skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> so I'm going to try to be shorter this time (no promises on whether I'll succeed):

I'm guessing not ;-)

Thanks for taking the time to write a reply. I don't usually make posts complaining about people's posts for the same reason - as you said, it makes one look like a bit of a dick - but yesterday I read a number of consecutive posts that didn't really do much but add to the general level of negativity. I appreciate the same accusation applies to my post too ;-)

I completely agree re credit cards being more useful globally than iDEAL. Although I live in hope that, one day, something slightly more secure will be the norm instead.

Cheers,

Mike
This thing is awesome, I handed the link to my artist.

He now can preview the icon (very good when testing designs!) and see how the re-scaled files will behave.

Current our process is re-scale the files, and edit the scaled ones as needed to improve them in low-res.
hint: try to resize your screen
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Wauw, that doesn't look pretty indeed. Would help a lot if you could tell me which browser you're using. I haven't tested in IE at all yet. * shame shame
I couldn't agree more. I'm in good company too: "road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work" (Bertrand Russell - In Prise of Idleness, http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html). The trouble is that the organized diminution of (human) work requires so much work itself :).
If anyone is wondering how the visualizations were made, he has another article about that here: http://acko.net/blog/making-mathbox/
Thanks! Dunno how I could have missed that one :)
does any major consumer service use SOAP?
I only watch iPlayer on-demand, once the programmes have been uploaded.
DDoS attacks can trivially go on indefinitely; protests that actually require physical presence don't go on forever. Bogus analogy.
Wow. I "understood" complex numbers, in that I could use them in specific contexts in the past and got that they represented rotation, but this really drove it home in a way that I could've used a decade ago. Great article.
Wow, simply incredible work. Stuff like this offers a glimpse into the future of what the web can be and how it can be used to pass knowledge on. I knew some of the concepts presented here, but I never knew what it all meant. Nice touch in adding the equations as well. Beautiful presentation.
Not to mention you wouldn't even have a need for this so-called "optimization" in production, since you'd have your templates precompiled and cached (and turned the compile check off).
I'm going to completely ignore the ridiculousness of the author's claims and stick with talking about @ suppression for a moment...

Not this again! I've been working with PHP for over 10 years and seen @ suppression used at companies in the most ridiculous ways imaginable. The most common, and I believe incorrect, way @ suppression is used is when using fopen. Why do people do it so often? Probably because it says you can do so right in the php.net manual http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.fopen.php and has so for years. I've really lost track of how many bugs I've come across over the years in production code that could be traced back to someone @ suppressing fopen warnings. I don't care if you read some blog where the author claims using @ suppression will give you a magical 1000% increase in performance. JUST DON'T DO IT.
Consider that many German students (I don’t have numbers, just a subjective impression) get Bafög, a government-issued loan to pay for fees/rent/living.
I see film as an art form and I love watching indie films. I love films because of the stories that they have to tell. The main thing I love about computer science is programming. The ability to create something out of nothing or just an idea.

I just like watching films and I like programming. I took a video production class at my high school and I love doing editing because for me, it's in someway like programming because you get to decide what the final output will be like.

I'l try and find that link.
Use Varnish. Or use a service which does that http://substancehq.com/ I am the founder of substancehq btw :)

*Minor edit
I'm only a junior in high school so I still have quite some time to think about it. I will definitely check out NoSQL Tapes.
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> But I wasn't a CEO

> this is NOT how a CEO solve problems

Please stop mythologising Chief Executives. They're just people that run businesses for shareholders. There's no magic "CEO" approach to disagreement. Danielle is just unhappy with the approach of another company and is talking about it.

Being pragmatic is fine, but being open and forthright about others is sometimes part of it.
I felt the same way. It's like celebrities who yell "don't you know who I am?!", but instead of being an A-lister, it's just someone with a few thousand Twitter followers.
Several reasons:

* The bindings for making anything GUI-ish lack. Horribly. I doubt there is one application like an editor written in PHP; that is actually used.
* Its long-threads are ... lacking; You cannot write anything deamon-ish in PHP.
* Memory management, as Ramus puts it, is not a concern "I just restart Apache". That makes it unusable for anything bigger then a small CLI-tool.
* The Cli-libraries are decent, but far from things like Ruby's Thor.

You can write CLI-tools just fine, but "general purpose" is much more then "Managing Web-Content And Some CLI tools".
>You need to maintain your own nexus server.

You don't need to maintain your own if you don't want to; you can fetch from remote repositories (and unless you're using something esoteric you only need to use one, all major libraries are in central).

>You rely on others to do things which - though "cheap and easy" - are not going to be done by 99% of people out there.

