skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It took me a few paragraphs to gather that, but this just means it was really well done. I appreciated the "PS" components especially. I think they made the parody aspect most clear (other than the pop culture references).
equivalence of the efficiacy of TDD with the efficiacy of surgeons washing hands

It's a metaphor, and as such, it's imperfect. Let's give people the benefit of the doubt in their ability to understand that.
Since the selected text is sent to Google in plain text via a regular HTTP connection, you shouldn't use it on confidential data.
It's becaused they misused the DMCA to force removal of content that, while inspired by them, they actually don't own the copyright of. Vis., they are using the DMCA illegally to remove legal content.
This would be much easier to do if they had included any specifics in the DMCA notice itself or in their public statements since then. Part of the de rigueur reaction is because DMCA actions often lack this kind of evidence.
Agreed. I was only saying that mosts tests are written to codify what is expected not that they should not be changed with changing code.
Reminds me vaguely of http://arv.github.com/jelly/.
The NRF index[1], which measures the nutrient density of a food.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20368382
You have used path to draw the boxes instead of drawRect() function. Is there any particular reason/advantage behind that?
Jelly No Puzzle
I don't think it's a copyright issue, but between the colors, illustrations (some of which almost match exactly), and the appearance of the widgets, you could make a very strong case for trademark/trade dress violation.
Reading this made me a little sad. My remedy was to immediately go give it an honest 5-star rating and real review. I need to go do this for a lot more apps I love.
It is obvious you take exception to the GPs quotes but you've not done a very good job of explaining why.

Do you believe the quoted statements from the GP are false?

Or do you not care if they are true, and rather believe that that kind of advice is always wrong?
You have secrets; we don’t. Why our data format is public
I’m a Google Glass skeptic and think it’ll be the next Apple Newton
Give me a break. One single misguided DMCA notice does not make one a copyright troll.
They just bought Caltech's president.
You can sort of do the same thing in just CSS by adding two small boxes as :after and :before pseudo elements.

See: http://i.imgur.com/aSnjEYx.png Not perfect, but pretty close.

Relevant SASS:

$boxSize:30px

&:hover:after, &:hover:before
content: " "
display: block
position: absolute
top: 50%
right: -$boxSize
height: $boxSize
width: $boxSize
background-color: transparent
z-index: 1000

&:hover:before
right: auto
left: -$boxSize
"Substantial non-infringing uses" is the standard the court set for things which could subject you to "secondary liability" for acts of infringement. The tools are legally separate concepts (which is why the DMCA codified them), and the first amendment traditionally prevents the government from criminalizing speech which could assist others in breaking the law.

I didn't waive my copyright just because I released circumvention tools for my own DRM scheme.
What, exactly, does the picture of a woman in a swimsuit have to do with load balancing?
Very neat how this game is presented. But I played this game years ago. Back when it was still called '3D Logic' http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=17727
Anyone can provide a mirror ?
I wonder why there aren't more cheap R&D contests like those. It seems like a fun way to get outside ideas and can result in some really nice inventions.
Hm, so why make a unique game after all? Just make a crap one and buy the reviews.

1. write crap game.
2. buy reviews.
3. profit.
I've frequently heard the story of people being asked to slow down because they make their colleagues look bad. Also the premise of the movie "Hot Fuzz" :-)
Vooza's Coding Methodology
Let's add some google colors in this comparison http://cl.ly/NO8C
What's kind of ridiculous is that LayerVault took a lot of inspiration (I repeat, A LOT) from Hacker News with regards to the design of their discussion site. From the URL, the minimalism, and the link design. Heck, even the name is copied -- Designer News? Really?

I guess pg should send a DMCA takedown notice to them, then.
You're using a very weird definition of the word "copy." They are similar in that they depict a similar object from the same angle using a "flat" artistic style, but nobody is going to look at them side by side and mistake one for the other for even a second. This seems a bit like saying the iPhone is a copy of a slice of bread because they are both rectangular with few surface features. If you were asked to copy something in a drawing class and gave such an unrecognizable result, you'd likely get an F for failing to follow the instructions.
If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room

+1. True power lies holding the keys to ulocking the smarts all around you.
> Any stories of inadequate examples or meaningless correlations?

A customer's marketing group was tying visitor data to geodemographic data. They put together a database with tons of variables, went searching, and found a multiple regression with a Pearson coefficient of 0.8+, a low p, decided to rewrite personas, and started devising new tactics based on the discovery.

Fortunately, they briefed the CEO and the CEO said that the dimensions in question (I honestly don't remember what they were) didn't make intuitive sense, and demanded more details before supporting such a major shift in tactics. More research was done, and this time somebody remembered that this was a product where the customers aren't the users, so they need to be treated separately. And it turned out the original analysis (done without fancy analytics) was very close to correct.

