skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do define an A player? Seems like a rather vague idea to base your business on.
Thanks for asking because it reminded me to cross this migration off my ToDo list.

Before checking this I was convinced I would be going with NewsBlur. Based on the positive feedback on Feedly I decided to check that out.

For me Feedly wins hands down. Winning points:

- instant Google Reader import (wow!)

- list view is very similar to the plain GR view

- social rank for URLs based on G+ and FB (I have been looking for a PostRank replacement ever since Google killed my second favorite app)

What I would love to see in future enhancements:

- extend social rank to filter the views (more like Postrank)

- search within posts that I have read
That comic doesn't explain anything. That post also doesn't explain how hard it is.
(Ab)using crowdfunding to validate your market
This is pretty interesting to me as the thought process while learning is often lost in other online tutorial/courses.
to your added question: yes.

sometimes we compute "fake hours" for people working by the day but it's for administrative purpose (like tax stuff, or unemployment benefits).

I think in the context of the mathematician during the war, we can assume he was thinking of a worker in an factory in peace time or something very cliché like that. At the time, 40 hours weeks and paid vacations were a quite "new" (like less than 10 years) thing.
Now, this is the sort of stuff I expect to find on Hacker News. Awesome work.

Since electronics are getting smaller, perhaps we are going to see more "useful" rings. RFID rings for identification, anyone?
Needs more goats.
Ah, yes of course. That would actually be the biggest difference (and I completely forgot it). In my example, there are no shareholders so the obligation to maximise value for them doesn't exist.

The IKEA example is interesting as I think the aim of the convoluted legal structures (inc a non-profit somewhere) was to allow one person to have almost total control over the company.

Edit: For anyone interested in the IKEA web of companies, you read the following article: http://www.economist.com/node/6919139?story_id=6919139
> For normal non-nerd users, you make choice of good defaults.

Exactly. The browser/OS vendors make these default choices.
Here's one I liked from Quora:

A mathematician gets tired of being mocked by his physicist friends for studying useless things. He decides to go out and listen to the most useful mathematical talk he can find. After looking through the schedule, he settles on a talk about "The mathematics of gears"--after all, gears are useful for all sorts of machinery! It's hard to find something more practical.

So when the talk comes around, he's there early sitting the front row. The grey-haired professor walks up to the front and begins: "so, the theory of gears with real numbers of teeth is well understood..."
The cooking and spices comment applies to insects too. I didn't say you have to eat insects by themselves. I still prefer them over chicken.

If we're talking about not using much seasoning/condiments/side dishes, then nothing beats nice beef.

And, in my opinion, chicken's dark meat is much better than the white.
The E-Cat is back, and people are still falling for it
It isn't a question of "modern" or "old". GNU has always had absurdly terrible styles rules for example. It isn't a "modern" thing at all.
Speakers to go along with the mics as well, to hear the spoken response.
You're confused about the meaning of "unethical". What Apple is doing is lawful, apparently. But it is certainly unethical at the same time; everyone has a moral duty to contribute to society and make it function, and Apple is shirking that duty.
Unions rip Schumer’s deal on H-1B visas
Does anyone know how this compares in terms of performance to leveldb, lmdb and kyoto cabinet? I've been doing some potentially terabyte scale stuff and while another option is welcome I don't feel like re-integrating yet another local db to find out.
He's using Georgia, and recommending it. But a not so unpopular position is that serif-fonts don't fit to the web, given the low dpi of current monitors. Maybe if you target tablets.

Besides:
> It's good to keep it in golden ration or between 1.5em to 1.6em

I can't take someone seriously who believes in the golden ratio. That is debunked into oblivion.

And: Arial is different then helvetica, but there are not many technical issues with it.
> Is he/she in a good position to evaluate startup performance?

Even my grandma would be in a good position to evaluate startup performance.

Anyway, I was building an app back in the time of Android 2.0 to discover the platform and I had no problems, neither with startup time nor with apk size.

