skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wake up, shower, make sandwiches for lunch, grab bike and ride to work (this is the Netherlands after all, you get funny looks for walking), arrive at work and grab a coffee and a water, catch up on HN, Twitter, Reader, commence working.
CircleMe: A Social Network based on your Likes
Seems that Apple decided to live by the sword so it might die by it, depressing to watch such waste
IPhone 4S Siri is butt of jokes in Japan
Thanks! Yep, that could be nice feature. I've found myself bookmarking those events in a dedicated folder, but that's not very handy.
Ask HN: JavaScript Open Source project idea
I have decided to create an Open Source project and distribute it on GitHub.

My primary skills are JavaScript (HTML/CSS) and PHP. I prefer to code with JavaScript.

But I didn't find a lucrative idea. Typically, a project that takes 30-40 hours to complete.

So what ideas do you suggest?
While both articles address a company's outward image, I'd say that the two touch upon very different things. I understood OP's post to be more about the quality of marketing collateral and making sure that the client experience was well fleshed-out, and I read your link to be a lesson in messaging. I didn't find the two to be mutually exclusive.
A simple strategy for managing technical debt
I won't be moving there in any foreseeable future. Cost of living is too high, and I don't see that the quality of life there is worth the premium I'd pay.

EDIT - Is there a reason this isn't a traditional poll? Nobody can see the results since the options are just regular comments with hidden karma.
Is this a reasonable representative of the movement or a crazy person shouting into the air? If it's just a random crazy then the reasonable voices of the movement needs to jump on in this and squash it fast. Because is this represents the reasonable voice of the movement they've instantly all support I may have had for their cause.
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Why REST and RESTful services are awesome.
Happened to seven WP sites I maintain. It's a script and someone got into an account. The script finds all .php and .htm files and adds stuff to the top. If you only have wordpress files, it's an easy fix - reset the password and get a different template.
Technology. Experts. Beer. It's going to be a great match.
True religion Skinny
Debt issuance is money creation, and debt destruction is money destruction. Why is the latter SO intolerable?

If nothing fails, nothing succeeds.

This is all a result of the myopic human opinion of perma-growth.

In the end private industry(the IMF) winds up bailed out, THEN using their ill-gotten gains to scoop up public assets for pennies on the dollar.
Hi

I work at Google helping webmasters. Hopefully there won't be a next time, but for reference, your best bet is to post in our forum specifically about this type of issue: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/label?lid=2...

For your specific case, unfortunately it can be anything. Start at the HTML and JS and see if it's different in ways you don't expect. Check for obfuscation techniques like base64 encoded PHP code, or JS code in libraries that is not in the original distribution. It really can be anything. Also check your .htaccess, any CMS and its plugins, etc. Really check everything.

That should identify the issue. Once you do, fix it, and try to understand why it happened. Was your FTP password compromised? Was it a known vulnerability in your CMS? Was it a rogue plugin you installed by mistake? Identifying the attack vector is very important as you will need to close it too. Otherwise all your hard work fixing the site will be undone in no time.

Also be sure to check any other parts of your site: the attacker might have entered through one CMS (say a forum) and compromised another (say a blog).

That's basically a summary of what you need to be doing. We have a very detailed guide about dealing with hacked sites: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe... . It recommends quarantining the site and returning HTTP 503. That's a very good first step.

And if you need more help, seriously, the forum I linked to above has a great community that knows a lot about identifying and fixing these issues.

Hope this helps,
Pierre
Might be the timthumb vulnerability?
It seems like a useful tool, but it's not a product.

(I haven't tried it, but) it looks simple and elegant. However, I can't see you monetizing it.

Maybe you don't care about monetizing it. If you don't care about monetizing it, don't call it a product.
Linking to a 9 day old forum post by 1 individual and calling it Occupy Wall Street's proposed demands is misleading at best.
The thing that bothers me about that post is that Jason's company did OK back then. Smart Bear Software didn't crash and burn. Instead, it sold stuff and made money.

