skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At RIT at least, R and NumPy aren't in the core curriculum. Instead, there is a "Statistical Computing" class which covers SAS. Most students either use Minitab or Excel. Surprisingly (or not), a lot of in-class work is done using a graphing calculator. Of course, that also carries into a lot of the homework.

I wonder, do statisticians actually use graphing calculators to do stats?
Many people don't work where they want, or even in their desired field. Perhaps lower your standards until your financial crisis is over?
It makes sense if you consider where their main revenues come from: Windows and Office, desktop products. Windows 8 features tighter integration with Internet services, but by and large they are firmly rooted in the idea that your desktop should be doing computation locally. The minute Microsoft calls itself an Internet company is the day that desktop software goes the way of the dinosaur.
The names are not entirely arbitrary, though, and the nuances are actually meaningful, and based on real-world behavior.

E.g., "HUP" means hangup, and indeed, that's what you get when your modem hangs up accidentally! When handled by an application, it often is treated appropriately (e.g., the handler might trigger an autosave before quitting).

"INT" means "interrupt", and usage follows that sense -- it more likely than others to be ignored/repurposed (e.g. to quit back to some application prompt rather than killing the application entirely).

"ABRT" means "abort", and is typically used as a last-ditch means of killing the program when an internal error is detected.

"KILL" is more draconian than any other; there is no recovery possible.

etc.
Zuck's business model doesn't work? What a joke. They're profitable and make billions and billions of dollars a year.
Definitely true, the last three projects I've ran have utilised your products (Confluence & Jira specifically) and its through word of mouth only.
You want this. You have certain tastes and preferences and expectations but you (and me and everyone else who reads HN) are not representative of the typical user.

For a community all about entrepreneurship and building things for others you'd think we'd figure out by now that we are not the customer (unless you run some business directed directly at tech savvy people but you get my point).

Also, I am astounded at the hubris people display when faced with minor annoyances like this. Don't like the new App Store design? Well then it's fucking broken!

We are all a bunch of nobody's trying to scream louder than all the other nobodies about how smart we are and how we'd do a better job but most of the time its all bullshit. It takes some balls to think you're smarter and can do better than the most valuable company on earth. Every time someone is annoyed by something someone inevitably comes out and says its the wrong way to do it. Well there's an easy way to test if you're right or not. If the App Store stops making money any time between now and, let's be generous, the next time they change the App Store UI then you'll be right. But as long as they're making billions off this thing I feel pretty confident in saying they're doing something right and I sincerely doubt they'd do anything to harm their baby.

Think about it: it you run a company and have a successful product why would you change it? You wouldn't change it because some asshole designer has some extra time on his hands and thinks he came up with something prettier. No. You'd change it because you have the data that tells you it's going to make you more money if you do.

I'll never understand why people think these huge multi-bazillion dollar companies are being run by total morons. And make no mistake, if you write a blog post about how billion dollar product X is broken because they changed its color or something then you're taking the position that the company has as its decision makers a bunch of morons taking shots in the dark.

And one more thing: did you notice it? Someone did. Something changed and then someone complained about it (even going as far as to say its broken). Of course. Human beings hate all change and we'll fight it to the death even if it's for the better. Six months from now the same people who hate this will be same ones who will fight to keep the very design they hated (if they ever decide to change it) just to avoid change. Because change is scary and involves learning a new thing and what if you're not good at the new thing and the cycle of anxiety provoking thoughts begins...
Most, I guess. But even though I wasn't really paying attention to that I did make note of the fact that the conversation about how much Z was paying people was started by ThinkComp.
What would you consider to be some gems that you wish existed for play?
Oh easy questions:

The code itself is nice and clean, take a look yourself (chosen randomly) [1][2]

It's exciting because if you've ever done any real time processing of data streams at scale or even been daunted by the idea of it, and you read the wiki, it's clear storm is an exciting option. It does for Big Data Streams what Hadoop did for Big Data.

Kafka is interesting, but they don't really address similar use cases. They are more complimentary and in fact storm has a spout implementation for kafka[3].

[1] https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/blob/master/src/clj/back...
[2] https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/blob/master/src/jvm/back...
[3] https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm-contrib/tree/master/stor...
Actually did that and didn't get much of a response:

Posted a couple weeks ago:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Coffee/comments/zdbdr/socialatte_lov...

Also posted in Startup today to see what I could get:
http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/105sr8/started_soc...
Google doesn't owe you anything, it's their service and we use their search engine for free. They'd scoff at every single lawsuit, if it ever got that far. It might be a bad product decision.

And organizing the app store based on app-store SEO is wise, opens up a new market and forces devs to reconsider their app design.
Keep a pre-written email and send it to these people. Be nice to them and decline politely. Its best to leave doors unlocked for future opportunities.
I think this is the real crux of the problem. It's a very weak call to action - you answer the question of what you want people to do, but not why or how.

