skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: My weekend project, Flair -- Like a friendly reverse Pinterest thingy
Hey all, just wanted to invite you to take a spin on this project I've been working on recently.

To give you a bit of context, I'm a Pinterest/Tumblr/Svpply user but found that it's all still sub-optimal. The experience of these, I guess 'social' things, is still always about "me, me, me": Pin things I like, post items I like, I want this and that etc. My point is, in my experience, this got boring relatively quickly. Plus, when I log in to Pinterest for example, it's this wall of sound of relatively (albeit nice looking) yet random things.

Anyways, a few weeks back, my roommate happened to have a bunch of her close friends over for a clothing-swap. Basically, everyone brings a bunch of clothes she doesn't wear any(more) and swaps it with someone in the room.

This is how it went down: One would pull out, say a skirt, and show it to the group. Within seconds - and I found this remarkable - the groupmind decided who should try it on. In 9 out of 10 cases this was an accurate assessment and the item was swapped, tried on and (with some Madonna playing in the background) presented to the group. All smiles all around :)

So, this got me thinking how important friends are for filtering out the noise and how strong their recommendation is. It's that moment, when a friend sees something in a store and says `This is so you!'.

Based on these two observations, I came up with what would become Flair. A game where friends find great things FOR each other.

What's there now is a bare-bones site ready for (in)validation. Note, that overall, this game is targeted towards women who are already using Pinterest, but I figured I'd show it to you anyways.

Here's what I invite you to do:

1. Think of a close friend and what you like doing/thinking/talking about together

2. Hop over to http://letsflair.com, check out the site

3. Unless you're averse to it, log in through Facebook (if you are, please don't bother commenting on it)

4. Start your Spree with your friend

5. Go and find awesome stuff for them!

There is a bookmarklet I highly recommend installing, it makes the process of adding stuff super simple.

tldr; Got bored with Pinterest, saw how friends are really good at recommending things to each other, built a game called Flair (http://letsflair.com) that mixes the two (and is actually a lot of fun)
Sorry. That was one of the worst things I've read this week. The jumping to conclusions, the unstated assumptions. The gross misuse of statistics. I love the one about 44% of pedestrian accidents happen at traffic lights. I think it was Willie Sutton, the famous bank robber, who said he robbed banks because that's where the money was. If pedestrians cross in crosswalks that's where you're likely to hit them. Because that's where the pedestrians are. Oy! Don't get me started. It was seriously put forth a few years ago in Berkeley that all crosswalks in the city should be erased on the theory that pedestrians become "overconfident" in the crosswalks. The evidence given was that cars hit pedestrians mostly in the crosswalks. Luckily the traffic engineer who proposed this took a job in the suburbs.
When are you too old to be a founder?
We dumped Mongo for a lot of the same reasons listed in the article. Their python driver isn't great either.
would it mean that larger investors are dumping the stock at the beginning of public trade under a cover of "offering more stock" ?

so I guess the news about low interest were true.
What I should have done is posted the fact that I'm doing the same to Hacker News. I'm guessing that if his blog gets enough traction, he'll succeed. Not because the product is great, but because this "10k GBP - can I make money" sideproject brings in the eyeballs.
I was wondering the same. It's pretty standard for databases to not be very good about sharing with others, memory-wise. That's why having a dedicated server is such a popular best practice for non-puny applications. And MongoDB says it's not designed for puny applications right there in its name.
Living in the upper midwest US, 16k USD would probably give me a 16-month window. That's for a 1-bedroom apartment @ ~$500/month. Living in a 3-Bed w/ 2 other roommates would take it down to ~$300.

Brutal winters, though..
Top Android ad networks: Admob clear leader, 14% aggressive ads
The article has no links, but I'm assuming they're referring to the patents linked in this article:

http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/15/google-glasses-design-pat...

These are design patents, meaning they protect the look of the glasses, NOT any of the functionality.
I sell services, what the $%# should I sell (Part 4-- reducing risk)
I guess 2013 will be the year of the OnlineIDE? It would be pretty great to use ChromeOS for some actual work.
mmap files and sharding...

