skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, how does that look like an innocent mistake? It used to work, they changed some code, and now they're blocking users with a specific useragent.
If you want to build a native app, build a native app. These sorts of things look worse than amateurish when you're not on iOS. There are parts of this that seem useful, but why force the iOS style? It's not like iOS is some bastion of great style anymore... at all.
Atlanta airport diverted by toothbrush
Apologies if I'm off base, but can you correct my logic?

If GMOs[1] can enable the growth of more productive and nutritious food crops, it follows that they can enable more efficient agriculture. Lower inputs of resources (including time) and higher output (meaning, hopefully, less hunger and lower food prices) would seem to translate to the higher availability of resources to allocate to other ventures.

If communities are freed from the pressure of scraping together their next meal, doesn't that fundamentally change their health and economic prospects?

[1] Or any specialized cultivar, for that matter.
From June 2010.
Definitely! If you have any questions or want to talk further feel free to msg me
Since June, when the presentation was created, Play has gone through a few big revisions. The primary method of accessing a database is Anorm (which, if you aren't a Hibernate fan, Anorm is a huge win) although you can also use Hibernate, or you also have the choice of using Slick, which is Typesafe's ORM (and a lot easier to use). IntelliJ 12 has better support for Play as well, and the overall performance has improved a great amount.

It's too bad that the presentation doesn't include sample Scala code for Play; imho this is the number one reason to use Play. The saveRating() controller method that they use as Play's example, which is some twenty lines of Java code, could be done in one or two lines of Scala code. Similarly, running a job in Play is essentially just spinning up an Akka actor and scheduling messages to send to it-- very very straightforward.

Play has been extremely easy to work with, especially with writing Scala code, and it's much more lightweight compared to, say, the Lift framework.
if you mean this one, it's just moved down: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5010891
very cool. saved!
Now all he needs to do is get on Shark Tank.
How FirefoxOS Supports Emerging Market Mobile Behaviors
> There is no organization of individuals which routinely kill people over pocket change, is there?

Yes, there are. Frequently over nothing at all.
also: http://www.stefankendall.com/2013/01/all-i-learned-in-colleg...
Start menu?
The small class sizes are surely a boon to be had. I have a good direct relationship with all of my professors, and they monitor my progress closely. If I ever have issues, I'm meet personally with them to straighten them out.

But to be perfectly clear, the best thing I could ever ask for is the ability to see my professors work live. One of my professors was a high-up manager for a very large insurance company, and the other was a good friend of Edsger Dijkstra, among others. One is an immense source of advice in practical software engineering, and the other can usually teach me a pattern to solve a problem in ten-times less code and more efficiently.

And, due to the small size of my school, my semester-ly tuition is less than $2k. It might not look like much on a resume, but I've hit the jackpot of schools.
Nice story, a little too long though and I'd have liked bigger and sharper pics of the actual products.

What seems very obvious to me or maybe I didn't get the point: Carrying a key chain with a condom is more than just a key chain, it's a statement. It somehow says in a very obtrusive way that you want to f$%#, that you are anytime ready to f$%#, yeah it just says that you are so desperate and unf$%#$% that any f$%# is welcome. And that's definitely not the way to get laid (for men at least).

Sorry, but who should buy this? 12yr old kids?

However, I think that the OP learned a lot, so it should have been a good entrepreneurial experience in any case.
Serious question. Is there anything new or timely about the visual.ly homepage?
While fixing up the final errors the other night, I consumed a bag of Gummi Bears.

And half a box of chocolate.
You must not have kids... :)
Monads explained in Clojure by Brian Marick
Macbook Air 13", two 24" external displays (one is via a USB display adapter).

I have VirtualBox set up with an image of Windows XP for IE testing. Other than that, I run all my webdev projects on my MBA, rather than in a Linux VM in VirtualBox. Homebrew is wicked.

I use PyCharm for my dev environment (I'm largely a Django dev at the moment). Say what you will about IDEs vs text editors (but please don't in this thread, really!), it's a great tool - worth it.

