skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately that menu slide in animation just doesn't work out well on an iPad 3. I'm not able to checkout the code ATM but I assume you're using jquery for the animation. CSS3 animations generally perform better on iPads. This plugin is great: http://playground.benbarnett.net/jquery-animate-enhanced/
"The prices has tripled since 4 month ago and middle class society are getting poorer just because of the nuclear ambitions of the leaders" The prices have increased because of the imposed sanctions. This is unrelated political pressure.
that almost felt real... some interesting perspective, no doubt.
The site is down now, but when I checked this page a few weeks ago it hadn't been updated in 2 years.
If you don't like this particular article, Peter Norvig goes over the same topic (problem?) much more rigorously:
http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html
Sadly, a lot (most?) of great ideas won't ever be viable businesses. I'd very much like to see this idea happen also, but I also suspect there are some very firm reasons why the indie film scene is only truly active in a few cities around the world.
I really love the pace at which computers are going; I have the latest smartphones, tablets and laptops. But I also have Spectrums, MSXs, PC1210, TRS 80(-100 and others), Amiga, ST and other bits and pieces.

It's a very different thing; I really love the fact I can do anything on something I can balance on my nose for an entire day, but fun wise I like soldering 74 series extending things. Being able to write an OS and understanding every single part of it, hardware and software.

Sure things are 'easier' now and that's a lot of fun for some things but I find it interesting and calming to leave the large amount of black box and extreme complexity in modern systems in my spare time.
Fascinating how many people make very strong judgements about his life, story, product and decision with a very shallow level of information.

It's a bit sad to see. Especially because i believe that many people here know (or should know) how complex these topics are.

In my opinion great article. Thanks for sharing that honestly.
Grow your own Fresh Air inside your building
Yes, you mention apple, google and microsoft. I am under the impression that designers work on accepted (by big/famous companies/personalities) designs within the design community. Are these trends simply designers daring to be original, or can we trace these new trending designs back to a single influential source?

Or maybe does the design need to exist on said influential sources for shotcallers to dare say OK ship it!
The gamers I know (who are the only people I know with an opinion about Zynga) would like to see Zynga no longer exist as a company, which entails all the employees having to find a new job. What's with the sudden sympathy for the employees?
Smarter Socks - socks with RFID chips
Summaries should go at the bottom and recap the points u made. TL;DR's, by definition, are there because the post is overwhelmingly long but I still want to hear the point, so it would make sense for them to go in a quick access location.

I like the TL;dr button idea that at any time takes me there, but that seems infeasable for most of the blogging population to implement.
What DO you put an abstract on then? 'prose' is everything written but poetry.
I need more problems in my life
In World War II, the firing of a general was seen as a sign that the system was working as planned. Yet now, in the rare instances when it does occur, relief tends to be seen, especially inside the Army, as a sign that the system has somehow failed.

Oh how I wish that governments would realise this. Making mistakes and then correcting the mistakes is the important thing. The whole phenomena of start-ups dominating over established companies is a guide to how you should be running the established businesses. Government departments hold onto their bad decisions, trying to justify them and hide the damning evidence when really they should be praised for acknowledging mistakes and changing their minds.
Amazon Attacking Apple's iPad Mini on Homepage
Would love to talk, email in my profile, send me one!
Probably arbitrary "I can't do it alone" co-founders. I don't know anything about the startup listed in the post but I see quite a few people on reddit asking for co-founders as if someone that doesn't really care about your startup but hangs around is better than focusing on it alone.
Fear and Loathing at Zigfu: My Y Combinator Experience
Mixpanel lets you easily export all of your data at any time, either as a raw data dump or filtered by date range, property or segment.

https://mixpanel.com/docs/api-documentation/data-export-api
That's how it should always work.
Here's a screenshot for posterity: http://i.imgur.com/QEXaH.png
Not to downplay the real security concerns, but the mortar attack from geotagged photos almost certainly did not happen.

Here is a March 2012 post from a skeptic about the mortar story:
http://www.spacerogue.net/wordpress/?m=201203

It's also worth noting that there are no contemporary 2007 accounts of the incident. The wikipedia listing of aircraft losses in the Iraq War lists contemporary sources for every incident except for this four helicopter attack -- Wikipedia lists the 2012 geotagging source Steve Warren. This is the Internet though, so I'll email Mr. Warren and see if I can get his citation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aviation_shootdowns_and...
All this will do is hurt Zynga employees further. Releasing sensitive data about a company will push the stock price down further. Most employees have equity in the company. Equity is (was) one of the major incentives for working at Zynga. Zynga is not forcing anyone to work there. If employees feel mistreated they are free to go work elsewhere. I say all of this as a former Zynga employee.
Oh, wow, I can't believe how quickly BASIC comes back. I spent a lot of time typing programs in at that prompt. I loved the hours I spent writing programs out on notebook paper, and I absolutely loathed typing them in. I always did, though. Seeing them run gave me a little thrill. (Not that I ever wrote a single program that I would have enjoyed using if it wasn't mine.) The best thing in the world was when my mother typed in a program for me, which she only did a few times when I was really, really sick.