Of course, the post doesn't go into details about the company's early days. But still, saying "here's what I should have done" sounds like pure speculation.
No idea why someone would prefer app switching, but the info in your post proves you're an awesome person! I've looked all over for a window switching solution and never found ctl+fn+f4. Ahhh, much better.
Apple launches iPhone 4S, iOS 5 and iCloud
Recently, I tried something similar with my interviews.

In the past, I've had lackluster success with the brain teaser, CS theory, and 'FizzBuzz' interviews. Plus, most motivated candidates had already mastered and memorized the 'Google interview secrets'. So, I wasn't getting the right people.

My goal is to recruit productive, engaged software engineers who care about the craft of software and who can learn things relatively well and are resourceful. I want collaborative team players, with passion for software, not necessarily geniuses.

So, I concocted an interview process that required new candidates to develop a small program using all of our current tools. I also gave them an existing, relatively poor code base to work with, and also asked them to recommend refactorings. I also gave them access to some of my current team members to ask questions.

It was a great process. But, here was the major problem: 75% of the candidates dropped out of the interview process instantly. I'm guessing that they had better opportunities with quicker yield.
Pragprog Magazin 2011-10 [HTML format] (on Scala)
RFactor 2
Todas las ultimas novedades del nuevo simulador rFactor 2
The Science of White Space in Design
A great quote from Galbraith is appropriate here. "The markets can stay irrational a lot longer than you can stay solvent."

I don't know exactly what you mean by should but whether or not fear and rumor should drive markets the fact remains that they do sometimes drive markets.
With Apple's bank I don't think this is just about money. Since the beginning of these lawsuits I felt Jobs was personally offended. This may be because he felt backstabbed by Google or that OEM's were copying his creations at a faster rate than he could innovate.

Regarding the article, I couldn't less what goes on between these companies. I only care about major court decisions. What I'm more interested in is the lawsuit regarding Motorola and Apple's multitouch patents.
RFactor F1
Todos los mods F1 para rFactor Aqui!
What does the attack do for those who visited the site trying to figure out what was going on?
Flash is far from dead. See this Nissan Flash 11 browser game.
A lot of features were developed in Plan9 and then "backported" to other Unixes and Linux. /proc, UTF-8 etc. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Plan_9_from_B...
Add Aviary Photo Editor SDK to Android App
I like it too. Neat idea for free service... Any ideas on monetizing it?

Small suggestion : Expenses/Balance links are not immediately visible. I was looking for them at the bottom of the page.
edit: better description
NOTE: this is just some dumbshit who posted his 'proposed' list of demands to an open forum. It isn't official in any way.
Aun Sigues Saltando de Multinivel en Multinivel?
Hands On With the Apple iPhone 4S
Actually I'm (probably) going to make a non-free iPhone version of this also. Therefore this web-version is either a part of a product, or an ad of product.
Hello Pierre, thanks for chiming in, I appreciate it.

So it appears that we were in fact compromised. The problem is that the Webmaster tools didn't show this until a good 30 minutes after the browsers started complaining. How can this be? Now I feel terrible for posting this in the first place, I would hate to compromise anyone! :(
Why I don’t see myself talking to Apple’s Siri
Did this come out of startup weekend London? There were a couple of teams with similar ideas there and would be great if this was another team who stayed in touch and carried on after the event.
Good. Now every tech CEO will think twice before starting a patent war. Heck, this stuff might lead to more patent reforms, which are sorely needed. Apple has somehow went from this cool innovative California company, to yet another Chinese manufactured OEM with shitty policies and absurd patent litigation to keep competitors at bay. Their post-Jobs era will be cautionary tale for the industry. Launch patent nukes at your own risk. Sadly, the best we can expect from patents in this day and age is a MAD-like philosophy. First strikes are difficult to deal with, and will result in collateral damages.
Ask HN: What was your user count/user growth since launch?
Some of you have launched their own website / web service. I'm interested in how your user numbers developed within the first three or so years, on a monthly (or quarterly) sampling rate.
Alternatively, maybe you know of someone else's (successful or unsuccessful) business and its user count.

