skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if this is intentional. A big problem with computer security is that people just blindly click "OK" to any sort of authorization prompt. Ever since push notification abuse started to get bad, I've been much more careful about reading the authorization prompts that my phone throws up, after authorizing some apps for push notifications without thinking through the implications, then having to manually turn them off later.
Yep, Apple imagines people are just as perfect as their own devices.

Peter principle of consumer electronics?
I understand that for LuaJIT 2.0, the whole VM has been rewritten. What's changed? What's new?
To be honest, this is all good in theory but really hard to do. Its easier said then done.
In a freemium model, looking at Revenue churn on the $0 accounts would definitely give you a pretty useless metric.

For some metrics it makes sense to lump the two together. But the distinction between the two is helpful for measuring a product's ability to up-sell itself to the existing customer base.

If you're interested in tracking revenue growth instead of customer growth - then say you have -1% revenue churn month/month, your existing customer base is going to be paying you 1% more the next month (even though you may lose a few customers along the way).
The hardware isn't really the novel thing here.
To be clear, we aren't running some idealistic enterprise where we value standards compliance over real world usefulness. Indeed Opera has historically been more willing to implement IE quirks than other browsers, a policy that has recently come to cause problems because some sites punt us down an legacy-IE-only codepath that we don't work with, rather than a standards codepath that would work fine.

Our sitepatching is specifically designed to solve problems in real time rather than needing the site owner to make any changes, or for the user to upgrade their Opera.

Did you report a bug on Opera for the site that you were having difficulty with? Often half the battle is knowing that there is a problem, and having good steps to reproduce. With those things we likely could investigate whether we have a bug that needs to be fixed or whether the site is treating us differently to Gecko/WebKit for some reason, and come up with a solution.
I was just about to try setting up Gnotty for our IRC channel based on the repo, can't wait to see what you'll be releasing.
I've had a few reporters send me quotes and excerpts for fact checking. They then proceeded to ignore my corrections, since their fabrications better matched the target narrative.

Once you're on the other side of the news, even a little bit, you begin to understand just how broken it really is.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/sep/09/climate-ch...

No teleportation needed, Nuclear is available and works. :-)

Yes there are safety concerns but ignore the impacts of rising sea level and global warming is way less responsible than nuclear.
Surveillance Chess - Hijacking CCTV Cameras
This sounds like it's a bunch of GPIO ports connected to a PC over serial, and a nice Python module that runs on the PC. It's not Python-on-a-microcontroller (they never claim it is, but that's the assumption I made upon seeing the website). For those who want this sort of thing, it's also easy to get an Arduino, write a quick sketch that receives and transmits over USB serial, and use pyserial to control it.
But... you can disable those. They are called "Badges". Turn off the "Badge App Icon" option in the notification settings for the app in question.
When bidding more than the "estimated value", the winner can write off the difference between the value and their bid as a tax deductible donation. So that's one reason to not go too crazy with the valuation - a more reasonable market valuation can actually make the winning bid less expensive for the winner.
I thought that the entire point of nofollow was to apply it to links that come from user content so that spamming your site becomes less useful. Before this article, I never even heard of the idea that you're supposed to apply nofollow selectively based on your own judgment of how spammy a post was. I always thought it was a simple dichotomy: links created by users get nofollow, and links you create yourself don't.
How Twitter Should Make Money
Original topic is not explicitly about content, but speaking of SO's content:

> StackOverflow is harming the quality of results in Google because they want people to filter through them for the information.

Well, no, actually. StackOverflow may be shooting itself in the foot. SO cannot dictate the rules of the search game to Google, and Google adjusts its SERPs pretty quickly, especially nowadays, when user behavior gets to have bigger influence on SERP with every ranking algo update. Poor quality content leads to higher bounce rate and lower avg. time on site and visit depth, which will inevitably lead to lower ranking and less traffic for SO. This (and perhaps a thousand of other factors) works for every site, and even more so for heavy traffic content projects like StackOverflow. So don't be afraid, the system will adjust itself.

Overall, I agree with your sentiment: I love SO, but nofollowing the Web looks kind of lame and selfish. After all, doesn't SO have its staff of moderators and admins to fight spammy comments?
How to spin patent trolling favorably
The Donut™ - Universal Tablet Stand
Universal tablet stand, in shape of a donut.
Thanks! To quote the shortest and much less sensationalistic summary from the second link:

"The B(s)->mu+mu- results from LHCb are out providing good agreement with the Standard Model, and new, strong limits on possible Supersymetry models"
your boss probably doesn't remember your exact salary

I understand that you may be rationalizing it, but I find that hard to believe. I may not have remembered my direct reports' exact salaries, but I certainly knew who made more than who, by approximately what percentage, and why each person was paid what they were.
I spent the last 3 years building this differ thing. It has plugins for different filetypes (text, image, and simulink) and for different filesystems (local disk, web, and S3). Right now I'm working on turning it into a good version control client too (SVN first, then git).

