skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just on the point about upgrading, I can remember between two versions of Bootstrap where markup changes were required in order for the site to function properly with the new release, and no backwards compatibility was provided. Unless somebody is waiting for new features in the latest release, I can see them not wanting to bother going through and updating all of their forms or views. However, if the new features are compelling, it will be worth the effort. Really this is the same decision process we go through when deciding whether or not to upgrade any underlying framework or supporting software.
Because IPv6 breaks hard if ICMP is filtered. It depends on a bunch of newly allocated message types and replaces things like ARP and (some functions of) DHCP with broadcast ICMP.

There is tons of little crap like this in the low level details of IPv6. "We don't like that people do X, so we will force them to stop"
Any news on if the OS X GUI is still Carbon-based? Was hoping the new version would be Retina-ready.
My advice:

Publicly expound on how you don't care about those users and they are SOL because they are in the minority. It won't matter because it doesn't affect the rest of your userbase, right?

</sarcasm>
Your right, I was on public transport. Actually I went to hire a jeep but had forgot my drivers licence back in the UK, given your comments I'm probably lucky I didn't!
Hindi/Urdu and other subcontinental languages are also Indo-European and their lands have histories and linguistic influences at least as colorful as England's. But English has got to be in the running.
why do you say that? several groups looking to replace flash with webrtc based video chat (opentok) and they already have some basic support.
> So I wonder if the macro experiment was that something like Groupon would replace it those other forms of outreach.

It's flawed as an experiment in reaching people through new media because the price points are unsustainable. If you're offering a product or service that's at least marginally interesting at 70% off as a reward for booking through a certain channel, then some portion of the population is going to book through that channel no matter how cumbersome it is.

In other words, if the deal is compelling enough, the channel doesn't really matter.

What we're seeing is small businesses wising up to the fact that no, they're not going to get enough increased sales to account for the loss leading groupon. So they're moving back to the traditional 10-20% off 'deals', and the deal sites are taking a bath in the process.
You’ve Been Hacked, The State Of Hacked Accounts
That quote probably includes mandatory OT. Think 10 - 12 hour shifts. Also danger pay and combat pay. If they kill someone in the line of duty they get some sort of extra psych pay.

Only requires completion of P.O.S.T.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education:
Possession of a high school diploma, GED or recognized equivalent and completion of at least 30 semester (or 45 uarter) credits of college course work from an accredited college or university. At least one half of the credits must be obtained in analytical subjects requiring written reports or examinations.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:H1EC_0JyCksJ:...
Sometimes you just have to follow the specifications or follow the rules or obey the laws. They don't always make sense.
Well, look at some countries with rampant corruption, nepotism and other abuses. They have all the technologies you mentioned available, but generally still do not have economic success.
Lisp is too slow? I find this hard to believe. SBCL is incredibly fast, allows run-time compiling, and if you dig in the source, actually is partially written in assembly for speed. That's in part why Duncan Temple-Lang and Ross Ihaka suggested it as a base for a new R implementation a while back (http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3726).
How much of that 500GB of transfer do you actually use every month?
If the small businesses take a bath on the daily deals though, you've alienated the small businesses instead of gaining them.
bullshit. They are the establishment, the old white guys, whose model is not the most efficient way of getting things done.

yes, someone made the wrong call infrastructure wise, but you have to ask: why did they make this call? It's because, in their world, this is how you do it.

The Dems were more open to a different type of campaign that brought tech in house etc.

Writing it off as an infrastructure choice with no relation to how they think is disingenuous.
Exactly. I went to school and did research hoping to have a career in robotics/Unmanned air vehicles and I had resigned myself to having to work in defense because unless you are in Europe, the number of companies that work on robotics that is not defense related is very small (Single digits, I would say). While, I would have serious problems with the whole idea of actively participating in war, the fact of the matter is that the kind of problems that I would get to hack on while working on there would have been tremendous fun.
tl;dr: Any illusion of privacy on Facebook is just that: an illusion. Everyone needs to realize that in the privacy convo.

Four-ish years ago Facebook made all private profile pictures public. No warnings, no options. My girlfriend at the time (soon to be wife) and I weren't publicizing our relationship then because of serious cultural and religious issues that we knew we'd face when we told our parents. We didn't get to make that decision, because a picture of the two of us was her profile picture... one day it was private and the other it wasn't. This had a profound impact on my life in a very real way and has come to represent everything I expect of privacy on FB.

Anything you do on Facebook is owned by Facebook. It says so in ther TOS. If they wanted to make a Billboard out of an embarrassing conversation you had on the site they could. Any illusion of privacy is just that: an illusion. Zuckerberg an FB have been very open about the fact that they see privacy as a dead concept, and that everything should be share by default.

