skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IIRC, Google Checkout also required US customers only. As it was never extended to the rest of the world, I expected it to never take hold and change the marketplace.
I am doing this now.
The overall score is 8.6/10, not 10/10. They gave it 10/10 on software and performance, which has nothing to do with the plastic case and the camera sensor. FYI the for the camera it got a 7/10.
SELF IMPROVEMENT: EASY SELF IMPROVEMENT Pt 3
You pay 10x market rate (as someone has said, this means $1 million for a good engineer)?

This doesn't get with either "if we make $10k in 6 months" or "if you work really hard AND we perform unexpectedly well, you'll be rewarded with a free trip in Asia".

This 'paying 10x' thing is utter bullshit, made up on the spot to make it sound like you're the good guy. If you had that money available, you'd be hiring more staff.
While reading this article, it reminded me of an odd bug I encountered working with the Nitrogen Web Framework. I was finding that, similar to Patrick, it was losing sessions (though much more consistently), but only in Chrome and only with Yaws as the webserver. Switching to the Mochiweb server or Firefox caused the problem to go away.

Firebug and Chrome's dev tools both reliably stated that the cookie header was indeed being set. I just didn't know why Firefox was accepting the cookies and holding the sessions, but Chrome was dropping the sessions.

Oddly, it was only happening on my virtualbox dev environment, and not on any production machines.

After much time, I noticed that the expiration date for the cookie was in the past. I hadn't noticed it before because it looked right (it correctly passed my mental regex for "looks like a good date").

It turned out the problem was being caused by my machine going to sleep, pausing everything (including the clock timer in the VirtualBox instance, which I leave on for weeks or months), causing the clock on the virtual server to get behind by several days.

Then, when setting the cookie expiry date in max-age format, rather than absolute time, Mochiweb would send the Max-age expiration, which then gets handled by the browser relative to the receiving time. But Yaws would first take server time, add the seconds, and send that as the absolute expiration, effectively sending an past date to the browser as the expiration.

Firefox, apparently, saw the cookie expiration date, and just said something like "Hey, we'll hold this until the user closes the tab or something", while chrome saw the expired cookie, and immediately expired it, appropriately.

That's one of the weirdest non-bug bugs I've encountered.

Note: when I say "Yaws" and "Mochiweb", I mean "Nitrogen's SimpleBridge connector for Yaws and Mochiweb".
Well, the original Droid was kind of an almost-flagship. It was marketed in conjunction with Google, and it had an unlocked bootloader, unlike subsequent Verizon Motorola Droids. It also wasn't skinned with MotoBlur.

I've owned both the original Droid and the Droid X, and the original one definitely had less crapware, and the vanilla OS was nice, as was the much easier modding.

I've actually really liked Motorola hardware, and I like the more angular, more dinstinctive industrial design of the Motorola devices better than Samsung devices, but I have to admit that I'm drooling over this phone. ICS looks amazing, and seems to address almost every complaint I've had about Android so far.
This has little to do with formal education. I learned my writing from reading, subsequently internalizing it, and practicing outside the institution.

This is clearly written during a bout of mania. Compare the writing patterns of someone sober to the superfluous writing of that same person on a stimulant binge.
Clock Ticks for Phobos-Grunt Mars Mission
I only kept my post brief to be polite. While I agree that Hacker News is the place to show off hacks hijacking threads is not the way to do it. If parent poster has a hack that is worth showing on HN he should submit it as a news item and if there is intrinsic merit the post will attract an audience. Posting self promotional information on threads that are tangentially related is in poor taste in my opinion. Its a slippery slope - if every iphone post here attracted comments by all of us who were building an iphone app then HN would be the worse for it.
Making Smart TVs Smarter with Mirametrix’ Eye Tracking Technology
... That's complete crap, not all cultures believe that.

Even the concept of 'individual rights' is a western concept. Ever considered the possibility that we (humans) don't have rights.

