skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are in violent agreement about the impact of health care on the labor market. I think the ideal system for startups would be nationwide single-payer.

Having said all that (and established some of my statist liberal bona fides), I do not think abuses of at-will employment or overtime exemption demand legislative fixes; in particular, I think that it's far more likely that it would harm startups (and the employment market in general, for employees and employers) to regulate overtime for salaried employees or, worse, termination requirements for employees.
It's missing Photoshop's Brush > Brush Tip Shape > Spacing setting.
"I have to maintain this" tends to be a good incentive.
iPad already does that (off by default): four-finger swipe up shows the list of apps, and four-finger swipe left or right takes you to other apps.

Edit: and I think four-finger pinch takes you back to the home screen. The only real use for the Home button on an iPad now is for taking screenshots (remapping double-click the Power button could probably replace this)
Alternatively (since the little Flash UI sucks), in these two places-

Windows users:

Documents and Settings/yourusername/Application Data/Macromedia/Flash Player/Shared Objects/your flash userid/
Documents and Settings/yourusername/Application Data/Macromedia/Flash Player/Macromedia.com/Support/Flashplayer/Sys/

Mac users:

Places/yourusername/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/SharedObjects/your flash userid/
Places/yourusername/Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash Player/Macromedia.com/Support/Flashplayer/Sys/

Wow. I have flash cookies from over 700 sites.
What did the Vaio Z cost on release? My impression was that it, and all of Sony's ultra-small laptops, were always terrifyingly expensive. The current Vaio Z, certainly, starts at just under $2000.
I stand corrected and submit to your wisdom.
I noticed that the bubbles had a unique-looking arrangement in the march 7 announcement photo, so I (crudely) compared it to an iPad 2 with that wallpaper in both landscape and portrait modes. Doing so seems to indicate that it is indeed oriented in portait mode: http://imgur.com/a/gbjyr
Much of Twitter and Zynga's "traffic" won't show up as pageviews - they'll be API calls that Ad Planner wouldn't pick up.

Regardless, that is a pretty remarkable amount of data. What makes it worth carrying at zero cost?
Scaling a web app 1000x in 3 days
I found this pretty interesting:

> "but we also saw very specific attacks targeted at vulnerabilities in the routers we used on our network. That's pretty clever; you would have to spend quite a bit of time investigating the topology in order to figure out what routers we were using."
One place Path definitely falls flat on the click through links parts is in emails they send out. If I'm not on a mobile device the "Someone wants to share their path with you" links are frustrating since they just lead to a download the app page. I have a number of friends that are in my queue on Path simply because I generally handle emails from my computer rather than my phone, so they're pretty much guaranteed to languish underneath a pile of other social media notifications.

In contrast, for as long as I can remember foursquare has had a way to accept friend requests from the web, even when the overall web experience was minimal. I know that Path wants to drive people to the mobile app, but the best way for me to want to use the app is to make getting friends into it as seamless as possible. Right now, it always seems like a two step process of seeing the email and then remembering to actually accept the friend request (yes, the notifications are theoretically turned on, but they rarely seem to come through properly for Path on Android).
Maybe you didn't include the slash at the end of the link...
522. By contrast, over 300 people are injured by lightning strikes per year, in the US.

While I appreciate your point, this is a very flawed analogy. There are only a few thousand people in a position to shoot for an M&A each year, and a few hundred million people in a position to get hit by lightning. Relative to the number of adults in the U.S., very few people start companies that could potentially be scalable each year, and out of the ones that do, very few scratch the surface of basic competence. So if you do start one, and you're reasonably competent, your odds are actually pretty good.