(Maybe you know of some article on the web that has already done what I'm asking for)

So it'd be great if you could give some information such as the following

~~~BEGIN Example~~~

type of business: B2C online shop for dog food

definition of user: a customer making one sale per quarter

("yxqz"= year x, quarter z)

y1q1: 10 users

y1q2: 100 users

y1q3: 150 users

y1q4: 1000 users

y2q1: 900 users (lost users because Christmas was over)

y2q2: 2000 users

y2q3: 10000 users (started big marketing campaign)

...

~~~END Example~~~

Background: there once was an "Ask HN" question about estimating user growth ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=780482 ). Consensus was: you cannot predict user growth, release your stuff and see what happens.

So possibly, with a diverse set of businesses and their user numbers, it may be possible to elicit a rough heuristics for different kinds of businesses.
> decent attempt at fixing fullscreen and virtual desktops in Lion this year.

I'm confused, because I found both of these things to be horrendous. Not trying to flame or troll or anything, just curious.

I liked the Spaces implementation in Snow Leopard. It had faults, but I could define a NxM grid of virtual desktops and rely on them always being there. In Lion I get a horizontal strip of N + (Number of Fullscreen Apps), no exceptions.

Which brings me to my next point: Fullscreen is entirely broken. There are two cases where I used fullscreen before, and Lion broke them both:

1. Fullscreen terminal windows. I don't want a logical "Space" for that, I just want a terminal that's the full width and height of my display, then I can Cmd+Tab to other windows (browser, etc) to bring them forward or back as necessary. Thankfully iTerm 2 lets me restore pre-Lion functionality here.

2. Video. I frequently fullscreen a video on my laptop display while working on a second display, and tell Quicktime to display on every desktop. In Lion, if I fullscreen Quicktime, it blanks my second display (seriously who thought this was a good plan?) and moves itself to its own space. VLC kind of covers for me here.

I'm just curious what you like about spaces and fullscreen in Lion, because I'm having difficulty thinking of anything good about them.
The malicious script only inserted an iframe with a broken link, so I wouldn't worry to much.
No-one who has a 4 or a 4S is going to be annoyed that they guy with the cheap iPhone looks like he's got the same thing as they have.

Maybe, but it's a gamble. It's not enough that the 4/4S guy himself knows that he has the good stuff. Everybody else needs to know it too.
Have you ever thought twice about what exactly "faceless markets" are? Markets are composed of many agents, people, institutions, and mostly your pension money! It's true. Pension funds and other institutional investors are the single-largest segment, esp. of sovereign bond markets! Now ask yourself, with the Greek government in its current position, if it came to you today and asked you to lend it money, not to invest it in some thing or other but merely to pay back previous creditors, would you do it?! Yeah, me neither...

It's a copout by politicians and the bozos they represent to ascribe individual actions such as "pushing" or "punishing" etc. to aggregates like markets. But just as the laws on the molecular level do not simply reflect those on the subnuclear level of matter, the construct of "representative agents" is a fiction. Aggregation in the social sciences is just as hard and unintuitive as in the natural sciences, maybe even harder.

So why do they do it? Because to anthropomorphize "the market" allows them do demonize it, making things simple for the bozos in describing current developments as some kind of "struggle" between supposedly good central banks and politicians and evil, "faceless markets". Unfortunately, this type of rhetoric completely misframes the issues and leads invariably to wrong decisions by building political pressure at the wrong points in the system.
BSD sockets has somehow made it's way through the entire computing world and we're never going to get rid of it. Even the tiniest of embedded systems have decides that sockets are the one-true-way of network programming.
Of all the things he mentions for sure signals are the worst thing. To do such a simple thing of delivering a tiny bit of information to a process the implementation and semantics of signals is so bad that you have to use atomic variables, deal with interrupted system calls, write reentrant functions, and so forth.
Google Earth: One world, many stories
Fair enough, what I meant by "fit and polish" is the visual identity of Ubuntu, from the custom font, to the icons, color scheme and ultimately Unity. They don't meet everyone's personal taste, but I don't think anyone can argue that Canonical doesn't spend a lot of time and effort on this front.
India unveils world’s cheapest tablet computer for $35
I don't think it will be as successful as you think, and my reasoning for that is that it really doesn't have much to do with the movie. Don't get me wrong, it's a cool idea and you should do it for the novelty if you want, but if you really want to increase sales you should do something relevant to the product you are selling.

