skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did we really need a study to tell us that women spend an inordinate amount of time sending text messages and stalking profiles on Facebook?
It really depends on the what you're looking for and the industry that you're focusing on. Some basic info:

1. Google whatever you can. Google itself also offers some data services (http://www.google.com/insights).

2. Use your local public library and/or your university library. They have tons of research databases and quite a few of them can be accessed from home if you have a library account with them.

3. I often go to competitor websites and go to their "About Company" page or their blogs to get more information about the market. If the company is public, look at their corporate presentations. There's tons of valuable stuff in there.

4. For surveying, Google has their insights tool (link above) and I know several people also use Amazon Mechanical Turk (http://www.mturk.com)

5. Check out http://www.slideshare.net, they have lots of great presentations written by students and experts.

6. If you want to have in-depth, targeted discussions with industry experts, consider professional firms for this. A firm I've used before: http://www.glgresearch.com (while they have a strong experts network not all industries are well represented; they are also quite expensive)

These are a few off the top of my head. Will post more as I think of them. Feel free to contact me if you need market research help.
Wonder what the (inverse of )the diameter of a circle of unit 1 in base Pi is in base Pi?
jQuery.expect: DOM Assertion library
Looks awesome. Hopefully some of these features will be pulled into Backbone.
So Long, SEO; People are the next search
Sauerbraten has an experimental branch called Tesseract

http://cubeengine.com/forum.php4?action=display_thread&t...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkFT1ra2w-A

Deferred shading, realtime lighting, etc. etc. Also it has the Sauerbraten in-game editor (like Unreal is getting).

Probably the best complete open source game engine out there. And it's zlib (unlike the id Techs which are GPL).
javascript sorting: having expected a sorting somewhat similar to python and being very... surprised that javascript essentially sorts everything but primitive types by comparing their String counterparts, I decided to implement a more sensible compare function, similar to e.g. python:

https://gist.github.com/2772234

I am currently using this in server only environments, so there is no comparison for DOM elements.
> It seems to me that the most obvious problem is that you get two chances at colliding

Yeah, that's all I'm saying. I was answering a question about being "fundamental worse," and fundamentally, there are now two sources of potential collisions instead of one. In theory, that's twice as insecure! However, the practical effect is unlikely to rise above absolute nil anytime soon.
Seminars About Long-term Thinking: If Mayors Ruled the World
Your entire comment would be wise were it not for, both in the case of my anecdote and this original comment, the observation that someone is incorrect. It's one thing to enjoy intellectual pursuits, it's another to put down others, belittle them, or critique their opinions because of a perceived mistake they made (such as the geometry). It's doubly worse if the mistake has no bearing whatsoever on the actual opinion, like the finding and the opinion I was sharing in my anecdote.

Also, I like to think of myself as intellectually inclined, and I simply hate discussing and arguing minutia like this. It just doesn't matter, and my time is limited. I don't want to argue with you on what Dickens meant by a certain character's dialogue in David Copperfield, I'd just like to enjoy it as a great novel. (That is fairly specific, and there are instances where it's fun to think about, but in general it isn't.)

> Clearly you don't care about that topic, so that acknowledgement shouldn't cost you too much ego.

Not about my ego, oddly (most everything else is, but this isn't). It undermines the opinion or discussion at hand from everybody else's perspective, however subtly. It's an annoying opportunity to show off, as you say, like those people that get up at conferences and ask a question that shows off at the expense of everyone listening. Both are distractions from the topic and are a detriment to the conversation, regardless of their original purpose.
Severance.
I think this is just a problem with larger metro areas.

Normally, at least once a week, I spend several hours on the road, because I enjoy driving. Sure I'm often going somewhere, but while I'm driving I'm sucking in the beautiful countryside, and will often take scenic routes because I enjoy taking it in. The first thing you have to do is get away from society and get off the highways.
It's not a terribly recent trend, though, and some sites are still flourishing, so it's not inevitable.

It's worth noting that Ben carved out his section of Ars Technica himself, basically proving the value of his paycheck by starting to write content and bringing in the readers. Prior to that, gaming coverage on Ars was extremely light to nonexistent. Now Kyle Orland is keeping up Ars's gaming coverage, and Ben has started another gaming coverage site at Penny Arcade.

