skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I agree that there may be dangers. Eco-activist groups should focus on forcing and helping the scientists and corporations to do more thorough testing. They should not destroy crops or attempt to stop the research. Thinking that they can stop it is naive. If it does not happen in US or EU, it will happen elsewhere (and possibly with less effective safety precautions).

The patent thing is a separate problem. Patent law in many areas is pretty bad.
Undercover MPAA Agents Expose Alleged Movie Pirates
Thank you!
I don't really like videos but I will check it out..
Joining a startup: high salary, no equity OR "startup salary" with equity?
Eugene Polley, Inventor of the First Wireless TV Remote Control, Has Died
Wow, if they are not doing any reuse that really really dumb. I can't back this up, but would have thought at least 50% of all pins are repins.... if that 410TB figure is correct, this oversight is costing them $18k a month. It would be simple to have a separate asset id and pin id...
Clojure is currently #2 on my to-learn list, after some Python tools like Pyramid and Flask. Clojure looks simply fascinating, from what I can tell.

Alex, thanks for posting stuff like this. I'm going to look through your archives as well to see what I can learn. Might just have to make a trip to St. Louis in September for Strange Loop :)
Five Creative Strategies Every Startup Should Consider When Producing a Video
Ask HN: Review my app - GoMommyAuctions - Improve GoDaddy Auctions Usability
I wrote some code to help me filter out good domains listed on GoDaddy Auctions from the bad ones. I wrote this for the following reasons -

1. GoDaddy does not show page rank, information on backlinks or pages crawled by google.

2. There are many domains that show a fake page rank by redirecting to a high page rank domain. I ended up buying such lemons :(

3. There are domains that do not show up when you do a google search for info:domainname.com. This is definitely something to be checked up on before buying a domain.

Since it worked for me, I figured it could help others out there who use GoDaddy Auctions. I would like your feedback on the following points -

1. Does this add value to others who use GoDaddy auctions?

2. What do you think about the usability of the app?

3. I thought the name was cute - Do you think I'd face any issues with it? (legal issues from GoDaddy)

4. How could I monetize it? Do you think its valuable enough to pay a monthly fee - $10 a month?

Here is the URL - http://www.gomommyauctions.com

Entries listed with a red page rank are potential scam domains. You can click on the page rank to get additional information on the domain that it is redirected to. You can also click on Google index and links to get additional information.

Please feel free to rip my idea to shreds. I can take the criticism :)
No it's not the limit. I cloned the page and changed it to 300K, and it seems to work.
Thank you for sharing that post and having the courage to express your feelings. I could never understand what it must be like to be deaf. But being gay, and a mid-20's software developer, I felt many of the same feelings you described reading your post.

It took me many years after college to finally work for a company where there was another developer who was gay and also happened to be my age. We never worked together on projects, but did talk after-work sometimes, just knowing that I wasn't some sort of anomaly was reassuring in many ways.

Like Deaf pride, I don't identify with Gay pride either. Being a shy person to begin with, I have no desire to call more attention to myself. My friends and family know, but I never worked out how to ever share that with co-workers. Unfortunately as a result people assume I'm straight. In a male-dominated work environment, that can be extremely isolating, even hurtful when the inevitable gay-bashing lunch conversation comes up, those are moments where I would gladly borrow your deafness.

Over the years, it becomes a lot easier as I learned to reconcile my feelings, and I figure it'll get easier when I meet someone special enough to frame in a picture, and put on my desk at work. Just like you will.
It's mostly streaming audio and video. StageFright helped with this a bunch, but ultimately it's a non-issue if you control the sources.
Clickable - http://www.gomommyauctions.com
Wow, that is pretty impressive.
A geek's dream signing bonus (ultimate toy set)
A couple of >3 year old blog posts proves that all rails developers are assholes? Is that really what you're hanging all your beliefs on? Sorry dude but that's just stupid. There are hundreds of thousands of rails developers all across the world and all you can cite is a couple of years old blog posts - one of them a cache because the author regretted posting it!