Again, ethnocentric, just because you think the world should be like that, doesn't mean the rest of the world wants that. This is the kind of crap the british empire believed that it was "educating the barbarians" it's just an excuse to destroy other peoples culture.
Ozone from rock fracture could serve as earthquake early warning
A colleague of mine said the exact opposite a couple of days ago - having hit his hand with a hammer, he was unable to use the words he wanted because his four-year-old was around, and that was annoying.
Angie’s List shares jump more than 20% from IPO
I guess the difference comes from using -webkit-translate3d which kicks in hardware acceleration instead of -webkit-translateX or simple -webkit-transition.
Angie’s List Surges After Pricing Shares at Top of Range in Initial Offer
Yup. You are making your own future. As the enablers, your choices are guiding what these companies can do. Zuckerberg's ethics (lack thereof) are well-known. But the upper management of Facebook, their lawyers, their financiers, the folks who buy access to the personal data, they cannot write code. You are not just some code monkey drone, following instructions from your boss or taking feature requests from naive end-users, _your_ choices, _your_ ethics, make a difference.

What was it that Dennis Ricthie said about his move to Bell Labs? Something like "It was 1968 and working on military projects just didn't feel right." He went on to make an enormous contribution and, we hope, preserved his peace of mind at the same time. You will never regret taking the high road. Just an opinion.
Oh, I was not being sarcastic, but you are completely right with regards to third-world country food.
My apologies if my comment sounded insensitive, was not intended to do.

The point I was trying to make, is that why is such a rich country as the US serving such low quality food.
If you remove any rational analysis based on productivity, developer time, or finances, then we're only left with a question of personal taste -- and it's impossible to argue against personal taste.

An evaluation based on personal taste is useless. If I say "I like orange because it's a great color" -- then either you already like orange, in which case my analysis does you no good, or you don't like orange, in which case my statement can simply be ignored.

The same applies here, in that the article could have been coalesced to a single sentence: "We don't use the cloud because we don't want to. We like dorking around with hardware and data centers, just like someone else might link tinkering with their car or collecting bottle caps"

Possibly interesting -- but not useful.
I felt otherwise. I believe the author not only pointed out other alternatives but talked with those people trying to do things differently. Namely the course of action is simply to try different and more varied things.

The whole problem that is being decried is that of following a rigid, fixed formula that tries to generalize for all cases. That of using the mouse model for everything, even those things for which it is not the best fit.

In software terms this is akin to Netflix's implementation of Chaos Monkey. Mainly that one shouldn't only check for certain failure conditions that have been previously specified, but to also create a framework where you try to look for faults in areas that are outside of the expected.
That's how online social communities like this work. I like to call it "the democratization of punditry."
LHC May Have Found Crack in Modern Physics
Startup Weekend Gurgaon
This is one of the apps which was made during the startup weekend Gurgaon - 11th to 13th November 2011
A few of those features are ones that VB.NET developers have long been enjoying and yet VB.NET is still looked down upon when functionally it and C# have been equal for years.

Yes I'm a little bitter because I had to learn the disgustingly ugly syntax that is C# when I recently switched jobs.
Good, but very old. I am not sure how Rails has evolved since Django 1.0 was released (which happened after this presentation). Django is currently on 1.3.1 and it's a major improvement over 1.0 (and 0.9x)
You're right about relative excellence. The thing is that a 10/10 implies that it must have a better UI/UX than an Iphone and better looks compared to a Windows Phone 7 (Mango) and better security/encription compared to a Blackberry. I find hard to believe that it will be at least as good as the competitors in a generic term like software.

I'm a happy owner of an Android phone that will probably receive an update to ICS so I'm looking forward to it.
"Pre-revenue" seems like such a ridiculous term. It should only be used post-revenue to describe the period of time...pre-revenue.

Unless, of course, that every startup founder is a pre-billionaire. ;P
Salam beresoon
passion. either you have it or you don't. If you don't, go play somewhere else :)
> Does anyone have any similar resources for Rails stacks?

