skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is why ideas are many but execution is key to a success of a startup. There are many ways I can see Parse getting to a size that of Heroku.

You may not see the potential and that's because you have no idea of what's coming up and I'm sure the founders at Parse have that piece of information and it's going to be at least a $200M exit if they execute to their vision.
I have no idea who this gentleman is either, but this type of comment captures the systemic 'good old days' spirit that has been a part of n.yC since the beginning. The more things change...

(Meant in good spirits! And also wishing OP well!)
Flash to Focus on PC Browsing and Mobile Apps; Adobe to Contribute to HTML5
If it is cheap enough, it could be used to easily bypass infrared motion sensors.
Stick-slip. Interesting how similar writing process is to video editing.
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Mini Steve Jobs
AWS global infrastructure location interactive map
This is a great library for doing product demos. Instead of having a video where someone clicks around your app, just create a voice over and have it actually click the links, drag the items, submit forms, etc. Especially awesome if your app is heavy on javascript (like a GWT application)
http://www.stypi.com/fwj80bfo
A for effort -- but you picked the wrong policy to rail against.

The problem with Sophie Lee is that she is too young and if you create a GMail account with her real age it will be immediately locked out due to COPPA regulations. This isn't really Google's fault though -- but did make the Dear Sophie ad a little confusing due to this legal restriction. Presumably you have to sign up using your own age since it is an account managed by you. When your child turns 13 you can transfer the account to them.

GMail users are not subject to any Real Name policies. Nice straw-man, though. It probably eluded most.
State of the Technical Interview
Apple's iOS & Google Android command 58% of US portable game revenue
It should be a rule in every company "don't blame the user"; if they don't contact you with their problems, it's _your_ task to let them contact you. Put a big "contact" button in your app, make it easier to give them direct feedback to you instead of in the app store.

And, obviously, don't release software that's not ready for production. The mindset "we'll just release without proper testing, the users will point out the bugs" - is so 1995
Dat.GUI.js - A lightweight GUI for changing variables in JS
Sounds more like you just didn't know what you were doing to be honest.

We can ignore your Prism complaints because that was simply your choice of MVVM frameworks as you mentioned. MVVMLight supports passing event arguments to View Models quite easily.

You didn't mention what you didn't like about the VSM, but even there, you didn't have to use it.

Lastly, layout...of all things, is done absolutley right in Silverlight compared to the non-intuitive HTML way.
I have 34. I agree that it can use a lot of work. Some of the numbers didn't make sense. I don't get how I'm supposed to rank my shrimp consumption, for instance, on a scale of 0 to infinity...?
Sorry, but this is just creepy and weird. Not to mention it's a PITA and facebook does it better.
I have to use that sort of feedback sometimes myself.

Here's an example. Recently I tried a demo version of an upgrade to a program I already own. Certain things were broken that used to work fine. The only support allowed is to sign into my account on their website and use a feedback form. Email support is not allowed, nor is there a product forum. When I filled in the form it told me that I was not a registered user of version 2, therefore support was not available. So then I went and wrote a scathing public review advising people to avoid the product for specific reasons.

Compare that to another product I have and seldom use which I also wanted to check the upgrade out. I tried the demo, and there were essential features missing. I emailed the developer using the link in the program and explained myself. He wrote back saying that feature would be added in version 3 and I could upgrade 1 to 3 when it comes and skip 2, no problem. And so that was the end of it for now.
https://mozillademos.org/demos/planetarium
It's a good point. At one time the database was the application. Stored procedures and such were part of the application UI (as it were). At one time features were being added to database systems you could build command-line interfaces for the end-users. These days the database is mostly just used as a storage engine.

Not that I really care about "back in the day!" But it can be helpful to understand why certain things were done in a certain way. It seems like ancient history, but there you definitely will find some old code when you start working at companies that have been around for more than a few years.
Well, you patent it.
US should look to Germany for Improvements
Surely someone here has programmed in Cocoa, right? NSAccessibilityScreenPointForLayoutPointParameterizedAttribute, anyone?
MiniChip - 2D Thinking Platformer Demo
I wouldn't say the entire industry is heading for HTML5. Yes, it is very capable, but, check out this demo: http://molehill.zombietycoon.com/

Flash's decision to drop mobile is probably because they're focusing more on Flash 11 and Molehill.
Airplanes were an amazing invention, but turns out its hard to run a profitable airline!
After watching this, the thing that surprises me the most is the lack of spelling mistakes.

