skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To my thinking, auth is hard and the complexities shouldn't be glossed over. And you don't want to bog a newbie down by making them understand what rainbow tables and replay attacks are. So it's better to skip that and circle back around later once they get some familiarity with web dev in general.
Just curious, did you buy the Lenovo thinking the touch screen would be a plus? I'm not sure a saleperson at Best Buy would be able to sell me a touch screen computer. The mere idea seems unwieldly, like someone desperately trying to make innovation in consistently wrong directions.
Every app has its own protected storage space, but that's historically often been quite restricted in size. This is where things like SQLite databases are usually stored. It's also (pretty much by definition) not accessible using a file manager and it's much more difficult to share data from it, so it's not appropriate for music or pictures.
How Twitter usage could change forever?
Build an Erlang backend for PyPy. Should be doable, but what benefits would it bring?
Hard to kick people for downvoting stuff, would have to be done manually and that doesn't seem feasible. Cheers from another German;)
The G&S description for their mark is board games, parlor games, war games, hobby games, toy models and miniatures of buildings, scenery, figures, automobiles, vehicles, planes, trains and card games and paint, sold therewith.

The mark has been registered for more than five years so it is "incontestable"(with caveats). But, even if the registration is valid, they have an issue with the class and g&s for their mark in terms of enforcing it against your goods and services.
Looks like the set out to do this, and succeed with just a few simple changes to the marketing plan and adding Yoga to the days line up. The last seems like a nice technique to me as it sends the message that "women are welcome here" while not saying that in the materials (As such explicit marketing to a particular demo tends to change the feel of the event for everyone else).

On the whole quite simple - and in their case effective.
If you require an SLA to spell out acceptable timelines for issue resolution by an on-call engineer capable of debugging ImageMagick, that is probably something which can be bought, either from the maintainer of ImageMagick or from third-party providers.
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Drawing and Animating Shapes – SVG and CSS3
Tutorial: an introduction to SVG and its potential, drawing basic shapes, applying masks and performing animations ...
The dilemma can also be disrupted, by pulling a Henderson of some kind. Change what it means to be a PC/desktop. Put all those legacy apps in a 3D world, tool up for holographic displays, something.

Or just slowly die, filing lawsuits to retard the industry and drag out your lifeblood a few more years.
We used flexslider [1], didn't even realize it had that feature until I saw it working:)

[1] http://www.woothemes.com/flexslider/
I think the only thing we might say with confidence is that physically fit and keen-to-impress types are able to sit in their chair for 12-16 hour stretches.
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"There are not more than five primary colours," is true, three is less than five
I'm not sure if you've seen one of these coffee machines. When you come to one, your first thought isn't "where do I put water", it's "what kind of coffee do I want?"

Here it is, to the right of a Keurig coffee pot: http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/4ef3bec5ecad04cd2c0...
To your points, the reason I think the blending of tablets and laptops is a bad idea is because they're made for very different tasks. The moment you add a keyboard to a tablet, no matter who makes it, you've put distance between yourself and the device and negate a lot of the benefits you're supposed to get from it. Are there times when the keyboard is necessary? Absolutely but I'd argue that having it attached lends itself to being used more often and thus you end up with a really small, low power laptop-ish thing. From my experience and what I've seen others experience, having the keyboard as something totally separate and only pulled out on a rare occassion makes a person less apt to use it and therefore they end up using the device how it was meant to be used - as a portable computer made for really quick tasks that don't require tons of precision like checking movie times, shooting of a short email, etc.

To your second point, I don't think I'm making too many assumptions. The laptop with a touch screen isn't a new idea, we've had them for a few years now. If you've got a laptop that responds to touch you need a Metro-like interface for it, which like I said, is cool for a tablet but when you get down to business you end up just going for the mouse and keyboard and the touch screen ends up as a gimmick until you're back in I'm-carrying-this-thing-around-one-handed-and-doing-a-quick-thing-here-and-there mode.

Yeah, I haven't used the Surface pro, you're right. And if I had used it I would then be a credible source but I'm not trying to be credible here. I'm not a journalist. I'm a guy on HN like a lot of others who's sharing my thoughts, experiences and opinions. I'm not claiming to be an expert and you can see I use a lot of "I think"'s and "in my experience"'s in what I say. Everyone's mileage may vary but unless I'm making totally off the wall unfounded crazy suggestions or until I decide I'm going to write a report I expect people to cite I think I have just as much right to what I say as a lot of others here who haven't used it but have an opinion. Now, I have used the RT and a bunch of Windows8 laptops and desktops. So it's not like I've been living in a bubble and have no clue about what these devices look, feel, or work like.
For me personally, I just don't want it. As a developer/ student, I love being able to step away from my laptop with all its notifications and what not, pick up my ipad and read, study, or watch netflix. The tablet has become my haven when works and school get crazy. I love that it doesn't vibrate and doesn't encourage me to multitask. I love that by doing specific tasks very well, it helps me a ton!

