skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would be extremely interested in buying/using this. Do you have the source uploaded anywhere? Github, perhaps?
I hope it has a keyboard and a front facing camera.

Those are the two differentiators I'm looking for to pick an android phone.
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Your characterization seems a bit too binary. When I have a choice I code in Python, because it seems to provide a really nice balance between beauty and practicality. It's an elegant, well-designed language that also has a rich, diverse, mature ecosystem of standard and third-party libraries and frameworks.
Just a couple notes I picked up:

I don't see any security mentions anywhere. No SSL banner, no BBB, nothing. You could really use some sort of symbol, even a CC symbol would gain some trust.
You have a little press, get those mentions up towards the front of your website. Take advantage of that goodwill and trust.
Getting the cart contents, or really just a reminder to checkout, to the top or the left navigation could increase conversions. I've found that a thumbnail image of the customers cart contents in the left or right navigation gets the most clicks to checkout.

Hopefully you get more awesome advice!
Have been dating somebody I've met on OKCupid for a year and a half now. Couldn't be happier.

One tip, however: if you're a straight male and in Silicon Valley / South Bay, consider setting your search radius to also include San Francisco.
I'm not sure why he dismisses the FileAPI right away... one of the goals of the Reader according to http://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/ is:

User agents should provide a streamlined programmatic ability to send data from a file to a remote server that works more efficiently than form-based uploads today

Example: A Video/Photo Upload App. User is able to select large files for upload, which can then be "chunk-transfered" to the server.

This means that although this XMLHttpRequest2 method is nice, in practice it will still suffer from all the issues that http uploads suffer from at the moment. Chunked uploading, which the W3C spec explicitly supports, would be a much better solution for large files, no?
After he runs out of sick days, I'd advise him to just stop showing up for work on interview days. They're not going to fire him, he's not interested in staying there, and the bridge that he might conceivably burn is built out of bubble gum and toothpicks, anyway.
Iraq trained them and offered rewards to families whom had a son or father carry out jihad against the United States.
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Aspose.Cells is a .NET component for spreadsheet reporting without using Microsoft Excel. It supports robust formula calculation engine, pivot tables, VBA, workbook encryption, named ranges, spreadsheet formatting, drawing objects like images, OLE objects and importing or creating charts. You can also create Excel file using designer spreadsheet, smart marker or API and apply formulae and functions. It supports CSV, SpreadsheetML, PDF and all file formats from Excel 97 to Excel 2007.
I am looking into it and like its Grails-like setup, but its Scala documentation is outdated and I'm not sure how stable Scala support actually is... I will definitely keep an eye on it, and might even dig into the code a little.
i think this was more about getting press and making people aware of wepay's existence. most people who fit into their niche are likely not aware of them.
DuckDuckGo -- maybe not as successful as you meant yet, but I'm happy about where it is.
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Cite please
How about OOSI (omnipresent and omnipotent service infrastructure)?
Can you use WePay to automatically charge for premium usage of a web app (one time and/or subscription)?
I like the front facing camera idea, but I actually hate having a physical keyboard on my phones nowadays. Seems to just make the phone bigger and heavier. I also had the original Verizon/Motorola droid which had a completely worthless excuse for a keyboard. Perhaps that soured me on physical keyboards.

Now that I have Swype, not to mention the normal android keyboard, I'm pretty satisfied.
Thank you very much! I hadn't taken the time to think about load times... but you're absolutely right.

I'm going to put it on the list as one of my priorities. I think improving / creating a navigation system where players can find a game by category, tag or genre is a higher priority (though I could be wrong)

I'm also hoping to add a game description and * star rating to the mouse over tooltip.

I think if users can find the game they want to play - they might forgive load time (though I could very well be wrong).

Maybe I should put fewer games on the front page? (I do like having a lot of squares to look at, it makes it seem more fun to me)

but you're absoloutely right. load time with a star beside it - right there on my TODO list :)
It's not misleading. The political economic function of the government is to ensure that markets function under controlled conditions. An elaborate government apparatus provides services without which capitalism as we know it today would be inconceivable. Those services are worth something. If you disagree, let the government cease the enforcement of limited liability.

Libertarians has proposed a number of ways by which to regulate the market economy that doesn't involved coercion. Whether or not that is feasible is another matter entirely.

That being said, I prefer the alternative of being a member of the unorganized milita rather than a police state that handle every security services for me. I believed that a professional, well trained army are of some use but they should be limited to a size that doesn't allow them to invade nations and conquer the locals.

Wars is the death of empires, nations, and government.
I personally think engineers' inability to understand the limitations of their own abilities and the complexity of the problems we face, as evidenced by, say, the thought that if they were in charge they could fix everything, to be a strong recommendation against such a technocracy.

