skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it likely for a CS student to find a job or an internship there or is this strictly intended for startup-founders? If the first case is true, I'm in.
I would say this is more of a tech demo and not a 'great use'.

A great use of 360 degree filming would be the drive the Haiti after the earthquake:
http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2010/01/world/haiti.360/index...
Ask HN: What are some dev shops in San Francisco that do iOS Development?
I am looking for a junior iOS developer position and all I can find are startups looking for iOS developers to work on their own app. Are there any mobile development consultant/shops in SF or surrounding areas?
My wife introduced me to Wallace around the time of his suicide. I read IJ in 2010, and have been hooked ever since. I watched this interview in its entirety about a month ago, and really enjoyed it. The wincing which the Open Culture post mentions was mostly induced by the camera man, who accused Wallace of "pontificating" early in the interview. After that, every time Wallace thinks he might be getting too heady, he looks worriedly in the camera man's direction. :-)

The part of the interview about liberal arts students going on to careers which have nothing to do with the emancipatory values they were taught in their degrees is reminiscent of the bitterness in some of the recent metafilter critiques of PG's essay "How To Do What You Love."

http://www.metafilter.com/113015/How-to-do-what-you-love
Why OS X 10.8 will be Apple's most important OS release since iOS
This makes no sense. The breaking behavior that Google is trying to avoid does not occur on Google properties. First-party cookies are not the problem. The breaking behavior occurs on third-party sites trying to include +1 buttons and the like. Your solution is to display a wall of text or a dialog on someone else's site when visitors have the default security settings in IE? Somehow I don't think anybody would be happy with that.
And yet Lions catch faster prey all the time. Just because something occurs randomly doesn't mean it always results in a net loss for the pursuer. All the time spent in pursuit on an optimized (leading) path results in closed distance. Within the constraints of the cage the pursued can only choose to zig or to zag, so if the lion uses a leading path, and is correct in anticipating directional changes only half the time, he's still going to have lunch sooner rather than later. There are visual "tells" that allow the lion to anticipate directional shifts on the part of their prey, so I'd argue that his percentages will be significantly better.

I guess I'm struggling with understanding the value of the exercise. If we're talking inanimate bodies, I get it. This kind of physics is valuable. However, choosing arbitrary constraints in order to make interesting maths out of natural scenarios is low hanging fruit. I just don't see it as all that interesting.
To respond in advance: Yes, this is an entirely artificial setup. The point is to start to get a feel for the overhead that different binding strategies can incur -- a question that folks often ask about.

If you're never rendering complicated UI, or never have more than a couple models, this will never make a difference. But if you have a large list of models, or need to run in IE8, or need to run on mobile, it very well may.

Edit: For folks wondering about the cause behind the difference -- Yehuda's looked into it more, and knows more about it than I do -- but there are a number of factors that could be at play:

* bulk innerHTML updates vs. granular DOM twiddling (especially in different browsers).

* Handlebars vs. Underscore templates -- although Handlebars templates are quite fast.

* Fine-grained bindings needing to be kept in sync inside of Ember for Metamorph.js purposes.

* Other miscellaneous overhead.

Some quality time with the Chrome CPU profiler should be able to tell you more. FWIW, Yehuda seems to link it's the latter: overhead that should be possible to eliminate in time.

Edit 2: Looks like @ericf's forked and added a new YUI version: http://jsfiddle.net/ericf/NrpcQ/
Yeah, this looks like academic code to me. I've never found an academic codebase that didn't make you want to cry.
As a network forensic investigator, if I were to upload packet captures to a third-party, I'd almost certainly lose my job - and rightfully so. Now, the appliance looks interesting for collaboration, as long as it stays in my protected environment, but I'm not sure that's necessarily the best way to go about this general task.

Other questions I'd ask: how well does it integrate with SIEMs like ArcSight? What about larger bandwidth needs, like for 10-gig networks? Can I extend the storage? How quickly does it actually search?