I also disagree with the assertion that a lifestyle business is easier than a moonshot. In my experience, both take a roughly similar toll on your life, but a lifestyle business doesn't have the upside to make the whole thing worth it. In a software development industry, a family where both partners are professional can bring in > $250k in salary each year working regular full time jobs, which is a very cushy lifestyle. I see no sense in working 16 hour days for a shot at the same salary. If you work that much, might as well make it a moonshot.
This is why you should ask your friends for help with your dog: http://vimeo.com/37123607 (podman in irc, thanks for the link)
Ask HN: Do startups need to be scared about patent lawsuits?
Over the past couple of decades, the tech giants of Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Apple, Facebook, IBM have been building large arsenals of patents for the sole purpose of suing other companies later on. We've just recently seen news of Yahoo attacking Facebook over patents.

It seems to be very likely that a startup could unknowingly violate a patent with a new product they develop. Many of the patents that these companies hold are not being used in production, and it would be almost impossible for a startup to do the research necessary to find out what they are. What is the likelihood of a startup getting sued for patent infringement, and what precautions can startups take to protect themselves!
A physicist looks at peak fossil fuels
I love this idea. A few more features (like curves/masks) and a faster UI and I can see using this a lot.
If only that had gone on for more than a sentence, especially with asking permission to talk about the situation.
I agree with you on the guilt evoked by the site design.

I immediately second guessed whether or not it was worth downloading and ultimately decided I would be willing to pay if it proved valuable. I reviewed the table of contents and saw the chapter "The single most important thing you must do to improve your programming career" so I decided to download it. I skimmed the chapter, decided it wasn't worth my money, deleted the pdf, immediately unsubscribed from the website, and then came back to HN and wrote this comment.

Is the design good because it urges a person to pay? Probably. Is the design dangerous because of the violent reaction people, like myself, get from the feeling of guilt it triggers? Probably.
> Didn't seem to matter to them when nVidia beat Qualcomm out the door with a dual-core chip last year.

When the Tegra 2 showed up, it was not generally considered suitable for phones; the one found in a few phones is a slightly different model to the original. Also, the Tegra 2 was quite flawed; it lacked NEON, in particular, hurting software compatibility.

It's also possible that supplies of the S4 are restricted; it's a 28nm part, and TSMC's rollout of their 28nm process hasn't gone as smoothly as they might like. The Tegra 3 is 40nm, which is now a mainstream process.
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TFA says, "If you have a legitimate emergency, push it and get it reviewed later, ain’t no thang"

But, also, strive for a level of code quality that doesn't require that sort of thing.
Yes, as someone else said, I was a contractor, so I don't think the labor board has any influence over this
I work for "Just ship it, I don't care" with a veneer of "Oh yeah, we'll totally do code reviews one day. For now, just write really really good code and don't make any mistakes, OK?"

Something breaks approximately once a day. Yes I am looking for a new job.
Exactly my solution. And if I'm opening an account in person I usually feel obliged to lecture the poor banker on why these questions are a liability--remember Sarah Palin-- etc.
Don't feel guilty, appreciate that it was given for free. When things turn around, pay it forward. Doesn't even need to be in the same method - buy a homeless person a hot meal.

I'd say what you should do though, now that you got the thing for free - is actually read it - then leave feedback.
System76 will probably have a rebranded one soon enough.
Really cool project!

It was fun looking at you guys chat about it all the time on IRC and I still haven't seen the app in action. That's not nice!

By the way, are you just plotting data as it comes in raw, or is there some mechanism to take care of any fuzziness from the sensors?
We all review frequently and this hasn't happened to us yet. Our reviews are extremely helpful. It has to be seen as a very core part of the dev team's culture.

I also explicitly asked this question to some ex-Googler team members about Google's code review culture (similarly required reviews) and heard that rubber stamping is by far the exception even at their size, not the norm.
You'll note this problem is not isolated to jQuery Mobile:

[at the bottom] http://www.sencha.com/blog/sencha-touch-2-raising-the-bar/

Generally Android's stock browser performs really poorly where css animations are concerned.
This is a great article for people who are unfamiliar with weight training, including 2 plans to get started: http://www.greatist.com/fitness/weight-training-for-beginner...

