skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure but Japan and Korea and completely different from China (ok, who knows, maybe there won't be ditch executions in China in 200 years).
Uh? It's actually saying reddit is bigger (1.8m) and growing, while digg is smaller (1.3m) and shrinking.
A less interesting title would have been "Gmail is (and always was) larger than LinkedIn."
The Fire is a locked down Amazon appliance with a proprietary app store and all manner of restrictions running on a heavily modified version of Android. The Nexus is a proper tablet with access to all of Google's tablet services including Google's unfiltered app store. Sure, you can put some ROM on it, but Joe and Jane Public aren't.
slugfest, thank you for the detailed response. By "this route" I just ment creating independent isolated environments for the various runtime to operate within. Based on comments made on the GAE mailing list, I suspect they have moved in this direction. After reading your post I now understand that the issue is not allowing indiscriminate code to work in isolation, but to allow that code to interact with external services E.g. make http requests. Maybe in the future GAE will provide a generic API for interacting with the various service, but I don't know what that would look like.
I made touchmeup (http://touchmeup.joshma.com/)
The aviary guys really threw together an awesome hackathon!

Although one thing I noticed was how many different photo printing services there were and how each one's api was strikingly different and difficult to get working. Maybe there is a space for someone to do single api for photo printing?
You can easily do HN via email too; it's called a mailing list.
DJ Patil will be giving a tech talk on Data Jujitsu at TellApart's office in Burlingame, CA on July 25 (Wed).

More details and RSVP at http://bigdatatellatalk.eventbrite.com/

Here's a write up of the event:

Data Jujitsu: The Art of Turning Data into Product

Join us for an evening of networking and an interactive talk with DJ Patil - Data Scientist in Residence at Greylock Partners and previously Head of Data Products at LinkedIn.

DJ will discuss his just published report focused on how an entirely new approach is required to build great data products. This includes new paradigms of design, web development, engineering, and testing. He will share the Data Jujitsu approach and the implications for all of us focused on Big Data.
>Do you need an alarm to remind yourself to play video games? Do you need a "distraction-free gaming environment"?

I rarely play video games, so that isn't the greatest example for me.

I'll present an analogy, though.

One of the long standing examples given of whether knowledge actually applies to actions is smoking. I think we all know that smoking can cause cancer, reduces lifespan, and causes various diseases.

Except that you can invariably see doctors smoking outside of hospitals, even oncologists!

Just saying that outcomes are the only thing that matters to make an evaluation of whether you care about something, or consider something a priority doesn't explain why we can have cognitive dissonance about them.

Your (and the author's) assertions are almost laughably behaviorist, completely neglecting any idea that people have minds and you are effectively arguing that people are reducible solely to action-machines.

We know better than that, unless you really think that the mind has no meaning, or that we are somehow rational machines - in which case, why the obsession with "caring" (which is clearly more emotional than rational)?

Basically, if the only way we can judge that we "care" about something is exhibiting behaviors that show we care, using these tools will exhibit that same behavior -- in which case, what does caring have to do with it?

Really, there is even more wrong with this post than I thought at first blush, and further analysis seems to reveal even more flaws with the thinking.
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Maybe because a couple of DMCA complaints stacking up in the states would result in the site being taken down with most economy-style hosting, and given the nature of the site they're bound to get a few...

Maybe the Netherlands just offer saner intellectual property laws.
Being anti-semicolon in JavaScript is kind of like being anti-parentheses in Lisp.

The automatic semicolon insertion is a "feature" to give some leeway to new/sloppy developers, not a real feature that good developers should use.
Yeah. Check the source.

And everything under half a meg.
I don't know as much about Korea, but Japan had plenty of pretty atrocious human rights violations of its own which it also recovered from.

Yes, China is different. I'm just saying, "never say never".
That does make a certain amount of intuitive sense, in rough terms. In a certain "region" of the integral number line, based on the magnitude of the contained numbers, we expect a certain total number of prime factors. It makes sense that highly composite numbers might be near by primes in order to "balance out".

None of this is rigorous, but I think contains some intuition with a kernel of truth.
Absolutely understood, and I apologize if that came across as a sharp rebuttal.
I encourage you to check out DRIFT[1]. You can browse the latest images for inspiration (á la Pinterest), and its responsive design scales from large-screen TVs to the smallest handheld devices.

[1] http://drift.io
They spend 60 seconds charging 400 megajoules of capacitors, then they discharge them in a half-millisecond pulse. The peak electrical power is one terawatt. The laser compresses this pulse further, so that the light pulse is only 3 nanoseconds long, but with a peak optical power of 500 terawatts.

https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/nif/how_nif_works/power_condit...

https://www.llnl.gov/news/newsreleases/2012/Jul/NR-12-07-01....
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1) The app looks like it could be done in 8-12 weeks if not less. The result of an $80k/year in passive income is well worthwhile. (This doesn't account for marketing + other costs if any, but is probably still a net gain).

