skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do a quick search on mistaking articulation for action, it should be helpful. The first I heard it from was a diplomat, Swiss I believe. The top search result is from Sir Swan, the gent who reached both poles.

So that's where it came from.

It very justly describes the majority of India.

I used to use the India is too big and diverse argument myself.

Yes India is diverse, yes for every x it's opposite x' also exists.

I use it where relevant even today. Unfortunately with time comes change, and that theory which I thought was unassailable, I can now see nuances in.

Anyway, it seems we are speaking past each other. I wish you well.
But the patent covers the result of years of research, not the original idea, or does it? I don't know how drugs are actually developed, but I cannot imagine that someone goes, "Gee, I have this awesome idea: C33H35FN2O5! Now let's see what it's good for."
Lol, love it :)
I'd prefer Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey for this kind of task.
18 Year-Old Entrepreneur Raises $1.8 Million in VC Funding
First thing I noticed. Very sad.
It's good that Google is trying to think about how companies (and people) might not want to share everything they do publicly. However, Google should spend considerable amount of time working on their core products.

Many of them are feature-poor (as an example, Google Calendar doesn't seem have a setting to prevent your phone from getting automatic notifications, no matter if you turn EVERY notification off).
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The example in that article is fairly dumb (why would you use concatenation as an input to a StringBuffer). The Java compiler converts concatenation to StringBuilder in Java 1.6. In most cases (eight the exception of loops and federated, organized string creation) the + operator is identical in performance to StringBuilder (because that's what it compiles to).
Ditto for the UK :-(

Although one of the biggest known unexploded bombs is a US ship that was sunk in the Thames Estuary:

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

"According to a BBC news report in 1970,[9] it was determined that if the wreck of the SS Richard Montgomery exploded, it would throw a 1,000-foot-wide (300 m) column of water and debris nearly 10,000 feet (3,000 m) into the air and generate a wave 16 feet (5 m) high. Almost every window in Sheerness (pop. c20,000) would be broken and buildings would be damaged by the blast. However news reports in May 2012 (including one by BBC Kent) stated that the wave could be about 4 feet (1 m) high, which although lower than previous estimates would be enough to cause flooding in some coastal settlements."
That was a nice reflection, I was in the military but wanted to be in computers. Great stuff.

This one still gets me, Douglas Englebart was building the future of computing in 1968:

http://sloan.stanford.edu/mousesite/1968Demo.html
Walking out of an interview
What kind of pro plans do you have in mind for this? I could use this for demonstrating slight UI changes of a design, but I would want it to be private.
If you add up all the error margins in the article (and they don't even mention that the FDA allows published calorie counts to be off by 20%) you end up with an error margin that makes the resulting number pointless.

I know the hacker in you wants a number to measure but if you know anything about math at all you should concede that calculating numbers which such a high error margin is indeed pointless.
I find the webbrowser necessary for documentation (especially crowd sourced like StackOverflow)
I'm skeptical because I remember the RAD tools of the early 00s that were going to let businessmen program.

Oh, and who can forget the wonderful workflow systems that were all the rage soon after? There seemed to be a new one released every week.

I invite you to go try MS's WWF, that's 'visual'. What a nightmare that is.

They don't work. You need a programmer involved because edge cases rapidly become complicated and that's the hard bit, not visualizing a workflow. And these tools deprive you the programmer of the fine grained control you sorely need or worse generate code that's so hard to read and work with that it's faster coding from scratch even for amateurs.

I love Bret Victor's vision, but because of what it means for programmers, not the fuzzy 'creatives' in the article. I know some animation guys and yes, you can visually automate things like animation now, but logic flow? No.

Though I think we should keep trying.
It took me 4 months working on and off, mornings and weekends to finally get my first app in the iTunes store. I was hesitant to learn objective C so I started out trying to build it with html/javascript/phonegap using tiggzi.com. After getting rejected twice for the app not being up to Apple's standards, I bit the bullet and dove into objective c. I watched a few Stanford classes in iTunes but mostly I did a lot of searching on StackOverflow.
More details on the app: As nomads - freelancers, entrepreneurs, students and teleworkers - we share the places where we like to work: Cafés, bars, coworking spaces, librairies, airports, parks, and even our own homes.
Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey works great if you just want to modify something for yourself, but I have yet to find a good way to share that with others (that are less technical). This would be a great resource to show a handful of small changes to a bunch of people by sending them a link and having it be as easy as that, though.
You may have to parse HTML email, but you don't have to send it.
Watching this guy talk makes me fear for the future of the human species.
I completely agree on the ability to make private "haxx". This could be a very useful tool, if they gave that option!
SpiderOak: the Box/Dropbox/Carbonite/Mozy alternative with a privacy mania
This only solves half the problem. I recently tried this with yahoo reader, yet on the yahoo site there was a social reader widget with my friends and my reading history. I paused it when I realised but it seems you need to be aware of more than what permissions they have on the facebook platform; something many of my friends had not realised.
Flaw is my word, but 'cheating' almost implies it. the params are documented here:

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/permissi...

