skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to take away from Ray Wenderlich's site. I've found it useful and informative.

It is worth noting that "This is a blog post by iOS Tutorial Team member Gustavo Ambrozio, a software engineer with over 20 years experience, including over three years of iOS experience. He is the founder of CodeCrop Software."
Confirmed. My Live account that I use for xbox live is my gmail account. I was pleasantly surprised that I was able to login to outlook.com with my gmail address. However I am concerned about the ability to send email from outlook.com that is sent as the name of another provider.
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This is what Microsoft is saying now -

Putting you in control. Email is private and confidential, and most folks we've talked to want to keep it that way. So we keep your personal email personal. We don't scan your email content or attachments and sell this information to advertisers or any other company, and we don't show ads in personal conversations. We let you decide whether to connect your account to social networks, and which ones you want to use - and you're in control of who you friend or follow. And, if you're a power user who wants to really fine tune your inbox, we let you create your own categories, folders, and rules to tailor Outlook.com to your preferences.
Gmail was only launched 5 years ago? I'm almost positive I had gmail at least in mid 2004.
Transparent multi-hop SSH
Go NZ! (we try to claim what we can from down here :D) Great work though, they built a nice product (and employed lots of kiwis from what I know).
Yes, but bitching about being oppressed is cooler than just buying a Linux PC.
You experience these same sort of phenomena in meditation: things that we normally think of as requiring consciousness reveal themselves as being controlled autonomically, and you also gain conscious control over autonomic functions. It's pretty cool, and it starts happening within the first few days, it's not something that takes years to experience or whatever.
There's a bit of a difference between saying "we scored a goal" when talking about a soccer team, and "we put the first man into space" when talking about the nation you were born in.

(Full disclosure, I'm a Russian living in America, lived here for 18 years now and I still sometimes say "we" when speaking about things the USSR has done.)

Although, I suppose for a work of historical reference, they should be taking a more neutral tone, but we're a pretty proud people :)
There's a navigation bar to other services (click on the chevron next to the "Outlook" title). It's just less prominent and 2 clicks instead of one. Which I think is the right tradeoff, as wanting to navigate to another service isn't as common as Google would like it to be.
>Female apps lead male apps by a 4:3 ratio in the top 10, and by a 3:1 ratio in the top 5

Since when is 10 games enough to declare any sort of statistical significance? I'm not saying that their claim is false but their data seems wonky.
I meant a link saying that Cinnamon will be included in Fedora 18.
Haha... I knew an astute fellow hacker would pickup on that. :) Yes, the monitor cutout was originally the spot for the music stand. I had to router out about 1/4 an inch to fit in the stripped down apple 23inch display. Currently I have my MBP hooked up on the desk in the center to get some more screen space. Moving between the two screens helps with the height issue.
I think it's pretty easy to argue that. Child molesters cause way more suffering than the rest (well, depending on stats, but still), so I think that's a much better way to spend your resources.
It's all about how much you pay the turkers. I have done many studies on mturk and the quality of results have been very good so far. My secret? Pay people equitable wages.

I always do a small pilot study to find out how long on average does my task take people to do. Then price the HIT so that people can get at least $6 an hour, sometimes much more.

This way, I get high quality results very fast. For example, I posted 100 assignments at 11am today, each took about 10 minutes to do, and now it is 1:40pm, and I have already gotten all the results I need.

Compared with having to pay $20 for people to come to my lab for an hour, mturk is heaven.
I think this is actually the source of a lot of unfounded hatred for Gnome 3. People aren't always fully aware that Ubuntu is not actually using Gnome Shell, and have instead created their own project, Unity, that just happens to use Gnome for the toolkit. Unity is completely separate from Gnome Shell, and works in quite a different fashion.

