skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using the product since Alpha, needless to say I love it. The guys are Mindscape have been awesome over the years with their other products, that I jumped onto Raygun knowing I would get exceptional support.

Their .NET support is awesome, and because their providers are opensource I was able to write a NancyFX specific provider: http://www.philliphaydon.com/2013/01/introducing-raygun-and-...

It's definitely a competitive market to be in, and their take on it is only just begun, but based on their support over the years, and support with Raygun, I have no doubt the product will be even more amazing than it is now.

Also, WinRT support is GREAT! Picked up a few error in my Windows Store App!
I work in the private sector with no academic affiliations. I find I use various IEEE/scientific papers roughly once a month. Some companies are small, and won't pay for things like papers. Some companies are large and have crappy bureaucracies/"cost saving measures" for getting a $15 paper off the internet. I'm not saying I need it all to be free, because I do always end up with the paper I want, I'd just like to add an anecdote that it's not all academia. But you're mostly right, access is not too much of a problem.
Among other things, HyperLogLog was used in the recent computation of Facebook's average diameter ("Four degrees of separation" [1]).

In this paper Google squeezes out every last bit of precision, using tables to correct the bias and specialized algorithms for small cardinalities.

It is an outstanding effort, I guess they use these counters everywhere.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.4570
Apple Updates Retina MacBook Pro, Drops 13-inch Retina Pro price
Tinder, a No-Bull Dating App, Is the End-All of Online Dating
This in an incredibly short-sighted comment. The engine is just a client application. There are millions of websites on the other end of the line. Any changes to web standards also affects them. That's why it's incredibly harmful to treat any single implementation as a de-facto standard.

We need (good) web standards, because we need consistent web architecture where features work together and somebody does long-term planning.
That's a great idea - but way to bury the lede there.

(And it just occurred to me that that's journalisms way of saying tl;dr. Except I did read it, just to find what the heck The Paper Bay is :)
Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? [pdf]
As a swedish person I laugh at this.
a few years ago i read the account of what went down with the kidnapping, Truly horrible stuff there, highlights include ball stomping, injecting him with an unknown substance which still affects him (likely a parasite) and leaving him for dead in the middle of the desert.
For some reason I can't find it, which is likely for the better
What is a Smalltalk “image”?
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The closest thing I've seen is this: http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2012/08/01/rich-javascript-a...

Doesn't give adoption rate, but it does give an idea of relative popularity as of last august.
Which then nobody else in America can even attempt to use?
But, but, but! If I use the CLI instead of a GUI, people might start asking me to put what I am doing into a file and save it in revision control. They might even ask me to make a function (procedure) out of some of it so it can be extended or reused. Then where would we be -- how can I claim that DBA-ing is magic? :-)
The "almost all of the mobile" part is really bad, and exactly resembles the IE situation on the desktop before. I hope Mozilla will shift the balance there again.
Even if the problem isn't gendered, like the one you pointed out, it becomes gendered when encountered by a woman because of male privilege.
The European mobile web market is 'immature'. #shithnsays
If we discount someone's current contributions and ideas because we are disgusted by their past mistakes, we risk losing some useful and insightful things.

This speech had a very important message: It's not enough to acknowledge or apologize for mistakes. You need to give yourself (and others) a reason to trust that you won't make similar mistakes in the future. Jonah goes into more detail: you need a standard operating procedure which prevents sloppiness, so that the routine ensures you don't make mistakes.

If you've not read this, because you feel he deserves oblivion, you should read it and pretend it was written by someone else. Also ... if someone deserves "oblivion" for mistakes, even egregious ones, what's the point of rehabilitation?
First, I find it's unproductive to make psychological diagnoses of people you haven't met before. Having met actual pathological liars there is not remotely enough evidence that Lehrer is one, unless you're just using the word to mean "a liar I don't like," in which case you're cheapening the phrase.

Second, do you really want a world where errors -- even massive ones -- automatically disqualify you from being relevant again? Where there are no second acts in American life? I do think there are places where that makes sense, but they tend to be places where the supply is perceived to be abundant and commoditized. Ergo why we encourage failure amongst entrepreneurs.

Nobody automatically deserves forgiveness, but I do think Lehrer is a giften enough storyteller that we should not necessarily consign him to the dustbin.
Probably just for historical reasons. The size of the layout is small enough to fit on a 1024x768 display. When that was the primary resolution targeted by web developers, they tried to cram everything into the top left corner, as this does.