It's probably too late for doing anything with this, but if you do more movies you should consider doing an ARG (like ilovebees, the beast etc.), and I think this would be effective because you are hitting an online audience by releasing a movie that you download. Unless you are pro at creating ARGs, or unless you really put time into it and have a bit of luck it probably won't introduce commercial success, but it would definitely open your film up to a small niche.

Another interesting thing is pricing models, and I think that it won't increase sales, but if some people want to pay more money for extra stuff, they will do so and it will help increase revenue. A good example is at http://joshfreese.com/ (I promise I'm not affiliated, just a favourite musician of mine who had success with this model)
I like Debian and run it on my servers, but it isn't really for desktop users that want to run the latest and greatest software.

Now, Linux Mint is a viable alternative to Ubuntu users who prefer Gnome 2: http://www.linuxmint.com/
Thanks for feedback, I'll have think about the navigation.

Yeap, the monetizing plan is to make a non-free IPhone version that works seamlessly with the web-version. Hopefully the web-version will help to boost the marketing of the IPhone-version.
Hmm - if there's no additional charge, why not do this by default?
Yes, I suspect that you're right; I also thought it might be due to the GIL.

I reran this test with Python 2.7 and it no longer appears to be true:

Spawning 100 children with Thread took 0.03s
Spawning 100 children with Process took 0.28s

I'm not sure to what extent the GIL was improved in 2.7, but it's possible that it was never the cause to begin with.

Regardless, I don't think it's a misguided experiment – it was an objective observation. It shows that things aren't so black and white depending on your toolchain.
"(It appears you cannot link to comments in G+…so I’ll just leave this screenshot)"

Pity.
How is the chart supposed to be interpreted? Is it me looking up at the sky on a particular night seeing a a 360-degree view of the stars?

Also, how are future positions determined?
Case in point. Your social proof enabled you to "be seen" on AngelList. Hundreds of other startups go entirely unseen and unnoticed on AngelList because of their low follower count and nonexistent social proof, regardless of team, idea, product, traction, revenue, or earnings.
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Wow, is the 4GS on Sprint and Verizon really CDMA 3G? As a previous Sprint customer I was rarely able to crack 1mbps on their 3G network, and my average speeds were around 200 or 300kbps. I have a mere 3G t-mobile HSPA phone now that cracks 4mbps routinely and must average at 2 or 3mbps per second. I don't have battery issues or anything. Its just fast and it works.

3G CDMA is something I had on my windows Treo like 6 years ago. Its incredible how this ancient technology is the standard for millions of new iPhone 4S customers. I feel sorry for the guys signing 2 year contracts on this stuff.
For the last 7 months I have been completely focused on a project and have been neglecting exercise to a point where it feels like it has become a slog.

Some may say it's burnout, but I am not losing interest -- everything just feels like it has slowed down. Code that I should write quickly is taking longer.

I know it's marathon, not a sprint, but if you don't keep your body in shape that marathon can take longer than it should. So this week I have committed to focus on exercising and getting my energy levels back up.
The average person doesn't care about any of this stuff.
Can you add a feature? I'd like to take a picture of a restaurant bill, have it automatically OCRed, and share the bill with other people's phones. Each person decides which part of the bill they pay.
FWIW I upvoted all your downvoted comments. The sense of entitlement and voyeurism in some other comments is repulsive.
This article spotlights two of the root causes of the crises in Europe - namely, (i) broken governments that spend beyond their means and the (ii) moral hazard that exacerbates such overspending.

