skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was listing stuff that made me a bit scared, as I browsed the source, not stuff to criticize the website with. As for criticism: I think the design and social integration is fresh and well executed. I make websites that contain more errors and look worse than that. It is more of a web application, than a web site.

I listed MicroFormats, because: As a foundation for a modern website, it is a great idea. Digg has the traffic and authority to make rich mark-up work. And I think adding stuff like rel="me" to your social profile-links is kind of standard.

It was certainly not a prioritized list of what to work on next. That would likely be more like: Deploy descriptive 404 page, Get old content redirected to new location, Comment functionality, non-Facebook log-in option, categories, option for a non-masonry list view, work on page speed.
Um, dont most people just click OK, Accept or whatever, with out ever reading on? Cant see the vast majority giving a toss. How many stories have there been about ebay, paypal, facebook, etc, and none of those sites seem to be losing loads of users, if any.

I mean, I even had a facebook "friend" forward a circular about the evils of facebook, saying "we" should all be up in arms. I asked her if she was going to close her FB account. Yeah, you all know the answer.
Raspberry Pi gets Ice Cream Sandwich up and running
The State of Big Science Data
I'd have to agree with the commenters more than the post.
As another child who grew up on koala paint and the warm blue glow of the C64 basic prompt, this article was wonderfully nostalgic for me. Thanks for sharing!
He made that list to rebut it.
How do you know that they're not doing that already? Always and forever assume that you're being watched by somebody, somewhere.

Even if it's just Ceiling Cat.
I find this to be a fascinating example of the Y-Combinator effect. SignNow has been doing this for six months now, on mobile and the web, with the top ranked signing iOS app. Then they launched Online Notarization, after fighting years to get it legalized and rolled out. Despite all this, they've gotten barely a mention on TechCrunch, and PG shut down their Online Notarization post. SignNow & others can absolutely be fabulously successful, but Y-combinator in my mind really makes your life easier in a lot of ways.
Show HN: Tiny weekend project from scraped Wikipedia data: whodiedhere.com
Facebook Notifications for Mountain Lion
Behavioural Advertising: To Block Or Not To Block?
Is telling the customer what your site does important? Apparently Not
Also, not paying taxes has less prospect of leading by example. The sheer majority will attack you for not paying your "fair" share, as they internalize their rulers' plans as their own to feel a sense of purpose.
Caio is an exec. Might have had an engineering background, but he's been a CEO for ages now.
All right, then I probably shouldn't bother :-)

However, maybe some of the Create.js components, like Hallo.js would make sense? http://hallojs.org/
You missed the intro

I'm trying to write a blog post for O'Reilly publicising
the tutorials at CUFP, and was going to structure it
around "10 reasons for not learning functional
programming" rebutting each of them. Here's my list of 11
(so far) … any more ideas?
Have to agree with CWuestefeld, for home defense you want a shotgun with a short barrel. You want to know how to shoot it and you want some safety and maintenance training. Also, do not choose ammo that is going to go through your walls.
This is an interesting point. My experience is that a lot of people find the command line scary, as they never quite feel in control. I wonder if it's possible to create the command line equivalent of LightTable. Something that visually shows the user what their command is doing, or more importantly, about to do.
The search result for 'Berlin' includes
Isaiah Berlin ---------------------------- Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
My biggest reason is that I have to weigh learning an entirely new paradigm versus bettering myself in a paradigm I already know that's currently making me money. In short, I need it to be worth it.
That's an unverifiable statement and it would depend heavily on the shooters involved. It's as much conjecture as if I were to say that each bullet fired from each shooter's gun would only hit people without weapons.
Sure bombing innocent civilians is bad, but for me it would be enough to simply say I won't run a large Oracle server for ethical reasons.
Type systems mean different things in different languages. This is trying to apply one language's type philosophy to another language.

In Haskell, a type represents the results of performing a computation. The "results" include the "output" but are not limited to it: they also include things like state changes, possible exceptions, and I/O. That's why Haskell is so big on Monads, because that's the best way to embed these results into a return value.

In a systems language like C or Rust, a type represents the size and meaning of an area of memory: is it an int, a float, a pointer to a float that stays constant, or a pointer to a float that someone else can change?

In languages like C# & Java, a type represents something like the allowable operations on a value, usually represented as the list of methods on a class.

What this article is basically doing is taking a type system of the third category (C#, allowable operations), and embedding into it a type system of the first category (result of computation). While there are advantages to Haskell's approach, I'm not convinced the metaphor shear is worth the effort here. Your types end up expressing things that no other part of the language cares about or can make use of.
If you think blog posts are boring you can skip to our awesome launch page here: https://phusionpassenger.com

We're excited to hear what you think about it.
The article has nothing to do with harassment.
As a female in the software industry, I have experienced harassment perhaps once, and it wasn't from my colleagues.

