skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO a 45-90 second video done right might the ideal medium for a product overview. But most are way longer, and suck, so I never click on them.

GIFs auto play, and so might be good medium to force a user to see a 7-15 second clip of how a feature works. Obviously you should ensure that only 1 is ever showed at a time.

I also find there's something hypnotic about a silently looping sped-up clip, though I don't know if this can be used to increase conversions. ;)
15 HTML5 Tutorials Which Will Make You a Wow Designer
Same here, a UI nightmare.
Like with the Swartz case, learning the facts involved sways our opinion. Learn the facts on HSBC:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2Sr2JbC4WE
(by Young Turks host Cenk Uygar)

Edit: no offense. Not sure if I grok your comment or you grok'd GPs.
Is there a way use Chrome's console / JS dev tools / FireBug as an editor?
Attacking the Windows 7/8 Address Space Randomization
It is stored only on your computers. So, it is up to you to make sure you have at least one machine up.
A new searchengine build on Google App Engine
Gold has an intrinsic value, 1 gram of cotton based paper with some ink on it, does not.
Brilliant way to collect mp3's :)

Seriously, though, I am impressed. Is a non-minified version available?
I thought about that site, which is terrible. It feels a little different in that it seems to be fueled by insecure pro photogs who want to instill fear of hiring second-rate hacks.

Maybe I should be, but I am generally unafraid of sharing my photos.

http://Flickr.com/photos/martincron
Out of interest, why the throwaway?
Well 1030(a) violations didn't used to have a mandatory minimum sentence, but they got added after congress was afraid Kevin Mitnick could launch nuclear missiles from a pay phone.

When I was charged with a 1030(a) crime, I faced a mandatory minimum of 6 months in prison. No plea bargain could reduce that. If I was convicted, I was likely facing the exact same sentence because my damages were so low that I wouldn't normally qualify for any prison time at all under federal sentencing guidelines. So the main reason to plea bargain was to avoid paying an attorney or using a public defender. It also got the case over within 6 months rather than 2 years so I could move on with my life quicker.

It could get even worse as Congress keeps wanting to increase the mandatory minimums and don't really understand the laws or the internet.
http://www.volokh.com/2011/05/24/congress-considers-increasi...
"Good at multitasking" is one thing I would see as a huge red flag if it ever appeared on a programmer's resume.
"Never trust a man wearing a bowtie"
The two largest holders of federal debt are the Fed and the Social Security trust. A big part of the reason interest rates are so low is because we're buying our own debt.
What a small world! Never would have expected to find another AHL fan here. The map-making community for that game was absolutely amazing. There was a server than ran a a neat event around Halloween, AHL-loween, where they had a special Halloween-themed map rotation. So much fun.
Exactly. The difference a month makes. It has been noted in the media that the Aaron Swartz case might not affect her status as a prosecutor, but her political aspirations are effectively over (for now).
> > "governments are going to default.", "we live in a socialist world bent on confiscating savings (at the benefit of the state) using inflation"

> These are contradictory. Governments don't have to default if they inflate their debt away.

The reconciling position is that inflation used this way is simply default via other means. The holders of debt will not get back what they are owed in terms of purchasing power -- a nominal repayment rather than a real repayment.
I will probably make it availble once I've cleaned up the code and made some improvements to the algorithms. Beat detection can be spotty on constantly loud songs.
The amazing thing is how much memory the app can take up. Forget the UX issues, it is urgent to fix the outrageous memory usage first. For example, my old phone had just about 100M available for user apps.

Facebook uses about 121M. That's even after disabling all notifications and clearing data. 121M is more than all the rest of my apps combined.

Google+ is also a relative heavyweight at 31M. Android's most used app, Google Maps, uses a svelte 8.9M.

On older phones, just running Facebook alone will make the entire OS experience slow and frustrating. Now with the latest update, it prompts me to sync my contacts every open. It is shocking how badly they have managed this.
How is this an unhealthy cooperation? The financial support for this program is entirely from the private sector and the government simply looks after the background checks and admissibility, as they would for all immigrants anyway.
>Why do we believe in this concept of general multitasking?