I just got back from the Red Dot Ruby conference in Singapore and it was nothing but wall to wall nice people. This attention seeking nonsense you cite may as well be light years away. We are all just focussed on sharing knowledge, growing the community, and developing good software.

It's 2012. Rails is far and away the best choice for developing pretty much any normal web app. Trying to tar the entire community with some old blog posts is pretty lame at best. Oh, and for what it's worth, there were quite a few women at the conference, and high school students too. Thank god you weren't there to spread this bullshit.
SpaceX Successfully Launches the First Privately Built Spacecraft
Compiling to CPS Javascript (part 2): stepping debuggers, no callback hell, etc
Could Renouncing US Citizenship Become Business as Usual?
I don't get it, is a service for developers to get the page title for a html page, so I must make a request to this service and learn it's api instead of making the request directly to that page and run a very simple regex?
Leaky adds Esurance to auto insurance comparisons
The problem is that showing explicit screens and granting authorization and doing all this stuff manually is not a viable solution. I think it is natural that companies won't do this, specially when they make tons of money from the current model.

Privacy needs to be baked into the internet. This is more central to human needs than a google search or facebook connection. People are doing what is easy and using these services, but once a true privacy service comes up neither Larry/Sergey or Zuch will know how to respond. This will likely be outside of their mental framework and new privacy centric companies will emerge.
Show HN: Your Email Assistant in the Cloud
The script publishes a message in a Moderator-only subforum that looks something like "Troll555 appears to be evading his ban on usernames: TrollMan, TrollDude, TrollSmith."

A few thousand members log in every day and I've rarely had a problem.
Sorry PG, I have to really question you on this.

Education, mentoring, and team building all happen better in smaller environments. Things like class size, team size, and time spent matter. Maybe what you mean is the actual time spent with each participant is still the same per investment as it was with smaller classes (i.e. you're all putting in more time than you used to) but somehow I really doubt this. I'm also sure that certain partners have certain strengths weaknesses that benefit in different areas and not having as many partners advising different startups would be less value.

That said, I'm sure Ycombinator's value is still great compared to other incubators, I just don't really feel like the statement "we're scaling just fine" on a squishy, hard to scale item like "advising" to pass the sniff test.
Thanks for checking the page, bpfh. I'm not sure what's happening. I haven't tried viewing the Web site on Mac, but I can view it both on Windows and Linux (Ubuntu) with Chrome, FF, and IE8. Can you please try again, and let me know if you still have problem? The Web site (which is running on the same JVM of the Web Service) uses Twitter Bootstrap, and it works from my Android devices as well. Thanks!
A good day's work (you’re never going to be done)
From this tweet, it seems it is actually 30000 particles: https://twitter.com/boblemarin/status/204943143798448129
I would say eclipse already does what light table aims to do.

Can you come to a realization in the middle of an Eclipse debugging session, get a great idea for making yourself more productive, take time to script yourself a working and fully debugged extension of Eclipse and continue what you were doing 20 minutes later?

I've done precisely this in Smalltalk on many occasions. You can script something like a custom browser that shows you everything that uses function A and also function B and has a reference to class C (and with complete syntactic accuracy) in around that time.

I suspect that this kind of very small grained toolsmithing is common for really good programmers in dynamic environments. The only problem is that it's been harder than necessary to integrate that with the most commonly used coding tool. (TextMate's ability to export selections to scripts is very nice, but it can go farther than that. Emacs is very powerful for this, but not everyone wants to script in elisp.)

It's not that Light Table is going to do something unprecedented. It's more like what git did with quick access to diffs: a quantitative change can become a qualitative change. Change the cost-benefit of toolsmithing, and you can use it in new ways.
Hey man, HFT provides a valuable service as a market-maker and enhances liquidity and blah blah blah HFT is perfect and anyone who disagrees just doesn't understand these complicated systems blah blah blah computers selling stocks to other computers is somehow a valuable service.

