skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My two cents... It seems to require quite a bit of scrolling. Also, even on 1920x1200, I can't get a single screenshot on a single screen (i.e., I can't see a whole web page screenshot in a single screenful). Perhaps a scaled down preview screenshot that scales up upon click would make more sense here.
Michael Nielsen explains why explaining quantum comouting is inherently difficult (TL;DR our intuition works classically and thus a complete classical model of a quantum computer would imply that a quantum computer could be simulated classically) http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/quantum-computing-for-everyon...
I personally designed all the sites. Some required markup others required just a .psd delivery. Depends on the client. Thanks for the kind words as well!
On the opposite side of things, here are some of the largest single-celled organisms:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophyophore
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caulerpa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valonia_ventricosa
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Does anybody have any insight on how a process like this is debugged at Apple? I've heard, for example, that at Amazon there is a process of blame-finding after a major issue/outage like this, whereas at Google I hear things are more post-mortem let's fix the process that led the human error involved in the outage, rather than blame the person who made the faulty commit.

Anybody know how things work inside Apple's culture?
This is pretty cool. The only suggestions I have are the obvious ones of finding search strings anywhere (not just the beginning), and including more domains (which I'm guessing means adding more bigrams).

Where did you get the list of domains? Does it include all six character ones, or just the ones made of the common bigrams?
Can you have it so that the body has a "nojs" class that is removed upon a first javascript call? Or I guess, add a "js" class which makes the container invisible until the fade effect is called?
We've been using Triggit for years. I can't say enough good things about them or the product. Well worth the call!
Assuming you save all of the $4752 a year, which is dubious, that's barely enough to send you to a low-tier university or community college. Mind you, that's better than nothing, but if you think the opportunities open to students who go to lower-tier universities are the same as those available to students who were able to afford top-tier universities' egregious tuition, then you've got another thing coming.

In short, it's a cycle: Those who can't afford to go to a good college have less career opportunities open to them, ensuring they have a hard time sending their children to a good college.

The solution, of course, is a wide and far-reaching scholarship program that lets students not worry about their socio-economic status when applying to colleges, but that's "socialism".
Can somebody please provide some context for this?
The edits weren't done in the spirit of screwing around with it. They were done in the spirit of improving it.

Yes, if you've got someone who can't stand not leaving their personal imprint on everything that passes by them, you've got a problem. Doubly if it breaks stuff.

However, if you've got someone who makes studied changes to (text|code) with the goal, and better yet, effect, of improving it, you've got gold.

The team here could use some process. It could also use a lot of maturity.
Nice. You should run the domains through domai.nr's "info" API (http://domai.nr/api/docs/json#info-api), so the user doesn't have to manually test by clicking the button.
Seems like Cristina wants to follow the venezuelan model. At least they have some real internal production, not like Venezuela where the only thing we produce is oil and everything has to be imported at black market dollar rates.

Ultra high inflation, here we go!
Install the mentioned 4chanx extension. Hovering a quoted post ID will actually show the post, and you can also see/expand replies to a post in the top right.
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It would help to add that while the age of everyone posting is a broad range, the most active users are teenagers and people in their early 20s. At least that's the impression i get after browsing for a few years.

Also, while it could be said that notoriety attracts a good crowd for them, so does their anime discussion as there are several boards dedicated to different styles of artwork (and, of course, the fact that the entire website is styled after another hugely popular Japanese Anime board, 2chan.net).
The problem is programming is still hard, even in 2012. PHP makes it look easy enough on the surface, but people skip learning all the other stuff you have to know to be a competent programmer. They're often completely unaware that they need to learn anything else, or completely uninterested in doing so—they think they're experts already because they can string some lines of PHP together to make a Web site that mostly seems to work, as long as no one's trying to break it.

Then they go on to teach others—other who, just starting out themselves, have no idea they're learning from someone who knows barely any more than they do. Or, they go on and get jobs doing this, and their very amateur code end up out in the wild.

I hate this effect because I'm definitely a fan of anyone who wants to being able to experiment with programming. I got my own start screwing around with code on my family's computers, probably like a lot of us here. Thankfully, I started so young that it was more than a decade before I got a job writing code. I even learned a thing or two in that time!

Of course, I also started with BASIC, then jumped to assembly for two different CPUs before moving onto C and a handful of other languages. Enough curiosity and dedication can get you through less newbie-friendly languages.