The sooner everyone realizes that there is no such thing as private data on FB the sooner we can approach the service on realistic terms.
I don't know why you were being downvoted but I don't think -anything- should ever be able to block the execution thread. I never liked the fact that you could force lock a user by spamming alert/confirm boxes and I saw this effect as a bug of the default behavior of the operating system over a feature of the browser.

I used to work in applications that require you to do -as much as possible- to keep the window open. This isn't for spam reasons, it is because we did assessment and you really, really didn't want someone closing half-way through an assessment, especially one that is timed. You also don't want to freeze the timer because you might leave the user an opportunity to cheat (close window, research, relaunch assessment, repeat).

So this was real example of something that really should be single-execution. However, even with all the popups, checks, refresh-push-forward, launch-window-on-exit hacks we tried we STILL got users lost out of the system. Not only that but we wound up annoying/angering/confusing 1000 users for every 1 user it helped.

shrug

YMMV, but I believe 99.999% of all issues can be solved with user/session caches and clear wording over blocking the execution thread.
Sounds about right. Do you have any sources or this or is this what you've seen personally?
The fact that companies aren't going to Series A is because they're raising more in Seed funding & the ones which are going to Series A are ones which investors are doubling down because, those Seed investments have worked & they don't want to waste their resources.
I got one of the early pandora consoles ( http://www.openpandora.org/ ). They had some previous experience in the field and ended up shipping around a year after their original estimate. I think even the revised estimate for the occulus is quite optimistic.

On the other hand, the raspberry pi guys did a lot better than I expected.
Seems to me that ES6 adds a lot of useful constructs.

Java is usually criticized for adding features too slowly and promoting bloated codebases due to an inflexible language. I don't see how this is anything like Javascript or promotes buggy programs.
What's the threat model?

Careless or corrupt health staff releasing my information without my permission? Well, it doesn't really matter where the data is stored.
Does this mean they will now be charging for what was service pack updates?
We tried push notifications, but they were unreliable. (people disabled them, they were delayed etc, doesn't work with bad reception).

We're working on something better.
Absolutely, they could have done much better by spending intelligently. But tend to also agree with alxp here, in that given finite resources you will be better off with missionaries rather than mercenaries.
New Hack Abuses Cloud-Based Browsers
works surprisingly great on mobile
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on a galaxy nexus (cm10) (animations are bit laggy, but thats fine)
A percentage figure gives us a much better idea of what the scope of this layoff will be.

> LivingSocial, which has raised more than $800 million in funding, entered 2012 with a staff of roughly 5,000. The company’s most recent publicly disclosed headcount stands at “more than 4,500 employees,” according to its website.

So that's around 8-9% of its workforce.
As mentioned at the end of the post:

> Perhaps a different type of Republican candidate, one whose views on social policy are more in line with the tolerant and multicultural values of the Bay Area, and the youthful cultures of the leading companies here, could gather more support among information technology professionals.

> Ron Paul, the libertarian-leaning Republican, raised about $42,000 from Google employees, considerably more than Mr. Romney did.

So Ron Paul getting money is very different from the rest of the GOP getting money.
I can't tell if you're trolling or being willfully ignorant?

Zero represents the state of "nothingness" - the universe before anything exists. The blank slate, tabula rasa, etc. The empty page before you write anything it.

Zero is a very deep concept and it is far from useless. See the book "Zero: history of a dangerous number".
It is online learning, but as far as I understand, there is another side to it. Right now, if you get a new data stream, you have to play around to build the right models for it (mostly manually, with trial and error) before you do online learning. As the number of data streams grows, this doesn't scale well. Their algorithm adapts online to the data stream without you having to design any model.
True, I remember a friend chose an internship at Altria (parent company to Phillip Morris, the cigarette company) over another because they paid so much better.

Re your friend though: I'd chalk it up to a maturation and the pragmatism that comes with it.
Maybe for some businesses it's not profitable, but it could be fantastic for places like a restaurant.

Every time I buy a groupon for a restaurant it's one I haven't been to before. It's never enough to pay for more than 1 meal and I don't really ever go alone. I usually buy a drink, soft or alcoholic, they're high margin. If I like the food it's on my list of places that I'll go back to. If I don't like the food, they still made some profit.

I think the problem is that these daily deal companies scaled way too fast. Instead of getting profitable in one city and growing, they tried to go nationwide and hired gigantic sales teams. Then, to make quick money they started selling terrible products and people lost interest.
Wow, thanks for that. I'm surprised more people don't know this. I'll stop spreading the misinformation.
The only bad thing I see about Twitter Bootstrap, due to it's success, is that seems to be used everywhere and so many startup projects all look the same.

