skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really - no adverts when I visit it?

Edit: Some sort of IE7 hack/virus/attack? (sorry can't reply to your message for some reason)

http://i.imgur.com/r8u2I.png - screenshot is with adblock turned on, but I also tried it with it turned off and didn't get it.
You know, T-Mobile charges you less per month if you don't have a contract. Over the course of 2 years, its big enough to pay for a smartphone bought contract free.
but you must still store the emails in your own database correct? or do you never store them at all?
A free WebGL-enabled app for designing 3D-printable objects.
Overcoming Complexity and Dynamics to Move Data Centers to the Cloud
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Apple’s New Retail VP: John Browett
Celebrating Startups in the State of the Union
Did the guy who said he was going to "destroy America" have a public twitter feed? I'm wondering if making your tweets protected is enough to keep the FBI from reading them.
They are a lot more common than you might think, basicly every day every PC has a memory error. If one of the textures in a video game gets corrupted you may not notice it, and if you have real issues simply rebooting tends to work well. Recent tests give widely varying error rates with over 7 orders of magnitude difference, ranging from 10^−10 to 10^17 error/bit·h, roughly one bit error, per hour, per gigabyte of memory to one bit error, per century, per gigabyte of memory.[7][8][9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_random-access_memory The biggest defence for a home user is simply the banial nature of most information stored in memory.

Yet, you don't have to be building a spacecraft for rebooting to be an issue. One example that comes to mind is remote sensors. A friend was working on power meter which reported back it's findings every few days. The initial version used normal programming practices and after a six months field test of a few thousand units the projected failure rate over 10 years in the field was unacceptably high. He said the code was simple and 'correct' but failed to deal with with corruption. His version had less than 1% of the original failure rate in the field and is projected to save the company far more than his 6 month contract to rewrite the thing from scratch.

A more dramatic example is your car's internal engine controls. But, there they simply reboot regularly as there is no need for maintaining state over the long term.
This is exactly what better place (Shai Agassi et al.) is doing: http://www.betterplace.com/the-solution-switch-stations
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It's only "all about the contract" if you sign one. I, for one, am perfectly happy to pay $649 for an iPod, a GPS, a portable video game console, a PDA, and a phone, but wouldn't pay a $5 premium for what passes for "unlimited high-speed data service" in the US unless it includes Wi-Fi tethering.

Similarly, the ability to "browse the Web" on a low-resolution screen with a "ten-key" keyboard is, to me at least, worse than useless, but too many so-called "dumb phones" are truly dumb: the last one I had accepted Bluetooth contacts, iff phone numbers had no punctuation, and the one before that blocked "international calls" to all numbers of the form "+1 nnn-nnn-nnnn" from the US, and reliably _powered off_ when connected to a charger overnight (support actually claimed this to be a "feature designed to extend battery life").

The phone book issues, at least, weren't anything that 10 minutes with Python couldn't fix, but still, it's annoying that "dumb phone" vendors still, in 2011, saw software as an afterthought.

Apple should really consider making a $150 contract-free, high-quality, 4GB "iPod smart dumb phone" with iCloud and Siri but no user-installed apps, for people with iPads who really just want an iPod and a decent phone.
Program's author here: the point of this app is to simplify the test and debug of the QR code itself. Although all reasonable people think they are pointless, countless graphic designers are forced to incorporate QR codes into their otherwise beautiful works. This app (and it's just an app, not an application) lets them quickly test variations.
Bill C-11 could bring SOPA-like piracy laws to Canada
I beg to differ.

There is a lot of space to cover between a bare-bones HTTP DSL (which Sinatra is) and an opinionated full-stack like Rails. For example, Padrino allows you to freely choose between a lot of Ruby ORMs _and provides support_ to use them. Try that with Rails.

As another example, Padrino allows you to do Rails-Engine-like things in a very natural way (by hosting multiple applications in one Stack etc.). It is not a Rails rehash on a different base.
You certainly have a different definition of "beginner" than I do.
IBM go deeper into mobile; acquire Worklight
I'm on IE 7 (don't ask), so perhaps the ad is the site's way of telling me "F U"?

Edit: Screenshot - http://i.imgur.com/5lnJ7.jpg
I implemented one for practise, without assuming powers of two:

int binarySearch(const int needle, const int haystack[], const int size) {
if (size==0)
return -1;

short log2 = 0;	// rounded down
for (int sz=size; sz>>=1; log2++);

int index = 0;
for (int flag=1<<log2; flag>0; flag>>=1) {
index |= flag;	// set
if (index>=size || needle<haystack[index])
index ^= flag;	// unset
}
return needle==haystack[index] ? index : -index-1;
}
They didn't. They just tried to store data on EBS volumes, you know, like they are supposed to. But EBS performance is very bad, and incredibly variable. So they would end up getting timeouts trying to write to the volumes, which broke their DB replication, which took the site offline for hours to re-replicate.
Do note that Pingdom, unless specifically configured otherwise, counts a successful HTTP request as uptime. If that HTTP request is returning a page saying "our database servers are down, try again later", it still shows as uptime.

