skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Before the redesign they had a page that explained the API is not for desktop client use, only mobile and web apps. I can't find the new equivalent, but maybe I'm missing something.

For mobile you can embed the key and secret, because they only work in combination with someone authenticating their account to use your app https://www.dropbox.com/developers/start/authentication#ios
Also, it would be nice to have a better description of what Snapier does exactly. 'A simple way to automatically sync data between Skype and Facebook'? What kind of data would I want to sync between those two services? I read your blog and if I understand correctly, Snapier would be something that get's my credentials for a bunch of API's and then interconnects them, so that I don't have to roll out a script to do it. If my understanding is correct, then this is not very well reflected in your landing page.
Facebook Disconnect releases extensions for Firefox and Safari
It's certainly better than throttling BitTorrent, but it's very easy to go over if you get 2 or 3 techies living together. Personally, I think the whole thing is somewhat anti-competitive. It discourages people from using services like Hulu or Netflix and encourages them to buy TV service from their cable provider.

And plus, I don't buy the "Our networks can't handle the strain!" argument companies like Comcast keep bringing up. I mean, in the grand scheme of things, 250 GB of data isn't that much for a company the size of Comcast.
Or even text messaging. Text "M15 AT 53" to "311411" and you find out when the next bus is going to be at your stop. That'd work.
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Sure, if you buy at the peak of a bubble, you're going to be underwater for a while.
The only one I can think of is Lotus...founded in late 50s.

The others Land Rover, Hummer, MINI etc, were all bought by others. Tata also counts...but they are part of a conglomerate that's been in business since mid 1800s
Python is being taught at unversites, and Ruby isn't (that I know of).
My University (The University of Kentucky) actually just implemented this this year. We scan the codes and we can either go to a webpage or download an app that has the GPS location of the buses with ETA. Pretty cool, actually.
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That's what I suspected.

So, when your data volume exceeds what will fit in RAM, I'm guessing that your plan is to shard to multiple MongoDB servers. Is your plan to continue to add multiple replicas to each shard to handle DR?
Not the most intuitive, but a period between each query word will return results as exact match, unless it actually cant find the phrase and then it will split them up.

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=the.quick.brown.fox.ju...
You have to exceed it twice in a 6-month period for them to contact you. The third time, your service may be suspended for a year.

http://customer.comcast.com/Pages/FAQViewer.aspx?Guid=ce29df...
Sounds like you are not actually and iOS user.
Makes me wonder if the singularity is going to be more about how AI handles random and non-random information than anything else.
I don't think the qr code is failing, but actually just becoming mainstream.

Seems to be trending up pretty well.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=qr+code

Whether it is due to marketers putting the codes everywhere or actual value is yet to be said, but certainly don't think the technology itself is failing.
They usually are, but that's often the last defense of truly awful movies. I've never seen Cars 2 so I wouldn't know about it in particular, but we can all think of some truly bad movies that did good box office.
very cool, I'll see about adding support for it too
You should check out "In the Plex", the authorized Google biography.

It details this and how Google had been working internally on two paths for Android. They were originally going to go for the Blackberry style phone at first, but internally were working on "The Dream" which was the G1. Apparently, Android had been working on this pre-acquisition by Google. Levy wrote something to the effect of -- when Apple announced the iPhone, the Android team knew they had to ditch their plans and focus on the G1 to be competitive in a post-iPhone world.
40% of people surveyed in this not-so-scientific survey knew what it was. Despite there not being any real reason why they should know (there has been no effort into marketing them beyond the tech circles, as far as I can tell, unlike a hashtag which is used by nearly every television show, and explained by said television show). And despite the second most used mobile OS not having a default implementation. I don't know what you define as successful, but to me this qualifies.

I was hoping this article would be able how marketers don't generally do anything useful with the barcodes. Sending you to their website (probably designed for desktops) is not the way to go. He touched on this, but then focused on QR code's lack of ubiquity.
I would argue the QR code is failing because my phone can't read them without downloading an app.
The problem is that QR codes are used to replace simple (static/generic) URLs. If you have a usage where there is potentially a wide range of values, they become more useful, but since they're being used in mass printing / advertising, they're going to be the same all over and in that case you might as well just use an easy URL.