It takes the whole community committing to it, but 99% of Java people will make maven releases for any build they intend for public consumption.

>You can also depend on a particular branch or tag, which people already do. Now adding a tag in git is equivalent to publishing a versioned library! Magic!

Few things in software are worse than magic. I guess I'm advocating a little friction here, just for the sake of safety; it works better if people take make an easy but explicit choice that some builds are for others to use and some builds are not. Again I guess that's a matter of community norms.

>I find the software complex and difficult to use. All I want to do is use my own jar with my own project, and I have to wade through an unintuitive, difficult to use, edge-case ridden web app that I have to maintain myself?

Like with hosting or version control or anything, you will probably want to host your own sooner or later, but you can start off by using someone else's. And FWIW I have an opposite view on the UI, though without concrete examples there's probably no point talking further.

>Maven - if I understand this correctly and I would not be surprised if there was some arcana which prevents me from doing so - expects each version to immutable. So when SNAPSHOTs change, I end up deleting my .m2 directory to figure it out.

I don't know what you were doing wrong, but that's not a normal problem. When you build something that depends on a snapshot maven will by default refetch it if it hasn't for a certain time; if you use -U it will always refetch it, if you're using offline mode it will always use your local copy.

>But even if this were somehow good, why would people use maven for Ruby? They're different languages, ecosystems, etc. It doesn't even make any sense.

Maven is very flexible and plugin-based, and a lot of things e.g. the repository, the release process, various plugins could work the same. Obviously it would only work if a whole language ecosystem adopted it, it's probably too late for Ruby.
A litte suggestion: It would be very useful to have author name (with a link to bio probably) next to the submission title.
Knowing who will give the presentation is as much important as knowing its title.
First of all, great idea! But I think it would make for a fairer process if the current votes weren't displayed. I added a "display:none;" to the "baloon_counter" class via firebug so that my votes aren't influenced by other people.
Which hosted and simple acceptance testing tools are out there?
I am currently researching which hosted tools there are to get started with testing your application. Something that everyone in the company could set up and start using instantly. Testing here encompasses clicking through the website and asserting correct data as well as checking for regular uptime, failing links, missing images and failing javascript.

There are a couple of candidates, but all of them are either unstable, do not have the necessary features or have a horrible usability.

The ones I've already looked at are
) Pingdom.com
) Saucelabs.com
) Simpletest.io
) Browserstack.com
*) and a few others that are not at all interresting

There are hundreds of testing frameworks out there, but all I've seen require at least an understanding of how to write code, which is great for us developers, but a nogo for others.

I couldn't even find a testing framework that gives you the ability to run your tests in very close to natural language. Anything out there you know?
I can read this :D
Another common misuse I see is suppressing notices for non-existent array elements, e.g. @$array['key'].
And people wonder why serious PHP developers (yes, those exist) avoid Smarty like the plague...
The voting is deliberately anonymous at this first stage. There will be a final round where the speakers for the talks are displayed along with their submissions.
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That's something that's always bothered me, and this article paints it even clearer: he's constantly thinking about being true to himself and who he is wrt being gay, and yet he uses an ambiguous term to describe his relationship with his significant other. Why not just say "boyfriend", "fiance", or "husband"?

Absolutely agreed that "we Americans" (disappointingly) haven't quite caught on to using husband/wife to describe the halves of a gay couple. A while back a colleague referred to his SO as "my husband" in casual conversation. At the time, I hadn't known him for long, and hadn't known he was gay. It was a pleasant surprise to me that he used a gendered descriptor right off the bat instead of something more ambiguous. I realized at that point that it was very, very rare for me to hear a gay person refer to his/her significant other as anything other than "partner". And I live in San Francisco, of all places.
well, just stereotypical jews, what can you say.
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Why is it unthinkable that not everything new is also better? 3D is pretty much the same thing.

In animation you have the same issue with the uncanny valley - people accept a certain realism, but once you cross a realism threshold, you suddenly need to deliver perfection, or people notice something is off.

HFR, for me, plays into the uncanny valley.

I think the future is in adaptive framerates. HFR shines in the big sweeping shots and when quick movements or panning is required. but it absolutely sucks for close ups and dialogue heavy scenes.

another example for this are music videos - notice how they could have been HFR for a long time already, but aren't? they are being filmed sped up on purpose and then slowed down for the final product. just to make them appear larger than life.
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Could this be another "Big Miracle (FILM)" story?
We're very different people. I love Pinball. That said there are some really great pinball machines and some that are just super-boring. Maybe it's a function of my age as I still played pinball in arcades and whatnot (I'm in my early 30s). I'd really like to get a shot at this Wizard of Oz machine.
I'd like to read that. What is your blog URL?
This list may contain errors, but UsabilitySciences, BugPub, Testlio, UserTesting, UserZoom, RemoteResearch, and uTest all look to offer related value propositions. Craigslist, CrowdFlower, ClickWorker, CloudCrowd, Reddit's /r/forhire and Amazon's Mechanical Turk can probably be used similarly.

