skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Xcode doesn't feel very aware of my constructs since there's so much crap in the completion list. It's not totally useless but could be much better.
The hosted server is how we plan on financing development since many users will want the level of privacy it can provide, but don't have the technical expertise to manage their own environment. Over time we want to push content into a network of content hosts and P2P, but we have to promise something we can deliver as part of the Kickstarter. Our fundraising effort is more about recruiting devs than it is about raising 10K.
Solid landing page and probably a neat service, but my good impression of your company deteriorated when I saw an image scroll by with "go fuck yourself" at 0:38 in your demo video. I'm all for lowbrow net humor, but its place is not within an otherwise professional looking site.
Why was this posted?

This appears to be just some misc. community drama--especially since it doesn't even link the inciting article/rant/whatever.

EDIT: No, really, after a few rereadings... the title has nothing to do with Javascript, nothing to do with hacking, and nothing useful to contribute to the conversation (which it barely defines). Flagged.
Reminds me of a friend from college. She's now an astrophysicist. It seemed to me she had some trouble being taken seriously, because she was drop-dead gorgeous. Demure girl next door looks with a body that was swimsuit model material. (Even sans airbrushing)

I think some people saw her, learned what her major was, then concluded it was too good to be true. Also, it was hard for a lot of guys to think with 100% efficiency in her presence.
That's a valid point, and one we've actually thought about a decent amount. If we find anyone doing this, we will take steps on our end to make sure they stop. In the end, it's Apple's decision whether to ban a developer or not, no matter which tools or frameworks they use. A developer would not be wise to do this because they risk being banned from us as well as being banned from Apple.
How high-frequency traders benefit us all
Here is a link to the actual article: http://www.economist.com/node/21551535
Ask HN: Tracking banner impressions when doing media buys?
Hi All,

I'm about to start doing niche media buys and would love to serve and track the banners/creatives myself.

That way I know exactly how many impressions I'm getting as well as have the flexibility to swap out banners, etc.

What's the recommended way to do this? Host your own system or is there a good service that does this?

Thanks
Whoops! That video is in the process of being updated, and that's one of the things that's being changed. I'll admit that I forgot about that detail, which was careless before showing HN :(
I didn't down vote. I guess someone thought your comment was content free. It is frustrating when you have low karma for people to down vote but not explain why. Usually they balance out.
Show HN: My 100% C# ASP.NET, Windows Stack, Competitive Intelligence Website
I am not prejudiced, I just know the problem. Enums provide type safety, they integrate with the tools we use, the debugger knows about them, many languages allow you to get a string representation of them for pretty debug output. And best of all, they are completely free.
I'm sick of this kind of gay dramas. A political conversation between two JavaScript coders shouldn't be exposed like this. It's not related to JavaScript :)
Thank you for your inciteful and well-reasoned argument. Care to elaborate?
I think you may be confused.
You don't have to redefine anything at a language level to make this work. It will just work.

The features Java redefined were mainly for security reasons, and pointer safety, not because it made it possible to run with a JIT

As a proof, you can JIT C/C++ with LLVM right now if you wanted to.

It's not a great JIT because it has no adaptive compilation heuristics, etc, but it works just fine.

C/C++ very specifically leave most of the execution environment undefined. They do not require anything that makes JIT'ing require language level changes. Your JIT may be unsafe (IE crash as easily as a regular C/C++ program), or otherwise require basically native access (IE not really viable for sandboxing in a browser), but it would work fine

Things like Managed C++/etc required language changes because they wanted it to interoperate with a common intermediate language and runtime.

There are things that you can do in C++ that you can't do in CLR (again, because the CLR chose safety/etc over other considerations), and vice versa (IE garbage collection at a language level), so managed C++ required language changes to support this.
With the recent .NET posts here at HN, thought I would show my .NET website and also hoping to connect up with other .NET developers here on HN.

We are a 1 year old competitive intelligence/bookmarking startup and would appreciate any feedback particularly on the overall first impressions and screen design.

Open source projects used:

Lucene.NET

MemCached.NET

Anthem.NET (yes that AJAX one! Were slowly switching to JQuery)

UrlRewritter.NET

MS Enterprise Libraries

DotNetOpenMail

MS Platform:

MSSQL 2008 (Enterprise Edition) (190+ million change delta rows)

MS Server 2008 (Web Edition)

.NET 3.5 Runtime

LINQ (Lambda Expressions)
Our adoption model is to pass through a phase where content is separated into a key hosted by a site like Facebook (on the link), and the encrypted text on a content server like priv.ly. That way it is readable when they click the link, but priv.ly cant see it unless the link is clicked. Over the course of time we will transition away from this model because the ability to read the content without clicking through should be enticing, and we will prompt for installs every time they do click.
That's not the problem here, and please don't start off on that tangent.