I guess growing up with computers and not being able to spell are not synonymous.
32 Slaves. Now what?
It's still a good looking site, and his copy is spot on. No one said design has to be very expensive or custom made, it just has to work. Ask anyone on the street if kalzumeus.com looks professional, and they'll say yes. That's what matters.
To summarize: Here's a game that doesn't work on mobiles, doesn't work in IE or Firefox or any version of Chrome less than 15. Now that Adobe has caved to the various walled-garden app stores and given up hope for a share of the casual games mobile market, game developers will be stuck with our spaghetti Javascript and browser idiosyncrasies for the next decade or until the standards agency manages to raise Jesus and tie its shoes at the same time. So suck it up and deal with the fact that OO code and multi-platform development are dead, and we're so cool because we made a game in 3D that can almost be played at 2 FPS on a phone browser (but we'll let someone else figure out how to make phones 15x faster... it's right around the corner!)
Jasus, i'll never get to 500. Those rules make sense, but the parent comment in this thread had been downvoted despite being correct. Fairly Redditish (the one thing that puts me off Reddit). Thanks anyway.
Parse offers a lot besides push notifications as well - you can store arbitrary data on Parse, do user authentication, and access the data from non-mobile devices using the REST API. We'd be glad to answer any other questions you have at feedback@parse.com.
AngelList used to be like that but things have changed. =)

Most of the updates that investors receive are determined by who is involved in your company (advisors, investors, references) and the level of interest in your company (follows, intros). If you add people to your company over time, these notifications will still go out. So no need to have the ultimate profile when you publish -- I would still make it great though.

We still review every new startup because our algorithmic updates can't pick up every good startup. So your startup shouldn't look awful when you publish. If it looks promising, we'll ask you to ping us when you've made some progress. And, in any case, you can still ping us.
Thanks! We thrive on user feedback so feel free to send us suggestions for new features or ideas about what could be made easier in mobile development. feedback@parse.com
>A lot of the moral judgements made on the linked site about a materialistic lifestyle don't really have anything to do with the fact that people in the west are evil, but rather that the culture in certain parts of the world where manufacturing takes place is conductive to exploitation.

I think it's probably fair to say that most people on HN are aware that these kinds of problems exist(thus I agree with all points); but I certainly know many people who couldn't imagine that opening a bottle of happiness means that someone in a far away village is suffering for it.

It's true that these problems need to be handled at the source, likewise that consumers changing their habits won't be enough to enact change because the criminals who perpetrate these crimes will simply change tactics. While I said in another comment that the site could use lots of work, I think it's great in terms of shedding light on the topic of human slavery / trafficking to those who are simply unaware. The one drawback is that it can potentially induce guilt among those same people, and it's difficult to get people to change their minds about something they simply aren't exposed to all that often.
Sometimes doing things right means bumping the price up which for some reason companies are unwilling to do. Apple gets this very right in my opinion. Here is an anecdote about HP. If you buy HP elitebooks which cost > $1000 you get 3 years of warranty with shipping paid both ways for free. On top of that you get 24/7 access to enterprise level support. On a few occasions HP has overnighted me parts when I have needed them. On the other hand I have bought HP consumer line laptops which dont come with support or 3 year warranty by default and my experience has been horrible. In other words consumers need to stop buying the cheapest provider.
Agreed. My roommate's new microwave is a Panasonic with exactly this behavior, and it's one of the best appliances I've used. Was actually thinking of it (and some physics PSU/amps) when I wrote this.
htsql (www.htsql.org) is a business reporting language -- one line in htsql can generate 5 or 6 lines of SQL.

This query could be condensed considerably if rewritten in htsql.

(htsql automatically generates SQL code that covers all corner cases and executes faster than hand-crafted SQL.)
Automating a bad process doesn’t make it better
I published my notes on the differences as a blog post, "backbone-on-rails vs backbone-rails vs rails-backbone". http://www.coffeescriptlove.com/2011/11/backbone-on-rails-vs...
Awesome. Just awesome.

I think writers would find it as an indispensable tool to find out where they make mistakes. It can function as a kind of a feedback loop which helps you refine your skill.
[Edit] Wow. OK, would a downvoter do me the favor of explaining why they find my position so repugnant, rather than just hitting the down arrow (as convenient as that may be?). Maybe I'll learn something.

You may not see the potential and that's because you have no idea of what's coming up and I'm sure the founders at Parse have that piece of information ...

