skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How on earth do you equate that statement with "we don't need a DBA when we get into production" ?

Do you need a DBA to get MySQL running ? No. Oracle ? No. SQL Server ? No. That's all it means. Normal people understand that there is a difference between getting something running and deploying it into production.
So after coming home from a long day at work, I'm supposed to wait another 10-15 mins before they move their car just so I can back in to my driveway? These stickers will make people think it's cool to park wherever they want since they'll just move it when needed. I do not feel like waiting on a daily basis for somebody to move their car. Usually I just scratch the car up first, then I have it towed. Afterward they usually complain to the towing company about the damages. This way I kill 2 birds with 1 stone since I do not like towing companies.
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I like the concept, but one things that springs to mind is it's a bit ugly and it's not very flexible.
I know it needs to stand out, but 'd rather be able to pull the relevant info in from an API and make my own efforts to have it fit in with my own layout and still be obvious.
If even ONE SINGLE CHILD is found and returned back into the loving arms of a parent due to a repurposed 404 page, the initiative is a great success.

Don't you think?
Ask PG: Is there a "startup success recipe"?
I'm sure that everyone here is reading mountains of material stating "startups should be doing this!" and it's easy to get drowned in all of those TODOs and fail because we haven't placed our focus on the correct TODOs.

Are you able to summarize, into perhaps a (very) short paragraph for each of "If startups focus constantly on perfecting these things, they are almost ensured success" based upon your experience of startups?
A friend of mine growing up had an older brother who was abducted. His mother quit her job and spent the next 5 years looking for him. Eventually, she found him. She called her mother's home and her son picked up the phone. He had been abducted by his uncle and told that his mother had sent him to live with his extended family. No one suspected it.

Now, I know n=1 is not a good sample size, but to downplay the significance of kidnappings by "someone the child knows" or that "it was a family member" is not reasonable.

Also, a study on the effectiveness of amber alert messages on the freeway be extrapolated to give data on results from a 404 campaign.

I can't estimate whether or not internet amber alerts are a good or a bad idea. Just tossing in my 0.02.
I would use a good natural language understanding api to do basic research, ideally monitoring many different feeds for topics of interest. It could also be a good way to monitor trends or competitors.

I can't think of many uses cases for natural language as an interface to a traditional website. If there's something that's more convenient to access with text/speech, the user can just use set commands.

On the topic of building a personal assistant app, from what I've seen the real value lies in the act of interactive scheduling. You can't say "schedule a meeting with george" without checking with george's schedule to make sure he's available, and potentially re-scheduling the event at a time of mutual availability. Of course this goes far beyond the scope of understanding language, but I think this is a big part of what will differentiate a good personal assistant app from Siri.

EDIT: Someone on the thread brought up customer service, which is also a great opportunity. Interacting with a company's service representatives is a huge time sink for people everywhere, especially on the phone. Anything that lets people spend less time on hold is a huge win for mankind.
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The point I was trying to get across is that currently public/mass transit is priced to generate REVENUE. In cases where a light rail system is in the red, they try to "solve" this issue by INCREASING the price to generate revenue, which is the wrong thing to do.

They should start with free, then go up from there to the point in which the system's capacity and ridership are equal. So a busy system like the BART in S.F. may still be $8/round trip (what I used to pay), while light rail in Denver would be free or close it because almost no one uses the system.
No, but neither is there quantitative evidence that code reviews help improve software quality. Code reviews are just always assumed to be good-- they're a basic part of the 'good software engineering' cargo cult.

I got rid of them here because I've personally never seen a beneficial affect at any of the places I've worked. Easy to spot bugs still made it to production. Crappy, inelegant code still made it to trunk.

Getting rid of code reviews and making developers personally responsible for what they commit has improved both of those aspects for us.
Not necessarily.

So the grader usually tested how much memory any exercise used over several data sets, and fit it to a quadratic. So one had to use, e.g., less than N^2 + 16N + 64 bytes.

One exercise specified that a data structure used ints, but the grader only tested it on values that could be stored in a short. The extra spare memory allowed for an alternate implementation using a more complicated data structure.

The point of the exercise was to figure out the somewhat trivial optimization that allowed the simpler data structure to run in roughly the same time, not to learn the more complicated data structure. After the more complicated solution was posted to the forums, there was really no incentive for people to figure out the simpler method.
Aren't they getting the Olympics? Well that's not looking too safe after this.

