skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correcting tyop
This is totally like that time back in '83 when Acorn couldn't manufacture enough ULA's for the Electron in time for Christmas. Probably some of the same people involved too!
"Maybe you'll find that because you can dissect their logic that they hate arguing with you."

QFT
Replicant developer interview: Building a truly free Android
From what I gather skimming through the paper, you should be more concerned comparing HyperDex to Riak, than to Cassandra or MongoDb. The potential use cases seem to be quite different for the last mentioned.
Phallanxpress: Backbone API for Wordpress
So nothing on the App store or Android market then?!
> It’s one of the best tools available to detect metallic and non-metallic items, such as… you know… things that go BOOM.

This is uncharacteristic - for a national security organization - even as a blog post. When people question authority, and the emperor has no clothes: resort to fear-mongering and keywords that incite panic? Check.

This blog post is going to be archived and referenced for the next decade. I'd say some restructuring is about to be pushed down TSA's throats. BOOM indeed.
This picker seems nice. I'm bookmarking it for any case where a complex datepicker is necessary.

For people looking for keyboard / accessibility support, I personally don't think a datepicker should be attempting to handle those concerns; it's more of a UI polish layer than a primary input method.

On that note, if you're looking for something significantly more lightweight (~8k minified) and easily skinnable, you could check out my own jQuery.minical:

http://jquery-minical.heroku.com/
Six Hackers in the United States and Abroad Charged for Crimes
thanks for this. one barrier for me is that it is a requirement for the code snippets to render nicely in google reader, but this can probably be solved by using markdown instead of gists. another barrier is that i can't write special code, like a vanity url redirector, to keep my SEO juice when content moves, but maybe this is not so big an issue as i originally thought it was.

what is your draft management workflow like? this is important to me too, more important in fact than optimizing for people to actually read the blog, because if draft management sucks then i don't blog enough to get readers.
I wonder if it's helpful for hiring new developers and designers though? I also suspect that they're able to sell more of their books that target entrepreneurs.
What is your point? All I'm getting here is "Apple has an inhouse legal team."
If these are random blogs you've signed up for, it probably won't matter too much if someone is able to log in as you. But if you used the same password for your banking you'll probably want to change it.
Ask HN: Anyone want a Pixelapse invite?
I just received an invite from Pixelapse and so far I love the service, I have 2 invites if anyone wants one you can post your email here and maybe other HN members can fulfill once I'm out.
> I use the same password on most 'low-risk' sites

Here's the actual problem.
Should we[1] be shopping around for doctors?

My wife did this with

* Her cardiologist. He did a _great_ job of heart surgery after her heart attack, but she wasn't thrilled about the way he ran his clinic on her follow-up visits. So she got another guy. That this guy was closer to the house is an unexpected bonus.

* Her orthopedic surgeon. Visited several guys when it came time to replace her knees. Picked one she liked who is also uber-competent.

Digression: Ten years ago when this guy was a middle-aged doctor knee replacements were a hand-crafted affair. Now the doctor runs the operation but a kind of CNC machine does the actual cutting, uses lasers to measure things and customize the new knees.

CNC machines cutting new knees: it's an awesome century so far.
The German system looks pretty good, I wonder if it could be adapted well for the US.
QA innovation blog series
A round-up of 13 posts about connecting QA to dev, bug investigation, and testing teams and managers.
Another day, another content-free post from 37signals on the HN front page. When will we stop caring?
Selling Code in Online Marketplaces: Really Going to Make You Any Money?
There are some things where you should never give the people what they want. False history is one of these things.
TSA responds to blogger who rendered $1B of nude body scanners useless
I'm confused, is the window object from Jsdom a live object? Can I scrape interactive sites?

Isn't Phantomjs already perfect for scrapping, what is the advantage of this exactly?
I've enjoyed reading and even learned a fair bit from the blog posts on 37signals. Much more than you're average X is considered harmful post or the top 10 Y tips.

If the best of their posts weren't on HN I'd add their blog to my RSS. To me, that certainly indicates that their posts belong here.
It's on our todo list to add info about the team, but here are our profiles on the site:

Matt Salzberg: http://www.petridish.org/users/2
Ilia Papas (me): http://www.petridish.org/users/1
They should have just smiled at the naysayers and went on with their day. To post an entire article on the negativity of one community seems unfocused. My only question is: why?

Disclosure: I'm a big fan of 37signals. This is kind of a surprise.
Nuclear power entrepreneurs push thorium as a fuel
Password managers.

Not to be snarky or to minimise the impact of yet another critical security bug, but does anyone get the impression that instead of righteous fury the appropriate response to these situations is to assume insecurity and provide information to other parties with the prior understanding that compromise is not just a theoretical possibility? It stands to reason that for every compromise we actually hear about, there is plenty going on behind the scenes that never even emerges from obscurity. That doesn't make it less dangerous.

