skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny story that will probably get buried since I'm 2 hours late to this thread:

When we were first working on Kazoo we had thought our monetization would come from a service we called "promo calling". Basically we would detect the caller ID of where you were calling and place an ad for a competitor on your phone display with a coupon and a call to action of rerouting your call to the alternate vendor.

It just pissed people off.

We ultimately settled on a premium SaaS model but my point is this: try lots of stuff. A lot of it will fail, but failure is simply invalidating one incorrect hypothesis. Try lots, fail fast if you're wrong and roll to something else.

The key for us is that our core values didn't change. We still want to build amazing telecom systems, it just took us a while before people would pay for them.

Disclaimer: I am the community manager for http://2600hz.com
This is incorrect and doesn't apply for several reasons. It does not find collisions. It finds a pre-image (which is already known - it's the JavaScript file) for very short message lengths. Very different.
'Are you disclosed on <product code name>? Read him in.'
The IEEE Gadget Graveyard: What technology will bite the dust in 2013?
Sweet to see AMEX investing in real technology. These guys are ahead of the 'big data' curve.
37signals just launched help section for the all new Basecamp
Exactly

Some people rely too much on "one password" solutions, because of security, etc

But it's very easy to lock yourself out of everything. Very easy.

The best place for keeping important passwords is still my head.

Sure, you can use password management solutions, just keep a backup (piece of paper, secondary means of logging, etc)
I thought he was going to tell how to use WINE or something to do it. Installing VirtualBox+Windows is very obvious.
We did a rap video for Sandy small businesses -- please donate
Don't believe everything you read in the comments. We've shipped several games and have been developing for the web for over a decade.
Hack Everything
The actual paper really just applies to plants. But there are also far more exceptions than just humans. Giant tortoises have effectively no known life expectancy, at least as a result of aging -- they do not age:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligible_senescence
Interesting. I somehow missed that, and I never got an email from them telling me about it. (I just checked.)

I'd delete my comment now, if I were still able to.
Agree.

Amateur radio operators have dummy loads and SWR meters to make sure that the signal they are putting out isn't stomping on some other critical portion of the RF band. Experimentation is a good thing, but this is the equivalent of someone being disturbingly careless experimenting with chemicals in their home "lab." The chance you could cause a serious problem with contamination for your neighbors is small but definitely non-zero.
Good Math: A Geek's Guide to the Beauty of Numbers, Logic, and Computation
PHP dotenv - The easiest way to load environment variables in PHP
I guess you and I use/view software differently.

To me the new version hasn't really been released for my 'OS' until the distro packages it. When using a stability-oriented distro like debian, that's important.

Usefulness: if the user wants a shiny toy, they'll go and get one.

If there's something that's not in the standard repos then I have to consider taking the same steps as a Windows user - geting something with less that 100% trust and less than guaranteed stability. Usually at this point I'll look for an alternative that's better supported. I'm not trying to claim I am in any way representative, but my behaviour differs markedly from what your 'user' does.

BTW - There is absolutely nothing to stop someone working on top of a 'normal' distro stuff to deliver cutting-edge apps. In fact it's pretty much been Ubuntu's selling point. It's also what Steam is doing. Just please don't ask distros to stop doing what they do best - make the seamless and painless experience that's made various forms of Linux my platform of choice for many years now.
Barcelona is really fun, you can enjoy the mediterranean culture !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VRZlSSIrwY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhKpOz4SROE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je2GLJ6ogmU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azpxHbUyuOw
Ah, yes. Distributed DES bruteforcing with a Flash applet - those who haven't thought of it at some point in the past, raise your hand.
Andes glaciers melting at record rates
Stunning - Dunning, notifications, receipts and more for Stripe
Here's an interesting presentation from GitHub on CSS performance: https://speakerdeck.com/jonrohan/githubs-css-performance
The physical copper wire is still the same, but you're no longer talking to the phone system on the other end of it, as I understand it. DSL is no longer using the "phone line". It's just using the phone cable.

