skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With all due respect, both of your responses have been completely obnoxious. You seem to be taking some unmerited grizzled vet position that might sell to children, but here it reads like a junior developer talking tough.

See, we actually sell software as a service. Data security
for our clients isn't marketing, it is the absolutely lifeblood of the company (just as it is a critical principal for this industry). 37signals knows that it was a foolish oversight to casually comment on content trawling, which is a good sign. Your ridiculous arguments in their favor do no one any good.
cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?ix=hcb&sour...
True, I see a lot of these as well, and I don't care much either. This time however, they do have a "call to action", which is to call your representative. Now, I'm not a US-citizen either but from my understanding that's the best you can do as a normal person.
Coderacer: interactive coding game from the treehouse team
Handling CSS Transitions with prepareTransition
Beeminder: Anti-akrasia goal tracking with commitment contracts
It's straightforward math, the hardest part is coming up with a width for China (I ended up using an approximation of 5,000 km), all of the other figures are on wikipedia (radius of Saturn's orbit, size of the milky way). Also, if you want to be super lazy you can get google to convert units for you:

https://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=2.87+billion+km...
> They are trying to push certain technologies into certain directions under the cover of opensource

This is kind of a ridiculous statement, I'm sorry. The very definition of opensource precludes any kind of cover. The critical piece of "embrace, extend, extinguish" is the extinguish, and by being opensource that isn't possible.

Google is pushing technologies in certain directions, as other commenters have noted, but it lacks a threat because the second Google does something evil with their proprietary tech, it either gets forked or replaced.
It is quite annoying, if you say want to move a meeting to next Tuesday you have to work out the date, as you get no day of week indicator. And changing date and also time involves two pickers. Every time I use it I wonder if it could be improved...
It does, but even if you don't fill in your password, you'll receive an email welcoming you back, canceling the account deletion request.
Heh, I find myself doing almost exactly that. Funny thing is I usually browse HN for posts about task management. I really get satisfaction from checking things off and definitely benefit from prioritizing myself, but does anyone here have any tips on how to manage things in such a way as to not want to trash everything and start from scratch pretty regularly?
Instead of going dark Google should go to a page explaining SOPA then after a period of time redirect to what the user was searching for. That way there won't be huge implications for the economy, and the user is forced to confront what SOPA means.
Massive Akamai LDS outage
Akamai log delivery failed about 5pm EST on Monday, and only yesterday did they send this mail to cumstomers:

The LDS deliveries are still delayed. We will start delivering queued logs from approx. 1700 UTC Jan 11. Based on the current backlog volume, we expect to be back to normal processing time from Jan 14.

Please note that you may see delays in routine deliveries till Jan 14th.

This issue only affects the Log Delivery Service. All other Akamai services are working as expected.
So you're saying that iTunes and Amazon have no future? If content is really good people will pay for it (example: HBO) and if content has no quality (example: your best friend tweeting a photo of their lunch) then it's worthless.
From Italy To Attention
>Have you ever supported a product that has external users?

And if an apartment dweller had a plumbing leak, the landlord would enter their apartment and fix the leak. They would access on a need basis. They wouldn't do casual sneak and peeks and then post analysis on the entry door that seven residents have bongs in their living rooms.

Seriously, though, mechanisms to deal with exception situations, such as customer support, has nothing to do with "looking because it made for a fun blog post".

I only engage in this conversation because this is important for many HNers -- spin all the justifications you want, or blame users (a good attitude that guarantees business failure), however this was a serious blunder that other businesses should look to avoid.

Even if you do casually trawl the data of your users, for the love of all things unholy don't talk about it.
Something else worth mentioning is the 'cargo cult cofounder'. In other words, "I read that you're supposed to have one, so I'd better get one".
It compiles to over 100MB according to the description. If you have the memory, I would try it out anyways.
Toura Mulberry hits 0.3; new installer, features, store, PhoneGap 1.3
I've only used an Android phone once for 5 min (my Mom got one for Christmas), but that was enough to run into Back button confusion.

My assumption was that it would take me up the stack, since when I entered the Mail program and navigated down, Back took me back up. But when I entered from some other place (like the settings app) then back wouldn't take me up to inboxes.

I'm sure it would have made more sense if I realized it was a system-wide Back and not an app-only Back.
Really? Sed? Me thinks they should TRy harder ;-)
The end of the carrier subsidy
Yeah. Don't even think about it. The company should own all relevant IP.
(Better) Tabs with Round Out Borders
I suppose you could partner with learning organizations that want a fast and simple way to search reference materials.
You can drag them.

See my other comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3458159
None of these books will help for the major issues or challenges confronting investors in 2012. Any one of the half-dozen plus major issues would or could in any other normal year result in a major financial crisis and/or recession.