QR codes work great when being used in items where there is a large (think 100,000) number of potential unique values. That scale means they shouldn't be used for a product SKU, for example - they should be used for a specific object like a SKU/serial # combo. Never enter a serial number again to register a product, for example.
Zabbix was also pretty simple to set up and it comes with a bunch of monitoring tool out of the box if you have the client agent. My last job was considering it instead of trying to update and practically re-write our Nagios configs that were dragged from v1 to v2 and incompatible with v3.
I always feel it's kind of a pain to type in a smartphone, especially URLs where autocorrect can't work.

m.tcl.fr/123 wouldn't take so long I guess, but to me it feels more annoying than opening the app (which is on my second screen) and clicking on the "scan" button.
>The "Post PC" era is coming, have little doubt of that.

I see a lot of people saying this, but I don't see much evidence for it. Anybody who has tried to edit a document or spreadsheet on a tablet knows PCs aren't going anywhere.
Awesome, can you output to .pdf?
I wonder what ever happened to Bill Landreth.
Yeah, it also works on iOS. Since the first iPhone.
I'm pretty sure it's because it's a solution looking for a problem as far as advertising goes. Much better served putting a "www.wheretofindus.com" on your ad instead.
Try it with a scrolling list. The unlock button activates as soon as you press down on it. I was having the same results and didn't really believe his claim until I tried it elsewhere in the OS. 0.5 cm seems about right.

Anyone here familiar with Android's source code and can figure out where this behavior takes place? I'm curious if it can be easily disabled (if only to see what it's like).
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Gentoo and Arch are the ones that come immediately to mind. The term to look for is "rolling release".
Where did the abbreviation "Jony" come from? It's Jonny.
You mean specifically iPhone 3G with iOS 4.0 (which was fixed with 4.1)?
What is really important is keeping your indexes in RAM, our data already greatly exceeds the amount of RAM we have available. Even our indexes are only partially in memory already and performance is still terrific.
Use bcrypt, if for no other reason than that your code is likely to be forked by people who don't want to understand how things work.
It never ceases to amaze me how low Sony (and it's related companies) can go. What legal eagle thought this was a good idea? At least a normal business suit should have seen the marketing value.
Informative comment, i.e. not really a response. For those who don't know correct term yet (I didn't up to 2 years ago).

Florin_Andrei refers to so called scare quotes. Wikipedia explains them as follows:

"Scare quotes are quotation marks placed around a word or phrase to indicate that it does not signify its literal or conventional meaning."

Raphael is obviously right here (but mind that sarcasm is only one of scare quotes examples). Let me quote (w/o scare) Wikipedia again:

"Use of the term "scare quotes" appears to have arisen at some point during the first half of the 20th century. Occurrence of the term in academic literature appears as early as the 1950s."

It's only about academic existence, but even considering real existence, it won't be much earlier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scare_quotes
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The information I've been exposed to while using HN has been invaluable. Some say the key to success is surrounding oneself with those smarter than you, and HN is the closest I've come online.

To make sure I'm not missing out on anything, I would like to ask fellow HNers what other sites you frequent. Thanks.
I thought that the article was exceedingly lacking in substance, typically for an nytimes.com article.
Exactly. I'm talking about the long, long view. When a currency goes to zero, an ounce of gold still buys you a good suit.
I just got an Android phone, and it's not. Just now, I went to this website on my computer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code

I took a photo of QR picture with the built in camera. Nothing.

I have to use google goggles or something to interpret the QR code.
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The QR code is only failing in advertising contexts. Printed out your boarding pass for a flight lately? It probably had QR code, but the beauty is you barely needed to know about it. All you had to do was print your boarding pass and then stick under the scanner.

In advertising contexts, you need to recognize the QR code, know what the hell it is, know how to search for an app in your phone's app store that will read it, download that app, open that app, and scan the QR code. All to be sent to an advertiser's website.

For any consumer to do that, regardless of how interested they are in the ad, is a massive ask.
It is corruption, a form of "venture socialism" where politically connected donors get money with no-strings-attached. It's heads I win, tails, the taxpayer loses. This form of government-driven investment is a dramatic departure from 200 years of American tradition. Nobody really noticed because a lot of these programs were created by George W Bush, with Democratic support, and the media cheerleading anything "green".
That's some generous offer.