I thought I would dump my previous links incase you jump into writing an extension. It would be better to contribute to the open source extension than to have yet another project (as we do with removing auth popups on news feed items)

Otherwise nothing against this making news again, the more people that know about it the better
What you guys are up to?
Can't you do the same thing with netcat?
IIRC, BBCA aired Doctor Who the same day as the BBC last season. That hasn't been the case most years past, though. As far as I can remember, the "one week behind" thing has been the norm, at least for Doctor Who.
Core product for whom?

Google+ brings Google valuable information about who you are and what you do to their ad-words (revenue)engine.

Improving a Calendar app which already provides them with that information, brings them little extra.

It's sometimes important to remember who Google's real customers are. It's not you.
I really enjoy Google+. It honestly has become my defacto "social network" when I just want to peruse whats happening in the world. There is a video game that I have been following for the past few years that went live this weekend and the community on Google+ is head and sholders above what I have found in other places. The content (as a whole) has been more thought out and and as a percentage I have wanted to read more of it than other sources.

That being said I think "circles" caters to niche groups of people wanting to discuss a certain topic, will be interesting to see how another "post fencing" appartatus plays with circles.
Your parents and the OP are wise.
Does anyone know if Collection level locking is in the pipeline?
It does happen. For an extreme example, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Messines#cite_note-83 (I could not find a better link)
They really need to get an iPad and read their website in landscape mode.
I love that line about playing asteroids.

I was also entertained by the line towards the end of video: "I've always been able to think about multiple things at once but the terminal held me back."

It seems like we all very much doubt that was ever true now.
The investment in web trash is not significant. If its a bubble, it won't be of the magnitude of a S&L or mortgage meltdown - it'll be some privileged Valley execs and coders getting disappointed.

Photo apps and social networks are possibly the single most useful invention of the last decade. Variations may bore you or seem silly, but there is probably room in the market for some tweaks on these themes. If they make money, then it was worth it.

If you have some future-radar that can predict which will fail, perhaps you can convince some VC or Angel firm to employ you. Otherwise they'll have to make their best guess and plonk their money down where they think best.
Yep. Private plans + a whole raft of other features I didn't have time to implement (SSL support, regex substitution on html, basic auth support etc etc). Any other suggestions?
Moshpic
PRIVATE photo sharing.
DARPA red balloon viral sharing technique finds new uses for startup
I've had this bug with a facebook app I built.. I thought the flow would be:

- Ask for permission
- Yes? -> Good you're in.
- No? -> Ok, np see you another day, maybe.

But what was happening is there was a third flow..

- Yes (But I don't give you permissions!!).

And that created a nasty bug later on in the app.

I don't think it's a "flaw" because you can accept the first perm. dialog as a user, but deny the second one (Asking for more permission). But, I believe it should be more explicit that developers need to verify permissions on every actions requiring them.
The rush to ‘anonymised’ data
Mint.com Tops 10 Million Registered Users, 70% Come From Mobile Vs. Web
I don't use gin or trigrams because I don't do much general purpose text search. I do things like named entity recognition, anaphora resolution, collecting statistics about the usage of terms over time, etc.

But you're right, it might be a good idea to look into the postgres extension mechanism. I've never seriously done that.
useable, beautiful and useful!
I read with great interest the write up on Anchor's work for the new Github architecture, so I meant no disparagement to the employee's skill.

The problems I was referring to were simply the ability to keep from falling over at random times for varied reasons. Many providers they tried couldn't even handle this basic task. Sure, we could have paid for the expertise with a company like Anchor but it was more cost effective to look outside Australia.
>As far as it being better, I was under the impression that Infinality was based on papers published by Microsoft stemming from their work on ClearType.

It was, but the author has made several tweaks. There are numerous tweaks you can make, but 3 of the settings are OS X, Windows, and Infinality.

The Infinality settings are fairly different and in my opinion (and a lot of other linux users opinion's) it looks significantly better than either Windows or OS X.

