skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't use basecamp before and I'm just testing a little bit. Seems to be quite fast.
What I kinda don't like: If you click on e.g. a discussion, a modal-window-like layer pops up where the discussion is displayed. Now how can I go back? First I was quite unsure how to do this without clicking on the browser's-back button.
Then I figured out that you can click out of the layer and the layer disappears. I think there's a need for a "close"-Button..
More importantly: if you place so insanely high value on that ONE new programmer you are hiring and you can obviously abso-frakking-lutely not afford to have picked a single "bad apple" then that says a LOT about the situation of your company, your management and what state the projects are in.

All these steps feel like bordering Stasi-methods (hey, why not lie-detector test the applicant while you are at it!) but I'm sorry, this is really extremely over-doing it in contrast to the other extreme, the "oh you have a cool tshirt and unwashed hair you must be a genius!" hiring that was done in the dotcom bubble.

It's really not rocket science...
Does it matter? What the company was doing is legal in Canada, where the company was based (if I understand the article correctly).

Unless if by "causing harm" you mean "not paying enough tax to the US", then I fail to see how this website was causing any harm...
VISA merchant rules generally guarantee that the plastic price will match the cash price. It's true that the merchant raises prices to compensate, but paying cash doesn't avoid that charge -- everyone pays the CC tax regardless of payment method. So you might as well get some of it back.
It was a poor choice of words on my part, what I meant was; Everyone who does want one. I can understand under an artist viewpoint ( Ideally I would really like apps in the area to improve ) but you can easily get that in a touchscreen laptop. This just from my own personal use of my tablet but from most things I can see where I could care to use one I just ibstinctevely reach for my laptop.

Not trying to start a debate on stylus use, I'm sure those who use them with a tablet very good reasons for doing so. In my own personal life and opinion, I just don't see the need.
GWT is definitely heavy, considering all its functionality from minifying js, js splitting to optimize page load, multiple js output for browser specific optimization and to reduce js size, generating sprites, merging css, images, etc.

The best part of GWT is the testability aspect via MVP pattern if you compare it against weiting in pure JS which is usually hard to write headless test automation.
Why does it matter if it's old? Surely platform popularity has to be one of the most important considerations.
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Actually, reading it as any form of fiction is retarded. It is rightly criticized as bad fiction, because it's too focused on delivering lengthy speeches as the main argument, and little spent on character development or realistic dialog. There are some spot-on character illustrations of the snivelling slimebags and some of the side characters are entertaining, but all of these are 1D or 2D at best.
Wondering that too. I really like the idea of having hosting in the cloud. But I'm not going to move anything critical there until the storage gets better and more predictable. All these stories you read about having to stripe several EBS volumes together to get even half-decent performance seems to add a lot of complexity/extra engineering for something that ought to just work out of the box. Seems to me that its unlikely that EBS will be any good until their entire infrastructure gets upgraded to 10gbit ethernet.

Meanwhile we still have 1 1/2 year left on our current 3 year datacenter contract(we run on 6 server vmware setup hooked up to a hitachi SAN on which we rent storage space).
So Amazon have around 1 year left to come up with some good reasons for us to switch. Otherwise we will probably just grab another 3 years with the current provider.
Hours of playing video games can change brain for the better, research finds.
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It seems like maybe customer sites should use a different domain than corporate data in order to keep things like this from affecting clients.
In the long run this is actually really bad for content owners. Content owners, in their effort to protect their business model, has actually given the government the tools to shut them down if their content is found to be "undesirable". Just because the government likes you today doesn't mean it will tomorrow.
RAR isn't used for compression. The archives offer checksumming and splitting, but they shouldn't be compressed. That subset of the RAR format is unencumbered.
Yeah I can see the value for niche uses/users, but the manufacturers are getting a bit too optimistic when they present it as a must-have killer feature.

Like the Note's Superbowl ad, where really the only noticeable difference (from a mainstream consumer's perspective) is the stylus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V40oo4kkzHg
I'm beggining a github blog using jekyll. If anyone is interested, it is still a very basic and easy to understand setup. Also, I wrote a little script to write posts from the command line:
https://github.com/beothorn/beothorn.github.com/blob/master/...
Just change vim to your favorite editor.
Is it still on Rails (or Node.js)?
LulzSec boss turns on associates, leading to arrests
"I distinguished"

Was this in a blind test?
Apparently, there are numerous reddit fans that can't be bothered to type out a response.
It's probably a deliberate error to provoke negativity.

Or the guy was confusing HN with Google+
>It is only possible to do that if the photons are sent somewhere that is colder than the device. //

Where are you deriving this from. What force prevents me shining a light towards a hot object.
This post has a good list: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3110-basecamp-next-the-goodby...

