skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ChromeOS/Chrome Web Store seems to be about countering the the trend towards "appification" (the consumption of the web through native clients) by turning the web itself into an app store and giving websites native abilities.

Android is Google's take on the appification model. While there's overlap in that Android has a Chrome browser, I think the distinction is that Android's interaction model means that native apps will be primary method for navigation for the forseeable future since the native Web app model doesn't translate cleanly on a touchscreen device.

The Web is essentially Google's Desktop OS, so it has a vested interest in keeping it alive. ChromeOS is a way of accelerating that process, since the closer it gets to becoming viable alternative to an OS running native apps, the closer the web gets by extension. Creating a standalone OS allows them to frame the problem better than just Chrome browser, since a host OS always has a slight masking effect, even if the observer is aware of it.
If your DNS goes down it'll take your status site (status.getsignalbox.com) with it.
That our culture has seen to directly associate cash value with 'intrinsic' value is another issue entirely.

No, it's actually a very important point. Our culture bought into unbridled capitalism on the basis that it would produce a meritocratic economy in which market value approximates social ("intrinsic") value. If that is a lie, we have every grounds to reevaluate our economic model for our own good.
It's pretty sweet (no pun intended) being able to choose sweets in such an awesome fashion; and then they get delivered and you get to enjoy the sweets as well. Repeat customer, love it. :-)
> A glass of water can be worth more than the New York Times if Zuckerberg is lost in the desert

True. But only if you have the only water on sale in the desert.

What is instagram anyway? It tints photos and uploads them? That would cost Zuckerberg or Page maybe $10k to code and roll out a clone. I don't get it. Unless they're paying the owner of a rival tap to turn it off. But then someone else will just open a new tap, the barrier to entry is low. I still don't get it.
The study found at a general level that people with meningioma were more than twice as likely as people without the brain tumor to have had a bitewing X-ray sometime in their life.

Running a story like this using relative percentages, but no absolute values, is absurd and contemptible.

I'm not finding any absolute values for meningioma rates in any other stories about this particular study, but old pal wikipedia says:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meningioma

Many individuals have meningiomas but remain asymptomatic (no symptoms) for their entire life, so the meningiomas are not discovered until after an autopsy. 1-2% of all autopsies reveal meningiomas which were unknown to the individuals during their lifetime, since there were never any symptoms. In the 1970s, tumors causing symptoms were discovered in 2 out of 100,000 people, while tumors discovered without causing symptoms occurred in 5.7 out of 100,000, for a total incidence of 7.7/100,000. With the advent of modern sophisticated imaging systems such as CT scans, the discovery of asymptomatic meningiomas has tripled.

I think I'll worry about something else.
It would be a mistake for Sony to forget Valve and Steam in that list as well, rumor being they have a console in development as well.
The Apple way being the one that results in multi-day campouts and kidney sales. Of course the trade-off to announcing/shipping simultaneously is…?
Wow is this common? I wouldn't be surprised. More and more, I see job posts that list multiple languages (more than two or three), and I wonder why they would have such a fragmented setup. But I guess having one script somewhere in Haskell, for example, might help attract a bunch of smart folks but who are then asked to write C# all day. There is a large informational gap between employees and employers unfortunately.
apples, meet oranges!
Lets not let logic and reason get in the way of beating on php.
My problem with all these social networks is getting the family on board.

I'm still waiting for a mature product that I can be confident about sharing with them - G+ is there, but not really anything else. I don't want to get +20 people onto a site only to have it go "sorry, we're shutting down", or "yay, we've been acquired, sorry early adopters" in a year.

I've been burnt before, and I hate it when it happens.
How patent trolls slow innovation
Twitter is in a similar situation, and according to compete data (inaccurate i know but vaguely indicative), twitter has more than 100 times more traffic, and they had ~70 servers in 2009 (http://www.quora.com/How-many-servers-does-Twitter-have). Just curious here.
Going to once again pimp this book and it's delectable goodness. It's a wonderful book, well written, clear, concise, and in just a few pages, gives you a lot to work with. Highly recommended.

http://pragprog.com/book/bhtmux/tmux
Show HN: Small.io, Micro services for your web apps
Sick of dealing with monolithic code? Small.io is a collection of simple services for common tasks so you can easily develop web apps.
A list of some math books available on-line.
Exactly this. Everything needed for iPhone/iPad already existed off-the-shelf years prior as well. It takes a lot of oomph to condense all that into a beautiful little device that doesn't suck during real life day-to-day use.
I'm not expert with these data, but your example is not a fair analog. Let's go back to the actual problem.

From a casual glance at the graphs showing past hot years (each one shows 5), NOAA appears to have records for most cities going back to the 1950s (probably 100 years in some cases).

