skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just read this, and absolutely thought it was worth reading (and paying for). I, unlike you, love art museums, but I'm not incredibly good at knowing what's going to look clean, let alone pleasant or useful in a UI -- I write a lot of code, and a lot of it doesn't hit the UI directly.

Reading this gave me enough exposure and links to more in-depth stuff and useful resources in a dense enough format that it was actually useful, I've been casually looking for a primer like this for a while.

A minor suggestion: remove the `__MACOSX` folder from the generated archive.
Appcelerator mobile survey results.
With the telcom example I've provided above there is no generic OS used for that - the protocol (e.g. TCP, IP or even HTTP) is (pre-)processed within the hardware and not further up in the OS.

Generally Linux / Unix (carrier grade / HA) is used within such environments as the OS. Context switches (user land / kernel) are some of the most expensive operations so they are to be avoided as often as possible.

What you're pointing to are features you generally find in RTOS (real-time OS) solutions - and these kind of cards / platforms allow using them. Look up the Trillium platform from CCPU for example how such a stack / system is layered - they use Wind River PNE-LE (Linux edition for network equipment) for the HA & non-HA protocols.
How different it is from Tonido webshare: http://www.tonido.com/app_webshare_home.html
I disagree. As an employee in the legacy corporate world who has to suffer through crap every time lunch or dinner is catered in for a meeting, I would welcome healthier, better, more consistent options. I don't see many big businesses setting up daily deliveries en mass, but even if it was just weekly or at the group or departmental level, I can see a significant market for ZC.
The PDF: http://testing.ybru.com/images/Appcelerator_Report_Q12012_fi...
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PrivateSky turns your HTML5 browser into a two-factor authentication token
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Reddit has a problem with content quality, as the existence of Hacker News proves (at the time of writing this, the top post in /r/programming is a useless "funny" picture).

Also, the missing isolation from other Reddits can be a good thing, since some people might want to only talk about their interest and not bother with the circlejerk.
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Every subscription business will have a) people who pay for but don't use the service and b) people who pay for but don't use the service and ask for refunds. If you ignore your emails telling you "Thanks for signing up for AR, friendly reminder, your trial ends in 3 days." and the subsequent ones reminding you every month, I'll happily take your money rather than second guessing your business decisions. (I used to pester people about that but plural people literally said "Stop pestering me! I get it! We bought it now but won't use it until March. No I don't care about paying extra! Its like $80 a month, why would I care?!")

I get a notification when anyone unsubscribes and, if it looks sort of borderline (e.g. sent one test phone call on the first day, never used the service again, and then canceled on day 33) I offer to refund their money. I get about 50% uptake on that. This makes me sort of anomalous in the industry (take a look at e.g. 37Signals policy on refunds -- "We. Don't. Refund." -- which is much more common) but it works at my scales because AR doesn't have so many accounts at the moment that sending an email or two a week is a big tax on my time. (And, of course, I don't lose sleep at night over $9 or $29 or $79 in revenue. It is literally rounding error for me -- if the yen hiccups that is much more painful.)

At the risk of stating the obvious: the business model is not hoping that people will forget about their subscription to Appointment Reminder. The business model is in convincing them to log into the site every day, run their business off AR, and call my cell phone at 3 AM in the morning to scream at me if anything goes wrong because that way I can get them to pay me thousands of dollars.
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Science is normally taken to be the study of nature. By that definition, "Computing Science" is a misnomer. Sure, it's a misnomer with a long history, but isn't the point of all the hand-wringing (beta status, area 51, ...) to try to get things right?
Close, except that Beanstalk handles your instances for you. It's a similar concept to Heroku.
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More power to you Sir! I really hope you will do a good job with the Search functionality, which I find quite bad on most job sites.
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Dude... I am sorry, but your reply does not make sense on many levels:

I don't know if reddit could run on a single server, but this benchmark does nothing to prove it. A pageview on reddit consist of several http requests. A http requests translates into several requests into a database backend. In this syntactic benchmark he is requesting the same static file over and over again, so nginx and/or linux can cache it in memory (or CPU cache).

Also even if they could put reddit on a single server, it would require a lot of optimization and engineering time is more expensive than hardware. It would also make adding new futures in the future a pain in ass, because you would have to be very greedy with CPU time (and other resources like memory, bandwidth, etc...). Also you want a multi-server setup for redundancy and handling extra capacity.

EDIT: I don't if you also planning to put the database on the same server? Web servers are basically stateless so they are easy to scale. It would be interesting to calculate how much disks that server would need just to handle the IO throughput.

Full disclosure: This is some speaking who used to work for social network with 9M users and 3,000 servers.
IMO computing science is the right name. It is the science of computation. Computation happens in nature as well as in computers. If it didn't happen in nature, we could not build a computer physically.

However, computer science would be wrong name as a computer is a human artifact and studying that is engineering not science.
Just to give a different point of view: I'm sure you're right per request, which I guess is what matters here. But per volume, most content on the web is static.
Team Fortress 2 took nine years from initial announcement to release and went through several designs throughout.

