skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think anything other than tampon would be fine. Since it's open source, might as well call it "tweet_scheduler".
"... then we are entering a golden age of hardware ...

It can also herald an era of 'mom and pop' hardware companies."

Exactly!

I never understand bloggers and pundits who analyze these things from the perspective of the stockholders or owners of the large players instead of the consumers/small players.

Why the hell would you cheer about the high margins charged on the products you are paying for? Is marketing getting so good that consumers are now complaining about too much competition among those they buy from?
That isn't a guarantee it's a bounty. A guarantee would pay out to all affected customers. Affected probably would mean compromised by an attacker.
Celebrate Remote Work
That's the idea. (It's japanese after all)
There's a min()/max() polyfill at https://github.com/indyarmy/jquery.cssMinMax.plugin right now. Someone with more patience might be able to extend it to support calc() as well.
It's not that people don't trust your intentions, it's that it's psychologically impossible to be objective when you're not doing blind evaluations. Anyone who's not a member of $regional_cultural_majority is relatively better off having you evaluate their work history and skillset than they are in trusting you to pore over their Facebook feed.
The win from actually testing is ridiculously more important than the marginal differences between different ways of running tests. Even if you later find out that your testing methodology was wrong, it is still a likely win.

If you've not already been convinced of that, there is no more important point that I can make to you about testing. And, sadly, most companies out there do not seem to have realized this point yet. But continually repeating it is boring for me, and useless for people who've already got that point.

That said, I would add a third case to your list where MAB is helpful. If you're clever with a MAB system, you can manage to roll new versions into the testing mix without ruining an ongoing test that you don't yet have final statistics on. This flexibility can be very helpful.
So..how do you know that your content will never ever be relevant to for example one of the children in this video? http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/2012/09/06/educating-banglades...
MongoDB is not even remotely close big table architecture. It has a different data model and a different sharding model, and just about a different everything.
Android is no longer an ugly-duckling platform trying to catch up with iOS, but a beautiful platform that truly rivals iOS in all important ways -- and now surpasses it in terms of market share. However, mobile app developers have only recently begun to transition from "we need an app for Android too, quick!" to "we need great apps for both Android and iOS," so it will take a little while for all those ugly, hastily-put-together Android apps to become a thing of the past.

UPDATE: koko775 raises a good point: the large installed base of pre-ICS Android versions may also be a factor. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4533819
I'm sorry, but this is just outrageously sexist. And then people complain and argue that the industry isn't outright biased against women.

The developer needs to grow up and come to his senses. And notice how I'm certain it's a guy.
I think so. If so, I'd be part of the 100 million monthly actives. I don't have a google+ account but I do visit the pages of certain well known people in the industry every now and then.
I can live with that. :-)
On a related subject, the only recruiter I've ever interacted with that I thought was earning her paycheck (she cold-emailed me) was from Facebook. Her email showed that she had done some research on my startups and read through my (public) Facebook profile, discussing some of my favorite hobbies (motorcycles and travel).

I still declined, but I actually wrote a nice response instead of dustbinning it as spam.

I suspect a lot of what differentiates a good recruiter from a bad recruiter is the ability to connect on a personal level. Even though it's obvious what the motivations are, it's still better to [pretend to] be human. Perhaps the recruiting field needs to draw some lessons from online dating.
It's not because design talents are focused on iOS, it's that design talents are focused on the Android users that are worth targeting. Namely, people on 2.1 or 2.2+.

Android generally monetizes/converts worse than iOS, so those who want a presence on Android can't afford to take advantage of any of the new stuff until old devices are retired sufficiently to make the tradeoff really worth it. It's been really tough to see all of the improvements, because Google is addressing user upgrades so poorly (even though the fault lies mostly with the manufacturers) that the upgrade problem is such a big deal for developers.
I wish that were true...but look at the fashion market. It seems a portion of the populous will pay for brand name goods at a premium that keeps these brands at the top. I suppose that's why Goodwill exists in accounting.
Ask a kernel developer: Greg Kroah-Hartman explains his Git usage
Happy to answer questions, as always.