However, my very first though was, "when you can't beat the price of developers from India, do it for free!". For me, more work would probably not relief stress, quite the opposite.

Having said that, good luck with your portfolio building, and take care.
Reverbnation is especially good for lesser known acts. Last.fm has some concert listing service. Jambase is a pretty decent iPhone app that takes your location and finds nearby concerts.
Honest question: can a company manage $34.2 billion a year in sales with a small management team?

I suppose the answer is "yes," given that MS seemed to manage with a minimal number of middle managers, at least based on the Joel Spolsky story shared elsewhere in this thread.
If I'm not mistaken he also mentions LINQ wich is a wonderful extensions of C# and the .NET Framework. It feels like LINQ and Clojure could be a interesting match.
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So glad to see ignoring whitespace supported, I found myself needing this a lot.
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"Smartness" itself is a nebulous and subjective concept.

But in my book, a smart boss can motivate you without repeated verbal abuse or destroying your self esteem. Of course you can still be a successful boss otherwise.
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Yeah, Sony was not so smart here. However, Apple has also done something similar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_Secret. However, Apple really seems to have come to their senses in recent years.
Why was this downvoted? This is a clear shortcoming I noticed on ios 4 before I switched to Android. Safari doesn't reflow text on double tap and you have to scroll right and left to read an article. From a usability perspective if I double tap on text I want to do some reading and it should be reflowed. The reader button in ios 5 rectifies the issue but it is still not as natural as reflow text on double tap.
Let's do it, what email can I reach you on? Or just send me an email (in profile).
Ah, yeah I missed that on my first read through. I guess I'm still interested to see if that is still part of the interview process at a lot of places.
Where are you getting this notion that spyware/malware/viruses are prolific on Android? I can assure you that they are certainly less common on Android than on desktop computers. The Android Market is certainly less curated than the Apple App Store but it's not like it's some haven for cyber criminals. Furthermore, the applications you install all have permissions listed making it much easier to safely install software on Android than it is on a computer and yet here we all are being plenty productive with those (when we aren't on Hacker News).
"As to overall performance, we saw a good deal of stutter in the Galaxy Nexus before us. Taps were not always recognized and there were occasional delays in performing an instruction, though in Google’s defense, it was a phone fully loaded with running tasks and the software is being continually improved and optimized (i.e. it’s not yet fully baked). That having been said, it unfortunately remains the case that Android isn’t as swift and responsive as iOS or Windows Phone (or even MeeGo Harmattan on the N9). Or at least it wasn’t on the demo phone we got a look at. The subtle, pervasive lag that has characterized the Android UI since its inception is still there, which is not a heartening thing to hear when you’re talking about a super-powered dual-core device like the Galaxy Nexus."

http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/18/galaxy-nexus-android-ice-...
Media attention this will get = zero

Result of a scientist saying "Well no you can't PROVE there is no link" = wifi being banned in schools.
No wonder Android smartphones need 1.x GHZ and 1GB of RAM. Android needs it.

The side effect of having all that extra CPU is that, when not running the core Android UI (e.g. a game written mostly in native code), a lot more power is available to developers.
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Reading a notification, and having no direct path back to where you came from (answering a txt message, for instance) feels really clunky.

This is actually fully addressed in iOS 5 with the notification center. You can swipe down the notification center over any app, then swipe it back up out of the way right back to where you were.
Is there a way to discover which user uploaded a particular revision of a file (to a shared folder)?
People in, say, 2030 won't stop using keyboards, and they won't stop using devices which have a lot of similarities to what we would call a PC today, even down to the metal chassis with PCBs inside connected to a monitor and keyboard in some cases. However, there are a lot of other very fundamental elements to the computing experience which pretty much every computer system will have which will be inherited from non-PCs (specifically tablets and smartphones).