So, in a set of 63 (1950-2012) values, which are themselves average temperatures (and thus representative of some kind of trend, not just a single hot day), the procedure picks out the 5 highest values of average temperature.

It's reasonable to expect that the sequences corresponding to these 5 highest values will be unusual when compared to the other 58. Nothing weird about that.

Of course, if they had only 10 years data, as in your example above, or if they weren't using monthlong averages, it would be a different story.
To quote Charlie Munger, "Envy is a really stupid sin, because it's the only one you could never possibly have any fun at."
Facebook supports granular privacy for all posts via friend lists, and will even suggest friends to add to lists.

Want to share pics with just your family? Don't want to turn down a friend request from a coworker, but don't want them to see anything (Restricted list)? Facebook has these features. These social networks are going nowhere.
This is very misleading - his Quora answer (below) means that been involved (if at a limited capacity) with coding since he was very young.

"Depends what you mean by coding. I've been programming here and there since I was in middle school. In high school I was excused from my foreign language requirement so I could take more computer science classes. The first real class I took was in Pascal, and then later in c++. Independently I started playing with MySQL and PHP, but never did anything significant.

My freshman year at Stanford I took CS106X which was the first year's worth of CS in 1 quarter (it's usually two). I wouldn't say I did so well... I looked around and saw so many fantastically smart folks in that class and decided I was better off majoring in something like business. Looking back I wish I had stuck with it. It turns out that no undergrad class prepares you to start a startup -- you learn most of it as you do it."

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/meet-kevin-systrom-a-qa-the-2...
Mosh (SSH replacement w/roaming from MIT)
Everyme Actually Solves Some Address Book Problems
Thanks for this; I was about to say pretty much the same thing.

Gerd Gigerenzer has a nice book about the way risk is communicated.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerd_Gigerenzer)

(http://www.amazon.co.uk/Reckoning-Risk-Learning-Uncertainty-...)
But "worth" is such a subjective word. Instagram is only worth 1bn to Facebook, whereas the NYT's value is derived from its market cap. And being "one of the finest news sources in existence" (which I don't believe) does not necessarily denote monetary value. With that said, I'd assert that Instagram's value does not truly reflect its market value—it's only the value that Facebook saw in it. The NYT's value does reflect its true market value, as it's a publicly traded company. Again, I'd still invest in Instagram over the New York Times any day of the week.
I'm not a ruby user so I might be missing your point but...

There's nothing stopping you running php on a separate dedicated machine from the web server. You'd just use mod_fastcgi and php-fpm.

You can run it in a webserver thread (mod_php), run it in its own process alongside the webserver (mod_fcgid), run it on a dedicated machine (mod_fastcgi) or run it from the command line.

That's the beauty of PHP, it lets you do what you want. The downside is that this flexibility can be dangerous in inexperienced / naive hands.
The only reason Wordpress and Drupal became successful is because PHP is present on basically every shared host you can find on the internet. They stayed successful by building a community of plugins and themes.

The actual internals of both are a complete mess, and trying to get them to do anything outside of trivial blog hosting and content management is a nightmare.

Just because you don't know of any Python/Ruby/Java "apps" doesn't mean they don't exist. Jenkins, Redmine, Trac, etc.
You don't understand brand value.
Valve making a console would put them between a rock and a hard place - either force Steam users to use the console and alienate their loyal PC base, or compete head-to-head with the PC market and have a hard uphill battle.
Yahoo C.E.O. Hints at a Strategy
Intelligence and an understanding of the market helps out a lot, too. You can be determined and focused and making something, and it could not be that successful (assuming success in making a lot of money is your goal)
I'm not sure the last time you saw him with it, but it seems he's iterated a couple times. The most recent version isn't too far off from the Glass concept.
http://www.sciencephoto.com/image/349511/large/T4200406-Wear...
A more accurate version is:

> A business is valuable to own if you think it may bring you more value in the future […]

The mistake is conflating money and value: money can be a value, but other things, like riding into space, the prestige of owning a paper, and general quality of life are also values. A decision makes economic sense if the value you gain from it exceeds the value you give up to get it, regardless of the form those values take.
To what extent does it even make sense to speak of the "motivations" of a group of people, insofar as they aren't unanimous? Has anyone done a study on whether this provides any predictive power? It seems plausible to me that a group's "motivations" are just stories about what people in the group did.
How about FORTH?
Last time I was at UMass Amherst it was Bong Day or something, and people were out blithely blazing up on the lawn of the university square.

