skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a tough bet, but not undo-able. Looking at capabilities extended by HTML5, and the containers that the browsers already are, I don't feel (though I could be wrong) that day is too far.

Yep, someone has to build a standard for HTML containers to contain documentary elements like Word/PDF have done so far.
Google Maps for Android comes to mind. I guess "top tier" on a mobile phone is still in the tens of dollars right now, but I haven't seen an alternative (free or paid) that comes close.

Mail and calendars are also better than anything I've found in the market...but that's maybe just my preference.
The Yahoo Music dataset has these characteristics (more items than users), and a combination of methods (including the SGD-based matrix factorization that people call "SVD" in recommender lore) did pretty well on it (KDD Cup 2011: http://kddcup.yahoo.com/).
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The Republican Party did start as a third party, and it might be useful to look at how they succeeded:

http://thinkprogress.org/yglesias/2011/08/06/289913/gop-as-t...

They managed to convince a lot of incumbent politicians to jump ship and join the Republican Party.
It would be nice to see a storage system demonstrating sets instead of hierarchical disjoint partitions, that I find terribly unfit for human activities since you can't really order things this way. After 30 years of Personal Computing with `folders` it will be confusing, but I'd be interested to see if people can re-adjust and adopt collections/sets.
If you're referring to Windows 8, Flash will still work in desktop mode. Plugins will only be disabled in Metro mode.

And yes, I think this separation is ridiculous.
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It's not a common idiom to use !! in Ruby.
That's the only objective read of this. There were a couple of good reasons to make the change, a couple of bad reasons to, and no reasons not to. The discussion fixated on the bad reasons early on, it became a matter of principle on both sides, and thus the change was not made despite the good reasons.

It's not bikeshedding, but there ought to be a name for that.
Surely most everybody who has been to high school has at the very least heard of calculus?

Also, it strongly depends on where in the world you ask, many Londoners will have heard of Christopher Wren for instance. And loads of people know of classical mathematicians such as Archimedes and Da Vinci. Also you get the crossovers such as people like Ada Lovelace, who will be known to many fans of Byron.
I worked for a company that was acquired by Lockheed. I ran IT and had already spent a few years 100% rebuilding the infrastructure of the company when I joined.

As we were assimilated I worked with IS&S and their security teams closely to ensure our security measures were up to snuff with Lockheed's requirements (we built the RFID tracking system the military used for shipping pretty much everything)

In our security meetings, we were briefed on activities that were happening, what we needed to do and why.

China was constantly attacking Lockheed and all other defense contractors.

They were pretty sophisticated in how they did it; targetted spear phishing was one of their successes:

Chinese spies would attend defense contractor events - meet and seek out lockheed and other employees. Get their business cards and spoof mail from one employee to the other, referring to events that occured at the convention to get people to click on shit that would be a trojan.

These trojans were rather sophisticated in that they would operate very very slowly to trickle pieces of information out. Sometimes they were very specific pieces of information.

I don't recall exactly how this was found out, but someones machine was being checked out - and in the process the trojan was found. When the chinese were alerted to the fact that the trojan had been found, they turned whatever their bot-net was up to 11 and attempted to just mass send out as much data as they could.

(All of lockheed only has (I think) 3 connections to the internet)

They cut it off and had to get rid of these trojans.

Another time, a supplier (I think it was in Taiwan, I cant recall exactly) a supplier was hacked and its machines would install stuff on any USB sticks used.

Lockheed machines were not allowed to connect to non-lockheed networks, via Wifi or any other means. So they would use USB sticks to transfer stuff.

The chinese went after the suppliers machines as a vector to get connected with the lockheed machines.

I have mentioned this stuff here on HN before, and in light of China's 50-100 year vision for where they want to be, we are basically fucked.

The chinese have been securing access to all major natural resources in Africa, as well as being the manufacturing hub for EVERYTHING - while the US government is squabbling over petty short term profit efforts and securing a diminishing resource (oil).

This is not to say the US is some slouch in the cyber security space; Stuxnet and Doqu are clearly US/Israel cyber attacks that are amazing.

