skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Constantly. Spastically.

Unless I'm on the nytimes website.
Misconceptions about the Golden Ratio [pdf]
Well, above 1k, and if you don't want a toy, you might be better off with a CNC... Get http://www.amazon.com/Rockler-Click-N-Carve-Carving-Machine-... or something. Current 1.3k is a pretty sick price btw.
It's the classis "Worse is Better" debate, lived out via consumer objects instead of lisp and c.

Paging Richard Garbriel to Hacker News...

http://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
If I want to create my own database and write my own SQL queries instead of using Django's object models and ORM, does it still make sense to use Django's user model in my project?
So does Apple Mail. So, when I used that feature in Gmail, I wasn't really surprised and actually expected it to be there.

Similarly, BufferApp post with the selected text instead of the title.

This is indeed a good UX feature and people should use this where it make sense - select text and put it in context with the next action.
Try to hit the jackpot. Reach out to people with large Twitter followings who might be interested. One tweet can bring in as many hits as you pestering your personal network of people who might not even be the target audience. Also do some Google searches and leave useful comments on blog posts where your product could come in useful. I’m launching a private forum service for example, I google for people asking how to make a forum software configured to be private. Boom, there’s me pointing out www.oath.is - my new startup blabla.

Just some ideas.
I often double click on a paragraph to highlight all of it, and keep track of where I'm reading.
Show HN: My 2 evening project - Twitter Playback
This weekend a well-known comedian was live-tweeting sardonic commentary for a new Lifetime movie. It got me thinking that it would be cool to be able to replay his tweets later so that someone who missed the live show would be able to sync them up with the movie.

That, along with the fact that I've had lots of fun on Twitter during big events (like the elections), made me think that it'd be a fun hack to put together a Twitter playback site.

So last night and tonight I threw together http://www.twitterplayback.com.
Check it out an let me know what you think!
I hope 2013 brings $99 dedicated with hardware raid (you can pay that for software raid now).

But atom for a server? Yuck. I'd rather have a real server cpu under virtual xen instead.
I don't think it's necessarily laziness.

Sometimes the provider might design their star rating system purely as a consumption experience, not as a recommendation signal. Not every product has the data or reasons to use star ratings as recommendation inputs, and I'd expect that most people look at star ratings next to an item and use that as a quick gauge of whether it's good or not.

Assuming the amount of traffic (drive-by glances) is considerable, compared to the number of times you personally get recommended something. Should users submit star ratings for their own purposes, rather than the greater good? I think there are several arguments for "no", but the murkiness is the real catch. If people think their stars are being used for Netflix-style "We think you would rate this 4 stars", but the only actual use of them is to show other people how the product ranks on an arbitrary scale, then both sides lose.
Huge annoyance. It got much worse with an update I received about a months ago. The quoted text is by default collapsed so when you want to reply quickly to someone, you won't even notice you're top-posting.

I tried to contact support or fill some feedback form to no avail. I eventually gave up.

Anyway, this is how web apps ride (no a single day passes without me ranting about the current trend, which I find alarming).
They will get better with that feedback. Without the feedback, there is no way to improve them. It's simply not possible for 1 company to go around the entire world mapping every business and address in any reasonable timeframe. The only way to do it is by accepting and processing feedback.
Perhaps because the User-Agent is intended for an HTTP request header, which doesn't lend itself to a complex structure.
Clickable: http://www.twitterplayback.com

Replay of movie commentary: http://www.twitterplayback.com/?q=from%3Aaimeemann+OR+from%3...

Tonight's TV: http://www.twitterplayback.com/?q=dancing%20stars

Social media contest: http://www.twitterplayback.com/?q=%23GOU100

Sports: http://www.twitterplayback.com/?q=%23iubb

The page is (hastily) written using JavaScript, so feel free to take a peek. There's a lot more that can be added to this -- most notably, date ranges, but I think it's pretty fun right now. Oh, and the maximum number of results Twitter will let me have per query is 1500, so keep that in mind.
I think Meteor is especially relevant for designers because it's pure Javascript. This makes it the perfect framework for designers and front-end engineers that want to build an app but don't know Ruby, Python, or PHP.
Ask HN: Why do many major sites fail W3C's markup validation service? 
Pretty much every major site, including Google and Hacker News, does not pass.
Why three different styles for a button? http://cl.ly/image/3h0i1m3t0M3P/Image%202012-11-27%20at%207....
Trapit Adapts AI-Driven Personal Search for Paying Customers
I'm glad to see others do this.

I don't think I would use a browser plugin; selecting with the mouse is completely satisfying for whatever reason I do it.

