skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know, but Anil Dash is the one bringing it up. Why aren't those who write as if there is something else going on subject to criticism in these threads if it's so obvious? From these responses to posts on the topic you'd think that "control and FB" stories would exist in the same thoughtspace as "One Weird Trick..." ads.
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Thanks very much for the suggestions, Max. I'm going to work on implementing them right away. I appreciate the help!
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Here's a link to that Discovery Channel video on how to make injection molds that they mentioned, but didn't actually link to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seZqq1qxW30
YouTube Blog: YouTube automatic captions now in six European languages
LivingSocial expected to lay off 400 in U.S.
Homepage seems like not tested in IE 9-10
I've used it in a template renderer to render templates from files or strings. You can use eval('?>'.$string). There may be a better method, I never bothered looking after that worked.
Most people on hacker news don't realize that within business there is a huge amount of types of business jobs. Most people go to business school to switch to a new type of business job. About 40% come from engineering because they realize they hate it and want to do something making more money with less hours.

If you had a great job, lets say Investment Banking, you may go to a top business school to switch to Private Equity. To an hacker those don't sound different, but they are worlds apart.

The biggest benefit to getting an MBA is that it gives you an excuse to interview with whatever company you want to. It gives you the opportunity to really change your path. Few other places do that.
Porn isn't something a lot of nerds like?
Confirm and prompt are typically used to indicate a decision by the user. Natively, these functions stop javascript execution to wait for the users input, so that it knows what to do, but do not allow for customization. Non-native libraries do not have this ability to prompt the user for input, then wait for their response, before continuing the execution of that script. Callbacks are one way to circumvent this issue, but introduce new issues with scope and readability.

All I'm trying to say is that allowing custom defined objects to have the ability to block execution can be very handy in certain instances. I by no means was criticizing the alertify.js library
> pulling out a checkbook will reverse people's party alliances in an instant

A team of dedicated startup employees who really believe in what they're working on vs. throwing money at consultants 9-to-5er programmers? Pardon me while I place a few long bets.
Sometimes it's just easier to have linear code with some blocking than to create an entire state machine. Yes there are libraries that get close to this. No, it's still not the same.
Because nobody opens tabs in the background.
I have studied linguistics, German, and Norwegian. (I used to live with a roommate during my undergraduate studies who insisted on maintaining a Norwegian-speaking household.) My oldest son the hacker has studied the same languages, as well as Chinese, all of which are family heritage languages for us. I don't buy this press release. English was heavily influenced by Norse, for sure, but at its core it is part of the West Germanic branch of Germanic languages, rather than the North Germanic branch that includes Scandinavian.

[Edit to take into account that the source link has been changed, and thus improved, on this submission.]
not that kind of API
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> "where do you live?"

Denver, CO. The most obnoxious of the bunch is an old friend from church. It's like "childfree" is a religion for her.

Admittedly, with such a small sample size, I can't really say whether their attitude or yours is more common. But I do hope your approach prevails.
Very slick. The only thing I'd add would be Chrome desktop notifications (optional) for plain alerts.
It doesn't stop ssh or my web traffic.
Why should I care?
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Most enterprises already outsource a lot of their IT, data warehousing especially whether its to a big player like IBM or boutique consultancies.

For most applications does it really matter whether the data sits in your data center or Amazons? Nope... cause the organisation your company contracted to manage already has full access to all your secrets.

So really Amazon is just another IT outsourcer except you don't need a long drawn out sales process.
Sorry Vosper - just saw this. We started with a Hive-based approach for SnowPlow but got tired of having to run a map-reduce for each query, so started looking at columnar databases. ICE is the first columnar database we have integrated SnowPlow with - mainly picked because the OSS project is quite well documented and supported, rather than because of any performance benchmarks. We will probably integrate with other columnar dbs in due course too (e.g. Vertica, Greenplum). Thanks for the Hypertable steer - will definitely take a look at that too.
First, the dojo docs are (or were last I checked) more or less garbage especially if you're expecting something really extensive like the jq docs. But I think its more than made up for in dojo by having awesome source code that's super clean with tons of comments and examples. That's basically how I learned it, just reading the src.