There, I just summarized the entire spate of pro-HFT propaganda that's about to come pouring in to this thread.
I'm long and strong $FB via the IPO, but I think we're going to have a year of pain before we're in the clear. Facebook needs to prove that they can continue grow-- not an easy feat for a company with huge market share. I want to see Facebook redefine the market by developing better ways to monetize the social graph (duh!). I think mobile has potential, particularly outside of the US, but success will require great execution. It will be interesting to see if Facebook can retain talent with options priced off the public valuation and a stock that is stagnating (or worse, declining).
Where did you get this idea that Android is more affordable? Compare similar spec'd Android devices to the iPhone and they cost just as much as, if not more, than the iPhone.

Example:
iPhone 4s 16gb AT&T - $150 subsidized
HTC One X AT&T - $200 subsidized

Sure, there are cheaper Android phones, but there are also cheaper iPhones (3gs/4).

Believe it or not, there are real Android fans. I used to be one, not so much anymore. The carriers and manufacturers have ruined it with their delayed updates, bloatware, and modifications to the UI.

If Apple raised the iPhone screen to at least 4", I would consider getting one. If Microsoft released a WP7 device with good specs, I would get that. But at the moment, Android has the best balance of hardware and software.
Being mindful of your surroundings when you whip out the smartphone is the top way to avoid such problems. I'd also never use a laptop on Muni.

My own pro-tip (as a four-year resident) is learning to ride a bike in the city is an outstanding way to improve your accessibility while avoiding the Muni/parking headache. It's much easier in some neighborhoods than others, but in general, almost any part of the city has routes that avoid hills and high-traffic streets, and you may be shocked at how easily you can get to places that used to seem like a major hassle. Personally, it's made SF an easy and enjoyable place to get around, instead of a constant pain.

For anyone considering it, just do it, but follow a few key tips: avoid riding too close to parked cars (dooring risk); wear a helmet always and use lights at night; consult Google Maps bike directions or the official SF Bike map for ideal routes; ride conscientiously and follow the rules of the road, even if you see others breaking them (e.g. stop at lights/stop signs and yield to pedestrians); don't ride too fast, especially through intersections, since being able to stop quickly can save you from almost any collision; do your first ride sometime when there's very little traffic, like early on a weekend morning; get a practical city bike, not a speed-demon road racer. Cycling with a friend who knows what they're doing is also extremely helpful.

Some people have a bias against cyclists because there are plenty of inconsiderate riders, but that shouldn't prevent you from taking advantage of this super useful and generally safe mode (if you ride safely). If you do take it up, please add to the ranks of considerate riders, and enjoy cutting that multiple-transfer-bus-ride or multiple-parking-ticket car commute out of your daily schedule.
At current P/E of 104 and earnings per share of $0.31, this stock can only go down. There's no reasonable justification that FB will start making 5X money any time soon.

Current fair price: $6
>3rd party apps - to easily restore/backup app lists but you usually lose any app information you had there, like hiscores or contacts for instance, and of course paid apps.

Titanium Backup restores practically everything, including application data like high scores.
How Alcatel-Lucent just made the Internet 5 times faster
A great one is when you get to reuse the aircraft
Who Loaned Greece the Money?
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Building Windows 8: Designing for PCs that boot faster than ever before
From the bottom of the post:

"If you couple [DSTs] with the generalized editing capabilities I showed last time, you have what we believe to be the future of tools: an environment that you are able to mold to the exact shape of your problem."

I agree, we have no intention of removing general editing - you need it as much as anything else at this point.
Ludicrous question, however I respect your appreciation for good form.

If you want coverage, go get it anyway you can. Elbows up, because launching means you're fighting for signal at a time when it's never been noisier.

Leverage boards like these by creating value in your launch post. If your product is innovative, or unique, then make that the headline. If your processes are something we could benefit from, then focus on that. Either way, show any metrics you might have that could help this community learn from what you've done, and the exposure will be well earned. It's a closed value loop, and you start the first volley.

