skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask about Lift on the google group. They're honest about advising whether Lift is a good fit for a particular project or not. They want success stories, and tend to advise against Lift for any project that could have serious issues ramping up on Lift:

http://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/liftweb
I actually like personalized search, except when I'm searching for anything remotely non-technical. Ubuntu Forums are the top result when I search for flu symptoms.
Apple putting iWork.com out to pasture
One of these days I hope and pray Google's personalized search will be smart enough to stop 'correcting' my spelling to something I wasn't actually looking for.

If I actually do spell something wrong, I'll realize it and happily fix it.
It doesn't say that. It says it requires access to:

"
* Your data on all websites

* Your tabs and browsing history
"

The reason for the first is that it needs to be able to modify every page you are looking at to block the ads. The reason for the second is that it needs access to the Tab API (to get the name/URL of a webpage you view, presumably to make use of white/black lists.)
would be nice if I, as a Service Owner, could see how many subscribers the service has.
As an aside, Chrome had a lot of trouble with this page. The first time I loaded it, chrome locked up. After restart, I was only able to scroll it part of the way down the page using the mouse. I was able to get the rest of the way using the down arrow on the keyboard though.

And I agree that most of the bad rap that QR codes get now can be attributed to bad uses of QR codes.
While OP has met some problems, I don't see how these would drive him away. I'm curious what framework he's moving to.

OP is looking for a silver bullet and there ain't one. Play! is an open source project, so the developers didn't have time to deal with his patch and he got upset. People forgot OS devs don't get paid for their work. Be a little bit more appreciative.
Thanks for the links. :)
[video] Technical Overview of Quixey, the Functional Search Engine for Apps
I hope we don't have homepages in 50 years. Hopefully, by that point, HTML and JS won't be the only thing we're allowed to innovate by that point!
What is this doing on HN? Some douchebag so-called PUA is a bit butthurt about a comic?

BTW, he had a Freudian slip in his writeup. When commenting on how these morons are not creepy, he says "A very very small majority were creepy". So, does he mean that for the most part, they're creeps?
that's true if candidates are just talking about themselves or answering easy questions (which is what some video resume companies do). But if you're answering really tough questions about a job (how to drive conversion, how to craft an email marketing campaign) it's pretty clear very quickly whether you know what you are talking about.

by the way, most candidates will eventually have to do an in-person job interview, so if looks are driving hiring decisions, this doesn't really change it.
Interesting, It's kind of like a FizzBuzz Test.
One thing I noticed, you have something on your front page that says "See sample interview" I wanted to watch it but instead I get a "how it works/get more info" page. I felt like it was a bait and switch.

I would like to see a sample interview in that space.

Anyway, good work guys I hope everything works out great for you!
One of the biggest (and best) ways Google could differentiate G+ from Facebook would be by moving away from the "walled garden" approach. Having comprehensive APIs for interacting with their service is an important part of that. Utilizing semantic web technologies to provide "smart data" instead of dumb data would be an important move as well. But Google don't seem to have much interest in going down this path, and I - for one - think that's a huge mistake.

I mean, yeah, I like G+ and I use it a fair amount... and that's partly because there are places where it's legitimately superior to Facebook in my estimation. But the failure to truly open up is something I look at as a huge disappointment and it is really killing a lot of my enthusiasm for G+.

IOW: "Damnit Google, jump on the federated social network bandwagon, implement comprehensive APIs and TEAR DOWN THOSE WALLS."
Sure, I guess that simplifies things from the tutorial-user's standpoint...I had just wondered about the state of the sass maintainer keeping up with bootstrap updates. Though I'm sure bootstrap changes come infrequently enough that that's not a huge burden (?)
For Students: How I Played My Student Card
I'm not sure what's wrong with the low-tech solution. Why is a sniffer preferable to an informant? Don't go with the high-tech option just because it's high-tech.

I think Hollywood and perhaps even our own fascination with technology misleads us, blinding our eyes to what has been proven to be simple and effective time and time again.
Is it transcompiler like coffeescript?
If no, what is the benefit of using this? Read readme but didn't get point yet.
They have laptops with touchscreens. You can stop waiting for Apple to do what's already been done.

The Dell Inspiron Duo is one such machine. It came out in 2010.
College Students: Our Nation Badly Needs You To Be Entrepreneurs
Well, since the user is uploading the video I think they are more or less ok disclosing their race correct? I don't see how it's different from the optional checkbox on application forms.
Is this really an issue for you? Assuming it is, simplest solution I see (besides the obvious appealing to good will of others to make the updates you need) is you pay someone to do the update you need and then submit it to the project. That person could be in a lower cost location than you are, thus much cheaper than you doing it yourself. A much better problem to have than vendor lock in.
Magic fix: ConcurrentHashMap....better still write your own.