Good times. I think I will now make a low-res snowman.
Understanding the Microsoft Surface (a sort of Review)
When I bring this idea up with the most successful business people I know, they say that making a successful business is what they want. Truly, they'll have no trouble pivoting with that opinion, since what they want is to make a winning company, not any particular company.
The often relevant "What Colour are your bits?" - http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23
This is nice. I think it should tell you the number of trials though, as well as sanitising the JS somehow. I just tested it using the function:

eval(document.write("hello world!"))

and it gave me a page of text.
This was the most refreshing post I've read in a long time.
Not the OP but I'll tell you my approach, as someone who prefers a "flat" style:

I think of dimension (and texture) as one of the tools in the design toolbox, along with proximity, alignment, proportion, color, shape, and others. These tools allow us to create hierarchy, affordance, focus/highlights, contrast, legibility and other design paradigms that hopefully result in usable, visually pleasing design.

The effectiveness of each tool depends on the design objective (using color or proportion to highlight an element might be more effective than simply using alignment). In a minimalist approach, I like to work with the tools in "layers", in a specific order, and in quantities as small as possible. First, I begin with alignment and proximity — positioning elements. The challenge is to create something usable and attractive using only those tools. Sometimes, it's just not possible, so I'll move on to proportion, then color, then shape. I generally find that dimension and texture are unnecessary, so I leave them in the toolbox. Sometimes, perhaps because there's a high density of elements in the design, one element (button, dialogue, header) may need additional contrast or focus, at which point I'll consider adding some depth.
Consoles are not really holding the PC market back. Apart from fancier graphics, the big areas where the PC wins is fast mass storage[1] and fewer restrictions over net access[2]. Sure we could fill 4GB of memory somehow and find interesting ways to saturate as many CPU cores as we're given, but PC games so far haven't done anything really interesting with the extra power they have.

[1] Data for a 360 game needs to fit on and run from one or more DVD; the PS3's larger blu-ray storage is slow. Cross-platform console games need to deal with those two constraints.

[2] MMOs and social gaming are restricted on consoles.
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime
I'm starting development shortly on an app for which I really want this type of interface (as seen in the video on famo.us)

Do you have any idea when developers will get access ? Is there any other place to get information about it ?
Show HN: iOS app finds friends' bikini pictures using OpenCV object detection.
I'm giving away some Promo Codes here as well, just as a thank you to the HN community. Would love your feedback.
Here is my reasoning. You can do the activities you mentioned in places that are a lot more comfortable (sofa), more social (cafe) or more beneficial (gym) than the driver's seat.

More importantly, I don't trust my brain's thread scheduler to drive with full attention and think about something else productively simultaneously. How many of us can say that they have never been in a dangerous scenario because they were lost in thought while driving?
The website for it is www.badabingpics.com
Realtime Conference 2012 Recap
It's a great headline, but the article is absent. I feel confident in asserting that (excluding misclicks) the users who upvoted this article did so without RTFA.

It makes me wish we could run a quick experiment where "trap" articles would be thrown on the front page with real-seeming headlines, usernames, and apparent votes, but no content at all, as a way to detect users who upvote without RTFA and discount their future votes.
I loves me some speculation! Here goes:

576 decimal looks like this in other common bases:

binary: 0000 00010 0100 0000
octal: 1100
hexadecimal: 240

My first inclination would be a firmware problem: was it upgraded recently? Are there any known problems with the version that was installed? Did you build it yourself? If we have access to the code, the information about the 'shape' of 576 may come in handy. Or maybe we just need to look at your build environment.

Assuming the firmware had not changed recently (very likely in gear that sits quietly doing its job without human intervention for long periods of time), then failing hardware becomes the suspect. Maybe a memory module is going bad and this particular byte is normally avoided (see intermittent failures in OP.) Maybe it's using flash to store transitory data and a particular cell is going bad. Maybe the unit has suffered vibration damage and a solder point related to memory has come loose.

Some of these are far less likely than others. I think of all these, I'd put money on a bad memory stick.
Unless you hang out with some peak oil guys, they scream about energy density - until you get something that creates dense energy then they scream about how efficent it is.
For teh SEOS.
Another great link for context:
http://seoulspace.co.kr/2012/09/03/understanding-gangnam-sty...
Given the interactivity, are you sure you want a print copy?
Yup, in fact getting back to working on the product was my motivation for asking this question. There is a lot of work to do on the product and the last place I want to be spending time is on picking and choosing analytics solutions.
"When a new fleet of helicopters arrived with an aviation unit at a base in Iraq, some Soldiers took pictures on the flightline, he said. From the photos that were uploaded to the Internet, the enemy was able to determine the exact location of the helicopters inside the compound and conduct a mortar attack, destroying four of the AH-64 Apaches."

