skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a short-term vs. long-term problem: everyone's focused on hitting their milestones and the problems that will be caused by the bad documentation won't manifest themselves until later. It's kind of a "technical debt" situation.
People launching businesses face much more substantial design costs. At the high end, paying a designer $100/hr. At the low end, buying: templates, fonts, logos, icons, photos, etc.

The premise of the book is how to achieve design yourself that's good enough to launch a new business. You can always hire a designer later, as you business grows.

If that's not worth $39 to you, that's fine and I completely respect your decision. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and for being so nice about it!

All feedback welcome. You can get in touch with me at hello@BootstrappingDesign.com
> That means you can stick your setup file on a brand-new machine, start emacs, and all your packages auto-install themselves and start working.

This is easy to do with package.el:

(defvar my-packages '(starter-kit scpaste paredit))

(dolist (p my-packages)
(when (not (package-installed-p p))
(package-install p)))

I think el-get made sense before community package sources like Marmalade and MELPA existed, but I don't see the point these days.
I'm not completely sure. I think the idea is that violence is inherently destructive whereas nudity is not. Probably using sex as entertainment is more socially acceptable than enjoying violence, even fake violence. shrugs
> Maven is a bad dependency/package manager because of the complicated nuance

What nuance ?

>XML

Fair point. I don't know what they were thinking when they decided not to use attributes, but come on, XML is not that bad.

> Java 8 is even planning on using Project Jigsaw to get rid of it (IIRC).

Wrong: Jigsaw is a modularity tool, maven is a build tool. Jigsaw is intended as a competitor to OSGi, not maven. Jigsaw won't compile your project, resolve your dependencies nor deploy your product.

> Something like Grape or Buildr would be a better model.

I beg to differ. I'm no big fan of maven either, but the idea behind it is pure genius, i.e. an implicit source layout and build lifecycle. Where in imperative tools like ant and co you'd need to repeat again and again the same snippets, compile all those files in the src dir into a bin dir, copy a bunch of resource files to the bin dir, package the whole thing in a jar or a war, place it in a target dir. Also, the dependencies management used to be a tedious task, with you hunting for the correct versions of jars, placing them in a lib directory, going as far as to version them. Most tools now tend to emulate maven's way of dependency management.

Nothing like this with maven: you just place your code and resources in standard locations, create a pom.xml file with just infos regarding your project (name, version and type), possibly the dependencies, and with standard commandes (mvn install for example), it will fetch the dependencies, build your porject, package it and install it.

Maven has its warts: verbose XML, unexpected behaviour in some cases, hard to customize (mostly when you try hard not to follow the standards), etc. But these are minor and fixable issues compared to the value it provides to countless developers who could fetch a project source and build it with one standard command.
I did watch A New Hope with my three year old, but the point is I decided that it was appropriate for my daughter and watched it with her so that I could explain anything she asked about and cut it off if it turned out more violent then I remembered.

I would not force the children of other parents to watch it, and I would be outraged if some government body said I couldn't show it to my three year old.
I don't think its a question of oversupply. Getting up on stage is a terrifying experience for most people.

I think the biggest factor is the mechanics of the showbusiness industry. The top people earn most (90%) of the potential revenue. The rest get the remainder.
For any decent RNG, even a lightweight one, that shouldn't matter.
I have been working on this similar idea for more than a year now. Really glad seeing more people are interested in this. Ping me if you are interested in chatting a little more about the project.
Congratulations, LocalWiki. Beautiful site, beautiful software. Seriously, if you haven't checked out their graphical map diff tools, you should.
Sounds like a good field for consultants and bill-by-the-hours :D
This is why I love open source. 30 minutes ago I was thinking "I wonder if there's a WYSIWYG editor that integrates with Bootstrap."

And now, here I am, reading about it.
Sexist hack-a-thon marketing goes bad (real bad) for Sqoot
Is Oprah's Book Club Bad for Literature?
Microsoft's Patentent for a Head Mounted Laser Based Display
I remember the new Basecamp having the same problem just after they launched (it's gone/fixed now), maybe someone from their team could chime in on how they solved it?
No code is a cool thing to say, but it also means less customization. I tried it on my AJAX heavy site and couldn't really do anything due to the fact that user interaction dictates what to tell them. If I tell them to click on one of the following things, then I can't control what to say to them after the click without some sort of javascript event hook.
New Bandwidth-Based Ad Tech Serves Mobile Video Ads Only Over Wi-Fi
It's Nearly Impossible to Get Rid of Data on Amazon's Cloud
very nice but I don't see the disruption, at all. In fact I'm getting really tired of all the startups who call themselves disruptive, 99% of them aren't (and I'd argue you are disruptive when others call you so, not when you do it yourself)
Internet accounts for 4.7% of U.S. economy
Common yes, but far more universal in the game development industry than in software dev.
Look forward to the continuing series. I will be curious what kinds of solutions outside of "just dig more into the complexity" there are out there in people's minds.
Cloud ‘lock-in’ survey shows not all clouds are alike
I used to hate doing dishes, but now that I'm full-time freelance I love it. I get to listen to podcasts, take a break from work and do something mindless that needs doing. Ditto for going to the grocery.
I've sooner delete my Facebook.

