skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why the New Top Level Domains Will Fail
Does anyone know if Simple (formerly Bank Simple) has this feature?
Glad you like the interface. I tried to keep it simple.
I definitely agree with you. This is why, nowadays, I design all my deployments to be repeatable, and document what cannot be (not much, so far).

I get a Hetzner box that I know will probably last me for the lifetime of the app. If it doesn't, and I actually have ten million users, I have a good problem, and will study how to overcome it at that point.

I think I don't need the cloud until I need a fourth dedicated server. That sounds like a good rule of thumb. It also depends on your growth rate, if it looks like another server will last me another five years, why pick a cloud offering?

I think that EC2/dotcloud/etc are pretty close to the metal anyway, it seems to me that you get the high prices with fewer benefits. Can someone tell me what the advantage of EC2 is, given that each dedicated server has 32 GB RAM and no contention, and that EBS is known to be really flaky?
But how do you distinguish between people who simply share their stories because they think it's moderately relevant to the thread, on the one hand, and people who "exploit known cognitive biases", on the other? Exploitation seems to imply deliberate manipulation, which most people who share medical anecdotes don't intend at all. Yet, humans have so many cognitive biases that even the most mundane thing can trigger one or another bias.
Booth babe debate is back, in time for summer cons
You can't hide your IP address from the proxy, but assuming the proxy is not passing it along in an X-Forwarded-For or similar header, your browser will not pass the IP address along in the HTTP request (and never in the User Agent). You do need to disable all 3rd-party plugins and prevent cookies from being passed as they may separately reveal the IP address.

This page will display the proxy headers which might be passing your IP, but more likely it's flash or java or something else sending it: http://my-addr.com/ip
And an arguably much better terminal at that. That being said this is still a huge advantage over Windows.
I have the twin Dell 24's with an MBP -- here's an image how I have it setup: http://briandear.tumblr.com/post/24403674220/my-development-...

Maybe not the "best" way, but perfect for my workflow (I deal with mobile web development so I need a bunch of small browser windows open simultaneously to test on the multitude of mobile user agents.) I usually have specs, chrome, campfire, email on the left, code in the center and my development browser windows on the right.
N=124 can definitely give statistically significant results. Consider the following thought experiment. You have a coin that you think might be loaded. You flip it 124 times. You get 119 tails. It is probably loaded.
Lets say you get 66 tails. Could definitely be due to chance.
Moral: The larger effect you study, the less sample size you can get away with.
It might be that people from Tampa and Miami are different in some important way from other people. However, if you want to level this criticism, maybe you should give a reason for suspecting this?
"The study is just as likely to have found an isolated effect as the posters with family members who consumed a lot of coffee and still developed alzheimers."
No, no, triple no.
I already use DisplayFusion for multi-monitor taskbars in Windows 7.
Imagine this. You read a novel and really enjoy it, interpreting some facet of the work as X. Later in an interview, the author suggests (or says outright) that the facet was actually Y ≠ X. That facet=Y would worsen the novel for you.

You go back to the novel and reread all relevant passages. You decide that not only is facet=X an internally consistent interpretation within the canonical text, but that facet=Y would lead to a contradiction. (Hey, authors are fallible and don't necessarily imagine non-contradictory worlds.)

So what is the "ontological" status of the interpretation where facet=X and the interpretation where facet=Y? Throw in that possibly either the author's intention isn't easily described in extant words, or that the author had no specific intention regarding `facet`, or otherwise multiple conflicting interpretations can still claim validity. Maybe the authors, artists, musicians are smartest to let audience members enjoy the work for their own personal reasons, without ruining a perfectly fine interpretation some individual takes.

Ahem. 'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy.
Android: grid of icons, which you can pick some that you use most often and pin them to the first screen you see.

WP7: list of icons with names, which you can pick some that you use most often and pin them to the first screen you see, except these icons then change sometimes to display more information such as weather forecast, Facebook updates, etc.

This is too different how? The icons on the menus are pretty clearly designed to show you what they do. If you're still confused, there's a [...] in the corner which shows text. All of this is completely discoverable, explained in the manual, and should be showcased by the salesman who is trying to help you decide (rather than trying to sell you his favorite phone).

Too different how?
I have to agree. My friend bought a Samsung SII the other day, and I was mighty impressed. However, we soon saw a number of shortcomings, and none of it was really the phone hardware or even Android itself.

Instead, it was the way that the phone software UI was put together. It was awful. So bad, in fact, that my friend replaced almost all of the software widgets and components with his own - by the end the phone looked amazing, and virtually nothing like Samsung/Telstra's UI.

And this is where Nokia could win. By producing amazing, kick-arse phones (which we actually know they can do!) and putting on Android, with a compelling feature-set, I believe they'd wipe the floor with Samsung, et al. Probably not so much with Apple, but they could yet compete head to head with them.

