skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Signed up, I like the simplicity of the thing (no discovery/social is a plus for me). Some thoughts:

1. You don't ask for confirmation for "dangerous" things: When deleting a link - I was expecting to be able to fish it out back from some kind of Trash, or perhaps have a temporary "Undo" option). When clearing the account, again it apparently didn't ask me for confirmation (I didn't have any links at the moment, in case you only ask if there's data in it).

2. On a site such as this, I'd love to have an export option, in case I ever want to leave (or you need to shut down). It could be as simple as just producing a plain HTML with the bookmarks.

3. When you click on a link, it opens a new window to go to it. Fair enough. But the click count isn't incremented in the existing page (obviously, a minor nitpick).

4. Bookmarklet for bookmarking pages directly would be nice. Here's a shot at it here: http://dobarkod.hr-test.s3.amazonaws.com/tmp/linkthingco-boo... (drag to bookmarks bar to save). Ideally, it'd redirect to the linkthing.co afterwards.
Ok, could be confusing you with Canada then. There I know for sure most connections have a monthly bandwidth limit.
It really depends where in London you are as well. Where I am (N London, 25 mins on the Tube from Moorgate or the west end, so not exactly far from town) it's quiet enough that I can hear owls at night and only the occasional car or plane.
NASA's Chandra Shows Milky Way is Surrounded by Halo of Hot Gas
Community or Chaos?
Wrong choice of word on the front page.

They told the most numerous user that she is ""just"" a fan.
My humble home page now uses just html with very light css, no javascript. Renders fine on mobile (blackberry and WAP on an old Samsung B130 I keep just for testing). Loads fast. Suits my content. And the client is me, of course.
>>Blaming the victim is not some brave, heroic concept.

Blaming the victim is bad only if you believe that blame is a zero sum game. Unfortunately, it is not. If you walk down a dark alleyway in New York at night alone and get mugged, the mugger is guilty of mugging you, but you're also guilty of being a silly goose. You don't gain immunity to blame simply because you were the victim.
Tesla's Big Gamble: Can The Electric Car Go Mainstream?
That sounds amazing! I'm locking that in for my next Europe trip, thanks for the tip :)
And your point is what ? MongoDB can replicate/shard without losing data.

It is just a setting you know that right ?
Could you imagine how many emails that they would have to field if they were, at a first pass, a convincing forgery? It's almost certainly used as a low pass filter to only prey on the ones likely to fall for it in the long run.
5000 police sent to quell mass Foxconn brawl
Oh, read it now. My bad!
I have a paid GitHub subscription, and this is the first I've heard of GitHub for Windows.
> What was it about the web that made it more desirable to Prodigy, AOL?

In my experience, the web offered connectivity. We built some very early web-based Order management tools, back when Amazon was taking phone orders. Then we realized that "Hey, with a browser & modem, employees can do their work at home!" This was pre-firewalls, and you had to know the IP.

If we can ensure that we retain connectivity between services we operate, we're in a good place.

The web didn't win because of content. Many people think web content is better than it actually is. What's 1000X better than Google? LexisNexis. Searching LN via a 14.4 modems returned better, more detailed and richer information much faster than 100Mbits and Google today, because the relevance was insane. And for the obscure niche information there was always NNTP.
Is it just me, or do the two examples look pretty similar? Apple Maps shows a few more businesses, but the street data look more or less equivalent.

Find me some examples where Apple Maps is complete and detailed and Google Maps has nothing.
Chocolate orange is the new black. Simple content will come back. My students have Afros and vinyl is very cool.
TL;DR - All of these problems could be found and solved by proper testing.

I enjoyed parts of this article and was left with one overarching theme - web developers really need to learn proper testing techniques (and their employers/clients need to learn why QA is important).

How many ad agencies have taken to calling themselves interactive agencies? How many of these have dedicated QA teams with different devices and a good array of testing tools? How many of the developers who work for companies like this get time to test their sites? How many hear "if you were better at your job, you wouldn't need to test sites"?