Do they all look different to people who aren't designers/devs? I don't know, but as a developer, when I see a new project I have become oblivious to the design and find it challenging sometimes to see past the "just another app built with twitter bootstrap" to find the application's true value
Assuming it kept the same mass?

And even if it had a lot more mass?
I'm pleasantly surprised that PyPi will be prominently featured on the official python.org redesign!
Yes. The real title fight would have been between Ron Paul and Obama's tech teams. That would have been Google vs. Facebook. Romney vs. Obama in tech was like Myspace vs. Facebook.
Astronomers find biggest black hole, 17 billion times the size of Sun
> When did you think about the first time and when did you really decide to do this step?

The inkling of a possibility of something like this only entered my head around March/April 2012. I committed to the idea in June 2012.

> How do you start? Bootstrap it by your own or try to go with for a VC?

I'm attempting to bootstrap it on my own for now, because I think I have a solid foundation so there is a clear line to revenue. Of course, my runway to do this is much shorter than if I had VC funding. On the other hand, I have a lot more freedom without VC funding.

> How are you planning the addon open source/paid addon ratio will be like?

There will be many more open source add-ons, and I think it should be this way.

Thank YOU for using Vagrant. :)
Looks awesome! Smooth transitions!
s3 is not optimally priced for consumer file storage, i'd think it's better priced for webapps and such, where speed and reliability is super important.

if you web server is on ec2 you also get the lower latency of having everything in one place.
Same I left MSFT in March to do my own thing! Not just this Windows App tho, it was just a side project while I failed at a startup earlier this year.

I was just thinking that with the state of the how APIs were last year this would have been very tough to do, so I was wondering if you went the JS route since it was in better shape than XAML.
I find this proposal an interesting thought experiment, for sure, but replacing all the vocabulary except the grammatical words seems more likely to me than replacing just the grammatical words and the grammar and retaining all the other vocabulary. Are there any other cases of the grammatical words being replaced while the rest of the vocab was left intact?

The fact that there was so much and such dramatic change happening that either of those possibilities are reasonable suggests to me that we're not going to get a definitive conclusion anytime soon.
Redis vs MongoDB memory usage
"What used to be an obelisk is now becoming a pyramid."

Off-topic, but what does this mean? (curious non-native speaker)
Yeah they use CSS Media queries, its the easiest method to detect them especially for a responsive design
Yes and no. While you can go too far with it (and I'm not judging whether LS did) having a nice office makes workers happier, and more likely to stay. Providing free food means they are less likely to leave the office, etc. etc.

It's not a total waste of money, but it can be.
Geographic Clipping (in D3.js version 3)
Love Alex, atthepool, YC and HN. Great idea to combine HN and atthepool. Go ATP!
Ask HN: How do you preform competitior monitoring and where do you get the data?
I am developing a competition monitoring web application and just wanted to ask the community how do you currently stay updated with your competitors activity online and where do you find useful information about them? I am trying to join several information sources under one big roof in order to get the daily competitor activity stream for a nice MVP. What I would like to ask is whether anyone finds this idea worth trying or has any other suggestions about the concept? Also I would really appreciate if you can give some comments about my pre-launch page that I use to collect future clients emails (http://kompetoo.com/signup/).
This is something google specifically does.
And it's not something you can really do if you loose your phone (i.e you need two-factor authentication to get there to disable two-factor authentication).
Plus is not something that is centralized (if you have X accounts you have to go to all X accounts and disable them), and then you need to reconfigure all X accounts.

Honestly that's a lot of work. I've been using Google Authenticator for 2 years now with 7 accounts. Everytime I change phones (twice now) it's been a nightmare. Also since I travel, half the time they don't work.

I am going to build Google Auth support into Authy and it will be 10 times better that the Google Authenticator App....how I wish Google would do it, but they have abandoned Google Authenticator long time ago (they didn't even bother to support retina display's).
I find the use of gender here interesting and illuminating: "[this] is a mistake that kills several women every year in London".

80% of cycling casualties are men.

http://www.rospa.com/roadsafety/adviceandinformation/cycling...

The relative speed of a cyclist to a bus is rarely 8 m/s in built-up areas in my experience, particularly not in circumstances where a bike has found its way inadvertently into the blind spot. But then I'm not an expert and won't claim to be.
You're mostly talking about reliability at the physical layer, which as you say is never going to be perfect. Csense is talking about reliability at the link layer and above, which is infinitely more attainable.
Doesn't websockify do this better?
I am a native Danish speaker (my first language) and this article definitely rings true to me. I wouldn't go so far as to say that English is a Scandinavian language proper, but it was very easy to learn growing up.

Even as a kid growing up in Denmark, with all the British/American shows on TV (not dubbed) it was easy to learn a lot just by reading subtitles and following along. I give Saturday morning cartoon re-runs a lot of credit for helping me to learn. I remember sitting on a train with a friend of mine and us both realizing that we both knew a lot of English a year before we were going to start learning it in school.

