skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surprised to see that FxOS doesn't have a remote display option like Android does. There is something like this for Android that I believe just uses the same hooks that components in the SDK do:

http://mymobiler.com/

Would be probably better for developers or those who are creating demonstration videos like the OP's link.
Khan Academy?

"Today, there have been 85 million users to date. Each month, there are 6 million unique users on the Khan Academy site. In total, there have been 260 million lessons delivered and over 1 billion problems answered on the related exercises."
http://jpalfrey.andover.edu/2013/05/09/khan-academy-meets-ph...
It's at least a little funny that the explanation for reasoning from first principles is an analogy to physics.
it should be roughly equivalent to knowing the salt of the hash you're attempting to crack, right?
Nice! Really a coincidence because just yesterday I made a plan to create my blog with Harp and see how far that would take me, today I googled it and landed here, only to find that this was also posted today....
You're right that there is nothing new about almost all of these ideas. John Dewey covered a lot of this in his 1902 book "The Child and the Curriculum".
They are probably there to prevent link-bait since people jump on these kind of articles since they are very easy to digest.
Did this just get UN-flagged? It's back on the front page now. Anyone ever see this happen before? That's pretty weird in my experience.
It's always interesting to hear people talking about trends they see in a web hosting company. The first thing I do is check and see if their experience actually matches what I see in the data.

http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/23/mediatemple/ (click 'Trends')

I don't see much evidence of 'improving' but it looks fairly stable. It will be very interesting to watch what happens after today though.

I've been watching http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting/company/33/asmallorange/ because they are in a similar situation but half a year ahead of MT. They were bought out by EIG (Endurance International Group - which own HostGator, BlueHost, Host Monster, etc) back in March. They've been run independently and their service seems to have improved (cue EIG hate here). It's easy to craft stories, but I always like to see the data.
I used to be bad at names. Now I've become somewhat better. What's helped is: when I hear their name, I say it back to them: once loud (as in, "Hi John! Nice to meet you."), and several times after that in my mind ("that's John, I just met him"). I'll revisit his name a few times with increasing delays in between, and after a couple of iterations, it's baked in.

Another thing that helps: if you notice something weird, latch on to it immediately. It could be anything: something he's wearing or about his voice or his looks (a guy I met recently had a Facebook style t-shirt with a thumbs down and "meh" instead of the 'like'; I made a note of it, and now, even a couple of weeks later, associate him with that t-shirt).
These techniques have helped me remember names of up to 20-25 new people in a night of socializing.
B U L L S H I T
Drop me an email (in my profile) and I'll get you an intro.
From what I remember, Media Temple went downhill a long time ago.
Google sees clouds as threats for its business
Ok, this already was on HN, but I want to bring into attention the fact that while Google sells cloud services to businesses it sees other clouds as a direct threat to its own business due to security/ and/or other possible reasons.

[1]: http://allthingsd.com/20131010/google-cio-ben-fried-on-how-google-works/
Careful with that :

http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/10/how-the-bible-and-yo...
It's not really extreme. You can, and should, easily provide globals through attributes on classes and modules (which are globals themselves):

module Foot
@size = 10
class << self
attr_accessor :size
end
end

Foot.size = 8

ActiveSupport gives you "mattr_accessor" and "class_attribute" to accomplish the same thing with less code.

In my opinion, class/module-level attributes are useful enough that it ought to be provided by the language itself.

Edit: Come to think of it, most people, that I have seen, use globals to set constants. That currently has perfectly good syntax:

module Foot
SIZE = 10
end

print Foot::SIZE
Show HN: sta - fast(er) statistics from the command line
Well, the results are in, everybody hates GoDaddy, although that can't be surprising to you, and I have to agree with the sentiment, they're a very scummy company.

I'll be honest, from the outside looking in it looks like MT has sold out to cash in.