I've personally been a huge fan of Gnome 3 and Gnome Shell, and I still think Unity is a terrible, ugly mess. But because many still think that Ubuntu is just using Gnome, they project their distaste for Unity onto Gnome 3 instead of where it belongs...
If you remove the working parts, do they get much lighter? I don't know much about the internals of pianos.
I also hear by sound, am I Daredevil?
The world does not revolve around you :-(
Robots draw your face
Cool idea! I'm a whiskey guy too (www.whiskeynotes.com) and I might be interested in this, but need to know what level of bottles will be sent. For example, I don't really need any Old Overholt, but some Jefferson's Presidential would be nice...

I found the UI a bit confusing and slow to load. I like the concept though.
It matters from a security perspective. A bad or inconsistent URL, especially a hostname that isn't instantly recognizable, makes phishing easier.
I had not heard that. Do you have a link sourcing that?
I have to wonder if this ad would have made it past "The Steve" while he was at the helm. It seems very out-of-sync with what they did then.

Is this indicative of where Apple is heading I wonder?
The thing is, GNOME has always been an interface that's highly optimized for desktops and laptops. If they wanted to come up with a new interface for tablets and mobile, they should have done it with a separate project.
The suggestion that someone who isn't extraordinarily stupid could actually end up purchasing a non-iPad tablet because they couldn't tell the difference is also disingenuous.

In both images, the boxes clearly state in large lettering "Samsung Galaxy Tab."
Some editorial comments:

1) "Please read this" is redundant because if they got that far in your post, they've already read it. 2) "Repeat it to yourself every day" is trite and can be made more interesting by substituting "day" with "hour" or something else. 3) You use "this" but refer to an abstract and ambiguous antecedent. 4) If they can remember to repeat it to themselves each morning, then it must have already stuck, so yours is a nonsensical sentence.

Here's my stab at something more creative:

Tech bloggers, make an effort to follow this advice each time you write, until it becomes effortless.

Or something shorter:

Tech bloggers, sharpie this quote onto your keyboard.
That comment thread, esp. comment 148, seems to imply that Cinnamon will _not_ be part of Fedora 18. At least as I read it.
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The Mobile & Local Intent Eureka Moment
I know I haven't. It's more than just one "whoopsie" though. It happened with Windows Live messenger and TPB before. It's happening with Skype, and all the non-transparency regarding to what type of agencies they give user data, how easily they do that, and so on.
this comment thread reminds me of reddit
Any ideas where I can advertise my great.com domain name available for fashion startups for lease? ;-)
By completely random occurrence, I was watching this video yesterday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cv5ldhxpLA&feature=g-his...

Its by the fellow that does Minute Physics on Youtube. Towards the end of his talk, he specifically talks about this topic.

He makes a comparison between mathematics and physics, wherein mathematics you are taught the math without a ton of history. No scaffolding. In physics, you are taught the entire history of physics, i.e. scaffolding, from the ground up.

He also advocates directly teaching modern theory and leaving most of the history out. Make learning physics more like learning math.
"We did not find a similar pattern in Barack Obama's recent followers. "

Why would you expect the patterns to be remotely similar? Obama has been the President for over 3 years. Romney has been a presidential candidate for a few months.

"Our test is based on the underlying assumption that the followers of Twitter accounts tend to display a some kind of general indegree distribution."

Unwarranted assumption. It could be that many new people are joining Twitter JUST to follow the Romney campaign.

"Selected the twenty accounts closest in size to both Romney and Obama,"

I'm not sure why anyone would consider this a valid sampling technique.

"The median number of followers for Romney's new followers was 5, whereas the median for the comparison group was 27. This represents a stark, and statistically significant difference. If you are a statistics nerd, like us, you might want to know that the p-value on this was 0.0000. "

Not if the "comparison group" is completely bogus.
Funny, I just got an email from one of their recruiters today.
>If data quality matters and you can avoid mturk - avoid it.

You've identified a great reason to use MobileWorks instead. Crowd work doesn't have to be low-quality; Turk just hasn't done a terrific job of it.

