skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't you read anything that patio11 or tptacek write? You're supposed to charge by the day! :-)
InfoWorld: NoSQL Is No Oracle Killer
On my TS-7800 [1] which has GigE and a 500MHz (!) CPU, Samba outperforms the Raspberry Pi (15MB/s vs 7MB/s). Note that on the RPi not even the whole 100Mb link is utilized despite the CPU being slightly faster in general (yes, I did some benchmarks) - and the CPU on the TS-7800 was actually designed for storage applications. So there may be something on to your claim, and it would appear that CPUs that include graphics and stuff are not that good at I/O.

[1] http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/board-detail.php?product...
Rolls eyes

why do you need to type that? I think it is irrelevant, rude and condescending. Otherwise your comment was quite informative and I would have upvoted it.
"That doesn't really make sense."

Indeed. I either completely misread the parent post, or else it said something different when I responded to it (knowing myself, I'm going with the former).
looks promising, although it is still far from metro's elegance.
Perhaps "loss leading" was the wrong term on my part. A more accurate description for what I was trying to get at would be expecting to break even or turn a small profit on the first game, then converting that game's base to a higher-margin second game.

That being said, I don't think loss leading, in and of itself, is out of the question for a small developer. There are periods of time during which dropping your price to free can drive a significant boost in trial. This is a valid promotional strategy, assuming it's used sparingly and strategically enough that it doesn't piss off the userbase who paid for the game.
Fujitsu's "Floral Kiss": a personal computer for women
Are you honestly saying you have never discovered something new about a simple tool by reading a tutorial or watching a colleague? If you are fully able to understand the usage and implications of every simple Unix tool based solely on the man page then you are far smarter than not only me but every person I've ever worked with.
How Negative Test Results Produced a 48.69% Lift in Conversions
The Marvell-based stuff (e.g. SheevaPlug, DreamPlug, D2Plug, OpenRD, CuBox) mostly has SATA (not SheevaPlug) and gigabit Ethernet (though for some reason the GuruPlug Display only has 100mbit). It just tends to be a bit pricier, and mostly lacks an FPU or GPU.

I look forward to the day when I can get a Cortex A9 or A15 board with a USB host good for the full 480mbit/s, SATA, and gigabit Ethernet.
Sticky fingers,‭ stiff buttons – clean your keyboard
I'm a fan of the metro look in general, clean and simple. It can work as a web framework, and this one does a pretty good job of it.

A few things of note:

1) The hover effect over the colored blocks feels odd, almost like the default blue border around image links.

2) ListViews seem under-styled with poor spacing. Perhaps this is intended

3) The ApplicationBar is pretty sharp

4) The text-color on all the button styles looks odd as black, with the exception of btn-primary

5) The Carousel in Chrome is way too thin. thinner than the arrow buttons, making the text unreadable.
OTOH, passwd -d also disables console login while disabling password authentication in the ssh config obviously doesn't.
Google vs Apple, mobile market issues
There are very few libraries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law

"When a government compulsorily overvalues one type of money and undervalues another, the undervalued money will leave the country or disappear from circulation into hoards, while the overvalued money will flood into circulation."

Or in other words (from the same article): "Bad money drives out good if their exchange rate is set by law."
Apache Camel 2.11 - Components for Neo4j, CouchDB, ElasticSearch, JMS, and CMIS
I think ultimately the problem was centering their 'solution' around offsite backup. Most people don't see it as a solution to a real problem, something pressing, but rather as prevention that they might get around to having. Dropbox, on the other hand, solved from day one the nagging problem of syncing between devices, and went further to solve file sharing among people.
This map shows only geolocalized tweets. Usually, tweets are geolocalized when they are sent with a mobile.

Also twitter stream don't send 100% of the tweets, it will be to huge. But statically speaking, it should be enough to have a good picture.

May be there are some restrictions in Canada.

