skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disrupt has always been a strange name for the conference since almost every startup showing there has been a clone of another larger more popular startup.

I have literally had conversations with founders there that went,

"So tell me how you are different from Facebook,"

"Well we built our entire platform on node so it is infinitely scalable"

"Is that a problem with Facebook now? That it doesn't scale?"

"Well no, but we also re-imagined the interface"

"It looks like facebook, if Facebook was done in Twitter Bootstrap"

"That's exactly Right!"

"Did users ask for that?"

"Well No, but we also added support for sharing code snippets"

"That's interesting, so it is really a Facebook for Developer communities"

"Well No..."

"Do you think most people's mom and 4th grade english teacher want to see the code snippets in your timeline?"

"We don't really have a timeline, everything shared happens in realtime like the front page of hacker news"

"So if my friends want to see the pictures I took last week of my trip to Belize they can't see them?"

If you want to be disruptive you have to do something truly new. Something that will change the way everyone else does things. You also have to be prepared for all the knock-offs that might have better marketing, or better connections, so you should also have a bit of something no one can duplicate in your core.

The Disrupt conference has always been a showing of MVP's and betas that aren't even an MVP. But disruption occurs when you have something that is more than an MVP it is a Product no one can live without afterwards.
I love it for iMessages. The ability to read, and reply to all my iMessages from OSX is brilliant.

It's Jabber support is horrendous though. I've been getting messages to it on time, not at all, or delayed. Depending on its mood.
I think this cuts out the pain more on the lab side. Note that this is a SNP array, not a sequencer. Current-gen SNP array output is already relatively painless to work with (depending on manufacturer, I assume - Affymetrix 6.0 arrays were pretty easy).

But this technology appears to automate a lot of the lab side: restriction enzymes to chop it up, PCR to amplify, etc., which is also applicable to sequencing.
And how many "active" sites are just spam? When the archiveteam tried to backup posterous, it felt like the majority of all pages were spam.
Could you repurpose them for password cracking?
My understanding is that the garbage would be burnt anyway so better use it for heating.
Guess Lift is not all that high performance framework that they claim it to be!
You have to write up a contract that states she works for commission only. After that, its all her effort.
At the time Java gained its fame, the GUI applications were unresponsive, not slow.

They could lock at any time, for a perceptible few hundreds of miliseconds, but had still a nice average speed.
Convert your grammar to W3C EBNF Format
It would surely be better if all government websites adhered to a predefined structure, layout and general look/feel standard.
Aaron Sorkin from last year - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwvilfPWHYI - 'there are some screwups heading your way'
When dealing with software it's rarely the case that worse-is-better, more often it's better-is-better.

Worse-is-better only comes up when the stuff already out there is very well done, polished, and too expensive for most people to afford.
Really? I didn't notice. The caption was under the slider, and I couldn't see it. I just saw some picture of a family.
I like it to a degree, the 'geek' culture (how I hate typing that) cuts through bullshit faster than others.

I don't mind being insulted if it comes with a helpful suggestion. I LOVE IRC channels where you get the answers: "You're shit for asking that question, but the answer is X".
"average and std dev are only revelent if the distribution is Gaussian in distrition"

technically not true. Knowledge of the second order moment (variance) lets you uniquely identify other distributions like Poisson, or uniform. Knowledge of even higher order moments lets you fit more complicated statistical models.

Low variance is good, regardless of underlying distribution.
No need to worry about this. John Titor will fix this problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Titor
Is it just me who finds all of them horrible?
While I really enjoy results, I still would prefer to see smaller number of frameworks with specific tasks that are common in web development, logging in (assume user and pass are provided), listing of something. These two would be way more meaningful then anything else to me.

Again, thank you very much for hard work. I think for some there are some revelations there, like that C framework.
11.65 percent of Steam owners used Windows 8 in April
> Windows' font rendering (I can only speak for up to Windows 7) is still quite nasty, especially at larger font sizes. The lack of vertical antialiasing ruins it for these cases.

