skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe they could invest in another country (though, of course, you need to know some people you can trust in said country!).

Here in Uruguay, you could get 10 startups started with 100k. I guess the same in India and other countries.
Great idea, the style pop-up doesn't always close in FF. But there you have it.
One bug I've found: selecting more than a line and applying bold or italics is not reversible. (Win7 x32, Chrome 15.0.874.121)
It's a completely odd decision for someone to make. "I'm going to run this bleeding edge, open-source app framework, but I can't figure out EC2 and Windows makes me feel safe at night."

When you ask someone, "Why Node?", it seems like a complete mismatch with Azure.

Node is pretty bare-metal, and you can figure that out, but hosting on EC2 Linux is too hard for you? Node is bleeding edge, but you want an "enterprise-ready" server OS? Node is free to use, but you want the additional costs of paying Windows server licenses over time? You can get approval to run Node apps, but you're only approved to run on Windows in production? I'm not seeing what would make someone say "this Node app should run on Microsoft".
I guess I tend to have the opposite view, that the European systems tend to focus on drilling facts and highly regimented exam- and track-based advancement structures, while the U.S. system produces more creative students and more flexibility (and more entrepreneurs and inventions). But then neither of us are citing data. =]

edit: Though I suppose "European" probably needs to be further qualified, because my understanding is that the Scandinavian systems are in many ways even more liberal than the American one, with a strong emphasis on students' autonomy to co-direct their own education.
Actually, Wladimir's incentives are now aligned precisely with mine - to provide a means for me to not have to see all the noisy, obtrusive crap but still support websites providing me with free content in general (note: this means whitelists are -not- sufficient for me, and blacklists would be overly irritating to maintain).

In fact, as a result of this article I've just installed AdBlock Plus for the first time since it now does, by default, exactly what I've always wanted in a blocking tool - and I appreciate as a feature the fact that it required exactly zero configuration to do so.
The Power of Mortality
I think the point is that there's a difference between 'obvious statistical evidence' and 'non-obvious statistical evidence.' Often the results of statistics can be counterintuitive due to issues like sample size, confidence intervals, etc.
This may be the best example I have ever seen of a great idea that has been completely destroyed by a horrible choice of implementation.
6 Stellar Pieces of Open Source Software
In my experience managers will look at the statistics and delegate discovering and solving of the why. In big companies statistics are gold (and very very simple) because the managers don't understand the why. It's a chain of delegation based on "Key Performance Indicators" that ultimately leads to the people who know how to discover & fix the problem. This bottom up approach may work in reactionary & manufacturing environments but it fails in most other areas. Startups mean the fixers have to self-manage.
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UW alum here.

Back in the day 1987-1991 (started when I was 16) it was still challenging to get in - but not this retentive.
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You're absolutely right. Developing for multiple browsers is just so damn tedious. For experimental stuff like this I stick to webkit.
Native useragent spoofing comes to Chrome
You seem to be quoting the terms for the iTunes Store. The terms are confusing (because they throw all their various Stores and their different terms in one long document), so quoting the wrong part of the terms is hardly your fault.

The Mac App Store seems to have different terms for non-commercial and commercial use. Here are the terms for non-commercial use:

If you are an individual acting in your personal capacity, you may download and use an application from the Mac App Store (“Mac App Store Product”) for personal, non-commercial use on any Apple-branded products running Mac OS X (“Mac Computer”) that you own or control.

tl;dr: If you are not an enterprise, you can download apps for non-commercial use and install them on all Macs you own or control.

Here are the terms for commercial use:

If you are a commercial enterprise or educational institution, you may download a Mac App Store Product for use by either (a) a single individual on each of the Mac Computer(s) used by that individual that you own or control or (b) multiple individuals on a single shared Mac Computer that you own or control. For example, a single employee may use a Mac App Store Product on both the employee’s desktop Mac Computer and laptop Mac Computer, or multiple students may serially use a Mac App Store Product on a single Mac Computer located at a resource center or library. For the sake of clarity, each Mac Computer used serially by multiple users requires a separate license.

tl;dr: If you are an enterprise, you can download apps for commercial use and install them on all Macs you own and control as long as those Macs are also only used by a single person. You can alternatively install the app on a single Mac that is used by several people.

The terms are the same for commercial and non-commercial use, the only difference is that companies can also use their license as a single-Mac license (which can be used by as many people as they want).
Alternatively, use a viewport meta tag to set the minimum and maximum zoom to 0.5
The same stuff happened at electrical/computer engineering departments in the late 80's. It is not a tragedy. It just means that lots of kids and/or their parents have gotten the meme that computer science is "hot". The universities are justified in not attempting to satisfy these fluctuations on short time scales.
This seems like a shallow assessment of the use of statistics.

