skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but IE is huge. It really is, and I wouldn't have believed it before I started working on a large site in Europe (approx 900K uniques per day). At least a third of our visitors are using IE, sometimes even IE8 or 7 (we've finally gotten rid of 6).

I often wonder who these people are, and then I talk to my boss, who uses IE8 and complains constantly that we all use Chrome (on Windows, FF for the win on a decent machine/machine running Linux). So yeah, unfortunately, if you're doing ecommerce for ordinary people, you're stuck with supporting IE and the whole host of issues that entails. Seriously, 100char limit? WTF Microsoft, fix that already.
Installing dovecot is not much harder then setting up a domain in Google Apps. It works great for small set-ups and you own the data.
Rackspace Email (formerly MailTrust). The service itself is excellent (IMAP/POP/Exchange hosting, spam filtering as good as Google's, a 100% uptime SLA, daily backups), and it comes with Rackspace's well-known 24x7x365 phone, chat and ticket support. I've hosted my mail there for 7 domains for years.
I like obscure spiritual questions and answers myself.

And now that I've said this on a public forum (a little googling is all it takes to identify me) I will have to change it to something more obscure...
It's short for "narcotraficante" - drug trafficker. Hence, "el narco" is the drug producer/dealer.
Minesweeper only has ads if you play the new "Minesweeper Adventure" mode or the "Daily Challenges" mode. If you play the classic mode there are no ads.
The GNOME crew just do not get it.

There is near-universal hatred for everything about GNOME 3. We aren't talking about nitpicking, either. People outright hate everything about GNOME 3.

Existing GNOME users are fleeing to Xfce, KDE and other environments like never before. GNOME 3 surely isn't bringing in that many new users, if it has even brought in any.

It's clear that the GNOME project is tearing itself apart. Most long-time users have given up hope of things getting better. We can't blame them, considering that each GNOME-related announcement brings bad news (even if the GNOME developers mistakenly consider it to be good news).

This announcement just reinforces the feeling that bad ideas rule at the GNOME project these days.
It's based on Pocket Edition wich (unless it was added later) is only Creative Mode. Given the limited resources of the Pi I doubt it will have Survival/Adventure.
On your theory, products should never go on discount. Clearly the world feels differently.
Yes, they should have broken the line before `word[1:]` so it was clearer.
"In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."

This paradox rests on the most elementary common sense. The gate or fence did not grow there. It was not set up by somnambulists who built it in their sleep. It is highly improbable that it was put there by escaped lunatics who were for some reason loose in the street. Some person had some reason for thinking it would be a good thing for somebody. And until we know what the reason was, we really cannot judge whether the reason was reasonable. It is extremely probable that we have overlooked some whole aspect of the question, if something set up by human beings like ourselves seems to be entirely meaningless and mysterious. There are reformers who get over this difficulty by assuming that all their fathers were fools; but if that be so, we can only say that folly appears to be a hereditary disease. But the truth is that nobody has any business to destroy a social institution until he has really seen it as an historical institution. If he knows how it arose, and what purposes it was supposed to serve, he may really be able to say that they were bad purposes, that they have since become bad purposes, or that they are purposes which are no longer served. But if he simply stares at the thing as a senseless monstrosity that has somehow sprung up in his path, it is he and not the traditionalist who is suffering from an illusion."

- G.K. Chesterton
Another one I discovered recently: http://xbreaker.github.com/plusstrap/
Games with DNA - HTML5 visualization of DNA sequences
Non trivial 2d visualization of DNA sequences
Agreed. I have to make a point of doing this with my fiction, such a leaving sentences half-finished, and I found that it does wonders for maintaining productivity. It keeps my mind from "closing the loop" and treating a project as "finished" prematurely.
Not to argue with you, robrenaud, but Hinton himself writes in their 2006 paper 'A Fast Learning Algorithm for Deep Belief Nets':

The greedy algorithm bears some resemblance to boosting in its repeated use of the same “weak” learner, but instead of reweighting each data vector to ensure that the next step learns something new, it re- represents it.

I guess that most people however would not think of this interpretation of greedily pretraining deep networks :).
(I wonder if mbq had this in mind).

In the same article your point about good models of the input is mentioned, too (only copy&paste a small part of the paragraph):

Unsupervised methods, however, can use very large unlabeled data sets, and each case may be very high-dimensional, thus providing many bits of constraint on a generative model.

The 2006 paper is really an amazing read in my opinion.
They seem to work fine in processing.js:

http://jsfiddle.net/6HG8f/22/
Show HN: Freemium usability testing for your startup
I have been fine tuning a competitor to usertesting.com. I am specifically focusing on getting real user feedback for startup's websites.

