skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
infrastructure provided by the government which sells it to ISPs that hunt for customers. That models work pretty well already in many cities and small countries.
Does somebody know if appgratis informed its users that apps were paying to be featured?

I would say that this is an important point to find out if this can qualify as an ethical business model
...and if the consumer is satisfied with his new way of consuming coffee, then what harm was done?
Professional programmers do things in certain ways because it's more efficient. It doesn't necessarily follow that you should change that just because someone is just starting out.

Just because they're learning to code, doesn't mean that you should put artificial hurdles in front of them.
Hi Colin!

Mobile Safari gets updated when iOS is. The vast majority of iOS devices run the most recent version of iOS. Therefore, most iOS devices have a current browser and will remain current.

Mobile Safari is not a bad browser, but Android Browser and IE8 are. Hundreds of millions of devices run Android Browser or IE8 and we're stuck with those for a long time to come. So yes, there's a new IE6 nightmare, but its name isn't Mobile Safari.
What are your favorite news websites beyond Hackernews?
A good example being the old Google Answers. It was amazing, and it worked by people paying for every answer, but it was shutdown.
Petman Tests Camo - new robot from Boston Dynamics
great description, summarises pretty well...
For paying Google Apps customers.

There's no paid level of service for a non-Apps Google Group.
The key is to find the Google people on the Groups team on Twitter. This is how I finally got an Analytics issue resolved that had been going on for months. Google employees generally want to help, there is just no way into the wall.
This article is more like an appetizer and not a meal.

The author's basically telling us to not be afraid of negotiations because they're an opportunity to gain something not just one to lose something.

That's the only idea I got from there. Even splitting it into two epiphanies seems like overkill.
This is probably a more in-depth list:

http://www.summarist.net/book/secrets-of-power-negotiating-1...
AFP: Google weaves a web between human trafficking hotlines
true , good idea , basically a dedicated stackoverflow 'sub' site ? you'd need to submit the idea to the SO team then it would need "backers" who would vote for the project , but it might be a great idea , indeed.
There has actually been a pretty active proposal on area51.stackexchange.com for a dedicated Zend Framework stackexchange site but it got rejected (and deleted it seems) in favor of just using stackoverflow and tagging the questions zend-framework.

My guess is that symfony will get the same treatment

http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/38634/zend-framewo...
Git for computer scientists: http://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/

Quick introduction to git internals for people who are not scared by words like Directed Acyclic Graph.
Thanks Collin and Samuel for your comments. When I read Samuel's first comment I reacted a little like Collin as well, but I understand better.

Samuel you're right in most of your reasoning. But most companies now have a policy of supporting the 2 latest previous versions. For example Facebook already announced they'll be dropping support for IE8. Google I think will do so as well.

So right now IE8 and Android browsers are bigger nightmares, I know that, but I think on a longer term, when IE8 and Android Browser are irrelevant (they're starting to be already) Safari Mobile might be the one that gives us headaches.
Holy Cow: Two of the Big Four TV Networks Are Considering Going Off the Air
My point is that this bar, run by a person who has drunk the Bitcoin Koolaid, is still unwilling to take any of the risk associated with doing business in bitcoins.
I recognize a lot of the same things that pop up when pyramid schemes are exposed. They're filled with men who think they can somehow extract huge value with their personal deal making skills. It is striking how few women do that.
I understand that it's "social" for specific reasons (content discovery, distributed authoring, re-using the communication platform for discussions, etc) but the mandatory social login really is a high bar for people looking at it for the first time who are unable or unwilling to log in to one of the big ad^Wsocial networks. (There was a discussion on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5408735 - about the effect, and about alternative approaches, aptly named "Users don't like social login.")
Android's A 'Trojan Horse,' Microsoft-Backed Group Charges
Ask HN: Was your App ever rejected or pulled from the App Store?
If yes, then have you tried to fix the problems and resubmit it? What were the lessons learnt from this kind of an experience? In case the app was pulled - did you tried to persuade or negotiate with Apple to allow you to host your app in the store?
It's Area 51: http://area51.stackexchange.com/
Since you seem to enjoy appealing to authority, I'll just leave this here for you to ponder on:

"Η φύσις μηδέν μήτε ατελές ποιεί μήτε μάτην." -- Αριστοτέλης

"Nature produces nothing imperfect nor in vain." -- Aristotle
It used to have an evil twin, the Underhanded C Contest [1] where the aim was to make an innocent program also do something evil in such a way that that it can be plausibly denied as accidental when the 'bug' is detected in a code review.

[1] http://underhanded.xcott.com/
In my part of the UK they'll recycle phones if you put them in the recycling bin.
Thank you - that's a much more constructive and helpful reply - now I can see what you mean.

I'm not a web developer, but I like to keep track of the broader picture, and articles like this, with responses like yours, are useful.

Thanks.
"MDB write performance when using its writable mmap option."
Not really comparing apples, is it ? It doesn't seem fair to me.
What is the color scale for the connection weight strength?
A few months back on HN there was a similar project that ran wholly in bash, and displayed widgets based on push and pull HTTP. Does anybody remember the name of the submission?
> Obviously anything less than break-even is not worth having -- a chemical rocket would be more efficient.

Why not? The energy to start the reactor comes from solar power, so they didn't have to carry it up with them.
Well written, but the title isn't at all accurate (this is hardly a guide) - more appropriately "Two Things to Consider Before and While Negotiating".

I think having the proper mindset is important as well, but the mindset as she describes it seems more about managing expectations than about being an effective negotiator. This advice may help your approach but once a negotiation begins this content won't be very helpful.
Can I just say that this is beautifully designed.
"But then came twilight." Oh for all the souls it devoured I can now rest knowing it saved one company.
How WhoAPI helped us build an iPhone app for domain availability
Thanks alot. Love those stuff.
That's brilliant.

I tend to call myself a 121 programmer: I try to improve the total value of my knowledge base by 1% every 21 days. That's realistic, and those 1%'s add up over time.

MacLeod Sociopaths: 121 programmers who optimize for learning.
MacLeod Clueless: 911 programmers who deal with hideous emergencies and compensate for bad management. (9-1-1 is the US emergency telephone number.)
MacLeod Losers: 501 programmers who are out the door as soon as they can go home.
There's a sleight-of-hand Amazon plays with their own sign-in box: they give you a single "email" box, and then two radio buttons -- "I'm new" and "I already have an account and here is my password" [with a password input below that option].

The clever thing is, the radio buttons are completely ignored -- if you have an account and the password matches, you get logged in; if you didn't put in a password, and the email isn't in their records, they bring you to the account creation flow. The radio buttons are just there to let users express a choice they expected to be able to make, and thereby keep them in flow.

A better Persona login box could just do the same thing, but without the password input box under the "I already have an account" option. In fact, since selecting an option is the last step of the flow, just have an email field with two buttons, "Sign Up" and "Log In". Both buttons do the same thing :)
I used to avidly reverse engineer the IOCCC entries when announced. It was a wonderful learning experience that teaches you quite a bit about C that you don't get from a mainstream book. Time well spent.
Logical flaw and conclusion. I believe you mean the FDA hasn't found any studies to show they are not safe. My statement and your statement are very very different.
There is a Symfony2 proposal on Area51. But I agree with the discussion at http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/36634/symfony-2 - StackOverflow itself is perfectly adequate, and having two separate subsites would be unnecessarily confusing.
Should Google Analytics be used on a 'Report anonymously' police website?
It seems to me that some of these (e.g. "always flinch at the first offer") will be immediately seen as obvious negotiating ploys and will make the other party question (or even dismiss) anything else you might have to say.
Done and done:
http://xkcd.com/426/

Edit:
A little more context- http://blog.xkcd.com/2012/02/27/geohashing-2/
Have you ever had to talk to any support? They gereraly tend to be crap.
"Used to have"? The underhanded C contest is back!
Very well written Ovid!