It seems like the problem is that you're not using MongoDB in a sharded setup to begin with. For good or bad, MongoDB targets the scale where you need sharded and replicated setups. In other words, a large enough operation to require multiple servers for data storage. If you need the opposite of that, which is multitenancy, MongoDB is not going to be a good fit.

On the other hand, MongoDB has always been sold as a rapid prototyping and easy to iterate datastore, which is attractive for people working on small projects. Then they have an "oh shit" moment when they run into operational issues.
The domain name is registered by Rob Fitzpatrick of thestartuptoolkit.com. I wonder what the relationship is?

Edit: Looks like this site is also by him, just not submitted by him.
Now it just needs to learn that "commencement" and "graduation" are synonyms.
Obat gondok herbal
Obat Gondok Herbal Xamthone Plus Jus Kulit Manggis Solusi Terbaik Pengobatan Gondok Secara ALAMI yang aman tanpa efek samping, xamthone plus sampai baru bayar
FWIW, Google used to (still do?) use Google Docs as their recruitment tool for code screening.
Working At Height
Groves Window Cleaning has recently become fully qualified in working at height: a level 2 NVQ qualification not held by many of our competitors.
See http://developers.google.com/apps-script/articles/yourfirsts... .
The iPhone 3GS is not quite three years old, and is the oldest device supported by iOS 5. Its predecessor is just under 4 years old, and is not. (i.e. your 3GS "got" the latest update, it isn't "getting" new ones and will be obsolete at the next major revision too). So Apple products are better supported by about a year.

Actually, you can look at this as an aliasing issue in the data. The 3GS and Nexus One were both the "oldest" supported phones at the release of a major OS version, and that happened about just about exactly 2 years for both of them. One fell on one side of the support decision and one on the other.

The "pile of fail" flameage is beneath this site. Stop that, you're polluting our nice community with your garbage. Argue. Don't sling poo.
> How many users does Facebook have, who will want to own a piece of it?

hmm, using a product, wanted company's share, and actually owning them are three different things. I think its safe to say if someone buys a stock, they are called "an investor". If that investor did his homework they may not be so keen to buying FB anymore, at any price.

> I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook goes up to 400 billion

400B ???? HOW???
Tweets From the Trail: Walter Kirn Defends Using Technology Outdoors
I automated an entire department down to a single person (me) -- this was during a severe downturn for the business with layoffs left at right. I didn't quite feel I was putting others out of work, as two jumped ship and one was retired out (comfortably).

I even significantly improved timeliness and accuracy. And I absorbed a major change in inputs that likely would not have been accommodate-able under the old system. Turned one of the high-priced consultants onto a reporting package that greatly improved their life feeding upper Management endless varieties of ad hoc reports. Etc.

And... this senior management, brought in from outside due to the share price, set up separate reporting channels using their people, and eventually laid me off.

These days, with so much top-down control, it's often a matter of who you know more that what, and how you are perceived. I was very good at what I did, but from their perspective, I was a "grunt" and a replaceable cog.

In the mainstream work environment, you can indeed work yourself right out of a job, especially if perceptions of you don't match a profile that Management is used to respecting and promoting.

I know I often come across as cynical, here. And certainly, I bring my own faults to the table. But... experience has shown me that these days, still, image often outshines talent in the job market.
Chrome 19 update breaks secure WebSockets
I don't believe RavenDB blocks. Instead, it returns the results along with a flag to indicate if any of the source data may have been modified while the operation was running.
Give PostgreSQL a shot if you're still considering databases.
The Hardware Startup Movement
I'm amazed at all these (excuse me) idiotic articles. People/projects have different requirements, so there are many databases around(relational and nosql and key/value). Just because your needs do not match MongoDB's (or MySQL's or ...), does not mean the technology is useless.
It's not ready for primetime in DBs that require a great deal of relational mapping. Best cases are apps with very compartmentalized documents, a more robust caching server or something that doesn't require a lot of cross model mapping.

