skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking of doing this exact thing, but I started another project.

Useless? I disagree entirely.

Having a place in the browser to text from is priceless. Perhaps the most obvious use case is texting without taking my phone out of my pocket? The next most obvious having a better and searchable UI to filter through texts?

It's a good project.
Good architecture eliminates the need for prayer.
The PostgreSQL mailing list is having a conversation right now about using SSDs. This seems like a very important comment for anyone considering them:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2012-12/msg00202.php

Basically, you need to make sure that you buy SSDs with a capacitor that allows the drive to flush what it needs in event of abrupt power loss.

EDIT: Looks like the list archives didn't preserve the thread very well, so here is the original question for anyone interested:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2012-11/msg00427.php
having the opposite issue - submitted for review just fine, but it won't pull anything up for me to review. running chrome on winxp.
Developer for Ace here.

The syntax highlighting rules for Ace were largely derived from tmlanguage files. This allows us to pretty easily import existing definitions. For example, Google had a tmlanguahe file for Dart that I was able to translate in less than an hour.

Could you describe more about what you like about CM's highlight rules? I admit I've never really looked into them. But I'm guessing by "show local variables in a different color" there's some parsing going on?
I agree with this; I feel distinctly uncomfortable using the same password for both my developer account and "Free" app and family downloads. The appleid system really needs an overhaul.
It would be great if the software was open source, you can also still run a SAAS based on it. I wouldn't want to depend on a closed source Database for my data. And I say this because I like the Excel/Database hyrid idea.
I was commenting more on the difficulty of predicting technological change than complaining about the lack of personal flying machines.
She allegedly has (had?) CF, which she magically cured by eating a lot of sea salt. She generally talks vague circles around that point and avoids giving straight answers (preferring instead to go on about how nobody believes her, etc), but if you dig far enough to the heart of her pet issue - that's it.

The throwaway is braced for downvotes... but if that's not the truth, Mz, feel free to actually post a clear & concise defense saying otherwise.
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The photos which Google (or much more likely, Facebook and Twitter) have often contain embedded geolocation data which gives the police a better idea of where to start looking for the person. Of course, this is a lot more work than posting up the equivalent of virtual wanted posters and having people give information which is more likely to be recent than pictures collected by social networks.
In the cases I was talking about, it was Google. They don't even attempt to charge the cards until a certain period of time (1 hour or so? more than the 15-minute refund period anyway) has passed, so the cancellations happen before any attempt to charge the card, so it's Google, not the banks.
I think that comment is referring to the framework / server, which is quite fast. Heist is a templating system authored by the same people that was not intended to be fast (though now it is). It is somewhat confusing, but I don't think the work they did on the framework/server (which is totally separate from Heist) should be discounted as "fast enough on the first try."
One thing I think MSFT really got right: engineers (including devops-type engineers) get a real office, with real walls and a door. It might be the size of a broom closet, but it's private.

Note: this is based on what I was told when I interviewed for an ops role there in 2011. No idea how universal/up-to-date it is.
Almost every place I've been... developers with doors is just a no-no. Call me cynical, but I think it's really a status symbol for management (at least, in most of the places I've seen inside of).

If people really can do productive coding work with 4 people within 10 feet of them all having separate phone conversations, great, let them stay in the open bullpen-style areas. For others who need some modicum of quiet and non-visual stimulation, give an office with a door that closes things out.

But if you did that, there'd be very little visual status between a CFO and a developer.

Those who insist on developers being in open bullpen areas would do well to try to do their own work out in the same area for a month. They'd see just how hard it is, and how much unproductive stuff actually goes on in many situations.
Why would you partner with someone you don't trust? And if you take VC money, you are partnering.

Know instead of guess. My gut says communicate your concerns about a potential conflict before any meeting.

An ethical person will probably appreciate your willingness to avoid placing them in a compromising position. If there is an issue, the VC may pass you to someone without a potential conflict.

