skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He said they have Skype running. He didn't say the control would happen over Skype.

Mars rover is not real time, doesn't actually do anything, 5 of them failed, there is a team of highly trained scientists and engineers running the project and the whole thing has cost almost $1B.

I was talking about the bandwidth, not the rest. Yes, Mars rovers were stupidly expensive and difficult. It's freaking Mars. I'm pretty sure we don't need to launch a rocket to get stuff to Illinois, that we don't have a latency of 4h20m and that we can have one guy or two on the location to take care of any issue.

The current state of the art does not seem to suggest that it is possible for $1 workers in India to dig a basement in Illinois with a tractor controlled over the internet. It certainly is not possible for less than what it costs to just hire local workers to do it.

Frankly, without numbers I'm not persuaded either way. Consider the advances in farming vehicles it seems plausible to me.
Any startups in Birmingham, AL want to grab coffee?
A) I am not sure if you exist
B) If you do, I would love to buy you coffee - here all week
.. and both are gone in 64-bit intel macs.
Mountain Lion Does iOS-ification Right
How did you conclude that most valley hackers are not citizens?
"This tracking, discovered by Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer, was a technical side-effect — probably an unintended side-effect — of a system that Google built to pass social personalization information (like, “your friend Suzy +1'ed this ad about candy”) from the google.com domain to the doubleclick.net domain."

edit: to be clear, whether or not is was an intended side effect, it is a side effect of a (potentially) legitimate use case (setting the value of +1-ing an ad aside).
"intensive" as a university term (shortened classes)

I've been doing a little research. It's much more than is advertised. I believe it like 10 hours a week of just class time, but according to the "my time at code academy" type blogs there is way more learning going on outside of the class room than in it.

It appears they have a community mentor they meet with weekly and a group of thirty people that have put there lives aside to learn collectively.

One guy put it "more intensive than the 45 hour a week dev job I had coming into this"
Interesting that they'd choose the Greek flag as the next Windows logo...
Awesome, thanks for checking it out. Yes, the only way is ad supported right now if you want to go that route. What else were you thinking - monthly memberships for private forums? It seems odd but I haven't thought about it much.

I'm considering making the project open source as well so technical folks can run their own versions and modify it. Sort of a wordpress model where it's open source but they still make money off the hosted version which is simpler for non-technical people to use. Thoughts?
If you watch AJ/BBC you've probably spotted what my comment was up to. If not, just compare it to their respective US alternatives and you get it. I sometimes click on to mainstream US news just to check what's the POV on foreign affairs and I always feel like there's an echo chamber with a very thick wall (not to mention the quality of journalism), and it's not only the one with F and X in their name. It's a pity though, and what makes me more annoyed is that popular news channels in my country also went that direction.
Is Facebook Killing Google? No, But…
I don't really understand what Spotify is thinking with the FB-only login. I get that it's free advertising and data for them, but it seems like there's probably a very large percentage of potential users who are uncomfortable with spamming each one of their FB friends every time they listen to a song (not to mention "guilty pleasure songs" that people would be embarrassed to listen to knowing that everyone will see it).
Irrelevant. They aren't talking about Bear Grylls the person, they're talking about Bear Grylls the meme. The meme is well-established even if its origins are based on rumors.
Exactly! Just like people who aren't infovegans think that infoveganism just means eschewing mainstream media and feeling superior about it! It's a perfect analogy!
IT'S NOT A FLAG
Funny thing you would write that, I actually wanted to include that in my comment but completely forgot about it when I finished the second paragraph.

Yes, the exclusive access to those APIs is indeed pretty clear evidence to the contrary. I don’t think it’s really decisive, though.
I got the same 'click' recently, from reading about js design patterns (the oreilly book in particular), while working on a non-trivial html5 app. Ive been conscious of my tendency to write spaghetti code for a while, but didnt have any concrete guidelines on how to level up (just general advice like 'read good code' and 'fork github projects').

