skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starring works? I don't think opening a message and then moving it to the "starred" folder works. The android app allows you to star directly from the message list.

The great thing is that if people want a minimal mail app, Mail will be their choice. I just want a choice that allows me to use my preferred workflow.
I agree, the games I've created so far are very basic, and all the art is taken from free clip-art sites. The biggest critic on that so far has been my wife :) I'm (slowly) working on a more substantial game idea, and I've been updating a dev journal on my blog as I make progress.

Thanks for taking the time to look through the games, and for the feedback, I really appreciate it.
Investing in a personal toolbox
"Metaprogramming Ruby" is really great. If you are an experienced programmer (especially with Lisp, Smalltalk, Haskell etc knowledge) I would recommend getting comfortable with the basic syntax and then diving straight into this book. It really cuts to the chase as to why ruby really is such an interesting language, something which I felt an entire read through of the pick-axe didn't really accomplish.
Sure! You can go to the iframe directly at http://www.wikimaze.me/app
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The weakest link in applied math is often the step of turning a physical problem into a mathematical problem.

This is even difficult to do when what you're trying to model is not the physical world, but a computer system. (A computer system can count as the "physical world" depending on your view, but I don't think that's what the author meant.) That's what we're doing right now, and me (a systems guy) and a bunch of several applied math / theoretical CS people are having a hell of a time with it. Well, fun in its own way, but, yes, getting a model that makes assumptions that gel with reality is the first order concern, always.
Gmail and Docs both use Closure Library

http://code.google.com/p/closure-library/
An interesting and vaguely related article on the psychology of what happens to believers when nothing happens:

http://healthland.time.com/2011/05/17/apocalypse-now-why-bel...
Yes. Mango [WP7.5] shipped less than a year after WP7 was released. It also was compatible with all existing devices.
It didn’t work before iOS5. Now you can flag emails directly – which in turn stars them.
This: http://www.npr.org/assets/news/2010/05/17/concern.pdf
Plus this: "Having both technologies is important to create competition"

I know I'm opting out.
That's awesome, but I think it would be much more accessible for newbies if they included download links and installation steps. I have friends who might be interested in this for whom just the installation could be a daunting hurdle.
Interesting that he uses Python to teach the examples. Python is what I learned first.

Does anyone have an opinion on whether Ruby or another language is better suited for teaching basic programming concepts?
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Similar situation to yours. One of our wives is finishing a residency program in Winston Salem. Where are you located now? I am actually moving out there in a few weeks to join the company. It would be great to get your insights on Winston Salem, and any contacts of people that are good devs in NC. Feel free to reach out on twitter @esalazarrivas
I looked through http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-964.pdf and couldn't find what you're referring to. If you find a more specific citation, please let me know.
Actually, I have experience with both SciPy/Numpy and Matlab and I must say, I vastly prefer Python.

I want to interoperate with C code without disgust. I actually want to write my computation kernel in C, inline with my general high-level code. Numpy does that and I LOVE it for that.

I want to be able to use libraries that are not provided by Mathworks. Serious GUI programming using PyQt, for example. Or, say, a decent XML parser. Or maybe some JASON importing.

I want to be able to run my scientific programs without having to wait for a huge Matlab installation to start up and I want to be able to use my terminal properly.

I want to not have to run X11 on OSX for christ sake. (Though apparently, this has been alleviated to some extent in the latest version. Anyone know first hand?)

Oh, and I don't want to fork over 3k bucks just to write some simple signal processing stuff. (And I don't want to pay upgrade fees every year.)

But then, I don't have an infinite budget, I am mostly interested in signal processing for audio signals and I certainly have more of a programming background than a science background (though my formal education would have me believe otherwise). Also, I am not much interested in Simulink and my latest version of Matlab is of 2007 vintage.
I don't know about that. This year they're both the same age, had both amassed billions, and had become titans of industry. One of them publicly devoted himself to spending his riches on improving humanity; the other continued to enrich himself by developing what are at their core expensive first-world gadgets (though how much he gave to charity is I believe not known).

How much does it take before you have a "full life" that you can be judged by?
Agree.

To me the biggest hurdle in programming is not the programming itself but the sys-admin effort to setup a development environment.
If you are really concerned about raising prices (I wouldn't be; I think you should raise them across the board), you could try just charging new clients/users the higher rate. Adds complexity to your system, however.

