skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember using IE when they started bundling it with Windows and it was a FAR better experience with instant loading instead of waiting Netscape to load. Everyone likes to blame the bundling of IE as causing Netscape to fail, but in reality, the initial versions of IE just worked better. Netscape's engineers knew this, and probably realized they had to rewrite to compete with the speed of IE.

Interestingly enough, these days hardly anyone I know uses IE or Safari even though both are bundled with their respective operating systems. Most of these folks install Chrome because they are familiar with it and it doesn't impose any significant performance penalty.

Ideally, Netscape should have been optimizing their browser for speed all along. But since they were the only kid on the block for so long, they became numb to how slow things had gotten. It took IE coming in with a much better experience to shake them into action. Unfortunately, by then it was too late for Netscape as a business to recover.
>I noticed this rule after the housing crash. If one person was underwater on their mortgage, no one would blink. But, when hundreds of thousands of people become underwater, Congress started to get involved to (attempt to) provide relief.

Considering that hundrends of thousadns still lost their houses, it's not much of a comfort -- or good advice in general.

"Do what everybody else is doing" will at best lead to mediocre results (by definition).

Consider the effect of such an advice to someone in a slum neighborhood where "everybody" is dealing drugs, to get the worst case scenario.
How to Win at Mentoring
I only see a 404 page
At the time, I stopped going to school. In the eye's of my mother, the removal of my computer was the first step in rectifying my truancy.
SendHub (YC W12) raises $3M Series A, Launches Attachments for SMS
Oh stop it, you Silly Marxist Goose.
one can only wonder how so many minutiae things can violate building code while a huge death ray building is just fine with the building department.
I understand about the panels, but what about the source material? Is color information on a blu-ray stored at 8 bits per channel or is it higher? If the source material is 8 bits per color channel, I still think you'll see banding on smooth gradients no matter how good the panel is. I should try some tests...
Are all wedding announcements posted, or does The Times have an editorial role in which announcements are printed?
Exactly, It comes across as really arrogant to replace thousands of lines like that without even looking at them.
Maybe those old timers first iteration only had 100 lines too.
That's already a fact for teens.
This is a great strategic partnership even if the net value is low to the NFL.

1) The cost to uber and the NFL is basically zero. It leverages existing functionality and the NFL already pays for this kind of service.

2) The NFL gets good press about drunk driving prevention and might actually prevent a few accidents.

3) Uber gets itself in the NYTimes, top of hacker news, etc for free, exposes itself to lots of new users, and reinforces itself as a brand aligned with luxury and convenience.
Because all companies always act like one of its employees did one time.

Not defending Google, but pointing out the sweeping generalization.
Using Express.js for APIs
I joined Hacker News 6 and 1/2 years ago and it's been a great community to be a part of. I was one of the early karma leaders and I remember writing a blog post (hilariously embarrassing now) about reaching the top spot with ~650 karma points. I'm sure tptacek and patio11 beat that nowadays before their morning coffee :)

I've only had about 300 visits to DevOpsU.com from HN so far, but of those, over 100 signed up on the email list to be notified of this book.

Given my history with HN and the early interest from here, naturally this is where I'm launching my first book. And here's a special early-bird HN discount link that's good for today's launch: http://gum.co/taste-test/hn

It's very important to me that this be available to everyone that wants it, so if you're a student or for any reason can't afford to buy the book, please contact me: matt@nanobeep.com

Of course, if you can afford it and it will be a win for you, please buy it and support the creation of more business-focused devops training.

Cheers!
Matt
This seems incredibly odd to me.

On one hand, they indicate strongly valued privacy with the "no posts about the child" rule; seemingly recognizing the hidden costs of permissive 'oversharing'.

But, on the other hand, they place a very high importance on reserving (vanity) domain and user names, securing the right for her to sharecrop out her personal information in as-accurate-a-means as possible; reinforcing the value and importance of being able to overshare?

e.g. Reserving JaneAnnSmith.com at birth to ... what? Spare her the inconvenience/indirection of someone else buying that domain in the intervening years and her having to instead register jasmith.com or (heaven forbid) jane-ann-smith.com ?