Helping your business grow might be a strong why for you, but the promise of why to the people you actually need to act is very nebulous.
If you're about to release your first app on the app store you're not qualified to understand its dynamics. Sorry.

I believe this redesign is a small step backward, and some sort of step forward. Showing a screenshot is a good idea but users are notoriously lazy and won't venture past even a few results so it creates a feedback loop where only the best performers get rewarded, further fueling that performance.
the very first assumption of this post is fragile "Although Apple doesn’t make these numbers public, I bet most people search instead of browse through the App Store categories to find the apps they’re looking for"
1. This is really far from certain. actually the reality is that most apps who get massive downloads from the app store got featured or from the top charts when they reach the top 1. I never heard a developer who had massive growth because he was "searched"
2. The App store has been redesigned mostly for visual discovery and not search. Explaining the streams, big stickers, card browsing

If you want to be discovered in massive volume in the app store the only way is to get promoted or top ranked

The other cases are edge cases and frankly do not justify complaining about how such results are displayed.

Ouriel
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If that is the best attack on my idea, then I'd say that's pretty good! A spammer would have to target the site specifically (for tailor-made script) and parse an animated gif into individual images, then send every image into Tin Eye (which is awesome but the API isn't free right?).

That said, I am a complete amateur at captcha design. Cool research though and I bet a lot of HN'ers would be interested in your PoC if you haven't already submitted it.
Is there really an opportunity cost? There are tons of companies, non-profits, and academic research being conducted in the medical and other more worthy spaces. It's not like the existence of Facebook changes that. Also, the tech talent wars are really only driving up the costs of Computer engineers who are interested in the social web. It's not like this impacts non-profits very much, they are still getting talented people, they just don't happen to be in the market for CS engineers.
Almost nobody knows who their landlords are -- almost all rentals are handled through agencies.

Plus: who wants to remind their landlords to come and do an inspection?
I used to pay for prepaid phone credit from Fido's website using Interac online payment. One time Fido's server failed right after the Interac server accepted my payment. As far as my bank could tell everything went through fine, but Fido had no record of any attempt at payment. I only use my credit card online now.
Read the wiki:

"Guarantees no data loss: A realtime system must have strong guarantees about data being successfully processed. A system that drops data has a very limited set of use cases. Storm guarantees that every message will be processed, and this is in direct contrast with other systems like S4."

https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki/Rationale
That is the understatement of the century.
Rising Tower in Manhattan Emerges as a Billionaires’ Haven
When you're in a region without a matching image (i.e. in the blank sky or uncarved ground), the tile is only a 1x1 image; in Firefox at least, the default image rendering technique for this is bad, as it uses something along the lines of bicubic interpolation to some shade of grey, where what is intended is that it be a solid block of colour.

My solution was to add this to the CSS:

.leaflet-container img { image-rendering: optimizeSpeed; }

Note also that the 1x1 blank ground tiles (e.g. http://xkcd-static.rent-a-geek.de/converted/4-4-8.png) are #0a0a0a rather than #000000.
Only in places like Hacker News is there a consensus opinion that Facebook is "a new addictive and time wasting form of entertainment who's contribution society is null or negative". Facebook has increased the number of interactions I have with my extended family by roughly a factor of infinity --- and I'm one of those nerds who's run a mailing list for his family since the mid '90s.

A more concise way to say what 'grellas said is that these complaints about Facebook have nothing to do with ethics and everything to do with fashion. They are just a new way of proclaiming to the world that "I don't even own a television".

Concern for masses frittering away hours on meaningless entertainments is at least as old as the mechanical player piano. Despite the countervailing evidence of the Salk Vaccine, the ARPA IMP, Google, stem cell transplants, McGee's _On Food And Cooking_, and everything else society has managed to accomplished while beset by the horrors of entertainment, you are welcome to hold the view that you are better not only than the people who avail themselves of that entertainment, but also the people who manage to produce and maintain it using computer systems running at a scale unimaginable just a decade or two before.

Just do it with better writing, because the bar for articulating this particular concern is set very high; you might start with _Infinite Jest_.
Get a mouse, preferably one with more mass in it. Helps to dampen some of the shakiness.

My tremors are not that serious though, so I'm perfectly OK with a touchpad (I'm a huge fan of Apple's glass touchpad). With trackpoints, it's hard to get a good level of sensitivity.
There are people on HN who will vigorously downvote you for unnecessary disparaging comments like "Jeez, did you have to write all that?", "laughably verbose" [0], or "I thought I was finished with primary school."

