skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The logo looks pretty "heavily inspired" by this: http://www.betascape.org/

Hmmm...
Love the fournova logo, something about it is just really aesthetically pleasing. It looked like an airline logo to me before I realized (from the more colorful logo for the app) that it was a control tower. Great job. Who designed it?

The app... I don't know why, but I never realized that I needed this. It's a private GitHub for self hosted repositories, duh. Will definitely give it a try.
Or viruses are made by mammals?
That's not true at all. I know plenty of people working in upper echelons of finance companies that live in outer boroughs, New Jersey, Long Island, Westchester, etc. I would actually say most are.
One of the editors gave a form in which the newer research could be presented that was in compliance with their policy (the green sky blue sky example). Why didn't the author make an edit of his form? Something like: "Although most historians agree that little evidence was presented... newer research suggests..." It would get the new point across while keeping the prior, possibly fallacious, but accepted viewpoint visible.
Admins can lock articles and ban users, but they cannot use their powers to trump non-admins and get their text into articles.

The WP admin community is a shark tank. Admins could try to use their status to thump people around article talk pages, but --- and this isn't an exaggeration --- there are at least 2 other admins watching commit-by-commit what any given admin does, looking for some policy slip-up they can use to incite drama.

In practice, in the vast majority of articles, there is no seniority. At best, a person with a demonstrated history of building and grooming an article over a year or so might expect some deference when newcomer attempts a dramatic change. That deference is a good thing, and has nothing to do with adminship.
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The project authors certainly don't care about people with 'special' requirements.

The source of all these problems in a nutshell. No one has a reason to polish the UX for a case that never happens to them.
>"wouldn't you need to prove it was either sent or received?"

[IANAL] Probably not (in the US). In the US, anyone can sue anyone else over anything. [Not that I doubt email notification might present problems in court - but who is going to court over $6000?]
I thought Androids ability to show you everything an app will have access to would prevent most of this stuff, apparently not. Some people just really want Lady Gaga wallpapers enough to give away control of their phone.
Procrastination battles
I wish it said on the site who the team is. If you're running an editorial site, somewhere it should at least say who the editor in chief is, no? That's part of the site's credibility.

(But overall I do like what they are doing.)
It did, but the CEO Jared Kenna is a US citizen living and working in San Francisco. Not sure exactly how the law applies in this case.

As a side note, Peter Schiff runs a semi-alternative currency operation with his Euro Pacific Bank, LTD., and hides the website from US IP addresses:

http://europacbank.com/

It's a bank that stores gold, not cash, and issues a debit card that draws on it. But even that is apparently borderline illegal enough in the US that he won't even show the website to US citizens.

I imagine Tradehill could have done something similar, and may have had they not also had $100,000 taken from them.
Prediction: an A-list director will fund a film on Kickstarter in 2012
Great UX may make for a great tech story, but by itself it won't lead to huge traction. Great UX doesn't mean great marketing, and word of mouth. In the end, it comes down to providing something that taps into a need, and marketing. The UX part is what makes your product sticky, so people won't leave but it can't attract newcomers.

There are 2 sites that are hardly looked at in the tech space: CafeMom and SparkPeople. Take a look at them, and you can hardly say they have good UX - it's messy, and cluttered. Yet both have over 5 million uniques per month.
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I also normally have 3-4 sound sources during normal home computer use, all at different volume levels so they self prioritize. I'm not sure what the gain would be for removing the sliders when they serve a perfectly valid function. What benefit do you see from removing volume sliders?
A startup by any other name
Without being sarcastic, there is, and its the view history & talk pages. Although the other of the original article got in to a disagreement, his revisions and the arguments he had are now recorded for the duration of history. Personally, I find these pages full of useful information for more obscure topics.

I should also add, Wikipedia is the only place I've had a discussions with response times measured in years. That is certainly something unique.
No, the Internet is a great place for original research. Wikis are great places for original research.

Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. It's a terrible place for original research.
or BC or BU or Northeastern or Tufts or...
Less people would moan about the McDonalds coffee lawsuit being example of a frivolous suit when shown that picture.
Good clarification; "young" meaning "inexperienced" or "stupid like a fox"[1] and not age-dependent.

[1] http://download.lardlad.com/sounds/season6/lemon15.mp3
I read "young" as "green".
Doesn't this violate DB policy too?
It's a little difficult. If an employee screws up badly, they can be fired. If the software screws up badly, we can fix it, but people still lose their trust immediately.
Yes, it's targeting 2.0. Both the CSS and LESS files will be kept in sync with Bootstrap. So you won't need to compile anything, just download the latest swatch CSS.
For point #3, NDB has supported on disk non-indexed attributes for a while now (2-3 years?). So you just need to be able to fit indexes in memory which is a much smaller dataset, but still limiting.

