skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a fan of artificially limiting choice.

I agree that native development across platforms is a pain, but I think the answer is to make cross-platform development easier, not remove platforms. We're getting there- MonoTouch+MonoDroid+Windows Phone mean that you can iOS, Android and WP with just C#- the front-end UI will need to change each time, but you can save a lot of backend reprogramming. Mono-X might not the answer- maybe JS will spread to native as well, or something like that. But let's at least try before we cut people off.
Apple Sells Three Million iPads in Three Days
It wasn't even technology blogs per say, they were talking about it in the Guardian and BBC online. It was rumor for months and spreading by word of mouth. My granny was talking about getting one before it was actually released and she doesn't have a clue what a blog is, she found out from friends at the bowls. True story :)
This might be useful: Introducing Windows 8: An Overview for IT Professionals (Preview Edition) - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2012/10/23/f...

Also, Windows 8 for Dummies: http://media.wiley.com/assets/7077/60/9781118554951_custom.p...
Well, they announced it a long, long time before shipping- not good, when existing phones are not going to run it. No-one is going to buy a WP7 phone now, so they really need to get WP8 out as fast as possible.
Apple Sells 3 Million iPad Minis And 4th Generation iPads In 3 Days
Mostly the distances combined with automobile traffic I think.

The biggest problem area of Brasília in my opinion is incidentally where the landmarks are concentrated, on the "Esplanada" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumental_Axis). It's an extremely wide open area with little tree cover, and bounded by wide roads encouraging aggressive driving and persistent exhaust fumes. Although the landmarks themselves are interesting, it's just not that much fun to walk between them. If you contrast to The Malls of Washington DC or London, the difference is that Brasília is clearly auto-oriented. You can drive from point A to point B in Brasília perhaps faster than any city in the world, but there is a severe tradeoff in how pleasant it is to stroll around the center. If you need to traverse the epicenter where there are 3 levels of vehicle traffic with a parking lot for the shopping center overlaying the central bus station, overlaying an underground tunnel that keeps the central flow moving, there's just no way to avoid feeling like a very tiny insect in a vast pneumatic machine ejecting vehicular traffic to every possible known destination.

That said, once you get out of the very center into the residential superblocks, I find it to be quite picturesque and pleasant to walk around. Each superblock has only a single entrance and has speed bumps throughout, so traffic is well controller. The apartment buildings are mostly raised so the ground floor is open and you can walk underneath. This makes it so you can walk on almost every square inch of ground in the residential areas. It certainly lacks a certain urban vibrancy that many Brazilians and Latinos love about their South American cities, but it's also unique in the world and inviting in its own way.

I'd definitely recommend a visit since this scale of urban planning is quite a rare opportunity.
GM Puts IT Outsourcing in the Rearview Mirror
>However, there are a few times when a slider is warranted and even a Better UI choice:
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>To switch back and forth between two states that both need to be described, such as a slider in your blog’s control panel with “Published | Unpublished” as the choices for the article draft you’re working on.

But we already have a UI element for that. In HTML, it's known as a "select" input, and it works very well, is extremely compact, and is already familiar to your users.

In fact, if you set the "size" attribute, then it even has the "window" functionality described in this article. The window typically is shown with no border, and it doesn't look as fancy, but other than that, it is exactly the same concept.
> After all, natural language doesn't put each sentence on a separate line, or indent clauses. It flows in uninterrupted prose with paragraph breaks being the only distinguishing horizontal or vertical formatting.

Code is closer to poetry than prose. Line breaks and stanzas are very important, there.
Well, I've tried a few different taglines but this one feels the best to me. Of course I'll improve it when I have better ideas. Thanks for the feedback!
Cause and effect are difficult to figure out, though we have the benefit of lots of hindsight. When you get into a problem so crazy and horrible, you sometimes have to experiment a bit to figure out how to fix things (aka "doing something"), and some of these experiments will invariably go backwards. Hoover's problem was probably he underestimated and misidentified the causes of the crash. Roosevelt experimented a lot also, and had just as many failures as successes, but he was like General Grant during the Civil War who wasn't afraid to loose troops in order to win.
I like the sentiment, but wouldn't a lawyer (which our current president and many other, perhaps most, politicians are) also exhibit each of these qualities?

I think the more interesting distinction between engineer and lawyer is that of the engineer being a "maker" versus the lawyer being a "protector" or "enforcer," or something more of that nature.
People that don't have jobs don't have to pay taxes. (Except sales tax)
Digging further in 3), if your app is proven to be in the 'good' quadrant, have you ever considered contacting Twitter directly and requesting a higher API limit rate.

