skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suspect I'm in the minority, but I try to use very few frameworks and work my way up as needed.

I've been using Sublime Text 2, and generally developing in Rails + postgresql.

I prefer against CSS frameworks. It's pretty easy to build your own grid system. The exception is that I've been using Bootstrap pretty heavily for new ideas and prototypes, but have also found myself removing it in the long run.

I use jQuery. It works nicely with the idea of using very few frameworks. It's great for DOM, Ajax and events, but doesn't assume too much more. Sometimes I'll use a polyfill shiv of some kind, but usually only when I run into trouble. I don't like heavier frameworks like Ember or even Backbone. Ultimately, I feel like I'm building an Ember app, not a web app, and I think that gets in the way of making good decisions otherwise. Backbone is obviously lighter weight, but I developed a system (patterns) a while back that works really well for me, and haven't found Backbone to be an improvement.

File organization is a really interest topic, and not talked about enough. It's a big one, though, and I think more than I can fit here. Roughly, I have a few "core/setup" files that are included on every page, then the rest of the code broken up into "components" - generally page-specific, and "widgets" things that are likely small in scope, totally independent, and alway capable of having multiple instances. All communication between components, widgets, or any other code is done with custom events.
The system was set up to foster innovation, not grant free monopolies willy nilly. I've yet to read any convincing argument about how this verdict will lead to more innovation, but there's a very clear way to see how it could lead to less. I find it very hard to believe that had Apple not been granted these patents, or if the patents had a much more appropriate 12-18month validity period, they would not have shipped the iPhone and forgone the massive revenue and profit stream.

More broadly, I often see people decrying that the poor have access to LCD TVs, ACs or decent smartphones, with the point being that they should stop being so demanding. But this is exactly what technological progress looks like - innovations which are expensive and exclusive are useful demos, but they don't become world-changers until they become widespread.

So yes, the patent system should ensure that consumers have rock-bottom prices on the latest gadgets, and any other technology. Otherwise, it is simply stifling innnovation.
The fact that the verdict is based on trivial patents is actually a good thing. Samsung can redesign the phone case and do trivial software changes and come up with 8 brand new phones officially declared to be comparable to the iphone.

Am I the only one who thinks rounded edges are so 1950s ?
Why Mavenlink Engineers Come In Pairs
This is another reason there was supposed to be an expiratoin date on copyright. It was never intended to last 120 years and multiple generations, was it?
An article on an SEO journal site containing images about low content not 'cutting' it... which abruptly ends in a picture slideshow. Is there such a thing as recursive irony? :)

Some of the pics made me laugh, but this doesn't really belong here imo.
I'm not sure what the current state of the WordPress world is, but I know that without caching you were bound to crumble under any kind of traffic spike not very long ago.

Perhaps that's a good first step (I'm sorry I don't know which of the caching plugins is best, WP SuperCache used to be the one to use 'back in the day')
I've acted as an informal advisor for a handful of "startups" (in the broadest sense of the word), generally on the technical side of things, but I have some business success behind me (often more than the 'founders').

Now... this might just be me, but I get asked for input, I give it, with rationalization/reasoning, and I get summarily ignored. Almost every single time. Certainly on any issue of substance. As I say, it may be me, or it may be the people I've chosen to give my time to. I think it's a mix of both, but... they tend to only want their ideas validated, not disproven or shot down. My answers in almost all cases are "it doesn't really matter what I say - or you say - you need to try the idea out, and get feedback from the data and customers (or non customers)". And I'm accused of not believing in an idea, or not having faith in people, or being too negative, or whatever. It's become dishearterning, as I generally wouldn't bother donating my time and talents to parties that I didn't think were worthwhile or had merit in the first place.

Additionally, while my successes have been modest, I've also got a wealth of failures and errors in my past to draw on, and it's truly sad to watch some people make the same mistakes I made 10 years ago. The difference is, I had no mentors or people to guide me 10 years ago - I would have loved to have had that sort of input to save me time, money and sanity. I guess some mistakes you have to make for yourself, perhaps?
One can't address a problem until one is aware of it; counting calories is a technique useful for creating that awareness. It's not a diet plan, it's an awareness technique.
If you look at the quotes, it's pretty obvious he took it personally:

"When I got in this case and I started looking at these patents I considered: ‘If this was my patent and I was accused, could I defend it?’” Hogan explained. On the night of Aug. 22, after closing arguments, “a light bulb went on in my head,” he said. “I thought, I need to do this for all of them." -- Jury Foreman (http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-08-25/apple-samsung-ju...)
You do own DVDs and Blu-rays. The problem is with the other stuff.
I have the data and will check it tomorrow if you send me an email.

Added in edit:

OK, I've just done a quick check. On August 22nd, UK time, there were 772 items submitted. Of those, 90 appeared on the front page. That's between 11% and 12%.