I hope this is a joke. I know plenty of very good Java programmers, but only one or two that I would ever trust to write a concurrent hash map class that matched java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap's functionality (to say nothing of performance), let alone improve on it.

It's a nasty chunk of code, it's not a simple matter to get this right: http://www.docjar.com/html/api/java/util/concurrent/Concurre...
Very interesting. Note there is already a cli based Android development environment running on devices called TerminalIDE that uses vim, complete with very useful plugins already installed, as the editor.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spartacusr....
This is slightly more interesting than a port of gcc to Andriod - but it's still an conventional approach that targets edge case devices in Europe, not handsets in Nairobi's slums.

Touchdevelop is the shape of on handset programming.

http://www.touchdevelop.com/
What would've been even creepier:

"Fight/flight response, check. Reattach components. OK, this one's good to go."
'Occupy' as a business model: The emerging open-source civilisation
I don't attribute my personal growth to drugs. I attribute it to years of self-examination and introspection. It is hard work and the difficult acceptance of my flaws. Drugs did however provide the occasional signposts to help me along the way.

Most people are blind to their own failings. A new perspective due to a sudden insight can change your life; I think some drugs allow for an increase in the frequency of those insights.

I don't think I have reached a higher level necessarily, but I used to be insecure, depressed, negative, timid, lazy, and immature just to start. Now I am confident, assertive, positive, and strong-willed. I am a totally different person. I'm definitely not perfect, but I'm not done. I have many flaws, and I'll find many more. This is a lifelong process.
Fallacy alert: Just because people love Google search doesn't mean they love it because it is highly personalized. In the absence of better data, one could just as easily substitute "despite" for "because" in that sentence. The author's argument is analogous to saying that China's stance on civil rights is perfectly OK because everyone buys electronics made in China.

I'm rarely logged into Google, and I send the DNT header. This results in very little personalization of my search results, if at all. And I still prefer Google's search results to anything served up by Bing or DDG.
GoFlow.com is a site about sailing, this site's at http://flowstateengaged.com/
Google has done several forms of personalization before "search plus your world":

- Google detects your location (using GeoIP and similar) and personalizes results that way, both by redirecting you to google.$countrycode and by providing location-specific search (such as map results). You can't turn off the location-specific results, you can only make them more vague (by setting your location as a country rather than a city).

- Google detects if your IP address comes from a .edu; among other things, visiting google.com from a .edu will produce a message at the bottom of the homepage saying "Graduating? Come work with us!"

- Unless you turn it off, Google personalizes search results based on what you've previously searched for and clicked on.

Personally, I think this article has done nothing more than mistake correlation for causation, by saying that because Google keeps adding more personalization and Google's usage keeps growing, that therefore people must like personalization despite people saying they don't want it. I'd suggest instead that people dislike personalization just as they say they do, but that people either don't hate it enough to switch, or don't feel they have a credible alternative to switch to.
Less works well if you're using an architecture that will run node.js, since the recommended way generally seems to be: "change code in .less files, process with some node based javascript processor".

Don't misunderstand - It's not impossible to use less with other non-node.js based systems, but it is a massive PITA. There's a handy gem "less-rails-bootstrap" which wraps twitters bootstrap files and integrates with the Rails asset pipeline, but again, you should avoid this if you're not running on an up-to-date Intel system, since it has a dependency on "therubyracer" gem (which is V8 for ruby).

I have been using SimpLESS a little bit in the recent past, but it does choke on some of the bootstrap less files, and I haven't had the time to fork and rebuild it with a more up to date less library.

I think if I was coming to bootstrap now rather than a few weeks ago, I'd have chosen the sassified version rather than less, but fortunately I have an intel system to abuse, so all is not completely lost.
Works and works well are 2 different things. Usually you need a different UI that is optimized for the different form factor/device type, otherwise you might end up with an UI that works very well only on a certain type of device, and one that is mediocre at best on another type of device, because they are used differently, and that UI is forcing you to use it in a different way than you should.

Also it's not just the Metro UI itself and how it works with the mouse that you have to deal with. You also have to deal with switching between what most people will see as 2 separate OS's. I predict a lot of people will be frustrated with this.
Steal SMS logs, call logs, and emails with Javascript
I second this. Please, put your money where your mouth is!
Dart is not ready yet and not even full specified. In long therm dart should, as successor of JS, be the ultimative multi plattform language. For games i think this will take almost a decade, i mean look at the performance of android devices now.
Exactly. I already know that Google utterly fails at "autocorrecting" my search terms, because invariably the autocorrect note at the top just means I need to add more "quotes" to force the search I wanted in the first place. Given that, I don't have much confidence in personalized search results either.