I'd also suggest that business schools start teaching marketing students to build simple web apps. A pint says that many of these problems stem from young marketers who want to be edgey, despite having no clue where the edges lie. My University has an Online Marketing course, but they don't teach anything more advanced than building a spreadsheet with multiple worksheets in Excel. Maybe this just proves that marketing is too important to leave in the hands of marketers...
... and I can't even find that area in Apple Maps. I zoom in moderately far, and the whole map seems empty.
The particular incident that triggered the first use of the word "Nigeria" on the page in question was being fake-sent $500 instead of $400. This is a sign of a common variant of the scam, where extra fake-money is sent, and then the fake-buyer asks for a partial refund (see the Variants section of the Wikipedia page, particularly the first paragraph under "Online sales and rentals".)

The scam eventually took a different direction, but in the early going it definitely fit the stereotype.

So, to fully answer the question from the earlier poster: "Nigerian Scam" is a generic term referring to a broad category of scams. This particular scam looked like one of the common variants in its early stages.

EDIT: to even more fully answer that question, it's not fair that Nigerians have been stereotyped with the label "scammer" because of this sort of scam. I'd prefer a more neutral term, but I don't know of a good one.
No, I mean the Google Talk mobile app allows you to make voice and video calls. I'm not talking about calling phones, I mean you can call other Google Talk users. You can of course use Google Voice on Android to make international phone calls if you want, as well.
Node.js is definitely not where I would set the bar for concurrency..
High Scalability is a serious and informative blog, and I wouldn't dismiss it. This isn't TechCrunch. Its focus is less on rigorous scientific analysis of a narrow field, but a good, moderately deep, overview of anything to do with data scaling. And it's doing a darn good job.
The crystallization moment for me was on walking into the lobby of my university library, with its several million volumes, and realizing that there was no possible way, no how, that I would ever read more than a very small fraction of those works. Followed some time later by the realization that there was no need for me to do so either.

I did explore the library extensively, some portions in depth, others not at all. Our consumption of information is by necessity highly selective. The real key is in who makes the selections.

In an economy of information abundance, most of the information you're presented with is selected for you by someone else, with their own agenda and motivations as for why you should read it.

This is among the most crucial reasons that I care very much about the ability for me to be able to exclude (and occasionally preferentially include) specific information sources. Advertising and marketing in particular.
straighttalk and some othe mvnos (cell service resellers) are also in the $40 ballpark for unlimited service. The only practical restriction is you can't use it for tethering.
It's on the download page:

http://www.mongodb.org/downloads
The sideways scrolling seems awkward for desktop-use with mice. I'd imagine it's more of a tablet-centric app that is Windows 8-metro inspired.
Tell the other two people there we said hi.

OK, that's mean, but seriously the installed base of BlackBerry doesn't really inspire confidence.
Yes I think I see some old wall-to-wall posts but no messages.

Now I don't even know if it's new as I never check my FB Timeline (which SUCKS btw) ...

I just heard on the radio that the French government is monitoring the issue. Yes, that's what the country needs !?

What is kinda hilarious is that even on 2007 people were confusing wall-to-wall messages with private messages !
Pinterest for Windows 8 Metro?
That's more a value judgement. As Samuel Johnson said, "No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money." "Bad" novelists who worry about the plot can make a lot of money.
Fair point. In either event I think it is fair to say that this demonstrates that privacy is valuable to consumers, despite what certain people might have us believe.
So now everything that is aligned in a grid is a Pinterest interface?
The series of posts is great stuff so far. I've long been curious about freelancing, both in considering it for myself during certain phases of my career and in wanting to hire independent folks in the near future.

I've so many questions I'd love to ask an experienced freelancer:

- Who actually writes the contracts, you or the buyer?

- What does a sample contract look like?

- Do you use a résumé or something more like a sell sheet when approaching buyers?