The author is absolutely right in this sense:

> In the first example [involving a low percentage of employed females compared to females in the general population], we are asked to reason by correlation and simile. Because something occurs at one rate in one place, we are asked whether or not a similar thing should occur somewhere else. No, the math does not say with certainty one way or another.

The math does not say with certainty that there is a management problem...but no single statistic will assert that for any situation, not even situation B. The point is is that that statistic, combined with other aggregations (what is the % of women in the local population? What is the % of women in comparable companies?) may lead us to assert that there is a management problem.

Just because the problem is one that is particularly political does not mean that the inference from statistics is invalid.
Move out, or better, move abroad. There are a ton of fun places out there to see, live, make friends. The time away from your scene will probably help you reassess what you care about.
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You could always a) white-list pages where you do not want ads to be blocked and b) decide on the ads to block yourself.
Tiny robot mice may be the future of AI
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Are there really algorithms for judging the truth? I think the closest we can get is heuristics for identifying whether or not something is being actively deceptive, but it's a big epistemological leap to say that we can definitely determine truth in an algorithmic way.

Google is very good in these situations, but Google has a hard time differentiating between a popular movement and a single determined astroturfer. I'm sure Google would rather display a commitment to good journalism ("You want to know about topic X? Here's what people are saying about it.") rather than a pursuit of the truth, at least when it comes to organic results.
I'm his girlfriend (gplus.to/ckelly) and I work in the gaming industry. I started dating Kenton when the house was just blueprints, and I've had the privilege of seeing it come to life and even helping with some of the wiring, etc. It's a damn fine house, let me tell you (even with the challenge of stringing HDMI cables through the walls).
Does it need structural options?

At work, I'm supposed to change a lot of our existing websites over to "Wordpress CMS" because it'll make it easier for the admin staff to modify the website, for updates and such.

The problem is, they need to locate the login then they need to remember their account info, then they need to find the right page they want to modify, then they have to do a bunch of other clicks to get what they want.

Unfortunately, this tends to go woosh right over a lot of heads, and therefore stuff simply doesn't get updated - they send the 'update' via email to IT.

The cool thing about this createjs thing, is that you design the website, you put up the content and you have a simple login form. Everything is editable by clicking and typing directly from the site you're looking at.

I'm sure it'll help in situations like mine, for sure.
Forget Apps, Create Libs
Huh? It has links to documentation, about, jobs, a blog... that seems like a website to me. Moreover, what use is a "landing page" for a technical tool that doesn't immediately get you the information you need to actually use it?

I don't really understand the value in the distinction you're trying to make.
Concrete5 (a CMS) has a main feature lot like this. Worth checking out for those not looking to reinvent the wheel.

http://www.concrete5.org
Another issue I've seen in the past is that management by statistics can lead to settling at local maxima. More extreme a/b tests can reveal said state.
He thinks things are complicated now, just wait till he takes a look at espresso machines !
The earliest that sentient life could develop is probably ~5 billion years after the big bang. So you should only count the last 9 billion years. :D
(I'm basing it off of: 1 billion years for a star to form & explode to provide the heavier elements needed for a rocky planet. Another 1 billion years for a new solar system to form, another billion years for the rocky inner planet to cool off, another 1 billion for simple life to develop, and then another billion for intelligent life to develop.)
I find this comment really unfortunate. I suspect you'll find that, notwithstanding their love of the trade, musicians are just as interested in getting paid as the rest of us. Unfortunately, given high transaction costs (in the econ 101 sense), they're not very well positioned to negotiate better terms. The only way they get paid is if the music consumer purchases their product in a manner that benefits the artist. As the comments above indicate, Spotify is not it.
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There's another bug where if you click edit repeatedly in rapid succession, the green flash animation is queued and plays repeatedly.

I think this can be altered by calling stop() before animate()? But it's been a bit since I worked with jQuery.
1% of CMS-Powered Sites Expose Their Database Passwords
That’s some selective quoting right there. The terms for commercial use are right under what you are quoting and virtually identical to the terms for non-commercial use.

See also my other comment where I still assumed that you made a mistake and were not selectively quoting: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3344535
BandCamp.com charges $0 to listen to streaming songs, but charges to download.

It seems to have a pretty sustainable business model.
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Well, I can give you a different take on the same idea. http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-033
Yeah, that's true, but the less I have to think about the issue the better.
Unless it's in a text of law, it's not legitimate.