Good Luck.
Where is MFA support on Facebook? That's something I'd like to enable...
You don't integrate the game hardware into the device. It's relatively easy for the cableco to give you fast, low ping bandwidth to a local cable switch within their network. That's where you put the game hardware. You create a new gaming platform and virtualize the console to a cluster hosted by the cableco. This game-rendering cluster is scalable, upgradeable and on demand. You don't need to distribute a lot of expensive, loss-leadin, power-hungry silicon to every house - that ends up sitting idle 90% of the day.
Thanks for the links, Gnosis! Unfortunately I have not had any amount of success with anti-malware forums, mainly because they only deal with getting malware off of a computer, not analyzing it. The knowledge gap is just too great. I've encountered this with both Symantec and Malwarebytes. They are great anti-malware products and their staff are helpful (to a degree) but they do not have the knowledge that will aid me in figuring out how malware works.
In fact, during my conversations with Symantec Suppost (as a business professional via the company I work for, which has a standing contract with Symantec) it actually took 15-20 minutes until I was able to communicate with the rep that I didn't want help getting malware off of a system, I wanted help figuring out how the malware worked. Needless to say, they couldn't help me in the slightest.

But thanks again, even though these sites don't look like they will help with malware analysis they look like they have a good deal of other information.
A flashlight and a reflective vest or jacket also helps. (I also have flares, a tool kit including jumper cables and patches, but that might be overkill.)
"An iOS (unknown version) user migrates to Galaxy Nexus (unknown Android version) (c. November 17, 2011)."

At least several of these are not issues (eg. having Chrome and Browser apps or unable to disable keypress feedback) in Android 4.2.1; I can't really speak to earlier versions.
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Woman starts satchel company, scales to 900/day in 4 years.
Outlook.com increases security with support for DMARC and EV certificates
If you work for a company that requires secrecy, you should probably go with a professional evaluation anyway (via consultants and user testing).

I think this site was meant for quick 1 or 2 sentence feedback from the general public for starter/personal sites and the feedback examples on the front page of their site clearly shows this.
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I got a free one. Submitted two reviews and have gotten three back so far :)

Idea: take a page from the Yelp/Quora/HN/StackExchange playbook and gamify it by letting people build up some kind of reputation points/karma/credits or whatever. You'd be amazed how much time some people will invest in your site just for some pixels on their profile.
Yeah I understand the viewpoint here. I'd argue that the costs of building a startup have been driven down so dramatically that companies that are hard tech organizations need to raise ever-smaller rounds to get started but, quixotically, ever-larger rounds to scale.

Something like LivingSocial costs next to nothing to start, but costs millions to scale. Those kinds of wars can't be fought with 1M Series A rounds, but burning that much cash on a mistake is also quite rough. Now LivingSocial isn't hard tech, but most DB startups don't have massive initial capital expenditures, and with things like KickStarter market validation is much simpler.

Is the incubator approach better? With the exception of YCombinator and MAYBE techstars, I'd say no. It's hard to say.

As always, we'll look back in 10 years and pick the winners and losers by fund growth, but the fact remains, companies can afford to put off raising until much later in their life cycle.
Awesome.

Dickey + I built weft.io for the last Angelhack (a couple weeks ago). We didn't win, but we definitely did a lot of things we were proud of.
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code for Linux and code for AVR are two totally different beasts. With AVR, I feel that you could just drum up a quick hack and have code running within a couple of hours. With Linux, I always felt that you need at least a couple of days to get things to going (eg, having a root fs structured, choose a kernel, make sure that your memory map is set up correctly etc). Maybe, I have been away from embedded Linux for too long and the goal post have shifted towards a better location.
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The other huge advantage that big corporations have is that they employ swarms of lobbyists in Washington who help to create the tax loopholes that the big corporations want.

And by paying less taxes to the U.S., Google shifts their tax burden to the middle-class taxpayers who can't afford their own lobbyists.
> When I download a free app, it still prompts me to input my password. Why? What's the risk here?

Kids buying several hundred dollars worth of Smurfberries.

No, really, that's why they set it up that way. That really happened. So everyone has to suffer for that.
How can I get more connected? I live in the suburb and it's quite difficult and the traffic through Atlanta is a pain...
I'm not sure which part you're asking about. I'm assuming it's that "correcthorsebatterystaple" is only lower case.

I was mainly commenting on the format suggested by the comic - 4 all-lower case words. You could throw in capitilzation, but most people are going to follow some pattern such as capitilizing all the words or the first and last, etc. These schemes only add a couple extra bits. Fully random capitilization would greatly increase the strength but make it nearly impossible to remember.

There are a lot of assumptions in these calculations, chief among them already knowing the format of the password. It's somewhat reasonable to ignore though, because not knowing the format of the password is going to add extra complexity more or less evenly across all formats.
I had the exact same experience. I basically had to join up with 4 B-School students and work my ass off on their ideas which weren't interesting (and I couldn't play with anything technologically interesting since I didn't really have the time). By the end of saturday I realized I was burning myself out on something that I had no interest in and told them I quit (for fear of burning myself out for my actual job). It turns out they didn't even really need me because as you said, everyone presented business ideas with at most landing pages developed.

