skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't test "personal" code on IE9. I couldn't if I wanted to: the only Windows license I have is for XP which I have running on my main desktop. At some point I might upgrade to 7 (unless before then I decide to live without games and switch to Linux on the desktop instead of moving to another Windows version) but that won't be until I next rebuild that machine. All my other computing resources run Linux in some form or another.

Perhaps the author of this code is in a similar position, and has no Windows Vista/7 installs to test via IE9 with? It doesn't matter how decent IE9 is, if it won't run on your current platforms.

Testing on Chrome, Firefox and Opera is more universally easy as their latest desktop releases will run on Linux, OSX and XP+.

If a missing or malformed DOCTYPE is an issue then that is not IE9's fault, but you can't criticise the author for not explicitly testing on IE9 if he/she can't do so.
Requiring iOS 5 - A response to Marco Arment
Note: if you pass the qualifier you need to provide a Skype id to register for the challenge itself.
> t's all about having the fastest, shiniest, device. And if you can't keep up or deliver ever demanding performance increases, you die.

It's not even about that. It's about something usable and working as expected. I have an Android smartphone (LG P350) with bundled Facebook and Twitter, both of which I never use because they're too heavy for the phone. They barely work, they hang up for minutes, and crash my homescreen. And if I try to sync them, it usually ends with me taking the battery out after few minutes of staring at shining screen of a totally non-responsive (hardware buttons included) phone. Not to mention that once or twice an incoming call was too heavy for that phone to handle, => battery removal operation necessary.

Next time before choosing Android, I'll carefully test current devices, and switch to iPhone if I ever find a trace of UI lag.
Show HN: My first xbox 360 game, piniq
I think I mentioned in the past that I was working on an Xbox 360 game, and now, it's finally here! Hope some of you guys check it out and have fun with it. I had fun making it. Also, it's most fun playing with another human.

If you have any feedback after playing it, feel free to share. I intend to patch it after I find out what people think.

http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/piniq/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d80258550a04
37signals, when will you learn? You need to put up a LaunchRock lander, tell us little to no information about what you're doing and make us think you hate users enough to never let anybody in.
I'm pretty sure their chances are just fine. :) They are still making hires which I'm pretty sure they wouldn't do if they saw their company declining. Also trello and asana attract very different markets of customers I'm sure compared to 37signals core demographic. Take a look at the featured customer videos at basecamphq.com. It's wedding planners, brand design, a self help firm. Not software developers who seem to be the folks gravitating to trello and asana.
> Automation is incapable of "judgement;" automation consistently and reliably responds to inputs according to pre-defined instructions.

Where are you getting this definition of "automation" from?

As far as I'm concerned, an automatic system is simply one that require little or no direct human control.
Mark Cuban Broke, Cheap or Desperately Seeking Attention?
Be warned, if you want to sign up for the real challenge, you need a Skype account and a computer with a working mic. I don't have one at work, so guess I don't get to try.
Can you explain why Mars's magnetic field is so weak? Or why it is "defective"?
The one thing still holding back cloud computing: Server huggers?
The MemShrink team, having hit all their obvious targets in Firefox itself, are now reaching out to extension authors to help them fix their own memory problems. Firebug, being a major extension used by millions of people, is on the receiving end of this help already. There are several fixes committed into the 1.9 beta branch that reduce overall consumption, and I’m sure more will follow.
Hardly it
Seriously, FB, do you have no QA whatsoever?

I wonder whether this is limited to photos in the profile album, or whatever it is called, these days.

EDIT: I'll add this suggestion that I've made before, since you're going to have a LOT of people wanting to delete photos, if this problem proves to be significant. Delegate someone to spend a few hours writing a routine that will replace a cached photo with an identically sized, all white (or black, blue, whatever), no metadata generated image. So, you don't have to rebuild your image caches in order to ensure that a photo is really gone (well, except for the fact that it once existed, as demonstrated by the working URL and white image).

I've read the excuse made in the past that aggressive, large, integrated image caches made actual photo deletion "not an option". As long as you can overwrite existing bits in place, this should solve that. (Although I don't know about all the tagging you've now since overlaid onto the images.)
If you read my post again, you'll see I said "lots of things like this" haven't been tested in IE9. It wasn't a personal attack on the author. Just a remark that it's unfortunate that despite the canvas support in IE9, a large amount of these sorts of things that get linked from HN don't work in the browser.

The reasons behind that I'm sure are numerous and valid for a lot of people, but they don't make it any less annoying for me as a regular IE9 user.
Lightning fast apps, the Instagram way
* Yes, Individual properties should have been reflected in the url.
Actually if you type in the property in the search box it is creating a url which does the work, but clicking on a property is not making the link.
Hope they'll refine it a bit.
As others have remarked in this thread, their products are maintenance and UX nightmares, and their sales and legal departments operate on the basis of "do lots of evil".

