skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's where I live now (I live in Nice and work four days per week in London). In many ways, it's paradise: the food, the weather, the people -- amazing. But the bureaucracy is killing me.

The paperwork and incommunicado government officials are like something out of a Kafka novel. My wife applied for her entreprenuer license six months ago. (We thought it would take two weeks.) Nothing has happened. It took two months to get internet connectivity after six or seven scheduled meetings where they just didn't show up. Open a company? Forget it. There's a lot more I won't go into. At first we put it down to that we are not native French speakers but after talking to some others, it seems that's not the case. So, in a word: frustrating.

That's just my personal experience; YMMV.
The blurb says they have "thousands" of challenges, but the actual list contains twenty-four. And who owns the winning solution? The solver, or whichever $BIGMULTINATIONAL just paid chump change for something that will earn them billions?
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Yes... I'm with you but misspoke, tried to clarify in my edit. I was using "controller" as a term to describe "view methods for event handling". Clear conflict there since Backbone's "controller" is definitively something else.
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Shion from 80legs here. Please try contacting us again and I'll make sure that we adjust our crawl rate file accordingly for your domain(s) or IP(s).
HTML was designed with presentation semantics in mind (eg layout) and using Javascript to do the job HTML was designed seems like a waste.

Hope that answers your question.
The Startup Game - autobiography of one of the first venture capitalists
Contrast that with for 60 years before that, we had this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act

Later extended to cover all Asian immigrants.

There was certainly demand to emigrate to the US, but it was forbidden. This act alone I think goes a long, long way to explaining why Asian Americans are a fairly recent phenomenon and "weird" to American culture.
Discussions like this have a way of revealing people who, when the facts don't support their assumptions, like to resort to making ad-hominem attacks on people who disagree with them.
I'd also like to see a Python (WSGI) solution for AWS.

I've had the opportunity to play around with
andrewgodwin's ep.io and while also in private
beta, is worth some attention.
You can now 3D print in Titanium
According to wikipedia, French has this expression too.

Fascinating. Must be a very old expression.
I don't know, doesn't the BCC rant meet the 2nd point?
The hatred for plugins is ridiculous in general. One of the best things about software is that it can be made freely extensible, and browsers are no exception.
>IE9 is still in development. They can still choose to support WebM.

I was talking with a friend yesterday and mentioned how hilarious it'd be if Microsoft decided to adopt WebM on WP7 and then attack Apple for being too closed. :)
If you have contracts in place for the customers you have, can't you whitelist and just allow access based on the IPs of those customers?
Tesla Model S 'Alpha Build' Hits the Road (Video)
Yes, YouTube would have to switch to WebM -- ie no support for serving any other codec -- for that to be true. Which is effectively turning off YouTube for every browser and device on the web today.

Are they going to do that? No chance. Some day, maybe, but they're not going to lead the way.

And while YouTube is still additionally serving h.264, there's still no pressure for everybody else to change.
You should talk to PlayWorks about collaborating efforts and make this widespread quickly.
Well, I can say that they've copied older version of facebook and it seems more convenient for some people. Also do not forget audio and video sharing applications. It is like Napster since it allows users to exchange their collections.
Actually the account is this old since i created it 220 days ago, but only read hacker news, never did anything else.

Today I learned about vox.io from multiple sources and saw the possibility of getting 0.15€ per referral. I did not yet see a link to vox.io on hacker news so I decided it was worth I try.

And with that I made 18€ in referrals. I am not ashamed of this, since I only exploited the given oportunity.

I am not involved with the vox.io team and any other user can get 0.15€ per referral.

If anybody wants to contact me.. I am also known as TomyMMX on other sites and places. With this info you can get my real name and everything.
Just my opinion - this article offers nothing new in way of information. Guts, desire and passion are all necessary for the entrepreneurial lifestyle but by no means its sufficient.

Also, while emphasizing the point that entrepreneurs love what they do so much that they dont care about money, the example offered is that Jobs accepts a salary of $1. This is misleading. Would Jobs have stuck with Apple it if his total income from apple was just $1?
Is a COO allowed to short stock like this????

Edited highlights:

We are doing crap in the PC business (that we went into when we didn't have Jobs)

We are doing great in the mobile business - that Jobs got us into.

So don't worry about an Apple without Jobs!
I use Venmo - I love Venmo - I can't wait for it to become bigger.
Do you know or have a sense of who’s controlling the crawler? Much as I hate involving lawyers, that might be appropriate here.

I take it you don't do any sort of authentication which you could use to differentiate your real customers from this actor?

