skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this is really just an umbrella term for a bunch of independent research, that's different. The problem with a big project organization is that the administrative overhead involved in coordinating all of those 90 institutions will eat up valuable time and research dollars. And with no clear roadmap to guide priorities, that overhead won't provide any benefit. There's too much basic research left to be done before people start trying to coordinate on building ambitious 'platforms'. Better to simply fund a broad range of independent research and see what emerges.
clickable: http://binb.nodejitsu.com/
Without affiliate links, people write about products out of a passion for the product. With affiliate links, you also get people copywriting to get paid. In fact, whenever I see affilate compensation I assume a professional copywriter, though that may change in the future. So before referral links, the average quality of reviews should higher even if the volume were lower. Imagine amazon.com with all-affiliate reviews. It would drastically decrease the usefulness of the site, because the content would no longer be written by people I can relate to, but by pros, most of which could sell ice to Eskimos.

In shoet, I would prefer no monetary incentives to keep the web amateur. I don't want to have to filter every blog post I read through a "Am I being scammed?" filter.
I've switched to Lubuntu and I could not be happier.
From the PRWeb article:

More than 100,000 adult-aged consumers were asked to name up to five companies they believe to be the most trusted for protecting the privacy of their personal information

This is nothing more than a name recognition contest. I'm actually surprised Mozilla made the list at all.
How to be a master of metaphor
Announcing the launch of "Ask Our CPO"
Apple Users rebel against Google Cookies
While this is flippant (and amusing) there's an underlying truth here somewhere - I've really not met many C programmers who care about new language features.

C++ folks do seem to care a lot about which features of boost are going to be folded into the language spec and runtimes and what else has been dreamt up for their baby, and how they're going to be able to be more efficient, safer and gosh-darnit just all-round smarter in future.

C programmers mumble something about being busy and already having the tools they need to do everything, though (grudgingly) that VA_ARGS preprocessor extension from '99 was quite handy I suppose...

(I'm a C programmer by trade and history, working on C++ at the moment, just in case I pissed anyone off enough to start a holy war :)
I know that Dart itself is a big framework & ecosystem that you have to buy into, so in a way it's similar to solutions we see in JS, but there's something to be said for making the more audacious and ambitious solution.

You need a critical mass of developers, and the solutions to each of the smaller fragmentation problems (inheritance, modules, async patterns and utilities, DOM consistency, core libraries, UI components) might need to rely on each other. I think Dart has a chance at a better overall solution because it tackles this all at once.
Darpa shows off 1.8-gigapixel drone, can spot a person from 20K feet
It should be noted that this was a web-based survey, not a ranking by security audits.

> Our Web-based research study asked respondents to name up to five companies in 25 different
industries they believe to be the most trusted for protecting the privacy of their personal
information [0]

It's not terribly surprising that, given only five choices, more people chose some of the most well-known corporations in the world rather than the relatively PR-challenged Mozilla.

[0] http://www.ponemon.org/local/upload/file/2012%20MTC%20Report...
Solid Electrolyte Enables Higher Energy Lithium-ion Batteries and Prevents Fires
Embracing Discomfort
Ask HN: What is the story behind Vine
Really curious to know, how Vine is getting so much attention, the app does look unpolished, they don't seem to have lots of active users, and event not a web site (just a few pages) or android app yet, I understand the idea is cool, but if I wanted to replicate their success I need to know their secret sause.
I know several people who have done PhDs in neural simulation and then gone on to work in industry (e.g. banking, IT consultancy).

I've also come across a couple of startups building on brain-inspired computing. The only one that comes to mind at the moment is Brain Corporation in San Diego http://www.braincorporation.com
If you're going to use all those adapters & accessories... you may as well just use a desktop or laptop. Which probably already has all those packages you frequently use, and runs them faster.
The first reviews of jOBS: Meh
It can be an immigrant's first job in the US. I remember years ago a cabbie from west Africa who had a Ph.D. in urban planning or some such field. He had left his country because he was on the outs with the regime there.

As for bartenders, I'm surprised it's that few. Washington may be an outlier.
SMS spam filter API w/ sklearn in 20 LOC
Hey Jeremy, appreciate the feedback. The hot domain trend reports are my first hack helping visitors identify trends so that they don't have to think of them on their own. The current version is fairly simple [1], but eventually it will contain a lot more clear-cut domain name intelligence.