EDIT: I can't take away the downvote, but thank you for expanding on your point. :)
I heard somewhere you have to build something people want and are willing to use/pay for it ;)...

PS: I'm not a millionaire.
They don't have a good product (yet?). No one uses Google+ besides nerds and people who work at Google.

It makes it all the more irritating that they are forcing a non-compelling product down the throats of everyone. The only happiness generated from this is in their own egos.
Metrics and Perfectionism
Hacker jailed for stealing 8 million identities
Amen to the childraising point. My wife and I took a total of six months of leave for each of our two kids (mostly her, though I did a 1-1.5 months at the end too). That's a year's salary down the toilet. We're mid-career (i.e. unlikely to see an increase in real income unless we get lucky or change career paths). So that's probably 1.5-2% of our lifetime earnings right there: even before the kids started daycare, and long before they'll go to college.
I've been following wearable computing for very long time. Since Dr Steve Mann's eyetap and early MIT media lab http://www.media.mit.edu/wearables/ and http://www.remem.org/ with chording keyboard and HUD is how I wanted future to work.

These glasses look 1/2 as good as prototype and they are hackable at all, then the future is near. And look matters. I don't have problem stickin out. But many situations having bunch of wires and contraptions on your head is stickin out too far. esp now days that people think lightbrites are WMDs.

Very, very excited.
UAV control has basically nothing to do with self-driving cars. It's a completely different problem. The only piece that's shared is the GPS/IMU, and it's a small piece. And if you think "the state machine for how to behave on paved roads" is the hard part, you're delusional.

"Environmental sensing accurate and reliable enough" isn't the problem either. Although fancy lasers and radars can help, we have had cameras, microphones, and accelerometers superior to human eyes, ears, and vestibular system for years now. The missing piece is the software, which is exactly the piece Google is working on.
What Has Replaced Myspace for Music Marketing?
A few years ago marketing a band was as simple as creating a Myspace page and cultivating a following. Today there isn’t just one social network musicians need to be using. Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are obvious networks every band should be on, but there are several startups that are helping bands market so they can focus on doing what they do best – making music.
2013 Acura RLX Concept
The woman guide claims that she worked there at "level 2 security" (2nd to highest) in 1982. That would make her roughly 48 to 52 today. She doesn't look that age. She looks younger (lack of wrinkles and she isn't doing botox we can assume). But more importantly who would give somebody that young (about 18 to 22) that type of security clearance?
May be an exploit in the voting is found?
Alternative theory:

I don't know many people who attach a photo to a resume. So if I see a photo on your resume, and you are attractive, I'm probably going to feel like you know you are attractive and are trying to win points with your attractiveness, which will cost you points in my book.
How well does this lens of core/cultural competence work when focused on Nokia with Windows Phone?
Yep, in the long run something will leak out of our servers. The plan is only to store ciphertext.
"Biomass fuel" for commercial jet aircraft is seeing some interest:

http://atwonline.com/eco-aviation/news/ten-airlines-agree-pu...

http://motherjones.com/environment/2008/01/virgin-airlines-p...
It's nice to see larger Ember.js in-production projects being discussed and explained...
Best Groupon Ever?
Start-up advice: Fail better
I keep on hearing that it's possible to write a JIT-based vm that's "faster than C". I have yet to actually see one where that is true for anything other than one or two very specific micro-benchmarks.

Edit: the old C2 wiki actually has something useful to say about this.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AsFastAsCee

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SufficientlySmartVirtualMachine
Hiring Programmers When They Are Excited
This wouldn't, by any chance, be a woman named Tea, would it? I knew a girl in middle school and high school who was drop-dead gorgeous, incredibly smart, and a cheerleader, if memory serves, who went to Harvard and is now a post-doc at NASA.
Go out and do some research with everyday business people and find what problem they need solved that you could do.
I hate magic numbers, i believe comments should be made as last resort. The code should be self-documenting. It's about reading and understanding the code easier. One thing that i learned wit CS is that it's all about making higher abstractions, making the logic closer to the domain you are modeling. If there is a word that resumes CS, i would say abstraction. Thats why we have high level languages, OOP, Operating Sytems, folders and files and etc.
Then again, people could stand to relax a bit. I thought it was kinda funny.
New Dart Editor build includes Dartium for Windows
It's a JOKE. Relax.
.nyc Land Rush
Elephant Plays with a Samsung Galaxy Note
Thoughts can be abstract, but when you're trying to paint a picture with words, abstractions can make your "picture" weaker. "Mortality rose" is a confusing statement. What does it mean? Did more people die, or did humanity's inherent mortality somehow increase? If you meant "more people died", then say it. You're not talking about the abstract concept of mortality, you're talking about people dying. In the time it took your reader to figure out what you meant, you may have already lost him or her.