Both are using an existing, relatively successful property to bootstrap, but that's fairly common in any business (the property may be called "your investors"), and coverage there and other places has arguably opened up a market for more independent game coverage.
At first I thought, why bother. But of course you would want to try to leave your target with no immediate way to determine which machines had been hit. Wonder why they didn't do it sooner. Perhaps they were worried about losing control if too many c&c servers were taken out.
WOW. That is a lot of anger just because Windows doesn't have a built in SSH client (which I probably wouldn't use anyway... PuTTY is tops) and his version won't back up to a NAS (but there is other software to do that). Haters gotta hate.
Firefox Ousts Yandex As Default Russian Search Engine
Oddly, you are the 4th google result for 2016 BMW 3 series. Below you there are sites offering used 2016 bmws.
Personalized e-mail feature in Thunderbird 13 lets users register a domain name
>This says far, far more about you than about the people around you.

Are you sure about that? On HN it's very easy to find an attitude in the comments and article selection that if you even use C#, you're just an enterprise boiler plate programmer that sucks. The "Leaving .NET" stories typically easily make the front page.

In fact this article made it twice on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1719277
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2005867

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2370022

And another ~100 articles and thousand comments which I don't have the time to link.

You should go read some of these articles and comments.

Sites like StackOverflow, Newegg, Plentyoffish show that many of these commenters are wrong, but each to their own biases.
>Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop will provide a simple, end-to-end development experience for developing Windows desktop applications targeted to run on all versions of Windows supported by Visual Studio 2012.

From my reading of corporate speak this appears to say that you can use Express Desktop 2012 (VNext Ultimate Web Cloud Edition :)) to write apps that target Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8. Since WinRT is Win8+ only that would seem to imply 'down level' apps would need to be written in something else. The primary candidates would seem to be WPF/Silverlight, MFC, Winforms or Win32. Since Winforms/MFC are just thin wrappers over the Win32 APIs I think it would be torturous to try and make an IDE that allowed writing WinForms/MFC but somehow prevented direct Win32 access (especially given the ability to simply use pInvoke from managed code).
One issue to consider in this public policy issue, as in most public policy issues, is basic economics. "The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics." Entrepreneurs are a scarce resource from the point of view of countries. On the other hand, countries in which to start a thriving business are a scarce resource from the point of view of would-be entrepreneurs. Just HOW scarce a resource is, in terms of how much an offer of that resource will change human behavior, is measured by the resource's price, which is set by supply and demand.

There is a lot of demand for living and working in the United States. The United States enjoys net immigration with respect to almost all other countries in the world, and has throughout my lifetime. There are definitely other countries that value entrepreneurs and that offer prosperity, personal security, and freedom and democracy to would-be immigrants. But each time the issue of immigration policy comes up on Hacker News--and it comes up a lot--the dozens of comments make clear that many, many, many smart, diligent people would be glad to settle in the United States, if only they could, and so all the existing channels for legal immigration to the United States are well used. Many of those channels bring in founders of new thriving businesses.

So the policy issue to consider in United States politics, for an American voter like me who reads the interesting article kindly submitted here, or an article from today's local press,

http://www.minnpost.com/christian-science-monitor/2012/06/st...

is how much I think the United States is missing out on entrepreneurs who desire to immigrate to the United States soon rather than go to some other country. Surely such people exist. But surely (undeniably) each year the United States already enjoys large numbers of immigrants,

http://www.census.gov/population/foreign/

http://travel.state.gov/visa/immigrants/immigrants_1340.html

and many of the immigrants who arrive here start up businesses once they arrive. Perhaps the United States is already doing enough. It would be interesting to hear from readers here whether they have ever seriously considered settling in Singapore, Britain, New Zealand, or Chile under the currently offered policies in those countries.

AFTER EDIT: And I see (from net downvotes soon after posting) I'm already swimming against the usual tide here of most HN participants supporting the United States having an entrepreneur visa on easy terms: perhaps terms easy enough for them and for their friends to use. That's a legitimate opinion. I'm happy to learn from you. Please explain why you think that is a necessarily better policy for the United States than the current United States policy. Learning to persuade is part of political life here.
In my opinion, you're not entirely wrong nor are you right.

For one, I don't think that ranking for 2015 BMW 3 Series (my former example) is meeting any demand. The car does not even exist yet; I'm not even sure if BMW would even be working on it at the moment. How can that be meeting demand?

The example you gave with intelius is not entirely wrong persay; as they did "try" to perform a valuable service in the end. However, what if a random nefarious individual started ranking for non-existant phone numbers, took your money, and ran?

Gamification of SEO is a slippery slope. Sometimes it's useful and other times it goes horribly wrong. It comes down human intentions and search engine sorting out the good vs the bad, I guess. I have not yet known a machine to determine human intention.
Such degeneracy!
This is a pretty great project! I can't wait to play with it more. The code looks great, too!
What looks like an N64, costs 50x as much, and runs Linux?
The problem is that the boss needs a way to tell if that help is falling on deaf ears. If the help isn't having a sufficiently positive effect, then you have someone who is not qualified to do the work. Is the boss really interested in making his team stronger all-around (not just a few star employees), or does he just not want to have to deal with answering questions from new hires who might be struggling?

