skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I touched on this with this reply: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4196850

In short, we're focusing on a folio element and also the interactive app demos, allowing visitors to actually try and app before the download it.
We'll be adding pricing to the homepage this week as well. For everybody reading this, it's $14.95 per notarization.
>Off-topic - but doesn't that confuse you?

Nope, I've been using multiple OSes since I was a wee boy.

>partly because I don't like Gnome 3 or Unity

I don't use either of those, I use XMonad. XMonad is about 33% of why I prefer Linux to OS X.

>but also because my fingers are so used to Cmd-S, Cmd-T etc.

wee boy, multiple oses, etc. I use Emacs and vim concurrently as well (although Emacs is my primary editor for programming 97% of the time).

>I tried mapping Ctrl to the Cmd key but that breaks other stuff (like the Unity launcher).

Train the mind, train the hands. Linux, OS X, Windows, and Emacs are practically part of my spinal cord.

The video gaming probably didn't hurt either.
The quirks of JavaScript
I understand that it does seem naive and misguided, especially since I often found myself bored when younger and free of responsibility. I'm realizing that I was trying to tackle too many points with this post, and none were delivered well. I wanted to emphasize the importance of reducing your responsibilities so that you still have free time. I also wanted to make note of the negative perception of having free time. Like its a symptom of failure or lack of success.

Thanks for the comment and reading.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/500587227/gamedock-for-i...

Looks nice definitely. I recently got one of these; http://www.gp2x.de/shop/product_info.php/cPath/45/products_i... and that helped a lot. Seems yours is even nicer.
No more iGoogle
It has. Their market share was at 2% at the beginning of this year, and has now fallen to 1.7%. It's falling month after month. There's no reason to expect their market share will increase any time soon.
It seems as if a Higgs confirmation announcement is going to happen in about 12 hours [1]. A video was briefly up on the CERN site, before disappearing behind a password. Apparently it is part of preparations for an announcement at the International Conference on High Energy Physics, which started today in Melbourne, Australia.

[1] http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/weve-observed-a-ne...
Love this guy's work.

His metro UI looks much more fun than the original one.
Good to hear.

Now the paranoid in me is wondering - if there's an attacker deeply entrenched enough to be reading their plain-text email, either on the wire between them and you or with sufficient root privs on their infrastructure, they could probably have arranged their own pgp key to appear there for you as well. If I were trying to ensure I was doing my utmost best diligence, I'd have tried to include a completely non-internet backchannel - perhaps a call phone number for Heroku sourced from a dead-tree phone book (if such a thing exists anymore?) and get someone to read out the key fingerprint.
This is from July 2010.
Why should he have to?

Plenty of Android devs owned Nexus Ones. It was the Android dev phone for a pretty important year. Yet we heard little griping at Google from devs over the fact that they cheaped out on the hardware for their flagship device.

Moreover there are countless ignored bugs in Android, many of the most starred issues have been there for two years or more. This griping about Apple is ridiculous.

They're a massive faceless software & hardware vendor, big surprise a low-priority bug (never once seen someone who isn't a dev or similar play an HTML5 game in my life) slipped through the cracks.

This isn't new, nor is it unique to Apple, so it would be nice if we could can the melodrama and focus on the issue.
> " suggests an inability to tolerate even minor variances from a desired ideal... everything which doesn't conform to an archetype or classification system is flawed or contradictory."

You seem to have derived a lot from a 9-word comment. You also have an awful lot of confidence you've got my personality pegged, despite having never met me.

Let's address the original point, which is "nobody cares what HN thinks" - tossed off-handedly into the thread as a retort. This is a community of people involved in technology startups, ranging from engineers to designers to business folk - it is the precise demographic that has need a designer's skillset, and the precise demographic who collectively sets the design tone for the consumer web.

Which isn't to say that HN's word is gospel - far from it - but to reject all criticism under the guise of "nobody cares what [insert lame stereotype about nerds] people think" seems about as presumptuous as assuming HN's collective taste is authoritative.

In any case, the purpose here is not to drag Mr. Curtis through the mud, it's to point out that spec redesigns, when not fully thought-through, have historically been roundly attacked in the tech community, by engineers and designers alike, and on HN and abroad. If one is to make a very public display of it, one should be aware of the potential negative press.
> I also wanted to make note of the negative perception of having free time

Yes I agree with you there. I'm not sure if it's something mostly American because only my American friends have that; if you say you took time off they look at you like you are slacker. Even asking what you did in the weekend; if you say 'nothing' it is met with quite a lot of negativity.
Taylorist ideas still pervade relatively modern industries; offshoring software development is one such example. The knowledge work is separated from the execution. This split in management/development and the manual workforce was the main motivator behind the production line of the day. By moving the knowledge work upstairs, you could pay an unskilled workforce much less to execute the assembly.
No but it is the universe where lots and lots of people were not aware that there was a way to get more software onto a phone or even a computer. People used to look at me like I had three heads when I told them about those other mobile application stores.
These "gift" investigations and the game theory behind them are somewhat troubling.