If the CEO hadn't been engaged during that meeting, they would've thrown away good tactics on a simple mistake. The regression was "reliable" by most statistical measures, but it was noise.

A similar example holds for validity, where I saw a team make wonderfully accurate promotion response models, but they only measured to the first "conversion" instead of measuring LTV. And after several months of the new campaign, it turned out that the new customers had much higher churn, so they weren't nearly as valuable as the original customers.

> Care to elaborate how how to be more sure of reliability and validity?

I'm not a statistician or an actuary. I'm a guy who took four stat classes during undergrad. I know just enough to know that I don't know that much.

Disclaimer aside: my biggest rules of thumb are to make sure that you're measuring the thing you want to measure (not a substitute), to make sure the statistical methods you're using are appropriate for the data you're collecting, and to make sure you understand the segmentation of your market.
Sure it does. They misused it and it is highly likely they will file another notice for another Flat UI design that in the future, for whatever reason they think, look similar to their design.
She's...balancing?
"like healthy eating and regular exercise everyone knows about it and yet businesses don't do it."

I think that's the meat of the problem—they're well-known and well understood ways to improve organizations, but they're difficult and against our nature. It's not that they're not respected at all, it's that they're largely not implemented, and I perceive that as a real lack of respect.

Let's put it this way: most managers and high-level executives I know of (and even ones I know personally) are very much all about blaming individuals and controlling companies through individual motivation, carrot-and-stick and hiring-and-firing. I think this is also a prevalent way of thinking in the business-school world, with very few schools teaching true statistics- and process-based management in the Deming style.

That is what I mean by lack of respect, and I stand by it: Deming has very little respect in the business world as a whole. His ideas brush up against everything stereotypical American MBA's believe to their core: that the individual is responsible for his own performance, that worker motivation comes from punishment and reward, and that fundamentally, it is individuals that drive success or failure of an organization, regardless of the system they work in.

In my opinion, now just speculating, I think this is deeply embedded in certain American Republican political and social ideologies: this idea that the individual is responsible for his own destiny and his own success, that there should be no safety nets and no dependence on outside influences. For many American executives, I think this is the prevalent way of thinking, and it's self-reinforced among the groups with which they associate. It's also severely at odds with Deming's ideas, and severely at odds with scientific facts (mathematical and social/psychological). But I won't get into that.

The sad part is that it extends to other areas of society as well; any place these ideologies infect the system. No Child Left Behind was fundamentally a way to seek out individual failure cases using pervasive testing and changed the entire system because of it. And it's done the same thing to the education system as it has been doing for quite some time to the corporate world. It sucked the life out of it and made it a social blame game with the wrong incentives, leading to the wrong results.
The clock in question, aside from being an exact copy, was an example of a trademark infringement not copyright infringement. It's very different. In fact trademarks must be defended against infringement or they can be considered void.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark#Maintaining_rights

If he had copied, even in just a similar way, LayerVault's logo to use as an icon (and assuming LV trademarked it) then this discussion would be pretty different.
>interactivity

Actually this is one of the reasons I use noscript. A lot of web site interactivity is completely annoying, so I only turn it on when the site is interesting enough - which is not the case here.
(Frank here, one of the co-founders of CallingVault.)

'Privacy' in the context of our service means two things, but in the comparison to GV, it really means that we'll never scrape your texts or voicemails for ad targeting or use your activity to build a profile of who you are.

It also means – and we share this with GV – that you can keep your personal number private by giving out your CallingVault number instead.
Well what do you expect them to do?

I think they would be batshit insane to do otherwise.
I put together a "getting started with pragmatic test automation" training seminar a few years ago that was based exclusively around real-world examples from my day-to-day life writing real production code. I thought it was good, and got some good feedback.

I'll see if I can dig that up and translate that in a way that's actually useful to an asynchronous audience.
An important part about design is the attention to detail. Missing a fairly easily-caught detail that will be glaringly obvious to his target audience that he missed it isn't showing the proper attention to detail, and it makes it less likely that his target audience is going to use his product.
My dad's was "Bye! Don't be stupid!"

It was endearing, and it stuck.
Many of the levels have been designed so that if you follow the path of least resistance to solve them, you will always be left with one line that wont connect. Thats the true puzzle part of the game, and that's the aspect that makes me think it's difficult to solve without resorting to brute force.
I think it's a matter of knowing how to connect to a community of folks who make things. That's probably why they partnered with Hacker Dojo.
Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2yOSY5y...
Course Syllabi by Famous Authors
Problem is there is still the "genome-clinic" gap.
Thank you for the write-up on this! Like you, that has been a pet-peeve of mine as well.