In other words, I love that my ipad doesn't try to make life more busy than it needs to be. It's as close as I can get to unplugging when I need it most.
I would say Cryptography and Compilers are among the best courses on Coursera (I can't speak for your other examples) and are not representative. The fact remains that even the best Coursera courses are not comparable to the education you would receive from similar courses taken on campus. One important reasons for that is the multiple choice or final answer quiz format is far inferior to long answer. For example, questions of the form "prove that" or "show that" which are staples of a rigorous course are essentially non-existent on Coursera for practical reasons. That would be fine if Coursera had somehow improved, in terms of learning quality, on that method of assessment but they have done the opposite.
Ask HN: BrowserStack vs VMs - does it hold up?
We need to start conducting more comprehensive browser compatibility but the idea and cost of setting up enough VMs/machines to do this properly is rather intimidating.

Have people used BrowserStack (or a similar service)?

Are they good enough?

Thanks in advance
I'll have to give it a try today!
Try comparing with Rubinius
This is the paragraph that loses me: "At $1,000, you’re paying about as much as you’d pay for a MacBook Air or a more powerful Windows laptop. Is this premium worth the investment? I’d say that it ultimately depends on how you intend to use this system. If it’s a laptop replacement as in something you carry on trips or to meetings, then yes. This is a stable and solid machine and will turn heads when you open it up."

If I wanted a laptop, I'd by an Air. If I wanted a tablet, I'd by a Nexus 10 or an iPad. Why would I want a laptop without a real keyboard/trackpad, and why would I want a tablet that's 2 pounds with 3-5 hours of battery life? You can say "best of both worlds" but I think it's more consolidation for the sake of consolidation resulting in a user experience that's compromised for every use-case.

From the article: "The type cover and inputs are flawed. The touchpad on the type cover is woefully small and the connection between the keyboard and the device is often wonky, disconnecting at odd intervals."

This, in my opinion, puts a nail in the whole "but, but, it's an ultrabook!" shtick some people have been trotting out.
the idea was to implement enough of "hard stuff". So it should not change. but hello world is not a good idea (this one also might actually change due to library loading, but please don't benchmark it like that)
I no longer feel bad for pirating all their books.
Use Google's Copy of Popular Libraries
KDE's versioning scheme follows specific guidelines.
In a x.y.z scheme, a bump in x means API and ABI incompatibility with previous versions.
Seriously, who cares?
GW has the printed material trademark in Europe. They complained to Amazon UK, which caused Amazon to remove it from everything.

http://mcahogarth.org/?p=9999

This strikes me as more of an issue with Amazon than anything else, because they should have only removed the book from the markets where it the complaint was raised, instead of everywhere.
> So Ruby on top of RPython on top of PyPy?

No. It's Ruby in RPython, where PyPy is Python in RPython. The pypy project is currently in the process of splitting "RPython" (the VM-development framework) from PyPy (the Python VM) to make that clearer.

RPython is a general purpose, language-agnostic (ish?) core for implementing JIT-ed garbage-collected languages, it's kind-of similar to LLVM being a framework for implementing compilers.

(now because rpython is a proper subset of python you can run your rpython VM on a python interpreter without translation, but that doesn't give you any specific python bridge, in the same way coding your VM in C doesn't give you a c FFI for free)
Well thank you good sir!
I ended up formalizing it into a number of categories:
http://www.dronepedia.com/index.php?title=Autopilot_concepts

In my view, anything with Return To Home level autopilot and above could reasonably be considered a UAV. This generally requires a 6-9DOF IMU, an altimeter, and a GPS receiver.
This is an interesting description even if it probably isn't completely true. It's amusing that anyone would be disappointed to learn this. Orange juice is sugar water. I don't think anyone gets worked up about how Mountain Dew is produced.
we removed that from the docs, it's kinda stable by now (but it's still an atrocious language to use, just beats C/C++ for that particular task by a lot)
Citation most certainly needed. I have a feeling the iPhone 4 is still outselling the S3.
Regarding your "touch what daddy is touching" comment, why is that not true for a keyboard or touch pad?
Why Earl Grey Tea isn’t that bad…but there is better
I don't understand the hostility in this thread.

Willix - For those of us that aren't aware of freelancer, can you provide some numbers on the kind of growth this team has been able to achieve? Also, it will help to know some top performing growth tactics for you guys...examples as specific as the airbnb one would be great!
Either the boss is incompetent and so that boss makes work intolerable for the employee, or the employee is incompetent and the boss makes work intolerable for the employee. It's often hard to tell.
Makes sense. I wasn't claiming any "absolute" benchmark, of course, just pointing out that real benchmarks should wait until the implementation is more complete.
Sounds dangerous, but if you try it out on a popular site, I'd love to hear your results!
Thanks! We developed Chime for Chrome first just to get it out in the hands of our users. Based on the responses in the first week since launch, we're already looking at support for Firefox/Safari.

