skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I stand corrected! I got confirmation from both Joe Hewitt and JazzyChad that they are indeed webviews used in many places now instead of native tableviews. Disregard everything I said :)
How to Generate MLM Leads and Get Paid Even If Nobody Joins Your MLM Business
Can anyone confirm whether a i7 MBA 11 has worst battery life than a 2010 MBA?
Yes it does. Take a look at this tutorial:
http://f.souza.cc/2010/08/flying-with-flask-on-google-app-en...

And here's a skeleton project to get you going:
http://github.com/blossom/flask-gae-skeleton
I meant that there is nothing about JS that prohibits
writing pure functions and reaping all the associated benefits (formal reasoning, etc.)
I wonder if future versions of Emacs will eventually support some kind of threading. Seems reasonable, considering that 24 is introducing real lexical scope. Just have to make sure that legacy dynamically-scoped code doesn't trip on the threads...
I'm not always proven totally wrong on HN...

...but when I am it's by Joe Hewitt. TGIF!
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Twice the token count? How did you get that?
If you use a non-standard UI, your app does not look good. Nobody wants to learn a new interaction paradigm for every application they touch; that simply doesn't scale.
Windows is shit at copying data anyway! Windows Vista and 7 miss folders...
It's such a pain when copying customers documents and you find out it's copied 2GB instead of about 25GB because it's missed the MAIN folders out. FFS Microsoft, sort it out!
It's a VERY BASIC function for an operating system...!
Yes. And with a startup, you have the freedom to bob and weave punches; in a large company, you are at the mercy of your handlers...
Unfortunately I think the Internet is biased toward good feedback about psychedelics because those who had problems either:

- lost interest in psychedelics,

- hate to write about it,

- are not able to write about it,

- don't want anyone to know they were "mad" once
Remarkably good, easy to follow tutorial for those who like me don't know what Parse does: https://www.parse.com/docs/ios_guide#data
Scrollbar Visibility with jScrollPane
I'll ask him what he thinks about that. Thanks, really appreciated.
One word: vaporware.
this is Nam from Aviary - solution for mobile safari is in the works! should be pushed out in 1-2 weeks.
Gmail + Google Account now automatically logs into Youtube & its usage stats.
Chrome is all the evidence one needs that the big G isn't adhering to it's "don't be evil" rule.
Used the web?
My reaction: Awesome!! I'm so glad others can now see the simplicity of Flas... Twitter?

Big fan of Flask, so I do hope there will be other methods of authentication (or none at all until you want to save your work).

EDIT

Oh well, signed up anyway. The interface is very sleek and well designed. It demonstrates how simple and light weight it is very well. Great job.

FEEDBACK

Took me a minute to find the "list of files" dropdown. Perhaps combine that and the associated buttons at the top with the "current file" label at the top.

A slider instead of a static separator would be helpful. Especially if you want to see more of your site when using a wide monitor.

Also, I (again) really like the design. It's fun. And like that you can visit and share your site, even if it is temporary. Ep.io should absolutely invest in this. It's quite wonderful.
This sounds like a fantastic opportunity. I like the Startup Chile project because they offer a great combination of non-equity funds, lots of government support for networking and an opportunity to explore a new place in the world. Congratulations and best of luck with this.
ITunes in the cloud
The tech community is there ... it's just hard to see. I've been working out of the Reno Collective for about 6 months now. I'm a software developer that took the plunge from corporate to freelancing and was working out of Starbucks, the library, my home, etc. I have to say that I was about to move to SF for the tech atmosphere before I learned that there is a real tech community here .. it's just sort of dislocated and disconnected in smaller groups. I'm really hoping to see Hack4Reno and other future events bring these groups together and sort of showcase the fact that there is a growing tech community out there.
Let's not forget the apps, either. It was a long time before anything comparable to Caligari or NewTek's Video Toaster (required an outboard interface, but the Amiga's NTSC-compatible video made that cheaper than it would have been otherwise) were running on the Mac or PC. If we had the ease of multimedia distribution then that we have today, desktop video rather than desktop publishing might have been the driver, and the personal computer landscape might look a lot different today.
tl;dr

def foo(x):
... stuff ...
... more stuff ...

should be synonymous with

foo = lambda(x):
... stuff ...
... more stuff ...

but isn't, because guidos think that they know better.
I'm writing really a very large app for the company I work for. We're using PhoneGap with HTML and JavaScript and have many plugins.

