skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is ultimately it. LinkedIn is now a large business, with a very large technology team. That they can spend the time and effort to optimize each platform should surprise absolutely no one.

But does it apply to you and me? In most cases, not even remotely.

I was recently involved with a team building a pretty amazing, full-featured web app (in the investor information space). Out of the pure magic of HTML, most of the app worked brilliantly not only on the desktop, but on the iPad, iPhone, Android devices, and so on. There were small edge issues, but overall it was simply brilliant, and for an investor on the go they could easily get an up to date snapshot of their portfolio with dynamic graphics, etc. It was a complete win for the web.

Yet even there a narrative erupted where some people pushed hard for native apps. That this tiny team of six developers that apparently needed to fracture to start building iOS, Android, etc, clients. It was utter insanity, and of course LinkedIn and Facebook both appeared as if they were the benchmarks we should follow ("See, they abandoned HTML! So should we").

Sure, if you have the resources of LinkedIn and Facebook, feel confident making those decisions. For the rest of us, HTML5 is pretty fracken amazing.
Pinch to zoom isn't that applicable on mobile-optimised webapps. If you have a fixed header on the top of the page what would pinch to zoom do? Make the header bigger? Or would it ignore the header and just zoom in on the body content?
As long as you don't combine it with other words you should be fine. In my example, Realist referred to "racial realism". I chose a relatively subtle example because many of them I find repulsive to even type, but a less subtle username I've seen about the place is "ChuckSpears". That's the kind of thing I'm talking about.
Original source: http://www.bonkersworld.net/building-software/
I don't believe it is a commodity as it has no inherent use other than as a currency based on the value people are willing to give it. Gold (and almost anything with a physical presence) is obviously a commodity as it has a use (for making stuff) other than its value.

BitCoin only has a use because of a value associated with it and so it is a currency.
Well said, there is a difference between website and web app. It's a hard line to find, but there is a big difference between Gmail and Hacker News.
Congrats to you and your team, Shri! I just read about FlightCar in TechCrunch. Very neat idea, and I look forward to seeing how everything goes!
I got that site was 21st century the moment I got "Our videos are not licensed to be viewed in your country"!

Totally 21st century like Netflix and Hulu. :/
I would suggest that it is both, as I don't think the two are mutually exclusive, and with the way commodity and currency exchanges operate the lines are definitely blurred.

As for your particular examples; commodities have always been used as a means of purchase whether by way of trade, barter or as a currency substitute (gold, silver, etc). The trade of commodities are protected by law. And currency volatility ranges with some currencies being highly stable and others hugely volatile, more so than most commodities.

So trying to bucket bitcoin like this doesn't seem to be worthwhile. I think the better discussion would be whether or not bitcoin should actually hold any value.
Apart from the utopian idea of cross-European connections between people, I wonder how difficult it would be to achieve such a realtime full-size videoconferencing system.

Considering it should allow public communication as well as private talks (like in the real life as drew in the video), I thought it would require some sort of distributed mic/camera/speakers over the wall surface.

And you would still need to sort out the bandwith/latency issues.
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I am not saying that paying for it isnt a good thing. But it wont make much difference to the creator of Trello and wont impact the lifespan of Trello all that much. They can afford to shut it down whenever they want or to keep it running for as long as they want.
That's brilliant! Are you sure you wouldn't consider providing an updated 'top 100' list as a service to anyone who felt they could use them in some hitherto-unknown way?

Also, hope it's not a sore point, but are Google still being unreasonable about the citations on your site? If so, is there anyone from Google reading this that can have a look into this for him? It seems a bit unfair (to say the least) that a dictionary is penalized for citing sources, surely that's just responsible editorial! (Link with some info if you're interested http://onlineslangdictionary.com/pages/google-panda-penalty/)
I honestly cannot understand why a post that is essentially saying, 'look, we spent money, because we are awesome'.
This is not why I come to HN.
> To your browser, it's exactly the same as the rest of the WWW.

You don't use your own browser for Tor, you use the Tor Browser, unless you're trying not to protect yourself.
The problem is it's dependent on the runtime. A debugging tool for Chrome, wouldn't necessarily work in Safari or IE.

You need the runtime vendors to provide them. Chrome has been really good at this, but are there tools for mobile Safari, Android browser, IE10 or mobile Chrome etc
This is a good explanation http://lesswrong.com/lw/ix/say_not_complexity/
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>One way around this is to ensure that energy prices continue to increase so that efficiency gains don't lead to increased overall energy consumption. That means some kind of green tax - preferably something designed to be revenue neutral via equivalent cuts to, say, income tax.

The key is that it doesn't have to be "energy prices" but only "unsustainable energy" prices, i.e. fossil fuels. And then you have your method of making the tax revenue neutral: Tax fossil fuel, use the money to subsidize non-fossil energy. Result is that net energy prices don't rise by very much, but they shift away from fossil fuels and toward sustainable energy.