I think it's a way for me to feel connected with the text, too. reading a book, I either trace with my finger or a piece of paper I slide down the page (not word-for-word, but by sentences and paragraphs).
I am absolutely amazed at the response this poll is getting. You people are a bunch of freaks! ;)

I frequently select text when I need to get up from my desk at home to deal with the kids (and not lose my place), but not to the extent that other here are describing, unless it's the random tick click thing.

I'm sure there's a psychologist in our midst that can explain this phenomenon. But, I'm still shocked that this post has generated this much attention.
Usually that's because you got some adware on your computer.
No, you're right, I never worked on a farm; I simply grew up in a farm.

Sheep are scared stomachs on legs. When they see their daily source of food and nothing suspicious (such as a stranger), they reach. My grandfather could also call them and they would reach even with a stranger present.
My favorite feature is Mute.
I never even realized I did this until my wife asked me what the heck I was doing one day. I'm still not sure why I'm highlighting all the time, but sometimes it is to keep my place when I scroll the page. Other times it is completely subconscious.
That's actually part of the Meteor Auth package, it comes with a default design. I didn't bother styling it too much for now because Telescope will probably use its own Auth UI eventually.
Thrift stores are great ways to find durable products. If they weren't durable they wouldn't end up in a thrift store in a state anyone would want to buy.
i think i do it to make the text feel 'tactile' and thus more engaging
We did talk about something basically like what you describe for both slicehost and RAX, but it really doesn't solve the problem. Take that EC2 definition itself (which is frozen in time in 2007, surprise surprise), how many 2007 Opterons are there on the market now? none, they are using completely different CPUs and they've benchmarked them to be roughly equivalent, but by what benchmark? performance just isn't that simple to benchmark and there are hidden tradeoffs.

Regarding the guaranteed capacity, this is another one we spent a lot of time thinking about. At the time EC2 made the call of guaranteeing CPU share by hard-limiting the ceiling of performance by any VM. We (slicehost and RAX) took the opposite approach of weighting CPU by vm size when under contention, but allowing for burst-ability to full core power when the box was idle. That meant that in the case of low-ish utilization customers Slice/RAX VMs had a higher higher average performance but EC2 had more predictable performance.

It's a super interesting tradeoff. People would benchmark us and we'd come out way better one day but not so hot the next and that was the reason why. The flip side of that was that EC2 is stranding CPU capacity on physical hosts that are full of underutilized VMs. Even without us describing this well to the market, customers and workloads adjusted and customers and use cases migrated to each provider according to better fit (higher 'average' performance with tolerance of variability go to RAX, hardline predictable guarantees go to EC2). We had some video transcoding services that could not deal with the volatility and preferred lower performance that was predictable (and therefore kept a lot of workload on AWS).

A similar tradeoff where AWS did it one way and we did it the other is around the expectation for persistence on local disk versus ephemeral VMs. Persistence (what we did) was more like what people were used to. ephemeral is more 'cloudy'. EBS as well as hosted datastore services mitigated the difference, but the AWS approach required legacy customers and applications to re-architect for cloud and ours was more friendly to the transitional customers or people that just wanted classic feeling hosting on demand. The AWS bet was right in the sense that more of the usage of cloud (and everything actually) is in the future and not the past, and the choices we were making were more as a gap solution (but with eyes wide open about that).
Wasn't this issue addressed rather well in a recent hackernews-linked item which mathematically showed both that voting is not a sham, but that the Electoral College system is more fair than it has been represented? (sorry can't find the link!)
Engineer turned Sales Pro, happy to help with Sales Strategy and Execution
Hey guys,

Many of you are working on some pretty cool stuff and are just about ready to approach customers to make your first few sales. Awesome. Even if your product is perfect, however, getting the first few businesses on board can be tricky.

I love the startup world and am offering to help you put together your initial sales strategy (What’s your biggest selling point? Do you have a clear “hook?” Who are your target customers? How do you get them? How do you scale?). From there, I can help execute the first few deals with you to get things moving.

My background:
-Computer Engineering undergrad, Stanford MBA
-Tech sales at Microsoft New England dealing with executive decision makers at Fortune 100 companies
- Led mid-market sales at a San Francisco startup with only 1 customer when I joined (customers now include some of the biggest names in the media industry like FOX, WSJ, and AOL)

If you’re ready to start approaching customers and could use some guidance, shoot me a note: zuck AT stanford DOT edu.

Note: I’m new to offering this kind of help, so unless I’m overwhelmed with requests, I’m not charging anything pre-sale for the first few startups I work with.
Don't even consider shared hosting, unless you're setting up a cheap Wordpress site you're better off going for Heroku/AppFog or even a VPS. Shared hosting tends to be slow, unreliable, the support usually sucks and all their promises about "Unlimited X" are bullshit.

