skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't learn to code. Otherwise, you'll end up looking like this man: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/?attachment_id=24755
Agreed, the design was not good at all. Indeed, they now added a compulsory formation in the pilots curriculum for this kind of situation (degraded control mode). However, the pilots took a very big risk when they said "On ne va pas se laisser emmerder par des cunimbs." (We won't be pissed off by cumulonimbi!) and got straight into the storm while others were all rerouting around. Ego kills.
Is it down? I'm getting:
500 - Internal server error.

Overall though very optimistic this could replace Adobe Captivate and some use of Camtasia for me. Please add support to generate a simple list of actions (including or based on edited captions). I'm dying for something that will let me produce:
1. Demo script
2. Handouts
3. Video

All in one run.
"very engineering driven culture. ”product managers are essentially useless here.” is a quote from an engineer. engineers can modify specs mid-process, re-order work projects, and inject new feature ideas anytime"

Maybe this is why Facebook seems to be chaotic for users. They change and change to whatever design they wanted without much consideration about what the user's would feel about the design. Facebook has now become the combined features of the other existing social media.
Remembering Andy Griffith
thanks much...we're going to follow a github type model..public tutorials are free...for premium we are going to offer pdf, ppt, doc and html export to deploy on your own servers...
from the reports it appears that most people onboard would have been blissfully unaware of their impending doom - which is some solace.
I agree the Xbox brand should stand separate of Windows overall. The author did show an image of the Xbox + Kinekt at the beginning but focused on showing the new branding on a laptop later. Perhaps he simply ran out of time or thought it would be obvious that the same branding would be used?
yup working on that...good thoughts
While one pilot made an error, the more senior pilot could not tell the error was being made because of the way the controls work. To put it in your terms - the same problem couldn't occur in a cessna.
Find out who voted for ACTA
Are they really talking about "entrepreneurs"? I have hardly heard that word in Russian media. Now if they talking about the people whom Russians call "businessmen", I can believe it. "Businessmen" has become a generic term for people involved in uncertain economic activity, often shady. It is not uncommon to hear on the evening news of a few "businessmen" resolving their differences with guns. Having so many "businessmen" locked up is not that unusually, especially considering that many criminals simply refer to their activities as business.

I am not making light of corruption in Russia, it is one the top three most serious issues that Russia faces. However, the BBC article seems disingenuous in translating an extremely loaded Russian word "businessman" into entrepreneur and dropping its tremendous criminal baggage.
Elephants and Eyeballs: Real-Time Big Data in the Real World
Never ever do this, esp in the US, even as a joke. I know of cases in my college where students counterfeited $20 bills as a drunk joke: what they found out is that irrespective of the amount federal agents and the goddam CIA got involved and they got persecuted to the maximum degree. My prof was called as an expert witness in the case.
No Linux support for a web application?
Really glad someone is doing emacs screencasts. Awesome job magnars!
Debugging compiled code is absolutely unpleasant. Fortunately, I only have to do it rarely. From what I can tell, debugging JavaScript that was compiled from CoffeeScript is a standard practice, and I simply don't want to pursue that. It's interesting how you describe CoffeeScript as a tool rather than a language, but in my opinion it is still a very leaky abstraction.

As I mentioned, I look forward to revisiting it when a standard toolset has matured.
Cisco Connect Cloud chaos
There were 39 votes for ACTA yesterday - here's the breakdown by country:

