skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the old icon was just a lowercase g in various containers, I think this is a good step. The octocat is already recognizable, and although it's a little too detailed for small rendering, it's still relatively unique and distinct.

Nice work on this one. It may not be the perfect symbol, but it is uniquely and definitively github.
I have been using www.AppThwack.com and have been very happy with them. The basic package I use includes unlimited use of 10 devices for $29/mo.

*I am not in any way affiliated with AppThwack, just a happy customer and want to see them do well.
Anyone have before and after shots?
Security hole can damage heating systems
Allowing people to not charge for apps is preposterous.

People who invested their time into making staff deserve to be able to charge for it. It’s awesome when people give something away for free but it’s also awesome when they dare to charge money for mobile software.

I really don’t understand this attitude of yours and others here that view charging money for apps as something negative. That’s just so absurd and counterproductive to me. We should, whenever we can, encourage people to charge for their apps what they deserve to be paid or else we will be buried under a mountain of freemium crap (and ads).
The logotype reminds me of Font Awesome for some reason
Shouldn't high costs be a deterrent to startups? How can a startup be "lean" if its employees need to pay most of their salary in rent?
Oh nice, looks like it will be able to run Calabash features. I was _just_ playing around with those today, how serendipitous.
[ok, so not strictly on adjective order, but i felt like sharing]

HOMAGE TO THE SYNONYM
(On reading of Dhana~njaya's Namamala in K.A. Nilakanta Sastri's A History of South India)
Kovalam Beach, Kerala
12th June 2011

I felt it strange to read today some news of writers past,
Their time was one of heterogeneity; sectarian views surpassed.
[Though sectarianism has now taken hold; and o ffered much up to Shiva. Jains, Buddhists and  Ajivikas: all gone, save bits in literature.]

The passage that stirred interest, perhaps it's not of note,
But an ancient `lexicon of synonyms' - what type of person wrote?
Well in those times of philosophy, many literate were courtiers
Those commissioned men could run amok; quite di fferent to what's taught here!
[Though of freedoms known back in the past, we've not yet lost a single;
For words remain like cocktails; a great joy to mix and mingle.]

To reflection's fruit: the synonym, it's sacred to the core,
Turning misconceptions of inequitability, it's something of a door.
It has been said, with few against, that language has a mid:
"The verb to be" (or is/was/will be, in our poor contorted chit).

Yet my subject's not, as etymology'd posit, mere beast of straight assignment,
But another way to subtlety, word choice and thought alignment.

Its operands, once affixed, are viewed in context and kind,
Just as yoga might work limbs and flesh: en-route to still the mind.

Younger, I gave a speech on her: those notions of 'to be',
Through an ancient Chinese philosophical school - Logicians, mon cheri!

Their language one of ambiguity and subtleties aplenty,
Compare our Indo-Aryan pauper writ, with so few words for "empty"!

And of languages designed now for an audience of machines,
They cannot seek to replicate our great linguistic genes.
Of Daoists we did not take heed: fighting nature, reaping pain

Now as never we need a champion, to help disembark this train.
"Without further ado!" I shall then move for a humble nomination
Of the synonym as an ailment for our present day conflagration.
Well stated. When I got an OLPC the point wasn't that it was a "good" laptop, it was that it was a "documented" laptop and that is rare indeed. What I find particularly amusing are the comments on things like the Raspberry Pi (and Parallela) which talk about all the things they do with "real" computers that these things cannot do. Its amusing because when the first 8 bit machines, the Mark-8 the Altair 8800, and the KIM-1 came out the exact same criticisms were leveled against them from the the same sorts of people. People who were using the existing infrastructure (mini-computers at the time of the Altair) whining that you couldn't run multi-user, you had no storage to speak of, you probably couldn't even assemble a program much less compile one on them, etc etc etc. The Apple II got huge amounts of disrespect from the establishment as a "baby's toy" or a kids toy designed to look like a computer. Then Visicalc hit and those voices faded.