This is not correct. There's always some degree of ambiguity, and as the Courts hear cases that test those ambiguities, those precedents -- known as "case law" -- effectively become part of the law, even though they're not in the text.
Why Facebook is interested in your attention, emotions, memory
The usual equation for startups is "This has a small chance to change the world." Fiddling around with the non-world-changing outcomes is premature optimization, since the best exits come from failing to change the world and merely creating a viable business (look at Paypal; they wanted to upend the world's financial system, and instead they had a billion-plus exit facilitating Beanie Baby trades).

The median is more representative of what a founder's expected financial return is, but many folks aren't optimizing for that. If they are, you need to look at the off-balance-sheet asset: the six-figure job offer from Google, FB, MS, Yahoo, etc. etc. etc. that is generally available to people of the viable startup-starting caliber.

Since the mean startup return is so driven by a small number of massively successful outliers, it makes economic sense that the median outcome will not look so great. (If startups presented a good chance of being as good as the next best option, plus a small chance of F-U money, nobody would work anywhere else.)
If I wanted to have the great firewall of America
Proper lexical scoping in Python.
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Opinions can be well-supported or completely unfounded.
The Future of Healthcare in the US
You're ascribing Facebook's tendencies to someone else. Why?
What about handlersocket for MySQL ? you can have the joins and relations there if you need them.
My employee #1 was not the first or the second person I hired. I tried and failed a lot in finding the right person. I even made the biggest mistake of all of using a recruiter.
What eventually worked for my company was someone straight out of college, with no previous experience, but that is smart and has the right small company culture.

This whole process was hard, but I learned a lot.I now have developers solve a small problem by writing code in a technology/language they don't master. If they know python, I give them a laptop with Visual Studio and tell them to solve the problem using .NET and C#, if they know Java and come from enterprise consulting, I give them a terminal window and python, if windows then linux, and so on. This gets them off their comfort zone and I can look for what I'm really looking: problem solving skills and being able to learn and pick up new things fast.

Another important thing is to be completely open about where your company stands: does it have money in the bank, does it have paying and happy customers, etc. I found that this scares away a lot of candidates, especially the ones coming from big companies, wanting to change their lives by working in a small company.
One downside the post doesn't cover is that these microgems aren't discoverable. You can't do a gem search for them. If these really take off, it'd be neat if there was a section on ruby-toolbox that was dedicated to microgems.
Nothing wrong with being contrarian, but this is just a cheap rhetorical tactic that turns a legitimate, specific debate into less useful clashing of egos and worldviews.

How is: "Well, look how the New York Times editorial board in 2003 incited the entire country into war"

...a legit rebuttal to: "A 2011 columnist for the New York Times points out that a blogger was primarily engaged in defamatory speech and so shouldn't be given the legal protections afforded to journalists." ?
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Your iterate function as written relies on a top-level define feature, which pure lambda calculus lacks (motivating the use of fixed-point combinators).
Small aside, "you're talking chinese" is a French colloquialism for not understanding someone. So the quote is quite apt in this case.
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Puruze Social Bookmarking
Puruze has just blown a few cob webs out and finished its spring clean before spring.

Another social bookmarking site; I mean seriously do we really need any more! Well take a look and see what you think. It's all pretty and ajaxed up to the hilt with fancy pants social webi-fying goodness. Safe for the whole family!
Pretty interesting, though the examples look better at the original 2x resolution on an iPhone. The resolution is so high that the single pixel borders almost disappear, losing the 3d effect.

CSS should accept decimal values for border width, like it already does for other properties.
I don't think the artists get a special role in creating copyright laws since effectively those laws are an abridgment of the freedom of speech. We can speak our minds on this issue without having to ask their permission.

Given the course of recent history (i.e. ever expanding copyright terms and regulation), I don't see that more consideration for artists is warranted.
didn't adobe do this? i can't remember what it was called though.. but it was similar - set up in browser editable areas on existing html
50 things killed by technology
Women don't want to play professional football
Is this a fact?

Why aren't there any women in football? Ok sure we would all agree that women are capable of playing football, with other women. Does the same fact apply to startups?

It's easy to ride the coat tails of political correctness. I'm sure you could find a couple of women that are more than capablle of playing professional football with the men. But this doesn't dismiss the fact that by and large most women are incapable of playing football, as are most men.

This also doesn't address the fact that most men are incapable of playing football. For example:

Most men are incapable of playing football, but the average male will be considerably better than the average female.

The best females, likewise, will be better than the average men or the bottom 95% of men.

The best men(top 5%) will be better than the best women.

In this situation even though there are women that are exceptional at football they would be a rarity in professional football.