The time to be shy about your startup is long past. Launch time is customer acquisition time. Go go go !!

Best of luck with your project!
> "This rounded corner on ie7/winxp doesn't look exactly the same as the rounded corner on my iphone4!" isn't the type of complaint I hear from clients any more, but font renderings, aliasing, shape of rounded corners, etc are all things I've had to deal with in the past.

I hear this type of stuff all the time.
Data journalism research at Columbia aims to close data science skills gap
Display html contents with java
Why don't I try what? Deprecating the Django ORM? I've already done so on a personal level (in fact, I avoid Django wherever possible), but since I don't control the Django project, I can't deprecate it for everyone, as I suggested in the parent comment. :)
So reading Phaedrus is supposed to automatically turn you into a complete Platonist? I and many others give broad credence to Platonism in the realm of mathematics, but the students question is in the realm of ethics, and Dr. Skrbina (as summarized in the article) brushes this question off all too easily.
As an Indian who cannot access Vimeo, this is what I see.
http://i.imgur.com/ojTVQ.png
May I ask for a link to the video on another service?
What will happen to Amazon's massive cloud business?
Exploring navigational search with blekko | Mozilla Labs
I worked at McDonald's too, and I remember the bin system that edw519 describes. It's what made McDonald's famous.

The idea was that the warming bin would always be stocked with product and historical data was collected to know how much to stock at a given hour of a certain day of the week. But food could only live in there for 10 minutes before (by the rules) being trashed. Of course, a sudden bus arrival or freak rainstorm could wreck all of those plans. And (hint hint), the 10 minute rule was disobeyed a lot because management was tracking food waste percentages. Wasted food took away from profits...which took away from their bonuses.

The other downside was that food that had been sitting in that warming bin for 9-12 minutes (typ) started to taste bad. People liked Wendy's and BK because their orders were fresh. Customization was another problem. McD custom orders could throw the entire workflow off if the grill staff wasn't in a good rhythm or if they weren't actually making product at the time of the order. Oh, you want a Filet-o-Fish with no salt? Get ready to wait 7-9 minutes.

So, fast forward 25 years and McDonald's is now making single orders in a bespoke fashion, ala Wendy's or BK. Why do you think that is? What's the analogy to making software?
How about Stallman's idea for GUILE (Scheme) uber-alles. Do source-to-source translation of approximations of the supported languages to Clojure. This would allow everyone access to almost everything in the tool.
It's working fine for me on Chrome 20 dev on OS X.

BTW: Use the reply links under comments. :)
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look at my comment below.
Parsing HTML with a RegEx pattern is considered very bad practice, there are other more robust ways of scraping. For example, in Python, BeautifulSoup.

You do have a fair point though, this functionality does exist in most major programming languages.
Are you telling me you wouldn't use a JSON api for sending HTTP requests and parsing the results as JSON?
Hey, I'd love to hear your feedback on our startup (launching outta LDN), Tray is a cloud service focusing on email, it allows you to define rules on your inbox and intelligently handle incoming messages (think an advanced iffft specifically for email).

Please drop a comment below or email me: rich@tray.io, I'd love to hear of any specific functionality you'd like to see in the product, or generally any thoughts on our approach.

nb we are taking a lean approach to help validate the idea so your feedback is crucial!
Here's a catchy name for the ad bubble - we could call it "advertising-supported software." Or, for short, ASS.

Google isn't ASS, because Google ads aren't really ads. They're more like the shelf slots that Safeway sells to food vendors. Google is a store - the world's biggest store, browsed by full-text search.

(In fact, if I was Goog, I'd separate the UI into two intents, with a radiobutton or something: either you're shopping, or you're searching for information. The latter is a free, spamless service that supports the former.)

