skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's free software. There is a large overhead when doing TDD. Such overhead is not practical given the low, voluntary, resources such projects get. Free software project velocity is based on contributions. If you require such contributions to also make tests before committing the code, then you kill the project in a few months. This is why TDD based projects are so few and controversial in the FLOSS world.
Interesting read. In Turkish 'mama' = baby food and also 'meme' = breasts. Also it looks like there is connection to word 'mammal'
This is exactly how I imagine most big companies operate, and why I am not afraid of any of them.

Anyway to you: update the CSS to work with a mobile site, wrap the thing in javascript that fetches the HTML of the target of the webserver and put it in a full iframe. Wrap that in PhoneGap and be a hero.
In baby-Turkish "mama" means meal. And "meme" means breast.
I am dutch and I can tell you that the third sentence of that article is wrong. 'vand' doesn't even resemble a dutch word.
Ask HN: How to protect family members from malware?
My Dad uses Win7. He is a little too active on Facebook and used to install browser plug-ins and "free applications" without really considering the implications. I have been able to gradually wean him off this habit. But, his machine continues to be infected with malware. I finally got him to install NoScript on Firefox in the hopes that it would reduce such incidents. How do you protect your family online?
I don't know if it's a coincidence, but I feel like I see these articles pop up every spring, when going outdoors is suddenly an option again and a tablet makes more sense.
What is a visit is it the search time or the time I am on the page?

I know I have searched for things that seem to take a long time (when I am in a rush) but the results page show my search took e.g. 0.22 seconds when really the page may have loaded slow or I had to reload the page taking maybe 30 seconds or Google Instant is being annoying.
Angry young Indians: What a waste
Google SMS search has been shut down
Does that mean GoSquared will report a page that has been open for days, taking up a tab but not being actively looked at, as 'online', or is there a timeout after a specific period of inactivity?
Since the tablet fad, netbooks have stagnated and some lovely models for sale at silly cheap prices. As for this windows TAX, well, you are not oblidged to use it and the one I got was half the price of a Chromebook, what more can one say.
Sure.

From http://begthequestion.info/ :

"Begging the question" is a form of logical fallacy in which a statement or claim is assumed to be true without evidence other than the statement or claim itself. When one begs the question, the initial assumption of a statement is treated as already proven without any logic to show why the statement is true in the first place.

laureny is claiming that it's "about the children", but the implicit assumption there is that there's something wrong with cursing in the first place. laureny assumes "it is not to be used lightly" and that children need to understand this - but that's exactly the item under discussion.
I think a common misconception about TDD is that it requires a a lot of overhead. It actually reduces overhead because you front-load the quality assurance, and save a lot of time going back and fixing bugs down the road. Some of the most popular open source projects use a lot of test coverage. Some very important projects don't, but I think the only reason Linux, for instance, has gotten away with this is because it has such a gigantic community that finds and fixes a bug immediately if one is found.
Top Gear USA is the same way it's painful to watch.
Yes, I understand that is a very scary sounding permission.

Maybe I need to explicitly mention on the extension installation page that we are not capturing any browser history or such.

Since we need to keep track of tabs for each project, maybe that's what pops up this message.
I was thinking more device orientation/velocity/camera etc Geo is available on web, and SSO via fb etc allow virality through contact lists in much the same way as an app (I think). I guess the biggest reason why a business should get you to install an app is push messaging (though I guess that could be approximated with email).
Even more interestingly, "ma(ma)" means breast too in the dialect of my home town which locates at the central part of China.
Dropping down to dev mode to get access to ssh is overkill. I suggest https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec... which lets you run SSH as a normal Chrome extension.
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Cause menagement is stupid (as always) and wants an app because all the other children^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h/companies have one.
The "pure" Tamil word for mother is "thaai". There's no relation between the two languages, however.
Except that many a times (may I say most of the times actually), things that are good are still lost without being noticed. A clear proof comes from someone submitting something that does not get anywhere followed by someone else submitting nominally the same URL and making it to the front page.
Code, design, Halo. Sound like an ideal weekend?
That's how we at Amicus (YC S12) often spend our weekends. Being productive and having a blast.

At Amicus, you can do good, do well and have loads of fun in the process. You can improve lives and work on interesting problems. For instance:

We helped win marriage equality: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/the-social-network-effect-that-is-helping-legalize-gay-marriage/265793/

We're well funded: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/13/amicus/

We work on interesting problems:

-A realtime collaborative community environment for supporters of non-profits to communicate, and provide each other encouragement. This will involve realtime javascript with node.js, socket.io, and backbone.js

-Machine learning and/or statistical analysis on demographics and how they relate to outreach/fundraising effectiveness

-Open source projects, including our own in house, soon to be open sourced, real time Model View Presenter javascript framework with bi-directional data binding

-Realtime data visualization with D3, including D3's map projection, to create data visualization's to help client's understand the impact Amicus is having on their organization

-And for lulz: A Minecraft mod/voxel.js project for devirtualizing virtualized servers. Basically a minecraft mod that allows you to control AWS instances by putting down/picking up blocks :-)

Sound interesting? Want to change the world for the better? See more details at http://jobs.amicushq.com/ and then shoot us an email at jobs+HNweekend@amicushq.com with a link to your github and why you think you'd be a good fit.
I'd like to test your assumptions here.

