skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm currently doing this with http://rtcool.com/

Edit: It's basically a service that abstracts out scraping for those that want to create a readability type project.

I've got one last thing to add and then it will be ready for mass consumption.
Good point, but I don't think people only ever use Apache for PHP and MySQL.
Yeah I really need to have a graphic explaining what we do and how it works, thanks for pointing it out. You are right I need to have patience and keep my spirits up and keep hoping that are better days ahead.

Thanks for your other suggestions as well, some very good ideas. I will follow up on those ideas and see how it pans out.
Facebook: congrats "personal lubricant" spokesperson
nobody can use gimp

what are you even saying
> seem benign by comparison.

So, this network is malicious by comparison?
3 Dogmatic Beliefs that Make Development Painful
Neat. I've wanted ZeroMQ in my browser.

I checked the README file for a license, but instead it says "ZeroMQ in your brower, yo!" Which tells me that:

1. I can't use it.

2. The author is 12.

3. It probably doesn't work.
Factories replaced farms, cubicles replaced factories

At least on farms/agriculture, we get a chance to be outside with nature, and stay healthy/fit (even though it is much harder work). What have we got to show for modern day cubicles? :(
Dropbox.com redesign
Internet Blueprint: A postiive post-SOPA agenda for Internet Freedom
The Internet Blueprint - Crowdsourcing bills to build a better Internet
What part of Impress.js doesn't work? Don't look at the demo slideshow they give you, create your own. I don't see any reason why it wouldn't work.
Speaking in purely economic terms (i.e., inherent human value aside), a consumer is only valuable for what they have to offer in trade. If you're a producer but I don't have anything you could want (you already have it or the tech to create it effortlessly), the price signal I'm sending as a consumer is $0.00 for anything you'd sell.
Dotjs - Chrome extension that executes JS in ~/.js
Designbump: like HN/inbound but for (web) designers
A rare example of a question-headline where the answer isn't "No", but "Maybe."
Can't help but feel some sympathy for him, but it's tempered by the fact that he doesn't see the big deal with attacking servers to bring down a company. Not even going into the whole part of flipping stolen websites and the app spam.

Ethics seems to be more of a problem for him than the social awkwardness.
I think the first thing a serious Photoshopper will do is start jamming on the keyboard shortcuts... none of which seemed to work for me. So, keep at it :)
I believe this to be the opposite of true.
Cool - I bow before your Eliteness! (pun intended ;-)
technology does not kill jobs. our technology has been steadily improving ever since the stone age, and unemployment levels have not appreciably changed. tech increases our quality of life, and the jobs shift away from menial, repetitive, or labour-intensive tasks.

think about how much smaller the portion of our population is who works in manufacturing jobs now compared to during the industrial revolution. now think about how big the entertainment industry is now compared to then. coincidence?
Is it just me or is hosting a single css file on a git repository a little silly? Not like one would continually check out the latest version.

That said, a reset file is always a good idea, and this is a nice evolution thereof.
Nokia Siemens Networks hits 1.4 Gbps using LTE-Advanced
Hmm, then what happens to outdated cables? Do we pull them up, or do we just turn off a switch at the shore and leave the rest in the ocean? Do the cables contain any substance that might pollute the seabed as the casing degrades away?
>iPhone is a biggie, as mentioned above. I don’t touch my iPad much — if so, it’s mostly as an expensive Kindle. I still like the laptop/desktop experience the most. I wish more content was designed for the big screen.

I can't believe the responsive web design trend hasn't done more to take advantage of gigantic screens. Everyone is pushing for smaller screens on mobile devices, while computer screens are way bigger than the 800-1100px width most sites are built for. Fullscreen apps on OSX are getting people used to the gigantic screen, but news in a 600px column doesn't really take advantage.