No need to give up cardio completely, just swap it for a few strength training days.
How our mobiles became Frankenstein's monster
Sencha and jQuery Mobile seem to be solving two very different problems. jQM delivers something that works across a variety of browsers that Sencha is not capable of serving to. Doing this will limit some of the solutions that can be put into place, for certain.
From a consumer point it won't change anything except that a bunch of people will throw their money at Apple just to satisfy their latest consumer fix. The Apple evangelists will hallelujah for a few weeks about the retina display or whatever the new life-changing feature is.

A more pertinent discussion is on how Apple manages to whip up the media into a frenzy before each one of these iterative product launches that if coming from any other company would be an absolute snooze-fest. They certainly perfected the art of conjuring up some sexy behind normally nerdy events.
Note to self: Leanpub.com disrupts book publishing industry, it took them just ~ 11 months (EDIT: 2 yrs - look below) to get traction. Surprisingly, their original post got just TWO karma points:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2329397

Getting Mr Braithwaite to publish at Leanpub.com is also a sign of success.
I only have one vote, but I think it’s meaningful in this case :-) If you’re in no position to pay for it, I want you to have it for free, and I’m glad that you went ahead and read it. If you do find it helpful, that would make me very happy.

This is a book I’ve already written, so it’s a sunk cost for me... It’s all blog posts that others have found useful or meaningful in their search for decent work with decent people at a decent wage. The more people find good work, the more we all benefit. If you’re out of work, you can’t click through ads to buy stuff, you can’t employ others, you can’t subscribe to services.

Helping you be healthy, happy, and financially secure is a win for us all.

Also, I’ve recently been “talking loud” about copyright cartels and the importance of being able to copy bits. Giving this “book” away is an attempt to do a little walking the walk instead of just talking the talk. I also considered creating a book solely to be distributed free on torrents. I may still do that.

p.s. Some people have gone ahead and paid for the book. Thank you! Remember that if you have a budget for books and you don’t mind doing a few extra clicks, buy one of my other books and download this one for free, you’ll get two books and I’ll be just as happy :-)
Yes.

Typically, when someone makes their creation available for free with an optional donation, I will donate a few dollars to encourage other content creators to do the same.

It is odd, though. I am not so much supporting or applauding the specific content creator, but more encouraging future ones to make their payments sliding or optional.

For instance, I buy every Humble Bundle that comes out, but have never played the games.
Very nice, I like it. I've come across a few online/web-based logic and circuit sims before (example logic.ly , http://www.falstad.com/circuit/index.html) but this one seems the most complete and polished. I'm signing up for it right away.
I don't need Matt to apologize or genuflect to George Grellas. But we get maybe one 'grellas comment every other week when we're lucky, and you can be sure that when someone tries to chase those comments away for being overlong, I'm going to call it out (if nobody else does).

It's not a waste of time or thread space to point out the value that Grellas brings to the site. I'm not doing it because Grellas is "special"; I'm doing it because his comments are extremely valuable. I've never met the guy.

The world will little note nor long remember what was said about Matt Manser on this thread (in fact, neither will I), but at least the thread now says "long 'grellas comments are a good thing". :)
Totally - Wait till we have a wifi device that we can attach to things (ala X10) that will accept commands from Siri.

"Siri, turn on the bedroom lights"

"Siri, set the oven to 400 degrees"

"Siri, put on HBO at 9:30pm tonight"

"Siri, set the temp to 70 degrees"

THIS is what I want.