I wonder if we can get a comment from Amazon or Nycto, on why the search box is not auto-focused though. This seems like such a natural thing to do, and saves your users a mouse move and click every time they come to the site.
Txt cache : http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:2yOSY5y...
If you are looking forward to obtaining an H1B.....The start date for filing new H1-B visa is April 1st, 2013. And normally the quota of 65k is reached very quickly. So you have between now and Apri1 1st to find a sponsor. Reach out to companies to see if they are willing to sponsor a new H1B.
Mainly because those come from Akamai. Facebook would likely be able to add SPDY to their own services, but it's up to Akamai to start doing something on their side.

Don't hold your breath.
This is disturbingly cynical advice. If you stand by it, why not attach your real name to it? If not, why put it in public?

And by the way, you're recommending buying fake reviews. Here's a better tactic (and one that's guaranteed not to get you kicked out of the app store): get your launch announcement to the top slot on a popular discussion site, and get the real people there to leave real reviews instead. Which, if you're reading this and want to help these guys, is probably the best thing you can do.
Angels help: We are bootstrapping on features that are requested by users.
Usability is also a big reason to not wrap giant blocks with an anchor tag. Anchor tags should be text (or an image) that clearly indicates where they are leading the user to. If you're linking all parts of a block to something, there are serious usability implications. Why not just link the title of the article? Or throw a link at the bottom that says "Read more"? You can't say the anchor tag is broken because you're trying to use it for things it's not intended for. That's like me saying my computer is broken because it can't make me a grilled cheese sandwich.
Yeah I can't figure out where thats coming from, I've poured over my site to find it and even resubmitted to google and they don't see that spam when i manually submit. Maybe I should just go with a hosted solution and stop trying to manage wordpress on my own.
That 3D Logic game worked how I expected this one too when I started.

>"it[']s a clone of an old shockwave game" //

Personally it doesn't look close enough to me to be a copyright infringement, game mechanics aren't copyrightable (but are patentable [depending on jurisdiction]). It wouldn't matter if the game had been released yesterday - in copyright terms - you can copy the concept of the game as long as you don't copy (or derive) your implementation.

IMO the 3D Logic version is vastly superior I'd just add a "hold button" to allow the cube to be held still whilst you draw.
I think Wozniak did get under Jobs' skin. Wozniak was never given early access to iPhone or other iDevices afaik. He had to line up to get them like everyone else.
Does this mean I'm not allowed to use Google any more because they're using that colour palette on something that's free...?
I'm outside of US, if any team going to the event, wants a extra hand, I would love to collaborate. I already have a good idea about the external design.

skype: carl.theteuton
Not of the same magnitude then. Mediocrity is the nemesis of good, with the sole mission of undermining it at every turn. The drive for perfection, on the other hand, might sometimes be a foe, but overall facilitates good. It's clear which is a more damaging influence.

Personally, I'll agree with Salvador Dali when he said, "Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
Readingly - social network for articles - got a major facelift
I suggest you try Gamezebo (http://www.gamezebo.com/) - they review many casual games.
I'm actually a big believer in Glass. In my mind getting the average person to use them is actually simpler than it was to get them to use a cell phone. Everybody has sunglasses and they're used to wearing them (even indoors). With phones it was a complete new paradigm. People weren't used to carrying a phone with them and most didn't feel they needed to, and we saw how that went. As for pricing and design, 6 years ago phones were expensive bricks and look how far they've come. I feel the same about wearable computing and glasses especially.
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Can I port an existing number?

Will the I be able to receive from SMS shortcodes?

What if I want more than one number?
Your CallingVault account is linked to your email address, and each account gets one number. If you'd like more than one number, simply sign up with multiple email addresses.

That is less than optimal. Any plans on allowing more than one number per account? Or would I need to juggle multiple emails?

edit: And it looks like a useful feature is scheduled availability but I'm inferring that from the twitter quote: “I freelance in the fashion industry, and CallingVault keeps me in touch with clients on my schedule. Not theirs.”

Do you provide a way to schedule availability hours/hours of operation?
It's pretty easy to do some basic tests for intelligence in social animals. The test concept is quite sophisticated, so you can definitely rule out species. Humans raise a lot of dumb animals. Just don't ask me to eat dolphin.
Well, the way it works, you get an initial boom for your buck, and you get more eyes on your product during your launch week, which is your critical time to make an impression. If your game or app is shit and no one ever uses it again, that money spent on cheating is an immediate ROI, and drops off as soon as you stop promoting the app.