I'm sure for the benchmark it was all in memory though.
You may remember my post from a few days ago about making custom maps using TileMill. Purely for entertainment value, I took a look at my analytics logs from the day the post was a hit on both Hacker News and Reddit, to see how they and their users differ.
The true waste would be taking valuable research and synthesize and hiding it in an encyclopedia.

It's not like it wouldn't be available elsewhere, right?

It goes research -> authorship of secondary source (journal article, book, magazine article, whatever) -> citation in encyclopedia.

Conventionally, sure, but Wikipedia would seem to offer an opportunity to fix the shortcomings with that system.

Why do you care so much about secondary sources? Because they're vetted. Why is that important? Because primary sources can be taken out of context, because people can't parse them out correctly, etc.

I would submit that both of those things are no longer safe assumptions.

Secondary sources can be fabricated whole-cloth and appear legitimate (entire industries, such as some branches of SEO, do exactly this) when they are not, and can even cite Wikipedia themselves. So, secondary sources aren't these bastions of truth that they seem to be.

The idea that primary sources aren't usable to the populace is also old. It's trivial these days for a user (who cares even the tiniest amount) to run a search and contextualize a source. If Crazy Eddie's Account of the Haymarket Riot is, after a fast search, the only one that has Xenu interfering then maybe it's not a credible account, yeah?

Moreover, having so many eyes seeing the same citations and clicking through them increases the likelihood that somebody who actually does have expertise in the matter can comment usefully.

If you can't trust the great unwashed masses to search out the truth of things given primary sources, why do you think giving them prechewed knowledge is any better?
Never under Obama or most Republican candidates (you can take a guess who's against the TSA), unless there's a major public outcry, at least as big as the one for SOPA.
Strange, I follow the instructions to apply as a chef, but when I get to the step that says click on My Account, all I see is Manage Account. If I click on that, I don't see the Application option anywhere on the page. I'm trying to help a couple of chef friends sign up.
Yeah. It is. It's faster.
This was already discussed four days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3576759
Probably for the low taxes, I'd guess.
I think the world was so different then. One of my mentors barely graduated and went straight to Stanford MBA back in the 60's. Sure he had lots of campus leadership. But it seems like ambition got you a lot farther back in the day.
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I think your app looks great, and behaves well even in IE8.

The problem you rightly point out is that family trees space is crowded (although there are posts here which argue that that doesn't really matter) I think your idea doesn't yet know what it wants to be. Is ist a family tree machine or an organisational plotr?

Perhaps to distinguish yourself you need to make a choice at first, at least to clarify the message.
I think part of the idea is that if you sue someone and nothing comes of it, you have to pay their fees.
I think what Fred is saying is that in the wake of SOPA's failure, the entertainment industry might be willing to come to the table with tech and work to ban the worst offenders, rather than pushing for the kind of overarching, draconian laws that the public rejects.
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> " they can just as well fix the bugs and test the app more thoroughly before the next release."

This is going to sound snarky but... do you write apps? Or, well, any reasonably complex piece of software?

I dare say where I work we test apps far more thoroughly than most, but inevitably there are misses. When you have an app of a certain complexity you will always be sitting on top of a veritable pile of unsubstantiated bug reports. When you have literally millions of users, someone somewhere will trip over even the most obscure bug (in your code or Apple's... or 3rd party's).

When users reach out to us we can get crash logs, and that helps greatly. When it's an app review... not so much.

> "I'm extremely happy that developers can't respond to user reviews."

You assume I mean publicly respond to reviews. That's not what I meant. It would be extremely helpful if devs can respond to user reviews privately, via some moderated channel where the user's real contact info is never revealed. It will at least give us a chance to correct a bad experience or collect debug data.
yes, it is an IDE, but sorry it is a very bad IDE.
I use Trello like this. I have a list marked "To do (unplanned)", "To do (this week)", "Doing (today)", "Done (yyyy-mm-dd)".

At the end of each week I archive the last list and shuffle items around depending on what happened that week.
Experts shouldn't want to write encyclopedias.

That's presuming a great deal, don't you think? Besides, the format of Wikipedia isn't so much that an expert would need to write an entire encyclopedia as it is that they can contribute their knowledge of a tiny slice of the domain to an article.

Don't get so bogged down in the definition of encyclopedia--hell, almost all of those are printed on paper or optical media, so I guess Wikipedia isn't an encyclopedia either, and so we shouldn't limit ourselves.
Ha. I have not actually been back to Oz for 6 years now.. and apparently things have changed a lot.
I didn't know there was one in Horsham, or Renmark for that matter.

I was originally referring to the Melbourne->Mildura drive, but obviously I need to update my facts. Sorry 'bout that.
Awesome! Soon all our sites will look like bootstrap but now with a variety of different colors. THANKS!! CSS is so hard.
"There might be a few startups that work, but I'd be willing to speculate that there are many more examples where they did not work and the company either went under or had to perform a complete reversal."

