skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious to look at how this compares the locker project[1] or the more limited (but actively developed) Singly Hallway[2].

The locker project had a very clear data model to share data such as contacts, statuses, links, places etc. But more importantly it was easy to sync data from existing cloud services. Looking briefly at cozy-data-system, it does not seem like it is designed for applications to easily share data.

In any case, this project and others like it are really interesting to me as a hobby developer. Having structured data that I create and consume on local systems makes it a lot more enticing to run continuous analytics on.

I've been building out some tools that pull data out of pinboard.in, twitter, facebook, last.fm, my past Google searches and then do some basic processing[3] to create a sense of what I'm doing, how ideas introduced to me, things I'm interested in over time etc. The locker project was a great help, because they can merge data from multiple services and then I can keep the data on my own servers. I would love to have all the data/applications myself, but do not want suffer with sub-par apps and use the best services available (as long has they have an API).

[1]: https://github.com/LockerProject/Locker

[2]: https://github.com/Singly/hallway

[3]: For now, it's a mess of python with some nltk.org, www.clips.ua.ac.be/pattern and recently pandas.pydata.org
cjbprime's explanation (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5792745) could apply to that one as well; did the iPod Touch 2G have a dedicated GPU chip yet, or was video rendering done on the CPU?
Which Excel loves to silently turn into integers and subsequently destroy your zip code column. Not. Fun.
Actually, people who desire the newest, latest, whizzy thing is a niche market. Most people simply want something that works.
There's a lot of nice work under the hood in Win8. It's too bad the internal politics completely submerged it.

A simple "Sorry, we screwed up" would be nice to hear, rather than the "Advancing forward into the bright future, we added a Start Button^H^H^H^H^H^H Tip"

Let's put it another way: The moment that I hear the next version of Visual Studio /requires/ Win8 or its ilk to run, I'm looking hard at moving everything I do to Linux.
While SenchaTouch is definetly the best for mobile web-apps, Their framework is definetly too heavy, and becomes less and less practical espcially without their IDE. AngularJS has a better take on the problem indeed.
Even shorter:

package main

import "io/ioutil"

func main() {
data, err := ioutil.ReadFile("/etc/ttys")
...

println(string(data))
}
This is fairly well researched wrt banners. Basically once users associate visual elements with noise, the will start to automatically filter them to the point of not being conscious about their existence.

In a even broader scope, Jakob Nielsen has shared lots of data from his eye tracking usability studies that show just how little attention users pay to online content [1][2].

[1] http://www.nngroup.com/topic/advertising/

[2] http://www.nngroup.com/topic/eyetracking/all/
I believe Dalvik's interpreter is very fast compared to Java interpreters. But its JIT is optimized for low startup cost and low memory usage, and as a result it's relatively slow. Though it might have improved in recent releases.
I live in India and most of the points mentioned are common sense stuff here - in other words just don't assume anything apart from Country and State. Just give two/three fields and let the user write his address... :-)
Don't worry, you will not lose your files if the cloud services are down/gone.
Anatomy of an Email Signature
"I would love to see HN commenters' reactions if on disabling Secure Boot, the Windows 8 partition is wiped along with any documents and files you saved locally"

The equivalent to a Windows 8 partition on ChromeOS is cloud storage like Google Drive, Dropbox or Skydrive. This cloud storage is not being wiped when you switch to or from developer mode.

The local storage is just a temporary storage for downloads and caching.

Oh, and entering developer mode on my Pixel was as easy as holding 3 keys down at the same time.
Even though I know what the photo is for, subconsciously it makes me think "Oh, this is going to lead me to some guys Google+ profile page."

I imagine I've skipped over a ton of search results that are just like the one in the article for just that reason.
This has been true for years — since Mac OS X 10.1. I believe third-party tools like Snapz Pro (and perhaps even the command line screen capture tool) get around this limitation.
Quantum encryption isn’t as unbreakable as you think
I use StartIsBack [1] which I've found to be very good. $3 for a two pc licence.

[1] http://www.startisback.com/
"I don't mean this as a slight against Go, or Java. I'm just saying it's made for people of a certain level of intelligence and designed for use at giant corporations."
I know I'm parallel-commenting here the guy himself, but seriously, I believe this is just what happens when you either have too much money, are too lazy, or both.

I am pretty sure they could have come up with a basic MoBo+GPU+CPU+RAM combo to buy from a large distributor, assemble them in series in no-time and get a vastly cheaper and more powerful farm.

Walking around buying mac minis a dozen a time to build a data center is just silly in my opinion, whatever the reasoning.
You can totally buy a system without Windows - System76, Emperor Linux, Asus, and Dell all offer PCs that come pre-installed with Ubuntu and never pay the Microsoft licensing fee. I'm pretty happy with my System76 laptop.
But is taking a screenshot of a film illegal?

