skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for responding.

I do understand the point you were making, but unfortunately it does create the potential for your point to be forgotten as the discussion gets derailed into what is and what isn't representative of Africa. It may have been better to make that part of your title the 'Developing World' or something similar.

In any case I agree with the point you were making, which is that too many sites, especially social networking sites, are paying too little attention to optimising the experience for those on slower connections with high latency. So kudos for raising it and pointing to a specific example (Google+).
I don't doubt it was done with the best of intentions, but this is exactly the sort of thing which makes women feel unwanted in our industry—thoughtless reduction of girls to sex objects.

Put your money (well, time) where your mouth is—go change the text! A minimal change makes all the difference:

"…when you insert pics of models, so here…"
"Replace all pictures of models with a photo of your…"
I'm in europe and the Facebook app is equally worthless here. I've gone back to using the website instead of the iOS version (now used exclusively for uploading photos).
Could be a file server too.
123-reg DDOS attack - 3 million domains unavailable
"Using a unique set of proprietary algorithms"

If (noOfFriends > 50) && (wallPosts > 10)
{
completeTransaction();
}
Very cool, I've been wanting to do something similar with a personal server for some time.
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Blue icon for a social network… in 2012?

really, REALLY?
Another site that is unreadable on a mobile device because the options to share the content are hiding the content itself.

Is there any browser/browser & extension to remove that... stuff? Maybe an adblock filter, a greasemonkey script or something similar?
Or maybe they want you to buy the print version? (I have a copy, but have never actually got round to reading it).
It's available for extensions I think (there's also the higher-level WebGL which you must be aware of), and requires whitelisted graphic drivers. As you can see, graphic acceleration offers a huge attack surface (memory-unsafety in C++ code, plus logic bugs at highly privileged levels like graphic drivers, firmware, and the hardware itself). Some of these layers realistically won't be protected until they have proper IOMMU support.
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time dd if=linux-3.4.tar.bz2 of=/dev/null

is 0.7 seconds on the beagleboard and slicehost is more variable but comes to down to 0.5 seconds after a few goes from (1 second). I'd expect it to be read from the page cache anyway.

However, I remembered that the beagleboard is using busybox and really the systems are very different from each other, different distribution for example.

Update: busybox md5sum is about 20% slower than regular md5sum.
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calling out PHP is a bit of a cheap shot. Nothing works properly in PHP.
I guess he's trying to say that he feels like he shouldn't be there, a pretender to the throne. Happens a lot when you are working class and join a department/division that attracts people from more affluent families.
ARM has strange limits on the amount of memory. The Versatile architecture supports up to 256 MB max. The Versatile Express architecture has a 2GB limit (and no PCI!)

Then you have to remember that ARM is presently 32 bit, so you're going to have trouble going over 4 GB at all, which is currently a very small amount for a serious server. 64 bit ARM isn't going to be widely available for at least another 2 years, and at what cost we just don't know (but it's not likely to be £60/server).
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Yes, there is a lot more techno 'theatre' in the '69 photo. Obviously it's low tech compared to now but it looks more dramatic. People will be launching rockets from the conference room of the Cape Canaveral Holiday Inn in 10 years time ;-)

I'm veering wildy off topic but the way people perceive spaces is really interesting to me. A great example; The debating chamber of the Houses of Parliament was destroyed by a bomb in WW2. It was proposed to rebuild it larger to accommodate the higher number of MPs serving, so that everyone got a seat for busy debates. Churchill vetoed this because he felt that standing room only in the debating chamber was more dramatic and served to underline the importance of the discussion of serious issues.
Why would I purchase something like this over, say, a beagle board or raspberry pi? Is the bundled Android OS the only USP?
Think of it another way. As a startup getting feedback is your primary tool for improvement.

It shouldn't be a case of offline or online. Do both until you can't. Then start optimising.

I often see organisations cut-off e-mail feedback long before the noise from spammers, auto-replies, vacation mail, etc. becomes an actual issue.

Wait until you have a problem. Then look at the many tools around that can help alleviate those problems. Then think about maybe recruiting more people to help deal with the feedback. Then - if you still have a problem - start thinking about removing communication channels.