Anyone with sufficient experience in developing large-scale mobile applications should have a pretty good idea of where this can go, and what to expect out of the potential customer base.

We're talking about a very familiar space of developer tooling, not rocket science.

... and it's going to be at least a $200M exit if they execute to their vision.

[Edit] In retrospect, venturing a guess here is too silly to do. $200M seems insanely high, regardless.
"Marketplace Fairness Act" could force Amazon to collect sales tax
New Companies And Entrepreneurs Step Up To Help Startups Hire
Sure. I never said they'd be accurate; the point is simply that if you want someone to give you money for bank stock that can't actually be sold for 15 years, you'd be unlikely to get a particularly good price for that, especially if it were in a climate where there's a high likelihood that the bank is quite likely to go bust long before that.
Key Characteristic of An Entrepreneur
Shade Sails
Macros are good, but in order to understand why there are good you have to lift your head out of the common mindset of most developers that spend half their days configuring their application in some poorly designed XML-based DSL that's only necessary because doing the same thing in their programming language is too awkward. They coincidentally spend the other half of their days writing code in the same basic procedural style they learned as a kid, copying and pasting bits of code everywhere and making a general highly-coupled mess because they don't how to do it any better.

It has been said that at any given point, every project implements their own programming language, usually as some kind of DSL, and they do it really really badly. I've seen this borne out in practice in EVERY commercial project I've worked on. I've seen it, I've lived, and I continue to live it every day. Macros are one of the ways out of this mess that we've created for ourselves. While a lot of macro research is still cutting edge, slowly different techniques are becoming more proven and starting to disseminate more and more into mainstream languages and runtimes. The problems you mention with macros have honestly already been dealt with in the past decade or two.

I've dealt with people like you at work before. Your kind are those that stare at any abstraction they don't understand with immediate suspicion and reject it without any real consideration. They refuse to learn new things or improve their programming abilities or toolset. While this in of itself isn't a crime, they hold the rest of the industry back by rejecting superior technologies as they come along because they refuse to take the time understand them.

Your kind and mine, sir, are in direct opposition.
FWIW[+], two-and-a-half suggestions for playback mode:

- mark the current edit point more prominently,

- automatically scroll to where the edits are taking place (obvious if you test this on a small screen),

- if you implement the former suggestion, signal big jumps prominently in a way that helps viewers keep track of where they are in the overall document.

[+] I know this is an early proof-of-concept for playback mode, and my suggestions are probably obvious, but it can't hurt.
I found that one to be powerful, but double edged. It's unpleasant to remember that ad when researching a serious situation that is likely to have a negative outcome.
Mythology in C++: Exceptions are Expensive
Experiences and Lessons Learned Publishing My First Android App
That's a good point. So far most of the top songs just shuffle between each other. New songs start appearing towards the bottom of the list. Maybe a "random" feature could help with this?
The big question is how anyone else competes with a device that sells at a loss. This is a problem for Apple, but it's death for anyone else trying to sell a 7" tablet. Given the economics, it'll take a competitor with serious content chops - maybe Sony could put together an Amazon Prime/Netflix-like content package to compete?
Why Steve Jobs Loved Adobe Flash (2010 RDM Revisit)
Humans tend to have opinions even for things that they do not buy. And their opinions can be of more interest/use when they have to do with massively popular products.
SEM Cubed
Get some clients through your network. Freelancing sites are pretty awful. Start with something you know you can figure out how to do, make sure you have enough time to learn on the job (pad your deadline), and take on a new challenge with each job. Don't be afraid to turn down a job that is too tough - sometimes there just isn't enough time, billable or otherwise, to learn something on the job.
They mean:

Unlimited WiFi usage. Since EVERYTHING is routed through wifi whenever possible, you can call, text, browse without any alternative usage patterns.

Also no overages. However if you are a very heavy user, they will terminate your contract in favor of just directing you to another plan.