Fittingly, this article reads like a stoner's ramblings. It doesn't get into what exactly a "Super-Turing" machine is capable of that a Turing machine is not. Some googling turned up some theoretical possibilities (oracles and such) which do not appear to be physically buildable.
> The article tries to be a comprehensive list of problems with PHP and @ is a notorious one

Nonsense. The @ error suppression is a tool, just like any other. It should be used sparingly, but it does have its uses. I have been writing in PHP for over a decade and I have used it exactly one time. And yes, it irritates me when I see it in other's code all over the place ... which is why I refactor all external PHP code before I place it inside of mine.

The amazing thing about PHP is that it has a plethora of tools available and the language doesn't force you to write code in some constrained manner according to what some snob perceives as the right way. The only right way is the way that works and works well.

You don't like a feature of PHP? Don't use that feature. Simple as that.
Twitter helps free kidnapped South African from trunk of his car
I've programmed in PHP for many years and still use it for my side projects, but I would state that the criticism in the article is mostly fair and relevant. Yes, as an environment PHP is easy to deploy, fairly well-documented and has some other nice benefits (like shared-nothing architecture, build-in templating or the ability to write config files using core syntax). However, as a programming language PHP is pretty awful. Worse, the issues it has are glaringly obvious and not that difficult to fix, if you're willing to break some compatibility, which it regularly does anyway.

It would be better for everyone if people could mentally separate PHP's features and misfeatures and learn from both, instead of just bashing the language and jumping to its defense as a whole.
Does Sony still make Apple's batteries? I can't find the info anywhere.
Amazing that almost zero thought on the side of aerodynamics and engineering went into the production of such a high-amount-of-work project. The second the 3-foot tie points are removed, the center of mass of the driver will cause it to flip upside down instantly.
The question that the article is trying to answer is: why did Facebook pay 1 billion dollars for Instagram?

We can't, of course, argue that, since Facebook paid 1 billion USD for Instagram, Instagram is worth 1 billion. Simple circular argument. So, why did FB pay 1 billion dollars for Instagram?

Now, the article compares the New York Times, a well established, global corporation, which reaches millions, has lots and lots of world-class talent, physical assets, and a defined business model with profits, as an alternative buy to Instagram. Which consists of 37 million users, most of them in Facebook already, and no clear business model. For roughly the same price.

And it asks us to consider what choice we would make, supposing we were on FB's board of directors. That's it. No deep questions on the fetishism of commodities or the marginal social value of this transaction.
You're right, "temp. at time t" is not plotted. I don't know the reason for that -- presumably they're using YTD average as a running diagnostic to tell if the current year is especially hot.
Wish there were a bit more information here. The article's a little breathless without telling us exactly how this is practically improves on ANNs and the Turing model, and I couldn't find a more accurate representation of this paper.

Hypercomputation models that depend on things like infinite-precision real numbers have been around for a while, including in Siegelmann's work, so I'm curious to know what specific advance is being reported here in "Neural computing".
I've actually thought about this a bit, and it's not a "killer app" that will be missing from locked down systems, as the repository can always add anything that becomes popular elsewhere (after a little delay from porting/approval/etc).

The difference starts at the foundation, and manifests in a pervasive lack of respect for the user (who's ultimate control and understanding should be a prime usability concern).

For instance, that whole device-id brouhaha - iOS apps really get a unique device-id, which they are then supposed to partially-obscure according to Apple's guidelines? Why in the world is an app allowed to directly query a fixed identifier in the first place?! There should be a specific ID-Api of which the user controls via a system dialog the same way a user controls how long a browser stores cookies for. Sandboxing+auditing then make sure apps aren't using something like the ethernet addresses to get around the user's choice.

But unfortunately, most of the developers who actually know enough to analyze this are on the take of the ad companies and think that their stake on the user's device is equivalent or even overrides the owner's! So Apple kowtows to the advertisers and permits uncontrollable tracking while the end-users are stuck with their only choice being 'use or not use' an app based on how much they perceive it abusing them. Instead of being introduced to a world full of self determination and limitless possibilities (as early computer adopters were), modern day users are shown a standard no-free-lunch world where "they either get you coming or going". Developers are still able to seek out freedom, but the goal of empowering an end user to solve their own problems couldn't be farther from sight.

(And yes, Android has most of these same problems in addition to some of its own, which is why I said dichotomies aren't useful.)
This post got me thinking about building a remote dev system using tmux running on EC2 or some other cheap VPC host. I like the idea of pulling up a fully configured dev system from anywhere. Mainly so I can pick up the same session from home or work for hacking on my own projects, rather than keeping two separate systems in sync.

Does anyone else do something like this?
Note that all three examples of yours are software project management systems. That's a very narrow segment of the market.