Pinterest does a good job with this, where they add columns as the browser gets bigger. Some may find it a little more cluttered, but at least it's using the space efficiently.
Good reading for anyone who's doing a startup and spending a lot of time maintaining servers.
I'd love it if they added Gist support for Organizations. Much easier to manage config files that way.
>Should i elaborate further?

Yes. What is the url of the financial statements site?
The Lively Morgue - A Treasure House of Photographs
I believe Grellas' main point is that, outside of a few areas society has deemed vulnerable and thus in need of protection, that the US gives skilled employees the ability to choose and negotiate with freedom.

If, for isntance, someone (even someone holding a JD) does not like the partnership model, they do not have to agree to it. They can seek other employers more conducive to the way they want to work or start their own firm or go into another industry.
Hi, the author is not twelve and he in fact is quite known in Python community. I'll ping him about missing license.
Sure, let me send check to Al Gore.

So far I haven't seen any reliable research that would reasonably explain how self driving cars navigated by central algorithms would help to unclog the streets. I for once would be upset if my car decided to put additional 15 miles to get me to work or wherever I want to go just "for a sake of common good of all other automobiles and streets being unclogged".

Henry Ford II: Walter, how are you going to get those robots to pay your union dues?

Walter Reuther: Henry, how are you going to get them to buy your cars?
Jared, thanks for the comments.

A couple of quick questions: 1) Would you be willing to take another look? We made some changes last night a little while after you commented. 2) Could you be more specific about the "Request an Invite" box? What don't you like about it?
For anyone curious as to how they're actually laid, here's a simple diagram of a typical cable layer ship (CS):

http://www.murmanchanin.ru/shipnoise/polar_king/polar_king.j...

And a simplified diagram of how it operates:

http://www.fiberinc.net/images/sea.jpg
Oh hey, look. He set MaxRequestWorkers to 800.

That means Apache can only process 800 connections at a time.

I wonder if that will affect its performance in the benchmark.
Introducing Collusion: Discover who’s tracking you online
"ZeroMQ’s actual C library (libzmq) is just an implementation detail."

That's a spot on. It doesn't really matter whether you are using ZeroMQ, NullMQ or raw HTTP.

It's like OO-programming: You can write OO program in any language.

Same way, you can do distributed messaging on top of any transport layer.
Exactly, I'm very happy that message went through!
Why? WebGL won't give you too much of a benefit when you're dealing with 2D textures.
If you click into this using IE, you are trapped by your detection page and it breaks the back function.

Please consider fixing this. I know we dont like IE users, but please dont punish them!
You're not helpless and beholden. There's just simply always a smaller fish.

If I turn down the job that requires 60 hours a week, they will likely find someone who is willing to do that. It's partly from a week job market, partly because people are so bad at understanding their own financial situations, and partly because the availability of financial leveraging systems like financing and credit.

And, of course, a company that's willing to take on an employee who's willing to work 20 unpaid hours a week probably also has a lower level of quality demand on a per-employee basis. What's particularly infuriating about this is that they could probably pay a more qualified candidate more money and get better work, and yield the results of two poor candidates. Essentially, companies are stepping over dollars to pick up dimes, and execs are laughing all the way to the bank. How pointless.
heh, something tells me this guy will be updating his post based on all these comments. At least, I hope so.
I'm certain they don't, but it doesn't seem like a terrible lowest common denominator to me - certainly it'd be a better one than pure static file serving from the point of view of the workloads I normally deal with in production.
Which of these concepts aren't actually a part of Agile?
>>In my reading this is what I perceived:
Historical employer/employee relationship + Freedom of contract = unshackled startups encouraging hard work<<

Then you should read more closely. (Sorry, I say what I honestly feel.)

I think the comment you extract in the second to last sentence of your post is much closer to what OP is arguing. "It's not for me, but who am I to tell you that you can't reach for that brass ring?" If you read it in that light, from the perspective that free choice is a good thing, the argument doesn't "fall flat on its face".

