skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dear Google, I'm not going to switch from Facebook to you if you copy what Facebook does! Google plus should give us experience which Facebook does not give. Google plus is just adding up missing features. Google, try to come up with a killer social experience which we have never seen before. That is how you get users stick to your social site. if you are again giving us the same old shit, you are losing to Facebook.
China is the birth place for most of malicious Android apps
Google+ already seems to be much more popular than Buzz.

How do you know? There are two reasons one may feel that a product is very popular:

1. You read about it all over the media
2. You hear from friends screaming at you to get on it cuz it's "sooo good!"

With Google+, it's almost all #1 and very little to none of #2. If anyone knows about facebook's early years, it was the complete opposite. The press barely knew about facebook(part of it was because you needed a .edu email to just get in). And yet facebook kept piling on users and even more importantly, engagement.

So sure Google+ may have convinced 40M of hundreds of millions of google.com users to click on a button and agree to opt in to google+, but that doesn't mean jack in the social network game. It's all about engagement. And Google+'s engagement is next to nothing.
Keep your roommate out et al. with HTM machine learning
yes, I talked to the guy. The problem is, that the mainstream maintainers completely ignore the problem, so there's no official support anyway.
I think that's over thinking it. If solar panels get cheap enough, companies will find a way to make it reliable. It's not terribly difficult (or expensive, comparatively) to store energy when size and weight are not a concern. You can use huge tanks of molten salt, for example. But in the short term, you could just hook a bunch of panels up alongside a normal natural gas plant. Just spin the gas up when it's cloudy or at night. The nice thing is that in a lot of places where it's hot and sunny often, electricity use tracks sunlight due to air conditioning. Natural gas already supplements coal plants all over the country. It would be no different.
The changes happening with emacs24 are fantastic... I predict an emacs renaissance.
I suspect we're having a difference of definition.

When Christiansen is paraphrased as saying solar won't become a big deal in the US, I took that to mean "not a big deal, in total", whereas everyone else seems to be reading it as "in comparison to fossil fuels".
Well, it's outlier info from an unreliable source. And possibly outdated too. So if I were evaluating MongoDB, I'd probably just discard this info. (Or skim it for whatever tiny scraps of technical info came out of the discussions.)
Are You in Love?
I don't think it's an indifference to microeconomics in particular so much as an indifference to anything that doesn't seem like it's especially relevant to one's life at the moment. People are indifferent to structuralist anthropology too, just to pick a random example. I agree that people are probably misinformed as to how useful microeconomics might be to their life though. It's a fantastically useful subject.

The reason macroeconomics is on the Khan Academy and has more general interest these days comes from the fact that people feel like their lives are in turmoil due to the economy, the real estate collapse, and Wall Street, and they don't understand how any of it works. Macroeconomics may be incomplete and perhaps even problematic, but it's the subject that can most shed a light on complex interconnected problems as opposed to local specific ones.
How to Put Off Making Decisions About Your Life
Much of this stuff makes us look like we are morons. I think we should send out a much cooler Voyager with better stuff aboard, not amateur hippie artwork. Oh, of course at the time it was cool, but now that we've seen Contact, the bar has been set: video of Hitler that somehow includes puzzle-like map of a device built by technology not even understood by the people that broadcast it.
People said the same thing about Facebook, but I very much doubt that's their focus. Some seem to confuse mass user bases with somehow "becoming the Internet itself." Frankly, that argument is bizarre to me and a tad hyperbolic.
Burberry - Google+ (animated gif support)
An AES key is 128 bits, or 22 BASE64 characters. That's reasonable, and you can switch to BASE96 or Unicode.

This doesn't help if the server is malicious, but it does help if the server is honest but is later hacked/subpoenad/whatever. Generating a key entirely in RAM/encrypted swap is reasonable, and securely erasing RAM is easy (securely erasing individual files is nontrivial to say the least.)
Condom commercial or public service announcement.  We’ll let you decide…
Apples and oranges. There is something refreshing about someone who is willing to throw away a fundamental precept of tablet PCs (they have a stylus) because it sucks. I think every engineering team needs someone with some level of "wait why are we doing things this way?" (see P.G.'s essay on onions).