Weird, I would consider that Windows has the best font rendering. Do you have any example photos you'd like to show?

A comment below [1] has some pictures, do you really find Windows's rendering to be bad?

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5644228
Elite Keylogger, Detection and Analysis
Voidlogic is right that we are waiting to get a pull request that will include some .Net frameworks [1]. If you can help, it would be greatly appreciated. We do want to include .Net. We will test on Mono to start.

We also want to test on .Net's native Windows platform. But we need to work on the testing platform we've built in order to automate a Windows server in the same way we presently automate a Linux server.

[1] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/15...
You only pivot when your tests point to it. Go test and make an educated decision.
> I guess if anything it speaks to what a solid piece of software the JVM is.

While true, it all depends which JVM one talks about, there are plenty to choose from, even native code compilers.
Metaphysical possibility is a slightly stronger version of logical possibility (although there is some debate about the exact relation.) For example, it is metaphysically possible for information to be transmitted faster than the speed of light.

There is a stronger version of possibility: nomological possibility, which means something like "possible under the laws of nature". It is nomologically impossible for information to be transmitted faster than the speed of light.

In the context of the philosophy of mind, this question is about whether or not it's possible (in some metaphysically possible world) for there to be fully functioning humans, but minus experience. If so, then experience is a true explanandum.

See [1] for an account of these modal truth states, [2] for an account of philosophical zombies.

[1] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/modality-epistemology/

[2] http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/
What concerned me the most was whether the diameter of the spool with less 'tape' on it grew faster than that of the spool with more tape. It doesn't (but it should)

Mathematical accuracy aside, while I think this is definitely a cool visualization, it would benefit from some kind of time display and an easier way to navigate through the tracks.
The subtitle is a better fitting title:

"Lightweight Threads, Channels and Actors for the JVM".
What about vibe.d? While D is listed, vibe.d seems to be missing.
It's kinda neat but the Play button is facing the wrong way.
I find Windows 7 the most appealing (and sharpest).

The others are just way too blurry.
you should take a long look at those handles on a plow and think about how you steer that around, and keep it ploughing, rather than sliding over the top of the fields.
Many formulations of relativism are actually pretty unpopular when compared anti-realism.
"Listen punk, we have your DNA and we'll have the results in under an hour. Why don't you just come clean now and we can make this a lot easier on everyone."
April 2013 Startup Index: 1,183 Companies - 71% Are Growing
You are absolutely right. Having a peer wih whom you can talk about what you are working on getting your code reviewed is very important and helps you improve your knowledge. This was exactly my issue.

Also I do have a hotspot, I travel by train and work during those commute hours. But because I work long hours (4+7) this leads to the second issue that I mentioned - not having enough energy to work on side projects and not being able to learn new things apart from the normal work.
I have been thinking about the wisdom I want to impart to my son.

It has inspired me to live my life differently.

Lets see if I have the follow through.

(just because you are older and have less spare time, does not mean you can't branch out a little)
it's fun watching curious people snooping around! !cat /etc/passwd would you eh?
Musician = songs played.
Mechanic = cars fixed.
Programmer = lines of code.

It relates to practice itself, and not quality.
This is a good point. Especially if you only cared about how fast you can make your app. But if you want to also consider how cheap you can run your app, you need to consider how many app servers will it take to saturate the DB? 1 or 10? At certain scales for certain tasks, the hosting costs matter more than the development costs.
Ask HN: Is this possible in Google Chrome?
Hello HN,

I was wondering if it's possible to have unlimited incognito windows that are sandboxed in Google Chrome. Here's what a screenshot of what I have envisioned:

http://i.imgur.com/tUN0REZ.png

Each new window is an incognito window. However, each tab within the same window can share cookies, cache, etc.
We aim to add more tests in time.

