skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it would be dangerous if Erlang's syntax were to resemble that of another language like Java or C. Especially for beginners. That is because if things look the same you expect them to behave the same, and Erlang's semantics is very different from those languages whose syntax people think it should be like.

There is no getting around the difference in semantics. For this I think that having a different syntax is actually better. Also there are things in Erlang which are hard to fit syntactically into the syntax of OO languages, for example pattern-matching.
Curious video. While sketching out Google's Gmail UI, they place a sticky over the advertisement area that says, "Creepy ads."

Yet what do I see upon logging in to Outlook.com? Crappy ads.

I'll take creepy (relevant) over crappy, thanks.
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Any problem with ymail?
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It's funny reading this because our community is having a giant yard sale and I just created an FB event and some ads for it.
If it works they will be heroes, if it fails there will be a lot of questioning of their wisdom.

Very risky plan in a lot of senses.

Not to say it's not the right one, but man are they putting a lot on the line.
What is wrong with using xhtml?
100 outcomes of startup failure
Thank you all so much for your feedback. And thanks to the OP for posting this. I can't make everyone happy all the time but I'll do my best to make each episode better than the last.

<3 HN
I cannot access the link right now but many of the stories trumpeted by Western and Saudi-backed media highlighting Syrian regime's brutality have turned out to be fake (or worse, some massacres blamed on regime were actually carried out by CIA-sponsored armed Syrian "rebels").

So US-sponsored Israeli terrorists bombing Palestinian women and children will also make it to hacker news top page? Syria's tyrant is not a US-sponsored one so we must highlight his brutality?

How about US-sponsored Egyptian, Yemeni, Bahraini and other butchers? I don't remember seeing anything about their misery making it to the first page of Hacker News.

Jul 24, 2012
German intelligence: al-Qaeda all over Syria
By John Rosenthal

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/NG24Ak02.html

Caught: Staged CNN Syria Interviews Faked By Activist Danny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lWB5ssifTg

CNN BUSTED!!! AGAIN more Fake videos from the Libya, Syria conflict

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1v5eQLCj_s

06/19/2012
Eyewitnesses Contradict Houla Massacre Claims

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/eyewitnesses-contr...

Prime German Paper: Syrian Rebels Committed Houla Massacre

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2012/06/prime-german-paper-syri...

The prime German daily, the center-right Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, has a new report (in German) about the Houla massacre. The author is Rainer Hermann who studied and speaks Arabic, Turkish and Farsi. Hermann also has a PhD in economics and wrote his thesis about the modern Syrian social history. He currently lives in Abu Dhabi and has been reporting from the Middle East for over 22 years.
I never even considered the power consumption of AppleTV but that's a great point. (It's also silent, and as of today supports Hulu+.)
Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen devices
The only thing I really miss compared to GMail are vim key-bindings. The default key bindings are weird.
Ask HN: Has the Indian Power outage affected your development efforts?
I'm just wondering if any development teams who have teams located in India were prepared or have been affected adversely by the power outage. From what I've read there is lots of private mitigation of power outages - but I'm not sure if people planned for an event of this size/scope . (ie: routers at ISPs, POPs, etc)
Here's a rebuttal to that:
http://www.reddit.com/r/classicalmusic/comments/o4ei0/regard...
It's worth noting that this was a local ad in the Bay Area, near Berkeley.

http://g.co/maps/6vmc6

i.e. the garage sale took place in a highly-cultured, net-savvy area full of people who do bargain/antique shopping. Back in the late 2000s, my friends in the same area put a cheap 30 word ad in the local newspaper for a garage sale and got dozens of visitors. I don't know how much the ad cost but probably something like 50 to 60 dollars.

It's hard to gauge how much of a "success" this is when a Craigslist ad, plus some postings on large music mag forums (and I'm sure SF/Berkeley have their own large local websites) would've drawn the same attention...with a little more handiwork on the seller's end, but without costing $150.

* edit: I'd even argue that he might have drawn more people in with Craigslist and a few other nichey-type posts. I'm not a record-collector myself, but I'm guessing that there's a fair amount of them who are used to "digging" to find gems, as opposed to checking out ads/events on Facebook...antique collectors regularly scour the old-fashioned newspaper ads for garage sales because they know the type of old-fashioned people who might have undiscovered antiques are also the type to advertise in newspapers.
I would be interested in seeing the statistics on the advertisements themselves. Did the OP see an 80/20 response rate like Limited Run? What was the ratio of people who showed up to the event versus the ratio of clicks on the ads versus the number who said they would attend the event on facebook versus actually showing up. Please provide more information, otherwise I see this article as useless babble with a plug at the end.
I find Sparrow does that so incredibly well. I use 2 accounts daily, and have 2 more for "spam" accounts. It works really well at separating and unifying them.
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That isn't "leading HTML5 innovation" but I got your point ;)
You're almost wilfully ignoring that the poster is claiming that he's devised a way of making $10000 profit at 3000%+ ROI but decided instead to make a startup aimed solely around facebook ads - which coincidently were the things he took advantage of to achieve this massive product.

