skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole 3D scene and the UI are done in HTML / CSS. Controls and moves validation in javascript.
I'd guess a lack of responsibility within the organization (i.e. procedures are set up that result in spam, and nobody is really in charge of it) or a lack of organization (the customer contacts have no control over the people doing the spamming). Either one fits into your "incompetent" category, of course.
A checksum could always be added like a ISBN. Though you would still enter an incorrect serial number, you would know that it was incorrect.
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While patents on genetic sequences have some tricky specifications (you have to patent "non-standard" biological uses), I know Celera holds a number of patents related to the Human Genome Project. From what I recall in general biology, Celera actually used automation to outpace the public institutions even though they started later.

If you're curious, here's a patent list and some background on the company:

https://www.celera.com/celera/intellectual_property

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Venter
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There seems to be a lot of confusion about why they would do this, the text books say it indicates that the company thinks its stock is undervalued and that the management have the best information on the company so they would know.
In this case I think it is a cost of capital vs interest rate decision.
tl:dr Interest rates are low
But if Apple is as innovative as they say they are, why don't they implement better serial numbers like the article suggests? I agree, the numbers can be hard to read, especially given their tiny size.
I agree. Also , who starts a research without the faint idea of how and where to look? Reading a book for me would be pre-research. At least in a company, where we have r&D.
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Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated.

I know what you mean about the call to action being camouflaged, I think we're trying to be too clever, we should make it more obvious.

I don't think we're doing a good job of showing how the service should be used either. The idea is you install the bookmarklet or browser extension and then from any page on the internet when you launch the bookmarklet/extension the modal window opens over the top where you can one-click bookmark that current page or search your bookmarks etc.

The Chrome extension adds a feature to pull in all your Chrome bookmarks with a single click.
That's just the exclusive rights to new movies. Read the last two sentences of the article. They will have other content available starting today.
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We're heavily driven by user-focused design and a focus on technology and engineering as a first class discipline.

We write our software in Python and Erlang, and rely heavily on asynchronous programming techniques and REST. We build on a modern, open-source software stack which includes Linux, Vagrant, Flask, Eventlet, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, ElasticSearch, Graphite, Chef, and Git.

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How does this work? How is the confidence value calculated?
However, the length of the average password is probably closer to 8 chars (http://www.codelord.net/2011/06/18/statistics-of-62k-passwor...) at which point the time to crack a password drops to 84 minutes for SHA-1 and 30 minutes for MD5. Also if users aren't required to use uppercase or special characters, they probably won't (http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/74164/www2007.pdf), at which case things look a lot worse.
That's exactly my point.

How is it intellectually honest to push for openness, but then to belittle people who use the rights the license gives them?
Mountains out of molehills? Why is this newsworthy? And I say this as someone that doesn't even particularly like Apple or Apple products.

It's a serial number, and an employee made a mistake. End of story.
For the sake of accessibility, I suggest adding the necessary functionality to allow users to zoom in using their browser (C-+ or C-=).
What with the shelf-life of software being so short, it's very easy to forget how programs that are now almost universally hated, derided, and synonymous with "large, bloated corporations" (i.e., Lotus Notes) at one time represented the state-of-the-art in software engineering.
Since they can't change the existing serial numbers, why don't they have autocomplete software suggest the possible alternatives to an incorrect one based on the likely character mistakes?
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Using dictionary words makes it easy for more modern predictive keyboards to keep up, though. Taking the XKCD canonical example, "correct horse battery staple", it's a reasonably secure and lengthy password and includes special characters.

It could also be keyed in via something like Swype or SlideIT in almost as fast as it could be keyed in on a computer keyboard.
Kickstarter, Pinterest, and Airbnb are interesting counterexamples to the mobile first thinking. They are three of the biggest success stories of the last few years. Two have solid business models and seem to be scaling well. Pinterest at least has a path to one via affiliate fees. Of the three KS doesn't have an app. Pinterest's breaks a lot of the key functionality and makes it basically read only. Airbnb has done a really good job considering the mobile vs. desktop uses cases and designing appropriately.

Mobile is unquestionably the future, but it's a little surprising that there hasn't been a huge, non-game, break away money maker. As cool as Instagram was, it felt like a bit of a panic acquisition. Maybe we have to wait for Square to exit to see the first big proof.
The obvious thing to do would be to encode the serial number in a 2D barcode & have the Apple store employee scan it from the device.
The summarised version: 1. Mistakes happen and will always happen. Saying "it wont happen again" doesn't fix the problem. 2. Make a joke to stop people getting defensive.
High-Speed Traders Profit at Expense of Ordinary Investors, a Study Says
Glad I don't have your taxes, though.
What you are.. trivial to copy - even from a distance..

