skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft sees mobile devices as computers and Microsoft Research is working on a practical IDE for them via TouchDevelop which gives access to most phone features:

http://www.touchdevelop.com/help/api

There appears to be a vision of a commodity phone running Windows Phone as the "computer on every desk" for the developing world - it's probably no accident that Microsoft teamed up with Nokia.
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Many are willing to suffer unhappiness so that their children might be more successful. At 31 it's something of a pattern I've begun to see in my peers.
9.0.1 scored 58%.
"My identity and my thoughts are my own to have, control, and share. Happiness is a mindset for me to create."

This concept reminds me of Feeling Good by Burns. He said that our thoughts control our emotions, and if we control our thoughts, we control our emotions.
freemium. basic things will always be free. later we'll sell design templates / more data formats.
Thanks for the link, glad you enjoyed the blog post!
OK - after posting this went and checked, and actually the phones are actually out now!

So... where's the marketing? Why haven't MS even mentioned them?

On carphonewarehouse (UK), the only way to find them is to search - they have an Apple section, an Android section, but no Windows section. The front page has Apple, Android, even Blackberry, but no hint of Windows...

How can you forget to market your product?
Am I the only that wonders if Symantec is the right company to be in control of verisign???

To me it seems that there would be a little bit of a conflict of interest around owning an antivirus company and the tool that tells you a site is who they say they are.

I know this sounds a little crazy, but think about it before you downvote me.
Does this mean TONS of people are trying to move out of San Francisco?
3.4% of your life is not much if you get Facebook equity and end up with millions. The hardest part - I think - is that you are not assured at all to get rich. You might end up spend 3.4% of your life to buy you a new car and that's it.
I'm not a downvoter, but as a Django dev who was forced to grab a quick project in PHP after almost 3yrs not touching it - no, it hasn't changed much. Doc comments and discussion boards are still filled with one gazillion solutions to every simple task, of which most is crap (even when it comes to fresh frameworks). Language features aside, what makes me stay away from PHP is the low quality of it's ecosystem (no offence to the good guys who put quality code out there), especially when you get used to the level of Python solutions and community engagement.
Very nice. I didn't have an issue w Twitter auth. But there wasn't enough examples to find. Signed up though. Looks very cool.
A great little book that covers some of the history involved is Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Healthcare Is Better Than Yours by Phillip Longman.

The VistA system used by the VA was developed in bottom-up fashion by doctors and interns, who snuck minicomputers into the hospitals in defiance of the mainframe-based IT staff, which went around removing them. One year IT removed more computers than it installed.

But VistA ended up so well-suited to doctors' needs that it ultimately won. Now it's open source and is the basis for several national healthcare systems.

It's a complete medical records system, makes it easy to get instant lab reports, prevents medication errors, etc. About the only thing it doesn't cover well, for obvious reasons, is dealing with insurance companies.
there's a little problem - we have autosave. so, there's not a single button after you make a new chart where we could ask to login. I strongly agree that it is aggressive that we ask to authorize this way. what's better:
a) descriptive images / screenshots on front page (aka "learn more")
b) add a save button (then ask for login), unless it's pressed no data is saved.
My main problem with sshfs lately has been that on a flakey connection it sometimes hangs irretrievably, often taking out the process trying to use it (usually emacs.)
card.io (http://card.io)

Software engineers and our first business hire.

San Francisco, CA. Full time. H1B applicants welcome.

card.io is an early stage mobile payments start-up located in SF's Mission District. We build SDKs for mobile app developers (https://www.card.io/developers/) and a consumer app for payment processing (like Square, but without the square: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/card.io-payments/id491411426 and https://market.android.com/details?id=io.card.payments).

We're backed by top-tier investors including Harrison Metal, SoftTech VC, Manu Kumar, Omar Hamoui, and Alok Bhanot. Company founders were early employees at AdMob, and are now building software to enable simple, low-friction transactions on a mobile device.

We're tackling interesting, hard technical problems with immediate real world application. We maintain a work-life balance and have fun. We have generous comp, benefits, and vacation.

Software engineer: You should love writing code, love deleting code, and live in the Bay Area.

Business hire: role and title are flexible for the right person, but looking for someone to run BD, marketing, and developer evangelism.

Interested? Drop Josh (CTO) or Mike (CEO) an email at jobs@lumberlabs.com, showing us what you've done -- a resume, a letter, a side project, an open source project, etc.
That's not quite true. From personal experience at two different Ivy Leagues schools, I can say that these schools and probably top schools in general are completely obsessive about fulfilling certain stated or unstated "requirements" for students. Yale, for example, where I went for undergrad, prides itself in having students from all 50 states--I can pretty confidently say that, if you're from a state with a smaller population, or simply a smaller number of people who are interested in attending a school far away, your chances of admission are substantially higher (think Montana versus New York).