You can control how fast this happens just by adjusting the amount of the tax. And yes, imposing an immediate 10000% tax on oil would get people to stop using it very quickly indeed, but a somewhat more gradual phase out may be less disruptive -- a 50% tax, for example, with a promise to raise it even more as time passes to encourage people to buy electric cars and corporations to stop wasting money looking for new deposits of fossil fuels.
The type system.
For highly subjective definitions of "better", that is.
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Why are you not using Design by Contract?
Not being disrespectful or rude, but a (big)group of people like these will surely make a difference.
> how many of those people frequent games that have cheerleaders?

Probably none, and that's the point. In the UK we don't (usually) have cheerleaders. Therefore people don't go to games that have cheerleaders. Therefore when they see cheerleaders they think "What? Why are these scantily clad, nubile females flouncing around?"

Because the UK culture doesn't have cheerleading (in this sense) they have no other context for it, and so it's interpreted - probably purely subconsciously - as having sexual overtones.
Sorry, I think I worded that confusingly. By 'what does the app do?' I meant more along the lines of 'how much would a front-end client tax the technical limitations of a smart phone?', so that is the hypothetical question I was answering. I'm not insinuating that linkedin is a simple service in terms of what info people might want to store on a database about each other.
Good luck with your startup guys. Obviously it's a small market, but the world is just waiting for better educational resources. Do you have any plans to expand and offer more topics? I could see your startup being a kind of premium wikipedia.
Maybe that is partly the case. For the sake of argument lets say for a moment that it is at it's root a sociological problem. If you know you have this sociological problem where thousands of people are killed using guns on almost a monthly basis, why are you so insistent that these guns must be available to allow that to happen?

Why insist that this 'sociological problem' of mass killing be allowed to express itself using as powerful and efficient a means as possible? Are you really suggesting that if the guns went away, that all these thousands of people would all still be killed by machettes or axes or something instead? If other means of killing are just as efficient, why protect your home with a gun? Why not use a machette or an axe?

And while we're on this subject, what's with the ban on federally funded research into a problem that's leading to so many deaths? How is that anything other than red handed evidence of the gun lobby making it perfectly clear they're not interested in evidence, or rational debate, or honest discourse, or how many people die on a daily basis so that they can hold on to their favourite toys. Why not just say that the death toll in blood is to an acceptable price they are willing in full conscience to pay so that they can keep hold of their guns?

All I see is a pretence at debate. A paper thin fig leaf of argument. Hungerford in 1987, therefore British gun laws have no effect on rates of gun violence. No gun shops in Chicago, therefore banning gun sales nationally can have no effect rates of gun ownership or violence. Maybe it's a sociological problem - oh, well that's all right then. Lets just wash our hands of the whole problem and think about something else. Until the next horrific mass shooting. Meanwhile the body count nationally is quietly rising day, by day, by day.
This is clearly illuminating the Ponzi-like elements of Bitcoin. As in a Ponzi scheme, early arrivals to the system earn easy money, funded by later arrivals. Tales of bitcoin fortunes draw more and more entry to the system, leading to large payoffs for second stage arrivals, attracting more speculators due to the media attention and very real money that has been made by early players. This continues until, oh, wait, bitcoins aren't so easy to mine anymore and there's no new wave of incoming money to pay of the next generation of miners.

The hilarious thing is that Bitcoin is quite transparent about exactly how it works, while a real Ponzi scheme goes to great lengths to hide this dynamic. Anyone can see this dynamic in the rising price and the increasing CPU time needed to mine a new coin. And yet, brilliant, savvy investors like the Winklevosses are somehow still getting involved...
Show HN: Roger's Cable JavaScript Injection
# <head>
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# <script type="text/javascript">var version=2; var webServer="http://64.71.251.10";</script>
# <script type="text/javascript" src="http://64.71.251.10/ByteCap-075-EX-English/index.js"></script>
# <style type="text/css"></style><script type="text/javascript" src="http://64.71.251.10/manager.js"></script>
# <script type="text/javascript" src="http://64.71.251.10/bulletin.js"></script>
# <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://64.71.251.10/default.css">
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### http://64.71.251.10/ByteCap-075-EX-English/index.js

document.writeln('<script type="text/javascript" src="' + (webServer) + '/manager.js"></script>');
function Bulletin(tags)
{ if (nesting(tags)) return;
setCSS("default.css");
closeMode = 2;
bgv_tier = "Extreme Plus";
bgv_lang = "English";
bgv_rate = "75";
bgv_cap = "150";
bgv_cost = "1.25";
bgv_max = "100.00";

document.open();
document.writeln(' <DIV style="visibility:hidden;" id="bdiv">');
document.writeln(' <TABLE class="tableresults2">');
document.writeln(' <TR>');
document.writeln(' <TD align="left" class="rogers4"><img src=\'' + (webServer + webFilesDir) + 'Rogers.jpg\' alt="Logo"></TD>');
document.writeln(' </TR>');
document.writeln(' <TR>');

... full thing here http://pastebin.com/G67vSaZx
"Internet famous" still involves actual humans being aware of your existence. This guy just bought some Twitter followers, posted a fake Wikipedia article, and then arbitrarily declared his alter ego internet famous. Color me unimpressed.

