skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have some degree of sympathy for the incumbents. Imagine you're in the hotel business. In your world:

* You're a corporation

* You've got insurance requirements

* You've got operational licenses

* Your product is taxed

All these burdens were layered on over the years. Some of them are a result of consumer protection advocacy. Some of them are intended to support the communities in which the hotel is based. Agree or disagree with them, all hotels have to play by the same rules. When right-wingers complain about "regulation", this is the kind of thing they're up in arms about. Services like Uber and Airbnb do an end-run around these business burdens, and the incumbents are crying foul.

Granted, many of the incumbents are easy villains. Corruption almost always accompanies regulation. When you focus the power to set the rules in the hands of a small group of people, that group is always going to get a lot of attention from those whose interests are affected by the rules. The trick is to find the right balance between regulation that protects the public and limiting the power of regulators so that corruption doesn't consume the whole industry.

Having said all that, occasionally an industry needs a reboot. This could be the time for taxis and hotels.
Did an Israeli Company Developed a Cure for ALS?
It's an anti-piracy measure.
This article is a bit old but I've read it more than a few times. Although in today's fast paced world, I really don't know how this would be applied. How expensive would it be to apply this - in terms of increased overheads, and that of slower viewable results.

I definitely like this article though.
Looking at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1072027/Screenshots/1z.png, I find the comment about "perfect spacing and clean typography" almost laughable. I also prefer design that incorporates smart typography to convey importance and structure. His app mockups seem to show an understanding of this, but the site layout in general (especially this section) does not.

(1) why is the "We spend a huge amount of our day..." text in red? (2) why is that text smaller than the previous chunk of text? (3) why is that entire previous chunk of text italicized? (4) how is "Mark as read is useless..." at all related to "Emails aren't just emails anymore"? why are these in the same paragraph? "Mark as read" seems like it should be the beginning of a list of complaints about email, not the supporting sentence for "Emails aren't just emails anymore" -- this just comes off as extremely bad flow of thought, and the typography makes it more confusing. (5) why is the heading for each of the boxes split into all-caps tiny text and no-caps large text? the idea in itself isn't terrible, but the tiny text is too tiny, and the splitting into tiny and large text isn't consistent -- clearly it's meant so that the large text can be read on its own and the tiny text adds to the experience upon closer inspection, and so putting the "and" at the end of the "A clean and" tiny text for the first box makes sense, but then why is the "and" at the beginning of the "and clean typograhpy" large text in the second box?
Why link to the reddit submission ? Why not link to the blog post directly ?
CBS Interactive is looking for Javascript Developers
The CBS Interactive games group is looking for a talented Javascript engineer to join its team. You'll be working on some of the world's largest and most fun entertainment properties including Gamespot, Giant Bomb and Comic Vine.

Who you are
Candidates should be comfortable writing Javascript projects from scratch, though familiarity with JQuery and other platforms such as Node.js are expected. As we rebuild our CMS platform you'll be building dynamic messaging systems, complicated canvas based image systems and building wiki editing tools for some of the web's most passionate online communities (which means they're brutal!). This is a really fun job for someone who likes building new tech as our Internet-native audience is always hungry for the latest and greatest.

Who we are
We're a motley crew of experienced programmers and front-end designers that wants to keep our team small and personal. Outside of launching the sites mentioned above, our team members were there for the launches of TV.com, Zazzle, and Bloglines. We run a fairly flat organization within the team and try to ship on schedule.

Send us some code
Along with your sites please send us some code or small project you're proud of to danny.chi (at) cbsinteractive (dot) com
> Further, a menu with a responsive design, such as the following, negates the need to abandon anything:

> http://jasonweaver.name/lab/flexiblenavigation/

I ran some tests on this menu. It fails on android 2.3.x and 4.x. Also does it really need JS to function properly. No it doesn't, CSS already has all the features needed.
Heroku Toolbelt is also for Linux
Example 1. We are about to send out a large shipment of equipment. Each machine will be outfitted with a QR code. When scanned, the QR code will link to an individual machine page so you can monitor test continuity in real time e.g. Rolls Royce testing the durability of a new tire or Medtronic testing the performance of a small titanium screw intended for use in the body. These tests need to run continually for very long periods of time. They are very expensive to restart. The number of machines is overwhelming to enter individual URLs by hand.

