skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many americans don't seem to understand this because they've grown up in the US media bubble and were educated in US schools which don't tend to really accurately portray the rest of the world.

Going out and living in other countries you find how impressively different things can be.

For instance, an acquaintance of mine who is a medical doctor who treats terminally ill patients, had his life ruined (and is in jail now) because the DEA decided he was writing too many prescriptions. Those same drugs- that he determined were medically necessary and he's a DOCTOR, can be bought over the counter in Chile, and many other countries south of the US border. Walking around chile you don't see a lot of stoners or drug addicts (in fact, I haven't seen any homeless at all) compared to the USA.

Nevermind that the person who decided he was writing "too many" of these prescriptions has no medical training and was doing so based on what amounts to a quota system whereby over time patients are increasingly denied the drugs they need as their doctors become afraid of the same fate that befell my acquaintance. This fear causes fewer prescriptions to be written over all, lowering the standard for "too many", causing those who didn't deny their patients the drugs they need to be prosecuted, installing more few, further lowering the numbers, etc. It is a self reinforcing cycle.

So, please tell me why a doctor had his life ruined for giving his patients- terminally ill, remember- prescriptions for drugs that you can buy over the counter in many countries? Please tell me why the USA is pursuing a program that ensures that ill people are in agony?

It is because the USA has gone off the deep end in certain areas.

Yet attempting to defend this doctor to others who also went to high school with him, mostly got no sympathy. To those americans' eyes he was a "Drug dealer" and a "scourge on society."
Show HN: Hacker Says - quotes from hackers to hackers
regarding [1], that would be very cool. recently went through the process of incorporating; involved quite a bit of printing, signing, scanning, emailing back, etc.. not being all that technical, i have no idea how you'd implement that.. but, if you could get something like what you described to work (and work in a way that’s hassle free for both senders and signees, as well as secure) that would be very interesting.

and screenshots have been sent. thanks,
I am interested, have mailed you
This only involves the top blockbusters. For most other US produced movies the waiting time for releases can easily be well over 6 months.

Besides, 6 weeks is still a long time in the age of instant global communication. Basically, all the hype and buzz surrounding a film starts well before the release and dramatically drops a week after. After a month, people have pretty much forgotten about it.

This hurts sales even without piracy, because the artificially created urgency (why do you thing so many people go see a movie in the opening week?) has gone.

There is no alternative for simultaneous release that doesn't hurt sales, piracy or not.
If autonomous cars become significantly safer in terms of the number of accidents, you could make a strong argument for lighter and lower-density of structural materials, less passenger safety features, just significantly simpler cars.

Of course that would depend on getting all the cars on the road to be self-driving - you don't want your crashless 500 pound Google car getting smashed by a behemoth human-driven Smart Car.

But if you significantly reduced the materials cost in the car, that opens a big margin for Google to trade in.
Well, if you're doing client work maybe it makes sense.

I was mostly talking about one's own work.
Indeed there are! This one is just for signals intelligence, but you can be sure that they share a lot more than that.

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

"The United Kingdom – United States of America Agreement (UKUSA, /juːkuːˈsɑː/ ew-koo-sah)[1][2] is a multilateral agreement for cooperation in signals intelligence among the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand."
no. ability, persistence, social awareness, and creative thought are.
If someone breaks the system the 5k limit doesn't mean anything. Is the $5000 limit for launch or permanent? I sure hope it's not permanent. Electronic transfers are most important for large amounts of money.
Wow, this is really impressive! Great timing with the google site search changes.
I just wonder what the price will be like after beta is finished?
Because 1 hour ago you said:

Why not just do relational programming - prolog or sql. The lisp weenies still don't get it.

And now you've peppered the entire thread with non sequiturs and off-the-wall droppings. Please take a break.
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Indeed. I wish Dwolla the best of luck, but realistically it's going to take a lot more barbarians at the gate to bring down the existing system and replace it with something better.

Most importantly, anyone who talks about financial transactions at the level of shuffling bits around and doesn't address the issues of fraud, money laundering, regulations, and legal compliance is just not serious about it. If you want to invent a new currency or a new banking infrastructure, go right ahead. But unless you are prepared to get into bed with the existing processors as well as world governments and law enforcement agencies then you are probably relegating your system to obscurity or worse.
The banks also used to own Visa. It was originally called BankAmericard and changed its name when it became owned by a consortium of banks.
Can't find a single mention of the Springfield Gazette in relation to Lincoln via Google, or at the Lincoln Museum site. Also can't find any evidence in searching, that the Springfield Gazette has ever existed. Certainly is suspicious.
"Is it the new norm to only start using apps that's already stable and in the app store?"

Wait, are you saying that there was ever a time when it was the norm to find a website that promised an app, and then send your UDID to the makers of that site in the hopes of receiving an IOS archive from them that you then have to drag via iTunes onto your phone?