I've bookmarked their site for later review.
It's Apple's (and Google's) modus operandi. They work in secret, and then they make huge code drops every so often.
I'm very interested in seeing the new Admin console; is there a URL for that. Finding the docs a little light.
given the nature of a meetup, which is to meet people from where you live to talk about interesting stuff, asking for a munich meetup in the stuttgart meetup poll is missing the point.
Could the difference be mostly due to handlebars vs. underscore? I'd be curious how it'd look normalizing for templating engine.
As stated in the commit logs, this doesn't improve performance on any of the relevant benchmarks, and V8 is still generally king of those (although V8 has been losing to SpiderMonkey on SunSpider for some time now).
It looks to me like he is using BIOS emulation on the mac, so he gets an IDE interface instead of using AHCI which I get on my efi-booted air.
MailChimp. Two cents an email (one cent if you buy them in blocks of $1,000 or more), not exactly ideal in terms of customizability (corner me online if you want the full spiel) but easily adequate for the "baby's first drip campaign" use case. They're also super-sensitive about spam which is great for you as long as you're so squeaky clean the sight of your smile could blind people at midnight during an eclipse.
This is for anyone who wishes the meetup was in (berlin|cologne|karlsruhe|munich): JUST MAKE IT HAPPEN. What are you waiting for?
Couchdb hitting the self destruct?
Braintree releases mobile encryption for payments
Since late October (end of previous release) I've been mostly doing make-work: test scripts, some individual investigation, reading up on standards. Why? Because upper management haven't decided what is going into the next release. I've finally given up trying to get answers and I've made the decision myself. Any direction is better than no direction.

And the bizarre thing is they are totally obsessed with "keeping the sales pipeline full" but can't see that the same can apply to development. No doubt someone will make a decision in a while and we'll be under severe pressure to catch up on the lost months.
Here's the mirror way of doing it:

http://www.360video.com

There's a link on the home page showing what the uncorrected video looks like (it's a giant video donut).

You get better image quality (e.g. no stitching errors), but lower resolution, because the whole environment has to fit in the same 1080P frame.
Nice post! It's interesting that hardly anyone has chimed in that some programming language features make addressing this problem considerably simpler without forcing the programmer to write excess boilerplate. Objective-C delegation, JavaScript Proxies https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global..., ClojureScript protocols all provide the machinery to make this kind of thing work without making the code too hard to reason about.
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Don't worry -- God is just.

Most "blacks" who feel they've been wronged are clueless.

God says...
C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\BIBLE.TXT

t in God, and trusted not in his
salvation:

78:23 Though he had commanded the clouds from above, and opened the
doors of heaven,

78:24 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them
of the corn of heaven.

78:25 Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full.

78:26 He caused an east wind to blow in the heaven: and by his power
he brought in the south wind.

78:27 He rained flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like
as the sand of the sea:

78:28 And

----

I eat angel's food. It's not like God doesn't know it's bitter. Asshole.
Tell me about it. I bought these guys and they're now 1/4 what I paid less than 1.5 years ago: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231...
I use plaxo.com because it is free and will merge your contacts from Outlook, Gmail, and others automatically. I use the notes section to record when I last contacted the person, some stuff about their interests, etc.

The problem with this method is there is no built in way to remind me to make contact with someone who I have lost touch with. Also, the notes section is not searchable-- kind of annoying.

I recently heard of contactually.com that provides a notification system for reaching out to old contacts. I have not tried it yet.
My first language (after BASIC) was assembler, after which I moved to C, so pointers in C weren't a problem. The re-use of symbols and keywords for different things was a pain, however, and got even worse in C++.
But "No Entry" signs and robots.txt are broken for the same reason. We all know that, so how is it a counterargument?
Right. My experience is that usually it's two or three of the others + English that is spoken by most.
As compared to what? The mind numbing Apache.conf?

I am using and administering it from 6 years, seems pretty much okay to me if you use the .NET stack. If 18% of the top million sites are using it over completely free alternatives, they must be doing something right.
If you're getting blocked by the NY Times pay wall, either reload in a private browsing instance, clear your cookies, or stop the page loading after the text loads but before the pay wall pops up.
5 Steps To An Awesome Executive Summary
AS an FYI -- I was working on the largest merger between two US banks. 150-200 emails a day was a standard for many people making it almost impossible to digest all the information.

Speed reading, as you suggest, would not be a good solution to finding mission-critical information. As far as I know, no collaboration tool exists that could handle the complexity that we were dealing with. We tried quite a few, and pushed SharePoint to its limit.
Those would be pretty much meaningless...

Apache can be tweaked in so many different ways depending on what your traffic patterns look like, and how you're processing your requests. MaxClients / KeepAlive / MaxRequestsPerChild / etc...

e.g. you would have a completely different config for serving wordpress vs static images for a photo album.
A counter to this is all the people that have switched to NGINX are not going to "jump ship" back to Apache. I'm one of those converts and while this may be great for people who NEED Apache, most people don't need it and may have already made the switch to NGINX.
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CSS or cascading style sheet is basically a style sheet language that helps to describe the presentation semantics or it describes the looks and formatting of a document.
Noticed a few too. Like the fact that Scott Chacon wrote a book on Pro Git, not GitHub itself (maybe that's in the works).
IMDB is blocking image hotlinking, opening the img source works fine.
Gretl: Drop-dead simple regressions. And open source
Why Does Pinterest Let You Change URLs for the Image Source?
I use MailChimp's STS - really just a wrapper on top of Amazon's SES. I might just use SES if I wasn't already running newsletters through MailChimp, although MailChimp's wrapper is nice.