In a way Ritchie was the exact opposite. A lot of the answers to questions of the form "why does C do things this way?" are "because BCPL did them that way." Which is a perfectly good attitude for an engineer as well ("don't fix what isn't broken") but also a more typical one.
I should clarify that it's not in quotes, my fault for not using bracket syntax (now edited).

But for me here in California, [+pepsi] entered in either box takes me to Pepsi's Google+ page — and crucially, not to pepsi.com.
You're saying google's tendency to correct words spelling to ones it looks up in its entire database of text is conclusive evidence on modern usage of a word?

I'd say it's suggested search complete is probably more indicative about what "Everyone" is expecting when they type that term:

http://i.imgur.com/LqsSS.png <= Picture of what autocomplete shows you
It's a sad problem. I remember I hated math since the first year I went to school, and the only reason I know anything now is that at one point I decided that writing computer games is more interesting than doing math homework - and somehow, magically, math became interesting and worth learning in my free time.

(I remember that when I was 16, we took an exam between secondary and high school. After the exam we were exchanging solutions to exam problems; I remember people talking about how they solved one task by using Pythagorean theorem, and me thinking "wtf? What Pythagorean theorem? I used the formula for distance between vectors in 2D space".)

So now, many years later, I sometimes work as a tutor and I completely understand when high school students tell me that math is useless and physics is boring. Both subjects are so completely destroyed in school that it's sad too look. I remember conversations about Michelson–Morley experiment, for example. Yes, it is useless and boring when taught in school, to be memorized for upcoming test. But it's much more interesting if one sees it as an important part of a great story - a story of our struggle to understand what the light really is, about two competing theories that were finally unified in a seemingly bizarre way, paving way for crazy science that gave us Internet, iPhones and lolcats.
In theory, it should be reasonable for a stable linux distro release to lock in stable gem versions that have been tested at the same level as the distro.

It's just the case that for Ruby the library ecosystem is being developed at a fast enough pace that few want to settle for gem versions that are 6-18 months old.

If the debian ecosystem was actually functioning as designed, someone would create a trusted apt repo with well tested updates that would perhaps be 3 months behind bleeding edge. This would likely be adequate for most ruby projects. It's my impression that the python community is better supported in the debian world.

Suggestion: the gem utility should be able to generate deb and rpm packages with proper version numbers, and the utility should also have a setting to "pull from distro repository" to allow things like bundler to be compatible with apt... this would allow/entail letting multiple gem versions live side by side, which would likely seem like a distro-smell to many sysadmins (though it isn't one).
through the consumer lens:

can i buy and read books? both.

can i watch movies with it? both.

play sudoku? both.

listen to music and audio books? both.

my kids can play angry birds? both.

cost the same? nope, the kindle fire costs $50 less.
Yes, they're necessary, so you can tell the difference.

Companies were already making G+ Profiles, even though it was against the terms of use.
This is about looking forward. We're in dire economic straits, our funding for something as basic and fundamental s our children's educations are being threatened. Public libraries are closing across the country. Research funding is reaching dreadfully low levels - especially in comparison to countries that we now find ourselves competing with.

And on top of that, people are getting poorer. Even folks "protected" by traditionally pro-labour unions are being thrown under the bus to protect the pensions of its older members. The treatment of young union members by the organization that supposedly protects their rights is laughable if it weren't so damned unjust.

So yes, let's look forward. We face a desperate economic situation, in which we must all make deep cuts and great sacrifices if this country is to have a competitive future. Our education system has certainly paid the price. Our arts and culture, too. Taxes are rising, but yet the greatest liability we have is still pension funding.

The one quarter where no sacrifices, no compromises must be made. Toss the band program. Screw math textbooks. Fuck scientific research. The pension is holy! It must not be touched! So yes, we are looking at the future, and these people will doom it.

