skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So every time a startup signs a lease for office space we have to read about it on front-page HN? Who cares? This isn't even interesting. As for the "commitment," a lease is simply an asset and can be sold like anything else.
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Demo of iPad keyboard improvement
Gokrt, We have a tab problem as well.
As apps move to the cloud, record albums turn into subscriptions, and books become bits on a Kindle, I fear this sort of thing will become more commonplace.

Sometimes intentionally, like this example, sometimes you'll lose access to things you thought you had bought as companies merge or expire, or through good old-fashioned screw-ups.

I can run a program on my thirty-year-old Apple computer today just as I could when I bought it, even though the company who made the software may have disappeared in the '90s. Records I bought as a kid are still here, and no one can edit or "deauthorize" the books on my shelf.

I wonder if kids born now will grow up without any expectation that buying any form of software or media entitles them to keep and use what they've bought anytime they want?
HTML5-based MeeGo successor Tizen hits 1.0 milestone
This is one of the many problems that DNSCurve solves, by setting up encrypted and authenticated connections between you and any DNS servers you decide to trust.

http://dnscurve.org/

OpenDNS already supports it:

http://blog.opendns.com/2010/02/23/opendns-dnscurve/
Walmart’s Foundation Gives $71 Million to the Environment
Second Layer - bringing social to websites.
Dreamweaver CS6 w/ PhoneGap Build
I'd like to note, their assumptions on caps lock does not apply to Mac. If you hold shift while caps lock on a mac, it still gives uppercase.

Of course, if they implemented this, it would turn it into a case insensitive password with much bigger security implications. So, this isn't a criticism of their decision. Only an observation.
The nick you're describing creates what structural engineers call a 'stress riser' in the material of the bag. It focuses the force you exert on the bag to a small point, from which the tear will originate.

Stress risers are a common cause of structural failure, and are usually designed around. Some well known examples where they cause failures: rectangular window openings in aluminum fuselages, knots in fishing line, a poorly designed head tube lug on a steel bicycle frame.

In this case, however, the failure of the material results in a good outcome: snack time.
I would go further: the differences probably are not significant. (Small differences may still be significant. In this case, I doubt it.)
It means that there are ways of solving the problem that don't involve rewriting the code in a way that initially will confuse 99.999% of other developers.

And it is important in our industry to write MAINTAINABLE code.
That is a closed group
Really? I find Georgia extremely readable on desktops and laptops, and the NYTimes makes heavy use of it at 12px in article bodies. Looks a little dated/old school, but I've never heard of Georgia (or Times for that matter) having "degraded" readability.
You can also login with your profile name, which I didnt know until very recently when I mistakenly dropped the @domain.com and was initially surprised to find it worked.
But if you send a message they won't see your message until you're both online again. So if you sign off before you sign on, it won't send until both clients are online again (could be days).

If you use multiple computers it gets worse - if you send the message from your laptop it won't go through until the laptop and your friend are online again.

Its not a huge problem with a 1 on 1 chat, but with groups its frustrating.

We benefit greatly from having the chat room as sort of a canonical log of what's happening. Its nice to be able to leave a message for coworkers before you sign off for the night, and know that everyone will see it. With Skype we didn't have that guarantee.
Mutant-flu paper published
Be asian and bald = smart! It ain't that simple!
I believe the author is missing out on one other feature of Sass: browser-prefix values are generated automatically, so no more (-webkit-, -ms-, etc.). This would make his Sass gradient code more succinct.
I would also argue that the security implications of this are largely positive. It removes less than two bits of entropy even from a randomly generated password, but it means that users reset their passwords less often, and I would guess that when users reset a "forgotten" password, they usually choose something weaker (and thus more memorable).
Bizarre internal Apple video shows Steve Jobs rallying the troops against IBM
Oh good, just what the Internet needed: two-axis hot-or-not
Being an MBA and having spent a lot of time with a large cohort of the same, the "Entitlement," "Misguided Thinking,"and "Selection Bias" critiques sound a lot more like the caricature that's made of MBAs by non-MBAs (or self-loathing MBAs trying to impress non-MBAs) than the vast majority of real people who have the degree. If this represents the majority of the MBAs you've met, then I fear you have an unrepresentative sample. We had those folks, for sure. But they were the dorks and the minority.
That's a feature of Compass, not Sass.

http://compass-style.org/
I think pull requests are awesome, especially where you're making a 5-20 line change on some really important bit of your site. It's really simple to see what's changed and have colleagues do code-review really quickly.

But when you're implementing a major feature, it falls apart. Today, I had to code-review a pull request with 195 separate commits, a 3000-line diff and a combination of css, coffeescript & ruby. Pull requests become pretty useless at this point.