I have Linode VPSes running for staging/testing purposes that mirror production systems.
I've also had real issues with windows using far too much ram for disk cache and swapping out in-use program data; a 'ram-cleaner' will at least help in this situation.

My eventual duct tape was running cacheset once a minute to cut cache down to .5GB. Thankfully once I upgraded to windows 7 it stopped being a problem.
i think this venture took place 20+ years ago. His MBA was from 1984, and in the story he says he was a freshly minted MBA.
Yep, exactly same boat, glad you posted. I'm at the beginning of the "few weeks of constant, gut wrenching, inner monologue talks..." and just trying to weigh them out.

I would like to spend most of the time on the Startup - I really enjoy it, but I also acknowledge that there is a realistic chance that it won't work out and I will need to find another company. Now that registration for next semester is coming up, I found myself not really wanting to go back.

I think i'll probably cut back on the units and proceed primarily online on the side... just so I can slowly work my way to the degree that I might need one day.

Thank you for your post and your time, I really appreciate it!
Of course it's evil. Redirecting a user is hostile in nature and was surely done to piss off microsoft. What wouldn't be evil is putting a banner stating that the browser is not supported.

I get that google needs to make money, I'm fine with it, but don't for one minute think they are the good guys anymore. They are as evil as any other public company. Sad but true.
Note, this is a repost of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4992062 which went overlooked, but I added a vimeo album to link to all 4 videos.
Awesome and inspiring story!
You may've read the much shorter original version back when it lived in http://www.gwern.net/Notes or read it sometime in the past 3-4 months when I was working on expanding it.

(The first version was basically the non-quantitive first third, but about half that size, so I added a ton.)
No-one would credit rumors that Apple was wasting its time creating a new browser.
Please explain. The government is the only one I can think of.
>Sorry, but who should buy this?? Maybe 12yr old kids?

I take it you've never seen college boys (or even some young professionals in certain areas) wearing shirts with slogans such as this one (http://i.imgur.com/4vt3m.jpg).

Somewhat related, these (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_nuts) are also quite popular in Texas.

(in case you're located outside the US- American culture, despite its puritan roots and persistent culture, is quite open about crass jokes in that spirit)
Users could tell which links are affiliate if there was copy on the page making it clear that "orange links that say 'buy' are affiliate links - if you click them and make a purchase Referly will make a commission on the transaction. That's the business we're in. Thank you!"

I don't think you have anything to lose by being upfront with your audience - they'd probably appreciate it.
I don't understand why so many support this, it would be a terrible experience to navigate
Absolutely a valid point, that is defiantly the thought that has kept me in thus far. I know a handful of kids that graduated with me and literally haven't worked a day in their life. I think it's amazing that people are content with that type of existence.

Thank you for your feedback, it's appreciated!
Here's a photo of a condom keychain:
http://d24w6bsrhbeh9d.cloudfront.net/photo/51576_700b.jpg
Well... it's their service. And you're not paying for it. Seems to me they can offer it any way they want.

I don't know if it's a good move on their part, that's a different question.
Chaplin is a mess. I need node, npm, build a bunch of stuff from scratch? I've already lost interest (I looked at Chaplin a few months ago and honest to God couldn't even figure out what the hell it did besides download various crap to a /lib/ dir. Aren't there six dozen tools that do that?)
A guy searching for job and girl of his dream.
Apple was big news in the tech industry even at its nadir. To quote (roughly from memory) BYTE in 1994 -- the history of the computer industry over the last ten years has consisted of following Apple.
Yup. This was originally published in Summer of 1999.
> right now only the turkish government can do MITM - other parties can't.