But anyone would be a fool to not be very wary of where the online digital war is headed.
Uh... marketing speak really stands out on pages where I expect technical information: "the world’s most advanced distributed database".

Otherwise, it's nice to see S3 becoming a web storage standard (or one standard emerging in general). Openstack Swift also supports it.
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I'm not suggesting that this is trivial to implement, but in principle, wouldn't it be fairly simple for Pinterest to identify these guys based on their 'social networks'? If a group of accounts only 'pins' posts of other accounts in that same group, that suggests either a spambot farm, or a very inclusive group of friends. False-positive detection could be decreased by looking at account sign-up dates, or profile photos.
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So.. you agree with me? HTML5 is basically a pile of poop, except that it's got a big install base. Great. Welcome to the future of programming.
box.net offers a webdav interface, even for their free accounts. That's an open standardized interface for box.net vs. a proprietary client for Dropbox.
Cheating single player is only affects the player themselves. But when it comes to online, multiplayer, then cheating/codes need to be restricted. It's more from a sustaining/profitability point of view – nothing drive users away when they first log on and see everyone running around looking identical and having the best items obtained with just a few key strokes.

I guess the OP's comment of local storage was also to point out the 'flaw' since it is for a multiplayer game.
The ultra-realistic A10-C simulator with a 780 page manual is only slightly more complicated than Dwarf Fortress.
I believe this is also known as frisson. See /r/frisson for tons of media that can "induce" this. There was also an article in the WSJ that talks about what specific changed in music causes this.

The most interesting thing I found was that even by just reading the WSJ article explaining the music, I can feel the shivers.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Frisson
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020364600457721...
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It's frustrating to work with people who will go to the mat over pedantic, highly philosophical points like that, right or wrong. Arguments should be grounded on concrete pros/cons.
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From the customer's perspective, it would kind of suck to buy an app because of a certain feature that, from your point of view, gets broken by an upgrade, and be forced to do that upgrade, because the developer fixed a bug or feature that is of no concern to you. Remember, the user is buying a license for the current version of a piece of software, not a SaaS subscription.

Example: I was searching for a tool for file deduplication. Looking at some older screenshots and the current trial of a certain tool, I realized that this was now less geared towards power users, with UI changes that made the tool look better for inspecting a few duplicated pictures but unsuitable for using lots (thousands) of files. Imagine being the user who bought the tool for more serious use, and is forced to "upgrade".
Neither is Apple's. App sales don't even show up in their revenue reports.
FWIW, the original Dynamo concept supported safety by returning not just the latest version, but all conflicting versions: the client then had the opportunity to make a merged version of the data that was newer than either of the inputs, and store that as a replacement.

It should therefore be remembered that many/most implementations of "eventual consistency" have these issues, it is not a requirement of the mechanism, and some implementations realize this and either have merge implementations or have plans to provide them.

(I am not certain where Cassandra is on this axis, but last I paid attention they were actively trying to decide whether to modify the client protocol to match Dynamo, or provide server-assisted merge operators more similar to their existing server-assisted comparison operators.)
Windows Phone because I already have experience with .NET, so it was extremely easy to get started. Besides, exciting to be a part of an ecosystem where you can highlight your efforts from the very beginning of its existence.
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They are "retiring" Darwin and will be replacing him with someone else anyway. May as well make it Alan Turing.
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The only programming I've ever come across on Facebook is Facebook's own programming puzzles, and I haven't posted my solutions. I'd be more apt to go to G+; that's where I share all my tech stuff.
If that was the intention I appreciate it.

Yes it matters to me, but up to a point. I cannot do things in my life seeking approval or saying yes to some people when I am convinced the answer is no.

Also, saying no, and not applying the PR the way I did, with the rationales and respect I showed, should not be taken as an offense. People just get upset when they see the red label "Closed".