I also mentioned this elsewhere in this thread, but we're hoping to create a way for other sites to deliver notifications through Chime. Haven't considered independent hackers just yet, but it is something we'll keep in mind.
You seem to be using a different definition to the word "flattery" than any I know. Being copied is inherently flattering whether you want them to copy you or not.
This is a question I've been wanting an answer to myself. I have a 64gb SSD that has -only- a blank windows install on it; no programs or anything, and it takes up 54gb of space.
I'll distribute hymns on my distribution. They can be tricked-out with animations and annotations. They are wonderfully few bytes.
That's really too bad.

I've enjoyed many 40K novels, love the Dawn of War games and even own some table top material, but I wasn't aware of GW's taste for lawsuits until now.

GW just lost a customer.

Thankfully, Dan Abnett isn't afraid to write original novels and Relic has other franchises.
That'd be nice. Is there a way to be notified when such a thing goes live (mailing list)? That'd be a shame if you didn't, seeing all the coverage you're having!
"They're similar, but" is much better than "is totally not like." The point of the analogy is to give a high-level view, not to achieve 100% accuracy at the lowest levels of detail.
That said, isn't it the case that one can't just take something that exists in common usage and trademark it as-is?

For example, the basic structure of the fairy tale about Aladdin and the magic lamp had been around for a long time, and was clearly not originated by Disney. Consequently, Disney has no right to claim trademark or copyright control over the name Aladdin or or anything generally related to the story. They only get rights over their own work - additions they made to the story, characters' appearances, etc.

Similarly, Games Workshop shouldn't be able to own the phrase 'space marines'. At most, all they should get to control is the use of the name Space Marines to describe the surgically-enhanced cybernetic super-soldiers that are peculiar to their franchise.
Can't hurt, but I suspect it won't help. I wrote in, and it took less than two minutes to receive a response which basically said "write to legal, not to us."

Here's to hoping I'm wrong and they listen to unhappy people.
shrug maybe all my developer friends are wrong. I don't bother with FB API.

The solution is definitely not Facebook, Google, or Apple. They all plugged SSO into an existing platform and allow developers to perform actions on my behalf with the same credentials. Sadly, Microsoft's Passport.net was the closest anyone has gotten to a real solution because they treated their own properties as just another consumer. They killed that by trying to tie it directly into your Windows login which are inherently insecure.
In that case, "happiness every day" is a uselessly vague term.
> the lack of many core features probably helps out a lot atm.

I don't understand why the lack of features would affect the time of "hello world."
People have been drinking coffee and tea for thousands of years. Monster and 5-Hour-Energy, a decade? People seem to die from that stuff but not coffee. When in doubt, err on the side of stuff proven by time.
I think a lot of people at Microsoft would disagree about #2's efficacy...
in other words - if you can run it today, you should believe numbers. if you cannot run it, then well, you cannot.
You can follow @ChimeApp on twitter! If you have Chime installed, you'll see the updates automatically. :-)
I know some guys like that but I still don't know if they are co-founders. Hell one of them already runs a successful business and wants to partner with me, I am still unsure.
We have used Brosix for the longest time. It is an enterprise messenger. Our main purpose behind using this IM is the security. You can check it out here: http://www.brosix.com
Slightly off topic but, I've got a lot of respect for Veen. When I was younger, I picked up a copy of "The HotWired Style Guide", which is the best book I've ever read on web design. I'd say it's still worth reading today, even though it came out in the mid-nineties. The designers and developers at HotWired did big, foundational work within the constraints of the early web.
5 retail retargeting best practices
Nope.

see this thread -- more than 4k points
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3078128
I am not implying this at all. In fact, I am a huge fan of open source software. I simply offer the advice to check what you are using first as there can be issues, as reported.
Twitter on Route to Maturity — Maybe IPO
Loading the standard library takes time. With a smaller (underimplemented) standard library, you can get to the user's code much more quickly.
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Jeremy Ostermiller's company's growth is exploding. Listen to this interview for the details.
Show HN: Solving the Consumer Cloud – Privacy and Secure Collaboration
I've not seen an Wordpress ones, although I have heard of them. I happened to stumble across the Joomla one.

I know Wordpress have a user rating system which is pretty good in my experience.
Step 1: build a good product

Step 2: have the luxury to raise prices
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It would be nice to see Rpython/pypy turned into a project not unlike WebKit where many different projects benefit from the same open-source core. If pypy is flexible enough to implement all of ruby and all of Python, has a reasonable amount of maturity, and is already rather fast it seems like a good candidate for such a thing.
Yeah we had an issue with the site yesterday after I posted the blog. It has since been resolved and hopefully Google will update the cache soon.
Whenever I see frontpages for these kinds of projects like "a faster X" or "X written in Blub", the first thing I want to see on the frontpage is how this new project compares to X in terms of quality and performance. Even specious benchmarks would help more than zero benchmarks.

