skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For DSL/metaprogramming fun (and occasional hair-pulling, heh), Ruby also gives you instance_eval and its siblings/cousins for running a block with "self" bound to a different object. I've mainly used it for providing the ability to run a block in the scope of a certain object without the author of the block having to reference that object at all (so field names can be referred to without any prefix, which gives a nice clean syntax).
Wow, took like 200 comments for someone to mention Flash, the thing that's been doing this exact same effect in a 20kb file since the year 2000 without having to write your own codec. Shows how well the Apple anti-Flash campaign has brainwashed the crowd.
I'd like to have a service that notifies me of deadlines.
I input a description of the task and the date, all my tasks are then ordered by how close the deadline is. I can also set intervals for me to be reminded about the deadline.

I can share this information with someone like my boss. She can view what I'm working on and add tasks to it if need be, and every time she adds a task I get a notification asking me to accept the task. In addition to being able to accept the task, I have the ability to propose an alternative date too.

Simple.
Science Karaoke - for all the math/physics students

I remember looking at the math textbook and having no idea how to read those huge formulas.

Get field specialists (or grad students) to read aloud complex mathematical formulas. Helps the beginner researchers to understand how to read (and remember) formulas.

Monetization would probably start from doing it for core-text books and selling DVDs at University bookshops and then reaching to publishers for doing it for new texts before they come out.
Am I reading this wrong - out of 8,000 employees surveyed, no-one had more than 1/10th of 1% of equity.

That's a nice pension contribution not an equity share.

If you were in facebook at that level, you might get a house. But really why is that level of equity share of any influence in anyone's hiring equation?

Or am I missing something?
So if I moved to SF and work in the same start up that I'm working right now I would be rich by my country standards.
I use it on my MBP for one reason: less strain on my clicking finger, which in the past has led to RSI. Using my old Thinkpads with the TrackPoint and clicking was much more stressful on my hands than my current setup.

I don't have any trouble with errant clicks, but I may have altered my typing style. Right now my hands are both entirely off the keyboard (elbows resting on armrests on chair). I also understand there are some improvements in Mac OS X over other operating systems with respect to errant clicking.
Here's the same output in CSSDeck for a more convenient preview:

http://cssdeck.com/labs/vsjc8abl/0

Aside from some empty class attributes and extra div wrappers, the markup is really close to what I'd write by hand. Great work with the export!

EDIT: Oh, sorry - this isn't the same output as mbleigh posted. Mine is the tutorial page from Divshot when you first log in.
Great actionable insights. A good heads up to have another critical look at our own messaging schedule. I especially like the message anatomy examples. Timing messages on specific event triggers, instead of just session counts would even make more sense.
I've been using VM for a few years now and overall have been very happy. Sprint coverage sucks in some areas but for the most part is fine. Being half the price of other providers makes up for it. My phone came with tethering enabled which I used a lot before getting a Clear access point.
This is great cause it doesn't seem like it covers everything in div tags. Looks very clean and readable if you need to edit it by hand.
I've never had this problem personally, and I use tap to click very regularly.
There are communities who do do this. I wish I had actual references to point out, but stuff like only having one or two lawnmowers for a neighborhood does happen. It's a cultural thing more than a business opportunity.

OTOH, what if you looked at this from the perspective of a dating site? The goal isn't merely to collectively own a thing; it's to find and meet people who you could get to know well enough to trust and participate in collective ownership.
Hey @89a, can you detail which is the joke? Maybe what we did is stupid. But that's what we genuinely thought, tried and shared. We are serious to develop a good enough Instagram ipad app as we're not satisfied with existing solutions. And that's why people love our app even there are already dozens out there.
Airport Kindle store

Sell worldwide Kindle
Help users to be very quickly setup and configured
Buy books by shop issuing gift cards and taking cash in any/local currency
Get money from Amazon referrals
Provide limited wifi, so people could browse/buy more books

Allows to sell a lot of stuff without much store space.
Show HN: EasyPost - the Stripe for postage
Red Herring awards: a scam?
On instagram, you can't browse someone's photos unless you follow them. Otherwise, the only way to see a photo is if you have the URL. It's part of their privacy model.
Looks awesome, great work guys. The resulting code looks very clean and maintainable too. I'd love to check it out when you have more room.
Please make this a downloadable app that I can run on my desktop, if it's not already (I can't tell yet).

I will never "sign in" to use a dev tool and I'm certainly not alone.
Maybe it's just the Mac trackpad or I have perfect motor control, as you imply, but I very rarely have a problem with unwanted clicks due to tap-to-click. I certainly feel more agile not having to apply the pressure necessary to initiate the click and I also don't have to hear the clicking noise the trackpad makes every time I do click. All around better experience for me with little to no downside.
Well back then I was just reading the main feed.
Photo-workshop aggregation

People like to do photography workshops. But information about workshops is all over the place.