We found out the hard way with our app, with which we wanted to do a lot of associating and joining of information. You either get locked into the document, or locked into writing interpretive code, and neither case is fun to work around.
In particular, it seems like it'd be pretty easy to entrap some of the gun-show types who talk about "second amendment solutions", goading them into making more specific statements. I'm not sure it makes sense to lock up everyone who has a very generalized idea of using violence, though, especially if it takes coaching to get them to articulate it with any specifics.
There's also the andand gem, but again it's a lot less clean and expressive than a simple ?.
Yeah, I would think updating ads based on a user click is fine, whether that click is a full page reload or a javascript partial page refresh. But ad networks can be pretty capricious so who knows.
Keep us posted. Specially the marketing side of things.

Good luck.
That's not my point. My understanding of grellas' argument for why APIs are not copyrightable (which, again, I don't want them to be) hinges on "expressive" versus "functional." I am not a lawyer, so I don't understand the legal version of those concepts, but as a layman, APIs seem to me to be expressive; they require creativity and insight to create. If anyone would like to explain why they are not considered "expressive" constructs under the law, I would be glad to hear it.
Possible to share your puppet scripts ?
Probably not a very popular opinion here on HN, but the raw productivity you can achieve in the VBA/Office world is hard to reach anywhere else.
It's not illegal to fantasize. It is illegal to attempt to blow up a bridge. Federal law is remarkably consistent on this, whether you vote Democrat, Republican, or Ron Paul.
Why is it that folks who point out that Facebook, Twitter, and Square all had to move to a "fast" language never seem to be able to point to any company (in the current generation) that achieved massive success by starting in a fast language? Having to transition to another language once you achieve success is a pretty solvable problem in comparison to actually creating a product successful enough that platform matters.

For that matter, neither Square nor Twitter have exactly "migrated" (I don't know about Facebook). They optimized hotspots -- a long and storied tradition. Even C programmers drop down into assembly.

Use different pieces for what they're best at.
Legally it is not entrapment. Entrapment requires that the defendant not have a propensity to comment the offense.
haha! YESSSSS! :)
"Additionally, consumer's bar for tapping an ad is MUCH higher (given the relative speeds of mobile browsing). As searching moves mobile, how does Google's revenue shake out?"
combined with
"If you look forward 5+ years, everyone is doing much of their internetting via their phone "

This makes no sense. Do you truly believe that in 5 years mobile phones browsing speeds won't be much more comparable to desktops? LTE phones already have faster connections than many people's broadband.

Thinking about Google's ad revenue in 5 years time, based on the idea that people's only encounters with internet connected devices will be their phones and PC's is a horribly myopic view of future tech trends. In 5 years time, there will be cars sold with Heads Up Displays featuring Google Navigation. Facebook will certainly be integrated in here too, but at the moment I don't see Facebook preparing themselves for this.
IIRC We've had several "Goodbye CouchDB" articles in the past few weeks too. What's the under/over on the inevitable "Goodbye Riak" wave?
Yes, it's because you're in the UK.

For the most part, US carriers (including AT&T and US Tmo) have not yet released official ICS upgrades.

http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2012/05/14/us-galaxy-s2-4-0-ic...
In my view, anyone using -0x80000000 in C is walking a thin line between being a guru and just being confused. :)

If it's not obvious, assuming a 32-bit integer, -0x80000000 equals 0x80000000 which equals -2147483648 which equals INT_MIN.

The unary negation operator causes overflow, making the result negative again.

Here's a simple program that prints these values: http://codepad.org/dFBRabf9.
The potential applications of this technology are pretty awesome - I just hope that we don't see Google ads superimposed on every blank surface we look at.
Actually, using mmap-ed files is a great idea. It's precisely what Varnish does too.
Even then: http://www.glogger.mobi/userpub2.php?username=mann&i=201...
Right about what, exactly? The relational model certainly has its advantages, but it is not without its disadvantages, either. When it comes to databases, there's no one model that caters for every situation.
Commuting startups doing well in France
It may not have been a serious conversation. I've met a few "anarchists" in college, and the limit to what they can usually accomplish is a bit of graffiti.

