skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best thing the chinese have got in their desert is a 1:20 model of a section of the india-china border.

http://www.gearthblog.com/images/images706/scalemodel.jpg

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/07/huge_scale_m...

They also have a deserted replica of a typical english town: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Town

And they recently unveiled an exact replica of a real austrian town: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18327751

The rapid growth over there sure is producing some interesting things.
I personally think that sentence is just as bad as the business jargon sentence.
How do they decrypt HTTPS? That shouldn't be possible? Are they exchanging certificates in the middle?
Google didn't actually remove the stock browser from 4.2, they just removed it from the Nexus devices. Like Calendar and Music, it's still in AOSP: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Brow...

It's still silly, though.
"Mindfulness in Plain English" is very concise but still touch tangentially interesting "why" questions.
it is highly likely they knew about the issue before the zero day. if they are aware of an issue but it is not public they will patch it within the 3 month cycle. if it becomes public then they are forced to patch it.
Happiness Is This Gif Of Paul Graham “Making It Rain”
I can't agree that C is as high level as C++. C++ templates and many features in C++11 are way higher level abstractions than C.
Contact info:
@vik1211
about.me/viksingh
I learned yesterday that Oracle also supports this. It's a VERY useful feature!
I don't think that MSFT figure is accurate at all anymore. From what I understand from some of my peers, they start somewhere around $85-90k now, base salary. Glassdoor more or less agrees, for whatever they are worth.
In 10 years the whole Rails community and especially 37signals and its ruler couldn't find and fix such a critical, core bug? That's pathetic and has literally lead to a disaster of amazing proportions.

At least we don't have to hear from Rails fanboys touting their inferior technology ever again. That is worth this disaster.

Bring on the down-votes, I couldn't give a shit.
Are you sure you're looking at the same thing? I just compared some ribeye "extreme value" steak on Instacart vs Safeway's website. Instacart has the 1.50LB package at $15.74/lb. Safeway has it at $9.99/lb as the Safeway Club price (for some reason it won't show me the non-club price). That's a 50% increase, against Safeway's discounted price.

Except oops, no it's not. Instacart does say "per lb", but if I add it to my cart, the final price is actually $15.74, not the expected $23.61. Which compares to Safeway's club price of $14.99. That's a 5% increase, which seems quite reasonable.
Why Are Lego Sets Expensive?
Oracle has index sharding though - would that help in the use case of a very large table where typically only a specific, small chunk of it is accessed?
I developed a search engine, Tomorrowbook.com (no longer active), which displayed results, not in text form but as the website favicon.

1st day of launch Tomorrowbook received 5,000 search queries and about 10,000 on day 2 and 3 respectively and on day 4 we received about 250,000 queries. My only prior web experience was a webstore that receives about 40 visitors a day, so I thought with numbers like this out of the gate I would gain the attention of: media, VCs, anyone...

Needless to say, while I was happy with the early numbers/traction, traffic dramatically fell off. I am not even sure how I got those initial numbers having used Twitter and a (sorry excuse for a) press release to market. Even though I wrote the engine to use both Google Search API and Bing API neither MS or Google had any interest in talking to me about my project, and after a year I dropped the hosting and no one has heard of tomorrowbook.

I know how unrealistic it is to think I could come along and create a search engine that anyone will use over any pre-existing search engine, but I maintain the favicon search engine is a better user experience on phones/tablets than Google, Bing, Yahoo and it is better for domain owners because it forces users to actually visit the end website.