When I've done UX testing, I've gone out, located the real target market of the specific product we were testing, and tested in-person. A couple times this process included a Craigslist post, but generally it was fully in-person. As such, I'm not qualified to recommend a specific service.
And you're living in Utrecht as well I see :) If you want to grab a coffee the other day, drop me an e-mail. My username at gmail...
This is my testing ground (or, playground, if you will) for fooling around with new things and it is now online in its own repository. Full of HTML5 API goodness, such as WebAudio API, Gamepad API, PageVisibility API, Fullscreen API, PointerLock API, but, mainly a fun WebGL shooter.

So, grab your headphones and gamepad, and fire away!
Lifestraw
I love it!
Need moar.
I find it really cool to see what people like! The process is fair anyway imo :)
I've read it in Cinefex long time ago, might be there is something online too. Douglas Trumbull did some sort of a controller experiment in front of a crowd with 70mm projection.

Which shot images have you seen played faster than 72 fps? I've seen one test played back at 120 fps, but it was in a camera r&d lab in germany. 72 fps is really more than enough. Consider that 3D projection actually projects 3 frames per each eye, so 3D@72fps would actually mean projector is churning out 432 frames each second. Or you're talking about games, which is another thing entirely since input is a part of experience too. In that case, I agree.
Do you care about web security?
There should be a big fat warning in front of this very bad advice, and I particularly dislike the last paragraph about intercepting error handlers to cover up your ugly hack.Some newcomer is going to run with this idea without understanding the many, many problems it can introduce. Until 5.4 the @ operator caused dramatic slowdowns on everything it touched because PHP had to jump through hoops to suppress the errors. It's funny to see someone advocating using it for performance reasons now.
If you need a mutex, you should use a mutex.

Yet another reason not to use smarty I guess.
Does this also apply to end-users of Ruby apps that are just an apt-get away? I don't really want to learn all that stuff (and remember to redo it on all installs) just to use some tool that happens to be written in Ruby.
You rent your clothes, your food, your transport, everything. You pay some money and when it's done, you have nothing to show for it. What's so special about rent that you consider that wasted money, but not the money spent on clothes, food, transport, and everything else that has a short effect or wears out?
The article seemed to imply it was an ecommerce app so I'm assuming it was some sort of catalog ("females over the age of 22" probably is a big hint) and during the holiday shopping season it probably makes a lot more sense.
A simple way to increase your productivity is to listen to music while working.
Especially ambient, downtempo and cinematic soundtracks helping me to keep focus.

Great musicians and bands:
Explosions In The Sky, Apparat, Amon Tobin, Tycho, Hecq.
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The square root animation, slide 29-30, is incorrect. It should not tear at -i, it should tear at the direction of 1 instead. Other than that everything else looks fine. Amazing work.
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True. Every domain I've ever worked in, I've seen huge opportunities. Alas, I suck at seizing those opportunities. I code something up (the fun part) and then lose interest at the startup / marketing & sales / money stuff.
My blog is a little bit rusty (non-existing). Tomorrow I'll put a simple blog online :) http://jorgenhorstink.nl/
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A revenue summary report for individual contribution for every app on AppStore.
Save your eyes, start using f.lux
Locks up Firefox 18 with a "busy script" warning.
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Forgive me for (possibly) being naive, but why wouldn't you use structured error handing here? PHP's exceptions are great and very extensible.
I don't think that the supporting evidence needs to be explicitly stated. Those of us who have used PHP before inherently know why he posted what he posted. The evidence and reasoning is in our past experience with the language, and it's much stronger than a "citation" of some blog post or anything of that sort.

It's quite telling that we don't see comments like that for other languages that often, if ever. Aside from perhaps JavaScript, no other mainstream programming language causes experienced programmers so much grief. No other language is so riddled with obvious deficiencies, and so problematic.
I think the most problematic is HP-UX and all the non UNIX based systems, specially the ones where the vendor's compiler is the one to use.
Maybe on Android 4.x, but on older devices, it's useless. The slides do not auto-fit the screen.
Otherwise bad things happen. Accountants lose their charters. Executives go to jail. That sort of thing.

