skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.weightgrapher.com/about Shows an example of the graphs and explanation of the site.

Things not shown: side bar of that page displays your weight, weight this day last week, last month, and a prediction of where you will be one month from now assuming linear extrapolation of weight shifting. Settings pages allow you to import data from LoseIT, link with a FitBit account, etc.
I'm not sure this problem is solvable. The capitalistic response to Google I/O tickets selling out is to increase the price until they don't. But that would be a PR distaster for Google and likely be contrary to what they actually want for their event.

A lottery, maybe?
"Rational self-interest" does not include violating individual rights.

If an employer wants to hire someone outside of the U.S., that is his decision, not yours or anyone else's.
odesk.com and elance.com
You are right that there is a danger in the fact that the object being passed into the AOP advices can be changed.

Usually, I'm avoiding this kind of situations. It can be terrible to debug.

In our teams, we have a rule that the calls to Before/After/Around can only happen in the Glue code.

Obviously, we also make sure that everyone involved is familiar with AOP and knows what is the architecture.

As for the use cases for AOP, I know it's not a common practice to use it. Orthogonal concerns are the best fits, but not the only ones.

There was an interesting research project at IBM, called Hyper/J. It was a little bit of inspiration for the AOP usage in the hexagonal.js architecture.

Here is a good paper on Hyper/J (and the idea of Multi-Dimensional Separation of Concerns)

http://helios.mm.di.uoa.gr/~anya/pms521_papers/p734-ossher.p...

Thanks for your comment, it was very valuable.
Google has a pretty good reputation for tough filters and still, questions at the Fizzbuzz level are enough to blow many or most candidates away. If you're not asking anything like it, you'd be amazed at how many otherwise intelligent-sounding candidates just. cannot. program. at. all.
I should note that the inspiration for a graph that uses exponentially damped averages to smooth away daily fluctuations was http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/. This site gives an automated way to get that information into a pretty picture with minimal work. Hopefully it will get more people to take advantage of the idea, without having to first read something aimed at engineers.

(For those who are curious as to how I know this, Kate is a friend of mine, and got the idea to do this after I explained how Hacker's Diet works, and why it works better for men than women. Not that I deserve any credit here - my contribution amounts to heckling from the side lines as Kate came up with the ideas and did all of the work.)
"Better" really depends on your opinion of what's going on. The problem with someone stuck behind a camera isn't the camera, it's the act and result of sticking yourself behind it: Making that easier and less apparently-intrusive doesn't take away the problem, it means people will be doing exactly the same thing (probably more people, since it'll be more convenient) and you'll still have the same reduced fraction of their attention, you just might not realize it right away.

At best they'll have to fidget with the device less and might be marginally less distracted, but this is still just making the problem easier to cause. You're happy to have all the media in the world at your fingertips, and that's understandable; however, now everyone can have all that media right in front of them, between them and you, very easily.

Maybe I'm just very short-sighted (I do have an awful prescription, har har), but I see absolutely no way this could do anything except make the problem you describe worse.
Is there a Plex client for Android?

I use AirVideo on iOS and it is flawless, but would like to find something similar for Android.
In the OP's defense, most people who like tofu will try to prove to you that it is superior. :)
Do you mean this link? http://nbergus.com/2012/02/how-i-became-amazons-pitchman-for...
The author of that blog post linearly extrapolated his wait time. Instead of whining, perhaps they should read what's actually happening here: http://www.mailboxapp.com/reservations/?p=1#how-were-rolling...
How Does a Social Log In Affect eCommerce?
In case you didn't see it, I commented above with a link to a bug.
Oh, and that app they're waiting for? Yeah, it's free.
now with ip address matching: http://www.debuggex.com/?re=%28%5E%5B-%21%23%24%25%26%27%2A%...
The site leaves some unanswered questions in the minds of users that might consider using it.

If this is a free service, how do you plan to subsidize it if it becomes popular? Will your personal data remain private? Might the site stop working at some point without warning? Will you lose your data that you've entered?

