skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the overlooked part of this, once we step back from the natural desire to pick 'the best', is that people who care about the platforms are providing a vast set of starting examples for people looking to get started on each network. Its easy to do a side by side comparison of similar tasks across languages which is something that is very valuable and, in my experience, relatively novel. Thanks for all your amazing work!
As a fellow mechanical engineer, that's exactly why my co-founder and I launched SupplyBetter.com. Our goal is to match you with the right supplier to make what you need. Especially when it comes to engineering-grade requirements, service bureaus specializing in additive manufacturing provide immense value. When desktop 3D printers can reach the consistency, accuracy, and detail of commercial printers we'll be more than happy to embrace them as well.
A nice follow up to this would be NATing external access from all dynos (web and worker) for an application through a single unique IP per app. That way external resources (eg your app's database) can be white listed by IP. One of the reasons the major Postgres bug last month was so bad for DBaaS providers (like Heroku Postgres) was that most leave inbound access totally open. That's great when you're first getting started as you don't need to explicitly configure firewall settings but it's terrible for production.

I'm not sure how economical it is to provide this for the free tier though I think a paid option would be viable. AWS charges $3.60/IP/month so it's not that expensive and I'm sure there are plenty of folks who would pay $10, $20, or even $50/month for a unique outbound address.
That's the kind of disruptive thinking we're trying to disrupt. With disruption.
I'm incredibly frustrated by the lack of command line dev tools for iOS. For example using adb with Android, I can stop a running app, clear all of its data and start it again. I can push and pull files and can dissect the internal state as a result.

I do find various unmaintained tools for iOS as they generally use undocumented and changing backends.

My current biggest need is to grab and put files in the app sandbox. There are several gui tools that can do it like i-funbox, but absolutely nothing that is automatable. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15980545/command-line-acc...
This is a great update. It makes me think that it was also a big Facebook business update that they have had. It obviously is just like Facebook tagging, in that sense, so I could see how it was probably a huge feature request to integrate it into their Instagram product.

I wonder if you start seeing some more Facebook media concepts transfer over to the Instagram product. Stuff like creating albums, doing videos (to compete with Vine, especially), etc.
What happened to those who didn't turn down a $100M offer. They are now sitting in their luxury home and watching TV.
There is nothing to argue here really. The two little Wall Street Journal drawn bobble heads of two billionaires borne of the professional class can tell you that. They, the 1%, have their interests, and people such as myself, who work and create wealth, have our interests. Were American workers, or even Indian workers, consulted about how this visa be set up? Of course not. It was created by the myrmidons of the idle class to further their interests.

There is no argument. Do you think these billionaires argue among themselves whether to stuff their pockets or let working people keep the weath they create? This is not like scientists together debating quantum mechanics theories to seek the truth. This is a struggle over how the pie is divided up. People don't state arguments, any statement they make is just one of which faction they're in, a worker creating wealth, or some heir (or proxy of that heir) who owns a lot of Facebook and Google stock. This web site is owned by people proclaiming themselves with the word capitalists, "venture" capitalists. Obviously it will reflect in this way, although there are a lot of programmers who come here and discuss C and Lisp and JavaScript and so forth as well.

Obviously this professionally done graphic has a lot of nonsense in it, and all of this has been debunked over and over, and one can read Norm Matloff and others to see this. I'll just do the first point as more is a waste of my time. The first graphic says "college-educated workers in any occupation, 22-64". Well first off, this is very bogus - college educated workers go into all professions, but H1-Bs go into professions like IT. They don't make the chart showing what the degrees of people in IT and correlated industries are because then more Americans would have Masters. Also it is again in all industries and shows US 41.4 and H1-B 32 for age. I'm sure if you correlated for age, the US age would be younger. And so just as a product of age, more younger Americans would have a college degree as older workers have a less of a chance of having an advanced degree. The chart cheats by comparing H1Bs in IT etc. to all college-edcuated Americans who are in less education focused professions and who are also older then in IT. The rest of the infographic is bogus like this but you can read Norm Matloff and others if you wish.
> I'm not a designer, I'm a developer and I am struggling to understand the reasoning behind that slider.

I'm not a designer either, but I know that what you seem to call a "slider" is a "carousel".
Porting BlackBerry Z10 Apps to the Q10
Node favours concurrency over raw speed; calls deferred with process.nextTick and callbacks end up costing time, in exchange for better concurrency. I think a blocking driver could leave Ringo in the dust, but it would be useless.
If H1-B's are far more educated than the average American, but only paid slightly more on average, doesn't that mean the H1-B's are underpaid?
> Yet though Oslo considered the Italian garbage, it preferred to stick with what it said was the cleaner and safer English waste. “It’s a sensitive question,” Mr. Mikkelsen said.