Greece Example:
Greece spent too much money raised through issuing debt (which increasingly looks like an imminent default) and creditors continued to lend Greece money under the belief that Greece wouldn't be allowed to default by the rest of the Euro countries.

There's no painless way to fix this mess, but I don't think giving Greece a massive one-time bailout sends the right message to the rest of the Euro countries (and countries' creditors) regarding moral hazard. The citizens of bailing-out countries (e.g. Germany) will be incredibly angry, rightfully so, and who knows how that will play out. On the other hand, small delaying actions like the ones that have been taken since the Euro crises began only worsen the situation and undermine global confidence in European leadership.

Personally, I think the creation of a common currency (Euro), without a corresponding enforceable common fiscal policy, is the root cause of the global impact of this crises. One member of the common currency can bring down many of the rest of the members by contagion so essentially, the coalition is only as strong as its weakest link. The weakest link can be strengthened by enforcement of a common fiscal policy, but there was clearly no such common fiscal policy being effectively enforced in Greece.

Another problem with the common currency is that Greece cannot devalue its currency to (i) make its exports more competitive (thereby improving its economy) and (ii) lessen its debt load through inflation. Before the Euro, the Greek Drachma could have been devalued in order to accomplish (i) and (ii). Now, Greece has no way out other than default or waiting for a bailout which may or may not come.

No easy answers here, but my guess is that Europe will continue to incrementally increase its "help" to Greece and other struggling countries until a major comprehensive bailout is required. Similar to as in the US with its banks a couple of years ago, such comprehensive bailout will occur, global taxpayers will lose, and the cycle will continue until we see an even bigger problem next time. Happy thoughts to start off my morning...
Yes because we all know right now that the millions of users of iPhones use them because of the hardware inside. /s
I have no idea why Keynesian ideas are assumed as the proper way to solve economic problems when, in fact, they never work. Germany is unusual, especially in comparison to the United States, in that they make a point of only spending the money they have. They have been watching the "wonderful" results of Keynesian intervention in the US recently and around the world and likely noticed that the results are always greater economic disasters. What sense is there in pouring gasoline on a fire?
Also, the Samsung phones come with nice carrier logos on the face. Classy.
product:
1. An article or substance that is manufactured or refined for sale
2. A substance produced during a natural, chemical, or manufacturing process
I think this fits the latter
Nope, not from London.
I think what they mean is for a typical average non technical user PCs do get slower as time progresses whereas chromebook they claim will just get faster
Mac OS X: Using fs_usage as a Troubleshooting Tool
I've said this over and over again to Germans that I know and they simply don't believe what you say. They really think that they are bailing out profligate Greeks and that there is no benefit to them. Politically, it isn't feasible for Merkel to come out and say that German banks need to be bailed out. It's much easier to talk about European unity and solidarity as the reason for "bailing" out Greece.

Germans pride themselves on their fiscal restraint. They save and abhor debt in their personal lives. I think it would shock them to know that their banks are close to insolvency because they took German savings and lent the money to Greeks and Portuguese. If the German government were honest about the poor state of their banks then the government would not survive.
I have no doubt she is intelligent, experienced, and has good intentions. But to make the simple connection from physics background, decades away, to today's financial markets and economies strikes me as rather bold.

You need to have thought about things, and you can't (unfortunately) just read a couple of books or articles to "learn" this subject. You are aware how the economics profession as a whole performed over the last few decades?

EDIT: Just recently, I was complaining to a friend that I am thinking about markets and economics now for almost ten years, one way or another, and I am still just speechless sometimes, asking myself wtf is going on or what does this mean etc. I feel there are many things that I still don't seem to get on a deeper, fundamental level. And I like to think I'm not so stupid either. So, I can fully imagine how tough it must be to get into a situation where you actually need to make a call with real consequences for millions of people, for many years to come, on the basis of very, very limited information. Frankly, I feel a sense of history might be of more help to someone in this position than a physics background.