skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Problem with this article is they're not considering whether their write load is justifiable. Why are they writing 15x as much data as they read?

Anand wrote this in response to the question: "Statistics are pretty beefy (they are one of our enterprise workloads after all) as we're tracking requests to all articles published. Couple a few hundred thousand readers per day with multiple article requests per reader and that's a lot of traffic to keep track of."

Sure it's a lot of traffic but why do you need to write it to an SSD? That's something you can easily offload to a slow database and/or file server. And once you do, what does your write load look like? If it's dramatically lower then it means your conclusions need to be revisited.
Because

a)that doesn't get rid of the need for address books - even with email I still need an address book to tell me which John Smith I want to email, and

b) that's got absolutely nothing to do with the Path issue - them uploading my address book with a single phone number/phone DNS whatever for my contacts without my permission is just as bad as them uploading my address book with 5 different phone numbers for each of my contacts
List of stuff already in Chrome:

- Inline PDF View

- In-line Preferences Manager

- Network Installer

- Integrated translation service

- Silent Update

Anything else?
It's a lofty goal but within the realm of possibility, given enough time, resources and effort.
Not that I'd like to defend this move, but it probably has been on the table for a long time now. /r/jailbait was banned and reinstated enough times for the discussions to have gotten old in reddit HQ by now.
How did they know about my Facebook usage habits? Is this a thickly veiled privacy article?
Though seriously, it's easy to look back in retrospect and summarize webapps like this. It would have been more interesting if they discussed what the future could hold for Facebook. They are in a bit of a "serves no real purpose" limbo for me and I'm sure many other people. I have some fuzzy ideas on where they can take it to become more engrained in everyday real life, but I don't think society is ready for what I have in mind yet...
Thanks for drawing my attention to this.

Am I the only one who now won't consider using Bootstrap for a project (based on this semicolon issue)?
Code is here:

https://github.com/propublica/simple-tiles

Documentation here:

http://propublica.github.com/simple-tiles/
While I agree that the world is better off without forums where people can post their child porn or similar ilk, this policy change in reddit shows that there's in inherent issue with centralized platforms.

Back when there was usenet, everybody could post what ever they wanted (some news servers might not have carried the group, but there was no policing the source).

Same with blogs: You wanted to post content the masses dislike? No problem. But you want to post that same content to a centralized platform like Twitter, Facebook or any of Google's properties, now the masses (and/or governments) dictate the content you are allowed to post.

To really make use of the internet's capability of providing an incredible freedom of content you can create and publish, you cannot use a centralized platform.

While sites like reddit or facebook might make it easier for other people to find your crap^Wcontent, they also make it infinitely easier to have it removed again.
Modernizr Prefixed addresses the pain of vendor prefixes in css and javascript
I have a son and I am not so sure.

Don't get me wrong. If my son was a victim I would probably want nothing but hell for the person who did it.

But I also sometimes can't help but feel that society and the media is actually making matters worse, than they already are.
What does that have to do with libertarianism? Most libertarians want a government.
I didn't notice at first, but there is a problem. Not sex specifically, but the asymmetry. In the photo as well as in the text, the all too familiar "male over female" pattern showed all over.

Now if it were a female hacker talking the same talk and showing the same photo, only with her banging her boyfriend from behind, then it would be different, because this situation definitely isn't the default. It could still be offensive, but I would find it funnier.
Even if possible, all of those would be independent on whether updates install silently or not - they have always been downloaded in the background automatically.
I wonder why the CTO sits above the VP Engineering in Joel's picture? Is this generic, or specific to Jeff as the SE CTO, perhaps because he wanted to code, rather than manage?
Cinemagram, An Animated Photo GIF Maker for iPhone
I thought this was going to be about Contra, but then I watched the videos. Makes Contra look like Hello Kitty.
> IMHO, if someone is going to put MSSQL server on their resume they also better be familiar with MSAS, SSIS, DTS, etc... Even if they don't know details they better know that they exists and what they are used for.

Strongly agree with this. "MS SQL Server" is rather specific (and versions even more so!), so if someone has just created a simple CRUD app using VB/ASP and SQL Server (the canonical Indian examples being "Library Information System" or "Student Performance Management System"), the correct thing to do would be to state that clearly.

It is entirely possible that the above 'projects' were indeed heavily reliant on SQL Server-specific features (and not just Transact-SQL quirks), but personal experience has so far not backed that up.

As a result, claiming to be an "MS SQL Server" 'expert' because you've happened to run queries in SQL Server Management Studio (or used some variant of PreparedStament.executeQuery()) : totally dishonest.
It's pretty easy: stop buying DRM/protected products (and stop pirating them too). If there was no piracy and you just stopped buying, big companies would lower the price/do something different. But, now that they don't really know why, they will continue to add more protections.

