skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dunno, if you ask the mythical non technical person they're probably more likely to say they'll trust a religious site over a blog.

I think it's a frequent misconception that most malware is something people put on their own websites just to be dicks/get money from it. More people are likely to say bloggers will be dicks than religious organisations.
Aerofex Develops a Working Hover Bike Thats Straight Out of Return of the Jedi
Toro - a php micro-router with great examples
What a strange article. I'm not sure who this is written for. There's no real details about anything technically interesting that they did other than including the whole messages app codebase in the new app. But explaining how their objects share protocols? Listing some data that they precalculated and the methods it saves them time in? This stuff is obvious to any current ios dev and useless to anyone who isn't an ios dev.
I assume we can now look forward to DamnYouFlesky.com to complement DamnYouAutoCorrect.com. I hope this works a little better than the iOS auto correct that I have had to shut off, but my expectations are not high.
To clarify, I was referring to Apple's policy regarding emergency fixes for 3rd party applications.
Ask HN: What's the biggest pain in the a** when you're using APIs?
Oauth fragmentation? API interoperability? Data portability? Documentation? Terms of Service? Combining APIs? Other issues?
It's not just about Prismatic going away. You can learn a lot about me by what I read. A popular way to make money is to sell that information. If I can't see how you make money, I'm going to assume you are selling my information. I'm not necessarily against that, but I really want to know what you are selling.
The toro mascot on the main site is pretty cool. http://toroweb.org/
No... the new APIs take over all monitors. When you use the fullscreen apis, you can then target your windows for the other monitors. No body does so you see crosshatch pattern on them. If you download final cut on MAS and fullscreen it will use both monitors.

The problem is that fullscreen gives developers all monitors because the feature is supposed to encompasses the user entirely in one app experience, throwing out the multitasking concepts. It's like distraction free mode in many editors and follows the iOS concept of one App at a time. Apple allows the developer to use all the monitors when in fullscreen the way they want in the app but less than 5% of the fullscreening apps actually do anything with the other monitor. This unfortunately isn't the pattern that many users want especially when less than 5% of the fullscreening apps do anything with the second monitor mostly using the full screen mode to help 11 inch MBPAir users effectively use space.

Given that, fullscreening windows without the Apple API (as was done in older Mac versions) will still work but it's tricky and many apps didn't behave perfectly. The new API while not perfect is simple and just works for most devs, so they use it.
It seems odd that they chose to post the logo as a jpeg. The compression artifacts stop it from appearing as crisp as it should be.
about bloody time!
Thanks! Offline didn't quite make it into the first version, but it's coming soon.
It would be cool if Alexis ran for office, but realistically I think having started Reddit would be a liability rather than an asset until circa 2024.
Is there a way to create an account and tell prismatic my interest without logging in with any social network account? I would prefer to keep things separate.
Accept-Language is clearly the correct solution. It's easy to set in browsers (at least it is in Opera, if it's not in some other browser then I contend that's a UI bug), and OEMs should set it to a sane default for the region in which the browser is distributed.

The indexability is an interesting argument, but my response is that there should be a standard mechanism to query, via HTTP OPTIONS, in which languages a resource is available. By doing so, a user agent or search engine can easily index all versions of a resource.

Whether or not such a standard exists I do not know, but Google certainly has the clout to standardize such a mechanism (viz. sitemaps and #!).
At Khan Academy, we actually have terabytes of data; some of our tables have close to a billion rows.

Our backend does much more than just serve static files -- you'd think that we don't have to do much but we keep track of video and exercise progress, summarize progress by user and by coach, provide video recommendations, host a Q&A system with notification support, award badges in real-time while avoiding costly datastore queries, handle mailing lists and email subscriptions, and have support for having a public profile to show off your progress, among other things.

We handle hundreds of requests per second and it's really nice to not have to think about scaling very much -- with any other solution, we'd be doing a lot more system administration.
Wikipedian, Hackathon, & Other New Words Added to Oxford Dictionaries Online
There's a great HP-48 emulator for Android in the play store (and some great TI-8x emulators too).
By your own stats it was 40% over a year ago, and you don't think they've creeped past 50% yet?

Nonsense. For stats, look at that Pew poll linked in the CNN article alongside this comment. For anecdotal evidence, look at the free/sub-$50 phones offered by all major carriers with a new contract. They are almost all smartphones. It's cheaper up front to get a smartphone now than the alternative.
And limited to the subset of HN users interested in the topics he posts about, too.
How is this an argument in favor of an over-all worse user-experience?

If this is a significant concern to you, then prompt or enforce upgrades in your application.
And I'm asking how much of an effect it really had. The fact third party apps exist doesn't mean the majority of users, or even a worthwhile number, use them.
Living sustainably in a digital society: is it even possible?
A small instance of a larger concept that does a good job of illustrating the contours of that larger concept; a part for the whole.