Not enough people understand what is and what isn't possible in a parallel computer setup. Creating a really really simple setup is a great way to let them get their heads around it without getting the information overload shutdown.
Ok, so we should stop there and not encourage further development in the market? I want a 1000 core "Raspberry Pi" that sells for $50.

Let me know if there's anything else that I can do to help.
I love Monkey Island series and other Lucas Arts Adventure games, spent way too many hours playing them. However, I am a bit disappointed in this article because it feels a bit concierge-mvp to nostalgia (feeling the grounds before a full-on Kickstarter campaign), unfortunately without any interesting build upon what those great games offered. Well, consider this as my feedback to the mvp. Grim Fandango was a breakthrough, including its no-interface approach and clever use of camera angles to script the player. I have never seen a game script coming alive so strongly, it was like playing a movie. But Monkey Island re-pixelated? Although I played it on my iPad and switch back and forth between old-new renderings, I would expect these wonderful minds to be more inventive than nostalgic when producing something new.
eBay could file a Motion to Dismiss like you suggest, but they actually have a dog in this fight - because if sellers suing buyers over feedback becomes common practice that could have a chilling effect on eBay transactions. Without seeing the pleading I am assuming this is only a libel claim, eBay may be better off filing a Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings and get the case dismissed as to both parties and not just themselves.
Old logo: http://i.imgur.com/ge0P400.jpg
My bank in Sweden does (Swedbank), so it's not a US-only thing. They even have an iPhone app for it.
New Era Introduces Caps Celebrating Your 8-Bit Heros
Can someone explain to me how a $99 computer can have 45ghz of processing power, but an i7 costs 3x that for 1/10th that clock speed? What does this $99 miss out on that my i7 has the capability of doing?
PA has never been cheap...
But encouraging free apps is such a backwards way of doing this. The free apps are (usually) crap, not the one you have to pay for!
I believe they saw it as a conflict. It could have just been my application, though. Might work if another team took a run at it.
for me it sounds like it's what you do when you start your own company, not when you get hired by one.

does it take applying the name 'startup' to any company to embrace all that awesomeness in contrast to being hired by a company that doesn't meet this definition? I'm asking seriously. taking into account that 90% of startups fail in one way or the other, how is exactly working in an unknown unsuccessful young company such a strong career booster?
3 views (I had 2 views last time and got rejected, so I'm not sure it matters too much)
They may not know if CC info was taken or not.
What's new in Ruby 2.0 [SlideShare]
Intel’s dilemma and the slowly crumbling PC ecosystem
Order the modifiers to maximize the product of their successive restrictive effects.

Can you explain this? A lot of the discussion here seems to be based on the fact that the problem is with interpreting the importance of an adjective in relation to others written out in succession (attached to a noun). Then comes the way it flows in speech.

The general 'rule' (for a lack of a better term), as far as I can tell, is interpreting the importance/value of each adjective, and, thus, recommends a placement order. This importance is based on customary usage.

If you mean to say that we should place superlatives ahead of all adjectives, what if the modifiers include more than one superlative? E.g., the greatest, darkest horse. To give another example: the most beautiful, darkest horse. More than one permutation seem to work. Doesn't this undermine any inherent value one order may have over another?

Also, what does 'impotent' mean? Effective? Isn't this begging the question? If it does mean 'effective', then aren't you essentially saying the order recommended is the most effective because it is the most effective? So, that begs the question: why is it more effective than any other order? And what is effective in terms of adjective order? Fluidity (in terms of pronunciation)? Or physicality/nature of the attributes (black vs. white, etc.)? Or something different altogether?

The way I see it, there is very little rhyme and reason in the order of adjectives. There is no intrinsic value in brick modern house or modern brick house. The rules were created based on arbitrary custom/tradition. But now we are getting into semantics, which really complicates everything.

My apologies if I'm way off here.
WhatsApp: Bigger Than Twitter?
> It doesn't look as if they card information was stored in compliance with PCI-DSS

Why do you say that?