What we are not having problems with is the fact that we only really have a single thread to do everything. All I can say is that I'm glad it wasn't my idea to build it this way.
I agree, orange juice is a must-have on any trip.
iTunes was already in place, so the infrastructure and payment methods already existed. TBH this is only something Apple can answer.

I think you're right that Apple don't change tack due to pressure. However the iPhone was a volatile product, with a high risk of failure.

It also ran the risk of getting booted off carriers for abusing network, and runs all sorts of security issues... remembering in an abstracted way its hooked to your bank account.. to your personal finances. I mean the last thing Apple needs is a porn dialer and malware problem like Android has got.

I would say they had plans to do the App store all along, you'd be foolish not to at least explore the concept. They where already doing games and little things for the iPod, so in a sense it already existed.

But I bet there hand was forced... or maybe the carriers hand was forced letting Apple win the argument... by public pressure and hackers already writing there own code.
Sure, but none of the Android tablets are really purpose built for that. Samsung, Motorola, Asus and all the others seem to aim to be a kind of more-portable laptop, giving you memory card slots, cameras and to some extent even office type applications. These are the kinds of things that people market as a "tablet" and media consumption is something of an afterthought. The Kindle Fire is the other way around; media consumption is forefront, everything else, including apps to an extent, are an afterthought. This is more along Apple's vision with their iPad, and it's working out pretty well for them too.

At the end of the day, maybe I'm just arguing semantics, but the fact remains that this isn't a "tablet" in the same light as other Android "tablets." It's a bit of a subtle difference, and I think it's that difference that is crucial and will spell massive success for the Fire. Their ability to sell it at what I assume is a sizable loss isn't hurting their chances either.
I suck at programming on paper or whiteboard. For some reason it feels very unnatural to me. What feels more natural is diagramming and visualization on a whiteboard.

A lot of coding questions can often be sketched out in a few pictures. This is how I like to code. I like to visualize arrays, pointers, and circles/sets. Translating that visual representation of code is much easier for me.
"shrooms is shrooms."

This is dangerous advice. The range in dosage between species of psychedelic fungus varies by around 10x, and a lot of them look fairly similar.
Steven Pinker: Why Violence Is Vanishing
Actually

if user_set.delete:
logger.info("User set flag to delete file")
delete_file()

Becomes:

if ($user_set_delete==True){
log("user set flag to delete file")
}

delete_file();
The weather in Santiago and Central Chile is Mediterranean (wine, fruit), arid in the north and temperate in the south, plus mountainous regions (and polar climate if you count their claimed Antarctica territories) so basically they have all the climates except for tropical.
There is? What exactly are you doing that you need 20 days a year of downtime to accomplish? That's a full business day a week.

If you can't commit to that low of an SLA, you're doing it wrong.
Free RPG FaceBook game engine for fun or profit in GitHub (working link).
Honestly, imo, even if he didn't mean the apology/still doesn't care, props for at least trying to MAKE STUFF. Contribute through any means.
Helicopter view of your driving directions on Google Maps
Maybe I'm missing something but given you write the app in HTML/JS it must be difficult to unit test your wrappers for the phonegap functions, as I assume you can't simply pull up your dev site from the phone's browser. I'm thinking particularly about things like the contacts or network status functions.
You need to add a line:

100%=Thank you for investing so much in me that my grandchildren's grandchildren are set for life.
as previously discussed here, threads are coming to emacs. there is a long standing effort to introduce them, here's the branch:

http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/emacs/concurrency/files
I've just read below that it's a scheme course, i did a few lessons on that too and the approach was similar to what you describe. If with "bug" you are referring to syntax errors (being scheme, missing or wrong parenthesis), yeah, without a compiler/syntax checker it will be a bit hard to spot them sometimes. For algorithm testing, it's not different than what you'll do using a compiler, only slower (considering that testing usually involves testing various input combinations). Will, in this case, be a better course with the use of a compiler? Hard to tell, my impression is just that using only paper will make you focus more on the code you are writing, but this could not work for everyone.
Then it should also load the last program you were working on -- and, if possible, the output from the interpreter as well.