Beyond that, I also find value in knowing how the results and rankings look in general, and that value goes away if the results and rankings become specific to me.
He says "what do you think?" and I think he is incredibly bad and interpreting data. Google has been a juggernaught for years. The fact that they both have a lot of users that like them and that people don't want these kinds of results that they have started to do recently are not mutually exclusive concepts.
We've integrated hackpad's session notes in to our unofficial session guide for SXSW: http://austin.lanyrd.com/
I recently found a package of sunflower seeds in my cupboard that had MSG in it. MSG is absolutely delicious, a magical powder that can turn the blandest food into a flavorparty.

But as a rule, I avoid it whenever I can because it is essentially a slow acting poison. When I purchased those sunflower seeds, I did not understand what they were made from. Had I known, I would not have become a user of that company's sunflower seeds.

I loved those sunflower seeds, but I most certainly did not love what they were made from. And I would have rejected them had I known at the start, despite their delicious flavor.

Applying the moral of this story to the topic at hand is left as an exercise for the reader...
New iPad & Apple TV: Precognition Palooza
See an EEOC opinion letter on video interviewing here:
http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/foia/letters/2004/titlevii_ada_reco...

There are a few rules that need to be followed, but in short, the EEOC says it's okay.
There are some things you can't say. I'm about to say one of them.

Paul Graham is now a pundit and member of wall st west (Silicon Valley). He has a vested interest in pimping his product - Young impressionable developers. You can take anything he says with an iceberg sized chunk of salt.
I'm a person, and I hate personalized search exactly because of what personalized search is. I don't want to live in a filter bubble. If I search for my name, I obviously want to know what other people would see about me. The same goes for any kind of ego-searching (my software projects, for example) If I search for "where to buy x", I want to see where Google thinks it is best to buy x, regardless of the fact that I am in Norway. Regardless of who I have in my G+ circles. If I want to narrow the search, I can do it myself. Even when I search for "mono", I want to be reminded that the world largely thinks mono means mononucleosis, not the mono compiler and runtime. I am part of the world, dammit, and I don't want Google to go out of their way to avoid showing me that world.

I also hate Google's hoarding of information about me, but this hate is completely orthogonal.
I think this tutorial is a treasure. It's a great introduction to the entire rails ecosystem, including TDD, git, heroku, and the like. I went through the 3.0 version a while ago, but so slowly (as in, a chapter every couple of weeks) that I forgot a lot of it. To those like myself, working through this in your off hours, I recommend keeping Anki (or equivalent) open and adding notes as you go.
Also, I'd expect that giving your password to a third-party service would likely be in violation of LinkedIn's terms of use. And I wouldn't be surprised if LinkedIn tries to shut down LinkedOut for storing LinkedIn users' passwords.
Let me get this structure right, so that I can be sure that I understand you, before you go on. (I'm a little perplexed because if the first copies weren't produced, that would obviate the willingness of people to buy copies in the first place.)

I assume you're pretending to be perplexed for effect here as it's standard economics to recognize that people will not produce goods if they don't anticipate making a profit.

Kickstarter is an interesting counterexample - basically get sufficient people to pay up front before production begins. Of course that may not work for everything, but then nor does any system.

The BBC? You mean impose a mandatory annual license fee on computer users and then give it to a state owned software company to produce digital goods for us?
I think he addressed this - the way to solve big, world-changing problems is to start by solving ordinary, day-to-day problems and then expand from that. If you start by saying "I'm going to solve poverty", about a year in everyone will say "Why haven't you solved it yet?" and you'll find it very hard to find people to help you. You end up accomplishing far less than if you said "I'm going to help a hundred underprivileged but talented high-school kids find colleges that are appropriate for them and give them their best shot of getting in."

I found that one of the worst and hardest mental habits to kick was the notion that I had to do "big, important things". Because big, important things are ill-defined, and your success metrics aren't clear. It's very easy to kid yourself into thinking that you're promoting justice for all, right up until you're 20 years in and the world is still not a just place. And then you have a mid-life crisis, think you're a failure, and give up.

It's much better if you can point to specific and yet often underwhelming-sounding instances of "I made this person's life better" or "I let this person do something he otherwise would not have been able to". A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step, and all that.
We’re All Friends Here, Just Not on Google+
Not true. It works on VMWare Player which is free
Fun with Git's --first-parent
Currently, there is a world stop, yes. The garbage collector is parallel, but not concurrent. A concurrent garbage collector would make that disappear. How bad it impacts you depends on the workload, personally I've never felt it. YouTube uses Go[1] and mentioned[2] world stop is significant in their case, but tolerable.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/vitess/

