skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree about the testing. It is also really annoying that you can't run a test as a "single, isolated test". I read a few articles on Play 2.0 and Scala, but haven't come across any additions on testing. Without decent testing integrated, this framework has no real production use. I agree that it all looks nice and shiny though.
Now I am going to get killed for saying this but it's almost like you are referring to Microsoft Expression Web or something to that effect.

When we were doing work in Silverlight (god rest its soul), there was the facility to have designers working on the design and developers working on the code.

Now, what you are referring to may be the actual Expression Web product they offer. I don't know, but it sounds very familiar to the Silverlight version.

No, I am not suggesting everyone moves to PC to use this software, I am just bringing to light the possibility the software may already exist!

We personally have no issue mocking up our sites in Photoshop then them being sent over to the developers to be sliced and used. We have never really felt this process to be in-efficient either. I think so long as the designer has a clear understanding about what the developers need then it's fine. When you have print designers getting used to web development for the first time, that's when you have problems.
But the downsides are largely due to government demands of safe drugs no?

The prices of the drug includes the cost of development. So if you remove that cost you would decrease the price.
To all those who are claiming that the use of iPads will be detrimental to the health of their children. Please read this article: http://techland.time.com/2012/02/22/new-study-finds-ipads-in...
I'll do my work with layers like "Layer 0 copy copy" as long as they're grouped.

That's shocking. That's like me as a developer naming my variables var1, var2, var3 etc. I'll get shot if I did that and would rightly do the same to anyone else that did that.

I do some Photoshop work, mainly for personal purposes and naming those layers makes it easier for me when I need to revisit those files. Stop thinking here and now and start thinking about your follow colleague that needs to take your pile of junk on.
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It looks like 98% of the web is infringing some of these patents.
Same - we've got a lot of legacy crap at my job and I haven't yet sold folks on Joda Time, but it's part of my standard jar set (Guava, Guice, Trove, Joda Time) for new personal projects.
tl;dr - this sounds nuts, but it worked for me

I did this... got one of his books (they're on kindle, ibooks and audible) and read it. i had rsi that increasingly got worse over a 3 year period until i couldn't drive, tried pretty much every non-surgical thing i could find (multiple doctors, creams, physio, ART, acupuncture, TENS, stretches, exercises, posture examined by ergonomist, different keyboards, switching mouse hands, trackpads, footpedals, foot mouse (wouldn't you know it, my knee started getting rsi), vitamins, supplements, break software with increasingly frequent breaks, switched to dvorak, wacom tablet for handwriting/mouse replacement), and things were still trending worse. it was hard to hold my new daughter for more than a couple minutes, and i was trying to figure out what work i could do that wouldn't involve a computer.

i can still remember running across sarno's book online on a random google search for rsi treatments, the way people remember where they were when they heard about the challenger explosion or 9/11. within a week of reading sarno's newest book (name escapes me now, but it is offputtingly new-age sounding), i had next to no pain, after a month, i'd say i was healed. it's now been 10 months, and i don't even think about my arms anymore, or follow any sort of treatment regimen. i'm literally back to normal. if someone had told me this was possible a year ago, i wouldn't have believed them, i thought i was going to be babying my arms and counting my keystrokes for the rest of my life. in fact, my physiotherapist told me in no uncertain terms that i'd be dealing with this for the rest of my life.

sarno's theory in a non-medical nutshell: there's nothing wrong with your arms, the pain is caused by limited blood flow to your arms/wrists/fingers. the lack of blood flow is caused by your unconscious. why is your unconscious doing this? to distract you from dealing with painful emotions. why your arms and not your back or something else? your subconscious isn't dumb, and knows what will seem plausible to you. how do you fix it? by understanding that it's happening (not, as you might expect me to say at this point, by dealing with your emotions/stresses through therapy). the last part is what most people seem to get hung up on, and most of sarno's book is trying to convince you that this isn't a crackpot theory.

here's the caveat, which is explicitly discussed in the books as well. sarno thinks most rsi (and other chronic pain) is caused by what he calls tms, but it's possible there is something physically/mechanically wrong with you, so you should see a doctor first to discount this. in my case, i'd already seen several and had conflicting diagnoses and recommended treatments that got me nowhere, so i dove right into the sarno treatment.

here's a couple links that you can read about it in more detail, but seriously, buy the book or get it from
http://aaroniba.net/articles/tmp/how-i-cured-my-rsi-pain.htm...
http://tmswiki.wetpaint.com/page/Repetitive+Strain+Injuries+...
http://podolsky.everybody.org/rsi/
Seperate Comments/Whitespace from Production Files
I was curious if anyone has a tool/Dreamweaver method/workflow method for separating white-space & comments out of css/javascript/html files.

