skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Informed consumers" make up (at a guess) less than 5% of the overall smartphone market, for some value of being informed about online privacy.

This 'Online Privacy' I've seen thrown around is such a general term that encapsulates both explicit and anonymous data. Facebook isn't outing people or sharing your phone number with anyone who asks for it. Much of what they do with the data is provide contextual ads or information to a user that helps improve their lives as well.

Until people realize this separation, there is too much of a witch hunt in the name of 'online privacy.'
I'm not saying Korma isn't a good or realistic choice. I use it myself. There did seem to be some disagreement in freenode #clojure about whether that was the best way to go, or JDBC and prepared statements. Evidently, a lot of people actually do like SQL.

It's just important for people to be aware that "Compojure" actually represents "one possible production-ready stack that uses Compojure as the routing component", as do several other items on the list. I don't mean that as a criticism - just clarification.
Yea - that's why I think they may be able to make up the margin loss by doing a marketing push saying HFCS just isn't as good. I suspect this would actually be pretty appealing in this day and age although I come from an urban background. As wittyphrasehere says, it may be completely different in the midwest.
Ivy League application reviewers should be able to answer this well...
1,2,3 Blink: move over WebKit, new browser engine in town
This was definitely our biggest surprise: we expected an early spike and quick tapering, just like we were accustomed to from web traffic.

It's hard for us to know how much residual traffic we still get from Better Homes & Gardens, since there's no referrer to track people coming from magazines.
Your first dyno is free. Under what circumstances would 1/2 size dyno's be helpful?
I do agree that it helps, and accomplishes your goal. Though I don't think VCs will applaud your efforts too much (well, some may). They also go through slumps, and unlike entrepreneurs, they don't like to talk about it. It hurts their credibility due to how bankers always want to bet on the lucky horse.
In 2008, a Consumer Reports Money Advisor TV segment that featured http://www.PriceAdvance.com was syndicated to news programs in 15 states right around the holidays. That led to 125k+ installs of our toolbar.

In October 2007, the Wall Street Journal mentioned Startup Schwag on the front page, below the fold. That yielded ~15 signups for the ~$20/mo service, though admittedly its appeal was a bit niche.
But I've already have my pitchfork ready and my torch lit :(
Thanks for the suggestion, I'm new to writing and just trying it out currently, I now did.
The fact that many of San Francisco's homeless are suffering from mental illness in some way doesn't ameliorate the damage caused by the growing divide between the haves and the have-nots in the region. While it's fine to address the causes of persistent homelessness, and to look for solutions to it, it's a completely different phenomenon compared to intermittent or temporary homeless the average middle-class family works to avoid.

The video mentioned that many middle-class families are one paycheck away from financial ruin. That is, rent and expenses in the city are so high in relation to wages, that missing a single paycheck or being out of work for just one week will result in a family losing their apartment and possibly being homeless.

As an outcome of the disparity between incomes and housing costs, low-income families are living 2- and 4- families to an apartment. 40x rent for a 3-bedroom (family) apartment in SF is $120,000 a year - a wage that is more than double the median household income in the US.

This is the more pressing of the problems the video addressed, and I think we would benefit more from discussing solutions for this than we would from wringing our hands about the myriad causes of persistent homelessness.
HTTP statuses are not a semantic description. `200 OK` means only that the transfer of a document can take place -- the legality of the request is a different matter. This would be like holding DOT engineers responsible for making it possible to drive drunk, since the roads have no features to prevent offenders from entering the highway.
Diving into Icenium Graphite - great for anyone curious about hybrid mobile apps
Here is my question though. I've solved the appstore issue. I've got a small amount of customers who are still being served and satisfied. I've got a forward path with firefox extension. I can continue business as things stand.

Am I just going to run into some other iceberg. I know this company really really doesn't like my extension. They have many resources, and I have none. Will I just get lawyered into the ground? Because I've got a feeling they are going to keep coming after me.

edit: Another thought, you are so right about the google my way or the highway attitude. I was notified of my app being taken down by a red "taken down" notice. No warning, no contact, no explanation or appeal process. If nothing else maybe some other developers will take this story as a warning.
If someone could answer me this it would be much appreciated:
The blogpost describes the current flow of code as such:
Interpreter -> JaegerMonkey -> IonMonkey

Is process repeated every time I open a website or do browsers cache the generated bytecode? What about popular libraries? Will jQuery get JITed differently for every website that has it?
I T.A.K.E. Unconference, Bucharest, 30-31 May 2013
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We will have two predefined tracks:

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All the talks will based on code.