Curious to see what people's first impressions are!
Thoughtcrime in Britain
You need 2000 rep to do this, which is not so easy to gain, but certainly achievable for a highly determined person. However, what @wookietrader wrote applies -- each edit is marked with the person who has done it which solves the problem.
You've been misinformed, on all fronts, and that's not surprising, given the way it has been portrayed in mainstream media. It's endlessly amusing, but also a little disturbing, to me that Occupy has been declared dead, continually, since almost its first few days of existence over a year ago. And, yet, every time an Occupy thing shows up (which is frequently; Occupy events and actions are happening every single day across the US) the news reports it as an isolated anomaly ("Occupy Wall St. had one last gasp today." and a week later act shocked, or, more likely, simply ignore it, when some new Occupy event or action happens).

This is another example of that downplaying of the reality of OWS; "Oh, my goodness! You mean OWS still exists? I had no idea!" While thousands of Occupiers help the poorest neighborhoods get back on their feet...the only reason you hear about it, is because it's too big to ignore, though there's certainly plenty of folks trying to continue to ignore it. Maybe you should be asking why the media you trust is misrepresenting a mainstream movement like this on a continual basis, and for whose benefit?

OWS changed the political landscape in pretty dramatic ways, and continues to do so (and to deny that is to deny reality). But, for the folks who expected OWS (and Occupy groups nationwide) to take up the "Tea Party of the Left" mantle, and do politic-y things, like electing candidates to office, it looks like a failure. But, it wasn't and isn't a Tea Party of the left, and baked right into its very being is a set of values and a culture that would make such an outcome very unlikely (and undesired by most of its participants).

Occupy folks are very likely involved in every activist community in your city, right now. They may not even be involved in an Occupation anymore, and there may not be a very active local Occupation in your city (though you might be surprised; there's one still quite active here in Austin, and I know SF/Oakland, NYC, Chicago, and many others are still active)...but OWS or a local Occupation is what turned them from an armchair activist into one who goes outside and does things. That's true for a huge swath of people, and I think its impact has been wildly underestimated.
Okay, I've taken a look at your benchmark. The failing requests are due to a typo in the configuration. It should be "phpsocketbacklog" instead of just "socketbacklog". Pancake uses unix sockets for the internal communication between RequestWorkers and PHPWorkers. When a RequestWorker tries to send a request to a PHPWorker while the internal socket backlog is full, Pancake will abort the request due to the lack of available resources. Therefore the backlog is needed on high concurrency. I've updated the configuration at pancakehttp.net including some additional performance optimizations.

Even though requests won't fail anymore with the fixed configuration, throughput on high concurrency still isn't quite satisfying. This seems to me like a bug as the PHPWorkers seem to process the requests perfectly concurrent and finish each in about the same time, but then the delivery of the result to the client is somehow delayed, probably due to a problem with the internal communication. I've tested Pancake with php-fpm (Pancake supports FastCGI) and high concurrency and it seemed to scale quite good.

I'm investigating on this problem and hope to provide a fix soon.

Regarding static file throughput, I know that Pancake does not really reach the speed of other webservers here. Pancake was designed to execute PHP as fast as possible and I still have a lot of ideas in my mind on how I could further improve PHP execution speed. PHP itself isn't quite fast and therefore it is difficult to develop a webserver in PHP that reaches the same speed when serving static files as webservers written in languages like C. I am currently experimenting with a new feature that will hopefully increase the speed of static file serving but I still don't know if it'll really work.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. For me, the expectation to each person to complete tasks and projects, the understanding that culture is about mutual understanding, and the sheer volume of production they've produced given their lack of resources is exactly like a startup.

To your point, well organized adversaries like local politicians and police are akin to pre-existing companies and vertical leaders who take too much time to act and are bogged down in rhetoric and bureaucracy.

Like any analogy, this one definitely has its limitations, but the points I made were things that struck me as uncannily similar to my experience working with my team on Backspaces.

That's just my perspective though, and can certainly see where you're coming from.
What I meant is that growth is often factored into market caps (PGE).

I agree with you that a more complex analysis could be done and it would be more rigorous and it may reveal additional insights.

However, I am guessing the primary takeaways I listed would not change much with the additional rigor.

Your comments also raise an interesting question - i.e. what are the right measures by an entrepreneur for the value their company is creating? There are obvious points of human impact (user base, engagement etc.), but if you are an entrepreneur, what financial metric should you care about? For example, Jeff Bezos often point to free cash flow as the big metric Amazon tracks...
I'm not really clear on why Google couldn't achieve the same ends with a similar approach on Android phones (at least on the Nexus reference models). As dubious as this paradigm is, it seems like such a no-brainer for a company whose continued success relies on parsing intent signals and selling to advertisers. And they are probably the only company as trusted as Apple, IHMO.