While those lines may not technically violate the letter of the guidelines [1], they violate the spirit of the section that says "please reply to the argument instead of calling names". Note that the next part of the guidelines gives an example of how one can and should remove an extraneous cheap shot from their argument.

Your comment history shows you are capable of producing a much higher signal-to-noise ratio than in the last few comments. Please hold yourself to a higher standard. Satirical rebuttals can be a joy to read when done right.

[0] because grellas has established himself as someone who makes lengthy, meaningful contributions, "tl;dr" type complaints will be considerably less well received than they might be in response to a genuinely too-long post from one with a less valuable contribution history. Particularly yours, because it was phrased so... thoughtlessly.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think this browser is best for making sure you didn't miss anything. Part of what makes the original comic effective is that your viewing window is so small that it makes the size of the world feel very large.
I largely agree with your point, but I have to respond to this:

> I'll never understand why people think these huge multi-bazillion dollar companies are being run by total morons. And make no mistake, if you write a blog post about how billion dollar product X is broken because they changed its color or something then you're taking the position that the company has as its decision makers a bunch of morons taking shots in the dark.

Many, many large companies do have morons taking shots in the dark, based requirements and data that have little-to-no basis in reality, coupled with broken bureaucracy and individual incentives that are not even remotely aligned with what actually matters to their customers.

Apple isn't one of those companies.
How to confuse a moral compass: Survey 'magic trick' causes attitude reversal
Ok, Corporal A. Gumbo: Write it better.

Do it and I'll donate $1000 that I promise I was not going to donate anyways to Partners In Health.

There's an idea common to forums that I don't frequent that I recently learned of called an "ideological Turing test". The idea is to take a group of people divided along a controversy, and to get each side to anonymously write a coherent argument that capture's the other side's perspective. Then everyone tries to tell, "which is the real argument, and which is the cunning fake?".

In that spirit: if you think you understand what 'grellas is trying to say so well, go ahead and take a whack at saying it better, and demonstrate that you actually grok his perspective.
That's because their website sucks. Store doesn't link to the main site. Try http://www.solidoodle.com/ for videos, blog, etc.
Why and how to do dependency injection in javascript
As discussed here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4546039

iOS loads http://www.apple.com/library/test/success.html automatically upon associating with a wifi AP. This is done to test whether you are on a captive network (like a lot of wireless hotspots) that requires you to login to the network first before the internet works.
Yet another source of info that won't inform you constructively.
> We paired an awkward penguin meme...

Is this the post-internet equivalent of when your favorite bands from highschool and college start selling their popular songs for car and financial service ads for the middle aged? Of course today's redditors all think it will never happen to their generation.
By pinging their own website, Apple can determine whether an Internet connection is truly available. Some WiFi providers at hotels, airports and such block access until users have paid or signed on.
It's basically as bad as Nintendo's eShop on the 3DS now.
I think they put the 18 point font in their all on their own.
GitHub: Please give us back the old, informative news feed
It used to be, when someone I follow starred a repository, I could see the description in my news feed, so I had some clue what it was, and knew instantly if I wanted to check it out.

Now all I see is this lame list of "username/project", with no description, no information, no context, nothing. Oh, and a whole lot of whitespace in place of the missing description.

It sucks, taking the "social" out of social coding. I know you removed that as your motto, but this is too much. :(

GitHub, please give us back the old, informative news feed.

Thanks, a paying GitHub user since 2008.
Any resources you suggest for learning App Store SEO?
Just searched for "picasa" on my (iOS 6) iPad. First two hits were apps that actually had picasa in the name, (the ones he mentions) followed by his apps.

What exactly his he whining about?

Search for a competing app and his doesn't come up first?
Does he also complain to google (irony) about his page ranking?
Why is this on the front page, let alone #1?
iOS 6 doesn’t bring iCloud.com email addresses to me.com users
Over 10,000 people were willing to pay $50 to see app.net built without ever having seen it.
My father. Allow me to explain why.