Surely something with stats as lucrative as this yard sale would mean that he would create a startup based around selling other peoples stuff after advertising through FB events instead??
I appreciate your opinion but I will respectfully point out that I am making these videos for the other set of people who do like video coding tutorials. You should feel free to not watch them if they do not preserve the water-dorsal relationship of your water-going vessel. :)
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A write up comparing the two http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/07/stacking-t...
Polymorphic variants in Ur/Web
Good recommendation, I hope somebody in Redmond hears it and makes it happen. I'm fine with Outlook on the desktop, but never liked Outlook Web Access when I had to use it, Outlook.com would be head and shoulders above having to keep using OWA.
Maybe more local business should be using these ads?

Facebook captures location + interests.
Well then there's a huge market opportunity. When advertisers realize that their getting played by Facebook (and Google), paying for bad clicks, they'll look elsewhere - and CPA is pretty obvious solution (heck it's not even innovative).

Is CPAFacebook.com taken I wonder? :)
Ah, ok, I was talking about their use of CSS3 transitions primarily.
These are great points and I will do my best to incorporate them in future episodes. Thanks very much for taking the time.
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It's already there on Android...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.square_eni....
A quick scan on ebay shows that you were charging less than the buy-it-now prices.

One other difference is that you were advertising for an event on facebook (as opposed to an external site). Do you pay per click to the facebook page or pay per action (attend or won't attend)?
I'm sorry have to disagree with this. Just signed up for a fresh, empty outlook account and every time I click on anything there is a noticeable 0.5-1 second lag not including the little slidey animations (I'll admit I AM on a rather ancient computer here at work). But at the same time I have over a gig of e-mail in my Gmail and almost every action is nearly desktop-fast (the speed with which emails come up after doing a search is faster than a file-search on windows)
Gmail allows you to sign in to multiple accounts at the same time (in different tabs).

I have two pinned tabs always open in Chrome - one for personal, one for business emails. Works incredibly well for me.
Microsoft unveils Windows 8-inspired “Outlook.com” freemail service
They got the whale-powered renewable energy trend right.
I was refuting a claim of a necessary condition by showing numerous counterexamples. In case of your crazy belief, coming up with such a list would be an attempt to prove a necessary condition by showing numerous examples. That is not logically valid. A list of counterexamples is.
It would be interesting to compare the number of people familiar with Curtis's work vs those familiar with Chomsky's.

I think Chomsky would likely come out ahead, but he's had a head start. I don't know I'd bet on that being true in 5-10 years.
Google Books also archives many, many old Popular Science magazines. They have some wild predictions like planes towing trailers. [0] Quite an interesting read for the classic illustrations, DIY plans that are still useful today, chemistry experiments that would make the ATF and DEA blush, and of course the endless pages of ads peddling every contraption imaginable.

[0]: http://books.google.com/books?id=WCQDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA102&...
I don't understand... Why implement picture slideshow using Silverlight? I thought Microsft was abandoning this piece of tech.
I'll be building a special room for a grand in my new house, and I'm terrified of the things. I grew up playing upright and when concerts came around that involved a hall and a grand I simply didn't know how to manage the sheer force of sound that comes out. Quite majestic but I agree, if you want to be an accomplished pianist of any level it's the investment you need to make.
Microsoft demos muscle-computer interface, air Guitar Hero now a reality
I saw in the video that the "send" button was in the Title bar [1], so I suppose it's important that it be fixed on the screen.

[1] at 55 seconds in the video. This link starts a couple seconds before that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDI6Itn7soQ#t=53
I am not a chemist, but wouldn't this have to produce oxygen as well?

2HH0 + 2COO = 2HCOOH + O2
I personally liked: User Interface Design for Programmers ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1893115941/ref=as_li_ss_tl?... )(associate link) as a starting point. I also recommend the following series of articles on The Essence of Great UI ( http://community.devexpress.com/blogs/markmiller/archive/200... ) by Mark Miller.
This works fine for code where you are just firing a /track 'ping' back to the server on a page load. But, if you are trying to do things like track login's where you send a http redirect right after /track, then you need to use the optional callback parameter to /track and do the redirect in the callback.

The problem with this is that if their JS doesn't load at all (which is the problem right now), then /track is never called and thus the callback is never fired.

So because you can't depend on MP to reliably serve up a simple .js file, you have to write your own wrapper around all of that code to do a timeout incase the callback never fires. What a mess.
I logged in with my Microsoft account, which uses my work e-mail as the e-mail address. It happily presented me webmail for it.