Of course; this:

Use Something Else.
This definitely applies to doing things like playing the drums, singing and playing the guitar at the same time, or a number of other musical activities.
Funny you should mention SkunkWorks - that's actually the one thing I was able to communicate to him was the SkunkWorks concept within a larger company. But clearly if everyone is working that way, then it no longer has the delineation from regular business that is the whole point of SW.
Of course, if your methods are properly written, the chance you need to "see" all the code is almost nonexistent.
I think he means white balance. And since both cameras don’t output raw files Lightroom won’t help you (much) with that. Besides: Consumer cameras should generally have a good automatic white balance since the vast majority of people will never bother to manually tweak.

That whole sensor/lens mixup is probably an honest mistake. He was talking about software vs hardware and not really going so much into detail as that making a distinction between sensor and lens would matter. He was talking about the whole sensor and lens package as a whole.
He said they use horizontal scrolling to slide the page in from the side. I haven't yet dug into it to see how they're doing it, so unfortunately I don't have any more details, but you can download Sencha Touch 2 and check it out.
Another boring RSpec formatter? NOPE! It's just ChuckTesta(r)
When you automate a process to scale, you reduce the need for people. In that sense, startups destroy jobs.

But when you create new ways in doing things like unlocking value (like how Facebook has done with connecting the world), jobs are created.
True, but the DMCA requires a takedown notice and then failure to comply before anything can be done. SOPA allows pulling of DNS entries as a first action, meaning sites are down while they handle the complaint. There's also a huge difference between "liable" as the DMCA defines it (must remove when notified) and "liable" as SOPA defines it (must remove immediately, notification == site death)
From the provided link:

>EU law also applied sanctions against US companies and their executives for making Title III complaints.

>The United Kingdom had previously introduced provisions by statutory instrument[8] extending its Protection of Trading Interests Act 1980 (originally passed in the wake of extraterritorial claims by the U.S. in the 1970s) to United States rules on trade with Cuba. United Kingdom law was later extended to counter-act the Helms–Burton Act as well.

>Mexico passed a law in October 1996 aimed at neutralizing the Helms–Burton Act. The law provides for a fine of 2.2 million pesos, or $280,254, against anyone who while in Mexican territory obeys another country's laws aimed at reducing Mexican trade or foreign investment in a third country.

>Similarly, Canada passed a law to counteract the effect of Helms-Burton

Not the same counter measures as the ones proposed by the original user but it seems to have the same effect of "neutering" a foreign law.
If a city grid was sufficient, why would China need to build massive structures in the desert? They've no shortage of city grids. Come to think of it, they've no shortage of massive development projects either. If a city grid worked as a surreptitious calibrating tool, surely they could work the design into a factory system, evap pool project or university campus. (I think an actual city would be out of the question due traffic concerns)
You don't really love computers unless you're working out every bit of the quantum mechanics necessary to design and model its integrated circuits on a chalkboard.
Crushing the Cost of Predicting the Future
Even "simple" posts like that took a lot longer than you'd think. At least if you take the time to make them read well and look good, which he did.
"You learn more about them when you leave than at any other time."

How so? (honestly, I'm dense)
I suspect there are some tasks that require a lot of focus, so switching tasks is intrinsically costly. While other tasks allow someone to return a prior state very quickly.
"Politicians use evidence and statistics as narrative devices."
That's cool, like I said - it's not for everyone. Although it's worth considering that if you are successful and sell your startup to a Big Co then you'll need to "like" working there in order to see out any handcuff deal you are given.
One of the things that interested me the most about this article was the unintended consequences of various measures used to gauge progress.

For example, researchers seem to be evaluated by the number of papers written, number of publications and peer acknowledgement. These metrics favor the mouse model heavily, with its cheap and fast methodology. It also seems to promote behaviors that seem at odds with what should arguably be the end goal of the work: creating working drugs.

