skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Product Market Engagement: The Missing Step in Lean Startup Methodology
I'm glad to see someone else pointing this out. I did so myself here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6089979

I want so suggest however, that you follow my lead in taking a sternly honest but less antagonistic approach to the topic. This reality implies a complete breakdown of democracy, which is terrifying. And while it may be true, we won't get far calling each other "fools", even if the effort is impotent.

Still, let me reiterate that I'm very glad you said it.
Just to nitpick, guy and dude are not gender neutral, they just happened to be heavily used by the community in general, mostly because people assume users are men by default.
I don't think that's what's being suggested.
No shit huh? I was about to post the same. Wait.. guys... RUN, it's a trap.
By default Adblock plus will still show any ads as long as they are clearly labelled as such and text only.
To this day, I don't think he was when he first got elected; but he did not have a real political powerbase in the party, and so didn't really make a difference when nominating members of his administration. He let the Clintonites run the show, and of course they dragged him down in the same way they've done his predecessors. He squandered his star-power in the first year (when powerful people were begging to take pictures with him) and that was it. After that, he pretty much ran things as "Clinton III & IV". In fact, Bill himself is now to Obama's left on various issues, at least going by his public statements.

This is the problem with voting "the New Man who will clear up Washington": it rarely ever happens. Because the difference is made every day, inch by inch, by a political machinery built by a number of cadres, and Obama's machinery was fundamentally the same as Clinton's (and Kerry's, i.e. the people complicit in 8 years of GWB regime). In that I hoped he'd make a difference. When I saw Dean had been pushed out, I knew the gig was up.

Still, even before his first day in office, at least he made a big difference in one particular field (desegregation), which was long overdue.
Well I can't say that I was paying attention a lot until the past few years but I think would could use Debian as an example of it. obviously a very mature project with funding of sorts.
Nope, it's Chrome 28 on Mountain Lion http://uk.omg.li/QP02
I think many folks are missing that this is art. On the surface it's a story of someone who games the system. A level beneath it's about someone losing their ambition as they get sucked in to gaming the system. It could be a larger political allegory in addition to it's critique of large corporate machines. It certainly isn't the truth, but by sucking us all in it is definitely good writing.
The cards have two links that do 10Gbps in each direction. The 16MB buffer will hold 7ms at worst (double if the links are unbalanced and the buffers shared), which might be okay for web content. Frankly CloudFlare should focus on making their ddos filter more realtime and get over their fear of dropped packets.
Make sure you're storing your data optimally, and look in to sharding your data if possible.
PyPy.js: First Steps
There's some irony in an article about how normal people don't know how to use their computers getting taken down by a front page HN appearance.
Diary of an injury-prine runner, part 1
I called all three of my listed representatives - the phone was answered almost immediately.

It took less than 5 minutes of my time. It may even take you less. It was quite pleasant.

Do it now!
Please,please,please implement the Firefox version..
Has the liquidity argument been proved in practice ? I'm not really close to trading so every time I hear about HFT is when they wreak havoc in market because of maladjusted algorithms.
I've never really understood why they don't arm drones with cannon rather than missiles. Under computer control, those could be incredibly accurate. Can't imagine there'd be much collateral damage from them.

When you have a stock of air to ground missiles, everything looks like a tank?

Then again the entire drone command system strikes me as laughably badly designed, I dare say that's responsible for a hell of a lot of unnecessary deaths from bad situational awareness.
Unfortunately, even if NSA stopped all domestic spying, the fact that they have programs like PRISM that silently turn any US company into a snitch for the US military means that the US internet industry has suffered an irreparable blow.

Obama getting on national TV and saying "we only target foreign entities" is the worst possible thing that could have happened. Even if all of this stuff works, the spying on foreigners via compelling US service providers to wiretap them is sufficient to end the internet industry in the USA as we know it.
I think Wisty was responding to the part where the crazy man claimed the driver code was originally GPL internally before being changed.
This won't work. Even if they defund the existing programs, the IC will just change the codenames and move them around between departments, as they did with TIA. The technology will live on.

The only way to really end these programs would be a full public debate followed by a statute that outright bans them. Anything less is a PR move.
People with more money than me: kindly buy lots of these so that further generations are developed and costs come down ASAP.

I am sick of having to choose between screen estate and PPI. Give me my unicorn.
That IS weird, indeed. Haven't come across that, especially for a smaller size company. On the other hand, it never seizes to amaze me the reasons people have for some decisions. Completely irrational. Most likely your boss had to answer to someone at the top, and if they were to find out your department had too much slack time, they'd cut his budget.