What would be a better approach?

Example 2. Whenever I shop for electronics, I always take advantage of QR codes to read specs and reviews. My local OfficeMax has the codes on almost all price tags, usually linking them to both the manufacturer's page and Amazon reviews.

What would be a better approach?
I can't help but be reminded of http://xkcd.com/927/ every time I see a new collaborative editor. Whether it's Cloud9, Google Collide, Collabedit or Space, one must sacrifice all the benefits of their current IDE in order to use this one. Wouldn't these sorts of projects make infinitely more sense as a plugin for an established text editor or IDE like Sublime or Visual Studio?
There are so many industries where entrenched groups have so many advantages they stop feeling the need to innovate.

Off the top my head:

- Insurance of all kinds

- Payments (visa/mastercard)

- Mattresses - I have no idea why I put this here but I feel like this industry is a cartel

- Diamonds - Speaking of cartels...

- Healthcare
Thanks. I actually took all of the patterns from the wikipedia page. You can find the patterns and their names in the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conways_Game_of_Life#Examples_o...
Title is essentially a lie. These are not javascript performance tips, they are V8 performance tips and may or may not apply to other javascript runtimes. Not only that, but:

* during the presentation Daniel made clear some of these issues are considered bugs, not structural and the V8 team intends to fix them

* whoever "wrote" the list managed to not even understand what was said. Case in point:

Don’t use try {} catch {} blocks

is nonsense, Daniel never said that. What he said is to not mix try blocks and actual processing, because Chrome's optimizer currently can not work on methods with try blocks. The solution being not "Don't use try/catch blocks" but "extract the actual work in a separate function, which can be optimized"

or

Avoid hidden class changes in functions after they are optimized

Watch the talk (if you have not already), read the slides, but do not read this list, it's worthless and will actually mislead you, half the point range from just wrong to the opposite of what Daniel explained. It looks like whoever dumped this "read" the slides without watching the presentation.
I recognize that and I think it's an interesting question (and translates well to all the "twitter is screwing its app ecosystem again" drama), but the way Penny Arcade are going at it is a kickstarter project where they're effectively selling the privilege of not seeing ads for $250k a year. There is competition for that niche, and I think PA would have done well to actually over a product for what they're asking.
Not the original article, but more discussion is happening over here:

http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4225291
Mr. Number (for Android) comes somewhat close. You at least have the option of determining who can get through to you.

I'd prefer something more configurable as well -- priority list of who can reach me at any time, during daylight hours, when I'm generally open to talking, and never.

As well as a way for those with at least some level of trust (and, say, emergency services) to reach out to me directly.

Combination of Mr. Number and a pretty acerbic voicemail message ("Hi, you've reached me, don't leave a message, email me instead, if you're a good friend, feel free to text") low-techs this solution for me.
Yet most large enterprises are "locked in" to exchange, or worse lotus notes for email. If they've learned they hopefully learned to not depend on one phone vendor/platform and provide the ability for say, android, windows phone, bb, and ios devices to get to company resources.
Two questions:

1) Another full stack JS Framework? What makes this special?

2) What interest does Motorola have in JS Frameworks?
I got frustrated with this as well and decided to make it easier. Here is my solution:

http://up.jenius.me
Is it wrong that when I see the term data binding I have bad flashbacks of Silverlight/WPF development?
So, SF should cost more, since it's more desirable, and push people to poor ignored Cleveland to balance out the pressure.
It also supposed to be an open console with Free-to-Play games bundled...
Jungledisk is good and got clients for Linux Mac and windows
Right, but why withdraw products that were already certified?
Firebase founder Andrew Lee on entrepreneurship, the future of web development
Rent-Seeking Assets
This is not meant to be inflammatory, but in my experience Macs last twice as long as most PCs anyways, say nothing of saving the IT department time.