Surely you were aware of their reputation and their standing in the development community? I have to ask, how much did you consider what the reaction to this news would be before you signed on the line with them?
Hey, this doesn't work in the UK, despite being on the UK iTunes Store - it won't accept a UK phone number (it's too many digits).
Tax avoidance crackdown pledged
This article tells an amazing and inspiring story. I love the burro tale and how it illustrates the positive attitude of these kids who really want to learn. I hope that everyone donates to http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/student-centered-movem...

Teachers like Sergio Juárez Correa are an example of what teachers should be doing, specially in rich countries like the US.
Why are some of the most respected and the smartest commenters on this site unwilling to have an intellectually honest debate?

Because after the tenth time it's discussed and turns into a verbal food fight, many people intuitively realize that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Mother Nature talks nanotech: data storage breakthrough
I've found that, if done correctly, Javascript, especially with a module system like common.js, scales with complexity extremely well.

It requires a different approach than OOP that most people are used to but results in very loosely coupled code.

i.e. a power screw driver is a "terrible" tool when used like a manual screwdriver.
At Fashiolista we went through a few phases.

A.) In the early days we simply pulled everything together by querying the database which worked quite well.

B.) After that we switched to using redis and in a similar approach to twitter's pushed only to active users and pulled the feed for inactive users.

C.) Now our requirements slowly changed and it became harder to fit everything in memory (or fallback) that's why we switched to Cassandra.

Feedly offers you a framework, but allows you to make your own decisions regarding the tradeoffs.

- you can change the fanout to hit only active users (twitter, yahoo paper approach)

- you can chose to store the full activity in the feed or only an id (memory usage vs extra lookups)

- you can customize the priority of tasks

These are all things we've done at one point or another. You can chose your own approach with Feedly.

For Fashiolista we currently use celery with rabbitmq and have different queues and worker clusters for low and high priority fanout tasks.

In your example with Lady Gaga memory usage would go up on the rabbitmq server. Since rabbit also stores to disk it won't run out easily. After that the celery machines will handle the updates and autoscaling will kick in more machines if needed.
Ask HN: Site is growing over 500,000 users/yr, to VC or not to VC?
I have posted here a few times discussing my startup, http://spaceindustrynews.com . We've had a few talks about bringing in VCs to help fund the site.

I'm still open to VC help but I'd like to test the waters and see what you think about going it alone or with content partners ( I've gotten a few since last we talked ) and doing it 100% myself with a little help from my friends.

I have a day job that pays my hosting bills. The site is gaining traction and has grown since last year. The first year from June 2012-June 2013 brought in 500,000 unique users. This year ( June 2013-October 2013) so far I've reached 240,000 users already, putting me ahead of my first year by a bit.

The burning question is, how to make more money from ads on the site and where I should take it in order to get to the next level which I am aiming for, 1,000,000 users/yr.

My budget allots a little bit of $$ for advertising on other sites/facebook/twitter/BSA, which will raise awareness. I'm slowly cultivating fans with this ad money.

In your opinion, what would you do in my situation? Hold out for a little longer and see if a VC approaches? Or go it alone and be a successful 1 man show?

Thank you for your time, I appreciate all of your opinions and help.
Are the battery life tests the same between the Air and ChromeBook? The Air review from Anandtech tests the Air for Light, Medium and Heavy Workloads (whatever that means) in which it gets 11/8.9/5.53 hours respectively. The ChromeBook test on the other hand is labelled "Web Browsing Battery Life" which to me suggests that it isn't exactly the same as the one used with Air or for that matter which one of the Light/Medium/Heavy compares closely to it.
Constant Contact uses Rails on jruby pretty extensively, because of improved performance and JVM integration. There was also a talk at Boston's Wicked Good Ruby conference of a case study of a large Struts 2 app getting extended in Rails on JRuby. (I asked about Grails as an alternative; not only was Groovy more painful than Ruby to work in, but Grails itself, in the speaker's experience, was more difficult to integrate into an existing application stack. Which is something the Grails folks might want to look into, if it's correct...)
Another word for jerking around the audience (readers) though manipulating characters is drama. We still watch Breaking Bad, Mad Men, and Game of Thrones, right?
>This essentially turns "something you know" into "something you have"

It really doesn't. This essence of "something you have" is that you really, truly must have it for authentication to work -- every time. In this case, if you capture the data on the Yubikey once you never need to have the Yubikey again (since he's using the static slot). Or to flip it around, if you just once leave your Yubikey in your pocket in coat check, or in a checked airline bag, or in your USB slot when you go to a meeting, etc., it is potentially 100% compromised without your ever knowing.