To be clear: the tablet is the first hint of the post-PC era we have, but it does not and will not define the entire extent of the post-PC phenomenon.
In some situations jQuery is rather large to have as a dependency (adverts).
I wonder how ignoring + in all of the millions of existing search links on the internet affects Google's ad revenue...
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Also, it required a very specific hardware device.
Good question. Labeling. Sometimes I get odd errors from crashed applications which read error code "-538", for example. Looking for error code 538 can lead to the error I was looking for but also for other 538s not equal to "-538".
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Android has the concept of "touch slop", the value of which you can get ViewConfiguration:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/ViewConf...

ScrollView views use this value internally to prevent accidental scrolling when tapping elements. You can change the touch behavior by subclassing ScrollView (or ListView) and overriding onTouchEvent() to ignore slop and start scrolling immediately on a drag event.

Incidentally, I can't stand most iPhone apps because of their over-sensitivity to scrolling (and their tiny list elements). I'm glad Android has these defaults.
It should be noted that smartphone adoption in Japan is rather low, and keyboard phones are quite rare. Usually there will be a separate website for PCs and not-so-smart phones. So there's a good reason to use QR codes there, even if it just leads to your homepage.
> In the first link more is inexplicably bolded.

I hate this Google feature. It's getting worse and worse, making my searches increasingly fuzzy. And yes, that's occasionally helpful when I'm not sure what terms to use. But the vast majority of the time, what I type in the box is exactly what I want to find.
The hard part will be when reality rubs up against things set in stone. The big trick will be to determine exactly when change is needed versus when some people just want to change things to make their mark.
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It's funny to think of how primitive this will seem in a decade's time -- like the first TVs or the first cell phones.
The article is very long, I do apologise for that. However its a very thorough analysis of the economic issues of our times.
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Incidentally, the dataset and code for the BEST study is freely available here: http://berkeleyearth.org/

This is AFAIK the most comprehensive climate dataset going, so if you're interested in this topic and like crunching big numbers (or just learning how to do so) then it's a data miner's playground.
Hi everybody, here is another link with some useful informations for tonight, including a list of locations and the best time for observation:

http://www.spacedex.com/orionids/

"While the Orionids may be active from October 15th through October 29th, it reaches its peak on the night of October 21st into the morning of October 22nd. The peak of a meteor shower is the moment of the strongest meteor activity, and the number of meteors during this time is expected to range from 10 to 20 meteors per hour under ideal viewing conditions. As with many meteor showers, predicting the peak of the Orionids is difficult..."

If you want to take pictures, there is also a photography guide for meteor showers:

http://www.spacedex.com/guides/photograph-meteor-showers.php

I wish all of you good luck and a clear sky, if you go out tonight or in the morning.
The Economist had great piece about the misplaced fears of wireless a few weeks ago. Worth a read. http://www.economist.com/node/21527022
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See my other reply. I don't take "post PC" to mean "no keyboard ever", it has a different meaning for me, mostly about the difference in default (though not exclusive) form-factor and especially in the OS and UI. But beyond that there's still plenty of flexibility.

Also, I don't think the PC as we know it will die per se, it'll just fill a different niche than it does today.
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Last thing first: TCP requires a listening server. WebSocket requires a listening server. There is not inherently more infrastructure required.

The handshake and HTTP upgrade are there for a reason. Connecting out from web applications with straight TCP breaks the web security model. After the handshake, you can treat WebSocket binary frames as if they were a TCP byte stream. Speak any protocol you want to.

Anything you can do with TCP you can do with WebSocket. The only exception is that you cannot connect to a listening server that does not expect the WebSocket handshake. That is intentional! In fact, that is the reason for the WebSocket handshake.
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That might be. I did read something on folklore.org about Steve Jobs often being told an idea, dismissing it as stupid, and, several weeks later, often coming back with the same idea thinking it was his own.
He may just predicted: quotes will always guarantee intact query (hopefully it won't be broken ever), so they're ultimately giving you better results.

If you think from the current perspective many changes and constants we've seen or we're seeing now in the world (not only IT-related) were predictable, yet not everyone had courage to express them to others. You have to be careful when laughing at others views and ideas.
Doubtful, he probably means things like my (current-gen) iPod touch, which runs like molasses with iOS 5. Stutters, jumps, unresponsiveness far worse than any Android phone I ever used.
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