That's why I get a bit concerned when people who a) build a “competing” language and b) only seem to know Scala from reading stuff on the internet, make misleading claims.
If this had just happened once I wouldn't have said anything, but this seems to become a pattern.
What people are now realizing is that MongoDB is not a one-size-fits-all technology.
I just cannot understand why the metro start screen exists in Windows Server 2012.
Charter schools that have a specific educational approach will attract a certain kind of teacher. At the charter my kids attended, teachers would either come and be gone in a year (they didn't get it), or they would become totally devoted to the cause, to the point where it would be difficult for another school to lure them away even if they tried.

Moreover, charters with a clearly-defined academic approach attract a certain kind of student, and a certain kind of parent. So you're not getting a flat, level field of either teachers or students (what I call a "perfectly spherical cow"). You're getting a selective subset of both teachers and students, which will bias the results right there.
I have two 24" monitors and two 17" laptops on my desk right now. Windows 8 is definitely not for me.
Here's a start: http://gowers.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/answers-results-of-po...
Loved looking for signs, and clues. Very addicting. Makes you feel like a world traveler and a super sleuth at the same time.
Note that there aren't any openings in Boston, just Dublin.
And why are the color schemes everywhere are so darn awful.
The Real 800-Pound Gorilla of Presenteeism
> there are a few things on the cards for dealing with memory layout

LOL. Cards... ha. You must be referring to the G1 GC and the memory 'card' design? Ha.
No. Its singular obligation is to the shareholders - not even to the customers, except insofar as that builds longterm shareholder value.

Of course, in practice there's a lot of leeway in deciding how much attention one should pay to customers; loyal customers are key to a company's success.

Whether or not to pay extra taxes, however, is cut and dry. There's virtually no benefit to Apple in voluntarily paying a higher tax, so it doesn't do so. Any obligation it has to the state must be explicitly stated in law. There's no concept of civic irresponsibility for companies; that's exactly what laws are for. there's only legal and illegal.
Also, the "expand" button overlaps with the h-scroll bar when it's displayed.

http://i.imgur.com/4mwx7ty.png

Awesome project nevertheless.
I'm not quite sure what the author is going on about in that post: 'google is good but they make money so they're not good', 'google makes lots of products, then kills some of them so they're evil', 'google design is not perfect so I don't like them'.

It seems like he started from the assumption that Google is evil then he went rambling around that without making a coherent argument.

And I think by "rodeo" he meant IO? it's gibberish.
Help We Got the Dreaded message from Google.
You know this one:

http://www.shopforbags.com/: Unnatural inbound links
"We've detected that some of the links pointing to your site are using techniques outside Google's Webmaster Guidelines.
We don't want to put any trust in links that are unnatural or artificial, and we recommend removing any unnatural links to your site. However, we do realize that some links may be outside of your control. As a result, for this specific incident we are taking very targeted action to reduce trust in the unnatural links. Yada, Yada Yada....

We had no idea our SEO company of 7 years was in the black hat link market. We are down about 2/3rds of our traffic and we are currently unranked on our major keywords.

Our understanding Google wants our new SEO company to painstakingly document on a spreadsheet when and how we contacted every unnatural link. After 3 different times of emailing and a possible phone call we can resubmit for the links to be disavowed.

Issue is that we have approx 30,000 inbound links of which approx 4,000 are black hat. Is there a quick way to conquer this beast or does Google realistically expect, a site that has been operating for 9 years, to go through link by link without any control of the webmaster on the other end and get this done quickly.

Any ideas or thoughts that could get us back into Google's good graces quicker?

Appreciate the help in advance -M
That is not the only option he added. But a final info from him how he sees reeder in the future would be great.
The BBC unveils an experimental ‘Perceptive Radio’ - offers personalized content
I guess you are against <embed> then?
The 50% number is actually horribly exaggerated. It is closer to 30%. I'll dig up sources later, but basically the divorce rate is calculated by dividing the number of new marriages with the number of divorces in a given year.

