skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder how PayPal allows preselling for this but if you or I were to try the same thing PayPal would put a 6 month freeze on the funds once they figured out that orders aren't immediately shipped.
Apple green-lighted to intervene in Lodsys lawsuit against iOS developers
Honestly, we've been close to hiring 2 remote people in our short time. Both were because we knew how good the people were. Hiring with confidence is difficult, and canning a person shortly after you realize you made a hiring mistake is a bad outcome for both parties.

Hiring remotely makes this harder.

(Personal opinion, not my employer, yadayada but:

I've long thought that the best way to hire eng would be to have a pool of contractors, all "maybe interested in FT" in both directions of the transaction. Hire the best of the pool who are willing once you have confidence gained. Remote would be one factor to overcome in gaining confidence.

Even so, there are structural problems with this; it's hard to take that course in hiring as the first-mover. People don't like to quit jobs - even in this awesome job market for devs - without a bird in the hand.)
Because the colors at the end are the one which are closest to the average of all those before. In RYB, the average is what you'd obtain by mixing paints of those colors, so a really earthy tone.
Thanks. Yes, exactly.
>Pebble connects to iPhone and Android smartphones using Bluetooth.

And Android. Smartphone accessories are popular. I'd much rather have mine made by people who care and are pushing the innovation envelope than some crap at WalMart. So Kickstarter.

The world a better place? Probably not. My world a better place. Yep.
I've been researching both lately..

The Pebble is an E-ink display so its monochrome but lasts longer ("7+ days") while the Smartwatch is an OLED display which lasts around 5 days according to Sony.

Also, the Pebble uses buttons for navigation while the Smartwatch is "multitouch" (9 points in a 128x128 display).

The biggest difference IMO is that the Pebble supports both iPhone and Android while the Smartwatch only supports Android.

Also the Smartwatch is a bit bulkier and it sticks out more as its really thick.
I've done some work in this area (specifically in developer related news) and you're right. The tricky ones are where you end up with links to GitHub repos or project pages that assume visitors know what they're looking for. Automated summaries then become less than useless :-( My dream solution? Developers learn to write nice summaries on their pages ;-)
Google Glasses - Your Portable Alzheimer's Cure
and give me an API to query if a user likes the right click override setting off and on. "Gravatar for right click settings."
It's not algorithmic but at Slashdot, the summaries are one of its biggest wins.
Nginx 1.0.15 stable is released
Not too many updates on the blog, but the mailing list archive can be found here: http://lists.macromates.com/textmate/ Not strictly development updates, but Allan is responding to things there (subjects are marked with [TM2]). If there's a better development stream posted somewhere else I'd like to see as well, though the updates have been pretty steady.
Ars is not known for shoddy reporting. It is, however, basically a rewrite of the original ISSSource article: http://www.isssource.com/stuxnet-loaded-by-iran-double-agent...
7 Firebase Apps [Videos]
I believe the critic is more about the fact Facebook buying a company with no business plan, let alone revenue, for $ 1b, and how that reflects on the industry.
Sorry about that, I guess I was more interested in the process! :) You should ping http://twitter.com/jessemaan about the system...I'm sure she'd be happy to share.
Minecraft on DCPU-16
Why Recruiters Suck and What You Can Do About It
I am really excited to be able to share with you today that the Empire has announced a new wholly owned subsidiary known as "Death Star Fluffy Ewoks" , to advance the company’s investment in being nice to Ewoks.

Here is a picture of Darth Vader in a pink jumper to show that we are now nice and friendly
Show HN: Pulsefeed builds a stream from your Facebook, Twitter & RSS feeds
Got the correct link this time; a major update on the previous version; full update details are listed here: http://blog.pulsefeed.com/post/15
Google+ sent me some insight the other day. The 3 posts on Google+ that should interest me the most.

The topic of all three? That's right, you guessed it. Google+ itself.

yawn.
The proposal is subject to the approval of a majority of the voting power
of Google’s common stock, voting together as a single class, at our
annual meeting on June 21, 2012. Given that Larry, Sergey, and Eric
control the majority of voting power and support this proposal,
we expect it to pass.

what a nice way to say

"we are doing this"
I wish there wasn't a need for this.
It sort-of does something I've wanted: given a regex R generating a language L, produce a few strings from L in a helpful way.

Of course, L is usually infinite, so it's easy to generate strings in an unhelpful way.

For instance, the phone number one:

http://www.rise4fun.com/Rex/phone

and the URL one:

http://www.rise4fun.com/Rex/weburl

You can modify the given regex, click "ask rex", and wait a while, and it will return two patterns from the regex. Just two...
I think you're one step behind. Many economies have already transitioned from factory work to clerical work (and customer service). The question now is what happens when those jobs are done better by machines.
And the legality of this isn't fully established; in fact, last I heard, it was being somewhat successfully contested. But there's no sweeping word on the matter yet: you could probably take a ToS violation to court and have it set precedence.
There is also a video of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u...
>Net income is after subtracting TAC.