Ramit and I recorded three of these interviews on starting consulting businesses, although we have poor message discipline so we couldn't resist talking product as well. The next one is about pricing. (It could be "Charge more!" for an hour, but isn't, although I hit that theme a few times.)

On a related but unrelated note, my usual podcast with Keith Perhac (and special guest Brennan Dunn next time) also is going to be a consulting-stravaganza next time. We talked the origin stories for our three consulting businesses (I run a sole-prop consultancy as roughly a 20% time project, Keith runs a small practice, and Brennan runs a fairly large many-people-at-full-time-utilization consultancy) and what we've learned along the way about hiring, pricing, cashflow management, chasing invoices, pipeline, and all that fun stuff.

My totally subjective opinion is that, if you're a freelancer or consultant, any one of these will be probably more useful than the entire rest of my blog put together. If you liked any of that, you'll like these, probably a lot.
I experienced similar "panic scheduling" with (2) myself. I'm trying to forego due dates and deadlines except when completely necessary (often because of procrastination).

I'm trying to take a low-tech approach to my system as opposed to having more tech. It's easier for me to ignore the list of "random things to research someday" when it's on an index card at home than on my laptop and phone everywhere. At the same time, I rarely find myself missing lists like these.

My own sketches tend to pile up physically with the eventual goal of being scanned in and named with the date drawn.

Thanks for sharing.
If you are refactoring your app enough to need a different class of joins, you'll probably need schema and data migrations too.

I think no-schema fits agile quite well. For rapid prototyping, I prefer Mongo to even sqlite.
Anyone know of any good review sites useful to someone interesting in buying some? I imagine there is huge variation in quality among the tablets on that page.
By "hijack the default scrollbar", you mean "apply standard webkit scrollbar CSS properties"?
I also think it's a really bad name but I didn't go as far as label it as sexist.

Do you mind sharing the basis behind your affirmation?
Enlightening and hilarious. Love that the abstracts are now longer than the bodies, and they've retained the LaTeX/PDF submission tradition against all practicality.

My two favorite results both seem relevant to TinyTOCS itself:

* Towards an Emergent Semantic Web
"Inductive fuzzy grassroots ontologies form a basis for computing with words. In time they will allow the Web to merge with the Semantic Web."
(Edy Portmann UC Berkeley EECS)
http://tinytocs.org/vol1/papers/tinytocs-v1-thompson.pdf

* Data Publishing Using Nanopublications
"The nanopublication model incentivizes rapid, citable data dissemination, interoperability, semantic reasoning, and knowledge discovery."
(Mark Thompson, Erik Schultes, Marco Roos, Barend Mons LUMC)
http://tinytocs.org/vol1/papers/tinytocs-v1-thompson.pdf
Another Ziff Davis spammer!
Have you contacted Heroku Support?
CASH Music: http://cashmusic.org/

CASH Music is a nonprofit organization that builds open source digital tools for musicians and labels.
true... and i wonder how many other untold stories there are that are out there about small businesses benefiting from Pinterest.

the funny thing is how everyone goes after local with mobile and pretty much doesn't get much explosive success (sorry Foursquare but it's true). in fact, i was reading this founder's post on why you shouldn't do local: http://www.crashdev.com/2012/01/top-three-reasons-not-to-do-...