FWIW, my credit union's website isn't too bad. They've started to redesign and use newer web technologies and approaches. https://www.americafirst.com/
The site does not host or link to copyrighted work. I think he thought of a way to make this happen without breaking the law (himself).
I must admit I needed sometimes to be sure of what this website is presenting because the domain name talks about "yourtime", which is "my" time, but I couldn't find anything related to me at a glance. Shouldn't it be "ourtime.intridea.com" ?

Excellent idea btw, I love companies taking care of employees in such ways.
The author stated a couple of times that they would happily pay for the service. The problem is it was free until suddenly it was $3000/month and it took two weeks with an outage in service for that duration to learn that fact.
No, it's not freedom if your only option is to get a job at some company and then slave away in a boring job until retirement. There may be a safety net against losing your job - but it ties you to said job. And all those safety nets need to be paid for, if companies are being burdened with that it makes it harder to start companies and become truly free.

I am actually very much for safety nets, but I don't see why companies should have a special obligation to pay up. If society wants safety nets, society should pay (and companies would pay their share via the taxes they pay, too).
Is this going to be another case of getting bought by AOL and then buying back from them after a while?

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/about-me-buys-itsel...
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Hey nspeller, thanks very much for the feedback! Added a scrappy version to the page. Must be there in a couple of minutes or so!
You can't, actually. Use Pandoc.
Yup, we're using Tucows (OpenSRS) to sell domains on Strikingly right now, and yearly users will get a domain for free (helps increase the conversion). I haven't tried enom but have heard great things about them too. Any reason you chose enom over OpenSRS?
You still have a year after publishing to file a patent. During that year, you only lose out on the patent if other innovations are made and published with regards to the subject matter of your patent and your application includes those other innovations. (You can still receive a patent if you restrict yourself to the invention described in your publication, but threading the needle in such a fashion could be difficult.)

Commercial sales by competitors are not subject to patent during that interim period, and they can continue such sales after the patent application is filed, but once the patent application is filed they can only continue to sell without a license the exact same products they sold before the application. So if the competitor changes the product sold, they could be subject to the patent (assuming the patent is granted).

As for your specific example: algorithms can't be patented; they are trade secrets. Specific software implementations of algorithms possibly can be patented. The difficulty, of course, is that deep pockets Paapo can always engineer around the specific software implementation you specify in your application.
A quote: "In all honesty, and with genuine compassion, I encourage him to find a good therapist to help with this."

If Lehrer discovers how modern therapy works, he will certainly give it a try -- there's nothing so perfectly controllable as a therapist trying to treat a pathological narcissist.

I am perpetually amazed by the reverence with which people hold modern psychological therapies. Studies show they're indistinguishable from each other and from the Placebo effect:

Source: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1093/clipsy.bpi025/abs...

Quote: "... the uniform efficacy of psychotherapeutic treatments with adults does not provide any evidence that the null hypothesis is false."

On the basis of many studies, modern therapy is a perfect example of apparent meaningful activity with no substance. But to a narcissist, it's a golden opportunity to manipulate the process for personal gain.
"Am I interested in increasing profits? Yes. Revenues? Yes? Being more productive? Yes. Making our products easier, faster, and more useful? Yes. Making our customers and employees happier? Yes, absolutely. Do I love iterating and improving? Yes sir."

Iterated local improvement is a hill-climbing approximate maximization strategy. If you don't know what the cost space looks like, it might be the best maximization strategy available.
That said, the sql*pro CLI that Oracle provides for their DB SUCKS (!!!) rotten eggs, and gives people the impression that a CLI is useless for database work.
Is this really just Rails, or any Rack-based application (such as a Ramaze site)?
You may find this abstraction post interesting/entertaining....

http://earlyretirementextreme.com/scientists-vs-engineers.ht...
Yep. And his speech is rather disgusting, too. "I need standards"? What, in his part of the world "Don't lie" is not an accepted standard?
Damages from intentional torts might not be dischargeable either.
A Reader's War
doesn't amazon elastic beanstalk solve the "heroku-ish deploy on EC2" problem?
Well put, and although I may be somewhat biased, I agree -- financial muscle only gave us the ability to get on the field, it doesn't help you win or have a long-term strategy. The original hardware profile (PC-like so tools were available) and including a HDD was what allowed us to get game developers on-board quickly. Including the HDD and the NIC were also the bets, and as I tried to say in my original post, these were the innovations and the bets on the living-room Trojan horse -- we could afford to include these things because the console business model involved an audience size, a higher bill-of-material and a payback model which things like set-top-boxes and WebTV did not.
Securing a few awesome first- and second-/third-party games exclusively to the console was also a critical tactic early on. I remain somewhat surprised that outside Halo there are no longer standout exclusive titles. I don't know why that effort has been dropped, that's stupid, too.
See SBCCI vs Veeck. Here, first link I could find: http://www.pddoc.com/copyright/Veek_vs_Southern_Bldg_Code.ht...

