skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hypertext was 'in the air', Nelson had introduced the idea and there were commercial hypertext systems available. The Gopher protocol was almost there. I think something like the Web would have happened around the time anyway. Sir Tim got there first, and provided half a hypertext system (forward links but no back links until blog systems with track-back) that was 'open' as we would say now. Built on a Unix like system and free for distribution, so low friction on adoption.

Only a few sites in the world could/can do the Higgs experiment, and the US decided to leave the game in the 1990s. Therefore I respectfully disagree.

Food for thought: what would the Web look like if Microsoft had developed the first public distributed hypertext system?
Ouch - this hits a little too close to home being from the architect camp myself (hell - I even spent the last week dicking around with rabbitmq! - talk about coincidence!)

Anyway - as I'm sure other comments will allude to, one of our jobs is to take the time-out from frantically delivering features to investigate new technologies/techniques and distil them in a 5-minutes-or-less style format to the rest of the team. Ideally, organisations should allow all members of the software team to participate in this activity, but it seems that when push comes to shove and clients are waiting for stuff to "get done" this kind of activity is one of the first to fall by the wayside.
Russian Pyramid Power
Amazing cutting edge Russian science shows that "pyramid power" alive and well and doing amazing things in Russia today.
Could you elaborate? I'm really curious as to what the appeal of SF/SV is.
It is ridiculous that a linux company can so misunderstand copyright. GPL cannot compel you to open source your code or to give out security keys. They can seek damages against you if you violate the license.

As a more extreme example, lets say I have software with a license that requires you to punch yourself in the face in order to use it. If I find you've used it without punching yourself in the face; I can't compel you to punch yourself in the face, I can only collect monetary damages and get a court to forbid you from using my software anymore.

When you've tightly tied yourself to a single GPL product, it may be easier to just comply with the GPL than to switch to using non-GPL software, but a bootloader is hardly a tightly integrated part of an OS; they could release with grub 2 and switch to elflinux if it is determined that they were violating the GPL3 by not divulging their keys.
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Looks like you are only supporting 1 web-cam? I recently purchased a IP PTZ cam from fry's which came with its free Android, iPad and web based application.

How are you planning on competing with those?
They didn't even contact the FSF to discuss the matter. FSF wrote a white paper about this and stated that the GPL would not force them to release the public key. Also, does anyone really believe UEFI is not going to be compromised ? The entire thing ridiculous. It's a power grab, and a lot of leaders in the open sourced movement are going to come out of this looking like a pack of fools.

https://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot...
Staying off topic for a just a bit more, one obvious example would be to automatically give everyone you see a moustache. An app was on Hacker News that does this within the past month. People interested in developing these filters can start building them now by creating smart phone apps and then port them over once Glasses becomes available.
Incredibly over-simplified, to the point that many sites can't take the steps offered, and it gives no explanation that would help them realize this or find out why.

The tl;dr: static files are faster and cheaper to serve than a fully-dynamic database-driven PHP site.
> I suspect you are correct. The big question I have no answer about is what percentage of users was good with the old interface. If it was <10%, the ribbon is definitely warranted. If it was >80% ... maybe not so much.

My experience is that number was probably way lower than 10% -- basically, most people use Word as glorified typewriter. They do know to change font, and that's it. They indent/center text by inserting spaces in the front. They have no idea how to insert image..
You can go directly to an optometrist's own office, and they'll usually have a selection of frames they can sell you, or you can just get the prescription and take it to another store. Chain stores like Lenscrafters have office space for an optometrist in the back of each building which they lease to one or more doctors; they don't work directly for the store, but they work at the store and the store books appointments with them for its customers.
Gloating has the connotation of making others feel bad. "Bragging" is more in line with emphasizing your successes without disparaging others.
I used Ubuntu and promoted it like crazy. Until i realized it's pernicious to open software. Too many compromises. binary drivers everywhere. Now this. The Ubuntu moved gnome3 crap that led to the least community driven direction a project ever took.

Heck and i always seen gpl extremists as crazy and release all my code under mit... And even so i refuse to use Ubuntu anymore.
Even so, I doubt they want to pay damages either.
I would speculate the SFLC said the FSF would try and sue to get the keys in a "civil-war", not that the GPL mandates Canonical giving out the keys.
At one end, people have their own blogs. (And Blogger, WordPress.com, and Tumblr are simple enough that large numbers of non-technical folk use them regularly.) At the other end, many people are happy to lurk without writing anything.

In the middle, people post comments on others' blogs or on meta sites such as HN.

I can't be sure, but from what you've said so far, I'm not seeing much unaddressed pain in the space.
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The definition of a software architect varies. In general, mainly refers to those that are responsible for the higher level design of systems.

