skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree with this: ... "and not reality for most people that have jobs that expect a particular level of professionalism that excludes an online presence."

The work expects that you have to be your professional self on these social networking sites as well, which is a total BS policy. The whole idea of being one true authentic self everywhere you go, is bogus.
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I like it... maybe if your client websites are active you can link to their website from the image or title so that the user can view the entire design and get a better understanding of your work.
Been listening to this duo Chiddy Bang lately. Finding some inspiration in that as well. Not as mainstream as what you mentioned but noteworthy. http://chiddybang.net/
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Charitable foundation to launch near earth object seeking mission
And Vic Gundotra's commnent:"Ironically I'm spending time engaging with your content on Google+. I think of this as very valuable.﻿"
Love Zapier, but I'd say they're basically the opposite... They have a product based almost exclusively on external APIs.
This things works nicely on the iphone!

Kudos
Depending on where the recommendation is being displayed it will typically a have a "fix this recommendation" button right under the item. Then you can select that you are't interested, already own it, bought it as a gift, or simply mark it to not be used for recommendations.

The problem with this is, it seems to take ten or fifteen minutes of effort to get the system to go back to showing somewhat relevant items after purchasing a few gifts, or browsing some atypical items. Who wants to spend that kind of time pruning advertisements. It's easier to just ignore them.
I second this. It's much easier to be able to just keep hitting next or to just simply scroll forever
Never attribute to stupidity that which can be attributed to you not understanding the situation.
Bribery, Porn, and Spam Are the Path to Riches in the App World
Two years is an awful long time to go from iOS to Android.
Reminds me of when H4CK1NG 4 G1RL13Z hacked the NASA JPL and New York Times
Hmm.. you make a very good point. I haven't looked at things from this perspective before. Thank you!
Yahoo and Facebook Strike 'Patent Peace Deal'
Despite being a small book you can ignore a good third of it, and I think his constructor pattern is out of date? but - it does do a good job of explaining the actually idiosyncratic thing about js - the whole prototype chain thing, and the scoping.
It seems a little ludicrous that we're bashing the year of the Wounded Knee Massacre solely on its perceived surplus of haughty bystanders.

What?
Here are some quick facts for the downvoters- Russia has one of the world's largest foreign currency reserves, a tech scene that has produced some world-known companies/products (Yandex, Rambler (nginx), KupiVIP, etc) and a fairly lively startup scene. It also isn't bad place to visit for a tourist- I can go on and on, but the point is even a rudimentary knowledge of the subject should prevent people from making these types of generalizations.
That's awesome. "Are My Sites Up ?" didn't even know it was down. So... Canceling that.

It's back though. Thanks for attempting to let me know. Maybe if I had push notifications for Hacker News turned on I would have caught this right away. :)
I don't understand what this is... It doesn't scrape the full published articles/material on hidden/private URLs (unless you have access, paid for a subscription)? So what would one use this for?
Some things I'd like to fix:

Drop the dollar
Use + for str concat
Use . for class members
Use . for dicts
Use . for namespaces
Use : for key:value pairs
Fix needles and haystacks
Use camelCase for functions
Use arrays and dicts literals
Use list genereators
Use request and response objects
Objectify strings, lists and dicts

While most of it is syntactic sugar, this will solve 90% of the problems for 90% of the people.

Feel free to add yours.
No clue in the articles about how, or why. Just because Yahoo lost its way (if they did at all) doesn't mean everyone else has to as well.