Securing facebook.com/janeannsmith to spare her facebook.com/123456789 or something?

And does anyone even think for a moment that it's likely for today's real-name-based social networks will be relevant, years from now?

Reserving a Facebook name today is akin to having reserved a geocities name, at birth, for a child who will graduate high school next year -- and that's for the earliest of early adopters. Were the name registered for a child born around geocities peak, that child may still be in junior high.

The ephemeral nature of these networks (over such time frames) only further underscores the apparent importance the parents are placing on precisely identifying her online history. (getting that facebook username just in case it's still relevant...)

It seems rather than teaching their child to value privacy, to understand the power/benefit dynamic of these networks, to hopefully avoid her growing up forever linked to juvenile mis-steps, they're instead raising her to be a narcissist.

That is: Not to value her privacy and personal identity in and of themselves, but to value privacy and personal identity as a tool to 'spin' her public identity in the most-favorable fashion.
>In 2028 there will be nothing embarrassing about appearing in thousands of online photos dating back to your birth. Because almost everyone will be in the same boat.

Or you know, those that aren't will have it as an advantage.

Like how everybody is nearly overweight, but still those are aren't have a leg up.
I tend to agree, but I would prefer to discourage television manufacturers from doing any more "improving" than they are already doing. If you're sending a signal to a display with the signal so little compressed that 12 bpc would be an improvement for post processing, then you're probably sending the signal straight from a BlueRay player or desktop graphics card. In both of those cases, I'd rather my TV not do any post processing. (Brightness and contrast on TVs are analog operations and do change with changes in bit depth. Higher brightness = turn the lights up, not a pointwise linear map)
Where to look for employee from Spain, France or Italy to work in Germany?
Hello,

I have some small businesses in ecommerce and marketing doing all on my own so far. By the time I see a lot of potential in expanding my business europewide as well as on the german market. For this matter I need support on my projects.

I read in the newspapers about all the unemployed students in Spain and other european countries and was wondering how I could get in contact with those students and make them an offer to come to Germany and work with me?

Since I am a very open minded person I always enjoyed the company of international friends and colleagues and what we could learn from eachother. My company is not based in a large city though, which has its pros and cons of course, next city with more than 200k people is about 35min by car. And for I am not aware of how everything is going to develope businesswise I also can't pay high salaries.

What I could offer though is:

1. Accomodation (own room) & Food

2. Carsharing

3. Learning German

4. Knowledge

5. Participation in Sales

What skills I could need:

- Web development (HTML, CSS, PHP, JAVA etc.)

- Graphic Design

- Product Photography

- Social Networking

Also we are renovating the whole office place soon, so a little creativity in furnishing and some craftsmansship would be a great plus :)

I know it might not be the best solution for most of the unemployed young people in Europe but it's at least an offer for a new experience and maybe a chance to grow and create something together.

So where would be a place to insert my request in order to reach the young talented and employment searching humans in Europe?

Thanks you for your help!

Rick
Dependency Injection in RubyMotion with Objection
Developers make the best data scientists
Relatedly, DigitalOcean has WordPress or a LAMP stack as default imaging options.
There was already a search engine when Google started.
Awesome! really looking forward to it this is very useful, thanks.
Looks to me like this doesn't support more than one redis instance in a cluster (to make a ring) - just replication groups. I'm guessing that's a "TBD" thing. :(
We will be switching to captcha in a day or so - if you want to give it a try after that.
I prefer the usability of the OPs much better. The use of dollar signs might be a little clunkier than the begin/end tags when you want to use a dollar sign. But all in all I think the presentation is better and a bit more welcoming.
> but using that to extort money is probably not that legal.