Overall it was a humbling experience but while most people would be afraid of such failure and give up, it has only encouraged me to keep swinging for the fences.
for some reason it would continuously flick between on and off, even when i had it disabled, so i just gave up on it too
http://web.archive.org/web/20020827023250/http://home.netc.n...
Does the metric account for people like me who are so turned off by the requirement that I'll never return to sign up at a later date?
I'm tech savvy and I access Java applets daily. GoToMeeting, VPN for several customer sites, and some commercial software we sell use it.
First mover advantages are actually very rare. They're only relevant for markets with extremely strong network effects and lock-in. Even then, Facebook wasn't the first social network.
events from the past couple of years have changed all of that. These numbers support that.
The docs don't say that you would update the framework via composer (though this may change when Laravel 4 is released) but they do say that you should just replace the "laravel" folder with a new version using whatever method suits you best, which can be even easier. It certainly seems easier than upgrading Rails, since then you can update your whole remote application code and framework in a single push.

The docs clearly explain that your bundles go to the "bundles" directory, controllers go to the "controllers" directory, views belong in "views" and so on. And your whole application resides in a directory called... "application". You'd actually have to be pretty advanced and amazingly stupid at the same time to make a functional app in the framework core folder and than destroy it by overwriting.

Rails docs don't tell me to unzip the framework and start hacking, but they do instruct me to run "gem install rails", wait a couple of hours till it's done, then run "rails new blog", "cd blog" and then start hacking. Neither set of docs tell me how to setup version control before i begin my work, and they shouldn't. That's not the job of the framework docs.

And of course you're gonna hack your application directly on the server, albeit a local one, as PHP applications are typically developed. This in no way prevents you from using version control and proper deployment techniques.
Wikipedia describes it briefly at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_tunnel#HTTP_CONNECT_Tunnel.... The most recent standard for it appears to be RFC 2817 section 5.2, http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2817#section-5.2, and it’s also in the HTTPbis Semantics and Content drafts, currently at http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-2....
>There's a difference between being the middle man so you can minify for the user, and logging all that goes through you

How do you cache without storing?
Show HN: How Twitter users responded to gun control debate
So, we're all youths and we need a daddy to look out for us?

Hmexx is putting his money on the line.

You counter with paranoia and paternalism.

If hmexx wouldn't be $55000 short on what two months are worth to me I'd happily take him up on his offer and I don't think I'd need you to look out for me on the contractual side of things.

If there is just one person here whose price tag is a bit more modest and who is sharp enough to come back here to ask for some guidance during the negotiation phase or the review of a contract then that person has all of HN to back them and a ready pool of counter offers in case the OP is full of it.

No deal may be a better one. But those that make it into the big leagues would agree that being stuck in youth soccer is not the end of the line for everybody.
It probably doesn't help that it has bugs. Sometimes my netbook will go through a horrifically jarring transition full of banding and a very obvious change in tone, it seems like sometimes flux gets a little stuck and then rapidly catches up.

Flux on my MBP is if anything even less predictable.

I also found when moving to my netbook to my MBP that I had to make very big changes to how much flux could change the colours - I have no idea what makes my previous settings so annoying on this computer, there's too many diferences between them to be sure.

On my MBP I completely ignore their recommended settings for lighting type. I picked the tone by adjusting the settings until it didn't feel like the light from my screen was physically attacking my eyes, which required a surprisingly small change in colour.
Thanks very much for your feedback.

Yes, quite a bit of what you are suggesting is in my game-plan already. I have an excellent relationship with my kid's elementary school. The Principal already presented Tommy Teaches to all the teachers and I got good reviews.

I am also about to get involved with their developmentally disabled classes. I know the teachers who look after those kids (one of them lives across the street from me) and they've already told me about a general lack of tools for their kids. My plan is to spend a week or two with the kids at school observing and interacting with them. I'm sure it will be heart-breaking to some extent but if I can help them in any way it'd be absolutely wonderful.

Ditto for the eBooks and some of the other ideas. I even have a very interesting concept for a Tommy Teaches toy.

At one point you start to run into the limits of a solo founder. I can't do everything. I have so far, including developing the character and doing all of the animation work (and I am not a designer at all). This is where intelligent money (meaning money that comes with vision, contacts, perspective, ideas, etc.) could be valuable.