We? I certainly don't. Multitasking is a definite myth. Once you switch context your brain has a random OOM killer that will completely destroy your train of thought in other tasks. There is no swap. I suppose swap could be paper, or your computer...

But it's a very high latency swap, and the delay for getting back into flow... forget it.
Files are stored only on your computers, there is no cloud part. Sync uses p2p to create a cloud from your computers. You will need to care about your setup, to have 24x7 availability of the files.
I second this. I'm not seeing Apache used much in any of the places I'm working in these days.
> Most popular programming languages: jquery

Yeah, that's what StackOverflow has become.
Concept is great but the response time kept me from trying the service out.

at 50 seconds worth of search time you've lost me.
AES256 client side
EDIT: it is done, I added the nginx configuration to the article

Just wait a bit, I'm updating the post for that :)
For those who don't want to watch an hour long presentation, you can watch a compilation of clips from different news show appearances, "Peter Schiff Was Right" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0QN-FYkpw
Woz On What’s Wrong With Kutcher’s Steve Jobs Movie
> who uses Java in a browser anymore?

Webex and GoToMyPC unfortunately. Makes it rather hard to work from home when those are your corporate standards.
Computer Engineering and Computer Science were just declared two of the ten highest paying majors in the US.

Software is everywhere and in everything.

How can you friends ever think the software industry is doomed?
The info-graphic cheekily dissolves into an ad, which I guess is OK given the context.

I'm surprised to see JavaScript as the most popular language, but pretty pleased.

Living in New Hampshire I don't have many programmer friends, so communities like StackOverflow are important to me. Relatively new additions like the SO JavaScript chatroom[1] help too.

It may not feel like a community in the traditional sense to some, but in a lot of ways StackOverflow gives me the encouragement I need to help people, practice my craft and keep learning.[2] It really means a lot to me (and I'm sure a lot of others).

Also, note that the tiny link below the info-graphic has the raw data if you want to take a look at all the numbers[3].

[1] http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/17/javascript

[2] http://i.imgur.com/POZmt.png

[3] https://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=vU4rF_2bPVQaftSo1s69...
When the issuer of those securities is the one defining the amount of inflation, that issuer has every reason to understate said amount, and the holder of the securities may still lose purchasing power.

Consider e.g. Argentina's official inflation statistics versus 3rd party estimates. The difference is not explained by Argentina being a bunch of meanies but rather the system of incentives and particularly Public Choice Theory.
This is a very nice. I was surprised how fast it was. Great job.
Not sure why this is here, but it should be pointed out that the reason why this author is saying this is because bowties are trendy, and people always try to rationalize something that is trendy.
Apple fires Chinese supplier for using underage workers
Similar, differences are: real p2p, native code, arm/ppc/x86 versions. Based on uTorrent, so very effective in terms of memory and speed.
Usually it involves taking one common and fixed item, like cereal, and looking at its prices over time. While there are seasonal effects, looking at the price over a number of years gives you a good picture as to the actual inflation.

The key thing here, though, is "fixed". Sometimes companies will make adjustments to the product to reduce costs, and those adjustments make the apparent inflation appear lower than they really are. For example, a jeweler can quote the same price for jewelry next year (assuming gold price rises) if they use less gold and more base metals in the jewelry. CPI measure would say that there was no change, although for all intents and purposes there was a change.
Hmm. That comment is brash, and perhaps intimidating to a beginner, but I wouldn't call it mean. "It makes my eyes bleed" or "it looks like an idiot wrote it" vs "badly written" (it also seems like a communication problem - his answer was badly written you might say).
The Higher Education Bubble (Part 1)
I look forward to the improvements. Beware the effect of being 'nearly there' with the natural language stuff though. Failures on queries that feel like they 'should work' can get annoying very quickly.
They also have merit during a 'tour' within your conversion process e.g. emphasising features and value points.