The requirements are basically to use strong encryption, only store those encrypted numbers on a system not accessible from the public internet, have auditable access controls and logs, and have a procedure for keeping systems up-to-date. The last 4 digits of the card are not subject to the same requirements as the full account number. All of that doesn't prevent the scenario that happened playing out -- someone gets into an internet-connected server, then can connect from there to the database server with the encrypted credit card numbers.
Old: http://i.imgur.com/ge0P400.jpg

New: https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/72919/381606/fffdd290-a5e2...

https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/72919/381609/0cf7be70-a5e3...
Higgs data could spell trouble for leading Big Bang theory
A big point of Google Now is it scrapes what you view in browser and uses that (web history) to determine what it should show you as cards.

I'm not sure why you'd expect local pages to be treated any differently in terms of extracting signals to feed into the model of what is of interest to you to be shown in Now.
...the obvious conclusion being that it would be appropriate for me to tell people to stop talking about the boston marathon so we could discuss the Mariners game that happened on Sunday.
Chris Oakman gave a talk to the houston.js group last month on his implementation of an industrial strength autocomplete.js library. Several groups at his company, PROS (http://www.pros.com/) were hitting the same limitations in the available autocomplete libraries, so Chris wrote a new library from scratch.

http://oakmac.com/Introducing-AutoCompleteJS/slides.html
How to Automate Your Phone for Every Room in the House with NFC Tags
You can just use pinboard.in for this, though pinboard.in is like pinterest for introverts (except it's just better).
> It shouldn't matter how much or how little the US Government is paying them, the point is that if the US was willing to trust them in sensitive situations, they should also trust them to enough to grant them a Visa.

You state this as if its a fact. It's not.

Just because A is true does not indicate that B is true.
Google Glass Tech specs
If you've Googled these stocks/companies then they will show up on a Google Now card. Chrome has nothing to do with it, except maybe that you are more likely to be signed in when using Chrome.
I can see why they changed it. Their old one wasn’t a logo (type excluded), it was an illustration.
I wrote this component and if anyone has any questions or comments I'd be happy to answer them :)
> I am not confident in this explanation, and still don't know why green over blue.

I'm not sure either, but I can tell you that if you examine digitized (RGB) 35mm film -- across all 35mm film stocks -- the blue channel is the most noisy.

So my guess is: He might have chosen green over blue due to the blue channel being noisier.
A great thing would be an experience where she meets a business woman that shares her interest. Shadowing a professional would be more influential than a book.

Does she know what she wants to do? Perhaps she can visit businesses and meet real professional women that are in those jobs. It might be inspiring or it might make her rethink what she wants to do/learn.
Rethinking Netflix for iPad
Excuse me, but I'm a twenty-something who pays Social Security and National Insurance taxes (separately, due to dual citizenship) because I actually want these programs to be there for me and my whole generation when I/we get old. You think a generation who graduated school into huge debts and busted wages are going to have fat 401k accounts to retire on?
> Context is important.

In written languages without word breaks, there's a particular problem with figuring out where one word stops and another begins; I would offer that this is a related problem to this adjective ordering problem.

In practice, with adequate experience, a party who is not trying to be intentionally confusing will generally avoid constructions he knows to be ambiguous.
Researchers Finally Replicated Reinhart-Rogoff, and There Are Serious Problems
The word "moonshot" is close to the truth, yet there are strategies to overcome the adoption threshold. That was precisely the topic of my PhD dissertation, and I concur that the Adapteva guys have chosen a sound approach.

But Epiphany is not a dataflow architecture, and suffers from execution efficiency problems in individual cores. Dataflow is really the way to go to lower energy consumption dramatically.

Funny this topic comes up. It just happens the EU has recently invested in such a project to co-design a dataflow processor and software stack. It was north of a million euros for the initial proof-of-concept research, and the results are slowly starting to trickle through.