He could have at least tried to do something with this alter ego to test if his manufactured "fame" could withstand the slightest bit of human scrutiny. Instead, all he proved is that websites like Kred use faulty algorithms to measure social media influence.

At least we learned one thing, though: Kred is preying on giant companies like Procter & Gamble and Budweiser that still can't grasp the concept of social media.
In that context it means Finite State Transducer.

Basically it is a FSM (Finite State Machine) that generates an output depending on its input.

I don't think you lose too much meaning of his sentence if you replace FST by Turing Machines (the more usual comparison to lambda-calculus).
People who can.
He asked for advantages ;)
If you don't mind less app integration, I'd suggest giving Cubby [1] a try.

It has most of the Dropbox features with 5 GB of free space and killer feature of making anything a cubby, just draf and drop any folder on desktop app and to sync it automatically.

1: http://cubby.com
Do also bear in mind that Fogcreek haven't always stuck to their word on how they will keep their systems up and running (see thread [1] in story [2]).

No company, or service/facility that a company states will stick around, is guaranteed to stick around. Trawl back through the archives on HN and you'll find tale after tale of (previously) reputable companies backtracking, cancelling projects, going bust etc.

Make sure you always keep hold of your data!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4722056
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4721028
Just to be sure, both public and private server can be exit node? In other words, by default a public server is not an exit node?
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I have used Chronon for several weeks during a very strange project. The project was about integrating a highly complex financial system in our own infrastructure. The challenging part about this financial system was that it was written in a multitude of languages (Java, Perl, C, C++, ...) and that it had to communicate with external services and it had hard timeouts built in which were enforced externally. So if something went wrong and I wanted to find out I had only 20 seconds in the debugger to find out because then the timeouts would kick in and there was nothing I could do about it. With Chronon I was able to step through the code after it had already run with no time constraints. Saved me weeks...

Chronon is also useful to find all thrown exceptions - even the ones who are catched properly.

I am not an employee of Chronon Systems and I only used their tool once but it helped a lot.
Hi! Trello Dev here! Could you change the Business Class link to point to https://trello.com/c/2A9OEGta for now? That would allow people to sign up for the beta, and the current link doesn't work unless you're already approved for the beta.

(I'm currently changing the business-class route to redirect you to that card if you don't have access.)

Thanks for the kind words about Trello, we're glad you like it!
Yeah, but then again I love occasionally coming across the rant of some angry dev in source comments (see http://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/ for an analysis of profanity in the linux kernel source).

Compare that with the source of Win2k (http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/2/15/71552/7795) where there were apparently "a dozen or so "fucks" and "shits", and hundreds of "craps"."

It seems greater stability is achieved when devs are allowed to express themselves in comments.
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If it becomes more widely accepted to purchase tangible goods and services, do you think the value will continue to swing wildly?

In some aspects, I would think that would moderate the pricing, since at the moment it's not good for that much else for most people other than speculation and cashing in/out as needed.
It is only good for people who are good at negotiating or want to get good at it. There exists another class of people who consider salary negotiations fundamentally unfair and have no desire to get better at them.

Negotiation is stressful, a waste of time and not interesting at all for many software developers. It would just be better for the public good for no salary negotiations to take place, because people would worry less about being underpaid. Less stress is almost always good for work productivity. And there will be more justice.

Just have clear salary guidelines for every engineer level. Levels would be public and so would be salaries, bonuse, stock grants and performance reviews.
Just to be clear, I was talking about girls that are around 6-10 years old. And I absolutely do not see this as an excuse for approaching them sexually in any way (let alone worse). Despite their outfit and make-up it's patently clear that they are children not adults. I just find it very weird to see that they want this, allowed and perhaps even encouraged by their parents. It's understandable that children want to be older, the weird thing is the sexualized way this is done.
Flawless explanation. As a somewhat beginner to python i must give my thanks !
a good introduction - I would like to hear more about deployment with virtualenv though - is it expected that you just document any packages with requirements.txt and then you would create the virtualenv in the deployment target and set everything up again? Or can you "package" a virtualenv for deployment?
Bring to mind the classic Fark example of "a bit chilly". Fark's swear filter removes spaces to hunt for disallowed words...
They are probably either lying or incompetent.