I had the sudden realization that using and recognizing design patterns was exactly what I was missing to get over the beginner-intermediate hump in the learning curve. I'd heard of design patterns before, but they'd come across as a rather lofty concept.

After a second and third look, I realized its immediately practical boilerplate stuff that one can copy/paste (and even more importantly, recognize in 3rd-party plugins and frameworks). Design patterns should follow after reading a 'cookbook'. Its just a name for techniques beyond your basic for/while loops (which could be thought of as the simplest of design patterns).

Pub/Sub can be viewed as a simple form of the observer pattern, and MVC is a more elaborate form (notice that in the article's TOC, MVC comes right after Observer). I've lost a lot of time banging my head on MVC too soon. For some reason, the introductory articles on MVC I was finding made scant mention of design patterns. Great to see more material discussing the concepts together lately.
Apple Sold More iOS Devices Last Year Than Macs In 28 Years
Never heard of HipChat? That ugly billboard on US-101 North by Redwood City was clearly wasted. https://www.google.com/search?ix=seb&q=hipchat+billboard...

(p.s. Y i no use hipchat? b/c ur face!!1)
"If you want to overkill, on November 1st you could read the election issue of The Economist cover to cover, whatever political posts are on the front page of HN, and the Wikipedia pages for the major issues. Then sit and think carefully for an hour. This would take about five hours, and I’ll bet $1 you’d vote for the same candidate you would have if you’d read five hours of political news per day for the last year."

I think I'm going to use this method - it's an interesting exercise, and it's a great excuse to get people to stop talking to me about bread-and-circuses politics (e.g. what's discussed in this blog post: http://www.tinyrevolution.com/mt/archives/000436.html ).

"Argument #1: Presidential candidates are noise. Unless you live in Ohio or Florida, your vote is foregone. If you want to be a good citizen, your time is probably best spent on convincing your friends to vote in local races. Or doing not-explicitly-political work that contributes to justice, peace and prosperity. A small career choice can do a lot more than the most forceful checkmark on a ballot."

This is an uplifting and encouraging message - and a far better argument in favor of anarchism than torching a Starbucks. Thank you.
The problem, I think, is that he wants a low level tool for generating disjoint types (not satisfied by define-record-type, which is not required to be disjoint from vectors or conses or what have you). This would give you the ability to have enums, ML style discriminated unions, simple records, etc. without necessarily requiring that each and every one of them be in the small language.

That said from a practical point of view some sort of record type is long overdue.
Like everything, it's all about moderation. It's very useful to have something to say in social and work situations.

Spending 10-minutes a week reading pop culture or sports news, or keeping up on what concerts, events etc are coming to your area payoff huge in meeting new friends, dating, building relationships at work and so forth.

Nothing is frivolous except excess.
Yup: http://github.com/samuelclay. And the hosted option is at www.newsblur.com, but you can host your own. It's a buck a month to have me host it for you (and do all the necessary feed fetching).
Whether the data is sent via HTML or JSON it will still incur the network latency.
Nanopore tech brings rackmounted genome machines, USB-based DNA sensors
TrendWatch 2012: The Rise of the Global Middle Class
A generation ago the economies in Latin America, Africa, India and China were stagnant and left billions in poverty and provided few opportunities for the vast majority of their citizens to build a better life. Fast forward to this decade, and the global financial landscape has drastically changed.
...But I only watched Will and Grace one time, one day!

Wish I hadn't, 'cause TiVo now thinks I'm gay!
Agreed. Geeks and nerds are both people with non-mainstream interests/hobbies. The difference is that nerds tend to make a good living pursuing their interests. It's an economic distinction.
s/most/many/

Oh, I feel so much better now.
Because (a) IRC is relatively dead (b) it sent a bunch of funny formatting codes which are a mess to read if you're not using Comic Chat too and everyone else was annoyed with that (c) it's kind of hard to find a copy these days.