I'm not sure that geotagging is the real problem here. A picture of a new helicopter or of the inside of a military base in a war zone is sensitive operational information that should not be posted to the internet, whether it's geotagged or not. Enemy intelligence services could probably piece together lots of valuable information from dozens of seemingly innocuous photos.

For example, even if the enemy couldn't blow up those helicopters, just knowing the number of helicopters available at that base, or that the base had received additional helicopters, could be an advantage in planning an attack.
Summary: "Illegal number" is a term that you use to refer to protected digital information when you also want to convey that you have no grasp of the legal issues involved.
I clicked through to his blog, and apparently, it was inspired by "James Brown Forever"

http://nest.echonest.com/post/526547218/james-brown-forever-...

I don't know his music well enough to tell it's a mix. Maybe you can.
Against fixed targets battleships gave higher firepower. Aircraft cqrriers were the new technology for naval operations away from large land masses. The heavy fortification of the atlantic wall was only for first landing, the defence line was deep but it was annihilated with heavy bombardment from allied battleships. The Siegfried line was pretty much abandoned during the war and was hastily manned during the last defence. German efficiendy wasn't very good at this point since t was against the original planing and they had even lost their fortifications and underground plans in some places.

The doctrine after WW1 was not keeping an advanced position but moving forward with tanks and keeping the enemy of balance. That was an extarpolation of Rommels "Infantry attacks" book, who was succesful in the WW1 and was already famous and a teacher in the german military academy in the interwar period.
Storing data and using data are two completely different things. You can store all of FB and lots of other companies in a fairly small volume these days. But as soon as you want to access that data to process or update it the game changes rapidly. Suddenly that one cabinet explodes into a datacenter full of cabinets, or even several data centers.

Storage is a solved problem for just about any amount that an ordinary company might need. Getting that data delivered to a CPU at speeds that are still usable in a practical sense if you want to say something about all of that data is a completely unrelated problem which changes amount of technology and funds required from the easy level to the extremely hard and beyond level.
I think the general objection is that the instruction set of the CPU isn't salient, rather it's the form factor. The Surface is presented more like a laptop than a tablet, and there are some 3rd party manufacturer Windows 8 ARM laptops in the pipeline.
HTML5 games can now be played on Xbox 360
3amOpsGuy, is there any chance I could email you somehow regarding some ops advice? thanks!
As a hardcore/indie gamer myself, I understand that a lot of hardcore gamers are turned away by Zynga.

But I'm not Zynga's target audience, and that's okay. And there's a lot of sympathy for your point about the "spaminess."

However, going from spammy/over-monetizing to evil has always seemed a tad dramatic to me.
I can't help but think that presenting this graph on a log scale isn't the best way to do it. I mean, if the number went up linearly year-over-year, wouldn't it look like that on a log scale anyway?
After working as a pm, I feel I know a bit of what he's getting at. The appealing solution to scope creep/misalignment/doubt mid-development is to compromise and make everyone happy; Stakeholders, developers, your boss. This keeps people happy in-process but will probably leave you with a mediocre end product.

The thing that was painful was betting on and fighting for your own vision of how something should play out. This requires selling like a mad man, fighting tooth and nail for your idea, which is scary as shit and very draining. Hopefully, it will lead to a better end product though. Either that or having wasted months of dev time and possibly missed the market window, and it's all on you.
"The first time I held a build of Beeline RTD in my hand, after getting it from my developers, I literally jumped up and down at the though that this app had come out of my head and I could now put it in my pocket and use it whenever I wanted."

I find it contradictory that you use "my developers" and "out of my head" in the same sentence.
I did some research on the declining editor rates for a course project. Without recreating our entire paper, I want to make this important point.
Wikipedia is not (necessarily) nearing the completion of all knowledge, but rather what is feasible for its editors to contribute - indeed, there is much work to be done on "the history of sanitation and sewage in ancient Carthage" and "topic sensitive page rank", which at least has a page, let alone "trust sensitive page rank" which seems to be missing one.
Our core piece of evidence was observing the _same_ trends across different languages (in both # edits and # page views).
If you are interested, check out our final report here - it has its flaws, but I believe the three pieces of evidence we explored hold some merit in their own right. (http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs341/reports/09-GibbonsVetran...)
Exactly. But conservative GC sounds like a dumb idea in the first place. Im not the expert these people designing these languages are, but i can not understand how memory leaks can ever be acceptable just because the probability of it seriously affecting you, is low (when on x64). Doesnt that just imply you can not use these types of languages in any mission critical context.