The API isn't ready yet, soon though!
Some assumptions, to be sure, but you say "we only have one project", so that implies multiple people, so if you are employed by this work you must be pulling in several thousand dollars per month. $20/mo for a product you need to (or at least want to) use to accomplish this work and earn money is an absolute pittance.
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3110-basecamp-next-the-goodby...
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"Dropbox for Software" Startup Numecent
Hi, any examples / places to look for these?
Microsoft Office 365 cost $7 @ user, with Sharepoint Online, that is easy to use, as sort of the combination of Basecamp and Backpack.

I suppose the big difference is that Basecamp offers unlimited users.
I wonder what will happen to Sabu after this?
For me, I wake up around 9am and am at my computer until 2-3am everyday.

I usually take a 30m break to walk my dog and a 2hr gym excursion every other day. So most days I'm at my computer for 13 hrs at least :-) Got to love programming
Also, there is nothing 'psychopathic' about wanting to keep the fruit of your labor. Imagine there's no government (it's easy if you try). You are responsible for yourself, starve or prosper. Your choice whether to feed the moochers and looters, or to fight them.
Pirates are glorified in Atlas Shrugged...
For a consumer product, $5-9/month is probably a good price point depending on the product. To a business, $20 per month is a great starting price. Businesses have a different set of demands than a consumer. The value of Basecamp has definitely proven itself to be worthy of that rate. There are "free" services out there that do similar things, but to a business they probably feel more secure paying for a service, knowing that they'll be around for the foreseeable future.
Probably lots of phone calls, some random unsolicited pizza appearing on his doorstep, and all kinds of slander on every chan board ever made.

Oh, you mean IRL? Dunno. You'd think they'd have cut him a deal for helping them out.
Let's agree to agree that we both have massive wangs of creativity :)
I enjoyed the ad for wysihtml5 in the console on pages that use it. "Heya! This page is using wysihtml5 for rich text editing. Check out https://github.com/xing/wysihtml5

First time I've seen that, but makes sense for an OSS project to promote itself to people who would have the console open, i.e. devs.
I've been holding off on buying reserved instances because it looked like they were overdue for a price cut. Even now I'm not sure if I should go ahead and buy -- sure, I'd save money compared to the current on-demand instance prices, but is the 2012 reserved pricing cheaper than the 2014 on-demand pricing will be?

I really hope Amazon adds more transparency into the pricing so I can stop worrying about things like this.
"Get started today with a 45-day free trial" ?
I think PageRank is nowadays a very relative performance indicator. And I still look at it once in a while. However, it's not, and was never a good indicator for quality, because people always played it.

I believe, though, that you've pointed out a very relevant development that everyone has to keep in mind: creating a website (good and bad) does not cost anything anymore, so what does it mean for me?
Wow, downvoted for posting info related to a professor who was held in nazi concentration camp and kept his mind lucid with math?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachtenberg_system
It depends on what value you put on basecamp, most of what we do is on git and we pay for a large github account.. I don't want to be a free customer but I disagree that $20 is nothing in the long term when most of the features offered to me I'll never use
Agreed. I have a 2008 MBP that is still more than adequate for any task I require of it. And believe me, I put that thing through the ringer on a near-daily basis.

Unless you're a professional film editor or a gamer (and, in the latter case, I'm not sure why you'd be using a Mac), you really don't need to replace Macs every 3 to 4 years. Especially desktops. The desktop market has matured, and it is moving along at a relatively incremental, unexciting pace. There's surprisingly little difference between a 4-year-old iMac and today's iMac, aside from some relatively minor spec upgrades and a new port.
Not all day, I have a standing desk for my desktop PC, and my laptop on a normal table, and tend to alternate between them regularly. I have no idea whether it is healthier but for me it beats sitting all day.
> it’s a surprise this group has not turned on each other already.

The author must not have gotten the memo.
There's also the EU, which (particularly with the EU Bill of Human Rights) acts more and more as a reasonably sane constitution for the UK.
Yes! I was accepted as a sole founder.
CoffeeScript and Progress
$20 here, $40 there.. it all starts adding up..
ugh. I'm still using (and loving) my nexus one but app bloat and the small about of disk space is increasingly making it impossible to use.
Does it still make sense to buy DVDs?
> Packages and frameworks are great, but they exist
> because they solve problems that core PHP doesn't solve
> well. That's why there are so many different ORM layers
> and databases classes and templating frameworks.

