skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Self-Discipline and Social Pressure
So neither the instapaper blog post (linked here) nor the news.me blog post (http://blog.news.me/post/21643399885/introducing-paper-boy-a...) comes right out and says it, but the point here is that since iOS doesn't let an arbitrary program schedule itself in the background or on a time-based schedule, but the iOS geofence APIs do let an arbitrary program schedule itself when you cross a geofence, you can abuse the latter to simulate the former?
I really hope that when Google finally merges chat functionality between its various platforms (gtalk, g+, and so on) that they stick with XMPP and keep the jabber compatibility going.
Turning #MonitoringSucks into #MonitoringSucksLess
Was humanity born in the mother of all plagues?
A question: I want to read those books. Which one should I start first?
I am a fan of OSS and wouldn't be particularly worried having my platform be OS, in whole or in part.

I hadn't thought of a premium platform on top of the current OSS solution, that's a really good idea and I will need to look into that a little more. Some elements are MIT, some are Apache 2.0; I haven't seen anything prohibiting commercial use but IANAL.
They invented those too. Indeed they're listed at the link I provided.

It seems strange to argue that what gave rise to a thing isn't "conducive" to it. Actually, it's more than strange, it's a contradiction in terms: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/conducive.
Isn't an FPGA basically a bunch of NAND or NOR gates whose connections can be arranged as necessary?
Regardless of whether anti-depressants are effectual, overprescribed, or totally useless: I think it's amazing that an article arguing the merits of a pharmaceutical treatment can be published without reference to any research.

>But that, of course, doesn't mean that antidepressants are dummy pills that have no real effect; and it's crucial that depressives--many of whom are suspicious of medication--realize that.

I think the author subscribes to an outmoded view of the placebo effect and doesn't acknowledge the mind's remarkable capacity to trigger real physical changes in the body. Antidepressants can be 'dummy pills' and still have a real effect.
Offline OS Updates for Linux using PackageKit and systemd
That's really tough to answer. Apple list NXP Semiconductor (who basically only do RFID/NFC stuff) as an official supplier, and this was a recent addition: http://images.apple.com/supplierresponsibility/pdf/Apple_Sup...

Multiple NFC patents have been filed, some NFC hires have been made. The 4S was the same phone case as the 4 so no new antennas could be put in.

I'd probably rate it at 30%:70% 2012:2013.
Did you ever saw how program crashes when run, but works fine in debugger (or vice versa)? What you will do in such case? What you will do after few such cases?
Not too sure. I used to contract for Meebo (I did so for about six months) and I'm kinda puzzled as to what they were looking for.
I doubt Microsoft will make a native iOS version of Office. Simply for the reason that they'll have to distribute through the AppStore, meaning Apple will take a 30% cut. I don't think Microsoft would be ok with Apple talking a cut on a product like Office.
Try Zencoder, their API is really easy to use and their support is quite helpful as well: http://zencoder.com
You have several typos in the Joosy website (unless it's part of a joke I'm unaware of, as they repeat the same incorrect \n correct pattern).

ack -l "Deterimes" | xargs perl -pi -E "s/Deterimes/Determines/g"

in your root if you don't want to search for them manually.

Note: requires ack installed (like grep, but typically much faster and nicer to use, for me at least).
That seems like a clean setup, but it gets complicated when you want to have some transparency, e.g. show clients that you are aware of a problem and working on it, like a ticket system..
Fooled By Randomness leads nicely into the Black Swan, Taleb's even better follow up book.
There was a lot of Meebo coverage on TC over the years: http://techcrunch.com/tag/meebo/page/5/

Early rounds were rumoured to be done at $200m valuations so with liquidation preferences I'm not sure how much this really leaves on the table after the investors are paid.
If the main problem you are solving is a usability problem, a domain-specific language syntax, for example, or maybe a new photo-sharing app that's better than all the other photo-sharing apps, then the top-down UX-first approach is better. If you are mainly trying to solve anything else, it's probably better to focus on that first and make sure the data models, APIs, algorithms, or other key features are solid.

An exception to this could be when you just need to get something up and running for morale reasons, so you can begin iteration. (Although in that case I would still argue that focusing on the UX isn't critical)
There was a couple of steps in between I think - didn't they also do some sort of news/feed syndication or "following"?
Till Gmail and Google Talk became popular, Meebo was my MSN replacement of choice.
Or what could they do with a more intelligently allocated budget of the same or lower dollar amount?
Amazon S3 has a more competitive outgoing bandwidth pricing. That works out best for me (lots of small files with small overall storage size but consume lots of bandwidth).

You need to ask yourself, what is your main use case? More often than not, if your use case is a web service serving up files over HTTP then Amazon is more competitive. I would say bandwidth would be the greater consideration in most cases for web services.