This is why true "something you have" systems like Google Authenticator, or the actual Yubikey system as it was designed, use constantly changing keys.
Except that little thing that shows you new tweets immediately...
Great to see Philadelphia front and center with this project.

In Mayor Nutter's keynote at PennApps last month, he talked a lot about how Philly is really pushing for open data/open government. It's great to see those initiatives coming to fruition.
What is the business model? Will they charge for upgrades? Or will they use your data to send you targeted ads?
Makes a lot more sense now as to why gd could stand out so much... wow

Thanks moot!
But do those internal logics have to be the same across universes?
Unless I misread entirely, your price is $39/mo. That's just not happening for personal email. I value my time, but I already have a vps and you're charging $500/year. And I'm even willing to pay for email; I already pay $2.50/mo via tuffmail.
One possible explanation: the initial boost is largely a reflection of the pre-launch marketing efforts, which are in turn a measure of the effectiveness of the marketing effort generally. So, you could read this as saying more that marketing is important, than that there's something that's special in particular about the large "pop".
If it had Ethernet-like connectivity, yes.
Hmmm. Perhaps it's time to lay off the bong a bit?
They sell Cloud Storage for $5/month. Very interesting software.
On Display: Mobile
https://www.mashape.com/community/coinbase#!documentation
Since being in business since 1997, this is my 5th notice of: "...we've be bought & nothing will change...It will be great!..."

It's a crap statement from MT. Nearly a lie. However, it will take several months until MT starts to show real singes of GoDaddy infiltration - in my opinion.

My experience at MT has been excellent over the last 4 years, & conversely my experience with GoDaddy VPS & Private servers have been horrible, a joke, & expensive - resulting in the loss of several $five $figure accounts for my little company.

I've actually MADE great new clients & good money MOVING them off of GoDaddy platforms into my other hosts - MT being the front runner.

Is it time to move services? Yes and no. In the short run (like 6 months) it's a 'wait and see' deal. I am going to move most of my 436 websites/clients away from MT over the next year, and keep and hand-full of sites at MT on my DV (vps) just in case the GoDaddy buyout actually works out.

I've NEVER experienced a successful buyout as an existing account holder.

Message to MT: YOU HAVE BETTER GET THIS GODADDY CRAP RIGHT! You've already lost 50% of the good faith that we as MT clients have.

Suggestions for new host to follow on next post.

zOrg.
Interesting. My immediate question was "is this US-specific", but it seems not: http://www.manager.io/about, section "First-class support for every country".
He did make one comment in the summary:

"and even the clickpad isn’t as bad as it is on far more expensive PCs."

Not sure what to read into that.
I agree on paper. That said, most google-ish hardware has been up to a pretty decent standard. Their brand on a piece of hardware means more to me than HP's.
Sure, whenever there's a massive imbalance between the genders, it's going to be less productive than when there's a balance. It also doesn't help much if the sexism discussion occurs among a group of 95% females - which is typically what happens.
More pertinent to the discussion, especially since Wal-Mart is a bit larger than that hospital, is the nationwide shrinkage estimate of $41.6 billion for last year.

Or to try to compare the two, Walmart U.S., not including 622 Sams Clubs, has 4118 locations (http://corporate.walmart.com/our-story/locations). So the most conservative estimate would be $3 billion/4118, or about $730K per store. About $635K if the clubs are included. If that's the whole world, about $275K (all rounded to a multiple of 5K).