First, if true that's a small comfort. Second, how do you know that is true?
When does the east coast list come out?
All very good advice! Life is indeed too short. Thank you, the feedback is appreciated!
Valid points, maybe I am too far away from these targets.
When I read that I thought of Kevin Smith's conversation regarding Superman and a Giant Spider - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgYhLIThTvk#t=8m0s

My current theory about movies at the moment is that all these crappy movies get made just to put a trailer to a big "block buster" at the start. After cost + advertising - box office revenue is taken into account, the end cost is probably less than it would cost normally to mass market the initial trailer. -- The reason why bad movies get made :D
Not quite my idea of college, but thank you for the feedback at least! :)
Unfortunately there's no support organization big enough to implement Linux in the dod. I would think that only Microsoft has the experience to support such customers with endless use cases.
I love groovy. Anytime I have something 'Java-JVM' that isn't performance critical, I write it in groovy. But even that mindset is falling away given the ability to use @CompileStatic.

The best part of groovy to me is that I can use it where I want, when I want, with a single POM dependency and without (generally) having to think about how it interacts with existing Java code.

When I write a Jersey controller, I start in java, if I hit a point where I'm thinking "this would be easier with a closure" or "defining an entire inner class here is stupid", I stop, change the file ending from .java to .groovy, and code away.
Looks nice. How hard was it to break the glass?
Thank you, I really appreciate it! Also, very nice post. :)
I'm not saying this isn't new, but I've had a WP7 phone since June 2011; I've never been able to access a Google map on it.
No. Not at all, the Android mechanism for end-of-list is literally much less jarring. It's a subtle fade up of color that clearly indicates that you're at the bottom without having the damn thing jump around the screen.
Macbook Pro:

~/felix>flx --test=build/release --static mt
~/felix>time ./mt

real	0m0.004s
user	0m0.001s
sys	0m0.002s

~/felix>time ../lua-5.2.1/src/lua mt.lua

real	0m0.006s
user	0m0.001s
sys	0m0.003s
And, for those desiring augmentation/enhancement of their own self-directed text-based learning of OTP and Erlang, two of the "Erlang and OTP in Action" authors, Martin Logan and Eric Merrit, with Jordan Wilberding and Ram C Singh (full disclosure: that's me), teach ErlangCamp, an intensive two-day course in building large-scale Erlang applications using OTP.

The class is suitable for those with some experience with programming, though Erlang expertise is not required. It is based on the book, but structured differently. The class starts with the teaching of the essential aspects of Erlang required for one to become functional with OTP, then moves quickly into an introduction of OTP. The remainder of the class is spent building on these foundational Erlang and OTP concepts.

Two ErlangCamps are in the planning for this year. One will likely be in the Europe (date/location TBD), and the other in the US, targeting "Music City", Nashville, TN, in October. If interested, monitor the ErlangCamp website (http://www.erlangcamp.com), which will be updated with details, as we lock them down.
Backbone tries to provide the barest useful essentials -- the main business of building your app is up to you.

I personally prefer minimal frameworks because they don't assume what your finished product will look like. You can grow the application organically rather than trying to fit it into some prototypical mold. Full-fledged frameworks have their uses - they are perfect for getting up and running on known problems. But if you are trying to bake things into an already mature code base or trying a totally different style of architecture, they are not worth the work.
Probably a little too safe.
And this just days after FTC cleared them if any misbehavior. Bravo!
More than they do if the whole CA is removed. Sorry, annoying but true. Promote TACK!
Defiantly some things I overlooked - a social life is one of them. I really appreciate the feedback!
A few of these are not nootropics but cognitive enhancers. Difference being that nootropics are extremely non-toxic or neuroprotective. Another way to put it is that nootropics are a subset of cognitive enhancers (safe cognitive enhancers, basically).

The following are not nootropics:

* Modafinil and Armodafinil

* Adderall (Amphetamine)

* Caffeine

* Kratom

* Nicotine (this is a border case, in my opinion)

* Selegiline

Stay away from the above, unless taken very occasionally, if you value your health. Drugs like these rapidly build tolerance and become a liability in the long run. If you insist on using stimulants such as amphetamine, learn about how to reduce tolerance with things such as NMDA antagonists and take things to prevent neurotoxicity.

He should also get on with trying Noopept - it's one of the best nootropics of recent times.