France	21
Germany	8
Italy	5
Denmark	1
Finland	1
Greece	1
Portugal	1
UK	1

If like me you live in the UK and are interested why Newton Dunn (Liberal Democrat) voted for this why not contact him:

email: bill.newtondunn@europarl.europa.eu

web: http://www.newton-dunn.com/
You are right that small programs compile to pretty big JS-files, but noone should really care. I can do my "hello world" apps in javascript without a problem, the point of Dart is to write big apps! For those apps the footprint of the compiled JS-code doesn't matter at all. And you can work with nice structured source code.
Very nice. Does it record audio? I am thinking of suggesting this to a local ruby users' group that currently records using video cameras. If it did audio, this would be perfect for them. And I have more use cases in mind.
I've amended the title to observe that this is the July 1012 publishing of the final report for the crash that was in 2009.
Fortunately you can't be sure. On average around 2/3 people die in a plane crash and you can improve your chances a lot by sitting in the right place (near the aisle, a couple of rows from the back is safest if I remember correctly) with seatbelts on. While still terrifying, I was surprised about those chances of survival and so were most of the people I talked to about it.
So You Want to Make a Living by Entering Competitions and Giveaways…
You're making sense in general, but the other justification for patents besides encouraging disclosure of details would be encouraging exploration of a wide range of options. For example: I, the inventor, will experiment with thousands of materials to find the one most suitable as a lightbulb filament. In return, you, the government, will grant me a limited monopoly on use of that material as a lightbulb filament. Once I release a lightbulb with a bamboo filament my invention is trivial to reimplement, but that doesn't mean the patent isn't contributing anything useful.

Now in this case, the analogy would be I, Apple Computer, will experiment with thousands of touchscreen UIs to find the one most suitable for unlocking the device, and you, the government, will grant me a 20 year monopoly on whatever I come up with. I think the sane response is, "eh, no deal." We're just not getting enough out of the bargain. But "easy to reimplement once explained" isn't the problem there -- "easy to implement in the first place" or "no additional incentive required to encourage innovation" is.
Really cool. Feedback: The outlines on the buttons to be clicked obscure the buttons. An optional sound track would be great as well.

Design details make this work or not work - put some effort into figuring out how to guide the user's eye to keep their attention where it needs to be.
Signs you're a startup hipster
puts on tinfoil hat

There's always the chance that Wikileaks in total is just a cover operation for all sorts of other activity, plus giving the US and allies 'reason' to act in various ways. We don't have much of a way to know that any of the documents they've ever leaked were authentic. Bradley Manning could just be a fall-guy for false information.

takes off tinfoil hat

I doubt this is happening, but stranger things have happened. I'm sure the CIA has at least considered such...
This responds to a very real and ubiquitous need. And fills its niche very nicely. It doesn't just make you a passive watcher: it immerses you in the very centre of action. Splendidly executed -- I definitely will be using it. Kudos!
I am glad that TTFB worries have been debunked by cloudflare. However, more issues still linger:

1) Response times, in general, are terrible with Cloudflare enabled. This chart [http://goo.gl/JX1v6] shows how Googlebot responds when cloudflare is enabled and disabled. With Cloudflare enabled in June, response times are above 1000ms. I have since disabled it in the middle of June and response times returned to normal.

2) Cloudflare is getting worse. Look at the chart again. Notice the elevated response times in April? I also had cloudflare enabled then. They hit around 400 - 500 ms in response time. Then I disabled it again at the first of May.

3) Ajax requests, most notably, POST have increased noticeable latency. Some days are better than others.

I do not have anything "special" enabled. Minimize HTML,JS, CSS are not enabled. Nor is rocket loader.

I'd also like to add that when "cache everything" + Minimize HTML, JS, CSS + Rocketloader is enabled, then response times seem to be perfectly normal on a different site hosted on the same box. Googlebot: [http://goo.gl/DRDnF]. However, most of us cannot use this feature unless our content is static.

Everything posted here is based off a free account. I will also be cross-posting this on the cloudflare blog post that this links to.
I really like this. Makes explaining things very easy. One critique, the first step allows me to click on the main screen to advance, but from there I have to move to the navigation bar below. Is this configurable? I only went through the linked example.

EDIT: I didn't catch that you could actually execute the actions laid out to move forward. This wasn't clear, but makes sense now that I've seen it.
Could this be actually desktop software masking as android software? I.e. communicate with Yahoo servers as would android app communicate and avoid may be some spam filters this way?
Amazing. I could really see myself using this.

