skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Evernote's searchability is key because it applies to everything you put in it. It uses OCR to make images with text in them searchable, it does the same with PDFs etc. So it really is not the same as a text file.

Why do you think your personal notes are not private in Evernote? Wouldn't that be the same thing as not using Gmail because your email is on the internet somewhere? I see your point but it's hard to get away from using the cloud to store personal data.
Thank you! I've never found 'responsive' to be descriptive of 'adjustive design'. I like 'adjustive design' and am going to start using it.
Measuring everything with StatsD + Graphite
It's news because Twitter will probably contribute to the Drupal project.
What do you think about Square's cube? https://github.com/square/cube
I think it's probably somewhere in between. It's more work then sending an e-card, but not as much as finding paper, funding an envelope, filling everything out by hand, and mailing it.
> Google uses Bayesian filtering the way Microsoft uses the if statement.

I am sure it depends on the employee, not the company. MS has done amazing things in machine learning. I love Vowpal Wabbit which is maintained by an ex Yahoo, currently MS employee. I am amazed at the complexity of the Kinect software to translate images into body configurations. Just today I have seen another amazing tecnology from MS: IllumiRoom. Check out the vid : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGGMv9RnJIA Check out MAVIS too, a system for transcribing videos and making them searchable. It's a little dated, but very cool nonetheless.

So, while I still think Google is superior, MS is making some amazing stuff too, from time to time.
Yes, that's a good point. At least it's a start (though I'm dubious about some assumptions the code makes regarding time zones).
I agree that the formatting of pasted HTML is not ideal, it's difficult to accomplish anywhere though because you are not actually copying the CSS styles with it unless they are inlined.
Yes, it's the open source content management system (with a very large community and set of plug-ins) we decided to standardize on a variety of our public facing sites: dev.twitter.com, blog.twitter.com/company, business.twitter.com, etc...
I love it ... but I would also say that, in general, mad libs are good for creating shareable content :) People feel ownership of something after they've customized it, and crowdsourcing the answers make it easier for them to just pick some of the ones already there, for each field. A few people would add new ones and you would have to manually review them and add them to the pool for everyone else to choose from.
it would be interesting to have social games that could extract answers for these questions from ordinary people who don't know what the terms mean
Excellent points! I had my undergrad graduation more than two decades ago, so get to appreciate some of these a bit differently from the twentysomething "younguns" here. If I had to pick two most important, I'd say point 1 (with the caveat that his point is generalized to all socializing) and 7 (maybe not so for US but for countries where parents play a huge role in shaping kids' future career choices).

I would also add time, that's the most important thing! When you get older you'll see that a lot of the breadth-first approach to life that you can do in your youth has now become depth-first, i.e. you won't have the time or opportunity to branch out to much. So experiment a lot when you're young.

That's what I would want my son to learn are the most important things, not just to get a good job but for everything in lide: maintain and build a good network and manage time choices wisely.
Necesitamos early adopters para esto, solo personas que ODIEN su email, quién?
Just wanted to point out that this has affected software revolving around finance for some time now. Historical data goes back into the 1800s and there are bonds with very, very long horizons (100-year or approaching it). The last time I checked on Bloomberg I believe the latest maturity date I could find in the system was sometime in 2089. I think the industries that have had to deal with this already will not be very affected by 2038.

edit: Link to C++ N3344 paper we wrote, describing how we represent dates (times/datetimes are similar): http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2012/n334...

edit2: Anyone interested in examples -- on the early side:

ISIN GB0000436070, UK Gilt, issued 1853, perpetual annuity

On the future side, things have changed since I last looked. Example bonds with the latest dates I can find are:

ISIN XS0560190901, Dong Energy A/S, callable 06/01/3010
ISIN US786581AA66, HSBC Holdings Luxembourg SA, callable 10/15/2997
You leave that bug alone, that's my retirement policy that is.
Digital Sales And Running a Multi-Market Business
The system I'm working on counts time as an unsigned 32-bit int starting in 1900 (don't ask). I think we fail in 2036 and that's a mere 23 years time.

It does really annoy me when idiots talk about the Y2K problem as being nothing at all and just a hyped-up non-event.