All of their comparison calculations (http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/files/...) also include "AWS Gold Support" (which costs an extra $400+/month).
.. All of you have been faced with the extra cookie. All of you will be faced with many more of them. In time you will find it easy to assume that you deserve the extra cookie. For all I know, you may. But you'll be happier, and the world will be better off, if you at least pretend that you don't.
NoSQL - About Performance, or Just an Another API Language?
Yup, we can do that too! I didn't mention it in the writeup, but you can also insert <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="http://www.domain.com/>; hints into the head of the document to tell the browser to pre-resolve certain domains.

An often overlooked reason for supporting this is to pre-resolve hostnames behind a redirect. If you have a "http://a.com/resource, which redirects to "http://b.com/resource, and you know this relationship while you're generating the page, then injecting a dns-prefetch link can help hide the cost of the extra DNS lookup when the browser is following the 3xx.
IT could end up being health reform’s highest hurdle
Most likely, for any awesome idea you will have, there is a high probability that there is a VC funded startup or open source project in that domain. Question is: what probelm will you solve that your VC funded or open source competitors are not ? How will you do better than your competitors ?
I just took a quick look at Patch and it looked like very superficial robo-generated news from public sources (police blotter, HS sports schedule, stock photography). It doesn't look very readable. Here's an article that puts words around a calendar

http://chelmsford.patch.com/articles/softball-team-to-face-n...

This article is probably just auto-generated for town (it's about the view of Venus we are getting right now).

http://chelmsford.patch.com/articles/chelmsford-look-up-venu...

There are some articles better than these, but not much -- perhaps it's better for other towns.

Here's what a hyperlocal newspaper looks like:

http://www.mydailyrecord.com

Real names and faces of people the residents know. The articles aren't Pulitzer prize winning, but they're not just autogenerated.

You can't compete with auto-generated on price, but it doesn't seem hard to write better articles.
But that is what the stock market is: A constant and immediate recalculation of worth.

To take another example: Facebook obviously, at the time of IPO, was not worth what it sellers hoped it would be. At some point in the future it will be worth much more than it is today, and at some other point it will be worth nothing. Today, the agreed worth/value of one FB share is $27.
Cool prizes!
Magic Number for Usability Testing is 2 for Agile Teams
2012 Stack Overflow Community Moderator Election Begins
Yea, I noticed that when looking at the github demo.
You're quite right, I did forget about those. I'm still not quite seeing it, though... I suppose since I'm not a console gamer I have a hard time imagining spending my time hanging out with other people while all starting at our hands.

I think I'd need to see an implementation that wasn't just a rehash of a board/card game I can play quite well already thank you very much to believe it.
That is a very practical definition for economic models but that doesn't make it complete. Your link says value within a market, and a single offer for a company by Google does not automatically qualify as a market and therefor determine value. If it did, I could pay you 1 billion dollars for a rock and it would be "worth" 1 billion dollars. I prefer to think of it as, given imperfect information and an inability to predict the future, market value trends towards true value, where true value is a fuzzy subjective set of ideals held by individuals and society.
Nothing G+ won't try at this point ;)
Apparently you can take an off the shelf resistor and 'tune it' by sanding the exterior, so to increase it slightly.

But of course it's better when the tolerance doesn't matter (or only of a few components)
The issue's been submitted and I'm looking into it. I suspect it might be a side-effect of using ttfautohint. What browser version and OS are you on?
Do multi-day marathons for runners, swimmers, and other sports athletes go continuously 24-hour or do they have a way to fairly sleep each night? If so, is there anything to be learned by how traditional sports handle this issue?

I read somewhere that some races take a time snapshot of when the athletes arrive at a sleeping stop and use it to determine when they can resume the next day.
I'll drink to that!

As somebody who's organized community gatherings himself (and made plenty of mistakes in this area himself) I do feel that organizers play an important role as you say.

To put it in really literal terms, when I organized my first meetup, we had a mix of under- and over-21 members. I was really concerned about underage drinking. I really strongly let our members know what was expected of them. I think I stopped just shy of threatening to beat them up and/or report them to the FBI if I caught one whiff of something bad happening to anybody, especially the underage members. I definitely got the message across, at least.

While that kind of approach obviously doesn't directly scale/translate to a professional conference, I think the overarching principle is the same. The organizers set the tone, outline accountability, and (if it's a multi-year event) weed out repeat offenders. The rest is up to the community.
If its completely different and shares nothing that can't be affordably transferred, why not close the first startup and open a second?
If that language is Ruby, someone already beat you to it: https://github.com/halst/docopt.rb
i am only here to look for a reference to "lighten up"
Eventup Lists Chicago Venues with False Information
"So there it is. We've been able to construct gates and flip flops using nothing but UNIX pipes and our small MOSFET tool. We may now proceed to design any digital circuits we want: Processors, memories, entire computers... The world is ours to conquer!

