skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also curious to see what the author thinks about how Twitter should go about monetizing their model.

Twitter is getting pressure to start making returns, and it is obvious that the author doesn't like advertising - but what does he think would be a solution?

I've been noticing a trend in backlash towards advertising over "social" platforms (e.g. App.net), but other than the Public Broadcasting Station model, how else can they cover costs?
It's awesome! Very similar to http://www.youfm.org/ but with a greater focus on the videos themselves. I also like that you play similar songs, almost like a pandora for youtube. It seems like a lot of cool apps are being built on top of the youtube api these days such as http://cloudplay.fm/ and http://www.thisismyjam.com/ and I love it!
Eject any WiFi device from network using Android
> The new cameras are supposedly slightly better, but probably not enough to be noticeable unless you've got a highly trained eye.

This is completely nuts. The camera on the 3GS was the first acceptable camera in an iPhone, but it was nothing special. The 4S camera rivals dedicated point-and-shoot cameras for quality, and the 5's should be even better. The difference between the 3GS and the 4S (I've had both) is extremely noticeable.

And the idea that internet browsing speed would be unaffected, when the 5 has a way faster CPU and fricken LTE is so bizarre I can't even begin to understand how you make that statement. Are you somehow under the impression that internet browsing speed on the 3GS was already being bottlenecked by the remote server?
Keeping Users Engaged And Happy, And Following Up When They Aren’t
There's no reason why development tools couldn't be moved to the web. It's already happening with Github. And Github could include an IDE like Cloud9 one day.
in general, a fresh install of iOS does make the phone a lot faster. these people are used to a phone that has been bogged down by general OS wear and tear, so it makes sense that they think a fresh 4S is faster than their current 4S.
"Rails" is a collection of libraries and conventions, just as "Sinatra + ActiveRecord" is. There's nothing inherent in it that makes it "worse" than Sinatra (which I love, by the way) for JSON APIs.

Use Rack, pick your favorite gems, and go to town. Why mess with all the other Sinatra junk when you can have a simple config.ru for your app and just write a simple call method and you're good to go?

You don't need all the ceremony and structure of Sinatra to write a JSON API, you just don't.
Great point. These are great case studies on the importance of marketing and a strong brand. With a strong brand, people give you the benefit of the doubt.
Except in the favicon.
I think you mean "declaring the variable name before the type".

So C is "int x" where Go is "x int". BASIC is typically more like "DIM x AS INTEGER".
This is understandable, but it still exposes that there is a group of "stupid" people out there that would accept an iPhone 4S as the new iPhone 5.
"I’d say there are plenty of non-starters to keep Go out of the application programming space."

God, I've got tired of all desktop applications written in python, they're soo slow. I hope Go gets used both in the application space and system space, so not just our systems are fast, the applications too.
OP, here. I agree with much of the criticism, and I have nothing to do with Milwaukee, their PD or this website. I just thought it was quite different from normal municipal websites, and would be worth discussion.

Perhaps they should take the idea of interesting and different design and decouple it from the militaristic attitude, and they'd be on to something.
I dunno what your situation is, but even at the best of times, $199 is a lot of money.
You can always tell a left-handed person when they say they like a pen because it dries quickly!
I think it has to stick with the audience. Making a broad assumption, but SU users are bored and looking for something to entertain them. Generally, an ecommerce store isn't entertaining (although there could be exceptions if it were targeted properly). If you have stickier content (pictures/video/games) I think it works a lot better. I've had a lot of organic traffic from it and it's good to that type of content. I've also paid for similar demographics in the past, if you match it right, you get awesome returns (even builds links as they share it with friends). If you're not matching it right, it will be a waste of money but a valuable lesson.
No. Do you seriously dispute any of the claims I made, or are you just being argumentative? It was mostly reasoning from common knowledge, not generalizing from my own anecdotal experience.