Often it's a case of writers trying to be overly clever with their wordplay. For example, you wouldn't want to say something like, "her posterior condition was greatly exaggerated," when what you meant was, "she has a big ass". Sure, the first sentence is "clever", but it's not very clear. The second sentence is right to the point; there's no mistaking the meaning, and it paints a better picture in one's mind.

It's similar to active voice vs. passive voice. "Dan hit the ball," is clear and to the point. "The ball was hit by Dan," paints a weaker picture, even if it says the same thing. Why is "ball" the subject of the sentence. Are we supposed to care about this ball? Aren't we talking about Dan here?

Clarity in writing is important. Readers don't like to be confused. Anything that breaks the "flow" should be avoided, unless that is your goal (e.g. to stop the reader and make them think).
Attach photos to a resume? Is this a common thing to do in the US?
Anybody could do that with a UIWebView now, without this.

You can bypass apples static analysis as well by interpolating a selector at runtime. Camera+ did this to enable the volume button to be used for taking a picture.

I think to outright ban something like this, apple would have to see some really egregious exploitation.
Didn't Apple have some rules preventing apps from downloading code from the Internet?
Also worth noting for anyone who is annoyed by the fact that these contacts are automagically added to your android phonebook(For instance Angry Birds apparently warrant a place in my phonebook?)

I found a nice setting in Android which only shows contacts with phone numbers. Invaluable. Otherwise I love Google contacts for syncing etc.
The same could have been said for the dozens of front-page discussions the past few weeks about Sexism in this industry.
a and b are just decoded value bits. That means they can be either one of those things. 0x00-0x07: registers themselves, 0x08-0x0f: addressing via register, etc.
The biggest wtf is why he is even going into a paper bookstore in the first place. He should be able to just navigate some sort of hierarchical list of all published works and have a copy sent to his e-paper reader. There are no technological barriers to this, only social.
A whole life to to amass 10000 Euros?
That still sounds silly. If you have the muscle of Google, wouldn't you get the legal ball rolling first, so that when your car is ready, you can sell immediately?

Does a driverless car even count as basic research that they can spin off into a consumer product?
Start with your employers 401k plan. If they match your contributions all the better. If they don't offer one do it yourself with a ROTH IRA and max that out each year if you can. Start now.

When I first started I looked for high yield / high risk mutual funds that the company offered and participated heavily in the ESPP plan of the company. I picked similar things for my ROTH contributions. This means that I was impacted by the stock market collapse in 2008. It also means that I recovered my losses and was back where I was pre collapse in ~ nine months because we didn't panic and are in it for the long term. I'm 36 and will likely start transitioning some of the investments into 'safer' things when I am around 45 or so. The accounts are checked 2x per year and adjustments are sometimes made but usually we just run the calculator that estimates how much we will have when we are ~55.

The company I started this with offered seminars for retirement investing and there is a chart, sort of a guideline, that details how much risk your investment portfolio should have in it based on how long you have to retirement. If anyones interested I'll see if I can dig it up.

Not that I plan on retiring, even when I am retired but if I was 70 and my portfolio took the hit it did in 2008 I might not have the time to wait for the markets to correct. Note: I know very little about finance, investing or otherwise. My wife is the financial guru in the family and I have learned much from watching her lead. Please take this as what worked for me and realize that ymmv. Also, it helps to read up on the basics of investing for retirement but i'll be honest when I say that it has been several years since I read anything.

[edit] - I might have misread the question. Sorry. This is what I did when I was starting at 24 and would do again if I was just starting out. I doubt that I would pay someone else to do it for me since the fees that are charged when one sells/buys end up taking a significant chunk and any service is going to ad their fees on top of those.
No, the binaries may be easier to disassemble, but it's still machine code. I don't have to include the assembly source if I don't want to.
apps empower MILLIONS of users.

"OS-level capabilities" empower a handful of developers/hackers/etc..
I'm not even sure I know what "content free" means. So complimenting the post as being nice and stating that I plan to make use of the information in the future is worthy of a down vote? I wasn't expecting an up vote but I didn't think anyone would dislike my comment so much to take that 1 sec to click it down. Whatever.
It's supposed to be zinc oxide going in, so it probably looks more like this:

ZnO + energy → Zn + O
Zn + 2 H2O → Zn(OH)2 + H2

(I know that's not balanced, but yours isn't either)

Maybe you can then get the zinc hydroxide back into oxide without too much trouble. It disassociates in water, leaving you with hydroxide and zinc ions.
You should be aware that the HN crowd is in a massive state of collective denial where they all pretend that they are less banal than reddit.
It used to be (depending on the job) common in the UK. Companies stopped asking for it when they realised they were leaving themselves open to discrimination claims.