Here's the kicker: This may be good enough for say 30% of people. So why not. It may not be for you, or it may.
If they're selling the Fire at a loss, how are they going to destroy the iPad in terms of profit. Mind you I ordered a fire, so I hope to see it succeed.
We built references to help solve this problem. You can get references from anyone and their followers will be notified. You should only ask for references from people you already know well. We ban people who spam investors (or anyone), asking for references. We're also working on other tools to help the disconnected get connected.
Sorry about that ;-) The upside is that it's a short name so it saves you typing.
Minimalistic universal monitoring
I think the tactile response is important. I see the ipad falling at the extreme end of the response spectrum: glass, unweighted cheap keyboards, weighted keyboards, cheap piano, Steinway. Reconfigurability is important, but I suspect that expressive performance is improved by that interplay of position and resistance.
As I understand it, strictly speaking the old iOS devices did have something taken away from them when Apple pulled the Siri app from the App Store.
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Our Client is looking for amazing engineers to join their team and build products that will be used daily by millions of Americans to guide the decisions of our elected officials. Specifically, they're looking for individuals with a focus on creating back-end systems that can scale to millions of users. If you like to architect systems, have a background in low-level languages, and like working on the database and business logic layers then we want to hear from you. Our team is comprised of top design, front-end, and industry talent. We're backed by investors with a solid track record picking winners. Our market is $10B, has grown 25% yearly for fifty years, and is undergoing massive disruption right now.
In short, they're looking for amazing people to join their great team in a huge market solving tough problems that will be used by millions to change the world -- and we play Starcraft. What more could you ask for?
Their technical challenges aren't easy, and neither is joining their team. But if you think you have what it takes we'd love to hear from you.

What they're looking for:

We are looking for backend engineers. We want persons who have worked on low-level languages, have architected systems, or otherwise have built things from scratch that scaled. If you think elegant, well-documented code is as beautiful as anything you'd find in a museum then you're the type of person we want.

We are not looking for accidental hackers. We want people who have written their own framework, rather than used one to create a website. We don't specifically require a CS degree, but we generally expect to see one in a backend engineer. A great candidate will be able to point to a body of work used by others or accepted pull requests on Github (ie, not just lots of forks.) Inflated titles like CTO are not impressive to us; a well-followed blog or project is.

Above all, we want A players. Our standards are very, very high but we are at the very early stages and want high-quality talent that will attract other high-quality talent.

We are a Python/Django shop. We trust the right engineer will not have a problem switching to these but without knowledge of either the hiring process will be very difficult.

Tools

We don't have religion on tools. Our basic principle is to use the simplest tool that will get the job done. While things may change, you should have a good understanding of the following:

Amazon Web Services
EC2 for front-end servers
S3 for serving content
RDS for backend MySQL databases

Redis
Use for our newsfeed and other streams

Python
We use Django for our front-end CRUD
twisted (for our asynch API)

If you feel that you meet these requirements, please drop me a line at aaron.lara@zelos.com or call me at 925-300-7524
Erlang for C# Developers
I like that that the font actually adjusts appropriately when using zoom-in/zoom-out, but it would be nice if the width of the playback div would also narrow to stay within the browser's width zooming in.

I would also appreciate if you used a heavier font weight, or permitted changing the font easily. It's a bit thin-looking and not easily taken in, at least for my eyes.

This could also have applications in tutoring and teaching writing.
Quality is also your stuff running on anyone's computer, and not depending on a big company that has the power to kill your stuff and force you to rewrite it.
Agreed. And Molehill will be powering a majority of iOS games lonnnnng before WebGL games are playable in Safari.
Thanks. On my iPad, the original link seems to go into an infinite redirect loop. I doubt I missed much.
Vimeo HTML5 player does NOT autoplay.
That demographic also includes people who run their own routers for their home network. My modem issues a single IP to a gateway box of my own, for example.
I don't think presenting a retro platformer (which, FWIW, crawls here in FF 8) really argues your case much. Why should developers go back to making simpler games to get adequate HTML5 performance when they could develop directly for the target platform and use the hardware to its full potential?
There's two kinds of design: 1) visual design that's about aesthetics. 2) UX design which is how well something works.

A usable site that is a bit ugly will win over a great looking one that confuses the user. Craigslist is the best example of this, it doesn't look great, but millions of people use it. Foursquare wasn't as pretty as Gowalla, but it won because it was a better game - becoming mayor was more engaging than dropping teddy bears.

BCC was well designed in that it delivered exactly what people were looking for. Sure, it may convert better if it looked better, but it was successful nonetheless. But the whole point is that Patrick has learned that visual design also matters, which is why appointment reminder looks better.
Learn to exploit. I have 94 slaves.
No. I think individual fingers are actually less precise than manipulating an object with the whole hand. For one, it's hard to see what's under your fingertip, whereas a stylus can be very thin. You're able to use more muscles and apply leverage, which reduces jitter and improves precision. Barring anatomical changes, I suspect external implements will be around for specialized work for some time.
My productivity today tanked. I am ROFL. These are amazing.
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