Shit - who on HN wants to work on this?
There are no precautions and thus being scared doesn't help you.
You will see the app once we get the tablets :)

We used two kinds of filters for the sensor data - a simple alpha filter and rolling averages. Both of them can be adjusted by the slider on the left.
Agreed. This will likely blacklist him from the incubator, but it may also blacklist you. You might want to call and talk to them and let them know exactly what happened.
Macbook Air or Macbook Pro 15"
I know this question has been asked a million times, but I do need the opinion of people who have used either of the 2 before. I currently use an aging 13" Hp laptop which is overdue for a replacement. I have been eyeing the macbook and the macbook air for quite some time now. I am now so used to staring at a 13" screen so the size of the macbook air wont be an issue, the only questions I have are:
1. Will I be missing something by not upgrading to a larger screen estate if I go for the macbook air?
2. Will I miss the DVD burner?
3. Can it handle expensive CPU operations? i.e. the air?
thanks
Thanks for the candid feedback.
Would welcome your thoughts on what tops the list.
Wow, there's a lot of unique information there that I didn't expect, such as installed system fonts. Hashing this information could generate a fairly reliable primary key.
"300dpi iPad confirmed" would have been clearer, more correct, less marketing polluted, and fit within the same number of message bytes. Believe it or not there are people in the world outside Apple's products who understand dots per inch but not what a "retina" display is.
they usually embed little cues like this in their product announcements
I'd be worried about the liabilities in operating the service. It appears to be offering a legal service. What if someone gets involved in a big lawsuit and your system fails so they sue you for negligence? I'm not a lawyer so I can't imagine all the scary things, but it seems scary.

When you sell it I'd be sure to get the buyer to release you of any liabilities related to it.
Why Not the Funnel Chart?
I'm thinking, how would you do blacks? But, if you put an LCD screen behind the OLED screen, that should work.
I do think you should have email reminders that nudge people who haven't yet added a photo to do so. Maybe once every 2 or 3 weeks or something.
I still can't believe someone can make a contest, promise you a shiny new gizmo, and then say "you'll get that after milions of people touch it and do who knows what with it."

I know I shouldn't complain about "free stuff" but we did work our butts off.
I love his type of content publishing. It works the same way as the Humble Bundles.

If you give something away for free, I'll take it for free.

If you give me the option to pay $0, and give me a reasonable suggested price(this book), I'll pay the suggested price.

If you give me the option to pay $0, show me what others are paying(humble bundle), I'll pay the median.

If you give me the option to pay $0, and give me "bonuses" at certain price breaks (kickstarter, humble bundle), I'll pay at the most attractive price break.

It actually makes a ton of sense to adopt these kind of pricing structures because people actually pay!
All my stats are legit. Also the SEO is pure and natural growth from a site that has been around almost 6 years. I mentioned that some creative SEO tactics could be used with all the content, but I've never done that. I've added my contact to my profile...if your interested in the site, please contact me offline.
It depends quite heavily what sort of software. Web development is booming. Systems software is busting.
When building desktop-like apps I'm using following snippet to disable text selection everywhere:

body * {
-webkit-user-select: none;
-moz-user-select: none;
-ms-user-select: none;
user-select: none;
}

Then I whitelist any elements that should be selectable:

textarea,
input,
[contenteditable="true"] {
-webkit-user-select: text;
-moz-user-select: text;
-ms-user-select: text;
user-select: text;
}
Contact the incubator, tell them this:

"I was told my name was put on an application. If this is the case, this is a misunderstanding. I, in fact, intend to apply in the near future for a different startup. Please remove me from the current application."

This makes explains the situation truthfully, while avoiding describing the drama between you and John.
My favourite bit is where the developer reviews his own product.
Why are you bitter? The article provides actual numbers that may be interesting to many people writing iPhone apps.
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Peter from Leanpub here. If you're down to your last $60, please don't feel guilty not paying anything! Come back later and buy the book (or one of raganwald's other books) if you want. (On the bestsellers page, his other books are currently in the #5 and #9 spots.)

