skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you use a distinct random passphrase on each site, they are virtually guaranteed not to hash to the same value under any hashing scheme. What obvious point am I missing here?
Aaron Levie, Box CEO: We Should Have Bought Yammer
They wrote back to my inquiry. It's totally custom, not easy to release open source and doesn't seem like they intend to.
The case for the iPad as a creation device
Regarding #1, what happens when the iPad battery inevitably dies in a few years?
Looks great. Currently in the process of building a new application using Postmark, will certainly evaluate a switch. The pricing certainly blows Postmark out of the water.
A bit off topic: I like the font you're using on your console screenshot, but I'm having trouble narrowing down what it is. Do you mind telling us?
The "Personal Training" portion of the demo screenshots says 4am, but is clearly in the 4pm time slot.
It's not free, it's a rebate (partial credit to be precise) for existing customers.
I saw it. That shoe guy is exactly the kind of guy you should fund. He wasn't saying he demanded a high lifestyle income they were asking what he was working for and then they pretend like he was expecting that now.

The whole show is really quite hilarious. I think it gives people the wrong impression though.

The sharks pass if a company is profitable and the owner wants a fair valuation. The sharks pass if the company has no traction yet.

What the sharks really bite on is profitable companies (or high potential companies) where they can get a controlling stake for cheap, or a minority stake for super cheap.

The show is correctly named, that's for sure.
Quick reference for those who don't recognize the significance of Microsoft's previous vaporware abuses. And no, again, I'm not saying that "Surface" is same, at least not in the way of being able to torpedo an existing market. But as they say, history may not be repeating, but it's rhyming.

http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/claw/Vaporware.htm
The Freebase API is a hosted service. MQL is designed for fast HTTP queries that power interactive webapps.

SPARQL is harder to learn and set up, but allows for more complicated queries that might require offline processing.

(I designed the first version of MQL)
It's so amusing to watch someone report on a topic they have no clue about. "It teaches you... how do you get this shape to form??"
We know they do it. They know we know they do it. But they still cannot acknowledge it. It is just how things work.

When the Wikileaks leak happened, there was an article (or comment on HN) about how seemingly obvious things are still classified. Say that US govt. knows about the crimes some dictator is committing against his own people. The locals in that country know it (and experience it). The world, including US citizens know it or can very easily find out, yet the fact that US government knows is classified.

The reason is because an official acknowledgement would also demand some sort of official denouncement or some other similar action in order to maintain a certain propaganda-ready image (universal support for human rights, democracy & freedom promotions etc etc)
The built in automatic paging in git already makes sure it does not have to load all history. And --graph is what makes it slow. Adding a limit with git lg -10 seems to take about the same time as with no limit at all.
That doesn't make economic sense. That $250B isn't being vaporized: it's going to foreign consumers who are going to spend some fraction of it buying imported goods. Your goods are likely to be more competitive if an extra $50B worth of energy costs weren't spent making them. This is basic comparative advantage stuff.
This is a really cool concept - all the social monitoring tools I've seen focus on social networks (fb, twitter, that sort of stuff), which is great for some companies with an existing fanbase - not so much for startups.

I've signed up :)
I'm curious how this is significantly different from say, Google Voice's SMS implementation; Aside from the obvious "making and receiving" calls functionality, it looks just like Google Voice to me, which I use exclusively for its ability to send text messages without having to resort to using my phone.

Edit: Nevermind, after installing and playing with it, it even consumes my native SMS messages. A nice touch for sure.
This is painting all women as non-gamers on the basis of interacting with (probably very few) other women. Unfair but not completely baseless.

Anyway if it's the same man and woman each time it's a different situation.
Sounds possible that not all of your mail was accessible via IMAP. Mine seems to work with all my labels.

http://help.cueup.com/customer/portal/articles/25915-getting...
Test Yourself in Mathematics with NAEP Questions
> People use tablets for what they're great at and desktop PCs for what they're great at. And no-one who's ever put their tablet down to use their laptop is looking at that Microsoft Surface tablet and saying "this will mean I don't have to put the tablet down for these tasks anymore". [4]

I disagree. I see no reason why my mom wouldn't want a single computer to use on a couch for browsing, and on a desk with mouse/keyboard for chatting or photo editing. This seems like an obvious convergence of 2 specialized devices. There are trade offs of course, but if they can deliver a good experience, I think users would be willing to trade the computing power of a desktop for a single all-in-one device.