This isn't just a PHP-centric problem. All the popular languages have package management tools that far surpass PHP's, with NPM and Ruby Gems being the most popular of the bunch. To say that packages and frameworks exist because core PHP is lacking isn't wholly correct. Packages and frameworks exist because they increase developer productivity and help to avoid recreation of the wheel on subsequent projects. While the concept of a STL-like layer is appealing, I fear it'd be hard to find widespread support. It'd be great to see the community get behind some core OOP libs for routing, request, response, auth, etc. The problem is the powers that be over at PHP.net are pretty set in their ways. This would have to be something that side-steps that altogether. The more approachable solution is to mimic NPM and Ruby Gems, allowing the community to help curate packages over github and decide which tools are appropriate for specific jobs via reviews, download counts, word of mouth, etc. It's definitely not perfect, but opens the doors for increased user contributions.

Anything that increases the friendliness and usability of PHP is a win for the community since the language isn't perceived in the greatest of light. The only way to combat the negative perceptions is to prove people wrong by making continuous improvements and keeping up growing web requirements.
The decline of r/programming in recent months is due to the moderators selection. r/programming has a moderator problem more than a fan-boy problem.
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Much more complete list than mine, ha. Pelican supports github pages as well, though I decided not to use github in order to learn git better -- which should have been the singular title of the article as it turns out ("benefit") but what the hell, sue me.
It's an autobiography. It's biased.

This doesn't make the facts she cites, or arguments she presents any less compelling.

It's not really that far fetched to say that "most of our stuff is made in countries with abundant cheap labour".

Investing in R&D would not have solved the fundamental issue - workers in the UK are expensive. Workers in poor countries are cheap.
Typesetting.js
A simple yet under-utilised technique in javascript. A lot of people don't realise that it's not only the browser (click, load, scroll, etc.) that can trigger events.

If you're using this technique a lot then you should probably consider a Pub/Sub library though. Pub/Sub will essentially give you the same functionality (and a similar API) as custom events but the performance of most Pub/Sub libraries is an order of magnitude (or greater) faster than jQuery custom events.
So you trust the Swedish government?
No milestones? What are we supposed to use instead of it? Our workflow heavily depends on them ..
Agile Adoption: How Low Can You Go
Again, an "html5" game with reliance on flash. At least this one plays without sound if you don't have a flash plugin, but what's stopping this (and seemingly everyone else) from using html5 for sound?
This is a pretty impressive rollup by the Feds.

Seems like an inverted flipping maneuver. Rather than starting with the small fish and cutting deals up to the top, they hit the ostensible mouthpiece/leader and wraps up all of the other folks in the org so that it doesn't splinter off and create successor orgs.
The Linux Setup, Noah Lorang, 37signals
Great article. Love the Atlantic. But please, why change the title on HN?
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So, you misused their service, and a perfectly sensible anti-DoS tool blocked you? For reference, we've been using unfuddle for 4+ years, have 30 developers regularly using git on it, and we must connect 300+ times/day, and we've never had any issue, whatsoever... Just to be the devil's advocate!
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Is 'spam filter' nowadays an euphemism for 'moderators'?
Oh Fox News. Even when reporting on something legitimately interesting and out of the ordinary, they have to use very un-journalistic phrases like "...allegedly commanded a loosely organized, international team of perhaps thousands of hackers..."

"Perhaps thousands"? Perhaps millions! Perhaps five. Ugh.
Same here. That's the only jolting aspect for us.

I suspect we'll have to use to-dos or calendar events. But calendar events don't seem to appear on the overview page and can't be checked off as completed either.

Anyway, clearly I need to keep investigating.
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One click SSH Tunneling for the masses
I'm a bit behind the curve here - but now that I'm caught up, I'm concerned. When I saw the title of this article, I immediately logged into my Basecamp. Hmm, it looked the same. So I went and found their upgrade instructions. Then I learned that it's not a straight 1:1 upgrade, it's a different product. And they've dropped support for some quite important features, like, time-tracking.

My work runs on Basecamp. We chose it for two reasons, first because it did (nearly) everything we needed it to do, second, because it was being developed by a company we loved.

Now, it's completely integrated into our days to day production. We depend on it. If I walked in to work today and Basecamp was down, I might as well turn around and head home. We've let 37Signals premiere product become essential to us.

As of today, we're using their formerly premiere product. And if we wanted to upgrade to their premiere product, we'd lose completely essential feature.

Yes, they can say that Basecamp Classic will be the same great product it's always been, but it won't. Part of that greatness was innovation, and I don't think anyone believes that 37Signals will continue to innovate with a product that has "Classic" in its name.

The solution isn't hard. 37Signals just needs to be clear.

Will critical features like Time Tracking be in a future version of Basecamp, or will that requirement make us, forever, second class users? Because, I'd rather be a 1st class user at one of Basecamp's competitors than a 2nd class user at the service I've been using for the past 4 years.
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for the lulz indeed.