If they really had no access, then their server cannot do any "analysis" beyond storing it, and the app could as well just store it locally, or with Amazon S3 or whatever storage system the website already uses.

Obviously not everything is encrypted, or otherwise they don't realize that there is no reason for them to provide a simple storage service, considering most websites already have some way to store data.

Or maybe they want to hold the data hostage.
If you would just think a little bit, you would realize that negotiation is not a technical skill.
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The meaning of your comment isn't particularly clear. Monsanto (and other GM crop developers) have tweaked their product. They've played with the genetics to make it roundup resistant or give it other desirable characteristics. They're pretty open about that.

To argue that GM crops have health implications for humans is to argue that GM crops contain harmful chemicals at levels higher than their natural counterparts. As far as I'm aware, there's no evidence pointing towards this. Genetic modifications made to crops are done with a particular purpose in mind, and normally only involve very slight modifications to the existing crop's genetic makup. Given how widely distributed GM crops are and the level of scrutiny applied to the process, any harmful chemicals introduced as a result of the GM process would be noticed.
I found this on bitcointalk re: zerocoin:

"Zerocoin would give you this incredible privacy guarantee, then we could add on some features which let the police, for instance, to be able to track money laundering. A back door."

From http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2013/03/bitcoin...
Which app do you use?

I prefer writing but every app out there is either too buggy and slow or too bad with wrist detection. Penultimate is closest to perfect but lacks a wrist pad that does not respond to touches. Though its auto sync is unmatchable and so is text search.
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Gold's practical value is a small fraction of it's going price.

Bitcoin has some utility value in being a digital good that you can reliably exchange with someone, essentially instantly, over the internet, with no middle-man, for a very low cost.

Sure, this might seem like a trivial value, but I think it's value nonetheless, and overpricing of something like that is not unprecedented.
Hi, my name is Johannes. I'm also part of kenHub. Just wanted to mention here that even though your background might not be in the medical field and you don't have to learn anatomy, you propably know people who are. So you could spread the word over the known channels about us. This would help us a lot.
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It is almost impossible to prove this, and it would constitute as slander. However, what I wanted to achieve is happening. Other people are comming forward with their own personal experiences and pointing out different services.

https://www.facebook.com/goran.duskic/posts/1020050244097859...

After all, this is companies blog, and we can help you build competing services, so I cant really accuse anyone publicly of wrong doing.
Sometimes I do think a little bit. :)

I didn't say it's a technical skill - but it is a human skill, that can be learned.
Can't even read google groups without JS now.
Playing with it now and it seems pretty good. The trending chart is obviously full of the usual suspects (Psy is #1 right now). The emerging chart is actually quite good. I haven't heard of anyone on it but already heard a few good songs. The suggested chart (based on artists on you follow which the app finds automatically when you link your Twitter account) is also quite good. It's finding me tracks by artists I know but haven't heard in a while and a few new ones too.

The play interface is a bit clunky. I've already accidentally switched to the next track and there doesn't seem to be a way to seek so when I went back I had to start the previous track from the beginning again.

The app makes sharing what you're listening to pretty easy and includes a link to the track on the music service you've linked your account with (Spotify or Rdio).

Search is a bit funny. It says 'search for artists' but really just returns a list of twitter users matching your search term. I could see twitter introducing some sort of artist account. It can't be that hard to verify an artists authenticity through checking if they have music on Rdio, Spotify, or iTunes.

It seems like it could be a good service and is soemthing that will be useful to me immediately but they do have a few things (mainly the playback interface and search) to work out.

Edit: The website is now live: https://music.twitter.com
Negotiation IS bad. Why would a thing that most people have aversion be considered good? There must be strong reasons for it to be good for the median employee, and there is none.
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I see what you mean now.

I misunderstood the meaning from your original posting - I thought you meant that the CTO should get paid the same as a junior programmer should get paid the same as a janitor.
jqMobi and jQuery Mobile are two very different things. Despite "jq" in the name, jqMobi is not jQuery (or jQuery Mobile) compatible. It has a similar syntax and implements a subset of features, but even the APIs with the same names are not always fully compatible.

My main question would be whether there is a long-term commitment to jqMobi by Intel. For something with Intel's name on it, the project pages have an embarrassing number of spelling and grammar errors. [1] I don't see a lot of contributors to the repo [2] and the unit tests haven't been updated in 3 months despite quite a bit of recent activity in the repo.

[1] http://app-framework-software.intel.com/
[2] https://github.com/01org/appframework

[Edit: I should say I'm on the jQuery team]
It's pretty much like forms based auth which is used by virtually every user facing web site with a login, wherein the data you send over is plaintext.

And as we know, that needs to be done over TLS.