skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Related question: if I despite the warnings fancy my chances at this sort of thing, what sort of historical data can I get? Is free [machine-readable] stock market data easy to come by, or impossible?
Ah, these "that's not ad hominem" comments you read in every single thread that points out ad hominem get so tiresome.

It most certainly is ad hominem. The premise of Gruber's post is approximately that, based on the latest information we're learning about it, there's something distasteful about Color or its value proposition to consumers. The original commenter seeks to discredit Gruber's implied argument by suggesting he's an Apple apologist, that his industry analysis is not based on facts at hand but by inherent biases. This is right in the sweet spot of ad hominem. Just read the first few paragraphs of the Wikipedia entry on ad hominem to confirm.

Regardless, it's certainly poor form and disappointing to see so highly upvoted.
The difference is that everyone around you contribute to the "events" that is happening around you, not just your followers. They have an algorithm to recognize from the pictures what is going on around you. That's the problem they claim to solved.
This sounds way more like "how to make Google a developer wonderland" than "how to make Google more startup like".

The author started at Google post-IPO. That's hardly "startup" time. In a startup it's not like resources are given out like candy and there's massive amounts of free-time for working on 20% projects.

It's true that there are less meetings at startups, but there are other things that typical hackers find unsavory: developers also have to do sales, sysadmin, customer support and generally be much more aware of where the money comes from.

The thing that makes a startup interesting is that the company is the project. Frequent meetings aren't as necessary because the goals are usually easy to understand and fairly one dimensional, e.g. "We have one product and we need to increase the number people using it."

The way you'd make a big company more startup like would be to make teams far more autonomous and drastically increase the risk / reward gradients. Your product ships 6 months late? Your entire team is fired. You open up and sustain a new revenue channel that's paying big dividends? Everybody gets a $2 million bonus. Team leader disagrees with his boss? He can chose to do it his way, knowing he's risking his team's livelihoods.

I don't know if anybody's really crazy enough to try it in a large company.
tbh if you are running .NET and SQL Server you don't really need a cache like redis or memcache since SQL Server has had an in-memory query cache built in for 12+ years now.
MySpace didn't die because of the Microsoft stack, they died because their users left for Facebook. I'd take the .NET stack over PHP any day of the week. I certainly don't know of any company that was so screwed by the performance of C# that they needed to create a C++ compiler for it. (HipHop compiler for PHP) PHP programmers aren't exactly known for their brilliance.

Definitely not a problem to fix their deploy problems on the .NET stack, I've put together automated deploys for Windows and with MSI they are a breeze. Yes, it's going to take a week or two to get the hang of WIX but after that the installer does all your dependency checks and you have a very repeatable process. If you stamp your MSIs with the build number it's even very easy to rollback.

This is just about the most monumentally stupid thing you can say, if you really don't like C# there are a dozen other languages available (like Ruby AND Python). If you're hiring people that can ONLY write code in one language then that should be a sign that you're not hiring the right people to begin with. They hired crap talent that happened to know C#

All this which stack scales best crap is cargo cult programming, you should recognize it as such. Most startups die because they have no customers, not because their servers are on fire from load.
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At all no - mediaelementjs offers excellent skinning, but it's the events and triggers that make popcornjs far more powerful. This: http://www.rebelliouspixels.com/semanticremix/ was posted on HN not that long ago and is an excellent example of the power of popcornjs.
wow, that looks WICKED scammy
Solving a personal pain point is also a good place to find something to start with. Then design / build something you would use to solve the problem.
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Anyone who's interested in popcorn might want to give my little tech demo a spin. Works with YouTube right now, but enables syncing of website slides to a YouTube video.

For now, this is just a tech demo (creation isn't done yet) but would love any feedback you've got about the frontend, or if you see any use, etc. Going to launch it in a few weeks, which is when I'll really start looking for feedback on both the creation and consumption side. (post to HN, etc)

http://www.vidpresso.tv/presentations/view/5

[Watch more than 10 seconds, or click around on the timecodes in the rundown to get an idea of what I've built.]
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It all depends. Sometimes these attacks on the character or reputation of the argument are indirect ad hominem arguments. Consider a fictitious debate between a Christian and a Muslim politician about whether or not to strip Americans of even more civil liberties.

The Christian candidate listens to the Muslim candidate make a point, then says loudly and clearly, "Folks, he's a Muslim!"

He doesn't say "And therefore he's wrong," but nevertheless it is rhetorical device for discrediting his opponent and getting the audience to ignore his point.

Wikipedia calls this Ad hominem abuse:

Ad hominem abuse (also called personal abuse or personal attacks)
usually involves insulting or belittling one's opponent
in order to invalidate his argument, but can also involve
pointing out factual but ostensible character flaws or
actions which are irrelevant to the opponent's argument.

