skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we are past the point of disruption: a usable product is an absolute minimum now. Aarron Walter wrote an excellent book on designing for emotion, where he argues that usability is just like a commodity and low on the user-need pyramid. Higher up that pyramid is a product that has personality and invokes the right emotions. You can read an excerpt here: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/personality-in-design/
In most Canadian airports passengers step on a map which randomizes some numbers and then determines if you go for scanning or not. Of course, you also have the option to opt out.

On a side note, did the guy say "gingerale" at the end of the video?
Beautiful app. You deserve some attention here. I was worried for a second it was going to be flash heavy. You proved me wrong. Great work.
I'm also very curious to hear real world feedback on this, I've been aware of the option for a while, but never heard much about actual use.

Automatic sharding and memcached integration are pretty awesome features, and could definitely ease code at the application level (sharding code is a particularly special pain in the ass, not so much getting it working, but allowing for re-sharding migrations if you decide you need more shards, especially trying to do so without downtime which involves all sorts of nasty tradeoffs).

But bang-for-the-buck and reliability wise, I'm still unsure, I've heard very little about this in the wild. Is this more suited for high write v. read ratio situations, or is it aiming more at the Vertica/Greenplum big-data uses, or something else?
If only I had some data to fill the wonderful databases available these days.
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Wow, I clicked it expecting something half-baked.

Not so, it's a bit The Verge like but cleaner. I'm looking forward to seeing where this goes.
I use Eclipse for my day job, working on a enterprise java project.
Here are some things I got used to working with Eclipse,

1. Most of the coding are done to interfaces and concrete classes are wired using factories or using spring dependency injection like,

InterfaceName obj=ObjFactory.getImpl(args)

I have to look at Class hierarchy often to go to the method that is being invoked, this is very easy in Eclipse (C+T)

2. Code completion for all methods (methods in different source files and from jars).

3. Highlight errors while editing.

4. Tracing call hierarchy

I tried Emacs some time back for shell scripting on a remote machine and I found that to be very useful and a right fit.

I would love to use Emacs for my java development if there are tools out there which can help me do things that I do with Eclipse. I already feel sluggish with Eclipse some times moving the mouse ;-)
I did try around the time it split from the normal releases (6.0?). The overall feeling I got was that lots of simple things don't work, trivial bugs stay open for... well mine are still open and there was next to no documentation for any kind of troubleshooting. NDB returned error numbers which were not properly translated by mysql_error, so you were left looking them up the hard way. There was also next to no community - just one IRC channel where guru ndb hackers seemed to know everything about it... but any kind of debugging through them was pretty hard if you ended up with a "I've got a XXGB db which just doesn't come up, what do I do?" situation.

If this has improved lately, I'd be very interested to hear about the changes!
Obviously. I was addressing his second paragraph; offering personal advice to him and anyone else here who might be interested.
Don't worry, no humans were harmed in the making of this hack.
Yeah, it's not presented as an option. All you have to do is say, I don't want to go through the machine. At most airports you can normally just pick the metal detector line and avoid the opt out completely.
Here is how it looks like if you are curious (http://i.imgur.com/VYG0G.png). Nothing fancy, it just calculates the variation and the sum. Also no history :( for the moment.

And it's not only about work, the "Fsap" stock measures my progression in social life. Analysts expect it to double if I get a girl-friend, but investors thinks it's very unlikely.

Prices are in TND (1/1.5 USD), the total market is worth around $9000. It's pretty much undervalued now. Investors are afraid of putting money in the market because we have been recently (last year) in a bubble burst. (in real terms, I'm not putting real $$ into my current business and waiting that it turns real income $$ before investing further $$ and hours)
What makes the Boston startup scene special
Quoted from the documentation: "Every request is wrapped in a Node Fiber".

So...essentially, this behaves like a traditional web server? A process listens for incoming connections, then spins up a new process/thread/fiber to handle the request?
Stay Useful fills this niche for me and stays in sync with my iPhone and Chrome browsers.
One part of this story I had forgotten about - after roughly a couple of years the same company (and the very same people at the company) approached us again looking for advice about raising VC money in the UK (we were on our second round by then).

I remember showing the email to our CEO, who suggested that the best thing to do would be to quietly ignore their request....
I'm not a big fan of gestures _purely_ to control or input to an app - gestures are not discoverable at all by new users. Looking at this page I see that a lot of things are only (?) controllable by a big list of gestures I have to remember. I pretty much closed the page right there - I'll stick to the Reminders app and my text-file list in Simplenote, thanks.
A few reasons why Buzzient is in Boston and staying put:

http://www.buzzient.com/blog/why-buzzient-moved-to-the-innov...