This is literally the most intriguing thing in my life right now. What a tease. Does anyone have insight into why Italian garbage is less safe?
Reminds me of the iOS Podcasts App, except not quite as bad.
> First, if you raise $36M, getting acquired for $100M could very well mean next to nothing for common stock holders.

The operative word here is "could". It also "could" mean they make $60M.
There must be one of those standard quippy hacker "laws" about the usefulness of new conceptual term being directly correlated to the rate that it will be diluted into meaninglessness in the hands of progressively declining foodchain of marketing goons.
Damn, we were shooting for 20x as rude - algorithm must be on the fritz again. Have you been going online less frequently as of late?

Your input matters to us! botbully.JoSh uses your grievances to better pinpoint and exploit your areas of weakness over time.
I browsed a bunch of random weebly-made sites. They seem fairly nicely designed.. but this jumped out:

For many of the themes used: rather than showing photos the way that has been done since like 1994, with an <img> tag pointing to a jpeg image that is being downloaded and progressively decoded and painted.. there's some javascript that displays a loading spinner until the image has been fully downloaded.. then it shows the image.

It's quite annoying. The spinner attracts your attention in a bad way.

Visible e.g. here, on some of their showcase sites:

http://www.chairigami.com/

http://www.theorganicgallery.com/
One step closer to a portable midi-chlorian detector.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2322696

(I feel older now to realize I've been on here for two years, long enough to remember the previous submission)
"without having to go through working with a wed dev agency"

Depends on what you consider a website of course. Do you remember the "download Netscape Now!" days?

http://sillydog.org/netscape/banner.html
"Runs the same tests as Xcode.app."

If this works, it's huge. Mad excited about this.
I haven't seen one yet, but dmor does do a pretty interesting analysis blog of startups thats likely interesting to investors.
>Innovation loves support. When innovation is supported, you get more innovation.

The same thing can be said for mediocrity and outright regressions.

>people say things in online commentary that they wouldn't say face to face.

This is definitely often true, but not usually. I'm nicer online than I am in person, because in person I can smile, apologize, and make goofy faces to blunt honest criticism. Online, all I have is smileys and exclamation points, which make you read like a wide-eyed idiot, but don't always make you read like a nice wide-eyed idiot:)
Louis CK touched upon this in his "Oh MY God" show on HBO. Empirically speaking, people tend to act with less accountability when they're inside of cars, behind protective barriers, including the internet.
The Drowning - Coming soon for iPad & iPhone
Facebookification of Instagram, and it brings a neat feature. It makes Instagram more social... Now I can see my mom using Instagram.
Garantia Data Named “Cool Vendor” by Gartner, Inc. 
In-memory computing vendors selected for the “Cool Vendor” report are innovative, impactful and intriguing
The quality of the applicant's educational institution is taken into account by USCIS/DoL. The applicant provides a statement from a US education assessor as to the quality and scope of their non-US degrees.

For example someone with a 4 year Computer Science degree from a disreputable foreign university might only be able to claim equivalence with a US Associate Bachelors in Information Systems degree rather than a 4 year US CS degree.

While it's always fraught to compare educational institutions from across the world, the United States at least acknowledges that it isn't a trivial problem when assessing visa applications.
Self-imposed is an interesting phrase. Interesting anecdote: http://www.businessinsider.com/sheryl-sandberg-sitting-at-th...
I don't disagree with what you're saying, but startups are hard. There's lots of ups and downs and getting people to buy into a vision of the world is a lot more comforting when you're working long days and weekends than thinking "gee I love slight iterations for profitable/quick exits". So while I agree with you, I understand why people do it.
I agree with everything you've said here, but I'd like to add something about startup time.

If it takes you 5s to start up your server, that's a lot of time you've added to each development iteration. Make a change, restart the server, wait 5s, see if it works/check debug output.
My read is MALI GPU is the way to go in the short term. More people working on it.

GPU drivers are holding back the <$50 linux desktop in my opinion. XBMC looks nice.

Sure, android works great but that is not a desktop environment IMO.
You're welcome.

I'm sorry to be blunt, but I have a problem with misleading content, ie stuff submitted which will waste a small amount of time for a large number of people while there are obvious flaws in the reasoning.

It is not about being overtly pedantic, nerdy or showing off, but spending at least 2 minutes to think before clicking on submit - here, this 120 seconds might have brought the insight that you don't predict nothing with a 2 day graph.

I'm not saying that to bash you or to single you out - I'm spending a couple of minutes replying with the sincere hope that you will realize why it would be a better idea to have acted differently, and upvoting you in the process because at least you showed you cared by replying to your own submission.