Website owners ask the testers what to focus on and our testers record between 8-15 minutes of feedback while navigating the website.

I am crowd sourcing the feedback and delivering the video in as fast as 1-2 hours. I would like to show it to you and see if I can maintain a quick delivery rate.

http://betapunch.com. If you have a website and are looking for some honest feedback, give it a try and I would love to know what you think!

Thanks,
-Ross
> How many of us have to where some I similar at work?

Those with broken souls or those that work in high-security institutions? This is hardly the average experience in an office FFS.

> This is not big brother, its what every sane parent wants to know: where is my kid?

You're joking right? This is completely big brother, and in my mind sane and endlessly controlling aren't compatible concepts. Indicting every other parent who doesn't want to ChildTracker(TM) their kids as insane is by far the most ridiculous part of your comment.

Wanting to know where you kid is at all times and going to invasive lengths to gather that information are two completely different things. If your child is out and unaccounted for, you should be worried. You shouldn't be checking their GPS tracker on your phone to gain that peace of mind. Sane parents have another key skill: self control.

It's a disgusting invasion of privacy, akin to ransacking your child's room to check for undesirable items. Feel free to do it, just don't be surprised when nobody visits you at the home in 20 years. You broke that bond of trust and respect a long time ago and it won't just suddenly re-appear.
Yes, and some companies do that; this is not, however, a universal aspect of customers: many of them choose on price alone. In fact, there are ISPs who do exactly what you describe: by and large, though, the majority of people (if not always the majority of dollars) just optimize for lower prices, even if the result makes them unhappy due to poor product longevity or crappy customer support. You thereby are choosing your market, which leads to the massive dichotomies that exist between players like Dell and Apple.

You see this in computers (Apple only targets high-end customers for a reason, and you pay for all of those happy people everywhere), you see this in airline tickets (nothing makes me angrier than someone who complains about the food on a flight they optimized down to the penny using a service like PriceLine.com), you see this in food (people get angry that the food they eat is unhealthy, but don't take this into account as part of the price)... you just see this everywhere: people optimize on the one thing that is easy to optimize in the moment, and that is price.
> CSS is not that hard.

It is not hard, it is just not fit for laying out UI because it is was not developed with this purpose in mind. CSS3/flexbox is an afterthought attempt to fix that.
Using Webscript with Cosm
iTunes being a forcefeed of ads is one of the reasons I detest it, and similarly for Steam's store. Absolutely detest being bombarded with crap I didn't ask or search for. I actively buy things elsewhere to avoid the ads.
The reason calling a company back at a listed number doesn't work is that companies very rarely operate their own call centers, and they very often outsource functions to more than one call center at a time, and they very often shift work between these call centers over time.

For example, the call center you reach when you call the number on the back of your credit card is not the same one that calls you when the bank flags a suspicious transaction on the card. The first is an inbound call center hired and trained on service scripts, the second is an outbound call center that only handles the fraud checks and is probably serving multiple banks.

They're possibly not even in the same country. They're possibly not even the same depending on what time you call -- Comcast, for example, has inbound call centers in the US open during business hours, but routes calls to the same number to Indian call centers during late night hours.

Each call center has different training and different access to the customer accounts. The inbound tech support call center doesn't have access to the company's billing systems, while the outbound fraud verification call center doesn't have access to support tickets.

Having everyone a company tries to reach by phone call back at the company's phone number would lead to a phone menu with more options than buttons on your phone.
Support is also part of the cost of the product and customers need to take that into account: this is a two-way street, and you can't just blindly assume that support is somehow the most important factor in deciding whether something will be purchased; I will even say it is downright naive (although popular in the entitled Web 2.0 culture) to claim that it is part of the "sales" process: some people just can't afford to pay that much money to get the product with the better support, so it is actually anti-sales.

In fact, it is actually quite often that people don't want to pay that, even if they can: many of my friends do not actually use customer service on their computers and they know enough not to call our ISP about stupid issues that have nothing to do with them. They therefore tend to optimize their purchases of these kinds of products based on other factors, like price, and if someone says "Verizon has terrible customer support" they don't care if it saves them money they can spend on other things.

What you are seriously saying is that the price of gum at the gas station should be higher so that the gas station attendant can have the time to hear every single complaint you might have about it: I'm sorry, but most people just want a cheap pack of gum. It is entirely market-dependent whether people are willing to shell out more money for better support. Would it be cool if everyone everywhere had great support? Maybe, but it certainly wouldn't be efficient, and people would have to buy a lot less.