I think SW might be more successful if the process isn't so ad-hoc on the first night.. maybe a web site that goes up the week before that lets people decide what they want to work on and start some initial planning. I'd also like to be sure I'm matched up with developers that I'd like to work with because the main reason I went there was to learn from other developers; Instead I was the only one on the team and felt like an unpaid laborer. Also, developers and designers should be better incentivized to attend by e.g. having much lower entrance fees than biz dev folks, and perhaps also by having separate prizes for best code/design.
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If you are allergic to facts then I apologise for offering you something other than koolaid.

If you are more enlightened and you feel that I am the one who is ignorant I will appreciate it when you correct me.

However, if you only attack my personality rather than countering what I said then I would assume that I didn't say anything wrong.
but it never would have made the front page unless it was on daringfireball :)
Russia calls to put Internet under global authority
http://rt.com/news/itu-internet-revolution-russia-386/
how does one add ideas to this spreadsheet?
Luckily there are lots of books, I haven't seen them removing any.

Why is this lucky? Are the books being used?
Stop getting all indignant. A forced bundle with products made by other companies that boosts the price twenty-fold is a market failure. It doesn't matter if it's petty entertainment.
Actually, it’s “Extra Credits” summary. PATV just hosts them now after they had a falling out with The Escapist involving a fundraiser for covering medical bills.

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> Try describing your experience scientifically, rather than emotionally (as you are doing). See how that works.

It works terribly, which is probably why she tends to be skittish on that front. If/when you do get a straight answer, she's going to tell you she cured CF with sea salt (yes, that's the big mystery).
So what interests me in this story is that she had a need for money, and saw entrepreneurship as a way to deal with this.

She didn't set out to solve anyones problem, she just made something she thought was an excellent product.

I have a feeling these stories pop up more often lately, people starting small single-product companies that focus on quality, like they guy that makes the perfect sweatshirt, or the guy that makes the perfect jeans, and the company that makes the perfect undergarments.

Also they have in common that they try to do all production in their own countries.

Is this a counter movement to the chinese goods consumerism and low quality products? Do these companies just work because they are lucky, and do dozen others just fail? Is it a good idea to challenge an established product that has fallen prey to cheap chinese production?

Also, is craftsmanship something that is coming back to the western world? Will sites like Etsy or Amazon play a role in reintroducing craftsmanship into our daily products?
I don't doubt your experience but you've attended one event and are telling people to avoid it despite the fact they organize hundred of events all over the world. Each one has it's own organizers and compositions. They even focus on different topics (edu/gov/general/maybe more?).

I've attended Startup Weekends and been an organizer (so you know my bias). But I've met lots of good developers at these events. Startup Weekend is more friendly towards non-technical people than any other hackathon I've been to. But that's also part of the appeal. It could be detrimental if any group isn't represented well enough or is over represented. But don't let that dissuade people from trying it out. If you're really worried, bring a technical friend, worst case scenario, you get to hack on something with a buddy for a weekend.

You seem a bit disappointed because of the outcome instead of focusing on what you got to do during the weekend. What did you work on? Did you learn anything? Did you make any new friends/connections? Did you get some new ideas that translate to something else you're working on?
I've only been to one hackathon (Angelhack NYC), but I've heard that other ones have a similar problem - short demos. If you are evaluating a project in 2 minutes, you aren't evaluating anything except a team's ability to pitch. Granted, pitching is a useful skill, but maybe it should be called a Pitchathon because those of us who code all night get resentful of well-rested biz devs with a slide deck being in a 'hackathon'.

I know judging time tends to get limited, but one easy solution would have been to either split the judges up or use staff/volunteers to have some sort of preliminary round where you get 10-15 minutes to do a full working demo that shows all your work, not just a concept. The second added benefit is then you have a shorter 'final round' where only the best projects get demoed for everyone. The only downside is that not everyone gets to do a 'real demo' in front of the judges but maybe it's a good thing if it needs to be earned. I personally would have felt much better getting knocked out in an early round after actually showing all the work I put in rather than feeling like 90% of my work was irrelevant as far as the demo went because I didn't have time to show it.
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Looks like the Esplora may be going the way of the Nexus 4