I can imagine they are ok with that if your app provides value to their ecosystem.
>> They believe dolphins and whales are sufficiently intelligent to justify the same ethical considerations as humans.

I don't have a problem with extending legal protection to dolphins, but I do think that "intelligence" as the criteria is morally problematic, at least if it's the sole criteria.

For instance, could a person with Down's Syndrome be denied protection from murder?

The Christian worldview holds that human life has value intrinsically because God values it. Whether you agree with this or not, I hope you'd want to avoid drawing moral conclusions such as "my life is more valuable than my neighbor's because I'm obviously smarter."

Especially considering how slippery the definition of "intelligence" is.
The UN has said that broadband Internet is a basic human right. This is starting to get difficult.
Show HN: an alternative to AdSense
And I find your dismissal presumptuous, based as it is on an article for the popular press. I am thinking that the people who dedicate their lives to studying planets may have at some point had the "Gosh, planets are big" thought cross their mind at some point.
Hey HN, We've been working on EmberAds for a few months now and I think we are ready to get HN using it, The idea is you paste two lines of code, we match to your content and show ads. We've over 10,000 retailers in our system and work mostly in the UK + US (other countries are coming soon).

Instead of being paid per click like adsense, you get paid per action (such as a signup or purchase) we've found this works better with sites that add value.

If you have any questions or want to get in touch, a lot of the team is on HN or you can ping me at dom@emberads.com

NOTE :: If you paste the code and see dresses, groupon ads or something less relevant, it means that we haven't matched your page yet (this usually takes around a minute or two).

If after a few minutes it's still not matched, please let me know using the email address above or @emberads your url and our team will look into it
This is a textbook case of bad design. The irony is off the charts since the slides are on good user experience design.
Or just approval voting. That's nearly impossible to game.
Sorry, but I'm going to need a Dolphin declaration of independence, armed revolution and ability to self sustain through value creation first.
Almost entirely OT, but I had a chance to play around with a Lenovo Yoga yesterday. It was the first time I really "got" Windows 8, and how the marriage of desktop+tablet+mobile OSes could be fantastic. I'm in the market for a new laptop and am sorely tempted to make it the Yoga... except that I know I would sorely miss a POSIX terminal. Some Windows legacy is clearly more difficult to get rid of than others.
I'm waiting for some of those rich Googlers or Facebookers to get into politics with a platform based on an incredibly objective data-driven policy agenda. Bring on the technocrats!
So the idea that the market share decrease was due to Apple buyers sitting out in anticipation of the mini seems rather misguided.

On the other hand, Apple just announced selling 3 million iPad minis this weekend so it looks as though there was some pent-up demand: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/11/apple-says-first-weeken...
I don't actually agree with (what I know of the) PayPal hiring decision in this case, but the part I was replying to, and should have quoted initially, is:

You're actively discouraging diversity of culture (which is not directly the same thing as diversity of gender/race, but it makes it a lot harder to have the latter).

My point is just that it's not at all clear that encouraging uniformity of culture is automatically a terrible, productivity-destroying bias, and that I have worked at places which strongly preferred that candidates "fit into" the organization's culture while at the same time being strongly committed to diversity in gender, race/ethnicity, and so on. These are definitely separable.
but they do get the dole.
Switch to dedicated and put saved money into ram.
... the 95% upper and lower confidence limits of the non-detection varied between -2 and 5 parts per billion

I can't imagine the degree of confusion which led someone to say that it's possible for Mars' atmosphere to contain a negative concentration of methane.
Considering increasing the highest price level. There are people who build businesses around Twitter. They will pay more than $1200/yr for something that helps them make more money than that.
Dolphins voting you say. Obama, to the aquarium!
Perhaps (as pure speculation) it's cognitively less taxing for average users to interact with an element that reminds them of a physical switch.
Well, I understand he didn't knew about the Keynesian macroeconomic framework, or was understandably suspicious of it's validity, as new as it was. Microeconomic theory just couldn't model an event such as the Great Depression, at the time. And even FDR, who had the correct framework, had a very unlikely event happen to the world that relieved the economic pressure of the depression. Wouldn't find blame on him for that.
Sure, and open source products serve users even better (assuming a certain quality)
I think it could easily be argued that the dolphins' way of life is more sustainable than ours... Probably not the best line of argument!
Have you switched to Python 3.2?
Internet access is a basic human right because it vastly improves the quality of human life.

Would internet access be a basic dolphin right? They didn't build it...
Evolve fast enough? We are talking about millions of your earth-years at least. And we don't even know how likely intelligent life is at all. After all, earth only produced one tool-using, technology loving species.