Of course there's never going to be a totally authoritative source for this kind of thing. You're not going to be able to do a double blind trial of the market success of two smartphone platforms with everything being equal except the app availability.
That's not what AT&T says. They cover a ton of places with LTE, including New York City:

http://www.att.com/network/

I suppose they might be lying, but that would be pretty egregious even for a cell carrier.
Check this out, I stumbled on it while making the blog post : firefox ported to directfb https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/DFBPorting
Try foreign and old actors, e.g. Mazzaropi (famous Brazilian comedian from the 1950'-70's), Google computes a bacon number 5... but The Oracle of Bacon returns 3, they have a bigger database.
Only if you place a high priority on thickness. I personally don't, and am actually fairly annoyed that cell phone makers don't have the option to e.g. double the thickness of their phones in exchange for a 2-3x increase in battery life.
Ask HN:¿Why did YouOS die?
YouOS was a web OS that was actually accepted in 2006 by YCombinator and died in July 2008

Does anyone know why did YouOS die?
Yes, the elusive Bacon-Erdos number: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erdős–Bacon_number
Using Socialping to Measure Twitter Sales ROI
Congratulations on getting your MVP out! I never tried Think Python, but I did learn a lot from Learn Python the Hard Way -- it's a pretty good book.

Where did you get the background picture?
Right, Verizon is the "good" choice for the iPhone 5 (it supports GSM too when roaming), and Sprint is the unlimited (but slower, since LTE isn't rolled out yet) choice.

I'm going Verizon since they have better coverage in Yosemite and some other areas where no other network seems to have coverage.
Use decorators. Draper is my personal favorite, and it very cleanly solves the issue of serialization nightmares and controller/model confusion.

(I hope that it ends up in the Rails core someday, because it really is a gamechanger in how Rails is used for non-HTML content!)
"Seventeen years ago this month...."

Wait, WHAT? Ebay is 17 years old??? Wow.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/aug/02/cybersec...
YouTube Space Lab Live
It's a good thing that QWERTY keyboards are left-handed, it saves me a lot of stress when I don't have to take my right hand off the mouse to execute commands, or type random text in games with my left hand:

gg
wtf
asdffasdfasdf
re
b
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etc
I meant, dropping my phone without a case would make the phone unusable. I use a case, and was responding to the parent comment that said people use cases for reasons of emotional attachment.
Truly terrible.

Naw, just truly obligatory. Remember when we were all reading a whole bunch of similarly insipid diatribes about how yes admittedly this new iPhone has X, Y, Z new things that are really pretty cool but it's still a total disappointment and doomed to be a failure because they didn't name it the right thing?

I think maybe there's just something in every tech columnist's contract mandating them to go a bit silly for a week every time Apple releases a new handset.
The font is very retail-ish .. Macy's logo comes to mind.
And the Google/Microsoft primary colours associate it with that tech giant domain. So I guess it kinda works from that point of view but it's just a little boring for my liking.
just as a frame of reference if this is the greatest argument, they perform rather poorly in documented drop tests in comparison. Now not every situation is the same but just going by what is shown on recorded videos
You shall create a wikipedia page for that, that way we can refer to it :)
These folks do not like kerning. Glad they kept the colors.
Worth it or not, unpaid is often unlawful, and is a very bad sign about the company you're interning with. I can't tell you there's nothing valuable to be learned from bad companies, but don't confuse opportunities to learn with good places to work.
Browser support and fonts are also the things holding me back from doing more work without X. For clipboard support, try tmux[1], a screen alternative. I actually like the tmux clipboard more than X's because you can list and select from all previous copies/cuts. Tmux provides vi and emacs shortcuts to find and copy text from the console. The "tmux set-buffer" command can also be used in place of xclip.

[1] http://tmux.sourceforge.net/
It seems most people are willing to buy a new iPhone or iPad just because it's "new" (doesn't even matter what improvements it has, if any) and because it's from Apple. I remember a video doing the same for the new iPad using and iPad 2, and the reaction was the same.
the funny thing is -- and I'm making an assumption about ebay here based on previous experience I've had in logos and redesign -- is that this was probably the effort of hundreds (if not thousands) of hours of deliberation, re-designs, focus groups and meetings; but the end result looks like it could have been derived in about an hour of work
Thankyou for this!
Although this is hard to understand, it is interesting enough to clarify. Font Squirrel has an option, when you go to the 'Font-Face Generator' and use 'Expert mode,' to generate a base64-encoded font which can be included in the CSS. This can significantly increase the size of your CSS, but it can reduce the number of HTTP requests involved.
Or RABL if you want both XML and JSON output
Who threw it?!
Modern cybersecurity threats generally involve (1) legions of zombie computers and (2) weak native OS security.

