skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As other replies have already eluded, this isn't really comparable to JavaScript. Also good luck crunching huge datasets on clusters from within your browser with a pure JavaSCript implementation.
Aren't all of these devices reachable via Google Cloud Messaging as they run Android? This seems like a narrow channel to have to support.
I genuinely wasn't doing it to feel superior. The goal is to collect enough data to conclusively verify that the hard right values rhetoric and propaganda over facts and that they are more susceptible to propaganda than the left is. In the process I've also learned that the hard right is more likely to make something viral than the left is.

Regardless, it is an ongoing experiment so I will update it accordingly and probably publish something once I have enough data.

Also, I can probably make some money off the Republican website (more than the Democrat website) but I don't view it as a valuable asset. No matter how big it gets at the end I will dismantle it because it is a net-negative to our society.
My mistake, then. I agree.

No one enjoys having cheaters around them, bringing them down, don't you think that the professors would rather have cheat-proof exams to offer their classes as well?
What a silly thing to say -- of course there has been progress, even if it's only a better understanding of what doesn't work.
Some of our competitors have done this and we've received very negative feedback from their customers about per-app, per-user, and royalty-based pricing.

Also not sure it makes sense to create a price incentive to bundle a bunch of functionality into a single app.

We like having simple, fair, obvious pricing. Even if it means leaving some money on the table.
absolutely, I see it as a band aid measure, but that doesn't mean it's void of usefulness.
It is interesting to see how the Romney campaign copied from the Obama campaign.

For the flipside, what was copied from the Romney campaign?
It is not very exact. The total phase error can be hundreds of cycles.

In the synchronous grid of Continental Europe, the deviation between network phase time and UTC (based on International Atomic Time) is calculated at 08:00 each day in a control center in Switzerland. The target frequency is then adjusted by up to ±0.01 Hz (±0.02%) from 50 Hz as needed, to ensure a long-term frequency average of exactly 50 Hz × 60 sec × 60 min × 24 hours = 4,320,000 cycles per day.[21] In North America, whenever the error exceeds 10 seconds for the east, 3 seconds for Texas, or 2 seconds for the west, a correction of ±0.02 Hz (0.033%) is applied. Time error corrections start and end either on the hour or on the half hour.

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_frequency
FTA:

The underlying question throughout the book is “If people
like architects and pilots use checklists to both avoid
and minimize errors, then why in the hell aren’t
physicians and nurses doing the same?”

And that got me thinking. What if every
hospital procedure had an accompanying checklist,
from all types of surgeries to administrative
operations?

Whoa there. The jump from the first statement to the second completely bypasses the entire challenge. The problem is not that there aren't standards already, but that the various regulations and laws, both at the governmental level and at the hospital board level, make such "optimizations" very difficult to implement.

Until you have a real solution to removing the resistance of bureaucracies, then all of this is putting the cart before the horse. There is not much in this post that hasn't been talked about or already agreed on by medical reformers.
So amazing, I had no idea they were doing anything this advanced at that time.
But it's PHP. sigh
Understanding the fall and rise of Facebook's stock
> There's an incentive for a dishonest student to cheat because it's significantly easier than actually doing the work.

That's only true if cheating gives you the same benefit as actually doing the work.

In many fields (especially science/technology/engineering/math), I would argue that the cheater doesn't capture much benefit. It's pretty easy to verify their abilities and see that they don't know what they're doing. In these areas, even where the credential is necessary it is not sufficient.

On the other hand, there are cases where it seems that a cheater is just as capable of doing the work. Where that's true, it calls into question the wisdom of using such credentials in the first place, since mastery of the material ends up being uncorrelated with performance.

> but students don't know best.

True, but that's only a problem if we assume learning is a one-shot thing. If learning is a continuous, iterative process then there's plenty of chances for the learner to self-correct based on real-world experience. That's one reason I went off on my "agenda" about why education in general needs to change.
> Of all the ME petrostates, UAE is by a long shot and then some the most liberal and has the most diversified economy

Being the best among the worst is not exactly a good indicator.

Dubai doesn't have a very diversified economy - 90% of exports is oil.
bpython is a very nice lightweight replacement for the standard Python interpreter. Nothing but <3 for bpython. But it's not really comparable in scope and capabilities to IPython; the latter is much more heavy-weight but for myriad good reasons.
I'd say it's like turning off ClearType in Windows (this is forced on me when I webex)... it's jarring, and a bit painful. When the ClearType comes back on (after webex is ended), it just feels less annoying.

