skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really poorly written, and the author seems to even admit he/she is confused about certain parts of HTML5. The site is basically an intro into a handful of new HTML elements, without any mention of new APIs in HTML5 like Canvas, Microdata, Audio/Video, various Storage engines, etc. Sites like this just confuse those already "green" in the world of HTML5.

Oh, also, on the "All HTML Tags", the author links directly to w3schools.com pages. Lest we forget: http://w3fools.com
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digression: I hate the term "social media expert/specialist"
in order

- gmail (moving to own hosted email with Thunder in a couple of week, though)

- Skype (all communications)

- trello (manages all my projects now)

- bitbucket (all private code, it's free)

- dropbox (all files)

- prgmr (hosting, and email)

other essentials but can switch easily

- Google Analytics

- Google Translate

- SpringPad (they have a good Android app)

- Google Reader

It's amazing that I don't depend on any mobile app or on my smartphone and can go without it.
Show HN: what do you think of our coming soon splash page?
We are trying to crowd source video playlists.
Why i started working on it?
We think video discovery is and will be a problem.We could solve this by crowd sourcing video playlists. Each playlist can be followed and when new videos are added, it appears in your stream.

What do you guys think??
Yikes, calm down.

> Very CIA fact book page

My "CIA fact book" numbers were chosen because they're numbers, so they are objective and easy to obtain. I put "philosophy" first for a reason; that's what's important in the context of the OP articles. It's just that it's not easy to look up "average philosophical view for a country".

Also, don't you agree that amount of education is extremely important to culture?

>And art somehow snuck in there too, but I guess the totally of language based art, poetry, books, etc, somehow is boring?

Art, poetry, books are not boring and are definitely interesting aspects of culture. (Although again, in the context of this article, serious academic art is less germane than standard of living.) But the mere fact that people use a different language is not. Yes, of course language can influence many arts, but it's ridiculous to think that language difference is a good metric for difference in art.

>Europe is more diverse - but trivially?

Europe is more diverse trivially when you use language differences as a metric for cultural differences. (I thought that conditional was clear from the placement of the parenthetical, but I guess not.) And it's trivial. Most countries in Europe have their own language, so obviously they are more diverse in this manner. Why would there even be a discussion?

> If we are going to cherry pick how we compare places,

You said "America's cultural differences are still very small compared to differences between old world neighbors" (emphasis mine) in the context of a comparison between California and New York. I interpret that to mean roughly that the smallest intra-country differences in Europe are bigger than the largest intra-state differences in the US. If I misinterpreted, let me know.

> I say let's start with climate.

Climate is interesting insofar as it influences culture. And yes, this is definitely part of the cause of cultural diversity in the US states, but it's probably not a great metric. I think wealth, especially in the modern era, is going to be more closely tied to culture than climate.

Still, in comparing the cultures of Finland and Greece, wouldn't you agree that climate is, in fact, a better metric
than language?

>Hell if we're going to use CIA country fact book style information to measure differences then all of the OECD countries (this includes Japan, Europe, Canada and the US) are on average less different than just the US states.
Now think about that. Does it make sense to say that just the US states are more diverse then a group with includes both Japan and most of Europe?

The lack of diversity you're talking about comes from averaging, which comes from considering large population sizes of Japan/US/EU and comparing them to US states. In contrast, Maryland and Mississippi are within a factor of 2 in population to Sweden and Finland.
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So $15k was the cost the iOS developer charged you?

What was the cost of having the art assets and server side functionality done in house?

Adding that to the $15k seems to be the actual cost of the app.

Also how much time was spent designing the app before art assets were made or server side programming started?
This is a general problem with custom software, not just iOS apps.

Most businesses outside major corporations didn't start commissioning custom software until the rise of the commercial use of the internet in the late '90s, when all kinds of small and medium sized businesses wanted their own website. Websites were relatively simple back then, and the people willing and able to make them cheap. Hell, even though I was already a professional programmer for years, back in 1994 the idea that someone would pay a few hundred bucks me to make a "homepage" was just cool enough in itself.

Websites became more complicated applications, no longer something hobbyists could do on the side, and became more diverse, including apps for specific platforms like iOS. The cost of having an online presence has multiplied many times in less than a decade because of the sheer amount of work involved, and the level of professionalism required these days.

But most businesses don't commission software ever few months, or even every few years. So every time they want a new app, or a refresh of their website, they are suddenly faced with a shockingly high price tag compared to the last time they wanted something similar (or at least similar from their perspective).