It's all in how it's worded. If someone creates a website that lists the names and shows the faces of convicted drunk drivers for example, the creator can justify it as a public service, using public records as its source of information. And the creator can agree to remove a listing for a fee, as long as he doesn't explicitly say that a payment is required to effect the removal of a particular article -- that would be extortion, illegal nearly everywhere.

But there's more. If the website's location is unknown, or if it's sited in a place with a flexible attitude toward law and order, then the prohibition against extortion may essentially go away.

Some of the U.S.-based extortion sites are being threatened with lawsuits, but on shaky legal grounds:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/mugshot-removal-ext...

Quote: "“First of all, I think [plaintiff attorney] Scott has insurmountable problems with the First Amendment. The mugshots, as you may or may not know, are public record,” said Lance Winchester, a Texas attorney for BustedMugshots.com and MugshotsOnline.com, which charge under $100 to remove mugs from their sites."
You should reflect on the cost of building St Peter, over a period of almost two centuries :)

Sadly once you remove useless structures (mausoleums, temples, celebrations of killed people) cities become rather dull.
AngularJS Tutorial: Learn to Build Modern Web Apps
The services you sign up for are unlikely to exist in 10 years time let alone 20.
Yes. I love the simple green interface and the custom domain option.

This will be a very very sad day for the Internet. OpenID could have been such a game changer in this era of monopolies.
> What isn't considered is the thousands of players on farm teams that make 80k.

The NFL has no farm system:

> The National Football League, as of 2010, is the only one of the four major professional sports in the USA that does not have a farm system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm_team#American_Football
Moglen at Re:Publica: Freedom of thought requires free media

On the other side was the then deputy attorney general of the United States and a lawyer in private practice named Stewart Baker who had been chief council to the National Security Agency our listeners and who was then in private life helping businesses to deal with the listeners. He then became later on the deputy for policy planning in the Department of Homeland Security in the United States and has much to do with what happened in our network after 2001

and anyway the four of us spent two pleasant hours debating the right to encrypt and at the end their was a little diner party at the Harvard faculty club and at the end after all the food had been taken away and the pork and the walnut were left on the table Stuart said,

"All right, among us now we that we are all in private just us girls all let our hair down" he didn’t had much hair even then but he let it down "We are not going to prosecute your client Mr Zimmermann he said public key encryption will become available we fought a long loosing battle against it but it was just a delaying tactic" and then he looked around the room and he said "But nobody cares about anonymity do they?"

And a cold chilled went up my spine and I thought alright Stuart and now I know you’re going to spent the next twenty years trying to eliminate anonymity in human society and I am going to try to stop you and let’s see how it goes.

And it’s going badly.

We didn’t built the net with anonymity built in. That was a mistake now we are paying for it.

Our network assumes that you can be tracked everywhere.

And we have taken the Web, and we made facebook out of it.

We put one man in the middle of everything.

http://benjamin.sonntag.fr/Moglen-at-Re-Publica-Freedom-of-t...
How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO
A 7.9 inch tablet, which is much larger than a 7 inch tablet.
Secunia CSI 7.0 - Next generation Patch Management tool released
dream on, bruce. dream on.
Fantastic, congrats to Ash, Garrett and team!
Agreed, but I'm not convinced that a weak FM signal isn't just some electronic artifact of a crap board crammed in with a bunch of other tiny components that happens to be triggered when the microphone is on.
It's so costly because the land in California is so expensive. The Hyperloop is going to avoid much of this by taking an indirect route and making up for it with the extra speed. Wait other couple of decades and you'll have more people to move out of the way of the Hyperloop too.

Maybe we should have a little better urban planning and start preparing for low-speed and high-speed maglevs now?
You might like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5002974
Note thought that the existing program for the players doesn't involve just calling any random yellow-car cab company - they have a special number and service set up.
Yes, more people are publishing, but the glut means nobody can make any money. Prices have crashed; apps hover around $0.99, and $2.99 is now considered a tough sell. It's had a negative overall impact to the industry, both creators and publishers.

