skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vote: YES - engagement in FB will continue/grow AND they will find a way to monetize it.
on most mac systems it will offer you a suggested screen based on your current resolution. If you're viewing it on your laptop screen you can just choose 'macbook pro 17' and you're good to go. If you move your browser over to your external screen it will typically detect that you're now on a different screen (unless that screen is exactly the same resolution), and it should tell you that. You can then do the manual calibration thingy there. At that point (and this is a feature I'm particularly proud of though it may not be used that often), you could drag the LifeSizer window from one screen to the other and it will instantly resize the item to show in lifesize whereever you move the window.
Let me know if that works for you!
> que

Did you mean 'queue?' Or is this an American English vs. Queen's English thing?
Slightly OT: Maybe I'm just underestimating to the power of familiarity as a plus in marketing, but I've never been able to wrap my head around meat-imitation vegetarian and vegan options.

I understand things like veggie dogs or burgers, patty and tube shaped foods are just plain convenient to store and eat. But I don't really get: "... Beyond Meat™, the first plant protein that looks, feels, tastes, and acts like meat." Wouldn't it be more prudent to create an identity for next level plant-based products than essentially "It's like meat but not"?
Oracle Sues Patent Troll for Behaving Like Oracle
Vote: NO - engagement in FB will continue/grow but they will not find a way to monetize it.
bought it!
Vote: NO - engagement in FB will decline AND they will not find a way to monetize the traffic.
> The only answer I can think of is through app stores run by trusted browser vendors.

Exactly, that's clearly what Google are thinking too, as you can install apps from the Chrome web store with elevated privileges today, e.g. the Secure Shell app: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pnhechapfaindjhomp...
"Don't use ORMs"? I'm sorry, that's just plain wrong, or you were exposed to the wrong ORMs. Doctrine2 has great scalability - it has all sorts of caching built into it - result caching, query caching, and so on and so forth. It's actually -way- more scalable, and easier to develop for, than writing raw SQL (which, by the way, is a portability nightmare).
Also, if you want to use a decent MVC framework, not using an ORM would be quite dumb.
And if you're not using a good, modern, scalable MVC framework in this day and age, well, I pray for your soul.

So, USE AN ORM!!!
They DO NOT OWN YOUR DATA. They have a license to it so they can use wherever they want during your site.

And pay close attention here: "Facebook only has access to information you give it". Think about that for a second.
Increased blood osmolarity will lead to an increase in blood volume, period. If you add fluid to a closed system, the pressure of that fluid on its container will increase. However, in most cases, excess solutes should be excreted relatively quickly and blood volume will return to normal.
Vote: NO - FB will find a way to monetize, but the engagement will decline.
> A landlord who has owned a building continuously since 1985 is paying tax on its assessed value as of 1985.

Not true - Prop 13 allows small increases each year.

> A landlord entering the market today pays based on the value today. This is an obvious subsidy for the incumbent landlord.

Or, it's payment for the infrastructure that the "old landlord" paid for that the new landlord will use.

More to the point, that "subsidy" does not affect the demand for new housing, the supply of existing housing, or the cost of providing it. As a result, it can't affect whether building new housing is profitable.

Yes, prop 13 means that different landlords can have different profits on the "same" building, but so what?
The fact that someone else can make $10 doing something doesn't affect my decision to do it for $1.

In fact, prop 13's "stable taxation" might actually encourage building in advance of need, to lock in the extra profit potential.
Well, Google doesn't really have a choice but to follow the laws of the country it's based in. Do they at least explicitly explain this caveat somewhere?
If you want to go old school you can check out the Hacker's Diet (free online, and recently got an epub version): http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/

After a lifetime of thinking that diets had to be permanent and results were only possible through hours of exercise this book turned me around. I lost 50 lbs in eight months and haven't looked back.
My friend, I think it's a phonetic thing.

In America it's more common to hear it than ever see it.