I started working in 1998. Fresh out of school, I had this romantic idea about jobs being places where you go to perform a specific set of predefined tasks. 15 years down the road I learned about the waste, the fluff, the inefficiency, the incompetence of some managers, the politics and the corporate speak. They never teach you those things in school...
This is even more cool. His encouragement will go a long way for her.
This is why I like reading HN comments. Most comments on this would be "ohh woah cool amaazing man!!"
But here people are not so easily persuaded, thing is not physically accurate!
> I take as a given that Silver's model is better than punditry. I am skeptical that it is better than the trivial model which any undergraduate stats student would cook up.

This seems quite easy to test. Has anyone done so yet?
I agree. The faded orange needs to be a few % less gray/white.
That's very strange, I'm running the same setup as well. Have you installed any system tweaks that change the way fonts are rendered?
Too much orange. Difficult to read fonts. If only it had some more soothing colors, I would use it daily! Nice though!
At large organizations it is often the case that the amount of power you wield is determined by the number of employees that report to you. This creates an incentive to bring on new employees whenever you have the budget and to avoid layoffs of your people wherever possible. So even though Dan (the estimator) isn't really needed he still serves to increase some middle manager's power.

At organizations like this you'll often have "re-orgs" where a few people are laid off (relatively speaking) but the "managers that matter" (those with the most power) come out having the same number of people beneath them. It will seem completely arbitrary to the people at the bottom of the org chart why their boss's boss's boss changed but the truth is that it happened because that guy used his influence to finagle the org chart in such a way as to keep the same number of reports.
What you're probably missing is the change in information density. Most HN redesigns jack up the font size and the padding between links.
Great tool! The page took a while to load though...
So what if a real call comes in? Just fake it, and be like hold on, I have another call coming in, "hang up" the fake call, and answer the real one.
Another reason why SQL_SLAVE_SKIP_COUNTER is bad in MySQL
Yes, but a font-weight of 100 is never a good or useful thing, it's terribly unreadable
Why SQL Injection Plagues Developer and Security Teams
"Using token leaky buckets for congestion feedback control in packets switched networks with guaranteed boundedness of buffer queues":

http://www.nt.ntnu.no/users/skoge/prost/proceedings/ecc03/pd...
I like it also. My Special Eyes have trouble with default HN. For me, like orf, the faded colors are a bit of a strain.

Also, if I don't open a story in a new tab, but go out and back, I sometimes have trouble finding the entry I just used (and its comments). A color for "just visited" would be nice.
Because all of us starting a company have the ear of Ron Conway, Dave McClure, Marc Andreesen, and the other triple-A-list superstars.
</sarcasm>

I'll take money where I can get it, to realize my dream, thanks anyway for the snobbery.
Why Undergrad Entrepreneurship Courses Aren't Producing Entrepreneurs
TLDR; Split databases, split tables, prefetch queries with cron jobs or database functions, use separate servers, don't collect redundant data

As a BI developer, I'd also like to second the idea of being able to split the table up and changing your architecture. Ideally, you would leave your production database untouched and have a replicated database to work with. The replicated database will of course still probably be really massive, so you will want to create tables specifically for querying (attempts to simulate a data mart) where you only grab the data that you need for querying. Another idea would be to have cron jobs pre-query at say midnight so when your users hit the database, they are fetching pre-fetched data.

Also, if it's rising exponentially, I would have a look to see if all that data is really what you need. It's great to collect every single piece of data if you can but if you can't cover the costs to do that and there's no added value to all that data, it doesn't make sense to keep everything.
Very cool, I like the borderless body area. I agree with Orf on the hard to read (perhaps a little darker links/textbox font?). The other thing is that endless scroll doesn't seem to be working for me.
Six ways to maximize the battery life on your Galaxy S4
How exactly is the debate over when it's 4 to 6? All HTML5 has to do is win one more category.
What if your phone rings while you're rendering some image or compiling something?

It all seems aweseome until I remember that the damn thing is supposed to be a telephone too :)
I really like it. To be honest, I prefer it more than Georgify [1].

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/georgify/ofjfdfale...

The only problem I have with it is that after opening comment section, the design pops-out and overwrites the original design.
"You certainly have to factor in costs for going native for multiple OSs, although solutions like Appcelerator will help reduce those costs significantly"

well I better buy your product right away!
Sourceforge. Patches and communication over mail lists, or over usenet. Gopher.

And you used to get your unix on tape, with included tools and apps.
Hmm, I don't know. Seems like much of Wikipedia is by smart people for smart people (like NPR). We all think of Wikipedia as the commons but it's far from it. Most people are on perezhilton.com all day.

Anyway, Ayn Rand was more against the falseness around giving and the betrayal of the recipient when he is given something he could never earn.
You understand that my argument was not against all blanket data collection by the NSA, right? In many cases it might still work. That's the entire point: this issue does not reduce to simple answers, only shared values that can then discuss depending on the particular situation.

