skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is amazing how people develop antibodies when exposed to a treat. When I traveled around the world one of the worst thing you could think is: look, this water source is safe to drink, all locals do and they are fine. I did learn the painful way.

As an early adopter of mail, facebook and tweeter(back from the early days, "hey, HN could you test my idea?") I had to develop antibodies for distractions and I don't use tweeter, for facebook anymore(mail only at the end of the day). Reading only HN briefly. It works like a charm.
> when you offer multiple plans for a service, the cheapest plan’s customers tends to require the most support.

True in my experience.

> So it’s not that cheap people require more support. It’s that people who require more support are more likely to make their decision based on price alone.

The reason is simple. Cheapest plans attract people who are just starting out and don't know what they are doing.

And in turn those plans attract them because they don't require the greater X or Y or Z of the more expensive plans. They're not at that point yet.
Thanks. This is partly why I made the point of there being good comments to that post - I can see there are plenty of differing opinions on this, and I'm can't say what is right. But, for a newbie to thinking about program structure (well, at least for me) presenting that with clear borders is helpful. But I think you're right, calling it MVC is not helpful. What should the HTML/CSS/browser bucketing be called instead?
Any news on when Firefox is shipping support for them?
I agree. The button placement makes sense for commodity sake, and that should trump first use in this case, as it is not something you take long to learn.

I have a touch, and this is one of the small issues I have with it. If I'm holding it with my left hand, my thumb will have to travel a larger distance to turn the page, than if I'm holding it with my right. It's not much of a problem though, and it beats having to physically turn a page. But I wish there was an option to have touching the screen on either side turn the page, and if I want to go back, I could just use the swipe gesture.

As for this guy's first issues, my memory is a little hazy, but I could swear that my kindle came with a drawing of the device in the display clearly indicating where to turn the device on. Is it different on non touch kindles?
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err...no
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_Law_of_Headlines
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They already have a very similar BerkeleyDB, don't they?
Hi saurik,
I just would like to thank you for the wonderful job you did (and do) with Cydia. Jailbreaking and Cydia access is my first priority on any iOS device I buy, and I could never imagine myself buying another iPad/iPhone if Cydia stopped existing. IMHO you are not competing with Apple, but rather augmenting their ecosystem and keeping users like myself from drifting towards Android.
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Sure.

I used to have this one (the older version, with better back support)
http://www.ikea.com/fr/fr/catalog/products/00146677/

But with my new flat, I still dont have much furniture and use this (shame on me I know :)).
http://www.ikea.com/fr/fr/catalog/products/50221711/

I might search for a really nice chair in several months though.
I would probably go for something like this :
http://www.ikea.com/fr/fr/catalog/products/S19896843/.

In my opinion, best back support is simply not to stay hours without getting up on the same chair.
The yoga position keeps your (or at least mine) back automatically in a correct position.
Even Oracle has some taste.

Plus, I think they have the single-server-database-that-doesn't-scale-easily market covered.
I have never purchased Ikea furniture. I've only had the pleasure of putting it together for other people. So far that experience has included wardrobes, desks and beds. Without fail the stuff is absolute crap.

From pressboard panels, where the slightest overtweak of connectors causes permanent damage, to undersized drawers that fall off of slides, to the inevitable missing parts, the stuff is garbage. It looks nice in the showroom maze and it's inexpensive but you definitely get what you pay for. Maybe even less than that.

And yes its disposable. It cannot take the abuse of moving from one apartment to another.
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It needs to give you the ability to use flash lighting. Then you could learn about how you can use flash to give a scene a completely different look, for example by using a wide aperture and short exposure to get the girl properly illuminated but have the background look very dark.
This works because the flash delivers all its light in a very short period of time so it is completely unaffected by the shutter speed. So once the flash power and aperture are set to give a proper exposure on the subject the shutter speed can be adjusted to give different levels of background illumination.
One thing that would be invaluable simulating is a variable aperture lens rather than this constant f/2.8 simulation.

My girlfriend just got her first DSLR and was struggling with changing the aperture. While she understood the concepts, she wasn't familiar with working with a DSLR alone and since I wasn't physically present, it took me a while to realise over the phone she'd been changing the aperture by changing the focal length of the lens. (The D5100 has a pretty crappy and unintuitive control combination for setting aperture.) Had I been able to point her to a simulation like this it would have been clear to her that she needed a distinct method of setting aperture.
If I recall correctly, when Light Table was accepted into YC, Chris sent out an e-mail saying that Light Table was now guaranteed to happen and that if the only reason you donated was to make sure the project went through, you can feel free to retract the pledge (no money is withdrawn until the actual end date).