The battery analogy would be creating a fuel cell in a AA (or whatever) form factor. It circumvents the limits on battery technology by not being a battery, in spite of plugging into the same physical slot.

(NB: I am not a DSL technician, I could be wrong).
Second and third, surely?
Outside of SF and NYC, where are all of these $80k junior positions?
LENR is the new baggage-free term for Cold Fusion. Extraordinary claims like yours need extraordinary proof. Please provide some.
Fat is the new Lean
Aaron Swartz - What should MIT be asking?
It is mainly "How to use VirtualBox on Ubuntu to run Windows, then install Photoshop and use it."

I mean, come on!
Compared to the stuff you need to go out and find from somewhere on Windows, the amount of things available from apt on deb or ubuntu is incredible.

You have to go to the web for a basic working system for windows, this is not the case on linux.
I am having a serious deja vu reading this. I am pretty sure I have read a post exactly like this one here on HN that suggested plans destroy developer interest/creativity and they end up just following the plan instead of suggesting something that they think would be better. It was long time ago.
seems pretty cool, one nice feature could be the login (with facebook maybe?), and the possibility to save favorite songs (grooveshark style)
Why is this simple idea so hard: I don't want anything posted on my behalf unless I say so- ads, apps, likes, anything

Old Feb 2012 story on this about a guy who became associated with a "personal lubricant" via Amazon: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57386733-71/facebook-ad-pu...
The machine may automate the slicing, cooking, and stacking, but cleaning seems like a major concern. The chutes with vegetables, cooking surfaces, and especially the meat grinders would all need close attention on an daily (or even hourly) basis.
I know my DropBox password, and I know my KeePass password. I honestly thought that was enough, under the assumption that a) if my DropBox account was inaccessible, those files would still be on my hard drive, and b) if my laptop were lost or destroyed, I could still log into the web interface and grab the files from there.

I've corrected that assumption now.
Yes, 56k is the limit to "phone lines" meaning the system between you and another phone subscriber, given the limitations of how voice is transmitted.

ADSL works using the wire from your house to the phone company equipment. A much shorter path and with less interference (still, the wiring may be bad, which limits transmission rates)
Thanks for the language litigation, I'm now aware of the many subtle inaccuracies in my language, despite my skepticism that my real question was really so occluded. So here it is again:

Is it your opinion that the popularity of SSRIs is misguided, and that their use would be better off discouraged, since they have been shown to be no more "effective" than placebo? That the vast majority of (or all?) patients who report "success" with SSRIs are simply experiencing an effect that could just as easily be delivered via sugar pill?

Wikipedia's paragraph on this here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_serotonin_reuptake_in...) has a decent summary of the current status. SSRIs have been shown, by two meta-analyses, to have a "clinically significant" effect for very severe depression, and a "statistically significant" effect for moderate depression, which is considered below the threshold of usefulness. The original poster's words were, "not effective for any type of depression". So will you correct this statement as well?
Do you have any links to related papers that were published?
That $10/hr worker is also available for mopping floors, cleaning bathrooms, moving and unloading boxes, refilling condiment/utensil dispensers, taking out the trash, etc. When business is slow, the robot just sits.
'Planet Earth' narrator David Attenborough calls humans a 'plague on the Earth'
RoR was extracted from Basecamp.

Sorry to be that guy.
I'm for dropping in inline CSS for quick fixes too. But I didn't think using inline CSS everywhere was something people still do today.
(To be honest, I looked at the source because the rendering was odd on my computer, and I wanted to know if it was my you-should-not-pass corporate firewall which was blocking something, or just a it-renders-better-on-chrome problem)
Wait, then what's the problem?
Yes, thinking about the wave of change over the past year or so makes me sad.

Even more sad are the periodic proposals to "improve" (i.e. fix) HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5042403

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4488561

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4399108

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4404718

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3842554

And PG randomly chimes in throughout.. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920

And then there is the complaining: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4396747

None of these things seem to be working very well. They may alleviate a portion of the pain temporarily, but the baseline level of quality throughout the community still feels way off to me compared to what I see in the old threads.