(Though, that's not much of a sacrifice for me, as I haven't used mine in almost a year, and even made an icon saying that I no longer use it. Email? Twitter? Similar services? Simply "no.")
A friend of mine told me a story about EA and the "lifecycle of a game". People were laid off after the game shipped have become a common occurrence. He said: "it's seasonal".

I used to perceive that a game industry is a place where you only need to know C++ forever and thought for a while that "hey... that's not bad, just C++ instead of Java, .NET, Ruby, Python, Maven, XML, XSDL, SOAP, REST, HTML, HTML5, CSS", but then I learned the long hours and suboptimal development practices.

Tough.
The Trayvon Martin Killing, Explained
http://new.alberteinstein.info/vufind1/Digital/EAR000034428#...

"Notes on field theory and general relativity", by using the query "General relativity". I hope there'll be more like this, it's quite interesting to see.
Seems like the start of a great project! Would love to see somebody add in support for mobile browsers too :)
Thank you, this was really helpful.

Just moved the "Try it on this page" button to the top.

The reason why we require a login at that stage is because we generate a custom tour-creator library for your user, so, we need you to create an account.
Supreme Court saves medical profession from diagnostic patents
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I would say that he's got a fair amount of credibility now because he made his own space program. When you've made good on enough implausible claims, the criteria for "implausible" change.
Couldn't the shielding be left with the ISS?
Indeed. When Knuth found was informed of this problem in a random number generator of his, he fixed it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3730348

There is an obvious use case for this: you have a test which is run N times where you want to have different random numbers in each run, but you also want to be able to go to run X and debug it without running all the previous ones.
Thanks for that debacle.

As I have the "year" to beef up various weak points of my cv, what would you suggest? Classes or a project that use scientific computing? Learn Hadoop?
The Billionaire's Son, The Dead Cyclist And The Tweeted Manslaughter Defense
Now THIS is what I was looking for. Simple. Clean. Integrates with bootstrap.
In my case I need even less functionality. Just bold and lists. Will try this one!
Is it just me or does anybody else think that polluting your code with debugging and logging informations is not such a good idea ?

I understand the value of these informations, but changing your method signatures to take them is going too far in my opinion, especially that there a a less obtrusive ways to achieve the same functionality: stack traces. I'm a Java developer, so I don't know the equivalent in C#, but in Java, you can get the stack trace (or call stack) of the current thread:

Thread.currentThread().getStacktrace()

Which will return an array containing all the info you'd like, with method names, line numbers and file names.
"Am I Pretty?" Community Management for Tweens and Teens
I would rather have an open plan than a cube farm. Cubical walls give the illusion of privacy. They let people think they can talk as loudly as they want to without distracting anyone. Plus, they inhibit meaningful collaboration by making it more difficult to talk to teammates.

At least with the open plan, you get what you see.
I actually found out about wysihtml5 after poking around in the new basecamp source code. I really loved your design thus why I made this.
I don't know, I think calling them "design-centric" is to trivialize what they are doing. I think the great design is just a necessary consequence of the larger philosophy behind the company that informs the look of the website.
Much Ado About Nothing stands out as particularly dirty in my mind.
Yes, because of the need for pseudorandom sequences. In FreeBSD this comes up every so often, but the reality is that there's a lot of AI and simulation/modeling code that uses the libc random functions (either rand(3) or random(3)) and expects reproducible behavior with the same seed both throughout the life of a program and across multiple executions.
iAd is pretty low level in iOS, right?
Hey, I've totally been there, done that, although i've never been productive on the scale that you are.

I really did give up my life, leave the city and try to go do something else. Let me tell you - everyone has a stressful job, even the bus driver or the photographer (imagine dealing with screaming kids or bridezillas for a job- that's where most photographers income comes from).

You mention writing this hung over and I have an observation, with no judgement attached - drinking on a regular basis screws up a lot of stuff in your life, and often causes depression. This part of your life might warrant some deep self-examination?

In the end, I got a job I absolutely love (no longer self employed, and happy about that), in a place I love. I don't love every minute of it, nobody ever does, but on whole there's more love than hate. I've also deeply examined and changed my drinking habbits, and that has literally changed my life.

My email is in my profile. Feel free to contact me if you ever want to talk.