Some references:

- http://staff.science.uva.nl/~poss/pub/poss.12.dsd.pdf
- http://staff.science.uva.nl/~poss/pub/poss.13.micpro.pdf

(I am one of the authors; ping me for more information)
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I only want to know one thing. How fast can it mine Bitcoins?! I feel like that's the new "...but can it run Crysis?"
Sure, they may bother to file a motion for judgement instead.

But eBay has a near 0% chance of losing here, the safe harbor is very clear. Given how little eBay tries to protect anyone but eBay already, I can't see why they would ever stay in this voluntarily.
Because you are usually given the chance to learn vast amounts of various skills. At most jobs, your opportunities for learning new things or playing new roles is limited.
Then you have a naive view of the world around you. Many things suck in other countries that you just don't notice in The Netherlands.

Also, viewing your country as great has nothing to do with rightwing ideology. I do not for a second think that past immigration laws have done anything to degrade The Netherlands as a great country.

Also, immigration laws (PVV's main issue) have nothing to do with rightwing ideology, it is merely associated with it due to conservationists often being right wing. Hitler for example was famous for his dislike of immigrants and also was a leftist.

Also, please don't post dumb assumptions over other peoples ideologies on public websites..
Spring cleaning ubuntu.com
Yep. I believe that's also true of Chip-and-PIN transactions. The liability is shifted onto the consumer to keep their PIN secret.
There was a site, I can't find it now, that had the anonymized question data for sale but I think it was $20K or in that ballpark. Also I think they do license the data to universities upon request. E.g. siepr.stanford.edu/system/files/shared/Piskorski-SIEPR.pdf
That's a good point. Maybe this issue affects hobbyist developers more than anyone, but I think that's where the most innovative apps will come from.
Is it just me, or are big-ticket gambles no longer viable in today's Valley culture? The article mentions that "Ultra local services like Uber, Lyft, Instacart, ZeroCater, Chewse, etc. are raising more cash than world domination disruptive ideas." Add this to an underwhelming W13 Demo Day in terms of said WORLD DOMINATION and I'm starting to wonder if investors are losing their edge.

There's plenty of opportunity for truly revolutionary disruption in all sorts of sectors. I just don't hear about it. As someone with disruptive ideals (but outside the valley) am I just being paranoid or is there really a problem?
Microsoft aims at Amazon with Azure virtual Windows (and Linux) IaaS
He says "You have a choice." And lists two possibilities, one of which is dumb, and the other of which he wants you to pick. There are more than two possibilities, but he ignores those. That is a false dilemma.

And no, he and I don't agree. I think it is fine to be a confident, competent engineer. But I think one should then use that power to create a fairer world. The notion that to get respect you can't point out problems with the existing system is a sign that the system is sick.
I did a git pull this morning, and it's working now.
Your welcome =)

Btw, the standard at my school is to do 5 hours as sign up, then do one hour tutoring sessions (and sometimes the odd two hour session). It's kind of nice so you have a commitment and people will be more likely to show up and continue tutoring than waste their money and your time waiting for them to show. Once again good luck with everything, I'm sure you will be successful since you're planning this out well!
I see the prices are in euros by default, do you aim for an UK-only audience or worldwide?

You probably improve other things first, but maybe you could switch the currency shown (and maybe date settings, etc.) according to geolocation of the users' IP or something.

I agree with IanDrake that the site looks like a lot of text, which might put people off, and probably decrease the conversion rate.

My very first, unfiltered impression is that it's polished but not "world class".

Comparing to "Basecamp Breeze" (is that your competition?), Basecamp's has:

- a very friendly image greeting you (I think it's better than too much text)

- pricing clearly as the 2nd item, in US dollars

- a link to a video

I like your Plancake start page a lot better :) , btw you need to make the images in your page (http://www.danyuki.com/) clickable
I still don't understand the policy of editors changing post titles here. The original title was "Mike Pall (LuaJIT) on programming language design". Maybe "Ramblings on languages and architectures" like the original posting is better, but I don't see the win in removing the author's name from it. After all, the reason we're all initially interested is that these thoughts are from Mike Pall, author of perhaps the most impressive dynamic language JIT.
So they violated the whole "only store those encrypted numbers on a system not accessible from the public internet" part.
I'm in New York, and the Bay Area might be very different, but my startup experiences were devastating for my career.