This doesn't account for repeat offenders (people on their second, third, or tenth divorce) or age or region or any number of factors that can affect your chances of remaining married.
The point being, if it takes 3x magnification and careful examination (after having been coached) to spot any difference, it's hardly worth worrying over, let alone admonishing use of one over the other.

It just becomes another case of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoIvd3zzu4Y
One of the comments after the article points to one of my gripes with modern services: increasing pervasiveness of single sign-on.

I don't mind signing into Win8 with my live id, in fact it makes migrating settings and such really easy. The problems arise when I want to use an application with a different account than the one that I'm currently signed in as. It just doesn't exist.

This bit me hard when I was trying to set up Metro Skype (on a surface rt) to be a standalone auto-webcam, and as far as I could tell there wasn't a way to log into Skype with an account different than the one I used to log into Windows. I had to create a new Windows Live account just for this task.

This issue isn't isolated to Win8 (I imagine I would run into similar problems with Chrome OS). It's becoming more common and very, very annoying to deal with.
GitLab 5.2 Released
The ring I bought for my wife has a highly fluorescent solitary diamond. If you can find enough of these to fit your final version, and if you can find LEDs of a sufficient wavelength to trigger fluorescence, the result might be quite nice.
Aaron Levie: Delivering Innovation for the Enterprise [video]
sell that down? What does that mean?
Investing in the Consumer Web is Dead
Show HN: Takeoff: Automated optimized development workflow with gruntjs
Mummy, bundled bodies in Texas shed light on obscure Southwestern culture
I'm on Windows 7. It takes one click to postpone the update for four hours. And yet every four hours I get angry at Microsoft for a minute because of this.
A Broken Spacebar and my iPad
Show HN: Writing and Publishing Made Simple
Don't you know you get down voted for agreeing with the author?
This is just a link to the front page of a bag shop? Don't see Google even mentioned there.
Reddit's secret plan for world domination
I ended up passing on it in the theaters, it didn't get the best of reviews. I have it in my queue though, hoping it will be a solid surprise.
I wrote a very simple thing to sort-of emulate this on SQLite. It works rather well for prototyping!

https://github.com/stochastic-technologies/goatfish

It also supports indexing on arbitrary fields and is only a few lines of code. It did come in very handy.
Comcast: A Lesson in Extreme Customer Dissatisfaction
This is a very nice implementation.

I did something similar myself django-writingfield[1], but it is Django specific.

I much prefer your UI and the switching of dark text/light background is really slick.

[1]: http://django-writingfield.obscuremetaphor.co.uk/
OpenStack cloud builder Cloudscaling nets $10M from Juniper, Seagate and friends
I'm afraid I have to agree with brazzy; you're asking people to invest a fair amount of time, and potentially come to depend on a tool that they have no idea if they will be able to afford once you start charging money.
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HTC loses its Asia CEO as high-level execs continue to abandon ship
>> There is nothing like insect "meat" in our diet.

Shrimp are pretty disgusting to look at. Live shrimp are pretty "insect like" I'd say. as mentioned elsewhere, lobsters too.

When you take a step back though, lots of our current food practices are pretty "weird" too. Like, milking mammals for their mothers milk, and then letting it turn sour and harden, calling it cheese, and eating it? Just because "it's been done for thousands of years" doesn't mean holistically it isnt a pretty weird thing to do...
I bought Windows 8 when it was released and mostly had the same finding. Never used a single metro app and the desktop experience was degraded from Windows 7. No start button, lack of shadows behind windows made everything confusing, control panel issues, etc.

But the moment I decided to stop using it was when I had to copy and paste a very long random user/pass into a new vpn connection. Have you tried this? It's not possible. When you leave the vpn creation window to copy the password, it forgets the username.