We've achieved substantially higher quality than MTurk by treating workers better, paying fairer wages, and giving workers tools to collaborate.
New Interface Controller Game Changer for Makers
You get what you pay for. If you pay them pennies, you get garbage, but if you pay them equitable wages, you get real work done. It's that simple.
A look inside Zynga’s numbers
The exits of Buddy Media and Wildfire are related to Facebook introducing Timeline to Pages.

If you assume they were notified of the change in early 2012, and the change happened in March/April, and a deal of this size taking a few months to close, you can see how this deal (and the Buddy Media one) are likely directly related. The change also coincides with WF and BM both announcing ad-related pivots the day before Facebook announced their Timeline change (source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/wildfire-announces-new-capa... and http://www.marketwatch.com/story/buddy-media-announces-brigh...).

The Pages change destroyed many companies. The week that the change was forced, I took a screen shot of the top app losers on socialbakers. Check it out yourself: http://i.imgur.com/C3zSQ.png . BandPage, for example, lost 90% of its traffic in 60 days. Wildfire apps saw their user base gutted as well. I remember looking up the stats for a few of their apps a month later and saw their app install base had fallen huge double digit percentages. It's hard to see exactly how companies like WF were impacted, but I think the Timeline change gutted their unstoppable growth and forced them to exit while things were still looking bright.

And this, in my opinion, helps explain why they took a relatively small exit of $250M (given the larger $689M of BM).

That's my guess at the situation.

( Edit: The reason I have this info handy is because I looked into this in depth a few months back: http://www.michikono.com/2012/03/22/facebook-is-okay-with-hu... )
I can excuse most of those, but the big exception is the USB plug. A proprietary USB cable is an anti-feature from the consumer's point-of-view. Copying that is like copying Apple's typos.
Ask HN: Is there a way to post to both PadMapper and Craigslist?
. . . besides just posting to Craigslist:)
That's like when I go shopping for toy guns, and accidentally buy a real bazooka. Whoops!
The concept is actually 30 to 40 years old.
> things that we normally think of as requiring consciousness reveal themselves as being controlled autonomically

Like what?
>As long as you're just passing cat pictures around, why not just throw them onto a simple, infinitely-sized, everyone-can-create-files-but-nobody-can-delete-them DHT-based "disk"? And if you're passing political activism around, just encrypt and sign it like you were going to send it over email, then drop it in the mesh and email the URN instead. (This is presuming a stable PKI key-publishing/querying infrastructure as well, of course.)

The latter is basically equivalent to this system, and so your system would have exactly the same problems: the only way you could avoid being a relay for child porn is to refuse to relay any encrypted content, at which point your node is not helping the political activism. Allowing unencrypted content also leaves you much more open to traffic analysis (if only a small fraction of data is encrypted, it's much easier to find the nodes that are inserting the political activism data).
It's easier to turn a rowboat than an aircraft carrier.
They have utilities to run marketing campaigns (sweepstakes, like campaigns, ads etc) on primarily Facebook but also other social media.
That's a terrific strategy, and that's one of the strategies we apply internally here at MobileWorks.

Treating folks fairly is the right way to get good results. We tie price to task time explicitly, to prevent folks from underpaying MobileWorkers. This makes sure results come back right.

You can read our IEEE paper for details: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bjoern/papers/kulkarni-mobilewor...
How To: Getting Started with Amazon EC2
Sounds like this guy had bad timing - http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/229396/uk_man_...
As a PhD student in mathematics, I have to say that history is valuable in mathematics because it explains why people are interested in certain problems.

When I was a master level student, I always got annoyed by advanced courses in algebra (things like homological algebra) where it was often unclear why one should be interested in the problems stated there. Prompting the profs to give some short historical overview can be very enlightening.

