skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If only they could understand that UX is showing less, they would have won half the battle. Who needs all these buttons thrown at your face. If I need them Ill get them, please don't clutter and make user feel, "oh its so complicated". I had hopes on google plus, but this new UI, first thing that comes to my mind is Google Wave, less is more is the lesson for Google, the magic they have known for long(Google HomePage) but are discarding now.
I don't really understand how you can trust iaas from hp after the board has shown how willing they are to freak out and cancel projects that don't immediately get traction.
Springpad Upgrades Digital Notebooks for Sharing, Discovery--and Persistence
Get Your Brand On  Monitis Launches its New FREE Brandable Reporting Tool
SAN JOSE, CA, April 11, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Monitis(TM), the award-winning provider of the leading all-in-one, Cloud-based, IT systems monitoring platform, today announced the launch of the FREE Brandable Reporting Tool, which gives Monitis users the ability to brand their shared Monitis reports and host shared reports under their own domain name.

Available from within Monitis’ dashboard, this simple and easy-to-use tool enables Monitis users to:

-	Easily host their shared pages under their company’s domain.
-	Easily brand their shared pages with their own corporate identity.
-	Quickly impress their clients with a branded page to emphasize their high standards.
-	Rapidly raise their SEO ranking with dynamic pages under their own domain, while making sure their visitors always return to them for real-time fresh content
-	Efficiently allow their shared pages be presented as though they are an integral part of their website, not compromising on A-level monitoring data.

Hovhannes Avoyan, General Manager at Monitis said, “Our new Brandable Reporting Tool gives our users extra power to control the look, feel, and provenance of their reports. It’s just another in a myriad of ways that Monitis is freeing up serious IT professionals to transform the way they do monitoring.”

About Monitis

The leading provider of easy-to-use, pay-as-you-go, enterprise-class network and systems monitoring software as a service (SaaS) for IT support specialists. With more than 80,000 users worldwide have chosen Monitis to increase uptime and user experience of their services and products. Their core product offerings include website monitoring, site load testing, transaction monitoring, application and database monitoring, cloud resource monitoring, and server and internal network monitoring.

What makes Monitis’ software different is how fast it is to deploy, its flexible pricing, and it’s feature-rich technology that provides a comprehensive single-pane view of on-premise and off-premise infrastructure and applications.
Good post and good observations, I am old enough to remember some of the shift. Things where a lot different when I was young, while they where already in motion there has definitely been a shift.

The old values like integrity, honesty, empathy, conscientiouness and authenticity have been tossed aside.

This is very true, a person used to be respected for these values, while there have always been crooks and creeps the majority of the populous held people with these virtues with regard. Now they are seen as antiquated, old fashion and Victorian. It now seems that they have been replaced with rude for rude's sake and controversial for controversy's sake. Further much of the information is devoid of any value, the subject of this post can be held out as an example a bunch of reporters running around writing opinionated gossip. Sadly this cultural shift seems to be going global, and I don't understand the basic human desire for it to, it is not like western culture is happier if anything we are becoming a more and more miserable lot. Why someone would want to model it without improving on it is beyond me.
That may be why technical people might have a hard time learning languages.
I don't want my stream filled with junk the way my Facebook stream is.

Me either, but - IMO - the answer to this isn't to leave out the "write API," but rather the answer is to give users better filters and the ability to define their stream to meet their own desires. Of course doing so with a simple and intuitive UI is the tricky part, but hey... those G+ engineers make a lot of money, they should be able to come up with something, no?
"logic programming" is a bit misleading. oz (at least) doesn't have built-in DFS like prolog. but it does keep the idea of logic variables, which it uses to make concurrent programming "easy" (in the sense that what you are doing is deadlock free), so it is more similar than you may think...
I hope they fix their typography too. Arial is not the way to go, especially when you allow paragraphs as posts (or essays). Line-height makes it even worse. </designer's-rant>
The Art of Rendering
Well, I was just browsing Google+ and all of a sudden on a random page click it switched to the new layout. So...now, apparently.
DOJ Suing Apple, publishers over e-book pricing
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"I like our strategy. I like it a lot."
Well, if you can't trust the unbiased thinktank at OnlineCriminalJusticeDegree.com who can you trust?
NBOX HDTV HD Media TV Player RM RMVB DivX HDD SD USB HD
Supports the video output: 720P
Supports popular video formats such as RMVB, RM, AVI, and, MPEG,
Supports SD cards, USB Flash Drive, and External USB hard drive.
Provides thumbnail and list views so you can browse the contents by file names or thumbnails of photos and Pre-view videos.
Includes an easy-to-use remote control. With the standard control buttons on top of media player, you can also operate it even without the remote control.
Has small slim compact design.
The high-speed USB2.0 interface supports hot plugging and enables connections with equipment such as digital cameras, printers and portable hard drives.
MG, Arringon, Lacey etc... are narcissistic parasites; they cant "do" so they write about those that can. Somewhere along the line they started to believe that they were the story and because of the mainstream popularization of startups a class of less intelligent techie / start up people that support that narrative has been created. Imagine of the sports wold did that. In the sports world they understand that the reporters are irrelevant and simply there to spectate and report on what they see; the moment their BS started to overshadow the game they would be fired but for some reason the startup world does not act that way. We have allowed these people to feel as if they matter when the truth is, they dont, they never did and they never will because if you create a product that solves a real problem for people your audience does need to read TC or pandas daily to find out about it.
I've noticed that all the people joking about Google+ are the ones who don't use it, whilst the ones who do just happily get on using it.
Where does this come from? It's on the tip of my tongue...
Arrogance, I don't care about. The shameless corruption, I do. PandoDaily, in particular, is funded by VC firms that also fund tech startups. They're basically buying coverage for their investments- it's taking the system that got Arrington fired and putting it on steroids. It works out great for the investment company, it works out great for their companies, the only person it doesn't work out for is that actual reader of the blog. It's why I will never read a PandoDaily article.