The reason we did the sliders this way is to encourage people who have extra disposable income to pay more. Since the Leanpub royalty rates are so good, we felt we should show what the author gets right on the purchase page. That's why we subtly change their color as they are dragged up and down, as well as live-updating the royalty, etc. So I'm really happy since this shows that they are working as intended :)
Nice work, Kevin.
I spent some time about a year ago fussing with getting a web spider/scraper going; it was simple enough to download data, but actually putting it into a database that was domain-, content-, and time-aware was impressively complex and I put it on the backburner.
Used the color selector. Drew a circle, so far so good. Duplicated the layer, tried to slide the circle across using Shift to fix the axis but seemed to select all UI elements in the browser (like I was selecting text). Duplicated shape was misaligned so hit Undo and ended up jumping back 2-3 operations - my second duplicated layer was gone and the first layer, while still existing, did not appear to contain any information.

Tried to draw an ellipse but the circle tool seems to use a fixed radius. Erased shape using eraser, difficult to see brush size as it's a crosshair that does not indicate the size. Had the idea of drawing a circle on a new layer and scaling the layer horizontally, but it does not appear to be possible to transform a layer. Dragged layer to Delete but it did not delete. Deleting layer from Layer menu did work though.

Drew another shape and tried fill tool to fill in with color, but it did not detect the polygon boundaries and filled the full screen. Looked for a "Filled polygon" option but the Shapes box seems to only allow selection of one option ("Polygon").

Interesting proof of concept, don't think I'll be able to use it for real work any time soon though.

(Chrome, OS/X)
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There was an article on HN in the last year that addressed this, i.e the amount of knowledge required to understand a complex application from distributed software to assembly language, to hardware. I think the title was something about unknowable depths of complexity, does anyone remember the link?
Why use Flash for a site that's not even that.. flashy? Almost the exact same site could've be done in HTML and Javascript, except potential customers could view it on their iPads, for example.
That is because in the settings of your pandora account it asks for your age and your sex as a preference. They tell you as a side note that it is for ad targeting. Pretty honest (IMHO)
They even failed to mention this little bit of information before we started working.
Don't you think those a pretty damn good guidelines for code review?
AOL's share price has been flying high?!? Their stock price is down 25% since they purchased TechCrunch (no direct correlation implied); while the Dow and Nasdaq are hitting multi year highs. This is a company that has lost 80% of its value since the days when Google signed their big search deal with them putting a $10 billion value on the company - to say nothing of the long term disaster at AOL. And not to mention that they've gone from a cash generating machine just a few years ago, courtesy of the dying dial-up business, to currently bleeding to death.

I used to read TechCrunch daily while Arrington was at the helm. He kept it interesting, and they often had big scoops. I find that HackerNews has completely replaced my need to check in with TechCrunch to keep up on what's going on.

Ars Technica is one of the few other sources I keep up with regularly. TechCrunch just seems like a complete joke by comparison these days.
what side projects have u launched?
Wizard-ify Your Rails Controllers with Wicked
what are some of those ideas u can share?
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I fully intended to take it for free, but I paid for the book because the asking price is under my impulse-purchase threshold. Writing a book is such a time-consuming and difficult process $5 seems like a tip.

I by no means think that means everyone else needs to pay something for the book -- but I'm in a position to pay $5 today, and the book looks interesting, so it's worth the charge.
I dont think you will fly an unmanned aircraft anytime soon. Heck, I don't think even if, arguendo, they would be available, I would still choose a living pilot!

ok, I guess "all of sudden" means 24 months. how about that?
It took a bit longer than 11 months: Eric Ries was our first customer (a good first customer to have!), and his first sale was on April 21, 2010. So it took about 2 years.

When we launched we were based on a hacked up version of WordPress MU. We've pivoted a couple times, and Leanpub today is based on writing your book in Markdown on your own computer (or iPad), and syncing with Leanpub using Dropbox.

Along the way we had a brief period where we used GitHub instead of Dropbox, but we felt that limited us to only highly technical authors. (We do use Git internally still, but Dropbox is a lot more accessible and it makes our publish workflow really nice.)
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