It paints a rather bleak picture of the establishment with that goal in mind, despite the best intentions.
Interesting.. like a real-world Doctor House.
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Fire bullets, once you hit, then fire the cannon -Jim Collins on Charlie Rose
The "You will get a chance to shape the product" translation is way too funny. Definitely gives a different perspective.
Reeeeeeeejected!

I like the idea though. I wish more languages would use unicode for control structures or keywords. I'm probably one of the few :-)
To be honest, its like a matter of OCD to me - for instance, I like keeping my desktop completely free of icons (even though I don't need to).

In a similar way, I like only looking at the code that's relevant - if the method I'm working on is larger than a single screen (which happens with comments and such included) I like collapsing parts I don't care about. I don't, strictly speaking, need to in order to work effectively but I like to - as you said, more of a religious argument than a quantifiable one.
I stopped pirating with the advent of Pandora and the like. Actually, sites like soundcloud provide fresh to the minute trends from new artists and established ones, so you don't even have to listen to that old over-processed and generic radio sound anymore that Pandora provides.

It's obvious to everyone that the RIAA simply refused to inovate and the market left them behind... over a decade ago.
use the flag, luke.
Patches Released for BIND Denial-of-service Vulnerability
Who needs Barbie? Kids and teens want an iPad for Christmas
"If my users are inconvenienced, it is my fault, always."

Good quote. I had a customer become irate with me before over untracked sales in my digital delivery product. I knew that the error stemmed from their web designer using their own button code and not our specially crafted button code, and I tried to help them fix it but only upset them more.

Its hard to take responsibility for things seemingly outside your control, but in the end it is your responsibility.
I'm trying to solve my voodoo value problem and by hiring you I can massage my pre-money numbers and get a tax break for R&D. Want the job?
... and even then you wouldn't really love computers unless you were quarrying your own calcite and slate.
OT: I've heard claims that dedicated servers beat cloud VPS (i.e. AWS) in cost. But most of the dedicated servers I've seen cost $100 and up for a month. Is there a comparison on the cost/computing_power with benchmark for review?
This isn't really fair. In Chrome DNS has practically been replaced by google search, and it's great.

Instead of typing yelp.com (or was it yelp.net? www.yelp.biz? http://www.yelp.info?) I can just type "yelp" and get where I'm going without having to remember the exact url and without getting an annoying error page if I make a typo. I suspect for many users even in other browsers the search box gets much more use than the URL box.
I can't believe how much everything is still framed around the iphone. I think its crazy to call this phone just 'competetive' with the iphone 4S; especially the screen-- it is clearly a significant step up IMO. ICS is surely at a point where it can, currently, safely be considered to be ahead of iOS- especially in its unadulterated 'nexus' form. And whilst pentile isn't perfect, its 720p FFS. If that wasn't enough OLED gives it vastly better blacks, contrast, and potentially power consumption too, not to mention the fact that it's bigger. Unless you happen to have an irrational love for iOS the iphones camera is the single area where the 4S beats out the nexus (perhaps some app availability, but that works both ways). Oh the curse of being one of the 100 phones vs 1.
I don't understand why this is being downvoted. I really would like to see how they arrive at these numbers.
Lenovo IdeaPad U300s Review
If there's a laptop which deserves the moniker "Ultrabook" - an expression in which Intel launched (and trademarked) previously this year for a course regarding extremely slender and light notebooks - it does not take Lenovo IdeaPad U300s. Not really simply because it really is quicker or even beefier compared to opposition (it is not),
I started with telling Spock "xyzzy" and they quickly all started wishing each other "Merry Christmas". I only let the loop continue until I could stop laughing.
Theoretically, maybe, but it's not very practical. You need to have very good ground truth (i.e. know exactly how wide that street is) and the spacecraft needs to be directly above Manhattan, otherwise tall buildings will obscure your calibration target.