I DON'T WANT the thing to come apart easily with common tools.
WILL the smartphone defeat the digital camera?
Funny, I see SMS as an improvement. Enforced brevity is an improvement IMO.
user=> (defmacro value [& body] (let [retval# (eval `(do ~@body))] retval#))

#'user/value

user=> (macroexpand '(value (+ 1 3)))

4
Makefile for optimizing css, js and index files
Comparing the Association of Secretaries of State to the Tobacco lobby is misleading. The Secretaries of State represent the state, and their opinion that out-of-state notarizations are valid everywhere means the regulators are saying they think this is true. In other words, in your tobacco analogy, Secretaries of State are closer to the FDA than the Tobacco Association.
From the chart it seems like the sales were much more drastically affected by external promotion (being featured by Apple, mentioned on TUAW, and cross promoted from the other app) than any search algorithm changes.

In my opinion, considering how many timer apps there are in the App Store already, making $5k in a little over a month is a pretty good result. That's a nice little passive income stream of $127/day for an app he probably doesn't have to put that much more work into (although I don't think those numbers will be sustainable).
But is RVM really that hard? If you are on a major distribution of Linux or OSX, all you have to do is install the dependencies and then copy and paste the bash command that setups up RVM.

The hangup is usually installing the dependencies. I remember on Ubuntu this involved hunting down one library that wasn't listed on the RVM wiki. Maybe that needs to be fixed with either more documentation on the RVM wiki or a Ubuntu RVM package (that package probably already exists).

On OS X it requires getting GCC to work, again maybe that needs to be clearer on the RVM wiki.

On windows - well on windows I just install a Ubuntu VM and go back to that installation.

But fixing those simple things (documentation, possibly RVM package) is far easier than creating a whole new installation process.
Why not just grab your RSS feed and put it into TwitterFeed or dlvr.it?
Thats because Unicode is STILL a pain to use. I read the articles that come along about Unicode and still don't understand why handling it is so impossible. Until its transparent for a programmer to use, it won't be as widely used as it should. My apps (and I'm ashamed to admit it) aren't Unicode friendly. But its too much work currently for too little reward to go through and make all that code Unicode friendly.
Chrome Web Lab
Secpanel integration with cPanel | linux server security
Nice, but I think the list of activities that you enable people to tweet are not that interesting in my opinion. Tweeting that I opened an issue in some project is more interesting to developers than when I start watching a repo.

Granted, I did not log in, since it requires Twitter, so I might be missing more options.
While I see the argument that this the title is link-bait, I don't think they are necessarily trying to overstate it's significance -- how would you title an article like this without it sounding like link-bait?

It's just showing some of the backlash to Apple's decision. It may not be a significant percentage, but who knows what other potential purchasers may follow suit.
Is this a downstream result of work done by the 280 North team? Meanwhile, Github "Issue count" = 280, heh.
> Cutting that down to, say, 6 hours just doesn't win you that much.

Very important point. Airtravel after 9/11 took a huge step back for the sake of security theater. Used to be, I could get to airport 30m before flight time, and the terminal 10m before takeoff on a relatively light day and have no problem making the flight (I had done this repeatedly). Add ~30m to get to the airport and you're looking at 1hr each way for +2 hrs door-to-door (on average, YMMV).

Now, those times are doubled to tripled, with the added treacherous possibility of missing the flight completely if you happen to get randomly flagged or say or do the wrong thing during security (all with the bonus of either being groped or irradiated).

So that 20hrs becomes 26+ and 6 becomes 12+. Now you've lost a day, either way.
There have been many cases of state courts rejecting out of state notarizations that did not comply with the requirements of the state in which the court sits.