But the problem with that post is found in PG's black swan article... that blockbuster ideas and businesses that solve real problems often aren't attacking an industry directly but arise in completely different or adjacent spaces

It's another take on what "bad ideas" might actually mean... in other words, that an idea is a bad idea for what seems direct but it turns out to be a great idea because it surfaces a real problem that it does solve somehow
You're Not Listening
Peroni has been attending Hacker News online and offline, I do not think HE does not know...
Solomonoff and Vapnik method for solving AI
How Computer-Generated Animations Were Made in 1964
Their article preloading is very quick.
I wonder when they'll figure out that putting out numbers no one believes actually hurts their perception?
There's maths behind RDBMS - the relational algebra and calculus. These give you enormous power when you don't know how you want to query your data in future (something you'd think the "agile" crowd would be all over). But instead, the prevalent thinking is "just stuff it all in and worry about it later". Experienced DB hands call this "painting yourself into a corner".
Building over a full text search engine that indexes your db is going to scale much better in the long run. Plus you get stemming and other niceties to boot as long as consistency is not of the highest priority.
There must be something seriously deceptive about these stats.

To begin with, as experienced by others here, my Google+ is extremely quiet. There may be at most a few people who occasionally post to it, and recently I've seen many switching to Twitter.

Secondly, although not a perfect proxy, Google Trends shows an exponentially decaying trend that is hardly in line with their reported exponential growth:

http://www.google.com/trends/?q=google%2B,+google+plus&c...

Here's a zoomed-in graph in the last 12 months clearly showing the decaying tail:

http://www.google.com/trends/?q=google%2B,+google+plus&c...

Let's compare for example with Twitter (~140-200M actives) in the last 12 months:

http://www.google.com/trends/?q=google+plus,+google%2B,+twit...

Regardless of how you rationalize people searching for "twitter" vs. "google plus" as a proxy for active users, the decaying trend is clear. And it's hard to think of why the query "google plus" or "google+" would be 50-70 times less popular than "twitter" other than low the popularity of the service.

Of course none of this is hard proof, and it's possible that my circles are just not representative of the internet as a whole and that Google Trends is a fantastically erroneous proxy for popularity, but personally I believe they're using an unrealistically optimistic metric for actives.
Pad, in English, has common uses other than a feminine hygiene product - a pad of paper, a building pad, a launch pad. Tampon doesn't.
Not sure if you were referring to the article author, but Jay Goldberg is a financial analyst with an investment bank.
Let my lay it out for you.

Racist Point 1: Americans do not really matter to America. In fact, the American populace mainly exists to supply America with peasants and servants (as in: workers in service jobs), not serious value-creators who receive good compensation.

Racist Point 2: Foreigners all love America and want to come to America and form its elite. The notion that non-Americans might prefer to live in their own countries, or that there's a point to their existence other than immigrating and forming the American elite, does not occur.
Often by modifying the candidates resume without asking.

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Example: I have a friend with lots of industry experience, who also happens to have a PhD. A recruiter removed the PhD info from his resume and submitted it to a company. After flying out and going through a half-day interview process a certain topic came up and he said "Oh, my Thesis topic was related to that" To which the manager said "Oh, we don't hire people with PhDs" and the interview was over.

Obviously there is plenty of stupidity to go around here, but recruiters regularly remove (or move to a 2nd page) things from resumes that they know would immediately disqualify a candidate and they do so without the candidates knowledge.
Haven't checked it out yet, just wanted to say that is one killer headline.
How would the recruiter be deliberately blocking this?

Out of people I know most of them keep their privacy settings pretty tight on things like facebook and twitter so that only their friends can see. So unless the recruiter has befriended them on these networks the recruiter wouldn't know anyway. If someone is using social networking sites to write poems to their other half I can understand they might find it somewhat creepy to give a recruiter or employer access to that.

The type of content they have on their twitter/FB is going to depend on what they use it for primarily and who their friends are.

I don't use FB but if I did I would mainly to communicate with people I know in real life, most of whom are not technical. So I wouldn't see any point in subjecting them to rants about Tomcat6 or whatever because they wouldn't understand or care.

Maybe if I lived in SV and all of my friends were developers at startups then I would post about this stuff, but I don't know what exactly that would signal?