A retinal print?
Wow! I've imagined about his kind of polling product. Two thumbs up for making this possible.

I have a suggestion along the lines of what nathanbarry suggested, I thought using scroll to zoom in and zoom out, and having collapsible (tree structure like) questions will make it easy for users to create long polls.

All the best :)
Richard Stallman: ‘Apple has tightest digital handcuffs in history’
It's kind of scary how many stupid self perpetuating behaviors there are. Stuff like angry driving (where aggressive maneuvers make other drivers angry, and so on).
you can email me: gregpilling@gmail.com

our website was hacked, and while it gets 200 visits a day (hardly anything), keeping up with orders has been more important than fixing lorem ipsum on the new site.
We should really try and crowd-fund a melt-bot to Enceladus or Europa, or a boat-bot to Titan. They're being criminally ignored by the various space agencies, and all have the potential to host life. See my comment above.
I wrote about this and the general defacto styling of Bootstrap being used everywhere here: http://xn--d28h.tumblr.com/post/36805803730/apps-and-bootstr...
If the guy is really that smart, he has an offsite copy somewhere. Maybe even something like the Wikileaks encrypted "insurance torrent".
This is really great work.

Slightly off-topic; there have been a ton of great submissions "Show HN" posts lately. I find myself signing up for most of them just because I either think they are useful right now or will be very shortly. This is no exception. Keep up the great work all.
Some teams I've seen blindly follow the 'mobile first' strategy without thinking about what device their application is best suited for. Microsoft Word, Photoshop, and advanced developer IDEs are good examples of software that should be desktop centric. While there are text/image/code editors on mobile, the difference is that people end up crafting with these types of software. They put hours into them on one project and build something they consider truly great. Instagram makes sense on mobile because the amount of time you put into the app is likely under 10 minutes at a time. If you're expecting your users to craft, and to spend long periods of time building something in your app then give them a big screen and a physical keyboard; give them desktop/web.

In addition, I think the point about not being able to rapidly fix issues is a pretty good one. Average app store approval time is now 7 days, and while its possible to do testing to prevent issues, I imagine most first-time startups are not going to be able to fully predict the impact of scale on their app.
The most important part I saw was that the new terms differ in the Amendments section, and would take away the provision to vote on future changes.
Gitifyhg: accessing Mercurial repos from Git
Was wondering the same thing. Even tried finding a blog, but looks like it's a pre-drop domain from a previous venture (http://mashable.com/2008/02/01/gimado/)
This is more a meta-comment about slideshare than about this presentation in particular. I really like being able to access the slides of talks I've seen, but for talks I haven't seen, there often is just enough that's missing from the slides that I don't get the full picture.

Does anybody have a solution to this?

Now, having said that, this particular slide deck suffers very little from this problem.
I find it awesome that your survey tool functions very well, but also that it is performing so well under the load of HN #1 thread. Nice work!
To me it feels like the mobile hype is in decline. People still like their apps, but there hasn't been a breakthrough (non-game) success in quite a while. I say this as Instagram is only 2 years old. SXSW used to introduce a new category of apps each year (Gamified location apps, group messaging, photo sharing) and this year we got... Highlight. Which might be great but it's no Foursquare.
>how much of the surface have they covered

Oh, right about 0%. And that was with rovers not properly equipped to find microscopic life.
The biggest argument in favor of mobile first is that it's easier to port your mobile UI to your web UI. This assumes that the use cases between your mobile UI and your desktop UI are the same.

This may be a valid assumption for many, but don't assume that this is true by default for you. Take the time to understand your users and use cases and determine what makes the most sense for your context.
Perhaps getting fired was their best PR stunt. No news is bad news and all that..and it did make the front page of HN. And Cleartrip comes out looking OK.
Why do you assume the same URL retrieves the same data every time? :-)
May I ask why you have moral problems with being paid by the taxpayer? To me it seems funding science is one of the better things the government does with its revenue.
Arguably, though, goals and results are two different things. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions", and all that. What does the evidence say about which benefits society more?
Clear current page UX
+1 for latex.
Several interesting points here:

+ there are different types of high-frequency traders, some of which are more aggressive in initiating trades and some of which are passive, simply taking the other side of existing offers in the market.

+ that more aggressive traders accounted for the largest share of trading volume and made the biggest profits. The most aggressive scored an average profit of $1.92 for every futures contract they traded with big institutional investors, and made an average $3.49 with a smaller, retail investor.