Although language and UI elements could use some polishing.
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I stopped reading at "very unique". It is unique, or it isn't. Intensifiers to 'unique' tell me the writing is below par; and I've been correct about this enough over the years that I stopped bothering.
Awesome, I love it. I think needs an "auto-play" function though, so people can just sit back and treat it like a video. When I click the "play" triangle, I'm expecting video.
"All I've seen in this thread is the Neonode."

It only takes one, and there is no requirement that that one be from a shipped product from a "major OEM". A sufficiently descriptive Usenet post is sufficient. Patents have been rejected because the described object was previously described in science fiction novels.
Yes, even the pilots didn't seem to realize they were going to crash seconds before hitting the water. I can't begin to imagine the shock of this realisation though.
I sent you an email but it bounced.
yes i guess my example is a bit confusing, you actually have to follow the directions in the caption, if it says click login you have to click login...its interactive
Well, personally I don't want to use a language that compiles to a representation around 50 times larger than the source code.
an alternative would be to move the sticks together, the way non-fly-by-wire planes work.
Well the alternative is what planes with yokes were doing before: they move together. However, I feel this behavior would be odd on a joystick...
One more data point: On Windows, both IE 9 and Chrome 20 measure TTFB correctly via NavTiming, while Firefox does not.
> "surely if you're into ebooks (like I am) then you'd be better off with an actual Kindle."

Unless you're into content that is more than just ebooks. [1] Or you like to be able to flip from your reading to research [2].

Don't get me wrong: I'm iffy on how large the market is for the 7" form factor myself. But even I recognize that if you're looking predominantly for reading++, it makes a strong case.

>"Staring at a backlit screen like that for hours on end can't be good for your eyes."

... you say on a forum by and for people who generally spend at least 8 hours staring at backlit screens at work and then go home to stare at them some more for their side projects, hobbies and pass-times...

[1] Instapaper, PDFs, CBRs, mixed-media presentations, research papers, etc.

[2] Browsing, reference apps, etc.
Nay. It just seems like an awful PR ploy. There won't even be a job at the end of it, and if there is it won't be given to anybody based on the in-game interview.

But hey they've got a lot of press out of it, so good for them. Another one of those 'why didn't I think of it moments'.
Could simply be the case that all 'simple' questions have already been answered.

Nitty-gritty problems tend to be the edge-cases that don't attract a lot of attention, hence fewer user participation.

That said, StackOverflow is without a doubt the single best programmer resource out there.
80 cols is to fit on a punched card and has nothing to do with the variable name length limit on old versions of FORTRAN.
Most of the mainstream media is unquestioning at best. The government doesn't need to manipulate WikiLeaks. The sort of people who are more inclined to listen to WikiLeaks over CNN or Fox News were already skeptical, so there's nothing to gain by feeding them false information.
yeh thats an older module..we'll have to fix this...thanks for pointing it out
The superdollar article on Wikipedia is very interesting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdollar
The average plane crash is not a 10km stall into the ground.
Thank you so much for this! I have clients who can't figure out how to use certain web apps and typing it out just isn't the same as being there in person. This is the next best thing.
Yeah maybe all instructions should be at the bottom , not on top of the screenshot.
The higher-res screen might change things, but I've never found reading letter/A4-sized PDFs particularly enjoyable on anything under 9". PDF is a print-focused format to begin with, it's never quite handled varying screen sizes well.
Could simply be that most questions have already be answered.
we're working on that to speed it up, would you prefer a mode with no animations?
HTC Does Not Infringe On Apple’s Patents,Says UK Judge
Here is my test, with test output for gc and gccgo:

https://gist.github.com/3053930

The numbers are from Go 1.0 as that's what is available on Ubuntu Precise, my test box. (Getting similar numbers with 1.0.2 on a different box where I don't have gccgo.)