The books that could help would include tips such as significant diversification of risk, having more in short-term cashable assets (excluding Euro debt), cash in more than one currency (and probably not much in euros), reducing debt & credit card levels, bank balances in more than one bank & preferably more than one country too and be ready to sell equity, or even buy or re-buy, on any given market day.

This is just a short list, more could be added to it, but many of these tips are what most investors likely need if they want to survive 2012 with an investment gain.
I'd think that the "typical" behavior would be to go back to what you were doing. I'm playing "Angry Birds", notification shows for text message. I click it, read the notification, hit back to get back to Angry Birds.

I don't see how inserting items between the text message and Angry Birds is a good idea.

What apps should have, is a way to always get to the apps main screen in the app. But changing the back button behavior seems confusing.
Uploaded data is always exposed, unless the user encrypts it before sending and doesn't give the decryption key to the company. Which of course is impractical for most people. If you think that doesn't happen, then you are naive - so yes, if you talk about your sex life on your GMail account, there's a chance some Google employee will see it.

We can go back and forth on this all day long, but these are the facts: (1) your online data is not safe, unless you encrypt it yourself and (2) in this instance, no user identifiable information was given.

At least 37signals never said that they don't have access to those files, like other companies would make you believe:

http://www.businessinsider.com/dropbox-updates-security-term...
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-january-11-2012/indeci...

that works for me, and appears to be the same video. no idea why the one in the original link is blocked.
I love Daniel's thoughts and advice, it always seems to hit right at the "excuse of the month" I'm telling myself about not starting up.

My only question is: What's a "swombat"?!
It shouldn't require a Facebook account.
There's some third party work done for Android as well: http://designmodo.com/android-kits-developers/
The Pirate Bay Will Stop Serving Torrents
Keep very detailed notes on everything you do, and if you ever decide to start something new then archive your notes, digitize them if possible and keep them until one day you decide to return to it. If you never decide to do that then give them to your children, (or the world if you think it's that good) etc.

As far as doing something and trying not to get to that point at all, focus on the one project until it's finished.
Having FTP in your IDE is part of a broken model
Help Got four projects to run
We should learn from the godaddy/SOPA situation... we have the money, we own the internet, we pay for domains, hosting, servers, services. 1 day without WE using/paying the web will do more damage than 1 day with "go dark" websites.

I can live 1 day without internet... can you?
Some of the pieces DO work (48dp as hit-target is a good advice, and colour palette etc. is pretty usable). I think it's a good start for all the Android devs (non-designers) who put apps together which are 99% crappy looking.
I am quite frustrated however that they do not tell us how to get the same behaviour on older devices - they should release a look-and-feel compatibility library or something. Actionbar is also very inflexible (tabs with buttons in one row, anyone? adjustable tab width?) and making the same code work for 2.x - 4.x devices is just plain spaghetti.
It looks you changed the URL of your blog post too?

I got two different RSS items for the post and the update, and the original post's location (/articles/relationa-algebra-in-bash/) no longer resolves. Was that intended?
Why you should set clear milestones as early as possible
No, that's what Urban Airship decided to do with the service they bought. We're dealing with the only continuing entity in the equation here, Urban Airship, which is not going out of business. Urban Airship is making the decision to abandon their customers (they bought them) in a crappy manner.

Without working at Urban Airship or SimpleGeo (or being close to someone who does), how would one know that when Urban Airship said they were excited to acquire SimpleGeo to continue improving the service that it was BS, and that the search for a replacement should have been started?

More to the point, a more trustworthy company would comport in such a way that its paying customers don't need to know the difference. In this case, that might mean open sourcing components or giving enough notice that their customers could reasonably transition. A link to the R-Tree wikipedia page is not what I'd expect from a reliable vendor.
On the search page, how do they determine "Hireable"?
And why is mine true?

Why is my python professor Hireable: false?
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I think "can't read" would also include the case of "haven't read". Making the "haven't read" component somewhat redundant.

Aesthetically it doesn't scan well - I think adding it in parens would be the way to go if you want to make that kind of emphasis.

Haven't read (and can't) ...

If the question is about whether it is grammatically correct then I wouldn't like to say - I never really paid much attention to those rules. :)
Thanks. Nice. But since Big. G. is heavily pushing ICS, they should really put the ICS files up there.
A mythical animal filled with wisdom, compassion, and skittles.
but they don't value it at zero. if they did they wouldn't pirate it in the first place.
pirating takes time (which is valuable) and storage on a hard disk, which has a cost. so any pirater is valuing it on some level.
as for the photoshop example, again you are attempting to rationalize a crime. Companies already provide subsidized software for students so that they can gain familiarity with it prior to entering the workforce
Does Etsy have an affiliate/referral program?
I'd just like to point out that your complaints are specific to the Oracle JVM (except for the new for() syntax obviously).