In my opinion, a great system architect is a great developer, who also have an artistic flair. Those people that, when facing difficult design problems, can often come up with brilliant abstractions. That are so clever, that feel like art. Not only in development, but also in related aspects, like UI.

Those great abstractions will increase the productivity of everyone using the system, and in the end can accumulate to very high amounts of value.
Mobile email pain point: Not able to open and read attachments that are only designed for desktops (e.g. word,pdf docs look horrible and difficult to scroll through in mobile)
This is a great idea. I think there's a big opportunity for community based housing in general.

I tried living in such a community, but it was in the co-housing tradition and required collective participation in chores. Ummm, no thanks.

But the idea of a bunch of people with shared interests and at similar life stages living in the same place - it's just awesome. So much can get done when people with similar goals and diverse talents just "rub shoulders" on a daily business.

Kismet is the source of much human greatness and a community based on shared interest of passionate, talented people is like a little kismet factory.

I bet some clever people could create a social app that would facilitate the creation and maintenance of such mini-communities.
Long-term sufferer of reactive arthritis here. Had a pretty nasty case of food poisoning four years ago, and to my surprise, was in widespread pain days later. I still deal with symptoms today, and will likely continue to do so for the rest of my life. Effectively, I developed a full-blown chronic rheumatic illness. I consider myself lucky: millions of people have chronic inflammatory diseases without apparent causes or correct diagnoses. The article doesn't mention that reactive arthritis has a genetic component, and closely resembles other inflammatory illnesses that are not apparently caused by acute infection.
Yes, but then don't go on the record saying that if you shipped with grub 2 you could be compelled to divulge your keys, that's either a lie, or a misunderstanding of how copyright works.
Don't waste your money on another UI overhaul. I want to use your product, but I will not sacrifice my privacy to do so

That sums it up, for me.

Perhaps Google could turn things around, and accommodate privacy concerns while educating users as to their advantages. And leveraging their advertising offers to promote to interests rather than to names and incessantly tracked identities.

When I'm most interested in an item, is when I'm specifically reading about it or its area. As opposed to being nagged about it for the next three months.

But then, like television ads, I suppose all that nagging works, in the aggregate.
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>I'd also like to point out the huge time waste that is commuting.

It's also massively stress reducing. No daily traffic? It's awesome. I've been working from home for an out of state company for about 3 years now. I could make more money if I switched to a different job, but not having to commute has actually become a massive perk for me.

Having little stress, being able to relax at home, and still be very productive are worth more than monetary compensation to me.

I've got a family member that makes about 15k more than I do, but spends 3 hours commuting each day! That more of less eats up all of her leisure time through out the week. Then weekends are house chores. There is nothing about her job that couldn't be done from home. 3 hours in traffic each day is no way to live..

With no commute, I wake up, do some stretching and light exercise, drink some coffee, and then when I'm ready to begin, I just sit down at my desk and get started.

Worth every penny that I don't make.
All this only serve to make ms strong again on consumer market. It's the good old bait and switch. And Ubuntu suckers are going right into

"ohh i have money. I can buy into the game and finally have more installs than Debian"

Let's see how that plays out later, since we all know this boot shenanigans do nothing it advertised (virus, security) and only serve to harden the installation of non windows os
Most of the time, in my experience, goggles fails to even recognize it as text to translate, because it tries to identify objects, too.
Phil from PubNub here. A few differences:

-Pusher sells itself as a WebSockets platform, whereas PubNub is a protocol-independant: it uses the best protocol and technique based on the environment you're using. That means you're protected from dealing with newer protocols on older devices. As techniques mature, PubNub gradually incorporates them into its architecture.

-PubNub is globally distributed in 10 data centers. Pusher is not.

-PubNub's performance is better than Pusher's, according to at least one customer. (https://twitter.com/thfriendly/status/220152602917220352) PubNub's codebase is as close to the metal as possible: written in C and with lots of kernel modifications.

-If you visit Pusher's website and click on the "Scalable" tab, it lists: "40 billion messages delivered". In June 2012 alone, PubNub delivered 44.2 billion messages.

-PubNub recently hit a peak of 1,000,000 messages per second. (http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/13/pubnub-pulse/) I'm not sure on this one, but I don't belive Pusher's numbers are anywhere near that.
Amazon's next phone is an 'Amaphone' (I think)
I'll look into adding infinite scroll, it makes sense to have. I don't want to limit to something like 10 domains above the fold because it's such a limited set to look at and prev/next adds more barriers to entry for viewing more domains.
I would hesitate to hire a junior engineer who didn't understand basic subjects like bloom filters and priority queues and when to use them. I certainly wouldn't hire one who didn't know how to research alternative approaches on her own, without guidance from an "architect".
...actually he was very open (maybe too open) about the work/life ratio thing and went into detail: That's what stood out to my eyes. You're right, it's not my business -- but in his article he makes it my business by pointing it out. But if I may be blunt this may also be a generational issue: In a startup you don't get a star for just showing up (frankly that's an employee mindset), what counts is what happens -- the results.
Apparently your "advice" is so naïve as to have spawned an entire other post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4208134
Is Reality a Hologram?
I noticed one thing. You have prices displayed in $ on home page but in pounds on the store page ?
I take it that you are not familiar with the way the German language order words?