2) How big of a market do they think personal expense accounting apps is?
The really funny part is where they accuse Runic Games of "borrowing" ideas from Wild Tangent's Fate, which is similar to Torchlight. They even say they could conclude that Torchlight blatantly ripped off Fate. For those that don't know, the reason it's funny is because Travis Baldree, one of the founders of Runic Games, is also the creator of Fate.
It's a perfectly valid argument if it's over game mechanics or rules. Those are not copyrightable, and while it is ethically questionable, there's nothing illegal about copying mechanics completely while putting a new skin onto the game.

It's less valid if it's copying art or sound assets. Unfortunately, this discussion isn't about mechanics(as tbaltree notes in the thread), it's about the specific art assets.
I find this a bit strange. I think more devices would probably be stolen by setting the device down, or putting it in your bag and it getting snatched, rather than someone pulling it off your head. And unnatural movement is pretty hard to define.

Seems like it would be better to just be able to remotely lock them if you know its been stolen than them locking automatically.
I agree...but I don't have to be living in SF, Boston, New York to create those connections either.
But you can always uninstall the extension. Can we discipline ourselves, is the question.
I would say that not accounting for a browser bug is definitely their fault. Remember that they have a responsibility to their users to make their site work by accounting for bugs. Designers spend a lot of times meticulously working on CSS to account for all of the various browser rendering quirks. Developers need to put the same care into their JavaScript.

Perhaps Twitter has chosen not to support Opera which is fine by me (even though I'm a user), but I think more than likely this was a slip-up in their QA process.
lol, romney doesn't even register when compared to fb:

http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=romney,+facebook&grap...

red=fb, blue= romney

The reason this is relevant in the discussion is that when you type in the url in chrome (arguably the top browser) the word in the domain and subdomain count as search words that show up in trends. So when you type "plus" for the g+ url it's added to trends. You can check that little fact by looking at the trends for "plus".
anyone over 18 can walk into a Doctor's office, get a recommendation card

Is this really the case? I can't imagine it's that easy to just get a doctor to give a person a recommendation when they don't need it. Do people just say they're anorexic or something?
The model equation is: "_NEED_ to do `X` with someone close by, sometime very close to now" solve for X. Sex is the most obvious, but there may be others.

Solve for X
This a pretty serious outage. I don't think WPEngine could be blamed for moving away from Register.com for a stunt like this.
Here's a chart of their Canada rankings: http://www.appannie.com/app/ios/budget-with-back-in-black/ra...

Looks like they only do well in English-speaking markets, so they'll mostly live and die by their US performance. So it's more accurate to call them the #75 finance app (that's about where they seem to hover). $80k/yr to be number 75 in your biggest market doesn't seem quite as bad.

An interesting question is: why are they #1 in Canada? In the US, there are dozens of better selling budget trackers. What's different about Canada?
Former Apple VP Andy Miller Joins Leap Motion To Revolutionize Your Mac
I'll admit that I find metro a lot more compelling on Windows Phone than on a desktop OS, but as a visual language I still thing it's an improvement over Aero. Things look less cluttered, it's higher contrast, and interface elements are obvious.

What they haven't done is reorganize how you interact with the desktop OS. And I think that's a deliberate choice not to redesign the mouse/keyboard model for using toolbars, icons, and all the stuff people are familiar with in Windows. The full metro tablet apps are perhaps more clear and obvious, but that seems like more a side effect of the "poke things with your finger" interface than any defficiency of desktop Metro. It's more intuitive.
He asked a good question. To what level does the bar need to rise to eliminate poverty as something that holds someone back? Is easy access to food and education that level?

My gut feeling that wealth disparity is a bigger issue than absolute wealth. If the poor lived in mansions and drove Ferraris, but the rich owned entire islands and private rocket ships that travel to Mars, the poor people still wouldn't have access to what the wealthier people have, still setting them back from achieving their true potential.
> Which is important because the tech field is what generally leads the growth curve.

No it doesn't.

You only have to look at Digg and Reddit to see that just because you have tech users does not mean you will see widespread growth outside that demographic.

And sites like Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram even Facebook grew because of non tech users.
Feel free to ignore me, i've got nothing to hold up as any kind of authority on the subject, but i'm curious if my thinking is irrational.

I'd thought genetics only mattered for the elite. I'd always used the olympics as an example of this. Take a few hundred people with the best drive, nutrition, and training from all over the world. What's left to set them apart? genetics.

If you're not elite, who cares? you can just eat better, work harder, train smarter, whatever.