Even the collection classes can change between JVM versions. I'm not saying that they're all necessarily better, just that different versions are different. So the Dalvik or IBM J9 versions might do what you want better.
So Pinterest.

I say that as a compliment. Great job.

Only thought is the constant Loading Items widget is annoying and isn't in line with how most sites do dynamic scrolling.
thank you, didnt expect this to get mod-worthy. I was just curious. I wasn't "worried" or anything, the part about 'anyone who wanted to move up...' just seemed out of place to me, like you never hear that about other 'support' jobs. Basically I wanted to know if you were even more cynical than me or an insider -- I guess the former! thanks for the detailed response.
Vundle installed. I agree that it is nicer than Pathogen, thanks for the tip.
If you have this dilemma, you probably aren't meant to code... Get an MBA.
Marginal cost shouldn't matter. What matters is consent. If the content creator does not consent for someone to enjoy his/her work without some level of compensation, then it is up to the customer to decide whether or not to purchase the work at the set price.

If the customer decides not to purchase it at that price, then his recourse his to purchase either a competing product or wait for the price to come down, not to steal it.
Swiping works just fine.
Can't say I agree with you about us "abandoning" our users. SimpleGeo was acquired by Urban Airship and the decision was made to discontinue the service. Disappointing, sure.
No they doesn't, as far as I know.
It's always amazed me how inefficient the government is. A budget is set for a department. The department knows that if it doesn't spend all of the budget, it won't get more next year, probably less. Hence, departments spend to hit the target budget instead of trying to cut down and be efficient.

Assuming that he is still performing at the same level as other politicians, what Rand Paul is doing is revolutionary. I wish more politicians were more like him. This gives me a little hope for the future of politics.
I am thinking of installing fedora on my laptop as a sign of protest.
Thanks for the compliment! The loader is something to re-code indeed. Anyone here with a good example of a nice scrolling loader?
Matt, you should know better. You've scared everyone who doesn't read HN out of the class.
It's the Apple philosophy: ignore edge cases, they aren't important and complicate life.

In this case, the edge case is wanting to delete an account.
I too appreciate "native" plugins. I've even recompiled vim without support for Python, Ruby and Perl in an attempt to speed up startup (it starts a "great deal" faster, if I remember my tests correctly).
> not because he was a dinosaur who didn't understand
> the Internet

He may have had a good analogy, but I doubt that he understood the Internet. Comments like "my office sent me an Internet on Friday and I didn't get it until today" don't really imply good knowledge of the Internet. More likely the 'series of tubes' analogy was given to him by a staffer or lobbyist and he tried to run with it even though he didn't understand it.
Ask HN: Payroll software with API and automated tax filing?
We're currently using ADP for payroll. It handles federal and state filings automatically, but doesn't seem to provide an API to get payroll data back out. Are there any other good alternatives that provide access to individual earnings information?
League of Legends developer takes anti-SOPA stance
Yeah, it'd have been better had he written "The answer is no; people who say yes are right."
They could have just been hired directly. Why bother acquiring if you have no interest in 1) the IP, 2) the founders or management team, or 3) the customers?
I would also expect them to know how it works _all_ the way down through the OS, which can also have an impact on performance. IE, they know how the supporting systems operate thus can make further assumptions/optimisations.
It'll be far more interesting when lldb matures.
The Startup Challenging the Centralized Internet (OpenPhoto)
I quite like the icon by Nate Beaty that's listed as tip #2 here: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-and-tips/sublime-tex...
I agree, your app looks dangerous in a good way.

I think the most important thing is that the loading animation be anchored to the bottom of the loaded content so that it never obscures content that's already loaded. If the user manages to outrace your loader and gets to the bottom, some kind of indication that the app is churning away would no doubt be welcome.
I'd guess it's the github careers page. You opted in, right?
He actually qualified it before that part of his comment.

>Shawn is a performance-obsessed Java expert, Eclipse committer and longtime Google coder who works on JGit.
I think that people are looking for someone to put a good, satirical spin on the whole pro-SOPA movement. The Daily Show is good at that. Most political writers not so much.

If The Daily Show can use humor to point out the absurdity of the pro-SOPA position it will definitely sink in with their viewership.
I think this is the most consistent UI for Android so far. It still feels a bit more like a "style guide" rather than "human interface guidelines", but it's a great step forward.

Kudos
Did you post this on HN before? It's still jarring how new items fly in from the top left. It's also constantly loading items, which is annoying.

Otherwise, looks pretty cool. You should also take a look at other fashion sites for the "Quick Look" interaction (using mouseover or some other light interaction to provide more ui/information/larger image, vs opening a new page), which would be pretty great on a purely visual site like this.
It should be just as puzzling as any other security / privacy issue. No more, no less.