TWIP talked about not having photography workshop aggregator website.

Build one (for worldwide audience) by using Google alerts for keywords and/or site scraping/RSS subscription..

Use NLP/NER to extract people/Location/keywords to make it simpler to populate the database. Maybe use SOLR for searching cached copies of ads.

Start by making it easier for a human to aggregate, then make it a destination that drives traffic, then give photographers tools to manage availability and maybe publication of their workshops through multiple channels.

Expose workshops as calendars for people to subscribe.

Expose information as a widget for SquareSpace, WordPress, etc to allow photographers to use this service for workshop announcement (and therefore locking them in into freemium model)

Making money:
* Allow people to subscribe by location, topic, dates (e.g. show me things in Dec-Jan near me)
* This creates a list to own and resource to ‘onsell’ for ads/special-offers.
* Photographers can pay to access additional features that will then send reminders about classes filling-up

And another page of details.....
I received an email yesterday and another one this morning.
Microsoft knows what they're doing? That's the funniest thing I've heard in a while. For the record, Microsoft has never had a success in the mobile space (PDAs, tablets, phones, MP3 players). They've come close a time or two but never in the past 15 years have they been the leader in any of these categories.

Microsoft dominates the desktop. The XBox is an extension of the desktop. They're hoping to leverage their desktop dominance into a laptop-lite tablet.

I'm betting they could care less about the user experience of Win 8 on the desktop. After all where else are their customers going to go? Apple? Linux? A few might. Most won't. This way they can focus all their energies into the tablet and then use their desktop dominance to move people to their tablets instead of Apple's. After all how many iPad owners have a Windows desktop?

It's probably the best strategy they have. We'll have to wait and see how well it pans out for them.

And no, I have no intention of buying one of these things.
I... honestly am not qualified to say that this is what it is, but I would strongly suggest taking a look at the details of how we entered this recession. It sounds extremely familiar.
It doesn't sound like they took the money and ran. It sounds like they took the money and are having a lot of problems executing.
Voice Activated Popcorn Cannon Blasts Kernels Directly Into Your Mouth
Seems like a gradual winding down to me. First a bunch of onerous and (frankly utterly fucktarded) UI restrictions which completely limit the utility of any multi-social-network clients (this was the one that really grinds my gears), then the hard cap on the number of users that any one API user can have.. what's next?
Seriously, did you read the parent?
IPad lovers take on the Nexus 7
So I take it you're not a GitHub user? :)

Desktop/downloadable version is on the horizon but not our first focus.
I would really appreciate a link to the page with the tool itself instead of to the blog post describing the page with the tool ;-)
This is ABSOLUTELY the tradeoff. I am not using Mongo for long-term data storage. I am using it for hacking systems together which need a place to store data. Possibly this data will be manually queried and examined later on, possibly this data lives only a day or two. The entire conversation changes when you are wanting structured data output that is stable and scalable for 10 years.
Office 2013 starts at $139, and the Windows RT version will only have a limited version of that.
And/or if the parent wasn't desperate for cash and found few takers.

That said, upside doesn't look all that great.
You're basically right for the initial display.

But equity is heavily dependent on company size, click on "Company Size" to see it break down. Or "Job Function" == Software Engineer and then click "Company Size".
"You must be logged in to access this feature."...
I get what you're saying, but he's comparing packages that consumers buy.

MS was OS of choice for the cost leaders in the market. Apple was the quality leader.
Yup - I'm planning to cover that later in the same chapter in my eBook. Your description is perfect: it's a closure with the "self" redirected to a different object (the receiver of instance_eval).
Why would it though? Windows RT doesn't even have access to x86 apps, which means it's starting its ecosystem from scratch. And that means it's even further behind than Android in tablet apps.
I like how "my colleague Derek Thompson picked up the baton" and clobbered the article by disproving its thesis.
I've been down this road with other application development firms before. "Application Data" folder redirection is necessary for us because the roaming user profile grows an inordinate number of files in the AppData folder, which in turn causes logons to be _exceedingly_ slow when users logon to a computer that doesn't have a cached copy of their profile (such as computer labs where machines are frequently re-imaged, which is our pain point).

I don't know where you're getting the phrase "... this is not a supported configuration for Windows profiles in general". Unsupported by whom? Microsoft has been shipping Application Data Folder Redirection as feature of Windows Group Policy since Windows 2000. ) and not some kind of "registry hack" or unsupported (by Microsoft) tweak. I've yet to find any Microsoft developer documentation advising that this feature is "unsupported". I _have_ seen multiple applications broken by using this feature (including Microsoft applications) but I don't think that makes the feature "unsupported" by Microsoft. It seems like this feature is "unsupported" by applications because they make assumptions about how Windows behaves and don't engage systems administrators in their development process.