The next obviously step is to have a phone that can replace all 3, with different docks. And once phone CPU gets powerful enough we will definitely see that.
That's precisely why it would be interesting - developers would have to work around these limitations. Number of cores will continue to go up and, if the software allows it, they can be simples ones.
But can I store it with Passbook?
The need for sharding make hosting on AWS even more expensive relative to custom-tuned servers, and not cheaper.
I don't know why you'd think that Microsoft is not even on the curve here. Surface is just the hardware aspect of the complete solution. The Software has been out in beta for a few months now. It's the software that is more responsible for the blending of tablet and laptop than the hardware.
Just another reason to adopt Namecoin as an alternate DNS provider. Lots of work still needs to be done though for it to be easy enough to use by the average user.
WhatsApp is also based on your phone number and it works across all major mobile platforms (iOS, Android, WP, BB)
The entire internet is a CRUD app filled with digitized forms. It is nice not to have to think about that, and instead think about workflows and affordances that help people get stuff done. Making this basic crud easier allows more brain space for the more interesting problems to solve.
I cried a little bit on the inside when he said that that the iterator should not be implemented using generators, etc. Writing iterators by hand forces one to turn the iteration code inside out and it can be a painful experience if the logic is anything nontrivial.
Anyone happen to know if it uses their new ultra-responsive (1ms) touchscreen technology? I remember being pretty excited about that when they demoed it, but it seemed like it wouldn't be rolled out for a while.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4
JavaFX 2: Hyperlinks
I'm not at liberty to go into much detail here, but there are a number of things that are in the KG that aren't in freebase. The process giveth and the process taketh away.
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> What's the store's purpose?

It's really just a warehouse where I could pick up my merchandise.

> Was there no knowledgeable staff?

No, and That's certainly not the trend these days. I did ask an associate if I could just take the assembled grill to the cash register (and I could).

Your comment made me think about the real purpose of brick-and-mortar stores in the age of Amazon. In this case, the big-box retailer served as merely a display room for me to physically inspect the product and a place for me to take immediate delivery of the product. All the information gathering can be done by me, using the information on the box, or through my mobile device (with the QR code being the relevant portion of this discussion).

> No product flyers/labels?

If used properly, a QR code (or whatever vector allows me to find information online) can provide much more information than labels or flyers.
I checked it out. If you input is not good (for example, I entered letters in the phone number field), it breaks the app and exposes the entire Django stacktrace since it seems ilke DEBUG is set to True. I guess this is a small side project of course but thought to point it out.
>Which is better?

False dichotomy. How about having moderation that operates off of a flexible (and public, and non subjective) set of rules?

/r/programming sucks because of the lack of moderation.
Stack* sucks because of heavy handed moderation.
I'd say it's already very impressive that they managed to reproduce how things looked.

Now, I've never been to Warsaw, but judging from other cities I've seen that have been destroyed in a similar way, many cities -- and especially city centers -- never even managed to evoke the original looks. From their modern day form, you can only guess how the city used to look like, given enough fantasy (if at all possible).

So while it is a huge tragedy, at least what you see are reproduction, not 50's/60's concrete blocks that were built out of necessity to supply somewhat affordable commercial and residental space.
Do you have a citation for that? The only source for that I found is http://www.world-nuclear.org/education/comparativeco2.html, which is most probably biased. Most other sources seem to rank wind better - but not sun (maybe you are mixing those two up?).
You're comparing apples and Oranges. SQL Server costs the same amount on Amazon EC2 if you use it.
I don't see how it is different from DeskSMS. This is not like iMessage at all, it just syncs your SMS messages to your computer. It doesn't actually enable your computer to send or receive SMS messages. So if I am roaming or have my phone turned off, I don't get messages.
I'm one of the moderators on Stack Overflow. It's not my goal to stamp out any sign that SO is a social network, but I do want to prevent it from turning into Yahoo! Answers. Some level of moderation is necessary to maintain quality. Just because some users want to use Stack Overflow to ask off-topic questions doesn't mean we should let them.
For me this tablet/surface could see significant demand from students going back to school this fall. As you said, it's not loger Air + iPad when you can get one device that can do both.

I think it's a pretty good strategy from that standpoint. Additionally, with the Intel version being compatible with desktop apps, this should fit in with the business (corporate) environment.

Of course, this is speculation, but I think it has a pretty good chance at being successful.
That's a good point. There's not much real use for a QR code being on a billboard/or vehicle. Also, I think QR codes will have their day, then be replaced by superior technology.
I am not a fan of Codeacademy. I don't see how one can learn from typing in a field box. It would be better if they had you build out a functional project kind of like Learn Rails by Example.
:-) That surprise people get when they realize they severely underestimated someone always strikes positive chord in my heart.
Looks good.

How does it work? What tool is being used to send the text message? And why text message over email or other online notification?
I used to use the Freebase RDF endpoint - that is nothing new.

That said, this looks very interesting and I expect businesses to grow by selling public data in easier to use forms.
Jabber and GTalk are completely interoperable, though.
I'm a wee bit far from St. Louis these days. If you want to do something virtual like a Skype call, email me a few dates and I'll make it happen.
Why can't Google centralize its messaging apps already, including adding SMS into it? Sure, the carriers might not like it, but get with the program Google.
> The NSA, for instance, no longer requires probable cause to intercept a person’s phone calls, text messages or emails within the United States as long as one party to the communications is “reasonably” believed to be outside the United States.