Because there is no way you could accurately subtitle German in English, other than knowing what he is going to say before he say it.
Hetzner can set up a private gigabit vlan upon request[1]. They charge a one time setup cost for the switch (30 euros) and 15 euros/month/server. Internal and incoming traffic is free. With this setup, internal data transfer is at 1 Gbps while external transfer is at 100Mbps.

[1] http://devblog.supportbee.com/2012/06/04/building-a-dependable-hosting-stack-using-hetzners-servers/
Thanks for pointing that out! I'll add this to my things to fix.
This will hopefully push a lot of people to OpenWRT, DD-WRT and Tomato. But I wonder if what Cisco is doing becomes the norm for router sellers, and I wonder if they will start locking down the devices more?

Previously they were just very lazy about their GPL compliance, and providing decent drivers. And quite often you'd see router hardware revisions that remove flash and RAM space significantly.

But if there is some sort of money they can make selling our internet behaviour, maybe they might start locking down the hardware and making it harder to flash 3rd party stuff?
i got a playbook. i tried to use it. i found the OS very frustrating. we put it in our reception area at USV and 9 out of ten people (and these are tech types for the most part) couldn't figure out how to use it.
So, how long until we're sending Russian lobsters into space?
Target The Forward Fringe
It looks to me like there is nothing beginning with w, x, y, z. Am I not seeing it right?
i should have cropped that out. oh well.
Shuttleworth: The SFLC advice to us was that the FSF could require key disclosure if some OEM screwed up.

Does anyone know what he's talking about here?
You have described a skilled engineer. Why do we need to call her a silly name?
I think it's a good idea. The problem with Tumblr is that you're encouraged to theme your blog, e.g. fitness, hunger games or whatever, so you end up having to make different blogs for each topic you're into because people that follow you aren't going to want to see workout logs mixed in with hunger games gifs.

It is a nifty idea to just be able to toss down some random idea on to a blog with no other pressure. With tumblr there is the pressure of having to blog regularly, queue up posts to publish every hour and keep to a theme etc.
Our assumptions is we can recover cost of equipment within warranty period (Most of the components have 3 yrs warranty)
Also, most of data redundancy is handled at software level, I feel thats the best usage of FOSS like Hadoop/Cassandra. We can avoid expensive high end hardware and build system with commodity hardware components and rely more on cloud technology.
You might still be right, but hope things work out.
I'm not sure they actually have an economy.
Those in charge sell oil and buy toys for themselves - the rest get very poor.
I'm not a Javascript developer... but that IIFE syntax strongly reminds me of LISP.

(function(){//do some work})();
This is great ! Also the design of websites features are also great...
Why doesn't the NiceGuy.A virus exist?
You might be right in a general shopping scenario, but (perhaps) the professor deliberately has chosen “loose coffee beans” experiment. Thus, eliminating all arguments about convenience. In this experiment, one may buy in 1oz increments.
In other words, just violate the license until you get caught? I don't understand what you are saying here.
(Warning: armchair analysis here.) Does anyone else see a similarity between what is described in the OP and the halting problem?
Those are shit clubs. Seriously - there are way better places to pick people up than some loud annoying uncomfortable expensive nightclub. Good clubs are about music and dancing.
Great fun.

A couple of suggestions, speaking as a front-end designer / occasional indie-game artist:

- I don't know how you're calculating it, but consider adding a bit of randomness to the effect radius. This way, you won't be blasting perfect circles each time.

- If keeping the graphics CSS-only isn't a priority, consider some sprites! If you need a sooty blast scar or maybe a simple explosion sprite, I'd be glad to lend a hand.
in France we have Jimmy Fairly which is a 100% Copy/paste of Warby Parker. Even the Branding & naming is similar.