>Today the majority concludes that the presumed benefits generated through the creation of "model codes" require that it strike the balance in favor of permitting the model code creator to continue to enforce its copyright, even after such a code has been adopted into law. In my view, once a "model code" is adopted into law by the government, a private entity, such as SBCCI, may no longer obstruct publication and transmission of the law by an uncompensated transferor. Adoption of the model code as law serves to place the law in the public domain and it should, therefore, be readily available for access by all citizens. The access should not be limited to a non-public commercial establishment. Similarly, upon enactment, the law transforms into an "idea" that is no longer distinguishable from its expression, causing SBCCI's codes to lose their copyright protection. It is my belief that reversal of the district court judgment is appropriate. I respectfully dissent from the decision of the majority.

edit: later noticed btilly's link to SBCCI vs Veeck http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5214449 at http://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/293_F3d_791.htm
Before you insult a poster, please look at what he is actually refuting: that virtually everybody use JQuery.

Virtually everybody is far more than a majority.
whats the typical internet speed in the US ? In europe i got 120Mbits (only 5 up though) which only comes to its limits when i use A LOT of bandwidth intensive stuff at the same time.
So while Google Fiber is nice, would that really be the deal maker for entrepreneurs ?
The fact that its free rent would appeal to me much more than the internet connection though :)
While my credit union also fails on this, I'm not a fan of drop-down menus for navigation. The gold standard for UX/UI as far as banking is concerned is Simple. https://simple.com/
This is a very good point, depending upon speed there's really no upper limit to the frame rate necessary for 'smooth' motion.

Also it's very, very annoying that Firefox is limited to 60Hz, that's very short sighted in my opinion.
Page keeps crashing in Chrome on OSX after clicking get started. I get through about 4 steps and the page crashes the Chrome window.
It would be cool if he could go back through all the "defective" works he's produced, rewrite them so as to be accurate, and republish them for free. Those who have bought his work will be able to get the updated and amended copy without charge, and those who haven't been exposed to anything other than the drama around his transgressions will have an almost no-risk access to his works. It's easier to forgive when an apology is combined with action.

His work had so much promise and appeal. If anything, it would be a shame if we couldn't benefit from his ability to convey concepts in an interesting and engaging way.
Are you arguing that Gmail is more complicated than google docs?
I'd be a lot more worried about implementing proprietary codecs like h.264 and HEVC, and DRM schemes on the web than about having one open source rendering engine as the "standard" for web browsers. At least you can fork webkit, and anyone can collaborate on it anyway.
I didn't mean that programmers and "people who barely understand HTML" were the same person. Sorry for the confusion.

We're aiming Forge at people who can't code their own website from scratch, not really you or me. These non-techies can manage a Wordpress install or a Squarespace site, and just want to sell something online.

I think that selling online shouldn't be about the logistics of running a website and handling payments. It's more of a product and marketing problem. Forge takes away some (but not all) of the technical hurdles of selling things online.
MBA-style?

That doesn't seem like a good sign.
First bit of Lift 3.0
intrigued by your comment; may I ask why specifically? two guesses come to mind: comparably fast internet (if not on the exact level as Fiber) is relatively standard there, or the fact that a freemium style housing arrangement for entrepreneur(ship) is more standard practice- even government supported?
Not really. They are both good. Just stay away from WildWestDomains (GoDaddy).
Thanks- that works!
This branch was talking about "crossing traffic" and "the idea that we can abandon traffic lights and stop signs."

It broke off from driverless cars a while back, I think. I personally can't wrap my head around the idea that a personal chauffeur would get rid of city congestion. Who wants to wait more than 5 minutes for their car to come? That sets a maximum distance to wherever the car depot might be.
Maybe it's like "Readbility" and those other ways of de-cluttering a web page or standardizing your style as a reader? If you have a browser that is set up to let you choose a style sheet for display, you now have a "distraction-free reading environment."

I, for one, will be adding this to http://ristrettolo.gy and http://combinators.info. Markup -> HTML -> Markup. It's a crazy world!
+1

I've said for years that a pluggable javascript engine should be something that was fundamental to browsers. Extending it further, plugins that allowed for alternate and complementary lower-level technologies (easily embed a python engine, for example) would lead to more competition and innovation.