I'm in this position right now. I'm not being conceited, but I am in the role of the highly-productive employee. My boss hires people (or we acquire new team members as the result of a company organizational change). Either way, before the new team members start, my boss inevitably asks me to make sure they can do the job. I've never seen anyone in my department fired due to incompetence. Whenever a team member has questions/problems, they almost always end up getting sent to me. It has gotten to the point where I now have to head a weekly developer meeting that is really just a glorified question and answer session.

The problem is that my team members are never weaned off of my help. My boss doesn't seem to care about this. I've overheard him say to people, who were trying to figure things out without having to ask me for help, to just ask me. I understand that it's more important to my boss to just get things done, but that creates an unnecessary dependency on me. I'm not scalable. Hire better employees or take a hands-on approach to training, but don't keep sending them to me all the time.

I can understand why the author's top employees didn't want be bothered with helping those who were struggling. You don't want to be in a position where you have to do your job plus some/most/all of someone else's.
My google search for "apostle calculus" gave me back a "did you mean apostol calculus". I think they just confused the name.
I wonder how well this'll run on the GTX 570 (or two of 'em). Wish they'd release a demo for people to play with.
Google owns Motorola Mobility, one can assume they have some say in these recent suits.

I think this whole thing (companies suing each other over things like this) is wrong, but It's how the system works and so Apple has to play as well.
I'm constantly amazed by Don Pettit! Check out this SOTS video if you haven't seen it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlQPjvTkjok
My points are based on the commonalities of the three great teams I've worked for at ten different employers. It's not one company, just a set of observations.

And they weren't all IT/software/web companies, either. One was the best IT team that I've worked with, period, at a non-IT company no less. Another was a fairly well-known restaurant chain. The third was a small startup-ish design company.

You are absolutely right about the reputation thing. You get that reputation for firing people, especially from the fired. But when you talk with the people that do or did work there for any length of time and see that, when the time comes, leaving will be difficult or was difficult, it all makes sense. The team manager wanted a great team that had great output and nothing less. And there was never any pressure to do the wrong things, illegal things, or base decisions on personal whims. That kinda stuff doesn't happen very easily with a room full of responsible adults, knowing that today may be their last if they screw up.

So I'm not saying there's no drawbacks to the points I listed, but I think they do work out overwhelmingly on the positive side.
I think the conventional wisdom is that you should not re-invent security. I am slowly learning this, but the give-away seems to be questions that start with "Couldn't you just..."
Could you please elaborate on how did you expedite your application and got your visa in 15 days (if you dont mind). I know couple of my friends who'll be looking for visa sometime soon hence asking.
What's the security model?
Ah, good spot!
I've looked at the client-side cloud API from time to time and I'm never comfortable with embedding my key/secret credential in the Javascript code. Anyone having access to the client code in the browser, which is everyone, will have access to my secret credential.

If anyone has an idea to deal with this, please elaborate.
Forgive me if I misunderstand, but if you can't pull this off in a single SQL query, then ActiveRecord can't either. It just hides the fact it's performing several queries to get what you want.
I did very poorly in math throughout high school (and mediocre in college). I still am not that great, but I feel I have a far deeper understanding than your average college or high school "A" student. It has nothing to do with how smart I am. It has everything to do with the fact that I have been using math in "real world" (ok, virtual world) problems for the last decade.

You absolutely cannot "teach" math (beyond the elementary level) and expect students to fully understand how it works. Memorizing equations is not understanding.

You must learn math, the hard way. Give a student a relevant problem, and tell them to solve it. Don't tell them how to solve it, let them derive the solution on their own. It might take weeks in some cases, but I guarantee they will have a much better understanding and increase their general problem-solving ability in all of mathematics.
well, this was 30 years in the making...
Live Life in the Present
Very interesting. Why do you think your wardrobe grew so much after you switched to female? Do you think that you grew your wardrobe to better fit the image of a female in the eyes of others, or was it a natural impulse that came from within?

Edit: Probably the root of my question would be does a transexual person like yourself truly feel female? And if you do does the feeling of being female precede or follow the switch? As you said your wardrobe was smaller before you switched to female. It would be very interesting if it had grown before the switch and then you made the switch. Fundamentally I ask these questions because I want to understand at least a little about what transexual life must feel like because I can not imagine it personally.
Ruby and Django could do well to have this type of strategy baked in. This way you update your configuration and the passwords are immediately upgraded.
> The went ahead and sent us our password in plaintext. (actually a screenshot of the password in plaintext).