(Who the hell would downvote your comment? Weird! I fixed that.)
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You think company culture is about bringing peaks to the up times, but it's to carry you through the times you can't do it yourself
The author's analysis omitted power, staffing, and floor space costs for the tape calculations. Downloading the whitepaper from the Quantum web site, I see "With data center construction costs running as high as $2,000 to $3,000 per square foot", and the i6000 requires about 15 sq. ft. so that's a $30,000 up front which wasn't included in the estimate. Granted, that's only 5% more to the estimated tape costs, but it isn't the only real estate cost. I see estimates of about $2,000 per square foot for operations cost, so there's another $150,000.

It omitted any discussion of off-site backups. How much will that cost?

It ignores growth rate. Do you get the 5TB hardware solution now, when most of it isn't needed, or expand when needed? While with Glacier you just add data and don't worry about it. Assume you start with 1TB now, and grow by 0.8TB per year, to end with 5TB at the end of 5 years. That's almost a 2x reduction in price over the author's estimate.

But hey, that's all in the Amazon Glacier's front page: "Companies typically over-pay for data archiving. First, they're forced to make an expensive upfront payment for their archiving solution (which does not include the ongoing cost for operational expenses such as power, facilities, staffing, and maintenance). Second, since companies have to guess what their capacity requirements will be, they understandably over-provision to make sure they have enough capacity for data redundancy and unexpected growth. This set of circumstances results in under-utilized capacity and wasted money. With Amazon Glacier, you pay only for what you use."
Even though Facebook for Android may have higher monthly active users, the iOS user base from a marketing perspective is a more attractive demographic to target nascent mobile revenue opportunities at. Soccer moms almost exclusively use iPhones.
18 Presidential Innovation Fellows announced. 5 gov projects, 6 months.
The intro is fantastic. It's actually quite fun to learn how to use the app. Smooth, informative, and fairly entertaining. Bravo!
I'm not sure you have understood the argument made by myriad here. Consider a parallel situation: crude oil is a product of nature, but getting it out of the ground and refining it into gasoline or other distillates involves a great deal of technology and ingenuity. If I invented a new way to refine oil into something that had the combustibility of gasoline but behaved differently - ignition at lower or higher temperatures, say, or that burned more cleanly - then my novel formulation would certainly be patentable.

Likewise, Myriad has been granted a patent on the isolated genes - their ability to produce DNA containing the two BRCA genes in quantity. The utility here is that if you're a medical researcher you can just order up this stuff for your research lab in a bottle, so to speak, instead of going through the tortuous business of isolating and purifying it in useful quantities. Now Myriad's competitors would like to do that too, and large research labs would like to do it for themselves. But Myriad has argued, successfully so far, that it invested all the effort and expense in learning how to do this reliably, and is entitled to recoup that investment by selling the product of all its research and development.

They didn't apply for a patent on the genes that lie within people's flesh and blood as part of their own DNA. They applied for a patent on the extracted, purified, and commoditized form of a single gene. If you could come up with a way to extract BRCA and BRCA-2 in a form that's useful to genetic researchers but employing a different process and final form from that of Myriad, then you wouldn't be infringing on their patent. Conversely, if you had spent a lot of money and time on the development of such a technology, wouldn't you be anxious to recoup that investment? It would be nice if they just gave it away, but then how are they going to pay their employees and attract future investors? What exactly are the economic incentives to expend all the effort and expense on developing an industrial process if one is not allowed to commercialize the result?
German 'porn pirates' to be publicly named
Authentication. Hands down.
Right, I'm with you there, but I would say that referring to "the crown" in place of the King would be synecdochic (the expression is synecdochic), but the crown, in itself, isn't synecdochic of the king.
Haiku Deck - visual presentations, photo support by Chute (W12)
I'm gonna guess that it does a couple things, but the main one is the shape you create with each touch, since you can type without typing on the keyboard itself.
> They'd have to move WebKit completely out of process

Then that's what they need to do, JIT is a requirement for fast JavaScript and 2012 JS speeds cannot be the end of the line.
I might be a bit cynical for my age, but I think government and laws and corporations and patents and copyrights that were supposed to protect the little guy from The Man have ended up turning the little guy into The New Man who is now the villain.
An Analogy for VC’s, Startup’s, Established Companies and the People Involved
I like this place in Redwood City, good German beers:
http://www.gourmethausstaudt.com/
Yes! I definitely noticed the back, left area on the bottom was hotter than I ever remember it.
Jon Jones Is A Coward - Backs Down From Chael Sonnen
Growth Tip: Ask For Advice & Pay It Forward
Just giving props to some folks helping QuoteRobot out :)
Another benefit that your friends filter out what they consider noise, they will only communicate what is worth communicating (putting in the effort) by their standards.