VPS do need a lot more work (not sure if I'd call it maintenance) than a shared host since you'll be installing everything from zero and after that you're the one in charge of making sure it stays running. But again, even that if preferable to using a shared host.
A flipping fortune: get snapped up for millions
Education Revolution
May be ADHD is a fake epidemic.
Yes absolutely. I was already familiar with that google mail 'feature' because I/it had unconsciously 'messed up' a couple of my replies before I realised what it was doing (and why).
Wait, is Behavioral Driven Design (BDD) for losers?
ALA New York Times. Although, I checked right before writing this, and it seems they got rid of it, or at least, they replaced it with a not less annoying, but potentially more profitable full page pop-up that forces you to sign up. I wonder if once singed, they have the auto-search. Can anyone confirm?
I don't think there is anything wrong with shared hosted during your early prototype states. I love my low cost shared hosting service Alterhosting.com - these guys go above and beyond the call of duty in support - even fixing my applications sometimes.
John Mcafee calls in to The Joe Rogan Experience
I highlight text to increase contrast, but only in situations where the "designer" has totally failed and done something terrible like put dark color text on a black background.
Yes, all those password handling, django admin integration, Request.User object, etc.
> If these are common actions, perhaps browsers (or add-ons) can provide purpose-built features for these functions.

Maybe this is one of those cases where nothing actually needs to be done. Highlighting is highlighting, it works great and fulfills different needs. There are lots of add-ons for focus, black-out, markers and other features, but none is widely used.

In adittion, we are moving towards touch interfaces. I haven't seen anyone frantically touching the screen to highlight text in those; as some have confessed here, I believe this behavior has a lot to do with the mechanical act of clicking, the sound and feedback that for some reason feels good and ends up becoming a compulsion.
I'm from NZ...

To form a government, the party with the most votes, or a coalition of parties which collectively holds a majority petition the governor general.

For a single party this is quite straightforward.

To form a coalition the member parties agree on a 'Confidence and supply agreement" This is basically a statement that in the event of a vote of no-confidence, all of the coalitions members will support the coalition, and also a broad agreement on the budget. Getting an agreement on confidence usually involves a certain amount of horse trading about ministerial and vice ministerial positions. Likewise, the agreement on supply will probably involve some intense budget and joint-policy negotiations.

If you had a parliament of 101 seats, split into an opposition of 50 seats, and a government of 51, itself made up of a large party (48 seats) and a small party (3 seats) what you will probably see is the small party only has the tiniest influence on the coalition agreement. They probably traded everything else to get their senior member a ministerial position.
Thank you for your opinion. The reason behind this analysis was to examine why sales figures and usage figures amongst the two leading platforms did not match up. Not everything is a conspiracy. I am not a mobile developer, just an analyst (not in the tech industry) who enjoys crunching numbers on my own time. I thought I would share it to spark conversation, and I am happy to see it has. Not everyone has an agenda.
I don't think so. I fell in love with PostgreSQL in High School and that love only continues into my 20s.
http://www.kimsufi.com/fr/index.xml

Intel Celeron/Atom 1.2+ GHz 1 Core 64 bits, 500 GB HDD, 100 Mbps, 1 IPv4, /64 IPv6, 5TB traffic (after 5TB - they will slow you down)
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Slow loading time.
The term "pivot" has clearly "jumped the shark".

I've also viewed "mobile first" as thought/design methodology that doesn't mandate you must then "build" mobile first.
Why are we giving airtime to this sort of junk science?

Observing the present and inferring about the past without a testable hypothesis is not proof of anything. It is storytelling. Gorillas didn't evolve into humans, we probably have a common ancestor and if we had more evidence on that common ancestor we could probably come up with what actually happened. The article and the research connected to it is nothing short of speculative fiction aimed at getting funding with a catchy headline.
Cool, thanks for the cyclic tab. That was a new one for me.

I've been using the remap of the up/down arrow for a while too, and it is crazily useful indeed. It's the first thing I do on a new terminal. That, together with adjusting PS1 and setting up my common aliases.
Further more, in some countries a local broker may get you a far better deal than you would ever get online. It is just that online tools penetration is not quite there for the smaller tour/lodge/travel operators in 3rd world countries.