I suppose it was an exaggerated choice of term, but I was trying to set aside the specific issue of SAP to talk about the somewhat broader issue of how the tech community often finds technology boring if it doesn't appear in the form of a consumer app.
couldn't make myself pass the bloodsucking reg form (it has more than 2 fields :), so didn't even see that it is python.
Because it doesn't have a liquid magnetic core that rotates in a way that creates a magnetic field. It's clear that at one point Mars did have a system similar to Earth's, but it stopped and nobody knows why. The theory is that one of the large collusions early in Mars' planetary formation caused surface heat that disrupted the convection of the magnetic dynamo. http://www.universetoday.com/30538/was-mars-magnetic-field-b...
Agreed. You don't need huge amounts of protein if your main goal is weight loss or health (as opposed to muscle gain).... There are way too many of these 'fitness' people out there who think that everyone should eat as much protein as possible and aim their body towards being a mountain of underutilised muscle (apparently this counts as 'fitness' in some circles).....

Protein is fine, but you don't need an awful lot of it to lose weight. A little muscle gain can be helpful to make sure you can exercise more, but you can achieve this on a pretty low-protein diet anyway.
Quick & dirty hour marks:

--- pixelclock.html.orig	2011-12-06 16:40:56.000000000 +0000
+++ pixelclock.html	2011-12-06 16:39:43.000000000 +0000
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
var inpos = (y*width*4);
for (var x = 0; x < width; x++) {
var color = (y*width)+x < elapsed ? low : high;
+ if (y % (3600/width)) { color = (color+128)/2; }
imageData.data[inpos++] = r;
imageData.data[inpos++] = g;
imageData.data[inpos++] = b;
I'm currently taking a class in managing SAP ERP systems, and noticed how really bad it is. The user interface for end users is absolutely abysmal. Like some other people here have pointed out it doesn't scale very well.

There are a couple open source ERP products, Compiere which is technically open source but uses a service model. However, the most interesting open source ERP is by far Openbravo. If you're question about other options was serious, you should look into using Openbravo: http://www.openbravo.com/about-us/
Really? The only times I've had to phone paypal were when they started enforcing transaction holds on the account attached to eBay (despite having 100% REAL positive feedback on the account i've had since 2002) and I called to ask what the fuck they were smoking. Got no information what so ever.

It's impossible to get ahold of anyone who speaks understandable english, or can do anything other than apologize and make excuses for shitty, shady business practices.

All of the power of the bank with none of the responsibility.

Just say no!

(bitter? me?)
Bootbox.js - alert, confirm and flexible dialogs for Twitter's bootstrap
When it comes to Comic Sans, this monologue cracks me up every time: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole
These clean and crisp ideas are dangerous if you just repeat them (news stories, cocktail parties, management retreats), but not if you use them as a way to evaluate your other ideas, plans and so on.
I do agree completly with how annoying these things get, like your long tail example, when repeated so often.
Watching Entrepreneurs Fail
If you want to hate your job, IT may be the field for you
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Does anyone else read the url as "do chub"? DocHub.io might be a better way of presenting the URL.
We're already living in one :)
I'm not sure it's worse (or better) to think "I'm halfway to 4000 weekends" than "I'm half way to 76 years"?
Yes, give me tips on _how_ I can get into getting involved with SAP development.

I have done plenty of integration with SAP in terms of processing IDOCs and I understand some of the business processes in SAP on the manufacturing side - but how can I go beyond that and understand SAP even more.

http://www.sapremotelyaccess.com/ - this site provides SAP on a hard drive, do you think it's legal? I'm guessing not!
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The article you linked is so much better that the one we discuss, there's no comparison.
The law says corporations are people; it's called corporate personhood. It doesn't apply in all cases, but it does confer to them many rights that an individual is considered to have.
1) The community is open to the public: http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/index -> Not a member? -> Public User
2) The main platform can be downloaded here: http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/nw-downloads -> Choose a developer edition Application Server. You can also find and download a trial of gateway, (mobile platform) business objects, (analytic) etc if you look around. I'm actually not so familiar with whats actively available these days.
3) johnappleby is probably better qualified to answer this question at this point but I will tell you to look into SAPlink since its considered the "open source enabler" of SAP http://code.google.com/p/saplink/ you can also check out the enterprise geeks, good light-hearted site for SAP content http://enterprisegeeks.com/blog/projects/

I built a framework for integrating data between SAP's cloud offering and their on premise solutions but after unsuccessfully trying to opensource it in collaboration with SAP (a frustrating experience) I pretty much stopped my community activities. That experience sucked a lot of the SAP enthusiasm out of me but I have watched the company get much better over the last 2 years and I am in talks about getting involved in an another open source project sometime in the next few months.
Yes, but the Venn diagram of them and serious nmap users probably looks like a figure 8.
If you don't have time to bother to learn about a topic, why do you assume you are more knowledgable on it than people who do spend their time studying the topic at hand? Your theory boils down to "Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can't explain that." You can "take apart" as many papers as you want to maintain your ignorance, but all you do is make yourself irrelevant to the discussion.