One thing I might suggest is that you don't go about using dojo like you would jquery or most other libs, its not really designed around the jq principles of simple abstracted api based on selecting dom elements, etc. Its really a JS Framework for building apps (with widgets, etc) in js. I was kind of like you, I never found any tuts or resources, other than the src code, so sorry can't really help much there.

good luck though i think dojo is a great library
Very nice! I've used jGrowl for this in the past, but this seems much improved, more feature-rich and with sensible default styles. Alertify FTW!
I don't think that should belong on the list. It's like adding the gem bootstrap-rails on your list.
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http://julialang.org/ has potential.
Is anyone going to socialize Netflix or Hulu?
I'm kind of confused. You're obviously a rockstar ninja, but why are you just learning about client side encryption now?
PMTU discovery on the Internet is generally unreliable. Very few people understand that it exists, and even fewer understand how it actually works. Most ADSL (PPPoE) providers rewrite the TCP MSS on TCP SYN packets traveling over their network to account for the PMTU discovery brokenness. [1] You see the same thing happen with VPN connections where the PMTU is effectively reduced by the size of the overhead for the encapsulation protocol.

1. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/12_2t/12_2t4/feature/gui...
Because it stops traffic for some of your users as mentioned in TFA?
I wonder if this is a one-size-fits-all phenomenon. Is this "crunch" happening to every startup, or is it more concentrated on a specific type of company?

It reminded me of the Fred Wilson post a few days ago (http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/11/what-has-changed.html), which makes me think it might be more of a problem for consumer startups than enterprise/B2B.
You could also argue that Republicans will slowly peel off disaffected or disenfranchised talent as technology in politics becomes less of a cottage industry for seasonal fruit pickers and they have the lawyers to push against the true ceiling you're talking about... the legal hurdles and the stagnation of innovation that comes with winning and scaling.
Only thing worse are those "Are you sure you want to leave this page?" modals. Those cause me to go into fits of ctrl+w- smashing rage!!!
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If doing it two days earlier can be considered reactionary...
I used to run a thinkpad t41 as an in house server running dhcp, dns, that sort of thing. After a while, the uptime became oddly important to me, and I once managed to move house ~60 miles without losing the uptime.

It died at around 1050 days, RIP.
Agreed, those buttons may be the weakest part of the design. Perhaps a compatible green would highlight them properly. Another choice might be black, but would be harder to pull off.
> most firewall configs are broken

If we just accept "networks are unreliable and sometimes broken" as a fact of life, things will never get better. I applaud the unsung heroes who are finding and fixing the actual root causes of lower layers of our networks. Other important networking issues that come to mind are bufferbloat and IPv6 brokenness.

I'm sure it will be fixed if this stays on the front page for a while, so be sure to upvote the article.
Would you mind explaining what you think each service is designed for and the use case(s) that they would be most appropriate for?
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Yes, absolutely. Many countries tax barter exchange. The IRS has a whole section on their site about it:
http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Em...
This is cool. I didn't realize this was coming out of the Android camp and into general use.
I think this is the flip side of 'easy seed money', which is to say smaller investments are made more liberally so the percentage of them that pass muster at Series A are inversely proportional to the amount of 'lenience' they saw in the seed round.
who says it's $130K/yr. I don't believe it
I wish checks would just die. It's amazing that I'd never used a check before moving to the US from Sweden in 1996 and I still have to use them today here!
Bitcoins seem like capital items to me and I fully expect governments to treat them as such. If bitcoins become widely used enough people who haven't been careful will be facing investigation by the IRS or equivalent in their own country. It would not surprise me at all to hear of some large confiscations of computer equipment and bitcoin wallets by the IRS at some point in the future.
The Obama campaign spent less, got more air time, and did it through leveraging technology to optimize their ad buys. Honestly, it should have gone into the salaries of people like Kyle Rush and the hard working dedicated technology workers for more artisinal keyboards.
Geeks tend to come in two forms - libertarians and equality oriented. Current GOP doesn't really appeal to either.
The opinion of it being too high, is a perfectly respectable opinion given that there are free and one-time fee wordpress plugins that handle this integration.
It's not very straightforward, but it does seem you can revoke the app via this page -

https://accounts.google.com/b/0/SmsAuthConfig
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Thats not what I said... Im saying that you can throw money at a team of dedicated startup employees to level the playing field.

All the GOP has to do is establish a pot of money for political tech and be willing to take a risk on startups looking to service political campaigns.