As long as we don't run out of PIDs."
I use RTM for task management. Emails can be forwarded to it, and converted to tasks, as described here: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/email/
Writing Socket.IO application that runs on the JVM
Hey Jeff, Rajiv here, one of the founders of Leftronic. Here's how we're different:

* We have a custom push API enables you to update your dashboard in real-time. (And our pull API is going to come out in the next day or two.)

* Our interface is completely vector-based, which makes it work on any browser or screen size. And it's very flexible and configurable, so you can set up your dashboards exactly the way you want!

* We have no restrictions on the amount of data you push to us for custom feeds, nor do we restrict the number of instances of the dashboard you have simultaneously running.

* Our visualizations are minimalistic on purpose, which makes them immensely glanceable.

* Our data connectors pull data from third-party services as fast as their API's allow us to. We're only limited by the other side, not ours.

* We have dashboard templates that get you set up with your dashboards in a single click.

* Our integrations into the various data services are very thorough and robust.

* We have a couple more tricks up our sleeve that I can't mention yet, but stay tuned! ;)

If you have any other questions, I'd love to hear from you so please shoot me an email!

Thanks!

Rajiv

rajiv at leftronic dot com
What a dumb joke it would be %). Fixed, thank you.
The talent. Meebo was started by Stanford grads who demonstrated their talent in developing a product and a launching company. It'd be a safe way to hire a few competent engineers, and I doubt the acquisition price contains much goodwill.
"You're going to have a hell of time proving your case then, aren't you?"

It's the obligation of the company, not the contractor/employee, to show that it has secured the rights to the work that is included their product.

If you have someone work on your product, and you don't put down in writing what their agreed upon compensation is (and/or you don't pay that compensation), you're not going to be in a good spot when someone starts doing due diligence for a financing or a sale.

Not being explicit about ownership / comp before a financing deal is on the table is a recipe for heartache.
Facebook Is Said to Explore Giving Access to Children Under 13
That's really interesting.

One other factor is that I think science encourages a certain humility and honesty. When you're trying novel things and checking against real data, you inevitably get your ass handed to you from time to time. I think that makes it harder to treat "because I am awesome" as a 100% reliable explanation.
I came here to say this. It's important to realize the size of luck's effect on our lives, but the next step isn't just to shrug and say "oh well, I guess I wasn't lucky."

There are in fact scientifically proven ways to increase one's chance for getting lucky. I highly recommend Richard Wiseman's book "The Luck Factor" which goes into this research: http://www.richardwiseman.com/books/luckfactor.html
Had to check out the Apple website to see what Airplay was all about. I don't use Apple products myself, but it seems pretty pretty sweet.
Generally, nothing forces one DNS to resolve to one ip and one ip to correspond to one DNS. So you're losing both a simple way to do load-balancing and virtual hosts.

That being said, both can be worked around by other ways. You definitely lose a way to do geographical load-balancing, though (like in a CDN).
> This innovation happened completely and only because of the dreaded saturation of the market you are complaining about.

False. This happens with or without the 3 new players. Those 5 players are going to be vying for a bigger piece of the pie. They're trying new marketing, new formulas, etc. Over time an increasingly large part of the company will be dedicated to growing it, (especially if they're not growing!). Some of them might invest in or partner with the car companies and secure a contract for new cars. They might work together to increase the size of the market. Markets that are stable are not so because players idle, they are stable because everyone is innovating at a similar pace. When one of these guys makes the mistake of thinking he can take it easy and sit on his 20%, the others will take it as fast as possible.

(I'm not disagreeing that new entrants to a market are a bad thing, just saying that it's not for this reason)
Ask HN: H1-B and iPhone apps?
I know H1-B can only work for one employer and all that related stuff. But are they not even allowed to develop their personal project(on weekends and free time) or iPhone apps and earn money by pushing it to app store ?
from the CoC is fuck a sexual language?
my 360 slim has a sleep mode, so either this is a feature they've added in the slim update, or your console is misconfigured
I find myself in disagreement with the idea that read/write cycles for (rotating) hard disks are unlimited. While it may be much higher, and a 'per block' characterization is largely improper -- the thing that fails is not the block itself but the moving parts -- when I worked in a job where we had tons of cheap consumer-grade hard disks, they did seem to fail after a few hundred complete passes over the disk.
"Better-than-Hubble" is flat out wrong here, the only correct interpretation is "with larger apertures than Hubble", but there is so much more to a telescope, especially one in Hubble's class. A spysat is optimized for taking only exposures lasting a fraction of a second, for example, whereas Hubble is optimized for taking exposures that last many minutes at a time, with guidance that keeps Hubble pointed in the same direction to sub-pixel precision.