There was a bill a few years ago in Congress that tried to make it so that states would have to honor out of state notarizations, but this bill was vetoed. Until such a bill is signed into law, or either the 9th Circuit or the Supreme Court rules that states must accept out of state notarizations that do not meet the in-state notary requirements, then any notarization in which you are not present is questionable in California.
Ouya brings free-to-play games to TVs
I recently went through the comics archive from about 2004 until now. The comics still resonated, and I found myself frequently checking the blog posts to see what Tycho had said that day. While it was often about old events, it certainly wasn't stale or irrelevant to me.
Leave email alone. It's doing it's job 95% alright. Just use a reasonable client (e.g. http://mail.google.com, Sparrow) and there is really almost nothing to complain about.

The problem is that we are using email for everything.
Since Facebook, people rarely send pictures to each other anymore.
Since Blogging, people rarely send long personal stories to 100 friends.
Etc', etc...
Slowly and carefully we find the right alternatives to the default, which is email.

If you need task management, use Asana or something. It's really good, and it integrates with email quite well.
Also, Trello is excellent as a flexible Kanban board.

It's all about finding and using (rigorously) the right tool.
Don't force everything you need in computing into email, and you won't have to reinvent email.

I really doubt email will change at all. Maybe it will die, or be less common. But it will not change.

It's so simple, why change it anyway?
Cool! Now let's check the basics:

- 2831.323 ms for what workload? The benchmarks game measurements are made at 3 different workloads; but the times that matter are those for the largest workload, in this case N=16,000. So please show the times for N=16,000.

- the benchmarks game measurements are made with output redirected to /dev/null

- both the clojure and java programs are invoked straight from the command line, and include start-up. The Help page provides additional "warmed" measurements for the fastest Java programs, for comparison - because sometimes the JVM startup costs are larger in the mind than they are when measured :-)
And that's the problem with rankings. Because it matters what you mean by "top tier".

I'd argue that Harvard CS is top tier, it's just much, much smaller than the schools it competes against. Michael Mitzenmacher, Leslie Valiant, Michael Rabin, Greg Morrisett, Eddie Kohler, Krzysztof Gajos, Margo Seltzer, and Barbara Grosz are all among the very best in their fields (or in the case of Grosz, were the very best before they went on to be Dean).

In general the faculty are very, very high quality, but in contrast to a school like MIT or Washington, which have probably 60-80 of faculty, Harvard has only about 30.
As someone who has dealt with integrating and synchronizing data and accounts nearly my entire career, I can tell you this whole area is still in "there be dragons here" territory.

Here's a recent example of stuff Google did - merged my G+ circles into my contacts - ok, I can see how that'd be useful... but old or invalid email address for my mom and wife were substituted as first hits on the search when I entered the contacts in Gmail. Consequently, I've sent quite a few emails in the past few days where I'm getting bounces.

That's assuming you don't have to deal with improperly overwritten data, or time-sensitive data (ie, temporary details). Any degree of asynchronicity can create intolerable delays for example.

Abstractions can only get so far, especially for distributed synchronization across potentially adversarial vendors/systems.
As far as mine understanding of JVM goes it works with memory in quite a different way. When JVM starts up it allocates large chunk of memory up-front (usually hundreds of megabytes) even though it doesn't really need all that memory. Usually only a part of that memory is actually used at any given moment. JVM will manage that memory with custom internal malloc/free which will allocate memory to Java objects. All this is needed to implement efficient garbage collection. See [1] for details.

Such complicated memory management is really efficient and works great for server apps. On the client -- not so much. In that case I would rather prefer a slower GC that just uses malloc/free. Why? Because from end-user perspective that's not really great when a simple app grabs a 100-200mb of memory. If all apps were like this you wouldn't be able to run many of them at the same time. (Especially on the older hardware.) Moreover for a complex JVM apps 500mb+ of allocated RAM might be a requirement. [2]

Great example of how things should work is .NET/Mono. Both of the .NET runtimes allocate memory only when it's actually needed and start-up performance is great too. All things considered JVM and CLR are very similar runtimes and there is no reason for a more client-oriented JVM implementation not to be possible.