Cool app!
>> "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place" is bullshit.

>No, it's fact.

No, its bullshit. Or should I really refrain from scratching my ass right now because the internet would say "at 3:40 pm 11/9/30 John Doe scratched his ass"? Or should that not be published online?
The big question will is: how long will the Kindle Fire last? That is to say, will this initial model still be the model sold in 6, 12, 24 months time? If Amazon can make people think of the Kindle Fire not as a piece of technology that is quickly out of date, but a bit of a premium device (albeit at a cut-rate price) that isn't going to feel old in a year, the economics will get much better over the product's life-cycle. Given that the specs on the device are pretty good (dual-core processor, display with IPS) yet nebulous (I haven't seen a stated resolution, processor clock speed, or RAM amount), it's possible that Amazon wants people to think of this as a product that won't change as quickly as, say, Android devices change. Amazon also has the option to exert a decent amount of control over the platform since they're doing both the hardware and the software and I think the Silk browser is part of that desire to move things that would be spec dependent off the device itself to ensure greater hardware longevity.

If Amazon is still selling this model 1-2 years from now, they'll be in a decent position. If people obsess over specs rather than wanting to buy into an "Amazon experience" or similar, less-spec-driven purchase process, then Amazon might not be in as good a place given the low to negative margins at release.
I'll be honest, I'm pretty disappointed that Day[9] isn't on there.
Show HN: Flock - Events for Twitter [Side project]
Flock(http://flock.io/) is a side project I started after getting frustrated with meetup.com. The idea is to make creation of event pages as simple as possible.

I decided to build it around Twitter and tried to keep it as simple as possible. I'm not a designer so I used Twitter bootstrap for now.

I would appreciate your feedback and comments :)
This pisses me off a bit, actually. Basically, he's ripping on every developer who ever wrote any code. Ok, I'm sure there are a few he'd be happy with, but his comments do sound all-encompassing.

And then he somehow tries to make it "better" by ripping on himself, too, saying he's a part of the problem. Um, no, being self-deprecating in the same way that you're insulting everyone else does not magically make it ok for you to insult everyone else.

I've been using Linux (and a couple UNIXes on and off) for a little over 10 years. So I can get around a UNIX-like system pretty well. A lot of things are easy, and a lot of things aren't. Saying that it's somehow someone's fault is ridiculous. Claiming that all software developers are collectively lazy or don't care about user experience just doesn't hold up.

The funny thing is that he works in a position that naturally involves some difficult stuff. Let's say my favorite language to write software in is called XYZ. Say it's super easy, intuitive, concise, performant, and the method for compiling/deploying/distributing the end result of your hard work is trivial. In all ways, this system is just beautiful to work with.

Great, but I'll bet you the guy who wrote all the development tools and runtime for XYZ had to do a lot of difficult work to make that possible. Dahl is building a runtime for web applications. Unless he's writing it in some high-level language, it's not going to be easy. Supporting every platform he wants to support isn't going to be easy. User interfaces should be as simple as they can be, but often that requires a lot of complexity under the hood.

Go down even farther. Let's think about our basic building blocks. Transistors. Hgih and low, ones and zeroes. It's a very simple interface. You construct logical operations by using NAND, NOR, NOT, etc. gates, which are built from transistors. Also simple. But the next step for our modern computer is... well... the microprocessor. And while it's made up of these incredibly simple building blocks, the combination of them is extraordinarily complex. So the interface into that mess is also not the most friendly thing to work with: a machine instruction set. So we build things on top of that to make it successively easier: assembly language, C, Ruby.