I think FB will have to learn to make its money the old-fashioned way - by providing valuable services. FB is a valuable service - it makes $5 per user a year, from ads. How many FB users would drop the service if they had to pay $5 a year? And how many other services can FB add? Dropbox anyone? Dropbox isn't ASS...

Advertising is a crappy way of funding services. It chiefly exists because of payment friction. Startups are supposed to be the future. Is crap the future? Is your project ASS? Great, but have a plan to exit before the ASS bubble pops. Some of us remember the first era of "eyeball valuation"...
The fire risk alone should immediately discount it.

In case you haven't noticed, the trash bins on airliners are designed to be air-tight so that a discarded cigarette that ignites a trash fire does not burn for long. There is essentially no fire risk, as a small fire will be immediately extinguished by one of the other 200 people on your plane with nothing else to do. Cigarettes are dangerous if you are smoking alone and fall asleep in bed. When 200 other people are within 50 feet of you, not so much.

A cancer risk, however, definitely yes.
Sure it's not an issue if you think you have to support android. When in reality you just have to support the iPhone, and it doesn't have these issues.

Android support is helpful but not neccesary, like supporting IE alongside Firefox a few years ago. Sure people use IE more than any other browser (now Chrome, yes!), but that doesn't mean a lot of IE users are going to use your website in the first place.

IMHO that applies to android today, iPhone users are way more likely to buy your service in the first place so you should focus on them. No need to leave android users hanging, but clearly the platform doesn't warrant anyone's sole focus so much as basic support.
Well, IMEC was able to create ReRAM cells with a billion read/write cycles, and HP has talked about accumulating data at a trillion cycles, so hopefully the commercial product will be much more durable.
I am a Turkish citizen working in Germany with a residence permit. It was very easy to get it after doing my master study in Germany (So I had a student visa before the residence permit, which allowed very limited working hours). I had a "Business Administration / Economics" degree before and I studied a similar topic here. Now I'm working in a German software company.

I have no idea how this works in the states but maybe you can try the same. However, I heard that the education is too expensive there (Didn't even Google once, so, take this with a grain of salt).
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Kleiner Perkins Partner Ellen Pao Sues Firm for Gender Discrimination
Introduction to Reactive Extensions for .net - online course
I wonder which of these will turn into billion $ companies?
Would have been nice to have when that happened to me. Now I have enough throwaway Google accounts not to care about that. In fact, I only have throwaway accounts now, for good measure :-)
Very informative article. Thanks!
And all of the mobile browsers with their different operating systems. And what purpose would testing an app on different carriers have? The carriers have no impact on how well an app runs, whatsoever.
I think you're missing the point. Even without AWS or kindle amazon's business was growing like crazy, and for good reason. The same goes for google too. The problem with facebook's stock is that the valuation is based on the successful completion of an as yet hypothetical pivot.

Yes, they may succeed, but pivots at that scale are risky, and there's no margin for risk built into the facebook share price. That's a problem.
RESS: An Evolution of Responsive Web Design
Another area that can be quite tricky is games.

Most (but not all) Android phones being produced today support OpenGL 2.0 - even so, there are lots of tricky differences.

The obvious one is different screen sizes and resolutions. This can be a challenge, particularly for 2D games. You need either different versions of artwork, resolution independent artwork (through 9png, vector graphics, or something else), or to accept that your art is going to be stretched on most phones.

Additionally, different combinations of GPU/screen size have vastly different performance characteristics. A phone with a 720p screen might very well have the same GPU as a phone with an 800x480 resolution screen. Guess which one performs better? This requires a lot of testing, as the stereotypical "low end phone" might actually perform better than the latest and greatest with a giant screen.

Phones also differ, and sometimes greatly, based on the graphics chip/driver. HTC phones often don't preserve framebuffers in the way most other manufacturers do.

There are many more: non-po2 textures, compressed texture support, different context preservation behavior based on phone and OS version.

Games may not be the stereotypical application here, but they're a huge part of the market, and Android fragmentation has made developing performant, good looking games much more of a challenge than on iOS.