It should be the last option - not the first.
What I really want is to stop my email inbox from being a notification area. It doesn't feel right for notifications. Foo replied to your post. Bug X has been fixed in project Y. All that stuff doesn't belong in my email inbox.

What I'd really like is a single online notification service. I imagine signing up for a service somewhere, and I just plunk my special notification address somewhere in the settings. The service then communicates to that online notification service instead of sending me emails. I could install an app on my phone and desktop (separately configurable) that alerts me. I can set up filters through the app or a web interface.

I'm not too hopeful about this ever happening though. No service will support it unless it's mainstream, and using the notification service is useless until most services support it. Chicken and the egg.
I agree, what we really need is to equip a Mars rover with a digital IMAX3D camera.
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Hey,

For the past year, I have been reading Hacker News but never had anything constructive to post nor any question. Today, I finally took the time to create an account and ask the community a question I have, hoping somebody can point me in the right direction.

At this moment, I have left my job about 4 months ago in order to take on the road of entrepreneurship and partnered with a small dedicated team of people to bring our products to life (and to market). We are inches from creating a legal entity but are looking for one more co-founder. We are based in Switzerland and are looking for someone with marketing and sales skills. Someone who could help us generate a hype on what we do and create a community around our products. Location of this person is not important but we'd like to have somebody who is a native English speaker, preferably based in the US or the UK.

Where on the web would you go to find such a person, knowing that at this moment we do not pay a salary but plan to give some equity in the company? Someone who, like us, would bet on our success and dedicate time and efforts towards that goal? Do you know of any communities where such people hang out? Where I could go and try to recruit without being banned for spam?

Of course, but there I'm pushing my luck, if you recognize yourself in our current search, you can always drop me a line at nico@logicward.com ;)

Thanks for your time!
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I wanted to thank you for this comment. It blew my mind to some degree.

For me there were three specific ideas to take away from this comment (which I am guessing you wrote in a few minutes).

I loved the quality of the writing. Insightful, entertaining. Use phrases like 'covetous neuroreceptors' and mine start to fire.
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I agree with your feedback -- although I always close those pop-ups as soon as they appear, it shouldn't cover a crucial part of the UI like that.

I didn't get the sound level thing -- I know it's possible to batch-normalize sound files though, shouldn't be a massive thing for them to fix.

Agree with your other points. Hope the OP takes them on board, it's a site with massive potential!
As a going no where amateur artist of many years, whats the big changing the world pitch to artists? I really didn't get a sense for that on your about page or on the app.

Also your app does horrible things to any sense of navigational flow that's normal on a website - I get it's more like a media player, but I hate media players.
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IE team should just be SACKED as a WHOLE and Microsoft should get in a new Team. Surely by now everyone in the whole world knows that the IE team is the worst shortsighted incompitent bunch of idiots that exists. Unless of course the project manager is one of Bill Gates relatives. The posts the defend IE in any shape or form, are either simply LYING or should join the existing IE team. IE IS RUBBISH and if we all Stuck a banner NOT Supporting IE, the Web WILL become a better place for everyone.
Looks rather like scala:

def pay_employees =
pay(employees)

def employees = Person where (_.employee)

def pay(persons: Seq[Person]) = persons map { person => person.pay }
See Notifo: http://blog.notifo.com/notifo
Or bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish!
My KickStarter Project: A Low Cost AirPlay Receiver
Hey Hacker News!

I wanted to share with everyone my first KickStarter project: the TuneBridge. TuneBridge is a simple, easy and affordable audio streaming device. Using Apple's AirPlay, TuneBridge lets you stream your music or podcast from a wide variety of devices to just about any speaker or receiver out there. No need for special speakers or receivers, no more wires to contend with.

What I think is most exciting about the TuneBridge is the affordability. The target retail price is $59.99. This opens AirPlay up to just about anyone and any device.

This project is a huge leap for me to move out of a 9 to 5 engineering role and into the world of product startups. I'd love any feedback you guys may have.

Best,
Brandon
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This whole knighting business is a bit dubious if you ask me, however if anyone deserves it, I think Jonathan is one of them. He's really achieved so much and inspired millions of people, whether that inspiration came directly or indirectly.
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It's not just Google+, by the way. All of Google's services are noticeably slower after they switched to the new look that Google's changing everything to. Bad move in my opinion. We don't care if the pages are very pretty, Google. We just want what we want.
It really hard to imagine the entire trillion dollars went into the development of the F-35. Maybe it did, or maybe there was another secret plane developed at the same time...
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A long list not backed with facts of any kind? This is normally called a diatribe.