They'd need leadership, training, and materials to actually accomplish anything.

I'm sure you could find a few people here who talk about ways they could hack into banks, but they aren't bank robbers. If you came up with a great plan (designed by a bank security specialist), and egged them on, then you might be able to convince a few to join you.
HTC One X And EVO 4G LTE Held Up In U.S. Customs
Is that Bono on the 4th photo ?
> Access-type database app

I think that's the idea of Fusion Tables [1]. Since there is an API, I don't see why you couldn't combine it with Apps Script (what this editor is), if you wanted to. I don't think tight integration is there yet but the pieces seem to be in place. I think they just need to allow a script to be invoked from a Table.

1. http://www.google.com/fusiontables
Emacsy, an embeddable Emacs
Cloud9 is pretty decent - especially being able to deploy directly to Heroku and Azure
Auto Transport Santa Rosa
You assume they weren't just talking shit. Are there recordings of the conversation?
The Ultimate Twitter Tools List
Yep. That was the case when I went through two years ago, and a friend went through the process within the last month and also used Docs.
The whole of morality is not contained within the law.
Too bad customers don't even know what they want half the time. I think you have to build a vision for them that they can buy into. Which only really works for higher end jobs.

I like the ideas behind this blog series. I need to revisit continually as I put together proposals. Thanks!
That's the common pattern. MongoDB is easy and convenient when you first start using it, but you hit the limitations pretty quickly. I had the same experience.
I love Postgres, but I'm building something for OSS use and most unzip-and-deploy devs don't know how to set up Postgres.

Any additional information that you might be able to give me that might convince me?
This isn't a very well written article. Comparing Berlin to Paris isn't a fair comparison. Paris for example, is subject to some of the most startup-hostile laws in the EU. The adage of hire slowly and fire quickly just doesn't work there, yet somehow this doesn't make the article.

It seems like the crux of the article is based on Berlin being cheaper than Paris. Well, to be honest most of Europe is cheaper than most of central Paris. You could just as easily claim that Athens is cheaper than Paris, but I hardly see Athens as a startup hub for years to come.

The point about Berlin's geographical location given the ease of transport within the EU for EU member state citizens is laughable. What about the talent in Germany? There are some great universities in Germany that are overlooked in favour of what? Poland? If one of Berlin's best points is it's proximity to Poland, then Berlin is in serious trouble as a startup hub. I imagine that a lot of (but not all) Poles might not see Germany as a natural startup destination anymore than Russia. Besides, there's a heck of a lot of smart Polish people who work all around the world as well as shock in Poland.

Is Berlin better than Paris to launch a startup? Almost certainly. Almost anywhere outside of France is better than France to launch a startup right now (considering the red tape, taxis and uncertainty under Hollande) but it has a long way to go to displace London and for Germany the UK in general.

In conclusion, in the EU if you want cheap, go to Bucharest. If you want good, go to London.
I keep reading about how mongo's use of memory mapped files is real bad. Isn't that the same technique used by varnish cache and that's what makes it awesome? Can someone explain please?
Among other things, he spearheaded the development of MITx, which has been on the front page a number of times.
I haven't read the full paper yet. But this sounds like a winner to me. It's actually not a database, but a transaction scheduling system sitting in front of the databases.

Hopefully these sort of ideas make it into Postgres for scalability.
Microsoft will remove the bloatware from your PC, for a price
That or a guy doing a seriously good face expression.
Last year I've used Google Apps Script to automate a spreadsheet, it worked very well and that spreadsheet is still used inside my company. It's not very complex, all together maybe 200 lines of code, with tests.

But, I'm not sure if I would do it again.

Development style is not enjoyable, coding inside textarea with syntax highlighting is simply not good enough. I would prefer to use my text editor and some way to deploy changes without the need to copy-paste from editor to browser. I want to use my

Also, tell me exactly what language and what runtime is being used on the server. I remember searching the docs and it was "it's javascript". Maybe it's better now, I haven't looked since. Or just use node, after all it's V8.