I'm almost envisioning a tool that will mark the location of a comment or white-space in a file and will keep track; so that you can strip it when uploading to production, and then when you re-open the file, the tool will insert comments & white-space.

I'm interested if anyone has anything ready, because I could use it for work immediately. However, if nothing exists, or the interface sucks, I guess I now have a side-project to hack on. ^_^
Ask HN: HN'ers / startup scene in Chicago?
I'm going to be staying in Chicago for a good portion of the new few months.... while I'm here, I'd love to meet any Chicago based fellow HN'ers, as well as getting to know the local startup scene. If anybody would like to meet for a drink, I'll definitely buy you a beer or two if you give me a shout. Or if anyone just has any recommendations for events/ groups / meetups in the area, I'd love to hear about it.

And, of course, recommendations vis-a-vis entertainment / dining / etc. are always appreciated as well.

Looking forward to making some new friends here in Chicago!
Today it's Yahoo, tomorrow Facebook.
Well, they seem to know what they're doing: pushing a unified, one-size-fits-all interface (and I've tried to honestly use it, on a desktop, for a day; without a touch interface, it feels very clumsy). The trouble with one-size-fits-all is obvious: it never does. Note that the linked site is not only "riling up the hivemind," but also proposing solutions to the UX problems as present in the Consumer Preview (because there's nothing else publicly out there to base the suggestions on).

That's constructive criticism if I ever saw any - and loyalty to the brand as well: that site doesn't say "eh wind0z3 iz teh suxxorz, hate hate," but "I like Windows, but these are the specific problems I see with Win8 as it's currently presented; this I propose to fix the issues".
Facebook isn't a 'newcomer' and Yahoo! wouldn't bother suing anyone that wasn't already a giant.
I agree with your grumble, division of integers with a non-integer result should give an exact rational number, not some messy floating point approximation. Clojure does that, for example.
A long time ago (2010), I was told that we couldn't use generics or annotations because they weren't "industry standard Java." I suppose the reality of that phrase depends heavily on the industry.
Well with that classification,buying anything is consumerism. Wanting an Arduino is consumerism because the majority of people want to buy them and follow a tutorial to make something.

The idea is people are doing something on their own, rather than buying something preinstalled and just plugging it in. Consumerism refers to buying something that can only lead to further purchases. An iPad is consumerism. A Kindle Fire is consumerism. An MP3 player is consumerism. A Raspberry Pi comes with nothing extra and entices you to buy nothing extra. The simple act of installing XBMC (since it doesn't come preinstalled, nothing comes preinstalled) and having a large install base on these devices is actively helping two non-profits and one open-source group.

Some people want a Raspberry Pi to consume media. That doesn't make Rasperry Pi a consumerist product.
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All of what you described falls under the "history is written by the victors" sentiment.
Ask HN: moving my Django app away from GAE, where do I go?
Hi HN,

So I have this Django app (http://www.wysp.ws) that has gathered 1500 signups in 3 months of un-publicized beta, and is growing at an accelerating pace. It's hosted on Google App Engine (and user-submitted pictures are sent to S3).

I want to move away from GAE, because of several huge technical drawbacks:

- The 20 seconds limit for request processing make it impossible for my users to submit anything bigger than small pictures (upload time + processing time (resizing, etc) + time to send the file to S3 > 20 secs). Especially given that outbound traffic from GAE in seriously slow.

- I'm using the DB middleware Django-appengine to keep using Django's native models with the GAE Datastore, and I have come to realize how bad of an idea that is. Can't fetch (or count) more than 1000 objects, HUGE performance issues, etc.

- I can't believe how bad Google treats their paying customers. For instance: one day Google decided it didn't like my credit card info, which caused my application to go down for several hours... because each time I tried to reenter my CC info, after rejecting it Google would prevent me from trying again for 30 minutes (while the app was down). It happened several times in a row. No possibility to get support whatsoever. And that's just an example.

So where do I go? EC2? Rackspace? Gondor? Heroku? What would be the best and cheapest for a Django app with image uploading requirements?
I mistyped my original response. 1 million daily pageviews is still 10/second. The rest of my post remains the same, so 30 million monthly pageviews can easily be handled with 10 or so servers.
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Maybe I'm not talking about guaifenesin by itself, but there seems to always be a drug store generic of Mucinex beside it on the shelves.
I'd guess the downvotes are thanks to sloppy and/or biased dataanalysis rather than fanboyism. For one thing Perl has been dropping almost steadily for the last 7 years, Python just one.
I don't understand why you would want static methods everywhere in this age of dependency injection everywhere.
Supplementary material: the Onlinesmanship WIki
http://onlinemanship.wikia.com/wiki/Onlinemanship

Curated by Theresa Neilsen Hayden, who at one time modded comments at BoingBoing. As a former forum mod myself, I can attest that there are LOTs of great crowd-hacking insights here.
Sorry, I'm not very proficient with CSS3 yet – you can create drop shadows along the free form outline of png images?
Wow that was a lot of assumptions :)

The current scenario isn't working IMO if the majority of the cost comes from the approval process.