Sure, you can do intermediary pull-requests, but at the end you're left with this huge beomoth and no idea where to start. Intermediary diffs could be the answer.

Perhaps also the ability to filter the pull request (eg. don't show me the CSS)
Don't bloggers have to disclose affiliate links now?
Small problem:

alleco: The golden rule has a serious problem of enabling sociopaths.

lancefisher: People like to argue against the golden rule, saying that if you are deranged, it gives you license to hurt others.

alleco: You are shifting the argument. That has nothing to do with my comment. Straw man fallacy.

It isn't a straw man fallacy. It is a direct paraphrase of your statement. "enabling" and "giving license" are pretty much the same thing. As are forms of "sociopath" and "deranged (who will) hurt others" -- at least in common vernacular.
Focusing on the blog is a good idea. In my limited blog experience, I've only seen one real approach: write like Hell, tell everyone you can about it, swallow sadness for the first year while no one reads it, then randomly after a year of hard work it'll start getting a bunch of traffic and take off.
I worry that you might be right, but it seems to me like we're moving towards a Soviet economic model where we fleece the users today and disable the services tomorrow. It would not have occurred to me that applications installed on my phone might one day vanish due to the publisher not wanting to support them. I don't have this game, but I don't think it's likely that I would have expected this behavior. Acting like this is a normal, acceptable business practice when it is basically unprecedented in our field is not going to discourage the behavior. Between this and various cloud offerings vanishing after acquisition or because Google or whoever doesn't feel like supporting them, I think we're entering an era where software as a service has become software as a means for fly-by-night companies to defraud users and destroy their trust.
This is how you actually teach people to program
Quick, buy it now so you can get in on the class action.
3 Weebly posts on HN front page now? Where can I buy this kind of exposure?
Do we really need a start-up incubator (or) an investor for a software product?
At the moment, I seem to read a lot about so many innovative software products (or) mobile apps , and if it happens to be really useful, there seems to be a buzz about it for a week, and your RSS reader is filled with news. Most of the articles covered is how many millions a company has raised in funding, etc…<p>My question is this - being an app developer, I do have some ideas with good product, and I have a team of 4 people who help me out (both in the technical side) and the finance side. We hope to start a venture on this, and be a "lean" start-up. Project is done with Xcode, and we have a lot of web services, and they are not really too expensive to set it up, and all the people in the team do not really have a salary of some sort. We just plan to take an equal portion of the company and go ahead.<p>Do we really need a start-up incubator (or) an investor ? I know it depends on the product and stuff, but, for a software product, which can be setup in 1 year with some investment in hosting services, and development resources, etc … I just want to know why people think - WE NEED AN INVESTOR TO LAUNCH THE START-UP ! Is that really so ?<p>I know that it gives the start-up some sort of publicity when Mashable blogs about it like - "This company received 10 million dollars in funding .. (blah blah)". But honestly, what are the resources that you get from pitching and getting some funding ? For a software product, do you really need funding ? What is this craze ?
You can install PowerDNS recursor[1] or BIND on you own server and use that instead of your ISP/google DNS.

[1]http://doc.powerdns.com/built-in-recursor.html
Why is showing the file extension a bad thing? Why do you care if you see ".php"?
Gah, this data is so interesting, but is not presented very well.

First change I would make is put all the red bars next to each other, and the blue bars next to each other; there is more value in comparing across enthicities/genders than there is in comparing across variables. Second change I would make it get rid of the eye-popping primary colors and choose two more neutral ones (two different shades of beige maybe?)

Finally, Y-axis scale changes too frequently. Also error bars would be nice as has been mentioned.

edit: Now that I think more about it, at a glance it would be nice to show a scatter plot with a dot for each of Male/Female/Ethnicity/etc in the way that you have a scatter plot on your home page. http://judg.me
The closest you can probably get to "work smarter" is "work skilled". And there are gamers who pursue that route. For instance, Skunkworks was a guild that was 81st in the US to kill Heroic Lich King. This was on an 8 hour a week raid schedule (compared to 'hardcore' guilds that raided 2-3 times that long, in a week). So there's definitely skill there. But those are the exception rather than the norm.

You're caught up in how things work in most MMOs. I was thinking of things like, being able to script most anything. (Then being able to license the scripts to other users. This would be a "futuristic" space game.)
I have no idea what the standard deviation on this is. Lots of the numbers look close enough to be noise. Others in this thread have pointed out other missing information that makes this a fairly poor survey.
Help My Stylesheets are a Mess (CSS best practices)
I've done the tapes 3 times. I'm seriously thinking about doing them again this summer. An absolutely great series. It was one of my first from the Teaching Company and it started me on-track to be a raving fan of theirs.

