skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like it. A VERY MINOR piece of feedback: the font is ugly as sin. I don't know why, but it kept distracting. It feels... off balance.
This is the basic problem with the current path most startups take, and indeed a real problem with business in America today. Venture Capital kills companies. The money changes it all.

This applies to just about any business venture that involves investment by outside parties. There are obviously exceptions but usually when money gets involved, compromises start being made to make more money.

This has disillusioned me for my entire 16yr career... I have never found a company that wasn't internally corrupted by money.
I'm interested in that... What breakages stop folks from using Firefix?
This is great, thanks for this.
For now i'm just waiting on them to fix it, and serving fonts via nginx from our web-front end.
Five years after the iPhone, carriers are the biggest threat to innovation
Functional programming: A step backward?
Do you complain that movies take too long with the plot when you haven't seen the villain vanquished by the 5-minute mark?
taken..i wasnt to crazy about it either
supposedly this is why Google's Chrome iPad app feels fast yet is actually slower than Mobile Safari at JavaScript

The JavaScript performance fetish has shockingly little relevance to the actual runtime performance, beyond being a loose correlation with "focus on performance". Aside from JavaScript still being relatively trivial, benchmarks focus on the same code running thousands of times, where reality often sees a given piece of code executed one or in the single digits, annihilating the JIT benefits.

Safari on Windows is a horribly, horribly slow, sloggy browser, yet it has amazing JavaScript numbers.
Having only recently realized just what StackExchange is and how to use it (I'd been running across it in Google searches for a while), one frustration for me, in looking for questions to answer, is an inability to tick off questions I'm not interested in answering, which continue to clutter my view of the site.

At web scale, everything is crud to 5 nines. Give me noise controls. The good stuff's in there, but you need to be able to surface it.
How can I donate to you guys?
I agree, the next buttons are too invasive. I'd love to see them as left and right arrows near the edges that bold with mouseover. I think that users would be more familiar with that as well. Also love the idea to have voiceover too by another HN reader.

I too dislike screencasts. This is a great concept. Good luck.
Retina Displays are Tricky For Publishers
The other reason things work this way in functional languages might be the way your nesting tends to work out. For example, it would be common in Clojure to write something like:

(set-result-to (do-this-to (do-that-to (do-the-other-thing-to (map map-function some-input-data)))))

If the order of arguments to map was reversed, your map function would be the only one messing up the right-to-left flow of your data.

/so not a functional programmer
http://lasa.epfl.ch/teaching/lectures/ML_Phd/Notes/ML_Lectur...

Is another great resource that introduces many ML topics from the ground up.
Depends on what kind of phone you're carrying. The iPhone with it's 3.5" screen is not a great size for reading books. The screen is just too small, meaning you either get tiny letters or a tiny amount of text on each page. I've read a novel on my phone, but I wouldn't do it regularly.

The iPad on the other hand works well, for me at least. The screen gives me about as much space as a hardback book, and I set the font size to match. With white-on-black, it's quite easy on the eyes. Sucks in the sun, though.
Pure CSS tab selection
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> epistemologically speaking, we have no basis for ruling it out nor accepting it

So we provisionally rule it out, like how I provisionally rule out the possibility I'm the current king of the Royal Kingdom of Thanatopsis.
If I were Zuckerberg, I'd be terrified of slipping into a premature complacency or a heavyweight process that prevents change.

He just listed Facebook on NASDAQ - cant think of a single business decision that would do more to cause this result than that!
DLP projector and selective lighting make rain invisible for drivers
yes - this was our thinking ..for people that want just the video they would prefer just the step by step document version like when you press the "quick guide" button in the playbar...agree? disagree?
Other than the airspeed sensors freezing up, I'm not aware of any other known malfunctions. What makes you say the system was "proven to be suspect"?
But does it have to be that way? Shouldn't things cost less for everyone? Shouldn't people have more free time? Wouldn't a society where people's basic food and housing needs are met at near zero cost be less stressed and less inclined to violence?
Didn't TTFB become popular because back then the start-up/handover time of the request from the server to the URL handler, CGI, FastCGI, etc., was significant depending on the handler's language, ... Far less significant now. Cutting TCP packets with compression is much more useful.
Making public tutorial free is a GREAT idea. You should also create various tutorials for common tasks and host it on your website like 'http://iorad.com/tutorial/how-to-link-to-particular-time-in-...