Funnily enough, "Enron" was the first name that sprang to mind whilst reading comment.
The day iPhone was launched
It's not hard at all, I even created an Xdebug client for OSX to simplify this, www.codebugapp.com
The control could be easier if the pitch Y-axis is not inverted.
The project is online. A little digging from [potatolicious's profile](http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=potatolicious) leads you to Jerry Wong's [365 Portraits of Strangers](http://jerrywong.net/photo/?s=72157626695085276).
It can be easily fixed by removing phrase "copyright infringement" from the language. Then content providers could easily protect themselves from anyone copying content produced by them, by not producing that content.

People who know how to make money of the content production without government issued monopoly on copying will step in to fill the gap (if there'll actually be any gap).
Market wise, what is hindering Identity as a service?
Do you think it is lack of standards? or do you think that small and medium enterprises don't feel the need for such tools?
Current US law would still see you as hacking ("unauthorized remote computer access"). Hey, if you break some apps, their owners would probably agree, so don't do it.
Wet objects are easier to grip with wrinkled fingers
A friend from Holland was over and they wanted to buy a Freesat receiver which of course they couldn't without a UK address, so they used mine (asked me first of course)
I always thought they use transactions but in a different way :

Atm debits an account first using a transaction and after that if something wrong happens atm credits an account with "second" transaction. If second transaction fails, bank can always check the situation and credit later if it's necessary.

Maybe somebody with an experience elaborate how the process works ?
I love this example, write up and explanation. But someone please help them develop a better website.
the design on this site is half backed. i can't seem to load any images
I wonder if they accept GIFs.... :)
And this is another reason why everyone regards PHP developers as being a tinsy bit crap at developing software. It's a broken solution to a problem that shouldn't really be there.

Very much agree with you.

When I was first starting out programming commercially, one of the best bits of advice I received was something along the lines of "Take a step back and think about why you're using these crazy constructs - chances are there's a much simpler way of doing things."

The lesson being: if you're having to write code like this, chances are it's because you're creating a mess. Take a step back and work out a simpler solution.
body { min-width: 980px; } seems to fix the problem

(Temporary hack while you add in @media queries, I assume)
I can read it and it does appeal to me. The flow and explanation is really good. I’d like some more screen shots but then the lack of them might make people more likely to sign up and see for themselves. Bookmarking for later.

By the way, I dig the anchor name of the pricing section.
Maybe it jammed the signal on prime time and then they just picked up the angry screams from the windows.
This is the best use of 3d/svg(?)/html5 I've seen. Incredibly effective and really beautiful.

Certainly did make my macbook air fan spin up like in the old days of flash though ;)
Why do community news sites so often flop?
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Yeah, I was talking more about the US. Here in Italy, I think people still need to get more used to not having jobs for life.
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Is it me or others are also able to see a non-CSS page?
cool, can't wait
"Take your time and do it right"

More often than not this means thinking about it a couple of hours more, and results in much faster development the next week, so for me the correct answer, even for start-ups, is " we can't afford doing it wrong"
Great quote, haven't heard this before, thanks.
I can read this too, Google translates it well.
I've tried to use it for a while, but couldn't get used to it and deactivated it again.

It's just been unusual to me that my screen was being tinted/shaded..
What are the markings of intelligence?
If a tree falls in the forest...

"the money never left the account" is not really the way to think of this. The bank does not move around piles of cash when you withdraw money, or keep some gold set aside in a vault for your use. "The account" is the amount of money that the bank attributes to you when it is drawn upon.

Basically, I think you are mixing up cause and effect. The log of debits and credits is the account. The balance is some derived number that represents all of the cleared transactions in the account. It is useful because it determines policy around your account (how much interest to give, how much to let you withdraw from an ATM), but it's not the fundamental building block of banking.
Are you trolling? First off, learning C well enough to understand opengl documentation will take you much less time that understanding opengl it self(since you'll only need to read and not write C). You have a problem, people gave you a solution, having separate cl docs for opengl that have THE SAME contents, but using lisp function names instead of C ones(as it was explained, it is simple function to transform one into the other in your head). What the hell do you want?

PS I forgot why I stopped commenting on HN threads about lisp. If you read the old usenet, this kind of discussion has been plaguing lisp since day one. People complain, and when given the solution, they just start bitching about something else, avoiding the solution. There are no docs, now the docs are in C, what else? As I've become part of the lisp community, I learned the proper way to fix this, If I encounter deficiency in the lisp ecosystem, I deal with it if I can, and If I can't I politely ask the author/maintainer if they have time to work on the issue. If they don't have the time, I simply accept reality, and move on with my problems. Bitching on HN solves nothing. Honestly, why lisp? Why do people have this supreme need to express their dissatisfaction with a language, with libraries developed by humans in their spare time away from their lives, for free. Be fucking happy, and help out if you care about lisp, otherwise, just shut up!
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