Which puts Wal-Mart in tall cotton compared to that hospital.
I guess I was flag-banned. I can't see the flag link anywhere, and I seem to remember it was there before. Must be that one post recently where I expressed a libertarian political view :)
Plus it's evented so it's not really I/O bound, which makes it great as a service glue.

Also, node.js with browserify & grunt makes for a great front end packaging & dependency tool.
Might want to checkout @LiquidWeb. We are offereing $100 free to MT Refugees that are worried bit.ly/1684rii
Some people just aren't comfortable dealing with reality since reality is an echo chamber that reinforces successful survival behaviors.
I wish to see more job posts like this. Nice work.
reminds me of Crocker's rules - http://www.sl4.org/crocker.html
It seems like you haven't talked to many "successful" people yet, because if they become successful too early/easily, they forget all the lessons and think they became successful because they are so smart.

If you really want to get in-depth wisdom, you need to talk to a founder who has previously failed trying to do something awesome that no one has ever managed to do before.

The secret lessons can only be found at rock-bottom. They are just lying around there, because no one can be bothered going there and picking them up. So, go there.
I'm very happy with the service, and I would recommend it to anyone who's a bit more capable in configuring their needs.
as mentioned on the PyPy blog, Raspberry Pi Foundation sponsored partly the ARM port as well as the incremental GC. The reason (as far as I understand) is that PyPy on RPI would provide a fast Python for development of various things, like games.
NetBeans 7.4 released
If you're on a decently setup wifi network, this isn't true for practical purposes. The connection from your house to your ISP is going to be effectively your bottleneck 99% of the time.
So no _real_ Linux? As in on a direct HD partition without chroot?
I was quite surprised to see the tcl tests. I'm reserving judgement until I've tried writing one though.
"The exterior of his schools will be mostly glass, so outsiders can peer in."

That reminds me of one of the technical schools I saw in downtown Lima, Peru. It had a huge number of large glass windows on the front, and as I walked along the main street, I could peer in and see row after row of tables, each with several large Apple monitors, each with a student or two in front of it. It was massive.

I'd really like to go in there next time I visit and find out more about their techniques.

(Incidentally, several blocks away there was a high school named "The Albert Einstein Institute". :)
asm.js does not turn off garbage collection. Instead, programs written in this style do not allocate many objects, so the garbage collector does not need to run much. asm.js programs allocate a single giant block of memory, and then do their own psuedo-manual-memory-management within that block.
I don't have millions or dollars (or even close) and I do think that way. All those examples were actually things I've done in the past.

Are you American? Is the American healthcare system so bad that you feel you need millions of dollars to survive it?

Or is it just that for you to be able to ignore money you need to have so much of it that you can snap purchase ferraris?

FWIW when I say don't think about money I mean for mundane every day things, like going to the supermarket or the doctors, or not being tied down to work a job you hate because you need need need that paycheck that comes every month.

I'm talking about flexibility, not the ability to buy everything you've ever wanted :-)
RxJava and Android: Just What the Doctor Ordered
Bitzy Social Network Launches in Dallas
The other cool part to this is that Virb was resold back to it's original founder and did not get included in the acquisition. In addition to that, they received a TC article to boot. Well played, sir!

http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/15/virb-spins-out-of-media-tem...
Show HN: Growth-O-Matic
Yeah, I was really just letting my thoughts out in an almost stream-of-consciousness style. I posted to HN more just to see how the process works than because I thought people would actually read my post. After 9000 views (from both here and reddit) and some excellent feedback, though, I see that there is some interest in this type of thing. My next post should definitely have more substance to it.
OH hey I did absolutely not think of that. International numbers are 11 digits is that right? Or what is it?
Wow. I'm founder of Manager.io and long-time member of HN but I was always afraid to submit on HN link to my own startup thinking it won't ever get any upvotes. There are hundreds of people on www.manager.io right now. I'm amazed and completely humbled by the interest right now.
We removed your email from the list and changed the wording of the buttons to make it clearer that this is WIP.
I really don't mind the feedback. If you don't get the use-case, you don't get the use case. No offense taken.
It seems they are confusing hackers with hacks. I've often found that hackers deliver better quality code than process hacks. It's probably going to be a hacker that finds out for you that you have an Xss problem that is exposing your clients information
I can't read him anymore because it's too obvious what the plot is going to be: a misunderstood but fundamentally holy Hero Dude goes off into the wilderness or something to found a new city where his disciples can live in peace the way God intended <tm>.