These figures are probably typical, but if it's more than just idle curiosity, email me.
Android, iOS growing 10 times faster than PCs did in the 1980s
(Simon from buddycloud here)

We've tried to take the approach that for everything you can use the REST-based JSON delivering API (https://github.com/buddycloud/buddycloud-http-api). The federation, domain discovery, message passing between domains, dial-back security etc are all handled at the XMPP layer and can essentially be a black box. Just know that your posts, media, whatever-you-want will get delivered when both domains are online and that servers will catch up on posts when one goes down.

To me this gives developers the best of both worlds - simple to develop web-app combined with solid, tested, it-just-works federation.
>nine calories per gram

<imperial unit> per <metric unit>.

Must be an American article.
It seems highly unlikely that even if there was source code, the candidate would be able to remember it with a high enough level of detail to warrant this.
Tent looks promising, but the Internet wasn't based on "push."

Tent is just the initial iteration of a new, more open and more private social sphere.
It's not irrelevant, as the whole point of this particular thread was the hypothesis that many people want to travel further than 250 miles.
So they have a "limited" beta with the first 10k new test users for each release getting to test it (and once in, you are always in). That would give them 10 testing updates before they hit their cap and a lot of useful data.
Perhaps a useful takeaway is "if you're going to argue for change, try to not be an asshole otherwise?"
No one has ever been sued for downloading a few songs. The suits have purposefully been against people who have distributed via uploading, either willingly or not (e.g. Kazza) hundreds or thousands of songs.
I'm not overly familiar with this story, but it is easy to recast as a fight between the empiricist and the theoretician. To the empiricist, a man shows up with statistics showing a correlation, maybe even causality, and that's all you need. To the theoretician, if the man with the statistics says it's due to little green men that live in his head, the numbers aren't enough.

In hindsight, we can see that he was right and it doesn't matter why. But there are also plenty of other stories where acting too soon, before having a real, theoretical understanding of what's going on, would have been a lot more detrimental in the long run.
Hmm... it seems like the really sweet spot for this type of thing is one that could supply power while you drive. If it could deliver about 7 kW (a little more than the mains plug for a domestic dryer or oven or range), it would supply around 50% to 70% of the car's freeway power requirements. That would double or triple the range, from ~250 miles to ~750 miles.
With content deals, I feel like Can-Con is to blame.

Can-con is the law that a percentage of content must be Canadian in origin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content

I personal hold Can-con responsible for the fact that Call Me Maybe is played so often on Canadian radio.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_me_maybe
I'm not sure if I understood the question, but if you mean how user control is related to the decentralized structure, then the answer is in the question. Decentralization essentially prevents one entity from being in control, and in edge case control is given to a user who runs a personal pod for single Diaspora account.
>so that patents are routinely granted for designs, devices, and methods that are already effectively commoditized

You are confusing utility patents and design patents. They are very different things, and design patents are intended for "designs" and the designs of devices. This is not a perversion, this is just you not understanding what patents are!

Secondly you guys constantly claim that these things are not novel, yet you are never able to provide good prior art. Yes, here, 11 years later, this stuff is commoditized. Mostly because android ripped off the work Apple demoed in January 2007 and brought it to market.

That doesn't mean in January 2007 it wasn't novel. I have constantly seen you guys claim that other people did this before, but I've never seen a single instance of genuine prior art. You guys cite movies (not understanding what prior art is, or what patents are) and you cite demos of completely different technologies (like microsoft's surface which uses cameras.)

So, you're projecting a completely false characterization of the situation and then saying its "bad" or has been perverted.

This feels like political propaganda to me. I notice that the anti-Patent movement started with google's lawyers letter and in defense of android which is a blatent ripoff of Apple technology.

So, lets see google donate Pagerank to the public domain, eh? They only have 6 years or so left on it anyway.... why haven't they?
New estimate reduces the number of microbes on Earth by around half
CTF was lots of fun, but I never really bothered finishing final level :(
Yeah, that a special installation that you would get in your own house. Unless your friend also has this hookup (which if they do they probably need to using for themselves anyway) you have to use the special regular outlet hookup which is ~5 miles per hour of charge.
If electronic media were cheaper like it should be I think consumers would have an easier time accepting the nontransferability aspect.

I think people accepting nontransferability would be a bad thing. A very bad. Revocability is the next step after nontransferability and that is a truly ugly thing.
Awesome, Mike, I'm totally trying to recruit you to the Fogbeam advisory board, as of now. You know I'll listen to you! :-)
Repeat after me: Patents do not cover ideas. Patents do not cover features. Writing about an idea or a feature in a computer science journal is not prior art.