Does the site work with other sites where you've tracked your weight, like MyFitnessPal, Nike+, Calorie Count, etc, at least for the purposes of importing data?

Will there be a community element of any kind for supporting each other? Will the site let you connect to other site APIs and export your weight if you log it and track it here?
Agree. I have enormous social anxiety that completely wipes out my thought process... But give me a project to do with a due date (ex a school project due in 2 days) and the stress from that actually motivates me to get it done and does not mash my brain up like the stress of being in a social situation like a interview.
Yes! Crazy story.
I think all your points are incredibly valid. But what WOULD you recommend?
Well, there are a number of areas for potential improvement. I know that the absolute number of tickets sold isn't really going to change, and the price isn't something a startup could fix. I was more thinking about qualities like server load, customer fairness, etc. Google Play went down when the Nexus 4 launched, gave incorrect information to customers, spat out ridiculous errors, etc. And it seems there is no end to the complaints about the lack of notification or timing for very qualified and excited people to purchase tickets to I/O. A method of holding tickets until the purchaser demonstration of value, for example. Or something. I don't know.
It's like Facebook.
They'll might have worked out a way of making money with the app by the time the author gets to see his inbox. I won't hold my breath though.
Take 30 secs to complete a fill-in-a-blank sentence to find your next job
Yes and it's really good. 599 but totally worth it. Also works as a remote for the HTPC client.
Thanks for the feedback! Some of the bigger VC firms have been starting to provide more services to their portfolio companies to add value and help them grow. Madrona also recently hired a wonderful PR person.
I am a big fan of Put.io. This seems like a contender to replace it, although there is a long way to go. One of the wonderful things about Put.io is that it is so versatile. I use their Boxee app, Android App, iPad app, as well as the web version regularly. That's a lot of work to replicate.
What's needed is a single day of coordinated action. Where all scientists and researchers move to free publications in one big move.
Which likes is it supposed to show? It only showed 24 likes for me and I'm aware of many more things that I've liked that weren't shown there.

Edit: If you go here http://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/ and add 'likes' to the FQL query, you can see many more via the API.
I think you are missing lower case letters in your character sets.

Besides that, apologies for it stretching sideways and making you scroll. Will be fixed in a future release!
One way to solve it is to make people pass a quick programming test before they can buy a ticket
Ask HN: Is Facebook latest ios update working wierd for anyone?
I did the latest ios update of facebook. It booted properly for the first time after the update, saw the new button images. But subsequent tries opening the app just displays a white screen with the blue line on the top and it quits after sometime. Tried closing the entire app and booting it again. The problem still persists on my 4S. Has anyone encountered the same problem?
I don't know where this gif comes from but I have this source: http://ec.europa.eu/budget/figures/2011/2011_en.cfm
So in terms of "Total 'national contributions'":
DE: 21 189.9
FR: 19 075.6
IT: 14 517.6
UK: 12 918.3

It was published the 20/09/2012.
The chances are zero. There is no way for the government to retroactively change the terms and conditions of contracts and grants that were executed long ago.
Yes, there's an android and iOS app as well as a roku app. The Plex Media Server works on windows, mac, and linux.
Keep in mind that it doesn't support flags yet, which is why it wouldn't work out-of-the-box.
That's true. The way we look at it is that it's a one-time hit that you take initially versus always having to keep a computer on at home for streaming using your home connection; we also let you transfer in files through other means, so if you already have some content stored online, you can easily transfer it in.
Job Posting Fail
Right.

I get more of the sense that Google is more "impressive" than "cool".

If I were to use "Google's got it in production" I might be told something like "well they can pull this off" as if they have some unattainable smarts or something.

Whereas a "cool" thing is more about just simply taking a risk.