[1] http://www.quora.com/How-does-garbage-collection-work-in-the...

[2] Eclipse for instance recommends to configure jvm to allocate at least 500mb up-front. (This is done via -Xms and -Xmx parameters.)
More options exists. Unfortunately I didn't mention all of them in screenshot.
"... how would you title an article like this without it sounding like link-bait?"

Oh, I don't know, maybe by avoiding language like San Francisco turns its back on Apple ...
Here's my guess: Synacor. Took me only a few minutes of googling.
Facebook Advertising: Stellar or Stalking?
This just in, all the people who care about what I do on github just follow me there.
I think your intuition is 100% wrong, actually. PCs in cost-sensitive IT environments (especially government ones), are routinely stretched into useful lifespans far longer than consumer devices. It's routine to walk into a government office and see people limping along with 6-8 year old desktops, dusty CRT monitors with screen burn, etc... The ability to take the machines apart and replace components is an important part of this.
Because it's needs
* serious formatting
* no options what to share
* no share individual activity.

I tried twitterfeed on my own and
All reasons above makes this approach not really good.
say nothing of saving the IT department time. [...] I DON'T WANT the thing to come apart easily with common tools.

You might not, but let me tell you: IT departments do. It doesn't make as much sense for an individual, but the benefits of manually repairing machines increases when you're buying them in bulk.
Facts about global warming that you should keep for yourself
Well, in this case you might like the idea to share individual activities, not all of them.
Presumably because they'd like the EPEAT standards changed, and they think the best way to do that is to make a big show of pulling out, rather than have one model after another fail to make the cut.

Thus they're going to find out in short order whether EPEAT is serious about working with them on their new design directions. If they are, then great: new standards are promulgated and Apple's back in the fold. If not, then this was a big story for a few days in July: The Band-aid came off quick, which is usually good PR.
Not me. Being in a ten-plus-hour flight sucks. I'd take six hours packed like a sardine with over-recycled airline food farts over 20 hours with better air pressure/humidity and bigger windows any day, cost being equal.
Hi glomph. We tried to design that page to show that the free version is remarkably different than the Pro version. Currently, the free version has no file storage -- it's also missing many of the features on the Pro version's list. Let me know if this is confusing.
I don't disagree, but I would honestly worry. I love coffee, and one of the best days in recent memory is when a local micro-roaster opened up shop in the Crownsville area (Bean Rush Cafe, fantastic coffee if you're local to it) -- but y'know, sometimes I like cream or sugar in my coffee, and I could very easily see myself being judged for that in the same way I judge people who put soda in their whiskey.

And I'd hate to end up being the coffee-pansy. :'(
Suricata IDPE 1.3 - Intrusion Detection and Prevention Engine
Re mattresses, it's not just your imagination. Many/most of the industry leaders have been caught up in private equity shenanigans over the last few years. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123629959334046669.html
What is wrong with data binding? I only know the basics of it but I find it pretty useful. Is there something I am missing?
Ah ok! thanks for the clarification then. Good job! ;)
That's new. They just announced the Mac OS X version on June 1st:
http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2012/railsinstaller-for-os-x/
A massive NodeConf special
Microsoft probably has the most experience with supporting enterprise customers. Apple is largely consumer-oriented and Google is something else entirely. They might match each other on features, but that's not all businesses look for.
Can Women in Tech have it all?
ImmediateCrypt v.1.0 - Encryption/decryption with AES-256
You don't need to worry about the particular structure of the files if you break the files into fixed-size chunks (e.g. 512KB) and do the dedup based on the chunks. The difference in the metadata of MP3 will be just in the first chunk, and the rest will be exactly the same no matter how you change the ID3 data. This strategy works for many other types of media files, too.
a) $5k in first month w/ bad search results is pretty good, imo, for a paid timer app

b) how did this cost $7k to develop? did he write it himself, or was it all outsourced?

c) this is a nice press hit for him :)