Will the next world war start over a video on youtube? Starting to consider that.
I cannot answer your question -- I have no idea. (edited : well, why not for "customer service", along with the traditional FAQ ? Or use it instead of the useless "solve this problem" useless multiple choice walkthrough in Windows or such ? )

But I upvoted because I really liked to discover this company, what it does, and more importantly how it does it. Thanks for the clear examples and output provided !
Was the video that bad really? I didn't even know about BB10 at all (I honestly didn't even know it still was being made). I'm not going to watch it again, but I wouldn't call it awful.
Rep. Lofgren Introduces Global Free Internet Act
Jail for a Tweet? In the UK, it's OK.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2121003/Liam-Stacey-...
That's a pretty sweet idea. I wonder how difficult it is to set up sharing of calendars, and the permissions that are involved in it.
Just as if you wanted to invite your one million friends to a party, you would need to pay for drinks, you might have to pay to send 1,000,000 a photo. You could either pay yourself, ask your friends to pay, or find an advertising sponsor. The same options exist online.
None of what you said makes ANY sense. Have you ever actually scaled an app before ?

Adding more app servers increases the number of requests you can handle. It doesn't make slow apps or latency faster. Both of those are possible causes for why certain requests may be slower. It's not necessarily a database problem.

> Did you read the article?

Yes. I read the documentation before installing MongoDB so I haven't had any problems (so far).
This. There's been a lot of pseudo-shitting on gradients recently, and I don't understand it. Like you said, these things aren't inherently bad or should be avoided, they're often just overdone and done poorly to begin with, much like the grunge brush era of the late 90s & early 2000s and the ushering in of what people saw as shiny, bubbly "Web 2.0" thereafter.

Trends are not indicators of best practice, and they cannot be applied to just any site at random and work as effectively as they did on another. I love LayerVault and think Allan Grinshtein is a great designer, but this post was a little too much for me.
Its probably too late to stop it now but Win8 looks like its going to have the same circumstances that doomed Vista; a prior operating system (WinXP) that was (finally) stable and reliable, no new "gotta have it" features or functions that would impel people to willingly make the jump, not-ready-for-prime-time release schedule. It probably won't be as bad as Vista but could still be a problem especially in the weak economy. People are going to keep Win7 going for a while. It seems like Win8 release is being driven by MS's marketing strategy not actual customer needs.
speaking of reflecting ignorance: thinking that disabled-by-default browser settings count as support.
What is the incentive to "register" my car? It seems a bit backward. The "F-bomb laced note" is the simpler solution in this case. Straight to the point and no registration required.
> Put your cursor in the search field. More shadowy goodness there. Click on your avatar in the upper right, the popover has a prominent (too prominent IMO) drop shadow. It's everywhere.

I should have been clearer. I was referring to drop shadows on buttons.

I have to say, though, I think the search box picking up a drop shadow is the perfect example of gratuitous affordance. Putting the focus on the search box turns the border blue. Does anyone actually need the drop shadow? Alternatively, if users need the drop shadow, do they need the blue border. Do they need either one, given that the cursor appears?

> As to mouseover, I agree it's for confirmation. But if we need to confirm functionality with drop shadows and gradients - what message does that send about usability?

Tells me that they aren't really needed in the first place. And given the increasing prevalence of touch devices, I'd say that making your UI clear without resorting to mouseover effects has become a requirement.

> One thought is that perhaps we should have the drop shadows and gradients there to begin with.

If they were there to start with, the designers would no doubt have added some other hover indicator. People have grown to expect hover changes (especially with web UIs), and indeed UIs seem awkward without them. However they should still not be necessary to indicate that something is clickable.
It's an example of the mindset more than anything else. The fact that they (politicians --not being partisan here) are willing to do stuff like this.

We do have a perfect example of this at the congressional level: The healthcare law. Most senators did not read it. And it was rammed through by using parliamentary tricks (legal, of course) rather than votes. What's worst, nobody actually read the law ("We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what's in it"). And, of course, it was piled high with all sorts of pork.

The general idea is that politicians (all parties, all levels), as a class, will work hard to optimize their own benefits --be it political or financial. They seldom act with a sincere aim of benefiting the people or the country, and certainly not with any real long term thinking (despite statements to the contrary). The problem is that nobody has come up with a viable alternative that could fix some of these issues. We humans are a sorry-ass species.
It's not so much about "beauty", but long-term maintainability of code makes development faster in the long run and reduces the murder rate within your dev team.
We've come a long way from annual telethons or weekly tithings to every spare second of everything in our lives needing to be philanthropized - including 404 pages! You know those pages in books "this page intentionally left blank" - think of all the children we could save!!!!

Over-exposure will only serve to desensitize us to worthy causes. Everything in moderation.
It would be useful if there was a speaker narrative, it would be better still if there was a white paper that this presentation was just summarizing.