I think it will be a PERFECT SEM strategy.
How exactly mandatory minimum sentences prove that legal system is corrupt?
I have found lots of good answers on SE sites (almost all completely via Google) and I don't think it's getting any worse. I do find it hard to participate in the sites as I almost never have a question that is not already answered, which is a drag because without sufficient rep you can't vote on answers, and I don't want to just add comments because it feels like I'm just adding noise.

I did finally get enough rep on Server Fault that I can upvote things, which may help there. But I don't want to go through a concerted effort on each and every SE site I care about in order to participate. Maybe that's what SE wants (I know they want strong communities, I listened to the SE podcast since the very beginning) but it feels like a limiting factor to me.
> I said we can't know if there is an external force.

Can you know for sure you're not the Queen of England?
When you spend millions advertising a service, its usage increases. What a surprise.
This is why I'm excited about the new Nook, it's eink but has the ability to backlight itself when needed to be read at night, but still has the eink benefits when read during the day. Mind you that one's $139.

Only reasons I haven't already got it was some EXPENSIVE surprises recently mixed with kinda hoping they take one more leap in features within the next year to make the upgrade from my regular nook just a bit better.
I just got one. It's quite nice for reading at night or in the evening.

It's not actually a backlight, though. It's front-lit by LEDs under the bezel and a diffraction grating that spreads the light.
True: I spent years swimming upstream trying to get PHP developers to log sensibly and actually fix problems rather than suppressing the notices, which is probably why I'm much happier with the Python community.
Maybe in the non-pathological case (two pilots performing the same actions almost in sync--which would include many moments of minor conflict as one transitions before the other) it results in a slightly smoother result?

Even if so, a terrible design choice to improve the common case at the expense of the rarer but much more critical case.
well i think google's exclusion of their native camera app is telling. this device is not intended to be used as a camera. you most likely have a much better one in your pocket at any given time: your mobile phone.
What to do in case of multiple of 6... for eg if we take 6,12,18,24 etc ? It won't work then.
All the commands are implemented on the remote end (hence the latency), and some of them look like they are a limited node.js reimplementation (git is mostly the real deal, though the command list is whitelisted). I would be interested in a version that runs locally in JS/Linux.
Show HN: Filter through all your FB friend's relationships - my weekend project
They could also make the sticks move together even on fly by wire planes (Boeing does it) using force feedback. That is one thing that Airbus really should have done instead of providing no physical feedback. The expectation is that you would use your eyes instead, but the visual channel is already heavily loaded.
The point isn't about me reading tutorials to learn Git.

The point is about convincing people to use Git by pointing them to tutorials and have them come back with blank stares and "why do I need this exactly?" questions.
Absurd Samsung claim
" Samsung also made an absurd argument that a sales ban of the Galaxy Nexus would harm "certain "techie" consumers who value the pure Android operating system … and who will be unable to find any close substitute within the same price point." The court summarily dismissed the claim, citing Samsung's own frequent assertion that it sells more than one smartphone."
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/07/03/court_denies_samsungs_motion_to_stay_galaxy_nexus_injunction.html
It's a problem, but it certainly wasn't my only - groovy, to be precise.
Another Apple Product
In Australia, we've had polymer notes for 20 years, and counterfeiting is a thing of the past, to the point where I was puzzled as to why someone in the US was marking my $50 note during a purchase while visiting. Paper notes feel nice, but polymer lasts longer and are effectively counterfeit-proof.