He also mentioned that with YC backing Python support was likely to happen sooner or later, but the $300k mark still puts Python in the "sooner" bucket.
This is neat. I like the advice that you give when the pictures are bad, but it took me a little while to get from "this picture is OK, but kind of blurry" to a good one. I guess I can't expect to pick up a SLR and get a good one on my first try!
At this point it might be a good idea for TPB to think about offering their website as a Tor hidden service. Because of the way hidden services work there would then be no better way to ban it than through banning Tor, which is neither easy nor a publicly defensible thing to do.
Speaking from a strictly results-based perspective, sometimes looking better can indeed hurt some user actions. See the recent study on slick, professional ads on Plenty of Fish vs MS Paint ads.

But I'm nitpicking. From what I've seen, in 99% of cases looking more pro helps.
Japan's Softbank to offer world's first phone with radiation detection
Fair enough. The proof is that you can't shave even a single bit off of every output, so that given any file that's 1024 bytes, you can hash it to 1023 bytes. Not possible unless you're hiding that entropy somewhere (filename etc).
It's false, implies everything the military uses is military grade. By that reasoning I'm having military-grade coffe this morning.
The keyword you need is "defense-grade". Most fpga vendors sells "defense-grade" FPGAs, for example the Xilinx Virtex 6Q and Spartan 6Q (the 'Q' means defense-grade) a very different product line.
This is what RMS and others have been saying for decades. Free software, data ownership and privacy aren't "nice" things to have or tinker with, they are absolutely crucial freedoms.
Begging is not going to make things better. The best weapon is to actually leave the platform (not threatening to). I believe eventually someone can build an equally good device. At the same time, developers should publish their apps on other platforms as soon as iOS versions come out. Otherwise Apple will always have your balls -- the customers -- in their hands.
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I might not understand the full problem this is solving. Is it to get rid of all the social bookmarking buttons on blogs? Something tells me only being supported in chrome, and having to literally download an app to share seems rather silly. Unless a large portion of the intended audience is tech-centric or cares about this thing, bloggers will now have intent plugins and social sharing plugins.

So I'll state my original point- there has to be more leverage behind web intents that I'm missing? Does anyone have good links that may shed more light?
The funding model for this project is silly.

So for $50 you get a license for this product. What does it cost to generate a license key or send someone an executable? Near zero? They keep like $49.98 at this tier.

For $30 you get a t-shirt. Cost to the developer? I don't know. Lets say the t-shirt costs $10. Plus the design time. Plus the prep, making sure people get the right sizes and postage time * (105 + 208). Probably making a loss at this tier.

You then have the licenses. $200 gets you 2 licenses. Wha? $500 gets you 4!? of course the benefit of the $500 is being admitted into the buggy alpha testing phase. Great..

I think they probably would have raised 300k with better tiers.

I also wonder about this Python promise. If I was a Python developer and it failed to hit 300k I might consider withholding my donation. I mean why not? I want Python support. I donate to that end. The project doesn't make it to Python support. I should remove my donation as I am not getting the product I donated to.

This kind of fund raising seems to fly in the face of what Kickstarter is about.
When did a small quote from an interview...

"I think that Apple could be just as strong and good and be open, but how can you challenge it when a company is making that much money?" he [Wozniak] said.

turn into "made a public call" for Apple to open up it's platforms?
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I'm wondering if it were okay for Newspaper Licensing Ireland to write "cf. yesterday's paper, first article on page 8" without obtaining a license. If so, linking should be okay, too.
That's quite sad: Formal methods should be one of the more exciting topics in your CS programme. Hope they didn't scar you too badly.
Is this the same SLR simulator I saw a couple of years back? Can't tell because it's Flash.

Seems to me like DSLRs don't really need simulators. Pick up a DSLR, dial it to P or green or whatever, and go. It's simpler and more responsive than a point and shoot, just bigger and heavier. (My four year olds love using my smaller DSLR and have less trouble using it than a small P&S.)

Anyone wanting to learn the fine points of photography can learn them at their leisure once the key point — using a DSLR is EASIER than using a point and shoot — is absorbed, and simulators that overload the user with information are probably counter-productive.
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Mozilla are working on a very similar implementation at the moment in Boot2Gecko. I personally hope to see this be brought inline with Intents with feedback about what they have learnt in the process.