And the tools that come along with this are only as good as the technologies they're built on. Tradeoffs must be made to be portable. Yes, all this is a huge mess that "we" have collectively invented over the past 30-50 years or so, but it's simply not possible to go back to the 1970s, know exactly where we're going to be in the 2010s, and design the perfect system, even with foreknowledge. The current state of computing is a product of the evolution of our technology. Often that means doing the best you can today, and hoping for something better tomorrow.
From Kindle To Fire: Why Amazon Needs to Go Global
This year's Ig Nobel prize
Google should at the very least keep the same aspect ratio when allowing manufacturers to use other resolutions.

They currently allow (split by 10 for better comparison):

320:240 (13.3:10), 480x320 (15:10 ratio), 800x480 (16.6:10), 854x480 (17.7:10/16:9), 960x540 (17.7:10), and then 1280x800 on tablets where 48 of the pixels are for the bottom bar, so it's more like 1280x732 (17.4:10).

I would be easier to do "pixel perfect" design if Google would at least not use all these resolutions that have little to do with each other. It goes to show that Google doesn't put much thought into these kind of design details.

This is the kind of "standardization" I'd like to see Google bring to Android. Would it be that bad to deny a manufacturer the use of a 854x480 resolution over a 800x480 one? or whatever they choose to be the standard? I don't think so, but they don't seem to care much about it.

The 960x540 resolution was probably unnecessary, too, considering we're about to see 1280x720 resolutions coming into market just 6 months later. If a manufacturer decides to make a 1366x768 display later, should they allow them to do it? They shouldn't because the improvement is marginal and developers have to support one more resolution with little benefit, but they probably will allow it.
I use Pig to write many of my Hadoop Mapreduce jobs and test my Pig script on a small dataset using Pig Grunt. Pig 0.9 has a lot more debug information as well.
Bootstrapped Startup 50: Ideas Are Easy
I was using Gitosis, now i switch to Gitolite, it's better and simpler.
Electric Guitar Review: ESP LTD Deluxe EC-1000
I was so happy to see that my dogs stayed on the pricing page after the recent redesign of isocket, thanks for featuring them! Strangely enough, it's probably one of the more popular things I've ever designed. Using humor in your marketing pages is a great way to cut through the corporate clutter.

Here's a pic of two of them (the chihuahua and pug) to prove that they're real:

http://cl.ly/1t053y1m0Z010C2l0J16
Asked why he has sold the business, Michael said simply, "it was the right time"
2.5% to 4.7% efficiency, depending on configuration.
They actually forked earlier than that. Everything I've read has said the forked 2.1, which means Amazon has been developing the Fire for some time now, with impressive secrecy to boot.
No most of the infrastructure already existed because iTunes was already in place.
In our particular case we would need somewhere between 50 or more accounts, so it's just not feasible. Having it as part of the charge API would be ideal. Glad to hear you're considering adding it as a feature.
I appreciate the answers given to my question from several days ago. I appreciate that all of the loopholes need to be covered, using >standard< legalese, most of which will never be needed, but when it is, the situation will be resolved entirely in Stripe's favor, not mine. I appreciate that chargebacks are >usually< not a big deal. My concern is about extremes, particularly those which come out of malicious intent, perpetrated against me, through no fault of my own. With the way that these "one-sided" agreements are structured, it appears to be quite easy for me to launch an attack against a small startup's credit processing account, with the likely result being termination of said account, mostly due to the perception of risk which I will have created in the minds of the people who implement the TOS to which the startup agreed. If I can do this to someone's startup, then someone can do it to mine, and I can't be the only person who has thought of this kind of stuff.
Nice education post.
I have tried all of them and now I use reeder and I'm very happy with it!
I've been talking with a number of directors at length about the program, and we've been promoting it at Hackers & Founders.

