skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the advice. We definitely need to do some A/B testing on the price. (Also to answer the question, I didn't edit the post - it's the original text).
I've always liked Neal Stephenson's description of the little bomb icon:

"When a Macintosh got into trouble it presented you with a cartoon of a bomb, which was funny the first time you saw it."[1]

1: http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html
Nice!

For this to be really useful though I'd like to see all included projects being MIT licensed or something. Now it's a mixture of no license at all (EGOTableViewPullRefresh), BSH (ASIHttprequest), JSONKit is well licensed with dual BSD License/Apache License, SVProgressHUD has a license but it seems home made. And what is the license of the actual boilerplate?
I showed this to my manager, and he responded:

"Holy shit. This is EXACTLY what I was envisioning. This is freaking AWESOME. Since the data is stored outside of [our company], security might have a conniption fit if they found out that we were using this for managing internal project data.

I'm certain a tool like this could be highly useful to many other teams..."

Can Trello address this concern?
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I'm a Linux user the vast majority of the time, and dislike Microsoft's tactics as much as the next guy, but going from "[a few touchscreen bugs]" to "just fundamentally don't get it" is quite the logical leap. Fundamental attribution error comes to mind.
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I agree with you - it was the wrong place to post that link and would have been better if it had stayed on Facebook - Thanks for clarification.
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I prefer VMware's method of handling dual screen guests better. VirtualBox creates two windows that each have to be manually full screened, Fusion just magically handles both monitors from the same window when you tell it to use both in full screen.

Fusion is much more "Mac-like" and feels at home on OSX. Virtual Box is great if you can't afford something else (and often sufficient), but Virtual Box on OSX feels too much like Virtual Box on Windows or Linux, it just feels slightly out of place.
It's a pattern of the last 3 decades of NASA manned spaceflight. It hasn't always been a jobs program, but it's been mismanaged for so long that being a jobs program keeps it afloat.
Welcome to the world of corporate-controlled speech. You don't hear from the managers because they aren't permitted to comment. You don't hear from existing workers for the same reason. Only the disgruntled ex-workers and the union rep don't have contractually-obligated silence. So the only opinions you get are the corporate flack, the union rep, and the disgruntled ex-worker.

Reporters often bend over backwards to present the other side of a story that has a left-wing bent. Typically they will find someone in that minority (24% in this case) of workers who would have voted against the union and present their opinions with equal weight to the disgruntled ex-worker, and the tone of the article shifts to "existing workers like the job, disgruntled ex-workers disgruntled because they're fired."

It's possible a better reporter could extend the same kind of protections and anonymity to the existing workers as their Washington counterparts routinely extend to political operatives, but would you then be complaining that none of the workers or managers had the guts to put their name behind their words?

We have no real idea what's going on, and I think it's more in Ikea's interest, than the union's, to keep it that way.
"First, the reverse-engineering costs of Dart are much higher than of XHR."

Does this matter if it's open source? Not being combative, I'm actually asking.

"It seems to me that a lot of you 'bring on our new overlords' boosters"

Well shit. I definitely don't want to be one of those!
We definitely agree that the market for daily deals is over-saturated, and there will be tons of failures/exits (see Facebook, Yelp). That said, the doesn't really change the calculations for small businesses. They are either being helped by the current structure of daily deals or they aren't.

It is obvious that the model needs to be tweaked if these companies actually want to help local businesses. Things like Groupon Now are trying to do that, but the factors we discuss in this post hopefully lay out what small businesses need to be thinking about before they sign up for deal. Opportunity cost is a real cost.
This is a great example of a launch page, not an MVP. It's not 'a version of a new product', it's marketing information about a proposed product.

One reason it's a good example of a launch page is that it tells you before you enter your address that the product isn't available yet. Many launch pages these days talk about the non-existent product, ask for your address, and only then tell you the product isn't available. They try to start a business by lying to their prospective customers. I'm glad to see that this one shows integrity by telling the truth about availability.
I raised an issue on GitHub.

https://github.com/rstacruz/js2coffee/issues/81
They're distributing it through a PPA, so assuming that you click "Install" when update manager bugs you once a week, you should have the newest version.
I'm sure you're right. I'll always remember fondly the amazing deals I often got in the late nineties, before most of the dotcoms offering them went bankrupt.
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The tape installations in the photos are so cool. I looked up the designer, Stephen Doyle. His firm has an impressive portfolio: http://doylepartners.com/

Some of my favorites:

http://doylepartners.com/project/hypertext/index.html

http://doylepartners.com/project/david_byrne/index.html

http://doylepartners.com/project/thinking_fingers/index.html
US Government spending on education this year (at local/state/federal levels) is $800bn, how big a market do you want ?

