravity is high or if the thing is pretty much uncontrollable or that you can't mass produce these or that it has been done before. He just BUILT IT and as far as his goals are concerned he is extremely successful, i.e. the thing gets off the ground. That, to me, is the quintessential hacker spirit.
Nobody is discussing about usual mathematical definitions: this is about the IEEE754 standard. In that context, x / 0 is defined (to positive infinity). I was pointing the error of the OP about the explanation about Nan != Nan.
If only I had a dollar for every post about some new "flying machine" that can only hover 3 feet off the ground...
Aha, thanks for the metadata. I'm surprised my 1992 date was so right-on; I'd given it two-year error bars.

I think that in general Philip is more interested in telling good stories than in being sure they are accurate. There is at least one example of people who claim their careers have been ruined by this attribute of his.
The bundler docs show the former: http://gembundler.com/gemfile.html
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