Take a look at the new Fortunes test. That test lists rows from a database, sorts them, and then renders the list using a server-side template. It's only implemented in 17 of the 57 frameworks right now, but we hope to have better coverage on that in time as well.
YC, The Silicon Valley’s Start-Up Machine
The value of anonymous free speech in the situation you describe (eg, Syria) should never be taken at anywhere close to face value.

It's nothing more than rumour and stories - precisely because it is anonymous! There is no way to verify it is anything: A true account, a biased account, a popular opinion or the ravings of a lunatic.

In areas where free speech does not exist, anonymous free speech adds nothing at all. It's basically the propaganda the reader wishes to hear. You may as well toe the government line.

Free speech only exists with attribution. Fiction and stories without. While I appreciate the struggles of those in the situation you describe, you advance nothing in an environment of anonymity.
The Family That Never Learned To Walk on Two Legs
It's an interesting new take (new to me) on responsive design too.
I'd like to thank you for the effort, and genuine openness of this project. I hope you'll continue to expand these tests.
Hey Nick, it's John here :P

Neither am I, and the Customers aren't choosing the price here. They are signalling how much they think they would pay - there's nothing that guarantees they'll get it for that price.

I didn't choose that page layout - it's what Leanpub provides for an unpublished book. I only consider the price that customers signal as an interesting reflection on how much value the book title and subtitle convey on first reading.
Show HN: Distract Free Twitter - turn links from your timeline into a clean view
Hunter gatherers may have worked far fewer hours than agrarian societies, especially if they had just had a decent haul.
OP means 'error bars' in the sense of giving and idea of the accuracy of the measured value (e.g. standard deviation, standard error).
Anonymous speech has no value.

The issue is to create the right of free speech, however difficult that is.
Good catch. I have "D" listed because I heard from the vibe.d community [1] that a pull request was incoming. We have not yet received it. Can you help the vibe.d guys get it submitted?

[1] http://forum.dlang.org/thread/urpqdftuofgwespkcdxg@forum.dla...
If a language is 30x less efficient than another language then you would likely need 30x more servers. Many folk are simply not prepared to spend 30x more than they need to on hardware. It's the difference between 20 servers and 600 servers.

Case in point: "How We Went from 30 Servers to 2":

http://blog.iron.io/2013/03/how-we-went-from-30-servers-to-2...
Principal fires security guards to hire art teachers
"If there spelling or grammar is off, just let it go."

On purpose? :)
Airpair matches you with tech experts through video
* You can perhaps ask him what are his views about the current state of email (HTML).

* Does he think he has better ideas than current reigning email services?

* If given a chance, when will he improve in email services like Gmail. Or will he improve them at all?

* Where does he think email stands in the future of communication?
Why, to play Rock, Paper, Scissors, of course!

https://www.pythonanywhere.com/gists/459573/rps.py/ipython2/
The first digital 'compound eye' camera sees 180 degrees, near-infinite DoF
No:

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD#rg360ztgCzm1g10zm2g...

EDIT: I corrected the scale for you, but if you want more than a word and a picture, take a look at https://class.coursera.org/compfinance-003/, especially the parts about variance, then ARIMA in Time Series week 4. The data seems quite compatible with an upward trend high variance process with a negative autocorrelation explaining the ups and down.

I may bet on >120 on May 15, but even with my very limited understanding, I would not take a 2 days graph on something as volatile as Bitcoin and try to make a theory.
Interesting, I only knew about Dylan!

Congratulations to all involved into getting it open sourced.
Yes 4 hours contributed significantly to the fact that I didn't have time to work on side projects. But I would have been equally happy if I had peers with whom I could discuss stuff and learn new things. The source or learning is not important. It can be side projects, it can be your peers. Learning is what matters. And working at an early stage startup meant I was the only one working on iOS stuff. Hence the title.
I think it's more of they use datetime for logging events and no one has really tested the ECU to see what happens to it when datetime overflows. I think it's very unlikely it would actually affect ABS.