Web Intents does have a compatibility JS shim, it needs a couple of updates to get it working in FF again after implementing Content Security policy, but after that WI should work fine (but not native).
I didn't say they were just a payment processor. I understand the value they provide.
I am looking forward to IBM Innovate and so should you
What?

To set aperture on a D5100 switch to A and use the command dial.

(Shooting in Manual mode is simply torturing yourself unnecessarily if you don't know exactly what you're doing. In Aperture priority — or Program shift — setting aperture is simple and intuitive.)
IKEA ftw, came for the furniture, stayed for the meatballs.
You can change the aperture in this simulation. Perhaps it was just grayed out since you were in shutter-priority mode?
It's for any "application" that you use online. Intents are not limited to "share". There could be a "print", a "sponsor", a "save" intent.;. etc.

Also, it will do exactly that: help bloggers get rid of all the dummy buttons ont their sites for these services who track _their_ readers, audience and make the loading slower... while still allowing everyone to chose their platform of choice :)
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These would be great for hunting rhinos.
Spot on, this is what we do on www.post.fm (sorry for the plug) - organize your email around people & organizations, and then offer distinct user experiences based on various use cases (going through notifications, participating in threads or groups or chatting one-on-one with people you know).

This HN post shows how passionate people still are about email. I have to admit reading the comments has been like reading through my own thoughts for the past 2 years we've been working on this. I can't wait to share what we've done with all of you.

PS Email is indeed great. The protocols - not so much. Unfortunately most email clients are limited to using IMAP as the email API, which in some ways limits what they can do with email. Hotmail started as (and probably still is) just an html client for IMAP. So the UI is built around IMAP functions - get a list of headers, etc. Forget running sophisticated SQL queries against your inbox, the user experience is dictated by the API designers - never a good choice.
One obvious reason for this would be that colleges/universities very often teach Java as the main language and will usually encourage students to buy at least one or two books on the subject.

Another reason is that Java projects will often use some fairly heavy frameworks like hibernate, which can be great to work with if you really understand how they work. The best way to do this is to make sure you have the definitive book on your shelf as you are in for a world of pain if you just try to "wing it" like you would with PHP.
Because I don't want a list of separate changes - I want a series of notes _inside_ the document, colour coded for the editors, marked as accepted/rejected, etc.

You can do a mediocre job of inferring the latter from the former, but for 100% support you need to actually put the notes into the file itself.
He also keeps imposing the view that the Drone was "shot down" over Iran as fact. While many people have different views on how the drone was taken intact it was not "shot down".
I'd really love to be using MongoDB... but we're a Solaris on Sparc and IBM on Power shop. No support for either one of these, sadly.
It's to protect against bad hashing algorithms:

http://www.concentric.net/~Ttwang/tech/primehash.htm
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Certainly, if you are hashing a large amount of data then a single modulo operation isn't going to cost a lot. But if you're just hashing an English word, possibly even a URL, I'm not so sure.

You could shift or mask the result (as described above) to use a table size of any power of 2 to avoid the modulo.
I use this:

result=0;
while (ch=*src++)
result=result<<1+ch;

I do it an assembly language.
I'm self confident enough to say, it can't be beat.
This extension can access:

* Your data on all websites

This item can read every page that you visit -- your bank, your web email, your Facebook page, and so on. Often, this kind of item needs to see all pages so that it can perform a limited task such as looking for RSS feeds that you might want to subscribe to.

Caution: Besides seeing all your pages, this item could use your credentials (cookies) to request or modify your data from websites.

* Your tabs and browsing activity
If I knew one pacemaker was developed with TDD and one without it I would probably go for the one without it. Most programs are fine on the Happy Path, and TDD seems like it's focused on expanding the Happy Path vs actually writing correct software.

This could just be internal bias, but without TDD programmers more focused on the possible error conditions. I would rather see:

If ((a/2-1) + (b/2-1)) > (largestInt/2-5))
... do something
vs.
A large try catch block.

Arguably the second is just as safe, but it's the test's you don't think to run that tend to end up as production bugs and good tests require a level of paranoia which is more important than methodology IMO.
Other people have picked up on factual inaccuracies so I'll pick on the commodore 64 one. It was blocked for the BASIC interpreter, then Apple review it's rules and guidance again, and allow people to include interpreters.

So yeah, Apple blocked it, carefully reviewed it's policies, admitted they made a mistake and rectified it.