Another analogy is sometimes when eating at our dining room, whoever had cooked will forget to turn off the kitchen fan. It's not really that noticable. However, when one of us eventually remembers during dinner and goes and turns it off , all the sudden it feels much nicer.
Trending reflects the difference between the results for 2011 and 2012. Recall that until the iPhone 4S was announced, the assumption was that it would be called the iPhone 5, and was searched for by that term.
I think what was intended is that posting this announcement on hn corrupts your data.
The potential party platform for a world movement:

http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/cypherpunks/
503. That’s an error.

The service you requested is not available at this time.

Service error -27. That’s all we know.

I receive a 503 error on the page.
They're not synonyms; "and" is not a more readable version of "&&".

As Avdi Grimm says:
and and or, despite an apparent similarity to && and ||, have very different roles.

It's worth using "and" and "or", especially considering that && and || bind too tightly for some purposes. I try to avoid && and || unless I'm doing a specific boolean operation (e.g. x = foo || bar). Not for flow control, though.

If you really can't grok the logic, use parens.
How is it better than WePay? I've used WePay's API, which supports crowdfunding, and it seems to work fine.
Just because Lean is the buzzword of 2012 doesn't mean it's the right way to do it. This comment wouldn't have made sense two years ago, and probably won't make sense two years from now. Seems a little wrong to say that because it's not Lean, it's wrong. Let them find their own way, "wrong" or not.
Postgres 9.3 - Support automatically-updatable views
Real-Time Data on 80% of U.S. Emails
Uh, no. There have been multiple lasers built at LLNL of increasing power over the decades - NIF is the replacement for NOVA, which was the replacement for SHIVA - which was used in TRON. Each successive laser has been least an order of magnitude more powerful than the previous I believe.

And to say "no progress" is to belittle the efforts of a lot of people that are pushing the boundaries of physics and the associated engineering problems.
Vector vengeance: Researchers claim they can kill the pixel within five years
Hopefully it will make an entertaining movie, but man, I really hate all things associated with "The Singularity". Nothing fills me with more irrational (impotent) rage than people babbling on about the Singularity.
Oh please tell me the movie will end up being titled Lawnmower Man 2.0.
Cool stuff. Now how about running C# apps on the web? :)
One thing I take from this graph is that doubling fusion funding would still leave us at "fusion never", so we shouldn't bother doubling it. :(
NeXT is dead

Didn't you get the memo?
Note: The animation is pure CSS, but the component graphics are PNGs. Given the simplicity of the graphics, I was rather hoping the whole thing was styled divs.
I am not a Nolan fan, but I respect him for consistently choosing challenging projects.
The limited nature of the environment actually makes it much more secure and I'd guess that IE is not written in JavaScript. =)
Safe search now mandatory for Google Image Search
Well said bdunn!
SAMSUNG POUNCES ON APPLE MAPS APP AFTER IT STRANDS AUSTRALIAN TOURISTS
I used MonoTouch at work (where price was not an issue) to convert an existing project to iOS. Aside from some minor complaints about the editor, the experience was amazing. I had previously written a couple of iOS apps using the "native" toolset, and I would not go back if I had the choice. While I understand your pain (I would gladly fork over $100 as a lone developer/hobbyist for personal development, but can't hand over $400), I think the price tag is completely justified.
Interesting - would this vulnerability exist when running IE rendering engine through, say IETab or via other browser shells, a la Maxthon?
> Johnny Depp may seem like a strange casting choice, but given his penchant for bizarre roles, we imagine he’ll play a mad scientist quite convincingly.

Actually it seems like a really predictable casting choice. When will people get tired of seeing Depp playing a weirdo? I don't even have to guess that Helena Bonham Carter is going to be bug-eyed with big crazy hair in this one too...
Studying fusion reactions and high energy ablation reactions definitely help understand nuclear weapons dynamics.
Ok, I'll bite. Why do you care?
This site is great.

My attempt (less cooler in comparison) at scraping hypemachine is here:
http://metahypem.com
The issue I have with this is that eventually every disease and diagnosis will have an accompanying check list. This is an over simplification of a process that requires professional opinion and deep knowledge within a specific domain.

Psychiatry is an great example of how using checklists can cause a disease or disorder to be over diagnosed. Depression, ADD, ADHD, Social Phobia (branded as Social Anxiety) all have checklists and all three disorders are over diagnosed.

Psychiatry also happens to be a great example of how Big Pharma gets their greedy hands involved in creating these checklists. In some cases the checklist come from Big Pharma themselves. Talk about a conflict of interest.

Doctors are paid to think, apply their knowledge, consult with each other. They are not paid to check boxes on checklists and toss around diagnosis.

Edit: Typo
Kickoff goes Public Beta [video]
It's similar to Wepay's except with the use of Wepay's API you're tied to their gateway and thus their rates as well. With this you'll have your choice of payment gateway (Stripe, etc) while also being able to use the features you love for Wepay, essentially meaning you should be able to get the best rates possible as well as crowdfund the things you like.