To put it another way, how often is genetics the limiting factor? If you've really done all you can do to improve, then you can blame stuff you can't actually do anything about, like genetics.
Lets see how the explanation help me to solve ProjectEuler's problems.
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The two tables here identify specific polymorphic genes and linkage regions predictive of IQ: http://www.psy.ed.ac.uk/people/iand/Deary%20(2009)%20Hum%20G...
If they ramped up production as advertised, that won't fly.
Anecdotal evidence:
When I was the poorest I have ever been I had a TV and microwave.

My microwave came with my apartment and the TV was free because a neighbor had just got a new one. I still had to live off ramen.
It used to be that no one did mobile at hackathons since web was faster. Good to see that the tools have gotten better so now about half and half.
If the app was built and has had minimal work to improve it, $80,000 annually would be awesome. If one dev is working full time to improve it, then it's not amazing. If you have a team of 10 devs building this app, you're doing something wrong.
I meant damning in the 'Valve has been accused of miss-using the term open source' and here is perfect evidence, sense.

I love what Valve is doing and I want to encourage them. Still, their usage is just a bit, 'missing the point'.
I find that the best way to handle things I don't enjoy is to avoid them. Perhaps try that in the future as a strategy?
Yep, first noticed this a week ago. Lots of services redirecting into G+. Definitely going to skew the numbers WRT the concept of active vs passive growth.
I don't think Joe and Jane Public are going to know the difference between a filtered and unfiltered app store or what an unmodified Android version means.
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As you say, not child's play, not rocket science. But, that's besides the point. That has nothing to do with programming ML, but everything with programming Matlab. As I said, the programming exercises would be more suitable for a programming course, not a ML course.

In addition, vectorization wasn't even necessary to solve the problems. Yes, that's how I too made the exercises more interesting, but that could be done with almost any kind of programming exercise in Matlab.
Safe harbor is definitely good but it doesn't have to be exactly the way it is currently. I read that current YT (or the host) must wait for at least 10 days before adding the flagged content back. That sounds like BS, why must a legitimate content be kept offline for 10 days?
What would happen if a lion fought a tiger?
We don't want to know what Chomsky or Einstein thought about the educational system, that's irrelevant. What we really want to know is how their parents treated them. Actually, we want something more general -- commonalities in Jewish upbringing, especially of those who went on to be successful.
Here in Brazil we do say "twelve comma three million", even tho our word for "comma" is much harder to say than our word for "dot". But since everyone says it, it just sounds natural anyway.
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I ran into this problem last night and ended up looking at the script. File size is 4,129,653 bytes, on a single line. I had it saved to check out what the problem was, so here it is if you want to check it out yourself: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/24903613/hn/twitter-4MB-line.js

Link to it on Twitter's servers (I uploaded to dropbox just in case the file expires or is changed): http://a0.twimg.com/c/phoenix/en/bundle/t1-more.5d72926b7850...
I was also on the receiving end of a notice a couple of years ago. In my case Apple took the app down after 7 days.

I wrote about it in more detail at http://blog.th.ingsmadeoutofotherthin.gs/eucalyptus-availabl...
And whoever programmed the "sort by start date" function of the new course overview page that went live yesterday or today should probably take the introduction to algorithms course :-). It looks like it sorts with a comparision function that returns a falsy value both for "no date < some date" and "some date < no date".
Logentries (logging-as-a-service) raises $1m
No, it's not bigger nor growing:

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/digg.com/

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/reddit.com/
You're right - it was Felipe Calderon who declared war on the narcos in 2006.
I don't know, I think the part where they are caught with a bunch of identical .wav files - even including identically misspelt file names - is pretty good too :)
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I find it difficult to parse all these financial factoids about what percentage of apps "break even" or "can support a standalone business" etc. How are these things defined? Does break even include paying the programmer? How much? Or is the programmer working at his own expense but hoping to repay himself from future revenues? Okay, repay himself how much? Probably all of the revenues minus expenses, but what expenses and for how long before declaring that it did or didn't break even?

I wish purveyors of this data would simply provide annual gross revenue per app for each percentile ("top-grossing 1%", next 1%, next 1%, etc.), and let ME decide whether that revenue would or wouldn't "break even" or be "sufficient to support a standalone business".

Has anyone seen such data?
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Nice idea. Lets see if we can work out something interesting out of this :)
We were talking about kites (if you know what I mean), and off-the book killings.

There isn't really anything that is called "international law", as such. There are agreements between nations, and those agreements are what they are.
That's the way it works and it works pretty well. There are provisions in the DMCA which punish false DMCA takedown notices.
"but every now and then he say 'hey, you wanna learn how to manage linux users, or tighten up apache security'"

This is great. I'll definitely do stuff like that.