On the other hand, for every 24 haters, I can present 24 lovers. It just doesn't matter, one has to do what he thinks is the correct action. Do it politely, but do it.
Just a little app I created for my own use...
My read of the article is that "bikeshedding" generally covers discussions in which the energy expended vastly outweighs the gravity of the topic under discussion. There can be a correct answer to, "what color should we paint the bike shed?" (or, at least, many incorrect answers). The fact that one side might be correct (or more correct) than the other does not justify the effort.

The point of the article, as I read it, was that you should consider the energy needed to influence a decision v.s. the impact of that decision.
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I've made some comments like this in similar threads and got downvoted as well. It's just part of the HN groupthink to glorify everything HTML5, CSS3 and WebGL.

A game like this was feasible 20 years ago in a native environment or 10 years ago in Flash. I can only see disadvantages in developing games in JavaScript + HTML.
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I think this is mostly a mismatch in expectations. "pay full price, suckers" only rings true if it's not actually a major release - small features, security/compatibility updates should be free. A new version should offer enough benefits to be worth the price.
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| their users had been getting gouged at their mechanics' shops

I feel like this is a distressingly commonplace problem.
The context of this is "put a famous mathematician on the £10" so it hardly makes light of anything.
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So you think that being a woman helped her fame, when the whole point of the report was how little she is known, even in many mathematics circles?
I wouldn't neccessarily say that. Starting your own startup has definitely gained "street-cred" over the years. Then again, I go to college in Boston
Hi Derek,
I can't describe how much motivated I feel everytime I read something similar to this. But I just can't convert this motivation into actual practice/habits. Any advice ?
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but dont you think when kids are in high school or college, they think about what they wanna be? I doubt people look into NASA funding to decide whether to go into the hard sciences or just stick with computers
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Yes, but if you're going to replace it, then you really, really want to take the time to understand why it was the way it was.

Sometimes, you really do run across things that could never make any sense to anyone who knew better, like the famous Daily WTF example where someone created a website for a restaurant by printing out the page design for the paper menu, laying it on a wooden table, taking a picture of it, and uploading the picture. But other times -- much more often, in my experience -- you run across hidden technical challenges and limitations that led to what look like really stupid decisions until you understand the real motivation. And even when there were some really stupid decisions, it's often better to leave the system largely intact while you incrementally fix the stupid parts.

And, as I said before, sometimes it really does make sense to go in and start over. It's just that the line for when it's warranted may not be where you think it is.

As far as learning things go, providing your own implementation to solve a problem can be a great learning tool. Likewise, writing your own compiler, database, or web server can be an absolutely fantastic means for understanding these tools better. But it will rarely be the best means of solving a problem that requires a database-backed web application.

Reuse production-proven existing code and tools wherever you can when you're on the clock for a job or building a company, and teach yourself how things work on the side. If you build something so good that it's worth swapping in for the original and going through all the steps to bulletproof it for production, then awesome. If not, then you've still learned what you cared about learning.
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On a similar note, I remember reading somewhere that performing magic in front of children is harder than it is for adults.

Our adult brains have built up a large repertoire of pattern recognition algos that help us skip steps, lead ourselves to conclusions, ultimately interpret our world better and faster. Children see the world on a more visceral level because they don't have that pattern recognition in place yet, so they have to rely more on direct sensory feedback.

Totally off-topic.
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In most universities there is a speed limit: you can't "test out" of classes unless you've had them somewhere else, and pre-requisites, minimum optional credits and required internships prevent you from speeding through.

I really wish most courses would be 2 years long. Plenty of time to get the university experience and learn all you need, everyone's head is already far out after the 8th semester.
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I find the current 'goat users into paying X/per year to keep things current' model so distasteful that I will seek any and all possible alternatives before I consider buying any app. I tend to think developers would sell a lot more if people only had to pay once... but who knows.
This sounds like it's ripe for spammers, and given the recent article on the Pinterest spammer, and the current winner tweeting about her "lipob fat loss shots", I don't think it will get any traction. (Or at least it won't be abused).
Nice. I made this exact same concept almost a year ago, too. It was fun to code and watch to see who randomly won. These guys definitely have a little bit better Photoshop skills than I do, though. :) I called mine Crowdwoo.