Based on the overall quality and success of Valves games I feel like this should be commended not criticized..
> working hard for a couple of weeks

That's crunch time.

A death march project takes months or even years, ruins the health of the workers and takes years off their lives, destroys their marriages and causes them to lose their children, leaves them believing they failed personally rather than being victims of poor leadership, and so forth. Outright literal death is uncommon but not unheard of.
The source is available and the license allows for derivatives. Would you be interested in forking the code and putting together a plain-javascript version?
Excellent point, I hadn't thought of that.
Angry Birds-themed activity parks launch worldwide
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I'm a long time user of Launchy. For me it's a must have app for Windows.

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3. Built in calculator. so I can type (1 + 198/24) * ( 254/222) and get the result quickly. Too bad the calculator is not advanced enough. For example: no sin(x), no power, etc
Well, either the federal government should stand by its existing patent policies, or it should change them. Halfway "we know we shouldn't be doing this but can't you just let it slide and hit it on a technicality instead" measures really should not be an option.
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>> None of that would matter for the 'dead guy' in the graveyard.

That's up for the 'dead guy' and his beliefs to consider.
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The advantages of remote hiring in e.g. India are clear - it's cheaper than in Western countries, and flexible (loose coupling), and whatnot.
Therefore, big companies in my country (Austria) have outsourced software development to the Far East, beginning in the 90's.

However, I have noticed a reversal of this trend in the last few years, and I wonder why. Surely there are factors which impact those companies negatively, or else they would stick with their strategy? Like brain drain impacting product quality or something?
I'm really not sure that's true. I'm in the UK and it is very widely used, accepted and trusted.
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Brilliant price point. I thought, £3.89, that's cheaper than a grande latte with extras. No brainer!
This is actually typical in most programming language communities that I've observed.
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I've written more on this elsewhere, but you're generally right.

PCI compliance rules are designed to test the serious risks that can be tested.

If the credit card data doesn't pass through your servers, then it doesn't pass through your servers.

Stripe complies the same way as PayPal; it just looks different to the user.

It's also worth noting that there's a big difference between data at rest and data in motion. If your site is hacked tomorrow and starts redirecting CC info, then all of the CC info between tomorrow and the day someone stops the hack is compromised.

If CC data is stored on your server in any way -- and this if it passes through your server, this may be the case even if you aren't putting it in a database -- then when someone hacks your server tomorrow, it's quite possible that all CC info entered since 2003 (or whenever you started) is compromised. That's a much greater risk.
This a good analysis.

I wonder though whether over time this kind of understanding is just going to become a formula or best practice that ends up being handled by a PR department.

If it does, then how will we detect an authentic apology from a formulaic one?
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New iPad HD Throws Out More Heat,Can’t Charge While Running Apps and Games
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Just a nitpick: Erlang is not an academic language, it's designed in the industry, for industrial use.
The article says "for mom", which has a vastly different connotation than "for a woman". In fact, the word "woman" doesn't appear on the page.

I clicked expecting subtly (or not-so-subtly) sexist. I got a small review after clicking a modal pop-up requesting me to "visit their sponsors" that looked like it was made hastily, perhaps in the anticipation of a lot of traffic?
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the clip on IBM creating the first HD b/w '52-'56 can also be found here ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USJGui9yIuA
"Shame on any of them."

You're saying shame on all of them, without any moment to hear how this might have been a mistake and not reflective of their organization.

I know zero about these people, they might be every bit as bad as all that. But my suggestion was that perhaps people withhold judgment until the organization has a moment to respond. It's remarkable to see active objection to that. This positive refusal to think or inquire, the justification of reflex, is dangerous.
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The third reason is so you can change the world.
Are you aware of the "Preview Pane" labs option in the Google Mail settings?
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The reason the python version is slow is (I believe) that the code is very inefficient. It uses socket.sendall() instead of sockfile.write/flush. Using sockfile.write/flush speeds it up from 50 requests/second to 7k requests/second on my machine.
I might be missing the point, but at least with Emacs, copy and paste works nicely from within tmux without doing any of this stuff.

Using clipboard-kill-ring-save and clipboard-yank (I have them bound to C-c c and C-c v) just works.
Yup. How do you get to zero defect if you don't? The point is to eliminate support calls by root cause analysis:

* is the software borked?

* are the doco's borked?

* is the user community too poor/uninformed/unsupported to generate the answers without developer involvement

The devs are a key part of determining which of these things is the root cause. If they don't talk to the people who matter (the customers) how can they help solve the problems?
The other way round would be a lot better: Make any Webpage from 1996 look like it was made in 2012! :)
Presumably only by observing a company over time: does their behaviour change? Have they kept their promises for how they're going to fix it?
I only seem off the deep end because the industry has brainwashed itself. The computer no longer exclusively serves humans. Rather, humans now look to the computer to know what to do. Talk about "imperfect worlds" is the same thing irresponsible scientists say about "imperfect information". People think spreading harmful theories is fine because they have "imperfect information". It is the same with software. People have lost touch with the possibility of doing nothing instead of engaging in harmful action. If the economy was in a downturn would you see that as an excuse to turn to the tobacco business? The basic misconception here is that the production of more software overrides problems such as increasingly irreversible dependency on complex systems. I keep hearing the same thing I heard when I was in academia: admissions that people were creating problems along with endless excuses and expressions of career-motivated cowardice. Anyone who criticises the bank bailouts as moral hazard and who is also working to build complex systems today is a hypocrite. Because it is the same heroin addict thinking: that we can fix an addiction by increasing the dosage.
An excellent point... but to be honest, if every company reacted like this when they screwed up it wouldn't actually be a bad thing :-)
Very good article, I'd never really thought about it before, but the 5 points listed would definitely make me feel a lot better about an apology from a company.