If a website doesn't take security and privacy as high priority concerns, then they don't want me as a user. I hope to educate more people to feel the same as I do.
Show HN: Online bookmarking alpha site for your consideration
I wanted to get the general opinion of HN on a bookmarking site that i wrote as a side project.

The site is called http://www.MarkMyPlace.com and it features:

category and tag based organization
bookmark groups
very basic user groups for sharing called reading circles
very basic friends list
complete filtering and sorting capability for all grids
public and private bookmarks, categories, tags, and bookmark groups

It requests your email when you register but it only does this for as yet unimplemented system notification.

Full disclosure, the company is one me and my friends incorporated in case any of this gets big.

I just wanted to know what people thought. Am I going in the right direction. What recommendations might you make.

The home page is going through some turmoil. I am a developer and sometimes i am not very good with designs especially when i am focusing on functionality. This is an ALPHA website. Sometimes it crashes. I actually wanted to make something very simple (I thought) to use. I actually use this daily. The previous iteration is here http://aps.mentalimprovement.com/default.aspx (queue laugh track)

Thanks for your time.
Swiping works, but due to its minimalistic design, I first expected it to count up when I swiped up - while it did the contrary. It behaves like the iOS slotmachine, but clearly the affordance is broken.
For the couch potatoes http://aps.mentalimprovement.com/default.aspx
As a day 1 Droid user after 10 years on Palm OS, I was stunned that the control in your third picture made it into a release, and even more stunned it persisted so long. On Palm OS you could pick a time with a maximum of three taps. There's no reason it should take more than five: one for each digit plus AM/PM.

I'm not a fan of the swiping, but you're right. It is a huge improvement.
SoftFacade didn't design the SimpleGeo website, I did :)
I think you just disagree with my choice of words. But to the extent that a Web business can abandon its customers, this is what it looks like.
Ask HN: Looking for iOS mock interview today Will pay $$.
Hi everyone,

I'm interviewing for an iOS position tomorrow and I'd like to do a mock interview over Skype with someone experienced in iOS/Cocoa development for 1-2 hours sometime today.

I'm moderately experienced in iOS development, however, I'd like to make sure I have the fringe elements nailed down.

Please drop me a line with a good time and your hourly rate at iosinterviewee@gmail.com if you're interested!

Thanks!
Doesn't make much sense. Another doomsday monger.
I think the top comment on Reddit deserves a re-post here:

"As a former Senate staffer and redditor, I will tell you that the most effective course of action in this situation is to call the DC offices of only your own Senators directly. Speak to the staff assistant, who will take down your comments and log them into a tracking system. Make it clear to the staffer that you are calling in opposition to SOPA. In the briefing prior to the vote, the staffer assigned to SOPA will inform the Senator of the aggregate constituent sentiment as reflected by phone calls and letters. Their vote recommendation will be, in part, based on constituent sentiment. Most senators will make up their minds based on the information provided to them by their briefing staff.

The more phone calls this issue receives, the clearer constituent sentiment will be to these Senators. Take the time to call a few times a day if possible. This is by far the best way to make an impact. In person meetings will have the same result"

Take action people.
sometimes programmers don't consider the ramifications of their actions.

And the google higher ups don't do anything about this because in the long run it makes them more money.
I'm doing both.
""I am bored" generally means "I am boring.""
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That's a good idea, got it on the list!
A life lesson which was news to me: there is some scale at which every commercial site has an affiliate program. (Varies based on the site.)
This is really great. I like the "exploding" treasuries a lot.

What was your motivation? If you're looking for more exposure you can write a blog post for the Etsy blog. I did that for my app and it drove a lot of traffic (http://www.etsy.com/blog/en/2011/handmade-code-babylist/)
Can you explain more what you mean about SQLite having roughly its own VM?
I love browsing products like this. I assume inspired by Pinterest?
A Toronto startup is doing the same thing, but local shops/products. http://shopcastr.com/
There has to be some kind of middle ground here, some kind of way to do it that gives you quick access for transitory things, like email and text messages, but also lets you get back up the stack. Maybe if artificialy adding things to the stack was disabled when you're coming from notifications, but not otherwise?
Does it support installation to ZFS out of the box?
I posted it 5 hours ago on HN but had to delete it because of API limit I had to resolve before risking a viral.

After they were resolved I posted it.

Trick: Click the about link in the top left box and flag the disable animation checkbox.

Do you have any examples of those fashion sites?
I don't use any illegal drugs, but that sort of experimation looks to me like exactly that: experimentation. And, in the context of the article, he looked at the universe in all its interesting attributes and chose "I wanna try this!" something related to, and inside the universe. As defined by the article, that's not boredom.
A .data Top-Level Internet Domain?