Personally, I think the quality the world needs more of in its leaders today is humility. Our theories are probably wrong (an argument for conservatism in a classical sense) and we, as a group, are likely just as corruptible as any other group.
data URIs are not supported on IE. css sprites supported anywhere and quite common.
Crowd-Sourced Johnny Cash Music Video Is a Work of Digital Art
embarassed? no. but i've done some projects that failed that i don't mention to anyone anymore. the only thing left of them are the lessons learned in my mind.
At the risk of being shot by the land owner or whomever else has a stake in you not doing that.
Not yet. It is rough right now as I only use it myself. I would need to clean it up a bit if it were to see the light of day. If I get enough interest I would be willing to do that.
I would like to share my favorite quote on programming languages, courtesy of #python on freenode:

"Being enlightened gentlemen, we split all programming languages into two groups, sucks and doesn't-suck and put all of them into the first group."
Note the suspicious lack of commentary on which version of IE supports XMLHttpRequest level 2. Is it supported? And is there an elegant way to fallback to the old iframe approach? Conditionally including Javascript files seems to be a poor choice, I'm not sure if I'd rather just stick with the old way, even if it's awkward.

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An aside: I found the "XMLHttpRequest Level 2" name to be pretty funny. I'm not sure why it tickled my funny bone in such a way.

A wild XMLHttpRequest (lvl 1) appears!
Engineer uses SendFile... it doesn't seem to be working.
Engineer is defeated!

A wild XMLHttpRequest (lvl 2) appears.
Engineer uses SendFile... it's super effective!
> Lot's of it is.

(Zepto is broken across multiple files so I might be missing some functionality.)

Roughly, Zepto has this many properties/method: On $: 5, On $.fn: 32.

jQuery has: On $: 95, On $.fn: 146.

Phrases like "jQuery-compatible syntax (lots of the jQuery API supported!)" make it seem like you can just rip jQuery out of an application and drop Zepto in - and it'll just work. Zepto only supports about 15% of the jQuery API - I'm very skeptical that any major jQuery plugin would "just work" given the provided API.

Framing the marketing within the context of jQuery (or, really, even Prototype) is disingenuous and creates a deceptive message. A better way to market the code would be: "Zepto provides a simple API for making JavaScript awesome in the latest WebKit mobile browsers - all in 2KB!"

That's 100% accurate and frames the code in a way that users will be able to grasp (2KB is nothing! It'll make my code simpler when I build my next PhoneGap app!). Whereas framing it within the context of jQuery doesn't benefit Zepto - it doesn't support more than one platform and it doesn't support the full jQuery API.
"No failure, only feedback." Now, you have to have a retrospective and really learn your lessons for this to work but it can be a very liberating mindset.
I'm sorry, but I really don't care if it "frustrates you to no end". I want to make the best mobile web apps possible for modern smart phones, and those happen to use WebKit.

I don't want to be restricted by implementing something what works on every mobile browser (do you still support WAP?). Again, I want to build the most amazing applications. If that means some browsers can't show it, well, too bad.

I'm doing the web a disservice because I release a library that only works with one mobile browser? The web as a whole will suffer from that? What do you know about my customers? What do you know about the sites and apps I want to create?

And web developers aren't smart enough to understand the difference between developing for PhoneGap and the web?

Please don't lecture me about making money and about making awesome user experiences. I can very well take care of that myself, thank you.
In Finland, 30 vacation days / year is the legal minimum for full-time employment, not counting bank holidays.

(There's an additional provision that's a bit strange: the employee has to be able to use at least 24 of those vacation days in May-September. I think this law is a remnant from the agricultural society of the mid-20th century, when people in the cities actually needed those vacation days specifically in the Summer so that they could return to the countryside to help their families in farm work.)
Not likely. The evidence would have evaporated by the time it went to court. :-P
I would go so far as to say that the greatest strength of node.js is the way people crank out interesting and possibly useful code and stick it on github. This makes it very easy to dive in and start hacking.

I would particularly recommend checking out socket.io, and maybe some of the projects using it. It's a way of doing realtime browser-server communication, which uses websockets if the browser supports it, and a variety of increasingly ugly fallbacks on browsers that are old and/or made by Microsoft. You can make some very cool stuff with it.

Also, definitely get npm, the node package manager. It makes installing libraries much easier:

http://github.com/isaacs/npm
I like my Thinkpad X61. It's not a netbook per se, but it has good battery life and isn't too bulky.
Two and a Half Men is by far the worst show on TV. At times it approaches the "Ow, My Balls!" level of humor.
> you are just one of the hundreds who've messaged her.