In the case of Chrome I _really_ want to use it in enterprise situations-- it's my favorite browser, personally. The attitude of installing into folders writable by individual users seems to pervade even the enterprise distribution of Chrome, however. I would argue that, in an enterprise environment, updates should only be applied to the computer's copy of Chrome and not into individual user folders. This creates pain and frustration for sysadmins. It sounds, to me, like the "component updater" doesn't take into account installs where there is a computer-wide copy of Chrome and needs some re-architecting.

Alternatively, we would be able to completely circumvent this problem and just leave the user's Chrome "User Data" folder in their local profile if we could use "Chrome Sync" with our SAML SSO that we use for Google Apps for Education. I haven't looked at it for 6 months, but the last time we looked Chrome Sync did not support authenticating via our SSO, so we had to scrap that idea and go with using a redirected user data folder to allow users to have their Chrome data "follow" them between computers.
The humans aren't being random. They're using numbers from sources in real life. A large fraction of the data points are years from the twentieth century as 19xx and a smaller fraction as 200x. MMDD or DDMM format dates also follow the Law in tending to lead with digits 0-3. Or consider the 2580 case or other patterns on the keypad, where the leading digit will skew towards the beginning of the digit-alphabet.

So Benford's Law will apply even on a data set that has no numerical meaning in itself, transitively from the real sources of the numbers.
Nothing about that story screams fraud. It is a fairly classic tale of a failed business venture. This happens all the time.
Yet another reason I:

- Use a Thinkpad with a trackpoint.

- Disable the touchpad.

- Use ad-blocking.

- Don't use Yahoo.
Interesting. I could immediately use the simple address verification.

I wonder what the return value of a purchase call is?
Without a modem, why even take AOL up on the free six months to a year of service? It just means you'll have to call again in 6 months, and so on.
http://www.google.com/trends/?q=slashdot,+digg,+reddit,+hack...
[1982] US Patent D281,686: Phone
Although there seems to be potential in using intestinal worms to fix auto-immune diseases of the bowel like Crohns Disease.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=helminthic-...
Those empty classes are a known bug, they'll disappear soon enough!
And it's an established business. No zero-point extrapolation here.
That is cryptic keypress shortcuts, not quite command lines.
...it gets worse:

http://news.dice.com/
Simple goes a long way when it comes to dealing with healthcare information. In my practice, I created a google form that patients can fill out and then have access to whenever they need it (for sharing with other providers for example). It's not elegant, but it's easy, flexible, and it fundamentally shifts control of the patient record from the doctor to the patient. Happy to share a customizable template if anyone is interested.
Slashdot lost its edge in 2006 when Digg and Reddit started making a scene. It's been a long slow decline since then.
You're comparing the iPad with the Nomad? A curious analogy.

EDIT: I do know about the old Slashdot meme. I just think the situation is drastically different here, hence "A curious analogy".
A lot of music companies think that they have a physical monopoly on how digital music is distributed... since the 80s.

Doesn't make it so.

If anything, this type of incident serves as a reminder to our culture. It's so easy for communications to be copied and shared. That makes it all the more important that you separate your personal and work lives with clear digital boundaries.
This isn't necessarily the case. Life insurance insures against certainty.

I think one things which would make this idea feasible is the fact that people are old by the time they receive SS so a certain percentage (a somewhat predictable one) will be dead. If a high enough percentage is expected to be dead, you could create rates which would allow you to win over the long run.

You could also make the SS insurance apply only to the individuals and not their beneficiaries who would have received the SS benefit in the event of the individual dying prior to receiving benefits.

I know it's grim but just some thoughts..
I'll be sure to take a look at that, and thanks for the link. No, no thoughts on it right now.
Wow that's some of the nicest generated code I've seen. This could be a very useful tool.
> Because MS is not a premium product.

In your opinion...

I'd be willing to pay extra to be able to run a full OS, specifically...Windows, on my iPad instead of iOS.

Being able to do what I want easily: that's premium to me.

Locked down hardware, locked down OS, locked down everything: that's not premium, that's Apple.
This Site Pays Developers When It Finds Them a Job
It's unfortunate that the person who wrote this article didn't consult with someone more informed about the online advertising world.

As someone who has been in the belly of the beast, I'm going to try to summarize the various ways that this article is getting it wrong.

* Most Yahoo Mail ads generate revenue based on impressions, not clicks. So Yahoo isn't directly making more money by grabbing these "random" clicks.