"No Windows = No Problem" is not an overstatement. The fact that we have nuclear power plants running on Windows in this country is abso-fucking-lutely terrifying.
> The speed of development is far better than any other language I've experienced.

No, it isn't. Here's the proof: someone has said exactly that about, and I'm really not kidding, every newly popular language over the last 20 years. They said it about Java. About Python. About Ruby, and CoffeeScript and Clojure and Haskell and...

Yet the Great Leap Forward in programming productivity hasn't arrived. And Go won't bring it either.

Go no doubt improves your speed of coding. And being a new and different toolbox it's more fun, so it makes your coding more engaging. You "feel" more productive. But your hard bugs are still hard. And your maintenance hassles are still hassles. And your bad designs are still bad. That stuff is what takes time, not banging out your code.

Programming languages can make the easy stuff easy. They can't fix our own stupidity.

(To be clear: I'm not saying Go is bad, it actually looks like a ton of fun to me, though I haven't had the chance to really kick the tires yet. But don't attribute to it properties it doesn't have.)
> I'd like to know what is meant by that sentence that isn't equally true for homo sapiens

Borderea chouardii is critically endangered. Homo sapiens is not.
By being one row taller?
Amusingly my naked 4S (used to use cases - they ended up putting too much dust in the camera, while being naked it gets wiped off in the pocket/holster it's carried in) looks a lot like an ice-cream sandwich when I look at it on it' side :)
More than once my rubber case has stopped my phone from slipping off a table. I won't get into the details, but the toilet incident of 2011 was a close call and the case prevented certain disaster.
> FOSS coders undervalue themselves and should get paid what they are worth.

I do open-source coding with a completely non-related day job to keep proficient and because I like building software. What should I bill per hour? Who should I bill it to?

As far as I'm concerned I'm already making value from my code, I certainly don't need others swooping in to tell me what I should and shouldn't charge for it.
500 Startups rolls out its first application process through AngelList
Go does not require a JVM.
Why all the worry about collisions? They will be rare enough that they could be worked around with a hard-coded blacklist in the browser.
Great reuse of old hardware! I'm suddenly reminded of Wall-e digging for replacement parts.
so far, the highest bacon number i've found is from another actor with the last name "Bacon"

https://www.google.com/search?q=bacon+number+lloyd+bacon
I have the same experience. My wife however bought the iPhone 4. In my experience, compared to the 3g(s) the 4 really breaks fast. 2 drops and screen was gone versus my countless drops (on concrete). It's anecdotal, but I here this more often from people.
it is really early to bury a tool that has just started to take some shape. why do you have doubts?
The "Talks and Videos" page (http://go-lang.cat-v.org/talks/) is outdated as well. Here's my personal list:

Why Learn Go?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTl0tl9BGdc
Short interview with Rob Pike, OSCON 2012

Get Started with Go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KmHtgtEZ1s
Andrew Gerrand

A Tour of Go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytEkHepK08c
Russ Cox

Go Concurrency Patterns
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6kdp27TYZs
Rob Pike, Google I/O 2012
Goroutines, Channels

Meet the Go Team
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sln-gJaURzk
Panel (Pike, Thompson, Griesemer, Gerrand, Fitzpatrick, Simons), Google I/O 2012

Computing Map Tiles with Go on App Engine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPagpg0b7no
Chris Broadfoot, Andrew Gerrand, Google I/O 2012

Go in Production
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKQLhGZVN4A
Gustavo Niemeyer, Google I/O 2012

Go: Code that grows with grace
http://vimeo.com/42146678
(Contains some audio glitches)
Andrew Gerrand