I've had enough. I'm back on Windows 7.
That's how it was in the first public beta. The start button launched the start screen.
Giphy: The Gif Search Engine
There was a session at I/O called "More Awesome Web" which seemed to imply that a web audio API (which enables live microphone input) and a web speech API (which enables voice-recognition driven apps) are both currently only supported in Chrome. Here is a slide from that presentation: http://www.moreawesomeweb.com/#32 (just use the right arrow to progress through the slides).

If that's what's holding up speech recognition for other browsers then hopefully these APIs can become more widely supported, but at the same time I don't think the demand for browser speech recognition is there yet. It makes sense on your phone, but bending over your desktop or laptop in order to talk to your computer somehow doesn't seem right yet.
Samsung Talks About Its Aggressive Linux Talent Recruitment Strategy
Write simulators that use the mathematics you want to learn. One way or another you will learn the mathematics if you do this. A game engine with bone animation is great for really getting familiar with 3D vector mathematics. Electrical circuits simulator and a Physics engine are great follow ups. Fluid dynamics is another one. A symbolic math engine will get you even more familiar with lots of other pure mathematics.

Honestly speaking I've only built the circuits simulator, partially built the symbolic math engine and currently working on the physics engine. I have learnt a great deal though.
The fact it has no borders in "full screen mode" is really disorientating. I like the concept but wouldn't use it because of the loss of visual feedback (but full screen mode is optional which is fine).

As an aside: It is a shame this "breaks" Chrome's ability to let you re-scale the non-full-screen box. So it is an all or nothing choice, you have to give up something to get something...

It looks like you disabled Chrome's resizing on purpose too, which seems unnecessary/annoying. Why break existing functionality just to add new functionality?
How NPR made its ‘Arrested Development’ graphic: ‘We like to build useful stuff’
The major problem with Windows 8 is that Microsoft shafted developers/admins with yet another major shift in tools, UI and APIs and system changes. (cha ching!) Metro Apps aren't rich enough to be decent replacements for desktop apps, nor are they good enough to match others rich web applications.

As a developer, if I'm having to shift focus, I'm going to explore alternatives outside the Redmond garden that give me more control and cost less. As much as I love VS and SQL Server, a growing number of my clients/projects can do equally well or better with OSS solutions.
Also use TT-RSS as I need to check from behind a restrictive proxy.
The story was picked up buy Business Insider:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-new-york-times-versus-scr...
This is so stupid that I won't bother answering it.

You just can't imagine how incredibly ridiculous it appears to the non-US world to use “academic” as a slur.
yes, but that's true of many other technologies as well. and while that doesn't alleviate such concerns, i think its clearly where the market's heading and (maybe naively) am not too concerned with it..

thinning back a few years, the idea that facebook could amass such volumes of personal data based on one's digital activity sparked much the same reaction. in deciding to use their service, there's a clear tradeoff between enjoying the benefits it provides and giving-up (and trusting them with) a lot of personal data - which, naturally, has potential for abuse.

technologies like this new kinect, as well as personal fitness monitors, google glass, smartwatches and other wearable technology, are just a continuation of that trend, now translated more to the physical realm.

it is definitely a leap, as the data being captured is more tangible and the ability to identify one based on it more real, but its still very much the same and feels like a natural evolution as we move more towards a world where everything is connected..
What operative system are you using? On GNU/Linux
- http / https are visible in the url bar
- tabs are under the url bar (and under any other bar you activated)
- menu is still there
- status bar can be toggled on/off
GigaOm - Splinter.me wants to replace your resume and offer career guidance
That said, this article fails to mention one of the most salient arguments in favor of charter schools: If education is the primary path for upward social mobility, then every parent should have some choice in where their child goes to school

Actually, I think the most important thing about charter schools is the failure feedback loop: bad ones can fail, which most large, urban school districts can't. No matter how bad a district or school might be, most parents have no cost-effective choice.