This map give us a lot of information about twitter more than the first fun and wow effect.
I like that!
Your website took forever to load from my phone. Granted, i was in a 3G zone and not 4G but that happens. It was the text which took a good long while followed by the info graphic i didn't bother to wait for. Just a heads up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP8dC8E6Emk
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This is generally good advice, and it's well articulated. But respectfully, I don't think it's a fair critique of the article. First, because marketing and product development are not dichotomous operations. Both seem to be necessary to break out of the increasingly crowded app marketplace, and a "build it and they will come" strategy is not sufficient. There are plenty of beautiful, elegant, astoundingly creative games that are languishing in the App Store for lack of discovery (driven by insufficient or inattentive marketing).

I did not find that the author was advocating marketing tactics to the exclusion of development efforts, or to the exclusion of product differentiation. You say that his tactics, "in isolation," are not effective -- but the author wasn't claiming that they should be used in isolation. He happened to be focusing on them in this article, because this article was specifically about launch tactics. It was covering one small area of a broad spectrum of efforts required in app development. That doesn't imply a suggestion that this is the only area.

While it's true that a developer should focus first and foremost on making an amazing product (and on making himself amazing), he shouldn't ignore the tactics offered by this article and others like it. There will come a time when his app is built, and when he's getting ready to launch. When that time comes, he would be well served to have a launch strategy, and some tactics he can draw upon to execute that strategy.

Building a magnificent app, then simply tossing it into the wind and hoping for the best, is doing disservice to the effort you put in to build that app.
Are wikileaks alive again?
I didn't realize there was a significant speed difference between SD and SSD technology! After some googling, I found a good video that gives the relevant figures:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fxAQv_KDV0

In short, the class 10 SD card I got for my Raspberry Pi is rated for 10MB/s. An SSD drive can do 1GB/S (I imagine the numbers vary for reads vs writes). Also, SD cards seem to be able to take a lot fewer writes per block before they wear out.
Doesn't look good on mobile?
Show HN: A new, modern octopress theme
Yes, but elchief's point is obviously that if the data has a positive or negative skew, the median is going to be more helpful than the mean.
Ask HN: Going Freelance
Lately I've been getting all kinds of freelancing offers from both well established companies and recently funded startups. So much in fact I've even had to turn down companies due to not having enough time in the evenings to work on their projects.

The obvious choice seems to go completely freelance yet I'm a bit nervous. I make $100,000 / year at my day job and have a wife and two kids. What could I do to make the leap and feel secure at the same time?
While I am a *nix fan, I do wish good luck to MS! Ballsy move.
yeah, I did not got a good answer........... So I decided to ask this again...

Also, I am in a fit of a problem.... -> I like Golang and I also like Scala and Clojure (getting my hands on lisp). But I am a bit nervous about the reputation of the JVM and its future.
It's too bad the article neglects to mention GB18030.

The PRC has mandated the use of the GB18030 character set, and for arguably valid reasons. The largest online userbase in the world is not and "edge case". It's true that GB18030 can be transformed to UTF-8 via a look-up table, but that's true of pretty much any unicode superset.
Why isn't a Thinkpad on that list? Most would agree that they're on the same "level" as Macbooks. Just with different pros and cons.
...it would appear that CPUs that include graphics and stuff are not that good at I/O.

I made the same observation on my blog[0]. It's a shame that decent I/O and fast CPUs/GPUs are rarely if ever combined in ARM systems. What good is a quad core CPU if you can't get any data to it?

[0] http://nitrogen.posterous.com/the-ideal-arm-platform
I think a lot of that is due to the typeface. Right now the type is fighting the elements vs working with them. /2c
I think he means that MS put their best foot forward for WP7 and it still didn't do that well. They're still in fourth place in the smartphone market, even behind the stumbling blackberry.

Before WP7, they had not really tried very hard in the smartphone market (no innovation, windows mobile was just a poor mans symbian) so it was a no-brainer that they had not done well.
NYU Professors Develop Real-Life Star Trek Tractor Beam
A very nice looking site, ruined by 135px tall persistent header.
Vertical scrolling is broken on this site with Firefox for Android.
You may already know this, but the Ethernet controller on the Pi is actually a USB device, built into the LAN9512 [0] USB controller/hub.

