skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In all honesty, the size requirement is terrible. I took one look at the page saying I need a bigger window and hit ctrl-w and thought: "well maybe that was a cool page, the headline sounded good. Oh well". I'm not against resizing my windows, it's just that with nothing but a headline to go on, I'll just move on to the next thing. Even if you don't show me the app, but instad a splash page and some screenshots that keep my interest, with an explanation of why I need to resize, I'll probably think, "Oh ok, and it's new, cut them some slack" and resize away.
If you are trying to learn Italian, the good news is, there are a number of outstanding movies that are not famous outside Italy. I'm talking about masterpieces here. One for all:

"Indagini su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065889/
Circumstances often lead to NASA building fewer bigger things instead of more smaller things.

Which I disagree with as a result, because as soon as one of those few big things fails (which is inevitable no matter how smart NASA is), there are going to be massive Congressional investigations and talk about how NASA is wasting our money and how they need to be even more careful, which just means they have to build even bigger, even fewer, even more expensive things that just attract that much more attention when a failure happens.

On the other hand, they can lose a $300 million project entirely and no one blinks an eye.
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Easy to say moderation. But may as well counsel an alcoholic or junkie 'moderation!'

As an older guy who's seen it all happen, I see zombies walking down the hall, street, mall with their electronic sedatives/stimulants and I see no difference from any stoner.

I counsel - drop electronic instant-communications devices entirely from your life - not for a month - for life. What you get is your humanity back.
'fragmentation isnt a problem, its a fact'

We will never convince the entire world to settle on a single device, Androids biggest 'problem' is a large part of why it is completely dominating the mobile market (although I dont disagree that OEM customisation can be annoying).

Apps dont have control over the home button on iOS / Android, I dont reallyknow what you mean 'cede control' (unless you are thinking Firefox OS runs inside Android / iOS as an app? it doesnt, its a full OS)
aaahhhh thank you!
It is naive to ask why another? I was under the impression that Curiosity was supposed to be like the rover to end all Martian rovers. What else do they need? It seems like there must be something else to do aside from.... rove. Maybe not manned exploration, but something to push things further towards that?

Or are they still stuck on "We must make a final, irrefutable conclusion on whether life has or has not existed on Mars prior to introducing organisms to the planet"? Am I the only one who thinks that the search is kind of, well, silly at this point? How much of the surface have they covered with rovers? I'd imagine it would take much longer, and a much more exhaustive search to come to any sort of definitive conclusion.
Having come from a few startups and many more random experiments - most mediocre failures, I'd tend to agree that the web allow for much more initial testing and product validation (depending on the product and industry of course).

Gabor Cselle wrote an excellent post a few months back titled "The Biggest Problem in App Discovery" ( http://blog.gaborcselle.com/2012/10/the-biggest-problem-in-a... ) that every new startup with a basic MVP app will face (heck even with a fully polished app it's hard).

The point that needs to be really illustrated is that the web is still critical and regardless of the language used, will provide you with a suitable platform to test, iterate and improve before investing time trying to compete for minds, hearts and wallets on mobile.
This is so true! I see it all the time how especially marketing managers mix the MVP-konsept with alfa, betas and big launches.

Shouldn´t marketing and product managers support this way of testing, to avoid hurting the brand?

Another important point for me is to combine MVP with off-branding. If you already have brand that people like, you might influence users if you revile your brand - and visa versa
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I am of a similar age to you I am guessing. I think many people have a mythical view of their own ability to escape the typical human experience.

Perhaps distractions don't damage your productivity, but I am guessing you're merely more productive now, so the short bursts you make are more productive than your old longer bursts, therefore your 'Warm up and cool down' periods FEEL shorter. It's not like people do nothing when not in flow, they just do less.
I know that VM is more than just swap, but the way it was used in this article, it pretty much only discussed swap.
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Downvoted for bad spelling.
I've been thinking more about this, and it's strange that Microsoft also rebranded their Windows Phone Marketplace to Windows Phone Store. Makes me wonder if focus groups don't like the word "market" for some reason. It's not commonly used in Americanized English, so I wouldn't be surprised if many people are confused by what Market is, in terms of a phone application.
Afaik, Disqus uses websockets with Nginx fine. I believe they recently mentioned writing and using this module: https://github.com/wandenberg/nginx-push-stream-module
> It's worth pointing out that length is not important, only entropy is important.

Entropy is important, but multi-word passwords stills being efficient since their alphabet is quite large when compared with common alpha-symbolic-numeric passwords.

For example, a completely random password with 12 digits and upper/lower case letters have (26+26+10)^12 = 3.226e21 possibilities. Quite good unless you need to memorize this thing. I use such nonsense things for password stored in my password safe.