"He let me handle problems on my own and had faith in me"

I'll try and rail myself in a little bit as well, I've taken to asking him if he needs help if he looks stuck rather than letting him come to me. Thinking about it now that might be killing his critical thinking/problem solving abilities.
Possibly the least smart comment on this thread, but it resembles the purple destroyer in the Falling Sand Games.
I think the context of this is related to working on "fun" problems though. If you're at work, getting paid and not working, you'll get fired. Working in a startup is much different.
How are people not impressed by this? The app is making almost twice the median national income, and people are saying it's not enough? Come on.
I know we often look down on the mushy stuff in engineering - but most of all, be kind. It's surprisingly easy to crush people without meaning to, particularly when they look up to you.
"destroyed"? My experience is the opposite. In the last decade, I've continuously had to increase my respect for China-made goods every year.
Wow, and I always thought Pinterest was a smartphone app like Instagram. (Not interested in it so I never bothered checking)
They are US only
Am I the only one who thinks this is BS? Don't get me wrong, Squarespace is a really strong product and i trust their new version is beautiful et al. But Wordpress is Open Source and even wordpress.com is free. How do they compare at all?
According to Wikipedia, Squarespace predates Wordpress by one month (April 2003). So "new" CMS is er kind of a uh load of total linkbait crap.
But how does that solve the 'internet distraction problem'? I would assume that you would still probably be connected to the internet on either device (most people use the internet for work purposes).
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But what was the origin of the invalid numbers? That's the teaser I kept reading for ...
Indeed! In the introduction I talked about how there was that one-percenter of programmers who know-better-than-the-rest and can majestically out-smart the compiler every time.

I assume that those people know what they are doing and don't need to read this!

This was for the rest of us.
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I think you are missing the point of the OP's comment.

Essentially, he/she is saying that persistence is the key to completing the task, and that is true regardless of whether the task is enjoyable or not. Pound away, day after day, each and every day, and it will get done.
What are the variance and median?
Why shouldn't a sales affiliate have access to prospect data? If you don't trust a vendor/affiliate, don't use their service.
The slides: http://infrequently.org/11/io/js
Please keep in mind that Compete's data is from ISP data, so any http request to plus.google.com will count as a visitor. Which is why sites like, atdmt.com [1], have more "visitors" than google plus. I wouldn't trust compete's data for Google vs Linkedin because, the "uniques" could be coming from integrations with other google properties.

[1] http://siteanalytics.compete.com/atdmt.com/
> If what you're working on is important enough and you love it enough, you would never need this.

Incorrect. The more important it is, and the more I love it, the more anxious I become. The more anxious I become, the more distractible I am.
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Squarespace is quite possibly the most frustrating CMS platform I've ever attempted to configure in my 10 year career. It is not a threat to Wordpress, or even Weebly for that matter.
Not sure why you have been downvoted.

What Google is doing is very much reminiscent of what got Microsoft into so much trouble. Using a monopoly in one area to extend into another.
there's a guy on stage with a projector in the background. It looks like a million other presentations.
Dunbar's number isn't that simple. It's more like you have an upper limit of 150 person-sized points. You can allocate 50 to one person and only have 100 leftover for more casual acquaintances, for instance.

Dunbar's number refers to group sizes, not friend counts.
"Another thing my mentor did was took me with him to meetings where we reviewed the code. Getting to know your users and understand who you're doing this for is incredibly important. So many organizations try to abstract them away. It was something that put a face to the end user, and gave the user confidence in us to understand what they needed. I've seen a lot of folks not have that opportunity, and want to build ivory tower software without ever talking to a user. It also makes the job much more rewarding."

A great thing I forgot about; when I got my first job I was dying to meet clients and learn how to start a project, rather than just being told "this is what you're doing". I'll definitely bring him in on (relevant) meetings and let him have his say.
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Dropbox is Up:

Dropbox client	running normally
Dropbox web	running normally

please update headline, submitter.
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They should have removed 0 ~ number sections.
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I can't remember the time when Japan and Korea was like China today but you're right, there's no such thing as never. It will just be a lot more difficult for them because they have a history of building crappy products and counterfeit goods. To us they are like a felon trying to find a job. We make judgements based on their history and it will take a lot of convincing to prove themselves.
Think like someone trying to get software for free, and you should get it.
The number between them have a high number of small factors including 2 and 3.

2 * 3 = 6: 5 and 7 are prime.
2 * 3 * 2 = 12: 11 and 13 are prime
2 * 3 * 3 = 18: 17 and 19 are prime
2 * 3 * 5 = 30: 11 and 13 are prime
2 * 3 * 7 = 42: 41 and 43 are prime.
However, 2 * 3 * 101 = 606 but 605 is not prime.
But,
2 * 3 * 5 * 5 = 150 and 149 and 151 are prime.
2 * 3 * 2 * 3 * 5 = 180 and 179 and 181 are prime.
ethernet is relatively stable, whereas new wireless protocols and upgrades come out all the time. I would rather have wireless through usb or as a component of a daughterboard via the onboard bus, than soldered onto the board.