As for the Chinese, the CCP is the largest union in China.

As for the US, 12% of all workers are unionized[1]. With them representing 1:8 waged workers whats to stop other 7 from picking up the pace and showing those union workers how to really do a job?

[1] http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm
Dubious? What's dubious about nationally recognising one person's achievements? Britain is hardly the only country to do it, anyway.
The solution here would be, to just be careful.

Sorry, but coming from Europe, we have a bit of an understanding, that products can't be responsible for the "dumb" use of their users.

If a bottle ends in the window of your neighbor, is it your fault or the bottles?
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You could argue that core UX for Facebook is news feed, rather then profile pages.
For those interested in the current and planned undersea cable infrastructure, there's a good SVG diagram on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cable_map18.svg
I can't speak for the grandparent, but one obvious thing is of course that being knighted seems to bring with it "more" respect from people, automatically (being addressed as Sir, for instance).

This is not very compatible with the idea that all humans have equal value, it's rather the opposite. It's very much a "class society" thing, at least in some respects.

Note: I'm not saying I oppose, I'm trying to explain what could be dubious about the concept.
"Click here" in the beginning has no link.
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The only place I see some rhetoric is the second sentence of the first paragraph, the second paragraph, and the first sentence of the second to last. It's tame: it emphasises the exploit being very involved, which is well supported by the rest of the report. Everything else is necessary detail that describes the progression of the exploit from Pinkie Pie's point of view.

Your contributions, on the other hand, are much more content-free, being mostly value judgements against Chrome's PR or the supposed overconfidence of their programmers. And while you do brush on more technical matters, you do so by name-dropping products rather than being informative and describing the relevant security property.
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Admittedly windows could do address space randomization which would make the exploit harder

According to Wikipedia, Windows provides one of the best ASLR on the market. I'm not sure why you are singling out Windows as a weak point here.

Windows has for a long time been the prime target of most exploits, and thus have spent considerable effort, on OS-level, to prevent the potential damage. OS X for instance, has almost none of the OS-level security features found in Windows and is a much easier target to exploit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_space_layout_randomizat...
Dick move.
Seems the idea does not sell, the company went bankrupt.
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Just out of interest, what is the life size of an angry bird?
Here's a simple solution to your problem: stop caring what people who want to go into space spend their money on.

Sure, when you ignore all the important variables, sending only robots to space appears much more rational. But those same variables, when ignored, make pretty much all of humans' favorite endeavors seem irrational.
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On a related note, VIA makes small motherboards with embedded CPU's. They're not as cheap, but they act more like "real" pc hardware, are i386/686 compatible and use very little power.

I've run a fan-less EPIA board at home for a couple of years, and it's nice. Took some time to find the right board though..

http://www.viaembedded.com/en/products/boards/
For years I have worked under the assumption that my email has been harvested to death, sold and resold. I don't care about giving it to companies.

Gmail hides the spam from me and it's quick filter wizard helps me hide anything else I want to.
When showing similar types of data try to use the same type of graph. Once the reader has learnt to interpret results from one graph they can easily apply it to the next. It looks like you've cycle through every graph type Excel has to offer.

Other than that, quite interesting!
No.

It's pretty simple really. I just want them to let me delete the account and just the account, leaving my stuff alone and destroying nothing. Just like it happens when you do it with a rooted device.
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or http://mailinator.com
Why would anyone think they could write world-changing web apps without knowing bit-fiddling techniques?
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It looked pretty good until the decision making process of colour choice-blue or orange. I don't understand the rationale. So what if orange is a warm colour. I was expecting a better argument on colour choice. And why just two choices? Is there a more scientific approach to colour choice (ie colour wheel) or is it simply designer or customer choice?
Oh yes, I totally forgot Instant Search. So if I understood you correctly, Google gives Mozilla money to set the home page to Google.com and not the other way around. I guess that makes more sense that way.