Taleb also uses this method.
When people say "the crown" when referencing a monarch and their administration, that's a textbook synecdoche. Similarly, when people refer to the number of "seats" in an enterprise, as with a "10 seat license", that is also a synecdoche; obviously, the licensor could care less about seats per se; you pay even if you use a standing desk. :)

I am unapologetic about introducing this confusing word into the thread, as this discussion is more interesting than the blog post we're commenting on.
"We truly believe mobile is the best platform for Facebook" that's a strong statement.
If only nature were as cut-and-dried as simple thought experiments. Prisoners' Dilemma for instance: its likely the warden will lie, and punish you anyway. This changes the whole game. Conclusions about evolution based on mathematics are naieve to use such simple models.
I'm not following why "shutdown" isn't being used correctly. It seems to follow the definition I found:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shutdown

Is there a technical meaning to shutdown which I'm not following?
Techniques Prismatic used to achieve such snappy performance in its iOS app
You're both incorrect and needlessly condescending, so I'll correct you with your own uncivil tone.

I'm not sure if you're being willfully obtuse or you actually have been living under a rock all your life and thus never heard the ubiquitous use of "urban" as code for "minority," but suffice it to say, the person you're responding to probably did not single-handedly plant all of the references to the phenomenon that exist in the world. Look it up: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=urban

The fact that you can neither grasp the concept of a connotation nor fathom the idea of a word being used euphemistically does not make its real-world usage go away.
The Instapaper text bookmarklet might come in handy in situations like this: http://www.instapaper.com/extras (scroll down)
My site, Scribophile, was freemium from day 1 and was profitable from day 15. Freemium is still an excellent way to hook people on a service, because there's no risk to them. If they find your service truly useful, they'll pay without question.

I am, however, thinking of dropping the freemium model. Not because it wasn't successful, but because now that Scribophile has an established reputation, requiring an up-front payment would help keep out trolls or members who aren't interested in participating. The idea is to improve the quality of the community, not take a dive into my swimming pool full of gold coins. But I'm still pondering if that's the right decision.
i like the ribbon. it doesn't make access to anything harder - i couldn't find whatever i was looking for in pre-2007 office and i can't find anything now, but at least the icons are prettier. that's a net win for me.
This is an interesting point, and this very background may have found its way into the ruling. Specifically, that the judge has a background in chemistry and directly speaks to the difference in perspective between biologists and chemists :

"We recognize that biologists may think of molecules in terms of their uses, but genes are in fact materials having a chemical nature and, as such, are best described in patents by their structures rather than by their functions" [1]

The blogger goes on to state in more plain terms :

"In other words, this ruling affirms that molecular biology is, in fact, chemistry, if you want to look at it that way."

[1]http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/08/17/the_myriad_g...
A faster, more terminal cancer. Oh happy day.
WTF? That essay is from FEBRUARY 16, 2001 and useless for almost anything except a historical understanding.
I feel this is going to be an inevitable practice for us. Just as the switch to white collar jobs have forced us to confront our sedentary lifestyles and allocate time specifically for exercise, the constant stream of information brought to us by the internet is going to force us to get away from our computers for an hour (and hopefully more) a day and get some bloody contemplation.
Kind thought, thank you. But sometimes my life IS my startup, and thats the choice I have made.
Sure, you can create a "stealth" account that's not attached to any social networks. You'll miss out on our automatic interest suggestions and the ability to share out to your friends, but you can always attach those accounts later.

If you create a stealth account you'll get a canned set of suggestions, but you can still use search through our hundreds of thousands of topics and publishers to tell us what you're interested in.
The Samsung Galaxy Note is well-liked by the subset that does prefer a stylus.
Everyone is pretty different visually from apple. Apple is stuck in 2003 with skeuomorphism, glossy buttons, faux wood. They and KDE would get along together great.

Versus Holo in Android, the beauty of Metro or whatever it's called, even GNOME3 and Elementary OS are embracing a minimal, flat-ish design
Initial dictionary not trained with profanity. I hate how much time I have to spend stopping things from being autocorrected to "duck." Fleksy didn't improve on the situation.
I think he's suggesting that for "custom words" flesky autocorrects to the wrong words, whereas the standard keyboard doesn't - thus leading to longer input times under flesky ... at least until it learns those words.
I was looking through it hoping to find some amount of detail on collaboration from home (Skype, Google Docs, etc). I guess call centers don't need this quite as much as engineers would. I'm not sure how applicable this would be for a job like I feel many corporate types on HN (like myself) work. Programming (or other engineering) at a startup is different from programming (or other engineering) at a corporation, and I need significant face-time with my coworkers and people outside of my team just to get the most basic work done. As an anecdote, I get significantly less work done on the one day a week (today) when 90% of my coworkers work from home just due to the fact that I often need to collaborate with them.