So: the Ender's Game series, the Alvin Maker series, the Homecoming series, Lovelock, Wyrms, Pastwatch, Treason, and on some level, most of the biblio-historical-fiction series.

Any major Card works I'm missing? I'll give partial credit to _Songmaster_, and maybe even _Enchanted_.
Lockitron for your bike on Kickstarter now
This is such a welcome change. There's nothing wrong with "hacking" and being a "hacker", but it truly does connote the idea of fiddling with something until it works and then saying "tadaa!"

As a developer (and sometimes developer lead), I strongly prefer a process wherein "hacking" is only the first step. As the old adage goes:

1. Make it work

2. Make it right

3. Make it fast

"Hacking" is only step 1. We've all seen the results of a codebase where there is no step 2 or 3.
DreamHost's is a bit long in the tooth now, but at least it's not cPanel! :)
Fair enough, but you may want to consider hiring a designer who can make the text on your website and blog legible on systems that aren't retina MacBooks or similar.

The low contrast between font and background (especially on the site proper, where it is mostly grey on grey, more so than the blog) combined with the font's thinness makes the text really fall apart when viewed at lower resolutions or on non-IPS panels.
I don't know about your healthcare.gov, but it is very difficult to predict the success or failure of a government project around here (i am brazilian).

At one side we have incredibly well done and well managed examples, as our elections voting system. I get embarassed for US everytime I see the news about your elections, with cards and weird stuff.

On the other hand, we have lots of examples of how the government can mess things up, most notably these days are the stadiums and overall infrastructure for World Cup. It is even worse than any pessimist would have predicted.

So... all we can do is wait. The initiative, I think is good, but the outcome.. who knows?
You should also revise "These phones represent a fraction of the overall android market" to "These phones represent the majority of the overall android market."
Sorry, by flat I was meaning basic unanimated pages, not just 2d. I should have been more clear.
I am definitely going to check this out :)
clickables:

http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/app/googalytics/34a0d886-d...

http://leoncullens.nl/post/2013/10/15/Launching-Googalytics-...

https://twitter.com/googleanalytics/status/39014163582615961...
The child who doesn't want to learn is the child who doesn't learn to walk and talk. They are few and far between.

Things may happen later on that co-opt or subvert whatever gets the child going, and by the time you come along the child doesn't want to learn, not on your terms at least, not in the ways that you recognize.
"Get off our website you non retina plebeian."
Hackers solve problems. Hacks defer them.

That said, I really like their sentiment; our company is filled with shirts and signs that say "Build" as a contrast to "Hack," because some things are actually important to do right, not just fast.
I think the owner decided to register the firm in Czech Republic because it is more western and also a country with Slavic language. As far as I know both the owner and majority of developers are from Russia.
Here's how it helps my productivity:
About every hour I take a break to stop working and check many different sites - google news, the weather, adsense earnings, and stocks. I end up navigating about 10 different websites in a linear process, which easily takes up a lot of time. SublimeDash solves that problem by aggregating multiple data streams in one convenient place while reducing the amount of time I waste. Also, it looks beautiful and continues to impress anyone who comes to visit me at my desk.
In my opinion having marriage and civil union is worse than waiter and waitress. The former makes a civil union feel inferior - there is a weight to the word marriage. I also see no problem with changing the definition of marriage to include gay couples.

Are you suggesting Eich was dontating to stop the misuse of a word as opposed to stopping gay people having equality?
Downloading now. Based on the screenshots, this looks pretty damn solid.