skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The iPhone doesn't need a 64-bit desktop-class processor, either.

I personally think Apple strategically held off the RAM upgrade 'til next year's iPhone, so that they could have a "killer feature" to lean on if they don't manage to figure out a more novel^Winnovative one in time.
I agree that the name "Audiour" has a few issues, but the cheap copycat issue isn't that big in my opinion. You're clearly doing something else. A copycat name would be if you were using the name "imgour" or something like that.

The problem with the name "Audiour" is that it's not easily pronouncable. If I remember correctly, imgur was aimed to mimic the word "imager". When I read "Audiour" the first thing I think of is an audiotour in a museum. When I try to pronounce it, I have the choice between "audi-our", "audio-er" or "audi-oor".

If you're interested, I bought soundur.com because in my opinion that's a much better name.

You can have it if you want - contact me at username @gmail.com :)
> Do you really think that the mouse which was invented in the 60s (mother of all demos) is the pinnacle of technology regarding input?

The joystick was invented in 1908, but it is still in fighter jets today, isn't it? Who gives a shit how old it is?
If you're a believer in security by obscurity, then this isn't the way to go :)
Nice post mate, good information!
This is one of those use cases that I'd be interested in seeing some research on. Personally, it depends a great deal on what I am doing, but I often use my thumbs to do minor navigations when within a document. Particularly because I have some RSI issues and using my thumb seems to less of an aggravation. Milage, I'm sure, varies, but I suspect that there is a subset of folks that at least use their thumbs a bit.
Dietary cholesterol and dietary fat have very little to do with blood cholesterol and body fat.
I know. Look at Yelp's careers page, you see devs all sitting in an office... but it's not one person's office, no ... 3 people sitting in the office, two on a couch, one laying on the floor, no desks at all... and they are all on macbooks (not that there's anything wrong with that, but what about diversity?). And they're all in their 20's.

http://s3-media3.ak.yelpcdn.com/assets/2/www/img/74a1f2c9801...
The map for Austria (https://github.com/djaiss/mapsicon/blob/master/europe/at/102...) doesn't depict Austria, but its state Carinthia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carinthia_(state)).

Otherwise, I like your project and the initiative of open sourcing it. Could be a nice resource for making a geo-quiz or similar.
I have experience with serving images, but I'd need more details to help you get closer to the problem. Can we get a url?

Have you configured entity tags (etags)?
Are you compressing w/ gzip?
How many dns lookups and http requests are being called?
Have you added expires to headers?
Are you scaling images in html?

These are just some of the "basics" for quicker loading. If seeing explosive growth than these basics aren't that significant.
I'm not entirely sure it's been designed with games like that in mind. I imagine the expectation is you use another pad (e.g Xbox controller) for a game like Street Fighter - or in that case, ideally an arcade stick.
Chrysler’s Owners Are Racing for the Cliff
The sad thing is that, apart from whatever feedbacks are there in the environement, there are far to many economic feedbacks pushing our civilization towards greater environmental destruction.

Do you think there will such a furore over Canadian tar sands, when the oil from the middle east comes to a trickle ? When the fertilizer plants stop, plastics manufacturing ends, and transporting coal becomes harder ? Should governments care for the Earth or its subjects ? I'm sorry for being so dystopian, but I don't think Science has the ability to bear the burden of, what will be, 10 billion people. This will happen sometime, I just wish I'm not alive to see the day; climate change makes it much worse.
This is an excellent framework Slava. Succinct and pragmatic. Thanks for sharing it.

As you state, a big problem is developing enough of an intuition about how to slot features into these buckets. Founder preference for given features can be a good thing, but we have to be aware of this bias as we slot features into these categories.

Slotting properly is especially important when you don't have many 'feature arrows' in your quiver due to a lack of resources, morale, etc.

The other side of this coin is in measurement - each feature is in some ways a test of a hypothesis. And you should have some idea of which metric matters and how a given feature will move the needle.