Most medium to large sized technology companies that get big enough to attract parasites will gladly cooperate with an investigating authority (such as the FBI) and turn over user activity records without much of a stink in exchange for a future favor down the road rather than hold their ground and demand warrants, subpoenas and the rest of the 9 yards.

If you promise to aid the FBI into perpetuity, they will on occasion nail some malicious user that's giving you a hard time - like that 16 year old from Des Moines who is submitting stolen credit cards (that were found on twitter via @NeedADebitCard, naturally) to pay for your merchandise and giving you a headache in chargeback fees.

It's a cool superpower but it's probably not doing much to address the root of your problems.

Worse, it quickly turns the FBI into a sort of protection racket for the Fortune 5000.
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Convert C# to Java Source Code directly from GitHub and BitBucket
Oh, how I do hope Page Speed is killed in the next batch. Either kill it or explain how it is calculated and its relevance to SEO.
It was going to be interesting to see how long in this thread before someone mentioned Zonal Marking.

It is interesting that the analysis doesn't mention Barcelona. That might be because reactive, kick long football has beaten Barca twice in Champion's League in the past 4 years. Mind you, Barca are one of the best club teams in the past 30 years at least.

Inter Milan and Chelsea had dramatically less of the possession and passing than the tikki-takka of Barca but both managed to get over the top of Barca.

A team's performance is also dependent on the personnel. The Barca core that is also the core of Spain and they are phenomenal. Who knows when another midfield like Xavi, Busquets and Ienesta (and Messi for Barca) will appear.

Or as someone said about Italy vs Spain, Spain won because they had 3 players at least as good Pirlo.
not being able to exceed 2500 people on site or be under the TX mass gathering law

Sorry, what? have all major sporting events been cancelled too?
If I receive a document notarized by this service, how can I trust that this service has done its due diligence? From a cursory look, I just can't believe that a document can be notarized online without even knowing if the person exists. Admittedly, I don't know too much about the notarization process, so maybe they verify things like identification given to them? Does the service explain what steps it does in order to verify identity besides uploading documents that could be easily forged?
Great comment.

I want to hijack it and add....

Couple of points along the same lines that I always like to explain to people.

The familiar E=mc^2 we all know - people like to say that means that the energy in a system is equal to the mass times the speed of light (squared) - if we convert between the two. Which is true..... but it's also saying something else. In this formula, energy is measured in joules, and mass in kilogams - the speed of light in meters per second. Importantly, notice the c^2 is a constant - it's there for unit conversion. What we really have is a statement that energy=mass. Energy and Mass are the same thing.

In the same line - there's no such thing as "pure energy" (if I'm wrong, someone educate me, I'm all ears) - people have a hard time with this. Energy is a property of a system that can be calculated. "pure energy" doesn't exist. Radiation is not what we mean by "energy" (though obviously it's got energy) - energy is a property that we can calculate and work with, and a rather important one at that.... but it's not a "thing" or "stuff" or "non-stuff" that moves around... it's a property of a system that can be calculated.
This graph could just as easily be explained as people with high incomes (Mac users generally do) are more insulated from economic downturn than the people buying $300 laptops. Reading it how you want doesn't make it true.

Even according to the graph, 15x means that one in 16 machines sold is a Mac. Math tells us that's 6.25% market share. That number hasn't appreciably changed in real terms in the last decade. Yes, moving from 4% to 6% is a 50% "growth", if you want to define growth that way. Normally, that's 2% growth.

However, the inability of Mac to grab any significant market share from the overall PC market should be a concern, considering the relative popularity of their other devices.
Apple and Their Free Apps
It's a bit voyeuristic, so not a lot new in this article for those familiar with the culture.

If the article has value, it will serve as a warning to others (cough Google cough Facebook cough) that hubris and bureaucracy and koolaid and everything negatively associated with group-think can happen to you.

It's like exercise -- muscle confusion is your friend. Keep it fresh, mix things up. Try to avoid becoming exactly what Microsoft first attacked, then became.
Does the full faith and credit clause of the constitution cover notarizations? Or to put it another way will a document with an electronic notarization from Virginia be recognized in the other 49 states?