(Dolphins and some others seem smart, too, but they wouldn't venture to other planets.)
I really like some of the things John has done in his mockups here, especially on the write screen, and contrary to what he thinks ideas like this are more than welcome in the WordPress community. (For example check out the dramatically revamped media or the dozens of eliminated options in trunk right now.)

The one big mistake in his premise, however, is that only 34% of WordPress users are blogging, the actual percentage is much higher. The survey he quotes me talking about was of mostly people who make their living building WordPress sites (over 20,000) and mostly WordPress.org users. This community naturally focuses (and contributes) more on the CMS and application framework side of WordPress.

On WordPress.com, however, the vast majority of its millions of users blog, and are blogging more every day. If you visit WP.com you will see a simplified and streamlined user experience that is boldly different from the traditional wp-admin dashboard. Already we've seen huge boosts in user engagement from this new experience, and while it's a few dozen iterations from being ready I'm confident the best concepts will make their way back into WordPress core when they are ready.

But overall, I love seeing different people's takes on what the next generation of WordPress will look like, and I wish more people did blog posts like this. We've had 3 dramatic shifts in our evolution before, and the shape the next one will take is a topic that occupies most of my waking hours, mind space, and creativity. And don't even get me started on mobile... :)
I was under the impression that part of the beauty of the design is that a click from my desktop would be supported as well as a touch and drag on my tablet. The UI intuitively supports both mediums.
Their view is not that intelligence makes your life more worthwhile, but that there is a threshold of species intelligence which makes that species "persons".

Note the focus on a species, rather than individuals.
Interesting. I've done a fair amount of coding without syntax highlighting, particularly on live web servers (gasp) without my vimrc.

What I find is that I don't really rely on syntax highlighting for find my way around the code or understanding it. I rely on it to tell me when I didn't properly close a string literal, or a comment, or fat-fingered a keyword. So, I generally enable it when I can, and find that it makes me more productive.
I'd be a lot more sympathetic to the cause of treating dolphins as if they had human rights if we first agreed to treat all humans as if they had human rights.
a wise choice. one can get a pretty negative impression of things and get too involved in it as well.
Programmers can't even make proper choices when designing software for people, how would they do while designing government?

I would say, being a programmer might even make you a worse president:

1) There are no advantages to being a programmer while responding to significant issue questions regarding abortion, health care, gun control, etc. Programming profession is oblivious to these human concerns.

2) Software is infinitely flexible and costs little to change. Government, might look like just a bunch of sentences written in laws and rules; but changing them are infinitely expensive. Being a programmer puts you in a mindset that is far from advantageous in this setting.

Programmers (or engineers) could perhaps make good bureaucrats, creating mechanisms that will realize the specifications given by people.
Cats for the Win -- Code-Kitten helps you make your code cleaner.
It looks like Le Corbusier finally found an entire city willing to incorporate his design values. What a fiasco.
You think humans chasing small fish around in the surf is a superior way to live? Seriously?

There is nothing stopping you...just keep walking west. :)
Bionic prosthetic limbs like this is very hard to control, that's why it's newsworthy that a man can climb 103 stairs like this. To be able to use something like this requires lots of training and calibration, so it's not easy to mass produce them (yet).
you do have a sensible approach that you suggest here. originally, without using redis, i wanted to use mysql to cache all user data. and insert/refresh details in it over time. the table quickly grew to 20M records (with meta-data information taking at least 1K of data per record if not more) , the database grew to multiple gigabytes. twitter has up 140M accounts or more now, so i'd need headroom here, although i'd likely not touch a large amount of twitter users.

also the system started making sense after a while when I had user ids that I had already cached (you are correct, the IDs I get through followers/ids which is much more well-though out function in terms of limits).

but then mysql constantly crashed and reparing/backing up a multiple-gigabyte-table exceeded my technical abilities and i gave up. so I split up everything into per-user-sqlite databases that I backup to S3. i lose the ability to access a cache of users though since I can't query other user's sqlite databases in a sane way to see if they have meta data for that user id.

major problem is that I believe twitter will eventually shut me down if I duplicate/replicate their user database (and I constantly need to refresh since user data will eventually be outdated).
I love this, except for the part about building popular plugins into the core. That sounds like a path to more feature bloat.

Instead, what if there were a small set of plugins that were "Recommended by Ghost". They could be lightweight and specially geared for extending Ghost. But still totally optional. (sort of like Jetpack I guess)
I see a significant difference between radio buttons and the proposed solution. The change of state with radio buttons require a simple pointing and click. While with the sliding frame, a pointing and a constrained sliding operation is required.