As a sidenote, I like the explanations in this post about why digg, reddit, and slashdot went sour:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=178514
At this point, the Tesla's problem isn't range, it's charging convenience. 1/2 hour's manageable, but still a bit long.
There is a big difference in moving some bits of data and moving a few thousand pounds, trying to draw a correlation as such is disingenuous.
Are you suggesting telomeres or telomerase activity correlates with the size of the species? It's unclear what exactly is the role of telomeres in aging. Your article says "it is currently unknown to what extent telomere erosion contributes to the normal aging process". It is a major hypothesis, but there's a lot we don't know about it.
The current modus operandi of most pirate radio operators is to run as a legitimate internet radio station - remove all reference to the FM broadcast frequency from the website and promotional materials, promote yourself as "the internet's no.1 grime station" or whatever.

Then, when Ofcom come calling, the FM transmission is "someone relaying our internet broadcast, we don't know who it is."
Cohort Analysis in RJMetrics
I'm very glad to hear this. Thank you for sharing your experience.
Thanks :D. Yes the login feature is one of our main priority. At the beginning, we didn't want to force the login to save and use it. But Yes, the login would be a really nice improvement, even if we keep the current features without login. ;)
Mathematical proof that you only need three participants for user testing
and the current #1 on HN serves as proof of my article. it's about the raspberry pi and another person figuring out a really smart way to make use of it. love it.
That and a satellite to act as a repeater to achieve "beyond line of sight" (BLOS) communications.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLOS
As far as I can tell, audible only works with audio downloaded from Amazon, as my app will work with any audio file that is playable by the device. Also, I have met a few people who own Android devices but are a bit overwhelmed by apps that have a lot of customization features. I actually made the app initially for my fiancee who has a lot of audio books in mp3 format, and wanted something as simple as possible.
It does provide detailed steps for a solution to a problem. I'm sure many people will appreciate that.
I see Chrome appear and disappear for me (fresh install of chrome). I wonder what's up there.
:-)

It grinds my gears how we get articles along the lines of "I worked somewhere with pathological project management. Therefore all project management is stupid. YAY DEVELOPERS!!"
Sure, they don't force you to "like" anything, they don't force you to have a Facebook account and they do let you opt out of contextual ads if you know how to.

That doesn't change the fact that the intention of the UI is to imply a person has endorsed a product or message when in fact they've only endorsed the messenger

To put it bluntly, advertisers are spending those dollars because they know the majority of their "fans" won't go so far as to "like" the product or message in question if approached to do so, which would put a message in their friends' newsfeed at no cost. It's an opt-out system that works because it's poorly understood, and Facebook and their advertising partners have identified that and put a dollar value on it.

If we reach a situation where we're discussing who is to "blame" for an inadvertent endorsement, there's a problem.
I have and I love it although it's fairly orthogonal to bacon.js. The problem with livescript is that although its absolutely beautiful to a haskeller like me, almost no one uses it so the tooling is weak and building a big project in it is a massive risk.
Ian Hickson on replacing HTML
Nothing at all. I don't think there's really a developer appetite for doing this stuff.

There is for commercial server software, but then folks working on that tend to target ultra-stable platforms.
Wow, so "threatened legal action to coerce illegal activity" is "offering an agreement" now? This email is appalling.
The thing is, I read Colligan's response as polite (even not counting for content). If I was dealing with Steve Jobs and I received an email as terse as his reply, I would be disinclined to deal with him. This is probably just my personal sensibility, not being a cut-throat business guy.
Considering how much data he has access to, extremely dangerous.
Without any evidence -- even theoretical -- you are just posturing. The fundamentals of the post are not "short sighted", they describe a deep fundamental flaw that is (has been) historically perisistent. There is a difference between being "short sighted" and a lack of transparency. Until the "magic" ships.
You're ruining all my fun with your calm debating.

> I'm not saying the probability is > 50%, I'm saying it can be < 1%, but still over 0, and still be worth it.