Interview with Rob Pike
http://www.infoq.com/interviews/pike-google-go/
Rob Pike, GOTO Conference

Lexical Scanning in Go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxaD_trXwRE
Rob Pike

Cuddle, A Go AppEngine Demo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQtLRqqB-Kk
Andrew Gerrand

Building Integrated Apps on Google's Cloud Platform
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo1YKpIF1PQ
Andrew Gerrand, Google Developer Day Japan 2011

Real World Go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QDVRowyUQA
Andrew Gerrand, I/O BootCamp 2011

Go: it's that simple?!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWpm1qpWRwA
Andrew Gerrand, OSDC 2011

Practical Go Programming
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-pPAvqyluI
Andrew Gerrand, FOSDEM 2011

Writing Web Apps in Go
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i0hat7pdpk
Andrew Gerrand, Rob Pike, Google I/O 2011

Go Programming
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgVhBThJdXc
Rob Pike, Google I/O 2010

Another Go at Language Design
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VcArS4Wpqk
Rob Pike, Stanford University

Public Static Void
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kj5ApnhPAE
Rob Pike, OSCON 2010

The Go Programming Language
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKnDgT73v8s
Rob Pike, Google Tech Talk
I was a little shocked with how much politics plays a role in University research departments. I mean, it's expected in any human organization, but the PIs are thinking about and acting on it constantly.
Dynamic Permission Allocation in Cassandra 1.1
Great job!
Just a minor note, I have a multi-touch display which I'm using for a project, and this library doesn't work as intended when using such a multi-touch device, the behavior is a bit erratic and inconsistent. [I'm using Chrome btw on a regular PC]
There are already web and mobile versions of apps like Photoshop etc. Adobe themselves created an online image manipulation program and there are several really good iPad apps too. So, yes, it's likely.
Self replicating 3d printer, knowledge of both C and Haskell and huge amounts of basic materials to feed his ever expandable army of terminators.
Anecdotal counter-point: I'm also still rocking my 3GS, but I've never used a case. Of course I also don't drop it much (maybe 15-20 times total?).
I had the exact same opinion. Also, the position of the inner-circle of the "b" and the "a" look awkward.
Agreed. Or have some meaningful overlap. To me, whenever a company switches to a different logo after years of stagnant progress, it signals a last effort to artificially strengthen the brand.
There are important projects, like OpenSSH, that are based on the idea that a company having taken its once-open offering back to a proprietary product can't then stop people from taking the last open-source version of the product and forking it from there.
Microsoft disrupts millions of botnet connections from PCs preloaded malware
I showed my sister my 4S recently, she was thinking of upgrading, and she was amazed at my lack of case.

"How do you protect it from scratches?" she asked, to which I replied "I don't drop it."

I can't really comprehend dropping this thing, it costs $4-500! That's a lot of money! I can't imagine not handling things that cost that much without the utmost of care.
Here we see one way in which Android is very, very valuable to Google.
Very interesting, it seems like a good hybrid of using pagination and continuous scrolling. It would be nice to have something like this in Instapaper.
Are they really so desperate to survive that they are willing to be the first to declare the internet a war zone? Such fashism makes me sick. Internet is the first real system without boundries. Stop trying to divide it for your own personal gain.
I thought most of the security in Rails is provided by the rack-security middleware? Or am I forgetting something which Rails provides here?
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/mathematician/-/people/profe...

http://www.freebase.com/view/en/computer_scientist/-/people/...

The more important piece thats missing is the one that Journals need to contribute - papers and author lists. ;)
Burnr.me - The "burner" Link Shortener
Burnr.me is a URL shortener that puts a new twist on the concept. Common URL shorteners like bitly and tinyurl simply shorten a link you give it, and they last forever. As for Burnr, it takes the concept of a "burner cellphone", which is an urban name for a prepaid cellphone that doesn't require a contract and is easily disposable, thus promoting anonymity. This is what Burnr gives as an option to users. Users may shorten their link and also set a click limit and/or time limit for that link. They can make it expire after so many clicks, or after a certain length of minutes, hours, or days. There's also a Chrome extension that adds a "Burn this" option to Web pages, links, and images and also provides a minimal interface for Burnr that can be used anywhere in the browser. Try it out, burn some links!
I was one of the UX designers for eBay in 1997-98, just before the IPO. I was working on what would become the Gallery view.