Hell, I only know how to spell it because of scrabble.
An interesting article from two years ago about the product development (the names in the "About" page here match up to the Mizzou team in the article):

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1993883,00....
On the contrary - upon seeing this I immediately got the urge to go remove some more shit from my site's layout.
They should have included the words "if at all possible, format your compute and reinstall a new operating system with latest updates immediately.

If someone has a keylogger on your computer it is game over anyways. (Since they can "read" the mail you send just by recording the keystrokes)
I know someone who used an arduino to pull in sensor data for their vehicle. I don't think the project is online but they got a very solid amount of data over a period of 3 months including, braking, acceleration and steering. all of this without any distinct modifications to the body.
Yes. My mom said "Now what do I do?" when there was a box on her screen that said "Click Next to Continue" and that's all that could be done. I've been trying to teach her to read the boxes that come up before she calls me for help.

On the other hand, when she doesn't call me for help, she ends up printing off a picture from a webpage and scanning it back in to get it into a power point presentation. That's better than giving up on the problem, I guess.
> It's carbon neutral because when you burn it, all the CO2 released from the combustion reaction originally came from the air.

By that logic, so are gas and oil. Earth itself is carbon-neutral.
For all the same reasons that you can do so on OS X. I'm also lumping in the ability to side load apps here, among other features pros might need or want.

I'm aware of all the arguments for their completely closed eco-system. But OSX itself is also a perfect example to counter them. Fundamentally, portable touch screen devices are still computers and are not actually so different that such a closed environment is needed.
Sounds of yesteryear: analog modems
Do guys use Pintrest? Because this is the kind of thing I'd like to pin. :-)
Heh. I never boil 'em, always grilled on the Barby or roasted in the oven and garlic is delicious.
> Here are some things you should do immediately: create a unique password that has a good mix of capital and lowercase letters, as well punctuation marks and numbers; enable 2-step verification as additional security; and update your browser, operating system, plugins, and document editors. Attackers often send links to fake sign-in pages to try to steal your password, so be careful about where you sign in to Google and look for https://accounts.google.com/ in your browser bar. These warnings are not being shown because Google’s internal systems have been compromised or because of a particular attack.

How does any of this differ from regular user advice? And note the last sentence, they are explicitly admitting the warning relates to nothing in reality beyond the normal environment. Do we suppose that people in China aren't aware their government spies on them? Do you suppose your own government does not?

I don't understand why this banner isn't shown to all users - China or otherwise, or why show it at all. Do something actionable and meaningful - introduce password complexity requirements, mandatory 2 factor authentication, require use of a signed browser with pinned SSL certificates - anything but non-specific nonsense that does little but promote unactionable fear in the hearts of thousands of users.
Could a reason for disappointment/changed degree of addiction have something to do with varied expectations over a course of time? Diablo II launched back in 2000, right? Not to say that game wasn't played years after, but I'm just thinking my opinion of a game like Diablo would have been quite a bit different that many years ago.
Do they own the data they trick out of you, when your browser sends a request to Facebook for every page with a 'like' button or similar feature unless you're doing crazy-adblock?

Do they own any data your friends and relatives give them about you?
Thanks! Maybe bring my laptop in case I need to do coding or something?
Ask HN: Twitter Bootstrap for "everyone else"?
I'm thinking of using Twitter Bootstrap for a site of mine, but I began to have some doubts while looking at it: it's a fairly small font, and has small icons, and come to think of it, Twitter itself is generally oriented towards the young and more technically savvy (the kind of people who know that it's really easy to increase the browser's font size). Sure, there are probably counter examples of someone's grandma being an avid twitter user, but I got to wondering if Twitter Bootstrap is a very good choice for a site very much aimed at "normal, non-technical people", who may also be a bit older than average, and not have the eyesight or patience to deal with something so small.