I do believe you can leave the vast majority of the history out. Advances in notation etc. were made for a reason. But a little bit of history can be quite important for context.
Powerful punchy prose = big hit blog
My review of Jay Heinrichs' excellent book Word Hero is one part accolade & another putting it into practice.
Really nice. If he wants to spend more time on this, additional hacks would be:

- hook up the foot pedal to a KVM or some kind of software switch to switch desktops/environments

- put some speakers behind the 2 grills if it isn't done already

- make one or both of the grills openable and attach a power strip in them so the power wires can be hooked up hidden inside instead of outside

- cut out the flat part of keyboard cover and use it to extend the desktop for more desktop space and more leg room
Google Wildfire Adaptly
I don't understand your argument. Zynga gets paid to deliver entertainment. Why is that any more evil than television? They are both addictive and carefully programmed to maximize viewership.
THIS!!

Do people honestly see long-time LINUX users dumping their laptops / Desktops for Tablets / Smartphones?

I really don't get the pull for "unified" interfaces. It doesn't make sense. I don't do the same things on my mobile devices that I do on desktop / laptops. Not. At. All.

There is no reason to Unify them. The closest thing I could see is similar interfaces, with features useful on both included, but otherwise different.
This subject was presented in a book I read recently, along with many interesting aspect of how our mind works. The book is definitely worth reading, it was "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman.

I wonder if it can explain the fact that I don't fall or bump into obstacles when I walk and read at the same time...
Twitter's explanation includes the word "apologize", but never states cleary what exactly they are apologizing for. Encouraging NBC to file a complaint? A complaint they still claim is justified? You can't apologize and say you did the right thing at the same time. "Sorry I hit you, but you had it coming."

They continue to defend the decision to suspend the account because it contained "private" information, claiming they can't make the distinction (big.boss at bigco.com, gimme a break...), even though by now various media have dug up plenty of incidents where publishing unambiguously private information has not lead to suspension.

And to add insult to injury: the account wasn't restored because Twitter reversed their decision, but because NBC retracted the complaint.

Seems to me like NBC giveth and NBC taketh away. Twitter merely apologizes for, well, what exactly? Being the messenger?
Yes - the requirement is for manufacturers who want to use the Windows logo to indicate that their systems support Windows 8.

But many new Linux users start by installing Linux on a PC bought with Windows, so we definitely want to make that as easy as possible.
Let's hope it doesn't end up that way! The article only briefly mentions it, but we've worked hard to make sure that even if tasks are algorithmically generated for MobileWorkers, they have the opportunity to collaborate on task execution in a way that's much more similar to a virtual office than to being a cog (persistent worker-to-worker chat, managers to support and explain tasks, and more).

This makes a material difference in the quality of the final results, lets people enjoy their work more, and lets individuals take ownership over what they're doing.
Self.gratulate
A better comparison group would be people who have gone from (relative) obscurity to extreme prominence over a short period of time. Sheer number of followers doesn't seem to be important (particularly since I would expect most of the accounts with that many followers to belong to people who have a) been prominent for quite some time and b) have been on Twitter for quite some time).
This is a humor piece, not a guide (for HN readers who click on comments first).
Hackathon Project: play Cupid AND get matched by the messes
If you like it, please leave upvote.
A lot of people happen to find analytics and mathematics quite stimulating.

So many in fact there are even university courses for it.
Congratulations, really good work. Making videos is hard, at least for me cos I'm not native, and they get easily outdated.

For a .Net guy with a little knowledge of Haskell like me, in the video you can show not only the language but the IDE and the programming experience.
I wonder what the deadline is. How much time can pass between me finding a vulnerability and me reporting it before I'm labeled an evil black-hat, instead of a bug-reporting penetration tester?
Well done, not bad at all. The only change I would make is to cut away a portion of the back-board under the desk so I could stretch my legs out a bit.
Looking forward to the postmortem.
FiberStarter? KickFiber?

Realistically though, Google Fiber deployment has very little to do with customer demand. Google's business model appears to require extreme regulatory capture which most city councils have no reason to allow.
I don't think this system is searchable. You'll be storing a bunch of encrypted blobs, each of which can be retrieved and decrypted by anyone who knows a short key. One of them might be a CP picture (if you store enough of them, statistically one of them will be a CP picture). One of them might be an index full of other short keys, pointing to a whole host of CP pictures spread across the mesh.