+ Passive traders, on the other hand, saw a small loss on each contract traded with institutional investors, but they made a bigger profit against retail investors, of $5.05 a contract.

+ The average aggressive high-speed trader made a daily profit of $45,267 in a month in 2010 analyzed by the study.

+ “We’re not estimating,” he [the study author] said. “Our data is excellent.”
> A photodiode picks up the raster on a CRT based monitor and with appropriate timing logic uses this to decide where to draw pixels

Incidentally this is how "light guns" worked, and also why they sadly do not work on LCD or plasma screens.
The reasons are likely more political than scientific. The rovers keep the money flowing. Rovers have a high chance of success and they are some of the last few remaining tangible results that NASA can point to to justify their budget in the public's eye. A new kind of mission is risky and would likely get bogged down in bureaucracy (see Orion).
I use event tracking on my outbound clicks all the time. My side project is a vertical niche search engine, so I like to know when, where and how people are leaving the site (since that is the point of the app afterall).

I have some of it tracked with internal code, but for a lot of things that don't need rigorous analysis/tracking, firing an outbound click event to GA is sufficient.
There are not 24 hours in a day
The dumbest guy in the room
Early stage feedback, testing and validation
I don't see how it can be made feasible to return humans from Mars for a very long time. Think about the expenditure and infrastructure required to launch a vehicle to escape velocity on earth. Shipping that kind of equipment to Mars seems like a undertaking so many times larger than a few rovers.

And I don't see how a one way trip would be politically/ethically possible.

edit: This sounds negative. All things considered; We have to try though. But perhaps knowing that we can have a sustainable settlement have to be the step zero of space colonization.
Hey man, it would be a cool to see a follow up post for fandalism on what came out of your "I have 404,772 users. Now what?" story.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3850739
How has Javascript even addressed this problem?
I'd like to know where you're finding a pager that runs for months on a single AAA. My pager takes a AA battery, and it has to be replaced roughly monthly. Why, yes, I do work in Healthcare IS, why do you ask?
I subscribe to @eli's point...

The constraint of having to rely on the App Stores is the stifling factor.

Mobile applications have still not gotten to the stage where a pure Mobile web app could do everything that a downloadable one can.

And for the downloadable ones the end consumer has become completely reliant on the "big two"...the other app stores are almost non-existent.

Being reliant on the "big two" stifle quick turnaround, experimentation, payment methodologies, and having to toe the line to bizarre rules drawn up almost by whim.

It is a matter of time of course that things can become mobile first (mumble mumble HTML5 mumble mumble)

Eventually..umm..hopefully.. It will come down to just "the Internet" once again rather than having to customize on platforms, as desktops become more mobile and mobile devices become as powerful as desktops.
https://www.thalmic.com/ comes to mind.
quite interesting, I'll have to take a closer look at what you've done.

My employment for the past 6 months has been on a wide and deep dataset collection tool, one that takes in arbitrary questions that can have both validation rules and workflow rules applied.

Getting the tooling designs correct and usable seems to be the hardest part.
It's not presented as "newsworthy", so why ask that question? It's a mild musing on a subtle design defect in Apple products, which is interesting for a company that prides itself on getting little details right. It's also interesting from a wider perspective, because the problem of making alphanumeric strings that can be entered by hand is pretty common, and there are some easy steps you can take to make the process easier that few people actually take.
Unless you have it done by air, it's about five weeks to get things in from China -- four weeks of shipping, one week of customs.

(This is actually mentioned in the article)
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Event-Based Architecture: Getting Decoupled
Thanks for info. Also, I found somewhat of an answer for limits of computations I was looking for: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremermann%27s_limit rather fascinating!
Taxation is not theft. It is a societal agreement. I know of no society, except extremely primitive hunter-gatherer societies, that has no notion of tax for public services.