[edit]Others have talked about vacation. Vacation is good and important, especially if you travel, but if you don't change your life you're just coming back to the same crap you left.
CocosBuilder 1.1 beta out now, open sourced by Zynga
You're going to need to be PCI compliant either way, so you might as well store the payment in escrow internally. At least make a few cents of interest.
I think the article has an interesting theme. However, the invention of the telegraph/telephone hugely increased the connectivity of the world, and the speed of the growth feedback mechanism. But economic theories weren't forced to change...
B6 (as well as the rest of the B-range vitamins) are pretty effective energy boosters. One of the major ingredients in energy drinks is a cocktail of B vitamins. It's cheap, simple, effective and safe (water soluble, so you just pee out excess).

Furthermore, it turns your pee bright neon-yellow which is hilarious the first time you see it :)

Magnesium deficiency has, in some instances, been linked to depression. I'm not sold on its effectiveness as an over-the-counter treatment, but it probably doesn't hurt either since it is a relatively well tolerated compound that your body uses in a myriad of fashions.

Also, 5-HTP is another common compound to help stave off depression.
Seems they edited the text by now, but apparently "Women" was listed under perks.

That aside, what kind of BS is this:

Web 3.0 is about finding meaning in data (aka semantics). Recommendation & personalization technologies are acquired as fast as they are launched. You could be next!

Seriously?
Can someone explain the use case for using tmux locally on your mac (which is what this article seems to be about)? My only use for tmux right now is for when I am ssh-ing into remote computers: It gives me a saved state so I don't lose history or kill long running processes if I become disconnected and it also gives me multiple tabs. But it seems that if I am local then Terminal.app or iTerm2 already does all of that. So... why would I use tmux locally?
Skimlinks Releases Full API For Web Publishers
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The best way to profit from the gold rush is to sell shovels and pickaxes.

Reminds me of the story of a saloon during the original California gold rush that would sell a bowl of soup for an astronomical sum. The people who stuck it rich would buy it so they could brag about how much they paid for a bowl of soup. Not sure how true it is, but believable.
The Apple A5X versus the A5 and A4 – Big Is Beautiful
I've tried coding on my webOS... thing.

It's relatively easy but I don't think the tools are there yet. You'll definitely be more productive with an actual keyboard.
Somewhat off topic, but what do you Codiqa guys think about Sencha Touch 2?
You seem to be quite keen to tell me, and others here, what we really think. I laid out my position above, but your case is that actually I accept unquestioningly the facts and opinions approved by the scientific establishment. On the contrary, I am a sceptic, in the original (non climate-related) sense.

If the US government ran the scientific community, that community would not have its strong consensus on climate change, because half of congress, and every other president, is committed to at least equivocating on whether that consensus exists. I'm afraid the link you posted does not cast Chris de Freitas in a positive light. If I knew of sloppy science that had been passed through peer review, I'd expect the person responsible to be excoriated, much more so if that work contradicted my own. This would not make me wrong, or the editor in question some kind of victim.

You have one good point though - money, be it from government or corporations, distorts the process. The procedures for the allocation of fund lead to too much being done in some areas, not enough in others. The academic economics profession has been a particular victim of this. The trouble with the idea that climate science has fallen victim to a grand counterfactual groupthink (if you don't like the 'c' word) is that the numbers, the physics, and the reasoned opinions of the vast majority of apolitical observers support the climate consensus.

As for Soviet science: did the Soviet Union promulgate any kind of false science that you're aware of? Not in the peer reviewed journals, to any great extent I know of. What would be the point? That's peer review in action. But who's trusting anything unconditionally here? As I said, we keep an open mind.
Skimlinks: Web Publishing APIs
If you think the gaming industry is bad you should see how it is in the gambling business. Surprise reduncancies happen all the time, for example morning meetings with all scheduled employees where everyone is told to just go home.

When big legislation changes hit it's not uncommon for hundreds of people being fired overnight.
One of my favorite high school teachers took the time to explain each and every dirty joke in A Midsummer Night's Dream; he was, consequently, one of the best English teachers I ever had.

By the end of the year, the school fired him.
What the greater storage allows for me is to be more profligate in my usage of it. For example, I've re-encoded my CDs at 320kps, and I've been scanning my old books at much higher resolutions, and am less picky about which ones to scan.
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BackboneConf 2012 speaker schedule released
You know, I didn't get that vibe. I felt that the author brought up a lot of legitimate complaints about EmacsWiki. Having used EmacsWiki, I agree with a lot of them, especially the stuff about the advice on the wiki usually being very dated and confusing. The choice of software might be the least of the complaints, but the author didn't seem to dwell on it.
I'm a bit surprised to see this - the typical criticism of mainstream economics is that it assumes super-connectivity, e.g., perfect information, minimal transaction costs, etc.

It'll definitely be interesting to see what promise to be new criticisms of the current scientific consensus.
And they've never invented (to my knowledge) smell-canceling headphones.