Let's take a moment to walk down the aisle with the label "Current Hubble Science Instruments". First, we come upon WFC 3, a 4k x 4k high quantum efficiency CCD imager with a wide field of view, spectral coverage from the near-UV through visible spectrum and with 63 different narrow and wide-band filters. Oh, and with a set of grisms and prisms for taking spectra, and with a separate 1k x 1k IR sensor with 17 of its own filters. Next up is NICMOS, an IR imager and spectrometer with a spectral range of 0.8 to 2.4 microns, this instrument alone places Hubble into the rankings as one of the top 3 or 4 most productive and capable Infrared telescopes in history all on its lonesome. Then there is STIS, a 3 CCD sensor with coverage from far-UV through near-IR wavelengths which is capable of taking high resolution spectra for 500 separate points simultaneously while also taking a full frame image, this instrument alone is responsible for much of all of the astronomical observations in the UV-range throughout all of history. And there are several other equally impressive instruments I have not mentioned.

The point is, none of these instruments or capabilities are going to be on a spysat. And they make up the vast majority of the value of a space based observatory. If a space telescope was nothing more than a big mirror, some guidance, and an imager then we could save billions of dollars, but they are so much more than that.
Yeah kinda seems that that way doesn't it? I gladly paid for read it later and was surprised when they transitioned to free without any apparent source of income..
DNS pre-fetching is a great way for spammers to determine whether or not an email has been read when the recipient is using webmail with a browser which supports it. Although, I believe DNS pre-fetching is disabled over https by default on all current browsers which support it.

EDIT: This is one of the things that a website I developed tests for: https://emailprivacytester.com/
I don't think that's his point. To me, coming to grips with randomness is much more about humility and tenacity, which are character traits rather than philosophical issues.
Of course those drugs have their place. They should be used for quick interventions before people get cured by proper therapies. Unfortunately there is so much money in just keeping people on those drugs that just popping pills is offered as alternative solution as well.

Then after 2-3 years when one kind of drug doesn't work anymore you get the next one. The problem are not the drugs, the problem are the people prescribing them and people looking for a quick fix for their problems by taking pills instead of doing a proper therapy.
Ah yes, but is it turtles all way down?
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No, it's a bunch of registers to hold state and look-up tables that map to your logic. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnaugh_map)
Not even scholarships count as help (they're earned)

And heaven forbid you count student loans as getting help, even though they are taxpayer subsidized to keep the interest rates artificially low.
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To expound on the value of their API, I'm non-technical and was able to figure out their API and rig up a pretty fancy dashboard using custom data feeds from one of our vendors in a few hours. It was pretty great being able to actually make something using someone's API that quickly.
Ask HN: Why not Java for web development?
While I'm a fairly young developer and a freshman CS major. I've heard of the problems and horror stories associated with Java web development. But recently, I discovered Play Framework and I'm beginning to wonder why Java is given such a bad name in web development?

I'm studying at a California State college and nearly every school in the system teaches Java as their core language. Very few of these colleges have a single class that teaches web development. For someone who wants to pursue a career in web development, this is highly discouraging because I feel I am not learning the technologies I need for a job (such as Ruby and Python).

I read stories every day saying there is a lack of Ruby and Python developers. Yet, there are tons of great developers who are being taught Java and could pick up Play as easy as I have.

So I ask all of you, why not Java for web development? What's wrong with Play? And why are all these companies ignoring the fact that there is a shortage of Ruby and Python developers because most college students are learning Java?
Fonts are distorted for me too. Chrome 21.0.1155.2, Windows 7 x64: http://i.imgur.com/OZDLr.png

Thanks for the incredible work!
Syncing complex data from offline storage to a hosted backend is hard, especially if the data can change in both places at once. If this solves that problem, it could be very useful.
the available commands are discoverable within the development environment

only by greatly limiting the available commands. a turing machine would be easy to implement visually, wouldn't it.
> A tornado is a horrible event, but it creates wealth.

Classic broken window fallacy.

A tornado doesn't create wealth. On net, it leaves the society poorer than before. It may create a windfall for a particular industry, but that's just moving wealth around. The money spent on rebuilding had to get pulled away from something else. It would have necessarily been spent or invested, and now that spending or investment will never happen.

Bastiat called it the seen vs the unseen. We see the builders making money. We don't see the economic activity that would have otherwise occurred if there had been no tornado.

The overall impact on economic activity is a wash, and the only net effect is the original property destruction.
Biology's 'Dark Matter'
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Looking for self-motivated, good communicator, with special eye for detail.

Following experience would be great:

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Ladder programming is visual and is very widely used in PLCs.

Although some people dislike it a lot it is very nice for diagnostic reasons.
Facebook Ready to (Officially) Allow Children Under 13