As a sad logical conclusion of this, my business model simply doesn't work if you have to provide world-class support. You cay say it is part of "sales", but honestly, in the end, you paid $1 for something: maybe all you need right now is a refund. People think it could work as a business, though, because they see Apple doing just that, but Apple makes their money on hardware with multi-hundred dollar margins, and then breaks even selling apps for those devices only because it is an interesting way for them to sell more hardware.

Yet, people want businesses like mine to exist. People go to thrift stores, they buy stuff at $1 stores, they purposely get Dell laptops (and wait until they are on sale with a special offer code), and PriceLine.com finally slumped, but it did so slower than the highly price-competitive airline industry that people complain about bitterly. Some people just don't feel that support is something they are willing to pay for: it is a form of insurance against the future that doesn't harm anyone else if you choose not to buy it, and so often you just don't and live with the consequences.
Report: SolarCity IPO before the end of the year?
Hypermedia is the New REST
The last bit about the "subconscious processing" is spot on. I read a study once that found that people daydream/drift off around 30% of the entire day, and the people who do not resist doing this and allow themselves to dream are more creative and productive as a result.
I actually make them tell me my ssn. I took a call like this from a collector once. There is another person with my name who skipped on his verizon cell bill. I've never had a verizon cell. I was polite; he was a bit aggressive, but I simply explained the fact that it couldn't have been me. I didn't reveal anything about my info.

I then called verizon and confirmed with them that they didn't have a record of me (but yes had someone with my name). They confirmed he had a different ssn.

I then wrote a letter to the agency telling them that a 2 minute call to verizon would confirm that I wasn't their man. I told them that I consider their failure to do so was negligent, and I would hold them entirely responsible for any damage to my credit rating.

My credit rating was not affected- but it may have had nothing to do with my letter.
I've seen some folks do that, and hats off to them; but I learnt vi before emacs, and despite trying to learn emacs a few times over the years, I just never did get to the point where I'd feel comfortable using it for work. So org-mode was always out for me. But it works well for others...
People seem to be bashing this but a free hack able port of minecraft for low spec computers has massive potential In education I believe. Is it free?
Every day, we’re bombarded with advertising. Billboards. TV. Internet. Flyers. Cereal. Shoes. Advertising comes in every form and flavor, and it’s impossible to get away from.

This isn't true. I seldom see billboards (I live in the city, looking at the traffic is more than enough); I don't have a TV, I don't get flyers, don't eat cereal, and use adblock in my browser. It's very very rare for me to see ads outside of free apps for my android devices, and those generally go away once I buy the non-free versions.

I do not expect an OS I pay for to show me ads, and I'll reject any such OS as maliciously attacking my attention span.
Thank you saurik. However clichéd it sounds, I'm amazed at how many times the comments on HN manage to blow my mind.
Two reasons:

One believe it or not there's a housing shortage in the downtown area. A lot of employers are giving employees bonuses to live downtown and young professionals are taking them.

http://citiwire.net/columns/housing-shortages-in-detroit/

Second is that there's more freedom to experiment in Detroit than a lot of other places.
Hacking my Vagina
We have just under 400 sites tested and a database of more than 1400 user testers.
Funny, did a whois, its registered to a mathew weir, bought 2005, found a mathew weir on linkedin who provided advanced technical support for godaddy from 2006 to 2009, is currently godaddy alumn... godaddysucks.com on the other hand, is registered to godaddy - that's all I got for a story in 30 secs :)
The German Programming Apprenticeship - A Review
Mentioned somewhere else:
http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/
with a tutorial
http://deeplearning.net/tutorial

Not C++ or Python, but lua with lots of stuff:
torch 7 [[http://www.torch.ch/]]
While I disagree that tablets and smartphones are mere toys, I do agree Desktop Linux devs seem to miss who the target user is.

I feel like the Linux platform is one of a small group of technologies where I, a developer and computer nerd, are the target user. They should embrace that, not try to push me away.
I assume most people use the regular calendar year, as their year?
I'm not sure what you're saying is true. I, personally, am a huge fan of GNOME 3 and everything the project has done and plans on doing. Most of my friends (Linux users) are also satisfied, and have no major problems with it. But we usually don't talk about it on Hacker News or other message boards, because we're happy with what we have.

People who are unhappy are much more likely to speak out than those who are content. Clearly, GNOME 3 has annoyed a lot of people, judging by how many people are angry. But I think that generalizing and saying there's "near universal hatred for everything about GNOME 3" is a bit unfair.
Validating the CSS on Twitter Bootstrap sites is always entertaining. Even (or especially) the official TB site.

