skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since you are here, I'm going to assume you are looking at a screen at least some of the time when you are awake that late.

You might consider installing blue-light reduction software like f.lux - it's drastically improved my ability to fall asleep late at night.
Fair enough; although, in our experience users have enjoyed the flow much more than passwords. I'd encourage you to give it a shot and let me know if it's as unbearable as it seems to you.

On mobile, when you click the button, you're just redirected to the app where you approve the authentication request and are automatically logged in.
Bankrupt Retailer TWTRQ's Stock Up 1500% as Buyers Mistake it for TWTR
If I were you, I'd get rid of the "right person, the right question at the right time" bit in the application and include "we have shown the feedback overlay more than 1K times and have gotten a 60% feedback rate."
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There are so many typos in this article that it reads like a FB post
Bad dating behavior as a metaphor for sales
No, they lock the entire database for every write.

"MongoDB uses a readers-writer [1] lock that allows concurrent reads access to a database but gives exclusive access to a single write operation."

"Beginning with version 2.2, MongoDB implements locks on a per-database basis for most read and write operations. Some global operations, typically short lived operations involving multiple databases, still require a global “instance” wide lock. Before 2.2, there is only one “global” lock per mongod instance."

source: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/faq/concurrency/
> which was mostly drafted by an Englishman

And unfortunately interpreted by activist judges from the continent.
I've had on and off problems with insomnia, but have finally come up with a pretty reliable method for overcoming it. Some of my methods were used by others as well.

I think it's important to identify what's causing the insomnia. It's not always going to be the same thing for everyone, or even for you, every single time.

Some days, for me, it's just simply because I have too much on my mind. Other times, it's because I've had too much stimulation and some times, it's just because I haven't had enough physical exertion during the day (most of my work is on a laptop).

Here's the routine that I now employ and I've been really good for a number of months straight (I helped a friend create a similar "routine" and he even blogged about it).

So my routine is as follows

1. No HN, book reading ,or any kind of blogs, reddit etc (basically anything intellectually stimulating) after 8pm.

2. Some strenuous physical exertion (e.g. Gym) every 2nd or 3rd day

3. Anything that puts me into a more relaxed state, e.g Some fresh air at least half an hr before bed time, writing in a journal if my mind is going crazy with ideas, or reading some poetry/fiction (but nothing intellectually stimulating. i.e. something entertaining or relaxing).

4. No computer screens at least 45mins before bedtime

5. 1 teaspoon of blackseed oil 5 minutes before bedtime

6. A decent mattress (Mine is a silentnight miracoil) - Some people don't realise how important your mattress is and how badly it can affect sleep.

7. No stimulating conversation at least 45mins before bedtime, that includes emails, text messages, in-person conversations and phone calls.

I also make sure that i'm out of bed before 8am each day if i want to make sure I get good sleep for that night.

Basically, i've whittled it down to identifying which state is not in a relaxed mode and getting it to a desirable state .

i.e. emotional state (writing in a journal or meditative exercise), mental state (avoiding anything intellectually stimulating), physical state (physical exertion/blackseed oil/mattress)
DigitalOcean vs EC2 Performance Comparison ($180/Mo. Difference)
A cluster of start-ups in east London is thriving
I don't see this as tying it to the web server. You're not using some custom language that only Harp supports. If you need to switch to a completely static site, you can still use Harp to generate the static site. If you can't use Harp at all, there are several other static generators out there that support those formats.
One of the best bug reports I have ever read!
I'm just not very good at this communication thing, because you seem to be arguing against a position that is totally unrelated to mine. I'm anarchist because that's the direction this nation needs to move right now. The entire point of this thread is that we should consider currently feasible options and ignore the extremes of what doing the right thing now could conceivably be extrapolated to decades hence. I would love it if we stopped all the wars and 3F/D bullshit and bailouts and corporatism etc., to such an extent that 15 years from now a reasonable person could take a look around and say, "holy shit this place is bonkers we gotta regulate!"

The "natural" metaphor doesn't actually make the point you think it's making. Humans are animals, too, but we're not Hymenoptera.
I would consider many to be a worthless weasel word, that tells us nothing other than more than one but less than even a significant minority.
My point didn't quite come off how I intended. I do agree that a "good job" here and there are essential. Praise for a job well done should be an integral part of being a competent manager or tech lead. But this can't be seen as a replacement for communicating worth to the employee by financial rewards. When the company itself tries to set up some process for praising good work as an alternative for financial rewards, that's where it becomes manipulation.
Re: Ask HN: India == bad devs?
@Avuraldg (et al)
The original topic, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6141639, is closed to further edits. However, since my response a couple of months ago I have discovered I was wrong- Yes, the time offset is an issue but if one is willing to be flexible, cycles are compressed. Project speed is faster, not slower, with the right overseas team.
Data Mining Reveals the Emotional Differences in Emails Written by Men and Women
Tweeter Home shares explode on apparent Twitter mix-up
Some deregulated markets are already paying for the turbines as infrastructure.