>>There is no choice if that is the culture of the company or even, as it seems in this case, the country.<<

This would be true, except such countries don't exist. There is always a choice, even in places with notoriously bad working conditions (China, India, Vietnam, etc.) This culture may exist in some companies, but luckily, in more free market systems, most industries aren't controlled by one or two companies. To wit, even in the legal field in the U.S., there are many positions available that only require 40 hour workweeks.
Apple Issues Invitations for iPad 3 Media Event on March 7
That is a reasonable position. But only if you wouldn't stuff your pockets full of money should you pass one by while at the same time complaining about all the free-loaders on welfare. I know some people who would do both things without having any cognitive dissonance induced discomfort at all.
Odd. I thought the general algorithm was to record a number points where the user traced, interpolate between them (so you don't end up with giant discontinuities), and THEN rubber stamp on the full list. That drawing looks like my attempt a pencil tool when I was using BASIC back in the day.

Of course, if the program can't keep up with that, then the drawing would appear to lag behind the pen.
ok then, so in this example, explain me or give me some good ideas on how 15 million US drivers all of sudden being obsolete can find employment in all the fields that self driving cars will create?
It's also not 3 minutes, but 12 or 36 (not entirely clear).
Nonetheless, companies would do well to remember that the first unions were formed not to demand higher pay, but to protect the worker from employer caprice and tyranny, and to lobby employers to make changes to keep workers from being mangled by the machines they worked on. Paying people a pittance may make them depressed, but destroying their dignity and their health will compel them to organize - labor laws and strike breaking tactics be damned.
A Year of Links
Why do you think I would be asking what your point is?
freeincomestatement-dot-com (non-clickable on purpose, for now)
Stanford Unsupervised Feature Learning Tutorial
This has nothing to do with the car per say. I am surprised the discussion went to "Oh get me to the shop". This is only an interface to take to iPhone apps.
Vastly many more people get rich with 'lifestyle' companies than get rich with moonshots.

They won't be as obscenely rich but several million is definitely nothing strange (Euros or Dollars, pick your poison).

VC's won't touch such businesses (and they shouldn't) because the return rate is not worth the hassle for them but that is just a matter of perspective.

For founders the life style businesses are typically a safer bet and a life that is more conducive to having a family and a more or less normal life besides the business.

For a VC babysitting a small but profitable company is just as much work as one that might hit out of the park. And the chance of a return multiplied by the return itself is way larger than it is for a life-style business.

The risk profile of a VC is much different than the risk profile of most business people and they only come out ahead because they make multiple bets, which is something most business people can not do.
Great. How does it work...
This is the main reason I chose Heroku. I noticed that at previous jobs I'd spend at least a few hours every week maintaining hardware.

In the end the ease and reliability are what sold me.
You should learn design
Google's programming languages lectures and more
The disclaimer on that benchmark is beautiful - I very much appreciate both the degree of honesty about the applicability of the results and the reminder that the majority of benchmarks we as developers personally run suffer from exactly the same caveats.
> Not like one would continually check out the latest version.

Why not? It's being updated regularly: https://github.com/necolas/normalize.css/commits/master
Its nearly the perfect ration of fat, sugar and salt, that triggers a craving. Not really the flavor.
PS Vita launch in the West: a huge success
Its not silly at all. It keeps version history and people can easily share their changes, and github provides an easily accessible place to download the file from. What would be a better place to share this file?
I started taking MAOIs while trying to deal with depression. SSRIs had pretty severe cognitive side-effects for me, and low doses of transdermal MAOIs have a better risk profile than traditional oral MAOIs. You're right about dangerous, though. I first started modafinil while on the MAOI, and didn't find out that it didn't work for me off of it until I stopped using the MAOI due to apparent serotonin toxicity, which you don't want to screw around with.
localStorage ins't for heavy tasks? It is not meant to replace databases, it is more for a robust capable cookie system.. So your argument doesn't make much sense
GOOD Design Hackathon
Without being 100% sure (not having played with WebGL too much), I'd guess it would enable you to perform a large amount of expensive image processing on the GPU, using shaders. For certain things (eg. blur), this would be a huge performance boost.
Apple unveiling iPad 3 next Wednesday in San Francisco
Zuz you are my little personal stalker (said in a friendly voice), it's not the first time you post a link to something I've written/done before I get around to do it myself... thanks I guess.