Come to think of it, that's kind of a funny definition. Oh well.
This is a good question - I dont think I have a good answer. I lean towards not implementing a check or stop your use. Maybe a monthly reminder for one / two months saying you have not paid. After that I would just assume that the user has stopped using my editor.
You make a good point. The question is how much of an overlap is there? Is there value in adding a component of raw intelligence to the question (say, applying a data structure in a unique and non-obvious way)? It is reasonable to expect that the act of programming fluently entails a sufficient level of IQ such that there is nothing more to be learned from attempting to craft a question that tests intelligence directly?

Two bits of information could potentially answer this: does intelligence as a predictor of future job success drop off past a certain level? Also, what does the distribution of IQ look like for those who are fluent coders?
I like having access to mathematical semantics, simple algebraic rules, and all the other things you mentioned but combining these features with a non-homoiconic syntax spoils the whole thing for me.

> Not only is the community particularly nice and welcoming, it's also special in not being afraid of a bit of math.

The Lisp community has never been afraid of math. John McCarthy had a PHD in mathematics and the earliest computer algebra systems were developed in Lisp. The Macysma computer algebra system (now developed as Maxima) predates Haskell by decades.

> Haskell has an incredible but also surprisingly simple type system. You can't just ignore that. There is nothing in lisp--not even typed Racket--that even comes close to Haskell's type system.

The most important thing for me is having the ability to describe cardinality (especially in terms of machine bits such as 2^8, 2^16, etc) and enumerations (like the ASCII character encoding). What aspect of Haskells type system is that Lisps need to "come close to"?
Maybe an extreme case. I've known a developer who kept marketing his work non-stop to everyone and the fact that he worked/works for Google.
I'm not convinced that the negative opinions are valid in this case. The petitions are an imperfect and newly implemented system, but the denunciations of them are sweeping, final, and tend to substitute speculation for fact when it comes to discussing the intent of the system architects. Most of the time, comments like the grandparent are little more than a reiteration of the poster's personal outlook.
When I was trained as an interviewer at Microsoft (circa 2006), they explicitly warned people against asking questions like that (and had been doing so for some time). There may be older employees who stubbornly persist, though.

I should add that my personal experience contrasts with yours - I did a lot of interviews around 2004 and got asked riddle-type questions by one, maybe two, people. My memory is that they mostly died with the original dot-com boom.
I personally think that "I would go out and research the problem" is the best answer. Introspection about response to feeling sounds like a huge waste of time and something best suited for people's psychiatrist.
The White House doesn't have control over research funded entirely by state taxpayers.
Unfortunate, looks like I won't be going this year like I planned. It's overlapping with BlackBerry Live, that goes from May 14-16 in Orlando. Would've liked to have gone to both, since I love both platforms. Looks like I'll just have to catch the Web casts again.
Pinterest secures $200m in new funding round, now valued at $2.5bn
Ah! Thank you for the gloves vs mittens tip. I have always found gloves futile, they never warm my hands. I will try mittens next winter.
Can someone who has been explain the value of attending?
If they don't want demand to be insane, maybe they should stop giving away so much hardware.

2012 free hardware:
Samsung Galaxy Nexus ($300?),
Asus Nexus 7 ($200),
Nexus Q ($300),
Samsung Chromebox ($330)

That's for a ticket price of $900.
Most eye-opening thing about programmer interviewing I've read: https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/five-essential-pho...

I probe for weakness in 5-6 different areas of computer science in the phone screen - keeps me from bringing in weak candidates.

Then in the on-site, I give them my Macbook and ask them to solve a few simple problems with some flat files I conjured in a language of their choice that's installed on that machine (C/C++/Java/Python/Ruby/PHP/Perl/shell/etc). You get an idea of how they solve problems, think about solutions, fix bugs, avoid common errors, and what they look up on the web (I let them use a browser to lookup apis and so forth - it's a good way to weed out "cut and paste" programmers). The people who do well finish quickly and we chat about the company with the remaining time - the people who do poorly use almost all the time on the first problem, make a bunch of mistakes, and usually don't understand the proper data structure for the job.
Heck, in Brazil your baby isn't safe even if you are keeping it in your womb !