Edit - just saw the question. The problem right now is not that you don't have a partner; it's that you don't charge enough for the work you're doing. Adding a partner is going to create another set of distractions and issues.
Qwiki[1] aims for a more interactive (albeit Flash-dependent) presentation of mostly the same information that's in Wikipedia.

There's also a site called 'Ultrastudio' that aims to supplement encyclopedia articles with illustrative applets.

[1] http://qwiki.com

[2] http://ultrastudio.org/
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For handling asynchronous exceptions and bad stack traces, checkout the "trycatch" module on npm, http://github.com/crabdude/trycatch . It's an asynchronous try catch.

trycatch(function(){
process.nextTick(function() {
throw new Error("This will be caught.");
});
}, function(e) {
console.log(e.stack);
});

I also integrated it into the step module to create "stepup" which adds error coalescing, http://github.com/crabdude/stepup .
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This blog post makes me wonder if Codecademy will end up dealing with the setup type issues that plague beginning coders - i.e. setting up a web server, getting the right Ruby package installed, how to debug and find the missing semicolon, etc.

In my estimation, those barriers are all a lot higher than the actual logic or syntax of programming.
Thanks for sharing your experience. This is very helpful info.
Of course they're ignored. Everything that comes across a politician's attention is an opportunity for him to reinforce his message.

The petitions are not there for us to influence them. They're there (they spent effort to put them there) for them to influence us.
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> The military is [1] _death_ on racisim, sexism, favoritism

Officially, yes, but that's probably BS.

This reminds me of two anecdotes about the IDF (not to make this about Israel -- it's just the data that I have):

1) One friend assured me that any soldier acting improperly would be disciplined immediately, as the IDF had very high standards, etc. etc.

2) Another friend used to tell me stories about his IDF stint and how he and his friends would get high on guard duty all the time.

So ... just because you were in a military, doesn't mean that you know what's going down with everyone.

Also, the attitude that you evidence in your post makes it less likely that you'll know the truth, because you'll be more resistant to contrary evidence.

Treat truth as stochastic/unknown. We don't know the truth. Now ask "what practices or attitudes will tend to help me discover what is true? What practices or attitudes will tend to obscure the truth?"

The attitude "nope that can't be happening because organization X is so disciplined" obscures the truth. Especially in an organization that emphasizes loyalty and duty.
Maybe the petition software itself. Someone's got to have a patent on allowing people to submit a post and allowing people to vote on it.

Prior art?

http://edison.rutgers.edu/vote.htm
The problem is for this to work at scale you really need to make programming/entrepreneurship desirable for your African Americans. This is easy for sports and entertainment, because the stars are so visible. But who knows who Peter Thiel is outside of a very small niche. Vinod Khosla?

And this is why I think the black incubators make sense. You can bring the idea of an incubator into the inner city and recruit young people of color and if a handful get modest success it will begin to breed something in their community.

All this is easier said than done and maybe even misguided, but I think that's the idea.
I am incredibly tired of this argument, it's a complete straw man by trying to paint the "other side" as stereotypical MBA suits, and pretends that everyone is out to get those poor, poor engineers.

Fuck that shit. Let's have some perspective:

I wake up every morning. Unlike 90% of this country, I have no hard deadline on when I have to be at work. Unlike most of the country, I also have effectively no limits on what to wear. I can stroll in with shorts and sandals if I so feel like. I get paid well into the six figures to work on things I love. I get free food, luxurious shuttles to ferry my ass around, and in my post-lunch drowsiness (that most of the country can ill afford to even contemplate), I have hammocks to nap in. I have benefits that much of the country would commit bloody murder for. There are things that are expensable which would appear shockingly excessive to any other industry. I attend ridiculously funded parties fueled by my company's largesse, and my office is one of the coolest places in town, because shit, burning through VC cash is fun.

And somehow, in the midst of all of that, you decide there's a penny-pinching CEO character who's being all Scrooge McDuck-like and actively plotting to screw you out of your hard-earned money.

Really.

Sometimes I feel like software engineers, particularly in the Bay Area, have the most over-inflated sense of entitlement I've seen anywhere. I'm all for extracting a fair slice of the value I generate for my employer, but come on, this straw man helps no one. It's has shades of Wall Street greed - we're sitting around, our giant paychecks in one hand, our catered organic/fair trade free food in the other, and loudly complain that we're worth more than this.
Can you talk more about how you create the questions?