And we're only just getting started. The shortage of decent developers has only begun to translate itself into higher costs. Most employers are still rather conservative in the current economic climate, and developers are notoriously bad at selling themselves.
Google, Microsoft, PayPal Go After Phishers With E-Mail Authentication Effort
Does anyone know if they have taken cold climates into consideration? ("They" being Tesla and other EV makers)

Will the performance of the battery pack degrade significantly if the temperature is below freezing?

(Tesla:) Are the self-retracting door handles likely to get stuck in the closed position due to snowstorm ice?

In a car with an ICE, cabin heat is waste heat from the engine. In an electric car, will maintaining a comfortable cabin temperature significantly reduce the range of the vehicle?
My company builds enterprise grade apps (meaning they tie into enterprise systems) and what often is missed is the amount of time (money) required to get usability correct. What often is missed is why usability is important. They think their web application or on-premise application can simply be ported over to mobile very easily.

WRONG. Mobile applications supplement existing solutions, which means they generally are a subset of features tailored to a handheld device. Enterprises generally don't adapt a lean methodology. For example they just assume that the current Facebook app you see today was birthed in a weekend...as Facebook itself was. Which, as we know all know here, is simply not true.
I agree, when someone post a who's hiring outside of the unofficial/official account, the whoshiring, account it makes it more difficult to find the thread once it leaves the new or front page.
Truly overwhelming amount of paperwork and taxes that must be satisfied from day 1?

I can form an LLC in my state online in 30 minutes for less than $200. You could just fill out a "Doing Business As", but the LLC takes the place of that. Once that is done, then open a business checking account using the LLC name. Do you live in California or New York?
So there is high demand for iOS apps (the "business people" are clamoring for them) and "50%" of the project (the backend) is a total PITA. This is the recipe for Parse/Stackmob/Cloudmine/etc for ruling the world.
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Also the fact that you needed to click EXACTLY on the radio button (wasting all that space that the td > input[type=radio] occupies) and that it doesn't show a cursor: pointer; when hovering on the (<) Previous and Next (>) buttons.

Funny quiz nonetheless. I'm an avid fan of Science (Astronomy, Astrophysics, Biology and Cosmology.), but I didn't get most of the questions right. /sigh
Actually I wanted to say the same, but then I hesitated and thought that it may be a little harsh on him.

By the way all your points are valid.

Also, If you want to quick tasks outside your work. What you are looking for is consulting/freelancing not a start up. Start up will chew up both effort and time in large magnitudes with a river of failures heading your way. Simple Android/iPhone apps. Small utility website, are Ok if your want to make some money with Google Ads. But they are not start ups.

By the way these there is a huge tendency among people to call even 100 line scripts as projects and weekend apps as start ups. The sooner you face the reality and set you expectations right, the better.
I have started to put a clause in my own contracts that's paraphrased like so: I do some work for you and submit it to you for verification. You have x days to verify it. If you fail to verify it or tell me a scheduled date for verification by that date, it goes on github for the world to see and use for free. I.E. "F* U, Pay Me."
Not everyone has access to the "new new " twitter yet. For whatever reason my fiance doesn't have access to it with her account.
Yahoo keeps redirecting me to their mobile news site, even when I click the link to this article from a Google search. I always end up at: http://m.yahoo.com/w/news_america?.intl=ca&.lang=en-CA

Anyone else having this issue? (Running Chromium on Ubuntu 11.04)

Note: ca.news.yahoo.com and news.yahoo.ca by themselves are also redirecting me to that URL.
Even if they enforced a password change it wouldn't help if they are storing them in plaintext.
I think this is actually a hint towards the future of computing. I imagine that your smartphone will be your sole computer and then everywhere else (home, work, library, friend's house, etc) there will be something like dumb terminals that will associate with your phone to give you access to a bigger screen and keyboard and even extend the processing, memory, and graphics capabilities of your phone.
Yes it is a given...it's right in Twitter's privacy policy that they will release your private information to the authorities when asked.

Oh..sp332 beat me to it.
I don't think these are direct messages.

If you follow me and I @-reply someone who you do not follow then that tweet will appear in my public timeline but it will not appear in your home view.
Original thread is here: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3529034

The framework itself is here: https://github.com/elabs/serenade.js
There are higher labels of abstraction to say what I mean. In fact I could describe it in great detail. My boss may not particularly appreciate me using that level of detail. For that matter you probably wouldn't either, it isn't that interesting to the core point here.