[2] https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/golang-nu...
Wow thanks, been looking for something like this. I hate visiting the indian news sites because of all the pop-ups
You're missing the point. Yes, this is a cutscene - but since it's being rendered in realtime, the camera suddenly doesn't have to be fixed. Players can move around, interact, and view other things while this is going on. Think of NPCs in games going through interactions like this, not just the main character during an unplayable cutscene. If you can create convincing facial emotions in realtime, you can vastly improve the realism in a game.
Siri for jailbroken
For definitions of "personal computer" that don't involve toggle switches and #47 pilot lamps, yes, they invented the personal computer.
Syncing Youtube with Websockets
How do you qualify the graders? Is it on a case-by-case basis, reviewing their resumes & speaking with them? I could imagine that aspect of the process requiring some creativity to scale without losing quality.
Roy Thomson, Canadian founder of what is now Thomson Reuters and the 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, was essentially bankrupt in his mid-to-late 30s, having failed in a number of enterprises. At age 40, he bought the first of the hundreds of newspapers he eventually would own because it was downstairs from his fledgling radio station.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/the-men-who-made-the-scotsman-p...
Tips from Ubisoft on making a happy game industry acquisition
I don't know SamA, and so I am not saying this against him at all. Nor am I saying that people become entrepreneur for the money. As you mention, there are safer routes to get money. I am describing something I have observed in Silicon Valley, especially in the last few years.
You have the lucky folks who flipped their Company fast, and sometimes see themselves as the master of the universe. You also have the dedicated ones - and Dennis Crowley from Dodgeball and Foursquare is definitely in this category.

I think it is sad, especially because of all the efforts that we as entrepreneurs put into these Companies.
Most of all, I criticize this general sentiment in SV right now, that success=money through acquisition/IPO.
If SamA gets his vision realized through Green Dot - all the better for him and for the Loopt team! (and us as users!)
And if you don't want to register, you can use bugmenot to sign in.
The reason it stuck is because it was grandfathered in, not because it is the best way to do it. Same as most things, like qwerty etc. People just naturally do things the way they always did things.
You make a good point about ui and it's proving to be a tough problem to solve as half the crowd likes to go with the story and they care less about the source while the other half's first requirement is which newspaper or source.

Maybe there's a middle of the road approach or possibly offer both.
Tether Launches HTML5-Based iPhone Tethering Solution
Yes, I'm puzzled by how many folks gave it a good review. The tab is slow, jerky slow when it comes to animation, sometimes freezing mid-transition. Most of my touch actions either don't register or are delayed. A lot of the time I can't open the camera because: 'media scanner is running'. I've given it a factory reset, removed all widgets and while performance improved slightly, it was short term.

I want to like it. I want to give it a chance but any extended use causes me to scream obscenities.
Yeah it's pretty impressive parsing of natural language to form financial opinions.

The Bloomberg website or Bloomberg terminal? There's a big difference between the sorts of things you can do with those two, but the website leaves a lot to be desired! Google's finance pages are fairly good at aggregation.
I'm curious. How did BeOS solve this problem?
TerminalIDE includes git. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spartacusr...

AGit is a standalone git client ($2.50). https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.madgag.agi...

The source for AGit is on github. https://github.com/rtyley/agit
Yeah, this sounds really good.

Unlike incandescent lights which heat up their surroundings via heat dissipation, this one would cool its surroundings via heat absorption and conversion to light.
2011 In Politics - A Review
Facebook’s tips for getting your mobile game noticed
"Numerous", sure. I'm aware of dolphins and elephants, and I'm sure there are others.

But you specifically said "the vast majority of life", and I don't believe that claim to be true.

Am I being downvoted for being wrong, or for missing the point, or what?
Thanks a lot for sharing. I hadn't heard of IDA/OllyDbg before.
Google Play TOS: You Don’t Own What You Buy
I think it's the convenience of always having the iPhone on you.

The only time I reach for my iPad or Samsung Tab is when I want to read comics (thanks Comixology) or want to play a game.
I am proud to say it mentions my Ruby on Rails installation guide for Ubuntu and Mint here: http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book?ve... (the guide itself is here http://www.mirceagoia.com/2011/11/ruby-on-rails-installation... ).
you said success is a formula, and because you were talking about an exit for an unprofitable company as being a success, it seemed logical to me that you ranked ceo 'brand' value over business profitability.

People have value (in general), calling some people A-players is trying to ascribe value to some, and as you say, that's hard to unravel. I agree ranking and valuing people is hard/impossible, why should we try . . . why are you trying? Why not let people show their own value by doing great things. I don't disregard the value, i just admit that we don't know it, the only thing we do know is if a business made money or not. It doesn't mean the person that started a shitty business is also shitty, but it also doesn't mean they're a success if all the sudden someone bestowed a crown of exit on them.
The Steelers have enough Super Bowl titles already. Why not help your brethren on the other side of the state? The Eagles still haven't won one (and have only been to two). You'd be a permanent legend here. :)
Show HN: Craigslist Notifications (Chrome Extension)
Here is my last weekend project that turned into useful extension. Basic version (Chrome Extension) will always be free and I will try to make money charging for SMS notifications.