I've worked in places where it was an issue. And it's a very difficult one to address. "Please be quieter" is much more socially acceptable than "Please use deodorant".
Actually, our customers aren't just funded startups. We've got accounting firms, consumer electronics companies, design firms, law firms, media companies, telecoms, etc.
I would definitely take off the sticky menu bar. I like the concept though.
My employer actually has white noise generators that intentionally create this effect.
If this is a 3-5 person squad, working together with a policy of keeping telephone conversations outside. Then I think that this is the best setup.
Startup Survival Tips in the Age of the Platform
How JetBlue Airways uses mobile to create loyalty and drive revenue
Never say never. We may always miss a few, but I think we can get better at judging applications.
LocalWiki is one of the nicest open source wiki engines around, what with the WYSIWYG editor and all. I look forward to the core version mentioned in the FAQ, although I can live with maps functionality baked in in the meantime.
Ah memories :) Does anyone remember the javascript meme where you'd get people to click a form button and then it would pretend to format your C:\ drive?? My 1996/7 site had that :D

And web rings! I miss the old internet :'(
Remedial Networking 102: How Multicast Works
Any particular reason they limit the multiplier to 35 bits and the output to 48 bits?

Good question. There appears to be no good justification for this, but the generator is guaranteed by the docs. So it's possible the initial implementation was bad and everybody is required to follow it since.
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Absolutely (hence my responding to why SVG is not used for this), fonts are vector graphics after all.
If four grownup people on a mission cannot agree to terms that would be most favorable for the common goal. Then all hope is lost anyway.
Cake PHP Framework: Criar um Portal de Notícia
Google and Facebook don't feed their employees because they're naive. At a $65k salary, the meal is fully paid for if you can save employees 20 minutes by having it brought in.
My Other Computer is your GPU
Despite being named .mov and lacking any metadata whatsoever, the file is encoded as a native H.264+AAC in 720p, which syncs just fine via iTunes and plays on an iPhone 4, meaning it should play back on an iPad as well.
This is probably the first even-handed response by someone who either didn't get hired by Google or left Google that I have read. I also think it brings up some very good points and I'm surprised that Google doesn't specialize more than it does.

My only rebuttal would be that cat herding is unavoidable when you're a TPM. If you are in a situation where you aren't herding cats either you've developed a very good system or your organization doesn't need a TPM.
How to Divorce Google
Well done and looks quite useful - bookmarked for the future. However, I have a really hard time reading some of the copy (contrast) on my laptop: http://i.imgur.com/fRzAe.png
a bowel of soup? no thanks!
Apropos little: I kind of love where svbtle (the software/blog network this is on) looks to be going.
Step by Step UI Design
It seems to be quite effortless at creating them, so well done on achieving the "super-easy"-ness..

Some things which would be helpful and the information I couldn't find despite looking.

1) This comment applies to everything that I use, so it's not just relevant to your product. While free now, how do you plan to monetize. This is important for prospective users because time invested in your application could be wasted if you don't have an end goal in mind and end up discontinuing the product and making it unavailable for use.
I think it's important for users to know that you are getting "something", to avoid a gowalla situation where you sign up 1000s of users and then can't convert.

So basically... I think that you should provide some insight into how you plan to charge. ie. Flat rate of X per month or something.

2) What's the page overhead. ie, While super easy, is it all loaded AMD style and super lightweight. What dependencies do you have. ie jQuery.

3) As a suggestion, you shouldn't just "encrypt" your JS source for this. I've just "decrypted" in about 15 seconds. Since everything you are doing is basically just JavaScript, you should consider implementing something like Typekit/Optimizely for how they serve up their JS files. If you don't want to go through this route, which would be perfectly understandable, then you should at least build your javascript, using something like closure or shrinksafe. But what you did by wrapping it in eval() is as good as useless and pointless. (EDIT, actually I can see you have shrinksafed it. I didn't actually look passed your CSS styles).

Overall, It works well, quite impressive.
> they are still undeniably a workaround.

They are a "workaround" with long history: Windows 95 shipped Marlett for exactly this purpose of using fonts as well-supported vector graphics formats.
It's been a bit harder to kill off NCSA Mosaic/MCOM/Netscape/Mozilla Foundation than people had imagined; and people have been imaging killing them off for 16 years or so.

The likes of Clark, Andreesen & jwz built an idea in 1995 that will not die. it just wont. they can lose their nsf funding, aol can buy up the remains and then discard it; google can use it as advertising space and then go elsewhere, they can take 5 years between netscape 4.0 and mozilla 1.0, but they will not die.
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Explosive stars with good table manners
I use comfortable.
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I think personalities like Musk are behind the above quotation. A dreamer with demands, and the demands are concrete in the respect that they may be technically possible while still being dreams - be they Mars at 500K or yielding 10x the mechanical properties. I think people are drawn to such personalities because it seems to be the most encouraging way you can possibly frame a dream.