For some people, it seems to be a "write only" forum in a karma whoring process - for all I know, it could be to spam the first page, or to attract attention. Sad.
Heads Up is a new game for iPhone developed for the Ellen Degeneres Show.
Google's Dusty Gingerbread Still Dominates Android Installs
(Disclaimer: I'm pretty new to Go). I tried Revel out a little while ago, and found it awesome at first. It felt like it could have the potential to dramatically speed up the development of Go web apps. I like the server and hotswapping features a lot, for instance.

But at the moment unfortunately I don't think it's very mature. Support for interacting with the DB, arguably the most important part of a web application, is pretty lacking IMO for something that otherwise wants to be an end-to-end solution.

In one of the examples I noticed that all kinds of interaction with the DB was being done in the Controller, not the Model. Which just seems wrong to me (at first I thought it was a "Play" framework thing, since Revel is modeled on that, but Play uses Hibernate for an ORM in its models). Also, you'll have to roll your own support for interacting with the DB using, say, gorp: https://github.com/coopernurse/gorp

That being said, robfig seems like a really cool dude, and he was responsive on github when I needed some help. The documentation is pretty great too.
Of course its a buzzword.It's the new "innovation".
When it'll wear out another one will come up.
He's probably a leftie.
It doesn't play anything on my PC, though.
The Death of Cartography and the Rise of the Machines
http://nobackend.org

http://nobackend.org/dreamcode Interesting gists of ideal code:

- user accounts / authentication https://gist.github.com/gr2m/5463426

- data persistence https://gist.github.com/gr2m/5463475

- data sharing https://gist.github.com/gr2m/5463525

- emails https://gist.github.com/gr2m/5463552

- file conversion https://gist.github.com/gr2m/5463605

- payments https://gist.github.com/gr2m/5463675

http://nobackend.org/examples

- http://css-tricks.com/editable-invoice-v2/

- http://gr2m.github.io/EditableInvoice/

http://nobackend.org/solutions < known live projects
A new detector has a clever way of detecting dark matter
Planning and budgeting software: a new conceptual approach
Rain Room lets you walk in the rain without getting wet
My sentiments exactly. I've met plenty of condescending assholes at Google but them being geeks was not the reason why they behaved like jerks.
The Computer Science Mismatch
Instagram is now Facebook Lite.
Uh...no. There's lots of cheap and shitty out there, and most of it doesn't survive because that's all it is. McDonalds, Volkswagens, PCs, VisiCalc, etc. all dominated because their "disruptiveness" overwhelmed their "cheap and shitty" - with the latter being applicable because, since nobody had done it before, they didn't really know how to do it any better or didn't have the resources to. Customers took one look at the new product, went "OMG I can't live without it", and bought into it bigtime because the benefits far outweighed the problems. Yeah, VisiCalc was nothing compared to some powerful financial modeling applications for minicomputers - IF you HAD a minicomputer which few could afford and required dedicated personnel for support, as opposed to cheap PCs and cheap software which instantly made spreadsheet software nearly as ubiquitous as spreadsheet paper.
What would the distinction be between content offered on HN vs what investors are looking for?
Great work. You just made my life so much easier. I have always wondered about finding good jquery plugins and imagined if we could find a repo like this. Here it is!! Did I say awesome ?

If you add a donate button, I will happily donate :)
They're not actually 'maximizing ad revenue.' They're usually trying to maximize pageviews. Understanding that distinction seems to be beyond a lot of the online media business these days.
Awesome. This is incredible. I have dreamed about this feature. This is the disruptive technology we need. I'm certain my 97 year old grandmother will be using Instagram now. More social. Cutting edge. Invest now people.
Visual Studio 2012 New Features of the IDE - better late than never ;-)
I have one more question, I see a number of really fat frameworks on top, if rails is faster, then it must be because it is heavily optimized and people who made it are super smart, but for example codeigniter is above slim, kohana is above fuel, like twice the speed for Fortunes test. This isn't what I would expect at all, I would also expect Rails to be below php frameworks for speed alone.

Did you use orm when it was available? Or just used raw query?

This is in line with my previous query about more usage scenarios (and thank you for fortunes test) who would be like we use them usually.

My point is, that the same reason why we use framework instead of raw language, we use orm instead of direct sql.
thats a poor comparison for the education, the average american isnt doing the same kind of work but the comparison for pay is based on the sectors of employment so they are well compensated. And many h1-bs attend undergrad in their home countries and grad school in the US to make them more appealing to US companies, so they are "more educated" because they have the masters but a masters is only 1-2 more years of school depending on the program so it isnt really a big gap.
Writing Content for Your Website
what's the address for that one ?
Why Hadoop Can and Should Move Past Bare-Metal Deployments to Virtualization
Don't Tell Me What To Do
In many cases it is as easy as relying on a gem instead of doing it yourself. Where the gem contains a c extension. Say resizing images with chunkypng vs mini_magick
Yeah, I was expecting whole exome in a few hours or something. I'm waiting for that press release still.
Funnily enough this happened with Heroku and Facebook just a couple of days ago - a bunch of apps got blocked from using the Graph API until Facebook removed the banned AWS IPs.

https://addons.heroku.com/proximo does what's needed, but at a serious price for high volume.
If you think computer technology is full of mean people, try working in finance.