The TS-7800 has a dedicated Ethernet controller, which presumably explains some of the difference.

[0] http://www.smsc.com/index.php?tid=300&pid=135
There are a few online backup services which let you mail them a disk if uploading would take too long. A quick bit of googling found Mosaic Archive (http://www.mosaicarchive.com/online-photo-backup/), for example. I haven't used them & don't know anything about them, but their website says they provide this service. I'm sure there are others too.
You are now listening to somebody with a conflict of interest. Did he recommend X because it's great? Or because it pays the best?

The worst problem is that incentives distort belief. Watch friends who sign up for some network marketing thing. They find ways to be excited about their products. Basically, they end up liking the stuff they're pushing more, because otherwise the cognitive dissonance is too painful.
Available, but only if you're from the US.
Hi, machine learning PhD here - one way you can start is by brushing up on some fundamentals. A book such as Machine Learning, by Thom M. Mitchell is a reasonable start.

Also, in terms of applying ML, you could scoot through Andrew Ng's Machine Learning Coursera course (not sure if it's running at the moment, though).

Finally... One tip – typically I have always found that when you want to start apply ML to real-world problemss, start simple and only iterate when the results of your approach are not satisficing. This is usually because all the bleeding edge ML research/techniques don't consider a shit-load of real-world issues, like scaleability, applicability to wide-range of problem, unstructured or noisy data and so on.
$39 should be the standard price... Not the special upgrade deal. I am a Linux/unix user, but anyways; Success to them
Beware of the Cobra Effect when Increasing Heap Size
Upgrade Assistant isn't available for everybody or just my country? I'm from Brazil.
How about checking the videos from the machine learning class on coursera by Andrew Ng?
She also doesn't address the difference between reading a ready-made snippet of code and producing syntactically valid code, and it's not exactly self-evident that removing Scratch's block/puzzle-piece "grammar" won't lead to more trouble producing proper syntax (and I've seen first-year university students type out lots of things that Scratch would make impossible).
Google to release "Nexus Keyboard" for Android
When I buy goods and services, I am hacking my life ;)
Hmm, looks good (and tiny) but seems slow. Certainly has a lot of interfaces! And mainline linux support which is a bonus.
Sure, but that is the world compiler vendors mostly listen to.
Nice. I like the colorful Windows 7 box on the right hand side.

But two things are bugging me: The "Download Pro for .." link at the bottom of the page is not working (the "http:// is missing the "h"), and the system requirements "Internet Access (fees may apply)" sounds too legalese.
The title of this is misleading. It says "available to download" but the link says "coming soon" (when you click on the price).
Seemingly unavailable to buy, at least in the UK.
I've been a MSDN/Technet junkie for most of my professional life, so maybe I got this wrong and just haven't noticed before...

But is this the first time Microsoft actually put up a download page for their OS. A simple page where people can just go, buy and download stuff, without the need for any special MSDN/Technet account?

If so, that's both cool and about time.
There is quite an intense location on west coast of Africa, a bit below Nigeria that appears to be coming from somewhere in the ocean, just to the west of Sao Tome. Google maps is not showing me anything from that location like an island. Any idea why this might be?

Also useful would be some sort of Distance scale/measure.
Agent forwarding is tremendously useful, but you should not forward your agent to systems you don't control or can't trust. If you do, you risk having your agent hijacked and used to connect to any system where you have public key authentication enabled.

The author implies that you need to enable agent forwarding to do a git pull from GitHub, but that would be incredibly dangerous. This can't possibly be true, can it? If so, you might as well hand them your private key and passphrase.
A few other alternatives.

http://www.redferret.net/?p=33596
Sometimes it's spam, sometimes it isn't. The point is that changing the default hasn't made it any less spammy, it just means more revenue for FB.
why is there a back button right below my browser's back button?
I had a sheevaplug about three years ago. I was hoping things had moved on a bit since then...

I also look forward to that day. We seem to be at the stage right now that we can have some but not all of those things. Soon, soon...
This blows my mind
At 24.26 miles above the Earth, the atmosphere is very thin and cold, only about -14 degrees Fahrenheit on average.