There is no requirement after the 6 months. And, the government support is all about walking you through the legal loop holes, and then generally getting out of the way.
Getting this error:

listener = BaseHub.add(self, evtype, fileno, cb)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/eventlet/hubs/hub.py", line 126, in add
evtype, fileno, evtype))
RuntimeError: Second simultaneous read on fileno 17 detected. Unless you really know what you're doing, make sure that only one greenthread can read any particular socket. Consider using a pools.Pool. If you do know what you're doing and want to disable this error, call eventlet.debug.hub_multiple_reader_prevention(False)
Quora's new Killer Feature
I bought a $29.99 Kindle Fire Zip Sleeve, which is easily at least $10 in profit to Amazon. Unlike iPad owners, Kindle customers buy covers, so I'm probably not in the minority, even if it is a relatively cheap device.

When ours comes in, I also plan to buy apps, etc. Easily an additional $10 will be spent within days of acquisition. My guess is that they will have at least another $30 in profit the first year from books, etc. and may sign up for Amazon Prime to get unlimited streaming, which is something I hadn't considered seriously until I saw it on the Fire page.

No wonder Amazon stock went up about 20% over the past several months. Some people knew this was going to be a big win.
Why did the Korea Times quote Florian Mueller as a 'Samsung official'?
http://www.betabeat.com/2011/09/30/jerry-guo-newsweek-groupe...
Very nice. Thanks for the resources!
Google's first store pops up in London
Hmm... Chrome gives me:

The webpage at http://repl.it/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
Error 330 (net::ERR_CONTENT_DECODING_FAILED): Unknown error.

:(
Not fun :(
I've had two months of depersonalization after a psylocybin take. Lowered intellect, unability to stop the flow of thoughts, anxiety of being schizophrenic, no emotions except for art, seeing a monster when looking at the mirror. Sensorial defects became readily apparent which is annoying but useful. I still see coloured points sometimes.

The next experience was entirely positive though (outdoor, friends).
> Your browser does not support this application :-(

Not only are they blaming me for their failure to support all browsers via progressive enhancement, they aren't even telling me what their application actually does and why I should want to jump through their hoops.
And yet, have you ever heard of this happening? I don't mean to minimize your questions; I think there is some amount of trust involved. We're able to tell the difference between someone running a fraudulent business and someone who is being essentially DOSd. Simply having chargebacks is never going to automatically cause your account to be terminated.
IPhone 4 Launch History: Milestones & iOS + iTunes Release Dates
Why Engineers Distrust Business People
Spotify Human-Readable Privacy Policy
Laypersons often misunderstand that there's a difference between promising 100.00000% and delivering 100.00000%.

The client needs to understand what their contractual remedy is when the promise falls short, and the method that will be used for evaluating the difference between the promise and the delivery.
CPU is an OMAP4, dual core A9 at 2x1GHz. The CPU is pretty good and can e.g. encode/decode full HD easily. RAM should be 1GB which the new iPhone is rumoured to come out with, so it should be good for 2-3 years...

In total the HW platform is pretty solid, it's not a relabeled cheap Chinese tablet...
Over at Blimp(http://getblimp.com) we decided to go with Stripe for our billing. We asked them nicely for a private beta so we could go ahead and start working. We have already implemented them into our app, very simple, never got in the way, and we are launching on October 10, on time, thanks to them. Stripe is pretty awesome!

I've had to deal with all these issues of Merchant accounts, business bank accounts and what not, and it sucks! Its time consuming, expensive, and a pain in the ass.

I've used Recurly for another project I recently launched, and I kinda liked them, thats of course before using Stripe! What sold Stripe to me was their pricing scheme, very simple, no monthly crap. I'm pretty sure startups struggle at first with monthly fees...
Certainly seems like it, or at least every page it displays is doing a separate server call that is not cached very well.
Battlefield 3 Beta Now Available
What the Next iPhone’s Assistant Feature Will Probably Look Like [video]
Now you're just being silly. Clearly I would have them pay in a series of monthly instalments each one infinitely smaller than the total.