Time on site is an important metric, no matter what Tim or Tom says.
Buy one while you can.
When I have more time, I'd like to look into just how WB grew so fast. What's really impressive is the logistical and operations side (the marketing and publicity are awesome too, but less impressive than coming out of nowhere to ship so much physical product)
Cisco from the start should of made this an opt-in and not an opt-out (which in this case took customer pressure to even get opt-out). Whether they meant to do this on purpose or just misinformed management, they should of known from the start this was going to be a PR nightmare forcing updates which then require you to sign up for their cloud and their new TOS.
How does this make the front page of HN? When I try viewing this on FF 13.0.1 on Mac, I only see what I presume is supposed to be the left sidebar (About Me, Resume, etc). I don't get any content. What is the value of this?
This is an interesting proof of concept, I would like to encourage you to do more with this idea. In theory, WebSockets could deliver some of the promise of SPDY without the complexity.
How is the product quality? Those are pretty low prices.

I'm not sure it's a great comparison as WP is delivering on several other levels beyond price. The Zenni buying experience is decidedly inferior.
It's as if the maker of Ryno read Paul Graham's post on Segway and implemented his suggestions.

http://www.paulgraham.com/segway.html

"So there may be a way to capture more of the market Segway hoped to reach: make a version that doesn't look so easy for the rider. It would also be helpful if the styling was in the tradition of skateboards or bicycles rather than medical devices."
http://www.xarg.org/2011/06/php-hacking/
Huh.

Where I work, Software Architects are people who get paid lots of money to dick around with "new" technologies like RabbitMQ. Then after spending seemingly weeks implementing a trivial proof-of-concept app with the new thing, they present some slides and Visio diagrams at a brown bag nobody attends, and the rest of us ignore them so we can keep building things that actually provide value. Then they go on vacation to Aruba (probably).
Congratulations, it's a nice demo of the fact that you understand nearly nothing at what you do!

Articles like this are the worst thing you can do to help people.

Please, juste use Varnish next time.
How Cuttlefish Lie
Bah. I was expecting more insight than "It's the people at the fringes".

The problem with _anything_ big enough to have a fringe is always the people at the fringes.
http://dolarblue.net/
There are not many neurons, but there are many (too many) possible connections. To find the right ones, nature took several billion years. Even with the fastest computers, it would take a considerable amount of time (note that the lifetime of these wasps is a few weeks at most, so evolution happens very fast).
This is very cool stuff guys.

If you had a way to somehow save the chat entries that happened at a particular cursor location, you have a way to capture the exact line of thinking / rationalization that went behind it. This would go way beyond arbitrary line comments while keeping your code clean. It follows that the more controversial / complicated segments of code will have more chat exchange between the developers. If a new developer were to be brought in to modify the code, it brings a very human element towards understanding what exactly the code does and why it was written that way.

I remember being brought into a 100K+ codebase as an intern and simply being overwhelmed at the prospect of trying to learn the structure and why it was written the way it was written. If the codebase also came with chat logs, it would've been an invaluable asset for me to pore over.

If I were you guys, I would make this into a full service that provides the automatic coding narrative. For any company that starts using this system, the value of such information will skyrocket over time.
Maybe it would be interesting to have a way to sort the result by "score" so that the more "natural" results appear first? (The score should be a combination of the bigram frequencies, maybe the frequency of the full domain name in the bigram model.)
How did they fix/change the version string, or did they? I don't see how simply re-released a previously released version would cause affected users to update their binaries.

What am I missing?
Reading that reminds me: we need to stop calling wasting people's time "social". In fact it's astounding how many of the outcomes for users of "social" are in fact anti-social; too much time online, ego-centrism, attention deficit etc
Here is my list:

- Stop trying to turn PHP into another language. Millions of developers are perfectly fine with its syntax, deal with it.
It's a little pricey (I think it's meant as a textbook), but DJB has a book on post-quantum cryptography‡

He also has an intro paper (which is probably more along the lines of what you're looking for)‡

Hash-based cryptography, code-based cryptography, lattice-based cryptography, and multivariate-quadratic-equations cryptography are all methods that should hold up in a post-quantum world.

RSA will be screwed though.

‡ http://www.amazon.com/Post-Quantum-Cryptography-Daniel-J-Ber...