My explicit point in this case was about how the labels are actually bad, get in your way, and shouldn't be used because they hurt more than they help.
Ask HN: How to best read source code
One of the limitations I face when I want to contribute to open source projects is the difficulty I associate with navigating and reading code. Is there a way I can follow code so that it can make sense to me, a novice programmer? The best way I think is to follow the chronological order of code commits, so that I follow what the developer had in mind. Problem is, most developers push a large portion of their code base at once,which makes my trick obsolete.
http://getharvest.com is the only one I use that hasn't already been mentioned already. It pretty much saved my life when I started doing contract work this year.
Got a link to the one from 3 days ago?
I just moved back to Firefox, too, because Firefox fixed the issues that made me move to Chrome: FF now actually observes the minimum font size I set in Preferences > Content and the Back button and the History functionality no longer sometimes get very slow.
The author hints at, but doesn't push the issue that the cost is all really in the customization. If you were to build an app using only standard apple components, the cost would be significantly less (at least 2x). Those custom components take a lot of effort, particularly when you end up hacking Quartz.

A quick example, I implemented a very good looking custom badge system for an app. The result looked just liked design, could be generated programmatically, and worked like a charm. It also took me a couple of days to implement the whole thing in quartz. If I were doing this as consulting, that's a $2-3000 feature. These things add up very quickly, particularly if someone wants to "try a few out."
While that can be helpful, that comes with its own set of problems. It's harder to say $session->ab_variation_overrides ||= {inital => "values"}. I think it's possible, but I've been warned off by the huge EXPERIMENTAL warning around the lvalue subroutine return documentation [1] and the fact that it's been labelled "experimental" for a long time now, so I don't dare put it in production code, or use it where I can't count on someone knowing everything in those docs. I've been in tight loops where the cost of a function call was noticeable vs. the hash lookup. You can't avoid the fact that lots of other libraries and existing code expects hashes in one form or another (the calling convention that essentially puts a hash in a list is just another variant of that).

You're not "wrong", but it doesn't solve very much of the problem in practice. Still, it can be useful where appropriate, and there are libraries that use such approaches for safety; here's one example off the top of my head [2].

This is where I really prefer Python over Perl; Perl nominally has bullet-point feature compatibility with Python in most respects, but where in Perl operator overloading, tying, and the various other ways of overloading things always come with caveat lists a mile long and often go together poorly, in Python they Just Work, and actually can be used together. In this case, properties. They work. I've even made them dance and sing before with nonstandard behaviors and they still work.

[1]: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsub.html#Lvalue-subroutines

[2]: http://search.cpan.org/~mlehmann/JSON-XS-2.32/XS.pm
I also have ebooks. However, maybe it's because I grew up reading books, I can't imagine myself not reading a real one. There's this amazing feeling whenever I get a book, especially a used one.
Maybe the new characters can make a cameo on Sesame Street- That'll really help their problems in retaining enterprise customers.
The problem is, even most interesting people to follow retweet random crap about their personal life at times, and when they do tweet interesting content, I sometimes want to have a conversation about it, which I can't do there.
Sure, but if Twitter is getting worse to the point where the vast majority its content is bots spamming each other and retweets of memes and timeless pithy quotes, then (i) the number of actual people actually using the service will drop off faster than Myspace and (ii) Twitter analysis isn't going to be worth paying Twitter for, especially with media agencies already able to monitor the comments of public figures at no charge and get link share stats from shorturl services.
Until we have a cure for the metabolic syndrome, I'd say that comparison of health care quality by life expectancy doesn't actually do what you think it does. America is incredibly obese, and this is a lifestyle choice that makes comparisons of the quality of care quite difficult.
Google Search, Wikipedia, Dropbox, HN, Dilbert, Facebook.
The whole app, so both.
It would be nice to may use the same cockboardme from my mac in my iPad.
Unfortunately there is no other option. You use the software you're given, and that's it.
Also, raise your other hand if you later hear some competitor has actually taken the job for $10K-$20K.

As a bonus, wave both hands if some time late you hear said potential client has been screwed by said competitor, either by failing to deliver, delivering useless crap or ending up charging at least double that for "extra work".
This shows you that security agencies don't have command of english language (they simply don't understand it). I can't understand this otherwise.
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A one-time password is usually generated and emailed, then hashed and stored, so not generally stored in plaintext.
You totally can - input the same URL into your mobile browser and you're golden.

Pro tip: If you save the web app to your home screen, it acts like a real app -- fullscreen and all.
As a "business person" I need to know three things to hire someone:

1) how much did it cost other people to build similar apps (comparative analysis)
2) that you are able to build the product successfully (reducing technical risk)
3) that the price is low enough that the estimated Rev will produce a return (ROI)

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If you can present those points clearly you will be in a much better position to make more money with less frustration
Idealistically sound, but not realistic. Roads and cars exist to meet a need (individual mobility and mass transit, primarily). At this time, that need also serves the public, and it is disingenuous to say that roads only benefit those with cars. Perhaps some good public transit systems will come along one day that can make a meaningful dent in the amount of people who need to own cars. I'm still waiting for those systems, but I won't be holding my breath.