A password with four very common words (among the 1000 most common words in the user's native language, which I assume the attacker know) have 1e9 possibilities -- very bad. Relevant XKCD for explaining how bizarre is an English text with such restricted vocabulary: https://xkcd.com/1133/

A password with five words selected among the most 4000 words of the user's native language have 1.024e+18 possibilities. Put some uncommon/random/made-up word in the mix is enough to make a direct attack on the password non-viable and force the attacker to search for more elaborated methods. Plus side: is easy to memorize.
I'm going to propose a somewhat radical solution: secretaries (or administrative assistants if you prefer).

Seriously, give developers and engineers secretaries/assistants. Even one assistant per 3-5 engineers would be a huge benefit. A good secretary will run interference with people who are coming to provide a distraction, and in many cases will probably be able to answer any questions necessary without bothering the engineer.

It could also provide a good entry level position for someone to get some experience and move up to coding.
"what are the hard limits and challenges of just prodding through (faster and faster as tech goes forward) combinations until success?"

According to current theory of physics, every computation needs at least a certain amount of energy. So if you want to do many computations today, you will have to use a certain amount of energy today. Now lets say, you have a machine that turns any matter into energy without any loss. You put in m mass and you get out e=mc^2 energy. Problem is: You cannot get more matter into that machine today then is around you in a radius of 24 light hours.

So that would be a hard limit.

But quantum computers have proven to break that limit. One theory is that using a quantum computer means using computers in an unlimited number of parallel universes. So there is no limit to the number of calculations you can do. (See David Deutsch and his theories about parallel universes)

I think there are theories about the limits of what a quantum computer can calculate. But I dont know them. Would be interesting to read about it if there is something published.

Then again, what might look like a "hard limit" today will probably not do so tomorrow. Some time ago the "lower limit on energy per calculation" sounded like a hard limit. Then quantum computers came along and blasted through it.
Nice. I did it by myself some months ago!

https://github.com/tagliala/bootstrap/commit/0b9d96517870009...

I removed gradients, shadows, round corners...

You did a step forward: button gradients!

As many of you pointed out, the problem are bootstrap's updates. Maybe a script that removes .border-radius and converts #gradient in plain color is better
Google finally makes a YouTube for iPad app
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Why "humanoid" robots? Why not just "robots" that can do a job no matter what they look like?
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Yeah, I think a back button will be a good solution.

I'd prefer to click a few times to fix a mistake then have to click twice for every answer.
it's a question of time until this will turn against the people. My family has lived in eastern europe and was under survailance during comunist times in the 80's. very sad to see this happen to the US - land of the free.
This is excellent advice for when one wants to advance their career working for "the man."
Jesus, I'm all for sending out as many missions as Congress will pay for, but another Mars rover? Can't they throw a little bit of money towards sending a melt-bot to Europa or Enceladus, or a boat-bot to Titan already? It'll be 2015 before we even know what Ceres really looks like.

Mars is certainly critically important, but the solar system is a massive place, and with such limited budgets why wouldn't you spend at least a chunk of your resources on explorations that have the potential of finding life in our solar system? We've known about these options for decades, and yet each mission gets scrapped at the last minute. I don't get NASA's priorities sometimes.

Also, in that time frame Elon Musk, China, and even NASA have bounced around various plans for getting humans to Mars. I'm usually an advocate for robotic exploration, but for the deep digging you will probably have to do to find something interesting, it may be better to have boots on the ground (for example exploring for microbial life or fossils below the surface.) It really seems like we're at the beginning of a Mars space race anyway, and this rover will inevitably be cancelled 5-10 years from now in order to focus on beating the Chinese there.
For a start...

* Operating their current missions http://www.nasa.gov/missions/current/index.html

* Designing and building future missions http://www.nasa.gov/missions/future/index.html

* Public outreach/education
I think the secret of registration last year was that Bay Area IPs were intentionally deprioritized.
Both arguments are correct - mobile is the future of customer engagement, and persistent engagement in mobile apps is hard. It’s especially hard because the tools we use in the physical or virtual world (CRM, messages, updates, tutorials, polls, questions, feedback, dialog, etc), by and large don’t yet exist for the mobile app world. These tools are the grease to iteration to get app engagement to a better place. Today the mobile apps publishers are hermetically sealed from both knowing and communicating with their app users. This is the problem our startup converser.io is addressing.
Arguably this is the role their manager should be taking.
boottheme.com does a good job. It's a 'wysiwyg' editor of the bootstrap less variables, and that includes border-radius.
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As much as we talk about securing your systems, having someone in-house go rogue like this is a MUCH higher risk to your data than having someone break in. Internal unrest (or stupidity) will probably bite you harder than crackers will.
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I'm a big fan of the GAS (Google Analytics on Steroids) wrapper [1]. One of the coolest features is firing GA events from embedded YouTube videos [2] to track viewer retention [3].