As a slightly more on-topic aside- an app I made was recently featured in the NY Daily News. The results were great- I got some useful feedback from real users, rather than hypothetical users more interested in gossip.
Ask HN: Bored at my startup ... grad school?
I'm 20 something and program at Startup X in NYC. I'm employee #2 and have between 2% and 3% in equity.
I love the people at Startup X including the handful that we've hired since I joined. I really feel like I've been a massive part of building the product and the culture here.

For the last 4 months I've been becoming increasingly bored and un-motivated. I don't really know why.

One of the most terrifying possibilities is that being a professional programmer is what's boring to me. It's terrifying because I love the idea of being a programmer, I'm good at it and it's lucrative. I love programming on side projects (some of which are academic-ish) but rarely enjoy the programming I do at Startup X.

I'm fairly new to programming (3.5 years) and have only done web programming (php, RoR, js/node). I really wish I knew some lower level languages, how OSs work, functional programming and CS theory.

I've recently been accepted to do a Masters at NYU - the program (gallatin) is 'individualized' where you can pick and choose courses from any department in the university. If I go (TBD) I'll study a bunch of CS, Philosophy, Math, Art and other stuff I'm interested in. I don't really have a hard theory around what I'd do with all of this - but it sounds like a lot of fun - and being a better programmer is always professionally useful. I have the means to attend without having to work at the same time.

Any thoughts from people who've been through similar / are also feeling bored would be heartily appreciated : )
The redesign is already featured in their "Learn More" page.

[1] http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/learnmore/
Yup

1) I don't get it, so I'm unlikely to think it's brilliant without trying. (So now I need a laptop to upload photos from my mobile?...)

2) I wouldn't download this to try Bump without some better explanation, especially given implicit data protection reputation of just about every big consumer-facing company these days (especially one that trades in contact details.)

3) The title is full of gratuitous editorialization, which is against HN guidelines.
A great many things are sold this way, and it is sometimes unavoidable. Commercial projects tend to have a wide range of requirements from a licensing point of view so if they spent time drawing up a full commercial license they would end up having to rearrange half or more of it for the first commercial client that came along anyway. They could spend time drawing up many license templates (world wide, X,000 users, X server, ...) and pricing plans with many combinations of support and development agreements to try cover the bases - or they could spend more time coding.

Their preference is that the library be used under the GPL. That is their choice and it is a fair enough choice. But they also acknowledge that some entities can't accept that for one reason or another, and are willing to be flexible. Very flexible: instead of saying "this is our commercial license, deal with it" they have said "tell us what you need, and we'll see what we can do".
AAPL Market Cap = All The Companies In Spain, Portugal And Greece Combined
Nice, but still too JS heavy for my liking.
anyone notice the particularly narrow content pane?
I thought the original G+ design was refreshing and original.... but this is... so much better!

The main nav bar on the side reminds me of Unity. And yes I know that many people don't have wide screens and many also despise Unity (for that or other reasons) but this feller here sure likes it.
If there is something on your todo-list for one of your open source projects, add it to the issue tracker. That way contributors can see it's on the road map and have a place to discuss it.

Even better, for you and others, write down everything you can think of about the feature and what obstacles you are likely to stumble upon when implementing it.
http://dwilliamson.github.com/
it also means your blog is useless to any people who aren't in a country that has permission to access spotify.
Clickable links:

- http://github.com/bmelton/Orbvt

- http://orbvt.meteor.com/
If I'm remembering correctly, Chrome's autofill doesn't fire change events for the fields. Has annoyed me from a developer standpoint at times, but the reason behind it is valid.
How'd that Roman Empire turn out for them, once they got their bread and circuses?