You can configure it to send POST data and expect a particular response, but there's no way of telling (other than "yep, that's what we're doing") whether someone's uptime stats are based on that sort of check.
Corporations That Don’t Practice Social Responsibility Can’t Hide Anymore
Yes. We used to get hundreds of letters from English teachers pointing out that the correct phrasing was "You Have Mail". In fact, at one point, the AOL welcome screen said "You Have Mail", even though the voice still said "You've Got Mail".

But, like "idonethis", and like you, we thought our version was just.. stickier. And it stuck.

Downvoter, this was my point: Sticky beats grammar. (See also: Think Different.) Sorry if I was too terse to make it clear.
Developer Productivity Report - Part 1: Developer Timesheet
They should force the developers to put their names. That way people know which developers to stay far away from. Don't go near anyone that would post to something like this.
That's over a 6 week period. Github's downtime over 2011 is considerably more than that!
You can't. That's USA specific and that's where US is in stone age.
At what point does it make sense to involve a lawyer? $5,000? $10,000? Isn't it expensive to legally fight for your payment?
If you want a form factor other than candybar, or candybar with slideout keyboard, you don't have many smartphone choices - the only one I'm aware of is this blackberry, but I'm sure there are others: http://us.blackberry.com/smartphones/blackberrystyle/

I know a lot of people who, out of preference for the form factor, overall size, or protection for the keyboard/display, only buy flip phones.
Lisp wasn't the right tool for the job because back when this was written (1997 or so, if I remember correctly) there were a lot of reasons Lisp was not the right tool for the job, the biggest reason being that chances were your Unix admin had made sure Python or Perl was available, but not Lisp (outside of Emacs).
Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (February 2012 Edition)
It's a new month. Time for a new thread.

Please lead the post with the location of the position and make it clear if working remotely is a possibility.
150 clicks to answer 50 questions? Lousy UX.
Stipulate in your contract that the losing side has to pay the legal fees for the other party. That way getting paid doesn't cost you more.
Once before starting a biggish app I sat down and wrote my own generators to create controllers with crud actions and views for them.
That's not 100% true, there are more than `hello world` benchs.

Check it out here: https://github.com/DAddYE/web-frameworks-benchmark/tree/more...

Yep, speed is 4-6x faster, but most important for me is memory usage is much much less.

On every Rails project I need to use monit/god to stop/start when for xx cycles memory is > 100mb or so. Without that a rails project can sucks 1-2gb of ram.

Isn't quite normal to my standards, in fact generally Padrino doesn't need more than 70mb. But here a lot of work must to be do.
Tesla is hardly a mass market car. I think the price is too high for a BMW 5-series as well, but if they manage to sell the cars at that price, that's my problem and not theirs. I think Tesla made a good choice to expand downwards in the market, that's the only sensible solution for a small company.

If you want a mass market car, you can get a Nissan Leaf for half the price. I agree that it's not for everyone, especially since the battery warranty is not as good as it should be.
Yea, it's the upper bound. We usually take about 30s each.
Ask HN: Webapps you can't live without?
We all use Web apps/services(Gmail, BaseCamp, etc). What are some of these tools which are essential to you?
BSkyB to Launch New Internet Streaming Service
We configured all the benchmark apps to expect a response. So on Github we go and checkout a repo. On Freshbooks a known invoice. On Assistly the agents index. Etc.

This is "the app is functional" checking. Not just 200 OK.
thanks, we have started to enforce it alr :)
Scaling a Business by Cloning Yourself is Tough
Thanks for that. I mistakenly thought it only supported the two listed in the presentation.
A simple theory of why smart young people go into finance, law, and consulting
Yes, you can. You can't lose a libel suit if you're able to prove what you said is true, and it goes to decision.

I am not being pedantic. The difference between the two statements is huge, because the amount of time and money it may take you to prove your case could easily bankrupt a person.
This is an absolutely brilliant talk. And if you do any freelance or contract work you can learn something from it.

The quote: 'when you hire a lawyer [to handle contracts] you switch from being a design amateur to a design professional' really spoke to me, and it applies equally to programmers.
Wander Player Turns Your Smartphone Into A Virtual Game Controller
> People who feel that they have been wrongly accused can now send in feedback that they have been wronged and we will look into it

That sounds like a bad idea. You either publish submissions through the website, or you don't publish at all. If you manually take the 'feedback' and turn it into a story, you're now the publisher and lose the legal protections of the Communications Decency Act.