Star Trek has the warp drive. So, if someone invents the technology to give us a warp drive, you think that it isn't novel because we've seen it on TV going back to the 1960s!
http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/
Pretty sweet! What about a "sort by karma" slider? ;)

How did you get the photos for each user?
ORLY?

calorie: the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram (sometimes, one gram) of water one degree centigrade.
Inexperience.

It was VERY clear that these were just a bunch of college kids who had no decent real world experience in software development. When you have a such a small project as Diaspora failing to get something the fundamentals sorted from day one is a bad sign IMHO.
if Apple allowed you to buy transferable licenses to music in the iTunes store at $1.50/song and non-transferable licenses at $1.00/song, which would you buy?

Maybe smart people would buy the transferable for $1.50 then later sell it "used" for 75 cents, which is a win for both the seller and buyer.
Didn't know what it was, so I looked it up. A meme generator. Aren't there enough of those already ?

I could maybe understand if they hoped to get money out of this. Does that seem likely (asking for opinions here, I really have no clue) ?
It's an application, not a patent. Anyone can apply for a patent, but they're not always granted.
i paid 600 for a rental this summer. it was a van, and it was pickup and dropoff in different locations, but there are certainly scenarios in which you need to spend hundreds of dollars on a rental car. Yes you can do it for cheaper, but that depends on location, time, special needs, etc.
What Facebook needed to be in 2004 is a far cry from what Diaspora needed to be in 2012.
Putting unread messages count in zsh shell prompt
Why is this a frontpage HN post?
We (my wife did all the visual/interaction design work) ended up getting to the point where the only thing blocking the initial release was the name. For what it's worth, "Toutday" is supposed to have a vaguely French feel.
What was that law that said that all titles that ended with a question mark can be answered "No"?
$105k for the model tested in this article? Price tag anxiety is still an issue.
I actually really like that way of doing it, but I don't think it would work well for what I was trying to do with BigScreen, mainly for the video fallback behavior. When browsers do drop the prefixes, part of the functionality wouldn't exist anymore.
Sometimes the Best Solution is a Library not an App
It may or may not be.. Its dependent on CPU, and Compiler.
You're proposing 2 competing business models. Ads are devalued if some users can opt-out of them.
That's a good lesson too, but the problem wasn't just that Semmelweis was an asshole. It is admittedly hard to come up with a coherent lesson from the narrative Swartz provided here, except to confirm truism ("don't be an asshole", "be open minded", "listen to the evidence, especially when it contracts you") that we obviously already know.
That does pose some interesting puzzles.

Perhaps the fact of moving changes how the body partitions nutrients. Or handles hunger. Or some other factor. Or the specific modalities of exercise (brief, high-intensity vs. long, low-intensity) matter.

The study appears to rule out one possible mechanism (total calories consumed). There's still the fact of bodyweight / body composition differences.

If your test fails to account for observed differences in phenomena, then your test failed to identify the cause(s).

Just as the sick man who goes to the doctor for a battery of diagnostics and is told "we can't find anything wrong". The problem isn't in the state of the man's health, it's in the state of the doctor's diagnostics.
Has anyone here tried Seth Roberts' Shangri-La Diet?
Crowdsourced funding does have the advantage of spreading the risk among the crowd though. When I fund a Kickstarter project I know full well that these people might run off with the money or the project might fall flat, but I take the risk with a small amount of my own money - an amount I can afford to lose. I don't expect every project I fund, or even the majority of them, to succeed, but you pay to give them a chance, and you take on the risk knowingly. That seems to be the best way to see the deal.
It's replacing a wholly-incorrect model with a potentially flawed, but partially-validated one. I don't think we have the body of knowledge right now to precisely model how a particular diet works vs. another, but we have observed that low-carb diets improve health and wellness.

This isn't to say we should all ditch our bread and pray at the Church of Paleo. But with our current state of knowledge, I think it's more intellectually dishonest to cling to provably false "scientific" models of how different diets affect the body, than to just go with something that works (but we don't really know why). The scientific method dictates that theories must be made to fit observation, not the other way around.

Consider this: a theory that the world was round prior to any evidence of such has no more validity than the flat-world hypothesis. Post hoc, you may find out that the Earth is in fact round, but the knowledge was gained from the observation, not the theory. So call it religion if you want, but it's actually more scientific than the alternative.
FBI-Approved Biometrics for Emerging Nations
> We’ve been working with Twitter over the last few days to try to work around this limit for the duration of the beta but have been unable to come up with a solution that was acceptable to them.

That tells me that they've already tried the obvious stuff people are suggesting in this thread and Twitter simply won't allow them.
300 MILE AN HOUR WINDS AND HIGH WATER
That's one of the reasons that people who make modulating their body composition a key priority (bodybuilders) often stick to very consistent diets. By not varying the type, quality, and preparation of the food, they can modulate quantity for desired effects (bulking, cutting).
> you do not get patents for ideas, you get patents for inventions

That's how it's supposed to work, which is a large part of why people are up in arms about the broken patent system. A patent on an idea and a patent on any possible implementation of that idea are effectively the same thing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4440807

> It is for a specific claimed method of enabling that task, involving the display of an area outside of and distinct from the document or list, which then disappears when the scrolling input ends.