This is way off. -14 Fahrenheit is something we get in Minnesota. Most winters :-) Any commercial flight displays temperatures in the -50 range.
I'm a java developer and most of my colleagues have no idea how this stuff works, or even use it themselves. I've had to explain these concepts to my peers many times
Inferno [1] can run hosted and gives a lot of the Plan 9 feel. You might find it useful if you're wanting to try it out. It might even run on your phone [2].

[1] http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/
[2] http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2012/06/11/building-inferno-os-...
Another non-argument in type systems
An innovative charity rallies data analysts for charities
Hum... To paraphrase your comment:

"RIM (of BlackBerry fame) is an enterprise smartphone company, and the enterprise is all about managing slow transitions ... blah blah..."

RIM is dying. Fast.
Reminds me of the european vacation scene from the movie 'The Rules of Attraction'.

http://vimeo.com/19815019
It's funny to see you mention that book, I literally have it next to me right now, studying for my exam next week :)
Awwww, how cute your sarcasm is.

Compare the two programs and you'll see the difference in algos. Blurity loses in quality of the end-result. If Blurity is any indication of the quality of the solution that he was pitching, well, then it's no doubt he "blew the interview".
Copland 2010 revisited: Apple's language and API future
You're right, I didn't actually click the Download button, since I have no incentive to buy Windows 8 right now.
How To Implement PostgreSQL Full Text Search
I think it should be $52
true. Unbelievable but true.
I don't know the pricing model they were proposing, but the "it costs $500/year for 500GB on Dropbox" line would have probably been where I started.

For me, as a photographer with around that amount needing to be backed up, I'd want to know what their service offered me over the $59/year for Carbonite (that can also back up just about anything else you want).
Give social networks fake details, advises UK govt web security official
There were a few technical aspects that he clearly lied about (like not using Etags for his cookies) but aside from that, is there anything else that makes them "very shady"?

I ask because I'm curious. Other than this episode, I haven't really heard much else about KISSmetrics being a bad company.
They should sell windows 8 (vm) in the Mac App Store :)
Sorry, but a frontend framework that claims to be responsive, but then has a demo that breaks down completely when resizing the browser is not really convincing to me.

http://allidoiswin.se/_images/broken.png

Idea is good, but implementation feels...unfinished to say the least.
Nice Guys Finish Last
An expose on why all nice guys always finish last!
Actually, grade 5 would typically be 10-11 years old and probably equivalent to year 6 as I am reading your wikipedia reference.
Which stream are you using exactly. Are you applying any filters? Afaik the complete firehose has restricted access, or did that change?

Edit: very cool visualization btw. What are you using exactly on the backend for stream processing?
The barn OAuth aimed at is entirely unscratched.
>By their continued existence and success we can see first hand that they deserve to be in business.

Or they're being given unbalanced treatment. The market is not perfectly rational; many people (whether customers, suppliers or employees) seem willing to give more to small businesses and expect less in return.
> I make $100,000 / year at my day job and have a wife and two kids. What could I do to make the leap and feel secure at the same time?

Does your wife work? Could she potentially be the bread winner when you don't have any projects (say for a few months?).

You can make a lot more than USD 100K per year through freelancing. Of course you could end up failing as well. There's always a risk involved.

I'd suggest talking to your existing client(s). Are any of them offering you a long term projects?
> Also, I am in a fit of a problem.... -> I like Golang and I also like Scala and Clojure (getting my hands on lisp). But I am a bit nervous about the reputation of the JVM and its future.

That's not a problem. If you like it, then there's probably going to be many others who do (there are!). They're not about to die away, and knowing languages like that should put you in good stead even for a job using a different language.
Is there a way to permalink to a specific location/magnification?
Amsterdam HN Meetup
Let's have one for November?
Gram working with LG on an Open webOS TV
I'm not sure if things are different with the Android compiler, but javac will not compile code with an unreachable statement after a return like that.
You should really take the time to polish this first. That incorrectly scaled screenshot on the first page was enough for me to dismiss this.
Back then, it made sense. With the current technology, information goods don't.