I for one, worked on fixes for Y2K and it all went seamlessly because we (collectivly) worked hard and got it right and no reactors/missles blew up and the banks did not fail.
In Guns, Germs and Steel Jarred Diamond mentions that there were less than ten places were farming was invented, and that cultures descended from these centers usually retained their selection of crops. So with the link between the plow and some specific crops, it seems that the sample size could potentially be as low as less than ten ( instead of 1200 language groups).
It might also be a bit "adverse to Mozilla's interests" if they were less able to hire experienced developers in the future because they got a reputation of not sticking up for their current ones.
Depending on what you're asking for, this can also be more clear than the traditional boring way (especially if there's no inline help text, say for spreadsheet column headers). It's not just for signing up new users for things.
If anything the invention of farming may have lead to less violence and greater equality. This was a period of time when humanity transitioned from the Hunter to the Farmer.

Farming promoted development. It did not hold it back.
Perfectionism: Is It Ruining You and Your Career?
Which author? The Economist author, or Alesina, Giuliano, and Nunn, the authors of the academic study? The Economist is just giving description of the results for a popular audience, so I don't think they have to provide serious evidence.

The original academic article can be read here:

The Quarterly Journal of Economics
http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/02/19/qje.q...
(open access full text, at least for now)

I haven't read it, it is a peer reviewed publication, so I imagine they do have some evidence.
The Theory That Would Not Die [1] is a great read. It's a complete history of the fight to legitimize Bayes' theory from Bayes' original experiment through Turing and Nazi subs and beyond. Probably not the quickest way to learn the theory, but worth the read.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/0300188226
640kB ought to be enough for everyone, right.
Murder, Inc.
And I'm actually surprised that Building Societies scored so low, but maybe I've got some weird bias.
Seriously disagree with your analysis. I have a 24" monitor, and this is one of the few websites that makes excellent use of all that real-estate. I found that the icons are large, relatively clear and straightforward in meaning, making it much easier to hunt for content than if you were to visit the other single-column, text-heavy websites.

I would hold GOV.UK as a site that's too minimalist. A person could be forgiven for thinking the gov.uk domain is still up for sale.
Why Your Startup Should Be Open Source by Peer.fm (formerly Napster.fm)
29% of Americans Think Armed Rebellion Might Be Necessary Soon
Exactly. You can choose what to put money into, over time.
There isn't always a need to reinvent the wheel, even if you have the resources to do so; in this case Twitter isn't trying to compete on the technical functionality of their blog - therefore it doesn't make business sense for them to over-invest resources into it - they are therefore effectively outsourcing it (the technology side, at least).
>Don't use me as your straw man, please.

Well, I'm sorry, but you should have stated where you stand on the issues instead of worrying about semantics. Not to mention first patronizing me and now victimizing yourself.

Would you be in favor of a law requiring that the half of all the divorce cases must end with the kids staying with the father?
Beautiful design, bad navigation. Not bad in the sense that it is difficult to learn, but bad because I have to learn it (if that makes sense).
Then where is the data that is associated with "b7VO4wED8MRumCeiX5fCnF" stored? How is that data requested? There certainly is a database, it is just most likely not a traditional database that most people think of.
yeah, and GCC is gnu compiler collection. that doesn't stop everybody calling microsoft visual c++ msvc and gnu compiler collection gcc.
Two things:

1) Sprockets integration was totally re-written, with huge performance benefits. It's now sprockets-rails.

2) Before, to precompile, you did this:

bundle exec rake assets:precompile

Now, you do this:

RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake assets:precompile

I'm not sure of the details of what changed about this, but basically, it was that you did need assets in all environments anyway, so the group is no longer needed.
Yeah, I certainly am in over my head but I look at Stripe as an example of how everyone knew PayPal integration sucked for years but everyone thought it would be 'too hard' to compete. They came a long and took a developer focussed approach and have hit out of the park.

Certainly starting a health insurance company is an even greater challenge, but everyone acknowledges what currently exists is painful for the end-user and because it's so hard the rewards are potentially massive.
Interested in more of the mathematics behind the algorithm? I implement and prove things about it on my website: http://jeremykun.com/2011/06/18/googles-pagerank-a-first-att...
I'm not sure that their argument is particularly bolstered by pointing to God Of War as an example of sex-positive, woman-friendly mature content. Or "Hot Coffee", for that matter.
I might if they find a way to integrate it with my existing glasses in a not too obstrusive way...
This was my sentiment as well. Further I'm not quite sure how this works -- you run one of these instances on every single memcache instance machine, using packet capture? No mechanism to work across a cluster?

It seems like something one would make a patch for memcache itself (where injecting such metrics seems quite simple).
JSON Parse vs Base64 to ArrayBuffer
The one and only reality show you really want to see... in 10 years from now
Personally I'd suggest you guys wait until they post the video and I transcriptify it, since the talk is better than the slide deck, but if you absolutely HAVE to read something this morning then skip to the section marked "Quick Wins for SaaS businesses" and look for the five bits of advice with big ugly yellow stars next to them.