‡ http://www.pqcrypto.org/www.springer.com/cda/content/documen...
There is no data transfer cap for ILLs. We use You & Tulip.
1Gb port i mentioned, as we need high speed communication across nodes. We use Cassandra, Hadoop so internal data transfer rate is very high. So for internal communication 100Mbps creates bottleneck, but definitely sufficient for external communication / bandwidth.

I commented from what i got from pricing page. Apart from basic server cost, there's always associated extension hardware/data/software cost which generally makes it much more expensive.

If you have more details on cloud setup using Hetzner and associated cost, we would be happy to explore.
Yeah for Independent Judges Going After Software Patents
"The idea is to block viruses from tampering with the boot process and injecting themselves into a system before they can be detected."

Does anybody serious believe that UEFI will "block viruses" from meddling with any boot process? Are boot-sector viruses even a problem any more, because it was pretty obvious that boot-time viruses (like "Brain") were only widely spread by MS-DOS and early Windows, that required a lot of boots. Boot-time viruses never made inroads in other populations of computers, just like Macro viruses never made inroads except in "Word" dominated environments.

UEFI is a power play, pure and simple, just like Digital Rights Management (a.k.a. "copy protection").
Priorities, my friend. Priorities.
> force the people to bear the burden of paying down national debt

Unless they default, aren't the people going to have to pay down the national debt one way or another? The only real question is what mechanism to use, and which part of the population pays how much, since there are different winners or losers depending on what method you pursue (e.g. inflating it away, vs. paying it out of tax revenue).
http://fontbomb.ilex.ca/js/main.js

https://github.com/plehoux/fontBomb/tree/master/src/coffee
s/Serving/Benchmarking/
>PHP is not a good language because "it is equal to other languages in one respect, and vastly worse in a dozen other ways". That is the argument you put forth

No it isn't. I never compared it to any other language commonly used for web development. I never even hinted at that being my argument.
> Some said [Maven] it's the best tool out there.

Generally these are people that haven't tried anything better.

BTW, as someone who uses Composer and Bundler almost daily now (npm occasionally), I must say, Composer is right up there and it does offer some unique features that neither of the other two have.

Let me say this. Composer is probably one of the best things to happen to PHP in a LONG time.

I'm not saying I prefer PHP over Ruby, but given I am frequently tasked with providing PHP solutions, Composer is the way to go.
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Bootstrap Tour: Quick and easy way to build your product tours
I live in South Korea and use KakaoTalk ("Katok"). I haven't exchanged phone numbers with a Korean in the past year who didn't already have the app.

I know because the moment I add a phone number to my iPhone address book, KakaoTalk notices it and adds that user to my contact list, along with their photo.

Everybody has a KakaoTalk photo, many have 4 or 5. I haven't been able to figure out how they do that. I can only find the setting for one user pic. Perhaps they do it with the associated app, kakaostory, which is sort of like a blogging engine on top of the Kakao platform, if I understand it.
I'm failing to see how you've made that jump? How does recognizing words, translating them and displaying the result compare to mapping a naked body from only uncovered skin? at best, you could get the correct skin tone on a model.
Why are you using a wacom tablet to browse the web? Isn't that for drawing?
So are you saying the whole yolk divides in half continually to form the embryo? Is there a cell membrane around the yolk?
Totally agree! Coming from a design background, being able to immerse myself in code and watch better-abled people code around me (and fix my code) is incredibly useful. Looking at it as a platform for education is a great idea. Codecademy + realtime!

I think open sourcing is a must: more things should be real-time! And if enough people see value in building a service around it, then shucks, we (or someone else) should do that too. :D
"The service that keeps track of the state of the world has a fail-safe mode where it will not remove unhealthy instances in the event that a significant portion appears to fail simultaneously."