The only event-driven emails I'm currently sending line up pretty well with Stripe's events, so I'm just detecting them when they're sent from Stripe to my server, and firing off emails when they arrive. But if I wanted to set up a drip campaign like you've suggested, I'd just set up a daily cron job.
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Google Ignoring Privacy Settings, or Microsoft Crying Wolf?
Interesting hearing about how they want to tackle the Microsoft ecosystem.

As someone who spent years in that ecosystem and recently left it for OSS, I'll be curious to see what kind of success they see and who they are targeting.
5 Things I wish I would have Known before starting an eCommerce Store
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Assuming this hardware monitor is reasonably accurate, my hyperthreaded quad core i7 chows 145W when I'm really busy, which with my 80+ Corsair HX750W means I'm not eating more than 2 100W lightbulbs. I seldom play games any more so rarely use more than that. And that's when I'm doing serious number crunching. Since I'm only working at home about 4-5 hours/day during the week and maybe 2-3 that on weekend days, I really don't see electricity as much of an expense compared to time wasted rebooting and reopening all my work to where I last left it.
Plan 9 is a really, really bad comparison. If you really try Plan 9, you'll find a much better reason that it isn't as popular as it "should be": Absolutely no one has done anything to make it easy to install or pleasant to use. I'd say it reminds me of Linux circa 1996, but that would be pretty damned insulting to Linux.

There has never been a concerted effort to move Plan 9 beyond its roots as a research platform. The real world doesn't run on research platforms, and those of us trying to get real work done aren't going to invest our time in a research platform that needs enormous work to bring it up to a usable state.
There's an odd moment just at the end of part 1 and the start of part 2. The camera guy complains a little that Wallace is moving around a lot as he talks, and then he tells Wallace that he's 'pontificating'. It's a strange one, I think the cameraman is kind of being a dick, and you can see Wallace is bothered by it and not really sure how to react.
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This is massively inspiring to me. This article is now hanging on my cubicle wall. Thank you, Carl.
State Does Not Belong In The Code
And people stay with it because it would be so much pain to migrate to anything else. Just imagine rewriting all that VBScript code... That's mostly why companies kept IE6 for so long.

edit: forgot the "burn, karma, burn" line...
Alan Turing's library list
Do data caps punish the wrong users?
More descriptively, it's a aspirated unvoiced sub-apical palatal plosive.

If you wish to make the sound, position your tongue like you're trying to stick it down your throat. The bottom of the tongue should be touching the top of your mouth. Then, make a "tuh" sound. If you do it right, it should sound hollow and "harder" than a normal Englilsh "t" sound.
God yes - While working at a large bank I once saw an Agile consultant give a presentation to us. His words: "We find that when teams aren't succeeding with agile it is because they had only adopted some of the agile processes instead of all of it and that hadn't been trained properly by an expert "

I threw up a little.
Assuming both players react instantaneously, and space is modelled as continuous (not discrete), I think the following strategy always wins for the lion.

1. Lion runs to centre of ring
2. Lion moves toward tamer, but always staying directly between tamer and centre.

(2) is always possible, as the arc the lion has to move around to keep between tamer and centre is always shorter than any arc the tamer can move along since the lion is closer in. As a corollory, the lion can always get closer to the tamer unless the tamer moves direclty away from the centre.

Eventually the tamer reaches the edge of the ring and can no longer move directly away. Then the lion can continue to move outward, always between the tamer and centre, until they meet, and the lion eats.
Very relevant on VPS's.
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Seeking feedback on health startup concept
A friend and I are developing an online tool to help patients better access and understand their medical records. We're looking for ideas from potential users (ie all of us, since we're all patients, or know patients!)

I'm sure many of us have been through the experience of having a loved one with a chronic disease. Frequently one of the most frustrating parts of the process is not having access to the medical records that document the details of their care, especially when we can't accompany them to appointments (as the case often is these days). Moreover, whenever we do manage to get a hold of these records, understanding them frequently is challenging given the terminology used by doctors in their documentation.

Our basic goal is to make medical records more accessible and understandable for patients and their loved ones.

-Would you use a tool like this to better understand and engage with the care of a loved one? Would you be willing to pay for it? If so, how much?

-What about your own medical care---would you use this tool to better understand your own records?

-What sorts of features would you want to see in either case?