If you're fine with that, that's good enough; you can run this system, and political activists and perverts alike will be able to stick their blocks there, accessible to anyone to whom they can pass the relevant short keys. But many people will be uncomfortable with even this much.
he's almost a zombie
Actually, between trademark law and libel laws that's not strictly true.
Was there an x86 emulator that shipped with NT/Alpha? I never heard about this before, and Google isn't being helpful.
Here's research on business school outcomes, notably compiled by Dr. Jeffrey Pfeffer of Stanford GSB: http://www.aomonline.org/Publications/Articles/BSchools.asp. The study was published in 2002, but the costs have skyrocketed and the benefits have imploded even more severely since publication. Net, if you don't want to work in investment banking or Fortune 500 management consulting, you don't need to buy a $150,000+ interview.

If you're planning to start your own company, MBA programs are a waste of time and money. You're far, far better off saving your money, learning on your own, and working on your company. It's not that difficult, and employers/clients/investors care more about results than credentials 99 times out of 100.

That's pretty much the introduction to my book (http://book.personalmba.com). The book itself is a primer on the most important things you need to know to get started.

Hope you find this useful. Good luck!
In chemistry class (where we learned particle physics in high school) I really hated having to unlearn all the crap we were quizzed on in the last section to learn some new crap that I'd be tested on and then expected NOT to use later because it was obsolete! /rant

Anyway, if you really want to teach the history of a subject like math, you should probably do it after teaching the modern understanding of the subject. In math class our teacher explained some of the controversy over the invention of calculus, and the origin of the different notations. It gave us some appreciation for the unintuitive and tricky nature of the subject, which looks very simple now.
To be fair, the submission (which is from 2009) is also very reddit-shallow. (Six whole paragraphs, wow!)
I'm a Microsoft developer. I'd suggest using the .NET framework with WPF or Winforms for the speed of development. Plus there are tons of examples and tutorials to help you along the way. Also hands down Visual Studio is one of the best IDE's available. (no flames please)
Since you brought up meditation, a question I never quite find the right moment to ask:

What is it? I mean, that question sounds so simplistic as to be inane, but bear with me: I have had absolutely no interaction with anyone who meditates, beyond observing them at a distance with casual skepticism.

Alternative questions to "What is it?" would be "What is its purpose?" and "What is it like?" Having gone to my university's weekly meditation sessions twice and simply fallen asleep, I used to assume it was just that: people sleeping while sitting upright. The idea of a third state the system of sleeping/awake seems utterly alien to me.

EDIT: Having just done the obvious and skimmed over the Wikipedia article for Meditation, it's far more broad than my question here. Obviously "to meditate on something" is to ponder/think about it, sometimes while moving or working. I'm asking in regard to a the more specific, often motionless, act that Alex3917 seems to be describing.
> It's almost as if when the iPhone launched the designs started to heavily converge on whatever Apple was doing

Absolutely. And now they're diverging again. But it took courts to force that shift.
That is great. When I was working in the Philippines for a microfinance bank I had some of my staff work on mTurk during a quiet period and they were barely earning local minimum wage from the work. Croudsourcing work like this offers great potential to get income into poor, under-employed regions of the world but we can't let it become the new sweatshop.
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Suppose we move 20 years forward. Are we going to see this type of comment regardless of what the company would be at that time? "No way, man! I bet you're younger than 50, if you... " Do you really think that ghosts from the past need to haunt people's minds for that long regardless of how the state of the world has changed?
I perceive none of MS and Google as being protective of their users or respectful of said users privacy. Nonetheless, when we speak of events that have anything to do with morals, I guess we have to take into consideration the time that has passed since those events have happened, since both the morals and the scene could have changed dramatically.