Your site was a better idea, legally, before you posted that.
It really depends on your personal situation and how much. If you're in the U.S., you'll have to check to see the min/max for suits in small claims court (this is generally anywhere from $3,000-$15,000). One thing that works, though, is merely having your lawyer draft a letter to the offending client. Your less intelligent clients will jump when they see any threat of legal action (and for you, it's only a few hundred bucks to get a lawyer to draft a letter – maybe even free depending on your relationship). There's certainly leg work involved, but when it's your livelihood, you have to do what you can.
Pingdom stats are a bit strange sometimes. For our services (check my profile if you want to know), a normal month is 100% uptime, simple. But sometimes, your website is marked as down because they have an issue. Several times, we had downtime because of errors between their servers in California and us in Europe where I was able to backtrace them as a network issue deep in California.

So, like any stats, take them with a bit of salt.
How does one begin to test which of these theories is correct?

This brain imaging study:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199907/the-differenc...

Indicates that the default mode for the introvert brain is to keep the parts of the brain responsible for internal stimulation busy. In extroverts it seem default mode is to pay attention to external stimuli.

While unpleasant social interaction will force everyone to take a break, this would explain why introverts like me find even very pleasant social interaction tiring. It just takes energy to pay attention to external stimuli. Extroverts don't have to spend that extra energy.

That's why one of the tell-tale signs of real introversion is a dislike for music while working. It doesn't matter if it's your favorite music, it's distracting. But for extrovert it would not be.

Born introverts are also a tiny minority of the total population, and this combined with everything else makes me suspect extroverts with social anxiety are in fact most of these "introvert" cases.
Alternative answer: Money.
I do realize this. But I was talking about the Tesla in its current form.

Ofcourse it might get a success some day. Maybe we won't have to charge them because they all will have a small nuclear reactor.

My point is: a lot of people are still thinking 300 miles on one battery charge is not enough.
And maybe this is true when you go on holiday or something.
But most of the time people are fine driving an electric car from home to work and back.
Tablet sales expected to grow fivefold by 2017
Everyone here is saying it, anonymously calling others out by name is wrong and profesionally destructive.

This is why we pay lawyers:
http://www.dvafoto.com/2011/04/fuck-you-pay-me-a-discussion-...
Personally, what I'm starting to converge on is a smartphone plus a Macbook Air / Ultrabook / Chromebook, with the smartphone providing the tethering capability, and where I'm always carrying the smartphone, and carrying the light weight MBA / Ultrabook / Chromebook air with me 80% of the time. What I need out of the lightweight notebook is a keyboard, larger screen, fast browser (which one of the tablets or smartphones provide today) and minimal off-line capabilities (i.e., off-line GMail, Google Docs, and eBook reading). Anything else is a bonus. Today I'm doing this with a MBA, but I can easily see a next-gen Ultrabook or Chromebook meeting my needs.

Ultimately, the problem with a tablet is that its weight / capability just isn't favorable enough. Anything I can do with a tablet, I can do with a smartphone (although perhaps with a bit more scrolling), and a tablet's browser rendering speed and lack of keyboard makes it reach for a lightweight notebook every single time (and the MBA / Ultrabook / Chromebook isn't that much heavier than a tablet).
Perhaps it's just me, but I find myself wanting to say "If you think it's so easy then do it yourself" to designers rather than it coming from them.
It's not acceptable to a lot of people, like me, who consider it an unacceptable violation of a persons human rights. It's hard to fight against an entrenched practice especially when speaking out against it leads to accusations of religious intolerance and the same old argument playing on STI fears and AIDS hysteria. I think children deserve protection regardless of the religious beliefs of their parents or the place of their birth.

One of the arguments I make is that a society that is willing to allow non-consenting male infants be strapped down and irreversibly mutilated is only one step away from allowing Female genital mutilation. Think I'm exaggerating? Look up the American Academy of Pediatrics policy change which would have lead the way for FGM and genital cutting in the US. They had to back down over public anger but it shows the mentality of the organisation.
Your computer probably has malware. Run ComboFix and that should fix the issue.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/combofix/how-to-use-combofix
This site/curriculum was built for our Code Academy (http://codeacademy.org) students currently learning web development and user experience design. Most of our students are beginners, and have already gone through four weeks of Shay's HTML & CSS class. While they are not front-end experts, Shay has done a great job of guiding them through, and now this site will be even more helpful.

The purpose of this curriculum is not the be-all and end-all of all HTML & CSS learning resources, it is focused on created a pathway that students can use to measure their learning. We are definitely focused on improving the curriculum and providing alternative resources for students to the learn from all the other resources.