But it was a fun little client back in the day.
I've been lucky to experience this a few times. I graduated college in 1992 and decided to go to grad school partly because of the recession. When I got out of grad school in 1994 I went into the defense industry (cool job building realtime control systems) which was hemorrhaging jobs because of the "Peace Dividend". We had folks with 20 years of hard core experience basically begging for jobs when they opened.
30% of Mobile Installs Become Active? – It May Be Much Worse
An ode to friends in Finland?
The logo looks very much like flags of Finland, Sweden etc.
Sure. It's more ethical for an self-professed alcoholic to not drink, as their alcohol consumption likely affects others. That said, it's easy to not drink alcohol and not judge others for drinking it.

That said, do that too often, and you're just around a bunch of annoying drunk people...
His predictions on damages have been at odds with the Judge's comments which seems quite important.
Oh? What’s the fault in the thinking?

I think it’s not a problem in the utility equation for an individual voter, it’s a problem in the system. By definition, a vote in a non-swing state is insignificant.

Empirically, a good showing for a third-party candidate has no significant effect on the political discourse, and your individual share of giving that candidate a strong showing is negligible.

Voting in the US is badly broken. I strongly favor equal representation, a multiparty system, and other reforms. Part of getting to them is admitting things like my vote, for one, being foregone.
I think the OP was saying: try cutting out noise, see what a difference it makes. Then you can better decide what news is worthwhile.
I wasn't trying to diminish the idea, as it was clearly a good one.

The point though, that even if they were there even partially is that things were trending that way already, and would have likely gotten there with or without anyone steering it.

Still though, always good to be thinking of things before they happen, and trend-prediction is essential for engineers / developers / designers / web workers, so kudos.
More important than whether to send html, json or xml is WHEN to send that content. People underestimate just how painful latency is to the user because they're sitting right next to their web server. Digg takes 15 times longer to load from bangalore than from california (see http://www.slideshare.net/kkjjkevin03/geographic-distributio... ). The thing that client-side rendering allows is caching your application UI in the browser and on the CDN. The server only gets contacted when it's absolutely necessary.

If you go mobile, it gets worse, because sometimes you'll lose the network for a few minutes, or even a few hours. Building a web app that keeps running in that scenario is possible, but only by embracing a client-side philosophy. In my personal opinion, mobile is going to be the dominant way that people connect, and the network is not going to be robust enough to render mobile web apps on the server.
The combination of compound literals and variadic macros is indeed pretty neat. It can also be used to implement Java-style variadic functions (ie when the variadic parameters have a single type):

#define sum(...) \
sum_(sizeof ((int []){ __VA_ARGS__ }) / sizeof (int), (int []){ __VA_ARGS__ })

int sum_(size_t count, int values[])
{
int s = 0;
while(count--) s += values[count];
return s;
}

You'd call the macro as

int s = sum(1, -32, 5);
Why Does Twitter Hate Me?
Facebook is not required to use the app.
You had me at, “Would you like a grande latte?”
Once you've generally sussed out how all of the different perspectives view issues, and thereby understand the patterns by which the world operates, the news starts seeming repetitious.
Your designs can be only as inspired as the pointy-haired boss who approves them.
It's not the wording that bothers me; Authenticode isn't real security.
The app still works in IE, it just requires page refreshes on every page load.
Yeah, and puppies. Sometimes when I take a glance at American news it looks like there'd be a conspiracy going on not to expose citizens to any issue possibly widening their field of view on world affairs. It's pathetic.
Off base.
Facebook login was implement to prevent a Chatroulette problem (nudity and profanity). The Internet Fuckwad theory: normal person + anonymity + audience = total fuckwad (http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Greater-Internet-Fuckwad-Th...) explains why anonymity allows bad behavior.

The decision had nothing to do with laziness, and everything to do with encouraging real identity on the app.
How could they possibly justify a price of $12 to $14 in their prospectus with financials the way they are and no solid monetization strategy on the horizon?
Yes, I hadn't considered the possible "street value" of what he'd taken.
Oh please. Politicians change their positions so much once they are elected that you can't judge what they will do on foreign policy or any other matter.
There is a reason Goldman claims to be doing God's work on Earth...
"No you don't understand, these amplifiers go up to eleven..."