Maybe requiring that curiosity and dedication as a barrier to entry is a good thing. I think both are absolutely required, even in 2012, to become even a competent programmer.
Some of the experienced PHP developers have recently started a PHP mentoring program with the aim of helping beginners and intermediate PHP developers. Info: http://phpmentoring.org/

If you're interested in mentoring or being mentored, add yourself to the list. https://github.com/phpmentoring/phpmentoring.github.com/wiki...

The program has only been initialized 4 days ago and it has gotten quite a bit of interest.

Freenode: #phpmentoring
harthur's Bayesian classifier module is also awesome: https://github.com/harthur/classifier. Using it to classify videos based on tags was the first time I'd made anything with ML.
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Interesting, thanks for the response! Yeah, of course I'd figured you guys had answers for those questions, I'm just genuinely curious.
Right now what is happening is that companies are shifting their R&D efforts towards diseases that have relatively low regulatory barriers. The best example is the shift out of diseases like diabetes (treatments are relatively effective, so safety standards are very high) into diseases like cancer (where treatment options are poor and safety standards are relatively low because patients die so quickly).

In the future I think it will be a combination of new technologies that allow drug makers to prove efficacy and safety in a more cost effective way. I also think regulators will soften their hard-line stance on safety (in some areas). The FDA has already started to do this. Instead of saying "that drug isn't proven safe" they are saying "that drug has been proven safe, but it helps a lot so maybe we'll allow the drug company to sell it to a few patients until we get more data".

The current drug patent system isn't the best way to incentivise R&D investment, but all the other options out there seem worse right now. You are correct, however, in saying that the costs associated with drug approval are often external to the company (the FDA). So when you pay $300/month for a new drug, a lot of what you're paying for is an assurance of efficacy and safety (and the gov't agency that assures it's done right).
http://www.marco.org/2012/07/04/app-store-corrupt-binaries
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Good point. Some of the work is much longer (like crazyegg) so it's always going to require a scroll. I personally like larger screenshots so you can see detail - I always hated squinting at designs that were shrunk to browser. I'll see what I can do! Thanks
I am not `its_so_on` but I would agree that it should be some sort of basic skill that people should probably take for granted.

The first reason is because it's at the bottom of one of the most contentious issues facing modern man: the question of whether we are ultimately mechanical in nature, and what that means moving forward. To understand this you have to understand what machines are, and what they do. It also helps on other contentious matters like understanding how natural selection works -- and that natural selection is possible -- to explain simple genetic algorithms and how 'fitness functions' can be used to indirectly design complex structures.

The second reason is that everybody today owns several computers. The single biggest thing that I use JavaScript for is GreaseMonkey scripts to make my favorite web sites do what I expect them to do. I think a lot of frustration comes from tiny things which we can't control -- and that computers give us a tremendous opportunity to control those tiny things.
There was an error with the FairPlay DRM signing process that lead to a lot of app binaries becoming corrupt; people would go to download updates from the app store, and after doing so would be completely unable to launch the app. Not even a splash screen or a display of the freeze-dried screenshot from multitasking. Half a second of black, then kicked back out to Springboard.

Marco did a really good job of cataloging it because Instapaper was one of the affected applications: http://www.marco.org/2012/07/04/app-store-corrupt-binaries
OS-9 was pretty cool considering it was a fully fledged multitasking OS that ran in a very tiny amount of RAM (I think 128K was the minimum?).

Of course we ran it in 8MB on 68020s which was simply luxury.
I've seen a bunch of people recommend /tg/ (tabletop gaming), that it was totally different from the awful parts of 4chan. I went there, and I think I had to scroll down half a page to see people tossing around f-g and f-ggot.

Yeah, no thanks.

I still think "Reddit for grownups" is a potentially viable business. A semi-moderated community of communities with no tolerance for low-effort garbage or trolling. As it is now, there are plenty of decent topical fora scattered around the internet, but they're mostly not great technically or culturally. I'm not sure exactly how, but there's definitely a lot of room for improvement.
I do the visual design, UI & UX. I work with a developer who handles all the code (I know mostly css but JS skills are suspect). Will run it by him.
I'm the author, it works best in Safari and IE 9. Use the bookmarklet to destroy any website.