This tactic is logically fallacious because insults and
even true negative facts about the opponent's personal
character have nothing to do with the logical merits of
the opponent's arguments or assertions.

http://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ad_hominem
You must be getting the shit end of candidates because I know as many brilliant C# developers as I do C, , PHP, Python etc. I also know plenty of terrible Ruby, Python etc. developers. You can not generalize based on the tool a developer uses based on you interviewing a handful of people

oh and that viewstate forms thing from SEO is the SEO talking bullshit and trying to justify his job
I agree. Though they do go into more detail, the most important part of this article to most people is both that Firefox mishandled the issue, and that they are acknowledging it.
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> If we don't like the system, we can either withdraw from it completely, as you're advocating

Reread what I wrote. I didn't advocate withdrawing from the system, I advocated reducing the system.

If you don't let govt pick winners and losers, you don't have to worry about how it does so.
Absolutely! Thanks a lot @JonathanWCurd!
And I'm tired of the constant rebuke of a perfectly good soundbite by people that have no idea of the distinction of "idea" and "execution". Design and copy writing are as much part of "execution" as code is. They are also as technical as code is, just not your idea of technical.

Good ideas with average execution are forgettable. Average ideas with great execution are memorable.
364 including views, 157 without.

EDIT: That would be http://fuckyeahnouns.com. It's minimum. Up for debate whether it's "Viable" or "Product".
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Ask HN: Are people satisfied with their website analytics?
There's a growing number of options out there for web analytics. Google Analytics being free still seems like the primary tool, but there's a few key areas it falls down. Primarily you're stuck in a page view mentality, where if it isn't a page it doesn't matter in regards to goals and funnels.

There are some newer players in the space that try to fill some of the gaps of google analytics. Clicky attempts to offer real time analytics so you have faster insight instead of the 2-3 hour delay that currently exists for most products. Mixpanel allows you to get outside of pageview limitations, essentially giving you a blank slate to track anything, but then it starts to seem very broad as to how deep you have to go and whats effective.

Having used several of the tools during bootstrapping, I'm still coming away unsatisfied with the insight that each were able to provide. Am I entirely alone in my desire for a yet to be found, incredibly useful web analytics tool?
I hacked in SoCal for a few years, and I can't remember seeing any of the "getting stuff done" attitude during my time there.
Especially knowing the fact that there are some many great hackers out there who will definitely beat me to the punch.

Let's get crude and say you're a mere 2 out of 10 on a fictional scale of aptitude. At what level do you think you wouldn't be "beaten" by anyone else? What about developers at 7 or 8? They could just as easily feel the same way.

You need to stop looking at this as an RPG-style skills game and one of the world/market being a massive place with opportunities for all. There are so many niches that you can find something productive to do. You just need to be prepared to fail over and over until you get a success.
Rick Clark leaving OpenStack. Is RackSpace in trouble?
Rick Clark, the muscle behind the OpenStack
has decided to move to Cisco. Looks like, he didn't
like the way RackSpace handled the OpenStack initiative. Anyway, it could be Cisco's benefit now.
i'll just keep playing devils advocate lol...i think there is a limit to how many "social networks" that a person is willing to use...also this feature could be incorporated into Facebook or twitter, no?
Weird; I got an Air a few weeks ago and haven't noticed that problem at all.
In your reply, I think you touch on an interesting aspect of this: why did it push so many buttons?

I really think it has very little to do with .NET -- I can take .NET or leave it, depending on the nature of my needs.

I think it has much more to do with the smart-ass feeling you get reading it, combined with the fact that, if you're any good at all in the .NET universe, you know better.

That made me think of all the times I've spoken to developers when they just knew that such-and-such was true. And it wasn't. That same snarky attitude, that same over-generalizing, that same use of silliness to try to mask the predjudice.

I wouldn't throw out working with this clown. Who knows? Might be fun. But the attitude is worthy of comment, and, since I have been known to be this way myself, I feel like I can honestly jump in.

But really, who this guy wants or doesn't want, or what his opinions are don't matter that much. The interesting question would be how he deals with realizing he doesn't know so much. That's true for anybody.
Xero definitely looks interesting - another one I need to take a look at in depth, thx!
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HipHop went live on FB last year. It didn't even go live everywhere at once.

For some reason ppl think Mark created it on the 3rd day
Yes, flux for Android please!
> What if the author in your example and his friends shipped the unavailable code as a consumer product and called it Android Smart Tablet?

Would you have not complained if they had called it "Banana" instead? Or, would you have complained when they open-sourced Banana because it was really Android.

They open-sourced a huge amount of code and you're complaining because they didn't open-source some other code because that other code has the same name?

