skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the video:

>If all continues to go well, we could see air-breathing batteries powering cars some time between 2020 and 2030

Ouch. Maybe laptops will come sooner?
If you log out or search in Incognito Mode (basically stripping out that personalization data), NameCheap does show up first for the term "domain name."
The wonderful thing about programming is that we use and develop both tools and meta-tools. And you -- the programmer -- are one of those meta-tools just as well.

Every day you get to choose at which level of the tool/meta-tool stack you work on.
That's the conclusion I came to, but it wasn't very definitive. At the very least I expected to come across links to people talking about their lack of patents. Maybe I should have searched for 'instagram no patents'.
Interesting idea. Obviously, plenty of good people do not use github though.

This should be used to allow programmers to skip the phone interview stage, filter people in. However, it it should not filter people out... Just give others a phone interview.
>"So when everybody is saying that nobody is seeing the signs of a bubble does that mean that we are in a bubble?"

No it's when your barber is investing in a startup.

And that's what the new law is designed to do.

The reason this is important is because the way one makes money from startups is not by investing in one.

It's by investing in 100.

And your barber doesn't have that kind of cash.
Vista saw them cutting features (such as a new kernel and new file system). Windows 7 saw them doing the same. They've always erred on that side, but didn't always strictly adhere to it. They did cut features from Vista to make their delayed release date.
Do NDAs usually come with a time limit? i.e. if you sign that NDA it becomes null & void, in say, 6/12/36 months?

I think one of the main reasons folks are adverse to signing NDAs, especially the "my idea is so great that I must protect it" kind, is that if I sign too many of them I effectively put myself outta business.

If I knew that a particular NDA would "time-out" in 12 months, I might be more inclined to sign; since if it does turn out to be yet another "photo sharing app, but for dwarfs" type deal -- I'm not going to be legally binded forever.

One last thing, I totally understand the need and desire for NDAs by orgs that actually have existing IP that they want to protect; but alas alot of these NDA requests are made in the ideation phase...
Just a few days ago, I was about to move to namecheap but then I find out their interface was a little too simple. It was missing more advanced features that even godaddy has like import/export zones. Looking for other suggestions too.
Is there a reason you don't want to go with NameCheap? All around they seem to be quality. I've used them for 2 or 3 years now and they are great.
You're ineligible to get a device for free. You're always eligible to buy a new one and drop your SIM in.
Seeing a beta test with such a potentially big audience (I'd say that a game as anticipated as D3 would get quite a seizable amount of people participating in an open beta), I would be willing to bet my hat(…) on the fact that we'll see D3 go free to play very, very soon.
Your advice is the last sentence of the article ;)
GoDaddy also has north of 50 million domains registered versus 3 million for Namecheap. If I understand correctly, GoDaddy doesn't make any (or very little) of domain sales, it's the other services like hosting, email, etc that generate the revenue.
This is a long article but well worth the read, providing a good background, the authors opinion on the current situation and well reasoned proposals on remedying it.

I posted this because it provides a reasoning and even an answer to a feeling that I kept having reading discussions and opinions on the discussions going on about equality and that's this: I feel that I treat people equally and on merit, and because of that it irks me when people tell me I should do more or even positively discriminate.

But the point is not how I behave or how I feel, the point is that the current reality is that our industry (and larger, our societies) has an equality issue and the sooner we fix that the better it will be for everyone. Only then will treating people equally be of any value.
RFID Will Grow… To Track You Everywhere?
Googler who said "we need a license for Java" says he didn't really mean it
How does IBM Watson find answers
Chip delays point to next-gen iPhone launch around October
Even though the term "retina display" may be a gimmick, I think the creator of retina.js specifically designed it with Apple devices, and Apple's developer documentation, in mind (case in point: usage of the @2x modifier).
Now some of the aggregators need to send traffic to them also I.e. leandomainsearch.com and domaintyper.com which I love promote godaddy.
Sure. Because you have no idea if that remailer is going to be used to leak information on civil rights abuses or to plan the assassination of an official.

I run a number of Tor nodes. I follow the Tor mailing list. I understand that what I am doing is not illegal, but is still very risky. What have I done in response to that risk? All my important shit is hosted elsewhere.
Why I Dismiss Webpages Instantly: Green text on black background.

My eyes hurt after only a few seconds.

It's not 1996.
Please cut the drama and the whining and get over it.
I will wait until I'm eligible for another phone obviously. Hopefully, by this time some of the kinks will be worked out of the new WP8 software. I'm completely happy with WP7 right now so I don't need an immediate update to WP8. I can wait.
How much GoDaddy charges for domains has little to do with their SEO ranking.

They do use it as a loss-leader because most people starting a new site search for domain names over hosting when starting out.
What a fabulous collection of totally fallacious beliefs and opinion.

