skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
when users hover over a +1 button, they will see recommendations for other great content on your site.

Which was not why I became an early adopter of the +1 button and put it on sites I own. I included it because I wanted to optimize my sites for "social search". I hate mousehover popups and I'm not going to hand over screen real estate to google on my sites. Another js include bites the dust.

edit to clarify. I own sites that deal with a niche subject. It's not tech or science related. The first google service I threw out were ads. Sites with a niche subject get very poor quality ads, some even slightly insulting to the kind of folk I want to reach. I also invested quite some time to interconnect pages across the site for relevance. I don't want people to think that page x is the next place to go to because of some google signals.
Note that writing data to a single disk (or SAN array, or RAID controller) really isn't durable either, even if the the data does actually get to the disk and isn't in a write cache somewhere.

What if that disk crashes, or the SAN array brakes and kills all the data, or the data center burns down?
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Am I the only one here who thinks that based on his acting as counsel pro se on the original lawsuit, that Carreon owns Funny Junk, and that's why the BearLove thing made him lose any remaining objectivity he might have had?
You can view all of your +1's from your Google+ profile page. Profile > +1's.
Part of the Agile Manifesto is Obsolete
MacBook Pro Retina screens may have ghosting issue
There's no point in keeping all series disabled, though I can imagine it being useful as an intermediate step.

Let's say I play around with some series A, B, C and D. I disable all except B and then realize that I want to see only A instead. So now I have two options, that IMO should lead to the same final state: I can either disable B and enable A, or enable A and disable B. In current implementation, the first option leads to re-enabling all series, while second option leads to desired state of having only series A visible. Now one of those two proposed actions may seem redundant until you realize that the choice between them depends on subconsciously analyzed things like mouse position ("is my mouse closer to series A or series B?") and having both available would, in my opinion, help in keeping user in the flow.

I understand it's only a minor issue. Current implemetation is more complex in philosophical sense that it does Surprising Magic instead of the Obvious Thing, and that bugs me just a little.

Or maybe I'm just whining because I got used to how HighCharts.js does this. ;).
This Extended Galaxy S III Commercial Will Pull On Your Technological
Dell tests nothing. Parts in one door, assembly, shipped out other door to consumer.

Essentially you the consumer are doing the burn-in. Its cheaper for Dell to replace failed machines. The cost to burn-in (and the time!) is large.
I've always liked this freelance artist's website. It does a good job of combining the art, navigation, and blog posts into one page.

http://ashen-ray.com/
You should add support for more providers, like Unicornify:

http://unicornify.appspot.com/
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Glad I wasn't the only one to notice that. How many annoying euphemisms for "receive" can an author use in one article? "Scooping up," "nabs," "snagging"... And then there's the outright spelling error: "Who is wiling to pay for it?"
It would be an awesome day, considering where we are now, when we have to put in safeguards against arbitrage. But, when that day comes, we can install time / ip type restrictions and make it more difficult to gain significantly from arbitrage.

Price checks is an interesting idea. If you look at our video, you'll see text that pops up after the user inputs a bid. It's our guide, that uses lossy bounds and simple terms to shape guidance related to where to bid. Turns out, from tests we've run previously, there is a good overlap of bids offered to prices willing to be accepted by the e-tailer.

If you are interested in the details, feel free to reach out directly at 'matt' at the domain name for the website.

Thanks.
If you provide something as a service instead of an open source library, you can theoretically monetize it in the future (in a more direct fashion than the standard FOSS support contact) which makes it possible to use to generate VC interest, which is harder to do with a pure open source option. I'm fairly sure that's why it has become common to do this, though in pure practical terms I agree with you that this system isn't ideal.

Personally, I just ignore these services because virtually always the risk of building on them and having them suddenly disappear outside of your control far outweighs the time they save you in building your own thing.
Or just carry the five containers yourself, by carrying a bottle of shampoo, conditioner, moisturizer, suntan lotion, and toothpaste. All non-transparent containers - I've never seen a TSA agent sniff toothpaste to make sure it was actually toothpaste, and not superglue, or cocaine, or strawberry jam.
Thank you. I accept your answer with the note that you ignored my request to return only the latest post when there are more then one posts with the same number of comments, but it's not hard to adapt you query to satisfy this requirement.

However you can't do the same trick if I ask you to return the top 3 posts with the largest number of comments; or, to make the query more realistic, ask you to return the percentage of comments generated by the top 10% popular (by the number of comments) posts. Which is my point: pure relational algebra as advocated by Date et al in Tutorial D is less expressive than SQL, which probably explains the cold reception it got from the industry.