I was about to write my own guide based on my experience, but I scrapped it after seeing your answer. I see we agree on point 2. But the Number 1 point I think is to identify when you are in a negotiation and when you are in an impasse.

To me a negotiation is when you both know there is a middle ground, and are both trying to find it. An impasse is when the colloquial unstoppable force meets the immovable object.

For example, theists and atheists(not agnostics) will never fundamentally agree about the existence of a god. The time wasted and bitterness generated over this is just not worth it, and you should look at walking away if you can.

How to identify if you're in an impasse? That's where point number 2 comes in. Identify what are the real objections and what is fluff. If the real objection is fundamentally opposite to yours and not merely orthogonal, then you have an impasse.
I would add a couple more here. First, having a willingness to walk away from the deal, and a number or point to do so, is key in my experience.

Second, don't negotiate just because you think you should. I see this quite a bit with very young job seekers. They get an offer above their expectations and at or above perceived market rate, and they feel they need to negotiate just because they think they should always negotiate.

Lastly, have a sense of timing when negotiating. Let the other side think about things for a bit. Tell the other side you want to give it thought and let them believe that you may walk away from a deal.
I believe you're looking for Hubble: https://github.com/jaymedavis/hubble
Pebble - some thoughts
That depends on what you're optimizing for.
If I create a robot that makes more robots and sell you said robot... Should I get to claim ownership of all the robots said robot creates?

Update: So why would I Bother inventing and patenting said robot! To prevent others from creating and using said robot for commercial purposes. I'd then find a business model or revenue stream elsewhere. Said patent would be to protect my other revenue model. I just wouldn't sell any of my robots. Ad a non practicing entity is formed...
I knew it was out-of context hyperbole, and the word [corporations] was added to the quote. Anyway, thanks.
Because a bookmark is usually immutable. If I bookmark "http://news.ycombinator.com has "Hacker News" it will be same URL forever.

In contrast, git branches symlink to a different ref, whenever you commit to it.

A git tag could be called bookmark intuitively.
That reminded me a lot of my old signature from my days on Slashdot:

main(O){10<putchar(4^--?77-(15&5128>>4*O):10)&&main(2+O);}

I enjoyed the extra mini-confusement from using a capital O as a variable name. :)
I bought 100 at $7. I'm just going to leave them there ..
It seems to be a bit of overkill. Does anyone know of a decent hybrid drive with 32+ GB of SSD storage and a reasonable HDD that look like 2 separate devices to the computer?
Alright count me in for this trip. At least if it includes a return ticket :)
you failed this city!!!
He said "$15k of my own money" not "$15k of my own time"

For many of us, side project time is enjoyable and not thought of as a cost center, but a happy-center.

:-)
It seems to not properly handle embedded HTML; using my feed (http://www.dp.cx/blog/rss.xml), look at the story titled "The Difficulty of Parsing the Web" and notice the <select /> box that is rendered.
Can you give some info on how to setup some of these?
Flat Terminal
Bootstrapping Tech Companies: Real Life Case Study
That removes the borders? Any way, Unix only...
If there was a PIP involved, you were likely not meeting expectations

Or, his boss was resentful of his desire to transfer and, because each manager has a limited number of "review points" (that's how Enron/Google-style performance review systems work; the forced curve means that a manager's generosity in reviews is limited by his credibility) he was thrown under the bus. That's much more likely.

This is called the Welch Effect. "Underperformers" tend to be average-performing, junior members of underperforming teams (who had the least to do with the team's underperformance). The reason is that that the manager (who is also desperate, but in slow motion) doesn't have many "calibration" points to give out and tends to focus everything he has on senior people who are likely to stay because, without superior review scores, they'll flee.