- In what city are you working?

- Big biz vs. startups?

- What is your on-site vs. remote work ratio?
Can this be used for large (100-500M) files? If not, is there a similar service that is good for that?
I'm not sure I understand where the fonts on that page are coming from. They don't seem to be the serious Adobe professional fonts, many of which are available from font-as-a-service providers at a cost. Rather, they seem to be a lot of familiar things people are already using via Google Web Fonts and other free sources: Arvo, PT Sans, League Gothic, etc. Some (all?) of these are available under quite open licences, so I'm not sure what right Adobe would have to restrict those anyway.
Hah! My mistake. Well, thing is with gasoline, is it isn't actually all that explosive in pure liquid form. Go take a pan with a cup of the stuff outside, light it with a match. No, seriously! It will just sit there and burn, slowly and usually with a lot of soot.

Gasoline vapor is a completely different story, and the reason you think of gasoline as explosive. But, this doesn't generally prove to be a problem, in part because motorcycles (and just about every type of vehicle) have pressure vents so that the tank doesn't become dangerously pressurized.
HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4136016
Reminds me of similar design sensibilities to Microsoft Windows 8 (Metro). Is this kinda stuff in vogue these days?
Ubuntu 12.10 proxies users' file searches to Amazon in plaintext
Am i wrong in saying that Myspace seemed to stay relevant for longer than it possibly should have purely because musicians and bands seemed to have an affection for it, for whatever reason? I know that even up until recently, when i've searched for local musicians, their Myspace page is still very high in search rankings, and i still often (somehow) find myself listening to local band's music via Myspace.

If they're going to put a focus in any area, for a redesign, it seems like music is the ticket.

As far as website designs go, this preview is stunning, even if it is just a mockup.
Try contacting your local development agencies just making yourself known. They usually need freelancers on hand for when things get too busy, and they are great pay. Agencies tend to stick to local freelancers when they can, plus you get the advantage of possibly being able to go and work in their office occasionally.
This is all in fact why I went back to working at (smallish) companies after trying solo gigs out. Other bennies:

1) Coworkers to chat tech with/enjoyable rapport/shared nerd-citement

2) Far clearer separation between workspace and playspace, which is really just a catalyst to get your brain in the right place (similar to one popular argument for wearing suits), but whatever works

3) Better bennies (U.S. healthcare scheme, I hate you, even if I also like not paying 50% of my income to tax)

4) People available to fill your gaps in knowledge or weaknesses

5) The fun of mentoring/helping others

6) More likely to travel for work now and then, which is kind of fun

7) Being at home day-in and day-out got me depressed. In my region on earth we have changing weather and it is not always feasible to get outside.

In short, people work for companies for a reason and that reason is not always "i live paycheck to paycheck and have no other option"
Yup, we can handle up to 50Gb (so far)
Latest Opera and I get insulted:

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I was wondering if the author has never heard of the P-P-P-Powerbook, or purposefully avoided citing it as a reference (e.g. the idea to deliver a fake laptop and the customs fee).
I was wondering when someone would point out that a number of OO programmers have no idea what a data structure is.
HTC has a variation on this in HTC Sense 4 where lists stretches rather than bounces - i.e. the gaps between the list elements get progressively wider to mimic pulling an elastic band that is fixed on one end. I'm guessing they do that too avoid directly copying Apple's UX. It achieves the same goal of proving a real world effect to subtly indicate to the user they can scroll no further.
it's worth pointing out that Eve uses Stackless Python

http://www.stackless.com
Ummm, Google Fiber had to pay over 10k per customer. This article sites around 3k per customer in gross.

So they expect the ISPs to just eat up a 7k difference which will take over 1-2 decades to recoup?
This will be coming very handy at a time when marketing executives are channeling mainstream advertisement dollars out of TV and into social media, but with questions still looming on Facebook display and social ads efficiency and future competitiveness.