From experience, anybody who is a programmer or does similarly demanding intellectual work will stand to benefit from learning about and using nootropics. They're not a silver bullet but quite a few of them are most certainly effective.
How do you keep up with 120 channels? Doesn't stuff just scroll by? Do you keep logs or is the chat traffic paginated? Or do you just read what's on your screen when you switch to a certain channel? Or what IS your system for keeping up with so many channels?
I wouldn't compare myself to Gates. :P Great points, I appreciate the feedback!
A person who moved from developer to CTO to CEO I am warning you don't MISS college. I have found myself in strange situations without knowing Mathematics that I have to go back to basics to do my job. If you take it easily by looking at low hanging fruit you will suffer later. The memories and learning you will have from college will be always there with you like swimming -- no matter if you dont swim for 10yrs still you won't loose that talent.
I'd argue that as long as an intermediate is passing out BS certs, nobody (modulo cert pinning etc) who trusts that intermediate or its root is truly protected.
A good point that I had overlooked completely, the social factor. It's amazing how something so obvious gets looked over so easily. Thank you for the feedback, I really appreciate it!
And it was cleared by FTC of any misbehavior!
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But is the manufacturing process safe for the condom? I.e. won't damage it.
The reason there are more hidden risks is because we're creating breeds that couldn't occur in nature. We can't understand the full effects of modifications.

Natural plants have been tested over time so that we can be somewhat sure they don't have that many unknown weaknesses.
I think I need to switch Countries! :D
I accept that on HN most people know what swap is, and when it's okay (or beneficial) to turn it off, and how to do it, and who would notice the difference, and how big to set it if you do have it.

But most people hearing this "Windows performance enhancing tweak" are not that knowledgable about their OS.

Compare the MS article here (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2160852) with, for example, this article with minimal details (http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/understanding-w...).
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Yep, i like both the amazon and itunes rental options for movies. Most movies are a one time deal anyway, and they are FAR cheaper than going to a theater for "meh" movies.

For buying I would like the drm to go bye-bye. They can watermark it for all I care, as long as its a plain file with no drm is what I want for the purchase price so I can move it about like the songs I buy from amazon/itunes. That is basically my viewpoint as well.
"Wireframing" isn't a good term. From the headline, I thought this had to do with 3D modeling (3D is the context where you usually hear the word "wireframe" used)
Meet Extraordinary People... For a Fee
As an Australian, I'd say American English sounds loud.
Unfortunately, I can't add Japanese character for this.
It seems that this application don't have CJKV fonts.
It's amazing how entertaining that was without color or cgi.
http://meldmerge.org/
Looks good. Try making your github repo include a full working example to get people more interested.

Edit: Just started a new repo to put together a working example of this, I'm interested to see it on a phone
https://github.com/thewebguy/junior-example

Also realized subby is not the developer.
Not pedantic, just misunderstood. Yep IJ is awesome. I tried eclipse again a couple years ago and there is no contest
"Though I had a Stanford MBA and regularly consulted on multimillion-dollar projects, I didn't know the first thing about starting a business."
The visual.ly marketplace for infographic designer is new https://marketplace.visual.ly/
Huh. The ad-supported third-party gMaps app still works on my WP7.5 Lumia. Not sure what I'd gain by using it in the browser.
The argument that a smaller screen, allows for a smaller surface area, that is easier to navigate is obvious.

That's not obvious at all. Larger screens can allow for larger touch targets, and by showing more content they can reduce the need for "navigation" in the first place.
Because iOS is still influential and they are hedging their bets.
> If one wishes to spend 5 million plus on a game that only maybe 250k will actually pay for then you are destined for failure.

Correct. But given that large, complex software projects take time and manpower to create, there is a subset of games and genres that simply cannot be developed and hope to break even.

It's not just the publishers 'at fault'. Developers don't want to downsize or go bankrupt, therefore they won't tend to develop games that won't let them pay wages in future.