But in this case a) I will write a blog post and b) not sure the server is ready for HN quite yet... I hope most of the hackers here will read "design" and avoid clicking ;-)
CtyGrid Hyp3rL0cal WordPress Plugin
A Silicon Valley Tale of Humiliation and Revenge
A comparison of "conservative" versus "progressive" reveals some interesting things. Progressive leads to the Obama subreddit, where conservative leads to the Ron Paul and Rand Paul subreddits. The connections in each are ingriguing, for instance, the progressive has connections to environmental sub reddits, while the conservative has links to financial sub reddits. Interesting.
yes it does, it is being pushed as the cross platform datastorage solution.
Thanks for pointing out the article
Remember we're talking Agile adoption -- the way your average 1,000-developer place tries to implement Agile -- not ideal Agile.

There is a focus on people over process, but startups meet an actual person, they strive to attach to a user. Most Agile shops are Scrum shops. In that case you have a Product Owner. Not the same thing.

Agile/XP has always pushed "working code" over value.

Actually, I think it's pretty self-explanatory. To do this point-by-point is just to repeat the article.
"Note in captions: (static file)... This is not realistic."

It's reasonable if you're trying to test concurrent connection limits.

"What you absolutely must do is benchmark a dynamic PHP-driven, with MySQL access, website."

That's something nginx is also used for, and it's far from the only thing apache is used for. I agree that would be a useful benchmark, but it's not the only meaningful one.

"you've only proven that Nginx can handle more concurrent requests for a single static file vs. Apache 2.4 (which is something we all already know to be true)."

No, we didn't know this. This was testing apache 2.4's new event [0] MPM [1]. Arguably we still don't know this, since this apache configuration seems artificially limited and there's no comparison of the resource usage of apache and nginx.

[0] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/event.html
[1] http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mpm.html
Diaspora.

My own familiarity with social networks gives me a strong hope that some sort of social networking interchange protocol can be established which will enable the sort of sharing and disclosure (among friends and common interest groups) we've come to love, while limiting the exploitation by advertisers, spammers, scammers, and surveillance entities many of us have come to dislike intensely.

I see Diaspora as a very significant development to this end.
It doesn't stop it. Consider: the energy of the spark is flowing through your whole body, but it's only painful at the point of contact, because it's concentrated in the smallest possible cross-section. So use something else at that point of contact.
I'm not really sure what the point of this post is.

It seems pretty standard in all it says.

It's probably good to remind people that an NP-complete problem doesn't mean death, but I mean, in real world problems I think that everybody knows what the author is explaining.

I don't even think that he get the point across really well.

Two things:

- there is no emphasis on the fact that we live in a real world, so a solution to an integral at any desired accuracy is definitely enough for non academic studies;

- he forgets to mention that problems like the traveling salesman are for academics. The real world responds to the 'actual computing time of the traveling salesman + the traveling time' problem, i.e., if your exact solution is 10% better than the approximate solution but your computation time is 20 times longer so that the salesman can't even start actually traveling ;-) your best solution becomes suddenly your second best (plus many variations of it).

Of course in general there might be no way to know how much better you could do with the exact solution, but unless there is a Maxwell's devil choosing the set of your towns and roads, it's usually possible to estimate what the average error is (also in terms of some few computed cases and using Monte Carlo techniques). It won't give you the 100% certainty, but it'll give you the certainty that your solution is gonna be not that bad, given how quickly you get it.

