skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup and also remember that Facebook beat MySpace because of the techie users. It's not the masses that determine success its the influencers.
1-Year-Old Plays With Magazine Like It’s an iPad
250x Speed Improvements with Microcaching (and No New Code)
The email submission area should stand out more. This is one of the major points for the homepage so the user should be able to identify it and its purpose immediately and feel inclined to submit. Also, the response after sending the email is very dry.
Hulu sale process dead
Your comment is completely salient and relevant here, but it's received down-votes because it proposes sacrificing profits (i.e., hand-holding, generally cloud-hosted software) for freedom, and Hacker News is simply too sophisticated for such idealism.
Sorry if this is too obvious, but how about ads? They seem pretty cheap now. Especially if you're doing a startup that actually charges money.

And yes, word of mouth. You'll find the first users among your friends, HN and reddit.
Take a look at Concrete5. Fantastic, contemporary UI that is very quick on the uptake. Simple templating, built-in search, form builder, extensible, add-on modules, free and for-pay templates, good developer community.

We've worked with Wordpress, Drupal, DNN, and others, but C5 hits the sweet spot and is always our preference.
did whoever down voted me actually read the article?
Macbook Pro spec bump around the corner
EXo Kicks Off Training World Tour
Yes, that's the one I mean, and those explanations pretty much capture it.

I might phrase the first explanation more simply as: If X and Y are solutions, then the point halfway between X and Y (i.e. X/2 +Y/2) is a solution. Then you can deploy Zeno's "paradox" to conclude that there is in fact an entire line of solutions. ;) But, of course, your statement is the more general one.

This is important because it captures the vital quality of linear systems, the quality that makes linear algebra worth studying in the first place: Once you've got more than one solution to a linear system, any weighted sum of those solutions is also a solution. This leads to the exciting possibility that you don't need to carefully seek out every single solution (of which there is often an infinite number); you just need to find a handful of (hopefully simple) solutions that are sufficient to produce any of the other solutions by constructing weighted sums. This is pretty much the fundamental strategy of physics: Fourier analysis is the classic example of that strategy at work, but it's also the basis of quantum mechanics.
مشاهدة مباراة الاهلي وحرس الحدود بث مباشر 14/10/2011
For comparison, Facebook has 800 million users and hit 500 million active users in a single day.
> there is a power to abstract, there is a freedom to not micromanage.

Oh, so is that like having freedom from porn now?
This is one of the most interesting articles on HN today.
Ask HN: Career change advice, should I learn to code
Ladies and gentlemen,

As an idea and business guy, should I learn to code?

I've been in the IT security field for 4+ years, I have a college degree and I have been working in IT since I was 13, starting out as the guy you went to when anything went wrong involving a computer. I've been interested in the startup scene for several years now and have been attending events as well as getting involved with my local startup community. The last event I went to was TechCrunch Disrupt NYC and I will be at this years upcoming DCWeek.

My passion is in entrepreneurship and I've always been the business guy. Currently, I have a political analysis news site, a small IT consulting firm and I still work a regular 40 hour job.

The first step into getting deeply involved in startups for me is going to be just getting a job with a startup and quitting my current job working for the government. I don't know what I can offer a startup besides working as a business developer but I will take anything I can get as long as the company seems like one where I can learn a lot and grow in.

After that, I was thinking of learning to code. Should I bother with becoming a developer? Will it make or break my dream if I choose not to and just stay the business route, hiring other people to develop for me? Or do you guys believe that me not learning to code/becoming a developer will have a huge negative effect on my goal?
While I am willing to agree that it may have been objectively better in some ways, this effect is almost entirely down to the fact that we were kids then.

Every experience is so raw as a child, due to having had so few of them at that point. Therefore the memories feel more vivid.
Hulu is a well designed and great product. That said, hulu's value is its content not its backend and community. The only reason to buy hulu would be if it came with streaming rights that were more valuable than the purchasing price.
Not exactly worth of a post on its own so I'll put it here for fellow HNers in Japan:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/01/hulu-launches-streaming-i...