Not perfect correspondence, but pretty close. :)
very cool site you should be the one in front page, do you get the colors out of the picture at random or you do some analysis to assign the darkest color to the background or something similar?
This is an accurate way to think of what the relationship between the command key and the control key on the Mac is today.

Historically, the Mac initially didn't have a control key. It was introduced later to accommodate terminal emulation. There was no "legacy" to accommodate for the Mac of 1984; it was a new platform with a completely different UI from most other computers of the time. Since then Control has been increasingly used as a general modifier key -- though still limited compared to command, for exactly the reason you state.
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Great UX in and of itself doesn't mean great marketing, but it sure helps form a strong marketing message. If you can paint the picture of your product as solving a need AND being incredibly easy to use, that's powerful.

In the absence of an easy to use competitor, solving a problem is enough. But when presented with equal products, the one with a great UX will win more often than not.
I tried this a little bit back before I made much programming experience (but I had some), basically I realized it can lead to wasting a lot of money, it can work for small things but its really hard to manage unless you can get someone in a similar time zone, otherwise just too much time goes by between communications and its hard to stay on the same page, unless you stay up all night to be online with them.

You have to be careful too as some will start working on a project for a day or two and seem to know what they're doing but then all of a sudden productivity will drop to nearly zero, for whatever reason (they found a better paying gig, busy with other stuff, etc)

EDIT: Now that I think about it more, you can find some people who are definitely good but they are not going to be dirt cheap, the few good people I did work with I usually ended up hiring just for small tasks as it was something I needed done but I couldn't have afforded to employ them on a regular basis, usually it seems the minimum rate is $25-30 per hour, which is cheap for a company but it can be hard to swing that if you're just paying out of your own finances.

Also, these people tend to like to work on specific tasks to where they can estimate the hours and they would usually have a few clients at once, it would be hard to get them to give their full focus to you for an ongoing project, I think, unless you could demonstrate stability to them where they felt comfortable turning down other gigs to keep working with you.

They also don't usually want to invest any time in learning your project structure, setup, etc so if you want things done a certain way it can be hard to get them to do it unless you are going to pay them for time spent reading documentation, etc. You can find newbie dev's who will attempt to follow your structure, etc, but they tend to not be of the best quality.
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Some of them will even be right. This is why it will never really die.
It does imply agreement if it's the only viewpoint being presented.

Not at all; the entire rest of the book demonstrates the truth more richly than any sort of immediate-pairing-with-an-alternate-take would. It's not a compact newspaper story or a children's textbook: take it as a whole. Does it demonstrate the truth of Gates' quotes? Clearly not.

Even where Gates says, "let’s be frank, the NeXT OS was never really used", I don't see that as being presented as gospel by Isaacoson. It's just another accurately quoted viewpoint. (The presence of puffery like "let's be frank" and weasel words like "really" are clues to any reader that this assessment is very perspective-dependent.)

Gruber is probably right that Isaacson doesn't quite appreciate software or NeXT's technologies. I think Gruber was also right to refute the Gladwell 'tweaker' label, interpreted from Isaacson's work. But Gruber is wrong that leaving Gates' quotes dangling at the end of "this section of the chapter, with no additional commentary" leaves the average reader "to believe that the above is an accurate description of Apple’s NeXT acquisition." The average reader knows it's just an accurate quote of Gates' opinion, to be interpreted along with all the other info in the book, before and after.
Where did you attend University? Most other computer science majors I've met encountered at least two classes during the course of their degree which involved a semester-long software project that was iterated according to new concepts introduced in the course.
As a MySQL, Oracle and Clustrix DBA this is very sexy news. Here is the extra info on the benchmark http://mikaelronstrom.blogspot.com/2012/02/105bn-qpm-using-m...

But no info on what disk setup they used. But for every instance node there was a storage node.
>"It is still unreasonable to send out legal threats because you did not receive a response from an email."

Hardly unreasonable universally - particularly when it comes to non-payment.

And it is clear from the first email that the link back is an alternative to a license fee [from your link]:

Hello,

My name is Atara Herskovics, Senior Marketing Manager at
Gigya. We're pleased that Muziboo.com has been enjoying
Gigya's Wildfire share plugin for a while;
however please note that as part of Gigya's
business model, for the last couple of years
we have been charging a license fee for the use
of our social plugins. In recognition of the
fact that you were one of Gigya’s first clients,
we would like to provide you with an alternative
option in the form of a link to Gigya
that you would place on your homepage.
If you agree to this arrangement, please
implement the exact link below:
<a href="http://www.gigya.com/">Social Media for business<a/>

Alternatively, we can send you a price quote for your
continued usage of our Wildfire product.