Stereotype threat can occur even at 'sane firms'. It has to do with a person's perception of herself and what people might be thinking, not the way others are acting.
How much does Yardsale rely on Craigslist to stay alive? I posted a few items on Yardsale but got empty, flaky replies from Craigslist and still had the "crazy inbox" problem. Using this as a jumping off point to divorce from Craigslist, it would be good for Yardsale to differentiate itself with quality of buyers and manageability of enquiries rather than act as just a portal with all of the same problems and no real benefits.
Do you have a secret?
Can I use icon fonts with native iOS apps?
Our insanely expensive war on drugs
What better way to show you care then, as Schneier says, provide security theater?

Otoh, the chance of a copycat crime is much much higher probability wise in the aftermath of such an event. (Even if the chance is super slim you'd have to agree theoretically and from certain past events it is higher.)

My personal favorite is airport security. All those shops that are located behind the inspections points in the airport terminal? How hard would it be for someone to slip something into the inbound merchandise that is sold in those shops? Are they running all that through xray machines? What about all the liquids? Hard to believe that's not a entry point and not being monitored correctly.

Along the same lines there are multiple ways to get a weapon into a movie theater.
That's a pretty strong claim to make without citing sources.
You could do 5 day delivery with 1/day pickup and save a ton of money.

But the biggest problem is the post offices. There are so many of them!
1) By using FB, at least initially, they can lower signup friction and get a good bit of social momentum. Especially if users are sharing their "diggs" publicly. Doesn't appeal to hackers, but it works when done tastefully.

2) Discussion on digg was always a bit janky. HN really spoils the idea of social links/comments because they are so high quality here, but when you're targeting the average person, its harder to control quality. Let people sound of on Twitter/FB, and you've created a new marketing vector without directly polluting the experience on your site.
Apple isn't very ambitious with their CPU parts, modifying off the shelf cores, removing certain features to improve per-watt performance... I'm sure an leading figure in the field would want to move on eventually. But it's Apple, let's be sensationalist and all go on a limb that Steve Jobs was really important there and now it must all be falling apart!
Yeah, I wanted to keep things simple and let people search by name, too, even if it's a little outside the scope of the site. I'll run the issue by the board of directors.
Well, out here in the middle states its a tool and a lot of women shot just as well as men.

We don't teach people about actual risks, but we sure hit them with hysterics. We can do this because people feed off what breaks the pattern and then assume it is the pattern.
> Admit to running a small botnet or monitoring GSM calls and I'm sure your 2nd interview will be with the FBI .. not for a job.

I just assumed that they're trying to lure blackhats into submitting incriminating resumes.

I bet it'll work too.
Is itunes Connect Down?
Trying to access Itunes connect for past 30 mins, no luck, anyone facing the same problem?
The whole point of Hushmail is that you can use PGP/GPG style mail encryption via a webmail interface. You could also do this anonymously. They claimed that it was secure because the PGP stuff was done via a Java applet. It turns out that

If you have a use case for using content signing and encryption, using a closed-source Java or other web applet is a pretty weird way to address it.
Statistically, men have a wider variance in IQ score than women do. This means that there are likely to be more highly intelligent men than highly intelligent women in a room, and that the most intelligent man in the room is probably more intelligent than the most intelligent woman.

No. This means that there are likely to be more men who scored highly on an IQ test than women who scored highly on an IQ test in a room.
Whether or not it was his fault, Jobs blamed Papermaster for antennagate [1]. Papermaster was also there during the white iPhone shipping delay which may have played a factor.

[1] http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/08/07/papermaster
Dvorak = old and busted.

Colemak = new hotness.

http://colemak.com/
I think women are just as intelligent as men.
I also think that men's and women's intelligence manifests itself in different ways.
It is explicitly because of this difference, that I believe having more women in STEM fields can only be a good thing.
Advances come when a problem is approached from many different angles, by many different bright minds.

Thanks for perpetuating the stereotype. I feel sad for your daughter.
" I don't know how many people were "worried" in this case."

I think that's the thing about irrationality. If the media hype is strong enough anyone's brain can be taken over.

I remember very clearly the anthrax scare. I remember consciously thinking about anthrax when receiving envelopes at the business when that happened. I knew it was irrational but it was nearly impossible to fight those thoughts until the media attention died down.
The first line of this post mentions:

"Phusion Passenger is an Apache and Nginx module for deploying Ruby and Python web applications."

... yet I can't see any further mention of Python support in any of the linked roadmap posts, or on https://www.phusionpassenger.com/enterprise - does anyone have any more information about Python support?
I think we half-agree on this one. I didn't mean what ROI Google will have strictly in terms of dollars, mindshare/market share/etc are all great to have. However, I don't think that great graphics drivers are as important as you think.