I realized that the first loop was using "i < len(ints)" as a loop test, which turns out to be more expensive than I thought, and the compiler doesn't optimize it into a constant (which would be expecting too much, I guess). After rewriting the test, the function call case is only slightly faster, although it is still significantly faster with gccgo.
So you're saying that people won't respond to the incentive to hoard cash?

I'm hungry... really f%!#ng hungry, right now. I have $10.00, which - today - buys me 2 hotdogs and a soda. But, if I wait a year, that same $10.00 will buy me a nice steak, some corn chowder, a side of sweet potato fries and a margarita. What do I do? Hmmm....
or the lack of
This is akin to saying evolution through survival of the fittest was not a big deal because it just shifts the question to how speciation occurs...
The book by Frank Abagnale is a pageturner too. I've always liked reading those "social hacking" books, like Catch Me If You Can, or Kevin Mitnick's story The Art of Deception.
I don't know the answer but this is "mission critical" code. Averaging inputs is more testable than having a process for passing control and managing edge cases.

Every branch in mission critical code is tested for all possible permutations. Averaging is simpler from a verification standpoint. Theoretically...
here's a demo we made using for salesforce on how to create a new lead
http://www.iorad.com/?a=app.htmlplayer&accessCode=GUEST&...
All the Javascript on the site is broken when your browser locale is set to Japanese, it seems like cfmessage_ja.js is corrupted: http://imgb.mp/ipz.jpg
Love it -- put that simple sentence up on the pricing page even if it's half baked.
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I disagree - the instructional dialog is the whole point.

I'm not sure if you can control it's position, but that is probably the only thing you'd need to solve any problems (though I strongly disagree this is more difficult for users than a traditional screencast)
hahaha, i totally agree - if it is 50x larger i would use a different tool too :) But as i said, if your source is 100KB it's not 50x larger, maybe it's 20% larger than hand written JS.
Currently the footprint of the js-code is around 150KB. While dart2js is evolving this number is declining constantly. In the end when you add js-minification you will have a footprint of maybe 20-30KB i guess.
The world's first genetically modified humans have been created
Haxe is nice, but it is still not as transparent as one could hope. The differences in the way its various targets work make this understandable. Still, it still isn't "code once, run everywhere".

The main problem seems to be flash is really directed to pixel/bitmap manipulation. While on cpp/OpenGL that is extremely slow, and you have to use something like a Vertex Buffer Object.

The end result is that you probably will still have to keep two (at least) separate rendering paths if you want to support all targets.

That being said, the fact that the mobile platforms (android and iOS) are the same target (cpp), together with desktop (osx, linux and windows) makes it a very nice platform for developing a game. IMO the html5 target is the weakest link at this point.
> "I doubt the actual description of the patent would describe Google Glass"

The independent claims of the '859 patent (1 and 17) both specify stereoscopic displays. Inventions can only infringe a patent if they, at a minimum, include all the elements specified in a patent's claim.

Google Glass has a single display.
It can't possibly infringe.
Mapping Our Foursquare's Final Check-in
It might be better to put in a support request on this rather then posting on the blog. I've highlighted your comment on our internal chat.
A better link might have been
http://wikileaks.org/syria-files/
Question about Git and branches for experiments
Following up on a prior discussion about Git tutorials vs. workflows, here's a question about Git workflow in a particular situation:

I am working on a project that involves evaluating two different libraries for a specific function. I have it implemented with the first library, and am about to implement the code to use the second library.

So, what are the relative pros and cons of using branches vs. cloning the code? Is it simply a matter of preference? When is one approach preferable over the other?
Unless the Internet involves using PHP, in which case he'd rather kill it :-)
I wrote an explanation of how flight instruments are powered that is germane to this discussion (and IMO helps clarify what happened).

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2595230
Is Silicon Valley thinking too big?
My experience with this:

http://www.loper-os.org/wp-content/killed.png

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=91

Anyone who sets the sheeple a-bleating is labeled a "troll."
Testing Magento using Behat/Mink
Wikileaks To Publish Millions Emails From Syrian Officials
The pitot static system had demonstrated itself to be failing, leading the pilots to lose faith in their instruments.