Another interesting angle on Tommy is adult learning. Tommy's genetically-evolved teaching engine could be applied to teaching various subjects that adults want to learn. That's a very interesting market.

In terms of additional languages, yes, absolutely. I speak a couple of languages myself outside of English and am very aware of the lack of quality apps in those domains. Thinking out loud, Spanish might be the first I'd target.

Thanks again for the pointers.
Sounds like a lot of work just to listen to random web traffic.
Why not break into Facebook or Gmail instead? Then you could spy on anyone you wanted.
I have it on good authority that Nokia has had "Lawful Intercept" for quite a while.
Coderbits offering a free course from Code School for joining the beta
New White House petition seeks to legitimize DDoS attacks
Near-realtime clustering of web searches for symptoms and remedies as well as retail store transaction datasets are how most of the outbreak surveillance systems are implemented.

Example: http://biostorm.stanford.edu
Thanks for the explanation, I've got a couple questions:

Say two founders begin a vested company and one drops out, does total ownership transfer to the other founder?

If BOTH drop out, how are assets divided?

Lastly, it seems that the disagreements over ownership will merely shift to disagreements over 'time worked', and weather the effort was legit.
The reinforcing lesson I take away from the post is that you should know your company's weaknesses. Don't support remote workers if you don't have the culture or structure to support remote workers. Otherwise, you'll end up as a company that allows remote workers but doesn't truly support them, which is worse than not having remote workers at all.
You could also find a niche market that has little to no competition and develop to that. I remember when the Desktop Publishing market was new, and the Commodore Amiga had Deluxe Paint and a few third part desktop publishing apps in 1985. Then later in Adobe made Photoshop in 1989 for the Macintosh that copied the ideas of desktop publishing software on the Amiga. Not only that but Newtek had a Video Toaster and Video Editing software for the Amiga, and later on Apple copied it with iMovie and other stuff. But back in 1985 it was a small niche market, and it grew so much that it migrated to the Macintosh and became best selling products that promoted the Mac over the PC.

The Amiga was basically a launch platform that went away for many niche market software. If the companies that developed those for the Amiga had developed them for the Macintosh, they'd still dominate today.
Surely this is a giant target painted on Facebook or Gmail's servers for any blackhat out there who wants to intercept a whole lot of traffic.
Something that too many companies had to learn the hard way over the years: Do not copy an Apple product expecting customers will like a copy of the genuine product. If I like the iPad, I will buy an iPad.
I use instacart a few times a week and have found they're happy to resolve any issues with produce.
> This really side steps the whole "I've got a great idea if I could just get it off the ground" discussion into "What are you willing to bet?"

That nails it perfectly. I like the OPs proposition. I like it so much that I'm now wondering what would be a better counter offer, and I've failed to come up with anything so far. This little trick could kickstart a whole new phase in the start-up world.

Unless the OP turns out to be Jason Calacanis ;)
In the end, you have to trust the browser.

google chrome sends all my pages to translation and what-not. I have to completely trust it. that's why i never use the compiled version but the chromium one only (hence not having access to any addon via the addon site, have to do some manual work there)

Even besides the browser, how many computers don't I see the skype button next to phone numbers? would you trust skype is behaving and not sending your data to their servers? did you remember to disable this add-on for ssl pages?
Thank you! How had I not noticed that?

In Windows GIMP refuses to show up in front of other windows. I must minimise everything else until it shows up. Single window mode works perfectly.
Criminal Cold Case - Did Shawn Adkins Murder Hailey Dunn?
I believe it depends much more on how the code is written, rather than on C vs C++. Believe me, I am able to write as obfuscated and impossible to maintain code in C as in C++ :) (Hopefully) my code in C++ is easy to maintain because of clear concise architecture, simple interfaces, good naming and the use of complicated things such as template metaprogramming only where it is necessary. I would prefer to maintain a C++ codebase written with a concise architecture and the KISS principle in mind than a C codebase written by unqualified programmers without the clear understanding of the task. Also, if you have have 20+ years of experience, then you have started long before C++ became a stable, developed and seasoned tool. I think the finally good enough state of C++ across the platforms was achieved at least in mid 2000s, although it is still in process with the new standard. Early C++ code was a mess (even Boost still contains tons of ugly workarounds for the early compilers).
Let's fork a swearing Watson, I'm sure it will reach AI status sooner than the spotless clean Watson.
Video posted to HN -> in comments request for gif -> gif made and posted -> techcrunch writes story about said gif -> techcrunch story makes HN front page.