Drugs for me er fairly cheap as I come from Denmark.

With regards to proof. The article we are debating here is proof that since the production of a drug is extremely cheap the development of it is extremely expensive.

Surely that cost can be cut.
The solution in the article is "add a taskbar" or "bring the desktop back". That's not fixing Windows 8, that's completely ignoring it.
Apple sits diametrically opposed to Yahoo in the overall internet zeitgeist. Apple is the hot girl everyone gives a pass to, and Yahoo is the band nerd that everyone laughs at.
Is your URL string secure over HTTPS?
Sadly that is unlikely now that DMR is dead :(

But another collaboration with Rob Pike on a book about Go is likely.
I would be very surprised if Microsoft took that advice.

This is good user-interface research though. UI developers take note.
There are plenty of smooth talkers who can give a good speech, without any umms, and yet leave the audience unfulfilled. Obviously there are just as many bad speeches full of too many umms.

I think there is a middle ground where 'umms' and general fillers make the communication more authentic and seemingly less rehearsed. Most people don't like listening to a robot, not even a well-rehearsed one.
They aren't for laptops either.

Think about something more like a toaster or a temperature sensor.
for some reason the placebo effect is getting stronger and more drugs are failing in stage II and III against sugar:

http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/17-09/ff_placebo...
Your comment leads me to believe you have not used Windows 8. Metro, at least in the DP and CP releases, are very cumbersome with mouse and keyboard. These problems go beyond "unfinished features in beta". It's not glitchy animations and missing features. The whole paradigm is rotten.
Human lives are at stake, there's nothing more cut and dry than that. We need to stop trying to make our reality fit our models and start adapting our models to fit reality. This whole business is backwards.
A) I'm perfectly ok with hating the player and the game. Patent reform would be great, but you can't legislate sanity or neighborliness.

B) This is not the game. As Fred Wilson explains, web company patents have been thought of as defensive. If this triggers a wave of patent lawsuit bullshit, then everybody will end up poorer. Except the lawyers, of course.
Companies like Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM which hold a huge number of software patents and aren't exactly keen on seeing that system go away, either. But yes, big pharma relies almost exclusively on patents to recoup R&D costs.
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I would love for this hypothetical tool to exist, but the problem doesn't lie with the tool, but that you're talking about essentially different workflows. Designers tend to use the tools that they're most familiar with, that give them what they need. Usually that means Illustrator + Photoshop (or sometimes, Fireworks).

I've given thought in the past to a hypothetical tool that I'd love to see that does a lot of what Photoshop does. It would use a nested plaintext file structure, letting it work with a version control tool (imagine being able to diff two PSDs and know that all that changed was a label value, or a single layer being removed, rather than it being a completely opaque binary change?). It would effectively provide direct access to the advanced features of CSS, only with a nicer UI. It could be built to allow testing responsive layouts all within a single document. All this and more. It'd be great.

But designers wouldn't want to use it. It wouldn't be grounded in their essentially visual workflow. Sure, you could have intermediaries translate documents between the visual and the quasi-layout-based, but that's even more work than just having designers adopt better practices. What's more, these practices don't just benefit developers: it'll make life easier for designers too! That's what makes it such a no-brainer. Sure, some lazy or precious designers might object to being told how to do their job (nobody appreciates being told they're doing things wrong), but if you introduce these practices gently I'm sure they'll pay off.
See, this is what I'm talking about. This is the bullshit hyperbole I mentioned. You claim Microsoft doesn't know what they're doing, yet they are wildly successful still. Windows Vista is a great example of a product that died for the exact reasons I described.
Right. There's a bit of use of the "nano" prefix in the article, but it really should be "micro".
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> they hate uncertainty and would rather eat something that is consistently average than take a chance every time.

I think it's more like they have been programmed (marketed to from a young age) to spend $5-12 on a relatively low quality product as long as they get it fast and get it from McD's (on every corner). They simply don't know any better, and don't care to find out more.

I can buy a complete organic meal and cook it myself for half the price, with 2-3x more nutritional benefit, with 1/10 the health risk. But that requires time, effort, knowledge, self-improvement, etc.
I'm now thinking of amazon EC2's 'spot instances' where you launch an instance, do some computation then shut down, but only if the price per hour is less than some choosen point. (Basically a stock market for computation).