You should keep your logics dumb.
Hasn't google goggles been doing this for a couple years now? http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2010/05/translate-real-worl...
Tim doesn't make a case for his statement here. While Google has grown large not only as a company but also in terms of businesses (it is no longer just a search company), it is extremely hard to still remain focussed and innovative as they are right now. Hard to see how this compares with Yahoo! at all...
This is an excellent point that I think too few PHP developers care to admit.
It isn't the only way, it's just that browser JS engines tend to be optimised for them.
Wow: with only 7,400 neurons (compared to 340,000 for the common housefly and 850,000 for honeybees), this wasp can somehow fly, search for food, find the right places to lay its eggs, etc.

That ridiculously tiny neural network is one freakingly efficient computing device!
Will your Internet provider be spying on you?
What's the difference between composer and PEAR2/Pyrus? (http://pear2.php.net/)
I wonder why the Blue Brain guys don't work on c. elegans? They claim they can simulate full neocortical columns, a c. elegans should be no problem and they could compare the behavior.
What's not simple about the current interface? Just because you can use extra features provided by Google+ doesn't mean you have to!

> I no longer really understand who Google is and what it is trying to accomplish.

The same as it ever was - organize the world's information.
I'm not going to knock you for building something. I imagine you started here, because, fundamentally a blog is one of those "getting started" projects with relations and structure. Though, I am not sure if this really showcases the use for websockets, unless you constantly post. However, I am unable to view your site correctly this time. I am on the latest version of chrome, if that helps.
> You mention people taking assisted tours. But how much larger would even that market be, if it included people who could stand, but couldn't risk going over the handlebars while learning to ride?

It wouldn't be significantly larger. The vast majority of people taking those tours aren't disabled, they're just looking for an easy way to do things. There aren't that many people who can stand but can't operate a segway and they're significantly dwarfed by the number of folks who can operate a segway.

Then again, I take segway tours whenever I can. What experience do you have with this market?
Zenni is pretty cheap. I've broken several pairs, but at $8 you can kind of afford to throw them away. The frames are usually midgrade plastic. I usually order 3 or 4 pairs at a time, assuming I'm going to lose or break at least 2 pairs.

But despite the quality, theres some pretty stylish options that are perfect for people with no optical insurance :D

Also worth noting, the shipping time on Zenni takes forever. Forever being at least a couple weeks in my experience, but in fairness I haven't ordered recently.
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Take every service that is on the web and give it a try on mobile. Close to all of them don't work for mobile.

Most products are build for the web and then ported to mobile. I believe to be successful on mobile you have to think mobile first.
Example: Web forms and surveys. There are services like Wufoo that build a great web product, but on mobile it sucks. We have a mobile app and close to all our users use this as their only computer. There is no service for great forms that we just can use.

This is the case for many other products.

These are my thought beside the typical mobile apps. Think of existing services, but think mobile first!
What's the harm in making quick judgement? Usually you would be wrong, but occasionally it would add missing perspective and would help solve the problem.
Antibodies Reverse Type 1 Diabetes in new immunotherapy study
I'm not too familiar with Chrome's permission system, but can anyone explain why Cryptocat Chrome needs access to my data on all websites? Surely it's possible to restrict that to the necessary domains.
July 6th,2012-Americans Spend over $400 Million to Celebrate Dependence Day
Oh man, if chat and commenting could be combined into a more seamless, context aware log, that would be pretty amazing. We have some very light implementation around 'status' which is basically a persistant chat message, but was built with a different purpose in mind. Definitely worth looking into a similar thing that can travel more inline with the code.

Plus I love the phrase 'automatic coding narrative'. How awesome is that! Thanks for the feedback.
socket.io.js is being served on port 8080, and is blank for me, resulting in "Uncaught ReferenceError: io is not defined" in app.js
Why shouldn't it be? Only cause people don't like it doesn't mean it is a bad thing... You don't have to put all your efforts and insights in blog posts!
I love and use many parts of symfony2 (as well as other high-quality libraries); however, that doesn't change my highly negative opinion about the core PHP language. It is still a far cry from desirable, elegant, fluent, or expressive.
That's something they just started talking about last year, when everything was still in a single region.

http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-...