Has anyone actually done any research into this that they'd like to share? I know that it's in theory possible to resize it, but I'm a bit wary of how that would work out in practice.
Because we're consumers, and we want one. Do you really need another reason?
Cool idea, seems like a no brainer for ecommerce websites to include this technology
While we're on the topic of Blizzard and wasting time - are there any HNers that enjoy a game of StarCraft2 from time to time? Get in touch!
While I agree with the sentiment, the freedom provided by an exit (or alternately just a very profitable company) is certainly something that can make someone happy.

It isn't the 0's in the bank account, it's what they provide. It means you can work on bigger projects with more funding requirements. It means you don't ever have to worry about how the mortgage is getting paid next month, because you don't have one. It means you don't have to worry about how to get health care to take care or your aging parents, or how you are going to get your kids through college.

These are some of the biggest problems in life, and all of them go away with a big exit. Then you can spend your time focusing on the things that make you happy, which is probably for many of us building another company. The point is that it removes some stress and some worries, and that is a very good thing.
Android's Overblown Fragmentation Problem, Part 2
Find a good laywer and accountant to do all the paperwork.
Find a co-founder as he will watch your back with lots of cash :)

Register LLC.
Hosting:
Amazon EC2 allows you to run the minimal configuration for a year for free - http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
Why NintendoLand isn’t the next Wii Sports
Social readers are worse than you think. Once you've opted in, even reading a Yahoo! article via a Google search may show up in your news feed. My boss potentially seeing me reading articles about "How to ask for a raise" being the epitome of this. Don't know if he saw or not, but it was a educational experience nonetheless. I was trying to be careful and I still got burned.
The warning should be...

Gmail has state mandated backdoors. No combination of increased password complexity or multi-factor authentication will prevent these backdoors from being used (or abused) to access your account. Have a nice day.
I don't think he meant RAM. Otherwise, I want to know too!
Just continue your work and let us know when it's ready!
if it was a good game back then, it should still be a good game today. game mechanics really did not change much.
I like how "state-sponsored" is pretty much an euphemism for "we're pretty confident it was the Chinese who did it but we can't say so on our official blog".
I agree- good starting point, but the book will be much more in depth. It's going to include a fair amount of high-level design, identifying how and where to scale, weird issues you run into (fun fact: we don't use APC @ Twitpic), solutions to PHP anti-scaling quirks (you can't set sub-1s mySQL timeouts, for instance, although I think this is due to libmysql, not PHP), lots of case studies, scaling design patterns, and way more cool stuff.
Well, my mother had a stroke due to low blood pressure, so it's certainly not the case that lower is always better.
Good point, but you could have as many swear words as you want in your page content.
Indeed. But is lower blood pressure good in a person who doesn't have high blood pressure? This is a serious question too. :-)
More {people, projects, end results, writeups, photo galleries} like this, please.
Very thorough. Nice to see that +10 Kickstarter campaigns contributed and helped put this together.
> I'm not sure you realize just how strapped for cash most school districts are.

They're actually not that cash-strapped. They just don't choose to spend money on education.

It's unclear how giving them more money will change that.

Seriously - take the spending per-pupil year and multiply it by the number of kids in a class room. Subtract the teacher's salary and benefits. Subtract the cost of the room and educational facilities (like the library). Heck - subtract the cost of the playground.

Now, ask yourself where the rest of the money went.
I like facebook for its use in corresponding with people I normally would never contact. It gives me all the window I would ever want into their lives.

For my close friends, FB is essentially useless and actually encourages me to contact them via phone or face to face less than I should because I feel like I am keeping up with them through facebook.
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Agreed - the extra cash makes some basic problems go away. Once those hurdles are removed though, you realize they weren't hurdles at all - they were just part of being alive.
I'd be surprised if they do not end up buying the Solyndra building.

Tesla is an amazing company (well, Elon Musk is, more so) - but how is this factory different from the robot factories of japan/other auto makers? Japan has been using robots forever - how does this differ... is it 100% automated auto making?