Workshops

Practice in a group with awesome facilitators.
You will write code, usually on topics like unit testing, legacy code, techniques to improve the code.
The workshops are thought to speed up learning.

and three tracks where the attendees will self-organize:

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Learn from others and innovate.
You will be able to propose topics you would like to discuss.
Attend more sessions in parallel you find useful.

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Here are some sessions for programmers, testers, team leaders, architects, business analysts:

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Google Now will get you there. http://www.google.com/landing/now/
Sounds like a nice job. Too bad it's not remote.
I've been running a Java Users Group for 13 years and recruiting engineers for 15 years, so my perspective may be unique. Depending on what types of jobs you want, the answers may be different.

As some others have mentioned, learning some frameworks and tool combinations are quite helpful. The Spring and Hibernate combo is probably the most prevalent that you'll see out there.

Swing is a pretty rare skill these days, as it's not used by that many. I saw a mention of JSF in the comments, and that hasn't caught on much either. If you are looking for the best way to get employed in Java, Spring and Hibernate and the overall CS background is helpful (the books mentioned in this thread are all recommended to most Java pros). JavaScript should be helpful.

As others here recommended, learning another language is also recommended. I wrote this article recommending to Java pros that they learn a new lang (http://jobtipsforgeeks.com/2012/07/11/advice-from-a-jug-lead...), and I'd still recommend it. Fewer young engineers seem to be gravitating to Java.

Checking out Python, Scala, Ruby and Clojure would always be helpful, and in many environments these days you will be exposed to more than one language anyway.

You've got lots of choices at this point. Keep control of your career prospects by not limiting your technical diet to what your fed at work.
App Store opportunities
I mean, the responsibility is sort of on you to manage what notifications you receive. This seems a bit like installing a bunch of toolbars and Bonzi Buddy and then claiming that your browser sucks. (for the record, I had numerous Farmville-playing friends and never received push notifications about that).

> The beauty of iOS is that I don't need to deal with a dozen little icons demanding attention like in Windows.

This is confusing to me. Aside from Java updates and similar things that are largely hidden, what icons in Windows demand your attention? One thing I don't like about iOS is all the badges on icons, which, to my psyche, are much more demanding.
Microsoft creative director’s response to always online console rumor
> But the other database tests were run against the same DB server and configuration. How can Flask's performance be the DB's fault?

They are written against the core database layer or the framework (in case of Django the Django ORM) and in case of Flask: Flask-SQLAlchemy. The default config of both of these things is to not pool connections. That is not true for all other frameworks.

Also I'm not blaming anything here, just pointing out that there are differences in the setup.
Huh? You're the one saying it would happen.
Sort of, I guess the biggest difference is in how you add them. Adding widgets is an intentional thing; you decide you want a weather widget on your screen. A tile is something you discover and decide to keep for later. So you find a restaurant you like, you pin it. You don't say "I want to pin something, let me look through a list of pinnable things and pick one".
It's actually a fairly dated reference[1]. The "original thread" referenced is from 2011, but I don't want to work through 500 pages of posts to find the initial instantiation of it.

[1] http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=348...
I don't know what I would do, but I definitely would not owe money to the vendor if the machine gave me out a free drink.

Unless I damaged/changed the machine beforehand.
Flask-SQLAlchemy does not use a pool by default. This can be changed by setting the `SQLALCHEMY_POOL_SIZE` config variable though.
they will never pay even a perfunctory thought to the cryptographic [] implications

They better not. The crypto of Bitcoin is amazing, and Satoshi should get a medal for it.

But it's not important because of its crypto.
So what’s it really like to use Project Glass? Take a look
At no time did I suggest a court's ruling was infallible, however drawing conclusions based merely on the fact that someone was accused of something at one point in time is not rational.
Agreed, the title is a bit sensational. There are a handful of active, quality firms on this list. I don't think it's fair to call out SoftBank Capital, Quotidian, etc. I appreciate the goal here, but the approach is flawed. (FWIW, I work in venture, but the firm I work at is not listed.)
How are you finding Vaadin work out for you? What are you using it for? What version? The 6 series or the new 7 series?
Who in the world is spreading this BS? Where did you hear it? This delusion is all over the place, but it's not clear who the index patient is.

Someone lied to you. Did they have a reason? Did you ask?
The problem with HTTP status codes is people usually use one of the few they know, instead of looking at the full list and choosing the most suitable from the options. I think a lot of people forget that there is 301 as well as 300.
I think that is the wrong conclusion. You still have the problem of having to design a system where the dynos communicate their queues to the second layer of the routing mesh.

The solution is to have dynos large enough that you can run 8+ workers and let the operating system do all the complex scheduling.
If you could seize 51% of the computer power of HN readers we could make them disappear.
I've read a few people talking about coke with 'real sugar'. They've never mentioned any perceived health benefits. They have mentioned perceived taste.