In ideal world, this is what I would like (and really use):

* let me code offline: my editor. my source control.

* give me some SDK to run code offline like app engine

* give me a way to push changes to server

* great documentation

Without these, it's just too much like VBA in the nineties.

edit: 200 lines of code
So, how would this compare to Ember?
NCrunch: Continuous Testing for Visual Studio
This is kind of a strange list of complaints.

MongoDB memory management is a legitimate concern... but not because it's hard to control memory usage of a single mongod.

"More granular locking" is a temporary, non-scalable solution?

I've run out of energy, actually, but really?
Petition: Help stop the EU's misguided war on Cookies
Their specific design and perhaps some of their technologies might be patentable.

But yeah, lots of prior art on the ideas and even some implementations exist. Another source for what was/is obvious to those of ordinary skill this art would be the Wear-Hard Archives (http://www.haven.org/mailman/listinfo/wear-hard). I miss the days when that list was more active.
You bring out the best person for the toughest jobs, not the easy ones.
google encourages pagination with their 3 ads/page limit. seems like the limit should be based on quantity of content, not a per page metric.
Tokyo is a big place. Living in Ebisu is worlds apart from living in Itabashi for example, but you'll need a bank balance to match.
I'm not really familiar with the case, and the article isn't clear. Had they already decided to carry out the act and were merely discussing a target, or were they bullshitting the best way to "disrupt the 1%" or whatever other nonsense, when the informant offered up the C4 and where and how to detonate it?
Millions of people use corning products (drinking coffee from a corning cup as we speak), but that doesn't make GLW a good investment.

The question when you invest is whether the valuation will improve over time. It seems to be priced for absolute perfection at this moment ...
Hey guys! Thanks for the support. You caught me pretty early in the process, so not terribly much to show just yet, but I hope you'll stick around for the ride.

If you're curious, the first product I'm trying to make profitable (and the one whose numbers I reference in the video) is at http://whattowrite.org

But, as I say, the stats on it are pretty bleak at the moment (I need to improve the funnel performance by ~1000%). I may end up spending 2 weeks invalidating it and then move on to greener pastures.

Regarding the amount of money and number of months it gives me, I chose the amount (10k) in order to give myself 4 months, rather than the other way around. 4 months feels about right. If I could live happily on £1k per month, I would have made it the £4k bootstrap challenge ;)

Thanks again!
Failure is in the brain of the commentator
Why would they put them over blank surfaces? They could put their ads over billboards and other ad surfaces that are already around you? That way you like them for not increasing the net number of ads you see, and they get to act as gate-keepers for all other ad forms.
C++11 range-based for loop
Senator wants answers on Google execs' air fleet leasing at NASA field
Even their specific design is pretty close to some old Mann hardware (http://www.glogger.mobi/userpub2.php?username=mann&i=201..., which I've linked to...well, it's "below" currently).

Never knew about that list; time for an archive trawl, I think. Thanks!
Dutch cards all have a chip on them, which encrypts the transaction. In other words, the machiene doesnt have to be secure, since it never gets access to the private key inside the chip inside the card.

They can still screw around with that one single transaction, but they cant duplicate the card.

Its like an ssl tunnel straight from your card to your bank. The other party is just passing the encrypted one time permission slip to charge money.

It completely ended skimming here. As for unsecured devices like an iPad, the goverment mandates two way authentification. This is done by sending an authorisation code per text message, or an auxiliery device, not connected to anything, that uses the signing chip on the card, to provide the user with a one time authentification code.
Use your competitor's "Likes" tab to improve your Facebook campaign
There's actually a Web Development category in the Chrome Web Store. Cloud coding is something I was very much pushing for when I was working on the store, we blogged about some of the tools available at http://blog.chromium.org/2011/06/cloud-coding-and-beyond-web....
Octicons: The github icon font Octicons for Twitter Bootstrap