Actually, I found it to be completely the opposite. Most of the guys messaging the girls either (sorted by frequency):

1) Send a picture of their privates

2) Send something incoherent e.g., "GURL UR SO HOT"

3) Send a long, creepy essay

4) Have zero compatibility with her, haven't read her profile (past the picture), etc... and are sending something generic.

So if you actually read their profile and send intelligent messages selectively, you'll get responses.
Why front facing camera? Does anyone actually use FaceTime? I will never ever video chat. I find it unnecessary. It will make using my phone for talking to someone even more annoying (yes, I understand how ironic that sounds).
Flexible plastic solar cells will go everywhere the sun shines, produced in long rolls, covering roofs and even windows (the cells can be made transparent).

How would transparent solar cells work? Would the light coming in be part of the <90% of the light not being converted to electricity?
Though nexus one's selling theory was (proved) wrong, the phone was/is quite good.
OMG "it's made of people"!

Yeah it's a mindblow when you realize this. But it's not made of people who spend 6 hours a night watching tv.

There has never been a better time for creators, of all kind.
Yes, the existence of money is what stops me from shooting you
I've been managing the website http://www.lakerestoration.com for a little under a year now. In that time I've managed to get the conversion rate up from 1.26% to about 1.78%. Any advice you could give me on further improvements would be awesome!
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It helps to know that the success for startups is very low to begin with. That being said, once you graduated to a certain level of mastery, then that's when you win.

I equate it to the days when I tried my hand at pickup. Sure, 99 out of 100 girls will reject you, but if 1 girl says yes, then it would definitely be worth it. It all depends on whether you can keep on going, despite every failure. The goal is not to be fazed by failure/rejection.
Pittsburgh is a great town with a thriving tech and startup community. As you can see from http://pghtechevents.com there are plenty of meetups (many of them web development oriented). The only annoying thing is that most of them meet on a thursday so you usually have to choose one. Having CMU, Pitt and Duquesne (and the others) definitely helps with keeping a ton of interesting and smart people around the burgh.
Wikipedia says that IE8 supports them to some extent. But you are right, you would need to build two solutions to support older browsers, too.
Ask HN: Building a successful startup on the side?
I'm new to the world of startups, but everything I read (both on HN and elsewhere) is about founders who quit their other jobs and gave the startup their full attention.

Is there any reason why the startup can't be built on the side and then the founder could quit the full time job once it gains enough traction to sustain him/her? Is the issue just that it takes a lot longer to get to a release-ready state this way (i.e. only devoting a few hours a day)? Or what am I missing? I'm almost ready to release a MVP for a web app I've been working on (while working a separate full time job), and I just want to be sure I'm not in over my head.
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The FileReader API allows you to do some cool things, but I wanted to avoid chunked uploading for a few reasons. First, it's way more complex to handle given the way our app currently deals with files, and second, there isn't nearly as much existing browser support for both the Blob interface and FileReader in general. This post deals a bit with the current state of things:

http://www.filosophy.org/2010/06/a-state-of-limbo-the-html5-...
Unless I have a gun too, which I would in hypothetical anarchyland, in which case we've got a gunfight.

Hypothetical anarchyland isn't a very nice place to live, though. Most libertarians are not anarcho-capitalists (let us ignore the subset who are because they're crazy), and are quite happy to pay the portion of taxes which go towards sensible things like the police force and the enforcement of contracts. The problem is that governments get to set whatever tax rates they like, inevitably wind up with a desire to go beyond this and to begin using tax dollars to feather the nests of whoever gets to make the government's decisions, whether it's a solid gold tomb for the King or free welfare checks for the bottom 51% of the population. And, y'know, we can deal with some of that happening, because it's inevitable, but we do need people to be standing up all the time and saying "Hey look Mr President, how about we get to keep a bit more of our money and you get to fly around in a private 777 instead of a private 747?"

I'm not sure how you make the leap from "the government is necessary to protect your private property" to "it's not really your property, it's the government's". The bank is also necessary for me to get paid, and so is the electric company and the telephone company and the nice lady down in HR, but it's still my money. I don't mind paying for the services they provide either, but I'll still complain if they take more than they're entitled to.
I think you're right. I also think that's where the culture of learning is really powerful. You do need to set the expectation ahead of time that the real objective is learning or validated knowledge.

I have a company and we set goals, but our overarching goal is to learn. If we fail at meeting a metric there is always something to learn and take forward to the next attempt.

The only failure we define as a company is not setting your goals high enough to push yourself, or not taking your learning forward. That's how you build a culture that is willing to take risks. Defining failure as not meeting your metrics isn't productive.
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Call me cynical but the libertarian party (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_Party_(United_State...) was created by people that believe in small government. And I assume most reasonably well informed people have heard of it because it is afterall the third largest party in the USA.