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mother-reunited-with-ba...
Many companies are terrified of being sued for firing and will resort to passive-aggressive behavior instead. Most stuff like this is settled out of court so I don't know what the real odds and risks are but anecdotally I've been in a few orgs that weren't shy about firing at all, and didn't suffer for it.
Yahoo CEO Mayer Now Requiring Employees to Not Be Remote
I have not been. But I would expect a very large part of the value to be in networking - being surrounded by top industry experts, market leaders, etc will go a long way.
This reminds me of a funny behavior I noticed when I visited Iceland - parents would simply leave their kids outside in a pram when they went into a cafe or a restaurant. Struck me as something you would never see in the States but I guess other places just have higher levels of trust.

Here's a blog with a little info on the practice:
http://reykjavikdailyphoto.blogspot.com/2008/10/could-not-be...
I can't believe this article made it to Tech Crunch. Talk about lacking substance?
QUESTION: How has Tetris helped you in your life? http://ow.ly/i/1yZ8P
QUESTION: How has Tetris helped you in your life? http://ow.ly/i/1yZ8P
Those are some great points:

The service is free and all functionality that's currently in it will remain free. I plan to subsidize it through affiliate advertising. Currently the links to the Aria scale are aff links that give me 12% of the sale. I prefer unobtrusive methods such as that, and more so it's a product I use and recommend. I wrote a site around getting the data from it.

The first version supports importing weight data from LoseIT (only premium members of their site can export data), and FitBit (all users work through a pubsub channel and forced syncing if you're into that). MyFitnessPal, and Withings' Scale are both on my todo list.

A community element will be added eventually with forums/friends, but it hasn't been a priority for this initial version. Exporting data also wasn't a priority at this stage, but will become one when people actually want to export data.
The west (particularly the US, Germany isn't quite as stupid) has been playing innocent globalist at the ongoing mercantilist game table for 30 years. Western multinationals got labor and environmental arbitrage, Asia got the middle class jobs. And here we are.

But, yeah, sure, western mercantilism is the problem...
.... and facebook banned it.

Login is dead.
At ex-work, SSL certificates expiring was probably #3 in the list of reasons for services being unavailable. It's a really easy thing to overlook in service monitoring.
Here's the tricky part: they do ask for permission to post on your behalf when you open the app. It's pretty muted, at the bottom of a popup, and dwarfed by a larger, more colorful call to action.

Here's a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/oWDstiC.png

It's also not entirely obvious to me what happens in every case. If I close the popup, does it still count as my giving consent? If I close the app? My guess is that most people skim over the copy and click the big blue button, totally disregarding the checkbox down there.
Then we have a video card destroying virus, and all those options get turned off.
Perfect.

So you capture attention, make sure that's obvious on the landing page: Put a nice big link somewhere "See How it Works!"
Awesome. Thanks substack!
Windows Azure Storage is down world-wide
I agree. People who "pivot" every few months don't give enough time to figure out whether or not the idea will work. Sometimes the path to success is just to keep going, not to change direction.
this is how we do!
I am using Chrome, but should I see something different? The screen tells me:

"Not seeing anything? Try switching to Chrome."

Is it static text of browser dependent?
In fairness, the fact that it's from Whitehouse.gov pretty much tells you it's the official response. I don't disagree with your complaint though.
Yesss! As expected, there is only one like on mine: "Saying 'hella'."
I thought this was a repost of the same story from last February related to expired certs:

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/azure_outage/

I'm pretty tolerant of mistakes (I make them all the time), but I have little patience for repeating mistakes.
First, they introduced "productivity maximization protocol";

Then they added robots to do some of the work;

Then we all lost our jobs to robots;

...