The app itself is very streamlined, as is usual with the great team behind the product. Expect some faster-than-shutter-speed deployments on new features and bug fixes!

This MVP doesn't hint at the business model and the potential for monetization, but there are obvious SaaS/subscription models that are becoming quite widespread with analytics products of this kind.

All in all, a useful product in a great packaging, attacking a booming market with high "disposable income". I'm betting this will skyrocket.
Doesn't seem to work if using https.
Except that the Free City concept wasn't dreamed up in a libertarian vacuum. It's worked over and over again, building wealth, growth, and sustaining economies for centuries.

Having a guy wacked b/c he's a nimby definitely misses the point though... </facepalm>
Nicely put! I assume everyone here loves the role of technology in our lives...but that didn't stop me downloading LeechBlock the other day minimize my distractions.
10 years and PostgreSQL still has no easy, manageable solution for replication or sharding. And it's JSON support is still nothing more than a bolted on hack on top of a BLOB.

People need to stop acting like PostgreSQL is some holy grail database. It isn't.
completely agree, I recently switched to billing by the day for new work and so far it's been a lot easier and my clients seem happier. How often do you really get a task that can be completed in less than half a day (and if it could, couldn't it be lumped together with other smaller tasks that together would take at least half a day)? Billing by the day, or at the minimum half day means I have at least that amount of time to dedicate to a client without jumping between tasks and getting distracted. I still break down projects and estimate tasks in hours, but when presenting estimates for projects as a whole, I just use days. It's more meaningful for clients and it's better for me.
This is sort of changing the subject a bit and for that I apologise. What do you guys think of MS "DirectAccess" that appeared in Windows 7?

One might call it their follow-up to the basic PPTP VPN. It is marketed to corporate customers.

It's IPv6 inside IPv4 and it seems to require a MS server to work. Whether that server is a forwarding gateway I do not know. Beyond that I haven't really dug into it. And I haven't seen it discussed much.
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Hitachi invents radical new type of data storage based on quartz glass.
It is said that the p-p-p-powerbook guy disappeared some time after, but I could never verify it.

Overall though, I think the danger is pretty low, assuming you do not reveal your identity at any point.
As a fellow consultant with a (somewhat) similar structure, I wonder if you have a boilerplate consulting contract you use? I kinda wanted to get a reality check and what templates others have.
myspace is now a retro brand, isn't it? Those who never left will be like the people who stuck with Apple through system 7.5.x through 9.x...
I'm about a mile from the centre of Birmingham. Quiet, except for the sound of the wind.

In central London, I find the river side reasonably quiet, and there is always the crypt of St Brides' of Fleet St - very quiet!
There's still a hint at the bottom of the landing page with a pricing grid which is not implemented yet... But will be if it makes sense for our users!

Hope we can help some marketers out there make better use of the awesome content being produced on instagram everyday about their brands!
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I made this to make reading Hacker News more enjoyable and organized. Now you can see the discussion right alongside the page content. Please let me know what improvements I can make or if you see any obvious bugs.

Works with vanilla HN and the Hackers News Enhancement Suite
Likewise, consistency's more important in facebook-y scenarios than you'd think. The canonical example I've heard is that "defriend my boss" MUST always be seen before "post 'I'm quitting!'"
Another reason to play with "house money" is how most corporate budgets work.

Yes, the money isn't "theirs"--they don't open up their own wallet to pay you--but they also NEED TO SPEND their budget. A budget that isn't spent at the end of the quarter/year/whatever simply vanishes, and it's actually harder for that person to request a same-size budget next time (they will be asked why they need the money if they didn't even use it all the last time around).
Nice try, News Corp. Wherever you are, relevance will depart.
For most of the prefecture level cities I've searched for I find nothing.

Kunming, Maoming, Sanya, Zhanjiang, Nanning, Nanchang, ...

It's only the big international cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Guangzou, Shenzhen, that appear.
Only inept developers would assume that.