One of the main ones just being Geography: We are close to tons of great schools for hiring talent and there is customer access as well, with so many other Fortune 1000 companies around, in Finance especially. If only the investors took as much risk as those in CA and in NYC!
Anyone with some real-life feedback on this (or previous versions even?)
>I'll follow up by asking how a student is supposed to know all this?

The lawyers are supposed to know all this. The student is supposed to ask around and find a lawyer.
You mean 10-20% of Apple customers were exposed to personal interactions with Steve Jobs? I'm not sure on that.

Example: Apple had almost spent nothing on adverts or anything in India until a year (or two) ago. And yet the iPod was super duper popular. (Other products not as much as for the average Indian the price of the product + 30% tax by the govt. on the import puts them out of reach.)
Because I would prefer an image of me being sent to a centralized center where faceless, unnamed government employees equivalent to postal workers make decisions about my character without any option for petition, verification, or identification.
Let's not assume that not knowing better requires youth. Because let's face it, there are plenty of older folk who are still this stupid, and plenty of younger people who realize that threatening to sue their clients for no good reason is a Bad Move.
Congrats on the launch. A few thoughts... After registering, why not skip the "Create Your First Plot" step and throw the user straight to their plot. Just make up a name "Your First Plot" and let them know how to edit it.

Honestly, I don't know why I would use this (beyond maybe creating a family tree). I'm not saying there aren't loads more uses--I just don't know them. On your landing page, maybe you could show some of the use cases (show one embedded on a web page or used in a school project, etc).

My main recommendation would be to remove any functionality that really isn't necessary. I found the edit interface a little overwhelming with all the settings you can change (colors, images, etc).

Good luck!
And it's not like Boston has MIT or Harvard or anything like that.
I do the same thing, but it rather manages my current time and the short term of things. It's work-focused too. It won't remember you for example, that little task, when you are driving.
Indeed it's very hard to get worked up over the author's intended issue ("undue weight", minority truth vs majority falsehood) without seeing the actual edits in context.

If the author was essentially trying to unwrite the popular account, rather than supplementing it with a well-sourced minority view, the wiki editors actions become far more understandable.

Also, if he were throwing his credentials around as a substitute for clear and concise citation, the wiki editors' actions, again, become more understandable.
I was looking at the pricing, and I don't know how willing people would be to pay per month for this... Have you considered making it a one-time cost instead of that?
The app offers nothing except gesture when compare with Reminders.
well people complained about the lack of 3G, and now LTE. Some also complained about the lack of radio or full bluetooth support. I think your right, Apple wants to do everything well, not just "everything". If they can't do it well (copy pasting, multitasking...) they don't do it until they can.

I think we have yet to see the full spectrum of Apple's focus on software. Until the iPhone, they were hardware oriented (the Mac, the iPod). But since then, they are moving towards software. They make some of the best Mac and iOS apps after all.
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EMI Partnership Developer FAQ

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What’s the elevator pitch?

EMI is making some of its artists' content available via an API. Developers can work with the content in a sandbox environment and propose ideas for applications. If a proposal is taken forward, EMI will handle the tasks of clearing the necessary rights and marketing the application. Revenues will be shared between the developer, EMI, artists, The Echo Nest, music publishers and any other rights holders.

I read this as EMI want me to take the risk of developing an application, and then, if they think it's going to make money, they'll take it on and make money out of it. Sounds like they're trying to apply the same model to developers as they do to musicians.
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Very cool, i like the direction you're headed. We too like the detect issues before there is an outage approach. Its the direction we're head too.

Good luck!
That seems like a real shame, and an unnecessary repetition of work. Surely there's some way to verify expertise and provide expert commentary with supporting links to primary sources, even if it doesn't mean editing the entry directly? Perhaps a side-bar?

I'm sure this would lead to arguments about how to verify expertise, but even if it only started with unimpeachable credentials that would seem like a start. Tell me very clearly who is providing the commentary, and I can decide myself if it's credible.

I feel like I'm rambling a bit, but really this seems like a wasted opportunity. Why recreate Wikipedia from whole cloth when it already has so much? I suppose that given the way it's licensed, you could always fork it...
This is a nice example of the "quantified self", and I wonder if there's a potential for insight regarding productivity.

For example, the weekly patterns are apparent: the weekends aren't labeled, but you can see repeating density patterns in the days 5/2/5/2/etc. The gap for dinner is there, too, and you can maybe see gaps for breakfast and lunch. I love the high-resolution detail, combined with the easily-visible macro patterns; there's much more to see than GitHub's punchcard, say. Of course it would be nice to zoom in and see what Tom was working on during those bursts of activity, but I can't imagine him sharing that publicly!