It would be cool to hear how you approach this for RethinkDB -- since you are appealing to developers, perhaps tracking how quickly devs move to a new version for example.
If you must support outdated versions of IE then your future is grim. The working tools you have today are all you will ever get. An expectation for ongoing framework support for these legacy environments is wholly unrealistic.
$0.02 (2 cents) so far, adsense
> which means for an RTS game you would be no worse off than using a trackpad over a mouse.

Just about anyone who plays RTSs would agree that trackpads are completely unacceptable for input. For a game like SC2, you might as well not even play, because you would be lose so badly at against anyone at a similar skill level.
Thanks! Indeed we suspect it's likely like you say---Kindle people aren't app purchasers, but we'd love to see some real evidence. We also offer ad-based free apps, btw, and our category isn't reading & books, it's photography apps.
> Of course, the flip side of that coin is people modifying the controller to gain an unfair advantage.

Nothing stopping the community doing the same thing and sharing the results with everyone, though!
High-achieving students are better off in worse schools
I assume that your employees have worked at least one week with over 60 hours. Would you accept them working only 20 hours another week? Why should employees donate extra time to a for profit project if you can't do the same.

If a situation arise because of bad planning an employe are expected to donate their time, but if an employee finish the sprint early the company will find something extra for them to do.
Sure; that's an effect of having a terminal line edit character (^U for erase line) also in use as an editor command. I'm not defending the details of TECO's particular commands.

But it reminds me of the first time I tried EMACS, actually, and my reaction to backspace bringing up a help file.
The World Needs More Uncommon Children, Not More Conformists
Actually, he had already written Emacs at that point.
In an attempt to quit smoking I just discovered the vaporization method and WOW -- I'm so impressed. Its actually enjoyable in the way that smoking is enjoyable, and the stimulant kick is very real.
If socialist centrally planned economies were perfect then Moscow would be the tech capital of the world.

Well, that didn't solve anything. Maybe one-liner hyperbole doesn't add much to the conversation.
I've used AFNetworking pre-iOS7 and it's been a godsend. However with the advent on NSURLSession, I don't see the need to have a 3rd party wrapper to do network calls anymore. Although I admire Mattts' efforts, I'm still not convinced using AFNetworking 2.0 is more effective than using NSURLSession directly.
4 Things Astronauts Can Teach You About A Good Night's Sleep
Canada is simply too big. Infrastructure and defence are a function of the GDP divided by the area. Too small a GDP or too large an area and you can't properly wire, put roads in or defend a country. Even so, we have these borders that were agreed upon in the past, a change of the weather shouldn't cause such a border to be redrawn.
The corollary to which is "projects always slip by the units in which they were estimated." :)
To the OP: curious to know, are you a user? Have you been off nicotine longer than 2 months in the past year?
Bunch of my peers were hired in the $100-140 range across the T3s straight from undergrad. Complete no-name school outside of US.

Attending an Ivy makes it easier for you to be recruited, since offers literally find you. At a lesser school you can still do well, it's just you have to find the offers.
I wake up with a hit of adrenaline a couple times a week (thanks to Plectron tones going off, indicating an emergency call of some nature).

I'd say that 'might as well be drunk' period lasts around 30 seconds for me (the process of getting dressed is generally just a foggy blur...). By the time I'm moving toward the truck, I'm more or less firing on all cylinders.

30 seconds is still an awfully long time in a plane when stuff is going sideways...
I was a nub user. Then I got a Macbook Pro. So far this is the only touchpad I can use. The IBM and Lenovo Thinkpads are the only nubs I can use also. Everything else feels terrible and unusable.
It obviously depends on site activity and thus varies each day, but usually around 7~8am and 5~6pm eastern times work well. I wrote a little app that tracks this for you: http://hnnotify.leknarf.net/. The graph is slow to load, just wait a little while.

I wrote a more detailed blog post that explains how this works, but the core concept is as follows.