(edited for clarity)
What's the best social commenting plugin for WordPress?
I'm updating my WordPress-based site...anyone have a tip for the best plugin(s) to use for social comments?

Ideally, it/they would fully integrate with Facebook but not require users to use a social log in.

And ideally ideally, it/they would allow you to import old comments from Disqus (XML).

Appreciate any thoughts...

Michael
I'm sorry that was not the purpose. I just wanted to share this regex trick that I had in my mind. I added the shirts only later when I saw that the article is getting very popular. People really seemed to like my previous tees and it's great to make a little extra money and continue doing what I love - coding and writing blog posts.
Hi guys, The Donut is an iPad stand designed by my colleges and myself. We are a small team from Fresno, CA and today we have launched our IndieGoGo campaign. Any press or word of mouth we can get is much appreciated. This product is made in USA, and if we become fully funded we will keep it that way.
May be developers should provide the frequency (x) of push notifications at the time of requesting access. And Apple should ensure not more than x notifications were sent to a device? Something along the lines: XYZ App would like to send you push notifications. Freq: 2/day, 1/week, User set [Allow] [Deny].
"In comparison, Facebook uses a programming language called AJAX that taxes servers less."

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I completely agree with you on the fact that months of paper don't really mean anything but it helps me pitch to a developer to let him or her know that I have thought through this idea and it really helped me lay down my thoughts.

I believe my idea does solve a problem but the only true way to test my assumption is to build out something simple to see if people need something like this. I would be truly willing to pay for something that I want to build.
Game that bends the law of gravity
Copy and pasted wrong - this is the link: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fan_Speed_Control
I noticed that you've added Google Analytics code to the page. Is this included because it is now a world-facing site, or do you use analytics on your internal projects for personal metrics?
i generally say no to notifications. I don't have anything mission critical on email that I need to know "right this second" and twitter and fb updates I only want when I want them, otherwise they're a huge distraction..
Video series for game devs (Interviews with Gabe Newell, Chris Avellone, & more)
It's not blaming the user. The user in this case is using the browser in an unintended way. It it therefore the users' own fault if the browser doesn't hold up.

If I want to ride my bike facing the wrong direction, it's not the fault of the designer that I can no longer steer. I could potentially make it work, but would it ever be reasonable for the manufacturer to add another set of handlebars on the back?

As for your comment about Apple claiming the user was holding their phone incorrectly, they did ultimately provide cases right and therefore admitting that enough users were having trouble to merit a change / fix ?

All said, you are using your browser wrong. Sorry to be the one who has to tell you.
Closer look at Dropbox's Y Combinator application
How messy is your code? Paste in Code-Kitten and find out.
Shumway: a SWF interpreter entirely in JavaScript
Math Against Tyranny or Why We Should Keep The Electoral College (1996)
I don't think there are really any good reasons to use push notifications. I have them disabled on all the apps I install and don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.
Discovered from Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/131fno/gabe_newell_ta...
Calling it a DSL is bit weird to me, it's a single instance method. You'd use the same kind of thing to set the appropriate caching headers for Varnish.
The idea can be summed up in three words "Amazon for services" .
I have talked to seller and buyers and have received validation (but then again its easy for people to say yeah I would use something like this).

If you are interested then please email me and I will share with you the documents that lay everything out.

Are you looking for technical co-founders. I am also open to joining someone else whose idea I believe in. Email me and we can talk more.
I don't think the creator listed the site on the readme, but http://lukerosiak.info/irs/ is the site where this is running. It searches by Org and takes you to a copy of the original tax documents. It needs a lot of work for usability, but it is a powerful data source.
This was dealt with more than a year ago, when we did remove nofollow from trusted posts links' http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/111279/remove-nofoll....

Would have been dealt with even earlier, but our experiments with it (http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/69032/130213) lead us to believe Google was starting to treat us as a link farm.

What we were seeing in our earlier attempt wasn't pages appearing lower in results (which could reasonably be expected in some cases as a result of the change; and we wouldn't care, 2nd on a search under an equally good resource is fine by us), but pages being removed entirely; almost universally pages that had newly un-nofollow-ed links to stores, or ad-laden sites (mostly legitimate posts, but some spam that stuck around for a bit before the community deleted it). So, "classified as link farm" seemed like the most likely problem. Google naturally won't tell you why your ranking drops, so it was (and remains) just an educated guess as to what happened.

So we stopped, putting it on the "wish we could, but reality doesn't let us"-list until Google reached out to us (among thousands of others, I'm sure) to change our nofollow practices. Google didn't describe any changes in their algorithm, but it seems reasonable to me that there would have been some tweaks around nofollow to accompany a new policy; again just an educated guess.