Do you have any large binary files you could serve up once you've identified the actor?
Android if not today will be more popular device than iOS soon. I was thinking the combination of Android + Chrome would be enough to motivate publishers to encode using Webm?
Agreed - the only one I have actually used is GAE, and I was definitely not trying to endorse the other services as "too good to beat." Just trying to say that with all the different stacks out there for different languages and purposes there will be a benefit to specialization, which might not benefit from amazon's skillset as much as the provisioning of VPS's and other infrastructure has.

For python hosting, GAE is probably the only real competition at this point. There is a HUGE opportunity to eliminate sysadmin work on all these stacks for smaller developers especially. I am just not sure if Amazon will domiate both the infrastructure and platform layer.
I think the discussion is divided between two camps:

1) Those who can't imagine the point of a messaging (or indeed, any) system that does not have all the bells and whistles you can imagine or get using another system.

2) Those that realise that most people only use a very small subset of those features, and that everything else is just a potential cause of confusion. So, offering a messaging system that "does a few things, but does them well" will be an attractive proposition for many people.

It seems that these two camps can't see each other's points of view. The author of the article seems to acknowledge 2 but keeps coming back to 1.

"more words are always good, right"

No. Less words to say the same thing are normally much better, the rest is just noise.
How do you communicate trustworthiness through web design?
Obviously, there's no substitute for a good reputation, but how does one use design to frame one's content as being trustworthy or authoritative?
Is this just a fork of jQuery Mobile?
Definitely is a profound quote. If only I can script it into my brain and internalize it so much that my thinking doesn't get in the way :)
Thanks for that link - excellent article.
$20 Amazon gift card for $10. Ends today
I've heard that it's due to server load. Try it again.
Did one person build this site or did he have team.
That's a perfect list. One more thing: everyone knows everyone. Say Hi to Jeff and Steve for me! :-)
I personally believe a big part of the experience is to go to these events alone, without knowing anybody else. This is the best way to get the most out of them. You'll basically learn a lot about yourself and also make new friends with a varied skillset.

May come in handy when you're building your next startup, you never know.
It seems to limit you to just 1 though.

Debating if it's even worth $10 to me to sign up to yet another thing that is going to shove "promotions" in my inbox endlessly.
This is only marginally relevant (it doesn't directly address the specific codecs in use for std vs high def streaming), but torrenting a full movie in standard def versus high def is usually only a factor of 2-3x, at most.

While that is more data, it's a far cry from an order of magnitude of difference.
I haven't used it, but sniffer sounds like it fits the bill.

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sniffer/0.2.2
If the cost of acquiring an active user (signup + purchase) is close to $10 per user on other marketing channels, why is this promotion a bad idea?

Seems like a pretty creative move if they have the excess marketing spend. I've seen a ridiculous amount of LivingSocial ads on Facebook, Google, etc., etc. and the deal today was what made me finally sign-up (I've been using Groupon for a while). Yeah, that's anecdotal, but I wouldn't be surprised if the promotion makes sense when they look at the LTV of the new users they get today.
Can you be more specific? This is the first time I've tried to use node.js for anything and am very unfamiliar with the environment. I'm running into the charAt problem though, so I think your fix will be my fix.
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If all browsers did that, web codec development would move at the same glacial pace as Windows version updates, not to mention losing any semblance of uniformity and all possible hope of changing the status quo in any meaningful way away from patent-encumbered codecs.
you can sell this card on ebay for $20 easily later. But yeah. limited to one in hand tho. Otherwise someone quickly realized how to make quick and easy bucks with this.

EDIT:
Check completed listings (need to be logged in to ebay)

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Same for me. node v0.3.5 gives me a 'charAt' error, however I didn't add a "partials" parameter to anything.
http://www.playworks.org/ ?
I think I've been described in a similar way, so the bright side is apparently VC funds crazy aunt types.
the model has an expectation that the number of people redeeming will be less than 50%. I guess they have data that suggests it, but I find it hard to swallow.

Also, an accountant could tell you better, but gift cards are great for accounting purposes.
Twitter's "What's Happening?" box
Already posted with discussion (and without referral code): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2120202

Edit: That thread is now dead for some reason
The main focus of the site is to help families gather and collect memories that you can't find anywhere else besides in the minds of their relatives. Questions like the ones in the blog post can't be found in newspapers or historical records. So you need an easy way to gather this information. That is why we focus on answering questions.

Lots of people use blogs and wikis to collect family history. For those sites, the user has to spend time thinking about what to write and then compose the text. On Tpstry, we ease the process by presenting quick questions to answer. For the user, this is much simpler. They either know the answer or they don't. And if they do know the answer, they only have enter a short amount of text. So this speeds up the data entry process.