And no, not every Linux user uses Firefox. In fact I find it becoming a rarity.
Yes, despite being quite small (878kb) the @2x background takes a while to load. We wouldn't recommend having a 2800×1867 retina background on your site, but for the sake of the demo we wanted to do some showing off.
Dumb money is now chasing smart money in the startup industry.

Determining if that constitutes a bubble is left as an exercise for the reader.
What happened to openleaks?
That's fine if a) you're willing to maintain two image sets and, b) the only two resolution images you need are "normal" and "2 x normal". The advantage of a progressive quality system is it scales to arbitrary requirements in a single resource. One file provides 1x, 2x, 3x, 3.14x etc.
I like Gandi.net. A bit more expensive at $15.50 for a .com, but it includes DNS, SSL, web redirection, and email (nice for setting up forwarding addresses).
No, you just have to assume that PNGs are not used and that JPGs are used instead.

But we have so-called experts trying to lead the way now...
Let's hope prospective interns aren't grading potential internships based on whether the company's web server melts down an hour after a post on hacker news. :-) All I get is a 500 error.
One of his other children is a US champion freestyle skier.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700109560/Skier-Jen-Hudak...
Very cool. Shows a new trend in social funding. And inadvertently provides proof of concept. Would like to see something like this for music industry.
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Prince of Persia technical information [pdf]
I can't see that happening. Blizzard will still sell over 5 million copies of Diablo 3 at full price. Plus they don't seem as up on the F2P trend, what with even SC2 costing full price.

Also, I'd be annoyed that I just preordered it for $80 AU :(
Robert Heinlein's predictions in 1949 for 2000
Probably no surprise for those of us who have used AWS for personal and business reasons, but I think Amazon's biggest business will end up being their cloud services and not even their retail space in the years to come.

It is just far too easy to use AWS directly, or something like Heroku to get online services up and running on short time frames with little need to understand server interactions on the back end. This is a huge boon when an intelligently designed web application can just "turn a knob" and scale to millions of users.
I still see the reflections if I close my eyes :(
Big Data Expert Claims Azure Outages in South Central US Data Center
My OakLeaf Systems Azure Table Services Sample Project (Tools v1.4 with Azure Storage Analytics) demo application, which runs on two Windows Azure compute instances in Microsoft’s South Central US (San Antonio) data center incurred an extraordinary number of compute outages on 4/19/2012. Following is the Pingdom report for that date:
I've noticed yet another interesting double-standard on HN: privacy should always be respected except when it comes to the "bad guys". It's all good as long as you agree on who the bad guys are. This is an extremely slippery slope as we can all witness with the US war on terror slowly eroding personal rights for the greater good. In my mind, this line of thinking is analog to the "free speech unless you say something I don't like" mentality. Do we really want to devalue privacy so we can catch a few bad guys? Just saying we should all be extremely careful around the topic.
I don't think the problem with the Android situation is that users don't get the new OS. The bigger problem (for me at least) is the frustration of being locked into 2.2 unless I want to greatly reduce my market size when writing android apps. My iPhone apps can target 5.0 and get 95% of the market. If I go to 2.3 I lose ~20+ percent of the market. Let's not even consider what you lose by going to 3.0+.
The real question is why he does not use Chrome ;)
I'd be very interested to see what this "incremental garbage collection" Matz talks about does to battery life.

Also, what's up with all the underscore methods in MobiRuby?
For lack of a better idea, that's how I once tested a toy PRNG I programmed. Feed output to rzip, check compression level, tweak a few knobs till it compresses worst.

However, that's not a good guaranty of true randomness. Encrypted data (for decent encryption algorithms) has high entropy just as well, even if the plaintext is non-random.

On the other hand, if you have a truly random process with very low probability of occuring, its output would indeed compress well via, for example, RLE.

The property of not being compressable is about both entropy and uniform distribution. See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness_extractor
I send traffic to Godaddy too, even though I use NameCheap.

The reason? If you're trying to make a commission for referrals, then Godaddy still whoops NameCheap. Far more domain buyers will use Godaddy, so more chance for commission.
Your Product Is Your Marketing
That is how it should work in theory, but often that's not how it really works. Obtaining the actual value of a department or a single employee can be extremely hard to quantify. It can also be hard to figure out when a project needs the plug pulled.

Personal anecdote. A company I worked for fired the more costly tech support staff right before an important partner product launch which left a bunch of undertrained customer service reps supporting the new product which gave a bad experience to customers. It also irritated the partner because the training the reps received essentially told them that almost any problem needed to be referred to the partner, swamping them with customers wanting them to fix a problem that wasn't theirs. They then had to scramble & rehire a tech support staff.

Take Intel's Itanium project which has struggled on for 16 years, yet Intel still has resources devoted to it. Sometimes you cannot just kill a very unsuccessful project & it can take many many years to wind it down.