I sincerely hope it isn't.
You're going to create a virtualized replica of a system that is no longer supported, and that won't affect the security of your system??? Might want to rethink that one.
Back up: https://twitter.com/dropbox_support/status/34011867623156940...
Having a Facebook or LinkedIn is not necessary for getting verified with Airbnb as long as you are willing to do other things.

When I helped a friend get verified, we provided a photo of his driver's license and did that thing which Paypal also does where Airbnb makes two sub-dollar deposits or withdrawals (I forget which) to our bank account, and we have to prove the bank account belongs to us by telling Airbnb the exact amounts of the deposits or withdrawals.

EDIT: s/emailed a photo/provided a photo/
Yep, but the "+" in the mobile version (iOS) to upload files still appears to be disabled.
One interesting thing about this is how it can lead to timing attacks which leak information about your keystrokes. There's a great paper [1] which gives some examples. One more reason to use pubkey authentication for SSH.

[1] http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~dawnsong/papers/ssh-timing.pdf
anyway the system is good enough...though activity log could be more convenient and clear for such money
That's very much my feeling too, it's the first time I feel like I'm really reusing a lot of my code.
> Weeks earlier, Rob Pike gave a talk Go Concurrency Patterns in Google IO 2012

That is over a year old.

Since then Go has moved up one (minor) version number and by all accounts it is now 20 to 40 % faster.
As per the article, those are not installed at every intersection. In my experience, they're rare outside of large cities.
This happened with the Puppet type reference search result. Still feel weird clicking it with the guy's picture next to it. Makes it feel like it's his page when I want to believe it belongs Puppet.
I tried imgix for thumbnails in a web photo album. It was much slower (higher latency) and double the price per bandwidth of Amazon Cloudfront. In general, then, resizing all the images in advance and serving them from a traditional CDN offers a better experience at a better price. Only if that's impossible is imgix a good choice.

Being a premium CDN seems a bit like being a premium credit card processor -- as customers grow, they have more and more incentive to switch to a commodity alternative.
For example? 'cos, the only example you've provided was incorrect.
I fail to recognize the world from which your comment seemingly comes.

Reducing the mental load of a programming language has nothing to do with how "smart" anyone is, it's about making everyone more productive. Otherwise, the smartest programmers would all be clamoring to use C++.
In my side project of trying to understand Paxos (and variations thereof) on an intuitive level, I came across this piece which describes how Mr. Lamport tried to instill enthusiasm in his students by dressing up as Mr. Jones to describe the fictional Paxon protocol. Unfortunately, he thinks his efforts were in vain (I don't agree).

I don't think I've enjoyed reading any technical papers more than I've enjoyed reading the web of citations connected to The Part-Time Parliament.

I wish more papers used metaphor as a teaching tool -- a wall of dry and condensed text quickly drains my energy.
Hmm. I can't see how it would be much more dangerous than using a mirror. I ride with a mirror mounted on my glasses, and I glance up at it briefly then back at the road again. The same would be true of the glass. Sure, when you're first getting used to it you will probably linger on it for longer due to the novelty and getting used to the exact focus point. But once you get the hang of it, I can't imagine it would be much different than glancing at a mirror, which is perfectly safe.
Windows 8.1 is Boring
are there any benchmarks for this piece's speed?
I have several issues with what Alex is saying:

:

- "Most people were clicking the #2 result." Huh?!? How do you possibly know that people are clicking the 2nd result? You don't. Unless you have access to Wikipedia's analytics, you have NO WAY in knowing. So what you're saying could be true--but could not be true. It's your interpretation, not fact.

- I'm seeing paid ads for "macro recorder", thus you're the first after the paid ads. "macro record" is a bad example of this. A true test would be to unverify for at least a week and see if you have more or less clicks. That is if you end up staying the #1 result. I bet that your rankings would change if you un-verified your site's authorship.

- I still see no proof that your traffic went down based on Google Authorship (your photo appearing). So, what you're saying is that you had 90 percent more traffic before you verified authorship? Putting your photo there caused a loss in traffic? I'm not seeing enough proof of that (you're not showing any analytics data).
I agree, restoring a small feature (that doesn't prevent you from using the product the way you like) that has been requested by a large number of customers and may get them to like the product better is a definite step in the wrong direction.
There are a lot of 1/2 addresses here. Usually happens when a house that was originally a single address has a room (or several) divided off and rented out as a separate dwelling. So that can become "320 1/2 S. Lincoln Ave" or whatever. Sometimes though, in the same situation, separate apartment numbers will be used on the orignal adddress. I'm not sure what drives this one way or the other.
stupid question, but from your second example what does the _ do? in this line?

"for _, "
my rant re: generics, I wish people would read through the documentation (FAQ) and discussion of this first.

The language designers have not ruled out generics, and are fully open to providing them at some point. The issue is that they have yet to find an implementation that fits within the language design goals.