I'm taking advantage of the 1-month free trial and enjoying Twin Peaks.
As mentioned, when you copy from the URL bar, you get the http:// prefix so this is a non-issue.
I develop Definition (http://definitionapp.com) and I store the database in the Caches directory as well, after receiving the email from Apple to move. This is bad news for me, the entire offline dictionary could be wiped out.
Kubuntu user here. I'm a bit confused on how the left bar in this tour of unity works. I see that if I click home folder, the file manager opens up. However, if the file manager is already opened, clicking home just switches to file manager (even if it is not in the home folder!). So, how do I actually launch multiple instances of a program?
Did this remind anybody else of a cell membrane with proteins and stuff attached?
Learn to code. Even if you're not going to be the tech guy at your startup, you'll understand the tech guy much better, you'll be able to hire tech guys more effectively, etc.

Just do Learn Python The Hard Way or anything like that related to your field (C if you're doing hardware).
Yay! I think I'll use this for my private repositories..
True, but it's the absolute size (in pixels) that matters on the desktop because the mouse (a pixel precise) pointing device is used. This becomes a problem on touch based devices with limited screen real estate where balancing info density and usability is crucial.
According to Marco's post (what this is a thread in response to), that is also backed up to iCloud and iTunes. Only Library/Caches/ and tmp/ are not.
related but happened to me: once I tried to open my house door with my car remote key =)
Will the cloud change programming?
Great, I was considering going straight into Python or even Rails.
Zynga Is Headed for the Nasdaq
Unfortunately, that doesn't work:

https://twitter.com/marcoarment/status/124583089417617408
I don't like going out in most cases, and I like it even less with people I don't know already.
Kind of ironic considering how much security industry related software is written in C/C++ (snort, dragon, bro, nessus, nmap, ...)
The idea doesn't "pop" for me. I don't see why I should try this vs. the alternatives (like Match.com, Meetup, grubwith.us). I need to feel persuaded that this is going to work where the others did not.
"A U.S. judge said Samsung's Galaxy tablets infringe Apple's iPad patents,"

"but also that Apple might have a problem establishing the validity of its patents."

So which is it? If they don't think the patents are valid, why they saying Samsung is infringing on them? Are they saying Samsung is infringing on "possibly non-valid patents" ? Because that's how it sounds like to me.
Also, possibly a 1-year old kid who likes to poke and grab things.
It's pretty clear that "forced" in the context of the experiment is being physically forced to do more work, not being "forced" like being forced to eat your vegetables.

I think it has something to do with external energy being added, and the subject not having control over the speed.. I don't know if a treadmill really meets this criteria. I think you would have to be physically strapped into the treadmill :P
See Marco's post. Apple has made it clear that anything outside of Library/Caches/, tmp/, or the app bundle will be backed up to iCloud. I have personally witnessed this with Documents/ (as expected) and even Library/Application Support/ (which I hoped would be safe, but is not).

There is no current safe place to save local data that should not be backed up to iCloud.
'How to tolerate CAP, according to application / system specifications..'
Yes, Python. Even as a business guy I think you'll find some small ways to use programming-- like being a baller with parsing & generating excel spreadsheets.
The repository's LICENSE.txt states, "if the terms of the AGPLv3 license do not suit your needs, a proprietary
license may be purchased from Liftoff Software," so I would assume that you are correct.
I was referring partly to Mozilla's responses to the reaction from corporate support people over their forced-updates announcements. But, they've also had display bugs around for almost 10 years [1], and they've banned bug submitters over etiquette issues without actually addressing the bug in question [2].

And now for the part that will probably make me really unpopular here: if they fix major issues in an upcoming update, that's great. But, people have been complaining for years about performance problems, and IMO there should have been a show-stopping effort to fix it a long time ago, rather than the incremental efforts that, to many users' perceptions, have made little to no improvement.