If you have questions, I'd be happy to... board a 12 hour flight back to Japan in approximately 5 minutes. Feel free to ask me over email some other day.
Designing better cars; making parts for the 3d printers that built the cars.
Poll: Do you own a Google glass?
Yes, I own one
I plan on owning one
I don't plan on owning one
More than that - make the best of the situation, you now have a close aquaintance that works for Google. It's always good to know someone at google.
Reach Network is one of the best address book apps available on iOS
Why not market a Windows version? As a Linux user, I'm accustomed to getting stuff for free. rsync also isn't as ubiquitous there so you don't have to complete with a free offering.
http://www.thingiverse.com/ has models you can download and print. Lens caps and earbud-wrappers are popular.
I'd pay higher premiums if I knew I was going to get the least painful and most transparent experience when I actually USED the insurance. Knowing how much things will cost and why ahead of time would be fantastic, among other things.
Open-source car development, perhaps? Could be neat.
In the US, no parental leave is mandated whatsoever

People say this like it is a bad thing (and like it is true).

First and foremost, the FMLA guarantees 12 weeks leave (unpaid) for qualified workers (men & women). From there, it is up to the states and different employers to offer benefits to gain a competitive advantage.

Some states mandate paid leave, plus other benefits, others are expanding this. Some companies offer additional paid leave, plus other benefits. To determine an American's parental leave benefits, you have to add the benefits from the federal government, the state government and the employer. For example, if I had a child tomorrow, I'd get 4 weeks leave paid in full plus I have the option of additional leave at 66% of my salary, and even more unpaid.

Overall, it is true that benefits seem better in other countries, but saying that there is no parental leave mandated in the US is disingenuous and completely ignores the fact that it is handled in other ways.
Yeah... sousveillance running on a device that you don't control and storing the data on machines that you do not own.
> it is at least as likely that the statues are porn as that they are representations of powerful goddesses

I'm not so sure there is or needs to be a distinction between the two. Penis goes in, life comes out. You can't explain that. Well, paleolithic man couldn't. But they could draw/sculpt it and revere it for both its pleasure- and life-giving properties.
Google Tasks has no repeating tasks. That makes it a joke app.
Excellent work. I love the style and simplicity. It will certainly be used in my future projects.
I don't plan on owning one. I wore glasses until the 6th grade and getting contacts was one of the best days of my life!
Yeah I figure it might be more complex for other code but I seriously only use 32bits in the database for time while we are still using mechanical storage.

The actual code for time will work fine with 64bit integers, well once it's compiled correctly in a 64bit environment which is a huge percentage of servers right now.

I'm just too old school to waste 4 bytes on millions of rows (and for index storage which does bloat) when I am not dealing with future dates.

Right now ALTER in most SQL databases is kinda slow and not done in parallel but that is certainly going to change and next-gen SSD in this decade will also change everything.
The New York Times launched a revamped mobile site today
That's probably true John. If I may mis-quote Greenspun:

"Any sufficiently complicated Lisp program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of an actual database."
AngularJS, Dependency Injection, and when is a singleton not a Singleton?
So.. Opinion pieces by women are all completely flawless?
does anyone have experience with openjdk on windows? how well does it work for everyday end-users?
The repeat options are far more limited than Astrid and a show stopper for me. (Can't do "once every 3 weeks", for example.) Finding an Astrid replacement is much harder than I thought it would be.
I like Cube - it's extremely useful for deriving interesting information once you have the "events" that they're talking about (something similar to what I have here).

What I'm trying to do here with SLOPE is something much more basic though. One could certainly represent time as a JSON object, but as I mentioned near the end of the post, it could even be represented as a single string:

> start;length;offset1,offset2...;period;end

With any of the semicolon delimited portions removed in order. So instead of using a typical timestamp in YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSTZ, you use a SLOPE string instead. It makes it much more easy to compute across all situations irrespective of the platform being used.
How Funny Or Die got to be Google's top search result for 'sex'
If you have a good understanding of consciousness / mind, you can derive the answer for most philosophical problems from that.
Probably you're right, I agree that such behavior might be confusing in some cases.

I don't think that it's possible to launch fullscreen YouTube video player in mobile Safari by just clicking on link.

Maybe we should just link directly to the video (not to video page), like so: http://www.youtube.com/embed/PZvi11Yy9r8

This should be tested on real users for a while to see which option is best.
Are there good HN-like forums for discussing sexism, racism, and the like?
I have observed that posts about sexism and racism draw a lot of upvotes, but also a lot of flags, and are considered to be off topic by many.