I'm guessing the answers are always article titles, and you look for articles that have a neat leading summary which is easy to perform anaphor-substitution on. But, how do you pick the candidate wrong answers, and have you developed any other tricks for handling problematic/ambiguous summaries?
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Mnemoo Question&Answering API v1 (Beta)
Meanwhile, my Google Apps account design is stuck 3 or 4 iterations ago.
I wonder what they did to break iPad flick to scroll on that blog post?
http://www.python.org/download/
The thing I'm most impressed about is the speed at which this has come out.

It seems like gmail has previously changed at a glacial speed (for better/worse).

I hope they continue to improve the UX of gmail on a continuous basis.
The whole comparison is silly and a false dichotomy. Using Jobsian attention to detail and work ethic to drive your career/business is not mutually exclusive with donating the result to charity.

Arguably, Jobs's lifestyle is probably more suited for philanthropy because of the (relatively) spartan nature of his tastes in fashion, housing and cars.
The only part of EE I don't care for is that they want us to pay for data they didn't create

In theory they provide a service that has value, that is a platform where questions can get answered. Just because they didn't pay the "experts" doesn't mean their overall concept is not worth paying for.

Now, I'm not saying that their implementation is worth paying for, I just don't buy the idea that because they didn't pay for their data it's wrong for them to charge for their service.
Not to be pedantic, but Henry Ford figured that out long before SJ was a twinkle in the valley's eye.

"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
That reason seems pretty shallow coming from the OBSD team... How can changing the language make it more secure by itself? Is a rewrite in C the next planned enhancement?
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http://totally.awe.sm/jobs

We're hiring front-end and back-end engineers, plus an SRE (think: ops guy who gets to write production code) and a designer.

Right now, we help companies track and analyze the way their content spreads over social media, and how that converts into pageviews and dollar sales. Our next phase -- the stuff the new hires will be working on -- is to move beyond merely reporting what's happening into making sense of it, and making actionable predictions based on it. That means event detection and machine learning on big, messy, real-world data sets.

Because this is all new dev, we are language and technology agnostic. If you think you can solve these problems, we'll let you pick the best tools for the job. We're looking for curiosity, enthusiasm, and a track record -- you know, "smart and gets things done" :-)
Sentiment Analysis API V1.0 (Beta) | Sentiment Analysis made easy
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Passing a Language through the Eye of a Needle
Trulia - Downtown San Francisco

Looking for a few good search specialists. Also looking for a data scientist type with an emphasis on hands on systems level work. We make good use of solr and hadoop.
Great place to work with challenging and interesting work.

Submit through the senior software eng position. Actual position and title will be based on your experience.

http://www.trulia.com/about/careers/Engineering

Other positions open.
And they'll answer that petition by pointing out that they've made petitions available.
How does that means Jobs is right? If anything, it seems a significant percentage of current tablet users are not satisfied with their tablets(80% of which are iPads?) and want something with a bit more power.

Maybe they would have been happier with an iPad that was more powerful like the Windows 8 dev preview tablet? We will know when those come out.
It's not so bad at text when you connect a Bluetooth keyboard, either.
Storing hundreds of millions of simple key-value pairs in Redis
Dark Patterns: deception vs. honesty in UI design
Try DuckDuckGo.
I echo the nod for Metaprogramming Ruby

Quite honestly, I haven't gotten into Ruby Best Practices yet, but credit must be given to Gregory Brown for making it freely available:
http://rubybestpractices.com/

As a middling programmer trying to learn Ruby, O'Reilly Ruby Cookbook has been by far the best reference. Great example code, great explanation, and best of all, the recipes are actually useful:
http://www.crummy.com/writing/RubyCookbook/
http://linux.die.net/man/2/fork - this explains better.
"More test coverage" isn't actionable, and if you try to act on it then you'll make stupid tests that don't help, waste effort, and hinder later refactoring efforts. "I'm worried about the foo module, do we have test coverage for this type of failure" is reasonable.