As far as distros there are several that tweak the font rendering Ubuntu being the most obvious, but if you're a typography guy I'd just go with Infinality it's defiantly worth it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_open_source_applicat...
I have read that there is no rule of law in India, meaning corruption from top to bottom so deep that the average person is living a more and more miserable life.
Lessons In Campus Cybersecurity
Historical tribute and accurate remake of the original Pac-Man in Javascript
I actually liked ttl collections and already found an use of it. Db level locking is also a nice step towards a nice locking.
Except that happiness and despair haven't got much to do with the language. It's the work you do and the environment you're in that make you happy or unhappy.
Hi Neil from raining.fm angry dev ftw!
Any time someone gives you something you then have to dance to their tune. Do it on your own and you call the shots.
Left wing/right wing allegiances over new biotech?
SSL is certainly important for a lot of apps handling sensitive data (as well as AES: http://blog.pubnub.com/pubnub-adds-cross-platform-aes-symmet...). It of course has to (and does) work seamlessly with PubNub Channel Presence, Message History and other features of the real-time messaging infrastructure. The key to providing an affordable pay-as-you-go pricing plan is scale, whereby fixed costs of the globally-deployed messaging infrastructure are amortized across thousands of apps, millions of concurrent users and billions of sent and received messages: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/pubnub-cloud-exceeds-1-million.... More info available at help.pubnub.com FAQs.
As long as we're on this subject, I'd like to strongly encourage programmers to adopt a "pen-and-paper" approach to problem solving. Just like mentionned in the article, there are great benefits coming from actually writing down the problem.

For the past year or so, every time I worked on a non-trivial problem, I did it on a sheet of paper. It definitely took discipline at first but now I couldn't do it any other way.

My motivation for adopting this approach came from reading a blog post by Guido Van Rossum (http://neopythonic.blogspot.fr/2011/07/before-python.html).

Then I went to university in Amsterdam to study mathematics and they had a computer that was free for students to use!

(Not unlimited though. We were allowed to use something like one second of CPU time per day. :-)

"One second of CPU time per day" got me thinking. Sure there are benefits to having modernly cheap computers, but how did they do it before?
Can we make a Joel Anti-Test? Ideally, you want zero points. Cases: Uses Google+ Internally. Uses JIRA. Uses a VCS you have never heard of. Entire product is licensed from an outsourced shop and resold under your own branding. Extensive use of Windows desktops or servers. Uses one or more of {MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB} at scale. ...
SugarCRM allows you to do this easily. SugarCRM allows you to track Prospects, leads and contacts. If you have a potential customer you can easily convert your lead into a contact. Also, you can easily create and integrate a web-lead capture form using SugarCRM. http://www.sugarcrm.com/feature/marketing-automation and http://www.sugarcrm.com/feature/sales-force-automation
Finally, someone gets it! Some people will always pirate, but I honestly believe a lot of people would rather use legal means (even if they pay a reasonable amount). It will be interesting to see how this plays out.

I can only hope that more TV shows come to Australia this way. The whole "let's broadcast the show in AU after the season already ended in the US" is such a huge pain and most definitely encourages piracy.
Vim for Rubyists part 1
The readme links to the Pac-Man Dossier at http://home.comcast.net/~jpittman2/pacman/pacmandossier.html which contains an interesting explanation of all the nitty-gritty details about ghost AI and timers.

I find it fascinating that there are so many tiny details and variations between levels, which apparently are essential to memorize in order to achieve "perfect play".
HN second highest source of ACV traffic
Why the first, why the last?
UN nuclear watchdog sets up 'Iran Task Force' - Jerusalem Post
I think they're both just general terms that are roughly analogous. I think coder and [moreso] scripter both seem just ever so slightly negative, though that may be a subconscious association with terms like 'code monkey' and 'script kiddy.'
Why Should Businesses Care about DDoS
Those extensions are good. I wanted an ext for personal usage that just removes scope at all - no big plans here.

My point is not just 'check this trick' but OAuth2 has no fixed-scope feature at all. You always have to check shit after user did something. This is just lifehack but i am interested in oauth2 spec overall
I think he's excellent. What's amusing is, before he took over as The Doctor, some pictures of him circulated, where he has this total "sketchy emo kid" look going on. A lot of Doctor Who fans had a "WTF? No way can this guy be The Doctor" reaction. But from pretty much his first episode, he's been great. His rendition of The Doctor reminds me a bit of Patrick Troughton's.
The Money/Time fallacy
Wayland 1.0 Coming "In A Month Or Two"
Bill Nye demonstrates how not to persuade a creationist
There are some technologies out there in the non-mainframe world that have similar properties.

To name the ones I know of - vi, emacs, C, Common Lisp. These have held pretty steady for about 30 years now.
The most annoying things iOS 6 and the iPhone 5 won’t fix
The point I intended to make was that a patent describes an invention, and has clear requirements for novelty and non-obviousness.