Its crazy to think that at Tesla, they were, a few days ago, a regular company... now - their founder is the first private citizen to have built, launched and docked a module with the ISS and have it safely return to earth. Pretty damn cool.
Going through "getting out" right now - essentially selling my chunk, but not sure what I like better: the uncertainty of a young startup or the stress of haggling with partners what my share should be worth.
That's assuming the security models being compared are strict about the things that matter.

For instance, I can be very strict about PDFs on your computer: no PDF allowed. If you have addressed the risks posed by other more vulnerable attack vectors, OK, then my rule reduces the uncertainty of less strict but more complicated rules that would address the vulnerabilities of PDF readers. Otherwise, for example if I'm allowing the auto-execution of apps on removable devices, my strict PDF rules don't increase security.
Play on hardcore.
Not as far as Google is concerned, you can't do anything to secure your account when the "attack" is utilizing Google's built-in snooping feature.
The renting vs owning analogy is very insightful.

I've always been the renting type, I never understood people with the innate desire to own their home. On the other hand, I very much relate to the difference between owning a startup and working for another company, or even someone else's startup. I do miss owning.
By which they mean Kona (https://github.com/kevinlawler/kona), an open-source implementation of a K-like language.

Any commands in its repl that are prefixed with "\ " are sent as-is to system(3).
Also, he made fun of himself in Zombieland over it.

"Do you have any regrets?"

"Garfield, maybe."
"Captain Tushin ... sat down by a bonfire the soldiers had nookd on the road"
It all depends. What was the starting blood pressure? How much was it reduced?

From what I've read, for those with sodium-sensitive hypertension, removing salt from the diet can be a good thing.

For everyone else, the lowering of blood pressure if pretty modest. A few mmHg?

So to answer your question, reducing your average BP from 125/85 to 120/80 doesn't have a lot of evidence of benefit.

Lowering your blood pressure from 140/100 to 120/80, has a lot of evidence for a reduction in morbidity and mortality.
Little Ticket To Wealth
Interesting since just the other day I read an article on how lack of access to the file system in iOS was one of its significant drawbacks. Specifically the lack of ability to browse and attach multiple files to an email, etc.

I agree it's confusing for a lot of users, but I still think there is a happy medium in there.
We've been splitting up into teams (or roles) a bit more as we've grown- it just helps to keep the focus on things that matter.

That said, the most important part about this is that those teams are extremely weak. In other words, you should feel strongly able to float between teams, work on different repositories, or take a week or month off and pursue a different problem if the problem seems important or if it keeps you happy and productive.
I found Kenneth Love's 'Getting Started With Django' series a pretty great start: http://gettingstartedwithdjango.com/resources/gigantuan.html
the awesome bar is still better than the omnibar IMHO, but that's the only thing I can think of. Some extensions may still be better in firefox land too.

But, I too left firefox behind, mostly because of lack of OSX keychain integration, and I have very little hope that mozilla is going to fix an issue 11 years old anytime soon[0]

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106400
Yes, by backing up to my local RAID array and then syncing with S3. I just figure it's not worth re-using the SD cards and they're an extra backup.

I actually figured out every photo I take has

- one copy on the SD card
- two mirrored copies on my raid
- 3 copies on S3
- 3 copies on flickr (I believe)

for a total of 9!
oh well. on{EXIT}
Edu games can be fun: My Little Cook
Probably a great internal tool at Morgan Stanley. I haven't heard of anyone outside of them using it seriously, but I could be wrong.
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Technically, MSG is supposed to be the "extra" taste area they didn't know about/ teach in school. So although it seems salty, it's actually the savory flavor. MSG is found in just about every single food you eat that has that "savory" flavor.
Thanks for the update, here's a link to my FB album with pictoral evidence.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.312830668801514.730...

This was the second time I was hacked, I'm a fairly intelligent programmer, my browser doesn't even run Javascript/flash without a button click from me, I surf intelligently, the password was only used on this D3 account and was changed after the first hacking.