* Where clicks do matter, major ad platforms including Yahoo throw away a LOT of clicks as fraud, and accidental clicks tend to disproportionately get thrown out along with them.

* In general, random clicks are considered a real PITA for major ad networks, as they confuse the heck out of ad optimization. While small players do tend to soak up that revenue, the big players really, really hate the phenomenon because it makes them far less efficient.

* It turns out what most impacts ad effectiveness online is whether people actually see the ad. An incredibly number of ads are just never seen by the audience. As a consequence, a good publisher will try to find locations for their ads that are highly visible. Highly visible and likely to evoke accidental clicks are, unfortunately, highly correlated.

* Most advertisers who are paying per click are very performance driven. They look at ROI, which means they look at conversion rates. When you charge an accidental click, it's almost certainly not going to convert, so in the end you look worse and they pay less for your clicks.

* One unfortunate bit of truth: advertisers do pay too much attention to clicks and CTR (click through rate). Even advertisers doing brand awareness campaigns, which are not looking for immediate response from their audience, tend to look at CTR.

* Yahoo has actually tried hard to establish other metrics that they should look at, like "Bounce Rate", which attempts to factor in whether visitors immediately exit after clicking. They use those metrics internally for optimizing ad performance, so accidental clicks are likely to discourage showing an ad more than encourage it.
> even experts will take quite a while to comprehend a document they are not already mostly familiar with

Experts don't take time to read notations. They take time to understand the full scope of consequences embedded in a line composed of such a condensed and readable notation, within the frame of an otherwise complex proof.

> Mathematical notation is not readable, no.

I beg to differ. You mention the recent possible proof of the ABC conjecture, and I happened to browse through various materials on the subject. While I am far from being able to understand the crux of the proof, I can perfectly read the various components of it. In fact the notation system is so readable it actually helps tremendously in grasping concepts previously unknown to me.
I'm planning on making it a URL to a pdf of the postage...that work?
Ruby on Rails Magic in rendering a partial for Model objects
You should check out Smalltalk blocks. They are much closer to what Ruby has than Lisp-style closures are.
The submission is mostly-useless blog spam around a cool tool: https://blog.wealthfront.com/startup-employee-equity-compens...
Startup failure in 5 weeks and $52 dollars
The site is called VIMeo.
Quora and a bad user experience
I host my survey and cross tab compilers on sourceforge. It's a nice place you can keep things in public, and no one will ever notice - hiding in plain sight. I didnt want to move to github because I felt loyalty to sourceforge.
One-page, seizure-free view:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/1982/02/have-you-e...
I'm at a 60-ish person agency, and we're in the beginning stages of implementing one. The goal is to bring in junior level developers and teach them what they need to know to grow as a developer inside the organization. We brought aboard a junior developer about 4 months ago, with myself and a colleague responsible for training him and helping develop his skillset.

It's been an interesting and successful experience thus far.

* A training schedule, similar to a degree plan in university - just something that outlines where the organization expects them to be at 3, 6, 9 and 12 months during their first year of employ.

* Coding standards defined by the organization. Telling any developer, but particularly a junior, that your standards are "I know it when I see it" doesn't fly.

* Formal code reviews. This is something we could definitely do better. I'm working getting Atlassian Bamboo to make the reviews easier on everyone involved.

* Regularly scheduled meetings with the trainers and the junior. We do every 3 months, with less formal meetings more frequently. It's important to let them know how they are progressing, and to give them tips on how to improve any deficient skill sets.

Overall, I think the most important thing is to maintain open lines of communication.
You're in. Can't wait to hear your feedback and ideas! A: We plan to support custom Bootstrap themes in the near future. Stay tuned!
Alcumbierre himself states that it does not violate causality. from: http://www.npl.washington.edu/av/altvw81.html > The possibilities for FTL travel or communication implicit in the Alcubierre drive raise the possibility of causality violations and "timelike loops", i.e., back-in-time communication and time travel. Alcubierre points out that his metric CONTAINS NO SUCH CLOSED CAUSAL LOOPS, and so is free of their paradoxes. However, he speculates that it would probably be possible to construct a metric similar to the one he presented which would contain such loops.

So either he's a laughing stock and nobody is talking about that or (more likely) you are wrong.
Rackspace accused of patent infringement for hosting Github
I think there's a very non-trivial chance the person who wrote this article knows much more about advertising than you think: http://www.hilarymason.com/about/
Not sure if this thing is real or not. If it's not, it's an impressive amount of effort to make it look real. If it is, it's an insane amount of effort to make something that fires a single peice of popcorn. Either way, props to them.
Bank of America is down