And I'd similarly pile on anyone who asked for quote "more regulation" without specifying so much as an industry and type of behavior to be regulated.
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Making Future Magic: Incidental Media
This is the first of two video sketches looking at media surfaces, and illustrating some of the ideas and principles behind Dentsu London's communications strategy http://www.dentsulondon.com/making-futur e-magic-series/

Here, media includes messages from friends and social services, like Foursquare or Twitter, and also more functional messages from companies or services like banks or airlines alongside large traditional big 'M' Media (like broadcast or news publishing).

The second sketch "The Journey", looks at train travel. You can see it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC5mYY820 8k

This is part of a collaboration between Dentsu London and BERG. You can read more about both films at Dentsu London's blog http://www.dentsulondon.com/blog/2010/11 /03/mediasurfaces/
and on BERG's blog http://berglondon.com/blog/2010/11/03/me dia-surfaces-incidental-media/

This film is under a Creative Commons 3.0 license, which means you're free to share or use any of the ideas in it, with proper attribution to Dentsu London and BERG http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3 .0/
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We are hiring front-end and back-end engineers, a MySQL DBA, an Android engineer, an HTML5 mobile engineer, and a UI Designer.

From our jobs page:
We're a bit different than your average startup. We're a small team that loves what we do. We only hire others who love what they do, too.

Even though we're very profitable, we don't hire just for the sake of it; we hire the best people, then trust them: it's the thinking behind our no-limit vacation policy and company credit card for everyone.

We love building things and we focus on being productive, not the amount of time you spend in the office. We hate meetings, so we only have one per week.

We put a lot of effort into making Weebly a fun place to work for people who like getting things done.

Our millions of users love us (check out our blog comments). We have a net promoter score over 80% (higher than Apple's).

Running 2% of all of the websites on the Internet presents some very interesting technical challenges. Making a complex task super simple and intuitive is also an ongoing challenge.
I wouldn't be so sure.

I think one day we'll see oil wells with vast temporary solar arrays deployed next to them pumping oil for the millions of gas and diesel-burning engines that are still in the wild.

We'll be spending 10 barrels worth of energy to get a barrel of oil because there's so much infrastructure investment in oil.
I don't know why tristan_louis' comment is dead, but they bring up very good point, far more egregious than either the social sharing changes or the design and screen real estate issues:

The first thing that struck me is how much slower this reader is. There seems to be a refresh on every new move forward, which was less noticeable on the previous version, if at all. There also seems to be a substantially slower response time, on the order of a couple of seconds.

Reader is now painful to use, imo. I'm constantly waiting for it to catch up to my actions.
I don't think those of us blaming lobbying are hung up on the MPAA/RIAA lobbyists here as a villain so much as upset at the general state of the system as it regards lobbying.
Have you actually read this document (http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2011/pdf/2011-2841.pdf)? Because it gives clear guidelines applicable to new and existing patents. It DOES cover most issues raised against software patents. It CLEARLY provides means to defend against crap and broad patents. Meaning: unscrupulous lawyers and trolls WON'T be able to play on ambiguities anymore. Presumption of validity is worth zero against most cases covered by this document. Just read it, because it could put a smile of your face !!!
Southlake, TX (Dallas-Fort Worth)

GetThere / Sabre

We're looking for front-end engineers comfortable doing both client-side and server-side work. For us that means HTML/CSS, JavaScript, JSP, Java (or comparable).

GetThere is the leading business travel booking application. We operate at a large scale, so your code would be used by millions of people around the world.

Submit your resume through the link below, but drop us a line so we know to be on the lookout for it.

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Haha those calls are AJAX calls for the social sharing widgets in IPullRank. It's Twitter, Digg, ShareThis, etc.

Thank you for looking out for the fine folks at HN though!
To be fair, Jobs himself acknowledged this. Still, Ford made cars. What was interesting about Jobs taking that stance is that he was in a position to do something about it in tech, upending a lot of established dogma. And making a lot of money in the process.
You did not understand Patrick's essay.

He did not say give yourself a ridiculously fancy sounding title. He said tell them what you've done in the past and give yourself a title that engenders respect from your non-hacker friends. For example, if you tell people you are a software architect and you designed the system that made your company X million dollars, you will get respect.

If you don't spend at least some time thinking of your companies business processes then your just a non-thinking cog. Challenging these types of things is not only how you get ahead, but it's how you differentiate yourself from the non-thinking cogs.
Persistence Hunt (8 min video)
The title made me think Chrome was acting as a sort of distributed Googlebot. Although the technology would be awesome, the privacy implications would be huge.