If solar took off, i can see a correlation between price per hour and sunny days, as more machines are turned on when it's cheaper to run, hence increasing supply, and decreasing price. :P
I'm one of those people. I switched to OS X somewhere around XP SP3. Have never used Vista on any of my own machines, and only run Win7 on a VM to get access to IE 8 and 9.

Search on Windows is horribly broken. One of the first "shortcuts" I learned on OS X was Cmd+Space and typing out the application I wanted to run. Spotlight immediately brought up what I wanted. Windows never did that for me, or spent 45 seconds or more with a spinning hourglass to return a document that happened to be named similar to a program I wanted. I don't care if it works better now, they've set a precedent in my mind that it is broken, because it was broken for the ~15 years I used their OSes.
Do you really need to write up a whole framework of code to justify the price you put on a site? Not at all! They're not paying you to write code: they're paying you to get them a result.

This. I'm reminded of the post by Rob about his startup acquisition... The interviewers were asking him why he didn't rewrite a site written in classic ASP to node.js/mongo... Completely missing the point that the code behind the button made absolutely no difference in the sale or functionality of the product.
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Not hackers; their musical counterparts wouldn't be the RIAA and such, but rather the people noodling on music in the spare time for the fun of it.

Look to large corporations: Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, &c using patents offensively and defensively, instead.
Google Play definitely needs this. However,

> Every limitation of the system is the fault of the developer of the app, and the reason the app is slow is because the developer is bad (not because the customer picked a phone with a 700mhz CPU).

I think it is the responsibility of the developer to ensure their apps work on the devices they are selling to. If a user is able to install the app from Play, it should work. Google Play shouldn't be a wild-west scenario, where some apps work and some apps don't. If the app doesn't work on the phone, I would definitely suggest the developer has some of the blame.

Testing apps and ensuring they work on all phones is clearly impossible, but by limiting the availability of your app to high-end phones and detecting hardware in code and acting appropriately is our responsibility as developers in a diverse ecosystem.
Germany's solar stimulus is highly questionable. Sure, it gets solar panels installed on a large scale, but government forced diffusion of an innovation is a questionable idea. Pumping money in a relatively narrow market and creating an artificial demand situation leads to a lot of side effects, i.e. Germany's quasi-stimulation of the Asian component manufacturing market.
I think the wikileaks theory has some real merit, it leapt to my mind immediately when I heard sabu was working as a CI. Around the time of the HB Gary hack I remember reading somewhere that wikileaks had a no documents sourced from hacks policy, and this was why anonleaks.ch was set up because wikileaks wouldn't take the emails. Presumably this would be due to a desire to avoid criminal exposure, though I'm not sure how that would legally differ from other sources of leaks. I spent a little time googling for a reference to this when I read the news about sabu but came up blank, does anyone know about any (historic) policies like that?
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Sorry, I was in a bad mood. I should have written:

This is now how you edit that file. You should edit this file using `visudo`, which "locks the sudoers file against multiple simultaneous edits, provides basic sanity checks, and checks for parse errors" (quotes text from man page).
Previous discussion on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3692771

Actual discussion on Google Groups:

http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.platform/browse_t...
Absolutely agree. Initiative should be software agnostic. Currently it looks like "Use separate css file instead of inline styles to control you table layout and developers will love you". Also, who gives developers PSD files anyway?
I had a ton of stock options that would have made me rich if Yahoo had accepted Microsoft's buy out well above the trading price a while back - something shareholders would have loved. So even this particular company is well known for not following the duty of making the most money for its holders...
I understand the context perfectly.

To claim that the idea of copyright is pretty well-settled when it comes to digital works just illustrate the problem here.

It's not well-settled cause there isn't anything to settle as such. This is not a discussion about right or wrong but about whether it should apply to digital work.

Even a discussion of property on physical things aren't a settled discussion. There are no conclusion only a decision.

There are a number of indicators hinting that it's far from settled when it comes to digital. Among other things the very fact that we are debating it and the very fact that many people don't seem to have a problem downloading things and don't consider it wrong.

And not just because they are cheap. But because the very fundamental idea of demand and supply, the idea of owning ideas that are themselves byproducts of others ideas is way way way too complex to just say. Done deal. There is something more fundamental in play here.

Perhaps for you, but not for me and many others.
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Should we "upgrade" the patent system to identify silly ideas that are not patent worthy ?
Taskbars are very useful on mouse-driven interfaces. That's why they are so common.
http://blog.joda.org/search?q=jsr-310 provides some interesting backstory to the JSR-310 / Joda Time saga...
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