No notification of new login location, nothing. Authenticator was bypassed 100%.
If you haven't already met your financial goals, then selling your company should help, and that should make you happy.

If you have met your financial goals, then the only reason to sell is if you aren't enjoying what you're doing or want to move on to other things. In which case selling gives you the freedom to do that.

It sounds like the author got a big pile of money and it didn't make him as happy as he thought it would. No surprise there, it's pretty well known that money doesn't buy happiness.

Beyond about 75K/yr or so http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2019628,00....
While I applaud anyone who gives up eating lots of animal protein (I believe it is bad for their health, and I know it is bad for our environment by using about 10x more water and energy for production), there is this:

why not just eat regular vegetarian foods? Why fake meat?

We eat vegetarian with little bits of seafood (Pescatarians), BTW.
Top 7 Hedge Fund "Edges" That Are Not Edges
Interactive magazine about where your friends travel (Our first API hack)
Looks nice - though I noticed one issue with my locality specifically; Staten Island seems to just be "New York (Staten" in the database, and the one entry is actually for Oneida NY, while the Staten Island Advance (silive.com) is missing.
If you have normal* blood pressure, you don't have to lower it anymore.

In fact, there's a J shaped curve for Blood pressure. Too high or too low, you're at increased risk of dying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_curve#Medicine

* definition of normal may change over time.
I agree. We use our own lightweight ORM at Twitpic (similar to PHP ActiveRecord). It produces SQL for you unless you feed it your own optimized query, but "does the right thing" 99.9% of the time.

IMO, "ORM produces bad SQL" is a myth and more often a case of bad indexes and not bad SQL.
Do you work for Mozilla or is this your own project?
Every layer of abstraction you add, not only adds a layer of complexity and extra points of failure, but also adds restrictions.

By definition, an abstraction is more restrictive ... otherwise, you're not really abstracting anything.

If you're making a simple web app, an ORM is just fine. If you're building enterprise-level software, it is a really really bad idea. Half your code will be using it, the other half will be forced to use half-assed SQL queries that try to fit into your ORM. Because, quite simply, you will need all that SQL has to offer to make things work right. You can't afford to abstract SQL away. Trust me, I tried. In the end, the best you can do is go with something like LINQ.

I built a LINQ like system for PHP a while before Microsoft did it for .NET =)

On a side note, I would also stay away from all the frameworks and build one yourself. If you're on a long-term project, it's worth it. You'll understand what is happening and what each call really costs you. You can also refactor an existing framework. Either way works.
"takes 1 month to build an MVP "

If the MVP actually takes 3 months, X = $8/hr (rounded). My point is: OP needs to clarify the kind of application he wants to build for <8K.
Burned DVDs last between 5-10 years, depending on the quality of the media, as well as storage temperature, humidity, handling, etc. After that, data begins to "evaporate".

Flash memory depends more on write/erase cycles. Infrequently used media can theoretically last for decades, and is much more resilient with respect to storage and handling. Then again, in 25 years, how easy will it be to find a USB reader?
I found your other post to focus on the wrong aspects of D3, but this one is right on.

It's pretty fun 1-60, especially with a friend.

As soon as you play a bit longer you quickly realize that most people just quit trying to loot in regular intervals to use the AH. They only pick up gear to sell to merchants.

Before I was even hacked I realized the replayability wasn't there and donated for a beta invite to Path of Exile.
"Just a basic design with the main features that solve the problem I've identified".
Can you elaborate on this ?
Thanks for keeping this incredible resource current, Michael. The first edition of your book was what first got me into web development. I'm definitely looking forward to the updated edition!
The interesting part is the information below the graph: most searches in Turkey, Venezuela, Colombia, Malaysia, Italy, Croatia, Indonesia. Africa nowhere to be seen though.
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Don't try to BS the interviewer. If you don't know something, admit it.