You've also got to ask the question of why PHP is so widespread compared to the others.
They aren't really competing products. Tmux is a Screen rewrite. Screen isn't going to be receiving major revisions going forward, it's (supposedly, I don't play with that code) in an unmaintainable state. That's the only reason tmux was ever created.
Brian Dunn resigns as Best Buy CEO
You don't feel 40 to 90 percent higher risk from bitewings is statistically significant?
Convincing people to stop using such a flawed language when there are so many viable (and in nearly all ways preferable) alternatives.
Crashlytics, With New VC Bucks, Goes After Huge Mobile Developer Market
The history of supercomputers
I wanted to make this, but I don't know a good way to hook into the iPhone and Draw Something. Not a whole lot of point in being given what the picture should look like on your desktop and then having to draw it again on the phone.
Oh, you mean as opposed to the usefulness of calling people snobs because they understand that PHP is terribly designed? Fuck outta here.
Study shows algorithms are not the answer to online dating
The value of just playing around is underestimated. A lot of discoveries have been made by people just playing around.
Facebook should open a new savings account and deposit $1.37 million every day. In two years it will have the $1 billion they'll pay to acquire Everyme.
I just hate the headlines. In one of the first lectures in my post grad school our prof. told us how to critically examine research papers and claims. He said "If anyone claims to come up with something "revolutionary" you should be 10 times more skeptical about his claims. It is very likely that the person probably doesn't know what he is talking about."

Of course in these cases the news reporters are to be blamed than the scientists who worked on the proble,.
Copying the entire contents of a large library of books.
because the amount of code shipped with each release will only go up, never down.

Actually, it went down with the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard release. Up to 7 GB less. [1]

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Snow_Leopard#New_or_ch...
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No I do not think that is all, and some could argue that they have 30 million iOS users...but people need to realize, Facebook could have done this for 100,000$, 10,000 times less then what they paid for.
And they have the world's largest and most captive audience, 845 million people, they would have just needed to convince less then 4% of them to have a similar amount of users.

Make no mistake, this is a crazy amount of money spent on a less then 2 year old, 13-man company. I think post-IPO, Mark might not have been able to get this as easily approved by the board of directors.
Used to be like Apple is today. I remember shelling an insane amount for Sony Viaos a while back, and they were worth every penny.
MongoDB Hadoop Connector goes 1.0
The Middle Way, and Why Apple Will Reboot the MacBook
For anyone else who's slightly miffed by the presence of three columns, only one of which contains the actual story:

http://www.readability.com/articles/dbycne79
Dunn has been there for 28 years. He started as a sales associate an become CEO in 2009--truly a remarkable career progression. Dunn may not have caused Best Buy's mess, but he was promoted by the same people that oversaw it.
If a tumour is only discovered in an autopsy, it's not clinically significant... and the benefits of the x-rays may well outweigh the risk of such a (in this case, usually benign) tumour.
You won't be surprised, but checkout Project Bikeshed, which was just demoed at JSConf: http://bike.sh/

Pretty cool stuff!
Instagram Exodus: A List of Alternative Apps
> have error reporting turned off (which you should)

No, you should not. You should never have error reporting turned off. You should certainly have it set to not display errors to the client, but all errors should be sent to a log, preferably syslog, and they should be reviewed. Your code shouldn't generate any errors.
The Crisis in American Walking
I haven't really written about this anywhere, and the code in its current state is far from self-documenting, so I'll give it a shot here.

The code transformation is pretty much all local. Since everything in Clojure is an expression (this is not true of Python or JS, I'm not sure about F#), I don't need to perform much analysis, I just need to make sure that each expression doesn't care about the difference between a future and a realized value.

Let's assume three primitives:

* an asynchronous future [1]

* something which merges a list of futures and realized values into a single future representing a list of values

* something which takes a function and a future, and returns a future representing '(apply fn value-of-future)', that will be realized once the future is realized

All we need to do is take every expression where a function is called, merge the arguments together, and apply the final primitive to the expression. The expression will return a future, which can then be picked up by the parent expression, and so on.

This glosses over how special forms are handled, and how the 'force' functionality works. Also, as I mentioned in the presentation, how the code executes is pretty opaque, and some sort of higher-order analysis would be nice so that it could be visualized using graphviz or something.

This is still an experimental feature, and will probably remain so until the 1.0.0 release of Lamina (I'm working on 0.5.0 right now). I'm not aware of any other macro that rips apart normal Clojure code quite as completely, which means that this is sort of uncharted territory. I want to make sure I've avoided all the pitfalls before calling it ready for production usage.

[1] https://github.com/ztellman/lamina/wiki/Introduction
It doesn't get into what exactly a "Super-Turing" machine is capable of that a Turing machine is not.

I'm not great at interpreting technobabble, but I think it means everything in NP-Hard is now solvable in linear time.

Or something.
You added the word "statistically". I know people tend to kvetch about statistical significance almost reflexively, but that's not being done here. I believe the implication here is that it just plain isn't worth worrying about.
Facebook/Instagram: When your favorite app sells out