In one case, after I resigned because I refused to commit perjury, the CEO (from a well-known, rich family) embarked on a months-long campaign to ruin my reputation.

You don't get a worse position than you were eligible for before you did the startup, but if you don't have the credibility that comes with a successful exit, you don't get anything better either, which means you're overqualified for the subordinate roles into which you'll be placed, and thus less likely to be successful.

I wish it were a better world, but the truth is that there is such a thing in programming as being too good at your job, and startups are a way to end up with that problem. Sure, you learn a lot, but being learned without credibility is worse than being the idiot everyone thinks you are, because you don't get in as much conflict if you don't know anything.
When Google categorization fails
We were tweaking the UX for that part just before posting to HN. Thanks for the input - we'll definitely look into changing this to make it more intuitive.
Why Recent Graduates Should Join a Startup, Pt. I | DD
I much prefer lowercase as well. I wonder if a not-insignificant proportion of their target market was pronouncing it as "jih thub".
I don't know. Something about it just feels invasive. It probably doesn't help that the Now card was not useful at all to me. I noticed that they scraped my gmail for an OpenTable reservation confirmation a while back and notified me when it was time to leave. That also felt creepy, but I didn't mind as much because it was useful.
No you idiot. I was replying to rmc when he said Breivik was a lone nut job. I gave another example of McVeigh, who was definitely not a lone nut job, and pointed out that the same rule applies. And so the McVeigh example invalidates rmc's point by itself. Are you really that stupid that you keep missing the point?
Why does everything have to be its own youtube video?
For example, we would prefer "modern brick house" to "brick modern house" because, in the second ordering, [brick modern _] is about the same as [brick _], making the second term in

This bit makes no sense to me. Are you assuming that most brick houses are modern? Or that most modern houses are made of brick? How do you describe a brick house in the colonial style? Craftsman? Greek Revival? I dont even want to think about Brick Gothic...
> I disagree completely - the code is awesome and has built billion dollar industries and has made most peoples lives better.

It shipped. That doesn't prove your point. Code that is expensive to produce and ships is better than no code at all. That doesn't mean that this is the best way to produce code.

What exactly do you think is awesome about the code?

> I, personally, would be more than happy to have produced the 'crap' BSD code that has propelled Apple into one of the most valuable companies today.

I did produce some of that code.

Nothing that you're saying justifies why producing worse code, less efficiently, is better than producing good code, more efficiently. Your position assumes a false dichotomy where the choice is between shipping or not shipping.

The truth of the matter is that the legacy approach to software development used in those industries has more to do with the historical ignorance of better practices and the resulting modern cultural and technical constraints. In the era that most of that code was originally architected, it was also normal to write C programs with all globals, non-reentrant, and non-thread-safe. Are you going to claim that this is also the best way to write code, just because it produced some mainstays of our industry?
> I have no idea how you can say that helping people in one area "has nothing to do with" helping people in another.

That one's easy: what tangible benefit will people suffering from the events of the Boston Marathon get from a donation to Watsi? None? Then it has nothing to do with it.

People are indeed suffering the world over. Objectively it would be better if people who want to do something donated to Watsi instead of wringing their hands, praying/sending thoughts, and reloading cnn.com. But people are not objective and trying to steal this kind of attention for your own cause is highly insensitive.

Also, it comes off as crass and tasteless and generally won't work. Except on people who can keep their objectivity in this situation, which categorically aren't the ones pg is trying to reach. So this is crass, tasteless, highly insensitive, and ineffective.
I have an Android app that lets developers discover Android libraries and run their demos. I have been thinking about adding some Xamarin samples but am unsure if it would be worth my time. I don't have a good feel for how many C# developers there are who want to write mobile apps.