Encrypt your remote data, make it useless for anyone to compromise anything you have provided to anyone else through password management with autogenerated complex passwords for every last service you use. Use all the tools available to mitigate the impact of a provider security breach.

Most of all, if you can't deal with the potential fallout of a provider's security failing, simply do not use them in the way that requires you to rely absolutely upon their security that you do not have oversight or control over.
Personally I like their posts, and it certainly doesn't bother me when they reach the front page of HN. The only thing I'm tired of is all the predictable hate that goes their way. In fact, I find it a little petty and embarrassing for HN.
Surprised to not see git-rebase cited in #3.

> git-rebase - Forward-port local commits to the updated upstream head

I avoided rebasing for the longest time because of that. If it had just said "puts your stuff in front of their stuff" it would've been a lot less intimidating.
> During that period, there were 24,826 first time visitors to any of our sites who we could identify as having first gotten to us via Hacker News (in all, we received more like 105,000 unique visitors from Hacker News, but many of those were repeat visitors). 97 of those visitors signed up, with more than 85% of them electing the free plan.

Left unsaid: how many of the 105,000 unique HN visitors are customers?

Also left unsaid (but harder to quantify): how many of those 105,000 HN visitors are influencers who have referred 37 Signal products to others? (FWIW, I know of at least half a dozen teams who've signed up for BaseCamp paid accounts as a result of my recommendation.)

[ UPDATE: In response to subsequent comments below, I've created a poll here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3680400 ]
This is the first time a post on 37signals has me a little put off. It seems unnecessary and slightly childish. It wasn't meant to show how posts on HN can contribute to their business but to shove it in people's faces. You would hope that smart people like them can figure out that a few people do not speak for an entire community.
Some Snort discussion about Murofet, Kazy, or whatever we're calling it..
(To clarify my own statements: I'm not saying there's never a time to use a highly accessible datepicker, just that a very common use case for a datepicker is just to provide a visual way to quickly input a single date into a form control.)
Very true statement! I've been a customer for a long time now and I also have recommended it to many clients. As I am sure a lot more have. I am curious what the answer would be in a poll.
Is this the start of a move by more and more sites to support SPDY?

Is there any reason not to support it?
Has it been confirmed that they're using OSM data or could the data be a product of their acquisition of Placebase (back in 2009)?

Apple have actually been using this tile set for a while (it's used in the slide show mode of the current version of iPhoto for OS X).
Stop using the same password anywhere. There are password management system that do encryption client side, have extensions for every major browser, have mobile apps, support two-factor authentication, will prepopulate both registration and login forms and more.

It's EASIER to use a password manager with very strong, unique passwords than it is to not. Not to mention the eliminated risk of "where did I use this password that just got leaked".

How many more leaks and how many more times do I have to repeat this to get people to take it seriously. Every time people whine that it's too much work (it's not, it seriously isn't) but they don't think about how much of a hassle these leaks can be. NPM, PS3, BitCoin reserves, how many more diverse things need to be hacked for people to realize that its simply a matter of time?
No draft management workflow here. I would imagine you could code some custom workflow process.
It isn't even the negative of one community, but rather the negativity of a small group of people within that overarching community.

People need to realize that sources of content almost always come in waves here on HN -- when someone makes an erudite post that makes it to the front page, there are a lot of people who will watch that source looking to repeat that success. And then you'll get the voters who'll vote it up just because it's familiar, until it becomes too familiar when they'll vote it down for the same reason.

We've seen these come in waves over the years (I've used HN far longer than this account). Coding Horror, Daring Fireball, Marco.org, Scott Adams, Dustin Curtis, etc. A small amount of very good content, and then lots and lots and lots of turgid waste that makes the front page simply because the author once did.
Is Design the new Development?
On the contrary, this individual should be promoted to the head of the TSA and be required to make weekly public TV appearances.
Thanks. That is the plan.
Employee Directory Sample App with Backbone.js and jQuery Mobile
Some people have taken problem ICs to a friendly dentist and asked him to X-ray them...
yes! Can you send one to michael.d.mcgee@gmail.com

thanks
Are you a Smart Data Scientist? DSL12-Data Science London Hackathon
Why You Should Use Inline-Block when Positioning Elements
How sheep-like behavior breeds innovation in Silicon Valley
I'd hardly call that a response... What's that quote about if your job depends on not understanding something, there's no way in a million years you are going to understand it?
I think the tone of the post was a bit combative (which is unnecessary), however, the posts clearly fit the guidelines of HN and were on a whole relatively interesting. There's nothing wrong with their posting habits.