NB the link to the law is buried a couple clicks in. If you are interested in seeing the law: http://notarynow.signnow.com/virginia-notary-law/
Opera walks on to a site.
And Google says: We dont serve your kind here.
Why can't the web server do other work with the CPU and other resources at the same time that it is waiting for those network operations to happen?
Christensen (The Innovator's Dilemma) has an anecdote that prompted his PhD research:

Digital used to be extremely successful with their minicomputers. Highly profitable, their management was lauded by the press. Then, the PC arrived, and quickly undermined minicomputer sales and profits - and Digital. The press ran a series of articles about how Digital management had lost their way, and kept making terrible decisions. But, according to Christensen, management hadn't changed. They were the same people, making the same kinds of decisions, on the same basis, with the same values.

http://www.strategy-business.com/article/14501?gko=ca7ad
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Did anyone else find the whole "left and right arrow keys to browse articles" on this site really annoying? I accidentally hit them when pressing up and down to read the article itself.
My main complaint is the lack of a (decent) package manager; Windows Installer doesn't so much as handle updates by itself, forcing applications to spawn dozens of "updaters" and making it impossible to coordinate them.

(This is perspective as a home user - enterprise tools might be different)
Assuming both methods are equally effective, then it prevents bad PR.
No, xenophanes is simply explaining how markets work. Markets are supposed to maximize utility, whether that be monies or laughter at a concert. If a price is too low for demand, any opening that allows middlemen to creep in, raise the price to demand levels, and take the difference, will be taken. If the resellers price too low, they'll just generate an opening for re-resellers.

The problem, for me, isn't with scalpers, it's with income and wealth distribution (which separates nominal demand from actual benefit to useful people), with over-regulation of commercial performance (limiting the number of venues through regulatory capture), and with the destruction of local community (since there are no local acts anymore, everyone chases the same small number of national and international ones.)

Of course Louie C.K. generates a massive demand - in a country of 300 million people, he's one of the 50 comedians that anybody has heard of because he makes it into the national media. When the average person can name a few comedians that live and work in their neighborhood, going to a Louie C.K. show will be considered a luxury good AND the price will go down.
Because the MPAA and RIAA represent the owners and executives of the movie and record companies. "Hollywood" is also comprised of moneyed actors, musicians and artists that generally tend to lean to the left politically. There is definitely a difference between the two "camps"
Best HN comment in months.
CERN video says a particle is definitely there.  Now to refining its properties.
IGoogle to be retired by November 2013
The entire point of my post was that we preserve the semantics of this (and many other) PHP-isms. We have to, because you never can tell which glitches useful code has come to depend on.
Is this using the same type of tech as Pieceable?

(Just saw the other comment: Yes)
Audiotool - Browser based Synth
I am dumbfounded. Do you live in flatland? Take me to the roundest polygon you know, they might get this.

Analysis of the sentence does indicate movement, and that is because there is movement.

This is because your finger needs to move down to touch the screen.

There are more than two dimensions of motion when describing fingers.

And this does not change just because a screen is involved.
> if you say 'nothing' it is met with quite a lot of negativity

Exactly. Because, in reality when you say 'nothing', you really didn't do 'nothing'. But if you didn't do anything substantial or productive then it's almost shameful to say what you really did.

Also, to your initial comment, my thinking behind the post had nothing to do with money with regard to being 'so rich' I wouldn't need to work. Enough money to maintain the small amount of responsibilities I have taken on, and to enjoy myself is all that is needed. Nothing more.
I would like to develop this idea further. What if we store all the state in a specialized state storing server application? What if we develop a portable language for querying and updating this state? What if we introduce a "transaction" mechanism in the state storage system so multiple users can interact with the state at the same time? We can call the state storing server a "data-base management system". It would be awesome!
(FB employee, tangentially related to this stuff) Everyone, including myself, casually uses the term "CPU-bound", "I/O bound", "Memory-bound" for convenience but the truth is usually more complex. You might actually be CPU-instruction-cache-bound or memory-latency-bound. One app I worked on a long time ago turned out to be random-numbers-bound. :)

In this context boundedness means roughly "the thing that would increase throughput if we had relatively more of it". A pizza shop is going to be fundamentally "oven-bound", because everything else from employees to counter space can be increased more easily than the size of the oven.

Waiting on outside I/O (databases) does not mean that a webserver is I/O bound. The system as a whole might be I/O bound, but not the web layer. Threads stuck waiting for dataz are just put to sleep and others take over the CPU.
My brother-in-sin was a professional backgammon player at one point. What he said killed it was the development of a computer program that played perfectly. Prior to that someone would learn to play, and you had a long time to keep profitably exploiting their small flaws as they improved. After the computer program came out they would start to play, learn about the computer program, then fairly shortly after would play as well as you did.