Think of essentially the SpaceX competition but for political campaign tech for the GOP
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You'd lose that bet. I live in the Bay Area, favor Obama over Romney, and have historically shown plenty of dedication to the startups which I founded or at which I have worked. If Romney's campaign came to me and said "please work 80-hour weeks at $200/hr to build us the most kick-ass infrastructure you can so that we can win" you can be damn sure I'd be moving to Boston the next day. I know plenty others who would as well.
The Stratolaunch craft could be used to launch suborbital rocketplanes. You could have the 21st century counterpart to the Concorde, going over twice as fast, combined with space tourism.
Don't all banks require a minimum deposit when opening an account?
So what?! How much time it takes to install a different/newer browser? I tell you - less than a minute. There.
Puppet, chef, cfengine, etc...
Thanks. After looking into this, wikipedia provides a long list of things that can be referred to as "preferential voting."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferential_voting

However, AFAIK, IRV is the system which most closely fits what gradstudent described.
There should be some sort of open-source testing environment for common breakages. For example, maybe a bunch of VirtualBox VM's running Linux. Maybe a unit test for the problem mentioned in the article sets up machines A, B, FW, and C connected A <-> B <-> FW <-> C, has B fragment packets, and has A perform path MTU discovery to C. The firewall configuration under test goes on FW and running the test will catch this problem.

With a good enough framework of this type, all the testing could be done "out of the box" so all you have to do is set up a disk image or IP address of a firewall box to test, and the testing is fully automatic. The firewall under test can run any OS or firewall that will run as a VirtualBox client -- or even be its own box connected to the testing machine's Ethernet port. Heck, if you had machines on both sides of some third-party you don't control, like your ISP, you could even use it to probe their network configuration for issues without any special cooperation from them.

If the test suite gets good enough, maybe eventually pressure will build on vendors to make their products pass and we'll see firewall brokenness start to disappear.

As well as cloud services like AWS, such tests could be used by Linux distros, operating system vendors, and network equipment manufacturers.

I'd build it myself, but I'm not a networking expert and I'm not particularly enthusiastic about becoming one.
Yes, it is, but the whole point of Bitcoin is to not rely on any central entity. Unfortunately, that doesn't appear to be entirely possible if we are to make Bitcoin mainstream.
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Projecting? Unsure in which direction you mean, but fwiw I'm pushing 30 my self (26) and use apple products.

But I agree with you, the medical records argument is kind of boring. But, not everything needs to be outsourced; There is value in keeping things on site, if not for anything besides job creation!

My pet-peeve in this is that it has been now for a while (and is trending upwards, fast) that we don't see any problems at all, long or short term with simply "shipping it to the cloud", where it is everything from medical records, to phone contact lists to personal communications with our other significant other.

We as a community are quickly eroding any expectation of privacy and security all in the name of being agile. I guess it just rubs me the wrong way.

I should tweet about it, on my iphone and then copy it to a file for prosperity and upload it to my google drive...
Forrester: Open Source project explosion driving a "golden era" in app dev
the article has way too much hyperbole to take any of it seriously.

This statement is itself hyperbolic.

A lot of these advances are going to impact web applications. Sure if you're building a brochure site then you should probably stick to web technology circa 2000.

The article mentions 350MM chrome users, FF has about the same market share. That makes close of 3/4 of a billion web users who will automatically receive the updates that allow app developers to target these new features. That's a lot of potential customers.

Oh and for those who can't or don't know how to upgrade away from IE7-10 there's ChromeFrame. That covers the remaining portion of the web.

In other words... no, the article is not hyperbolic and feel free to take all of it seriously.
It absolutely does stop SSH or Web traffic, if the network path goes through a link with MTU < 1500 and the connection comes in with MSS > PMTU - 40. But only, as the post says, once you start sending a lot of data in one TCP segment.
Matlab is all over finance as well. I haven't used it personally so I can't comment. A lot of quant finance is matrix driven, something which Matlab was made for. Mathematica is perhaps a bit more algebraic and general purpose, but again I don't know much about Matlab's capabilities.
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You would need some sort of photo of their passport to verify citizenship for a foreign national. You would have to securely store thousands of these images for reporting purposes. It would be a legal and technological impediment and extra cost involving a large amount of effort for very little payoff. This was easier to limit with the online store. They just didn't provide international shipping options.
Indeed, I like the fact that it doesn't have dependencies. And is using html5 tags which is useful too.
Of all the useless, worthless, pants-on-head retarded degrees out there, why have they chosen to rant on business degree?

At the very least, a business degree would be theoretically applicable for doing work in the real world. Why isn't this discussion about art, history, or political science majors?
I love love love the final wireframes in the Divio presentation... They almost don't need to go any higher-res than that. But then the few linked screenshots at the bottom seem to suggest a very rendered look done in gradients and 3D buttons which I don't love as much.
>Answer: it depends what you're worried about.