Prior to this, we had a woeful $100 note, which was black and white with a bit of subtle colour. Pretty, but a dumb idea for currency. It was not unknown for folks to photocopy one, scrunch it up, and wander into a convenience store in the early hours when the staffer was tired...
Yep. Safari also performs great in some ridiculous benchmarks (like a personal CSS 3D transforms abuse benchmark), but it's not a very nice browser in real use.
Just as interesting as the leaks themselves has been the pathological hatred traditional journos seem to have for Assange/WL or new press in general.
You should definitely focus on URLs and content on the landing page to help your search engine ranking. The current URL structure is not optimal.

Is there a email I can reach you at? Alternatively, please contact me at me@solutionyogi.com. Would love to share some more ideas.
This is a very good point - because the costs of trusting the wrong person are so high (Jail, them stealing your money) then the most important thing for criminals is a solid understanding of the background of the other person.

This is why families and old school friends frequently figure together. And why jail makes for furure partners.

Perhaps we should start oldjailbuddy.com - networking for criminals
Just from looking at the graph, it seems like there is almost no change and the increase is purely incidental.

In other words, users, who torrent, will torrent even without pirate bay; users, who don't torrent, won't really start to.
Bradley Manning could just be a fall-guy for false information.

I doubt this is happening, but stranger things have happened. I'm sure the CIA has at least considered such...

If you want to go all super-paranoid-conspiracy-whatever, we could speculate that all this Wikileaks stuff is total false-flag stuff, and that Bradley Manning was never arrested at all, and is actually vacationing in Bermuda somewhere right now, sitting on the beach, sipping little umbrella drinks while getting rubbed down with suntan oil by hotties in small bathing suits.

And the thing is... who knows, what I just said actually is vaguely plausible - depending on the extent to which you believe that governments do actually create conspiracies to manipulate public opinion, and otherwise do things which would be illegal.

On the one hand, I'm very skeptical. But then you look at history and read about the illegal LSD experiments[1] and COINTELPRO[2], etc., you start to wonder.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
a pulse might work nicely http://moeedm.com/sandbox/pulse/
The essence of this article is, "functional languages have ugly syntax". It uses Erlang and Haskell as an example. That argument says nothing of the functional style, just that "Erlang and Haskell have an ugly syntax" - that's what the article should've been entitled.
Despite our government's policies and rhetoric, the USA tends to trade with everybody - remember the Iran Contra affair? I'd imagine even if the leaks mostly incriminate Syria, our government may still be none too pleased to have the extent of our involvement with Assad revealed.
Linux Played a Crucial Role in Discovery of 'Higgs boson'
Silent failure hitting the 80 char limit, lack of change not noticed on mobile device. Now fixed - sorry.
In other words, web servers can cheat and look good, so we should just ignore TTFB. If you're not a web server developer, TTFB is quite useful. It tells you how quickly request processing happened. Progressive images can get started quickly.

The problem is not with TTFB -- it's that tests that succeed even with "cheating" header responses need to be fixed, if possible, to fail the cheating server.

WebPageTest could modify their TTFB test to require a complete header, so the single-character cheating wouldn't work.
Fukushima Nuclear Crisis Was a Man-Made Disaster
Thanks god this kind of tools now has so much better layouts than few years ago.
Siri, Do You Really Hate the Galaxy Nexus?
Gross inconsistencies.

Have a little crack on you? 5+ year minimum, quite possibly more, especially if it isn't your first time.

Whereas the rich will pay some high-priced lawyer with connections, and get a plea deal, probably for probation, for just about anything short of murder.
Do you have a link to the MS talk/article about their work with Metro? I'd be very interested.
1&1's hair-pullingly frustrating cancellation process.
We have a funded startup but no product
We had to kill our original startup idea.

Now we have 60K left, we are two founders (Developer & Business) and we have an outstanding advisory/angel board.