And even there, you could say everyone is "stealing" from the public goods all the time. (if you hunt and eat an animal, then you have stolen it from the rest of the people).
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SDN startup Plexxi Unveils Its First Two Products
Plexxi unveiled its first two products: Plexxi Control and the Plexxi Switch 1. Plexxi Control is server-based software that dynamically and continuously computes connectivity solutions to satisfy all workload needs. Plexxi Switches provide standard high-performance, low-latency 10Gb and 40Gbps Ethernet access connections, but interconnect with each other via Plexxi's high density, high capacity LightRail™ optical interface. The result is a system that directly manifests workload-optimized solutions in the real, physical network, creating a network that delivers to applications what they need, when they need it – every time, all the time.
A bit more background ... I have been around startups developing them for over 10 years when the word "startup" wasn't common. The biggest issue during development I found was proper validation and testing especially during the closed/private alpha and beta stage. But my idea also works for seed/series rounds and above. Born was http://www.startuprocketlauncher.com ... essentially startups get a chance to tell their story. Early adopters get a chance to try something new. Each day at least one new startup will be selected to send one email to the whole community about their startup idea or alpha/beta project and in return they receive testing, feedback, validation and nice member growth.
Metro UI does have gradients and drop shadows, though they are very subtle.

If you are good at design, you wouldn't need to start from Bootstrap. If you are not so good at design, Bootstrap is a great framework, but using flat, all-square UI elements can cause some problems, you may be unaware of.

If you use Flatstrap, your <code> tags, labels and buttons will all look the same. If, in the spirit of flatness, you'd also removed the inset shadow on form inputs, then all visual cues for either clicking (element is higher than the page) or form input (element is lower than the page) are gone. This reduces usability and discoverability. [1]

Rounded boxes serve another function, where they draw the attention of the eye to the contents of the box -- It flows more pleasantly too [2]

Designers going for the flat design trend, should carefully strike a balance between a completely flat design, and using subtle gradients, underlines, rounded corners, color, shadows and pseudo-3D to convey information that matches our expectations and wiring of our brains.

[1] http://www.useit.com/alertbox/windows-8.html Flat styles reduce discoverability

[2] http://uxmovement.com/thinking/why-rounded-corners-are-easie...
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I'm tangentially interested in full text search. What libraries are you using?
If gives you more context around an exit to your site, ie someone didn't just hit back or close their browser, they left your site via a means you provided, and this is where they went
I'd say that is because when you see a structure you already understand written in a new language (e.g. VB) yu can use your existing mental model.

But when you meet an entirely new structure, as you say, you are starting from scratch.
Older laptops used to have this, was under the removable battery, which is now defunct. I'm sure it's most likely somewhere on the motherboard now.
I ran into to this, but I noticed that the site was loaded anyway, just covered with a <div> on top. Just open up the developer tools/firebug/etc.. and delete the div#globalerror.
You absolutely can.

It's about returns to worker productivity. As the article mentions, factory workers are hundreds of times more productive than they were in the 1960s. They are probably thousands of times more productive than they were in the 1760s.

How much has worker productivity increased in, say, symphonic music? In the last 300 years, I would guess it has perhaps doubled, if that (amplification) And yet symphonic concerts still happen, despite costs increasing without bound!

Medical costs rise because new services are available, but worker productivity rises slowly. Medicine may be a larger and larger fraction of the economy, but as long as worker productivity rises in OTHER fields, we will still be able to afford it.
If nothing else, PR value. And to inspire new engineers.
Why not just include it as a QR or Bar Code, then scan when you arrive?
Maybe the employee needs to have his eyes checked. I have no problem reading my serial numbers and I have a 5 and an S.
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> Sure there should be some other small projects, but nothing earth shattering, the way C++/Java are used

Go is an incredibly young language - it only just received its first official release a few months ago, and yet it already has two complete and independent compiler implementations (both gc and the more optimized[1] gccgo), as well as a staggering number of libraries for most common tasks.

As someone who enjoys toying around with developing languages, I've been blown away by how solid the entire Go ecosystem is at this early stage.

> The story, as told also by Rob Pike elsewhere, speaks of some guys getting together t hack on a new language on some pain points THEY had, and mostly as a side project.

I think every language (or every project) has as many stories of its origin as there are creators - if not more. They're not mutually exclusive, as you seem to make it look.

[1] in that it takes advantage of gcc, which is incredibly well-optimized for non-concurrent applications, that is
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2020 is not very far away, definitely not far enough away to make a large robotic advancement in time to make it flight ready.
Manual cross browser testing? – prepare to miss 30% of bugs
I think learning the top 3000 words makes it easier to get more passive help from books, newspapers and television. For me, there is a threshold when I improve without really trying, just by reading and listening. It's not the most efficient method, but I don't have to sit down and study.
>I'm generally in favor of following the law.

IMO it is the responsibility of every citizen to ignore laws that are stupid. Civil disobedience.

I realize this would mean some people might say "going 30 by a school zone is stupid!". So be it. If you disobey laws that most people believe are right, then you lose and face the consequences. If you disobey laws that most people will realize are stupid nothing is likely to happen to you.