As others have pointed out, although admissions is need-blind (it is not relevant whether you're rich or poor), I'm sure that socio-economic factors are also evident from where the student went to school, recommendation letters, information about parents and their professions/education (which are often asked on applications), and so on. So, while race may be the most obvious "discrimination" point, this is really, in my experience, not the case. And given these multifactored assessments, it is enormously difficult to "prove" that schools are discriminating based on race: it is NOT the case that the school gives everyone a number, and then increases or decreases that number based on your race, wealth, etc.: compare Gratz v. Bollinger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratz_v._Bollinger) (point allocation system where underrepresented minorities received more "points" on their application illegal) with Grutter v. Bolilnger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grutter_v._Bollinger) (less-rigid race-based affirmative action permissible).
Try this: https://youtubeproxy.org/default.aspx?prx=http://www.youtube...
Not harsh at all! I appreciate any and all feedback.

I want to test the model, and doing it myself is a great way of doing so. (so far it's working!)

I agree about the conversation, but I think the great thing about the web is that the line that separates a 'story' and a 'conversation' is blurring.

I think this experiment will lead to a very compelling version of both. Wish me luck!
Right, so we have to rely on leaks in the future to get visibility on how our rights are being stripped away, this is the democratic process our predecessors shed blood for?

Am reminded of this passage from HHGTTG.

"But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months."

"Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything."

"But the plans were on display ..."

"On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."

"That's the display department."

"With a flashlight."

"Ah, well the lights had probably gone."

"So had the stairs."

"But look, you found the notice didn't you?"

"Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."
Ah, weasel words I love thee: "...potential for long term damage..."
The "free OS" segment of the market is taken by Android, and I think it'll take an act of god to unseat it at this point.

I disagree with that. Android does dominate cheap smartphones right now, but by and large they are terrible devices, and I (anecdotally) know plenty of people who regret their purchase. Compare to the Lumia 710, which is a very, very decent phone, and WP7, which is a very "put together" OS.

I absolutely think that MS could dominate the low to mid range smartphone market if they do it properly.
tnx, lot of feedback about this. we'll add screenshots/ description on front page
I'm starting to realize that those who do what they love find more success than those who do what they "need" to do in the long term. I'm fairly sure that the children would also rather have parents who are having fun and are happy than those that are sad and bored but bring in an extra $20,000 a year.

I don't have children though, so I can't really empathize on a deep level, I'm just going by intuition.
The question may be a bit tongue-in-cheek but the answer is outstanding!
Example 1: use q to make a macro and then invoke it with @ and it would be even less typing. There are many, many ways to edit in vim.

Example 2: If you press dW it deletes the whole word. which would be the entire entry.key().equals(qk.key) string. dw would delete up to the period. d2f) would delete up to and including the second right paren from where you are. I personally use delete whole word a lot.

Example 3: the di> would delete everything inside the brackets even if they spanned multiple lines. you also can be anywhere inside the bracket and this will still work. This also works with other types of tags. di) would do the same for the current level of nested parens.

Example 4: really only offering one way to do granular navigation vs. many different ways that might work for a particular situation. learning them is not that hard when you take into consideration the mnemonics involved. you need to learn some verbs to be effective: d is delete, v is visual, c is change, w is word, f is find, t is find unTil, p is put, y is yank, a is after, b is back, etc....

Example 5: There are plugins that can do this automatically in vim too. The larger, more interesting thing is the ability to do entire operations on text blocks and I think that is more important than the particular case of automatic indenting.

Example 6: you can also get a plugin that does the highlighting automatically.

The fingers on the home row is pretty awesome. there is a cognitive load to navigation to precisely put your hands on the arrow keys correctly. To get back to normal mode you can either slap the escape key(not as good) or remap escape to jj(or some other not commonly used key sequence) while in insert mode.

The macro system in vim is excellent. everything is text so you can look at the macro commands and edit them if you made a mistake. There are a lot of registers(basically named clipboards that you can use to copy and paste text the " is the default clipboard when you don't actually specify a yank target.)

Your point was that the ide is great and can do all that vim can do, but you only showed that aside from some special case things with snippets and auto indenting. After you have gone past the special case stuff that your ide can do you have to resort to hunting with the arrow keys.