Pretty good. They were the major military power for a few hundred more years, and they had a massive influence on the language, cultural and law of the area for ~2,000 years.
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If you understand 95% of words, you can start learning with authentic material and a dictionary.

Of course, Chinese is a little hard (stroke order is harder than alphabetical, and you can't guess the meaning as easily like you can with a related language like German), but ... it's still a good way to go.

Of course, almost every language teacher on the planet will recommend you start with common words and pattens (grammer, phrases, etc), then learn less common stuff. It's not a revelation.
Mine started fine, running Mint.
Google+ Gets a Complete Redesign, With a More Customizable Interface
The Lost Founder of Baseball Video Games
> What's the multiplicative inverse of 2?

What do you mean by 2? :-)

The typical way to describe the finite field of order 256 is to look at a set of polynomials like this,

c_7 * x^7 + c_6 * x^6 + ... + c_1 * x + c_0

where c_i is an element of Z/2Z, so it's either 0 or 1. Count how many such polynomials of degree <= 7 there are - since each coefficient is either 0 or 1, there are 2^8 = 256.

Ok. Now we can define adding these polynomials in the usual term by term way.

For multiplication, if you tried to just straight up multiply two polynomials of order 7, you might get a polynomial of order 14. So, here's the trick: pick a polynomial of degree 8 that cannot be factored as a product of polynomials of lesser degree. This is the polynomial equivalent of a prime number (prime numbers cannot be factored further either, right?).

Just as we can look at Z/pZ, we can look at the set of polynomials over Z/2Z modulo g, where g is that irreducible poly of order 8. It should not be any more obvious to you that this works than that it is that Z/pZ is well defined, forms a field, etc. But you can verify it in pretty much the same ways as you'd prove it for Z/pZ.

Anyway. So what do you mean by '2'? In this representation, 1+1 is 0.

Sometimes by '2' people mean x. That's because there's a natural coding of these polynomials as bits in a binary word. Since each coefficient is 0 or 1, you can say the ith bit is the coefficient of x^i. With that encoding, 2 is 0b10, is 1 * x^1 + 0, is x. So, the inverse of x is going to be x^254 mod g (where g is that irreducible generating polynomial).
What is supposed to be being ditched here?

If it's the pitching to/grooming of tech blogs, then companies themselves will decide what's effective for them. Number of referrals is surely just one measure. Credibility ("as featured on TechCrunch"), SEO (backlink from TC sounds good to me?), the fact that other journalists read TC, metablogs and so on.

If we're supposed to be ditching reading the blogs, well then folk will do that naturally over time if the quality of content falls.

More than anything, we should probably ditch the idea that one well-placed referral from a powerhouse could be the shot in the arm that might make a service "go viral".
Or better yet, tap out your Bump login and password with the phone!
That's why my first thought was that this whole service is a hidden marketing capaign for L-Soft. The only time I ever heard the word 'listserv' was when I was working in a place that managed mailing lists for academia using LISTSERV. It's a total mess, by the way.
Thanks for your reply mindcrime. You're right, we're going be upfront about it and see his reaction. If he's professional in his response and is willing to compromise we might consider working with him.
Here is how it "works" for me:

1. Click "Play"
2. Get a message saying that the service is not available where I live.
One of the cofounders of ITA Software, Dave Baggett, used to work for Naughty Dog, which is one of the top studios in the world for this type of low-level development. Given Dave's PS1 work, it's no surprise ITA values the same skills.

(Full disclosure: I worked at ND).
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> they should be able to come up with something, no?

no! :)

Probably the hardest thing in social media is noise filtering via a UI (it's hard for Google, it's hard for Facebook, it's just a hard problem).

For my own (app) selfish reasons, I'd like to see a write api for comments first as that doesn't cause issues on the same scale as writing posts to the stream. Could be a nice place to start.
Thank you very much. I've never seen such beautiful database code before. I think it's here where the power of monads really shines; they keep all the statefullness of the database from cluttering up the rest of the code. I will stick with the JVM because of legacy integration. Although I must say, the more I use Haskell, the cleaner my code in other languages gets. Haskell is almost like poetry in this regard.
I thought they were using fibers (https://github.com/laverdet/node-fibers) so much more scalable than threads but slightly worse performance than callbacks
I misread his statement and made it conform to what I know to be true. There is a finite field of size 256, and you could enumerate the elements in the field with all numbers mod 256, but the normal *,+ wouldn't work persay. The inverse of 2 could be any of the other numbers in the field, even itself. Should have been more careful; I usually try to avoid talking about Math on the internet.
That was fast! While not very usable it really shows how fast you can make prototypes with Meteor. Good stuff!
It is possible for a piece of software to rely on the output of another piece of software without being derivative. Hell, that's basically how any interface in the world works.