Also, as an aside, try riding a bike about 5 ~ 10 miles when it's 105 degrees out (pretty common where I live), or even hovering around zero (fairly common where I used to live). It's not fun, nor is it practical. It's a big part of why nobody does it.
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I would be hard-pressed to believe that if some company in some backwaters place just implemented snippets, then they would be as productive as engineers in Silicon Valley.

What makes Silicon Valley is the whole package. There's a critical mass of technical talent. You run into techies everywhere; a techie here feels _at home_. You (the techie) are the "in crowd". This is your bastion; your playground. You are no longer a misfit, being picked on by jocks; here, _you_ are the mainstream. This is why techies love being here, and because they're happy, they are more productive.

That's the conclusion I've come to, after 6 years here.
Like the idea and site. Issues I had:

I signed up. Thank you for making signup and logging in easy. However, I was then presented with this page:

http://swole.me/account.php

However, this page (logged in, mind you):

http://swole.me/

Would have been better, at least on the initial log in.

The Not Sure? button got lost. I didn't notice it. In fact, I'd written out a suggestion for you to do the exact thing you did with the popup and calculator. Maybe change the text to "Figure out how many calories you need" or something like that. Something more accurate.

Overall though, a great start.
Google+ has completely supplanted Twitter as a news source for me. With G+, you get actual paragraphs of information (often with pictures, etc). If there's a link, it's a real link, not one of those stupid damn shortened urls's (I REALLY hate those). With Twitter, a cryptic 100 character "message" and a url shortened link.

Good riddance to Twitter. G+ has a lot of room for improvement, but Twitter's lack of usability is mind boggling.
youporn
I'm scientifically literate because I understand the scientific method.. How to set up a hypothesis and test it... Not because I'm good at memorizing factoids

I'm not surprised that a site with the words "Christian science" in the title doesn't get this :)
you've had ten years being a manager at BigCorp, maybe you'd better sharpen up your coding skills

Strawman. FTA:

many of the companies shedding jobs are technology manufacturers, while most of the companies that are hiring are Internet-based

LOL at the thought of today's Ruby "rockstar ninjas" learning chip design overnight, when the market swings back again. Everyone think's they're invincible when they're young. These guys in the article thought it too. They didn't plan on becoming obsolete...
I've followed both and have seen them in their individual profiles which is why I always chose to use SMS for things that weren't meant to be public. Any public @reply or retweet I should see and have seen. If these are DM's I shouldn't see any part of the conversation.
Looks like 37Signals are preparing to launch their Basecamp.Next.

Y'all can see how there's been an increasing of 37Signals posts lately.
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Not bad, but looks like all you can "pin up" is just stickies. Would like it if I could pin-up images, custom flyers, memoes, etc.. as well. But again still an interesting concept. Wonder how well this works on a tablet device, as well as mobile device.
Just as everyone is already a mathematician, a historian, and a biologist in high school.

Learning programming doesn't mean to be any good at it, or choose it as a career.
I've always thought that for many people, the social respectability factor goes hand in hand with the money.

One thing I've noticed is that the children of people who were successful in some risky endeavor (entrepreneurship) tend to be much more likely to take a 'safe' socially respectable job (law, medicine), even if it has a much lower income ceiling, even when they don't have tons of loans to pay off which would necessitate a higher income floor.

Some smart people just really are interested in law and medicine too, so we can't discount that. But it is interesting that a top tier CS major will make 80% as much as a top tier law grad, yet have 3 years less schooling and work 1/2 the hours, but you don't see kids from upper-class homes flocking to CS, at least in my experience.
Looks like 37signals changed a bit in 6 years :
http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/dont_scale_99999_uptime_i...
As much of a farce as DHS is, I'm pretty sure they have all the authority in the world to regulate who gets into the country and who doesn't.
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i didnt want to write new code each time my data-model changed: migrations, model code, new controllers/views. this meant a Resource class, a uniform controller request/response cycle following web-arch/linked-data standards. at this point, would have had to significantly monkeypatch both rails and its attempts at providing a generic Resource class to override its magic (and/or incur the CPU usage for the magic to do what i didnt want). it was a lot simpler to just start with a Rack handler from scratch.

ive been using my web framework for 5+ years for personal and professional projects, and as far as i know there are no other users. Ry Dahl was churning out all sorts of 'concurrent' web-frameworks and servers in Ruby building on EventMachine and so on for years, and im pretty sure i was one of the only people using his code. eventually he scored a hit as node.js when finally rewriting one of the concepts in Javascript
Somewhat of a cherry-picked example. Why aren't we also discussing Rio or Cairo? Not exactly car friendly. Not exactly paradise either.