Personally, I dunno about flavour. Certainly it could make a difference, as could water hardness, but I've seen people drink something blindfold and not know whether it's 7up or coke.
Her social media feeds are really trying too hard. Does spamming people with unrelated memes and asking for likes really onboard users vs alienate those she already has? And I'm with patio11 on the video, I had to stop it. Show me the prep and the setup, give me testimonials and shots of various types of events she's done. Not close-ups of women taking their clothes off.
The Cypriot wealth seizure (attempting to cut a budget deficit in recession with a very destructive tax because they'd already ceded control over monetary expansion to an entity that isn't interested in doing it) is just about the polar opposite of Keynesianism ...

As for seasteading, there have been plenty of experiments testing the theory that a tiny nation can become very rich from being a laxly-regulated, tax-free place for rich foreigners to park money. It works very well until you try to generalise the results to larger economies and end up like a certain Mediterranean tax haven with a non-state currency...

The trouble with dismissing the knowledge accumulated by those whose experiments failed is the risk of being condemned to repeat them...
The lucky thing here, to the extent that anything involving a Superfund site can be lucky, is that the people and organizations affected are rich.

I have spent some time over the last couple of years working with a heavily polluted town in Central Illinois (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DePue,_Illinois). In this town, there are heavy metals in the soil of the school playground.[1] Property values have fallen to next to nothing, which prevents the residents from leaving. And these residents, who were working-class folks in the heyday of the town before all the jobs moved out, and many of whom are Hispanic immigrants who work the surrounding farms and are too scared of the government to raise a fuss, don't have the leverage of Palo Alto's Stanford and Berkeley grads. Cleanup happens at whatever pace the responsible polluters feel like moving at, which is to say: glacially.

These sites are all over the country, and as bad as it is being described here, what's happening in Palo Alto is a sort of best case scenario as far as these things go.

[1] It comes from a giant pile of ore refining waste product: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HQPY7nT2L4c/UPc4_GK-VDI/AAAAAAAABA... (short video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au24-gdV2c0). It's hard to get an idea of the scale, but the actual pile is a good ways away from the fence the girl is standing in front of and extends a ways in both directions out of the frame (see the video). It contains 750,000 tons of zinc slag. When it rains, all the heavy metals leach out of the slag.

EDIT: I don't mean to minimize the situation in Palo Alto by any means. Just trying to put it in the bigger context. The things you're seeing: local governments doing nothing, landlords looking the other way, regular people being the ones who get hurt--are standard operating procedure for these sorts of situations.
My mind is boggled by the implication that the FDIC is in any way simpler than bitcoin.
Mark Kermode from the BBC? Granted you mostly have to listen instead of read, as he's primarily a radio reviewer, but he's damned good. And obstinately opinionated, which makes for some fun review rants.

Check out his "Sex and the City 2: The Movie". Legendary among his fans.
It also occurs to me that we have no problem judging and speculating about startups based on nothing more than a TechCrunch post with extremely limited public data. It's funny that it is so much less socially acceptable to do this with investors. Maybe I can change that.

Love it! Keep up the good work, dmor!
Then why does America have so much more homelessness than other developed countries? I'd bet it's because there's no universal health-care system to treat mental illness or addiction.
really, the lack of a link (AKA THE FACT THAT IT HAPPENED OFFLINE) limited the long term seo value of the mention... Count me among the shocked.
Renee from OATV here. OATV.com clearly articulates our investment thesis and deep-reserve model. It hasn't changed.

Perhaps, as others have pointed out, you should reconsider using Crunchbase as a reliable or up-to-date source of information. Or, at a minimum, do some supplemental fact-checking via Google.
While all the hard-core programmers and coders around me use vim all the time they ridicule me for using nano.

I'm an admin not a coder, so I usually just edit conf files and firewall rules. I do spend all day at the cli and do write scripts as needed but I haven't found the need to learn vim.

Use what works best for you.
I would be fearful of being locked up for 15 years for pushing that button and getting a free drink...well, only if i used a computer for it.
Beyond the horizon by Jeffrey Mcnolte
Does it make economics professors say stupid things, too? Because the first Felix Salmon callout in this post, the one followed by "blah blah blah", also happened to be Tyler Cowan's "best sentences I read all week".