But we are kind of bummed. It's crazy. And funny. And sad. But we don't know what we should build now.

You come up with tons of startup ideas while you're in school, college or working at a company. But when you have to come up with something because you have funding and an awesome team behind you, then there is emptiness.

We expected a lot of things when we started our startup, but not this.

What can we do?
I think the above came off as overly harsh. I'm sure you're a talented entrepreneur. I have just been seeing so many blanket statements being put out there about startups, and as a guy with a startup who works pretty hard on it - this one rubbed me the wrong way.

Anyway, apologies for the tone.
I agree, but I think this could be solved with a better user interface.

If this dialogue was placed in a fixed position (say in a black bar across the bottom) it would add a consistent location to refer to the content. Instead of watching the black box jump around, you could watch the content change and push at your own pace.

Great idea that could be a game changer with a better UI!
This is awesome!
I hate screencasts too so I hope this tool will be adopted widely.
Just the name... How should it be pronounced? Does 'iorad' mean something? (I'm Swiss German)
In any case thank's a lot!
Can you clarify what you are referring to by using the word "This" as the first word of each of your paragraphs? I can't make any connection between your post and the one you are replying to.
Looks nice, one thing I spotted was the FAQ section heading is 'Frequently Asked Qeustions'
All (or most) comercial planes also have an amber LED
alarm on the caution panel that says PITOT when the PITOT HEAT switch is turned off.

If that alarm was functional and activated before they
entered that stall profile, it was, in my opinion, some
serious misjudgement by the pilots not to turn the pitot heat on.

But then again, I've only flown a PA-38 on storm
conditions, so take this with a huge grain of salt.
pronounced i -o- rad
Yeah something about it made me feel like I was looking at a "GET A FREE SUBSCRIPTION TO AWESOME MAGAZINE" sort of sign up. Also even though the text was stating that NO credit card info was needed, my super quick initial scan of the page saw the words "free" and "credit card," and the brain got confused.

Overall, I love the idea. Potentially solved an issue I didn't know I had.
If you're a small startup looking to automate security testing against your application, I strongly recommend just shelling out for Burp Suite; it's like a couple hundred bucks tops, can be used to automate almost every common web app attack, and is the tool most likely to be used by good auditors when you eventually decide to get tested professionally.

http://portswigger.net/burp/

There's a free version, which disables the (mostly vestigial, anyways) "scanner", and slows down the fuzzer tool; if you're really automating security testing --- which, do --- pay for the real version; you want the fuzzer to work.

There are things sqlmap does that Burp does not do easily, but they're not important to app developers; if you're generating database exceptions with inputs, don't dick around trying to make time-based blind SQL work; just fix the bugs.
press the "quick guide" button in the playbar this might be a better alternative than the screencast...itll give you step by step instructions
What is that meta and form between your doctype and <html>? A coldfusion specialty?

And please, fix the SQL injection you may have and the debug mode too! Try searching for something like: " (a double-quote only)
Here's a video demonstration playlist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGBQm9Nfn24&list=UU8lIbC-...
Really really impressed.
But a question about the choosing the technology. While everybody is on the rails/express bandwagon ... its interesting to see someone using cold fusion to build cool stuff. Lesson for my inner voice: Stop telling me, "all cool kids are doing rails/node, so I have to learn rails/node/django/...".

I read somewhere just go with the tech you're most comfortable with - would it be wrong to assume the same here?

(Probably this should be directed to Binamra. And awesome frontend by Susrut and Amar!)

Congrats to you and the entire team!
Standard Small	1.70 GB	1 (1 core x 1 unit)	160 GB	32/64-bit	Moderate	m1.small	$0.08 per hour	$0.115 per hour

if I use it, should I pay 0.082430=57.6 each month fixed? or I only pay when I use it(e.g. I only login and compile stuff a few hours a day, not 24 hours), how does that work?
Iran has, like, 2.5x times less.
Sorry, this is an error. It should have been 100,000 per month by the end of 2008 and 10,000 per day currently (so around 300,000 a month).
The IDEO approach is something that I like and look for in the people I work with. When I was teaching I grad school, I'd often exhort my students to think at least one level 'above' and one level 'below' whatever phenomena we were studying that week.