I must be wrong though: it seems Google is using it for parts of their infrastructure, and im assuming those are long running procceses. But what if the worst case scenario does happen? Are there workarounds? Monitor memory usage, and just restart? Can we force the runtime to free a certain resource?

What am i missing? How does this not completely destroy anu utility of these languages? Why do people put conservative gc in languages outside of the esoteric or academic context?
Why is Wikipedia showing this paragraph in UCAS page?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCAS

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:c-Kgb_Jdm-UJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCAS+UCAS&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=in

I am sending you both the google's webcache and wikipedia link. Why is the first paragraph in UCAS so absurd? I was reading abt Rupert Murdoch in wikipedia after reading abt his Steve Jobs tweet today -> His alma matter (Oxford) -> UCAS (wanted to know how people get into Oxford). After been into UCAS the wikipedia page showed this crazy paragraph<p>- The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) is a challenge that no man has ever conquered unscathed... a challenge that not even the most grizzled veteran could ever dream of completing... a challenge that would keep even the most diabolical psychopath up at night screaming. It starts off with a treacherous journey from The Shire to Mordor... on a Unicycle. Then, the poor student must single handedly defeat Cthulu himself armed with nothing but a roll of sellotape. After displaying such might, the student will be rewarded with a Hylian Shield, and will be asked if they would like to save their progress. Now the final battle is imminent... the one that seperates the men from the boys. But you will have to see that for yourself...
"He can then take a percentage of their profits"…

I think that is likely to be the problem. I think this is a great idea too, _BUT_ I've seen a few attempts to start up "indie movies in bars" type things here (in Sydney .au), and you seem to either get reasonable attendance numbers at free (or "donation requested") nights, or almost nobody showing up to show charging admission (even if it's as low as $5).

Between the film distributor, the venue, and the organiser - there's very little profit to be made anyway. Adding another person wanting a cut into the chain leaves even less money for each person's share, and I'm not sure a website (no matter how slick or well designed) adds enough value for the distributor/venue/organiser to want to give up some of their meager earnings.

I think this is much more a hyper-local marketing/advertising problem than anything a national-scale website can offer. The bottleneck is the venues, and the venues are only going to be interested on nights they're not already busy (or busy enough), which means you're only going to get Monday or Tuesday nights (or possibly Sundays). From my experience - that means you mostly only get "locals" showing up - it seems nobody wants to drive halfway across town on a Monday night to go to a bar and see a movie - back when one of my local bars was doing this (Jay Katz and Miss Death doing Monday nights at The Annandale), I'd guess more people turned up on foot or by bicycle than in cars. When your target customer is defined by "lives within 15 minutes walk of the venue", multi-city focused websites seem a lot less useful - I'd be concentrating my efforts on social media and posters/flyers placed appropriately around the venue...

(But maybe I'm wrong, I'd love it if somebody found a great angle, and make a huge success out of this idea… Once you reached critical mass with it, it'd be wonderful to expect to be able to hit the "cool indie movies in bars" website and find something interesting and fun to do on a Monday night in Melbourne or Portland or Vancouver or Berlin…)
well, shit.

but it's important to also factor in the value of a laugh.

say the conversion rate of visit-to-order is .1% (probably about right); i.e. 1 troll doll gets sent for every 1000 ppl that hit trollthetroll.com.

And say the visit-to-laugh conversion rate is 50%; 1 laugh for every two visits.

In this scenario, the shitty stunt is giving 500 laughs / $9.

Or 1.8 cents a laugh. Which seems valuable to me..
> but I'm pretty much sure that no plants are able to photosynthesise at night! That would be an interesting species...

There are three types of plants, and instead of explaining them, let me just provide links.

The type of plant that breathes at night are the CAM ones.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C3_carbon_fixation - most common, almost all plants are like this

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4_carbon_fixation - very efficient, corn is the most common example

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAM_photosynthesis - night breathing, pineapple is the example
I don't get it. Can you explain, please? :)
How did this app passed Apple's App Approval process? I think they have a clause that they will deny apps that might lead to these kind of pictures.

Also I think you should protect those persons privacy using black bars on their eyes?
> the quantity of oxygen produced will be exactly proportionate to the amount of carbon dioxide consumed

Not necessarily. Consider photorespiration -- under certain conditions, some plants will use oxygen instead of carbon dioxide.

> I'm pretty much sure that no plants are able to photosynthesise at night

Some reactions in photosynthesis are light independent, and many plants (especially ones in hot and arid environments) will perform these reactions at night in order to conserve water.
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