skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah. You're not adding any information or insight with your back and forth. That's what you miss.

You might also be more interested in the PhD thesis I submitted on multi-touch user interfaces, adjacent.

or: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4707742

http://flowingdata.com/2009/02/25/googles-chief-economist-ha...

But nice try at the smear.

Orthogonal Datapoint:

S&P guilty of misleading investors

Landmark ruling by Australian court could pave way for flood of cases against ratings agencies

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/nov/05/standard-poor...

http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/05/business/sp-guilt-misleading-i...

Dressing up ideas with statistics is not new, original, or scientific, etc.

Its just an informed, iterative marketing strategy.

In business or politics.

The level (AAA!) and quality of the "analysis" notwithstanding.[1]

_______

[1] Its worth noting the ~epistemological assymetry of ratings. They are so "objective" and "reliable" that their use is legally mandated, in the US and the EU. But the providers ratings themselves issue them as "non-expert" "public opinions". Thus, they cannot be sued if you rely on them. We'll see how far the Australian precedent goes, internationally. Until then, Caveat Emptor.
Relaunch of iOS UI Patterns
The trouble with your arrangement is that if there ∆T is low, there must be very many cycles between mechanical and heat energy into order to store an equivalent unit of energy. This gives very many opportunities to lose efficiency.

There's a company out there, Isentropic Systems, that's trying this. A steep mountain to climb.
Absolute showstopper for anything more than keeping track of simple stats or storing comments. Denormalizing has limits. Invariably apps will come to the point where you need to do joins and that is when you start cursing your decision to go with NoSQL. My experience is that NoSQL (including Mongo) is not a replacement to traditional RDBMS, but if you use NoSQL complementary to an RDBMS, primarily for real time performance, works quite beautifully. That said, there may be quite a few simple web app use cases that do not need RDBMS at all.
Later on the list of guidelines:

"Don't abuse the text field in the submission form to add commentary to links. The text field is for starting discussions. If you're submitting a link, put it in the url field. If you want to add initial commentary on the link, write a blog post about it and submit that instead."
Yeah, but this isn't fix-it-in-mexico scam. This is potential med-tech that just needs big-money-mafia to make it rain.
Weird, it's like the law is some sort of bizarre compromise of thousands of points of view, and not an infallible and consistent moral guide. I wonder how that happened.
Reminds me of the Microwriter and the AgendA.
They did not have auto-complete but were very efficient for text entry and relatively easy to learn.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwriter
They probably did the same about qwerty.
Rate My Startup: TrivialMobile.com
This idea won the "most useful" nomination at Hack TX hackathon a couple of weeks ago. Basically, it's an attempt to reduce the effort around creating mobile websites down to zero. We have not officially launched this service yet, but we feel good about quality and would totally appreciate feedback from this group!
Thanks!
TrivialMobile.com
I'll post this here too.

David Braben has toyed with my heart and broken it at least a dozen times since the beginning of this millennium. I've been teased and tortured with promises of Elite 4, scouring internet forums and chat rooms for any new information. My sickness manifested through vivid dreams of piloting my Cobra MKIII, loaded with contraband, and shooting my way through a swarm of nimble police ships. Awakened, I inevitably struggled with the sudden realization that Elite 4 is not reality, and it may never be.
And now - a new hope awakens! And despite the burning scars of previous disappointments, I pledge 20 quid like a sad, pathetic junkie whose rehab never quite took hold. This time, I tell myself, this time it will be different.
A Metaphor. — Daily. — Medium
Black people aren't functioning members of our society either, said Jefferson Davis.

Poor people don't contribute to our fiber of society in a way that can't be replaced by machines, said Mitt Romney.
This may just be a pricing factor. People that earn more money and more discretionary income are able to and want to purchase luxury, or higher-quality, goods. Those at lower income levels with less discretionary income will either not purchase the high priced goods, or will try to acquire a similar product at a lower price.

In other words, the rich are less price sensitive than the poor. Thus, I don't see how one can make a connection between education and Apple ownership without correcting for income.
Ehh...I keep hearing about all these Dropbox competitors that are going to defeat it. I would love to see who would though, Dropbox has me hooked on way too much and it worries me to see a tiny company with so much of a data lock on. On the other hand, their UI personally has been spot on. I have been on the Google Drive side of the Google Doc A/B that Google has been doing for a while and I find their interface confusing, especially because they appear to wish to minimize folders as much as possible, making it difficult to transition between company shared folders and local copies. At times, we have even lost the folder tree structure, forcing us to go through a painful process of resending permissions for all the files we controlled and recreating this from scratch. My team PM had a not fun day that day :(
Ratchet powered site fetching HN rss feed:
http://jsbin.com/atuzes/1/
Except this is Elite. People who've been waiting for this game do not follow reason, logic or any such nonsense.
Netflix's board said that the poison pill was "intended to protect Netflix and its stockholders from efforts to obtain control of Netflix that the board of directors determines are not in the best interests of Netflix and its stockholders".