(Also, I've often wondered why Chrome's spell checker can mark a word as wrong, but when I copy it into Google search, Google knows it's spelled right. Should be the same system, I would think. The word uninstall comes to mind, I see that red squiggly right now.)
Hack themselves to perform better, surely?
Why would you want to do that?

The content is (should be) identical, and the recipient of your link would most likely want to read the content in his/her preferred language.

If you really wanted to point out to them some discrepancy in the content of some particular language, then just tell them "switch your language to Chinese and look at xxx here".

On sites where linking to a particular language version of some resource makes sense (e.g. Wikipedia), by all means, accept a ?lang=de parameter… it's exactly as much mechanism as a directory component, but it doesn't imply any hierarchical structure, and can be dropped to obtain a "canonical" URL.
The only downside I could see to this would be people freaking out because it would seem like Facebook is "tracking" them on their phones all the time. But I think it would be super useful if you did ever have your phone stolen.
Wanna work on real time bidding technology?
Good question. I could better have written that as something like "my team's code base".
Consider a UI update that is, provably, an improvement to the user experience. Delaying that update by 3 weeks (due to the App Store process) is itself a form of sacrificing the user experience.

Or more likely, consider an example where Facebook is not sure which of 3 UI changes would most improve the user experience, and they want to serve each of the 3 to small subsets to collect test data. Native UI rendering takes away this ability, potentially reducing Facebook's ability to improve the user experience--also a form of sacrifice.

Now maybe you believe that the poor performance of the HTML5 UI was an even greater sacrifice than these, and thus the switch to the native UI is a net improvement in user experience. I happen to agree with that, but that doesn't mean there aren't tradeoffs.

Performance issues aside, the user experience of the Facebook mobile app is miles better now than it was when they last rendered the iOS UI natively. A big reason for that is the speed at which they iterate changes in the HTML5 UI.

Edit to add TL;DR: There is more to optimizing the user experience than maximizing UI performance.
Future of Interface
All well and good, but there is actual work to get done. In the short term, I will get more done without the friction of a 2nd person to tutor. Much more work. Order of magnitude more work.
If these were comparabile in price to high end lawn mowers I think they would really catch on but $3000 is too much.

Also they really need anti-theft built in. Who is going to leave a portable $3000 machine in his yard all day and night?
Simple, elegant solution to a typical problem where everybody else ends up building a broken wheel.
Looks clean. Way to ship!
I din't feel bad for them, I moreover lost respect for them. Damaging your body more to prove that disability can't stand in your way to success is pathetic and hypocritical. Sadly this just makes me less interested in watching the Paralympics.
There is a positive side to this (as with mobile versions): If you give someone a link to part of a website, they'll get it in their language.

Microsoft isn't the only website that does this. It seems like most websites use the URL to specify this kind of thing.
"It is also important to dispute the dissent's analogy to snapping a leaf from a tree. With respect, no one could contemplate that snapping a leaf from a tree would be worthy of a patent, whereas isolating genes to provide useful diagnostic tools and medicines is surely what the patent laws are intended to encourage and protect. Snapping a leaf from a tree is a physical separation, easily done by anyone. Creating a new chemical entity is the work of human transformation, requiring skill, knowledge, and effort."

They're not creating a new chemical entity. The gene was created by evolution (natural selection, genetic drift, mutation) millions of years ago. The DNA sequence existed and performed its function long before any human began studying it. Furthermore, such information could already be found isolated in the form of mRNA, which contains the same information as the DNA gene (with the thymines replaced by uracils). Ultimately, what really matters for the function of the cell and even the diagnostic method is the information coded in the DNA, RNA, or protein. You are simply using a different alphabet to represent the same thing. And because the information was designed by nature, it shouldn't be patentable.

Nearly all experiments require you to modify what you're observing in order to measure it. That's why I feel the argument asserting that because you "modify" something makes it susceptible to patent protection is weak. If I combine water with some powder and sell it, I can patent the final product or maybe even the process to make it, but not the water. Water was present before I had the idea. BRCA1 was there before we had the idea of linking it to cancer, it's a substance just like water.

The troubling thing in this case is there's not even a modification involved. Cutting a DNA segment from the chromosome doesn't alter its sequence. In fact, separating DNA pieces happens routinely during recombination.

The problem is that they're not only protecting the diagnostic tool like the majority ruling says, they're claiming ownership of a chemical substance present in all humans that was invented by nature. I would support patenting the DNA sequencing method they used, but never the gene itself.