my head asplode.
Not to mention the processes are exaggerated, and outright deceptive.

Funny, why do we need to spend multiple steps "signing in" to Yahoo Groups, and not Breeze? Because, sorry, 37signals, the opening page for Basecamp Breeze is not "Create A List".

But I guess you need to exaggerate for effect (this is the same company that defended Apple against the "sequences shortened" lawsuits).

Oh, and "(1)", "(2)", "Create" on the Breeze create a list page...

Except that's not what the page looks like, is it? (https://breeze123.com/signup)

"(1), (2), (3), (4), 'Create'"... that's more accurate.

So... "look how many steps our competitors take, for their free offering. Ours is less steps (because we'll bundle several of them onto each page), so pay us $10 for that convenience, DHH needs a new supercar!" - sorry, I couldn't resist the snark, but this "marketing" is dishonest. And the blog entry as much so. In fact, I could sum it up largely as:

1) throw dart
2) if target hit, great, if target missed, retry step 1
I had to start chrome with primus [0] to get the visualisations working for me. I'm running Debian Testing.

primusrun google-chrome --ignore-gpu-blacklist

[0] https://github.com/amonakov/primus
Making enterprise software that people can actually use
For educated thieves, sure.

But it is enough to deter a lot of people who otherwise might get tempted.
"In retrospect, I view this pattern as a bad habit, as an easy escape from the reality of the hard decisions I had to make as a CEO. No expert, no outsider could know what I knew. The only complete data set was in my head. I was truly free to decide and truly responsible for my decisions. The lack of structure, the uncertainty of it all was terrifying."

This is the key point I think. One of the things I discovered early in my career was that I didn't have any trouble at all making decisions. People would ask for a decision and "Blam!" I'd give them one. This was apparently a super power and it served me well until I got to be a bit more senior and one of my decisions cost the company more than they expected it to cost. I got called in to talk to the executive vice president to explain myself. I was scared to death. As it turned out, he was ok with the unexpectedness but wasn't ok with the fact that my boss' boss didn't know why we had decided that way. I needed to keep folks in the loop so that they could keep up, but I also had to own up to my decisions.

As the stakes go up, and you think "if I make the wrong choice here, we're screwed!" you can get frozen into inaction. If you can say, "If this turns out to be the wrong choice we'll be able to tell because this, this, or this other thing will happen and then we can move on to this other choice." it can give you the courage to move forward.

I agree there aren't rules here, but there is reasoning.
Who knows the market of your product better? The person who works hard on it for two months and knows it inside and out, or some guy you met anonymously over the Internet who wants $8000 in exchange for half your stock, just to market it?

Think about it, what does he know about the product? Nothing. You'll spend a lot of time explaining it to him in full details and then he markets those details to strangers, parroting your words.
it's not insecure if you trust the company.

should google block everypass.com just because it have your banking acount password?

if i'm on a slow connection and have to use this browser to compress my connection to my bank, i will decide if i trust the browser to do so.