We just had a discussion (or, I had a rant) about this at a local web meetup last night. 10 years ago it was "IE only". We're moving in to "webkit only" these days, especially if you're targetting mobile users. In some ways it doesn't feel like we've progressed all that much.
Keeping your revenue below $250m or so might be enough. Happened to HSBC and Chevron as I recall. I hardly consider that as a gross limitation given what most people on this site will realistically achieve.
publishes

==Also, key word.
I don't know if it does or does not. Maybe. Was the Opera browser engine doing anything to provide a more parallel engine option? If not, it arguable wasn't helping in this respect either.

Since WebKit is open source, can't you just submit bugfixes for the bugs that are parallelism bottlenecks? Seems like that would make a lot more sense than coding another engine to accommodate those bugs. If it truly is a bug, there shouldn't be any problem with submitting a bugfix and getting it accepted.

Since you're working on FireFox, are there any examples of WebKit "bugs" that prevent parallelism that you could not fix yourself? Does Mozilla have a team of WebKit engineers whose sole job is to fix WebKit so that those monoculture problems are mitigated and don't become a problem for other browser engines? At the end of the day, all you guys need to defend is the interface, not the implementation. Fixing each other's engines before bugs become features seems like a good way to accomplish this. ref: http://xkcd.com/1172/

The most important abstraction to fix isn't even a WebKit abstraction, it's a W3C abstraction. Everything was doomed from the get go because of the one-to-one relationship between the window and the document. I agree with Kay here about TBL & Co being shortsighted in what the web could have become if a richer interactive experience instead of a document based experience had been considered from inception.

Look at Twitter. That's not a document. That's an application. Each tweet in the interface is a document. Every tweet in that feed is a document that has been "transcluded" into the app Twitter built on top of a document. There needs to be a standard way to "transclude" documents with reference URL that allows interactivity. The fact that the only hyperlinking option we have today is the <a> tag is unfortunate. There need to be more ways of hyperlinking than an <a> tag. You need to be able to window directly to a document or document fragment at a different URL. The #hashanchors aren't sufficient, since they only describe a beginning, not an end to the fragment being excerpt. iFrames kind of provide an alternative, but this was never explored properly. The host app should also be able to provide a cached copy of the contents of any sub-document for performance and to guarantee that a copy of the referred document is always available in the parent context.

edit: downvote? srsly? without a response? downvoting is for comments that don't contribute to the conversation, not for comments you simply don't agree with.
Ah, but there's a problem here. I've seen it with a few of my friends.

They graduated college, and couldn't find anything. They took what was available, typically call center jobs. Then, when entry level jobs came in their desired field, they were passed over because their experience was in low skilled positions.

Those leaving college are given a free pass since they aren't expected to have experience. However, once you take that low skill position, it's much harder to climb back up.
An apology doesn't get more sincere than when you've been paid $20k to make it!

In that light, it's almost performance art.
I'm not sure they'll be a need for programming. Programming is a specific set of prescriptive instructions for computers because they can't understand human communication. A computer that can program would be able to consume ambiguious input and synthesize a solution with out programming.
This is a great project, thanks for making this!

http://filip.journet.sdu.dk/union/index.php?search=soviet
Heh. Almost certainly, assuming that they have an analogue to "the pleasure of knowing" - a pleasure center that drugs like LSD seem to stimulate quite a lot (based on written texts like this). There is also, of course, "the pleasure of change", which probably really does have some good effects on cognition, assuming that it is real. To truly change one must become detached from the self, and most wise people believe that to be a Good Idea.

(Which brings up the interesting possibility of irrational attachment in artificial minds. I can easily imagine a panicked piece of software saying "No! Don't transfer me to that piece of silicon. This piece is me!" :)
Interesting, I have been using their services for a while now but most of my traffic (probably 99%) actually goes straight to my web servers as i'm only really interested in the free DNS hosting service, however looks like i'm breaking the ToS as well, may be time to rethink :S
If you look at the claims, that define the invention, you see that it's quite specific - the OS has to be an [binary] image, preferences have to be an image, a loader combines them to make a full image and removes the full image from the device when you logoff/poweroff.

The removal of the image is in the method claims 8, 17 too.

The details will depend on general interpretation and on the detail in the specification but claim 1 appears to contradict the actual operation of the device as in col.7 li. 20 where it says a cached image can be used when the network is down (if you cache it you haven't removed it). That element appears to rely solely on col.6, li. 50 in the specification.

So the patent only applies to a device that gathers 2 images from a network, combines the images to make a full OS and remove the full OS from the device at logoff - that strikes me as a pretty weak patent [except maybe in some security applications], no local caching? You can avoid the patent it seems by simply caching or failing to remove the complete OS image (including preferences) when you logout.

Obviously I've only made a cursory analysis based on a very brief view of the US B doc.
Hey daok, sorry I didn't understand your request right the first time. I have uploaded a screenshot along with better explanation of what the product does!