In 1965 he shipped out to Vietnam. Rode some convoys, went into action. Saw his friends die. Almost died himself a couple of times. Came back in one piece. Studied and became a nurse (something that took guts from a man because it was considered a womans job). He then went to work at the local veterans hospital taking care of the same people he fought with. Fast forward a few years and he developed a very bad case of chronic asthma due to some chemicals used in a construction that was going on at the hospital he worked. He had to stop working. Developed some heart problems and almost died. He went on heavy medication, which ruined both of his hips. Surgery had to be done, and both hips were replaced (two surgeries). Doctors said it would be a miracle if he could walk properly again. He did. Fast forward a few more years and he got prostate cancer. Went into surgery and it came out well. He gets checked every few months but so far nothing. Its been about five years since that. Then he had to get hip surgery again on one side. Came out good and can walk. Again. He has gone through so much, yet he has never complained about a thing. Only saw him cry once when my brother died (on his arms). I figure that if I manage to do as well as he has then my life will not be in vain. For that, and for many other things he is the person who has influenced me the most. I would not have it any other way. That is why to this day I still wake up, put on my war face and go out to kick some serious ass. He taught me to never quit. I don't. That is why I always ship out my projects. He taught me to get shit done no matter what.
Right, as I mention in another comment, I'm well aware of this. However, it shouldn't be the end all be all and it should be more redundant anyway. It should use more domains. It should still allow the user to use the Wifi network if they want to. etc.
We'll eventually offer monthly plans with a free trial but we're looking for supporters at the moment, like the 10,000+ people that paid $50 for app.net
This is the core problem; typical lack of long-term thinking when there is so much pressure for revenue. Too bad no one could think of a better idea than display ads.
IANAL, but foreknowledge of patent infringement can triple damage liability right? So is just having the headline of this story on the front page of HN enough to cause problems for the entire HN community?
Thank you.

I'm looking forward to figuring out how you did this.
>"No offense to the makers of “Picasa HD Lite”, which ranks #1 in a search for “picasa,” but Web Albums’ 5-star average from 483 ratings should be ranked higher than a 2.5-star average from 30 ratings."

No, if I search for X I want to get X, not a better rated app in the same category as X. If I search for "photo album" or something to that tune this argument would be valid.
Definitely. I could watch the posting trends and build categories off of the postings. e.g. users post a lot of recipes thus I would create a recipe category.
"I'll never understand why people think these huge multi-bazillion dollar companies are being run by total morons."

History is filled with stories of huge companies that have failed and no longer exist today. I wouldn't use your language 'total morons', but of course the people running them made poor decisions.
I'm working on an exact project for the local market. Its also being done in PHP. :)

Get in touch. Email in my profile.
Heroku was able to do it because it had a lot of funding in the beginning (and is now part of a public company). Very hard to bootstrap freemium, especially if there are per-user costs like with hosting.

(I run gondor.io so I understand :-)
I'm never going to be a billionaire. I would prefer that billionaires not get themselves elected President to cut the top tax rates, but that's about as far as it goes. We are sailing on an ocean of executable ideas, and we've got some of the best winds we've had in 10-15 years. Who has time to write 3000 words on someone else's "unjustified" success?
It's one thing to study others' work and take ideas from it. Everyone does that.

It's another thing to actively engage others, talk to them as if you are friends or enter into agreements to work together, and then take ideas from their work. It's the betrayal of people's trust that's gotten him the reputation for being a con and a thief.
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I would almost certainly trust UDP more to actually deliver my ballot, forgetting things like security, etc.
@JumpCrisscross what you missed here is that "Web Albums" is the official google Picasa app for iOS. Picasa HD Lite is a low-rated knockoff optimized for appstore SEO. The author's point stands, the official Picasa app (Web Albums) should rank first.
I can't offer science but I will offer that my family has had a history of dyslexia on the side of my family that my brother greatly seems to take after. He has used colored overlays, lenses and contacts and it's noticeable for him if he has to go without. He's been wearing them for probably 8 years now, maybe.
While I agree with your broader sentiment about this post being more change aversion than substantive debate the logic here is circular: if "multi-bazillion" dollar companies always initiate change because they "have the data that tells [them] it's going to make [them] more money" then any decision by a large company is self-evidently correct. This is false; the large company could have overlooked things, made a logical error, or have had an idiot on the web server team pushing changes he didn't realise broke iOS's WiFi capabilities. Your argument should push deeper than an appeal to Apple's authority.
This online system only works if you have a state-issued photo id.
You can purchase things at Walmart with cash. It's pretty much impossible to track purchases made with cash. You can't pay with an anonymous money source on the internet, and you can't obtain that much anonymity on Facebook.
I'm concerned about this.

App store search has had a heavy bias towards the top 4-5 results. This will only make that bias stronger.
You and I live in very different markets. I have always known who my landlord was, and have asked my landlord to perform inspections.

Even if you only rent from property management companies, they are still the target demographic for the advertised SaaS.
Passwords are dead. Film at 11.
The purpose isn't to stop a MITM attack, it's to pop up a captive portal browser when you may be trying to use an app that isn't a web browser (Mail, Shazam, etc) and that would just not work.
Ah, I stand corrected (and educated). Carry on.
This hilarious part is had they left it the way it was, you would have actually seen MORE results with the new iPhone 5.
If that's the case, people should avoid clicking the link, as it mentions other patents. (I saw the list, but I didn't read any of the items in it.)
IANAL either, but I assume that they would have to somehow prove that you read it, perhaps by showing that you posted in the comments section.