[1] https://github.com/cardinalpath/gas

[2] https://gist.github.com/2715896

[3] http://i.imgur.com/QILnG.png
So our legal system is a joke? That's news to me. I'd actually argue that it's been pretty damn effective in keeping our society from devolving into complete bedlam.

Your comments reflect all the certitude of someone who has never seen real evil up close. To suggest that a system that functions properly 90% of the time is a worthless endeavor isn't a realistic position I'm willing to argue with.

And I don't agree with your assertions. Statements like "Many people have no faith in it's ability to be just or balanced" doesn't jibe with the reality of our political economy. Every single day, hundred of millions of Americans go to work and get on with their lives. If the system was as broken as you claim, I seriously doubt we'd have the strength and standing among nations that you seem to ready to dismiss.

If you're getting all your information from magazines and wikipedia, you're bound to be misinformed about the reality of the task at hand.

And finally, statements like "The criminals are (for the most part) not the ones we should be worrying about" is simply indefensible. The justice system exists because people demand that it exist to protect them. They have agreed either explicitly or implicitly to the arrangement that we have today.

I know many members of law enforcement. They are by and large good people trying to do a hard job. A very hard job. Ask yourself if you have the courage to confront dangerous situations every single day, deal with persistent mendacity from nearly everyone you meet, and still maintain a level of professionalism and respect for individual liberty. That's an awfully high bar to set for a person and part of the miracle of our system is that it happens with such a level of regularity that we take it for granted. That's NOT the case in other countries.
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I can second this, their app is well thought out, works perfectly and helps me improve my spanish in little blocks of 5 minutes. Perfect when waiting / on the toilet / in bed / whatever.
You just got out of college. You went to a good school, you got good grades, and you worked hard. There are no jobs in your field.

You're bringing in 1750 a month, but 500 of that is going to student loans. 450 goes to rent. 200 for heating in the winter. Add in the rest of your utilities, and you're looking at 1300 a month. Do you have a car? 300 a month. Do you want to eat? You can probably get by on 150 for food.

But you have no health insurance. You have no savings. You cannot start a family because you can't support a family.

And, unless you get very lucky, this is going to be your situation until your loans are paid off. You will be 35 when your adult life can actually start.

But if you're unlucky - if you get sick, if you need to take care of your family, if nearly anything bad happens, regardless of how minor, you're probably completely and utterly fucked to an extent that a lot of people can't possibly realize.
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I just updated by code segment to show where I call this (it's right after declaring _gaq).
According to this page [0], _trackPageLoadTime() is deprecated because site speed reporting is enabled automatically for all users.

Update: your 2nd trick is still relevant though

[0] https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
From that clip:

"Where do you see this going in 5 or 10 years? I see it becoming a totalitarian state. An imperial president (a dictator). Unless we do something."

"It doesn't matter if you say 'bomb' or not. Everything is stored now."
Perhaps I'm confused but what benefit do you get from using event tracking for an outbound click, and lastly what does ET have to do with real time?

Thanks
I think most people who are serious about learning a foreign language either want to learn English or already speak it. It's relatively rare for, say, a person who speaks only Spanish to start studying Mandarin without even basic fluency in English.
I watched a talk by Peter Diamandis where he said that around 90% of the costs (for a NASA rocket) is in labor. By 2020, we should be sending people, not another robot.
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http://www.nasa.gov/news/budget/index.html

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

It costs a lot to engineer and operate things that work in space.
Not trying to be facetious but doesn't Poll Daddy solve the branching issue now?
How does your product compare to something like Poll Daddy for the like to like features? Is it as easy to share/embed and view reports etc?

What I'm really looking for is a surveying solution that helps me conduct Relative Importance Testing. I haven't seen that anywhere out in the market.
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There are variables for @baseBorderRadius, etc. They don't hit all of the spots yet, but it's getting there with each new version of Bootstrap.
It's under Standard Reporting -> Content -> Site Speed

The GA code will track client side page load time (DOM fully loaded) across your site. You'll get site-wide averages and you'll also get to drill in on slow pages. This doesn't work for every single browser (last I checked it only worked for browsers that support HTML5), but it still provides a good sample size.

It's also important to do this as Google Webmaster tools dropped support of the Site Speed lab which shows you how fast Google thinks your site is ( <1.5 seconds user DOM load is considered faster, >= 1.5 seconds is "slow"). If you're trying to improve your Google ranking you need to be tracking how fast Google thinks your site is. (Also, fast websites are great for lots of reasons, not just Google ranking.)