The innovation just isn't there. I don't see it with WP8. There's just not enough compelling reasons for me to go back to Nokia. And I was so badly burnt by the last phone I used, that I'm unlikely to go back without a good reason!
It's easy to forget that MS is made up of real people too--people who go home and boot up a Mac and code in Ruby in their spare time. Genuine change is happening at MS from the inside. MS knows it can't afford to lose the mindshare battle in the youth.
The fact that they had this api made me choose to be their consumer in the first place. And i was already looking for a reason to ditch them since the price changes and recent focusing 100% on series instead of any film.
Using Heroku is a different form of technical debt.
Objective-C Hello World, in-depth, on Mac & Windows
The Role of Curation in a True GTD System
"charge... _any_ fee... for access... [to] (your integration of the APIs) in your Application,"

It certainly reads like that to me. (How else are you supposed to use the APIs in your application?)
I don't understand the part about Stalin's advice. What was Stalin saying would happen if you ignored anecdotes? How do you figure he was talking about the value of anecdotes?
I know I'm particularly guilty of this at bookstores selling new programming books. I use Safari regularly, but it's nice to find new titles and flip through the books quickly.

However I end up cross-buying - usually gifts for other people bought at the last minute where shipping isn't an option.
EDIT: removing URLs because it's the right thing to do.
Suddenly this service became a lot more interesting to me
Did they submit this together with the RFC I saw yesterday..?

They aren't even trying to be subtle.
With 16 petaflops and 1.6M cores, DOE supercomputer is world’s fastest
What makes you think this was an intentional decision on the developer's part?
I was just able to reproduce it. Users name and billing address shows up with the invoice. I can't believe they let something like this slip through...
Who are they losing marketshare to in China?
So it seems to me that FunnyJunk trolled the Oatmeal into a legal fight with a lawyer, with one threatening letter.

If there is a lesson in this, it is that some humility goes a long way. In his furious stupor with FunnyJunk he attacked their lawyer as well.
An application install will add a new folder with the company name, the application launch icon, and a bunch of supplementary icons including an uninstall. I delete all that crap, except the app icon, and move it to an appropriate folder. Launching Visual Studio, for example, involves me clicking Start -> Programming -> Visual Studio. I'm not deleting application icons (unless they're built in and I don't use them).
As long as their "showrooms" don't close, they don't need to care. But, as soon as that starts happening, the will lose those customers who just don't do online shopping (there are many, and will be many for many many years) and those sales where their qualities that you only feel, but not see on a website, win the customer. And those sales that are made on the spur of the moment, because you're walking in the mall and just see that think which catches your attention.

So, it can be a matter where maximizing your revenues now can hurt you in the long run. But, most importantly, as brick and mortar outlets fight for their future survival, somebody could choose to let go of his online sales to win a decisive hand in the traditional channel.
Those are hypotheticals or thought experiments, not anecdotes... they would be anecdotes if they were claimed to have actually happened.

I'm not arguing against anecdotes, but there is an important distinction there
Hey really good work. I have been enjoying your newsletter since Wednesday. More time down the drain but its still good. Do you personally curate the articles or is it automated?
edit: forgot to say thanks!
Click on 'current usage' in your account and it takes you to your current invoice, which is accessible via the URL that he mentions. It appears to be only the current months usage / invoice that is vulnerable.
Art is history. You can't avoid it.

Artists grow up seeing art. They learn the techniques of the previous generation. But then they strike out on their own, doing something new. They spend decades exploring, growing, and changing.

I do seriously think that there are a lot of video games that are totally unapproachable unless you've played a lot of other video games. Try it sometime: take somebody who doesn't play games and sit them down with some top games. The amount you have to explain is incredible. To somebody here I can say "tower defense with shooter elements and a complicated skill tree". For a non-gamer, that's a ton to figure out; without coaching they'll just poke at it for a bit and walk away. But that's ok, because the audience isn't the non-gamer.

And then there are the games that are full of cultural references or in jokes. Upgrade Complete may be mildly enjoyable on its own, but the reason it gets such a high rating is the brilliant play with the many tropes and ideas of modern video games.

That's art. And contemporary art is generally like that but more so. Video games have to function as games, but art can be what it wants.
I'm waiting for the "lessons learned from heroku invoice data" post.
Apple succeeded because of high product quality, genius marketing and a lot of timing luck. All of these 3 were essential. Anyone dismissing one of them is usually being biased.
A Cloud Based Inventory Control Application: Review of OfficeBooks
A cloud based application that allows you to control and manage your inventory from anywhere easily.
Tajikistan, the voice of the internet.
Since FB doesn't provide a push API for analytics, the best we can do is poll. I felt that 10 minutes gives an accurate picture of the like/comment/share trajectory for posts.
Someone must be cutting onions around here. I definitely teared up a little.