For example, the PJM interconnection holds an annual capacity auction. This essentially pays for the capital costs of keeping gas turbines around, at idle. The cost of actually running the turbines is covered by a separate daily auction for actual electricity production.
The whole Drug War is a colossal waste of time and resources. Those who choose to indulge in narcotics will continue to do so, despite the legality or accessibility of their preferred substances. Of course, the fact of the matter is that an entire industrial complex has sprung up to wage this "war;" the DEA, weapons and surveillance equipment manufacturers, and many local and national LEO, among countless others. In short, it's a very Big and profitable business. So despite any logic or rationale for maintaining a "safe" venue to conduct narcotics trade, there will always be resistance from the entrenched lobbyists and business interests.
Yeah, because being against a corrupt, unelected organisation that can't even get its own accounts signed off due to corruption and fraud. What a crazy position to take.
FeatureKicker provides both qualitative and quantitate feedback. Besides what the customer has said, you can also see things like how many time was the feature "viewed" and then how many times was it "clicked". How long was it open for, did they highlight things when reading etc. In our next version, we r planning on building something to better digest all this data so customers can take quick action.
Mobile banking leapfrogging traditional banking in Myanmar
I am actually looking forward to this release. No real features but hints of new behind-the-scenes improvements make me think this will bring some needed Snow Leopard-like refinement to Mountain Lion. Here's hoping they can fix fullscreen with multiple monitors especially!
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Why the word FREE is overated
I don't really disagree with anything you say. But I think keeping longevity in perspective is important as well. Instagram is (mostly) at the mercy of fickle tweens and 20 somethings. If Mongo has a good management team they could be in the game long after Instagram becomes a shadow of it's former self, if you're selling to Fortune 500s odds are you aren't selling to them only once.
> Oracle is a frigging database

It's really not. Oracle has an enormous middleware portfolio, and plenty of other niches to boot. And, to be honest, much as it may be unfriendly, it's a pretty good database.
There's another article from the Guardian on the NSA regarding Tor in the #6 slot on HN. This is in the #3 position.

I think you're overestimating the impact.

Edit: This article is now in the #1 position. Flagging isn't hurting these articles any.
GitHub enterprise comes only as a VM now. Every release for the past year has had upgrade problems or significant bugs. It's amateur hour compared to the public version.
Roger Waters would LOVE these for his Live Wall show lol
We want to shoot for all of the things we want in open switches, but you can’t boil the ocean. We want hardware disaggregated from software, and we want to deploy that hardware in production.

I can't decide if this sounds a bit defeatist or is just pragmatic - isn't the goal lofty enough to require the ambition to boil the ocean?
AppScale 1.11.0 release now supports PHP for Google App Engine apps
> And how they’ll need to change the questions they ask of potential senior execs in order to bring in some of the mentality required to iterate towards excellence in public as opposed to behind closed doors.

I feel like, with possibly the exception of the iPhone, Apple's magic sauce has been to let others launch first and learn from their mistakes, iterate in private until they have their product as close to perfection as they can, then release it.

They weren't the first computer. They weren't the first MP3 player. They weren't the first place to buy songs online. They weren't the first to make a smartphone. They weren't the first to make a tablet.

Granted these weren't software services for the most part, they were hardware. But in the same sense, Apple does a lot of development in the background almost by design, so they can storm the set and have a polished product ready to go (with some exceptions, notably Mobile Me).

This "iterating on the fly" web thing is a software mentality. I'd argue that Apple is first & foremost a hardware company. Once you release the hardware, you're stuck with it for better or worse. There's no such "ship it before it's ready and fix it later" mindset in hardware.
It's from some kind of character generator software package.

You pick a 'beard' and drag it onto the person, etc.

This similar looking one is all over the internet:

http://www.iconshock.com/img_jpg/SUPERVISTA/networking/jpg/2...
Good point! Just because a business isn't growing doesn't mean it needs to shut down immediately. There are still companies that make buggy whips.
Ability to move independently, with their own power source, be able to navigate our environment, homes, use our tools and do our bidding, following simple commands. It is likely that some DNA-engineered chimp/machine hybrid will probably become the first real robot exposing the folly of today's mechanical / electrical attempts in much the same way as we now know that the Analytical Machine was unrealistic with 19th century clockwork technology.
I actually think this is a pretty good idea. However, could there be some way of having these "proposed" features turned off by default and giving users an option to turn them on? Otherwise, as people have commented, it might cause frustration as people try to use features that aren't implemented yet.