You can be productive in macvim quite quickly as it affords all the fun copy and paste stuff like you are expecting to have at the os level but still have all the vim goodness underneath. at the end of the day go for whatever you feel most productive in but there really is a reason that after you get competent with vim/emacs you are extremely productive.
No, that's not crazy, it's just crazy to think that anyone is going to notice someone doing stego in an internet cafe, since anyone doing stego is already going through huge efforts to hide what they are doing. The idea behind good stego is that you encrypt something important, stego it into an image, then post that image (i.e., dead drop it) somewhere where the recipient knows to look. But when this is done (on either end), of course, all that appears is happening is that the person is either upload or downloading an image. When you consider some of the Usenet groups out there with bajillions of images posted a day to them, this would probably be a pretty effective system, assuming your stego program is good enough to embed the data into the image itself and is not just encapsulating it into the metadata or something.

The one interesting thing to come out of this sheet is that apparently terrorists are heavy stego users.
Obama web site crushed by Republicans' when it comes to download speeds
they all judge their peers on the results they produce.

There's a little bit of a mismatch here:

* Posters above are arguing that the end result that programmers are judged upon is revenue.
* You're arguing that the end result that craftsmen are judged upon is quality.

If a plumber is doing a terrible job but is doing well business-wise, I'd expect other plumbers to not look upon them so favourably
Students create human-size robot 'Eva' in six months
Specifically for Eclipse: http://vrapper.sourceforge.net/home/

It gives you modal editing, all the basic vi movements and commands, and still lets you use all the power of Eclipse's standard editor features.
Both the Jobs quote and the Csikszentmihalyi quote are stimulating and useful perspectives on the same general topic, but Taby seems to be thinking rather fuzzily by relating the quotes and ideas so closely.

Csikszentmihalyi is saying that happiness is an inner, private cultivation that is not dependent on outside events.

However, Steve Jobs, one of the richest and most powerful men on the planet (while he was alive), says he has been having his own way every day for 30 years. Jobs literally had the means to do just what he wanted to do each day for many years.

The first idea is about being happy regardless of your circumstances. The second idea is about being happy because you figured out how to get what you want out of other people and insisted on it.

And actually I don't see the other quote as being nearly as closely related as he thinks either. That one sounded like dying people were just admitting that they were depressed and wished they had tried harder to make more friends in their senior years.

What I've heard is that genetic bio- and neuro- chemistry play a significant role in happiness, so you have to realistically incorporate that. However, obviously the core conception of the self's orientation towards the world must be partially learned and so training can affect contentment also.

Studies have also shown that the higher one is on the social ladder, the less stress one experiences. So climbing the social ladder will lead to less stress and therefore greater happiness. And most people would agree that having friends is key to happiness also.
Yeah. Not sure which one I used at all, though.
Kevin Bermeister predicts cleaner Internet
There are something like 10,000 business books published in the english language each year. A significant percent are by or about people who have already had proven successes.

So I agree it's important to have a good reason why I should read this over the others.
GitX is good (and free), but if you're looking for the best Git client for Mac, without a doubt it's Tower (http://www.git-tower.com/).
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One thing that's interesting is that it actually doesn't tell you if more people are moving in or out, despite the title. The size of SF doesn't change when I click inbound/outbound.
What I found most incredible was that the shirt cost them just under $30 to produce, but would ultimately sell for $155 and this was considered a standard markup.
thanks to @getsat and @potyl for providing some insight to their experience with SendGrid. we appreciate the testimonials!

the discussion around managing email in-house vs. paying a 3rd party to do it for you, is of significant complexity, as is evidenced by the length of the original 37sig post and this comment thread.

i think it's important for each and every company to evaluate their own unique situation - the needs of their product, the resources at their disposal, the role email plays in their overall business model, their relative experience/expertise in email vs. other elements of the customer experience they are building, the maturity of the company/product, etc. it would be very unwise to make a decision on this type of matter, based solely (or predominately) on factors like "successful company X does it this way", or "successful company Y does it that way."

every company is different, and they often face this specific decision at different junctures in their life cycle.

the most useful lesson that can be gleaned from this conversation (which i've really enjoyed following), is this: as a business leader, entrepreneur, developer, etc, you have options! if you want to do it yourself, it's possible -- if 37signals can do it, so can you. but if you don't want to do it yourself, or aren't confident in your ability (for whatever reason), then there are several awesome companies out there to choose from, each of which has its own strengths and weaknesses, which puts you in the position to select the most ideal solution for your unique circumstances.

that's all :)
The following quote from Alexis resonated with me and cut through a lot of noise in the debate about social media's effect on politics:

“As the Internet continues to get more clout, we have a very different value proposition to politicians. Unfortunately, for many politicians running for office, money dictates so much. And what do they use it for? Advertising, campaigns, TV commercials. As that medium loses its value, and as things like YouTube, Reddit and Facebook gain value, you get this wonderful leveling of the playing field in the political world as well.”