Fair enough. Do HN readers know of any websites with HN-style discussion of these issues?

There are many forums about feminism, but most of them seem to double as "safe spaces" where posters would like to vent about negative experiences to a sympathetic audience. For the most part, debate and dissent seem unwelcome.

I wish to respect the guidelines of such sites, which probably means not participating. However I would like to find a good venue for such discussions, where all points of view are welcome, where civility is expected, and where debate, discussion, disagreement, and the sharing of different experiences are the norm. Does anyone know of one?

Thank you.
Jason Cohen, Erica, and Rob Walling all delivered probably in the top 5 of talks I've ever seen for SaaS founders. The notes can't do them justice but they ROFLstomp the utility of anything you'll read on the Internet this week. (Obviously, mad props to the attendee who took it upon himself to take notes for you all.)
I agree. However, unfortunately this is exactly what I see happening usually (c.f. the recent Ariana scandal).
Because doing that falls far short of the features available in a real todo app like Astrid?
It's very easy to turn those simply stated equations into a short program that looks quite similar, without lots of strange metaprogramming going on.

As a bonus, others will easily be able to understand and fix or extend the code.
Thanks for adding www.notism.io to your list!
What if I already have the cloud space (already paying for AWS S3)? It is not just a tool what you are trying to offer, but a -paid- service.

Where are the sources?
I thought Twitter had a fairly decent in-house blogging platform... https://posterous.com/bye.html
Well, tzdata zones usually either always have per-year entries (such as Morocco) or entries that describe "from now on". So the logic in the code would be valid for places like the US that very infrequently change DST rules -- it would only break if the US changed their DST rules after 2037. It appears anglocentric, though. If a user in Morocco used this on their system, it would undoubtedly lead to errors because Ramadan falls on different days every year and DST is not observed during Ramadan. Things would start to fail in subtle ways because DST might not be calculated correctly for a few days here or there every year depending on what timezone it is used with.
"Is it that the culture is sexist, or that the culture is aggressive, elitist, loud, obnoxious, and expects people to "suck it up" and not get offended?"

Strong elements in "the culture" encourage both of these.

There isn't quite a monoculture, so using just "the culture" seems a bit off.
That is a big IF.

If I had a million dollars, I could buy your love.
materialism

idealism

duality?

----

God says...

lords; that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel.

6:18 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting:
neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep
went from him.

6:19 Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste
unto the den of lions.

6:20 And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice
unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant
of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to
deliver thee from the lions? 6:21 Then said Daniel unto the king, O
king, live for ever.

6:22 My God hath sent his angel, and hath shut the lions' mouths, that
they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in
me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.

6:23 Then was the king exceedingly glad for him, and commanded that
they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out
of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he
believed in his God.

----

God says...

cross rank me- instruction nine-and-twentieth you're_so_screwed
X convenient edify fake heaven's thenceforth pricked seventh
troublesome overflow boiling Those incline lungs Thither
advised dates officers Hippocrates Suffer disliked renew
boss deprived glorified dispose When morsel flagitiousnesses
malignant all-changing warreth surprise_surprise gladsome
trust rugged neglecteth heeded respective spreads Paulus
listen_buddy overflowing curest support trembled passages
oh_oh frown preparest leaveth 2002 commencement touching
find wretchedness sittest among verily freed unchangeable
Future resisted awful imbue desires vouchsafedst face_palm
Tobias fumed ministry unlikeness disclose senseless weight
Wales dominion
In rspec-rails' case, that's because an error was caught after the beta1 release, and 2.13.1 introduced the fix.

Generally, I do this:

1) update everything, run `rake rails:update`, and run the tests. Hope this works. If not, figure out if the error is mine or a gem's.

2) If it's a gem's, try to lock it to the exact version I was using and repeat 1).

3) If that doesn't work due to version issues, investigate if the gem has some sort of preview support for rails 4.

4) if not, either send a pull request or an issue.
I wonder if they did a proper usability test on this website?
How would you do this? (Leaving aside the question of 'why?')

I suppose you could try blocking crawlers from the raw URLs with an aggressive robots.txt and then put a sitemap (with friendly/SEO URLs in) somewhere for them to discover instead. Would that work?

Paranoid web spiders could flag the site as suspicious, though. Such schemes might make it seem like the website is presenting one view to the spider, and another to real visitors. Almost like it was trying to hide malware from a scanner.
A lot to dive into there, but the God results immediately jump out at me.