Even a flickin' unix whiz doesn't care about, say, which disk sector a file is located on. In fact, if they are using a distributed file system, they also can mostly ignore the physical location of the data.

Your spiffy net of tags is a way-to-find data. A officially "file system" is a way to find data. Each has some flexibility, some lack-of-ambiguity and some persistence over time. You may not care about the uniqueness, ambiguity and decay over time of your tag based way-to-find data. But that just means you've got a convenient but half-assed file system. Moreover,
Just because you don't have a massive support crew doesn't mean you're going to die.

I'd recommend you check out a series called Survivorman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorman

It's a guy who goes out into the wilderness to survive with nothing but some basic gear and a couple of cameras and tripods. Less flashy but way more realistic.
I am not sure what you are looking for specifically, but here are a few ideas:

http://www.aldaily.com/

http://3quarksdaily.com/

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/

http://edge.org/
I don't care about apps using my Facebook data (what little there is). I don't trust Facebook not to use data from/about apps that I use. That's why I would never use my Facebook ID to log in to anything.

Actually I can come up with a better summary: I don't trust Facebook
He doesn't suggest that there IS a "jQuery tax", rather that people's common misuse of jQuery imposes a tax on page rendering.
We also had a swanky in-house client-side MVC framework cooking with Cinco. We used it once for Basecamp Mobile and while it was a good experience and the end result was great, it did little to sway my thinking on client-side MVC being a step forward in programming happiness (one of the key things I evaluate platforms by).

I'd like to hear more about this, ideally in a blog post or two. I think a lot of people were waiting for Cinco's release, certainly I was, because we wanted to see what you'd do with it. The fact that you have Basecamp Next running without it certainly says something, but I'd be a lot more interested to find out what the specific tradeoffs were.
This logo also ties in with the Metro minimalist look.
Right. But I want my car to drive me to work and back while I sleep or read. But to get there I think first business must commercialize it through their simple desire to increase profits, then it may become cheap and accessible enough for average Joes like me.

When you require two people with a driver's license in the car at all times you kill any profitable commercial reason to use self-driving cars. And that to me is a huge mistake.

Commuting to work (if you drive > 2 0minutes at highway speeds) is probably the most dangerous thing by far that all of us do on any given day.

Distracted drivers, drunk drivers, sleepy drivers (like me!) this is why we need self-driving cars.

But I think the path to mass use of self-driving cars goes through commercial use of self-driving cars.
Upvoted too because I preach this to friends/family regularly for serious issues/offenses. However I've talked my way out of around 9 out of 12 speeding fines in various states by being nice and kissing a bit of ass during the last decade.

Cops are people too and when they walk up to your window after pulling you over, they may actually be scared. And you know fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to your suffering in traffic court.

So the next cop who pulls you over, wind down your window before he gets there, get your drivers license out so you don't have to fish your pockets, put your hands on the wheel so he can see you're not going to blow his brains out and if it's not more than 20 miles over the limit, try admitting guilt and being nice. You might be surprised.
Spotify and Facebook partnership pre-dated the ticker and timeline. I don't think that at the time they decided to work together, they knew how or if Timeline/Ticker posting would be perceived as spam (Facebook didn't even know that). Probably just seemed like a good opportunity to partner with Facebook to increase visibility and virality during their US launch.
"Relatively similar"? No it's not. Criminal conviction or not, GS could still sue, albeit that the proof would be easier. Either way, I don't understand the relationship between your post and mine, or the whole point that is being made here.
I've been waiting for retina desktop display for years, my wallet is open
You'd probably have to write new code; but you could port the algorithms, which are the distillation of their trading expertise. That'd boost you several years ahead in domain knowledge—and, as GS pointed out, you'd also know how GS was going to trade, which would help you predict market movements.