You claim : "the current system is broken"

You submit as evidence to that claim : "there are tons of kids right now graduating without a sliver of hope for a job."

If I ran this claim backwards (which is to say reverse its assertions) then a "working" education system would produce "most of the kids employable" ?

I wonder why that defines "fixed" (or broken for that matter). I feel a bit differently about it of course (or I wouldn't be whining here :-) that the 'publicly funded' part of our education system (that is K-12) should strive to make you generally employable, and that higher learning institutions should help you explore your interests regardless of the applicability of those interests to employment.

Of course looking at it that way its a harder problem, since it really says that every kid who graduates from high school should have the equivalent of a two year STEM degree these days, but those are the base skills that employers want to start from, and we're still not even graduating 100% literate kids from our high schools.
I can't say whether they're the "best" or not, but I've used NameCheap for everything and have been extremely happy with them. Plenty of options, very good cost.

The only time I didn't use them was a weird edge case recently where I needed a multi-domain certificate, and NameCheap did not support those, so I purchased direct from GeoTrust.
Shadow's were pretty cool. It was a pointer to an original object (since the GUI was object oriented). If you deleted the original item, all the shadow's disappeared also. Microsoft implemented "Shortcuts", but those were files that pointed to another file, so deleting the original file just left around broken shortcuts.

You could also use the Font panel to drop fonts into any application and it would change the UI font. Some apps actually saved that as a preference and remembered it on next startup but others didn't.

I got eComStation running in a VM a while back and I realized that my nostalgia for OS/2 didn't quite match the reality.
That's the time Google spent preparing the result page for your search (finding and sorting the matching results). Actual time between you making a search and seeing that page involves much more than that computation, such as network latency and time to transfer the HTML.

Did you read this submission? It's not about Google search results. It's about how the time-on-site metric in Google Analytics is computed.
Good to know!

One of the main ideas for future direction is to integrate it more with existing services for Todos (RememberTheMilk, etc.), Notes (Evernote, etc.), instead of rebuilding those tools.

So, imagine having an Evernote notebook for a project, and managing all notes from it on the homepage. That way your information is still in the cloud, in the service of your choice, but accessible within the context of a project.
I think the emphasis was on mobility.
It is quite difficult to find a light enough laptop with a large screen estate.
I don't think I could go around with a laptop larger than 15".
I fucking do, if I'm fucking pissed the fuck off about some fucking thing or another.
17 year old from Mumbai, India and his Coursera travelogue.
Youthful Creativity
> IDK, from what I've just read NT looks like someone took Minix (released in 1992) and worked on it to make it useful. Plus adding a subsystem layer.

VMS.

> Frankly, I'm still more impressed by a monolithic kernel that did it better, before: Plan 9 (released in 1991). What use is for NT to be object-oriented, if it can't share its objects through a network like Plan?

Sadly the UNIX crowd decided it was not worth it adopting it.
A visit is the time you are on the page (that is, not including any time you spent on Google or your favorite social network finding a link to the page). Which makes sense - the length of a visit to a physical place doesn't count the time you spend looking up its address while you're at somewhere else entirely.
Big Web App? Compile It
Well I don't know if that's a good use case or not. If you can reach your mom by phone, then you should probably make the call yourself.
Seriously, just pack your stuff and leave this place. Go be callous somewhere else.
I use NameCheap too.
Pointers that clean up when they go out of scope or a reference count reaches zero.
Can I get some feedback on the following idea please:

- Maintain an open (but idle) websocket connection on your page to have an accurate real-time visitor information. The websocket should remain open as long as the user doesn't close the tab or navigate away.

What are some cons that prevent everyone from doing so?
I don't know about GoSquared, but I built a similar real-time dashboard for W3Counter [1] that operates the same way. It would include that visitor as long as the tab is still open, but it also shows how many visitors are idle versus writing or reading (recently scrolled or moved the mouse, which requires the tab be in the foreground), so you know how many are just sitting in tabs.

1: http://www.w3counter.com/features/pro
How does it play on people who have ADHD?
I've been on a single 13" for three years and I don't want to go back to two 21" again.
Might go for an 15" just because of xCode, but that's it.
> The one thing you will find almost as a theme with Linux design is that there is minimum of "future" it. That applies to most of the Linux user space as well. This is a good thing and a bad thing.