I agree with the basic premise that social networking sites including those he mentioned are increasing in value (value being defined here as the ability to influence political opinions, and which candidates to support) relative to "advertising, campaigns, and TV commercials." He seems to imply (correct me if wrong) that money dictated access to and control over older media like TV commercials, whereas today, social networking sites are free for users to disseminate information, and influence opinion, so money doesn't play as significant of a role, and people are and will increasingly be influenced by these more 'democratized' forms of media (i.e. social networking sites).

I think this (i.e. a more democratized playing field for influencing public opinion) is an improvement to our political system, and I'm glad Alexis is using such a public platform for clarifying the real effect social media and the Internet can potentially have on politics.

I still wonder though, will money just shift media and still continue to shape the debate? Will it mean, in part, that the campaigns that have the best retargeting technology, most promoted Tweets, best sponsored stories on Facebook, and the best video ads and branded channels on YouTube will become the most likely candidates to win elections?
The apostrophe has been deleted from your link. I suspect some anti-SQL-injection code ate it. %27 should be the appropriate escape character.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevolen...
For those trying to interpret this:

The city highlighted in black is the reference city.

Blue circles indicate cities where people are looking for housing in the reference city (i.e. they are maybe thinking of moving into the reference city)

Red circles indicate cities where people in the reference city are looking for housing (i.e. they are maybe thinking of moving away from the reference city to the cities with red circles)

So for San Francisco, it is not surprising that many people are looking to move out of the city into nearby cities (like Oakland) and vice versa. The same is true for New York.

More interestingly, a number of people in Chicago, Houston and DC are looking for housing in San Francisco, but few people in San Francisco are looking for housing in those cities.

One weakness of the graphic is that it makes it difficult to tell the net effect of inbound and outbound housing searches. Ideally, there would be a third option next to "Inbound Searches" and "Outbound Searches," that showed a net effect for each city using both red and blue circles.

Also, different reference cities are not comparable using the graphic. For instance, selecting SF as the reference city shows moderate inbound and outbound searches from NYC. But select NYC as the reference city and you'll see that SF doesn't make the top 10 cities for outbound or inbound searches and therefore isn't even shown. As a result, you can tell that there are more searches from NY to LA than to SF, but it is difficult to tell how great that difference is.
Thanks for the explanations!

So how would you now quantify money flow with your example?
> The fact that anyone can make an exact Wikipedia clone thanks to the free licensing of their software and content?

Wikipedia could change that at any time. Old versions of Wikipedia could be distributed but they wouldn't be up to date any more.
Mathematicians, Engineers, and Businessmen on NP-Complete Problems
"Indicators of Terrorist Activities ... Internet Café" on sheriff's public site
I used to work in a clothing store and the markups on clothing, especially more fashionable items, never ceases to amaze me. Unfortunately, this article didn't really get into most of it. They explained why the shirt cost $29 to make as opposed to $1-2 for a cheap shirt from China.

What I find fascinating, is how we get from $29 to $155 at the store, or $2 to $30 for a cheaper shirt. The vast majority of the cost of a clothing item comes from putting it on a shelf in a well-staffed store.

I think this highlights why we have made a shift from a manufacturing economy to a service economy in the US. The kid who waits on you in an American mall costs much more on a per shirt basis to employ than the arguably more skilled seamstress, even when the seamstress is in the US.
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Note that two out of eight (25%) cars saw a decrease in mpg when using premium gasoline. Not a statistically strong correlation for using premium gas. Probably a combination of varying driving styles and that octane is not supposed to affect mileage for modern cars.[1]

[1] http://dsc.discovery.com/cars/top-10/car-myths/08.html
It's extremely difficult to make that transparent, though. At some point, old data is going to have to be pushed out of that cache, and if you don't make it clear to users they're never going to know what they can and can't run.
I think in most places Google licenses mapping data (usually you can see the credit in a watermark somewhere on the map).

So I'm not sure that argument works - Google is paying for the data like everyone else. The problem is they were giving the service (curated data) away.
HN is built on a handrolled Lisp dialect created on a lark by a millionaire PhD who was looking to test out his own PL design theories.
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Hm. So say I got Facebook equity and ended up with millions. My question is why? What can I possibly do with that money that will make it worth it?
If the mob driven, self absorbed circle jerk of Reddit hints on the future of politics, I wouldn't call it rosy by any stretch.
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