I'm not saying I disagree with the crux of the argument, if people want it to be open then I think Apple should at least allow some mechanism, but lets look at it objectively.
Can I currently install non-App Store apps on my phone/access at a root level? Yeah, sure, I jailbreak it and open it up. Can I install a non-iOS release on there? Sure, if I have an iPhone 3G I can. Should Apple honour a warranty for hardware failure if my phone is jailbroken? They should, but I wouldn't expect they would if they can't guarantee it wasn't something in the software. That's unlikely, but if Apple can save the repair costs well, they're a business and that doesn't stun me.

It's open to the people who want it open, by exploring the boundaries and pushing people forward. Imagine if Apple opened the platform up, they'd give the Dev Team nothing to do. They'd be sad, all the joy of exploring the edges and adding another point on the score board gone.
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I think it's easier said than done. Sure, with more users on Android and the potential of making money getting higher by the day, there's hope. But as we've seen, Android's really fragmented and as a developer, providing support to all your users on so many different devices is absolutely brutal.
That's a very good thing. The one that struck a cord the most with me was #20. I can't emphasize just how important this is. I learned a lot from them, but I wasted a number of years in my 20's on trying to fix relationships that were bad because I thought "if I just put in more effort, problems X, Y and Z affecting my significant other will be solved and everything will be better." That's only true if the other person is working toward a common goal with you, and the same thing goes for friendships as well. Do not try to be the person who solves people's problems; I know that I got burned in doing so.

FWIW, I just turned 30 earlier this month.
It doesn't actually do anything
That's a web scale investment!
I have a smart phone, but rarely SMS, don't use twitter, barely ever check FB on it, and don't even have my email notifications turned on (can check it if I'm expecting something, but am not bothered by it).

It's nice to have, but maybe not worth the extra cost TBH...
Nope: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/products/nosqldb/overview/...
I completely agree. Necessary, not sufficient. Covering the specifics, which are just the tools and a basic foundation, is empowering and motivating IMO. A big part of learning basics like this is just learning the vocabulary for describing the larger challenge you want to tackle. Knowing that you have the tools and the basics is necessary for learning more, and ultimately, getting to the point of building, polishing and delivering.
No see you're as confused as she was :) Most zoom lenses are variable aperture, e.g. at 18mm they will open up to f/3.5 but at 55mm they will only open up to f/5.6. The simulation doesn't address this, and it can be surprising for a beginner to see the aperture changing as they zoom - they may become fixated on zooming as a way to control aperture without realising they are observing a side-effect.
The bigger picture is that it is not about Sharing, it's about connecting web-apps.

The goal is that users will not know about or need to know about intents, they just get the flexibility to use the services that they prefer to use in the apps and sites that they visit.

For developers it is about not having to create or build native, or tightly coupled integrations to a select few services. The app just asks for a service and the browser knows the list that the user can use.

The "download" or install part you mention is just for now whilst we get the intent tag and other discovery mechanisms landed.

If you look at AddThis, they offer support for intents in their widget, so it is not aimed at being tech centric at all.

I would also add that we are not finished yet, there is still a lot to do such as setting defaults, and building explicit intents (let the dev define the endpoint of the action) and also getting more apps to provide or integrate with services.
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There's probably a property of programming languages that connotes to the ratio of books needed to code written which Java scores highly in. That and the huge number of people forced to learn Java and buy books on it.

At the opposite end would be languages that are easier to work with, have incredibly good online documentation, and/or for which a book industry has not yet materialized.
> The length of technical books is dictated by printing technology

You're equating books with printed material.
Depends whether the two 32-bit hashes are correlated with each other. If there is no correlation then a pair of 32-bit hashes is no more likely to collide than a single 64-bit hash. But this is difficult to achieve, and you should not assume (for example) running the same algorithm twice with different initial states will produce uncorrelated hashes.
The price difference is the biggest differentiator, that and finding the stuff that looks more sturdy. If it looks like real wood and weighs like real wood, it most likely is real wood.

I just got back from a trip to Ikea to buy multiple computer desks, and got the really cheap particle board ones to save money, but there were definitely some nicer desks there that looked even better that felt like real wood.
In manual mode it's not that simple from what I could glean (haven't touched a D5100 myself). You have to half depress the shutter release, simultaneously press the exposure compensation button and only then you can adjust the aperture with the command dial (otherwise you'll just change shutter speed). That's pretty crummy IMO and rather elaborate for a beginner.

My D7000 is more straightforward since it has a separate dial for this and no need to half depress the shutter release. (I assume you can also change the settings using the LCD, but that's of no use if you're looking through the viewfinder and trying to set manual exposure.)