You guys suffer from tech myopia. I am very technical, I have written iOS apps, and I would never put something onto my iOS devices that I just received from some dude on the Internet, and I know that Apple puts a fat sandbox around it; compare that to an average user who only know how to get apps from the App Store.
This problem is easily resolved by noting that you think the method has to 'belong' to one type or another instead of exist as a first class object of its own. In practice this was done first in Lisp (the 'generic function' works better with typical Lisp environments than endless (send object message) calls, in particular with functions like map), and then the fact that the generic function treated one and only one argument specifically was noticed. From here we get multiple dispatch in a very natural way, a concept that is quite awkward in a language like Smalltalk.
I appreciate and believe in the message, but perhaps it's time to consider the quote:

a startup exit is opium for ambitious techies

That's not to say you shouldn't go for it, just make sure it's not your opium in life.
Mango Delayed Due to Climate Change
Symantec Web Gateway Cross Site Scripting
One data point, but I heard from Brad Feld that when writing Do More Faster he found the publisher to be really good at taking a Word doc and converting it into a book (and all the editing that goes into that). He found them to be pretty much useless when it came to actually marketing a book. That probably explains why he's self-publishing his upcoming series.

It seems to me publishers will have to figure out either how to get better at marketing or evolve into low-cost specialty printers.
MapBox's State Of The Map Site Is Awesome
Why do you personally care so much about my buried comment that you had to come in here to defend the use of douche bag? Is saying douche bag really all that important to you?

Of course it isn't. But it's part of a larger culture you have a vested interest in maintaining which is why you need to defend it.

Defending douchebag is about defending the right to be carelessly and callously offensive without needing to think of others in the community.
Samsung Focus 2 AT&T will be released on May 20 (Price $49.99)
If you're not doing any I/O, the number of threads can be limited to the number of cores. I believe this is the default for Fork/Join.
Exactly. Why should we trust Dwolla to handle this?

I tried going to the FiSync site to see what'd happen if I claimed to be a financial institution. Apparently their security is so tight that it won't let me log in because it claims I don't have a phone number on my account, which I do.
Microsoft made bank with the kinect. Also, google is in serious danger of being killed by facebook (more data = better search results), so google needs another huge profit stream. Running the entire transportation infrastructure can be that (there will be competitors, but with google's superior tech talent, their vehicles will be safer and hence win).
If you have to contact your host to make sure they are patching vulnerabilities - you are with the wrong host.
My thought exactly. Anyone who keeps their stack up to date is using the Apache2 Handler or FastCGI. Even if they're still on Apache1, mod_php isn't vulnerable.
Oh, i disagree with that completely. A user having a status is domain logic. Pulling that status from an external dependency is decidedly not.
I don't think you read the entire article, which explained everything you said here quite clearly.
Obama is not your king... he doesn't make the laws (I know he can, but he'd be impeached faster than you can say "WTF"). You should broaden your view and... blame more people, I guess...
Not that hard. E.g. http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/

From my experience -- ThinkPads usually work quite smoothly with popular linux distros.
The problem is not the company you work at.. the problem is that you care.

To be happy at any job: Respect your self,Respect others, respect your work.

If you respected yourself from the beginning you would hav quit long time ago :)
Appcache is an app packaging mechanism, and should be treated as such. The manifest is the equivalent of a plist or xml file describing the app package. It actually makes a lot of sense when you view it like that. By extension, you should only put stuff into appcache that you would put in a native app bundle.

I've built an appcache app that is a bunch of static javascript (in the CACHED section) contacting a bunch of services in the NETWORK section. There is no FALLBACK section, because any resource is either online or offline, but never both. The UI is designed so the user knows which content is online, and can decide for themselves if they have good enough connectivity. Dynamic content goes into localstorage if it needs to be persisted. This way of using appcache works very well and is mostly painless.
That works great if you're only using one interface in your class. What if you need to include two?
How I Got 13 Interviews in 10 Weeks (Without Submitting a Single Application)
Hopefully a Wordpress plugin is in the pipeline. This would be a no-brainer any Wordpress site if setup is as simple as installing and configuring a plugin.
Except that it mentions the response from the patent office that his application was denied.
Join my Hacker News upvoting cabal
I love Hacker News, but as it's grown in popularity, the odds of getting a submission on the homepage have become more about luck and timing than about quality content. Unless a whole bunch of people immediately vote a post up, it quickly rolls off the "new" page and into oblivion.<p>So I'm starting a Hacker News upvoting cabal, for the mutual benefit of the participants.<p>It will consist of a simple email discussion list, where we can pre-promote our latest projects before we actually submit them to Hacker News and other social news sites.<p>If you consider one of these pre-promoted projects interesting and are available to vote it up at the designated submission time, then I'm sure your fellow cabal member will appreciate it.<p>On the other hand, if you think a project is lame or otherwise unworthy, you're under no obligation to stuff the ballot box.<p>I figure if we limit this cabal to 25 members to start, and enforce a limit of, say, five pre-promoted projects a month, the emails won't get out of hand.<p>If you're interested, email me. User name: hacker-news-upvoting-cabal-shaun, domain: pressbin.com
IIRC both Google's and Mozilla's browser metrics showed that a vast majority of users (>90%) never open more than 5 tabs simultaneously. Chrome is optimized for this use case, both from a memory as well as interface perspective. So for most users it works very well, better than the competition I daresay. Unfortunately it tends to completely break down once you go too far out of its comfort zone (i.e. using many tabs). Unless you have immense amounts of memory (> 4 GB) the gigantic memory use will not only affect Chrome itself but also all other programs as the OS starts swapping their pages onto the hard disk (which have to be swapped back upon access which is slow). Additionally, the interface was clearly never intended to be used with too many tabs as it lacks any kind of tab overflow concept. And the interface starts to lack badly which for me is an indication that there are bottlenecks in the single browser process which handles the UI.