Wowsers.
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Specifically speaking about Motorola, I find it baffling that they have lead the charge on the "lock down Android" front. I'm typing this with an original Droid sitting next to me. I haven't loaded a custom ROM onto the phone, but I could. And that's why I bought it. When it was time for my wife to buy a new phone, we didn't buy the Droid X in part because of what I had read about Motorola's increasingly locked-down stance.

I've seen a few stories as of late that say that "Android saved Motorola". I don't think that's necessarily true. "Openness" saved Motorola. And now they are abandoning it.

I'm really not sure why.
Gotcha. Sounds like an environment not likely to breed folks who are constitutionally constructed to create large scalable websites at a startup pace.
Hi,

To "build" a start-up in to something concrete, it takes more than a geeky programmer. Don't worry about who can beat you in programming or not. As long as you show the resolve that you will make your idea in to a real company, you are in business. Keep in good contacts with all of your
non-technical buddies. When the right time comes, they
will be your chaperones.

Trust me, I had the same fear when I started out last year.
You are correct but it is still sad to see that this irrelevant attack is so popular.

How is this comment interesting? It’s not about what Gruber is discussing, it just attacks and doesn’t even provide evidence for its assumption.

Such comments are not uncommon and I hate them with a passion. A snide, short remark, picking up a popular sentiment without any attempt of providing evidence for the same (“The New York Times has a liberal bias anyway.” – “Fox News is filled with fascists!”) — that’s just spam as far as I’m concerned.

Whether or not services where the user is the product can be valuable for the same is a very interesting question and you could write 1,000 word essays about it — but instead this crap made it all the way to the top.
And then there's this.. maybe related?

Breach possible at troubled Japanese power plant:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_japan_earthquake

Makes you wonder what other nuclear reactors have had cover ups and what can possibly can go wrong when the unexpected hits.
There's also a great app called Nocture that can do color/monochromatic inversion, red-shifting, removing shadows, etc.

http://www.blacktree.com/

Open source: http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-nocturne/
Source:
That's what worries me about nuclear power. A well maintained plant is probably very safe but there is an incentive for operators to cover up flaws in order to save money.
Let's wait until more power plants get old. They probably should be shut down but that's the time when they are the most profitable and fixing problems is the most expensive.
@petercooper: you are right! I should never give up until I see some light!! And I won't give up!

Thanks a lot indeed!
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Looks neat! Gonna check it out this weekend.

Plug: I have a similar project for interactive video with HTML5 I just put online the other day:

http://www.cacophonyjs.com/
Thinking that would help is a mistake. Take it from someone who went to optimize SQL Server 2008 R2 to its limits.

Cache framework's are absolutely necessary. The whole idea is to avoid a SQL Server hit and return a cached data object in memory. I think Stackoverflow is the best case study here.
There's another possibility: simply using Color becomes a out-and-out dick move, like smoking indoors. The investment turns to ash because the product is (rightly) viewed as toxic.

The thing about FB is that it was useful and nice. It brought a circle of people who you knew but had lost sight of back into the realm of visibility, which - as it turned out - was something a lot of people really liked. Only after it had reached critical mass did the privacy aspect start becoming a concern.

Color, on the other hand, doesn't seem to do anything truly new AND beneficial. At the same time, the privacy issue (read: creep factor) is immediately obvious. Also, unlike FB - which relied on Ivy league students to be early adopters - Color seems to be going after a very different group of people for initial validation. And those people are rapidly concluding that this thing is an odious turd of the very first order.
You could sell yourself a bit better. "noob developer with weak skills" doesn't scream "hire me."

Embrace the positives. Say that you're a recent graduate with a good basic grounding in programming in X, Y, Z and willing to learn whatever you need. You're willing to relocate and are flexible about hiring. Say that. List any good examples of teamwork and/or projects that you have done. Believe in yourself.

Good luck.
Thanks @rananth! I will certainly give my all out to try! Despite not having much tech buddies (well, non-tech too!), guys/gals in the HN community are already my chaperones!
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The Fukushima disaster, on the other hand, is poisoning square miles of land, air, sea, most likely the groundwater and probably hundreds of workers.

Should I say "citation needed" or just call it as FUD?
I'd say that even with such a disaster at Fukushima, the impact has been very low. Even less so compared to the alternatives:

1) What are the levels of radiation that the workers were exposed to? Is that fatal or problematic for their health? How many people suffer from respiratory diseases related to fossil fuel burning?

2) What is more damaging to the environment: a nuclear plant or a coal mine? The amount of "poisoning" that happened will make the land inhabitable ever again? How much farm land would have to stop producing crops to give way to wind turbines?
They should do an updated version in Java, to increase the appeal.