I would suggest another thing. When you have a problem that you know it's hard to deal with, give it to a very intelligent person in your team that doesn't know it's very hard to treat. Most likely they will be more creative than you can, because they don't have that sense of hopeless you get when you know that a problem has no exact and easy solution ;-)

I'd say the real world problems are similar to the difference from math and physics according to one of my professors when I was a student. He'd say that when mathematicians and physicists try to approach a problem, their way of trying to find a solution is comparable to two guys approaching a cliff. The mathematician tries to carefully look at every rock and goes down to the ocean very very slowly, the physicist just jumps in an awkward way, kinda scared, screaming and closing their eyes and hoping they won't hit any rocks and that it won't end too bad (they aren't really risking their lives anyhow).

If what you need is a real world solution, you can just jump and see how it goes, you most likely won't die for that (because you are also probably not actually jumping off a cliff).
Fast Company's "Most Innovative Companies"
my DBs aren't that huge because I don't store all of the data I scrape, just the important stuff. I used Godaddy for awhile, but I now use 1and1. Out of all the hosts I've used over the years, 1and1 ha been the best in terms of support and up time.

They have a VPS plan with 2TB of bandwidth and you can upgrade the storage. I think my Mysql DB is currently around 20GB.
Does anyone see the source of information? I assume this article is not original reporting.

I followed the link to Mercedes' site, and I didn't find "siri" or "apple" anywhere on the page. I can't watch the video right now, though.
Supporting Cross-Domain AJAX in Rails using JSONP and CORS
just go to where the jobs are, duh!
"But a lifestyle company founder can get equally rich - just not one huge pile of money at one time."

True. Especially when you consider that investment isn't income. When an investor gives you one huge pile of money at one time, it's not for you, it's for the business.
Hahaha, holy jesus, I didn't realize he was running ApacheBench and the httpds on the same machine. That's insane just from a local resource starvation standpoint.
Kurtz: Major vulnerability in mobile webkit
> what humans can realistically create with their own hands from nothing

could medieval blacksmiths really create a sword from nothing but their own hands? how would they get the iron? would they have the knowledge locate veins of iron and then mine that iron? could they build the kiln and forge the equipment necessary for forging

arguably, by this standard, even farmers could not farm. farmers may know how to plant their crops, but without current crops to gather seeds from, would they know how to find the strains of plants that suit farming and then gather the seeds from those plants?
> some firms offer a bonus. i guess that counts as free money way in the way that overtime counts as free time.

I've always disliked this way of thinking. A bonus is a reward for the good work (already) done, NOT incentive/payment to add additional work.
useful software if you happen to often work with graphs : http://gephi.org. The ForceAtlas V2 algorithm which is an optimization of Barnes-Hut one is pretty fast !
I wouldn't invest in a single company nor would I try invest in specific companies. This is because I believe in the so called "Efficient-market hypothesis"[1].

tl;dr: "one cannot consistently achieve returns in excess of average market returns on a risk-adjusted basis, given the information available at the time the investment is made"

There are many studies that have shown this.

Even if you think you are better informed than the average Apple shareholder - this doesn't matter in the long-run. You may be lucky of course and make a lot of money - but in the long-term average case investing in specific companies is not better than investing in something like the Dow Jones.

Also - the stock market is a highly irrational market that can be shown by a little experiment - I will make it concrete:

As 100 people the following question:
Do you think that you know more about Apple than the average Apple investor? Yes or no?

In a perfect world you should get 50 x "yes" and 50 x "no" as an answer. But in reality more than 50% answer with "yes".
On a related note to my GNOME3 point (From the Fedora 17 Alpha release notes) [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Alpha_release_notes]

"The Miracle includes GNOME 3.4 and KDE 4.8. There is also a rendering improvement to let more users, even those with older hardware, enjoy the GNOME shell goodness"

I really hope that this GNOME 3.4 improvement is an upstream improvement, and if it isn't, that Fedora submits a patch upstream so that other distributions can benefit from this. Linux Mint GNOME would be an option for my laptop if it wasn't for the GPU limitations.