EVERY database call should be wrapped in exception handling to make sure that any errors e.g. connection errors are handled appropriately. MongoDB is no different in this case.
YouTube Expands Translation Tools For Video Captions To 300+ Languages
8 billable hours a day? Jesus, that's lawyer hours.

Try for 5.5-6.5.
I don't see anything in the automated release script's output about the "sanity test on XP and Vista VMs" steps? Is that still manual?
Like an aol.com email address?
Really nice concept. I liked the map especially. I wonder about the navigation - it would be probably cool to include a lot of keyboard shortcuts scrolling up and down.

Imagine if facebook would suddenly come up with a such a drastic redesign. Half of the users would probably have no idea what is happening.
Of more interest to me would be whether the apple maps are being deliberately offset like the google ones are. You can't accurately use GPS with google maps in China because the map tiles are shifted by some arbitrary amount.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/m...

You can see it very clearly if you visit the Hong Kong/Shenzhen border on google maps and toggle between map & satellite, the border is a complete mess with large parts of the Mainland side appearing on the Hong Kong side.

I've always assumed this was a deliberate thing by the Chinese government (one way or another), I wonder if apple have got away without such treatment?
Works fine when you "Identify as Firefox"
Another item to consider is what a fair rate is.

Let's suppose that a full-time developer is paid $120K/year. (There are developers who get more, a lot who get less, but this gives us a nice round number to work with.)

When you add up benefits, taxes, office space, etc, the average employee costs 2x their salary. So that developer probably costs $240K/year.

You tend to work about 50 weeks per year, so that's about $4,800/week.

You work 5 days/week so that's $960/week.

After you get rid of lunch, discussing the weather, HN, etc, you're probably only putting in 6 hours of actual work per day, so that's $160/hour.

Therefore an employee who makes $120k/year is likely costing the employer $160/hour. As a contractor you have to bear those costs that employees do not. Plus you have to bear costs such as not getting paid for the time it takes to find more work.

Most people who contract do not charge enough. Perhaps after running through these sample numbers, you'll do the calculation for yourself and ask for a more realistic rate for what it costs for you to be a contractor.
I knew my choice in words was probably not very good. Not arguing against the claim, merely observing to my parent that non-rigid aircraft are alleged to lose all control, while rigid aircraft are alleged to simply have problems if the pilot does something dumb.
Yep, that'd do it!
Looks like the new digg but with side scrolling...
How do you guys see this working with Teleportd? Using similar tech?
I never said the retailer owed taxes to the state. And as I said, taxing online sales is a currently hot issue and relying on voluntary compliance of consumers isn't going to cut it and every state knows that. This is completely irrelevant anyway, I reject any assertion that failing to pay taxes due (often out of ignorance) on internet purchases is in any way comparable to deceiving your employer and co-workers by lying (on purpose) about your resume to gain social status.
It may be interesting to note that merely the term "419 scam" implies Nigeria as well, since the 419 is referencing a specific section in the Nigerian Criminal Code.
Getting out of the house and going to a coffee shop helps make sure you don't get distracted by things around the house.

Not only this, but separating your work environment from your living environment can help you (a) focus more while working, and (b) not think about work when not (from my own anecdotal evidence). After a few years working from my bedroom, I decided to rent an office a short walk away from my home. It reduced 12 hour work days with 5-6 hours of actual work to ~8 hour work days with ~7 hours of actual work done.

YMMV - local Starbucks, coworking space, or a separate room in a house could work equally well, but IMHO, having a dedicated work space definitely helps.

(EDIT: corrected typo, "20" -> "12" hour work days).
It's not a grid...
How 'bout if you just moved to New York from backcountry Idaho?
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I'm surprised the TV part didn't get advertised yet. It's probably the most exciting part of their new service, but so far they're keeping it pretty quiet (apart from places where they try to recruit new people).

If they can pull off all the changes: metro ui, new pinterest-style network, music distribution, tv integration... this may be an interesting time for Facebook.