But I agree with the more general principle, if you have to use these to onboard users WITHIN your experience, something has probably gone wrong.
It is down, not 'killed to safeguard users': https://status.github.com/messages
FYI, Geithner has never been employed by anything vaguely resembling a private bank. He was a consultant for 3 years after school, before joining government.
Well, I don't pin a lot of Amazon links, but I make a bit from the ones I have pinned. I grind out about $200 a month now mostly from other affiliate programs and I'm not really trying. It's a side income that I keep thinking about expanding since it's working. I need to teach my kids to do it...

It takes forever to get paid though - maybe 3-4 month lag time.
17 Chinese wanted for Internet fraud and cyber crimes Arrested
We're trying.
It's not as easy as you think.
The incentives for government to care or want to work with you really aren't there.

That said, we've had success in some limited areas.
For example, voting information (which was 7+ figure data for the US) is now online. This was originally a partnership I helped create with Pew and Google back in 2008 (now expanded to include MS and others as well, wonderfully):

https://votinginfoproject.org/about

After 4+ years, we now have a large number of states voting information online and free.
A large number of people at various states also put their asses on the line to help make this happen over the years . I wish I could give them medals.
:)

There are other example, like patent data, etc. To be honest, i'd rather us stay behind the scenes and just have the info released, even if it means people never know we were involved. It prevents a lot of issues from people who make large amounts of money off data that should be public and open. Of course, there are times/cases where it makes sense to use our name and brand to help, and when necessary, we do that.

We also fund plenty of non-profit orgs, including folks like Carl. But getting traction is simply not that easy. A lot of government agencies make revenue from data they publish by selling subscriptions to it or otherwise charging. They don't want to give it to you if your plan is to open it up, even if you are willing to pay large sums. I can't often blame them. Congress cares more about seeing agencies budget neutral than they do about "open data".

There were also mandates that public datasets be cataloged sanely and released. This led to data.gov. However, because of the way it worked some agencies had some perverse incentives, like "release the most datasets".
This led to humorous things like every single separate piece of data being published as its own dataset on data.gov, which had no good search, making parts of it entirely useless.

Anyway, the short answer is: We're trying. We've been trying.
> No, benevolent dictators are the way to go. I'm a huge fan of Guilliani and Bloomberg's work in NYC. Love them or hate them, you'd rather live in NYC circa 2013 than NYC circa 1993.

You wouldn't be saying this if you were a person of color living in the Bronx or parts of Brooklyn, because things have gotten worse for those folks due to policies of selectively enforcing vice laws and programs like stop and frisk that have become popular under Guilliani and Bloomberg.
What leads you to conclude that this has had a major impact on her political viability?

Put another way, I doubt the petition to deport Piers Morgan had a significant impact on his ratings.
I consider that article flawed.

1) If I wear something 'odd', that doesn't mean that I spent extra time for this interview. If you care about that, ask me how I prefer to dress and I'll tell you an anecdote about me getting married in a Star Wars tee. That I wear a suit to your interview is a big change.

2) A skill to tie a bow tie doesn't translate to anything valuable (except to tie a bow tie)..

3) Being different just for the sake of standing out can be archived in a number of ways and the opposite of coming with a bow tie (? Maybe wearing the a short of your favorite sports team?) would archive _that_ just as easily.

My prejudices?

Suit is already a little over the top. Suit + tie is for old men or greasy sales people. Bow ties are only allowed if you were already a grown-up during WW II.
I've noticed an increasing trend for Americans to write, for example, '10$'. As an odd reflection to that, I've also noticed a lot of people writing percentages with the percent sign in front: '%50'. I can't help but wonder if the latter is just confused web developers.
Except if you want to apply for YC... unfortunately
An insignificant fraction of the price of gold is intrinsic value. The rest is derived from it's value as money.
Photopoll app review
Here's SparkFun's CAN bus shield: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10039.