I've found that most Scandinavians (or at least Danes) have a pretty easy time with English. Because the sentence structures are so similar, you're mostly plugging in English words that you're already familiar with and using the same sentence.

That said, on a deeper level, English is a very different language. That's most likely because it is such a cross between other languages.
Windows Phone sales quadruple, 7.8 update coming early 2013
> either just as an aquihire

I think if there is an 80% death rate, then nobody has to worry about aquihire deals: Companies will simply go back to normal hiring.
MyHeritage Buys Geni.com In An 8-Figure Deal, Raises $25M
I used to wrap to 79 because I used to write a lot of Python but once you get to the world of Java, 79 hampers readability. I still feel uncomfortable (and guilty) going beyond 79 though.
They're considered "poor grammar" for historical reasons (mainly because they're impossible in Latin), not because they are not understood (compare to "I the dog kick" which is ungrammatical in a much more rigorous sense). From a linguistic standpoint what's interesting is what is understood and what isn't, not what is the most proper.
Can I just say on a related note that I'm chuffed to bits to see interesting linguistics stories make it to the frontpage? No linkbait, no inane Silicon Valley inside baseball, and all that usual stuff.
Dinosaurs are birds.
US consumers losing the race for Internet speed
Design-wise, it looks fantastic. Can I ask why there is absolutely no branding on the login page (or the TOS)?
Except for the giant screen, I don't see much that looks particularly extravagant. Too much space (why all those meeting rooms?) and too many employees, probably, but it's hardly Ion Storm.
Nah to me "rockstar ninja" it is just a marketing term. Sure it sounds great and may fill arenas of recruiters but I still can't quite define what such a person is.

Is it a good programmer who knows all the bits and bolts of a given language or an adaptable developer who can master concepts from another programming language? Will the ideal candidate write good code AND good tests?

It's just too vague... Simply doesn't rock my confusion.
Then it is likely that they will never be over.

Much like Google did with SPDY, I suspect they can (and at some point some big player will, be it google or someone else) release a TCP replacement that, unlike IPv6, is actually useful if you only have an IPv4 link between endpoints; and it will be this protocol that will eventually replace IPv4 rather than IPv6.

There's even a candidate: CCN; read apenwarr on Van Jacobson for more http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201211#11

I just hope they combine it with something like NACL, so that we have secure by default, end-to-end unsniffable communciation.
And on that note, is it even class discrimination to sell a product/service that not everyone can afford? It sounds to me that Uber offers some extra value/convenience (for every customer) that traditional cabs don't and that will cost you a little extra.
Those protests were popularized by grammarians who learned grammar thru a Latin lens, so, to them, being used to the Latin grammar, this construct in English looked incorrect. From a Germanic language context, though, it's perfectly normal.
Fun biology facts: the world’s longest animal
Are you serious with these green terminal sessions? Wow....my eyes
Which 10-inch Android tablet is best?
Beware survivor bias (in this case I guess it is the converse). The only DoD contracts you ever hear about are the ones that are over budget and behind schedule. That doesn't mean that the vast majority of them actually aren't great engineering on time and under budget.
This is an awesome hack. We really need real TCP connections from the browser. Until then this looks like a great workaround. I eagerly await the day we can use the browser for everything we do (did?) with Desktop apps.
It looks like with websockify you have to run a server with their wrapper to make it work
> I'd much rather see catching up with regard to ORM/SQL efficiency improvements, cache infrastructure usefulness

I hope you're talking about Sequel and not that namespace-polluting, memory-consuming, bloated beast called ActiveRecord. In that case, I wholeheartedly agree.
There are some areas where you do need a series A before you have revenue or user traction. Not all business ideas are php web apps or even SaaS.
Canada only has 35 million people. That's fewer than California.
The military's answer to Instagram, Foursquare, etc.
Ryan Singer from 37signals on software design, workflow, and “Judo”
That's a massive project, but I agree most learning in CS happens with actual implementation. There's a massive difference in knowledge between being able to say "I've studied that" and "I've built that".

It appears the professor, Dr. Andreas Haeberlen, is deeply connected to some of the tech titans and has structured the course around influence from his own network [1]. Bravo. We need more similar course offerings across schools.

Internet and Web Systems is quite interesting in combining aspects of data structures, web apps, distributed systems, information retrieval, and cloud computing in a single course. Its undergrad daughter course Scalable and Cloud Computing also seems valuable. Some excellent paper and tutorial links are included on their course webpages [2][3].

1: http://www.thedp.com/article/2012/11/company-sponsored-compu...

2: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~cis455/

3: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mkse212/