Well, we're simply going to have to disagree. I don't find endorsement by smart people compelling. We have plenty of evidence that medicine can extend lifespans, but we have no evidence that we'll figure out a safe way to revive someone cryogenically frozen and no reason to believe extension will reach infinity. If they only solve one of the two problems you're looking at wasting a lot of money on a very strange burial or a very disappointing revival.

If p < 1% but > 0 and it's worth it to you, great. But don't kid yourself about it being an investment. It's a huge gamble. And I retain the right to consider gamblers suckers.
Though since your last post, flash has died and has been replaced by html5, which is suspiciously similar in capability and speed to flash 4, so you should feel right at home.

Hahahahaha!
almost on cue:
http://gigaom.com/2013/01/23/battery-startup-leyden-energy-r...
Tips for PPC ad translations
Further, it can't just be metabolism. It is unlikely that it's simply the metabolism of some tortoises, lobsters, and hydras that causes them to not actually age. It's not that they just have extra long lifespans, their death rates do not increase with age.
I 100% agree with you. It's a 127 page book on UX design written by someone with what appears to be a great deal of knowledge on the subject.

The bottom line is when you're trying to run a business, leads and exposure cost money. They wrote a book and asked for an email in return. To me, that seems like a fair trade - especially for something as critical as UX.
>People are stupid, so when warned, the will still act stupid. Despite this it is still the responsibility of whoever is able, to protect them, even against themselves.

Is this really a mainstream political philosophy on HN?
In which case you believe the Finnish Broadcasting Company is now a government spokes-channel, no?

Does it not make a difference that it's set up as an hypothecated tax, where revenue from the Yle tax is dedicated to go to Yleisradio?
Web Browser Usership Breakdown 2012
I was working for a company a few years ago who started building a web app in PHP. We had a new PHP developer who was very confident, who had what he claimed was a fantastic PHP MVC framework he'd written in his spare time. You can guess where this is going, but because he'd just written it as a framework instead of building it around a product and then extracting it out, the majority of the time was spent shoehorning the product to fit the framework.

I'm sure there's frameworks that exist that haven't been extracted from a product that do a perfectly fine job, but I've found that when they fall into the extracted category they've already had a round of battle hardening done, which makes life somewhat easier.
500px's app in the google cache was 4+
Because I wanted distracting for 5 min, in python:

def pascal(row, prev_row=None):
if row == 1:
return [1]
else:
if not prev_row:
prev_row = pascal(row-1)
new_row = []
for i in xrange(row):
if (i == 0) or (i == row-1):
new_row.append(1)
else:
new_row.append(prev_row[i-1]+prev_row[i])
return new_row

def none_recursive_pascal(row):
current_row = None
for i in xrange(1,row+1):
current_row = pascal(i, current_row)
return current_row

for i in xrange(1,10):
print pascal(i)

for i in xrange(1,10):
print none_recursive_pascal(i)

EDIT:
Added a none recursive version.
When did this get to be a Java forum with 27 "send me the codes" posts at the bottom of each thread?

User experience is indeed about making things smooth for viewers, but considering you could probably sell an eBook like this for $29 to $39, I think asking your email in exchange is fair! :) Especially considering you can unsubscribe with a click or two if you're unhappy about it.
Batteries have improved significantly since 2008, and are still improving.

The most important shifts have been in cost ($/kWh), but there have also been improvements in energy density (Wh/kg), power density (W/kg), and cycle life.

Some of this is due to electronics improvements, but a lot is due to better cell design and manufacturing, funded in part by higher demand.
This assumes that lower production costs lead to lower prices; instead of higher profits for select few individuals.

I also don't see how being unemployed frees people up for something more worthwhile to do.
This got my hopes up, but I don't see what it does that Terminal IDE doesn't already. I was hoping it would include gcc and the ability to compile things, so that it could be the starting point for a more complete development environment, but no such luck.
We have a web product for SaaS. Would you be interested? Kera.io
Isn't this kind of stuff only for, um, those _other_ programming stacks?