A classic example of efficiency (in this case of learning) can result in decreasing profit opportunities.
Luckily, it appears there will be an update in the coming weeks to address that (according to one of the Google IO talks).
I hadn't heard of that redesign but I went and looked it up. After reading/looking at it I have to say you cant compare the two. Dustin was like "You suck sh*t and im never going to use your business again, so here is redesign of your website. PS all your designers/ux personel are incompetent" while this redesign was more lik "I'm not happy with the way that microsoft has gone so here is a possible alternative". The later being much better than the former even if Dustin has managed to create a pretty strong reputation for himself.
I think you're underestimating the importance of this bug. For the developer of a HTML5 game platform this is a huge roadblock - it can totally ruin gameplay, prevents the use of more complex controls and ultimately hinders adoption.
Trap-and-emulate virtualization has to use slow shadow paging. Nested page tables are much faster.
You don't play a match in one game. You play five or seven. The doubling cube speeds up play and has a critical impact on the whole game.

There's plenty of online backgammon gambling.
I wonder what the guy who police stopped from breaking into the empty house will do? Let's say the guy stopped from a burglary for some time. He doing it by choice for a reason (has no job, hungry, does not want a job, can't find one - could be many reasons). What he will do next? Will he go into different area or try something new like killing someone?
The question is will this technology applied from only one side shift the crime distribution on the map or shift it on the type of crime distribution?
The real problem is not addressed. Someone just try to make some money by providing symptomatic cure.
You also can't see the scores of comments you didn't write. What's your point?

The way people interact with HN has a way of influencing the comment stream in nuanced ways. Not releasing all of the information about scoring publicly (or even the score) is an experiment about how such things affect the conversation.

One may not like it, but the general consensus is that "me too" comments just clutter the conversation and don't add anything. If you agree (or disagree, but appreciate the argument) then up vote.
Can we stop this ridiculous revisionist history.

Slide to unlock was not a common place feature before it came out on the iPhone despite the prevalence of touch screen devices. It is hard to argue against the fact that the implementation was indeed unique at the time.
I disagree. Today is amazing in many of the same ways that the 50s and 60s were.

In your pocket you have a device that can connect to a wider network of interconnected devices. Some of those contain hundreds of Libraries of information that is freely available to anybody who wants to know. You can ask a question and experts from around the world can answer. These devices, which used to cost millions of dollars, are now affordable to nearly everybody. This magical web connects billions of people across the world instantaneously.

With all of this information available, we can learn to build cars that drive themselves, or personal fusion reactors, or a "simple" website that connects you to people over a wide geographic area, or get news as it happens from around the world.

The last part struck me after talking to my grandfather about how news spread in his era. He was in the printing business for magazines like Sunset and Time. He said that it was nearly unheard of to get iconic pictures from the source to print any faster than a week. A WEEK! Now we can see what is going on around the world AS IT HAPPENS!

Think about it. When was the last time you personally had to buy a compiler? The last one I bought was Visual C++ 6.0. You can get the tools and the knowledge for building a successful business and career for free. That alone boggles my mind! Fifty years ago you needed a college education and a fat stack of cash to work on the very things we do for pleasure now.

I mean right now I am making an argument with somebody I never met from a coffee shop in California. Doing a little homework (aka, clicking his username) shows me a company he founded that lets customers talk directly to businesses. HOW COOL IS THAT?

A whole generation is growing up that will never know the concept of information scarcity. That in and of itself is mindblowing.
Because a route function is a function and a controller is a collection of functions (that is its own abstraction not directly related to http).
I suspect that just because there is a minority present doesn't mean that it is always tolerated; especially if an American is involved overseas. I believe tolerance changes with the winds (or whims) of time as it were.

My friend's conviction was down the lines of evangelizing and disturbing the peace. He was in Egypt for combination work and vacation and while preparing to leave was overheard commenting to someone he had meet on being a Christian and was reported to security. He got detained, questioned, beat up a little, and tossed in jail. He was later tried, found guilty and left in prison. The US government couldn't, or wouldn't, get him out. Sad story really.
While I appreciate the work that was put into this I gotta say I really don't like it. The "slate" logo looks cold and enigmatic which is really not something that a large corporation like Microsoft generally wants to be seen as. I actually think one thing Microsoft has going for it is its familiarity, its a brand almost everyone has a history with and to the average consumer at least that a big selling point. The lettering also feels particularly generic and a little on the trendy side. Of course its all a matter of taste I imagine.
It is absolutely a class-based argument, and not the fault of scalping, but the class-based argument is a reasonable argument. To the extent that an uneven wealth distribution is based on insider networks, regulatory capture, and rent-seeking, nominal demand is pushed higher than actual utility.
Ha, this is very cool. I didn't know you can cross-compile Go before. Just tried and it's really easy to setup a build for multiple architecture. Thanks for the tip!