But, most people don't have that kind of commitment or discipline and the rest are just part of the movement because they want free stuff.
It looks like they did: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574654

Someone did package up the CSS and put it into an addon though: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/custom-tab-wi...
Facebook has no interest in reducing the complexity/value of your social graph.
Sadly it's not that simple. Even if that were the only rule, illegal where? The rules aren't even uniform among the 50 US states, not to speak of city/county level, or other countries.

I think that the (unique?) problem with child issues is that if you allow things that are clearly not illegal (just 'creepy'), you'll draw a community that 1) Looks illegal from the outside and 2) Will, with very high probability, be doing illegal things over the messaging system or private/side boards.

To the greater world, 1 and 2 are enough for a high profile lawsuit or media blitz that would effectively be a death penalty for the community.
I mean the fact that the binaries on disk can be modified without getting user permission.
Exchanging child pornography is illegal in the United States (as well as in many other countries). There's nothing unreasonable about stating in your TOS that you can't have a subreddit the very existence of which breaks the law. Sure, people can try to reopen these subreddits under different names, but once the rule is in the TOS, they can be reported on and shut down as a matter of routine. The same applies to warez. Like it or not, you can't operate in the U.S. while allowing your users to post links to warez.

/r/trees is not the same, and I hate slippery-slope arguments predicting its demise. Exchanging actual marijuana is illegal in many parts of the United States. Exchanging information about marijuana is not. You could download kiddie porn on /r/jailbait, and the fact that those images are actually hosted on imgur is unlikely to convince any court. But you wouldn't download marijuana on /r/trees, would you? If /r/trees or /r/atheism ever gets banned, it will be the result of a completely different kind of pressure. It won't be a straightforward extension of reddit's current policy on kiddie porn.

Reddit may or may not be dying, but its latest change of policy on kiddie porn will probably have little to do with its fate.
A brief introduction to the world of map making from a total amateur. I intend to write some follow up posts going into more detail on making iPhone retina tiles, tweaking leaflet.js and so on.
Having money is helpful for start-ups as it allows them to focus on a problem and solve it. The opposite side of the coin could be that when looking for solutions with lots of money their maybe less efficiency.
An interesting story sadly ruined by the profanity and sexist photos. Best of luck, although I must admit that were I an investor, I'd want a signed guarantee that there wouldn't be any hidden easter eggs along these kinds of lines ;-)
Mobile Morning Coffee (02/13/12)
Freelance hacker? Greatest swordfighter in the world? Used to deliver pizza? That guy?

Pretty cool guy, I hear.
Think this is a fantastic idea and very useful to a lot of people. I used to work with the hemophiliac community and this (like many other communities) is exactly what they need. I'll also be looking forward to using it for myself.
Signed up, best of luck!
No mention of OS X Lion on the roadmap makes me sad.
I can't really get behind someone that:

1) makes money on advertising on top of other people's copyrighted material
2) starts a service for donating money and then charges a 10% transaction fee. Even Paypal isn't that bad.
Best WordPress sliders, that I've found on the web
Hi HN,

This week, for my WordPress project I was looking for the best content slider plugin solution. There're a lot of lists on the web, but none of them is really useful.

So I thought that this mini-topic might be useful to someone, here is my independent list of (mostly) commercial WordPress sliders that I bought for testing:

1. Estro for WordPress - http://pixelentity.com/estro-jquery-ken-burns-slider-wordpress-plugin/

+ Has great Ken Burns effect

+ Fast on mobile, because of CSS3 transitions and canvas drawing, but works slow in old browsers

+ Thumbnails option

- Can't display content from WordPress posts

- Useful only when you need Ken Burns effect

2. SlideDeck for WordPress - http://www.slidedeck.com/wordpress/

+ Can show content from WordPress post and RSS feeds

+ Can display slider inside slider

+ Has a free version

+ Thumbnails option

+ Great support, I had small issue and guys fixed my issue in a 3 hours.

- Too overloaded with features, works sluggish on my phone
- Works sluggish on mobile

3. TouchCarousel for WordPress http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/touchcarousel-wp/

+ Very cool touch swiping navigation and fast CSS3

transitions, works fast even on my old BlackBerry phone

+ Templating system to create custom layout in admin

+ Can display multiple images per view, which allows to create carousel and mail slider for site with same script

+ Slides any post type and taxonomies from it

- Has no option to create slides with manually (only from WordPress posts)

- Has no free version

4. Smooth Slider for WordPress http://www.clickonf5.org/smooth-slider/

+ The only one free slider, that works relatively fine and can display posts.