See also: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2011/05/measure-page-load-time...
Agreed. That screen was my first impression, which hasn't made me at all curious enough to faff about with my browser to make it display properly. Since I use OS X, I have no reason to run my browser maximised.

Also, the mere presence of such a 'feature' just makes me think that the design wasn't thought through well enough. I actually don't know, because again there's no effort made to convince me otherwise.
Thank you! I was unaware of this change.
PyPy is geometrically about halfway between CPython and Go, performance-wise.
Comments like this annoy me. Open source zealots are always rambling on about how you can just "fork it and do what you want!" - and then when someone actually does, watch the pitchforks come out.
It's been working fine for years, though. I think part of it is being in Japan, and part of it is that the bikes just don't have much resale value. No point stealing creaky, cheap city bikes.
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Yep! I thought this clip was cool -

What Is The Business Model For Mars? Elon Musk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fS1FxBq64A
It's not a first-world problem. Many countries have already solved it. It's very much a US-centric problem.
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Eh... what is wrong with redistribution or socialism? I am all for them.
Great idea. This is the kind of idea that falls into the 'why on earth did I not think of that first' area. Just some comments though. Your call to action is really camouflaged amongst the features. I'd suggest that you relocate your call to action as a huge button where your 'Already have an account?' section is. It could also do with more useful screenshots of the app itself. The app itself confuses me slightly. Your usage of a separate modal kind of threw me off. (I was thinking, is it a downloadable app? A webapp? An extension?) I'm not sure if everyone would agree, but I personally don't need the extra huge window for easy access to websites I commonly use. That never made sense to me. If I commonly use a website, I'll probably already know its URL or name at least. Your app's major value add for me is the ability to search for bookmarks where I KNOW I BOOKMARKED IT but can't seem to find it in the mass of them. Anyway, good job shipping! :) One question though, does the chrome extension automatically sync bookmarks after the first import?
Maybe he will leak details about the accounts of rich greece. That would be nice.
Good for you! That is like 6MM a year! Pretty soon you can retire!

Do you get most of your revenue from Ads, paid apps or In App Purchase?
Using techniques like this is slowing down the entire online industry. I would never ever clog my HTML to implement rounded corners in a browser released almost 4 years ago. No matter how many people are still using it. It just feels wrong.

If the entire industry would stop testing and developing for ancient browsers, I'm quite sure people will upgrade their browsers within a couple of months (I understand this is not possible from a business perspective). Companies that still rely on ActiveX components or other proprietary stuff, won't upgrade IE soon anyway, but they might install a browser like Firefox or Google Chrome for daily browsing.
This is an older story [1]... but the CIA / MI6 angle is new to me.

It's an embarrassment, the Swiss intelligence services had already butchered their relationships with foreign services with the "Egyptian Fax" leak back in 2005/2006. Somehow Swiss journalists got hold of an intercepted fax communication between Egyptian's foreign ministry and Egypt's London embassy that proved / alleged the existence of secret CIA prisons on foreign soil. [2]

[1] http://www.tagesschau.sf.tv/Nachrichten/Archiv/2012/09/26/Sc...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/11/world/americas/11iht-cia.h...
I'm not an open source zealot. I like open source, and I promote open source, but I also prefer when people try not to ride on other people's shoulders.
Thanks. Can you name more?
Love the site. One small thing:

The title says:
“Save Money. Don't buy textbooks that you don't need” and immediately after, there´s the search bar.

This is confusing because, generally, when a title is followed by a search or button or whatever, the title tends to be the Call to Action to the following element (in this case, the search bar).

Having said this, having a negative word: “Don´t...” tells me to NOT do something when you clearly want me to search for something.

Hope this helps.
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I think it would be better written as:

As long as you have the power to change it, don't spend a single moment in life doing something you don't want to do.

I think it's a call to action and relates to mustering the will to do what really matters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EJSM/Laplace

> In April 2011, ESA stated that it seemed unlikely that a joint US–European mission will happen in the early 2020s given NASA's budget, so ESA is investigating the possibility of proceeding with a European-led mission.[3] The ESA-led mission is called the Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) and will be based on the JGO design. Selection of JUICE for the L1 launch slot of ESA's Cosmic Vision science programme was announced on May 2, 2012.[4]

It always comes down to budget. There's only so much you can do with $n billion, and NASA gets less money each year.

Billionaires and governments are free to declare that they'll do it faster and cheaper, but NASA has a head start on science and engineering. It's easier to believe NASA's timetables and budgets because it has the experience.
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Truth. Real scientists spend most of their time writing grants.
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So an employee made a mistake? that doesn't happen anywhere else.