[1] http://www.leandomainsearch.com/trends/reports/2013/1/27
I'm not sure how to respond to this - do you have anything to actually say about the topic at hand? Because all this comment does is attack me for having "arbitrary prejudices" and adds nothing to the discussion.
Howler.js - Javascript audio library for the modern web
Come on, I was making a joke.
The comment that it was "Human error" was also interesting, perhaps someone made it a favorite while logged in as the Editor? Of course the interesting bit for me was that the system had a porn screen in place, it "knew" it was porny since it required you to tap it to view it, so why does the program / tool that makes it "Editor's Choice" not automatically reject as an error an attempt to promote a porny video to that spot?

Google Video (the service that existed at Google before and to some extent after :-) they bought YouTube) early on used an algorithm for picking the top videos to put on the page based on views/ratings/comments etc but that early algorithm had built in from the start a check for things being NSFW and thus preventing them from ever making the list.

Seems like a brain fart. Either that or a poor attempt at getting publicity for the service. That latter would be really lame if Apple pulls the App based on the commotion.
Homoiconicity isn't the point [2012]
Any court, federal or otherwise, has to have personal jurisdiction over the defendant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_jurisdiction#Principle...). The rules are somewhat complex, but it should at least theoretically be possible to avoid being hauled into court in EDTX by not doing business there, blocking customers from there, etc.
The only meaningful take-away from these concerns is you shouldn't ever let a rails project you maintain ossify to the extent that you can't easily/safely run "bundle update", commit, and deploy.
Minecraft and Clojure for fun and profit, without the profit
But Mozilla actually has leverage over Google to commit to user privacy. If Google doesn't like what they're doing, Bing, Yandex, or any other search engine has the opportunity to be the new search default.
The Failure Fetish Fallacy: Learning is at the Core of Startup Land
So in a few years customers will drive Beta cars which get patched to stability later ? Doesnt sound good :)
This is the funniest comment I've read in a long time. Kudos, cs702!
Confused About Components (and Bower)
You've disabled your safe search!! ;-)
define "sexy" here
(http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/07/how-not-to-advertis...)

Breasts sell product.
This is a very thorough tutorial explaining the schema for the API as well as many ways to fully consume it.
> He trademarked it plain and simple and shouldn't be stripped of his trademark.

Not much about the law is 'plain and simple'.

Being granted a trademark isn't very good evidence that you should have been granted a trademark. Trademark offices don't do hours of exhaustive research into whether a mark has become customary, or whatever. They don't have the resources.

The idea is, if the trademark holder threatens someone with a trademark that shouldn't have been granted, the person being threatened will then do the research, and will apply to the trademark office to have the TM invalidated. They can then look at the application and decide. Shifts the effort from the trademark office to the parties. That's why trademark offices have process to apply to invalidate a trademark. Which /r/gaymers is using as intended.

Think of it like this: if /r/gaymers do prevail, then that means that, in the trademark office's opinion, they were wrong to have granted Vizzini the trademark in the first place. Which means that the "He trademarked it plain and simple" argument is meaningless: it's right if Vizzini ends up keeping his trademark, it's wrong if he ends up losing it.

And as others have pointed out: Being "stripped" of a trademark isn't a punishment. It doesn't stop you using it. It just stops you from using the law to stop other using it.

(N.B. IANAL, and in particular I'm only familiar with EU trademark law. I'd be surprised if US law was that different, but I don't know for sure, so the above may not be accurate for US law).
Shhh! Americans are blissfully unaware that everyone in Europe is legally entitled to 2-3x more vacation than Americans get.

25 days of vacation is the biggest thing I miss about working in London :-p
The market for people who want a native terminal on their phone should be roughly equivalent to people who ever want to terminal INTO their phone.

The market already well served by iOS, Android, etc., is people who want to terminal OUT OF their phone and onto a real computer someplace.

What are the real-world tasks you expect to do with the former that you couldn't do, or couldn't do as well, with the latter?
> sometimes do

> rarely do

Are terrible for maintainability. Imagine that you are reading through the code of a programmer who used this library - What is 'sometimes'? What is 'rarely'? It would need to be documented on each usage to save half an hour of digging and cursing for the poor sap who encounters it.

> 1.percent_of_the_time do

For the same reasons, this would be better named "times_out_of_one_hundred" since The Time usually means a time of some sort being somewhere (i.e. the 21:43:21 type of time).

At least you foresaw some peoples' reactions to this:

https://github.com/sudara/sometimes/blob/master/test/helper....
Buy one.
On MacOS/MySQL I use Sequel Pro (http://www.sequelpro.com). Stable development is a little slow but the nightlies are fairly stable.

I really wish I could find something like Sequel Pro that worked with PostgreSQL. PgAdmin III is.. functional but weird.