Assuming you want your HN submission to reach the front page, then it’s important to post at times when scores on the new page are relatively high compared to the front page.

This assumes your goal is to reach the front page. I don’t actually know how many people skim over the ‘new’ links, but it’s fairly obvious that a far greater number of people only look at the first 30 links on the home page.

For the purposes of discussion, I’m going to assume a very simplistic model of the HN front page: new stories with more points will outrank older stories with less points. That is, I’m ignoring any effects existing karma has on a user’s submission and any factors related to when a story gets upvotes. If we assume that a new story needs to get more points than an existing story in order to replace it on the front page, then the following is straightforward:
- It’s a good time to submit when scores on the front page are low. If the lowest-ranked story has 10 points, it will be much easier to replace than if the lowest-ranked story has 100 points.
- It’s a good time to post when scores on the new page are high. If the highest-ranked story on the new page only has 2 points, it doesn’t seem likely that your submission will fare much better.

http://leknarf.net/blog/2013/03/13/find-out-when-to-post-on-...
This is excellent for the high level view of things, to plan a successful product for a market.

Keep in mind that a successful product for a market does not necessarily equate to a high quality product. Internal product design should be user-centered and cohesive with itself, not just within the market.

Thus I only further advise you to hire a UI/UX person to ensure this disjoint product planning approach has some coherence in the bigger picture.

The overall picture here is excellent, especially the last bit. It reminds me of this quote that I've always thought was one of the best pieces of business wisdom ever conceived:

"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Glass Works Surprisingly Well as a Moped/Motorcycle Cam
It'll be fun - especially this season!
I'd like to see some studies about it.

I'm 26, I picked up smoking about 10 years ago (damn, that's a lot of time) and I have high blood pressure. That may also be due to genetic factors (both father, mother and grandmother with HBP).

While my BP is usually around 150/90, the three times I quit smoking for more than a week I return to normal values, around 120/80.

Just my N=1
Have you checked out Portal 2? It has co-op and decent controller support, I played through the co-op campaign for a second time with a 360 controller last week (used keyboard + mouse the first time).
I was not defending the GP, merely clarifying its syntax.
Steve Ballmer Moved to Tears at Employee Meeting
And, he exited the stage to the song “(I’ve Had) The Time Of my Life.”
Google just killed $150M in Android developer payments (and it’s a good thing)
> There's no "good, in-depth analysis" of anything on the default subreddits, regardless of your political leanings.

Politics isn't a good

The best content on reddit that I find comes from niche communities. There are some really subject-specific knowledgeable people on there. You see those posts come through /r/bestof, which is just submissions to those gem comments that people find. It's worth subscribing to, but even that is a lot of noise to signal.

The only main/large subreddits I'm subscribed to anymore are /r/programming and /r/todayilearned. The other 50ish are for specific interests and hobbies.

Side rant: I swear that /r/technology went from a mature community of technically literate and rational people to a bunch of politically-charged kids obsessed with long-range scientific discoveries and product feature announcements in about a year. It was painful watching that happen. The patent war saga of yesteryear was the last straw that betrayed the community for the juvenile crowd it had become.
> This disdain for "common" investment is over the top.

Completely agree. After pointing out that the institutional investors are clueless and lose to the market, he then says that only the little guys should stay out of the startup space. Honestly, many of the reliable indicators for Venture Capital are available to the public (eg past success). No reason to keep the little guy out.
I 100% agree, I just started using AngularJS and I'm very happy to see a preview of what I'll have to learn in the future and how current practices will change.
This is how liberty dies.
Interesting, but there is no way in hell I'd risk nicotine addiction again, I quit smoking 4 years ago (it's hard but not as hard as many would have you believe).