Thanks in advance for your help guys!
Yes. Including countless memes in comments and pull requests.
Paradoxical Gears: Gears designed to all turn in same direction
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Convert cda file into mp3 in one minute.
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This is nothing new, really. The greater the fame, the greater the number of haters. All they need is some kind of semi-plausible drum to beat. You either need to accept that these people are irrational, won't listen, and won't leave, or you need to step out of the spotlight.
Having worked with some quite large Mongo setups, I think you'll find the administration of Mongo ends up being significantly more than a single upfront cost.

Dealing with sharding + replica sets is an administrative nightmare with Mongo.
You can see a demo from Mark here:

http://basho.com/blog/technical/2012/01/30/Riak-in-Productio...
"Absolutely no one has done anything to make it easy to install or pleasant to use."

You certainly didn't use nginx before it had any english documentation then.
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At first glance it seems that template rendering is a key point here (render-as-a-string vs. dom-manipulation). However, if you change the backbone implementation to use dom manipulation (http://jsfiddle.net/jqSK2/) it performs just as well (or better, depending on the browser). Backbone's event system is much more important in this comparison.
I think you give too much credit to the reps.

This is speculation, but I would be unsurprised if China and Russia (the current bogeymen) are able to buy votes from other countries using other tactics. The Great and Glorious Nation of Trashcanistan supports freedoom for her citizens...but she also supports access to cheap oil and rare earths.

As much as everyone might bitch about the missteps in US management of things, we've done a (mostly) excellent job--for example, I don't think that the EU would have anything useful to say about allowing hate speech on the 'net, while we tend to allow that sort of thing.
I'm excited. Even if it is only a 5% to 10% improvement in performance, then that buys me a little bit more headroom on my current server setup.

I look forward to testing it out down the road.
HTTPD follows APR versioning ( http://apr.apache.org/versioning.html ) which semver seems to be based on.
Earlier submission and much discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3616284
The Costs of Supporting Legacy Hardware
Do you pay taxes?

Do you use the police when you have trouble?

Are you armed with modern weapons?

If you support the government, and have also given them a monopoly of force, you are explicitly supporting a social contract you seem to detest.

EDIT: Come now, why the downvotes? I'm not saying they are correct or not--I'm merely pointing out that it is somewhat contradictory to both call for revolution/anarchy and yet still de facto support the government.

EDIT2: Moreover, the final part of the parent explicitly says "...cannot shove us around however they wish." They very much can, as we have all given our respective governments reasonable monopoly on force in exchange for whatever it is they do that benefits us. Complaining about that while at the same time being a disarmed taxpayer is akin to complaining about the rain while leaving your umbrella indoors.
Except that most people did not make the switch. Apache continues to hover around 65% of the market while its next nearest competitor, Microsoft, hovers around 15%. nginx is below 10% and climbing very slowly.

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2012/02/07/february-2012-w...
Please Steal These webOS Features
Oh, the solution's simple: YouTube should just not check for rap music!
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Yeah, personally I am planing on getting in on the 2k48 bug panic. I should be able to make a pretty penny because it is unlikely that there will be that many people who will know C then.
Sorry, i'm too lazy to deeply check teh article. What happens if the lion starts from the center and always moves as to keep the center, himself and the tamer in a straight line? It should do some kind of spiral, but does it take infinite time to catch the tamer?

EDIT: someone came just before me. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3617030
What I find incredible is the error report. How am I expected to fix it?!? You would have thought they would put more effort into helping developers out...
I believe it works only if the Lion and the tamer have a non null size (not represented as point). I am not sure of this, but if you represent the Lion and the tamer as points, the Lion can go as close as it want to the tamer, but never really reach him. Of course considering the tamer is on the border.
In reply to the edit -- would be cool if someone could extend this to ExtJS as well just for the heck of it.
They both work well when N = 2 ;)
I just SES with Cron Jobs. That way I have complete control of customization, and can optimize properly.
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Git is an acceptable filesystem
why shouldn't it be?
How Mailinator compresses its email stream by 90%
Yes, those legacy servers went from 57 million in Feb 2011 to 88 million in Feb 2012, all running VBScript.

VBScript must be the hottest programming language, right?

Netcraft confirms it.
I am a bit surprised by your and angusiguess's take-aways from DFW. For me, the technical details of IJ were absolutely uncritical parts of the story - I imagine that the setting could be changed if DFW wanted to. Much more interesting for me was the absurdity of the characters, the physical pain and nausea caused by reading the book, the mental strain, and the story itself. The most memorable things about IJ are the effects that reading the material had on me, not so much the contents of the material itself.

If anybody has not read What Happens at the End of Infinite Jest [1] by Aaron Swartz, you must.

[1]: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/ijend
Switched to K9 mail.. thanks. Any other must have apps that should be core Android?
China kind of already does. Close off a lot of foreign major competitors, block objectionable sites, have domestic ones replace them which tie into the government.