However, if your app is awesome, that initial burst of cheating allowed your game to push through the crowds of 50,000 other apps to get the eyeballs it needs. If it's a great app, those initial users who were suckered in by cheating the system, are now happy, satisfied customers telling their friends about your app. You don't need to game the system anymore: you've broken through the brick wall that is the first 10,000 or so sales. After that, you can rely on the quality of your game to win people over, but when you're naked, alone and review-less, the app store can be a terrifying and unfriendly place.
Here’s my list of what people are doing on Google Glass:

(12 boring things)

The point is you don't have to look away from where you are or make the people you're with feel ignored just to do a simple thing like checking the time. Glancing at a clock on the wall is less disruptive to a conversation than digging your phone out of your pocket.
That wouldn't work at all. Did you even think about writing this comment?

A crap game doesn't get good reviews, so boosting the app rating by buying fake reviews is just throwing good money after bad.
Trademark and trade dress have nothing to do with a DMCA takedown though.

And besides, establishing an infringement of trademark and that it was then infringed will require an absolute mountain of cash and lawyers and time. I'm assuming they have nothing relating to the IP they're annoyed about on paper and so they'd need to show that they 'owned' it in equity. They'd almost certainly go bankrupt before they have a chance of winning a case in court.

(IANAL... yet)
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> it is highly likely they will file another notice for another Flat UI design that in the future

Or, alternatively, they might realize what a mistake taking this approach was and never do it again. That's what I think is "highly likely" here.
The Anatomy of Consumer Intent in Social Media
Would you want Ballmer flipping your desk out the window because you dared to dilute the purity of the Windows ecosystem with UNIX?

Thus, PowerShell instead of something like bash.
API Driven Voice Architecture
I think he means it's going to be the next Google Nexus Q http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_Q
Game looks great. Pretty neat website, I like the attention to details. Best of luck!
Yeah, it was down for a bit due to a DNS issue (provide, not ours). Thanks
The definition of snake oil is basically medicine that has a claimed benefit but little/no supporting evidence.

Once you have strong backing data , it's not snake oil anymore and it becomes increasingly difficult to make that claim.
With the exception of the time, you need to use a voice command for everything else (as far as I can tell)... so i'm not sure being less disruptive is the primary use case.
Show HN: We made a vinyl player for the iPhone and the iPad
Sadly, there's not much recourse for those who bought 2010 because 2013 was hobbled by the policy. This came up at work this week, and a friend ended up getting 2010.
I'd design it like a Cobra to stress the fact that Soda is toxic... To each their own, but I like my hackathons to be about bettering the world.
It's interesting to see Coca-Cola embracing this- I attended a hackathon they organised with Spotify last year and had a great time. It's particularly pleasing to see that the terms of the prize are very upfront here- they will pay you $10k for your prototype and IP. You are free to walk away.
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If I had to guess it would be that it doesn't test as well. Similarly to a physical store wanting you to browse, I can imagine Amazon wants you to look at the suggested items. If you wanted to search you will still search, but you might also get distracted and purchase something you were interested in.
I agree, the thing I was trying to warn about is meticulously mocking out everything you possibly can to test every single method/class in complete isolation from the rest of the system.

It's very tempting to start doing this when you get into heavy unit testing, but I find in practice this adds more cost than value.

As an example, lets take some python code I just made up which formats some input into a message, throws the message onto the queue, and returns the message ID.

class DelayedJob(object):
def __init__(self, queue):
self.queue = queue
def add_job(self, task, params, priority=1):
m = JSONMessage({
task: task,
params: params,
})
self.queue.add(m, priority)
return m.getID()

It's pretty clear that the queue service needs to be mocked out, as you don't want to be talking to a real queue for a unit test (you'll probably want some sort of acceptance/integration test to cover this somewhere).

However, I have in the past been tempted to make the JSONMessage class injectable, and then inject a mock with a stubbed implementation of getID - I've often seen other people do this as well. The code required to set-up such a fake would be fairly verbose and add little in the way of extra clarity to the test. Since the class is fast and simple (in this scenario it's just a container) then I'd just leave the concrete class in use.
After some playing around, dot product won't do it. You can get close with dot product, but it really only gives you the general direction. Cross product (and really, only calculating the Z component of the cross product of coplanar 3D vectors) will get it exactly right every time.

So basically, for a moving between two mouse points (Ix, Iy) and (Ax, Ay), and a top left menu corner (Bx, By) and bottom left (Cx, Cy), then:

DAx = Ax - Ix

DAy = Ay - Iy

DBx = Bx - Ix

DBy = By - Iy

DCx = Cx - Ix

DCy = Cy - Iy

Z1 = DBx * DAy - DAx * DBy

Z2 = DCx * DAy - DAx * DCy

Then, you know you're headed towards that menu if Z1 < 0 and Z2 > 0.

Could be simplified a little if you assume the X component of the top left corner of the menu will be the same as the X component of the bottom left corner, but the math was clearer to keep them separate.
Rather thank think Google glasses is going to replace your phone, you should think of it as complementary.