Saying education is a small market is saying healthcare or defence is a small market.

ImagineK12 isn't even the only education incubator, there's also Startl based out of NY.
White reflects the most heat, which is important during re-entry and in regulating internal temperature while being directly irradiated by the sun.

As an added bonus, white is the easiest color to see against the backdrop of Space. Photos of spacewalks would be pretty boring if the Shuttle and the astronauts were all wearing black.
Ask HN: Getting customer development meetings
I'm a big believer in customer development. The place I'm stymied is in getting appointments set up with potential customers. I am not a sales guy with a big Rolodex (worse, I hate the damn telephone!).

How do I go about setting up these appointments? More important, how do I make first contact or get introduced and in front of my potential buyers?

FWIW, my product is a SaaS product with strong enterprise overtones. I see sales people or biz dev people in our future, but I don't want to pay any now if i can help it.
Imp, do you use task or to-do list applications such as Producteev or Astrid? If not then how do you manage your tasks or calendar events?
Does anyone have links to designs he's responsible for? Whether or not he's an amazing writer I'd still like to check out the products / portfolio it's based upon before I buy it.
Except for OSX VMs built using Fusion's built-in capabilities. The other VMware products don't ship the required libraries to boot them.
Looks good. Just FYI: There's already a MapKit class called MKPointAnnotation that provides a simple implementation of MKAnnotation, so your Place class is redundant:

MKPointAnnotation *point = [[MKPointAnnotation alloc] init];
point.coordinate = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(35.01234, -115.56789);
point.title = @"The title!";
point.subtitle = @"The subtitle!";
[point release];
Call me when dragon has gone to space as many times as the shuttle and we'll compare safety records, thanks.
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You don't seem to understand that the 'product' part of MVP requires an actual working product... not a landing page.
Looks like it's not available for kindle delivery until Oct 6
From the article: "This launch system will create good-paying American jobs"
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When I saw this, I thought "wow, this is pretty much exactly the same stuff I include every time I start a new iOS project."

I feel like it would make more sense as a project template though. It seems like if I use this to start a new project, I need to clone the repo and then change a lot of classes to get started. Or am I missing something?
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Yes. It might create some folder structure, but if you choose at the time of adding the torrent to not download particular files, it won't create files. Tested just now on 1.3.1/Linux. I haven't tested recently, but I know I've gone in after adding the torrent, told it not to download some files, deleted what it had on the fs, and it did not regenerate them.
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You know about their security concerns, but you still ask "When will they add WebGL?" The obvious answer is "when those security concerns are allayed, which is not in the near future."
Craziness with the spam. I am glad you like the gift. :)
+1 to this. I've been doing all of my reading on the IPad so an electronic version with the book formatting intact would be awesome. The version shown in the kindle preview just doesn't seem as "nice"
This looks very cool, but what I was really hoping for, is way to finally enter a regular expression in a search box and get results back.

Looks like I'll need to wait a bit longer.
We don't have any type of affiliate relationship with Hover. Most of our target market is not super tech savvy and I just think Hover is one of, if not the, easiest to use registrars out there. Right now, nonprofits have to just forward their custom domain to their Bellstrike domain. However, we have plans to implement domain masking. If we do integrate with Hover's API, we could manage their DNS settings for them (if they choose) or just give them good instructions. It's kind of hard to give great instructions on DNS settings to a non tech savvy audience though because every registar is different.
We just strip out whitespace. Nothing fancy.
This is great so far, you have an excellent taste in frameworks. It's also nice and light weight. I would suggest adding a singleton macro. Will try and put some of the boilerplate stuff I use in as a pull request when I get the time.
I disagree with this. Using my bot framework I actually began writing a test suite. I stopped because it wouldn't actually have been very helpful to what I was doing due to various reasons, but I progressed enough to know it was very doable.
When I first downloaded it there was a free trial but by the time I got around to checking it out it had already expired. Nice to have a second chance.
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Hey SoftwareMaven

Have you read Ash Maurya's Running Lean startup guide (http://www.runningleanhq.com/). That's basically our bible at Betable. It walks you through all of the steps for finding customers, interviewing them, and digesting the results
How does this project compare to the three320 project originally started by Joe Hewitt from Facebook? 320 seems to have more features:

https://github.com/facebook/three20/
There are some good arguments both in this thread and in your blog, and both for and against the two types of charts.