I wish more frontpages for these kinds of projects would do that.
Why do energy drinks get all the heat? Starbucks coffee has around twice as much caffeine/oz and an even higher ratio per serving
I've been eyeing Play for a bit now, but I've been wondering what kind of server it would require for a modest app with basic CMS functionality.

So, for example, will it run fine on a 128MB RAM VPS (assuming average IO speeds), a remote db and nginx?
Excellent news. I wish this project the best of luck. More competition in the Ruby implementation field is always a good thing for end users, it fosters innovation and provides choice and a good kick in the ass to everyone.
FYI: cofounder's name is "Mahbod", not "Maboo".
It sounds like you're living in fear. Especially now, the job market in tech is booming.
J.Lyons and Co.[0] were doing this in 1951. LEO[1], probably the first business computer, was built to collate data from Lyons Tea Houses to calculate how many cakes to bake overnight amongst other things.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Lyons_and_Co.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer)
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I felt the same way... Thanks for the comment though!
As RPython is a subset of Python, that statement is technically correct but misleading. Stating that Topaz is "Ruby written in Python" leads to the idea that it's written in / runs on CPython, which is really not the case.
The problem there is that the US military usually has a very hard time evaluating actual effectiveness since it's not reasonable to start a war just to see how your employees do.

This means during prolonged periods of peacetime, a form of regulatory capture happens where the metrics used to evaluate promotion become decoupled from actual fitness of purpose.
That Would Never Work in My Startup…
I would like to know as well; this article ranked front page and #1 for quite a long time?
I am sure the bullet points have meaning - it is just that I can't fathom what they are.

Secondary Sales?
Check the alignment?

Both seem to be the key issues but fail the comprehension test from where I am sitting.
This is a work provided machine, not my choice :)
Ask HN: What is the best technology for an open sourced voting platform?
Trying to build an open sourced voting platform (found here: https://github.com/acmeyer9/us-election-voting-platform) and wanted to know what technologies would be best.
This is where common law systems really bother me.

When the legal system is set up in such a manner that defending oneself in civil court is more-or-less impossible for people who aren't wealthy enough to pay hundreds of dollars per hour for legal representation, the phrase "equal protection under the law" begins to sound like nothing more than a cruel joke.
They weren't exactly the nicest company in the 80's and 90's (ask a lot of old game store owners), so I guess it comes as no surprise that they took the lesson they learned from Blizzard this way.
It's the same as going "I'll just save this folder on / so I don't have to remember the path later".
Once a campaign succeeds, do you have any plans about the designs beyond the campaign? Could the designer be selling on an on-going basis rather than specifically setting up more campaigns for the same design? (This may require the discover functionality to be in place.)
Yes, I am doing market research for a startup. If you're interested you can contact me about it.
I think the problem is that they just don't understand the market well enough. In many ways the Surface Pro is an equivalent misstep as the Kin. They're trying to target the wrong niche in the wrong way with the wrong product and a bad business model.

They need to either outdo Apple, beat them to the punch, or play on a different field. For example, Microsoft is perfectly positioned to make the tablet as a business device a reality. IT departments would salivate over the ability to control apps and deployments and so forth the way a carrier can. Imagine if MS build a set of tools that allowed companies to make internal intranet "app stores", for example. Imagine if they made all of their office tools work well on a tablet. Imagine if they made a tablet that could easily snap into a base station and suddenly work as a monitor attached to a kb/mouse/wired internet and then be easily removed for taking to a meeting or home. And it also could have built-in 3G connectivity and smart VPN support so it would always stay effectively connected to the company network. Is that the kind of device that a lot of people would buy? Is that the sort of thing that could build an entire business that Apple would have trouble reaching for some time?

I could come up with dozens more examples. But instead of making a strong move they took a running start then stopped to tie their shoelaces and forgot what they were doing. Good specs and fancy googaws are only of limited value in the moment, and they only sell devices if you've already got mindshare. Apple could announce that it's next iPhone was dephlogistonated and it would sell devices, but that's because of all the hard, uphill brand grinding work that Apple has done in years past, MS isn't in that same space.

There are some truly cool things about the Surface Pro (such as the multi-touch + stylus input), but this is not a time for experimentation.

Apple is making in profit about 3/4 of Microsoft's revenue. Microsoft certainly still has a lot of resources still at its disposal, and it will still continue to earn billions in revenue for years (maybe decades), but the time is fast approaching of their last remaining chance to stay relevant and stay in the game before it passes them by.