That supposed specificity is nothing but a way of describing an aspect of the general idea in terms of generic implementation details. Any implementation will have some part that can be construed as similar ("they're just generating the 'area' on demand", etc)
30,000 Machines Infected In Targeted Attack On Saudi Aramco
IAC buys About.com from the NYT
OnLive CEO Steve Perlman leaving the company
OnLive founder Steve Perlman is out, as investor Gary Lauder assumes control
This blog post presents good techniques, but misses the point.

The most important thing to do when designing a machine learning algorithm is to choose your loss function. The loss function quantifies how much your model sucks.

Ideally, your loss function should be the true loss, in real life. In a business, your true loss function is: -profit over the lifetime of the business. A lot of time it's difficult to measure the true loss, so your loss function should be a "surrogate" (approximation) of the true loss.

The author is poking around with techniques, without considering what he actually wants to optimize.

Brandon Ballinger said it well: http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-keys-to-operationalizing-a...

"Make your success metric user happiness. Traditional accuracy measures like precision, square error, ROC, etc. don't capture what you really care about--how users react to your model. For example, if you're running an ad system, your metrics should be revenue per pageview and click through rate. It's completely possible to have a model with a reduced error rate which lowers revenue, due to Simpson's paradox and a host of other reasons."

The author of this post hasn't really considered these questions, and gets all hand-wavey about precision and recall vs. confusion matrices. How do you know that any of these are what you really care about?

So: What's the value of a false positive? What's the value of a false negative?

Here's where it gets interesting. For airport screening, one person might say that a false negative (terrorist slips through and kills 100 people) is 100M times worse than a false positive (I strip-search an innocent person). So this person has made a value judgment that the death of a random innocent person is 1 million times worse than humiliating an innocent person. The TSA, on the other hand, decides that a false negative is 100B times worse than a false positive, so they assign 1000 times as much value to catching terrorists vs. humiliating people as the other person.

Who's right? It's a value judgment, and machine learning can't answer that.

What I'm getting at here is that the choice of a loss function is ultimately an aesthetic decision. Once we can optimize loss perfectly, what loss will we optimize?
IANAL. The IRS allows gifts (bona fide no-strings-attached gifts) from individuals to individuals up to $13,000 per year with no tax required†. After $13,000 it is the responsibility of the giver to pay taxes on the gift, not the recipient. To be clear, the person receiving gifts can receive up to $13,000‡ per giver tax-free. There is no limit on how much a recipient may receive as a gift without paying tax. gittip does not even approach these limits, and if it did then the giver would file Form 709, and there would be no 1099.

† http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=108139,00....

‡ married couples may collectively give up to $26,000 per recipient per year
Microsoft’s New Logo A Few Small Changes Away From Apple’s Typeface
Founder Steve Perlman Is Leaving OnLive
Understood, but I'm wondering if there's a compromise somewhere.
Trainingsschema Fitness
Ruby is pretty much an unholy mix of Perl + Smalltalk + a sprinkling of Lisp with an extreme syntactic sugar-bomb on top to start with. At least in terms of inspirations.

And I say that mostly as a compliment (though I still find the Ruby grammar atrocious from an implementation point of view).
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The CTF was one of the more educationally useful things I've done in a while, thanks!
It's not clear that people started with "little confidence" in the concept. If that were true, they'd not have been funded at all. Plenty of people had plenty of confidence, self-evidently.

It's also not clear that confidence in such a "concept of a crowd-funded online service", generally, was 'destroyed'. App.net just got funded for much more money. Other online services have also been funded since for less (such as Hypothes.is).

People might not fund such a young team as Diaspora at such an early stage again. The undiscriminating enthusiastic community now knows better what to look for -- it's learned a little the hard way, like any investor must.

Diaspora proved there was interest and tested a longshot idea. Their fundraising success inspired a lot of other Kickstarter campaigns. We all now know more. That's progress to be proud of even if they and their backers were over-optimistic and over-ambitious.
iPhone and iPad applications for school/college/university
In this case this tools are even more useful, provided it is not a new niche. With semrush you can see both seo potential and the paid traffic available.

In case you want to test a lander page keep in mind that adwords considers also ad ctr and lander quality score and that can be a reason for you not getting any clicks or very expensive ones.
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Craig Federighi & Dan Riccio Join Apple’s Executive Team
i'd be honored. ;)
Certainly, but you could account for much of it--and average away the rest.
I am amazed Ask.Com is making enough money to fund a 300M purchase... who uses Ask.Com????
Unless the original filer happened to be your grandfather