My condolences. Our critter friends are such fantastic additions to our lives.
Why do people use Heroku? I never understood the appeal.

Oh.. because they have a good graphic designer.

Lol.

"Forget servers, instances, and VMs. Focus on processes."

If that doesn't raise some red flags for you then you get what you deserve.
Is this really such a problem on modern systems? How many stripped JREs is it going to take to add up to a gigabyte?
This doesn't seem to mention Java just JavaFX. Those aren't the same, and it would be nice if this was going to eventually be supported for Java applications.
Google Dublin Gets Opera Treatment
I presume http://abetterqueue.com and http://instantwatcher.com/ and the like use the APIs as well.

One thing I like about instantwatcher is that title do expire from netflix, and instantwatcher will sort by expiration date: http://instantwatcher.com/titles/expiring
I think this is a disagreement on the definition of data in this example. I am speaking of ownership of the data in question.

True, you provided the information. But, to me at least, since Netflix is the one who collected it and are actively storing it then it is their data in terms of ownership. Unless there is some language somewhere that states that Netflix is storing this data on your behalf it belongs to them to do with as they please.

For me it seems that you are referring to the data as something you provided and I'm referring to it as something Netflix collected and is storing. These two ideas do not necessarily contradict each other.

If you go to a site and sign up for their newsletter, that data now belongs to them. If you go to your Google Docs account and type the same information into a text file to store there then that data belongs to you. The difference being is that Google Docs is storing that data for you, while the other is not.

That's all I'm saying.
If you want a vision of the future for the internet, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. with apologies to George Orwell
And bought by Samsung.. That would rock. Make ALL the Android phones!
I would say it is far easier to astroturf a contrarian anecdote.
Authentication is not Authorization. Sigh.
I completely agree. Don't make Netflix an in-app purchase after-the-fact.

I think the enterprise clause is to prevent companies from selling software to do analytics against the Netflix DB. Netflix wants that pie. The problem is that can become a very gray area.
(One person's anecdotes do not a trend make - I know)
I can offer an Indian perspective - When I was first shopping for a good phone in India in 2008 or so, every single person (techie) said "Nokia" without hesitation. From the savviest Tecno-geek to the manual laborer at a construction site -everyone had a Nokia.

Fast forward to 2011 late/early 2012; virtually NONE of the techies I interact with recommended a Nokia. Infact, I haven't heard even one of my friends/acquaintances purchase a new Nokia; it is always Samsung/HTC/iPhones or rarely Blackberry. On the lower end, the flood of cheap Chinese phones in the Indian market means no cheap Nokia's.

Nokia was a name many people swore by in India, now not so much...I am afraid the end is near for them.
You can still see them. I've never received one either.
Yep, $212 million in value built in an extremely short time.

Because of a good graphic designer, sure.
"I've been a professional programmer for 7 years now (i.e. getting paid to write code) and to this day I'm not sure 100% what's the difference between "0", "NULL", "None" or an empty string. What type does "None" belong to? Can I compare it to the integer 0?"

been doing PHP by any chance? ;)
You don't get this trend? (If there is a trend.)

So let me explain: some people have no interest in using emacs. It is not helpful to make them use emacs. Vim grows plugins for any functionality which a vim user wanted. That functionality is presumably their intended workflow.

There is no domain of forbidden functionality which Vim is simply not allowed to do, that is ridiculous.
I agree with you, but Walmart definitely does not outsource the part of their business that separates them from the other cheap import retailers.
Templating is definitely not required - states are run through Jinja by default, but for most simple setups you won't need to template anything.
I agree, bank statements are not a good comparison simply because you have an agreement with the bank to store your money. In that type of agreement there would have to be some form of obligation to report your holdings in their bank.
He's suing the charities along with Inman and IndiGoGo on his own behalf, not for FunnyJunk. He's acting as his own lawyer and demanding his legal fees be paid by the defendants. That's some amazing chutzpah.
Some of the stuff is on the website (Capital Markets, Ad Serving, Mobile). It will be expanding as we add clustering and more analytical features.
I'm pretty appalled that you submitted this to, arguably, one of the most-visited sites for tech news, without at least giving them time to address the problem.

This isn't a case of something small going unnoticed, resulting in a bit of a laugh and giggle.
This is people's billing details, and you've just explained how to exploit the bug in complete detail.