Plus, once a question is answered, the information is stored in a structure manner so that it can easily be reused in other ways. An example of this is that Tpstry takes all the answered questions and automatically creates a website for you.
Looks like you got hacked (see bottom of page)
it's really about software patents & about their iThings being unable to play WebM
I'm not saying it's a bad idea. It's a good idea but it is from the late-90's playbook of user-acquisition desperation, which is perhaps concerning.

It's more expensive than $10 per new user since all existing users also get the deal, though.

I also signed up after hearing about it and I never joined either. It's going to be interesting to see how wild this gets. Not that Groupon will retort, just in how high these numbers will go by tomorrow morning.
This has nothing to do with a bubble. I work for Groupon and now LS has my email address. If that's worth $10 to them (and Groupon's numbers suggest that it is), then it's money well spent.
And when software is constructed by almost-all-male teams, those preferred usages get embedded in it.

Yet somehow, men successfully make software used by women. For example, Facebook, Zynga, Polyvore (or Bingo Card Creator, if you want to ask an approachable man how he does it).

Of course, if we follow your logic, it's actually a good thing if app developers at (for example) Bloomberg are mostly male. After all, trading desks are also mostly male, so it would be bad if female preferred usages were embedded into market research software, right? And it's also irrelevant for any part of IT where the HCI doesn't matter much (e.g. data analysis, systems, CRUD apps with a captive audience).

At best, your second point applies only narrowly to UI designers.
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Perhaps more importantly, it seriously skews the karma that accrues to responses---those that are above the fold will continue to get upvotes while those below the fold get none, so the disparity grows.

I've seen this effect on other sites; one gaming site[0] shows two views of the comment list, "recent" and "top-voted" (both with a "more" button that few people seem to click)---the "recent" comments rarely get more than two or three votes before scrolling off, while the difference between the lowest upvote count in the "top-voted" count and the next-highest comment can be in the hundreds or thousands once a game has been up for more than a day or two.

[0]Kongregate.com, if anyone's curious.
This piece definitely hit home for me, a 2nd generation Asian American.

As a kid in the 90s, I remember talking to an older friend about future career advice. I mentioned acting or dancing as possible paths for Asian Americans. He scoffed, telling me that the only place for Asians in American pop culture was in martial art films. Out of all the memories, that particular conversation stuck with me for years.

My father's immigration to the states was squarely in line with the Immigration Act of 1965. He was at the top of his class (and really, the country) in Taiwan, and came to study for his PhD at Yale. I grew up in a household not too far off from Chua's advice. There are pros and cons to this way of parenting (I won't go into all of those). What I know for sure is that emulating it to a T is bad.

The most dangerous aspect of the Chua-way of parenting isn't the borderline academic abuse: it's the blindness to opportunities. Sharply focusing on math and science, and then aiming to get into an "old" profession like being a doctor or lawyer, prevents the child from ever exploring or even considering other possibilities.

Growing up, I really didn't consider other career opportunities besides getting a PhD like my dad and pursuing an electrical engineering career. I have since deviated from that path, but it took me a long time and a halfway pursued PhD. Now I'm happily doing web development and design for my job, a longtime hobby of mine ever since childhood.

I have always wondered what would have happened if my parents had let me explore outside of the usual math and science career paths. Maybe I would have jumped into web development earlier and more seriously. Or, maybe I would have been a dancer or chef. The possibilities I could have explored in college, but didn't because of guilt, still keeps me up at night.

In the end, I did finally find my passion and am pursuing it full time. But, I know a lot of my Asian peers who are now stuck in a career choice that was thrust upon them by their parents. And now they can't, or don't have enough motivation to get out.

I have no idea what tactic I will use to parent my own children someday. But I know for sure that I will let my child explore career choices outside of my own, and to let them mold their own career path.
Hackers can take control of iPhone or Android devices through the radio firmware
Really? Someone is going to pay $20 on ebay (plus shipping?) for a $20 gift card? How is that even worthwhile.

Not to mention, I pay $10 for the card, which requires me to sign up. Wait for it to arrive. List it on ebay for $20, which takes a few minutes of my time, pay a listing feed ($1?), most likely incur a Paypal fee ($.50?), then have to mail it to someone.

The more I look at this deal, the more worthless it seems. I think I've lost $10 of my life already :)
They're the ones pushing that this be the defactor standard for web video. If that's the case then they shouldn't attempt to block a party from exercising their patent rights by effectively threatening that if they do so they won't have any access to video on the web.

Could you imagine MS saying in their Windows license agreement saying that they can revoke your licenses if you sue them over a patent?
You're thinking of a complete overall, whereas I am thinking a gradual disposition.