Caffeine though you can prise from my cold dead mug.
A simple way to build and manage tests.
Office hours with YC partners and me at the YC offices. We'll go to red rock coffee in MV, too!
I looked all over and couldn't find an ingredients list for any of the products. (The "ingredients" page seems to have just an unsorted list of ingredients used in your entire product line.) I also can't find where to buy the refill packs, so I have no idea what varieties are available or what's in them. Based on just the pictures, I probably wouldn't eat any of them since they all have dried fruit, which is very sugary / high-GI. You mention GI in your nutritional FAQ so it seems a bit odd.
Thanks for suggestion. How do you plan test case scenarios and how do you interpret them? There was an article stating that developers just use powers of 10 when doing performance tests but that does not necessarily give correct results.
I highly doubt you can play dota without a keyboard and mouse, but it surely can work for other games :)
If they wanted a launch title that would drag in the biggest market, I reckon Left 4 Dead 3 or Portal 3 would pull in more people (both had large mass media marketing campaigns and are more recent). Or hey, all three ;)
Yeah, I agree with you. I should have qualified what I said. I meant to say, "I'd only be using it with my computer anyway, and I don't think this will ever beat a keyboard/mouse in terms of practicality and ease of use with a computer". Agree that for a tv in the living room, or any environment where a large flat surface in front of you is impractical, that a keyboard/mouse is not so good.
vaporized liquid nicotine ? Where do you get it ? in Europe e-cigarettes are under scrutiny because the sold product is not guaranteed to be clean of toxic substances, otherwise it would be pretty great I guess.
Playing With iBeacon and Estimote in iOS 7
I've used TECO on a VAX. There is no argument to be made that emacs isn't an improvement over TECO.

Compared to modern editors, TECO is incredibly difficult to use. Hell, it's incredibly difficult to use compared to vi and emacs.
I love this. Sure it might be good for learning, but I really would like something like this for eg IPython. Something that allows me quickly to tweak some parameters until whatever I'm doing looks right. I'm really exited about the possibilities of python-javascript integration coming up in ipython 2.

Another project that this kinda reminds me of is LightTable. I haven't followed how it's shaping up, but the initial concept demo had some similar live editing stuff iirc.
Touche. They wish they were, though! Right?
Real climate has disproved all models to date. There has been no forthcoming explanation for the 15 year hiatus in warming. In other words the science underlying climate is far from known. As Feynman reminds us “It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.”. Thus we have to push on and cannot advise politicians.

Since 1979 the IPCC report has published a best estimate for the climate sensitivity. Its latest report says "No best estimate for equilibrium climate sensitivity can now be given because of a lack of agreement on values across assessed lines of evidence and studies.".

It is not a question of denying or conspiring. It's a matter of discovering the science behind our climate. Let's do it without the silly rhetoric.

By the way, if you believe the very worst prediction (proposed on the basis of failed models) then you will be interested in this link which asks what the cost of 'doing something' is. http://topher.com.au/50-to-1-video-project/
Between being #1 and you refreshing, one or more people clicked the flag link. That's exactly how it works, no?
I built this as a hobby project to help teachers who create their own tests. Usually this done using word but formatting a test this way can be difficult. I wanted to make a dead simple way to add/ remove questions. Storing tests this way also makes it super simple to build the test at home and access it from any computer (i.e. at work). I would love any feedback on how to make it better.
And there are masses of "how to" photography books - it would be great if Amazon promoted you apps to everyone who purchased a book on that topic - but do they?
I'm pretty sure I could lose weight on a bacon and eggs diet.

A strip of pan-fried bacon has 40-50 calories. 3 strips is a pretty filling portion, because it's so rich, and that has 120-150 calories. Fry a couple of eggs in the bacon grease, and you've got yourself another 160 calories, for a total of 280-310 calories. In comparison, a fruit cup and a glass of 2% milk will probably be pushing 200. Importantly, with the bacon meal you won't be hungry again until lunch, while with the fruit and milk you'll be hungry by 10 am and run the risk of eating too much at lunch.