You could also look at any need for layoffs as being a miscalculation by the company. When Yahoo announces 2000 layoffs, does that mean they're being efficient by cutting staff or does it mean that they've had 2000 employees on staff that shouldn't have been there in the first place & for how long? Why didn't the indexes and metrics in place tell them to not hire these people?

Also the government is not immune to layoffs. They have actually been one of the top organizations laying people off over the last few years.
How To Process Incoming SMS Messages In Your Web App [video]
Well, he did complain about tabs in the browser. Seems like he is stuck in 1996.
That is certainly the ideal way to reduce the HTTP requests. The problem with this implementation is clear: without a 'src' attribute on your images, if your script fails then your site suddenly has no images at all. Not to mention the overhead of manually modifying all of your existing markup.

Our goal with retina.js was to make it zero-config: no markup changes, no extra element attributes or flags.
Pay Per Player Bookie Sites Increase Earnings Potential
It's bizarre that this guy doesn't use tabs. Oh well, to each his own.

I use Safari instead of Firefox because the swipe gesture to go forward and back works so much better. I love that I can swipe away half the page, get a peek at what I'm going back (or forward) to and then return to the page I was on without triggering a reload or anything happending. It breaks some sites a little bit (GitHub especially) but it looks cool on most of the Internet so I'm fine with it.
Open-source hardware movement seeks legitimacy
agreed. This is a good thing. It puts you on the spot and you are forced to try to comprehend what is being said. Even if you only understand a word, you have consumed all and found the one word or phrase you do know.
Got any sources?
Well played sir or madam!
I tried using Safari when it was first ported to Windows, back when I used Windows, which means at least 5 years ago. It was slow and I couldn't do the things I was used to doing in Firefox or Opera, so I switched back after about a week.

I can't live without tree style tabs, noscript, ghostery, firemacs, facebook purity and especially adblock plus, which is why I have stuck with Firefox for a good part of a decade. Does Safari even have plugins?

What, besides allowing you to turn off tabs and being the unchangeable default on Mac, does Safari have going for it? In my extremely limited experience, it seems to fall short of even IE, let alone Firefox, Opera or Chrome.
You don't really have to make that choice, because these leaks are targeted at Governments. Governments should be transparent with their citizens. When they are not, the leaks will start showing up. I think that's ultimately good for society, even if now and then some secrets are not supposed to come out.
You should stop doing that because they supported SOPA. Don't sell out.
Honest question: Who cares if it's a bubble? If you aren't going to act on the opinion/information, it might not be worthy of your time, attention and focus. "Watch out! Bubble!" conversations generally just raise our anxiety without being actionable.
You're putting the carriage before the horse. People want to evaluate what it is they're getting into before they download it. If they can't understand the code examples, they won't get as far as downloading the module and looking at the docstring.

I understand why you had to use strings as code. I had two concerns about that. One, you didn't explain it - I had to figure it out on my own. And two, if a solution is supposed to make things cleaner, but ends up introducing warts like that... maybe it's not worth it. What you implemented is interesting, no doubt, but I wouldn't want to use it for that reason.

However, I think you would benefit greatly from having improved examples. Even if people don't use your module, they can still build on your ideas if it's well explained.
I knew a guy who shorted yahoo at $8 in the late 90s.
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Hope to see, How you guys think about this.
One of the big appeals of youtube is that a submitted video is available everywhere (well majority of the countries). Google would rather pay hefty fines than lose that.
>Google takes this even further: all of their UI decisions are made statistically.

I like how the author scoffs at this as if it is self-evidently preposterous, yet Google is one company whose UI design elegance is consistently competitive with Apple's.

I can't think of a single UI design choice in Safari that I prefer over how Chrome does it.
Tabs, I guess.
I think there is very good, and at the same time trivial, definition of how much random something is.

Given any source of data, you define randomness the inverse of the ability of somebody observing the output sequence to guess what the next item will be.

For instance in a stream of random bytes the observer will not be able to guess with more probability than 1/256 what the next byte will be, but if the sequence is "ffaaffaaffaa..." it will be trivial.

Note that this covers a lot of interesting things, for instance PI has a random-looking distribution of digits, but is not random, because from the sequence it will be easy to predict, the observer will see it is PI and will predict the next digits with 100% accuracy.

Actually in this reasoning there is an "observer" that is the one that will try to come up with a model to improve the probability to guess the next item, but still I think it's an interesting way to define randomness, a lot more intuitive than talking about models.
It does have ad block, it does have plugins, and it is a changeable default.
> The Centrino television ads were pervasive, everyone knew what they were about, and no one at the time had ever heard of a laptop that could get on the internet without a wire.