http://www.jimmyfairly.com/fr/
I think you have to take the texture map driven interfaces as part of a larger package that includes the outside industrial design of Apple products. The outside package tends to be very futuristic and bare of details, so having the UI feature texturemaps of organic objects like wood or leather makes for a nice humanizing contrast. If you copy this on another device it's not quite the same thing, although if you look at the new Windows OS they did a great job of making something that looked very different.
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I would be interested if the posts where categorized. For example, I have an idea for one post on video games. I write the post, and send it off, and it gets posted to the video games section of the site. Then people interested in video games could find it. Maybe the next day, I have a good idea for a food blog post.
I agree, and I generally get a couple of pairs from Zenni whenever I order for that reason (my toddler and my cat both like to knock the glasses off my face for a laugh). I haven't noticed that the quality of Zenni's lenses is worse than, say, Lenscrafters or any of the other "1-hour" shops here in the US. I like the try before you buy idea of WP, but they really don't have a lot of options (dig the monocle, though).
>Does anybody serious believe that UEFI will "block viruses" from meddling with any boot process? Are boot-sector viruses even a problem any more, because it was pretty obvious that boot-time viruses (like "Brain") were only widely spread by MS-DOS and early Windows, that required a lot of boots. Boot-time viruses never made inroads in other populations of computers, just like Macro viruses never made inroads except in "Word" dominated environments.

I have addressed this in a previous comment here.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4190483
hm. seems like something that the browser should handle for you... don't see why every website should have its own debouncing code.
The part I hate most about their search interface is the default behavior where it pops up an image of the page when you hover over the arrow thing. I always move the mouse to the side of the page so I'm not covering the search results, and when it pops out... grrr. Why is this necessary or even helpful as a default?
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Oh yes, I believe ignorance and self-delusion is more common then malice. However that doesn't excuse them totally. When it's literally a matter of life and death for someone else, you have a moral duty to ensure you're giving the right advice.

Homeopaths are careless and other people die.
Amazon already has agreements with many mobile providers around the world to supply data access for the Kindles. If their smartphone offered worldwide data roaming that did not cost an arm and a leg...
I agree. You can find previous generation server hardware pretty cheap through liquidators or ebay. Availability may vary in India, so that may be a factor.

Hardware availability after the initial purchase is certainly a big longterm consideration. I can easily search for "dell 2950 raid" or "dell perc 5i", match the individual part number to the I have, and be good.
I found something similar to this a few months back... very cool trick.

http://kickassapp.com/
have you read Cryptonomicon? :) you might like it
I heard about Warby Parker about two weeks ago and decided to give them a try. Whenever I would get frames at a local shop it always felt rushed and I was never happy with the results in the long run. I really like the idea of the home try-on and did find a pair I'm very happy with.
If it actually does what it says it does, thats awesome...
1. Its not responsive.
2. Fade in takes to long
3. All of your designs are decent but they are all run of the mill nothing special.
See this link posted by "zb": http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/21/science/21brain.html?pagew...
Or perhaps Pyramid http://www.pylonsproject.org/
Glasses Direct seems quite popular.

Though from what I have read, it looks like the UK opticians market has already been disrupted more than the US one has - in the last decade or two, war between retailers made it possible to get cheap spectacles on the high street. But prices have crept up and the time could be ripe for more disruption.
Boot-sector or similar viruses are absolutely a problem, thanks to the prevalence of spyware. Just ask anyone who routinely deals with end-user desktop maintenance. You generally have to alter your cleaning techniques every few weeks to deal with the latest and greatest.
Suggestion: Don't look for suggestions here with an essay, instead you should prototype your idea and then get feedback. The problem with your essay is that it's abstract and too easy to say something like "what about Tumblr" so in this case the devil is in the details...
For my wife's 30th birthday our inlaws paid for a mini vacation in probably the nicest hotel we'll ever visit. We had a fancy dinner planned for the first night and it had been a long time since my wife and I had gotten away from the kids.

As we are pulling into the hotel the system for one of our largest clients goes down. I'm the only developer on this particular system (we're a small company) and we end up cancelling dinner so that I can work all evening to get the system back up.

I still don't know if I made the right choice there. Yes it could have meant my job if I ignored the pager, but maybe I shouldn't be working for a place that has no respect for my other priorities.
Image and archive the extant system. In triplicate, including off-site. (Don't assume anything you're told about existing backups is correct / correctly and safely executed.)

Select and teach them version control. You want to be able to document and roll back changes made from this point forward. Mantra: "First, do no (irreversible) harm."

This code base will contain knowledge/configuration from people who are no longer accessible. Even the current experts might have to expend considerable time and effort in trying to recreate some of it and/or and understanding of those parts specifically.

So, you aren't just going to rewrite it. A first step, aside from ongoing work, would be to document it.

Some of the people you are working for are going to want to get on with things. A primary focus in your education might/should be to make them read some of the better documented cases of such systems "blowing up" -- 'the bug that ate Rochester', and the like. Convince them that now is the time for some risk management, while their luck (hopefully) holds.

Once you/they know what you have, some of those "best practices" may make more sense and sink in better when they can be applied to something that they actually, specifically, and directly care about.

Did I mention, version control?

Oh, and establish from the start that you are the expert in this, and that this is your job. Some egos are likely to try to push you around, unless and until you push back sufficiently well.