Sounds more than reasonable to me. After you get it, then you can use it to log in, and change it.
Excellent, I'm glad that's been your experience. Mine hasn't been like that and I've waded through too many everyone's-so-friendly-and-getting-nothing-done-and-always-stressed teams with weak leadership and low standards. I'm hoping that your experience is more typical than mine!
You actually can only post every link once.
It also was conventional wisdom that banks were too big to fail ;)

Are there any actual arguments against using this as an 'easy' fix to the precomputed rainbow tables scenario? Multiple rounds of a cipher seem to be a relatively common operation in crypto and have helped other old ciphers. One of the more prominent ones would probably be the move from DES to triple DES.

I guess dictionary attacks on GPUs would still be easy enough, even with more iterations, but anything that isn't directly in a dictionary might benefit quite a bit from multiple iterations.

It's not as good as actually using proper crypto rather than hashing algorithms that were designed to be fast, but it seems like an easy to implement low-risk solution.
They offered to license patents recently, http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/03/though-steve-jobs-famou...

And the Samsung conglomerate is huge, with $220 billion in yearly revenue and ~350000 employees. Apple's revenue in 2011 was half that.
If it was not for the judicial branch, the internet would, as we know it today, would not exist.

But for the judiciary, many of the liberties we take for granted wouldn't exist. It's easy to sneer at "activist judges" when you don't like how the rule, but never forget how brilliant the multi-branch system of government is.
I graduated in 2007. While it wasn't common, there were friends of mine held back in 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th grade.
exactly. I would laugh in my bosses face if they gave me something like this to sign.
Someone forgot to strip the facebook redirect from the url?
No more click and clack on car talk
Natural light is boring, and often distracting. As a very simple example, I live in an old house and have windows broken into small square panels. For a scene where someone is looking through that window I would put a light outside to make a shadow on their face for dramatic effect, even if the sun was not really coming from that direction or if it was raining (which usually softens shadows). But if I was showing the same person looking back into the room, then the shadow on their back would be a distraction from what was inside the room, so I would soften the lighting or put a screen to limit the natural light, and fill in the darker areas of the room with a soft light.

Look at old film noir movies on TV, they have very exaggerated lighting for dramatic effect.Often you are reducing light to remove information from the scene, so that the viewer can focus on the dramatic subject.
To riff on this, it's what Steve would want somebody who truly admired him and was motivated by his life to do. In fact, he'd probably berate anybody trying to live in the past.

"If you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what's next." - Steve Jobs
If a company has such poor ethics that they'd think about witholding a last paycheck, what makes you think signing is going to prevent it from happening anyways?
To clarify, I'm not the author of the post.

But yes, this was what I thought. A nice monitor for ~£200-300 and you don't have to change a thing about what you do, assuming that for on-the-go, the 13" is just fine.
Sorry for the off-topic remark, but I really couldn't believe that this website uses what amounts to ads to separate paragraphs. I was honestly too irritated and distracted to finish reading the article.
Is that called "prime" by most people? I've always heard it just pronounced "dash", as in "s-dash" or "f-dash".
Inside the box, you'll find a mobile Core i3 processor

What? That's 2 generations ago. I have a 3 year old Atom system about that size. Sure, an i3 is faster, that's nice, but just let me know when Intel's top-of-the-line chip can run on a motherboard this size. If Intel thinks they can still produce new CPU's for the ATX form factor, they're nuts.
Emailing a link to login was one of two supported login methods for redhats mugshot social network. The other was sending the link via xmpp.

In practice I end up doing this for little used sites because I use either my phone, tablet, and two laptops for browsing the internet.

It's annoying if you work somewhere that doesn't allow access to personal email accounts and you want to log-in to something.
Sometimes.

Then there's the guy I knew in college who spent hours of every day playing Runescape and who once told me that his math teacher had said to him: "You are the smartest student I have ever had fail this class."
Yeah, but the PowerShell output from those "aliases" doesn't match the *nix versions (e.g. ls), which drives me nuts.
It depends on what you read. If I had not been here to read all of patio11's exhortations on A/B testing and sales, I'd be worse for that. I would have had commercial sites running with a major exploit if I hadn't seen tptacek warning about it. Not having that headache was very nice. But any time spent on threads about TechCrunch, TorrentFreak, The Next Web and other such high-drama zones is probably pure waste.

If you're spending a lot of time on here, unless you just find it inordinately entertaining, you're probably getting a low ROI — because 90% of everything is crap. If you very selectively click on stories and just read the recent comments and submissions by patio11, edw519 and whoever else you find to be insightful, you're probably getting a good ROI.
Shameful tactics to compete against an up-and-coming competitor
I'm not aware of any photographer-centric photorealistic 3d apps, but that sounds like a potential niche business! Might be worth exploring.