Maybe because it is mostly about the "past", bringing enterprise UNIX and mainframe designs into Linux?
Vivian Maier seems like an extraordinaire photographer.
And John Maloof ("Maloof collection") seems like an extraordinaire douchebag.
And then of course there's the problem that youth unemployment will always be a little bit higher than general unemployment and you're in a miserably bad economy anyways.
These #nobackend folks are late to the game! Rdbhost has provided for no-server-coding web apps since 2010.

See http://www.rdbhost.com
Edit: @sneak - apologies, my comment may have lacked empathy of its own. It's quite possible you have a really good reason for the anger that came across in your comment. Not all of us have positive relationships with our families, for example. I understand these subjects can stir powerful emotions, and I'm sure you have a valuable perspective to share on the matter - it's hard to tell, though, from such a curt and seemingly confrontational comment. At any rate, I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings with my own rash and unconsidered response.
I use rapidssl.com - no complaints with their service.
Are Google having cashflow problems?

How come they're shutting down so many of their services?
Some corporate clients are asking for pentest results from "a reputable pentest organization". Anyone on this thread have advice as to how I can satisfy them without breaking my startup bank?
As others, I can't say they're the "best" but when I did a straw poll on Twitter a few years ago, I was recommended RapidSSL. I've used them on my own sites and for clients since then without any fuss (5 minutes and one automated call). They seem to be very one size fits all though, quick and easy, but nothing fancy like EV. (If anyone can help there actually, any recs for good but non-expensive EV providers?)
It's called a Chromebook with Ubuntu on it.
The dual library thing was resolved several years ago. There's also a fully GPL licensed version (GDC).
I had friends who regularly made a habit of getting drunk first thing in the morning and all day long. I'm not even sure how it was physically possible now that I am older.

I sincerely hope the entire world is not like this.
I have a PositiveSSL from Namecheap. It's about $8 a year or so.
Ok, "Deathist stories" was a new one for me.
Graphy
It's worth pointing out that even tic-tac-toe is PSPACE-complete. Here is a StackExchange question discussing the "solvability" of PSPACE vs NP: http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/5323/are-pspace-...
I have many tabs open that I'm not actually "on." I just took a shower and left HN open, for example. Can it detect that the tab is "active" or "focus?" That may help. But I'm not sure this is a problem worth a ton of work. It's, at best, a proxy for measuring things like interest.
This is a difficult issue for a lot of reasons, hence my restating the context.

I'd venture that no matter what else an education provides, if it does not enable a graduate to repay their loan, it is non-sustainable. (Whether you want to use "good" or "bad" here is up to you)

Even the phrase "public education" is broad and fuzzy. With a tremendous amount of student loans publicly-financed, with public financing also intricately involved in the public university system via research grants, there's a distinction between secondary education and higher education, but I'm not sure how much the distinction matters for purposes of broadly-based public policy discussions.
Yes, actually less than 30k a year. My budget won't allow for anything more. In a rare case, a higher revenue business may be of interest. Please email me if you have anything.
Sometimes I wonder if the way out of the recession is to declare 401K and IRA failed policies and just let people have the money and spend it now to get the economy moving.
University of WA cost has not gone up a single penny since 1990. It used to be that the state paid 80% of that, now it is 30%. Which is why the cost the students see has increased so much -- decrease in state funding, and indirectly, people who vote against taxes.

If UW cost had simply kept pace with inflation, it would be $30,000 this year. And if WA residents had maintained their support at 80%, the student bill would be $6000.
My guess is Google is focusing more on a certain goal than having cash flow issues.
"Not buy a boat you can land a helicopter on. Not conquer the world with iPads. Just make a living."

Not to nitpick, but by looking at startup stories you're not likely to hear that. That sounds like more of a Small Business story to me.
Well, Spanish is a Romance language[1]. ‘Mamma’ is Latin for ‘breast’, so that makes sense. It’s where words like ‘mammal’ and ‘mammogram’ come from.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LatinEuropeans.png
~50% of visitors don't have websocket support, and there is not, afaik, a free service offering such, and otherwise, it is probably not straightforward enough for the 99% to setup.
You can see a sample in action here [1]. The page should list every single person in the world (whose browser supports websockets) who is currently on that page. You can open multiple tabs and see that whenever you close/navigate away, your corresponding entry will disappear.

[1] https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8554242/live-status.html
D has very good SIMD support, although it does not have an autovectorizer. For parallelism, see http://dlang.org/phobos/std_parallelism.html
I'd think twice before going to war with Google. Samsung's phones aren't as much better than Motorola as Samsung seems to think they are. It isn't hard to see Google pumping the next Razr model with significant advertising dollars and claiming the crown for best selling Android smartphone for itself. Remember how fast Chrome beat out Firefox and and IE?