I'm really unhappy that this sort of thing even crossed your mind :/
Hi Stavrosk, I work at dotCloud. I understand your concern. However allow me to contribute 3 points:

- If you think of dotCloud as expensive hosting, then don't use it because you're missing the key value proposition. DotCloud is affordable managed hosting: we do the work of operating, monitoring, maintaining which you would otherwise need to do yourself. And we do it better and more cost-effectively than our customers could do it, because it's all we do for hundreds of thousands of deployments.

- dotCloud scales down way better than iaas. What's the cheapest ec2 setup with production trafic, load-balancing, failover and monitoring, plus a bunch of sandbox environments? Hint: we're cheaper.

- Our large customers benefit from volume discounts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsible_disclosure
It seems to domestic Android players like Huawei and ZTE: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2011-07/22/content_129...
Sorry man. I lost a very loved cat recently as well. It's amazing how hard it canbe sometimes.
Yikes - so are past invoices available as well then via the show/:id url?
They are official apps (PS3, Wii, XBox), but not Boxee's implementation. That type of thing is what would be detracted from in this case.
I disagree. Censorship of the Internet will never work. It might stamp out the fires for a short time, but within weeks or months encryption will be the new status quo.
I'm sympathetic with growing pains, but this kind of bug is pretty much unforgivable. If they haven't patched it today, I'll be shocked.
The Growing Importance of the CDO (Chief Data Officer)
"My experience has been that unless I'm speaking to a founder or very senior manager all suggestions and ideas for improvements disappear down a black hole."

Exactly my experience. There is no feedback loop. My assumptions are as follows:

1) There is no reinforcement for an employee to pass along a suggestion to upper management.

2) The idea you have has already been vetted or is not practical for cost or other reasons for the organization. So if they have tried passing along info they've found the same information passed along that they can't act upon so the feedback loop no longer exists.

3) The person who you give the suggestion to is lame and it never gets passed along because they suck (which is why they are in that front facing position and not higher up).

4) The higher ups have never worked at the lower level jobs. They haven't interacted with customers to even know what goes on or what behavior should be encouraged. Or if they have it was so long ago they simply don't think about it now to the extent that they should.

Most of the time my experience is #3 I'd have to say. I get my hair cut at the same place and passed along the fact that the confirmation emails are in to small a font. I've know the person that cuts my hair for many years. She respects me. But for some reason it's not in her personality to get into minutia like that. Otoh when I mentioned to her that the front desk acted a certain way that could directly change her income she was right on it.
For myself, I have bought several drives from BestBuy.

Reasons:

-- I usually need them ASAP,
-- figure they have not been drop-kicked to my door, and

-- I was told by a friend of mine that BB pays extra to have better quality drives (all drive manufacturers use statistical methods to determine the quality of a batch - the highest quality is sold for more). He is in a position to know, as he has worked for several large drive makers at a top level job(though not as high as VP level).
Hmm... it may be a little too late to comment on this and still be noticed, but from what I understand, not all forms of recursion are created equal, and you can do most things using total functions, that can be guaranteed to terminate. In fact, the compiler can check it automatically without any modification to your code, using a couple of known proof strategies, the simplest ones being inductive and lexicographic convergence.
Images would be this way, but fonts, gradients, vectors, etc all look fine. (Unless the app itself hasn't been updated to render those in the new density. Safari works great)
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The obfuscated C contest is what it is. The contest isn't describing itself as about art and I imagine that almost none of the participants are even thinking about art. That's not even what it's about. What is the point in calling it art?
For an hobbyist like myself, PyS60 was nice, though. Easy to install and really fast to code something up. Is there anything like that for Android?
More than $300 million.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8753784/The-300m-...
Top 5 Startup Growth Hacks
Legitimate terminology or not, there are undeniable trends with certain baked-in viral elements at some of the most popular startups in the scene.
ARM tablets won't have the legacy desktop. Only x86 installs will have that, because that's where the legacy support is needed.
FB reports analytics in realtime, but not all social analytics companies fetch them multiple times an hour. It's impossible to get insights for a page without the owner's access token, so this just uses public data. Also, FB doesn't show how long posts are active, which I find most interesting.
With Nokia on Android, we could have had top-rung Android phones with iPhone appearance and build quality, and greater-than-iPhone ruggedness.
More likely by charging $6400/month for 68GB of RAM.

That's less then $100/GB/Month.

With low prices like that it must be hard for people to resist.
Cheaper Chinese-made brands?
To be fair, I certainly wouldn't call the other manufacturers offerings for Windows Phone to be exactly whole-hearted. Have we seen a single non-Nokia device that isn't a port of hardware used for their Android offerings?
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If you label everything as art, and there is no distinction between art and non-art, then what do you communicate or understand by applying the label?
Some thoughts on choosing projects
I've flagged this post - I think HN moderators should remove it until such time as Heroku have had time to fix the issue.

There's too much sensitive data here - it would be trivial to write a script that banked it all for later analysis.