- Doesn't work on Android, works sluggish on iOS

5. RoyalSlider for WordPress http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/royal-slider-wp/

+ Touch navigation, CSS3 transitions, responsive layout

+ Option to add animated captions with built-in wysiwig editor

+ Can be displayed as gallery with thumbnails, or as simple slider

- As Estro, doesn't have an option to slide content from WordPress

- Has no free version

- Scales only images and slider wrapper, text content inside doesn't scale

Please share your thoughts too.
Your Critical Data Isn't Safe
My high school didn't.

I want to try this, but...I never studied electromagnetism or linear algebra. Is it feasible to pick up enough of those to get through the course (the docs mention remedial math is included).

If it is possible to learn those quickly, where should one start? Perhaps the relevant OCW courses?
What's the advantage of trolling in this form? All he's achieved are a few one-liner comments saying he's an idiot.

Victory?
I think the strength of the emotion is perfectly understandable. The unfortunate side effect is that it makes rational discussion very difficult - because it's such an emotional issue, it's easy to misunderstand what others are saying, or to see something as much more black and white than it actually is.

The worst part is this emotional response is so easy to exploit. It can be "think of the children" laws with unintended (or intended) side effects. Or, like in this case, it can be used as a weapon to attack a person or community (even if I agree with the outcome, this particular instance feels like SA attacking Reddit either out of genuine outrage or, more likely, for shits and giggles).
Hi all, pwnee programmer here. Thanks for all the support! I'm headed out to our meeting with MS in about an hour.

I'd like to quickly add: I'm good friends with all the people in the pictures (except the monkey). The humor was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, and I apologize if it came off as offensive. My 'wife' in the story is actually a great guy I met in Thailand. I don't believe he would be offended by the caption.
Amazing stuff.
Fragmentation: BtrFS, Ext4, NTFS simple file allocation tests
Cool! Any writeups yet on how it compares to existing solutions like Mapnik, TileMill, Tilestache, etc?
Apply those questions to companies such as Google, Facebook, eBay, Amazon, etc. and you'll reveal the futility of using three simple questions (or a dozen) to judge the value of a startup or an idea. When doing this you have to mentally rewind to the period in time when they were founded and let go of the knowledge you have about the environment as it exists today.

I think there's only one way:

Startup: Build -> Measure -> Adjust -> Iterate.
Failure: Pivot -> Try again.
Attitude: Never give up.

When you succeed, write a really insightful blog post telling everyone how just three questions gave you the formula to create your instant success.
Android 4.0.4 Verizon Galaxy Nexus update has leaked
A forum member Android Central got lucky, as it received before anyone else, updating the Android 4.0.4 Verizon Galaxy Nexus , though most of the android users looking ahead for Verizon Galaxy Nexus release and this news will definitely excite them.
> a false fallacy

The philosophy degree in me screams that there's something wrong with that phrase.
Thanks for sharing, please add links too.
I have to wonder if this is just some invented crisis so this guy can place himself into the tradition of the byte-counting olden days.
FORTH - A Language for Interactive Computing (1970)
I would love to see non-technical finance people branch out into the real economy. Where would they go? They would make excellent CPAs, but how many more CPAs do we need? The next logical jump would be to management, but a management does require some skills and usually a lot of domain knowledge.

Some would have to try their hand at the highly lucrative software industry. I think the consensus in wall street is that it would only take them a month or two and a couple software books to be leet programmers. I would love to see them try, and I wonder how well they would do.
He mentioned SOPA PIPA and ACTA because somethingawfuls stance of these reflects its general trustworthiness.

No one argues that illegal content should not be removed, and uploaders banned. Which was already being done. Child pornography was never allowed on reddit, and was removed as it was reported.

This is not preventing 'exploitation of children', it's just a majority censoring topics it finds inconvenient/disturbing.
I've been banned from posting articles on some larger subreddits some time ago. My political, economic and historical opinions aren't welcome for some reason.

My point? Reddit began banning political opinion long before it banned kiddie porn. Reddit's admins don't give a damn about freedom of speech and opinion.
Agreed all around.

I didn't say I agreed with the article, haha. ;)

Constantly questioning your beliefs can lead to constantly doubting everything. Over time there is risk of only believing in doubts.

Developing a healthy curiosity that tests, clarifies and strengthens your current understanding is that.

If there's one thing I would have added to the post above, it would be that Smart people know that developing a correct mindset for the journey of learning is far more important than the destination of feeling that they have "arrived" with their level of understanding.