What a dick, though..
Hehe. In India (Maharashtra mostly) Akka is a word used to call a woman - except in India it's said respectfully. One could call their elder sister or older aunt with that name for example.
As I've said again and again and again and again and again:

If you are engaging in what is undeniably a business relationship (money/goods/services/written agreements/etc.) with people who are in a country, then it doesn't matter where you are; you can quite easily end up subject to the laws of that country. This is not a new idea. This is not a scary idea.

bodog got their domain seized because they thought they could engage in that sort of relationship with US customers despite offering services which were illegal in the US. This is downright mundane, and the amount of ignorant hyperbolic OMG FASCIST IMPERIALIST JACKBOOTED THUGS TRAMPLING ALL OVER ME hysteria it's generated frankly disgusts me.
So these dox were accurate after all?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2697398
That is what PHP are doing, but slowly. When features are added they are often as PECL or included as classes, and not as proceedural functions.

Moving forwards it seems like PHP is making the right calls, but backwards compatibility is important to the project as PHP has more legacy code than any other web language. That doesn't mean it's dead, it just means they can't say "sod it, lets re-write everything overnight".
I get your point, but the previous 50MB barrier still allowed for plenty of bloat. The main ingenuity that it promoted was the ingenuity to host the rest externally to be downloaded on first application launch. This download often took more than 15 minutes (the refund period), causing tons of complaints if the application didn't work for some reason.

As the application is still restricted to 50MB, and the additional space is in the form of expansion packs, this isn't likely to result in larger code. I think it is mostly to solve the consumer complaint issue.
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One part of pagerank which I've always been confused about is how it factors Google itself into the model. When computing pagerank would Google add a node for its own domain (i.e., google.com and all its search result pages) that points to every page on the web? They must realize that they themselves are a major driver of traffic on the web and that would affect the assumptions of the random surfer model (i.e., a random surfer would go back to google to do new searches occasionally). Doesn't this become a chicken and egg problem?
You're joking right? Sure, he WAS an ass but at least he did some good by helping the FBI take down these criminals - enjoy jail.
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Apple: No SxSW Apple Store this Year
Like the Note's Superbowl ad, where really the only noticeable difference (from a mainstream consumer's perspective) is the stylus.

It was a pitch for a specific product and thus highlighted the attributes of that product. If Samsung is presenting it as a must-have killer feature, why do so many of their products actually lack a stylus?

I also don't care if a vehicle can parallel park itself, yet if a manufacturer makes a model with that feature they're naturally going to highlight it.
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The design profession is light years ahead of programming in that regard... Probably because of its print history.

I'm reminded of this great presentation by the mule design guy (NSFW) F*ck you, pay me: http://vimeo.com/22053820
How can anyone with a tiny bit of intelligence claim that he did any wrongdoing by helping the FBI?

This does not imply that helping law enforcement is always ethical. In this case, helping law enforcement take down these criminals is not a "dick move".
> an organization causing actual harm

Sports betting. It probably does cause actual harm to some, but that's debatable. And should all occasionally harmful things (like say, guns and vodka) be outlawed? Liquor stores and betting shops in poor neighbourhoods: are they harmful? Should they be outlawed?

What this company does is legal many places, though not in the USA. Were some of the people who chose to use the site located in the USA? Yes. Is the site merely a front for enabling US citizens to break their country's law? Harder to say what the percentages of users are.

This seems similar to closing down a betting shop located in Canada, on the grounds that a lot of the patrons had crossed the border to go there and break US law.
Just because the government likes you today doesn't mean it will tomorrow.

Of all people, I would expect Hollyood executives to be particularly sensitive to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_blacklist
You've got it wrong. Typical chan-goers don't give a shit about Lulzsec and where they do the opinion ranges from tepid to disdain. This is especially true of the one notorious for pizzas and phone calls.

If there's any kind of response to this news it will most likely be mocking.
To a socialist it's the governments obligation to do everything.
I always used to use JobServe, which allows you to search for contract roles specifically. Also tell recruiters you're interested in contract roles.
You seem to be implying that assisting law enforcement is always ethical. It's not, just like breaking the law is not necessarily unethical.
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Sounds exactly like a senior sw engineer I work with. The guy is incredibly productive and an excellent mentor. He hates social networks, doesn't have a github account, and all his best code (and mine) are locked up in private IP that can't be thrown into a portfolio.

I'd hope that not having a portfolio isn't a deal breaker in Jeff's hiring approach. My co-worker would be able to give any interviewer a very interesting and detailed discussion about past projects.
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Having read Kevin Poulsen's 'Kingpin', one could not expect a different result.
If you have a thought to share, do so with my blessing. A one-liner rhetorical question like this works fairly well in conversation but not as well in a threaded forum where people are looking for a more compact expression of ideas.
To generalize, most good employee's already have jobs.

It's going to be hard to get them to quit inorder to do short term contract work in the hopes that they might get hired by you.