(Just kidding, of course, but it would be a great practical joke if they announced something like that)
A very rudimentary defense at best - any spammer or scraper worth their salt is randomizing their timing. Better yet, have timings derived from real users. For a dedicated attack (or even a category-specific attack like forum signups) timing would solve little.
no what I am saying is that it is unusual for them to get themselves in a situation where they have to suddenly code out of a hole at 'startup pace' (whatever that means)

startups don't have a monopoly on working hard or working fast, and it is arrogant to generalize about both .NET and enterprise developers in that way since we are all in one way or anther standing on the shoulders of earlier enterprise work (where do you think what we call 'nosql' and think is new and grovvy, was first used?)
Couldn't agree more. Also; people don't want to use the app whether it be because they dont want strangers seeing their pics (I know I dont) and that its yet another photo sharing tool
Reminds me of that crazy Arcade Fire video.

http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/
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Awesome, I'll have to look into that, are you grabbing video or just images?
Minimally Viable Product.

Basically, "What is the least you can do and still create value?" is your MVP. If you can build this you can figure out what value you actually add and how to leverage what you built to add even more value. Most people get who their real customers are wrong.
Not the actual inventor, but man who purchased Segway therefrom.
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Strange - that didn't appear for me.
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Sorry, apparently links there can expire, ha? Terrible site.

permalink: http://tarr.uspto.gov/tarr?regser=serial&entry=85222392
Is everyone who supports nuclear power "rabid", or do we just need to adequately demonstrate our bona fides to you first? And, are the people who build coal power plants part of a monastic order that shields them from making selfish bad decisions? Because the statistics on fossil fuel power generation are worse.
Definitely inspired by it :)

I'm working with a friend to make an interactive music video with it, story-based with some mouse-reacting visual elements and some minor social interaction too.
How exactly are you quantifying severity? The worst case for a reactor is vastly worse than anything that can happen at other types of plant. The financial bill for cleaning up nuclear accidents is already in the billions of dollars, not counting Fukushima.
Are you suggesting that disparaging the author without attempting to discredit their argument is somehow better? I ask because I'm really not understanding what drives your pedantry or the apparently resounding agreement with it that voting readers have expressed.

Frankly, the Hacker News I want to read is one where the top comment is not a personal attack, regardless of whether people agree on whether it qualifies as ad hominem argument.
not just Microsoft stack

The Microsoft stack is not always just a Microsoft stack any more. e.g. it has jQuery out of the box. Of course you mix and match when you get to the high end. The idea of the MS-only shop is not as true as it used to be, many people are more pragmatic.

I find it sad that these days MS is laggin behind

Why, because MS didn't supply every single piece of server infrastructure software that So use, just the main ones? That's an odd definition of "lagging".

MS have a distributed cache called "Windows Server AppFabric" (formerly "velocity"). I don't know that much about it.
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a substantial fraction of the reactors ever built have now suffered severe accidents

By "a substantial fraction", you mean...?

By "severe accidents", you mean...?

Cite, please?
And it's not a derivative work of the Linux kernel? I don't know much about how Android is structured, but I thought people were complaining that Google didn't push their changes upstream into the main Linux kernel, which would imply that it's part of the Linux kernel.
I learned the Dvorak layout in 2002 and have used it ever since. I have never met anybody else in real life who has bothered though!

I type letters 8-fingered. My little fingers press the meta keys and Return. This might affects my typing speed a bit, but I type at 75+wpm, which is about as fast as I can think of anything worth typing.
Yes, I've been using this for months on both Windows and my MBP. He's done a very seamless port - kudos! :-)
The financial bill for mitigating the damages being caused to the environment (not to mention foreign policy) by fossil fuels is dwarfing that of nuclear power.

A "severe" accident results in loss of life, or in square kilometers of land unexpectedly rendered unusable for habitation or agriculture.
Ask HN: Is iOS development a solid career choice?
I started programming at age eleven and I'm 38 now. I've done almost everything from C to HTML and landed three years ago in the mobile space, and lately to iOS.
I never worried about career choices but I think I'm old enough to start taking care of it, and have doubts being a mobile developer is a choice with a future.
I know is kind of a hard question to answer, but I'll appreciate any input on the subject.
I'm surprised the EFF didn't ask Microsoft for a response on this.... If any news release by the EFF deserves a third-party response, this is it.
> Goldman Sachs alone stores more data than the entire web

Why would you believe that Goldman Sachs stores more data than can be reached by HTTP?! Only YouTube amounts to petabytes of data. http://beerpla.net/2008/08/14/how-to-find-out-the-number-of-...
So, your argument is that because it's harder to make judgements about the impact of fossil fuels, surely our judgement about nuclear power must be worse?
Except he's not trying to discredit Gruber. He's pointing out that Gruber is able to be unbiased because the product isn't owned by Apple.