They quoted the number of posts they made on their blog but they didn't address whether: 1) they submitted more of their own blog posts to HN or 2) changed the content of their blog posts to appeal to HN readers more. I think they probably did (which is fine with me).
I'm getting a 403 response.
Long term health care will never be free, there will have to be minimum payments/co-pays and the like. Otherwise people will simply abuse it,

People never value what they don't pay for: it's just the way folk are.

That is completely ridiculous in view of the example of the little-known country called the United Kingdom. People don't pay for healthcare directly, and they don't abuse it. This thread is ridiculous.
what the hell is up with all the WE WROTE OUR WIDGET IN 18 HOURS crap

do it right, nobody gives a shit how fast you achieved mediocrity
Pinterest, the design pattern to end all design patterns
I wish they had gone with At least 2 copies offsite - that was one of my first thoughts too.

Then I remember that I used to do backups at most once a year until I moved to the Mac and Time Machine.

(edit: clarify sentence)
One of the best images I can recall that capture "big brother jokey"

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091026215221/harrypo...
Glad I'm not the only one who manages to order just one slightly incorrect part for every hardware project I work on.
I think 37signals has enough relevant hits on HN to their credit that entitle them to a couple of misses. However,

When all is said and done, what’s our likely financial outcome from Hacker News visitors for those 25 posts? About $300 total per month.

A bit simplistic and conveniently short-sighted view if you ask me.
I'm also pretty old, relatively speaking, but I think of myself as young programmer because I started somewhat later in life. Early in my career I made the mistake (for me) of going into software testing and I found myself pretty bored and unmotivated. But now that I'm a dev, I've found that my passion and dedication to the craft has only grown over time. All that stops me from coding all night when I get home from work are the physical barriers (hands/back).

Well, that and my girlfriend. So my advice is that if you want to stay in it for the long haul, play a long game: be passionate and consumed with what you're doing but don't burn out. Have friends, hobbies, and a life outside of work.
Friggin' meta
That's why dropbox has lan sync: https://www.dropbox.com/help/137
Phantomjs has a lot larger overhead (it runs a full browser). Plus it doesn't give you access to the full Node.js ecosystem (e.g. access to databases, etc). You can use Node's Phantomjs driver, but it spawns a child process to do the work, and seems a little complicated in how all the interactions work.

And of course you can scrape interactive sites - interactive sites still basically just use HTTP to request data. Just watch the network window in Chrome's developer tools, and figure out what HTTP requests the site is making that you are interested in. Then code them into request() calls.
Me too. I found it subtly ironic.
It seems like there's a huge opportunity for big software player to develop a git clone that is understandable and has a great UI. I'm thinking of Microsoft. Build the thing right into VS, it becomes the new standard for business source code management.

Everyone talks up git, but few every seem to actually use it, or use it to its full potential. And I agree that this has a lot to do with a crappy interface.

If git is truly the next great step in source code management, shouldn't it be easy to use? Isn't that kinda the definition of great software? You shouldn't have to be a linux command-line cowboy to have to use and understand git.
Show HN: Polygonian - Paint a Picture with Translucent Polygons (HTML5)
http://www.polygonian.com

Hi, I wrote a web application that paints a picture with a set of translucent (or semi-transparent) polygons. It was written in HTML5/Javascript and works (or should work) on all modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox, IE, Opera, Safari). It works on iPhone, iPad, even my Windows phone (but they are slower).

Seen something like this in the past? Very likely, as this was largely inspired by Roger Alsing's EvoLisa. http://www.rogeralsing.com and there were a slew of attempts to reproduce/improve/port EvoLisa. The topic was discussed multiple times on HN.

However, Polygonian is slightly different. It's really quite fast and the quality is very high. You can actually see some convincing results in minutes. And as a bonus you get to play back the evolution as a movie. Check these out:

http://www.polygonian.com/app?art=wyIRUOCp&action=movie

http://www.polygonian.com/app?art=gbBrDhDR&action=movie

BTW this started largely as an attempt to see how powerful WebGL is. In the end, I took WebGL out of the equation because it is slower than plain-old Javascript (I can explain anyone is interested).

Please let me know what you think. Thanks!
Need a JSON API? Rails too heavy? Check out Lightrail
I've just pushed new versions of the client and server which solve a couple of bugs. Please let me know how you get on if you have a chance to try out this stuff. Would be great to get some feedback.
In my 25 years using computers, I have never once had any piece of equipment fried by a power surge. I have had things fail, sure - but never by a power surge.
The App Store Process
I'm not an expert in computer languages, but it seems like their information in that article is a little vague to pick out a language?

Couldn't the programmers just write their own language too, doesn't java/any of the lisps have that capability?
No. You make money selling fish because that is what you are great at. Then you give the money to scientists who are great at finding cures.
By default jsdom doesn't run JavaScript files unless they're specified within the program. However, if you call 'jsdom.jsdom' it will then run the scripts specified in the webpage, and those you specify in your program.
That's very interesting, and indeed seems to mark a certain personality type. Most people would see that exactly the other way around, that working with people is fun and easy, but the technical stuff is hard and extremely frustrating.