They forgot to add, "excluding stockholders with significant positions" ;-)
I love chord keyboards as a concept, but I've never committed to one because I've been wary of acquiring a skill on such a specific device, and then not having access to one unless I bring it with me. Making a chorded keyboard a software solution is very appealing for that reason, especially if ASETNIOP were to become a standard approach.

For what it's worth, the first mouse was intended to be used in conjunction with a chorded keyboard when Doug Engelbart invented it in 1963: http://dougengelbart.org/images/pix/img0030.jpg
You cannot afford to worry about patents now. Just avoid them altogether.

Also, just don't look anything up, or send emails to your co-founder / or anyone else specifying any patents. Because if you will get sued, you will have to disclose those emails in discovery. And violating a patent knowingly is a whole different story than violating it unknowingly.
My sides hurt everytime i see a "pro webdesigner" carefully specifying his website masterpiece in em and percents because of a small amount of browsers that have a broken zoom model... and then goes to add no scale on their mobile counterparts.

if you prevent me from zooming in-and-out on your site while i'm using a 3" screen, i hope you have a painful, slow, death.
hmmm... This might actually be a wise move for Apple. Tim Cook's business savvy, Jony Ive's design presence.
You are being rhetorical, but the answers are obvious to the many people who engage in these antisocial behaviors.
It's because it's hosted on GitHub Pagee
Operating System Engineering
You know what? You're absolutely right. I had a vague sense that this was once a popular game, but didn't understand how so.

>Elite is one of the most popularly requested games to be remade,[42] with some arguing that it is still the best example of the genre to date, with more recent titles—including its sequel—not rising up to the same level.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)

Still, it seems criminally lazy to put such little effort into asking for $2 million.
I watched the 1 minute video on your home page. I liked how fast and easy it is to get an app going. I think you have something going here with this idea.
it's all about a crippled browser. On android, you can zoom to a size where the text and images are of a good size to read, and then double tap. and now like magic the paragraphs are all within your screen width. black magic I say!

but no, apple products are better finished, more professional, better usability, designed with the user in mind! ...have fun scrolling sideways every line.
They should probably find a way to make Emojis work
Is Object Oriented PHP worth more?
I have a question for a friend of mine. His company is already profitable, providing the livelihoods of > 10 US employees and several more overseas.

Right now, he's in the process of refactoring a bunch of code. He's taking the current model, which is more or less procedural with a templating system, and moving it to a more MVC based design.

My question is, if he wants to sell the company at some point (software included, of course), will it be easier to sell if the software (which is based on PHP) is object-oriented?

I think it should be fine the way it is, except that some functions need to be split into smaller functions that separate into MVC (so some functions can be used throughout the site more readily), and are small enough for unit testing. That would be the quickest easiest thing to do, but now is the time to rebuild based on an OO design if that will make the company worth more when it is time to sell it.

Anyone have any experience with this?
And Rwandans are clearly subhuman unintelligent for trying to return home after the war instead of wandering across African desert in new directions.
Consider that having effectively banned jits from iOS, they have made the binary translation problem much easier.
I actually ran into a very similar problem this weekend. I ended up using gitolite with post-commit hooks that checked out the repo to a directory served by nginx. It ends up taking up a lot more space than Mike's solution, but has fewer moving pieces, assuming you're already running nginx.

Additionally you can use it to set up some fancy rules, like the "production" branch push to a special place, allowing users to create their own repos, and fine-grained access controls via gitolite.
Incredible list of flaws that a security company has no excuse releasing with. The ASLR flaws alone show a fundamental misunderstanding of basic security practices.

It seems from this that very little effort has been put into fuzz testing Sophos products. With the complexities involved in anti-virus scanning I really have to wonder how many other security products are actually the largest holes in the system.
One of them has become a lawyer, and another sells car insurance.
Eyeballing the chart, it looks like the debt change was following its own function irrespective of the president.
To code one would be awesome. I think I just might do that when I have time.
I think it really comes down to a matter of preference. This looks interesting to me, and it caught my eye when I saw it on Hacker News much in the same way Meteor did when it came out. For me personally, it just passed the initial smell test really well.