I'd also love to see a company's apology where the 'how we will fix it' statement is "I shall be entering rehab tomorrow morning"
The video of the flight just screams fake, it's like the uncanny valley feeling. You just know something is wrong with what you're watching. Almost there though, all very elaborate.
We call that 'moving' and not 'working'. Working is something that generates customer satisfaction. Moving is just anything else. Adding bodies just to run distraction for developers is adding pure waste onto payroll.
Man, that's a really great starting point.
I think most PR people already know the formula. So for big companies it is hard to tell when it is genuine (and when you are speaking for 10,000 people, some of it is genuine and some of it is not, employees have their own personal opinions).

But for small companies the founder's bias just comes right through. If the founder isn't really apologetic they will end up writing a half-apology, even if they know this formula. The formula really requires you to own up to the full responsibility and sometimes the founders don't want to.
I am not saying that all developers should always be on customer support.

But all developers should sometimes be on customer support - maybe 1 day a week, maybe more.
Seems like half of the comments are from 6 years ago, am I missing something?
...and the cost impact of a software developer who doesn't understand the customer and real-world scenarios is enormous. They just sit there are crank our new support calls, new support costs, worse customer experiences, slower growth rates, deteriorating customer experiences.

You need to take action to stop them folk coding as quick as...

Getting the customer to do it is as good a way as any.
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I am extremely reluctant to give anyone my credit card number. If I used your free service and it works great, I will consider it. But the chance that I will give my CC number to a service I have just heard of is basically zero.

I understand that have data on this and the customers who converge outnumber the ones that you loose, but it might diver per demographic. Paying with credit cards is less common in Europe than in America, so that might play into it. What might help is get a seal of approval from some organization that you are safe. If you have social proof it's even better.

EDIT: I might also be worth considering if non-paying customers are really just a liability to you. I understand the bottom line is what counts at the end of day, but free customers might recommend your service to someone else or they might come back later when they really need your service.
The author seems to have no clue what CS is, or how it might differ from programming in PHP.
If this isn't an example of all that's wrong with the tech press, then what is?

It's certainly true that the new iPad gets quite warm where the iPad 2 never did - I've experienced it myself playing 3d games.

However, what's up with the bizarre attempt to construct a major news item out of this? I think it crosses the line from reporting into a dishonest portrayal.

Consumer reports, conclude "When it was at its hottest, it felt very warm but not especially uncomfortable if held for a brief period." But then they "promise to investigate whether it poses a health concern". Health concerns? People have been using much hotter devices for years. This is clearly an attempt to generate a scare.

Based on this, the Register then makes the false assertion that Consumer reports supports claims that the new iPad overheats in normal use. Nobody has produced any evidence of 'overheating'.

How long before this crying wolf is noticed?
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Ok, what the heck is this?

I decided to go ahead and throw an email at this to see if anything came up. The wording sets my "scam" sensors off like mad. Maybe I just have a learned response to "one step away", "just one click away', "don't let anything stop you know" types of wording.

Anyhow, after seeing that the "click here to enroll for free" thing ... actually seemed to do that, it sent me a confirmation email -- with more "red-flag" wording, a confirmation link, and a VCard on it of all things.

The link did the normal confirmation jump, and included a download to a "cheat sheet" for creating a business website that sells.

The cheat sheet has actual content. A lot of it. A lot of it's "common sense", and there's an interesting consistent misspelling, but it's not bullshit.

This is either a very prolonged scam, which I'm starting to doubt, or what could be a hugely successful marketing campaign for this person and their company. If they're being legitimate in their claim of sending out "one email a day" with a tip to people, for free, where that tip isn't bullshit but is just something that the type of people who respond to "red-flag" wording don't know (or might not, or whatever), that's .... that's a huge market. That will pay you. And you'd be "doing good", reducing ignorance.

Maybe I'm reading too much into this, maybe I'm not. Guess I'll have to wait a few days to make a call though.

Edit: Found the product, at $197. That said, if the emails he sends out are legit, it's a novel (to me) method of using this type of thing for sales / marketing of a product that has any sort of substance, and it may very well be worth $200 for the type of people that would buy it. I'm keeping an eye on this.
The gap is quite apparent in many of the tech pioneers life. For example, the late Dennis Ritchie was a pioneer for many, many technologies that I, and many other engineers, used on a daily basis for generating income. This gap for Dennis is enormous!
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