Thank you.
Well, they don't know whether specification is correct, but verification, while proving correctness, also proved (because you need these to prove correctness) no buffer overflow, no null pointer dereference, no unintentional integer overflow, etc.

So it's not useless.
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There is a long way left before a robot will be anywhere near as good as a human.

First of all, we need better mechanics. The mars rovers are a great example. They work really well until they get stuck in the dirt. Something like that should ideally not be possible.

We might solve that problem soon enough, but doing stuff in space is problematic if you rely on teleoperation. Even on the moon, the delay makes it difficult to control anything as unpredictable as a rover with wheels on a rocky and dusty surface. Mars is obviously even worse. On Jupiter, you'd have a delay of over two hours before you see what your commands did.

Obviously, we need autonomous robots. To make them even close to as useful as a human, they need pretty strong AI. We simply don't have that technology yet (if ever).

I think the best solution would be to send a human operator to monitor and command a larger number of semi-autonomous robots. If we can get the operator to control a robot Avatar-style, he won't even need to leave the space craft. He could stay in orbit, removing the need for any sot of landing/take off vehicle, considerably reducing the risk of getting stranded.
Yes, after listening to a few more it was only one song that was especially quiet and I must have left my speakers turned up last night so didn't notice. It just so happened it was the first song I listened to.

It can be a problem with self-made indie music sometimes, not everyone realizes they should do a final mastering step that's pretty essential. A friend's band for example did the same thing and you end up just taking it off your rotation as it's irritating to have the sound level suddenly change on shuffle.
So after the ISS and Space Shuttle, what we really need is an inefficient, pointless white elephant to get things going again. Because those two other big pointless white elephants weren't big enough, or white enough. Or something.

What we need to get the public interested in space is realistic, achievable worthwhile goals. 'Building stuff in space' isn't a worthwhile goal in itself, hence the ISS is a waste of resources. Building rocket ships so they look cool isn't worthwhile either, hence the appalling inefficiency of the shuttle programme.

At last we're going back towards projects and goals that are based on actual honest to goodness good engineering, like capsules for manned space flight and Planetary Resources' sober plans for asteroid resource recovery. This is not a bad thing! The space cadets had their day and they blew it badly. Time for some proper commercial engineering to have it's chance.
I just have a filter to tag them and remove them from the inbox. I see no point in having to disparate interfaces and mechanisms that one has to configure and maintain.
Please consider showing more of the variation and including more information about it in your results.

You conclude, for example, that "In general, it can be concluded that people can and do make snap judgments about personality and abilities based on superficial physical characteristics."

However, a cursory stroll through ranking people on your site reveals that actually, peoples' "snap judgments" show very high subjective variability, and you see these graphs which just have data points all over the place, looking more like a uniform distribution than a clear "everyone things you look smart and extroverted."

Given this, can you profile a burst of ratings? Can you say that there are a coherent group who rated Alice as smart extrovert and Bob as smart introvert and Carol as dumb extrovert -- and can you profile their preferences? Or do most people just browse through your site clicking randomly on the axes without any real reflection on the people they're rating?

We could see this if we could see error bars, but aside from your very first image where you try to show that there is a negative correlation between smartness and sociability, info on variability seems quite nonexistent. (And even there, it is clear that the variability dwarfs the trendline.) Also, you might want to see if there are systematic biases -- what happens if you flip the introvert/extrovert axis for some IP addresses?
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Someone else pointed that out, it's not good is it?

I've disabled the AddThis bar while I look into it (the caches might keep it alive for a while though), hopefully there's a suitable solution.
Great idea but the size and scope is too small to be meaningful.

Also, asking people a direct question will often get you a dishonest answer. Maybe there's a way to ask the same question in an indirect way?
Just a little bit of feedback, in case OP is reading HN.

1) Nice.

2) Very much like thesixtyone.com, both in looks (although UI is more conventional) and in core idea, I may be wrong on the latter though.

3) The Chrome app promotion at the top tries to emulate native Chrome notification bar. A) This makes playback control unusable, especially for a newcomer who doesn't know where it is. B) One cannot hide the strip without either installing the app or dismissing the notification forever. (“Remind me later” button would fix that.) C) Third-party website trying to imitate security-related native browser UI elements is always suspicious. Maybe you should think of your own way to display service-wide broadcasts, like GitHub does.