Credible, less desperate, managers look out for all their reports. The ones who are on the bubble tend to scapegoat one every year, and spend all their review points on the senior people who hold the project together in spite of mismanagement.

the transfer was killed by HR to prevent under performers from avoiding a PEP by continually transferring to a new team.

Then the people in HR who blocked the transfer should be fired in disgrace because they're mean-spirited pieces of garbage and it's irresponsible to let them make decisions that affect other people.

It's OK to hate your project but it's not OK to underperform.

Do you know how disgustingly self-righteous you sound? You know nothing about the guy and you're telling him that he's "not OK".

If you actually think more than 10% of people labelled as "low performers" in any company are real problem employees, then you're either (a) under 23, or (b) fucking stupid. Management uses "low performer" labels to brush away its own failures and messes. Most problem employees and true low performers never get caught, and that's why companies tend toward mediocrity and failure over time.
10 Startup companies that manage their images in the cloud - Part 2
This blog post lists 10 cool startups that integrated with Cloudinary for uploading their images to the cloud, dynamically transforming them to match their graphic design and delivering the images optimized through a fast CDN. The listed startups are of different fields but ultimately share a very similar set of image-related requirements.
Here's a quick snapshot of what it looks like:
http://dribbble.com/shots/1021755-Flat-Terminal-Theme?list=p...
That's a terrible idea. You couldn't help those people as you don't have access to anything.
Clicking on Private Pad yields:
Error 503 Service Unavailable
Service Unavailable
Guru Meditation:
XID: 1337667656
The existing apps were not revoked and still work.
From github:

(defn weight-colour
([^double weight]
(Color.
(clamp-colour-value (Math/tanh (- weight)))
(clamp-colour-value (Math/tanh weight))
0.0)))

So when weight is 0, it's black. As the weight gets more positive, the colour gets greener, and as the weight gets more negative, the colour gets redder. clamp-colour-value makes sure the colour component doesn't go outside the interval (0,1)

tanh curve shown here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Sinh_cosh...
Other - Asexual-aromantic-megalomaniac. :)
Ah, here we go again... another Patent fight on the horizon.  *le sigh*
Any plans to build this into Firefox? I could definetely see this as some kind of account to sync our Firefox, better browser integration.

IIRC Firefox had a plan for BrowserID something along these lines.
I believe lots of people do not understand that you should treat remote branches differently than local branches. More precisely, you treat remote/global history differently than local history.

Using rebase to clean you local history is ok. Maybe even recommended or mandatory depending on the project. Changing history, which is already in other people's repos, will lead confusion and should really be avoided.
Google acts this way because they can. They are a popular SE from back when they were relatively honest and unbiased and they also buy traffic from Mozilla, iOS, Opera etc. They use that traffic to push down competitors and promote their services via Search completing the circle.

When they get some real competition they will be nicer to their users and consumers. If you want to advertise online in any meaningful way, you cannot ignore Google. They know that so they act as a monopolistic tyrant (also see At&T, Verizon, banks etc)
Thank You Rework: We Took a Stand and Got Featured in the New York Times
The better way of saying it is GMO meets the same safety requirements as non-GMO.

http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodScienceResearch/Biotechnology/uc...
We do this in GateGuru already. I think you are underestimating the scale needed to produce statistically significant models across airports (or even within one across checkpoints). MyTSA even has trouble with the crowd sourcing and they have TSA brand. It's a classic chicken and egg problem: nobody wants to use the app until its meaningful and it's not meaningful until you have huge numbers using the app.

Our approach in GateGuru is to bundle the security wait time functionality with other, highly engaging and free services (such as flight tracking, itinerary management, and our amenity database) in a completely FREE app and scale our way into it.

We are deep into it and its an ongoing part of our strategy, but its not clear to me how you could generalize this and build a business around it without an amazing solution to this fundamental problem.
Another 'me too' from here, but I'd also add the I've found the support uniformly excellent across Apps and the 'Cloud Platform' (App Engine, Cloud Storage etc.).