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%...
You just made this FUD up. Google uses MX records to send to Apps customers, because some of them run their mail through third-party services and proxies.
lol... looks like a disgruntled employee :)
Show HN: site-wide HTML5 and CSS3 validator
Possible, but unlikely to be done.

"We washed them thoroughly with a hose."
Worth noting the domain (fuckgodaddy.com) is registered with GoDaddy themselves
I haven't read the article. First thing that I saw when visiting this blog/site whatever was a long pageover list with checkboxes and email input fields asking me to subscribe to something. There was no close button immediately visible, so I just closed the tab instead of proceeding.

Sorry, but if you really want your story visible, please stop treating your visitors like that.
Crashplan added to the list of companies that only provide customer service to people who create PR disasters on social media.
GTK Javascript Tutorial
They just don't allow any searches that contain "godaddy" in the string, including GoDaddyIsAwesome.com
I wasn't aware of this PIN either. Even if you do change your MX record, and move your email elsewhere, you still get locked out of access to your old email, which can be important.

I have a (free) google apps account for my domain, but I configured it so it actually still goes through my own MX server. It took a bit of trickery, because google wants you to use theirs, but I managed to get around it. It works well for a couple of years now. My email always goes first through my own MX, and then to google.

I would still be pretty upset if they blocked me though. But I guess I can't expect much from a free service.
Raiku: a non-blocking - Akka IO driven - Riak client for Scala with a cute DSL
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From the paper: "Box office revenues of movies shown on the average number of screens and below were affected negatively, but the total effect is not statistically significant. For blockbusters (shown on more than 500 screens) the sign is positive (and significant, depending on the specification)."
That is kind of an extreme step to protect your brand! How about domains like EmbargoDaddy, that has nothing to do with their trademark or brand name.
I am not well versed in his works, but perhaps Marx got some of the diagnosis right, just not the cure?
I do have great interest in Wolfram point of view. There is still a lot of research to do in this area. It still feels like the second or third lecture in group theory, before you get to the good parts.
When I set set up my email account at google apps few years ago my MX records were messed up, so no mail could be delievered to my new google app address from outside gmail. However, my regular test gmail account was happily sending emails that were received on my apps account although MX records were messed.

Thinks might have changed in the meantime, but my guess is that Google still sends emails directly for accounts that it "knows" are hosted on gmail and apps and happily ignore MX records.
What I'd like to suggest is that all Linux platform developers seriously consider going the opposite way and providing real "computers" to those holdouts, like me, who still need to get real work done and know how to navigate a real file system and even [gasp] a command line.

I hope a gnome dev reads this.

Some of the gnome developers came and visited us onsite earlier this year. They did it to "study real users" and get feedback on the gnome3 UI.

Some background: we were representing ~500+ Real Paying Gnome Users, not some nebulous fantasy persona that gnome hopes to get as a user in the future. We are the real customers. We are high-end computer graphics researchers, software developers, and some of the most talented CG artists in the world.

We are content creators, not content consumers.

My gut feeling after the meeting was that they were so stuck in their decisions that they really didn't care about the feedback we had for them. They spent their time defending their positions with platitudes like, "well, you have to try it first. Maybe it's not that bad".

No one liked the magic hot-corner activities window. That's not how we work. The gnome3 philosophy seems to be centered around single applications that consume the entire window, and no configuration. Our workflow is having lots of separate terminals, windows, and a mix of applications running at once. Our world views are drastically different.

My simple question, "if you move the menu bar to the top, and we all use sloppy-focus, doesn't that mean that if there's a window in-between the active window and the top of the screen that we'll lose focus as we try to move the mouse up to the top menubar?", was met with, "well, we didn't think that through. Yes, there might be problems with sloppy focus. <silence>". Uggh.

It's gotten to the point where we are afraid of what's going to happen when RHEL7 comes around and gnome3 is the default. We are paying customers and we don't want gnome3.

I love everything redhat does for the community, but I can't help but get a sense that they are cannibalizing their current users in hope of gaining some nebulous lowest-common-denominator user in exchange.

I really don't know what's going to happen, but XFCE looks like a serious alternative now. What if redhat won't support us if we use XFCE on the desktop? Well, we might have to search for a competitor. Who's the competition? Who's target customer is the high-end Linux desktop user? If that's you, I'd like to talk to you.
I still have fuckverisign (due to some historical dispute with them); it was so tempting to use to send email to them when I later had to do something with symantec.
Why not? Should web apps require javascript? Shouldn't the be usable even when javascript is unavailable.
Is this really surprising? I can't believe this made it to the front page. GoDaddy has always been known to have questionably-intelligent moves like this. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_Daddy#Controversies