Even if we're not playing the blame game - there is not much we can do productively to save ourselves unless pension compromise can be brought to the table. Unfunded pension liabilities are the threat to our economic existence - the over-promised benefits are really going to gut us. Even if we continued along this path of "everything must go in the name of funding pension liabilities", it's still not enough. Without cuts to pensions we're screwed no matter what.
this is something I absolutely LOVED about Lynda
Direct link to product site. (working as of Monday 11/7 2:00p CST):
http://www.zypr.net/
Here's a PDF of the Meisenzahl, Mokyr paper:

http://www.uc3m.es/portal/page/portal/dpto_historia_economic...

Yes, many of the "tweakers" discussed did achieve success in multiple business ventures (and took patents).

It's not a disparaging term, so there's no reason to call it backlash. This is simply an observation that there is a (often overlooked) class of people who are 1. technically competent 2. very good at polishing and perfecting others' ideas, rather than coming up with them de novo.

The paper credits these people with playing the main part in the Industrial Revolution, and it's actually quite creditable to say Steve Jobs might have been among the best of them.
"Shortly before JSConf, I had personally spent some time finding out ways to demonstrate that MongoDB will lose writes in the face of failure, to be used in a competitive comparison. Let’s just say that I was successful in doing so, despite recent improvements that 10gen has made. Unfortunately, I am not at liberty to share the results, nor do I think it would be constructive to this discussion. "

Why not? Did the author at least contact 10gen with the test case?
Show HN: Time tracking for the masses
http://www.timeclover.com

We made a time tracking tool to track hobbies and goals. No billable hours or other enterprise nonsense, just simplicity and what we feel are great graphs and visualizations of how you spend your time.

I'm a big fan of seinfeld's method and this is supposed to take it a step further. Instead of planning activities, guilt yourself into not ruining your beautiful history.

We’re still expanding the idea, and would love some feedback. Unfortunately everything is somewhat empty until you have tracked for a couple of days, so here is my public profile view to give you an idea:

http://www.timeclover.com/public/3/index

Feedback is much appreciated
Check out Social Passport (www.socialpassport.net) as it will be totally up your alley. For consumers it creates a QR code which stores all of your social networking information for instant scanning to Like, Tweet, or Checkin somewhere, and then also serves as a digital loyalty card and e-coupon. Merchants incentivize users to get their Social Passports scanned through discounts, contests, and giveaways, and in return send a customized message to a user's entire social network.
Google+ Direct Connect for Brands Could Kill Facebook Pages
Nook Tablet vs. Kindle Fire vs. iPad 2 vs. Nook Color
Letting Google's Instant feature get results on "+pepsi", I get the normal "pepsi" results.

However, if I hit the search button, I go to Pepsi's G+ page.

Also in Firefox (7), "+pepsi" in the search bar goes right to their G+ page.
I'm saying that there isn't a default datastore for web apps in the same way there isn't a default language for programming. Different data stores do different things and web apps are so varied that certain apps will benefit from NoSQL, some from SQL, and yet others from straight text file storage. I find it tiring that everyone thinks their choice of datastore is the bestforeverythingontheweb datastore.
Synchronizing schedules across many time zones is a problem for a pretty small proportion of the populace. Who needs to regularly worry about people 8 time zones away? Maybe 25% of all people in IT (I'll estimate high because outsourcing is popular), and maybe 5% of all white-collar jobs.

And, one more number made up on the spot... call that 2% of the world population. And that's being generous. Time zones work for 98% of the world, the 2% will just have to do a little more thinking.
In Parse you can authorize/de-authorize client permission to get, find, update, create, and delete for each table
You aren't forced to use Objective-C, at least not any more than you're forced to use Java on Android. It's just the native language of the system frameworks, which you are required to use. You can literally just have a glue layer to talk to the Objective-C underpinnings and write your whole app in another language (as long as that language can compile for iPhone, obviously). The reason people don't do this is because for most people it turns out to be less productive, not more.
Ryan,

I've followed you for a while on Think Vitamin and some of the DocType guys (Nick and Jim) and I never imagined you were in Orlando too!