When using a mouse the radio button is the most simple and efficient widget. But when using touch screens, the sliding frame seems a better solution because it avoids accidental state change, while still being a natural and intuitive operation to do with the finger.

So I would say that for touch screen devices (especially phones) the proposed solution is excellent and better than radio buttons.
That's true, but I don't see why it is a problem. You typically get example questions in these sorts of tests - it should be trivial to understand the types of fit that the test is requesting.

To be frank, I have very little time for people who claim to have overthought a test. Typically, they've thought enough to complicate the simple answer, but haven't thought enough to realise why the simple answer is correct.
i'm on dedicated. 16gb of ram. not the issues. the bottleneck is on twitter's side.
Virgin Mobile's rates are attractive, but unfortunately they're a Sprint subsidiary, and as such use CDMA. Nexus 4 is GSM, so your best bet is StraightTalk, T-Mobile, or other inexpensive prepaid GSM carriers. As others have said, check out T-Mobile's web-only $30/month option. It's about as close as you can get to what we've all been wanting: a data-only plan.
If you're being paid per action, are you not then relying on the ability of the advertisers to convert your clicks?
I notice that "building consensus among people" is absent from your list.

In fact, the word "people" is missing from your list.
I'm pretty sure the, 'hand-crafted-web' look is going to require deep CSS and HTML diving anyway you slice it.
the bottleneck is twitter's api limits, data-wise and http connection wise I have headroom, lots of.

simple http connections to parse/spider the follower records from public pages is a no-go since twitter blocks the IP then, and scaling this out will eventually not end in a good way.
build this on top of jekyll or its a fail.
What Getting Lost At 5,000 Feet Taught Me About Startups
I think the mobile version is the main feature. Accessing many facebook settings from your phone is a challenge.
"Humans believe they are more intelligent than dolphins because they have achieved so much - New York, the wheel, wars, and so on - while all the dolphins ever did was mess around in the water having a good time. Conversely, dolphins believe that they are more intelligent than humans for precisely the same reason." - Douglas Adams
Heh. What percentage of people on here do you think have CS degrees? What percentage do you think use them in their careers? What do you think the overlap is between those who have and use CS degrees and those who you think would qualify to be president?

Most CS programs don't teach you anything about "economics, history, politics, various forms of science, religion, and sociology". They may give you the foundation to learn on your own (though from the people I have known that's not the case in even 50% of the time), but so do other degrees. My field was Physics, before I switched to software engineering after graduation. Other good fields that woulds seem to qualify well would be (IMHO): Psychology, Economics, Civil Engineering, Philosophy, etc. In other words most of them.

Lastly, 5-10 years after graduating, the amount of experience you gain in the workforce is going to completely overshadow what you've learned in during your stint in higher education. So unless you are proposing only considering fresh college grads, your degree makes no difference.

I'll give you one concrete example: when I worked at Boston University, the President there had a degree in Chemical Engineering. He did extraordinarily well, especially during the financial crisis.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4729068
yeah well, i instantly would and I have the features/service to back it up with quality data, but as long as I can't deliver any sort of service to larger accounts (1M+ followers), it doesn't make sense to charge like that. long term, no problem. right now, twitter limits me too much.
Yes but our system automatically rotates in and out products to make sure that the ones we are showing on your page will convert.

We rotate out and disable none performing merchants.
There is aero snap. There are browser extensions. You can easily have your split view today, for any website, without re-writing anything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn97WbalJwM

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/feature...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fox-splitter/
Statistically your confidence interval can go negative but practically a negative concentration doesn't exist.
By "armed revolution" you're implying that someone has rights only if they are able to defend them. While that seems pragmatic, it actually destroys the definition of "rights".

Saying "X has a right to live" means "you shouldn't kill X." That's a completely different statement from "you will not be able to kill X."

Morality is concerned with what you are obligated to do or not do, apart from your preferences or abilities.
well i constantly mention the issue through their bug reports and discussions, they acknowledge it and promised to talk to the team about re-evaluating the way things are handled now, but I'd assume this means it's not a priority.

i tried signing up through one of their partner thing forms but as expected, no response.
Facebook is "broken on purpose" in more ways than one. This is not a difficult logical leap to make.
Console2 + Unix Utils + Cygwin
I also grew up knowing what they were, and even as a native English speaker, I didn't make the connection to old car radios until I was an adult. I always figured it had something to do with "radius", since they have always (inexplicably, come to think of it) been presented as little circles.