One thing that you would have to make absolutely clear to your audience when using the "sausage" chart [1] is that the length represents a whole. Pie charts obviously represent no less and no more than one whole, but that's not so obvious with a bar.

You handle this well in your examples by marking the end point with "100%", but I worry that others would not be as diligent in their labeling if these charts were to take off.

1. Is there really no better name for that? :D How about calling them snake charts or something?
A much easier way to add async HTTP and image requests would be to just use AFNetworking (https://github.com/gowalla/AFNetworking)

The rest of this I could really take or leave. Really wish there was something better than EGOPullToRefresh in wide use...
You can also use Transmit to do this.
In addition to poo-pooing their own study, as a physician, I was concerned about the statement that atherosclerotic disease increased 9 times in standing. here's that study. The reality is in the Tables 2 and 3: it only comes out as a factor if you already have the disease, even after controlling for physical labor, psychosocial factors, income, behavior, and biology, standing is unrelated.

http://www.sjweh.fi/download.php?abstract_id=536&file_nr...

Basically, I don't think this would change my advice to a patient one way or another, and my default advise is "stand more, walk more, please do something besides sit on your butt all day."

For patients with symptomatic atherosclerosis, their beds are made already.
We used the amazing @rogie (twitter handle) for the design of Bellstrike.com and the amazing @squaredeye for 3 of our templates/themes. We iterated on some of their work in house and did some other minor design stuff ourselves.
As a paid ExpanDrive user, I second this. It's good software.
Good luck, you have an interesting price point but currently a too limited feature set.

I'm a huge fan of Divvy and it is worth the $14.
http://mizage.com/divvy/

Disclaimer: I am not associated with the company
I still find FastCells useful if you're laying out cells with lots of subviews, even on modern iOS devices.
They are scared and this is the motivator for their decisions.
A company can't act like that, this will lead to a downward spiral.

This is a common behavior of companies who are over their peak.

There is a record of companies who tried to be everything for everyone and failed miserably.
The premise is interesting, but there isn't anything conclusive about part 1. Part 1 is also incredibly short. It left me wondering why the story is even divided into parts at all.

I felt as if I started watching a 30 minute TV show and "TO BE CONTINUED" happens 10 minutes in.
I wonder how this will play out will the publishers. As I understood it, they had a revenue sharing agreement with a large number of content producers: news.me charged money to their users, the publishers got a cut of it, and the users of news.me got to see the content in a clean 'readability' style view. Now that its free, I can't see how this will work out with their existing publisher agreements ...
How is AFNetworking easier than ASIHTTPRequest?
Still no 3D support on linux, and I don't see any mention of pause/resume support for Boot Camp partitions. Disappointing. Parallels has had both of these for a while.

Useful (but not updated for 4):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_VMware_Fusion_and...
>How far we've fallen

Not really, at least not lately. Since the end of Apollo the manned space program has been first a jobs program and then everything else. So if we've "fallen" it happened in the early '70s.

NASA funding is just a perk you get as a Congressman when you amass enough clout.
My Modified Answer from Quora:

I'm at a start-up that is a follower of the lean startup movement, a term coined by Eric Ries.

The ideology behind a lean startup is a customer-centric approach where you build a minimum viable product (MVP) and always be learning from your customers and make changes till you build out something that they actually want to use. Be flexible on your vision, and don't waste time and resources to build out an amazing product that no one wants.

For a SaaS partner, conventions and meet ups are probably the best places to start. It helps when you're building a relationship by getting out of the office and talking to your customers, and cold calling isn't the warmest approach (duh). Meet-ups are a great opportunity to build relationships and get to know your customer's needs and eventually make the sell. As you keep talking to people, keep making notes of iterations on your product to build something that those customers want.

There are so many companies that have flopped in the past, such as WebVan, who built out expensive supply chains before really understanding their customer's needs. They were an early pioneer of e-commerce, but many argue that it grew too fast for people to really jump on board. Had they slowed down and spent time understanding their customer's needs, they wouldn't have over-invested in infrastructure.

In short, don't build out a product with all the features and functionality you want before you figure out what your customers want/need. As you talk to people about your MVP, you'll organically figure out who your pilot customers will be.

Get out of the office and talk to customers!

Suggested reading:
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries (fresh off the press!)
Running Lean by Ash Maurya http://www.runningleanhq.com/
The Amish insistence on forgiveness extends to requiring incest victims to forgive their fathers and brothers for raping them, and not removing the perpetrators from the house.
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Secure implementations? Firefox had a security bug exposed just last week: http://wahlers.com.br/claus/blog/talking-about-webgl-and-sec...