I'll look around and see if I've written up anything.
Inter-rater reliability is super important for tests like this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-rater_reliability The gist is: you can't simply mark one person as "asian" and assume that categorization is correct. In that respect, the data would reveal more about the person sorting the photos than it would reveal about the perceptions of those that are rating the photos.

Second, there is a huge problem with causality here. So for instance, the author writes: "Be Asian if you want to appear smart; Latino if you want to appear extroverted." The problem is that there is a methodological flaw. On the first photo I saw on judge.me, I was presented with this image: http://images.judg.me/82e7fcbd988dbdcac0d00bd53fb93e96.jpg This would appear to me to be a latino or hispanic male at a party. I'm highly inclined to rate them highly on the extrovert scale: they're at a party. But that doesn't indicate stereotypically latino or hispanic features indicate extroversion. It could be that people with stereotypically latino or hispanic features were more likely to upload photos in which the image portrayed a more stereotypically extroverted activity.

Third, it appears that users can upload a photo to the site and see their feedback from votes. It seems highly possible that users self-select a photo that will best affirm the image of themselves they wish to cultivate. In that respect, there's both a huge confirmation bias and huge self-selection bias. If I want to think of myself as an academic, I'll upload a picture of me at my desk studying and watch the "intellectual" ratings pour in. Then I can feel assured that other people perceive me the way I want to be perceived. Additionally, if one wants to conform to social expectations (and things like Asch's line test http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments indicate conformity is common), this data might really be nothing more than showing the degree to which people post photos affirming their conformity to their social expectations (i.e. 'smart' ethnicities posting 'smart-looking' photos) and be saying nothing at all about how people actually perceive ethic cues.

There are huge methodological concerns for this 'study'. Instead, the revelation of this data might actually be the insight that "pictures of yourself at social events makes you look more social." Taking much of anything at all away from this data set would be rather unwise.
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Well I feel dumb, sorry. I thought he meant original casing + all lowercase version + all uppercase version were all acceptable (which isn't the same as case insensitive but for the purposes of cracking it is just as bad).
I feel the same way. I like that they are consolidating, but part of this just feels like a new coat of paint. Further, I didn't see how this announcement fits with the Office365 identities. Are those now going to "Microsoft Accounts" as well? Or are those still Office365 accounts? Can I use Hotmail with them? What's the difference between Hotmail and Exchange Online? Can I migrate back and forth?

Unless something radically changed in the last 6 months, the two identity infrastructures are completely separate with one tenuous federation holding them together. And the two groups of products -- consumer and business -- will still be unnecessarily separate.
It's anybody who you hire at your startup - until they leave and then all of the sudden they are C players. Because, if you only hire 'A players' and you have decided to hire John Doe #4 for some combination of skill, experience and vibe, then John Doe #4 is now an 'A player' by default until proven otherwise. And thus the myth continues - "We only hire A players."
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You can only put var at the beginning of variable declarations, but there are many other places that commas are used as a separator. So that "solution" doesn't apply in general.
> Also error bars would be nice as has been mentioned.

Not just nice but absolutely crucial. If you're looking at differences of 2%, you need tens of thousands of samples to say anything definitive. He's only got 1000 photos total, so I'm pretty sure most of this article is just an analysis of random noise.
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There's nothing like spending hours tracking down a bug that shouldn't occur in normal practice.
'Iceman' Mummy Holds World's Oldest Blood Cells
I had to stop reading after the following entered their glossary:

sistas, ladies.

Sorry but that is a turn-off to me.
Announcing Brin.gy, an open-source mechanism for social discovery.
Someone brought-up an interesting point: The thought of your entire iBooks or Kindle book library evaporating is a sobering one.

Will all of this be around in twenty or thirty years? I have physical books that are nearly 100 years old in my library. They don't require a third party to exist in order to be usable.

These kinds of things make you re-think some of these ideas.

Another place where this happens much faster is power tools. I still have a number of excellent power tools that are easily 15 to 20 years old. Sawzall, drill, router, biscuit joiner, circular saw, etc.

All of them have a chord and are AC powered.

None of the battery powered tools I bought long ago are around. In some cases the battery packs have been discontinued. In other cases the batteries went bad and the replacement cost for the obsolete packs is just too high.

So, if you want to leave tools and books to your kids, you might want to rethink what you are buying. It is possible to imagine that iBooks and Kindle will not be around in 40 to 50 years.

Anyone know what the TOS say about this for both Apple and Amazon? Do you own your books or have they become licenses that can go poof overnight?
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I guarantee you it is 100x harder to get Node.JS developers than Java/ASP ones.

Especially if you don't live in the US.
This is cool data, but it would be best if you could release numbers about the distribution more than just the average, ie standard deviation, quartile, medians.