Let he who has flown in the soup with flaky instrumentation cast the first stone.
> The fact that the pilot ignored the continuous "Stall! Stall! Stall!" alarm
> and kept the control stick pulled fully back

The fact is that the black boxes recorded this behavior. Can we be 100% certain that the copilot actually did this? My concern is that we're still trusting the output of a system that has proven to be suspect.
Personally, I'd like to see long term elements of a company have more power than transient ones (e.g. companies that are buying up big chunks of stock). A stock holder would be happy to raise the stock high and then sell it off. If the place goes bankrupt after that, who cares. As much as I dislike Zuckerberg I'd trust him to care more about the long term success of his company than I would a share holder.
Hmm, it didn't seem to work.
I'm so glad you mentioned that, I wasn't going to watch it at first. A synopsis prepared by Hawking hours earlier read on command by his robot voice, all the while having the camera focused on him while he's shifting in his seat waiting for the statement to end, didn't interest me. But that smile at the end made my week.
How to create a Runner Game for mobile, Part 2
> You just seem to have a very specific idea of what teleological means.

If you redefine any word into a fine enough mist, you can make it mean anything you want.

> Evolution moves towards diversity.

So does cream spreading out in a cup of coffee. Is that teleological, too?
The small table comparing a large Wikipedia page is really the main point, a relative comparison of TTFB.

The mistake was is making a relative comparison on such super small numbers. If your TTFB is less than 2ms, then you are fine. You are better than fine.

If your TTFB is 1.5 seconds, then you are struggling.

In determining if you have a TTFB issue comparing the relative improvement of super small numbers isn't likely to help you much.
DAMN! This has been my million dollar idea I'll build one day for 2 years. Oh well, at least someone else did a good job of it.

Pretty much exactly what I was thinking. I even wireframed the same interaction. Frustrated but happy. At least someone did it.

How long did it take you guys to put this together? It's quite slick. I hadn't though of using a java applet to record stuff. That locks in the IP and helps with some things, but I was imagining more of a browser extension approach.
I share the author's disappointment that the gmail app didn't get action buttons for incoming emails. About half of the emails I receive are junk. Having to launch the gmail app to delete them or archive them seems like overkill.

Happily, now that the notification system is in place it's probably pretty trivial for the gmail team to provide this functionality as an app update.
This was the format that a lot of good journalism used to be in, before the internet chopped up everyone's attention span into bite-sized bits.
audio is on the drawing board, using text to speech, but wont be till September...but thanks so much for getting the word out..much appreciated
Why do you keep deleting this and re-submitting it?
Using Head JS for WordPress
It seems like admitting a 'blind teleology' would relegate the argument to complete meaninglessness; a teleology that behaves as if it were random is not worth talking about.
Verizon needs differentiation so they can play manufacturers off against each other. If the phones from several different manufacturers are essentially identical (aka "stock") then there is no point stocking all of them since that really would cause consumer confusion. By having a variety of devices they don't become too dependent on one manufacturer.

Like any geek I strongly prefer stock. But if I was in the business there is no way I would do it. Since Google is weak on social I'd make sure my "enhanced" software experience put Facebook front and centre. I'd make my screen contents seem bright (choice of theme and default wallpaper). Consumers are notorious for buying the loudest sound systems (something Bose exploits) and the brightest TVs (hence default modes on them). HTC's stuff looks good - it shows the time in big digits, somewhat retro with the weather. And then I'd sure as heck make it sound like you are getting more. Literally by claiming various enhanced sound apps, I'd do something about storage (eg a partnership with Dropbox), and something about peace of mind should you lose the device (remote wipe, lock, gps find me) and more.

The moment you start the customizations even if it is just additional widgets & apps, extra wallpapers etc it becomes a simple slippery slope from stock. They all give people a reason to buy your "enhanced experience" phones versus anyone saying they have just stock.