With software, I think it's important to see the forest for the trees, so that you can make the best tree for the forest... (apologies for the tortured analogy)
My point is that sometimes you don't have the luxury of having x amount of DB people and x amount of js folks and x amount of server side guys and so on and so forth. I'm coming from a place with very low resources (I'm the only developer at my job right now, we use to have 4).

(I wrote this stuff before but for some reason it just didn't go through)

As far as testing wise and building things, I believe it is best to have an engineer that is able to fulfill those roles for the following reasons...
1) They understand the structures and what it is that makes an application do what it does.
2) Its a very good learn tool. If you mess up you know exactly why. You'll be able to constantly adapt yourself to become better.
3) Waiting for your "role" to be utilized within an organization may sound great because you have free time, but it causes stagnation and "Diva-ism". That is the whole "Its not my job, so I don't care about your problem" or "You need me more than I need you" attitude.
4) You can move relatively quickly since the code and logic is coming directly from you.

Yes, specialists are very important. For large organizations they are very needed. But, to get things to work right now, you need to be flexible and open-minded. Look at Facebook's UI, its not the prettiest (blue bar at the top and 3 columns), yet its an extremely popular product. Most users just want the damn thing to work.

I'm no web designer, but I understand that a clean UI is needed. I'm not a DB guy, but I can figure out most problems. Etc. etc.

I think that's what Zuck actually wants in his engineers. Guys and gals that can see a problem and fix it on their own. Guys and gals that can think of a cool idea, test it, and have it released for that 1%.

Code reviews and peer help will smooth things out. I believe it was Jamie Zawinski's interview in the book "Coders at Work" that had the same mantra when he developed Netscape. Just get the thing out fast. You'll get more eyes on it. And you can always make it better the next time around.

It seems like a lot of shops do that. Its a cut throat world and if you spend too much time trying to be super clean and precise, you'll still be on version 1 while your competitor is on version 10.
Nice recommendation tptacek. Also nice is the book by the author of the same software: http://www.amazon.com/The-Web-Application-Hackers-Handbook/d...
Maybe you should go back and read those comments, you will not find too many complaining about the size. That was the least of its problems.
Clearly a paid-for article. Jeff is onto something these days and needs some press.

Regarding the down-votes: it's the second time in a week that Jeff publishes something free of any interesting content and makes it big enough to reach a large audience while mentioning each time that he's onto something but can't say anything about it. If that's not a PR exercise, please tell me what it is.
Paul O'Brien from MoDaCo created an 'app' that adds the shortcut to the default camera app back into the Nexus 7. For some reason, even though Google included the entire camera application in the build, they removed the launcher icon. You can find it on the Play store at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.modaco.cam...
When Startups Mix with Campaigns,It's Not Politics, It's Business -- Isn't It?
"The site zoomed past in Experts Exchange in terms of traffic in summer 2009, according to Alexa data Atwood posted to the StackOverflow blog."

It looks even better nowadays. Experts-exchange now looks like statistical noise compared to stackoverflow: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/stackoverflow.com+experts-exch... Serves them well for hiding community-provided information behind a paywall.
I completely disagree. I used to read novels on my Palm Pilot with its 3" screen. Its lower resolution also meant that I had to use a bigger font. Your eyes don't scan more than about 3-5 words simultaneously, so a screen width any wider than that is suboptimal.

The only problem with small screens is that you have to page more often. You can work around that by using autoscroll or using an app that lets you page easily (for instance, by using the volume buttons). If you're stuck using swipe to page, that would get annoying very quickly...