Could you have a view for end users so you can see all proposed new features? Sort of crowd-sourced product marketing...

Edit: What about letting end users suggest completely new features this way? (e.g. allowing them to draw on a screenshot of the page and say "I want a button here that does XYZ").
Yeah, I was being hyperbolic to try to make the point -- you can dismiss anything as merely a frigging X. You're absolutely right with regard to Oracle.

(Tangent: for anyone interested in Oracle's history/business, or just enterprise software in general, I highly recommend http://www.amazon.com/dp/0743225058)
Where exactly did you learn that?

It's not about the money, it's about the respect. If you are doing a good job and make the company money you deserve a cut, not a pat on the shoulder. When the company is paying you your salary they are putting value on your work.

Leadership and inspiration are nothing without respect.
So this is like Apache's mod_* but for modern things. Sounds neat. One of the things I like most about the Play Framework is that it autocompiles LESS, CoffeeScript and Scala on refresh. Extending that concept to more languages is a good thing.
Ok, I'll bite. What do you mean?
The issue at hand for "techno-libertarians" is not necessarily about privacy, but rather about life and property.

There are three issues that libertarians will tend to agree are most important, which is usually summarized with being a natural right to life, liberty, and property.

1) The government forces companies to hand over customer information (property).

2) The government forcibly outlaws citizens to engage in certain commerce (property).

3) The government forcibly bars people from consuming goods they want (life).

To greatly summarize these three issues:

1) Whether the data is considered to be owned by the company or ourselves, either way it is private property and should have an extremely high barrier to acquire through a warrant.

2) Free trade is an obviously libertarian principle.

3) You own your body, and you are free to consume unhealthy substances as such, which is a fairly accepted natural right.

Privacy in an of itself is not necessarily a natural right, rather, the data owned by you or a company is considered private property.
It's not possible. DRM is impossible when a user has access to the full system. That is why there is a push for locked boot loaders and security modules and such. The more access the user has the easier it is to defeat DRM. Conversely, the less access they have the harder it is to break.
Thanks for the detailed reply! Having looked into it a bit further - yep, you're right.
Real-Time Media Map
I have never heard about those actually. I'm only interested in live stereaming sports, which are ridiculously expansive for the rightsholders but worthless once the broadcast is over. I can't see a future where they'll switch from their current platform unless the new platform offers something similar. If I was them I'd rather skip the browser completely and settle for apps (e.g in smarttv/win8/Mac/iOS/consoles). I'm not saying its stupid to be resisting drm in HTML, but it will mean some services won't exist in the browser.
I'll second that. Might be appropriate for a series of blog posts, even.
I don't think this is being flagged. I flag soap opera NSA stuff for instance, but wouldn't flag this.
fixed. Thanks :)
Yeah. FWIW, working at $BIGCORP, I'm starting to hear buzz around Mongo from quite a few not-very-technical people. I'm pretty negative on Mongo as a technology, but there's no doubt that it's generated a lot of attention.
Not everyone has the luxury to tolerate that risk. I considered doing that myself, but considering how long it took me to find a job while employed I would have been looking at multiple months of unemployment before landing something, which would have caused its own stresses, pressures, and exhaustion.
This is really neat.

The most horrible thing about trying to build out Node.js applications these days is wishing for the Rails asset pipeline.

http://harpjs.com/docs/environment/lib looks like it should make it very possible to tie this up next to rendr and get the best of all worlds.
I really can't see Apple adopting a more iterative approach to product development. "Perfect the first time" is so deeply engrained in their corporate identity that the CEO feels the need to personally apologize when they don't achieve it (see: Apple Maps). Compare that to the new Google Maps, which was pretty shitty when it went to open beta but has been getting progressively less so.

Google's users cut Google the necessary slack to allow them to release imperfect products and improve on them. Apple's do not.
People seem to forget this is just the internet. It's a communications medium. Anonymity in communications are certainly not a unique feature of the internet, you can hide your caller id, and a letter will still arrive without a return address. The basic idea being that you can't shoot someone in the face by merely communicating, and I'm pretty sure you can still not commit a violent crime over the internet alone. Communication mediums are the safest thing in the whole wide world.

Your whole intellectual stance from which you approach this topic is off. History is very clear on this: the biggest enemies of justice have been governments and state sponsored entities, every single time. The concept of "natural rights" is motivated by protection against the government.
Most plausible outcome I've heard is that the Feds will only pursue high-volume users, either vendors, or buyers who intended to distribute. Buyers for personal use wouldn't be worth the trouble, though I think they could just distribute that info to local LE.
Best description found so far: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24371894
Well, if the SNP had had their way you'd be in the Euro instead.
Very cool site -- I've long thought about setting something like this up as a side project that'd be fun to build!
"Honestly, I think it's a cool widget! It doesn't sound nearly big enough to get a 10x return on VC though."