I've been tempted to add support to Sequel Pro myself but I don't know much about ObjC.
Also Amazon is place 3, I find that rather dishonest from Mozilla.
I wouldn't worry about the implementation too much since, as you say, it is really very little code and easy for anyone to code up themselves.

What is awesome about what you've done is the idea and the interface. I'd focus on expanding that with more interesting use cases. For example it would be cool if this hooked more neatly into rails localization where I could say something like:

= t('some_set_of_possible_stuff.*')

Or whatever. I agree with the other poster who states it makes your app more hard to test however that is not a good enough reason to not do something by itself. It just means you need to be measured in how and where you do it and careful. In the right app, the value to the end user experience wrt personalization is super high so it is worth it.
Announcing built-in email support for server-side JavaScript with Meteor
Patenting an invention is orthogonal to commercialising it. The point of patents is to sell abstract ideas: the basic interaction is to license a patent to someone else. It's a coincidence if the same person who thinks up an invention, is also in a position to develop it fully.

I think this meme -- that your patents are for your own products -- is an off-target response to patent trolling.
This issue has nothing to do with either the "SQL injection" bug from a few weeks back (which wasn't SQL injection so much as a very limited form of code injection) or the remote code execution bug. It's (I believe) a MySQL type coercion bug.

If this is the bug I think it is (from following joernchen), it has a lot more to do with the "MySQL is terrible" post from a few days back than it does with Rails/Devise.

The recent remote code execution bug was so bad that I think it is in fact legit to worry about how many people had been running around with it months or years before disclosure.
60k might be a bit much... we can often get a mostly functional app off the ground for 30k. It just depends on specs.

Web MVPs (landing page with a signup form) can be done easily from anywhere between $200-1000. Yes, I realize there's stuff like unbounce, but even with those, they still take a couple hours to set up and properly split test. If you've never done this before, you can easily burn through that very quickly, and even if you have done this before, and you're valuing your time as any good founder should, then you're burning through that value allotment very quickly.

As for the foreign quotes, I've taken over plenty of jobs where it was started by a foreign firm for a tenth of the cost of what US firms charge... quality is usually terrible, and the reason I took over is because they couldn't get it finished. It's occasionally been so bad that we had to scrap their entire project within 6 months.
what are your skills? working for high profile startups and fortune 500s means nothing. you could have been a janitor. i mean, google, ibm do have janitors right?
I've had a lot of these types of meetings. Everyone has an app idea. I'm always ears though because ideas have come to me that are very interesting. The noise to signal ratio though is pretty terrible.

It's always interesting to have them reference apps and designs that they think their app should end up looking like. Very quickly a general breakdown of things in regards to the app they are looking to build can follow. Even taking the approach of outsourcing and painting a picture of how that works.

A lot of times I've gone the route with at least doing the mockups of the pages with a little on how the UI will work. It's something that I know I'm selling that will be of value to them even if they choose not to have us continue on with the development and to just really boil down the idea and even more importantly what kinda of money and time it's going to take to develop the idea.
Have you tried using distcc for compiling large packages?
The picture is dated Nov, 2009. Seems valid, for it to be de-classified now. I wonder what is the latest gadget they have (drool)
The "Human Brain Project" was also an NIH funding initiative in the 1990s, which was hugely influential in kickstarting the field of neuroinformatics (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroinformatics)
What do you mean by this: "sells to pesterers"? I understand that Google has an algorithm that displays ads based on what I search for, and that in order to charge the advertiser Google will track when I click on an ad. I don't consider that "selling" my information. Is that what you are talking about, or is there some other product that I'm not aware of that Google uses to collect and actually sell data like, say, Rapleaf (https://www.rapleaf.com/) does?
You've always been Debian.
Never switched from debian to ubuntu lts madness, but I did switch from debian to openbsd after the ssl random number entropy boondoggle
Related: http://mappiness.org.uk (my PhD, a longitudinal happiness study using an iPhone app — thesis at http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/383).
There really isn't many.

Although this isn't the kind of car you compare to the Lincoln Town Car, Cadillac DTS, Mercedes S-Class, BMW 7-series and Lexus LS, you would compare it against the Cadillac CTS, Mercedes E-class, BMW 5-series, and Lexus GS.

Price and feature wise, it doesn't seem to fit in the mid-sized luxury/executive class of cars, but its not quite into the full-sized luxury class either, its sort of stuck between.
Does anybody know of any pure command-line multi-platform clients?
I've mostly used them in two cases:

1. Multidimensional arrays where the sizes are quasi-fixed but not known at compile time. Comes up in various kinds of grid-simulation code, for example. You could malloc() in this case, but then you lose the notational convenience of 2d arrays.