Makes me very proud!

Congrats.

-Vlad
Like donating to whistleblowing websites like WikiLeaks.
Creepy 3D-printed robot spider is here to help
I'm not so sure. I have an iPhone 4 and the nook color and I find them both equally enjoyable to read on. but I do realize I hold the tablet at 2x the arms length than the phone.
Thank you for the clear and concise description. Your website really needs to say that, plus have a diagram.

Are there NuoDB-specific drivers/connectors for languages? What interface would I use in Python or Ruby? What would I need to install?
And this: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/01/29.html

"People have camera phones with web browsers now. Some things are still the same: typing URLs is not hard ... "

Actually it is.

The problem with Joel's argument is that I don't think he's ever tried to type a URL on a phone. It was an infuriating exercise in 2008 when he wrote that post, and it's an infuriating exercise today, even on the iPhone and on my Android phone.

I use a QR code as a quick link to deploy a new build of an app I'm working on to an Android device, and it's definitely easier then firing up the browser and painfully navigating to our CI server.
As the author of the book: Yep, fully agree. Of course it drives traffic to my site, but even I thought that it has been a bit too often on HN now :-)

Today, Robert Scoble refered to the site, which I think is the reason it got posted here once more.
Yes, why mess with a system VM any more. RVM is cool for servers too, not only dev.
I don't remember living through it, but zeppelins have always been associated with it in my mind. Maybe I was just fascinated with it as a kid - I dunno.

The ratio of historical disasters to vehicles is pretty different when you compare zeppelins with, say, bicycles or cars.
Groupon Reignites Chicago Dream of Tapping Silicon Prairie Money
I don't think so. Does Cassandra provide guarantees regarding the ordering of queries? Cause I couldn't see that.

Another problem I can see is when you write to 3 nodes, have W=2 and a write succeeds only one one node. Then later on through read repair the value propagates to the other 2 nodes. So our write "failed" but really in the end succeeded.
I'm not too much into the Cassandra details but those two things immediately came to my mind when reading some of the wiki pages.

It boils down to not using/offering algorithms like 2-Phase Commit or Paxos but more sloppy quorums.

So from what I can tell, Cassandra can not guarantee strong consistency. But then again I could be wrong and missed something.
It is possible for <language native package> and <OS native package> systems to play nicely together. In FreeBSD, for example, there's a system called BSDPAN which allows installed Perl CPAN modules to magically appear (and be managed as) OS packages.

Unfortunately, APT/dpkg don't have a concept of a "virtual provider" of packages.
I’m Bored So I’m Giving Away $25
It's like saying CODEACADEMY is lame because its an expensive version of http://www.lynda.com or http://www.showmedo.com . Get a life dude!
Well, maybe this isn't for you. Given the number of people who use "password" or "1234" to protect their accounts, your very valid concerns don't necessarily seem like show-stoppers. I don't expect any of the things you list above to be true for most other web services, either.
Microsoft did it exactly right if you assume popup notifications are necessary. I firmly believe that popup notifications are unnecessary and distracting, and that's why I prefer the "notification system" of OS X (red badges in the dock). These are a standard. Growl and menu bar status icons etc are just useless cruft introduced by developers who don't want to adhere to the standard. I could care less if my OS notifies me that it discovered a new input device, or that someone sent me an email labelled "urgent", or whatever.

Of course, OS X is not as clean and notification-free as I'd like it to be: It annoys me every other week or so with some useless software update, and every 10 days it complains that I didn't plug in the backup drive for some time.

Now, it might be possible to configure and disable all these notifications, but I just don't want to bother. I want my computer to act on my command, and in my eyes there is almost no excuse for putting up an unexpected notification or alert or dialog for anything.
The Guardian as a source? The Guardian is even worse than Reddit in its open bias against government, corporations, etc etc (Also that story is 3 years old. Hardly current).