I can't think why anyone would want to include a photograph of themselves on an application / CV / resumé.
The answer to the question in the headline is "Then gmail and twitter wouldn't be free"
Inferno (developed pretty much by the same team that recently created Go at google, and before created Plan 9 and Unix) doesn't need a MMU either, this is a great advantage when running on hardware without an MMU (there is a pretty good port to the Nintendo DS), and also makes it easier to port to platforms with an MMU (a single guy ported it to the PS2 in his spare time), MMUs are one of the main sources of platform-specific complexity.
FB also does this already, I saw a sponsored post when a friend liked eBay, it appeared at the top of my news feed and said "This is a sponsored story".

http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=154500071282557
> ... Also, it was hard for a lot of guys to think with 100% efficiency in her presence.

I wish people thought more highly of men. I think that this kind of sentiment is inexcusable in the workplace. We're (mostly) all adults here. People are perfectly capable of working around attractive people.
> it is possible to design configurations that combine low sonic boom with low cruise drag, characteristics once thought to be mutually exclusive

Why mutually exclusive? (just curious) What was the justification previously offered?
Yeah. I have a Garmin running watch that I can program to beep when my pulse is outside a range I set. But I really like to see the numbers. (It's easier when I'm cycling.)
Most people can't fathom what would lead a person to do this -- those people pick new surroundings, and don't see a reason modify their existing ones to suit their needs.

This is what sets engineers apart.
I started one in JavaScript (As an exercise to learn JS beyond DOM manipulation):
https://github.com/tscho/dcpu16-js
I think it's an interesting product, but one of the biggest arguments for web technologies on native apps is reducing the cross platform burden. Your example uses Parse as the data backend - I think Parse would be far less well received if it only supported iOS. I wonder if you're considering supporting additional platforms?

"Update your apps without pushing updates to the store" is a good problem to solve...but if you're going to extrapolate your native logic and encapsulate it in JavaScript I'd hope the next step might be an Android library to complement the iOS one.
Excellent! Thanks. Interestingly, Hegel's argument is opposite to what the other quote says. The other quote implies that we could learn from history if we bothered, but we don't bother, so we never learn. At least that's how I read it. But Hegel's saying that people always try to learn from history and we should stop trying because it's impossible:

Rulers, Statesmen, Nations, are wont to be emphatically commended to the teaching which experience offers in history. But what experience and history teach is this, - that peoples and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Each period is involved in such peculiar circumstances, exhibits a condition of things so strictly idiosyncratic, that its conduct must be regulated by considerations connected with itself, and itself alone. Amid the pressure of great events, a general principle gives no help. It is useless to revert to similar circumstances in the Past.
I see this as two separate apps though. This is probably because I already had thought about the encryption part and had a mental model of how this would work.

One is a browser extension to handle encrypted chunks of text on webpages (and some kind of key management i assume). So I post the ciphertext of my message to twitter and my friends see the plaintext while others see the ciphertext.

The second is the snippets of embeddable text hosted somewhere else (p2p, central server, etc) and an extension to auto-embed the special links to this content.

Does it make sense to combine these two ideas from the beginning? Because honestly I would volunteer my time to develop the first but have only marginal interest in the second (although it's a cool piece of tech with some interestingly weird use cases).

I can see the overlap, but I think the encryption part would be much more useful if it wasn't tied to the snippets stuff.

Am I missing something?
That was it! Boy does that bring back memories. Some bad ones, some good ones.

I can only imagine how fast putting text on the screen can be if you did it with some of the vector instructions in a modern processor....
I have a lot of trouble with this statement: "Brendan is wrong on this issue."

You should be very careful when you say someone is wrong on an issue that you have different opinions about.

And as a previous commentor stated, this article has nothing to do with Javascript whatsoever.
14 Design Lessons Learned from Berkeley DB
They're a reasonable supervised learning technique. I don't prefer them myself, but they have some advantages for online learning and low memory requirements, among other things, and do decently in supervised-learning-roundup benchmarks (e.g. http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~litman/courses/cs2710/papers/empiric...). Of the older supervised-learning techniques (before SVMs/boosting/etc.), they tend to do better than alternatives such as decision trees (though decision trees are more interpretable).
I checked (FMI, For My Info, the non-open pieces are the launcher, Iced Trea vs. javaWS, and fonts which are replaced by FreeType in OpenJDK

http://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/m1dks/poor_performanc...
Well, Nokia's cultural competance is making mobile communication devices on a radio network. (They are still doing this well in Asia/Africa). But the mobile is now a PC.

Microsoft's cultural competance according to the OP is helping businesses make more efficient use of PCs under their control. But mobiles are now consumer items out of control of businesses.

So it does not bode well.

But it does indicate Nokia / winphone should go after RIMs lunch and not chase Apple, so I think the framework for analysis suggested is pretty useful.