Basically, this is an old post complaining about a long since addressed concern that we had tried to address even earlier but ran into practical problems with.

While the exact details of our algorithm are secret by necessity, I will say that we've had to consider posts individually to prevent spammers from kiting a single account up to post nofollow-less spam content. People still try, it's kind of astounding how much spammers try (I suspect SEO's opaqueness cuts both ways here), but it doesn't work (well, you can get one link in your profile; but there's less SEO juice to pass and you are hard-capped at one, no matter how long it takes someone to delete your account).

Disclaimer: Stack Exchange employee, I was on all the relevant calls but has been a couple years so grain of salt and all that.
Unfortunately, in itself, that statement means very little to me:

> a stimulant that can produce similar effects to methamphetamine

That can describe many substances, both legal and illegal: street meth, Adderall, Vyvanse, Desoxyn, MDMA - the list goes on. Even caffeine could be said to produce 'similar effects' - both are stimulants and diuretics that have comparable in vivo half-life times (depending on the means of ingestion).

> It is illegal in the United States.

Well, that doesn't mean much. Methamphetamine is illegal, except when it isn't (prescribed). And the US drug scheduling (which determines the degrees of legality) is so nonsensical that it may as well be randomly generated for all it tells us about the relative dangers and harms of a substance.
I like the image diff stuff a little better than Beyond Compare but not enough to create an account just so I can get a quote to see the price.

If you want people to buy I think you can be a little more upfront about your pricing.

Just my opinion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack
Thanks, yeah this was truly spoken from my heart and these kind of things I cannot put on a resume. I agree with Avalaxy that you should really open your heart and describe yourself instead of using mine as a template (which I don't mind you doing if this really describes you).
Show HN: Here is our Storytree submition to nodeknockout
Ah! Not being an IOS dev (or owner) I had no idea. What is the typically-wrong use of it? Could it be simply that the word "Support" is a bad one to use for most people? Can it be changed to "Help?"

Anybody can feel free to contact me about this via my profile here, I'd truly be interested in making this flow easier and I know how to write this stuff.
Show HN: QuoteRobot Rebuilt In Python/Flask/MongoDB/Backbone
We completely rebuilt QuoteRobot and relaunched it on November 1st using some fun new tech.
Bloomberg open-sources their cross-platform lowest-level C++ library (bsl)
99designs, you are shady
When Investor Likability Can Make or Break a Deal
Huge congrats to Mike Pall on the release. The man is a machine when it comes to this sort of thing.
Does HTC do components? My understanding was that they were a top level handset vendor, as opposed to doing anything w/ components...I assumed they probably subcontracted with companies in hsinchu or elsewhere for that.
It is worth noting that in (the crazy cult of) Austrian economics, inflation is defined as increasing the money supply. This sometimes makes discussions with them difficult, since for rest of the world (all serious economists) inflation means increasing prices
>Opera would be great if it handled nonstandard html gracefully for me instead of telling me about its high horse and the shoddiness of the websites I use. //

I find it hard to see how you think this is Opera's fault. MS send their browser different, non-standards compliant, content that includes 2M of null characters. Yes Opera can modify to correct their handling of MS's disastrous abuse of the web but you can't exactly blame Opera.

>if Opera is just now debugging their interaction with Skydrive //

I'm sure MS won't amend it in any non-standards compliant way without notifying the other major browser makers and giving them a suitable implementation period; they'll surely keep all interactions well documented too. /s
I get SMS spam on Google Voice somewhat regularly, and occasionally also voice mail spam.

As for Google's concern with "bad actors", any search with "ebook" or "download" would tend to demonstrate that as long as they get their vig, Google is quite flexible on what constitutes a "bad actor".
I am almost afraid to ask you this, but here it goes.

On the last few weeks/months before starting Viaweb, did you consider yourself a failure for being almost 30, well-educated but out of the formal career track, "poor" and unmarried? If so, was that the fuel behind your many amazing achievements later on?
Can you use an Android phone without a Google Voice number? If not then this also exists on iPhones, through the Google Voice app, just possibly tighter integration. Google Voice != iPhone; Google Voice ~= ATT
Measuring Bitcoin Speculation
Intel's PowerTOP helps track down power usage more generally: https://01.org/powertop/
Have you considered how much this point of view is 'church like' ? If you boil it down to the basics, of "big idea that we're all important" plus "help by doing, not by talking" you will see a lot of churches organizing their volunteer efforts around those same exact concepts. And the ego check? well they usually ask you to accept that God is in the driver seat, you're just there to be His agent.

The message here is "life isn't a spectator sport" and I'm glad to see that message take hold regardless of its origin.