Clearly the money made from Lipitor required FDA approval, etc, etc, which is the execution. However, without the initial inventive step, which was non-obvious there would have been no patent, and fewer profits to be made.

My other point is that truly good ideas are very rare indeed, an idea whose execution is too difficult does not count as a "good" idea.
I agree that developers should be able to code, I just got off the phone with a "web developer" who specializes in adding Joomla to a website, installing a template and sticking in some text.

For all intents and purposes this man is a glorified text editor.

He doesn't know the smallest bit of PHP (the stack with which he claims to work), CSS or HTMl - in which world is he a web developer?
The Epidemiology of an Internet Business
Haha I know right.
Well, technically a file system is a specialized typed of database. NTFS has some support for removing duplicate files and replacing them with links. Windows server 2008 calls this feature "Single Instance Storage".
Tailoring the class into 2-5 minute videos and designing interactive questions and programming tasks should count as creation of new content in my opinion.

Besides, when a professor writes a book, based on a lecture they are paid to give, the university does not get a share from the royalties either, as far as I know.
Your bank manager does not make IT policy. Please do not shout at him.

The lamers who released the information could have easily blacked out parts of all of any sensitive information, or disseminated other kinds of proof of their attack. Then you could still be angry at your bank without getting people's personal information.
Google Enters The Social Enterprise With Public Debut Of Google+ For Businesses
I'm guessing Facebook
Lazy Initialization in Java - Surprisingly Tricky
basically provider could just return 'scope' for 'token' when you obtain it with 'code' along with 'expire_at' parameter
I found it useful. I was unaware of less.
Ask HN:  What are you using to build new web apps?
I have an idea for a web app. It's been a couple of years since I've written anything from the ground up and I'd like to scratch my learning itch. Ideally, the framework/tools would have support for persistence, users, and REST. I don't care about language, but I'd prefer something easy to learn and maintain. I'm not worried about scalability (yet?). What are you guys using today? Any sharp weapons that aren't getting the spotlight they deserve? Have things advanced much in the last couple of years?
I ask the programmers on my team, some of whom are quite junior and unexperienced, to send weekly status reports with an overview of what they did in the previous week, what they expect to do in the next, and other. Other is usually made up of areas of concern and interesting things that have made it onto one's radar. (You can put basically whatever you like in the other section. I'm still hoping somebody will send a joke.)

Since I wouldn't ever ask them to do something I wouldn't do myself, I send these reports too. This link will go in my miscellany section this week. I think it'll be useful, and I wouldn't have ever found it or even considered including something like it had it not shown up on HN.
> "My dad always says if you let people be strong they will be strong. Let them be weak and they will be weak."

This is one of the most stereotypical fallbacks of those who have "made it". It leads naturally to the conclusion that those who are weak are so out of their own accord, which is a laughably false statement.

It is not a position that is hard to understand - assigning moral blame to those less fortunate can be a defense mechanism against the hopeless and helpless injustice we see everywhere.

> "What helped me rise is self esteem to never accept help and learn to be strong instead."

This is nice rhetoric and a feel-good platitude, no better than believing in "the power of the self" or such motivational-speaker BS.

A hallmark of meaningless rhetoric is an inability to generate specificity. I've noticed in your other posts in this thread that this is the case. There are a lot of technically true, but ultimately useless statements.

Examples:

> "If we help boost agriculture productivity and work on our economy most people will be able to buy food."

How? I think we can all agree that if the economy was booming these people would have work and be able to buy food at fair market value - but you make it sound like "working on our economy" is trivial, or even possible in the short term. Along your logic, if we can just perfect cold fusion and supply free energy to everyone poverty would cease to exist! The devil, as usual, is in the details.

> "This indicates they are not earning enough. So fixing that makes more sense than fixing problems in the free food program."

Again, you're technically correct, but you've conveniently missed the how. The Income Problem is the most fundamentally difficult problem facing governments of our era, particularly in poor countries like India. So unless you have some groundbreaking insight into how this can happen, the statement is empty.
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Without getting too technical, what had to change under the hood and in hardware in order to make this happen?
Unibox - A New Take on the OS X Mail Client
Your assumptions and your logic are faulty.

Assumption: Food isn't rotting in India. Google: 'Rotting Food India'

Your logic: Corruption/Theft doesn't change the price of a commodity. You are forgetting that the government has already bought the commodity. Now it is being sold again. This drops the price (still too expensive for the poor) which means that those who can afford food buy at a lower price.

Lower Price = Less Supply

This is elementary because the rice is being supplied once but sold twice. Therefore the farmers are being paid half of what they deserve.