Too many people, think they're done once they arrive at their conclusions, or hang onto them so dearly and fanatically based on all the work they've done. Smart people, for me, are ready to piss everything they've believed into the wind every day because of possibility.
And is therefore more expensive to maintain.
Shame: Sony raised prices on Whitney Houston’s music 30 minutes after her death
Facebook does not ban breastfeeding photos in general - https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=340974655932193#Does-Face...?
Your Dog's Favorite Robot
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I would not bet against your prediction. The political propaganda machine is on their side.
Ask HN:What systems based startups are doing good in the valley currently?
I am an engineer at a cloud security startup,based in the Valley.Revenue-wise,for a 4 year old company, they are around 20 million per year. (Since it is privately held,exact numbers aren't disclosed,and one of the reasons I'm posting this anonymously).For a young company,this seems to be pretty good.However,they have near-zero presence on HN- The founders have been previously successful entrepreneurs,and till date they haven't taken any investor money- and they aren't exactly YC mould.Complete opposite.One of them is a balding,55 year old guy,who still writes C code like a possessed-devil.I would suspect that there are many more companies in the valley,which are privately held,without investor money,and doing good.Can you name some of them?
Great, but take that GoDaddy junk off.
I'm reading what you wrote and seeing that you agree with what I said :)
My take on startups is little different. I like to believe that customers are already there, you just need to find them. Converting market into customers sounds like you need to "create" and "educate" a market which can be very hard.
This doesn't look like a good framework for GAs. It assumes that the best solution to a given problem is explicitly provided but if it is, then there's no point in running a GA any more. A good framework would only represent the genetic data in the form of a binary string but evaluate the fitness using an external function that actually extracts meaningful information from the string. Shameless plug: here's an example I wrote in Coffee: https://github.com/fawek/distributed-monalisa-evolution/tree.... It also makes it somewhat easy to distribute the evolution to multiple populations which can reside in different processes or machines.

Another problem with GAs that model individuals as arbitrary binary strings is that they unnecessarily create a lot of invalid strings that don't correspond to the solution space of a given problem. Sometimes it's easy to convert the solution space to the entire sequence range of 0 and 1s but sometimes it's not.
>This is not preventing 'exploitation of children'

It's preventing the trade of child pornography. How on earth do you not see this as exploitative?

>It's weird how reddit was a bastion for resisting SOPA/ACTA but fear mongering in US can take over a site.

That has nothing to do with SA.
I have a little experience working with Google Calendar. You should be able to add events to other calendars if you authenticate with an account that has appropriate permissions (just like you would in the Google Apps interface). You'll need to use the CalendarId of the coworker's calendar in your requests, which you can retrieve using the calendar.calendarList.list function.
subreddits are moderated by folks who are like-minded individuals that participate in the subreddit. It seems more likely that you were moderated by those subreddit admins, not the Reddit administration.

Furthermore, Reddit is a private organization, and they don't have to give a damn about freedom of speech.
Also how does something like this work with county inspectors?

My experience with county inspectors is they don't build anything.

They show up to inspect the work after it's done, certify it's to standards and call it a day.

If you're real lucky you'll get an inspector who is buddies with certain contractors in the area. Woe to the poor SOB who doesn't use them - you'll have a heckuva time getting that work signed off.

Yeah boy: how would we get anything done without county inspectors.
Tim Minchin - Storm
Great site, great design, great video.

Still don't get it. Is it Instagram + Foursquare? There is a lot of iteration on this idea of feedback on and sharing about places and the return is getting less and less interesting to the consumer. Without a network of people to see what I "liked" in the app, why would I want to like anything? Isn't the purpose of a "like"--to show that I enjoyed a place?
Most stylish web censorship
I am looking to collect and create a gallery showing censorship pages from various countries. Can you please assist with images?

This is a very stylish one http://i.imgur.com/z6Qvp.jpg
Data Scientist Turned Scultpor
I think "throwing in sex" and "throwing in derogatory content" are a little different. I didn't mind his writing style but the pictures (sans the monkey shot) and captions took away from the article. He's free to do as he pleases, but I respect him a lot less for choosing to use such content. I don't really want fat chick jokes while reading a game development article.

EDIT: Whoops, spelling.
The "success story" works just as fine without uninstalling Xcode: that's just "the bonus" - you can uninstall it if you don't use it for anything else.
You can't use a slippery slope argument that begins with child pornography in this situation without supporting child pornography. I'm not saying this to try and discredit your argument by association, it's simply a consequence of trying to hold freedom of speech so utterly sacrosanct that you can't breach it under any circumstances.

Yes, it would be easier to not take a stance on things like this, because then we could argue from the superior position of "I've never censored anything (well except posting personal information...)," but that would make us complicit in the trading of child pornography.

So, instead, I say we accept that we now have the harder job of drawing lines and judging what is and not allowable. Accept that the harder thing is to go "I am against SOPA/ACTA in all its forms, but am against being complicit against the trade of child pornography and will ~censor~ it if necessary" because life isn't about black and whites, and sometimes we have to make compromises for the greater good.
(EDIT: spelling, grammar)