2. Refactoring code that uses #define'd constants, to take runtime instead of compile-time parameters. For example, a common first-pass to said grid-simulation code is to have some WIDTH and HEIGHT magic numbers, which you might later regret and want to make into command-line parameters. Refactoring is trivial if you have VLAs.

It also seems cleaner (to me) semantically. I can see why, implementation-wise, classic C auto arrays required constant sizes. But from a slightly higher-level perspective, whether a variable is auto or not, and whether its size is a compile-time constant or not, feel like independent decisions. It feels particularly messy that you have different notation for arrays whose sizes are known at compile time; the syntactic sugar there has some rough edges. I also find it cleaner if explicit malloc()s are used only when something beyond boilerplate is going on, letting the compiler handle the boilerplate case of allocating/deallocating a conceptually block-scoped array of size N.
I'm wondering if my take on this is in the minority, but I have the impression that none of my friends would be very good for suggesting things to buy. Sure, it might work for "I want an okay table / silverware / cups" - to which the answer would be "I got this nice something at my local Target / Walmart / Ikea", but it breaks down for most things that I buy. For example - flashlights, knives, clothes, computers, pens, ink, watches, running shoes... For those, I visit the relevant forum (watchfreeks, fountainpennetwork, candlepowerforums, etc) and decide from there. Sure, on some occasions, a friend or two have already done the research, so I can get a jump-start that way - but it's an exception rather than the rule.

I'm actually quite curious whether I'm living in a bubble with my shopping trends being abnormal and atypical, or whether it's a bigger pattern. Do most people shop differently (and would benefit a lot from friends' suggestions)?
And he didn't even implement equality and comparison yet!
The author should get rid of that "spotlight" or move the option to turn it off above the fold.
Placing porn at the very top! :)
Ingeresting thanks, I'll check you guys out. Do you provide medical insurance? Anyway I do think you can do a lot more with people working in person with you but then again the worls gets smaller all the time. If folks can do in depth training and quality control in a distributed fashion, more power to em!
It's a nice bit of sophistry the writer uses to blame the developer rather than the company. If your MVP becomes something you want to build upon, a "VP," then you get some staff or something and get serious. It's not the MVP dev's job to be the future source of code. They did their job, the company just tried to be lazy about it.
"....since the 96th Fibonacci number is the largest to fit in an unsigned long int"

Have to agree with the first person to comment on the article's site. If we are going for speed, just pre-calc the 96 numbers and do an array lookup in the function guarded by and if.
It’s my pet peeve. It seems there actually is a link to the product but it’s mislabeled as “About”.
I'm not a neuroscientist and may be missing something, but on the surface this seems like a pretty poor argument: citing feasibility as a justification for not going with the (overwhelmingly) simpler organisms first, and going after humans with several orders of magnitude more complex brains. If I were to guess, I'd say that building the unified model of the simplest organisms would be tremendously relevant in helping to model higher-level organisms including humans.
That bit is fair enough. It's about trust (subjective) not trustworthiness (objective).
archlinux #ftw
He doesn't mention one if the most important things, time tracking, I use harvestapp there is also toggl, both are great to keep a log of the time you spend on a project, with reports and invoicing.
DDoS: how it became the ultimate weapon for online oppression
Seriously, you think that the ever-expanding wealth disparity in the entire western world is a symptom of a socialist planet?

Get a grip. Just because you haven't obtained your Libertarian paradise (which AFAICT would be hell on earth and quickly devolve back to Feudalism) doesn't mean that the word and the political philosophy don't still have distinct meanings.

Socialism is not an all encompassing term for 'anything a Libertarian disagrees with'.
It is also known as the law of large numbers. If the unreliability of the assessments are unreliable but the errors are independent, then the aggregates will be less unreliable. Of course this only holds if the unreliability is well behaved enough in the first place, which should hold here, since no single tweet can change the average sentiment of say 1000 tweets.
Vine was created by Twitter.

That should answer all of your questions.
Sequel Pro, the MySQL Workbench, and on Windows, I'm partial to HeidiSQL (oddly, its FOSS, but hasn't been ported to anything other than Windows)
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Ask HN: Good dedicated server in Asia?
Hi guys - wondering if anyone has experience with renting dedicated servers in Asia.

We want to open an Asian server for our app, but have no experience with the hosts in the area.

Any tips for good providers are appreciated!

EDIT: We're also open to starting with a VPS or two instead of dedicated right away (our architecture is flexible).