And it doesn't even seem like a lot of people are actively leaning on Chrome and Firefox's WebGL implementations, so calling them "secure" seems a little premature.
I am amazed how articles about Apple and Microsoft are troll magnets.

I know I don't like Microsoft, I am not a huge fan of Apple and have remarkably little patience with people who buy Windows-optimized hardware and complain a given distro of Linux doesn't work on it, but the level of aggression I see in the comments is appalling.
>There is an example of how to calculate the directions between two points using the Google Maps API and showing it on a MKMapView using map overlays. See DirectionsExample.m.

FYI I believe using the Google Maps API in this manner runs afoul of Google's terms. Google only wants you to use their directions information on top of maps loaded for web sites via their JavaScript interface. MKMapView doesn't qualify.
320 is a little bloated and pretty difficult to keep working in Xcode 4 today.

The 320 devs appear to still be on Xcode3, and demand a bunch of nonstandard settings on Xcode4 to make it work (including a scary script which edits your project in all sorts of ways).
What happen with DirectX 11?

"The WDDM driver for Windows 7 and Vista now includes support for DirectX 9.0EX with Aero and OpenGL 2.1. Windows XP now includes support for DirectX 9.0c and OpenGL 2.1."
Is that so? I've been using friends lists for years, but I don't recall there being a one-way subscription feature in facebook.
Thanks. We're actually setup as a for-profit. But I really want to provide value and help nonprofits out on our blog. I'll probably write a post about how they can use this service with Reddit.
minus the helpful error code. I find it infuriating that it doesn't provide any hint about why it has crashed.
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Not really a hack, but a nifty UX feature.
It's not really a boilerplate version, but there's a great answer on StackOverflow that keeps a list of pretty solid 3rd party libraries.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4078479/what-android-3rd-...
When I look at various techniques used in special forces training in the United States -- waterboarding, hypothermia, near-drowning, psychological torutre, etc -- I'm left with the counter-intuitive observation that taking stuff away from people and making life really tough on them has a tendency to make them much more able to handle all the "normal" stuff that many times tangles up the rest of us.

There might be something there which these schools could harvest.
Most of those are not federal programs. And some of those are kinda flimsy, like even if I could convince a family member to pay my bill that doesn't mean "we have free healthcare in America."
Intel continues to focus on software partnerships and not, you know, making low powered chips that work well.
This project is much more lightweight. three20 certainly has more features, but it is large and relatively complicated compared to this. IMO, this project has a much more narrow scope. And that is a good thing when I don't need all the three20 features (the majority of the time). For all the good three20 does it can be cumbersome to integrate into a large project, and it's documentation is less than stellar.
There's no way to detect if the user's caps lock is turned on in JS
I'm a designer at heart and studied design in school, although I love to build things.

There are kinds of design that require an "eye"... graphic design is the prime example. I'm not very good at these, because they don't interest me much.

I am much more interested in what might be called "future" design¹... making interventions that will shape the direction of a certain future. Certainly graphic design at its best does this while being beautiful. But from my perspective, graphic design is only one tool of many in the toolchest of the Future Designer.

Writing code, talking to people, putting on performances, building physical spaces, creating plans for neighborhoods, making sales, attending city council meetings.... all of these are indispensible tools for the Future Designer, and these activities all mesh well with the "hacker" mindset. In a real sense, this form of design is about hacking the trajectory of a neighborhood, or a person, or a city, or some other niche.

And yes, many great artists absolutely qualify as future designers. Banksy surely does. And many graphic designers: see James Victore². And many technologists too: Mark Zuckerberg surely does. The Kickstarter team surely does.

I'm embarrassed that this list doesn't contain any women or people of color. Maybe it's because I'm trying to find examples that would be convincing to the audience of hacker/designers on Hacker News. Certainly Joycelyn Elders has the stature of all of those men. As does Audre Lorde. As does Pat Summit. As do the Dixie Chicks. As do many more.

In some sense there are no specific technical skill requirements for you to be a great designer (as in: good eye, programming skills, etc). You do, however, need to know what your technical skills are. If you don't have a great eye, and the future you're designing requires a beautifully and powerfully presented image, then you need to find a graphic designer who does. Recognizing that makes you a great designer.

Because in the end great design isn't about the practice of any specific craft. It is about outcomes.

¹ with a nod to Eli Blevis: http://dspace.kaist.ac.kr/bitstream/10203/5536/1/DRS-WonderG...

² http://youtu.be/X3pXEdvI9xA