Nah, I bet they just felt inspired by that article on HN about hosting blogs on Raspberry Pis, and tried to host the Esplora pages on an Esplora!
Are you talking about in-app purchases? Those are password protected. What's the point of password-restricting free apps?
CLFSWM is a window manager for X11 written in Common Lisp and inspired by stumpwm and tinywm. Windows and frames are often fullscreen maximized (no decorations). A frame can contains windows or other frames (tree of frames). It's not really a tiling window manager.
A more explicit presentation video can be found here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv0UQR-5ZLs (and a slower one on common-lisp.net).
They already allow this. I use one Apple ID for iCloud and a different Apple ID for purchases in iTunes/AppStore.
Did you use Google Cloud Messaging? If so, any chance you could post a tutorial or at least your thoughts on setting it up? There are a surprising lack of those around.
Personally, the vibrate on keypress feature is the greatest thing ever (Nexus S), and I'm heartbroken that my fancy new ASUS tablet (TF200T) doesn't support it. Fortunately, it has a (physical) keyboard, so all I need now is a decent SSH implementation. Alternatively, maybe just Ubuntu.

As a side note, you can turn off the vibrate on keypress in the keyboard options. It's separate from the system-wide vibration settings, I think.
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The data may be interesting to some people, but what intrigued me was the data visualization techniques. I thought the groupings were good, that the use of color and of line widths was helpful, and that the ways the lines curved actually HELPED to locate them (as compared with straight lines or a simpler curve). However, I think the left and right sides should have been represented by two different curves (perhaps the base of a parabola) that did NOT meet to make a full circle -- because until reading the details I didn't realize that the left and right sides of what appeared to be a single circle were essentially unrelated. All in all, a nice visualization.
Hover over the small icons to see only that part.

My main takeaway is that everyone does everything. Except biologists and chemists.
WebKit: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92769 https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94062

Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=816756
I've been living on 2.3 for the past 2 years.

Haptic feedback has always had an option to disable. I'm pretty sure I've seen settings to even change the intensity of said feedback.

In fact, most of this guys issues are either

a) apps I want aren't available

or

b) I don't know where that setting is located.

I will agree though, the android settings browser is a bit of a train wreck. Not bad for me, but trying to explain any of this to my father, for example, is an effort in futility.
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Nice data visualizations. One thing I'd also like to see here is a representation for multiple majors (35% of Williams students are double majors).

Tangentially related, I was a little disappointed to see the slice for Computer Science is still so small. It was also small in mid-90's, and I believe it grew dramatically during the first dotcom boom, but it seems to have dropped back to the earlier levels.

Not that I think the CS program should get any easier just to attract more students (it was notoriously difficult for a while), but rather I think that CS can be the perfect science complement in a well-rounded liberal arts education.

Go Ephs.
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To be fair, the author kept the post short. I didn't find any fluff in it.

Perhaps as the guy on the team that's constantly interfacing with managers or clients, you don't find any value in a quiet atmosphere. How do the rest of the folks on your team feel?

Of course, cultural practices reinforce each other. If your team practices both Everyone Is Client-Facing, and Phone-First, then there's likely a lot of chatter anywhere you go in your office and people ironically resort to headphones to find quiet.

In many teams, there are only a few that require the use of their voice above a low volume, and even then it's for limited intervals only. Without a simple well-understood rule, such folks can dominate environments and unnecessary interpersonal friction can develop.
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We've currently got about 3500 SSDs in production across our clusters. I worry about them deciding to all fail at once, so far they have been sporadic failures (about 1/2 of which leave the drive unusable).
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Or maybe you have so few users, that when it does go down no one notices?
I'm confused by most of this list really.

- A few of his complaints are about apps on the store (1Password, Tweetbot, Circa, Reeder). I'm not sure how these are "Android" problems.
- Ads in apps are the responsibility of the app author to provide a free/pay model to remove them. Again, not an "Android" problem.
- The settings menus make complete sense to me, but I will agree with him about the toggles-as-buttons thing. That had me wondering where wifi settings were for a few minutes.
- Keyboard vibrate is an option in the keyboard settings in every single version of android I've ever used, and every single third-party keyboard too.
- Jumping to a specific screen (the "home" screen) is usually an option in the settings. I'm not sure about on 4.2, but I know that it is on CM10, which is based on 4.1. It might be their third-party launcher that provides this though. It's in Settings -> Launcher -> Homescreen -> Default Screen.
Any one knows of any board that supports HDMI input?
I would like to disagree. I have found that an office that is too quite is an office where people probably don't communicate much, and is not a healthy environment. And it's the office where people sit by each other's desks all the time is where work gets done. Of course there are extremes to everything, though.