Firefox behaves far more gracefully in less regular use cases. With tab groups, switch-to-tab, don't load until selected and tab overflow I can easily have dozens of open tabs without affecting the performance of Firefox and the system too much while remaining quite convenient to use. Mozilla just has to improve the regular use case to be in a better competitive position. Once they've achieved this Firefox will be usable by a far wider range of possible users than Chrome.

Oh, and one of the reasons for Chrome's success (besides the sneaky bundling stuff) is probably the extremely convenient silent updater. I've installed Chrome on many computers which belong to people with little technical knowledge so I wouldn't have to bother with browser updates (users have no say in this) and outdated Flash versions (since it is bundled). Now, the latter reason wouldn't be necessary if Adobe wouldn't be such a bag of fail but that's another topic.
http://www.hybridserverpages.com/
Just two days learning curve.
No-www considered harmful
There is also a lot of active contribution from a lot of other people and companies too on the list http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-web-intents/
Don't be hasty - there are a lot of ways to hide your foreign income from the IRS. Find them and do it...
WCStackNavigationController - Based on UINavigationController
Hm, for some reason, you're viewing the old copy on the site. It was updated last night but I guess something happened and the changes didn't go through. I'll have this updated shortly.

I get where you're going with this but we don't find the need to fully list out all features/functions at the point with a landing page. The purpose of the landing page was to obtain signups, which we're getting successfully. The issue is that all these people just want to wait for the stable version in the App Store. I had someone email me just 5 minutes ago telling me that he doesn't like betas because they crash. What do I say to that?

When we are ready to launch, we'll have a full site letting people know what we're about. We won't do it any earlier because there are some key features to making this app work but we don't want to disclose until we're almost ready to launch.
There is! It is functional already, just a little more testing before we release it.
Design Patterns in Ruby would probably be a good place to start, then the original GoF Design Patterns book, along with Enterprise Design Patterns which came later.

Also check out the DDD/CQRS google group: http://groups.google.com/group/dddcqrs
A conversation with Alan Kay (2004)
The story is he filed it but it was denied.

I'm suspicious, but it doesn't seem completely out of the realm of possibility.

Lincoln did own a newspaper in Springfield, and he did actually own a patent on a completely unrelated topic.
> "Why in the world would you ever do that?"

Because the distribution rights probably belong to someone else in said countries. It's the same reason why some songs are available on iTunes in the US but curiously missing elsewhere.
Dwolla always talks about how friendly they are with the banks, but it's not clear why banks wold be friendly with them.
"Call something with side effects from something that should be pure, and get an error, that sort of thing."

If you enforce that, you get Haskell, where you have no choice but to wrap your head around isolating your IO layer from everything else. If you don't enforce that, you don't get very much material difference in practice.

I'm concerned that in practice, 99% purity isn't very useful. We shall see. (You get advantage from 0 - 50%, then I think a long plateau, then a sharp spike right at 100%. It can be hard to make the leap, since there's no way to ease into it.)

"The entire "monad" discussion is pretty hard to get your head around. Perhaps part of the problem is that it represents not just side effects, but also forced ordering of operations (albeit, largely to allow for those effect-full interactions with the outside world)."

Well, part of the problem is that "monad" doesn't mean any of those things. It's an interface (very much like the Java sense of the term) which has some implementations that enforce those properties, and other implementations that do not. Which is to say that yes, it is hard to get your mind wrapped around, but this is largely because of the spray of terrible, terrible explanations of the monad interface sprayed about by people who barely understand it themselves.