I wouldn't be where I am in my front-end development without all the free and paid resources online devoted to HTML & CSS, but it would have been really helpful to have something as organized as this to guide my development.
> I mean lack of laws. Net neutrality

But your problem is not with net neutrality, it's much earlier, before you even connect -- you didn't want the contract ("handcuffs"). Or am I reading that incorrectly?
Thanks! We really want to add some video, but we lot's of other things on the cue. How did you like the other apps?
One of the comments in the blog is: "Just signed up for pingdom and they sent me my password via email in clear. Great!"

I signed up to check if they really do. What pingdom does upon sign-up with your email id they send a password via email.

I have a high opinion of pingdom & I was expecting them to enforce change of password during first login, but that did not happen!
>it's a rare task that makes it worthwhile holding a heavy iPad compared with my Galaxy Nexus.

I think this may end up being the future for most. That is many will couple a cheap smartphone or dumbphone with a tablet that offers PAYG (pay as you go) web access. It is simply too expensive to have monthly two data fees to pay for or a possible $9.99/month to add an extra device for shared data usage.
There is no attempt to educate clients in this just a number of blanket statements. I'm sorry, but in most industries you try to educate clients about what you are doing and why it's valuable - this is just telling people they are idiots.
The blog linked to an img of a newspaper from the period. Here is the Library of Congress's archive of the same paper, showing the same letter. Now, that doesn't show that the Tribune wasn't duped as to the letter's source, but it does show that the grammar is from that period. Assuming you trust the LOC.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030213/1865-08-22...
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This looks to be an encouraging step in the right direction: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Graphics/opentype/opentype...
Bump that.

Pain is a message. A serious message. Don't make it go away, FIX THE PROBLEM. Only take painkillers when you KNOW what the problem is AND ARE FIXING IT.

After gallbladder removal, they gave me a big bottle of Vicodin and sent me home. Figuring that much of that strong stuff meant I should expect pain, I took it. Other indicators later I went back to the ER, realizing the pain was telling me something was very wrong. They didn't let me eat for two weeks waiting for the problem to heal.
How about making it a paid subscription service instead? I would subscribe to that.

Developers have their identity confirmed (to avoid anonymous business-bashing) and can freely discuss bad (and possibly good) experiences with businesses.

The membership agreement could explain that no emotional or biased comments would be allowed and would encourage some level of explanation of why the client did not pay along with proof in the form of bounced checks, etc...
Completely agree.

But they can do a few steps to improve this a lot. As you said location (or typical tweet keywords, or followings) to improve that.

They need to figure this out ;)
Ultimately it's your fault as a contractor if you don't get paid. And a site like this does nothing to teach developers, freelances, designers, and the like how to avoid these pitfalls which is why I'll never use it.

Why is it your fault? Because as a professional you've not taken the time/money to have a contract created to cover your ass. Contracts exist to protect both parties from each other. And it is your professional duty to know what's in your contract (not a piece meal that you dug up on the internet.) You should be able to explain to your clients what is in your contract, why it's there, and how it benefits them and you.
Uninspiring. http://clientsfromhell.net/ is (funnier|sadder|closer to the truth)
Isn't it already explicitly illegal to post lists of customers who haven't paid in your store? IANAL, but I seem to remember that the case law is already pretty settled on this one.
To be fair, there's a classic version (but the link to it discards the article id, for some unfathomable reason).

This works: http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/06/extra-extra-read-...
Like Shay mentioned below, this website is a work in progress and still being tested out, but right now the website is a supplement to what Shay teaches in class. Shay uses this in class and we mix in lecture, demoing, and lab work to help the Code Academy students understand the content. The students also use this to reflect back on what Shay has taught in the previous classes.

As of now, this is the best standalone resource, but it is a couple weeks old, so we will definitely improve it.
I'm utterly content with Rails 3. Having used versions 1 & 2, I can definitely say 3 is quite an upgrade and decoupling which is competitive on most of the points in this slide. It's almost like this slide was based on a Rails 2 comparison.

I find rails popularity picking up, but I don't think we're anywhere near comparing it to struts yet (I used to be a j2ee dev and used struts quite a bit... painful).

When I want to play around with the next big thing I mess around in Node.js.

I've known about Padrino for a while now (and built some small apps with Sinatra), and I'm sure it fits some peoples needs and is a great project... but I have yet to become interested enough to bother. It's just not that appealing right now, and I don't think it's because I've become too comfortable or conservative etc. Of course if I start to hear a lot about it I'll spend a little more time playing with it.
Does this mean, for every person traveling, the feds can identify your social network activity and detect thought-crime? I'm interested in how they already knew which accounts belonged to who -- and how they automatically detected them as 'threats'.
I'm not saying you're wrong here, but do you have a source for that? Though I had heard of the investigation, I didn't know any proof had been found.
If you can't afford viable healthcare, get a job where you can. "Viable" isn't that expensive for anyone smart enough to frequent HN.