In terms of some concrete attributes which I like, I think it probably is the best framework I've seen in terms of the general aesthetic. I have high hopes that it will allow me to create most of the view elements I'd need to prototype in an incredibly short period of time. I haven't used jQuery mobile for some time now (> 1 year) yet it seems like there are more CSS classes in Ratchet that mimic the iOS look and feel well enough that one could develop a full iOS app prototype in a day or less. If I remember correctly from using jQuery mobile, there was a bit more code to write, and the general look just didn't feel as good to me.
Appsembler, a SaaS enablement service for open source web apps
I agree with the points you've made here but one of the reasons WordPress got so popular is because PHP is just on the server. But if you're looking for a Ruby/Rails CMS check out http://refinerycms.com/. Their UI could use some work too but the developer has a lot of power with it being a Rails app. I wish more people would get behind it.
Show me one dolphin who has exceeded quota.
Exactly the points I was coming to make. People I work with think I am some sort of addict when my default answer when someone asks me about a problem is to fire up a packet capture. Between tcpdump, nc, and burpsuite, seems like few network gremlins can hide.
No dolphin has ever bitten and eaten anyone I know.
Splitting everything up like that also makes it a lot of fun when you want to redesign your site ;-)
It's not really a bug; that's how it's designed. If you don't tell it that you've though about how to zoom for mobile devices, it guesses for you.
UPDATE: This was probably really stupid of me to do right now, but I've been wanting to change my GitHub name for awhile... and just did... so if anyone would like to checkout the repo you can find it now at https://github.com/kulte/ratchet-signup
http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=25935

I don't give a fuck if it doesn't work. I can't tell a difference.

Buy a machine like mine -- orders from God, fuck it.

God says...
remembereth dearest ALL Their afraid functions labours hallowed
confusedly details pleasest Dudley confidentially Which
links credibility dare This creatures- Anon Forum bonds
One augmented restlessly

I giggle when I break backward compatibility. I do it for fun.

God says...

spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven,
whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they
have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped:
they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon
the face of the earth.

8:3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of
them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places
whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.

8:4 Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they
fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return? 8:5 Why then
is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding?
they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

8:6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented
him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to
his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
Why is "p" a non-chorded letter? Clearly the other letters were chosen because they're the seven most common letters in the English language. But letter number 8 is "h", followed by "r". "p" is way down at #19. Is it just to maintain some semblance of compatibility with QWERTY? This seems short-sighted.
What I learned building readability - Rich Ziade
Well, this makes my devops decisions no easier as it's pretty much a dead heat:

http://www.gitbattle.com/?u1=puppetlabs&u2=opscode

(incidentally, there appears to be a UI bug where it lists some repos multiple times - at the end the list looked like puppet/chef/puppet/chef/puppet/chef )
It also gives us some slack to spew on about civil liberties and other constitutional tomfoolery.
Is this a comment or a question?
Ask HN: Who is coming to NASSCOM Product Conclave - Bangalore - 7 & 8th Nov?
http://blog.productconclave.in/

Would love to catch up with fellow HNers in the event. krish at chargebee dot com.
Singapore, where have all your talent gone?
obsessed with progressive agenda (Obama)

What elements of the progressive agenda is Obama obsessed about?
It would be great if you could create an app with Ratchet, not just a prototype.
> tl;dr If you have problems with MongoDB, you aren't using it right. Read the documentation more carefully, and then when that doesn't work, hire an expert.

I'm getting the idea that is rather challenging to use mongoDB right. While there's certainly a place for power tools that can only be used by highly trained experts or you risk disaster... that kind of goes against the idea that mongodb has anything to do with 'simplicity', don't it?
Obviously not Barack Obama... Bush II had 2 terms, but is only #43, not 43 and 44...
"However, many of them want Apple to pay more per device than competitors. Part of this is that Apple has sucked up most of the profit in the industry and they want it back."

Yeah, PART of it is this. Part.

The other part is it that Apple has amassed a war chest of UI patents which it is mobilizing against all of the makers of smart phones. The wireless standard holders are essentially saying "cross-license your stuff OR you pay through the nose for our stuff". And indeed, why should Motorola or Nokia be reasonably with their "intellectual property" if Apple clearly isn't going to be similarly reasonable? Nokia began the patent war, indeed but on the specific basis that Apple wasn't cross licensing its outside-the-standard-but-stilled-needed-for-a-smart-phone-stuff.