Yes, if you jump on the mailing list, and propose that they somehow "use" .NETs generics, and you actually have no idea how that would be implemented, or impact the compiler and runtime, you're not going to be greeted cordially. This happens fairly frequently, and is probably why people think the community is totally against generics.

The Go team wants generics, when they find the right way to handle them within the language. In the meantime, most heavy users seem to agree that lack of generics is better than poor generics.
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The quality of the photo can make a huge impact on clickthroughs. Cyrus Shepard of (seo)Moz saw a 35% increase in click-through rates after a/b testing his profile photo:
http://moz.com/blog/google-author-photos

He also mentioned that, "Bounce rate dropped while time-on-site and page views increased. It's as if having an authoritative photo in the search results raised users' trust in my site and expectations of authority."
5 Reasons You Need to Learn to Program
Thanks for that. I (and I guess a lot of other commenters) hadn't considered that there might be a totally innocent explanation.

Come to think of it, I've noticed this behaviour in the past.
> maybe Gosling and Pike really do believe that generics and HOF are too difficult for the average programmer

The reasons that Go doesn't have generics are well documented and discussed (continually) on golang-nuts. Basically, the designers feel none of the existing generics implementations are adequate. They claim that if and when a better solution is devised, they're open to using it.

I don't know why you're accusing them of shielding users from generics, unless you think they're being disingenuous.
Oh quite right! This is why I'm entirely against this, whereas I just deeply hate Paypal's lack of customer service.
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> saying "ah, but you can go into a shop and buy an Android tablet" is pretty unsatisfying.

Particularly because it's doubtful that you could buy one without pre-installed software which is not only proprietary, but reports a great deal of information about you and your contacts to Google.
What? Sorry, that's just not true.

MS-DOS games in 1992:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6E4FZdY-pM

JavaScript games/tech in 2013:
http://playcanvas.com/demos/
http://services.runescape.com/m=itemdb_rs/bestiary/?show=50
Subjectively, I thought this was well worth reading. Better than previous years' IMHO.
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Backward Thinking
Famous last words, if you've ever read The Innovator's Dilemma. Google is definitely moving up-margin into Enterprise with a fair degree of success; I'm not sure about Apple, but I wouldn't be surprised if they are too. In tech the companies who are successful in low-margin market segments are predators and the ones in higher-margin market segments are prey.
Interviews are Bullshit
This is 100% right. A quick confirmation: "John Mu of Google has confirmed that you must have a headshot of yours in order to see your Google Plus avatar in Google’s rich snippet."

source: http://www.internetmarketingninjas.com/blog/social-media/log...
The short stack advantage
What would've you added to improve Windows on non-touch? Windows on touch is the new thing, and it'd be bad if they didn't improve it.

Also, take into account that this isn't "All Windows 8.1 changes". They probably have more to show for non-touch users, but this is what users were complaning about (Start button, Metro multitask...), and as Paul Thurrott unveiled most of these features [1] yesterday I imagine they decided to confirm them and get a bit of good press.

[1] http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/blue-start-experience-chan...
We need a new joke then.

Question: How many Ubuntu engineers does it take to change a light bulb?

Answer: 900. 1 to log the bug, 2 to start a flame war over it, 896 to upvote the defect to encourage a developer to work on it, and 3 years later 1 to close the defect as won't fix - no longer needed.
I have trouble seeing it as that complex of a calculus

They wanted to make a DVD player.
DVDCCA (or someone) required them to block screen grabs during playback as a condition of giving them a proper license for CSS (or something) for their DVD player.
They blocked screen grabs during playback.

I doubt "is this really going to achieve anything" ever entered anyone's mind. It would just complicate the licensing negotiation for something Apple doesn't really give a crap about (some random third party app)
Let's not. The offensive name, suitable only for inside jokes. Slow as hell. No chance to achieve any usable insights.
AFAIK the function returns to values but you only need name in this case, so _ discards that return value.
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Design and UX: A One-Two Punch for Startups
You mean Inbox, maybe?
You could argue that the disorientation and loss of context caused by completely replacing the entire desktop with a list of shortcuts is a loss of functionality. Previously the start menu was kind of like looking at the index in a corner of a map that gives grid references for every location, in that you still could keep your location on the map (and thus understanf the context of your surroundings) in view. The new start menu is more like having to completely flip off the page with the map on to look at the index on another page. It's vastly more disruptive to a continuous workflow.