The push towards rapid release cycles in many parts of the software industry seems to be leaving behind the principle of getting it right the first time.

Anyway, that's all the time I have for this nonsense, because I've got a couple of projects of my own with unresolved issues, and I don't want to be a hypocrite.

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157846, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289384, others.

[2]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668655#c1, more discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2741660
The Teachers’ Guild – A Short Story From a Parallel Universe
Oh okay. Well, if you want a combination, the military-styled watches are it. They use the hands and they have the numbers for hour markers. That is the combination. You have the hands and movement of analog and the numbers of digital. I'm not sure how else you could approach this? Which is why I am confused regarding the solution you're trying to present. If you have a problem with the hands due to your eyes needing to search... the solution is digital watches. Maybe I'm still misunderstanding you though.
Sonic.Net goes on the ISP offensive
With an isometric game engine? Some frigging awesome games have been built on such things - Diablo 1 and 2 for instance!
C will go away alongside modern hardware design "standards." Until that happens someone will always find a use for talking as directly as possible to the hardware (which, of course, doesn't care about types at all). Whether that'll take a hundred years, or a thousand, or ten I don't know.

Of course it's possible to write a lot of things in, say, Python, then rewrite the slow bits in C. The number of programs that absolutely must be written close to the metal is pretty small in absolute terms.
That seems to be exactly what she's saying: Samsung appears to infringe on the patent(s)* but the patent(s)* may appear obvious to her and unlikely to stand up to reexamination which would make the injunction less likely.

Keep in mind she's just ruling on the injunction so it's not the final determination of infringement/invalidity. The injunction requires her to make some preliminary indication of how strong Apple's case is.

* Also it's not clear if any of that applies to the design patents.

"At the hearing on Thursday in a San Jose, California federal court, Koh also said she would deny Apple's request for an injunction based on one of Apple's so-called "utility" patents.

She did not say whether she would grant the injunction based on three other Apple "design" patents.

Koh characterized her thoughts on the utility patent as "tentative" but said she would issue a formal order "fairly promptly."
Verizon 3G Network Recompresses Image and Video Files
Awesome looking audio equipment rarely sounds awesome, for a given price.

In fact I would say there is a strong reverse correlation, for most categories.
at a glance it doesn't seem interesting to me. Trying to think analytically I'd say it just, in a boring way, tells me what it will do, not what it will do for me.

Which car would you buy:

* (a) The new Zappino is slick, good-looking, and modern.

* (b) The new Zappino: Women will find you irrestible and Men will be jealous.

Your landing page is (a).

Edit: as an added note, I was so un-thrilled by your landing page that I just noticed there's more information to be had, on my third look.
I use to be a fan of firefox, but switched to chrome because:

1) it became slow to open. FF use to open within a few seconds, it now opened in no less than 30 seconds.

Strike 1.

1) I then noticed during the 30 seconds that ff was accessing my dish access was crazy. A bug report said it was "working as intended" because it was needing to derive encryption keys for ssl by reading my temp data files on disk.

So 30 sec load time from hdd access at startup is working as intended? Strike 2.

3) ff updates brick extensions. They aren't usable after an update. Just annoying to experience each update.

3) I switched my mums pc to chrome after the resent few ff updates. Too much mental energy and effort to click next/yes to each update wizard step, to then see the plugins out of date too etc, just silly.

She asks "whats this" each time ff asked about updates, after doing it a few times recently and teaching her it was ok to say yes to, I sill just replaced it with chrome that eliminated the support overhead for me.

So I had switched to chrome and it opens fast. No crazy disk access.

It doesn't pester me at all about updates, or break things due to new versions. It just works and gets out of my way.
Typical dumb web benchmark ricing, (cf. wildly different concurrency parameters).