Finance: saying "you fucked up" means "I respect you enough to offer honest criticism, and here's what you did that I don't like."

Tech startup: saying "you're awesome" means "I'd slit your throat for a 0.05%[0] more in equity. You're awesome because I'll get promoted at your expense."

[0] A nickel. As in, Shadow from FF6 and "He'd slit his mama's throat for..."
Is there any actual justification for viewing spacetime as being discrete, with unit 1 Planck length/time? As far as I'm aware, the Planck length is just a length you get when you multiply a load of constants together.
Practical HTTP Host header attacks
JCPenney ad apologizes for changes made by former CEO Ron Johnson
If you split a single app instance onto 15 machines, you will lose some efficiency due to network communication unless those 15 instances can work isolated without any shared data (sessions). That may not be much but worst case: you have to write that inter-machine sync code.
Creating Rest Services With Rest Easy In Web application
That's still $200,000 if I did my math right. That's a little bit more than "a nice bonus" but definitely not "FU Money". But it might just be enough cushion for somebody to quit and self-fund their own startup for a year or so. That's not a bad thing to have, if you're interested in that sort of thing.
I found a case study about Oslo's waste management strategy: http://www.c40cities.org/c40cities/oslo/city_case_studies/wa...

The study emphasizes their focus on composting for food products and recycling everything else, so a minimum of waste needs to be incinerated or dumped. Also, Oslo closed their landfill in 2007, and it seems they burn the residual gasses (methane?) for electricity, if not burning all of their old trash. The report focuses on home recycling requirements, but does not mention commercial or industrial waste, which are by far larger generators of waste.

So, it seems likely that the incinerated waste is not "in-system".
Ruby or Python are even worse (slow / big) than java these days.

I'm a ruby guy btw..
Yes, its called speculation.
You mean you don't want to drive the organizer and instruments via scripting bridge? :-p
the source is available. as a first guess: if an ORM is the typical way to do it in an env then it was used.
Simplifying Dynamic Positioning with jQuery UI - Tech.Pro
The Mafia.
They control some of the Italian garbage and you are not sure what the garbage actually contain.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/recycled/200...
http://scienceline.org/2009/09/blog-easter-mafia-toxic-waste...
I have a german blog who totally pushes this attitude forwards. It's called 1337core.de. A self-irony netculture blog. It is much about hacking, script kiddies, anonymous, fail netpolitics. Kind of stupid but my stupid thing.

But seriously i think this problem comes from the lag, that we don't see the people we are talking about in front of us. It's just a device. No feelings. We hate in this machine and get no direct feedback. We have to learn that the people we are flaming about are living in this world and can propably read it. I have made this mistake a couple of times but i learned and use it alone for joking.

If you want to understand this problem you have to understand psychology, the interface-feedback-problem and group dynamic.
I've never heard of it for webapps. They usually just buy more instances/servers.

It would be interesting to see the profile of some these benchmarks for the various frameworks to see where the bottleneck is.
"No Such Thing as Elevator Rage"

NOSTER. Coined and minted - because nerds are overly acronym-shy, I think
A very few thoughts on the MVP program | Jeremy D. Miller
I would like to pile my thanks onto this list as well. I'm the author of Phreeze and I can say that I'm grateful that fairness is being encouraged. There is certainly glory in ranking well on any benchmark and I have to admit, as I was implementing the tests in Phreeze, I saw many opportunities to "cheat." For example, skipping the framework routing, not using the "proper" way to communicate between the layers, etc and substituting things with "raw" code would have potential to skew the result. I feel that would be missing the entire point of a benchmark, so I'm glad that is being considered.

I can also say that this benchmark inspired me to take a hard look at class loading and I was able to make some improvements to the framework's efficiency in general. So, in a way, I did some tuning - not for the benchmark, but rather as a result of the benchmark. Thanks to this benchmark all Phreeze users will gain a little performance.

I would also like to suggest a test idea. I think the biggest challenge for frameworks comes into play when you have to do table joins. Something like looping through all purchase orders and displaying the customer name from a 2nd table - that would be a very real-world type of test. I think foreign key type of queries are more telling about an ORM than a single table query.

Thanks again!
>it would be interesting how awful they are compared to some of these other languages.

The World Wide Wait benchmark, which tested quite a lot, showed quite favorable numbers for both JSF implementations.
IPhone 5 users get an updated audio profile via iOS 6.1.4
This probably won't shock anyone familiar with the industry, but its neat to see the stats put together.