Anyway, I've said my piece. Long threads tend not to be terribly interesting to anyone except the participants. ;-)
Fully Interactive Guide to the Google Universe
Thanks Jan.
They have editorial discretion. I'd be curious to know what the "acceptance rate", so to speak is... I know for a fact that a couple I know was rejected specifically because one of them was undergoing gender reassignment and the NYT didn't know which personal (gender) pronoun to use for him.
Well, tons of parents give their children unsupervised television watching for hours every day.

Shutting kids up with technology and letting it take care of their upbringing is nothing new.
Why does the app need permission to post tweets for me? Not a chance, sorry.
Success is simple. Success is working on what you love. If you work as hard as possible on something you love, doing so is far more rewarding than any and all extrinsic rewards.
I want a pony, too. But unless I am willing to pay for it, I won't get one.

You didn't answer the question--what makes you believe you are entitled to free software from a company that employs thousands of people to write it?
You can read about why we developed the app here: http://www.beevolve.com/whats-in-my-name/
WCC builds Grand Theft Auto car
This is pretty damn useful
Balanced sampling: the cube method
Okay, I defer to you. :-)

So there's this meme floating around that software "engineering" needs to be more like "real engineering". "Real Engineering" doesn't make mistakes, has everything planned, is on time, is reliable, etc (don't laugh, OK? This is the meme, not the truth). It's fairly foolish, and I want to point out the reality.

N.b., I personally don't think writing software is engineering (no laws of physics, no experimental results, no materials, no models of behavior - I can go considerably more in depth if someone cares enough to email me); I see it as a craft.
How Carnegie Mellon Increased the Proportion of Women in Computer Science
This is a hacker news link to a reddit post that points to a blog post that references the actual link.

Here is the direct link: http://www.inside-r.org/howto/finding-data-internet
An Homage to Stupid Weather Apps
Nice project, is there a logical next step where the text outside the dollars can be formatted with markdown (or I suppose LaTeX)?
Sure, but why compare it with losslessly-compressed video?

That's just for editing -- all viewing formats feature lossy video.
thanks josh, definitely agree with you on the hard numbers. i wrote another post on our WordPress theme product a while back and had hard numbers, which readers appreciated: http://launcheffectapp.com/2012/04/launch-effect-premium-the...

with the projectflow post, i was trying to talk more broadly about the challenges of a client services business trying to squeeze out a product and how the projectflow experience made us realize that we really needed to focus on our core business. hope it's something other web design companies could relate to.
I wonder how long until other organizations do something similar. It'd be kind of interesting if military 24-48h passes (i.e. be drunk for that period) came with a requirement to use Uber or something like it. Drunk driving actually kills more young enlisted people than combat.
How to Interview and Hire Junior Developers
I'm sorry but if you're a cloud service and you have specifically targeted a static HTML page to Hacker News, even to the point of where the title is "Hello Hacker News", you should do everything in your power, even if it means creating a special S3 bucket, to make sure it does not 404.

The regular homepage still seems to work (with missing assets)...but not to sound too cranky, but it was irritating to see the claim of "10+ FRAMEWORKS" and not see the list anywhere on the site. The closest I saw to a list of these "10+ FRAMEWORKS" is waiting for the banner animation to cycle through all the PHP frameworks it supports ("Jumpstarter is an addictively fast and easy way to work with web frameworks like [wait for framework's name to fade in]")

I even clicked all the links I could find. "About" goes to the staff mugshots, "Help" goes to a support center, and the Blog link goes nowhere.

C'mon...
Considering that hundreds of thousands still lost their houses

Hundreds of thousands also had portions of their mortgages forgiven. One can also not deny that the Fed is keeping interest rates low, in part, because many home owners have HELOCs or other adjustable rate loans.