Edit: now that I think about it, you could do it without ORDER BY/LIMIT, but still it's harder than necessary.
How to Build A Space-Time Crystal
I can understand the need for them to be reverted, although I honestly think that the patches provided functionality that should have already existed. Worst case the patched could have stayed and they could have been made available through certain flags (much like the HWM, LWM, and others).

I wouldn't say that the code quality is lousy, au contraire I think overall the code quality is very good, just very difficult to figure out where everything goes. I found it difficult to "brain" map it such that I could get proficient at following what was going on while reading different sections of the code.

Is there any effort under way in crossroads to make the notification level triggered and not just edge triggered? For example sticking ZeroMQ into a libev loop is a pain because if two messages arrive at the same time I only get notified once and I have to loop through and zmq_read(), which if the ZeroMQ backend is sending really fast means I now starve all my other sockets!
Bridge is a new RPC framework for building modular services
Here's another well done one: http://www.nintendo.com.au/gamesites/mariokartwii/#snes
I wonder how easy it is to extend the AutoComplete functionality? I would kill to have this integrated with MarGo and Gocode the way GoSublime does. That would give me all the functionality I need in Sublime today, but in my browser and with collaboration. I would die a happy hacker.
$5B Camo Snafu: Army ditches failed combat uniform
You can change where the swap files are saved too with `set directory=path`
We built Clever because we realized that integration with legacy school systems was serious overhead for anyone building cool educational software. If you've run into this problem personally, we'd love to meet you.

Our API docs are at: http://getclever.com/developers/docs
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I was told a story of a body of students who wanted to protest something in W. Germany in the '60s (I am recalling this from a night spent drinking so I might have every detail wrong!). As I recall it, instead of taking to the streets, they put on suits and amassed themselves at the relevant government office. A group of representatives then asked for a meeting, which was granted, and they put forward their case. They got what they wanted. I think the point was that the government officials thought they were respectable and reasonable and so their requests seemed so too.
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I built the following with $0: http://www.mindwallet.com

tldr: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNpAH7AGhIk

It does 99% of what I want it to do. It just needs to look prettier and have massive adoption. :)
Every time I have tried to meditate I just feel ridiculous and stop. But reading this description of its effects, I really don't understand the benefit.
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They're at work, they're supposed to be suffering from eye strain. Desks facing walls is bad, because you can't shift your view to something distant to rest your eyes without turning around. And I wouldn't even dream of working anywhere that had the mentality "you should be working all the time so it doesn't matter who is looking over your shoulder". If I need to spend 5 minutes talking to the wife on IM, I am going to. If you have a problem with that, you're going to have a hard time hiring good people.
Perhaps not as scientifically minded, I still think Alan Watts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Watts) and his accompanying lectures (e.g. http://archive.org/details/BuddhismAsDialogue) are a great introduction to eastern philosophy from a westerner's perspective.
My fiance will never forgive me if we miss our flight because I tell a TSA agent, "Why won't you look me in the eyes when you make love to me?"
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So I know the article isn't entirely serious, but the "score one for the robots" attitude seems pretty common and it's perplexing to me. Isn't this "score one for the humans", since they have created and now control a new kind of machine?

When I see robots doing new stuff I don't worry about humans becoming obsolete (whatever that means), I look forward to the day when humans are freed from the grunt work they do now.

Some people worry about losing their jobs in the rock-paper-scissors industry, but I think this is a social problem that has nothing to do with robots.
thanks, but it doesn't work very well. Right now everytime I try to +1 a page it says "loading" for a while, then "can't +1 this page". I think it's because I have multiple google accounts and google apps accounts, and chrome is logged in to one of them while i'm logged in to a different one in a tab.

I can make my way through this maze, but I have no idea how they expect normal people to put all these pieces together.
> So as a courtesy to cellular phone carriers, airlines require cell phones to be put into "airplane" mode.

False - I'm always told to actually turn my device off. Furthermore, why can I leave my cellphone on when I'm traveling via bus, or rail?
Graphically define and implement SQL queries
They are professionals--they're supposed to be delivering value for the company. If watching netflix helps them think, let them watch some goddamn netflix. Butts-in-seats is a horrible metric; butts-in-seats-with-code-editor focused even moreso.
key word: "Presumably"...
I think you are outright wrong. There is nothing "predatory" about the pricing. And your BMW example doesn't make sense unless BMW has figured out some way to earn a ROI on the free scooters.