It's not cheap, but it's from SparkFun so it's at least pretty in red. :) And, to be fair, it has a few nice features besides the CAN interface itself (SD card holder, LCD interface, on-board joystick).

The product comments mention this library for the software side: http://code.google.com/p/canduino/.
Not sure if this counts as a traditional blog, but this is me: http://www.srirangan.net
Hold on: isn't there actual research which indicate improvements both in conversion rate and overall user retention / lifetime value with applications that feature tooltip tutorials on the first-run experience?

Are you referencing research which says otherwise?
Damn you. I came here specifically to say the same thing.
Nginx uses the ssl_ciphers directive to select ciphers.[0]

ssl_ciphers ALL:!ADH:!EXP:!LOW:!RC2:!3DES:!SEED:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM;

KeepAlive is enabled by default, but you can configure it for different durations or numbers of requests.[1]

I believe you can chain your certificates by concatenating the chain to your certificate file.[2]

cat chain.crt >> mysite.com.crt

[0] http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpSslModule#ssl_ciphers

[1] http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpCoreModule#keepalive_disable

[2] http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpSslModule#Synopsis
Locating Tweets IRL
I'm not seeing it in the profile page. Can you double check?
I've met a number of doctors (UK: "Consultant" / US: "Attending physician") who wear bow ties.

Many surgeons have a certain personality. I find this is also true of people who wear bow ties.

Am I missing the trend?
i hope it was a girl who downvoted me.
As a programmer I can't think of a single job interview I went through where it would have conceivably put me at a disadvantage.

It would have at worse been taken as a harmless eccentricity.
Hi, gang. James from ShotSpotter (SST, Inc.) here. The availability and price of our technology is dramatically (like an order of magnitude) lower than it used to be. The Wired article was accurate at the time, but its pricing data is now way, way out of date. Also, about automated responses: believe it or not, even in the case of a school shooting, it still takes about 3-4 minutes for a call to 9-1-1 to deliver enough information for emergency responders to get the information they need. That's probably the vector for the most meaningful improvement in response time. We're looking at this very closely.
Anecdotally up to 14 hours: http://mologogo.wikispaces.com/message/view/home/485693

Supported devices: http://mologogo.wikispaces.com/Phone+List

Altertnate (commercial) service supported devices: http://support.accutracking.com/kb/article/00003

More info, eHow style: http://www.maps-gps-info.com/free-gps-cell-phone-tracking.ht...
Well, it would be correct if they were using "average" to mean "median".

It's also correct if you know that the data fits a normal distribution, or something similar.

So yes, it's not, in general, statistically impossible for most people to be above the mean on some metric. But there are several interpretations of that statement in which it is correct.
What is the obvious benefit and how are you quantifying it?
The only immunity granted is a very narrow immunity: their testimony may not be re-admitted in proceedings against the witness.
Legitimately curious... what exactly is the intrinsic value of gold? Are you basing it's "intrinsic" value on its commercial value or something else?

There are a number of metals that have much more useful applications than gold. From what I've read, gold's intrinsic value was ultimately a western idea that, again, stemmed from a confidence in it's value. When the Spanish discovered gold in central Mexico, the Aztecs had no idea what they were so excited about -- it had no intrinsic value to them. There's a great discussion of the history of gold as money in "The Ascent of Money"
Great tip. Almost put Patio11 in the title, but went with full name instead.
If people are interested, my product http://overlay101.com provides hosted product tours that requires far less Dev work than these js libraries.
I wonder if the "popularity" of a language is related to the fact people are learning it.

More people could be developing in Java, but more people are learning JavaScript and therefore active on Stack Overflow.

I generally find I use Stack Overflow a lot lot more when I am picking something up for the first time.

Therefore I would assume JS is the language that is being most actively learnt.
If it all happened at once, no one would pay. The system would stop, and government would have to act. Part of the deal of government acting would be all those defendants with drawing from the jury trial.