The best way to actually learn them is Learn You a Haskell; if you've already learned basic Haskell syntax you can leap straight to chapter 11[1]. (Do not jump straight to the Monad chapter 12. Start at 11. Start earlier if you don't know the syntax.)

"Monad" is an adjective, not a noun.

[1]: http://learnyouahaskell.com/functors-applicative-functors-an...
Matt and Quin are two of the most talented people I have had the pleasure of working with. They have so much potential as entrepreneurs. I am proud to be Swiftype investor :) Great idea and great team.
An example of how and why this will always fail is well presented in the story of the Twentieth Century Motor corporation. A reading of an excerpt can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCmJUobwKQk

If you'd prefer text here's one:
https://thesnarkwhohuntsback.wordpress.com/favorite-passages...
It seems like the NYT doesn't show the interstitial ads on immediate repeat visits (once per day perhaps?). Hit the nyt.com site, then hit it again shortly thereafter and snap that visit.

Can your approach accept cookies?
It is the best documentation I think I ever have used, but is still has flaws. The greatest one being what moe stated.
Thanks. Yep that's correct, I'm an independent developer.

All the effects are created live in the app itself, there's no server-side image processing done. It's true that the app simply uploads images straight to Facebook without touching my server (unlike Twitter, which is required due to the way their API works) - and thankfully it doesn't have to, or I doubt it would cope with the load. Facebook must have loads of servers purely for processing image uploads. My back end is simply Apache+PHP.

I hope to blog more about my experiences in the future too. Thanks for the feedback.
We do it via hockeyapp download link. We didn't think it was a problem considering the fact that Grooovy's beta test went well and everyone else using it currently is doing the same thing.

But I think you make a really valid point. I think your reasoning so far is the best I've gotten so far to explaining this odd trend that's never happened with us before.
Who is the "you" you're referring to? Me? I hope not, I'm really enjoying RubyMotion.

Would I recommend it to a company that only does iOS development? heck no. How about a RoR company that wants to do some iOS development? Now we're talking. If nothing else, I think it is a great way to learn the Touch/Cocoa/Foundation frameworks without having Obj-C cruft get in the way of having a good time.
Congrats, this looks fantastic!

Quick feature suggestion: Can we replace/ignore specific text in the titles? I'm indexing a site with "Page title - Site Name" as the title of each search result, and manually editing 100+ pages is no fun :)

Alternately, you could compare the window title and the h1 list (or against other page titles) and automatically adjust accordingly.
How is it not? What draws the line between domain logic and non-domain logic? It would seem to me that, by definition, anything your application does would fall into that application's domain, right? What other domain would it be in? Where would you put a request to a third party for supplemental data, if not in the models?
I hear your point, but in this case, "objective" from Google means more like "random".

Google has invested heavily in relevance for their main web search, which is obviously excellent. But they've totally ignored their site search product and if you try it, you'll find that the relevance is quite poor.

Hopefully, sites will use Swiftype's controls not just to maximize short-term revenue, but to improve relevance and user experience. After all, with Google site search, Google can only use public relevance signals like inbound links to rank pages. But on your site, you have lots of internal data about which pages are most important and you can use that to steer people towards the pages they're probably looking for.
Learning from Slideshare's Founders
What if we just gave everyone like vouchers or something that they could use to trade for whatever they wanted? Although, how do we encourage people to do work that's more important than other work? Or people who have skills that are in short supply? And how do we make sure that people don't hog the stuff that takes a lot more work to produce? Maybe if we gave people more vouchers if they worked in more difficult or more needed jobs, and maybe we could make it so that the stuff that takes more work to produce requires more vouchers to trade for. But then how do we set the values for such things? Who could possibly collect enough information to get all the ratios right? Oh wait, who knows better than the people who use goods and services? What if we just let them set their own rates for voucher exchanges and let everyone sort out things on their own? That way people who have skills that are rarer or more needed by the public will be able to collect more vouchers and people can choose what goods and services are most important to them personally by deciding how many of their vouchers they're willing to give up for them.

There you go, I think I fixed communism.
Another quick suggestion: Show a tally of how many pages have been indexed in the admin panel. Cheers!
No, they have not. There are very many good reasons why they do things this way - I can elaborate if anybody cares.

However, you do get to talk to 4-5 hiring managers based on your skillset and their interests, and you get to rate them based on the group you want to join.

I've done that and it's worked out pretty good for me.
More Americans use social media than hold stock
Easy answer: the banks don't see them as a serious threat, so it's easier (and better PR) to placate them.
Games are what you make of them
1 minute shared email folders with Squadmail  goes public beta
Hopefully PostgreSQL-XC might fix this lack of good multi-master replciation in a couple of years. PostgreSQL-XC 1.0 will be released soon.
You don't have to contact them, but you absolutely should make sure that vulnerabilities are being patched. It's your responsibility to your users.