If I want to discuss technical stuff I post on HN, if I wanted to write more thought out longform stuff I would create a blog which I would then add to my CV.
The window management is a huge win for me, if you'll pardon the unintentional pun. It's so much simpler and fluid than in Emacs or Vim, at least for me. I just kind of throw windows around and resize them with an ease and speed that I was never able to achieve on Emacs. For instance, when using Emacs I may have as many as 4 windows open at a time, frequently switching buffers around with the clumsy C-x b switching (I know there are better switchers). With Acme, I'll have 30 windows open, most of them stacked up with just the tag lines visible until I need them. When I need one, I just mid-click on the little box and it expands.

Execution of arbitrary text and loading/plumbing files/text with the mouse buttons is also really powerful for me, as you point out. I haven't finished watching the video yet (I'm at work), but in case he doesn't cover it, mouse chording is one of the most important capabilities in my mind. Makes copy-pasting significantly quicker.
How much can you know from one drop of blood?
Top-down?
Co-founder of Catch here, some context; we launched our first Android app in 2008 and have about 10x as many users on there as we do on iOS.

The issue we've seen is that people build an iOS app and then port it over to Android.

We designed Catch 5.0 apps for Android and iPhone in parallel. This let us keep consistency between the platforms when it made sense, but also let us tweak the design early on so it could take advantage things unique to the platform, e.g. Action Bar on Android.

The team is incredibly proud of this release, and it is nice to see folks taking notice. Both Google and Apple have also featured this release, everybody is beaming here. =)
Just in case you weren't already aware, the count(*) issue should be significantly improved for some queries in postgres 9.2, thanks to the addition of covering indexes.
I have an eclectic blend of old X10 and Insteon devices. I've got an antique serial interface for querying and setting the statuses of the modules. The shipped software was win3.1. The hardware control devices were awful. Hooking the serial device to my home server and writing a restful web app with control screens for various tasks for use with my smartphone and junk tablets scattered about was magic.

I also replaced a thermostat and the ridiculous "mainboard" in our home security system with beaglebone boards.

I've been working on that stuff for years. The missing part was always a cheap, always on touch screen device to give it a reasonable interface. The day is finally here. I'm really excited about the kindle paperwhite for this purpose.
I'm just going by what he says here: "How, exactly, does that fit in with I certainly don't want cold-calls or cold emails, ever. If I can't introduce myself to the guy, how am I ever meant to prove I'm not one of the many useless bottom-feeders he deals with on a daily basis?"
This is what Amazon seems to believe, although they are marking down prices, not marking up.

They appear to be fine with producing cheap, commodity tablets as a means to enable more content distribution from their services. Classic razor blade model. It's worked well for Kindle (ereader version) so far, and I imagine it will work pretty well for their tablets.

When you have good content, you want to practically give away the vehicle that delivers that content.
Thank you for the kind comment!

If anybody has any questions feel free to email me at a@catch.com
Proven revenue can be counter intuitive when raising money. On the one hand, it makes it much easier to raise. On the other, it's such a solid metric that you can't build a story for investors that gives you insane valuations.

It would not surprise me to see a hot startup with really good traction/growth and a fuzzy but credible "here's how we make money" raise at another crazy valuation soon. If you can paint a picture of a huge market, show impressive ownership of that market, you can let investors use their imaginations from there.
it's psychologically impossible to be objective

You should have just stopped there.
I don't think I'd compare Windows Updates (the most broken updating system I've ever seen) to how Chrome manages updates. I've fixed computers running IE7 and with WU disabled. I ask why and I'm told "because the popups are annoying, and because upgrading IE is a pain in the ass." I agree. When I install Chrome for them, then later point out that it has updated 10 times in the past few months, they say "I never saw anything." As it should be.
SQL databases (except for SQLite) are almost completely interchangeable because they are all based on the same relational model and they all implement the ANSI SQL standard with only minor deviations.

They only all implement the ANSI SQL standard for certain values of "ANSI SQL standard." Those values being SQL-89 or perhaps SQL-99.