If you want to "prove" that the disparity is due to men and women experiencing different cultural dynamics in male-dominated spaces (which is why research regarding male-dominated scientific fields and financial firms are relevant to the question at hand) all you need is the Census Bureau's labor statistics. The interesting research questions are what specific dynamics are at play and how we can disrupt them.

Lest you assume my contemptuous response to your willful ignorance can be ignored due to a [citation needed] tag, one paper that perhaps offers more of the background you are looking for would be the FLOSSPOLS overview of their gender-related findings in Open Source communities: http://www.flosspols.org/deliverables/FLOSSPOLS-D16-Gender_I... For background on the mechanisms involved on a micro level I'd suggest the book Thinking, Fast and Slow, and on a more macro level specifically regarding gender, I recommend Pink Brain, Blue Brain.

If you want to claim that the highly statistically-unlikely and culturally-variable gender disparities in pay, promotion and participation are not due to sexist dynamics, you need to provide both an alternative theory and evidence to support it. Given that the only evidence required to prove that sexist behavior is present in technical spaces are the comments to this article, the burden of proof is on those who disregard the published research on the topic and claim those behaviors are either isolated aberrations or have no effect on women's willingness to be employed in the field.
Moving fast and breaking things.
I agree. Productivity is not about working hard, is about working smart. Spend your time on the right tasks.
I'd like to see the results of a survey where the only question was "Would you like to see very unpleasant vigilante justice perpetrated on the executive staff of banks involved in the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008?"

I think you're underestimating the degree of bloodthirstiness. I sometimes wonder if Occupy Wall Street wouldn't play better with Middle America if they dropped the whole Gandhi-worship PR schtick (which Middle America seems, by and large, to despise rather than admire) and more openly advocated violence against investment bankers, specifically.
It might be anecdotal, but it isn't just a talking point. I told you – I've done these deals for a living for more than 10 years. It's about the difference between what was promised by the sales team, and what was delivered, and who's left holding the bag.
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Maybe I'm missing something obvious but... what does it do?
Is it me or the choice of font in this website makes terribly hard to read the article. I m using google chrome btw.(I think it's http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Oswald)
From casual observation they have a few strong opinions which seem to be based on their experiences and requirements up to that point but which change when their requirements change.

I've no issue with that - as your knowledge changes your opinions should be open to change. You could knock them for having strident opinions they later modify but I'd rather be grateful that they are willing to share and learn publicly as that way everyone has the chance to learn with them.
It doesn't seem to be working in IE8 at all for me. Like blank page except for the feedback button on the right.
I couldn't agree more. Providing a great UX is what led Instagram to the top, and speed is a key player, as much as design itself.
When do you guys recommend applying for a summer internship by? Stripe look awesome, would love more information!
World’s first Android 4.0 tablet- Ainol NOVO7. Any reviews?
What I got from this is that this guy does not have any passion for typography at all. It's a job title for him.
It used to be I only thought the day passed slowly. But now I can visualize it.

... I hate you.
let's put it this way:

on any large german airport you currently get met with large billboards by IBM, advertising their urgent need for SAP consultants.

SAP is the backbone of the large tech consulting industry.

and no, you cannot compare it to facebook. like comparing a tv station to a manufacturing company.
Where would I see more about the summer internship opportunities? And when would you recommend applying by?
I don't disagree that the sales team promises a lot more than is even possible very often.

But almost all ERP systems fail? I still cannot get behind this. You're saying in 10 years the vast majority of deals you've done with ERP have failed?

If that's really true, perhaps you should do something differently. I work with many successful ERP systems. I actually haven't worked with any failures, although of course I'm aware of them because of people like you who tell me.