Like many people I view the Tea Party movement as a Republican sock puppet designed to convince voters that this time they really mean it when they say they want small government.

PS: I base this on the wiliness of Tea Party members to run in republican primaries.
I think the color of Carmack's statements are much more anti-gov't than anti-ineffcient-gov't. The way I read it, he's saying lets make government more efficient by cutting out services, not by making all services operate more efficiently. To me, that is only anti-inefficient-gov't by way of anti-gov't. He effectively states that gov't can't be efficient :

"Sure, there is room for improvement everywhere, but there are important fundamental limits."

"So, the federal government is essentially doomed to inefficiency, no matter who is in charge or what policies they want it to implement."

"I would ask that it stop doing the majority of the things that it is currently doing"

Note that he is also glad that the government is doomed to inefficiency : "Even if you could snap your fingers and get it, do you really want a razor sharp federal apparatus ready to efficiently carry out the mandates of whoever is the supreme central planner at the moment? The US government was explicitly designed to make that difficult, and I think that was wise."
Dating a girl 3 (almost 4) years strong I met on OKCupid. She messaged me back then, after I kind of gave up on the site (Some bad experiences on in-person dates, yikes). I liked her message, replied, conversation led to MSN, then finally we met up for a dinner and movie night.

I used it because I was out of school and working in a small company with only 5 employees so my options were almost nill on finding a date outside of the bar scene, which is more skewed to getting laid than actual dating :)
Ask HN: What project management tools do you use at your startup?
Same question applies even if your startup -is- project management tools.
> and you hear stories all the time of people with specialized ailments coming to the U.S. and spending money for treatment

I'd rather hear stories like that then stories about people denied treatment because they got denied by some corporate bean counter.

And your stories aren't indicative of any failing of the Canadian system. Let's not forget the American's that rely on Canada for their health needs.
Looking back. I'm not so much embarrassed about the failed projects, so much as knowing the things I might have done differently to change the outcome for the better.

Thats neither here nor there seeing as how you just take it all with a grain of salt, add and apply that knowledge to current projects and keep chugging along trying not to second guess yourself.

However, the code written for some of those past projects; I hope it never sees the light of day. Thats the only thing I'm embarrassed about. So if thats the worst of my issues, I think im doing okay.
Ask HN: What to do when I get ZERO comments on my app review post?
It is surreal to me that my 'Please review my app" post gets 0 comments.

Should I assume that people are not interested in the app? or could it just be bad timing or some odd reason that I happened to confront?
Is there a way to see the views on it?

I like to think it is the latter but could someone please advise what I should do?

Also, one odd thing, when I originally posted it, I forgot to put the prefix Ask HN and after a couple of minutes, corrected it, BUT it does not show up under the 'Ask' section.

My original post asking for feedback

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1843748
Yeah, 70% ctr=LIE don't believe it. I think if you go a 70% ctr google would shut you down for clickfraud.
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I assume he means "the existence of government stops you" not "the existence of money stops you".
You may add a navigation system, but please make it optional and keep the ability to just click on a picture and start playing.
I know you're joking, but a big problem in discussing energy sources is that a lot of people assume that anybody who tries to explain the difficult engineering issues must be a paid shill for a big energy company. It's kind of irritating, even if it is both false and an ad hominem fallacy.
To my knowledge, XMLHttpRequest Level 2 isn't supported in any shipping version of IE. I haven't tried IE9 yet, so it might be available there. When building the actual production uploader for onehub.com, I drew a line in the sand and decided not to support any fallback scenarios, at least for the first iteration. If you'd like, fork the uploader on github and hack away :)
Reed's law follows from the fact that a set has 2^N possible subset. So it's a statement about how group membership affects the dynamics of a social network.

There are O(N^2) possible connections, which is related to Metcalfe's law.
My kids like to skype video chat with family members in other states that we don't see often.
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Carmack must be angry about the expiration of the Bush tax cuts.

Too bad he forgot:

1. The Internet was created by DARPA (government)

2. Armadillo Aerospace would not be possible without NASA (government)

3. OpenGL would not have been happened without research grants from the government

4. Google is a product of "big government". It began at Stanford as a research project funded by the National Science Foundation and other federal agencies.

A huge amount of technical innovation comes out of government funded research grants/projects. Those innovations are then turned into commercial products by private industry. As taxpayers, maybe we should be demanding more taxes from the corporations that benefit from publicly funded research?

I lost a lost of respect for him today - he comes off as a greedy jerk in this essay.
One of the few writers who doesn't constantly churn out cop/doctor/lawyer dramas over & over & over.

Just once I'd like to see a show about postal workers or trashmen or even construction crews. Anything but another cop/doctor/lawyer show. A truly gifted writer could make a show about almost anything interesting.