I just think nokia should have been even more open about this. and probably gave me an option on the browser. In that they sinned.
This is not exactly the C language problem, but the design flaw of the C standard library. Also, there are folks out there that still use unprotected buffers in C++ instead of safe types.
Overly honest methods – how experiments really get done
can someone with more twitter influence please start this with IT development?
Top Social Gamification Examples that will make the Human Race Better
I was wondering if this video of PG was recorded by Exec for their music video or if it's just some random clip they found and included without PG's permission?
Seth Godin is looking for a Growth Hacker
What a bunch of hand-wavy crap.
The Computer Boys Take Over
I did. But I don't buy it yet. I'll be waiting for benchmarks, whenever this version is stable, and someone tests the latest devices with it. I've been outraged with Chrome for Android ever since it made Samsung's dual core 1.7 Ghz Cortex A15 look slower than Apple's dual core 1.4 Ghz Swift chip, even though it's significantly higher in both clock speed and IPC performance. But Chrome still managed to make it perform more poorly in the browser benchmarks, and a lot more poorly than the ARM Chromebook that is using the exact same chip as Nexus 10.
And showing data for the week ending Jan 11 2014. CDC staying one step (year) ahead of Google.
Node Cluster and Express
I'm a developer and I dislike Google Groups. Do you know any normal people who use it? I haven't looked at Breeze but assume it would be worth $10 to most people who require that functionality.
This is basically a 'poker' business deal, there is risk to it, some bluffing, and you hold most if not all of the chips.

I got for the 'chess' business deal, strategy, tactics, planning, thinking ahead of the competition, sacrificing time and pieces to advance that pawn or take key pieces and then win the game. No bluffing, just out-thinking and studying book moves. Chess in 12 dimensions actually.
The worse thing is that you can address a memory location and interpret it as another type (aliasing).
Poor Watson, his education is going to hindered by his immature meat bag handlers. The words are just words, people use them, it's part of reality. The thing isn't spitting out children's books directly to store shelves.
It's not just an investment though, the OP has committed to doing some serious marketing, let's say at least equal to the amount of work that the dev co-founder puts in to create the product in the first place.
Replace remote worker with new starts and you could have written a very similar article.

I've been remote working for about 5-6 years and I use that same argument to get jobs. Hiring, supporting and listening to your remote workers is a great way to validate you have sufficient processes in place that all new staff who come in can get up and running with minimal fuss.

I've never looked at figures, but I'm willing to bet this'll reflect on churn rates too.
On the other hand the fantastic tab switching is the killer feature of Android Chrome for me and the reason I use it over the many other options.
As soon as I saw flux pop up on HN this was the first thing that came to mind. I've had trouble sleeping the past 3-4 nights and could not figure out why (no change in any other aspect of my life--diet, stress, workouts, relationships, caffeine, etc. have all been consistent). I routinely spend 2-3 hours reading, working, or watching documentaries right before I go to sleep, but this week when that time rolled around I was still wide awake for another 2-3 hours. Last night I was up until 4AM!

Sure enough, I forgot to turn F.lux back on after disabling it for some photo editing on Sunday, so while I don't have any proof this seems like a strong correlation echo'd by all of the existing research on Herf's website.
Pdbpp: pdb++ (an awesome extension to python's debugger)
The US map is somewhat useless unless you normalize it for population (at the least, total population, although population of Internet or Twitter users would be better). It's not interesting that California has a lot more people with Twitter opinions on gun control than Idaho, given that California has a lot more people, period.
Flux is a great first approach, but I think that something like this needs a lot more tweaking (on the hardware side as well) to become viable. The issue with flux is that it just creates a color overlay on your monitor - it doesn't actually reduce the brightness of your backlight. This is understandable because very few desktop monitors and video cards support dimming the backlight via software. This is tremendously annoying to me as a designer, because on one hand I would love to have my displays dim automatically to save my eyes (and more importantly, to save me time as I end up manually dimming each of my 3 monitors at home every night as I'm working; something that eats up a few minutes because I have to navigate through the annoying on-display menus) but sadly flux isn't an option because it reduces the dynamic contrast of the monitor as well as the number of possible colors that the display can output.

Flux works decent for reading/coding/web browsing/etc, but it needs access to the backlight levels to truly be fantastic.