Then we realize, living on publicly provided food and housing is actually not that bad!
Does anyone know if the visual component can be setup on the left side? I'm blind in my right eye and the product would be almost useless for me otherwise.
Indeed, our brainpower is finite. We have dramatically increased the amount of data available to our brains, but not our brain's ability to process it. I believe that cellphones, Google glass, and other "augmented reality" systems are all just stepping stones on the path to a direct neural link to cyberspace. Hopefully, by the time we reach that end, we have the ability to boost our brainpower so that the new surge of information does not diminish all our other senses.

At present, too many people equate "having literature on your cellphone" with "understanding that literature." For certain types of information (e.g. manuals, data tables) having a searchable format is almost as useful as already knowing the contents. Having a searchable copy of Hamlet, however, is not nearly the same thing as having read it. When the day comes that I can have a ethernet port in my head, and downloading a text file of Hamlet is virtually the same as having read it with my eyes, I will gladly sign up. But until then, looking around at all the people with various headsets, phones, and now Google glasses, I will chuckle to myself, because all I see are glassholes missing out on the world around them.
Javascript particle effects
I am looking to do a hardware startup right now. But I do software stuff so mainly just meeting people that may be interested in the idea and then hopefully soon put together a prototype!
I'm torn, but I'll try page 45.

Other people should play this game so I can read the other pages, just like I always used to do when these books came out!
Big Kudos to KCITP doing this for KC!
Proposed reverse engineering Q&A site
I've written a moderate amount of OCaml and some Go.

While I agree that the former is a nice language, it doesn't compare favorably to Go as a development suite: the standard library is terribly designed, and the package management is rather poor compared to Go's (which is about as great as it gets).

Now there is "OCaml Batteries Included" which is supposed to mitigate that, but it appeared after I stopped actively using OCaml so I can't comment on that (incidentally, I dislike many of their choices).

Also Go has many of the features that make programming in ML a pleasure, many languages these days have them, which is a good thing.

Personally my tool of choice for many tasks would be OCaml with Go's package management system, and perhaps a syntax closer to M-expressions (like Mathematica).
The Next SourceForge
SF already has a dedicated police dispatcher watching twitter for news of crime.
I have no interest in marketing. I have no where near enough time to develop things, let alone market them. Not to mention, I'm a terrible salesman. To me, it's not about "How much can I trick someone into paying for this?" but "Meh, how much is it worth I guess?". Also, I'm way too honest about what something does, and tend to forget (or take for granted) the things that I assume it should do (and as such, forget to market those things).
that's static text; I'll update it to not show on chrome

everything else showing alright?
Facebook to Partner With Acxiom, Epsilon to Match Store Purchases With Users
CAPTCHA: FizzBuzz edition.
Free market immigration is neither open borders (forced integration) nor closed ones (forced segregation). Social security impact of immigration falls under forced integration.

I can't say it better than Hans Herman Hoppe: "First, with the establishment of a state and territorially defined state borders, “immigration” takes on an entirely new meaning. In a natural order, immigration is a person’s migration from one neighborhood-community into a different one (micro-migration). In contrast, under statist conditions immigration is immigration by “foreigners” from across state borders, and the decision whom to exclude or include, and under what conditions, rests not with a multitude of independent private property owners or neighborhoods of owners but with a single central (and centralizing) state-government as the ultimate sovereign of all domestic residents and their properties (macro-migration). If a domestic resident-owner invites a person and arranges for his access onto the resident-owner’s property but the government excludes this person from the state territory, it is a case of forced exclusion (a phenomenon that does not exist in a natural order). On the other hand, if the government admits a person while there is no domestic resident-owner who has invited this person onto his property, it is a case of forced integration (also non-existent in a natural order, where all movement is invited)."
I wonder what the odds are for a free Pixel this year.
That's not accurate, they could grant themselves a license to the copyright under eminent domain.
Yahoo! proving it still does not get it?

Or perhaps finding ways of shedding employees without actual layoffs?
Bank accounts or credit card numbers?
And how wonderful that will be.