That's going to confuse non-technical users. There's no indication that any replies are going to go right where it's supposed to, Google Apps...

Plus, when attempting to send, I get a captcha. Filling it out (correctly) gives me a "too many attempts" warning.
Given that the gramophone and indeed talking pictures had already been invented I don't give them too much credit for this.
I'm pretty sure with Google you can link up to 10 accounts, and you can have as many Gmail windows open as you want for various accounts that are linked. So if you want five different Gmail tabs open at the same time, just link the accounts behind them and it's possible. I personally have two independent Gmail accounts open at all times.
You created an EVENT. The EVENT cannot be added via a bot, so facebook was protecting itself essentially. Event invitations and click-through are different. Just sayin'
The ROI on the choice to use Facebook is the cost of selling $10k of records by non-Facebook means minus the cost of Facebook ads ($150). That's easily several hundred percent.
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As part of this release, we added a number of features requested from developers:

* SSL Support for all avatars

* Auth-search method for avatars across multiple services (/auto)

* Pure Javascript Avatar Picker for Web Apps

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I agree that demonstrated competence is what ultimately matters. The problem that I had with your example is that you said "all things being equal. . . ." That implied that the candidates were both technically competent, only one had a degree and one didn't. I understand your point that candidates that succeed despite not having a degree are probably better than a lot of people with degrees. But you are making a stronger claim than that; you're saying that discriminated groups that succeed in getting hired are probably better than others that also got in. Now, you did provide a link to a study that was true of women but I would want to see evidence specific to people with degrees versus those without. The problem with generalizing the way you seem to be is that the people you hire without a degree may not have been competing against the people you hired with degrees.

For example, suppose you have two positions to fill that are basically the same. You fill one position with person A that doesn't have a degree and you fill another position with person B that has a degree. Person A may have gotten the position because they beat people with and without degrees that were also applying to the position. The same applies to person B. On one hand, you're saying that person B will get some level of preferential treatment because he/is has a degree. But on the other hand, you're saying that person A is probably better than person B in a manner that isn't reflected in the basic competency tests that were used to hire them in the first place. However, at this point you're comparing apples to oranges because they weren't hired from the pool of candidates.

Moreover, I don't know what you mean by "better". You might say that someone that succeeds despite lacking a degree is probably more passionate than an equally hireable person that had a degree. He/she may have more job experience. He/she may have passed with an A+ from the school of hard knocks. It seems to me that the only way to quantify this and aggregate over individual differences would be to compare the long-term salaries of people with degrees versus those without. Pay may seem like a coarse measure of whether an employee is better or not (I should know because I left a job in which I was underpaid for years despite being productive) but it is at least a simple measure of how much a company actually values an employee.
There is only one thing I want to know behind the story is if the author has purchased facebook stock or not. Just some background info might help understand the motivation.
Hm I see... Here's some screenshots of the ads...

http://cl.ly/image/3n1G3l1F1y2j

http://cl.ly/image/3j2x2Y3j0L1l
And excellent question there. FB event may be protected already via this.
And there are no display ads or large search boxes that take up extra space

I am wondering what this refers to :)
This was also true back during the online poker gold rush. I think what's happening here is that the early adopter crowd subsides to a more risk-averse socially-aware crowd. Further, it seems like the two crowds have statistically significant gender and age differences.
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The best thing for HTML5Rocks would be a serie of screencasts ... Short and to the point similar to Ryan Bate's railscasts. But the site still rocks :)
I work in the marketing department of one of the biggest nightlife companies in the world. Facebook ads for our events/nights have been so successful for us that we stopped doing google ads.
Totally agree. It's a huge challenge for brands that are selling products that aren't highly differentiated too - I had the benefit of selling a niche product that's partially built on scarcity.

Commercial products are tougher, but they also have agencies whose job it is to spend time and money figuring out how to reach people. As I said, I spent about 30 minutes creating these ads.

A big part of what I like about Facebook is that it enables me, as a business owner, to compete on an equal playing field with massive Fortune 500 companies, and in this case benefit even more from Facebook Ads than they do. That's huge for anyone doing anything disruptive, whether it's a startup, a local business, or anyone competing with the status quo.
In general the artist seemed to be obsessed with flying machines and underwater breathing apparatus. I was going to remark how prophetic the SCUBA images were, but it turns out that practical SCUBA dates back at least to 1825.

Reminds me of a Wired magazine article from 1999 speculating on what the greatest invention of the 20th century was, and what the greatest invention of the 21st might be. One of the people interviewed suggested that in terms of inventions having an impact on everyday life, the greatest invention of the 20th century (which was a 19th century invention) was the bicycle and the greatest invention of the 21st would be (another 19th century invention) the telephone (because it was going to reach the other 75% of people who didn't yet have it thanks to cellphones).