When Meg Whitman took over, I presented the work we had done so far. I was pretty wet behind the ears at the time, and I was enamored with the latest shiny objects on the Web. eBay, by way of contrast, had a look that could be charitably described as "homespun." I was busy polishing things up, tightening the color palette, improving typography (as much as one could in 1998), reducing clutter, and using what I thought of as killer JavaScript flourishes to really blow people away with the Gallery View. I may have even tried to introduce some Flash at the time, I'm not sure.

What I do remember was the way Meg schooled me when I came in to present my slick new state-of-the-art Gallery. I don't remember her exact words, but she told me that I was building something that simply wasn't eBay. She explained to me that the success of eBay came from the sellers who thought of eBay not as a company, but as their own corner of the Web that belonged to them. The audience for eBay, she explained, was mom and pop types, people who were comfortable with garage sales and flea markets, and who had built a level of trust with eBay based on what they saw as a brand that shared their down-home values.
eBay's biggest competitor at the time was Yahoo! Auctions, and eBay was killing them, because people thought of Yahoo! as a faceless, monolithic corporation, and couldn't feel a sense of ownership about placing their auctions there. I learned a valuable lesson about the importance of being appropriate to your audience, and not always going for the latest, slickest design.

I've always liked the fact that their logo kept that original homespun feel. The site has slowly evolved over the years, and their audience surely has as well. It's arguable whether eBay still has the folksy appeal it had in the 1990s. The new logo represents a very authentic reflection of the change to the brand, and the company itself. The nostalgic side of me would love to see the old logo and the old brand stick around forever, but if I'm being honest, this is probably the most appropriate thing they could have done. It's a genuine expression of the brand's history and personality. You can't say much better for a logo than that.
See the iPhone 5 in live 3D
I agree that apps/modules/libraries should have code separate from configuration. I see no problem with letting configuration be part of a _project_, however. Environment variables are too implicit in a lot of cases, and generally you end up having code checked into some other repository that makes sure the environment variables are set properly. I prefer to skip the middle man and have clearly demarcated sections of configuration directly in my projects.
Sinatra has a lot less boilerplate than the typical Rack app.
Doesnt etherpad have a similar functionality to record and replay entered text? In fact it allows for unlimited editors and far more customisable. Best of all, its free!

Dont believe me?

Checkout https://etherpad.mozilla.org/ep/pad/view/wvxaz6MPyt/latest
I've used Padrino for a couple of projects now, but unfortunately it slips into "Uncanny Valley Rails" territory (particularly when it comes to the rake tasks you expect to have but turn out to be missing, eg. db:test:prepare).
I mostly have a case for the extra grip. I had issues with dropping it and have basically a grippy rubber sleeve for a case. I've probably dropped 10 or so times and I'd guess 1 or 2 of them would have have caused cracks with out the case.
What financial incentive does MS have to do this sort of Internet white knightery?
For me, the biggest problem with rails is that it boots really slow on development so it's really boring.
I switched to padrino a while ago due to this issue. Also I prefer padrino's router since it's more explicit.
I was a fan of Basalmiq (it's a terrific tool), but since learning to prototype in Keynote, I've not used it.

Here's something to get you started if you're a Mac user, and have Keynote: http://blog.amirkhella.com/2010/06/16/how-to-prototype-inter...

I especially like using Keynote for higher-fidelity mockups, which I find is essential for mobile development...
When I was young I thought free hackers would always beat government paid hackers. Because super smart hackers are naturally pro-freedom and against big government's secrecy and rights violations.

After growing up and dealing with many kinds of brilliant hackers, all kinds in fact, from hard core US Democrat style liberals, to UK climate change and evolution deniers, I now realize genius hackers come in all political varieties.

And the NSA has some and they are paying them well to work full time. So now I think even in the era of pure information warfare, governments still have the upper hand.
Stockr Launches Social Investing Platform