I trust your experience, but at the same time, it's very different than my own.
Stop Launching Shitty MVPs in Competitive Markets
EU Investigates Apple, Others for eBook Price Fixing
Tracy Postert, Occupy Wall Street Protester, Takes Job On Wall Street
i made this clock 6 years ago that was just 2 pixels wide:

http://jcs.org/notaweblog/2005/06/28/pixelclock/

it draws little notches along the right side of the screen, one for every hour, with green ones for special times (lunch, or time to leave). a yellow square just moves down the side of the screen as the day progresses.
'Steve Jobs' Becomes Amazon's Best-Selling Book of 2011
Some things are impossible to have domain knowledge for, because they aren't actually saying anything. They only exist to sound smart. Case in point, this gem from post-modernist Judith Butler:

"The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power."
A Gentle Introduction to Python - CEH - Saher Team
Also this approach breaks keyboard navigation and accessibility. It is almost as bad as Flash.
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Quoting to the Linux programmers/sysadmins, or quoting to the companies?
It is not necessarily a rewrite. It may be a fork of the existing product. All the page really hints at is some dramatic changes to the interface.
Trying to understand SAP processes is an incredibly difficult task to take on, especially as an outsider, and I'm not sure whats available in the form of relevant business modules for a developer edition license which would make it even tougher. My recommendation is to try to get a better understanding of whatever tables are involved in the area you're dabbling in and then create ways to integrate with them.

As far as integration goes, IDOCs are definitely a good start. You can also look into exposing things from Netweaver by creating web services using the ICF node http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70ehp1/Helpdata/EN/55/33a83e37...
Theres also gateway and PI for integrating into SAP.
It seriously makes me wonder how these guys have survived so long without making any changes. It's the same today as when I had an account 6 years ago. It's basic and functional.

Game changer my arse, it's about time they changed it!
...and its only a matter of time before the simulated world creates their own simulation...

But I wonder how many simulations deep we are now???
Show HN: My Simple Clock Radio iPhone App
Yes, but I was looking for someone who maybe did a model on the quantitative effects of low gravity vs. low magnetosphere. There is no doubt that this effect exists (even my "opponent" conceded that), but I believe it's the dominant effect whereas some physicists apparently don't think so.

More specifically, all the material I can find seems to regard the lack of a magnetosphere as the dominant effect as well. Only this certain physicist suggested to me all this was a mere layman's explanation and that real astrophysicists "know" it's all about gravity instead. That kind of set off my bullshit alarm...
It is on the front page of Hacker News? ;)
They're constantly supportive, always helpful, never intrusive. The best.
How long does it take to type in a gibberish mailinator address and a password?
Spotting Technology Trends (and industry myths)
This comment totally made my day.

You know, sometimes there are times where you can't really articulate your feelings; but then coming across something you say "oh, that's exactly what I thought/felt/meant". That's how I felt while reading your 2nd paragraph :)
At least in the US, you don't need significant amounts of capital to open a merchant account. There is more paperwork, but then again merchant banks don't engage in the shenanigans that PayPal seems to do with alarming regularity.
From my perspective as a former tech journalist, Sean nails the key points. Keep it short, sweet and remember that journalists see dozens of pitches per day -- your startup doesn't deserve press because it's your baby. It needs to stand on its own merits.

I have one additional thing to add, and this is important: build relationships with journalists BEFORE you need them. Build a friendship, ask for their advice, meet them for coffee, comment on their work. When the time comes and you're pitching your startup...you're going to be in a far better position and be far more likely to get covered.

The other alternative: have somebody the journalist knows well introduce you.
I've long known that excessive context switching dampens my productivity, but how else am I supposed to take my job seriously and give my side projects a shot? :/
Not to be a big nerd, but I couldn't help thinking of the Ted Leo + Pharmacists Song "Me and Mia" while reading this. Particularly the line:

> Sick to death of my dependence, fighting food to find transcendence

> Fighting to survive, more dead but more alive

It's an often under-acknowledged aspect of those who struggle with obesity that many of the same impulses and issues underly over-eating and under-eating.

As someone who has both struggled with obesity my whole life and been drawn to fasting and extremity in fighting that goal, I would add one, very specific warning:

Rarely is self-deprivation the right way to fight addiction, depression, or lack of self-esteem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider also a favorite.
So I take it you're placing the blame with the SEC, and not the notion of financial regulations in general? I think a lot of people do believe that the financial sector has a lot to answer for that it still hasn't answered since 2008. The SEC does seem to be taking advantage of that by implying that an us vs. them situation exists between it and the financial sector.

That being said, if the SEC believes that stiffer penalties need to be put in place because the leadership there honestly believes that the financial system is out of control, is that really so bad? So what if it's in the context of a press hit? Isn't that how organizations all talk to the public today, anyway?

I do agree with you that judicial oversight is most certainly necessary. If you get a traffic ticket you can take it to a traffic court, even. Why should it be so different in the case of securities violations?
Right, but you as the BUYER would have to do that. The seller cannot. So in this case OP would have to send you some random person's address - also extremely sketchy and worth freezing the account.