Whoever that person was, 'e seems to have been spot on.
But that omits the cost of the records he is selling.
Acoustic pianos are dying and losing to digital pianos. It's a trend just like film camera lost to digital camera. No tuning required.
I'm going to have to side with spacemanaki here.

My biggest focus in using vim was to get it out of the way so that I could focus on the Haskell. I wanted the environment (editor, compiler, window manager, test runner, etc) to be as transparent as possible. This is not, in point of fact, a series of vim tutorial videos.

I will make a video that explains my dev environment as a supplement, however.

I'd be happy to answer any vim questions in the comments (github issues, which I will hopefully figure out how to embed in the site eventually), and I do like the idea of adding call out boxes (no need to use subtitles, they can go on the video itself) to highlight interesting vim trickery.
Yes, but you did not read the title did you. It's an obvious Jab at the fact that FB overcharges. However the point was, the OP made a net profit of < 10k. The OP used it as a facebook EVENT not a click-through link. So this is not an Apples - to - Apples comparison.
It is definitely a bottleneck I face daily in designing crowdflower. Our EC2 bill is much higher than it could be because we have to rely so much on process-level forking.

A great example of this is resque. It'd be great if we could have multiple resque workers per process per job type. This would save a ton of resources and greatly improve processing for very expensive classes of jobs. It's a very real-world consideration. But instead, because our architecture follows this "share nothing in my code, pass that buck to someone else" model like a religion, we waste a lot of computing resources and lose opportunities for better reliability.

What I find most confusing about this argument is that I challenge you to find me a website written in your share nothing architecture that, at the end of the day, isn't basically a bunch of CRUD and UX chrome around a big system that does in-process parallelism for performance and consistency considerations. Postgresql, MySQL, Zookeeper, Redis, Riak, DynamoDB ... all these things are where the actual heavy lifting gets done.

Given how pivotal these things are to modern websites, it's bizarre for you to suggest it is not something to consider.
Another theory is that his account was suspended for criticising a corporate partner, and the "personal details" is just an excuse.
Completing the above, now for UX:

— Start by reading "Designing with the mind in mind" by Jeff Johnson (http://www.amazon.com/Designing-Mind-Simple-Understanding-In...)

— Now you understand that UX design is actually cognitive psychology + sociology. Of course, most cognitive psychology/sociology books will only be slightly relevant to UX design. Here's a short selection to get you started:

— Don Norman, Design of Everyday Objects

— Don Norman, Emotional Design

— Brenda Laurel, Computers as Theater

— Kim Goodwin, Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Servicesa

— Bill Moggridge, Designing Interactions

Bonus:

— Raph Koster, A Theory of Fun for Game Design (meant for video game design, but has a lot of lessons that can be applied to good UX)

For UI design, I'd also heavily recommend "Semiology of Graphics: Diagrams, Networks, Maps" by Jacques Bertin, and anything by Tufte. These titles are more about data visualization, but most UIs need a way to visualize data in some shape or form.

One point that msutherl forgot in his fantastic comment is animation (as in, 2D animation). UIs are not static things, and animators have spent decades understanding how we react emotionally to animations (Good introductory read: http://labs.oracle.com/techrep/1995/smli_tr-95-33.pdf). Good animation in a UI makes a whole lot of difference— Apple knows that (http://watchingapple.com/2007/06/are-apple-ui-designers-lear...).

For this, only one resource: "The Animator's Survival Kit", by Richard Williams.
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Calculus didn't exist in their time, so it couldn't be used by them. Moreover, much progress has been made in science, partly due to calculus. In fact, an awesome scientist today is much more powerful than an awesome scientist back then.

Can you show examples of practical progress made in computer science due to category theory? A bugfree web server, a secure web browser, an OS perhaps?
As in Prolog ',' and ';' are separators: ',' behaves like an and, first do then and then do this (as in Prolog); while ';' is an or, do this clause or do this clause (again as in Prolog). '.' ends something, in this case a function definition. Erlang's functions clauses are not the same as Prolog's clauses which explains the difference.

It is very simple really, think of sentences in English and it all becomes trivially simple.How many sentences end in a ';'?. And you almost never need to explicitly specify blocks.

Here http://ferd.ca/on-erlang-s-syntax.html are some alternate ways of looking at it.
There's another way to do this: just write to the goddamn socket.
So you'll rather have Google read every email and every attachment within your inbox, track you around the web, YouTube etc to give you "relevant" ads - rather just a few ads for other MS products?
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>Hulu+ complements Netflix in a different way than it complements iTunes.

My meaning was that both fill in the "current season" gap that Netflix has.
Here we are not talking about the client on the other end, but just the replication link over ssh that's not an issue because replication in Redis is just an (async) stream so latency is not an issue.