I would say Android (Google) is acting more like a media company in this case, and since media companies main profit source is advertising, and google's main profit source is advertising, it makes sense. Media companies (NBC, Viacom, techcrunch.com) give away free content in order to attract viewers, then they turn around and sell these viewers to advertisers, thus generating profit only for themselves. You wouldn't say that NBC/ABC/CBS have predatory pricing over HBO just because their content is free, and available over the air.

Remember, Google is an advertising company, their primary goal is finding ways to drive advertising, Android is a good way to do that. If that means smartphones are cheaper and thus available to more people, I think that is a good thing, not predatory.
Does this mean X-Windows is finally obsolete?
This can be mitigated a bit by the fact that you can type any portion of the path to shrink the result set. So if you have

abc/def/ghi/foo.py
jkl/mno/pqr/foo.py
stu/vwx/yzz/foo.py

...you can type command-P, then "kfo", and you'd get the second foo.py, as it's the only one of the set with "k" in its path.
I've been using their system for a couple months now and it's a really excellent framework for building real-time apps of any sort.
Nah, a major benefit is teams that have the one guy who won't learn git. He'll claim he is, but really he's still mentally using subversion, and it shows when it does awful things to your repo. We have this guy on our team, just for an example of what happens:

* every day claims "subversion doesn't have merge conflicts"

* every day decides that "branches should be taken out of git, they are too confusing"

* refuses to accept that master is not special other than by convention

* regularly requires someone else on the team to take 30 minutes cleaning up his stuff

* since he doesn't get git, he will have his code changes scattered around 5 different clones of repos and do hand merging because it is safer. (he did this with svn too :/)

* wishes that TFS would just hurry up and have a git bridge because git isn't enterprise enough, and therefore not production ready.

There are more...

Anyway, he's a good coder and useful in what he does well, so it's not a case of "bad develper", he just has blind spot when it comes to version control. I presume he's not the only one.
Ask HN: Tech Startup Office Space in NYC?
I'm looking for office space in NYC for two people. I like the idea of being grouped with other startups (incubator style), but also need the ability to lock up our equipment. So a desk at a big shared space is out. Any fellow New Yorkers know of something like this? Thanks!
It was changed, yes -- and there was already a previous comment to this submission discussing it (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4163318) ... and it was killed. I'm disappointed in the continued editing of submission titles as well.

[Edit] And now the referenced comment has been un-killed. :-)
That would normally result in mass firings or a lockout, both legitimate in a case like that.
Here are some of my recommendations:

1. Hacking: The Next Generation (Animal Guide) - http://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Next-Generation-Animal-Guide/d...

2. Discrete Mathematics for Computer Scientists - http://www.amazon.com/Discrete-Mathematics-Computer-Science-...

3. Imagine: How Creativity Works - http://www.amazon.com/Imagine-Creativity-Works-Jonah-Lehrer/...

4. The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Consumption -http://www.amazon.com/Information-Diet-Case-Conscious-Consum...
This app only covers very basic needs, so even midly interested users would go try a third party app I think.

The feature that strikes me the most is the lack of shownotes. I guess these are not part of the itunes hosted resources.
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And they are still returning non-Facebook addresses through the API?

That's surprising.
That wasn't my point. My point was simply regarding calling someone the father of something, when clearly there were others who had been-there-done-that.
Technique has nothing to do with it. In other words, there is clear and documented prior art.

Regarding the rest of your comment Britishers would have left India for sure, its just that things would have been a lot more bloody without Gandhi's non-violence movement.
Testing with RSpec in the browser
Yes, you are right that you need to get a user to identify themselves on a service. Auth is definitely the most common methods, but for many services you can simply as for a username (ex. twitter or instagram).

We definitely recognize that there's a lot of permutations in terms of how to make this as usable as possible and we'll continue to add more support for those other options.

We started here so that it would be possible for apps with existing authentications to easily work with the service but also be able to expand to other services as well as uploads - as they felt appropriate for their own users. It's definitely not a solution for everyone.

Also, we actually provide auth services for Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, Instagram, and more. If you take a look at the mobile components, you'll see that we actually are handling the authentication there to capture the appropriate credentials and map it to the avatar. We'll be brining these to the web side very soon - we already do it with our other product, SlideChute.com.

Thanks for the input... and I definitely think I understand your concerns.
Most APIs I use I don't intend to use many times again. If I'd be coding against the same 5 libs over and over again, chances are big I'm coding roughly the same thing over and over again. That sounds very boring. (that, or i'm coding something low-level like a db or a protocol - but are you?)
I've been integrating Clever into my project and it's been really nice to work with.