Source is here: https://github.com/plehoux/fontBomb/tree/master/src/coffee
Chavez announced a couple of years ago that Venezuela had a "bulletproof" economy and that we would not be affected by the evils of the capitalist breakdown.

As soon as oil prices went down, our economy started shrinking.

When oil prices are lower, the government cannot keep the fake value of the Bolivar and they have to devalue. In the end, the people pay the price with ultra-high inflation rates (28% in 2011).
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Could you tell what changes exactly are you talking about?
Sure, but in writing for a broad audience, you aim to cover the bulk of the readers despite differing tastes. If you look at the examples from Jakob Nielsen's work on writing for the web, you can see that people who are fine with the giant-wall-o'-text approach are also fine with something that shows more structure.
The list is based off of about 30 or so high frequency bigrams. Based on people finding this useful, I'm going to go ahead and get a bit more creative in how I generate them to find new combinations.

Of particular interest is finding common 2-char beginnings and endings of words. It wouldn't be hard to implement and scan a dictionary, but if anyone has a direct link to these I'd really want to get these added (or create a separate page just for these).
Nobody ever lives to tell the story...
Ask HN: What's a good "developer's guide to startup equity" book?
I need to understand things like:

1. how vesting works (and what that means if you leave/get fired before the vesting period)

2. Prefered vs common stock in a buyout situation

3. How stock options work

4. Good dilution vs bad dilution and what that means when I have a N% equity stake

etc.

This is, "As a co-founder/CTO in a startup" not "as a founder I want to give equity away to bring on money/a cofounder/whatever"
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Lots of haters here, just because the OP said Segway Killer in the title. I think this could have a legitimate market to replace things like gas powered scooters. Details seem thin right now, but if it works well and the price is right they could definitely sell these beyond the high end consumer market.
Hunger, biomes (although that's an old change now), Endermen, end game.
What the summary - and the book - is saying is that living in 'innovation hubs' is good not only for programmers, scientists and the like, but also for 'ordinary folks' who provide services to those people working directly in 'innovation'.
Thanks for the suggestion :) I'd almost prefer to continue doing the "Test" button since it'll likely only occur on a domain a user is interested in (although bad UX). I'm trying to keep my bandwidth and network IO to a minimum :)

I could, however, change my method of performing a WHOIS check for querying domai.nr instead, since I likely won't hit WHOIS limits that way.
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Siiick!!
There's a link in the very first sentence of the article...
I didn't buy it, but I saw colert.com and thought it sounded like a pretty good company name. Reminds me of alert I'd imagine some kind of website monitoring service perhaps
Well as long as you make it clear that they were created that size because God likes a challenge - rather than any sort of adaptation to their environment - that should be OK
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I would only say that you would want to immediately reset all user passwords if the passwords were leaked, not necessarily if the algorithm that you are using is bad for whatever reason. And the idea would be to give users a couple weeks (or days) to log in and then force the reset on all the remaining(maybe once you get to a certain percentage of your active user base).

I like the method that link provided, but there are some drawbacks, needing to update every user record with a new hash (offline process) - this is almost guaranteed to require taking the site down, which most people do not like to do. This is because you can't have some users with the old hashing process ,and some with the new.
In quantum mechanics a particle is not described by a position and velocity but by a wave function that represents a probability distribution of the possible states of the particle. When a measurement is made the particle takes one of the possible states, with a probability determined by the wave function. This is what people mean when they say that a particle can be in multiple states at the same time.
As I looked through the list, I saw a whoooole lot of potential pharmaceutical company names. Made me laugh.
Cheap for MVP / Dev = Dotcloud [http://dotcloud.com/]. Costs nothing to use as a dev platform, you just get few resources (which you don't need, since you have no users). Publish it live, enable billing, and scale up or down as needed. Scale down to keep costs low where not needed. SUPER easy to use, especially with Python.

Scale doesn't really affect recommendations either way if you're using Python/Django. You'll still want to use Celery, but scaling everywhere except DB is fairly prescriptive. Not knowing how the data is structured, be sure to look at Mongoengine. I've been using it with Django lately and loving the simplicity.

Ease of use for hosting = Dotcloud again. Super super simple. Promise. Integrates with github to version your app, no cost to get started, and deploys are as simple as 'dotcloud push . <appname>'.