Of course, there is always a chance that the US government would declare requesting a jury trial as an act of terror...
I participated in the survey, and I don't expect anyone from SO to actually read this posting on HN, but I did find that it was extremely biased towards the idea of people who work places actually ship software based products/services, and it was also extremely biased towards people that work on the web (see the "what are you most excited about" category, which was mostly web-based technologies).

I'm a software developer by day, and I work with a team of around 20 or so other developers. But we don't ship products or create for the web. We're a robotics research laboratory, rooted pretty squarely in academia and non-profit. The closest we ever get to a "product" is a public YouTube video demo or a publication and a conference talk.

I do a little bit of web/app stuff on the side, for fun, but I took the survey from the perspective of my professional programming life, which is my day job.

I know that people like me are in the minority, and that web dev/app dev is where the growth is right now, but it seems a little silly to skew a survey like this away from "people who write software in the general case" because then you aren't really creating a survey of all StackOverflow users. I actually found it a little challenging to answer some of the questions accurately. Seeing how they tied their results so strongly in to their Careers product makes the layout of the survey self-evident in hindsight, but I was a little unsatisfied with the survey itself regardless.
That's preposterous. You've neglected:

- English professor at clown school
Please do use this. Tooltip tutorials are a user experience heaven. If you don't feel the urge to add this to your site - think again.

User interfaces are getting better - which means if your UI is good, it is different, thus it won't be intuitive to those who are trained to not expect it.

Often one has to choose to design a UI for the daily use vs. first a time usage. Better to put the clatter in the tooltips than to let them always be in your users way.
My aunt used to tell me that her mother gave her some advice: "Don't wear pearls before five, diamonds before dinner, or date men who drive Jaguars." She'd likely approve of this piece of advice too.
Definitely agree. Moulded plastic would be one of the better ones. Castings would be ok in some circumstances though the interior cores could be a pain to control, eg: ensuring the sand to create the voids is solid enough not to disentigrate as you try to cast and is not just floating in mid-air.
You're thinking of the old Entrepreneur Program, that'd been around since the 1970s.

That program simply facilitated new Canadians to make smaller convenience stores or low-risk ventures at best (smaller, safer enterprises, etc). It's criteria was largely just net worth and business experience. The only path to Canadian permanent residence was the creation of one new job every three or four years.

As you'd guess, it didn't exactly inspire risk takers.
I use a homemade one (written in PHP) that writes static files to the disk. The fact that I use static files means a post of mine was able to survive ~ 24 hours on the front page of HN even though my website is on a shared host.
> what advantages does this offer in comparison to matplotlib?

"Although it is a Python library, its primary output backend is HTML5 Canvas."
Ask HN: How should I expose my little brother to programming?
Hey guys,<p>My brother wants to go to school for engineering. He is a junior in HS right now. He is mad smart, but all of his focus is going towards school work, none of which is tech related. He just can't find motivation to work on his own stuff, and I think it would be beneficial if he learned to program and could see how powerful it is. Right now he wants to do chemical or materials engineering, and honestly I don't know how much programming he would use but I figure it couldn't hurt. However in the past he was interested in EE, so it would be really helpful if he got a head start.<p>My question is, how do I convince him to give it a try, and what should I first teach him. I think the best way to learn is through online resources, and I could help him if he gets stuck along the way. He has taken a class on HTML/CSS and liked that he could see changes he made visually, but found it a little dry. He also had an Arduino which he tried to do some stuff on but he had did not find any good resources to learn how to use it. I was thinking maybe he would enjoy basic game programming, something like Pygame. Python is what I learned on and making games, while not necessarily related to engineering is a rewarding way to learn. The other option is to expose him to C++ right away, but I think he has a bad view of programming already, and learning something with more of a learning curve might not be best for him.<p>What do you guys think would be beneficial for a future engineering student. What langauge, or what should he start on. Also if there are any engineers reading this - what is the field like for engineers that can program? Are there certain areas of engineering where it is a requirement, or areas where it is not expected at all?<p>Thanks in advance!