I guess we can debate whether Tyler Cowan is paid to think --- or, as Moldbug puts it, even allowed to think --- and so on/forth in No True Scotsman style until we've narrowed the conversation to "hackers" who think exactly like we do.
> In the same way at a VC will often send you to an associate because they’re “too nice” to say no,

I'm going to guess that the author has never raised significant money (>$10M) from VCs. The quoted sentence fragment speaks volumes on a lack of understanding of the VC animal kingdom.
Except he never distributed any material.
Petman Tests Camo (Boston Dynamics)
EBayastore The Quality Race: Best Antiquitäten Uhren
I take it you haven't seen "First Blood"?
I hear you but I would suggest that we should not "get used to" homelessness around us. It should bother us enough to prompt us as individuals and a community to come up with solutions that address the problem.

For area companies, the problem can also be seen as an opportunity: CSR (corporate social responsibility) programs can be leveraged to make an difference by supporting the best organizations (shelters, recovery programs, and worker training programs) which I believe will more than pay for itself by gained goodwill through social innovation and impact.

A good starting point for thinking about approaches to social innovation programs on a higher level can be found in this Stanford Social Innovation Review article:

Rediscovering Social Innovation
http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/rediscovering_social...
Your analogy is extreme.

A better one might be having a section of road connected to public roads that it is illegal to drive on.

This is still hugely problematic, because it invites discussion of the intent of the operator and the intent of the driver and ignores the part where it is not particularly difficult to put up an effective barrier.
Agree. More like “mandatory”.
'Evoland' is a playable history of gaming, from 8-bit to HD
The sugar version does taste better. Not a big difference, but coupled with the HFCS question many people would buy it exclusively if they could, even if they pay a bit more. That the big brands don't offer it may be because it would be handled as a separate product, instead of a special run mixed in (look for the yellow caps) with the main HFCS product.
Is "Mobile app deep-linking" just custom iOS URL schemes?

Also, let's not go so far as to call Twitter a "Games Platform". A games platform is some like Facebook Games or Xbox. It's not as if Twitter now suddenly hosts your games.
The Slow Incumbent Myth
Freshbooks client login site is down
>Because it's too easy to claim fraud and have your CC provider initialise a charge-back.

First, you can do this with any CC purchase, and I don't see why bitcoin merchants need any special protection against it. Why would a bitcoin merchant be more likely to get a chargeback than any other merchant? Second, this would definitely be credit card fraud, and easily detectable fraud at that; it's highly likely that anyone who attempted this would wind up in jail.
Your points are good, but

> No amount of social justice can cure someone's schizophrenia.

I think one of the issues here is that mental illness carries so much stigma. It's hard to even get help at times due to this, and social change about the way we discuss and treat mental illness would be incredibly helpful.

I posted a link to a new startup here a few hours ago specifically designed to help people diagnosed with schizophrenia deal with their symptoms, and it got no upvotes. (for anyone interested, it's https://copingtutor.com/ Not mine, but a friend's)

We ourselves have a member of the community who's living with schizophrenia, and they're shadowbanned due to their illness. It's probably for the best, but it's a really shitty way of dealing with it.
Asymmetric keys do look like lots of completely random data. What you've found is likely some kind of fingerprints (hashes).

If there are indeed some keys on this server they could be real, after all this code wasn't supposed to ever go public.
I do have data to support my position. North Korea vs. South Korea, East Germany vs. West Germany, Maoist China vs. Taiwan/HK/Singapore. Leftism produces poverty, capitalism produces wealth. Communism doesn't work. That's a macro result you can hang your hat on. Millions died, one would hope the point is proved.

Now today the question is whether the "mixed economy" which allows unlimited state intervention (which does indeed lead to Cyprus) is better than fettered government and unfettered capitalism. We're going to find out.
If you are using a UNIX-y OS, you most likely already have vim and vimtutor. If yes, that site is worthless.
has been fixed
Wait up... I'm a bit confused here. How is it that you were struggling with 2 unicorns on a 1x (512mb) dyno, but 4 unicorns works on a 2x (1024mb) dyno?
New technology could help your smartphone camera "see" distances
The non-discrete page-flipping (so you can scroll one column at a time, instead of a whole screen) is nice. I don't know any Android launcher that can do that.
We sure were! Fun to see someone we considered a competitor all those years ago on HN also.

I think Rap Genius are on the right track: hosted specific-document annotation seems like a good method to develop a web-annotation technology while still making money at the same time. We had a lot of interest from specific-document research organizations like lawyers and journalists, but the "annotate the whole web" pitch didn't seem to go over too well.
So far, so good. It's very different from your typical template-driven approach. We have a decent amount of Swing experience, and developing with Vaadin feels similar (but much easier) than Swing.

If you are developing business-facing applications and not just consumer web sites, as we are, I think Vaadin makes a lot of sense. It might even make sense for consumer sites, but that's not our current target.