Learning technology is fun when it adds something new. For example, if you know functional programming, then Gang-of-Four "design patterns" are completely useless cruft and not especially interesting to learn. It's painful to learn that sort of stuff when it's less powerful than what you already have and would be able to use in a better environment.

"Working with people" can be fun, to a point. It's enjoyable when there's no power relationship, or a symmetric one. What's difficult is the context-switch from programming to interpersonal communication. It takes some time.
Link:

http://www.polygonian.com

Movies:

http://www.polygonian.com/app?art=wyIRUOCp&action=movie

http://www.polygonian.com/app?art=gbBrDhDR&action=movie

More artworks:

http://www.polygonian.com/app?art=T96dxr30

http://www.polygonian.com/app?art=67CTUqHy

http://www.polygonian.com/app?art=jq8AdtV2

http://www.polygonian.com/app?art=qtHBFncK

http://www.polygonian.com/app?art=1TSkyDga
I got it. You're from MySpace, not even from reddit
Isn't that what you'd call Zagat's? (Bought by Google a while back, somewhat surprisingly.)
Well, there goes my start up...

I have been working on this idea in Python/Flask in my spare time while doing school. Perhaps not a smart move on my part. I thought my science background would really help things get off to a good start.

This has been a terrible month. Breakup with SO of four years, killer midterms, this. How does HN deal with this kind of thing? Do you still push forward with your unfinished work?

Edit: I'm a computational biochemist / computational chemist with LOTS of lab experience. I can work gloves-on or gloves-off.

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Edit: Moved the following from a grandchild post for greater visibility.

I'll have to drop out this semester and find some Atlanta Python hackers... Is it wise to do so? (PyAtl may have some.)

I wanted to do it as a labor of love, but force open publication for anyone accepting funds. I don't want a pay cut except to keep things running. I also want to focus on molecular bio, medical and disease research, etc. Maybe it's "less romantic", but it has a much greater potential to collapse technological reverse salients.

Amazon payments would also keep out a large segment of the world. That's unacceptable. I'd rather have someone on staff to handle things manually.

Equipment procurement, etc. would be great for smaller schools and labs.

I also thought it would be cool to let the teams have a blog/vlog where they show the public how their ongoing research is progressing. The public would be very intrigued to see how difficult and painstaking it can be. Public education is a major return from this.

Here's a big problem though--you can't just fund a "project"! You have to fund every step along the way of inquiry:

Question A --> (fund) --> Answer, New Question B --> (fund) --> Answer, New Question C -->
... --> Question N --> Wrap it up in a pretty bow for publication.

Every step needs funding, because quite often you reach dead ends when traversing some large inquiry space.

It's science. Since you're exploring new territory, you never know how deep the rabbit hole is. You don't know how hard you'll have to look. You can't anticipate how much you'll screw up and lose weeks/months of hard work.

I also wanted to pull in rankings of the top/most-cited authors, etc. as a factor for more informed funding decisions. It would also be a great way for new scientists to start gaining a track record instead of waiting to become the "grey beards in charge".

This sort of process would be _amazing_ for cancer researchers. You can really break it down to every question being asked and let the public become fully aware of how things are progressing.
Ask HN: Advice for a high school student
Hello. I am a 17 year old living in a medium sized town in eastern Canada. Recently I have started to have concerns about my future; not that it will be bad, nor that some unfortunate event shall occur, but rather I am uncertain of the direction to take in my life to be able do what I want. I consider myself lucky in that I know where I want my career to start (most of my classmates do not), which is starting in technology. I can program very well in Java, Javascript (including node and backbone), and PHP, and with the knowledge of all these, other languages are very easy and quick to pick up. I can design quite good looking web applications as well. Since I am graduating this year, I will be going to taking computer science and my town's local university (which is not at all a bad one, but not a top school), although I am interested in taking business as well (and was heavily weighing on whether to go into the business program). The problem is that I do not see what path to take. I do not want to live in this town for the rest of my life. I want to make a difference in companies and most of all start companies.

I have a plan somewhat laid out for my future. My first year at university I will live at home to ease into university life, second year I will switch to dorms to get accustomed to living away from home, and third year I will transfer to a reputable university in a large city such as toronto (or somewhere close such as the University of Waterloo) to make the move, and then take a co-op program to ease into getting a job, however after that I do not know. There seems to be many successful people here on HN, and many people that may have been in my situation. How does this sound? What is your advice on university, how to move to a big city, how to get an interesting job, and how to start a company?

note: I will not e able to respond until later as I am at school for the day
Apparently so: http://www.db2teamblog.com/2012/03/db2-express-c-for-mac-os-...