Charters at least solve that problem. I don't think they're a panacea or that all charters are automatically better than public schools, but at least they can fail.
Why startups need to be more about "why" than "what"
Discussion about why your startup should be more about "why" than "what". Your customers buy why. they don't buy what.
Someone needs to write "c fmt"
Agree...maybe I read too much into the listed algorithms, because you're suggesting real-world scenarios where some of these concepts can be applied.

But I will say, as never having used a graph search like Dijkstra's in any of my work, the idea of studying this to take a hiring test still goes with my theory of learning something by rote. If someday I need to implement the concept, or use it, I'm sure I'll go figure it out. I had to do this awhile ago with a Levenshtein distance for computing similar string matching. Had someone asked me in an interview, I'd have completely failed at it.
Neat, but what's the practicality for the average user? Obviously there are universal benefits for the disabled, but what comes next?
That's exactly what I did! https://github.com/stochastic-technologies/goatfish
Like another commenter, I was also going to recommend Google's LevelDB. It has bindings for just about every major language and it's my understanding it works really well as a KV store.
My problem with the charter school discussion is that it is frequently framed in the context of "this charter school is better than this public school." Frankly, these comparisons are bullshit. Public schools are given a task that charter schools would never have to even imagine. Public schools must educate ALL children in their districts. Charter schools have the luxury of choosing who attends their schools and who stays after they have been admitted. It is an apples to oranges comparison.

Take any single "successful" or "highly rated" charter school in the country and then tell them they must educate all of the kids in the public school district in which their school resides and I doubt we would see the same results. To get into charter schools parents must fill out applications. Right off the bat you have created a pool of potential students who at the very least have parents at home who are active in their children's education. Children like that typically perform better in school regardless of the type of school.

So yeah charters can work. But they work not because they schools are better. They work because the students going to them are better.
I downvoted him because it's so unclear whether he was being sarcastic that the comment adds no value.
Optimizing Password Composition Policies (EC'13)
I'll out myself as a luddite: I hate the modern web. I hate nearly everything about it other than the fat high-speed link I use to connect to it. I hate the animation, the video, the ever more insidious and unblock-able pop-ups. I hate that technical posts that used to be just some text I could quickly skim are now often videos I have to watch (I'm looking at you MSDN Channel 9!). I absolutely hate video. It's a terrible medium for communicating information to a person who is trying to multitask. It should be strictly reserved for porn and other entertainment. I hate Flash. I hate how Flash ads sit there and suck up my battery life. I hate Javascript that does the same. If I've just got my browser open to a page and I'm working in Emacs, Safari should be sitting at 0.0 (maybe 0.1)% CPU usage, not waking up my CPU constantly to do whatever shit it thinks it needs to do.

Text is great. Civilization pretty much peaked when we figured out how to blast text from the other side of the planet to your screen in 150-200 milliseconds. It's been downhill from there.
Is it better to Code during the day or at night?
Probably a better description would be an embeddable document store is what I'm looking for.
I want to store my objects in the database without having to flatten out its nested structure. I also want to be able to search those nested structures. I want the database engine to handle creating the fields if they don't exist. I don't want to deal with schemas. Each document in a collection should not care if the fields are different from each other.

These are all the things I'm used too using in MongoDB, I don't want to go back to SQL type databases. I thought I saw a SQLite driver that mimicked a MongoDB like system but I can't seem to find it.
I'd have to disagree with the "modest gains" in life expectancy for cancer patients. We have made some incredible progress in the last few years.

The best example is chronic myelogenous leukemia. Before Gleevec was launched, the 5 year survival rate was 30%. Now? It's into the mid-90s and basically the same as the general population.

And Gleevec isn't the only drug that has changed the natural progression of cancer. There are drugs in the pipeline that will basically "cure" other types of cancer as well.
Really? I have always though it is a mashup of "Linus Torvalds Unix Clone" so always used the long 'i' the same as his name.
one mention of 'export,' none of 'opml' in the comments