Now that I think of it, I don't believe ECUs have internal batteries, so every time your battery dies the clock would be reset anyway.
Great idea, fantastically executed. One suggestion or request: I would love to specify from what recipe group or combination of groups each meal should be made up of. For example:
Breakfast : Pick something from the cereals group, and a smoothie if it fits
Lunch : Sandwich group and salad group
Dinner : Mostly meat group, salad group, desert group.
Can you please come to India and help us. We need this very badly.
I think that this lingering perception is an artifact of two things. Firstly, in the mid-to-late 90s, Java was really was slow and back then C/C++ application layers were pretty common (perl if you could get away with it). So initially Java did not compare well, which is why we wasted a couple years on applets. Even as late as 2005 at Amazon, there were many people predicting doom when we introduced the first Java service as a dependency of the home page. Secondly, the early Java web frameworks were highly synchronous, with lots of locking, and there was no evented IO. So sites written that way really were dogs.

Although I hope to never write "public static void main" again (except ironically, of course), and I spend some time dabbling in Python/Ruby/obscure-language land, I'm really happy to see Clojure and Scala doing well here.
From my experience people in their mid-twenties definitely remember cassettes.
It's not about price, it's about control. At any price, I won't buy it until these are met:

- No ads, from anyone, ever.

- Any data, including video and location information, is under my control, and there is an easy way to review/edit/delete it.
awesome. Rock, every time.
> provide a diminished education for students in public universities

That sentence makes no sense.

UC Berkeley produces edX content, and it's a public university.
I, Cringely Amazon.com isn't killing Best Buy: blame Best Buy IT
Fruux buys sabredav
Live without breathing
I'm going to regard all the negative comments on here as failed attempts of understanding Britishness.
There's an easier way to make both sides happy. Instead of "interviewing," suggest that you come and check the place out, talk to employees, and just get a feel for the company.

If you like it, follow up with an interview. If not, no expectations are broken, and no one gets hurt.
What's with the last image in the carousel? It seems to take strong cues from soviet propaganda.

The red flag, workers holding their tools, ready to fight. Did Manchester become the Soviet Republic of Manchester?

http://img0083.popscreencdn.com/101036667_amazoncom-chinese-...
New Dyno Networking Model
Introducing Bootstraptor
We bring to your attention a small startup. I am the web developer and use the Twitter Bootstrap framework in my work. On the official page of the framework is given a small number of templates to start, we decided to remedy the situation, because we know that all developers need more templates to start without loss of time.
Please your questions, tips and opinions. Thank you!
Is there no php environment with a persistent server? Are they really all doing per request startup?
though they're also using Rails 3.2.11, which not only isn't the latest 3.2.* release but doesn't take advantage of Ruby 2.0... it would be more interesting to see the latest Rails 3.2.* on Ruby 1.9.* along with the latest Rails 4 release candidate on Ruby 2.0.0-p0
Money is just money. It can be squandered, mal-invested, taxed, or simply inflated away. However, the guts that all of those founders showed will forever be a reference point for their careers. Many can claim they would turn down 100M, but few have actually done it.
sure enough -- might have taken me 5 goes (computer isn't that stupid, it knows rock is the best too)... but eventually it cracked. one-nil!
> That's a very modern application of those words.

It follows from your argument that because our ancestors didn't share an evolutionary perspective, modern humans describing our ancestors in evolutionary terms is less meaningful.

Put another way, when modern humans describe the process of objectification, it matters not at all if the objectifier says to themselves "I sure am making an object out of this".
Time to travel across the United States, a metric that has been steadily improving for centuries, stagnated at about 1970.
I think you're right; there are some systems that maintain time even when the car is off, but most of those will reset when you replace the starter battery.
The right wheel, the one being driven, appears to go faster as it plays, which is incorrect. The drive wheel is always moving at a constant rate of rotation. the left side should be speeding up as the amount of tape shrinks.