Address-to-address SIGiNT, two hops out, with only the address and time? I might could get behind that -- as long as I had that data also.

This discussion is not about surveillance. We are going to have that anyway. All this does is give it to every other country but us. This discussion is about priviledge -- who gets access to what?

Apologies for reaction to the link bait title, but that doesn't change the point I'm making.
Ah hah, of course. That's much different though, that's the game imposing a limit upon you outside your control, in this case it's if you die you have to make a choice of paying or dropping back.
How do you mean? Are comments hard to read?
My attitude is not towards normal people that aren't technically knowledgeable - they have other problems to worry about and technology is meant to make their lives easier, not harder.

But people being paid for being IT-knowledgeable have no excuse for not knowing things as basic as what an OS is. And they do exist, I've met them. Imagine being treated by medical personnel that do not know where the vital organs are or their basic function.
Falling Crime: Where have all the burglars gone?
A Strange Loop Indeed
There is no gray area. Derivative works are GPL or illegal. But nothing physically forces people from breaking the law. You cannot GPL a piece of code against the author's will.
iOS 7 Wireframe Kit
Localtunnel - Share localhost with anyone on the web. [ruby gem]
Ask HN: How Would You Teach Kids Computer Science and Engineering Full Time?
I would like to do this for a living. Kids get lessons in piano, sports, etc... and I think a lot of parents would pay to have someone teach their kids how to use computers for more than checking Facebook. I also think back when I was 6 years old I would have LOVED to have someone who could have taught me how to do more with PCs than play games on them. I feel like even teaching them the very basics (simple Python, HTML) would give kids such a huge advantage when it comes to starting a career and finding good paying work in the future. You could sell it to the parents as teaching a vital skill, and to kids in any number of ways. Make an Arduino part of your lesson fee and let the kids keep a robot they built, etc... So how do you think I could make this pipe dream a reality and quit my day job?
Did you test it on a MBPr ? The screenshot looks really blurry here. EDIT: it's just the screenshot, the actual extension works fine. A bit more contrast would be appreciated though. Maybe a different background color for links ?
What type of data makes up the rows? Relational databases fit many data persistance problems, however there are other types of databases which might be more applicable to your problem. Essentially, use the right tool for the job.

Relational, key/value, document, columnar, graph. Within each of those types there are specific implmentations (mysql, postgres, oracle, redis, riak, neo4j, titan, cassandra, mongodb, couchdb, etc), each with their own pros/cons.

Within the relational database realm, make sure you understand: when and when not to normalize/denormalize, clustered/non-clustered indexes, btree/rtree/hash indexes, schema design, storage engines, partitioning, master/slave, replication, caching strategies, execution plan optimization, etc..
What would the trivial/baseline model be, just a straight average of all state polls for the last X days?

That would be interesting to know, but also easy to find out.
Because the mine in the story we're discussing closed in 1990. I am aware there are still active mines, complete with miners, all over the world.
That may be one badly chosen name. However, it is not just the name. In my language, instead of computer science it is called "informatika" (which would translate to informatics [1]), and while that name does not even suggest computers, many people have the same thoughts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatics_(academic_field)
I wouldn't call them intellectuals - more like college students. But I also don't think that applies in the general case, like Al Qaeda in Iraq. Attacks on western soil, like 9/11, it has definitely been stablished has mainly middle to upper-class college educated guys - engineers, dentists, that sort of thing. But in the middle east and south asia I don't think the rank file qualify.
What a joke. Native wins big at security because "the security of the source code of itself; browser source code is open for all to see, and to then work around.". These people obviously don't understand that security through obscurity generally doesn't work. Their claim would also mean that an open system like Linux would be less secure than Windows.
Fantastic, thanks for posting. I understand the design aspects of these skin extensions, but I don't want to scroll more than I already do to see the same content.
The author totally ignores that fact that apps are created for different reasons, different audiences, and have different goals. It's no wonder he seems quite full of himself:

"Almost a year ago I wrote a white paper...Strangely, though, the debate rages on."
awesome work! One note though, I tried running an example but the JS didn't load :(
> "If an artist pictured grass as if it reflected radio waves and not visible light waves, we'd have a interesting/weird picture but one without much value."

It wouldn't even be necessarily interesting or weird. It would only need to look like grass that has another set of lights shone on it, which is pretty pedestrian. The 'weirdness' of these images comes from the fairly arbitrary assignment of colors to these wavelengths-we-can't-normally-see. Which is utterly unrelated to the original spectra.

One could 'false color' a scene by arbitrarily shifting color assignments for normally visible wavelengths and achieve something just as visually 'interesting/weird'.
Nope, and that's as far as we can tell not what happened here.
More women in tech – one PyLadies workshop at a time
"- the security of the source code of itself; browser source code is open for all to see, and to then work around."