Not necessarily "better" really just a different animal altogether
LINKBAIT HEADLINES ON HACKER NEWS DEPRESS ME
Hiring for more than talent
It never fails to cease to amaze me when people people mix up these type of statements.
Vilification of discovery scans in 2012. Weird.

Yes. Appstack is totally the way to go if you're an app pen guy. Shocking.

Portscanning not too useful in a whitebox pen assessment, sure.

Don't do it at all because blackhats "don't do that"? Not really. Just make sure instrumentation and response exists for both of these cases.

Pen guys don't want to perform an assessment of the environment to gauge targets but instead just break out the same kit for each engage? Sounds fine if it works for them and leaves more things to discover to the next crew that wanders through.

Sounds like more "pentesting isn't compliance" drum beating, which is both good and bad.
Only the US bothers with lasers because everyone else understands that lasers don't work for fusion. Tokamaks are where it's at.

The only real use of NIF is to better understand fusion so as to better understand how nuclear weapons work. I just want them to be honest about it.
Lots of reasons to keep lines sort, though you could argue 80 is pushing it. I've found 100-120 is generally fine for most scenarios on modern hardware.

Just keep in mind that code will be read and shown in a variety of different places. For example reading the code on github or other source control tracking tools, reading it on different terminals with splits active (tmux and VIm splits), etc. Keeping it short just makes it more portable for readability purposes. That's definitely a good thing.
Google censoring results, erases 'No Filter' option
Google now censors what they deem explicit search content. Users are already complaining:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/L8651GKSwwY

Search for a NSFW word on Google & you get filtered results. Go to settings and there's no longer a "no filtering" option. After testing Google's new censored results a bit more, it seems you can get explicit results by entering two word or more phrases. Odd.

A Google worker has chimed in on forums indicating that nothing much has changed for those who don't want to use the Safe Search option. But users disagree:

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/websearch/jvjTVorCn2w/rfluxPMSZ1QJ
Eric Schmidt: Google Fiber isn't just an experiment
Is your user name related to the author of The Petty Demon?
Marc Andreessen: We're in a tech depression
Github makes a lot of things really easy. I'm guessing he just used the "edit" button while viewing a file in Github, which will make Github automatically fork, commmit, and submit a pull request.
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Python has a tons of scientific libraries and scientific who know how to use them.
Not every app has to be beautiful and super-usable though (most business/productivity apps).

If an app can achieve 80% of the usability cross-platform without doing much tweak, I'd say that's a good investment from the publisher perspective.
> It'll get found through search anyways.

If I could actually make this guarantee for any page I created, I would be richer than Gates.
$100/month doesn't really matter to a real business. By the time you are paying employees, renting offices, buying equipment, paying for book-keeping and tax services, and other things, you stop caring about $100/month. What you do care about is starting a new project like moving to a colo, which will take up time, money, and distract you from your mission.

I think it would be better to put it this way - if you care about $100/month, you should consider co-locating. Otherwise, you need other reasons.
Re: media, one step at a time. :)

Re: custom fields: This makes little to no sense to be in core, because custom fields are just that, "custom". There's no point in giving the end user the ability to make their own meta boxes hooked to custom post meta if there is no plugin or theme actually using that meta data. Creating a meta box is something that the theme/plugin should do, because it's actually going to use the data gained from that meta box.

In other words, the horse goes in front of the cart, not the other way 'round.
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Sublime Text 2 plugin for Android Development
Yesterday the census results were published: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20677515

They showed that Britain had experienced such massive immigration in the past ten years that native Britons are now a minority in their own capital city. Given that, it's not surprising if immigration officials are becoming a little over zealous.
I think the issue is around the ambiguity and cognitive friction associated with figuring out where you require them and where you don't. Generally speaking I don't have a lot of problems with it, but I could see why someone might just say "always" to this one.
Origin of life needs a rethink, scientists argue
I’ve learned a lot of programming languages over the years, and I’ve taken care never to learn the operator precedence rules in any of them. It’s easy to get them wrong and get bitten and why should I require that people reading my code learn those stupid rules.

- Tim Bray

[1] http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/06/29/No-Default...
> put in some code that tries to detect whether parts of an article have been deleted and, when in doubt, keep the old version it live

Unlike deleted pages which are hidden from non-admins, deleted parts of articles are almost always reachable if you dig them out in the revision history of the page. The rare exceptions are for text which violates someone's copyright, or which is defamatory, all of which require manual intervention by an admin to be deleted for real. So this content is still archived by Wikipedia, and publicly available, just not very easy to browse.
Among other things: One, wepay isn't international. Two, you have to send users off your site to use it. Three, you can't plug in your own credit card processing if you use wepay (you have to use theirs).