Though their post today makes it sound like they could have (and maybe did) fail over to an entirely different region, but their mechanism for doing so isn't automatic and took longer than expected.
Same for Chromium 18.0.1025.168 (Developer Build 134367 Linux) Built on Ubuntu 12.04, running on LinuxMint 13
Our first screening is through AirBnb. AirBnb is linked with Facebook, so it's easy to see if you have friends in common with the person who has messaged you. We also look at all the references the messager has already gotten through other travels. Those with the most get highest priority. We also give preference to references from friends, and from those who have stayed with us previously.

The second screening is e-mail contact. If e-mail contact seems friendly and they have an interesting story to tell, about work, and projects and interests, then they are in. Extra points for bakers and chefs.

Occasionally we'll have an egotistic and self entitled guest, but everyone is mostly awesome. We have never had to evict anyone based on bad behavior.
> Generally speaking, high inflation is bad for savers. But virtually no inflation is also bad for savers, as you get no return investment without incurring significant risk.

"safe investments" don't outpace inflation.

The only meaningful ROI accounts for inflation.
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Unity engine does it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_%28game_engine%29
Ask HN: Would this easy 'blogging' network be of interest to you?
I'm looking to address a pain point that I have come up against often - having thoughts that would make great blog posts but no time or motivation to go through the hassle of having a full blown blog.

I've outlined what I have created here: http://idea.kickofflabs.com/

If you are interested please sign up there or drop me an email at damaswill@gmail.com. It would be great to hear from you.
Even worse, it opens up a whole new attack vector:

"UEFI reimplements a full networking stack, unlike many BIOSes, and therefore is a target for remote security exploits"
[http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/26.18.html#subj13]
Perhaps akin to my thought: 'So, I need to spend $2500 on another laptop because I have no source for an equivalently featured monitor that I can plug in to what I have.'

Monopolies... [de facto, if nothing else]
How does this compare with colo? Did you compare costs and benefits?

Edit: Never mind, I just realised colo won't work for you because they'd probably expect servers that fit correctly in their racks and your computer cabinets probably won't.
Unfortunately this isn't working for me in latest versions of Chrome or Firefox, looks like an error related to the way socket.io library is delivered.

But I love the idea and you should definitely keep it up.
People asking "why?" don't really understand what passion for coding means :-)
Clickable: http://idea.kickofflabs.com/
The same thing happens to me on Chrome 20.0.1132.47 on Win7.

Perhaps the webpage is having trouble handling the load.
In any case I think you shouldn't be so quick to judge before you have even been able to read the actual content.
Its basically a 1-shot index of as much information as one can LEGALLY currently index.
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Battle for the Cloud - Remote data storage - In Five Acts
Dear Netflix, thank you for being transparent and honest about what happened.
Are we sure it's really $1,200/month? Monthly rates may be a lot lower - if the renter agrees to a longer term lease. Nightly rates are a lot more because the hostel managers have to manage capacity more aggressively.

The article just mentioned it's $40/night - that's not too bad considering no long term lease is involved.

I absolutely believe it's worth it. In fact, I predict the hostels will increase their price as they become more popular (they should send a thank you note to the NYT).
Do we know that's really what happened? I can very much see it going either way a) Lawyer put in too much defensive language or b) Cisco really wanted to push you into a new service.

Admittedly, it's a very different product and service, but can we blame them when they see companies like Facebook forcing their email service on users in such an obtrusive way? If I were a semi-out-of-touch manager I might think "The cloud is the way to go, we get more control, there are legitimate upsides to consumers, and anyone who bitches ultimately shuts up after a day of tweeting."

Seems like there's lots of precedent for them to think about trying.
I trust the companies and individuals behind Composer to not fuck shit up.
Its your tax dollars that someone else has locked up. Why don't you tell me.
Pragmatic Programming Techniques: Couchbase Architecture
Supposedly one server involved had somehow gotten munged and was producing garbage.