In fact, it appears that the right side is doing what the left side should be doing. Seems like a simple mistake.
Church? I'm not very familiar with the language but I believe it sounds similar to what you're describing.
http://projects.csail.mit.edu/church/wiki/Church
I think you ran into your own argument: if you are very read heavy (and lots of big sites are), it's all about caching and the DB becomes irrelevant. QED really hard to get right
The Shape of Everything: Acorn 4
Possibly church? http://projects.csail.mit.edu/church/wiki/Church
The W3C's Soul at Stake
As was the "thanks"...

If there was a rational counterargument hidden in that, I didn't find it unfortunately.
I once interviewed for a job, turned down the offer. A year later, got in touch, and they were eager to bring me on board. Worked there for two years and there were absolutely no hard feelings. Many managers are not petty and are just interested in hiring talented people.
Im NOT disrupting anything.

I am Pioneering something!

I am trail blazing. I am the one not following the pack. I am the one going in the opposite direction.
The store where I bought the Embody also had the Aeron in all three sizes, and I tried both the B (medium) and the C (large) frames, fiddled with the tension knobs, and still didn't like it as much.
Very nicely done! Love the UI. Bookmarked it in hopes that it will help me find plugins for current projects.
A good start would be to replace fontconfig and its ridiculous XML files.
What’s the fastest way to the right app store
While I agree that if the 'dorks' adopt glass first, Google will have an image problem. Much of the problem with the segway was it's price. $10,000 is not how you introduce a society changing technology. Try $750, for what is basically some batteries, wheels, and an accelerometer. It surely doesn't help that after they had a hard time convincing the public to buy in to the segway, they sold the majority to mall cops, that virtually eliminating any potential further public sales.
Reason No. 1 You Should be Sketching Every Day
That's not the definition of "disrupt" used by Christensen (or by Yglesias in this article). Yglesias is arguing that we should return to the useful definition of disrupt as developing a product that is worse in most respects compared to existing products, except on price (and possibly size/portability). The quality you're talking about is something like "revolutionary," not disruptive.
So the goal is to turn down 100MM offers, so you can show off you had the courage to do it?

I disagree with that.
Works well?

"Oh you want the URL of your LinkedIn Profile? Don't use the URL in the address bar, silly! Use this other URL we are providing randomly down the page."
What you need for sharded queries is concurrency, not necessarily asynchronous requests. Async callbacks (ala Node.js, Twisted Python, Event Machine, etc.) give you a kind of cooperative multitasking, which is one way to have concurrent I/O-bound tasks going; multithreaded programs are another. (Ruby and Python threads are kind of in-between, due to their respective GIL limitations.)

That being said, above a certain scale and complexity level, you probably want the topology of your persistent data store hidden from your web request handlers anyway. For one thing, making requests to N backend shards from M frontend web workers starts to get bad when N and M are both large; for another, introducing really complex scatter-gather query logic into your request-handling pipeline can be a maintenance and debugging nightmare.

Introducing a proxy or data-abstraction service in between cuts down on the number of open connections and lets you change the data storage topology without updating frontend code.
> Why don't governments design sites with multiple themes for multiple targets?

http://www.manchester.gov.uk/accessibility/settings

Really though, the chances that tertiary government - like the ones who manage a city - keep a website designer on staff seem low. What would he do the other 360 days of the year? If they want to buy something like that, chances are it has to go out to tender. IT departments in non-IT firms are likely to be predominant busy with dealing with network issues, making computers run far too slowly, and issuing new mice and keyboards.

Heck, their CMS is certainly government procurement service. They advertise the fact on their site:

http://jadu.net/gcloud/cloudstore

The real question is why a bunch of councils don't stick their money together and lock a bunch of programmers up in a basement to make cool tools for them.... That would seem the obvious thing to do - what are the odds that your council has a demand that no other council has?
Nice. I was really hoping it protected me from a very different kind of "abusive client" though. I guess there are somethings that even in ruby you can't do easily.