Keystrokes certainly don't tell the whole story in terms of productivity, but it does have the advantage that it's extremely easy to collect this information. There might be other bits that are easy to collect, too, such as the name of the front-most application, or GPS. Combining all the stuff that's easy to collect could be very interesting for introspection.
It's not a strictly flat hierarchy, though, is it? And so not every user has equal power, right?

I'm not completely versed in the Byzantine system of Wikipedia, but the whole thing is based (somehow) on seniority, right? It would seem, then, that the system would self-select for people who spend more time on Wikipedia than doing useful research, right?
AVAST went public in November, too
You still don't need to configure NetworkManager to get a network connection. You can use the old methods (/etc/network/interfaces or /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts) instead.
You're thinking of "Featured Article" - those get onto the front page.

It is a bit of an odd process but, basically, "Good Article" consists of a semi-formal review of the article by an uninvolved editor to assess it for neutrality, completeness and language (etc.).

"Featured Article" is a more involved formal review involving multiple editors. It's those that get then picked for appearance on the main page.

The intended progression for an article is supposed to be something like: Peer Review, Good Article review, Featured Article review.
Operating systems with much more reliable and user-friendly network configuration interfaces (Windows and Mac) continue to permit advanced users to fiddle with their settings on the command line without actively impeding them.

Desktop Linux has gone from assuming users are developers to assuming users are morons who must be protected from themselves. This, and some other imbalances (such as surrendering good sense to a deified few designers) brought on by attempting to imitate the established "friendly" systems without actually understanding them is at the root of the continued failure to gain serious traction.
This is fantastic. I need something exactly like this most of the time. To be honest, I'd pay for this in the Mac Appstore. Nice job amigo.
Wikipedia would seem like a great place for original research, right?

It's trivial to get people to check over claims, and you have a place to discuss issues (Talk pages), and the person doing the research can cite their references right there and get called out on it if they don't.
Getting Started with iOS Development using Sinatra on Heroku
I expected to come here and see comments lambasting supportbee for being whiny; I am surprised by the tone here. I think a lot (certainly not all) of the problems with the freemium model stem from the users. Just because it's free doesn't mean that it's always going to be free and that you don't have to read and comply with the terms of service.

In this case, for one it's not clear to me that we've gotten the whole story. In particular, what were the original terms of service, and how did they change? Did supportbee read and comply with them? The current ToS says explicitly:

>"Any notice or other communication to be given hereunder will be in writing and given (x) by Gigya via email (in each case to the address that you provide), (y) a posting on the Gigya Site or (z) by you via email ..."

And really, did they have to send any notice at all? If supporbee was failing to comply with the ToS, couldn't Gigya cut off service or take legal action, sans warning?

Meanwhile, supportbee doesn't want to put a link on the webpage for a service that they use and benefit from for free, and they throw a small public temper tantrum about it, and we are sympathetic? I'm just surprised. Aren't we overreacting about "legal threats"? Isn't this pretty standard and run of the mill? It could make more of an effort to make you feel good inside, but that's not really enough to make it wrong.
It's up for me now! I only had to refresh once. Thanks for providing this.
Yeah, that was pretty much exactly my experience last time I tried it. (Around version 7.1 / mid-2010, I think.)
Yes, one might say that the "I" part of IDE is there to differentiate it from the typical Unix style.

Kernighan and Pike called their book "The Unix Programming Environment" (sooo highly recommended), so I' go with "PE" instead of the high-falutin' "DE".
Yes. And its a pain in the ass. From reading whats new in this release I could care less about AQL but hearing them say you can bring up a whole cluster with one command it shares user permissions between them... that gets me excited!
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This is very very cool.

It'd be even cooler if users could customize the themes right on the site, but that's probably obvious and not easy to implement.
Themed swatches for Twitter Bootstrap.
a huge shift took place in the incoming demographics

Hence, "brogrammers".
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Joins Pinterest
That's actually an excellent point, but different from the stated goal of what Wikipedia is.
I installed RubyMine 3 on Mac, Windows and Linux last spring. As much as I like TextMate, I have to say that RubyMine helps me get Rails apps written more quickly.
SOPA foe Fred Wilson supports a blacklist on pirate sites
If anyone ever tells you the scanners are "safe," you need only mention (innocently and with utmost politeness, of course) that they have been banned in the European Union over health concerns.(1)

(1)http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2011/11/15/europe-b...
The easy answer is that we're not in Berlin but in Cologne. It's not a zero sum game. If there's no HN Meetup in Berlin, I guess someone should get off the lazy train and just found one. We did in Cologne. We think it's the most awesome town for startups in Europe. Then again, most people of Cologne think it's the most awesome town for just about anything! :)
http://www.islinuxaboutchoice.com/
nice work. I think you could tune this a bit more to pick the right colours for the right elements, bad contrast and clashing colours sometimes appear. but nice effort, bookmarked :)
Original post is cool, but has only 6 color schemes.