I suspect the latter wouldn't actually be all that accurate, though, since all those split-second decisions are going to be highly dependent on how fast everything runs, which means your GS emulator can't make the same decisions unless you port everything exactly.
Just curious, why don't you trust Facebook? Did you trust them at one point in time? What made you lose your trust?

I'm a designer so it's interesting to me what's behind all the Facebook hate.
yeah, I agree. actually I don't know if I'd agree on the "vast majority" part, but the question of "is client-side MVC The Future?" can get kind of silly and messianic, while the question of "is client-side MVC A Future?" is undoubtedly yes.

there's a lot you can do browser-side these days which would be insanely masochistic without client-side MVC, but that doesn't change the fact that lots of very useful apps run on the ordinary web pages model.
Ask HN: Looking to hire designer for a few days. What do I need to know?
I'm probably going to hire a freelance web designer for a few day to complete a project.
The designer will probably be freelance so I will be paying a fixed amount on completion.
Are there any legal issue such as tax details I need to be aware of.
Also should we be signing any documents, for example a requirements list to state the conditions for completion of the job.
Thanks

Edit:
I live in the UK.
I think they are trying to distinguish it from those who actually cause harm.

I think he should be called gray hat. (Black: Harm. Gray: Does nothing. White: Helps company.)
sorry i wasn't clear: titles like this mean a lot more in germany, where it's much harder to find or lose a job; they also have a record that follows them around, much like your college transcript. being a director isn't like being one in america.
1) If it took him a month to write that article, he could still say 'oops'. He's entitled to err.

2) It seems like you're the only one interpreting his post as an attack on jQuery. It isn't. You said in another thread that English isn't your first language. I'd suggest you temper your accusations in light of that knowledge.

3) Even if he were bashing jQuery, and even though it is a good and widely used framework, that's his right to do. Yes, it is your right to cry foul, as it is my right to attempt to set you straight.

Simply put, I think you're off the mark here. Your attack on him are more damning than his supposed attack on jQuery, and strikes me as defensive.

In with the good air, out with the bad.
From this article, I take that judge McCreath acknowledged that Mangham did not intended to use the data he downloaded. Yet, he talks of "stealing" and "creating a risk" (a huge one, given Facebook's size). But really, how risky is it to keep data in an external hard drive at home? There is a risk, but I'd say not much. Also, there were no theft, since Facebook did not lose any data. And since this "intellectual property" has not been used, Facebook didn't lose a penny over this unwanted duplication.

From there, I see only 3 possibilities: (i) judge McCreath did not actually trust Mangham's alleged intentions (I'm not sure I do either), or (ii) he doesn't know enough about computer security, or (iii) other actual damages warrants the sentence (like wasted effort at Facebook's and by the law enforcement).

I bet judge McCreath wanted to punish Mangham over (i) and (iii), but it was easier to use (ii) to do so. Or, he doesn't really understand computer security, though that's less likely by the year.
> To believe that we can build our society with informed voters in democracies is extremely naive.

To believe we can do anything else is the road back to Dachau.
True but it seems this intrusion gave the team an excellent problem to focus on. The system is better for having solved it.

If considered in relation to scale, what per cent of its wealth did Facebook have to spend on this? Not much.
In my experience, a good book about the past is worth a thousand news articles. (And then some.)

History repeats itself more often than we think.

Prime example:

One of the first hacks for the TX-0 was Peter Samson's music compiler, even though the TX-0 was not designed to have such capabilities and to most people the thought was ridiculous.

The first hack for the Altair was Steve Dompier's rendition of "Fool on the hill" using the Altairs radio interference. The Altair wasn't designed for this purpose either.

For some reason, two different people from different decades looking at similar (But very different) machines decided to do the same thing with them, without any prompting.

There are universal concepts that humans try to implement, improve, and expand upon. Keeping these in mind while trying to do cool stuff will go further than most news pieces. (Even the ones about other people doing cool stuff.)