Americans are fat because of perverse incentives in the restaurant industry. For example, your morning coffee place never used to make much money. Black coffee, which has like no calories, isn't a high-margin business. Enter Starbucks, which upsells you on coffee with sugary syrup and high-margin pastries. Nobody would pick up a 6-ounce sirloin steak or 10 slices of bacon with their coffee, but will happily pick up a blueberry scone that has just as many calories. Restaurants also upsell you on portion sizes, because selling you twice as much food for only 50% more is very profitable when food costs are a fraction of your total costs. The difference between a sensible sized plate of pasta and the portions you get in American restaurants is 10 slices of bacon easily.
Fixing Missing Assets With Rails 4 on Heroku
>Bacon and eggs have a lot of calories

I don't disagree with most of what you said, but a lot of people don't realize that eggs aren't really that high in calories. A large egg is ~70 calories. 2-3 is the most you usually get in a restaurant, so you're talking 200 calories for a meal. That's nothing.

Bacon on the other hand....

Anyway, let me just say that this thread is like stepping into some kind of bizarro world. Bacon is so ridiculously delicious that I'm having a hard time believing this article.
I figure they're trying to be optimistc about it... it might not measure up to a mouse, of course, but either way it's a huge improvement. This device will get you from "this is completely unplayable" to "hey I can get through the single-player campaign and maybe do some co-op comp-stomping with my buds"
I'm honestly not that impressed by this. They're basically picking some basic types of exploits and are claiming to guard against those, which is nice and all but it seems like they're targeting the buzzword issues and aren't talking about anything really special.

There were a few things that really stood out to me-

* SQL Injection is something every web application should do. This is a completely separate issue from CSRF (cross site request forgery), but they conflate the two as if they're one. Talking about specific issues they're focusing, especially when those things are not only extremely basic to deal with but also what I would consider programmer buzzwording makes me wonder what they aren't doing.

* Payment Industry Best Practices means a hell of a lot more than "we through an SSL certificate on the site" and "we encrypt your junk". If you're going to claim that you're following payment industry standards I want to hear a little bit about PCI compliance and I sure as hell want an external audit.

* The Bounty Program looks nice, but the fact that it has so many people who have used it and that they clearly aren't disclosing the issues that come up leaves me a bit concerned. How serious are these issues, why weren't they found in advance, and what internal changes took place to prevent them from happening again?

The main point I'm getting at here is that this seems like a marketing site, not a real security disclosure page, and that when you really get down into it they're saying a whole lot of nothing. If they really want to impress me they can get into more technical detail, and if they don't want to do that I'd love to see a third party audit them properly.
"We whitelist attributes on all models to prevent mass-assignment vulnerabilities."

Sounds like what happens in Rails 4
Nintendo took a big risk for the Wii and reaped the rewards. From a consumer standpoint I want to see progress and change, that's what interests me. A lot of gaming these days seems to be taking the less risky route of making endless sequels and never mixing anything up as not to upset their core audience who apparently hates change.
What do you mean by having an extra plane. The mouse already covers a 2d surface, how would an extra plane help you with that?

The analog trackpad does have an advantage over a keyboard but not over a mouse, i think.
Rapid7 Launches Crowdsourced Security Research Project
That is an amazing letter from an amazing person. The ethical stance and the devotion to his trade are exactly what is needed. Thank you for posting this. Even though it will probably slide away sight unseen it was the best thing I came across all day.
Expanding a bit, HBR argues:

> pouring more capital into VC has historically led to lower returns

Why this is unexpected is beyond me. More money should mean more competition. He's essentially arguing that we should allow VCs to keep exclusivity on the market because historically their returns have gone down as exclusivity has decreased.

There may be argument that the startup market may have more scams than the public markets and so on, but the author at HBR is not arguing that. He's arguing that a natural function of opening up a market is a bad thing because it provides less returns to the existing players.
Cigar smoker here. Cigars take between 45 minutes and an hour and a half to get through; a little long for a fix. You can get smaller cigars, but they're mostly cigarettes sold as cigars to escape the higher taxes.