Apple introduced laptops with Wi-Fi (calling it "AirPort") in 1999, five years before your "eight years ago". Starbucks first started rolling out Wi-Fi (calling it "Wi-Fi")in 2001, and had most of their stores offering it by 2003. It was not an obscure technology eight years ago.

I'm sure whenever non-geeks go shopping for a computer, in any era, there are a variety of marketing terms that need to be explained to them. And yes, I'm old enough to have run through that exercise a few times. But that's not really evidence that "Centrino" hurt the growth of Wi-Fi any more than the way-more-prevalent "Pentium" branding hurt the '90-'00's highly competitive CPU market that gave us 2+GHz x86-64's.

Wi-Fi adoption rates were exceptional for a new computing technology, especially one that required infrastructure beyond what could be put "in the box".

Just like Apple was a couple of years ahead of the curve on Wi-Fi and called it AirPort, they're a couple of years ahead of the curve on double-res displays, too. I don't see how them putting the name "Retina" on those displays (while even in the OS they're still calling it Hi-DPI!) is going to harm what's surely going to be an explosion of high resolution screens in the next few years.
Forget Ben Gibbard's range, Adele's range is even higher. But then again no one ever complained about Dylan's monotone singing and C-G-F chord progression. Some say that it's a constraint that forces you to be creative, which forced him to focus on songwriting and live performance. Ditto for Chris Martin and Tom Petty whose melodic range is very limited and could produce haunting songs with the simplest chord palette.

I used to (actually still do) fixate how fast someone can play and how many techniques someone is using. But then I realized that I'll never be able to jump taller or run faster than some 18 year-old young buck in some inner-city pickup game - being outrunned and outgunned just made me frustrated. I had to work on cross-over dribble and step-back jumpers that relied on fakes instead of speed to score. More importantly, I had to work on being not being frustrated in-games on being blocked, dunked on, ball being stolen and missing shots; focusing on making the open shots that I have after missing the first five. Music is the same thing for me.
My bad, I was being too vague - sorry for that.

I meant "any atypical property" instead of "any property".

An "atypical property" being a property that almost no sequence has, i.e the set of sequences which exhibit this propery is a measure-zero set.
Likewise. In fact phones are more likely to encourage you to turn things off to save power.
Thanks! I have submitted to iTunes but it takes an unspecified time to approve. I hoped it would be done today, but reading around it might take up to two weeks. So I've just gone ahead and published anyway.
If by that, you mean that the intention revealing name of the function is always as good as being able to read their source code, then I'm a bit dubious. That's a little better than assuming the comments are never outdated or outright lies. The thing is, naming really well is often hard. By requiring so many more names, I think you've added a whole lot of workload to the developer.

In the right environment, that might actually encourage developers to write short methods. In the wrong one, it might encourage longer ones. It would discourage me from writing DSL control structures.

Gedankenexperiment. Imagine this: An IDE that quickly lets you browse the code for a function by pressing a key, or hovering over its name invoked in code. Some smart cookie then comes up with an add-on that provides a switchable view with in-lines for the function code, as if in a code block.
Not a measuring stick for value, no. But certainly a measuring stick for "expensive as hell".
If the investment comes in the form of equity and is used to pay salaries, yes. It's the stupidest form of wealth redistribution.
Is this really HN material?
I enjoyed the podcast, looking forward to the next one.
Is SSL free at Gandi.net?
Actually, GP's site (HotNameList) seems to offer a choice between GoDaddy and NameCheap when you click "Buy".
I work at Ning. I can confirm this hole was recently patched.
I figured this will affect GoDaddy in the long term much more than it did in the short term, when people said "after all the fuss, it seems GoDaddy didn't lose that many users".

The point was that people wrote a ton of negative articles about GoDaddy then, and since that day forward virtually no one will recommend GoDaddy anymore, and instead will (probably) recommend NameCheap or someone else. I would expect the GoDaddy exodus to continue in the next few years.
The cost of getting popular
The web may not have a hierarchy but URLS do - but it doesn't work as well as the earlier X25/x400 version. So we have to have an address that increases left->right, then switches halfway through to a different format decreasing left->right

www.group.department.university.edu.country/person/topic/page

Instead of the more logical

country.edu.university.department.group.person.topic.page
I'm in the same place sans profitable company; I didn't know anyone in the space. I've started going to entrepreneur focused meet ups... in my experience it has been a bit more effective than email/linkedin because you get to spend some face time with people.

But as benologist said, numbers speak for themselves. I'm sure few vcs will ignore an email promising double digit growth rates
And who would control the .www domain? US?
That's not bad. I agree named functions are fine for many solutions for maintaining encapsulation. They're not that great for writing your own control structures. How would you implement my ifTrue:ifFalse:ifMaybe: example?
Just forking a bunch of Django/Python repos got >20K points and a "Not bad! Maybe you have what it takes" message[1].

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/cbkUK.png