It is hard to determine significance from these graphs, especially as pflats commented that the y-axis are skewed.
Do you need a BA, MA, MBA, JD and PhD?
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Now I know who Kettle Chips hired to make their impossible to open bags.
Most people also apply this to object literals. There are no var statements in this situation.
I hope I can be the outlier. I'm doing an MBA but I'm also working and whenever I do have free time, I try to get some coding done for some project. I disagree that strategy > implementation - I believe they both go hand in hand but slightly more to implementation. I don't think I'm entitled to anything but I do think that I have learned some things of value in school.

However, I do agree that there is an oversupply of MBAs who do not actually add value. I won't be one of them though.
They have a really neat programming influence graph on the wall at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. It's displayed in relation to date, so it gives you a bit of a historical reference point.
I liked the minimal font selection before, since it encouraged focus on content over style. Since there were so few options, all the offered fonts had to be crisp and professional-looking in any context. But I guess more is better…

On another note: the number one feature I want from Google Docs is a permanent setting for page size. My pages are always A4 - why should I have to change the default value every single time I start a new doc?
More accurately, SASS includes the ability to create functions to build out prefixes, and Compass includes default functions to do this.
just said they got cut off and were trying to get around it
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EA sold you a copy of the song along with a license to use that song in the context of playing the game. If the copy was sold with a stipulation that you could not use the copy after a certain period of time that's fine, but that's not what happened. If EA was sending out copies of songs that it didn't have the right to do under its licensing agreements, then it sounds like people could probably easily sue to get the money the paid for DLC back (since the transaction was fraudulent as EA didn't have the right to sell what it sold, though ianal).
> Something crazy like 40 ~ 60% of users will abandon an application after their first use of it. Track that stat.

Any recommendations on how to do this for desktop software? Especially for the Mac App Store, where I basically get NO info about my users?
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Or, for that matter, not designing programming languages such that they violate the principle of least surprise with reckless abandon.
I wouldn't take part in this for "credentials". I would do it for the sake of learning. Some of that acquired knowledge might be applied for commercial gain, some might not. Does it matter? The cost is the cost of an internet connection and time invested in learning. Hopefully what they produce will closely mirror the course contents and requirements for their undergraduate courses.
You're right.

Also, maybe I'm just dense but it took me a REALLY long time to wrap my head around the scoring matrix of the website, and even after a few practices, each photo I still find myself having to think painfully hard about what each quadrant means. I have to imagine that this would add even more noise to the data, if people's heads are hurting and don't know where to click.

One suggestion would be to provide an intuitive guide for each of the quadrants, not just the axes, e.g. "Outgoing idiot," "Shy nerd" etc. but of course you risk biasing the responses based on the language you use. The other option would be to simplify the input, only rating one variable at a time.
I'd not confuse 3 hash-rounds with anything to do with Bcrypt, which is several orders of magnitude off from what most-all Bcrypt libs will have as their default rounds. Most that I've browsed will have a default work-factor of 10 (or 1024 -- 210 -- rounds), with Python's de jour using a factor of 12 (or 4096 rounds).
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"The golden rule has a serious problem of enabling sociopaths" obviously means people following the golden rule helping indiscriminately are helping sociopaths. And sociopaths, by definition, do not follow the rule. Sociopaths thriving in society are very bad, obviously.

"People like to argue against the golden rule, saying that if you are deranged, it gives you license to hurt others", this vague accusation first generalices all criticism of the golden rule as the same. Second it states something that has nothing to do with my coments. I did not claim "if you are deranged, [the golden rule] gives you license to hurt others'. I wouldn't be surprised if that was made up on the spot by lancefisher.

Your points are hard-headed nonsense and a waste of time.

Edit: minor typos
Has the fat lady already sung about CSS vendor prefixes?
On the face of it, having an application which explicitly "expires" at some point in the future is a violation of (currently) point 11.9 of the App Store Review Guidelines:

11.9. Apps containing "rental" content or services that expire after a limited time will be rejected.

What this means for applications like Rock Band that spontaneously turn into expiring services remains to be determined.
Many of the new approaches to science publishing I’ve seen haven’t done enough to directly address the silo problem or provide significantly improved alternatives. I suspect this is primarily because they’re trying to create viable scientific publishing businesses of their own. I believe taking a different approach around free, distributed, open source publishing and aggregation software would be better suited to transforming scientific communication into a more open, continuous, efficient, and data-driven process.

more here:
http://tldr.person.sh/on-the-future-of-science
Bill Gates:One in 7 people go to bed hungry every day.
Maybe I'm picky, but in my iPad the side to side animation is still jerky.
I'm pretty rusty on my math, so I guess it happens to hit the sweet spot for me at the moment. Once I get back up to speed on calculus I might feel different about it.

You might be interested in this version at CalTech:
http://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html