Does that mean anything publicly viewable (like this comment) or anything which is broadcast to a large group (like, something that your Facebook friends can see - you can "reasonably" assume one of them is overseas) then it's fair game?
SQL Server supports .NET stored procs, which are compiled code bits. Oracle / Sybase support Java.

I believe some DBMS vendors are working on the interpreted nature of the execution, but basically the query plan determination makes up the bulk of the parsing/execution time. Compiling SQL to something... "native" doesn't provide a whole lot of win in terms of execution latency.
On ODesk, you can find decent designers willing to work for $15/hour on Bootstrap. It's cheap, and the really good ones can easily do up a custom site in a work week or less, provided you have some existing assets (logo, screenshots, boilerplate text). Some do better work than others, but surprisingly, it's no longer a "get what you pay for" thing when it comes to outsourcing. Some are college students building portfolios, others are outside the country and willing to work for less. My suggestion is to first hire someone to design a logo (even if it's typeface-only, and reject any Lobster submissions) and a color palette, usually less than $100. Given that, a bootstrap pro can have you a custom site in a few work days.
Yes, most likely they're having difficulty estimating the small number of people who haven't made a phone call or sent an email since 2001.

It's a statistical needle in a haystack to pick out non-phone using Americans amongst the entire populace of the world.
Does anybody else have any alternative methods of putting together a metrics dashboard?
I agree with a lot of what you have to say here, but:

> " as a man, you don't have to even think about whether what you choose to wear would suddenly get you treated as if you were a vapid teenager"

I'm a stay-at-home dad. On the rare occasions I'm able to leave my toddler home, I have to be careful about how I dress in order to avoid being treated as a vapid teenager or, worse, a creepy stalker.

More generally, men do have to worry about dressing in a way that identifies them as competent or fitting in to whatever subculture they're trying to fit in to.
I don't even see why "did person X get spied on?" would violate anyone's privacy anyway, especially if person X didn't know about the spying to begin with. They're not asking why anyone got spied on.
I hadn't given this much thought prior to your and Joel's remarks. But I think it's a fair question and it deserves reflection.

I do wonder to what extent it's possible to participate meaningfully on Stack Overflow with those goals completely separated.
I think the larger issue is that any iPads purchased in the future may not be compatible with this software.
As if signing up really means anything at all which it doesn't. It's like signing your name to a petition at the mall.

Well signing your name to a petition can matter a whole lot when you're the Mayor of New York.

I get what you're saying, and I don't doubt that this is a publicity stunt to an extent. But still- Bloomberg has decided that learning to code is something he ought to promote and make visible to a wider audience. That's notable.
Yes, the guy is saying "if your startup brings in $1500 while you put more than 200 hours a month into it, then you're not profitable." But it's wrong. Because you're developing it, you're not hired labor. This is the fundamental reason it's wrong.
it is a shame this sort of software is not just free to begin with... i know people making it must make a living, but ideally this sort of thing would be freely available. imo charging for this software is as ethically questionable as blocking access to it - from a certain point of view they are identical actions.

its also a shame that the ios platform is the way it is but apple have the right to exercise their freedom.
Goliath Wants Your Market
If you post something publicly then no one needs a warrant, not your local police, not the state, and certainly not the NSA.

This is about private communications which would normally require a warrant to intercept.
I figured you'd notice that, been following your blog since i saw you started, figured you'd be happy to see a text altering you that it was submitted. :) Carry on, you're doing awesome.
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Google Adwords vs. Facebook Ads – It Was No Contest
do not work for me as well
Calxeda's ARM chip vs Intel Xeon - 15x bigger Performance/Watt
Can you give me an example? I was honestly surprised that the shorthand PHP syntax would ever be an issue.
With all due respect: yawn. People have been predicting the end of scalar code now for a decade, and it's no closer than it was. Show me a SIMD Javascript interpreter, or DOM layout engine, or SSL implementation, or compression algorithm, or heap allocator, or...

Won't happen. Out of order, heavily superscalar, deeply pipelined cores have won in the market because they're better for 90% of the problems you will see. But there are better architectures for the remaining 10% (and of those, "3D games", "Bitcoin mining" and "Password cracking" seem to make up about 90%), so you'll see lots of churn in this space as people try to figure out the best and most future-proof architeture.

For me, I like this a lot. The Knight's Corner architecture looks mostly identical to the AVX code you can run on Sandy/Ivy bridge right now, just with a few new features and a different SIMD width. From a programmer's perspective, it's much cleaner than the hidden-behind-multiply-abstracted-layers-above-proprietary-secret-hardware nonsense being peddled by AMD and NVIDIA.