The usage of apachebench in general is unwise to begin with, but if you're going to use it, at least show data for a variety of tests measuring StdDev across various levels of concurrency.

Better off using httperf and knowing how to benchmark things.

Worse still, you neglected to mention that the 99/100% cases were much much worse in high concurrency than the low concurrency "slower" test.

You were hammering a server that was running on the same machine that was generating the load. Wtf?

If you're aiming httperf or ab at "localhost", you're motherfucking doing it wrong.

Stop benchmarking shit and blogging about it until you get a grasp of statistics.

If you have content that is so read-heavy as to be virtually trivial to cache heavily, just use Varnish.
Thanks for your answer! It's true that I don't really know where I'd like to be and that I should figure that out. But I know where I don't want to be anymore (that's where I'm right now) - I don't want to be developing "boring" internal enterprise software that no one really cares about. I'd like to work in a more product-like and startup-like environment and I feel it's pretty hard to make that transition. (probably because of my past work(no public work to show), not enough networking and slow job market)
You want to have a conversation about the code quality of a typical C-code security tool? :)
Wouldn't the face that you cannot achieve a perfect vacuum make measuring the true speed of light to exactly c impossible?
I find your usage of the word "freedom" here highly suspect.

This "freedom" is reserved for a very, very small class of people. Conversely, as much as you might not like it, an experience that hand-holds offers a kind of freedom for people who wouldn't otherwise be able to take advantage of modern hardware and/or software.

In theory, there doesn't have to be such a dichotomy between freedom and superior polish/UX. In practice, I feel strongly that there is. The popularity of such hand-holding, "freedom"-restricting devices is also highly suggestive.

Depending on where you sit, Android seems to bridge the gap, but as an Android user for years, I'm not completely convinced it's a superior experience.

I'm not unsympathetic, but I think the above view is detached from the reality of modern computing as the majority of people experience it.
That's not what jmcnevin asked.
Jeez, did not know that. I was thinking of writing something like that myself with version control for page updates just to be safe.
Nice technique. The number of distinct dynamic pages you expect to get hammered still must be regenerated within that second. With a longer window, some wp-admin or logged-in-user detection, and a third-party comment service, I could see this being a standard nginx wordpress configuration.
This version seems fine: http://www.isogenicengine.com/offline/iso_city/
Rare "Cyclops" Shark Found
Can a judge invalidate patents as being obvious? Or can only the USPTO do that?
Yes I am, but the results are not good. I got some interviews however but my CV probably looks best to companies that I'd not like to work for (internal enterprise development).
Impressive indeed. Why don't github README's ever link to a demo, or the intro blog post? This is why I bookmark the HN page for a project like this.
Tips for iOS development
Google Sandbox Early Warning System - BacklinkX
There are two primary questions: A) Did Samsung infringe on Apple's patents? and B) Are Apple's patents valid?

Both A and B must be true for Apple to win the case, and the court can rule on those two issues separately. For instance, the court could rule in favor of Samsung because they found Samsung was not infringing on Apple's patents, but leave the patents intact if B is satisfied. They could also rule in Samsung's favor because Apple's patents were invalid.
There are a number of possible scenarios for file storage, the problem is a lack of clarity or documentation about the properties of the various locations as they stand now. As a developer, I could imagine desiring the following choices:

1. Temp: No backup, cleared regularly

2. Cache: No backup, cleared when space is tight

3. Local: Local backup only, never cleared

4. Documents: Local/cloud backup, never cleared

5. Cloud: Cloud backup, cleared when space is tight

The problem seems to be that #3 doesn't exist. Yet you'd think it would be a common requirement for stuff like in-app purchases of large and essential content packs, for example, turn-by-turn navigation maps.