The author just lost all credibility, in my eyes, with this claim. Security by obscurity is well established as a myth. Like the author says: there is no debate.

"- the security of data at rest on the device; on a native app, it’s completely secure. In HTML, the browser is typically not secure and as a result exposes the data it’s accessing within its caches."

It's completely secure, except when it isn't. The recent Android signing flaw is a perfect example.

"- the security of data in transit; when using HTML, you are pretty much restricted to using SSL. VPNs are just too slow. With native apps, you can also run VPNs and other encrypted solutions, without ruining performance."

How does SSL ruin performance? Data is encrypted either way. And how many apps really use anything but TCP streams anyway, such that HTTPS with pipelining is sufficient?

Best to leave security experts to make comments about security, eh?
Many thanks to everyone for the feedback! I'll try implementing the ideas you've given me (easier to read colors and other tweaks).

For those who've installed the extension, it should auto-update when new features come up and you should be notified of the presence of new modules and the low-contrast theme.
This is all pretty irrelevant, the same comparison could have been made a few years ago with JavaScript and flash and have flash has a "big winner"..
Optimize Your Product Pricing with Psychology
Please, make it 100% width ! PLEASE!
The Indexed Privilege Monad in Haskell, Scala, and C#
Speak for yourself. A lot of people use it as a real gender neutral.
Very cool! I just forked it, thinking of implementing collapsible comments.
Sneak peek of Macaw – a code-savvy web design tool [video]
Beyond discussing if appcelerator uses this kind of post for advertising (is their blog, isn't it?). The point is valid and I am upset when this discussion is not based on real facts.

For example, currently html rendering performance is very slow but surely will be improved in the near future. My personal problem is when it's intolerable slow.
What's wrong with "sent you a Word file"? I say that all the time. It's a file I created in Word.
How to Work with Stored Procedures - T-SQL Step by Step Course
> I did some research for NASA looking into such "negative mass solutions" in M-Theory that arise as a result of hep-th/9507022.

Cool! The most informative thing about that to me is simply the knowledge that NASA has a history of investigating this sort of thing. Maybe it's a good thing if they keep a trickle of resources pointed in that direction, just in case there's something really there to be found. I hope they've got good people assessing whether it's worth it. (It's still odd for that sort of speculative work to be getting substantial press attention, though.)
Fully understand that point. I can only suggest that lots of Western countries have slowly reduced their military budgets over decades. They seem to have adapted to the change.
A few stats for the past hour (0900-1000 EDT, 23JUL):

$18,000 raised,
$14,940 from Ubuntu Edge (18 handsets, 83% of total),
8 undisclosed donations

Translates to $432,000/day and $12,960,000 for the next 30 days.
I'm split on this article. On the one hand, I empathize with the author. It can be very frustrating dealing with non-technical friends/family who use computers all the time and are seemingly incapable of doing the most basic things. Especially googling their problems.

On the other hand, there are plenty of things that I do or benefit from about which I have no knowledge. I drive to work 5 days a week. I hate it. I don't even have a long commute, typically it takes under 10 minutes. But I treat it as a necessary evil and I have very little knowledge of my car. It's a tool that I use every day, but I'm sure there are many more than 12 misconceptions I have about it.

Put another way, I wonder if grilling enthusiasts write articles titled "Things People Believe About Grills" targeted at folks like the author.
MSSQL is also available at any hosting environment I ever looked at. Although PostgreSQL might be available as well now everywhere, MSSQL was a no brainier for web at some point (unless you had extra money to invest in a database for your online app).

For most purposes all databases do fine. You really have to base the choice on how familiar you are with the product, and what other technologies work well with the product. For example, if you're a Microsoft shop, you'd probably go with Microsoft SQL.
> Trying to justify it by saying that there is only a small death toll number is inhumane. We can not say are objective is to protect innocent life and then take innocent life.

You can.

I mean I don't agree with what they're doing, (because I don't think that they're instituting socio-economic changes that will have a long term positive effect,) but this is the old 'Is it better to imprison an innocent man than let a guilty one go free?' conundrum.

When you use force as an instrument of policy, innocent people are always going to get hurt. It even happens domestically with the police. What's the alternative? Become total pacifists - completely eschew force? The world where all good people are total pacifists does not look like somewhere I'd want to live.

So you have to reason: When do police become violent enough that their role is no-longer justified. What's the line, what numbers for what benefit?

It's a horrible, disgusting thing to have to say, I don't like the idea that people will get hurt, but someone's got to:

Even if you were totally self interested, if you were reasoning from behind Rawl's veil of ignorance, then you'd always choose to live in the world where force had been used by the 'good' side and where the numbers had worked out better for more people as a consequence.
I agree with this. The Fountainhead is one of my favorite books, but Wales is no Roark.