I hear ya... we worry about that sometimes. But then I think about what PG says re "it's our Altair." We gotta start somewhere.

How big is the market? There are 5M product managers in the US, according to LinkedIn. Assuming 13 PMs per company, there are many, many companies that should be using this.

I don't think you could or should replace our tech with a click event. I'll agree that 404 tests are a good start... but they lack qualitative data and a rules engine. I believe that's an inferior customer experience.

We've interviewed 100+ product teams at this point. We're getting good feedback -- especially re "getting data on existing features."
OK, this looks awesome - I've been looking for a tool exactly like this for a while.

How does it compare with webapp analysers like NewRelic, for example?
The Underlying Technology of Facebook Messages (2010)
1) I don't think it's known how big the "addictive" effects are. Meaning, if you use it a lot, you might get "used to it"(downregulation), and require more to get the same effect. See the link at the bottom; My doctor told me not to use it more then 4-5x a week; I have anecdotal evidence of it being less effective from my use

2) It might not be as effective as you're making it. It surely isn't as simple as "replacing the melatonin you're lacking". Melatonin you naturally produce happens in a series of step; the melatonin you take via a pill surpasses some of these steps, which means there isn't the same effect.

See http://www.supermemo.com/articles/sleep.htm#Melatonin
How would you get any breakthrough in basic sciences without essentially blindly spending on research, hoping something will come out of it in 50 years or so? That some other people in some other country will base their commercial applications on? Not everything is profitable or useful in time for the next quarter. Basic research is a tide that lifts all boats.

Also, my vacuuming robot is pretty good, I haven't had to manually vacuum in several month and there is virtually no dust. I'd rather have that now than wait for robot researchers to get bored fishing and build something incredibly better.
Am I just too old for HN now?

I can understand calling something that holds your data and makes it so you don't have to do JOINs a database.

I can understand calling something that holds your data and does JOINs for you a database.

I'm having trouble calling something that holds my data and makes it so I have to "JOIN in my application" anything but a file system.
I cut caffeine out of my diet, (apart from chocolate) which has more or less cured my issues with sleeping. I think I could start drinking it again, but only pre mid day.

It is very hard to do (headaches, sleepy in the day etc), but worth a shot.

I also use earplugs, which I find it very hard to sleep without now (unless drunk). They not only block out noise, but you get conditioned that when you put them in it's time to sleep, it kind of gets you into a sleep mind set.

The other thing I find helps is if I find my mind racing I try and slow my breathing down as much as I can. I think it works on two levels, I focus on breathing and free my mind of jumping all over the place and it also slows your heart rate and therefore oxygen to the brain, which I think has the same effect :P
Very good thoughts, porter. We'll consider this more and edit our application. This is precisely the kind of feedback we're looking for here. :)
Well, I think the article either assumes the paying decently is implied or they made a huge mistake. :)
Thanks, appreciate it! It's been awesome to see it come together and have people use it. Let us know if you have any feedback.
Revenue per user might be high, but it's targeting a smaller market. Bloomberg is useful to anyone who buys or sells stocks in any way. Quantopian seems to be about people who want to find a technical system to beat the market. This is by its nature self-defeating. If everyone is using Quantopian, everyone cannot be beating the market. The article makes this very point on page two.
I believe that it is getting flagged because the term "More Inclusive" is not liked by those hackathon goers who see no problem with the status quo, and may engage in rhetoric like "well if they wanted to come they are welcomed to"
Cool. Can you go a bit deeper and tell us why? As in, why is that more compelling to you?
> Google's users cut Google the necessary slack to allow them to release imperfect products and improve on them. Apple's do not.

Also an excellent point. The reason people line up for many hours for the privilege of spending $500 is because they expect perfection. These are the consumers that Apple has courted, and so far they have reaped the rewards from it by earning the trust of their users. To change that would damage their brand in a huge way.
I'll humor you, what is the benefit of living in suburbia?
I tried it for a short while but it gave me vivid nightmares.
At least someone intelligent is asking if "parallel construction" was used: http://blog.erratasec.com/2013/10/silk-road-caught-by-nsa.ht...
Do you really think that a seller would pass up the opportunity to use a service like this that would net them far more than they probably make as well as it being much safer for all parties? Of course not, it only requires some googling to figure out how to use it.
It seems 9.2 can solve a lot of use cases but when they have partial updates, I'll cry tears of joy.