Applying this to startups would sound treasonous to some people, but it may be reality. And if it is reality we are forced to accept it as fact rather than discrimination.
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Apple captures a third of the connected TV market
LetterPush is the result of my desire to learn Python and Django. It was a "night and weekend" project and I had a blast developing it. I also learned quite a bit about Celery, South migrations, SPIF and DKIM, Amazon SES and other interesting bits.

If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask here or my contact info in my profile.
Silverlight 5 released; will there be a Silverlight 6?
"Analyzing fiction is a guessing game at best"

You might be confusing the process of analyzing fiction and producing an analysis that demonstrates whatever a given English lit professor is looking for.

Though you might be also happy to know that such luminaries as C.S. Lewis think that analysis itself may be the wrong way to talk about stories -- that if you're doing it right, you you experience them more than you "analyze" them:

http://weston.canncentral.org/writing/index.php?2001/09/27/1...

It's certainly true that some professors (not just literature, but of any discipline in which there are subjective or aesthetic issues, which is arguably all of them) really don't have a sufficiently flexible view to accommodate thinking outside of the paths they've personally trodden.

But my experience is that a lot of literature people really just want to see that you've had some kind of experience with the work and are capable of articulating insights that you've connected from it.

"the problem with fiction is that the stories exist in a realm without rules (or incomplete rules, in the best case scenario)"

It's not clear to me that anybody lives in a realm with complete rules (unless some of them are inconsistent). And even if we are in fact located in such a place, I'd be willing to bet that nobody has anything resembling a complete model of the world in their heads.

"Analyzing fiction is a guessing game at best, and a completely naive, amateur attempt to perform psychoanalysis on dead authors at worst. Anyone who points this out will not fare well in such a class... take it from someone who learned firsthand."

I wasn't there, I have no way of telling whether or not you were as confrontational about the fundamental worthiness of an endeavor many people find deeply enriching and to which your prof had probably chosen to dedicate their life to as you seem to be here, or if you were simply unfortunate to take a course from someone who couldn't handle some any challenge let alone thoughtful deviation from accepted analysis is unfortunate, but I'd submit that in either case there was probably some opportunity for real education.

As for whether it's just a game: the universe may well be ultimately orderly, and the limited rationalism we're possessed of might even yield the tools to eventually encompass most of its secrets. But the universe most of us really inhabit -- the one made of the stories in our heads -- is a lot messier, and fiction and the tools of analyzing fiction can be as important in navigating it as logic is.
CAP Theorem applied to tokenization of credit cards
Every review I've seen has said it has poor user experience. In my 10 minutes holding one, it was janky, clunky, heavy and hot. ("I trust Amazon to fix it!" was the rallying cry of my friend.)

The interesting thing isn't that the UI/UX sucks, it's that this article in the New York Times.
The Reckoner asks: does it make sense to have WIDE monitors instead of TALL?
All the examples look mostly the same to me. I am mildly color-blind.
Why wouldn't node be suited for a "CRUD app"? I think it's not using node simply because what they have already works perfectly fine, there's no need to change it to a node powered system. Most of the main developers are also concentrating on actually developing node and probably have no time to do the switch.
>Most women also don't want to do physics, because they'd rather have babies, or so she's always been told.

Do you actually think this is not the case? The claimed causation seems weird, but it's clearly true that most women don't want to do physics (neither do most men, but even on top of that, certainly far fewer women than men want to). And I expect that most women want to have babies (though a lower percentage than those who don't want to do physics).

>And got passed over for a grant because she had a husband and therefore didn't need the money.

That sucks and is awful and wrong. I don't think it disproves the claim in the first sentence of your article though. Nor should it be justified thereby; your wife clearly does want to do physics if she's applying for grants, so it shouldn't apply to her.
“Minority Report” Style User Experience Coming to Your Home Soon?
OAuth 2.0 with Layer 7 Gateways, Tutorial 3: The Implicit Grant Type
Ask HN: Is Ad Agency experience perceived negatively?
Compared with the obvious examples of working at a Google, Facebook, big technology company, struggling startup, or having had an exit...is working at a big name Ad Agency (ex. Cripsen Porter, Chiat Day, Wieden Kennedy, etc) not perceived well within the startup community?

Even if you are highly technical and/or have a number of high profile projects in your portfolio. My sense is that the startup community, entrepreneurs, and VC's do not recognize - or at least are not aware of - the value.

Curious to hear HN's perspective....
Inventor Brings the Keyboard and Mouse to a New Generation
Please check out mercury editor. Much nicer and active development.

http://jejacks0n.github.com/mercury/

other notable and far more advanced (over create):

Aloha Editor http://www.aloha-editor.org/
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