I really like how your site generates a bootstrap color theme from an image of your choice.. works very well.
Don't forget that at one time, Apple packaged a whole Unix environment explicitly for that purpose (MPW).
It is indeed very annoying for experts to contribute to Wikipedia. They probably shouldn't.

Er, you realize how poorly this reads to the uninitiated, right?
The reason for doing it that way is that the bar to "facts" entering the mainstream is significantly higher (i.e. peer review, editorial review, etc.) as opposed to "what some WP editor let through".

This is important because people do cite Wikipedia and there is more than one instance of a "fact" appearing in an article and later being cited to a secondary source that cites... you guessed it Wikipedia. :)

The important step that publishing material adds is peer review. An editor might have excellent credentials but other editors are not equipped to peer review their material.

FWIW I don't agree it is an unnecessary repetition of work; the published material is likely to be much more than a summary, with reasoning, and so is adding significantly to the body of work on the topic - which WP can then summarise :)
I guess you won't be able to make it on time if you do get a ride. :( We promise to announce the next meetup more in advance! Sorry about the short notice this time!
TLDR; Tradehill.com was a victim of the new CA Money Transmission Act (and the 'removal' of $100,000 from their account):

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=63749.msg746954#msg7...

Aaron Greenspan predicted this last summer:

http://www.quora.com/Aaron-Greenspan/Posts/In-Fifty-Days-Pay...

TLDR: Old school money transmitters like Western Union lobbied to get a bill passed in CA that requires domestic money transmitters to get licensed (previously was international transmitters only). Now costs $500,000+ (just in CA, not including the 43+ other states with similar licensing requirements), full background checks, and possibility of jail under the PATRIOT Act if you violate any parts of the licensing.
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I stand corrected, what they're doing is pretty cool. I was under the impression that it was just an application to save highlighted passages from articles but after poking around it's obvious that it's much more.
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Suspensão a ar. Confira a matéria e veja as lojas que vendem air lift.
Thanks for your positive comments. You are right, no flash. Thanks to hard work by browser developers, you can achieve pretty impressive stuff using just JS, CSS and HTML. I am indebted to them.
> If software were the only priority, OSX (and iOS) would be more modular, easily customizable and extensible - and it would be much more advanced than it is and than what its Unix roots allow it to be.

OS X is very customizable, and you mention the proof of this yourself: iOS. Apple was able to take the fundamentals of OS X and, within a few years, maintain it, and move code between iOS back into OS X. I don't think the evidence supports your premise, here.

> And it would run on PCs since the 286 days (maybe with a decent graphics board).

NextStep did run on Intel processors, from the get-go.[1]

> If hardware were the priority, they would have designed their own CPUs,

Starting with the iPhone 4, Apple did just this with their A5 chip.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhhFQ-3w5tE#t=15m
Hey, we're aiming to post several new articles every day. We have an in-house editorial staff (I'm managing editor, former GigaOM writer & editor Darrell Etherington is senior writer) and a group of global contributors.

But we're more focused on quality analytical pieces that press release rewrites - quality over quantity. Thanks for checking it out!
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Totally agree, and we'll be adding RSS ASAP. It's on the launch day list of to-dos. Thanks for checking it out!
Maybe mention that it plays songs from the standard music library.
Netflix Pays $9 Million Over Consumer Privacy Violation Lawsuit
Ugh. Its a licence to sleaze with ease. And no comeback. Deplorable. Makes one's flesh literally creep.
Nobody's talking about interpretation. I was referring to mere verification that the source exists and says what it's claimed to. That can and should happen in an encyclopedia.
That's for the X-ray backscatter scanners; millimeter-wave scanners are in common use in the US as well, and are safe as far as we know.
Gasp. I've been cyberstalked! That'll teach me for using common usernames!
Trust me, objectivity will remain.

Thanks for checking it out!
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Great stuff. I love when people sweat the details.
Taking people straight to a new peopleplot when they sign up is a good idea that we had not considered, and would remove one more form for them to fill in.

With regards use cases, we are not entirely sure what people will want to use it for yet. Family trees are the obvious choice but it is a crowded market. We have outlined some possible use cases on the home page, though have not got any hard examples to back that up yet.

We'll just see what our users (assuming we get any!) have to say.
I don't think moderation rights should be granted on the basis of karma. In fact, I'd be happy if the karma was visible only to the user in question, and maybe to higher-level administrators. That should remove most reasons to game the system.

There are other reasons why I am interested in the meta-moderation concept. One is that it allows utter newbies a peek at what Wikipedians do all day. Once you have a sense of how others make edits, you may learn to do it yourself.