When we invent say the matter duplicator, things will change again. The core statement remains.
It would be easy to assume that he made a mistake, but if he did this on purpose (more likely) I suspect the reason is that the "439 miles" is supposed to be imagined, whereas the "39 km" is a measurement.

Suppose I made an example that if you were traveling at 1/3 the speed of light on Earth, you'd weigh X times your resting weight. If you are American you measure your weight in lbs, so if I quote it in kg, you just need to convert it anyway. Therefore even though I'd say you were traveling 1e8 m/s, I'd quote your supposed weight in lbs.
Credit n cents, and they still do.

What else would you have them do? They are verifying this is your bank account and this is the best way to do it. Think of it like feature detection in JS vs. user agent string matching.
I used to use Amazon Fresh - and have bought perishables. The crate that it's delivered in has ice packs and is well insulated such that the goods are definitely safe for a few hours at most.

So you can't have it delivered in the middle of the night and fetch it in the morning, but you certainly can have it delivered after work - but not have to hurry home to make sure you get it right as it comes off the truck.
Looks like 0 degree latitude, 0 degree longitude. Probably tweets with no location info or bad location info.
And Eurasia has always been at war with Eastasia? I really see no need to let facebook control language like this.
Could you explain what does it mean? I'm out of context
I'm currently re-learning how a computer works under the hood and implementing my own little emulators after forgetting everything from university/school.

I plan to write a GB emulator too one day.

I'm a Java programmer by day job but I find it dull so this is my "hobby" at the moment
"England is metric"

The UK isn't fully metric - road signs are in miles and car speeds (and speed limits) are in mph. Similarly most people use feet for height and stones for weight of people although anything "official" will be metric.

Choice of units can cause confusion within households - my teenage son sets out bathroom scales to stones and pounds to try and see if he is adding weight and I set it to kg to see if I have lost weight!
Same here, I remember when I was learning, before I knew what arrays were I had a bunch of variables like that: $x1, $x2 and I was trying to find a way to convert a number like $n into the variable name so I could do $x$n to reference $x1, $x2.
I knew what I was trying to do, just didn't know how to do it correctly at the time because I didn't have any exposure to arrays before.
How to transfer Signals in Java
Building a JSON webservice in R
I just purchased it, and it appears to be downloading now. Note that I had pre-applied for a reduced price offer since I had just purchased a new Windows 7 PC. The URL I used was through here: https://www.windowsupgradeoffer.com/en-US/MyOrder

It is currently downloading through a "Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant" program. This program took all of my information and charged my credit card, and is downloading the files as I write this. ETA 15 minutes total.

Screenshot: http://cl.ly/image/2t3T2M261P2a
1) The hover effect over the colored blocks feels odd, almost like the default
blue border around image links.

Also, the ones above the features section are clickable while the ones below it are not, but they are styled the same way. I had to spend some clicks to figure it out.
I noticed this the other day in Rails. ActiveResource::Connection in 3.2.8 is affected in that the default OpenSSL verification mode is "OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE". A developer has to explicitly set it for SSL validation.

You can see it here:
https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/3-2-stable/activeresourc...

I'm pointing it out as it was not mentioned in the paper.

Edit: It looks like it has been that way since SSL was first implemented in Connection.
Survey results: startup founders about accelerators. The good, bad & ugly. #book
> Floyds: None. We don’t take a fee at all.

Who could believe this? Clearly the bank is going to make a profit. Actually, it has to make a profit; otherwise, how could it offer me its services?
Raspberry Pi GPU Driver Turns Out To Be a Shim
I just showed this to my U.S. History teacher and he loved it.
Facebook Reveals Final Price For Instagram
In his defense, the concepts behind Vista (or Longhorn) were truly revolutionary, only when the ambitious project started to run late Microsoft decided to cut corners.
Great idea, this can be a very useful project. Needs some polishing, though. For instance, the icons need anti-aliasing and some are clipped at the borders.