FWIW, I was on a calibration support team for the recently launched NPP satellite. The engineers and scientists go to great lengths to perform calibration and characterization before launch. Common calibration targets after launch: deep space, the moon, polar ice caps. Things we know a great deal about, have a clear view to, and don't change much.
I don't understand why this is being downvoted. I also would like to see how they arrive at these numbers, because while they don't seem like they'd be insane, they do seem somewhat high to me.

It seems plausible to me that they don't count waste.
Completely agree that it's a massive improvement over Tron-inspired Honeycomb.

Also agree that the UX looks massively improved as well. It always felt like features and ugly shininess took precedence over UX before, but it seems like Duarte is having a good influence here.

On crapware, one of the announced features for ICS is that you can disable (meaning stop from running and hide from app drawers and home screens) any app from system settings.

The sort of obvious thing (to me) for them to do going forward is to platformize Android better, so that manufacturers/vendors can differentiate by adding UI components, etc. in a modular way that's easy to turn off, and easy to update around. I.e. there should be a big VANILLA ANDROID button in the settings, and they should push updates more aggressively.

But ICS definitely looks like a step in the right direction.
To make a profit.
Intel shows off 1 TFLOP/s computing power on a single chip (Knight's corner)
Microsoft, Apple and 27 other tech companies backing SOPA indirectly
I think it's less about pure education and more about a safe, controlled environment to have open and honest communication.

As you suggest it's a very complex subject with many questions having no generally applicable answers. However, being able to discuss such things between the sexes and with some mature guidance can remove a lot of humility and hopefully provide at least a little enlightenment.

That being said, I'm not entirely sure where this discussion should take place (i.e. is school the right place, I don't know).
> there is something psychologically interesting about it that I can't quite understand

I swear, it's an extra pleasure hearing a song I like on the radio (over just playing it myself), knowing that a lot of other people are listening to it too. Maybe that's a new form of 'social computing' to be exploited :).
"All-star technical team" = "Each developer will tell you the others are stars. Perspectives from outside the circle might differ."
Discussion: JSON vs. Markup Fragments
Put The?Net? Into Your Network Marketing Company
Actually, I don't think it's a problem.
The iPad Safari usage has passed IE6 in North America. I'm really not sure why well paid people in enterprise find it so difficult to upgrade browsers. They are paid to solve problems, not give excuses.
Glossaire sur les RPG
> But it is odd how reflexive it seems to have become that when people feel like they might have even 30 seconds of downtime, they immediately reach for the smartphone.

Sounds like good conditioning.
I understand that there are people who make poor decisions. Nutrition, however, since it's so relatively cheap and one of the most basic needs, I think should have a safety net even for those who, thru their own fault, lack access to such.

I know there are food programmes and soup kitchens --but those suffer from poor funding. I mean, I feel that we should make sure everyone has access to balanced nutrition (not talking gourmet --just good nutrition) regardless of why they might not be able to afford it themselves.
How Online Learning Companies Bought America's Schools
Yeah, the main secret to being happy, at least for me, is a highly developed ability to simply not care about things that I can't influence, or that just really don't matter in the broad scheme of things.

Of course, I care that those around me should be happy, and I care about trying to do good work, and that should be enough of a weight for anyone.
Thanks for introducing me to Diffbot.

From your comment I expected it to be an open source implementation, but a high-quality SaaS with 50,000 API calls/mo on the free plan is still pretty damn good.
I'm reading on Kindle and carefully not looking at the "% read" indicator... that might be helping.
As it names suggests, HCI is a field that attempts to understand the way we interact with machines. The idea is that by understanding this relationship we should be able to build better designed software/hardware (or more usable, as it's known in the field). It's a merging field involving mainly psychology, design and computer science. As for how it applies to the real world, either UX design or usability engineering are probably the most commonly found examples out there.
The sad thing for older hardware with more limited RAM capacity is they got rid of XPDM support in Windows 8.
The further you go down that money trail, the more people and companies there will be traveling it. The further from your target you cut off funding, the more collateral damage you will inflict.