Additionally, their api doesn't provide the tools for the collaboration side of things (messaging, invites, sharing, comments/nested comments, reward tiers, tilting mechanism, etc). Think of this api as a layer above credit card processing (so you get to choose whichever processor you like or already use, thus not disrupting your current flow of funds and you get to keep the branding/UI/UX, the users, the user data, and the credit card processing data, etc - all important things if you're, say, hotels.com).

(disclosure: I'm one of the crowdtilt founders)
As one of the partners of the team, I'm really excited to see this finally launch and help the Boston student entrepreneurs.
It looks like GC is doubling down on the early seed funding model. First the YC partnership, now this.

There's good economic logic to it (the same portfolio theory behind YC).
Yeah, they just bind to the existing libraries, so you end up using all of the native tools.
Embedded Chromium may work for simple stuff but I questioned it for a more complex desktop app (e.g.: http://almworks.com/jiraclient/) from development, feature-rich, and maintainability perspective.
1. Learn more languages and technologies.

2. Create new projects as often as possible.
How changes to Facebook’s app auth process affect developers
It's missing at least few things.

It has our A round listed, but not the B or C which USV did also - http://www.crunchbase.com/company/twilio
Not sure if kidding, or serious :P http://asp.net/mvc
Army awards $617 million Microsoft Enterprise software license deal
Speaking as a teacher, while your 5-points are very good, there's a happy medium here you can hit between free and paid.

Individual teachers have minuscule discretionary budgets (either $0 flat or up to a few hundred for everything). Departments in a school have a bit more (usually hundreds to thousands once textbooks are paid for). Schools and school districts have more money to talk about.

The pace of adoption is the exact opposite. Teachers are willing to try something new, and will show it to their friends/coworkers if it's awesome. School districts are slow to adopt new technology, and rarely turnkey it to other district (schools have their own NIH syndrome).

You want to find a way to make the individual teachers happy and seek out your tool, but also give them a reason for their supervisors to want to pay you. Think about what an org chart for a school would look like. Each teacher has 15-150 students who report to them. They'll collaborate with the other teachers, and all report to a supervisor, who has their own boss(es).

In a school, you'll probably either want to hit the collaboration between teachers or easy metrics on student performance for the big bosses as your pain points. It won't stop us from using your program for free, but it'll give the people with money a reason to want to implement it in the entire school.
It reifies the teleology and savior complex that make monotheistic religions troublesome. It ignores morality and aesthetics in favor of an unknowable, uncontrollable machine logic.
Didn't know you could report a GitHub user for abuse until today. Just did.
Rack middleware replacing status codes with relevant HTTPStatusDog pics
It's harder to garner investment funds, but there's nothing to stop you from building a business as a single founder.

In my case, I've started a number of products that have languished and died because I was lacking skillsets that weren't as easy for me to acquire as it was to find somebody who had them.

Long and short of it, it is often easier to supplement what you don't know with somebody that does know those things than it is to find more time in the day to learn it all and do it all yourself. Even if you know everything yourself, finding the time to do marketing / promotion / split-testing the site copy / crafting emails / handling user support, etc., are time-intensive tasks, and if you are like me, you'd rather be building new features than doing those things.

If you can find somebody passionate that can take approximately half of the workload, it's a life saver. It's also handy to have another smart* individual that can take that work off of you, then it's a lifesaver.

If you've never launched a product, then it's really hard to know how much work is involved post-launch. Launch is really just the beginning, and as hard as it is to launch, getting your product to succeed at market is many times harder.
Open Source Misfeasance [video]
Sure. But something to remember is that a dedicated/colocation server is likely to be at minimum 10x faster than Heroku for the same price (considering AWS is around 5x slower for me). Maybe even approaching 20x.
That depends on the app-developer experience building GUI. Maybe most Java developers aren't that sensitive when it comes to GUI (or maybe it's a culture thing).

Having said that, not all apps have to be excellent 100% in terms of usability and beautiful-UI. Once I step out from the HN-bubble a bit I'm starting to see people using ugly but usable and solved business problems type of app written in anything from Tcl/TK, Java, Qt, Pascal, etc.
I wish somebody would do A/B testing with internal company applications.
Everything About eBooks & eReaders, Pt 4: B&N Nook
A few VC firms put together companies with their own ideas and then invest in them. This is basically the model of betaworks. GC has done this a few times, if I remember correctly. Getting into seed funding is a good way to increase your talent rolodex if you want to do that sort of thing.

It also helps your VC firm get repeat customers down the line. Fund a founder's first company and they'll come to you with their second and third.

It makes a ton of sense.