It seems to me that Google can (very cheaply) pick the low-hanging fruit in graphics performance and get 80% of the way there, and then see what they need to do. Also having a "Google" line of devices is very beneficial, as it can be the high end of the Android offerings. I'm typing this reply on a Galaxy Nexus, and I find the phone much better than an iPhone by far (in general, not just in performance, I haven't used an iPhone recently and don't remember how responsive my 3G was).

There's also a false dichotomy in your post that I need to point out. You say that the money will either go to a graphics driver or will sit in the bank, which is trivially false, as Google can invest it in many other ways.
I found it hard to edit the HTML slides compared to the markdown for showoff, and the font-size is overall really too small (and my attempts to tweak it break a several assumptions in the CSS/transformations). HTML is not a great way to write content. Showoff is much better for browser-based. And it does export to PDF
How HTML5 Video Works
Dropbox working on a two-factor authentication for enhanced security
This seems roughly right, but out of curiosity I wonder what the results would be like per-developer rather than per-app, if those numbers are possible to come by.

It's plausible that these numbers mean what the article interprets them to mean, that a long tail of developers is getting a larger share of the revenue than previously. But, as-is, these graphs don't exclude the alternate explanation that the "rich" people/companies, so to speak, are still pulling in most of the revenue, but by switching to a many-small-apps strategy.
Same here! Even I'm not able to access!
I see "bicycle work" and "real-time work" as basically the same thing. In other words, you do "bicycle work" so that you can do "real-time work" successfully later.

In programming terms, this would be like taking the time to learn your language so that you can effortlessly interact with it and think about it without really thinking about it. Or learning your editor so you can move around your document on a subconscious level.
Yes they were. They were brilliant in creating a direct divide between the "old" PC generation and the new hip Apple crowd.

Compare the message of PC vs. Mac to this message: "We have tools. Tools that work. Oh, and you need a genius to use them right" ?
ethanol burns relatively cool (as do (some of?) the other alcohols). the problem is that it often burns above the ignition point of its carrier substance, which itself burns much hotter. e.g. calcium acetate/isopropyl alcohol gel (lab sterno) is perfectly safe to burn in your hand, but only until the alcohol runs out--it will light the calcium acetate, which is not remotely safe to burn in your hand.

hand sanitizer is usually an alcohol in water and a thickener (glycerin, etc.). i'd worry a bit about the same effect. (not that i actually know what the ignition and flame temps of glycerin are....)
Don't forget a lot of gun owners are shot with their own weapons. At a minimum you want a shoulder strap for larger weapons, and the ability to keep a hand free while aiming. Longer barrels also allow people to more easily grab them which is vary dangerous, and make it more obvious where they are in the home. As to penetrating issues, you can use shotgun ammo in handguns, but with a short enough barrel the difference becomes minimal as long as you have a reasonable clip size.

PS: Statistically gun owners are less safe. I expect that with reasonable precautions you can cross the threshold into overall safety. But, clearly you need to approach things from the perspective that owning a gun is a larger risk by default and then deal with the new risks.
But most of your typing is probably on your personal or work computer(s). The rest of the world's keyboards don't matter.
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hi there, i worked on pictonic. thanks for the feedback. the widget should pause on hover, i'll look into that. it only shows a small random sample from the full library though. since these are premium icons we have some terms and a non-public area
If I have understood you correctly...

Women don't have unique, unnecessary, gender-specific challenges because once the suits were mean to you?

Puzzling reasoning.
Let me welcome you to the modern era. While you might have once had your content dictated by the radio station you listened to, or the one channel your TV could receive, here in the 21st century we have other, slightly more refined mechanisms. "I like NBC" or "I enjoy the Top 40 station" are no longer the limits of your filtering mechanism.

Enjoy your stay.
Or a car. Try searching for one of three brands you like within a specified range prices and years, excluding vehicles that have salvage titles, sorted by how close the seller is to you.
I'm actually a lot more concerned with how we handle people with mental illness in the USA. If it wasn't a gun, it would have been a backpacked filled with explosives, but the common factor is a sick mind that had multiple interactions with people who could have helped. It seems like we need to spend some money on figuring out why our systems and processes in this area are failing.
Such software exists. It's called a spinner. Unfortunately, AFAIK it doesn't actually get around the copyright issues because it's a mechanical translation, not an independent creative work.
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In talking to my female colleagues and female friends in the engineering profession, I would say that there are a lot more forces at work that make it difficult for females and some minorities to realize their potential. Most that are successful have found ways to get through them, but it doesn't mean that it's an ideal situation.

As the author points out, it's largely due to the perception of the events at school or in a workplace than the true motivations behind them, which you might argue that a successful women engineer needs more mental strength to get through these barriers.