No, seriously, +1 for making life easier.
I haven't had stability issues with Photoshop on OSX in the last 3 years.
You should check out Zoho's mail service - free upto three users..https://www.zoho.com/mail/
The premise of the piece was that there's no new battery technology in the pipeline. Not on a particular timescale (he talks about lifetimes). The author believes batteries as a technology have reached peak energy density. If there's a research that suggests otherwise, that invalidates his whole point.
Except he's not a master...
I wonder how well it works. I could not find a video anywhere, which would be a marketing no brainer for such a cool machine.
The solution (in Objective-C)

- (NSArray)pascal:(int)n
{
if (n == 1)
return @[@(1)];

NSArray array = [self pascal:n-1];
NSMutableArray* mArray = [@[] mutableCopy];
for(int i = 0; i < array.count+1; i++)
{
int r = i - 1;
if (r >= 0 && i < array.count)
[mArray addObject:@([array[r] integerValue] + [array[i] integerValue])];
else if (i < array.count)
[mArray addObject:@(0 + [array[i] integerValue])];
else
[mArray addObject:@(0 + [array[i-1] integerValue])];
}

return [mArray copy];
}
I don't know much about MySQL, sorry. Mostly I use Postgres. I'd suggest the only really good way of solving is either something like tstzrange or daterange in Postgres. Or defining your own datatype, which most databases don't support.
Pebble starts shipping
> Each element in Pascal’s Triangle is found by adding the two numbers to the right and left of it on the row above it; where these don’t exist, they are assumed to be zero.

That gibberish. Unless you know what "Pascal’s Triangle" is prior to seeing this you have no shot of even understanding the exercise.

You haven't even said how you're meant to iterate through the numbers. If this is meant to be an explanation of a "Pascal’s Triangle" it fails at that.

You aren't testing programming, you're testing obscure maths knowledge and the ability to decrypt your question/explanation.

I bet a lot of the other posters had to google this just to answer it in their impressively quick times.
The advance from NiCd to NiMh chemistry gave approximately a doubling of watts per kg. So did NiMh to LiPo. It's hardly Moore's Law, but it's a significant rate of improvement. I can't imagine what smartphones and tablets would look like without the development of LiPo. We've seen substantial improvements in those battery technologies, perhaps most usefully Sanyo's development of low-self-discharge NiMh cells, which vastly broadened the useful market for rechargeable batteries.

The rate of change seems glacial compared to the rest of the computer industry, but it's unfair to imagine that no change is occurring. Properly sexy stuff is happening in battery technology and we'd be extremely foolish to imagine that batteries are at a dead-end.
This covers the convoluted history pretty well: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/01/todays-atari-bankruptc...
Ah yea, I'm running it all through Max4Live.
This is a great guide. I've invested heavily in MacOS, so I'll probably need to figure out an alternate approach.

One thing struck me as odd: Why make a `photoshop` alias if you're going to have the shell script in `$HOME/bin`?
Spring was born from a book on application design written by an expert on the subject. MVC .Net was probably the result of the sort of R & D that companies like Microsoft can afford to do and do well.
Do you mean the lilypad?

http://web.media.mit.edu/~leah/LilyPad/index.html
Why would you not play Lost to Apathy?
The End of Post-PC Era
I found this very exciting! Every Pi is now a potential pirate radio station!

I imagine that if a proper ground plane antenna were hooked up to it the pi would transmit much farther.

Are FM transmitters still restricted for civilians in some parts of the world?
They wrote the book, so it would be nice of you to at least give them an email address. If you still don't want to...

PDF: http://uxpin.com/upload/ux-design-for-startups-marcin-treder...

EPUB: http://uxpin.com/upload/ux-design-for-startups-marcin-treder...

MOBI: http://uxpin.com/upload/ux-design-for-startups-marcin-treder...
Answering With “I Don’t Know"
<forlorn>Is this material available in deaf-accessible format?</forlorn>
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SecureHeaders Gem from Twitter
Now that is cool will have to try that on one of my PI's