Here is my post about mine: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2576392 and my source code for it, https://github.com/ryancole/crowdwoo.com

and with a time machine snapshot to see what it looked like: http://web.archive.org/web/20110708205146/http://crowdwoo.co...

and finally a link to the original idea source, compliments of Dave Winer: http://scripting.com/stories/2011/05/15/socialMediaBubblePop...
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Aw, sad! At least I can take this opportunity to say thanks, Memepool was awesome.
First, you did not use the term hate speech, you used the term "hateful comments," which do not legally have any connection.

Second, it seems that your own link reinforces exactly what I said. Inciting violence is not a crime in the United States. Incitement to riot may be, but this is not what you said. US law requires an immediate threat of violence in order to censure speech outside of defamation and obscenity.
As Google is killing more and more content farms, it makes sense spammers are moving towards sites that have tons of authority, and spamming there. Can't get "buy car insurance" to rank for your spamblog? No problem, create a fake question in Yahoo Answers with the keywords in your title, and a fake answer with your affiliate link. Repeat in Pinterest, Amazon Askville, Quora, etc.
Thanks for the links, I've tried to auto-induce the sensation with sound or images but it doesn't seem to work for me. It appears to just be a people thing.
not allowing uneducated patents like this one
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The other main point of friction I've encountered with AirBnB is the whole checkin process - it's rare that people lay around their apartments all day long, so there's always a bit of scrambling as both parties try to sync up their schedules.
Boring. It's not WYSIWYG at all.

Boring: It just shows the rendered markdown next to the raw markdown. More interesting would be a solution that uses the same space to show the rendered form and for user input. E.g. as you type "cool" the asterisks disappear and instead you see the italicized word.

Not WYSIWYG: What-you-see-is-what-you-get means you visually present to the user all the options available. The user should not have to happen to know a set of magic incantations. Markdown requires magic incantations. Some users know them, many users do not. If you want to eliminate toolbar buttons, do something like iOS where when you highlight a word you get hovering format buttons.
True, but WebDAV clients are nowhere near the perfect user experience that the proprietary Dropbox client provides (at least on OS X and Linux, I don’t know about Windows).
I'm guessing they aren't too worried as it is just a demo. You can easily put some backend checks in for things like this.
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> Python's syntax and idiom is more esoteric.

I know, but sometimes 'esoteric' is better for beginning programmers. Compare the lesson on ternary operators:

some(blah) if 'a' in blah else blah

(blah.indexOf('a') != -1) ? some(blah) : blah;
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Any chance the US law will ever be fixed so that people can't be easily arrested over anything, really? There's also this mini-doc that's related to this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBiJB8YuDBQ
I think the point we're making is that most of the people arguing over that PR didn't have a strong opinion about the feature itself, but were irritated by the weirdly philosophical reason for rejecting it. (I don't care what color you paint your bike shed, but if your local government says you can't paint it green because that's surrendering to the plants, I'm likely to have an opinion about that.)

Obviously at some point (and the earlier the better) you still need to to throw up your hands and walk away, but I'd say pig wrestling is the better metaphor here.
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Sometimes you actually need to watch the entire thing to get it. As in, your word involves some change over time that you want to portray with multiple pages.
It's fun to imagine large social networks of bots which are indistinguishable (from Pinterest's/Facebook's/Twitter's P.O.V.) from human social networks. Here, it could be a 1-man spamming operation, but you can imagine government-scale astroturfing.
Don't really watch this show, but it was an entertaining episode and fun to see how they edited it for the masses.
So, basically, all of the "jiffy-lube" type basic maintenance services, and not the "replace your entire engine" type stuff. Makes sense to me.
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Great post, would love to see more people talk about their success with side projects an apps like this.
offtopic, but looking on the main page for gun.io i saw their tech stack, and i went to see what etherpad was about, and saw one of the best Descontinued Product Page ever.

http://etherpad.com/

they mention that they release the source, and list alternatives to the terminated product BEFORE sending you over to their google docs.