Simple payments integration = Stripe [http://stripe.com]. My last app went from not having billing to doing recurring subscription billing with Stripe in about 20 minutes. It's hard to get easier than that. Similar terms to Paypal, supports major CCs.

For email processing, a lot of people recommend Sendgrid or Mailgun, but I've found that I actually really like Amazon SES for this. There's no free tier, but it's dirt cheap to use, and once you'd get into the paid tiers for the other services, I've found that SES still comes out cheaply.
People is lazy, they rather rent an electric (wheel)chair or a golf cart. Standing is not an option and that's the segway's failure point.

Now, put an electric engine and a joystick on a La-Z-boy and you got a winner.
Not sure if you meant to imply the brain is an inherently quantum system or not, but if so:

> Theoretically then systems of the brain/mind should be able to be duplicated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem

It's actually theoretically impossible.
Nothing wrong with domai.nr, I actually love it. I also love bustaname. Both of those require you to have some idea of what you're searching for beforehand. This is for those of us who want to browse through a list of possibilities and remove guesswork.
It is state law. Some states require every individual unit to have a price tag on it, not a shelf tag, for example. That sounds awesome for consumer protection but realize it means that Home Depot has to individually wrap and price individual screws.
A hard currency is a globally traded currency expected to serve as a reliable store of value. The Argentine peso isn't widely enough traded, not to mention subject to devaluation, to even remotely qualify as a hard currency.
Could Co-Location/Dedicated servers not give the same benefits with regard to costs? The cloud was not designed for continuous predictable workloads (although people use it for that purpose).
I think the Saudis might disagree !
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but the Higgs Boson does not have anything to do with gravity, with one curious exception.

But it's "main" job is inertia. The Higgs Boson get us one step closer to explaining why it takes more energy to start a proton moving than to start an electron moving. It does not explain them attracting eachother.

The one curious problem with Higgs' Boson not being related to gravity is that for some unknown and currently unexplained reason, inertial mass is equal (except for a constant factor) to gravitic mass.
Thanks! That sounds bad, glad I'm not an iOS developer
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I won't consider mandatory voting, someone forcing you to vote, freedom at all.

I was in Argentina the last election, I saw buses of poor people that were given bocadillos and $10 with instructions of who they should vote.

Argentina is going downhill. I know, I have family there.
Cisco will not arbitrarily disconnect customers from the Cisco Connect Cloud service based on how they are using the Internet.

Cisco Connect Cloud and Cisco Linksys routers do not monitor or store information about how our customers are using the Internet and we do not arbitrarily disconnect customers from the Internet. The Cisco Connect Cloud service has never monitored customers’ Internet usage, nor was it designed to do so, and we will clarify this in an update to the terms of service.

Cisco Linksys routers are not used to collect information about Internet usage.

Cisco’s Linksys routers do not track or store any personal information regarding customers’ use of the Internet.

Ignoring all other aspects of this for the moment, I think startups can all learn something from this. Make sure you check what your lawyer is saying on your behalf. Putting "You agree not to use or permit the use of the Service: ...(ii) for obscene, pornographic, or offensive purposes;" in your TOU may help protect you from some obscure theoretical legal point of view, but from your customer's perspective it makes you seem malicious.

Ironically(?), the first thing you have to agree not to do is "invade another's privacy"
Sorry, I meant they are too niche.
The segway started as technology for wheelchairs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBOT).

Dean Kamen was looking for a way to give those who were chair bound the ability to 'be taller' so they could reach items on shelves. It also allowed the user to go up and down stairs and even the ability to go over sand, if I recall. It seemed like it was on the path to allowing those with disabilities the ability to gain some freedom back. Sadly, and probably due to the cost of the chair, it looks like they are no longer being produced.
The best part about a bike is, you can go 25mph to the city center, and when you get to the pedestrian area, you just get off and walk. Park the bike or don't, it won't keep you from getting through the walkway. If you're too tired to get home, just put it on the front of a bus and ride home.

Problem is, bikes aren't cool.
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Not everyone who programs wants to be a competent programmer, or even a programmer at all. Some people just want to build a contact form for their website, or work out how to pull a list from a database and display it in the sidebar of the their blog.

PHP lets them do that without having to learn anything more complex. Why spend days or weeks learning something when you can work out how to do what you need to do in hours?