What I got out of it was "Just store the raw data", always compute results/queries, BigTable and Map/Reduce are cool. I felt like I missed something perhaps someone here can help.
You mean Mozilla Persona? :)
That would depend entirely on the cost of the initiative and what other things, including potentially more effective ways of rescuing kidnapped children, could be done instead.
Agreed. I've used px trackers before but I'm not a fan of the work flow. I was thinking of a script in a bookmarklet or something that I click and if I'm in my gmail, it will contact my server for an image id and inject it at the bottom of my email. It would then detect when I click "send" so it could turn on the tracking. If I'm sending 100 emails just to test a market, it would be very worth while to me to spend on this. Especially since the market research may prove that I need a different market.
Imagine the possibilities.
Link to syx library: http://packages.python.org/six/
Java flaw allows “complete” bypass of security sandbox
Yes, I'll admit I did jump from HTTPS to P2P. Although, I'm assuming that Tent is capitalizing on the term "decentralized" as in P2P.

I do believe in the idea of using the cloud and having your own server. I hear you. I cut the knot myself. I'm just not sure that such use of cloud servers has to include storing lots of (sensitive) data on them. We all know that's been the marketing push. But I'm not convinced it's the wisest thing to do.

Think of it this way. That cloud server you pay for gives you a reachable IP, something maybe your ISP does not give you. What can you do with a reachable IP? You can use it to traverse NAT. And once you can do that, then many possibilities open up to you. The internet becomes vastly more functional.

From perusing the website in your profile some years ago I know that you were once interested in P2P. Have you "given up" on it?
Nah come on. Why so serious. There's worse music in the charts. This is kind of cute.
I am interested in the calendar + reminder domain of it. More so if it works offline (ie- Soundhound/Shazam app).

Can you elaborate on the calendar domain?
Persona looks really good. Hope you guys build it out for the long haul.
The killer thing about Twitter was that it was succinct public text messages. It turns out that is actually kind of an awesome way to communicate in some contexts.

The killer thing about tent is that it is an open, de-centralised social network. It turns out that is actually kind of an awesome way to … ?
Your parent is not arguing that kidnappings by non-strangers are insignificant; rather, that public service announcements about such kidnapping are unproductive.

Whether this is actually the case, I have no idea.
Perhaps you could do it like the bash command time, whose output is a bit hard to capture...
> No, but neither is there quantitative evidence that code reviews help improve software quality.

You might want to check out the book "Code Complete", which says in Chapter 24:

"...the average defect detection rate is only 25 percent for unit testing, 35 percent for function testing, and 45 percent for integration testing. In contrast, the average effectiveness of design and code inspections are 55 and 60 percent."
Operant conditioning isn't actually harmful, as long as you're not operant conditioning your kids into doing harmful things or into not doing important things.
Profitability.
I love the philanthropic ideal that this offers but considering how many 404s I see on a daily basis, would probably become depressed by all of the lost children I'd wind up seeing.

Your webpage is supposed to be about delivering the content that your audience expects. How many websites do people go to expecting to see lost children?
Which doesn't have python.
increased relevance to what I'm doing. Like Foursquare shows me tips from friends, or google shows me google + posts related to my search, but better somehow.
Interestingly, Tschichold later changed his mind and thought Die Neue Typography was too extreme, and adopted a lot more traditional design.
There is indeed quantitative evidence that code reviews help improve software quality. Steve McConnell's "Code Complete" refers in detail to such evidence.
John Carmack has said a number of times that it is not the next thing, but it is the thing after next (or the thing after).

The benefits of ray tracing come in precisely because it is more like simulation than street magic. Once you get to sufficient complexity, it is too hard to maintain an illusion. The truth is more consistent than an elaborate lie.

We are not yet close to that level of complexity. We will be eventually. Anyone putting a date on that time before it arrives is almost certainly going to be wrong.
Yes but at the same time in terms of court orders you can see that they had more on youtube than they had on orkut.
We are talking about human lives here. If it saves one life, it's worth it.

Ah, one of my favorite arguments. The good 'ol, "there is no price which is too high to save a life (period, full-stop)".

Do you actually believe that? Really? Or am I just reading you wrong here?
> Code reviews are only 1-to-1.

They don't have to be; in fact, they almost certainly shouldn't be.
Some way to tag your children (see Woz's attempts) are probably going to be more successful than alerting random people.
> Saying, "McDonald's Sucks" is cause enough in Brazil to get yourself in trouble.

That's an hyperbolic statement and is not true. Brazil and USA have a similar law system regarding censorship.
Usually I just scratch the car up first, then I have it towed. Afterward they usually complain to the towing company about the damages.

That's a very dick move. I hope someone does it to you one day, if you think it's a good way of making the world go 'round.
not so sure about that. With 404 pages, a user was trying to do something, and it's pretty much guaranteed that it wasn't looking for pictures of stolen children.

A task-irrelevant interruption increases the likelihood that they give up or get thrown off task, and certainly delays task completion. A 404 page is an especially bad time to distract users because they're already in the weeds.