Beyond that it's a mess. SQL Server didn't get around to doing a really good job with window functions until this year. Last I checked, MySQL still doesn't do any number of useful things, such as WITH or FULL JOIN. Upserts and bulk inserting are different for every DBMS on which I've learned how to do them. And so on and so on. There are any number of ways you can get yourself coupled to a particular DBMS if you go beyond the core set of basic SQL features.

In other words, SQL databases are only trivially interchangeable for trivial cases.
Reading this list, I just realized how useless all these apps feel. With the exception of Google Maps, when you really need it.
Might be of interest:
I wrote a post a couple of weeks back regarding our distributed crawling architecture built using perl+redis+gearman

How We Built Our 60-Node (Almost) Distributed Web Crawler
http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4469911
dealextreme really aren't at the cutting edge of things in this market. They are trading on the fact that they have 'brand-awareness' and trust and that people assume they are the cheapest. Reality is they have a bunch of out of date stock that people in china wouldn't buy.

If you want to explore this wonderful world, i'd look at the manufacturers first. Ainol (worst name ever) are the dominant force in the market IMO. The novo-7 fire is basically a nexus 7 with a microSD slot, for (in the west) ~60% of the price.
OP here. I've done the LinkedIn and Facebook approach, and it works, but I don't do it algorithmically. I send them personal emails. "I see you've been working a lot recently with JRuby, that's kinda interesting to me. Want to schedule a chat some time" kind of material, etc.
Not wrong. As a DBA with 15+ year experience, I can tell at a glance what an application was first developed against (Oracle, SQL Server, etc) or even where a dev started their career. You might as well say any OS is interchangeable as they're all just a kernel running processes.
I'm slowly migrating to electronic form but sometimes habits are just plain hard to break. :)
Great, so I'd love to see your HN profile, your github profile, etc.

I don't want to see stuff for the sake of being nosey. I want to understand you better, and to have a better place to start the interview other than "how was your journey here today?"
From my experience (financial technology, very hard to find finance jobs in London without going through recruiters), the main qualities that a good recruiter has is that they're willing to take time to get to know you, they're willing to admit when they don't understand something in the spec they've got and will ask you about it rather than trying to bluf, and that they still take your calls and take time to talk to you when interviews they've set up haven't panned out.

A good recruiter is interested in a long term relationship - they know that people tend to change jobs every 18 months to 2 years (in my industry at least) and they want to be the first person you'll call each time you get itchy feet and because they know you, you're easy for them to sell to your next employer and they know what type of company you'll be happy working for.

The three best recruiter's I've used have all done one simple thing that got the relationship off to a good start - spending a solid hour or so sitting down and getting to know me over a coffee or drink within a week or two of first contacting me. This is a far cry from the recruiters who call me on an almost daily basis who 'chat' for five minutes and then I never hear from again.
Parse Switches to Amazon SSD-backed Instances With Huge Performance Gains
There's MTA for GTA:SA too. The increase in land space is really worthy it.
As i stated in a reply to a sibling, DX aren't a great place to go for these.

Start looking at ipadalternative, merrimobiles, pandawill. but do your own research WRT the sellers reputations.
Resistance is futile. It is time to assimilate, download chrome.
Super simple geolocation
- The proper way of doing an audit (and search later) is to make an independent collection with a reference to the other(s) document in a different collection. Then you can index by user, date, or any other field and leave the main collection alone. The described embedded access collection doesn't look very scalable.

I think this point is very important even in the RDBMS side. There are cases, even with relational datastores that would preform better if the dataset was built to the query.

The difficulty comes into play when you are trying to keep the denormalized data up to date based on changes within the base dataset.
Pakistan PM orders suspension of YouTube over anti-Islam film
> This advice [Use the right tool for the right job]...
> is the same as saying you should be able to accurately
> predict the future.

The future that's easy to predict here is the one where a person who doesn't know anything about the tools will need extra time to learn about them, and possibly extra time to switch tools once they've become more knowledgeable.