Samsung should have been content slipping under Google's radar and riding that wave. I can't see how poking the Google beast is a good idea.
I highly recommend that you explain what you'll be doing with every permission that you ask for.

Unfortunately Chrome/Android has a terrible approach when asking for permissions. Since they only know the class of permission (instead of what the dev is doing with them), they pop up a scary-sounding warning and hope the user figures things out. On top of desensitizing users to real threats, I can recall many times when I decided against installing an Android/Chrome app because I couldn't/didn't want to figure out how it would impact my system and didn't want to take a risk on some one-person operation.

Amusingly, I never had this issue on iOS because Apple never warns you and as a user I can assume (rightly or wrongly) that all iOS apps are safe. I wonder when Google will catch on because I personally still feel their app marketplace is much more dangerous than Apple's.
Honest Achmed's Used Cars and Certificates: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647959
You're most definitely my favorite VIM curmudgeon.
the short answer is i don't know. however the kartvelian group consists of only four languages, geographically near each other, and they are 'closely related[1]' according to wikipedia. one might expect a some degree of mutual intelligibility, as between czech and slovak, for example.

[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartvelian_languages)
To me it sounds more like they are shutting down services that can't be monetized :/
Given that dtrace and ZFS are both available on FreeBSD, what are the reasons for choosing to deploy Linux instead? It's not like the GUI or driver support matter on a server.
Yea I was thinking if my comments were 'troll like', but upon reflection I just disagreed with some of his posts.

You are right that at the end of the day it is 'his' Facebook page and he can do what he wants. I guess the tradeoff of having a perfectly curated page is disappointing some of your constituents.
>> paying your phone bill on time gives you a good credit rating

I don't know about phone bills, but electric and gas bills, yes. Also, so does being signed to a lease and paying rent. And as stated above, just having a credit card, even if you only charge like $20/month and pay it off every month will help tremendously.
Haha my apologies. I wrote this late at night and I should have done a better job writing a more readable post :).
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Do you want a serious pentest (i.e. really looking for vulnerabilities) or do you want a pentest that will get you certification so you can sell clients ?
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Sadly there's nothing official for HTTP. This strikes me as a bit daft, because the spec allows a surprising amount of leeway, and there's actually a surprising amount to it in terms of annoying fiddly syntax. (I have no idea in whose interests this is intended to be, because both client and server have to both read and write this stuff. If they'd decided to make one case complicated so the other could be simple, that would be understandable, if barely less annoying.)

And-HTTPD comes with some test data: http://www.and.org/and-httpd/ (I've not looked into this in any depth, except to note its existence, but I wish I'd seen it when I was working on my server. The chap also has an amusing page about the HTTP spec, which I basically agree with: http://www.and.org/texts/server-http)

For Web Sockets, there's a good test suite here, but again, it's not official: http://autobahn.ws/testsuite
Is the extra EV (extended validation) add on worth anything?
Yeah, as you say, even if it just tells if a tab is open (active or inactive), that's already a good measure of interest.

But I think it may be possible to determine if the current tab is open with some javascript, and send that information through the websocket. Edit: what bsimpson said.
How do you TDD UI code?
Indeed, I hate, hate onswipe "enhanced" sites. Bad enough you have to wait for the redirect and then all the assets to load (they are always slow) but then there are even more annoyances. There is no way to retain a preference for the regular site (at least not without allowing 3rd party cookies) and then they spawn a new window when you choose to view the desktop site! I've stopped visiting sites that use onswipe. The pain is just not worth the content.
Fifth - if I do give in an install the damn thing you're just going to want me to update it all the time anyway
Through the California state representative website, they encourage us to contact our representatives through e-mail. So far, none have been returned, but maybe it is time to write a good old fashioned snail mail.
> Achmed's business plan is to sell a sufficiently large number of certificates as quickly as possible in order to become too big to fail (see "regulatory capture"), at which point most of the rest of this application will become irrelevant.

Now that's honest.
Everyone does do so already (though not necessarily with websockets; occasional pings are sufficient and more widely supported). Google Analytics has a real-time dashboard. So do most web analytics platforms these days.
True, but Khan Academy doesn't significantly deviate from the hypothesis in the model -- if you provide the content for free, it's as cheap as or cheaper than all the alternatives {do nothing, $pay_service_from_a_startup, $government_subsidized_service}. At that point, it becomes a quality issue.

I think that you and the OP have similar values -- the key takeaway is that you're probably not going to become a billionaire by "revolutionizing" education.

(Heck, IMO, it's incredibly unlikely that you're going to become the next Sal Khan or Kiva -- it takes a lot to convince those key someones to give you millions of dollars for social good as opposed to a known actor.)