Edit: real-world example: I'm on a web page with a list of prices and want to do a quick sum. On 7, I'd hit win-key, type 'calc' and then enter the prices, all the while keeping my eyes on the numbers I want to add so I don't lose track of them. On 8, it will flash my entire screen full of icons. I lose view of the numbers and therefore may lose track of the numbers I want to add up.
What are the advantages of using this for timestamps rather than the SSL CA timestamp servers? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping

I am looking for a way to prove that web content existed -- building a cryptographically verifiable "Internet Archive" knock-off; timestamping is a key part of this.
Yes. Not sure how much I feel like talking about generics and error handling again, but those are the first two reasons. I can respect them wanting error conditions to be explicit, but then they give you no acceptable way of dealing with them -- perhaps because proven techniques from the functional world would require parametric polymorphism, or yet more built-ins from the language designers.
The beeping while you wait is likely so you can find the box itself. It also has a small tactile strip -- which vibrates as it beeps -- and which will always point in the direction of the crossing -- just to help orient you.
This is still less than optimal. Just give the desktop users what they want. To me Windows 8 is a half baked attempt at striking a balance between desktop users and tablet users. Combining these interfaces is not going to work well no matter which way you try it. Its actually awfully reminiscent of using an old windows phone that essentially brought the desktop user interaction of Windows to mobile.
Dropbox is great but not much better than more secure solutions like Spideroak. I only use Dropbox for its api and decent clients. Edit: if we had open protocols instead, we would not get this vendor lockin with all the Dropbox-only applications. Still Dropbox is a great product.
Again, enterprise. Business. Not consumer.

It doesn't matter if the tablets are running iOS, Android, or Windows. What does and will matter is, which can run Excel, which can run Word, and which can run Eclipse or Visual Studio? Because, besides IE6 apps that will continue to slowly fade, that's what businesses actually care about.
It's the "blank identifier", a throw-away variable. See http://golang.org/ref/spec#Blank_identifier
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As you note the problem with voice is social.

And I find that I am frequently alone - and there you don't have to worry about the taboo. I think that voice interfaces have a lot of potential in non-social settings. Personally I dictate much of my morning emails when out taking the dog on a walk.
Yeah fair point, and I wonder how much influence I might have had too.

On the me front, I have never discussed or commented on it to or with him. Frankly, such discussion would bore him senseless. The discussion about the PC spec, which was me trying to match budget with expectation, was hard work!!! But, the one thing he jumped on was not AMD v Intel, not RAM or disk size, not graphics card chip set, its was no Windows 8.

As for usage v PR, all I can say is that, as I tried to point out with my not geek comment, he is not in circles where things like OS's and PC specs are important. He not a computer person. As I said, he is a consumer, not a creator or hacker. The tech details are as important to him as the tech details of a TV or stereo. Basically, does it do what I want? See what I mean?

Also, he has used Windows 8 for months on his laptop. Plenty of time to get over initial shock and simply get used to it. Well, clearly, he hasn't.

So, in his case, I would say his rejection of Win8 is experienced based and genuinely his own.
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That's what the headline subeditors are paid for
"_" is when you must assign a value, but don't want to use it.

range in the for loop return 2 values (index, value). If you don't want the index, you can assign it to "_" to ignore it.

http://golang.org/ref/spec#Blank_identifier
You are not wrong. And we were very well aware of this. However, we found the reality of the problem being solved is much more about network latency, routing, and caching than actual graphics processing throughput. Our pain points have been very different than what you are prescribing as a better course of action.
Not with kids, no way. "People", maybe.

Think fashion.
So I guess the issue can be broken into parts:

1. Airbnb has every right to demand that its users get verified.
2. The way they implemented verification is suboptimal.

My read of the article/comments shows that most people disagree with #1.
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This is one of the reasons I asked my Facebook friends to A/B test two photographs I have used as profile photos before setting my Google+ photo. I should probably be a lot more rigorous about this, but at the very least a photograph should be compared to other available photographs for what it says about your online persona.
Motorola's Moto X Phone Will Be Made in America
He stated he owns a Windows 8 laptop already, which is very revealing. I'd also say his interest in Windows over OSX makes him much less of a bandwagon-rider (though it could be the pricetag as well).
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My version is from the days when Microsoft software was completely bug free. It had no bugs, only "features". True arrogance.

I think I prefer your version though!
Congrats Faizan. Wonderful to see this come out of India, a soft target for free services.

Keep at it guys. The first few months of running a paid service is crucial, once you hit critical mass, there's gonna be no looking back.
The Argument Isn’t Skeuomorphic vs. Flat
Isn't it a bit wasteful to resize all those images on the fly? I'd think it's much better to resize them at creation and serve different files as they're needed, assumption being here that dumbly serving a file is more power efficient/cheaper than rescaling a large image every time a smaller version is needed.
So this is like your house blowing out the flame before you can toke up, it's complete non-sense!
Is this really such a hard problem to solve? Something like littleutils can easily solve this, no?

http://littleutils.sourceforge.net/

Also what does this has to do with being "graphics card for the entire internet"?
For iterates over a range and returns the index and the value. If you don't use the index the underscore just ignores it.
I cannot follow activity of my fellows, with inbox in asana, and that's a problem.