True. But what's better, a phone with a plastic outside and a gorrila glass screen that might scratch on the back but the screen won't scratch and the phone won't shatter if you accidentally hit it with a baseball bar across a paves parking lot? Or a phone with a rigid metal exterior covered in gorrila glass that won't scratch but shatters if you drop it from waist height?
A Cisco cat2912 switch; the only reason it went down is because we had to move to a different part of the facility.

"switchname uptime is 6 years, 1 week, 4 days, 18 hours, 56 minutes"

One of the Solaris boxes hanging off it was right at 599 days. Web server.
This is the most useless academic 'discovery' I've ever seen. Am I wrong?
That doesn't provide causation; you don't wake up on Tuesday, see a price change from Google on Monday, and change the keynote you are giving on Wednesday to rush through a price drop. If anything, it makes more sense to think that Google got word of the things Amazon was announcing at their conference a few weeks ago, and after some careful thought decided to jump Amazon's announcement so that they wouldn't look expensive.
IE should eventually support a lot of this also? IE10 has made some pretty big jumps. I guess they still haven't worked out having everyone on one version and automatically updating though.
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Too true. The old joke about rocket companies is "If you want to end up with a billion dollars, start a rocket company with ten billion."
This sort of shenanigans will be over with IPv6. Blocking ICMP is not an option there.
I stupidly tried to do that some time ago (got confused juggling with my spammed mail addresses that are all forwarding to my main email address), and Google told me it was a bad idea.
You're overselling the benefits of dedication, which can't be bought, and underselling the benefits of professionalism and experience, which can.
You talk about edge cases. And you actually have yet to provide any data to back up your statement when it comes to penalty because of running it in a virtual environment.
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What I find most interesting were Maples comments on only about 10 'good' companies a year. If I think about the early majority and late majority segments, this makes a lot of sense to me. Friends in those segments are just barely starting to use and understand Instagram, let alone, transportation start-up X. I wonder if we're at a point where good ideas don't work simply because the market is up against the we-can-only-learn-so-many-new-things-per-year wall. Of course that would be born out by a lack of series A's for those companies. Right idea, wrong time. Makes you kinda want people to open source their failures, so that in the future, you already have a place to start from on an 'old' idea.
> I have a business degree and an MBA and I agree with this statement. If I could go back, I would major is something more technical.

I don't know much about MBA programs, but don't you study Economics, Accounting, Finance...? Or Economics isn't considered technical enough?
NCR Acquires Retail Point Of Sale Software Company Retalix For $650 Million Cash
This interview is from Designing Web Applications, which will be released 2 weeks from today: http://nathanbarry.com/software
Great work, but one suggestion:

Make the alert notification go away when ESC is pressed, like the Confirmation and Prompt notifications.
IPv6 brokenness?
You'd be surprised how many Enterprise companies are discovering Vagrant for the first time.

"You can have the same environment shared by everyone, and still look like Dev/QA/Production?" they ask.

It's amazing how far behind some companies are on the tech curve.
No, Harvard should not.
By self-verifiable I mean the half of the code is a random number, the other half is computed based on the secret seed and the random number.

Yeah, TOTP doesn't do that.

I guess another way without frequent sync is to generate a new code every sec, and the server check if it's one of the 25 codes in the last 25 seconds. But this might be unnecessary and inefficient.

Here's how it actually works:

The auth code is generated entirely by:

1. The algorithm documented in RFC 4226 and 6238,

2. static preconfigured parameters of that implementation (e.g., SHA-1, 30s, 6 digits),

3. the secret seed for that token, and

4. the current time.

For a given token, (4) is the only thing that changes to generate new codes.
Split verbs do actually exist in modern English. Schoolmarms may enphatically teach that they're flat-out wrong, but linguists have long maintained that English rules of grammar are descriptive, not proscriptive. Actual common use is what is considered to fundamentally dictate the rules, not vice-versa.
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Thanks for the list!
Not me but yes, interactive approach to learning web development.
I don't see where this technology "fits". When you're going to orbit, 90% of the flight takes place outside the atmosphere, so an air-breathing engine doesn't do much for you.

For commercial sub-orbital hops, they'll have to bring the cost down considerably to compete with existing air service. Sure, we'd all love to be able to go from NYC to Frankfurt in an hour. But how many people will pay ten thousand dollars for the privilege?