As the wikipedia article on the GPL notes, the problem is not so much the GPL, but how derivative work is not that well pinned down in copyright law itself. That it appears ambiguous in the GPL is a result of that. My rule of thumb is to approach it from the angle of "what is the software worth if you take out what is linked?" - If the software can function without the linked code, it may not be derivative, but the actual question is whether it is useful without the linked code. Whether it carries out the tasks that the user needs the software for without the linked code.

To me, it's more of a social question of how much the linkee is indebted to the linked.

So no, I don't think I am confusing the two.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Lin...
Gave it a try and it is now inside a tab, and works pretty well.

* ctrl-w tries to close the window, which meant I needed to remap "change window" in vim from ctrl-ww...not a huge issue, but it was an annoyance. Ctrl-v is ctrl-shift-v so they seemed to get some things right, but not all ChromeOS is pretty bad about key remapping, I'm still holding out for a way to change ctrl-h to backspace (as God intended it) instead of this useless history being brought up.

Enjoying the rest of the update, there are in fact split screen snapping (and the ability to resize both open windows at the same time). here's hoping for keyboard shortcuts (I'm not holding my breath).
Soylent Green - "It's people!"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/

(not sure if you were being sarcastic)
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That's the point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack
I hope I'm not teaching you how to suck eggs, but you have to type something into the name field and it has to be a name you've used before.
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Not sure how they do it. I don't think they decide everything by direct democracy, there only is an option to start a direct vote for some issue? I think that is possible in Germany in some cases, too.
cuticle nail pushers are very useful, if not essential.
All i could think of was: "damn it, all that organic material we found on other planets might have come from earth instead of those planets developing life" we might be alone after all :( (at least in the near vicinity)
Have they disclosed what the block storage service is backed by? LeftHand P4000s?
There's maybe an hour's worth of coding there, and an hour trying to figure out why my Mustache templates weren't rendering. (Pro Tip: If you don't invoke the template, it won't render.)

But yeah, the real reason for the HN post was to show how fast it is. Somebody that knew what they were doing could probably have done it in about 10 minutes, including the install.

I should also point out that the dev team is amazingly helpful in #meteor on freenode.
unfortunately not that unique. I wish it were...
I've enjoyed 1920x1200 on my laptops since 2003, and I lament this demise, too. I can't match the resolution I had nine years ago.

I'm a hardware engineer, and the more pixels I can pack into my display, the more I can see in my waveform viewer. It makes a real difference to me.

I can't say I fully understand the trend to almost-exclusive 16x9, either. I hear enough people complain about it that I'd have thought there would be a market for a 15.4" 1920x1200, even if you had to pay a premium for it.
What do you think of my new Topic-based Twitter client?
Giving up?

This is all just part of the master plan. If/When Facebook implodes, there is already a place set up for everyone to go. Google has the staying power to weather a long lull in usership; there are other properties to support them. Facebook has 1 angle and history shows that to be a dangerous position--one bad decision can bring the whole thing crashing down a-la Digg.

I'm surprised no one seems to see this.
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It's not quite that black-and-white. Why do you think OAuth is prevented, for example? You don't have to include JS code from Twitter in your page to enable OAuth logins to Twitter. Similarly, Facebook Like buttons run in a separate iframe; you can make a clear argument that they are a separate program from your site.

You're probably right about Google Analytics.

It may be true that they adopted the GPL without carefully thinking it over, or it could be a deliberate choice, as with GhostScript — whose commercial customers are mostly printer companies, who are willing to pay for a license so they don't have to send their printer firmware source code to all their buyers, which the GPL would require.

Sencha is another JS toolkit using the GPL to encourage people to buy licenses for proprietary use.
That's right. But you don't necessarily need to know what a word means (its exact meaning) in order to understand a sentence. You only have to feel what it means. For example, for a long time I didn't bother to look up the exact meaning of words like 'ruminate', 'agitated', 'incredulity', 'ilk', 'perpetual', 'stagnant' and dozens of other words. I could feel what they meant, and that was enough. Just like when a 4-year old knows what 'tomorrow' means without understanding the complexities of life and time. He doesn't need to know about Earth orbiting around the Sun; tomorrow means 'sleep once, and when you wake up, that's tomorrow'. I think you can learn a new language just like children learn their mother tongue.
Does anyone have the complaint?
> What can be done with the data once it’s collected? Without the INTERNET permission, how can it be sent anywhere? While it's true that most network access is restricted, there is one network call that can be made without any permissions: the URI ACTION_VIEW Intent opens a browser. By passing data via GET parameters in a URI, the browser will exfiltrate any collected data. In my tests, I found that the app is able to launch the browser even after it has lost focus, allowing for transmission of large amounts of data by creating successive browser calls.

Reminds me of ping tunnels: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICMP_tunnel
As it turns out, I get that res on my 11"