It only sounds greedy when you don't give the big picture.
Twitter Bootstrap just makes designing easier if you can't design it would make sense to use it.
depressing to see it all spelt out like that.
Neat! It'd be really cool to see the top-scorer in an organization.
Trying to compute the score of tobytripp (a coworker) leaves me at the secret of life with both "Error in event handler for 'undefined': Cannot read property 'qrstr' of undefined TypeError: Cannot read property 'qrstr' of undefined
" and "Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL" in my console.
I like the simplicity of this idea. However, I am wondering if we could call this as creating websites since this looks more like submitting a blog through our email. Sorry about the negative comment, but that was the point that struck me on watching the video.
This is funny to me in an admittedly schadenfreude kind of way, as I've had to deal with their false positive system before, and it was an exercise in frustration.

In short, one of my products is a guild hosting system for games like WoW. One of my tools offer is a profile harvesting and uploading system in the form of an executable that simply uploaded the Lua files generated by my WoW Profiling Mod (collecting things like character level, name, class, professions, skills, etc - nothing personal or potentially dangerous). After getting a few customer emails about Sophos detecting it as a virus, I contacted Sophos to let them know about it.

After verifying that it did indeed not contain a virus, they decided to still flag it as a supposed "PUA (Potentially Unwanted Software) or Adware". I protested, saying that no one would ever accidentally install this (it's not bundled with anything, it's a direct download), nor does it generate ads, nor does it do anything the user doesn't expect it to do, which is exclusively uploading character profile information to their website. In no way should be classified alongside Adware.

They responded with something of the order "Sophos is for business computers, and because this is for games, it potentially unwanted on the business machine." They refused to remove the flag.

So my Sophos users just have to accept that Sophos basically tells them that my app contains malware - since who's going to see "PUA/Adware" and think anything other than "This is adware? Screw this, not worth it. BRB cancelling this scam of a service."

So I have absolutely no sympathy for Sophos, and it's funny to me that a company supposedly dedicated to keeping malware and viruses off business computers is riddled with security vulnerabilities, and then tries to brush them under the table because they have not yet been detected to have been exploited. Stay classy, Sophos.
Yes, you can find more vindictive things: there are people out there who have not only set up a silly website, but have made it their life's mission to stalk and terrorize the people they dislike; there are even people who have captured and tortured the objects of their hatred/revenge. Obviously, this is a massively different situation than simply calling someone names, and anyone who fails to recognize that fact is being dense: these websites and comments are, after all, "harmless name calling".

However, that really doesn't excuse the behavior: just because you can find someone worse than you, making you look good in comparison, doesn't mean that you are actually doing well... "have you seen Steve? he failed that class; in comparison, my C is great! if you really can't see the difference, you don't deserve to be a teacher" <- this statement isn't even false, as a C really is massively different than an F... at least you tried... but is it really something we should be happy about? Seriously?
First, don't believe the claim about just being a "prototyping tool". That's what any tool or library says when it's trying to be humble. This toolkit's sweet spot is PhoneGap & friends, clearly.

See, the need this fills (and apparently does a good job at) is to give front-end web devs resources to write UIs in PhoneGap that look just like Interface Builder apps. Why would you want to do this? Possibly because you don't have iOS coders. Or perhaps your coders are already familiar with the web, so why not re-use their skillz?

The assumption here is that a front-end web dev can get a native-looking iOS app together faster in PhoneGap than a native developer can get a real iOS app together. While that's not always going to be true, it is probably usually true. And for some apps (like, virtually anything that's just business-oriented and doesn't require crazy stuff), the difference will not be noticeable by end-users (although it might trigger an uncanny valley feeling).
No PR person drove me to write this article. To tell you the truth, it was respect for Nate Silver. I have been following his work since he started PECOTA at Baseball Prospectus. I have barely read any other articles other than a few passing headlines about the hubbub with Scarborough but I figured it would be a decent time to touch on the subject, with his model being critiqued seemingly from all sides. For his baseball work, I am fond of the approach that Silver takes, and his record at politics using similar methods has proven efficient, worth comment. No PR person reached out to me, I was not influenced by other articles outside of what I could see myself on FiveThirtyEight and I have no political agenda. I can speak for no other author, but I wrote this because it was topical and timely and it struck me as an interesting subject.
When the top 5 processes on my system are chrome, and all over 1.5gigs in size call bullshit all you want. But when I close chrome and 8 gigs of memory is freed, I call that bullshit.
BBC News video interview about it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20187897
Minimum Viable Crowdfunding ;-)
Any idea what line numbers those came on? I'll try and fix it!
no page refresh
Which works for playlists only.