I agree with you that "doing what everybody else is doing" is not a free pass to be reckless and is not something to aspire to do.
Try again. CDN should be holding now.
I believe they are referring to REIT status, but the relevance is not clear.
Finding Data on the Internet
While it seems unlikely that the NSA will come clean the documents being released may lead to a tipping point where meaningful oversight may be demanded and actually occur.
University Startup Incubator Spawns 3D Copier
Part of USC Viterbi School of Engineering's Startup Garage. Student project looks promising.
If it's just to prevent too many queries, why does it require such powerful permissions for my Twitter account?

- See who you follow, and follow new people.

- Update your profile.

- Post Tweets for you.
Ask HN: alternative solutions for wiki
Mediawiki, Dokuwiki... differents names, same solution (technology/mechanism): wiki.

Can you see some alternative solution?
> .... if they're a good fit for your team, have good work ethic and can get the job done.

I'd modify that last to "and can get the job done well". Most of my co-workers have been fantastic, but there have been one or two who absolutely got the job done... in ways that eventually cost so much dev time (on maintenance / refactoring) that it would have been better to have someone else build the thing in the first place.

(Which is also presumably easier to discover from sample work than from a whiteboard interview. :)
My cats should have brains the size of large melons.
Thank you for sharing. In my eyes, you have already succeeded. In my eyes, you succeeded right when you stopped drinking the Kool-Aid. You are doing what you love to do. Consequently, all work you produce is great work. I have nothing but admiration and respect for your decision to forge your dream.
Restore? Since when did they ever have it?
To be fair, many 'new parent' classes urge people to record a good bit of that information, in the event that the child is having trouble gaining weight, has an illness, etc.

Mix that 'good advice' with the 'quantified self' band-wagon that rolled through and it doesn't seem too crazy for a journalist to have taken up that torch -- at least long enough for an article or three.

To have continued well after it became clear that their child was properly growing/healthy -- and other article subjects presented themselves -- would be something different though.
>The Internet was originally funded by DARPA. Must be a trap!

Well, intended or not, it IS a huge trap.
Once my favourite framework is installed, will you abstract out most of the common configuration / maintenance / tuning steps as well? Or will I have to ssh in and do that by hand?
A hint as thinking doesn't appear to be your strong point. If something seems to be "way too easy", even to you, perhaps they thought of it first. That might explain why this applies to purchases from Amazon only.
The closest you'll get to those for a while, is VR like the Oculus Rift, and 4K screens (tiny, phone-size ones) would help that a LOT. :)
I'll be candid with my sources - I took a class with Patrick Winston called The Human Intelligence Enterprise where we went over a history of AI ideas. Nowhere in that class did I get the impression that 'general intelligence' is 'wacko amateur thinking'. Maybe the former director of the MIT AI lab just failed to impress upon us the disdain for general intelligence you say is commonplace.

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
Great to see more investment in Telecom.

This space is red hot right now :). Congrats Ash!
Have you considered employing them as remote workers ? You will not have problems with timezone/office-hours if you employ in EU countries and moving can be a problem for some people.
"Ben Dover" sure is a popular name... https://www.evernote.com/shard/s97/sh/5a445178-f0ab-4eb2-863...
Hadoop is a framework, not a library, so user applications need to link against the jars they need. That implies using CLASSPATH to locate them. Whether or not there is 1 jar or 100, the fact that there's no standard place to install jars in Java is a problem.

Hadoop jars are hundreds of megabytes, and we have multiple daemons. Duplicating all those jars in each daemon would multiply the size of the installation many times over. That's also a nontrivial amount of memory to be giving up because jars can no longer be shared in the page cache.

Some of these problems could be mitigated by making Hadoop a library rather than a framework (as Google's MR is), or by pruning unnecessary dependencies.
Even so - the real question is whether the risk of the NSA (or some other well-funded highly-capable actor) having access to vulnerabilities in your system is greater or less than the risks of other actors exploiting the vulnerabilities in your system that the tools would prevent.

In other words: what's worse, the NSA having the ability to bypass SELinux, or everybody being able to exploit things that SELinux would have protected?