As you mention, there is a lack of quality talent and it would be in our best interest to bring out the potential in as many people as possible. It may be that society happened to turn off countless competent engineers due to these perceptions and social forces.

I believe the question is less on how do you balance the workplace, but rather how do you bring out the best out of people so that the pool of strong engineers becomes bigger.
I've said this before, but whenever I see these conversations on my Twitter and HN streams, huge segments of people are left out of the conversation.

In the U.S. at least, tech dialogue is about 'men' and 'women', despite the fact that a significant number of certain men are rarely represented in the tech industry. Asian/Asian America men might overrepresent their demographic in the tech industry relative to their % in the country, but they are rarely on leadership boards (especially compared to women). But more importantly, having worked in Silicon Valley and New York, I rarely saw African-American and Hispanic devs/engineers.

I just take exception to the idea that as a tech collective, we are supposed to 'fight' for one segment yet ignore other under-represented demographics.
The article doesn't mention intelligence, and I can't see how it's especially relevant. Yes, the best programmers are going to be very smart, but it seems to me that slightly above average intelligence is perfectly adequate for a successful career in software. Obviously that phrase will describe just under half the population of women.

The article is mainly about why so few women become interested in software, pursue it, and stick with it as a career, and not about why they don't get the best jobs or make the same money. While it seems plausible that men and women are probabilistically hardwired to find certain fields more interesting than others, this isn't "intelligence".

And of course, everyone thinks they're hiring the top 1%:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2005/01/27.html
Generalized input on the cross-device web
The only other app store that has any traction on android is the Amazon App Store. Amazon has much more strict policies about what gets into the store and what doesn't.

All of the other app stores don't really have all that many users and if you use them then you probably know how to avoid shady apps.
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Can't you say the same thing about top-of-the-line android phones, e.g. Galaxy S3? Of course the newest stuff will have the best hardware.
Ideally -- and take this with a huge caveat, as I'm not exactly in the aggregation business -- measure it by clicks, comments made, and time spent on page/bounce.

Overall, I'd like to see aggregators move to the Pandora model, rather than the Hype Machine one. With Pandora, I can specify a jumping off point (genre, artist, song) but it still refines my tastes from there.

Hype Machine, I've 'liked' hundreds of songs but I still need to manually peruse through specific blogs to find new songs I like. It's unideal.
You can sort the search results using the refine menu. https://dl.dropbox.com/u/68927323/search_sort.png

And

Like you said the "new and best selling" is just the popular breakdown for each category. Though there isn't one for "All Departments". We'll work on that:)
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I use gmail exactly as he describes, with gnus as my client. All the addresses registered with gmail are unaffected when sending via SMTP.
Ask HN: Actually, I'm asking nothing. I want to say, "Good luck."
Today you are one day closer to your goal, and you'll reach your objectives before you realize it. Again, good luck.

If you have any affirmations for anyone in particular or just in general, please put them in the comments section below.
Well, what is it? How did you find it?
Holmes.css: CSS Markup Detective
Do you have the stats on "Don't forget a lot of gun owners are shot with their own weapons". I don't think I agree with the shoulder strap part, and I have never seen or heard of shotgun ammo in a hand gun.
Agree that HTML isn't ideal for writing content. Support for Markdown was added to reveal.js two days ago and I'm hoping that will make it a bit easier. A GUI editor is also underway for people that don't want to touch any code at all.
While these HTML5 based slide tools are fun, I find they generally aren't even comparable to Powerpoint from Office 95 in terms of features and usability, which is unfortunate.

While this might be nice for putting presentations on the internet, I consider vital features to include, at a minimum:

* Display presenter notes on a second screen
* Cope smoothly with differing screen resolutions
* Print out PDFs of presentation

Now, this system does seem to cope with the first of these, if I install node.js, but not the others.

I don't want to sound like a downer, just put into perspective that at the moment I feel that HTML5 presentations have a long way to go to catch Powerpoint / Keynote. Hopefully they will some day.
>> The new terms of service just prevents other people from copying the content of the craigslist ad.

Um...

>> the exclusive right to enforce copyrights against anyone copying, republishing, distributing or preparing derivative works without its consent

Where does it say anything about "other people?" I mean, I doubt Craigslist would sue an actual user for posting on EBay, but they might send EBay a takedown notice for that content.

And if I wrote a piece of software that helped you post the same thing simultaneously on Craigslist and EBay, I bet they'd sue me.
less quality than programmableweb but some APIs only there http://www.webmashup.com/
What's my Klout score?
Concurred.
Unless AMD wants him to work on ARM chips. AMD may be secretly building ARM chips.
We've supported Python for quite a long time, we made a bit more public here: http://blog.phusion.nl/2012/04/13/a-sneak-preview-of-phusion...

Basically you can just drop in a WSGI python app, and we will serve it up :)