Interestingly, it's been the sales interactions I've found most frustrating - once you're large enough to have outgrown the online purchasing mechanisms for Google Apps, for example, provisioning new accounts is a world of pain.
Mostly political. You could presumably do the detonations with the moon in between for a while, and it's not like space outside the Van Allen belts is particularly low energy, either, so GEO satellites are shielded.
Looks like @ianbarber fixed the issue..

[1]: https://twitter.com/ianbarber/status/321942852823289856
Kind of off-topic: I can't manage to see any video, is it slides and mp3 only ?
It may affect their ranking in the App Store charts which, if they get back in the store, could really hurt the company's growth long term.
I'd give him a pass on that. He was not unlike any other smart, impulsive, ambitious teenager with a passion for ideas (namely, his own).

When I was 20, I was highly enthusiastic about a card game (actually a pretty good one; it plays really well and people I've never met write me about it) I created, called Ambition, and got into some flamewars that I shouldn't have.

This is one of the rare cases where I wish I were born 5-10 years later; the web is now mature enough that, instead of flaming Wikipedia to make it a "real game", I would have just put it up as an HTML5 game and people could play it. When I was 20, you still had to know a lot to get a real computer setup outside of the CS lab. I didn't quit using Windows for home stuff until age 24 (2007). Now with 'brew install emacs' as opposed to bullshit '90s-era Windows nonsense, it's a million times easier for someone under-20 to start building instead of just talking.

Convex dishonesty (see here: https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/gervais-macl... ) can be very tempting when you're trying to make a good idea "catch". You don't really have a sense of it being wrong until you're older (25+) and have seen what trust-sparsity does to organizations.

If you're under 25, I think you deserve a pass on well-intended convex dishonesty. You just don't have enough experience with social systems to see why it is (usually) wrong.
> Could the university you work for provide you with a second machine whilst the first machine runs experiments?

Sure. They do, in fact. And I use clusters for large experimentation.

However, a great rule of thumb as a researcher is to try to limit yourself to using a single laptop for your work and experiments. One advantage: your development machine and experimental machine are then identical, and they both travel with you. Academics travel a lot.
Bunch of Ayn Rand horseshit going on in this thread.
Google's idea of productivity is a bad fit for many other workplaces
I helped write a library called colorific to detect a colour palette given an image. You might find it interesting. https://github.com/99designs/colorific

We blogged a bit about how it works too: http://99designs.com/tech-blog/blog/2012/05/11/color-analysi...
Look up text rank. Essentially it amounts to representing text as a graph with sentences as nodes and some sort of similarity measure as edge weights. You then run page rank on that graph.
But, um, why do you assume people are clicking "other" for fun and not clicking "female" or "male" for fun? Do you have data about people's reasons for clicking? Is there some data on HN's readers' gender distribution with which you can disprove - oh wait, that's what this poll was intended to provide...
More generally, cloud products are extremely convenient on the surface, but beneath the water there is an iceberg of trouble.

Or cloud services are great, until it rains ;)
I believe that is the root problem of git. Originally, the assumption was: porcelains will provide a nice UI, so core git can leak implementation details. However, it turns out the implementation details are so simple and intuitive for many developers that core git is now the dominant UI.

For example, the multiple use cases of 'checkout' or 'reset' are quite intuitive, if you have the implementation in mind.
What's ridiculous isn't that Nick (whose father was a banker) had those advantages but that more people don't. It's not Nick's fault that people like us don't get audience with VCs in our teens.

Sure, Nick had early success, lots of ambition, and the typical immature character of a 15-year-old who's enthusiastic about his own ideas. Impulsive, creative, teenagers tend toward pushiness. Ask Wikipedia about my Ambition (sorry, had to make the pun) and you'll hear a similar story. We all have episodes of stupidity in our past.