Slick API and really easy to get up and running!
An API up and running in 10mins with Grape, Heroku and 3scale
Everything listed on your site is for K12 - any plans to support higher ed packages?
Can't say i blame them
They are admiring how green that grass is. Grow up
Dropbox is behaving morally. They are choosing not to allow a product/service that they know will be overwhelmingly used for copyright violations. This is not theft, but it does cause meaningful and measurable economic harm to the owners and producers. Before you spout off about media company oppression, remember that the people most affected by piracy are the crews that work behind the scenes to make the movies and tv shows. The crews are the first people fired if movies and tv shows can't cover their budget.

Furthermore, freedom of speech is protection from government censorship of speech. Private persons do not have to let you say anything on their property. Private persons do not have to let you use their property. Dropbox is a private company. It does not have to let other people use its API, website, service, facilities, or employees.

If you want to use Boxopus some much, create your own Dropbox, from scratch. Then you can do whatever you want with it.
This is very cool and all, but I just see it as another example of a web tech demo that if rewritten for my 20 year old Super Nintendo would run with more frames per second. There appears to be no hope in the near future for smooth interaction on the web. WebGL can do the smooth web - But then it's not the web, it's just javascript+opengl.
I am the dev of the plugin. Thanks for the info, I will try to address that. Notice that the performance is much better when you turn off row/col headers.

rowHeaders: false,
colHeaders: false,

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/JKg33/2/

That is the newest feature and I am sure it can be optimised.

It would be the best if you could help me with the plugin by issueing a ticket in GitHub. I do this for my own startup (www.giraffeapp.com) and I have to split time between this and other tasks.
Internet of Things Kickstarters - 2lemetry's got you
We love devices at 2lemetry. We connect the shit out of them, in fact. We'd love to make it so that you didn't have to worry about a platform for your bad-ass Kickstarter device. So, here's what we're willing to do:

1) Write a listener for your custom protocol that normalizes it on our end (if we don't already have it), or give you our low/high level pub-sub client (mqtt/zmq) to put on the devices; out-of-the-box, they'd come configured and ready to publish and receive information.

2) Give your customers a subscription to our service for free - let's say 90 days of device connectivity without payment.

3) Unlimited access to the application layer in our soon-to-be-released portal - big device data, a rules engine, geo-fencing, and command/ctrl (think Cosm, but in realtime and easier to mass-manage).

We tend to target Enterprise IOT more, so for us, this is a fun way to drive new features and feedback that doesn't come from old men in suits.

Interested? E-mail frank at 2lemetry dot com
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I guess to win, all I need to do is to tell the robot to not win. Unless of course, someone threatens to murder a human hostage if the robotic hand does not win.
Can you please tell us if and how you are using Freshplum to price Freshplum?
This is really great feedback, thanks, will update once we have something new to show as remedy of all the above. Thanks again, this is very helpful.
I suppose on a tablet it's fine but not on a 3-4 inch screen with slower connection.

Just to offer a counter opinion, I never, ever enjoy being delegated to a mobile site, and detest the gimped experience sites try to force on my very capable little high resolution handset.
> I'll also note that for both complaints 1 and 2, you think its trivial for programmers to just do the work, but I though go was all about saving programmer time?

Go is "penny foolish and pound wise", to subvert the maxim.

It is indeed trivial for programmers to just do the work, and in return you get an amazingly regular system that saves huge swathes of time grappling with larger issues.

I've noticed this realization occurring to other programmers. It's not at all obvious until you've written a significant amount of Go code.
Gonzo Producer: Hey pizza guy, I want to use your pizza store to film a porno. It's completly legal!

Pizza Guy: No, I have legitimate customers here! You'll drive family customers away!

Gonzo Producer: You're behaving immorally! It's not illegal for me to film a porno, so you're morally bound to let me film in your restaurant, even if it will cause substantial economic damage to your business! You're oppressing my freedom of speech!

Forgive my language, but do you see how stupid your argument is?
Gandhi was a prolific writer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi#Literary_works

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi#Primary_sources
> "Meaning they decided to procrastinate instead of working on their product/service."

If they were truly procrastinating, you've got a point. But that's hardly implicit in having spent time and energy on a desk. You can't work productively 24x7. You need downtime.

And those desks, not to minimize the effort they did put into them, don't look like a huge time investment to me.

As to the ergonomics, sure: ideally you want adjustable desk height and some way to get monitors to a comfortable height. But how often have you found those qualities in the sub-$40 desks you'd have them buy?
Scientists set to show how they hacked into Stephen Hawking's brain