The Guardian is like The Daily Mail but for the other side of the political spectrum.

The daily mail etc scare the public into thinking that immigrants/the poor/terrorists etc are going to kill them. The guardian scares the public into thinking that the government and corporations are going to kill them.

Obviously neither is true, but both sell newspapers/get readers.
Behind the Scenes at General Assembly's Reinventing Local Hackathon
I heard this is all because Goldman added hard drives to their commodities index. ;)
I'm glad Cuke decided to dump web_steps. Features written with those steps really did look terrible. However, I think there is a fine line to be careful of. You can pretty easily wind up with a near one-to-one correlation between features and custom steps. But writing good features and steps should take the same skill and care as writing good code.
The "Mathematical Definitions" photo was fascinating. http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/images/image003.gif
i didn't use quotes and still get a regular search
Misplaced political correctness? No sir, it's politeness. It's treating other people decently. It's acting like a mature adult rather than an angry, uncultured teenager. Bluntness just for bluntness' sake is what's misplaced in polite conversation.
Google Ventures Takes A Sip Of Milk, Invests In Kevin Rose’s New Startup
My secret was "monitored by Stella". Yikes! Perhaps lose the Stella promotion for this application.
Please note that these images are copyright protected. Reproduction without permission of the copyright holder is prohibited.

Are you f*cking kidding me? How are they copyright protected? As a NASA project, the images are government owned and therefore public domain.

Moreover, and OBVIOUSLY you're broadcasting them into outerspace. Are you going to sue the aliens for publishing these images in their newspapers once contact is made?

Get real.
I guess one reason people see siri as a threat to google is that if voice based interfaces take off, no matter who does it, there is less scope for advertisements - which are more annoying when spoken out loud. It's still too soon to say, of course, maybe voice apps will always be a smaller share or google could possibly find another business model.
I'm not sure I understand the benefit of it being easier for more people to run man-in-the-middle attacks on the network. I doubt the government would rely on such a network for sensitive information, so it'd probably end up being citizens spying on other citizens (or worse, e.g. phishing).
Exactly. It's fixed with https://github.com/ManuelKiessling/NodeBeginnerBook/commit/5... and the site has been updated.
It is occurring to me now that mastery of software development probably involves knowing how and when to invoke "whatever works" wisely.
Like how dataapp.com is not responding right now, you mean? I think he just disproved his point...
Mark Zuckerberg & Sheryl Sandberg to discuss Facebook on “Charlie Rose”
Internet Outage Kicks 3.4 Million Skype Users Offline for 50-90 Minutes
That was what stuck out to me from this, too... sounded like "nyanyanyana, I found a critical bug in your product - but I won't tell you what it is"
Shouldn't you have all your disclaimers on the top of the article?
It's my understanding that making your URLs human friendly makes them more search engine friendly IF the url contains relevant keywords to the page. The link you provided is just about dynamic vs static urls, which is not what I'm referring to.

http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...
There's a difference between product names for marketing and version numbers used in development.
I highly doubt the typical user with password "1234" is going to go through the trouble of using this service. They would most likely email the password directly ("that's secure right?")
Not to be pedantic, but the iPad preceded the iPhone as a concept. Jobs requested a prototype multi-touch display that you could type on, saw inertial scrolling, and decided that the phone should come first. There's very little about the tablet product category that he "tweaked." He threw out the stylus and built a touch OS from scratch.
I was more impressed by these images intended for aliens' consumption:
http://perl.plover.com/yak/12views/img/q01.gif
http://perl.plover.com/yak/12views/img/q02.gif
...
http://perl.plover.com/yak/12views/img/q23.gif

Can you decode them?
Firefox 8 now available, adds on-demand tab loading, third-party add-on blocking
Check out http://perl.plover.com/yak/12views/img/q01.gif
I like the feature that an error occurs whenever using special characters such as åäö