I'd hate to be on holiday and have a 10 megabyte podcast download automatically trigger the erasure of 1000 megabytes of navigation data.
This seems pretty similar to using Varnish or Squid as a reverse proxy (though likely easier to setup).
I don't see how Apple could win. A "utility" patent? On the design. Seriously... am I the only one who thinks those are ridiculous patents? It looks like I suppose Samsung is infringing on the patent, but I really hope the patents don't stand up.
Never Ask a Busy Person to Lunch
Especially for games that require more agency, i.e. Tesla Wars where you are constantly attacking people.

I only put my own music on for puzzle games like solitaire.
If I am not completely mistaken, the pattern that's being hinted is called Command-Query Responsibility Segregation(CQRS) in certain circles:

http://cqrsinfo.com/documents/cqrs-introduction/

While making the problem easier, I do not know if this actually "solves" the CAP theorem issues.
Why You Can’t Compare Google+ User Figures To Facebook & Twitter
That's a matter of taste & opinion, but personally I find the original to be much better. Not a huge fan of dubstep, I must say.
Yes, the courts can invalidate a patent for failing to meet the burden of non-obviousness.
I'm doing similar contracting work in DC and still find tons of opportunities to use Python, even though it's not required for my field. Even as the business guy, you have to do a lot of your own business logic tasks (Excel dashboards, scorecarding, etc) - Python makes them all a lot easier.

If you want a way to wet your feet in the startup community, come to one of the two Startup Weekends coming up in DC. One's at Georgetown and the other at the Microsoft building in Friendship Heights. It's low commitment from you but still a way to meet people and maybe make something happen.
This Column Isn't About Steve Jobs
USA? Shit well covered? 4th-Amendment? Your information is a bit out of date there my friend; the USA did it first:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Lantern_(software)
I concur, which is silly as webgl works great on the MBA.
If the transaction log is kept for the mutable system, you can always replay the transaction to arrive at the correct state. Most systems truncate the transaction log after a checkpoint to save space. If space is not an issue, you can always keep the transaction log since the beginning.
Thanks for your answer! What I meant when I wrote I'm not ready is that I'm probably not ready to start my own company. But I'd love to work in a more startup-like environment. The main problem is how to escape my current position ("boring" internal business software development) and find something more "exciting". I find it kind of hard to make that transition and I'm asking what to focus on to make it easier...
Thats why I usually shy away from the more flashy Skull Candies. And while Beats by Dre look quite nice, they apparently don't sound great.

I'm quite happy with my Audio Technica Pro 700, but wish it would cancel more external sounds.
In my case, 0% of my friends went to G+ initially. Now they're slowly trickling in.
.. and they're full of excuses.

That sort of crap was why I thought Ubuntu was created. No more excuses for having to go through free & non-free repos, half-assed "it's meant for the enterprise" desktop configurations, etc.

Look, if I can't get the image that they're saying is compatible, it isn't compatible for me. It's empty sales-speak and has no business in free software.
The utility and design patents are not the same.
i.e. Beats by Dre
In my experience, these recruiters just grep for words like "Ruby" and "Javascript" and blindly send out form letters.

I will say though, when I was looking for a job, a recruiter helped me set up quite a few interviews in a short period, and I ended up being placed somewhere awesome.
Completely fails on iOS (iPhone 4). My browser is a fully featured html5 browser. I'm ok with it maybe being slower than a desktop, but it should at least run and resize itself to the screen.
The problem with FF is that it came to beat something really bad, now they have to beat something really good and are kinda lost in the inversion of priorities.
Were you around when Facebook came out? Its early users were not tech types.
I should have noted that the bottled water 'discussion' at Google was long and heated and what Googler's would call a multi-centa-thread [1]. There were folks who shared the position stated above that it was environmentally 'better' to not have bottled water in the mini-kitchens. And there were folks of a more empiricist frame of mind who analyzed data and came to an alternative conclusions. Understand the company is very data driven.

Watching it unfold was educational on so many levels.

[1] A 'Centa-thread' being an email discussion that gets to 100 replies where Gmail would fork it and start new conversation.