One example:From Lima to Cuzco (on your way to Machu Pichu)
Flight via regular airline ~$300.
Overnight bus on a 1st class seat/bed (Very comfy!) ~$30!
(You sleep most of the way, so you save 1 night hotel and adjust to the high altitude while on the road)
And this is CPU bound or memory bound?
Which packages will also increase your update times ... This goes double when using something that doesn't ship binaries like Macports.
I think you missed my point - more users does equal more data, but there's no incentive for Android users to instal land use Apple Maps if they already have Google Maps on their phone. It'd get so few users that it would be a waste of time.

The introduction of iPod (and iPhone/iPad) compatibility to Windows is different because at the time, the iPod was by far the best MP3 player - this just made it usable to more people.
Holy fuck, I thought it was just me.

I think I do it more with black on white. I find it difficult to focus reading from a large bright screen.

I do find I end up not bothering to read a lot of articles I'd like to online, end up either bookmarking and ignoring, or just skimming over. Think it's because reading long articles in a particular layout is a chore. A layout browser extension might help, I should give it a try.
It would make sense, but for now Apple is restricting monthly subscriptions through IAP to only Newsstand magazines/publications
Yeah but undoing sending something to someone as opposed to editing a text file feels like pure magic, not to mention the fact that the undo link is right up there in front of you after you have clicked Send.
Anyone highlighting text for the contrast will love this Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-vision/fomm...
How do you think of Chinese origin software?
What's Opera doing?
BDD is great, in my opinion, especially for working on larger projects with longer goals.

For example we're using BDD on a multi-million-dollar multi-year project with dozens of stakeholders and programmers from multiple organizations.

When we bring a new person on board he can read the BDD and quickly understand what's happening.

We use Cucumber, Selenium, and also use TDD tools like RSpec and minitest/spec, and minitest/benchmark.
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It's also a good idea to install (and configure) at least some basic IDS like tripwire. You should probably have it do checks on a cron job
as well as doing chkrootkit.

Also a good idea to have your log files backed up somewhere else where your server does not have sufficient access to delete (or modify) them.

Also if you have multiple web apps running, chroot them if at all possible so that if something does break out it can't (so easily) wreak havok over your entire filesystem.

If you are using PHP also bare in mind that a common default is for all sessions to be written to /tmp which is world read and writeable. So if others have access to your server they can steal or destroy sessions easily.

I also didn't see mention of an update strategy for security updates. You can use apticron to email you with which updates are available and which are important for security.

You can set updates to go automatically (I recommend security only) but if you are more cautious
you might want to test on a VM first. But keep an eye on them! This is very important, especially if you are managing wordpress etc through apt.

And so many other things that I have probably forgotten.

Having some form of audit (that tripwire can provide) is vital in those "oh fuck" moments where something doesn't seem quite right and you start wondering if you have been pwned but have no real way of actually knowing.
Who is scavenging through wreckage? Moxie mentioned buying used at a thrift store, which many many people do out of necessity anyways. And believe it or not, oil drum fires are a pretty infrequent occurrence.
I do this, and another "silly" thing I do is when I copy something to the clipboard, I often hit cmd-c three or four times quickly. I don't remember why or when I picked up this habit. I imagine maybe at some point I had a system or program that didn't always register the copy the first time? Or maybe it's just completely random. But I don't even notice I'm doing it until someone points it out and asks me about it.
A crucial question. I don't really know of any calculation that's looked at total food energy production based on sustainable production plants vs. animals.

I think we can safely assume the optimal balance is neither all plant nor all animal, but I am in no position to hazard a guess as to what the optimal balance is.

We're so far off from sustainable production of either plants or animals that the question isn't on most people's radar.
Rdio - is iOS app used to manage music:

Earlier today, music streaming service Rdio launched a major update of its mobile app for iPhone and iPad, a much-needed redesign for an app that was starting to show its age.
Yes. I do for multiple reasons
It's a shame that PostgreSQL hasn't come into the 21st century with decent clustering and replication support. The big trend of the last couple of years has been moving from scaling vertically to horizontally. PostgreSQL's inability to keep up with this has been disappointing and a missed opportunity.
This is proof Meteor is not the future. Bloated JS heavy webpages that aren't RESTful or modular are not moving the web forward.

Aside from that, I don't see the utility of being able to see the stories change order, or comments come in. Especially once you have large numbers of comments and the stories reorder constantly.

I just don't see what is so interesting about Meteor - and I love node.js and JavaScript.
Also, multi column indexes: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/options/#dj...
We need both. Many devs love the screencasts.
The results of this are blatantly clear when you view any company's "what's it like to work here". Video. It's embarrassing to see companies trying to recruit and having their prejudices on full display. what is worse, is they are not smart enough to even realize that they made a video of 30 white male 24 year olds.
Yep, same here (used sarcastically)

"..and I gather Mr. Porky here is the Brains Trust of this shambolic organisation?"