But it won't run your desktop. Ever. Sorry.
I don't think this falls under "phone calls, text messages, or emails".

But anything publicly accessible is, and has always been available to law enforcement to use however they wish (as it probably should be)
Great idea. Now, how do I unsubscribe or disable alerts in the future?
"That being said, I think the organizations aren’t directly competing for the same type of companies to be in their respective accelerator programs."

Actually all the US "incubators" are competing for roughly the same national (and to some extent international) applicant pool.

In particular it's not true that we specialize in earlier stage startups than the others.

The only thing that partitions the market is founders' unwillingness or inability (e.g. due to visas) to move. In some cases the former may be a good filter; we're not sure yet.
Right you are. Glad I had the thing hooked up to notify me about this potential trainwreck! Big thanks for the heads up.

It's fixed & off debug mode now. It will fail silently, which still isn't exactly ideal, but at least it doesn't reveal its innards any more. Thanks again.
This is not particularly recent, in my experience. GTalk has been syncing between gmail, my phone, and my tablet very well for a while now, but it's certainly a welcome feature.
Takes to long to add rap music and country music. Could you add a feature to specify the Genre you want to add?
The Freebase RDF endpoint had three problems:

(i) it would only let you look at one subject at a time,
(ii) it would only return a maximum of 100 facts about a subject
(iii) it didn't use names consistently so you couldn't match up properties and classes with the schema

It's all great for a hack day demo but not acceptable at all if you care about building systems that give the right answer.
Ask HN: What should I know about becoming a contractor?
I'm losing my mind at work, thking about becoming a contractor to help bootstrap my startup.

I'm thinking of pumping out some Django/Twitter bootstrap sites for some local businesses. What should I know before I start? What books cover the details? What tips should more people know? How do I handle my finances myself?
If you reply to the text message, it will cancel all alerts going to that number.

So if you are signed up to get alerts on 3 domains and only want to cancel one, you'll have to send one unsubscribe (which will cancel all 3) and then re-add the ones you still want to be active.

Not ideal in that edge case, I know, but I wanted to make sure unsubscribing was easy in case someone got cheeky and starting signing other people up.
Have you considered integrating with the GitHub API, and adding customers details to the repo upon purchase? (if they want).

That way, it makes it easier for customers to submit bugs to you, talk about suggestions, and even provide their own improvements if necessary.

HackerEngine wrote about doing this here: http://blog.hackerengine.com/
Here you go:

http://docs.intercom.io/privacy.html
> When the iPhone first came out, there was no nonsense about the brand and emotion without substance. They made EVERYONE want one.

For the iPhone maybe, except for the non-subsidized price, but this was definitely not true for iPod and iPads.

The general consensus was the iPad was a giant iPhone and was going to fail among techies and the tech media.
About sunrise and sunset: that's a more interesting subject that it sounds like at first. The sunrise and sunset times have a few purposes, mostly unrelated to telling you about the sun. First, they make it clear at a glance that you're looking at a visual representation of a single day's events. It's surprisingly non-obvious how to make a user interface's purpose obvious! Second, they give context to the timing of events by subtly matching them up with the day-night cycle; despite the advent of artificial lighting, our species is still instinctively diurnal, and this is a great source of intuitions about time. Third, they look really nice without being visually confusing or clashing with the color palette.

Oh, and they also tell you when the sun rises and sets. I guess that's cool, too.
The evolution of the computing value chain
I can't connect any of my accounts, it just hangs and or errors out. Shoddy app or just too much traffic right now?
Apple's supply chains operate on a 6-day turnaround. That means that a MBP that just arrived in the warehouse today will be shipped to a customer no later than a week from today.

That is one of Apple's greatest strengths, and having that strength absolutely allows them to offer configurability.
The problem there is the sheer amount of logs puts strain on the network when logging remotely, and will destroy the box from i/o load locally. The more hardware you have, the cheaper you'll want to be. And unfortunately the engineers don't get to make the budgets ;-)

If you have your meter admission up to par, you can throttle back on requests to the box while enabling specific logging. You can employ tricks like enable extra logging for only specific sessions, URIs, etc or only for a specific time period. It's not like you're going to profile your whole application while the site's almost down, but usually there may be a query or a subset of users or something that's abnormally slow.
It is nice to know when your site hits HN, but for me http://ifttt.com/ works fine in addition to doing a lot more.
I just signed up to download the free sample data. Kicking the tires...
For what it's worth, while I'm not certain if Bloomberg knew how to code, he was a tech company president for many years prior to his post as mayor.
Pretty Git log
Three ops lessons you should learn before your next outage
Three simple things that everyone on your ops team should know before your systems go down.
I think the point is that it's not videos and lectures followed by a multiple choice or something, it's fully interactive. You learn coding by coding on their website. Learning by doing.
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