There are alternative funding methods, but before kickstarter it was mostly arts grants and the like. Tale of Tales have developed several small art games on art grants, IIRC.

> If you have a large publisher funding your project, then you aren't an indie title.

No, not at all. ThatGameCompany are an indie company but Journey was bankrolled by Sony. Does that mean that it's not an indie title? Fez was created by Polytron, published by Trapdoor and distributed by Microsoft. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft at least partially funded the XBLA version of Minecraft. DoubleFine's Brutal Legend was paid for by Activision, then dropped and picked up by EA (a big court case ensued). As I mentioned above, Tale of Tales have developed games using government money. The list goes on and on, because it's a very common way of working.
Has play stopped using Ebean? It's my favorite Java ORM and I've never heard of Anorm.
Your email isn't in your profile so if you would like to drop me a line and let me know what you're looking for I would be happy to help or suggest some people that might be able to help.
This is slashdot^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Hacker News, the issue never came up.
English Letter Frequency Counts: Mayzner Revisited
Organized crime, drug dealers, etc. often kill people for small offenses, "honor" crimes, ratting out, snooping or just for fun. Haven't you seen any mafia/yakuza movies? Real life is much, much worse.
PG has a name for trying to capture the potential of the large-payoff potential of investments: "Farming black swans" [1].

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/swan.html
I've always been fascinated by "near language". Its an odd feeling as my brain recognizes the basic sounds and tries to find a foothold but fails.

There was a story posted here quite a while ago about a short movie made entirely in "english-like" language. I think it featured a couple arguing. Maybe someone can help me out here? It gave me the eery feeling of being a young child again listening to adults talking around me.
Astronomer to Data Scientist
You can go to college any time, but it's damn nice to be the same age as everyone else there. I'd argue rather that unless you've got a really solid plan, given the choice you should go to college first. You can start a business any time, the only thing you'll miss out on by waiting 4 years is the "Check out this 19-year-old entrepreneur" techcrunch articles.
Reasons to be excited about Java in 2013
Not adding value to your competitor's products for free is simply competitive and part of normal business. "Anti-competitive" is a different thing and means using market power to suppress competition, whereas this move is about intensifying it.
All anecdotal. Maybe it's Trident (the rendering engine) then, but it really hangs for me after a few tabs.

(Exactly. It's probably political as I mentioned before.)
Because an entire TV series is much longer than a movie.

* goes back to waiting for more of Rebuild *

Edit: Huh, if the last thing in a comment is an asterisk it becomes invisible.
First, I completely agree that there are plenty of very complex pieces to the food security puzzle, and I hope I'm not painting GMOs as a magic bullet.

> The problem is that in some parts of the world people are too poor to farm. GMO seed - produced by a company who will lock in farmers to that seed and prevent them from growing on from the crop - is not going to help that.

Not every GMO is a product of pure corporate interest. There are non-profit projects with massive potential (the BioCassava Plus, for example[1][2]).

I agree that the ethical track record of many agricorps is appalling, and I think we need more funding of GMO science that keeps valuable IP in public and charitable hands.

> We heard how agro-chemicals were going to feed the world. They don't.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. It's estimated that a third of humanity is sustained by the Haber-Bosch process [3]; should we count that technology as a failure because hunger still exists?

[1] http://tyglobalist.org/in-the-magazine/features/genetically-...

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21526968

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process
http://jquerymobile.com/
The problem is that they took it upon themselves to be judges, jury and executioner. If all they did was point out the potential mistakes under a less judgemental name they'd have been fine.

It looks like their plan for the future is a re-launch doing just that so let's see what they come up with.

Saying something is fraudulent is libelous, saying you think something is a mistake is just about as bad in the scientific world (the research is just as invalid) but does not carry with it a sense of judgement. Who knows whether something was a mistake or outright fraud, sometimes it is hard to tell the difference (see the certificate matter on the homepage right now).

Do not attribute to malice what you can attribute to incompetence works just as well in the scientific world. Having to retract a paper is no fun at all.