Were I wanting to use a site to help search for missing children, I'd probably just devote some of the ad units to it.
I usually have an internal TFTP server set up and laying around somewhere. A lot of embedded devices provide simple support for updating their firmware over TFTP.
Have you checked out Airtime? airtimehq.com
To be slightly more precise, if your two metrics are A and B, it's

2) Out of the set of people who are at least as good at A, you are better at B; and/or of the set of people who are at least as good at B, you're better at A.

or

2) Nobody in the world is better than you at both A and B simultaneously.
It wasn't due to a Youtube video. That is a PSYOP. I mean, really, how can people fall for this stuff? Massive instant demonstrations in multiple countries in response to a lame 30 minute video on Youtube? Please. Don't believe the hype.

http://www.thedailybell.com/4290/Who-REALLY-Produced-the-Fil...
The first chapter of my book discusses a lot of what's in the presentation http://manning.com/marz/BD_meap_ch01.pdf
Works on HTC Bravo with CM7.1.0
Interesting post! Some screenshots would have been awesome to enhance it.

Also, is this page (https://layervault.com/payments?plancode=freelancer&sign...) an example of this flat design? For some reason, I don't find it as beautiful as the rest of the website (Such as https://layervault.com/about).
I am not saying that it could not be done.

I am saying it should not be done, and cannot be done well.
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Have smartphones killed boredom (and is that good)?
So if I wanted to just my own domain, and not leejoramo.tent.is what do I do? I am assuming that it would be something like this:

<link href="https://leejoramo.tent.is rel="????" />

and how to I configure things on the tent.is account?
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Much faster than stock SSD, better capacity, minimal hit on battery life. It's a great alternative for those planning to purchase the $500 512 GB Apple SSD upgrade.
I like your implementation a lot better. It's faster, cleaner, and I (somewhat irrationally) feel better about being able to look across 5 missing faces for a match instead of just one.
>The thing with LFS is that it would cause Linux users to learn. Not necessarily a bad thing.

This is exactly why I stopped using RHEL and other distros back in the late 90's. I am very interested in learning - to some extent. Writing my own goddamned drivers for my ADSL modem was not what I had in mind. Canonical and Ubuntu have made huge strides forward for Linux in the marketplace.
They didn't say that they invented general intelligence. This is clearly providing a natural language interface to an existing api. It doesn't take degrees in neuroscience and philosophy to do that.

They've clearly spent a lot of time to build a working product. You reacted to only a few words from the page title. It's easy to read books on the theory of intelligence, much harder to make a contribution by trying to solve a real problem.
Ask HN: What's with the term 'Pinterest-like?'
Yes there are clones out there, but why does everything with the masonry layout get tagged as "Pinterest-like" by tech bloggers? Can we just call it what it is?

If I didn't know any better I'd say it was a marketing ploy.

Hell, the first time I saw the layout in use was on knowyourmeme.

What's next? Patents on rounded corners?
Nope. You can use accounting to absorb the volatility.
It seems related. They don't articulate very well what they actually do. Any idea?

Seems more like it's marketing focused though I may be able to use it just to get the benefit I'm looking for.
Why not just not park in front of people's driveways, rather than signing up for this?
Thanks! That clears things right up (</sarcasm> I have no idea what at least three of those things are).
Another reason I prefer storing data on my cloud server is that my home computer is now a laptop and I put it to sleep when I'm not around. (I guess this is kind of irrational; it wouldn't hurt to leave it on.)

Yes, I have pretty much given up on P2P because the cloud dropped in price much more rapidly than residential broadband has increased in performance. I first realized this when I noticed that Megaupload/Rapidshare were faster than BitTorrent. The reason I was interested in P2P was because it was cheaper, but now it isn't.
To me, one of the best things about pair programming is the non-confrontational, discussion-spawning nature of it.

Code reviews are by definition a bit judge-y, and they catch a lot of issues after the code is already written, which yields a certain reluctance to change.

When I'm pairing on something, it's rare to get in the my code vs your code thing. It's almost always our code, our ideas.
Servers belong on the Internet.

If users have an Internet connection at their home and are willing to accept the potential reliability issues associated with hosting a server at home then, by all means, host a server at home. UPnP NAT traversal is decently-supported in many consumer-oriented routers, as is dynamic DNS.

I wish that the tech community hadn't lost sight of this and formed this artificial distinction between the Internet and the "home Internet". We could have been focusing efforts on making hosting services on servers in users' homes easier, but the siren-song of offering hosted services to create recurring revenue streams won out.
Ditto. I'd also imagine that if I were the loved one of such a victim, the last thing I'd want while perusing the internet is another reminder. And this isn't even getting into what the scum of the internet would/could do to exploit or otherwise vandalize these databases or the content therein.
I've always found Mailgun's pricing intuitive yet technical friendly. There's some tiering involved, but it's just a nice wrapper around utility pricing that doesn't feel like you're negotiating in cents.