Thank you,

xxxx yyyyyy
Senior Marketing Manager, Gigya
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i just hate the theme, perhaps just me.
But the last paragraph in the article puts the lie to the title -- pigs and horses don't have this feature. Last I checked, both mammals.

There is no indefinite plural article in English. The title is perfectly consistent with the content of the article, if potentially a bit misleading.
It's funny, I hadn't heard of RubyMine at all until now...the choices that I always hear about for Mac OSX Ruby development has so far been: Textmate, BBEdit and vim.

Glad I checked HN this morning, going to give the 30-day demo a try.

(obviously, would love to read any first-hand experiences from Rails devs about switching from TM to RubyMine, particularly the tradeoff in time getting setup vs. time saved from the IDE-related benefits)
A few points:

You can follow the progress of the lawsuit against the Money Transmission Act at http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/case.html?id=716056.

You can learn more about the companies behind the Money Transmission Act here at http://www.plainsite.org/issues/index.html?id=1.

The unnamed payment processor in this article is Dwolla, which is itself an unlicensed money transmitter in California and most other states. Their connection to a credit union subsidiary does not render them exempt from the law. (Of course, there are thousands of other unlicensed money transmission companies as well, from lawyers to universities to escrow services to payroll processors to real estate agents to construction companies.)

The most expedient way to solve this problem is to contact your state legislators whether you live in California or any other state.

New Hampshire yesterday held a hearing on HB 1700 (http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/committees/housebillsi...), which will repeal New Hampshire's money transmission laws. We should be holding such hearings in every state where money transmission laws exist. They typically cost more to have on the books than they generate in revenue, and they absolutely destroy payments innovation.

Call and e-mail your state legislators! (And if you don't mind, BCC help@facecash.com if and when you do!) The people to e-mail in Silicon Valley are:

Jeremy Dennis - jeremy.dennis@asm.ca.gov (Assemblyman Richard Gordon, Palo Alto)

Brock Winstead - brock.winstead@sen.ca.gov (Senator Joe Simitian, Palo Alto)

Gibran Maciel - gibran.maciel@asm.ca.gov (Assemblyman Jerry Hill, San Mateo)

Eric Dang - eric.dang@asm.ca.gov (Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, San Francisco)

Other people to CC:

Nick Hardeman - nick.hardeman@asm.ca.gov (Principal Assistant, Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, San Francisco)

Bob Twomey - bob.twomey@asm.ca.gov (District Director, Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, San Francisco)

Eileen Newhall - eileen.newhall@sen.ca.gov (Staff Director, California Senate Banking, Finance & Insurance Committee; where the MTA originated)

Mark Farouk - mark.farouk@asm.ca.gov (Legislative Consultant, California General Assembly; had input on the MTA)
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Am I confused about the GPL or are they?
> An encyclopedia is a survey of existing secondary sources. It's not a research venue.

Then I suppose I'm also frustrated at Wikipedia's lack of ambition. To strive toward that benchmark and not past it seems, as I said, wasteful.

One of the things that fuels this feeling for me is the work of people like Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse Tyson. I think there is a role for experts to address the public directly, rather than their peers. To be sure, it can get very messy, as some of the most vocal cranks think they are experts and seek every possible venue to espouse their nonsense, but they do that anyway. I'd love to see the bar lowered for scientists to contribute to works that are easy to access via the web and written for a lay audience, without having to start and maintain their own blog.
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Made our top 3 paid apps free--here's the massive spike in rank (charts)
Ask HN: Is anyone working on this problem? any startups?
>"threatening to sue their clients"

If you are not cashing someone's checks, they are not your client.
Someone suggested the United Nations Millenium Development Goals to draw inspiration from. It is a good place to start with for startups looking for ideas. High time we started working on 'real' problems.

http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/
Related question: if you're not aiming to raise money or grow big fast, how important is it to be in a tech hub?

I live in Waltham, right outside of Boston, and am considering moving somewhere cheaper and warmer because the benefits of building a company here (or SV) don't seem as important if you're going the MicroISV/Micropreneur route. Thoughts?
NDB originally only had a NoSQL interface called NDB API. NDB API is a bit complex and when MySQL acquired them, they added the SQL layer on top of it to make it easier for developers to use it.

This release adds an additional memcache api layer which sits on top of NDB API, so that you can more easily program against it.
The one promise an encyclopedia makes is that it is an effective prose survey of the existing literature.

You propose that an encyclopedia should, if it can, also set out to be a sprawling "book about everything"; a primary source when experts debate on its pages, a secondary source when an expert decides to write an encyclopedia article instead of a book, and a tertiary source the rest of the time.

The two goals conflict. You can't be an effective prose survey of the existing literature when any given sentence in any given article could be original research. The whole point of an encyclopedia --- a prose survey of literature --- is that you don't have to check every sentence to see if it comes from a reliable source.