To some extent, the card is where the control is. PayPal knows this, which is why they came out with a debit and credit card.

If a proximity payment service emerged that could interact with the API inside a device, it is a matter of time before a "simple, affordable microtransaction" service/app comes about. From there, exponential growth due to the order of convenience and simplicity. Banks, meet your "Napster", as it were.

Imagine mint.com came out with a proximity payment system for all devices and used the existing mint.com system as your "Bank Account" overview. Simply amazing!
HTML5 client-side graphing calculator
And here's my favourite cherry-picked line out of context:

we are all very happy with product pipeline, and the team here has an unparalleled breadth and depth of talent and a culture of innovation that Steve has driven in the company, and excellence has become a habit. And so we feel very, very confident about the future of the company.
"But would people be saying the same thing if Facebook let you use your profile URL to log in elsewhere?"

Sadly yes. I was an OpenID advocate for years - but the problem is that for the vast majority of people having to type in /anything/ is a recipe for disaster - the "I forgot my username" button on the Yahoo! login screen is used almost as often as the "I forgot my password" one. Telling them to type in a URL (a Ur--what?) will never be even remotely as usable as having them click on the big blue button.

That's the hurdle a decentralised system like OpenID needs to cross if it's going to compete with centralised systems like Facebook Connect or Twitter OAuth. In my opinion, the only hope is for browsers to bake OpenID-style decentralised auth in to the browser itself - that's the only way you can get one-button login without ceding control of the Web to a single, central provider like Facebook.
How I Blew Out My Knee and Came Back to Win a National Championship
We can upgrade you to a full account, just email jsheehan@twilio.com. You'll keep your dev credit.
I don't think they want to make money on this deal. They want to get a lot of new people's emails so they can make more money on future deals.
Mark says Python 3 is a commercial disaster. Would someone like to expand on this statement? I don't follow python at all and would like to know the reasons.
Nice piece about what looks to be a promising new photo sharing app with a real business model
The wisdom of Bill Draper
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See my point below: it has to only support WebM, and they're not brave enough to do that against iPhone, esp if they had to kill the Flash support we've heard so much about.
Ask HN: Recommend a Gantt chart web app
Is there any website (web app) out there that does Gantt charts well? The Gantt chart gadget in Google Docs is not it.
I for one find Guy Kawasaki's tweets a bit spammy. They all have linkbait titles and for some reason redirect all stories through alltop.com. Maybe most importantly, his stream conveys no personality whatsoever. Hardly the perfect tweet or twitterer.
So given:

window.Post = Backbone.Model.extend({...});
window.Comments = Backbone.Collection.extend({...});
var p = new Post(
id: 3,
text: 'test',
comments: [
{ cid:4, bleh:5},
{c id:6, bleh:4}
]
});

You want some way to declare that comments are Comments, so that it is always the case that:

(p.attributes.comments instanceof Comments) === true

And you also want:

p.attributes.comments.add({...});

To trigger a 'change:comments' event on p, even though you aren't changing the reference to the comments collection, just changing its comments.

Do I understand you correctly?
One liner to get all the modules (not sure if this is supposed to happen automagically, but I had to do it all by hand):

$ for module in express helpful socket.io geoip; do ~/opt/bin/npm install $module; done
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I'd recommend:

1. Blocking all the IP addresses you've found. You can also block the entire Amazon IP range. No real users will be coming from there.

2. Contacting Amazon and sending them your logs and evidence.

3. Contact competitor and threaten legal action.

Don't expect much from (2) and (3), but (1) should solve your problem quickly.
Check completed listings (need to be logged in to ebay)

http://completed.shop.ebay.com/i.html?MA2ShowItems&_ipg=...
I was a bit surprised by the nice and polite tone of the discussion.

Has CLL been evolving towards civility, or is this an exception?

Edit: it becomes rougher at the end, in part because someone trollishly cross posted a response to a Java group... but still...
Andreas’ Personal Flying Suit (“Monocopter”) Project
Being a cynic, I was kind of surprised that the OP's link didn't include a referral code.

I guess he managed to get three friends to click already and didn't need the help.
I thought the same thing. It's like 1999 all over again.
Hmm, very good point. I think the topic of a good tweeter is very polarizing. Some are there for engagement, some for news and interesting articles. As concerns the latter one, I truly think there is no better tweeter than Guy. If one is in it to have more conversation and news only every now and then, then I agree this wouldn't make so much sense then.
The one thing Apple can add to the iPhone to change the world
people going bankrupt from paying their medical bills

Do you have evidence that this occurs to any significant degree? [citation needed]
LivingSocial Flexes Amazon Partnership Muscles; $20 Amazon Gift Cards For $10
Good article on input sanitization