I'm aware Net income is subtracted after TAC.

>Revenues increased by $2.1b, so Google paid $500m to acquire $2.1b in revenue. Of the $1.6b in "real" revenue growth, they made around $600m in profits. In other words their profit margin is roughly 40%.

You didn't address my original post. Google's net income grew almost AS MUCH as the increase in TAC. and it's the same pattern for years. and Google's TAC has been steadily increasing over the years. I'd be more impressed if net income increased but TAC decreased.

Also I wouldn't focus on Revenue since Google's revenue INCLUDES their TAC.

> Also if you're worried about such shenanigans, you can look at free-cash-flow, which was $3.1B for the quarter (astonishing for any non-oil/AAPL company).

A limitation of using free cash flow versus the GAAP measure of net cash provided by operating activities as a means for evaluating Google is that free cash flow does not represent the total increase or decrease in the cash balance from operations for the period because it excludes cash used for capital expenditures during the period.

And if you're going to talk about free cash flow, look at Google's return on invested capital.

Google's 5-year average ROIC is only 17.1% and currently it's only at 15.9%.
Hey, thanks for recommending Design for Hackers! (I'm the author)
Google Biz Chief: Over 10M Websites Now Using Google Analytics
Fifteen Minutes and Four Hundred Trees
Bravo. This is so simple, I can't believe I didn't think of it -- just put a "github homepage" link/image on that pop-up that users can then right-click to their hearts content.

And here I was thinking about adding cookies and saving client-state. :)
There is an option to have the tab key indent code. I can't recall which version of BBEdit this feature was added in, but it can be enabled in the Keyboard preferences ("Allow Tab key to indent text blocks").
> booby-trapped memory stick

can someone explain what that is??

> Once the memory stick was infected,

huh??
canv.as does the fancy right-click menu too, and at the bottom there's a note saying 'Use Shift + Right click for the normal right click menu'
History of RaptorGL, my pet project Part 1
"The Code Book" by Simon Singh is awesome reading. It certainly explains how and why naive schemes like this are easy to crack.

http://amzn.com/0385495323
More of this, less Sharepoint MS
5) We value your trust and privacy, and by charging, we are able to continue to respect those without the temptation of having to resort to selling your data to third parties, as some other free services do.
You don't need to specify DPI when you're talking about pixels already, that pic will be 512x512 pixels at any DPI.
US itself and Israel engaged in sabotage of foreign countries development? you don't say...
Nokia bets big on NFC, SAP bets big on HTML5 + the Instagram gold rush
More of an observation than anything else. I don't actually use PHP but find these recent PHP focused articles are helping me learn at thing or two about languages I do use.
A long time ago, when I first installed Firefox, I went Preferences → Content → Enable JavaScript → Advanced and unticked all the "Allow scripts to:" options, including "Disable or replace context menus".

I still get the cute dialog-box when I right-click, but I also get my proper right-click menu for the link in question.
This is a reflection on the project and how the events, and time shaped the development of the library.
IndieGoGo, one of the big competitors to Kickstarter, is a better example. It actually has a category for Small Businesses and doesn't limit what kinds of projects are allowed on the site like Kickstarter does. They do, however, explicitly disallow offering equity as a contribution reward because of the very issue the JOBS act is about. From their FAQ:

"What violates our terms?
- Offering any monetary return on investment or real property, including: real estate, annuities, lottery contracts, profit-sharing, cash, securities, equity or debt-repayment"

The site actually had some excited-sounding announcement about the JOBS act recently, but I can't seem to find it.
How Apple created OS X
Yes clicking, not just viewing. Google counts visiting Youtube (while logged in) as using Google+. These are completely different metrics.
They'll soon need a list (displayed at all times) with all the different shortcuts around the site. Still, very nice idea :)
And as much as I love python and javascript, I'd really like to use a screwdriver now and then rather than leave hammer marks everywhere, especially if they are being used for something beyond formatting HTML.

This hamdriver you speak of: tell me more.
Interns at an Early Stage Startup
Why Educational Institutions Should Use and Teach Free Software
Mozilla may make Flash click-to-play by default in future Firefox
They introduced the worm with an infected USB drive. What did you want clarification on?
Glad to see interest in the idea. It's not much different from what people have been doing with projects like http://couchapp.org or http://unhosted.org/ for some time.

Once you have a basic HTTP database API, you can do most of an app in client-side JS. Security is the hardest part to get right. In CouchDB we've tried to follow the web security model when it makes sense (single origin policy, oauth, etc).

CORS and WebSocket are both changing the web model, so it's not surprising to see the idea of a simple data API catching on as the web gets more power. Can't wait to see where this goes.
ah, I see. I missed that. I just checked in chrome's console and see false for both when they're strings.
The age of sail, visualized
If I'm really proud of something I've done, I would think it's a cop-out to crow about my DAU or MAU to imply that it's good, especially if I'm Google and have the ability to drive hundreds of millions of inorganic users at it.
The sub £360 DIY 8Tb NAS
What are the main differences between this and Meteor? What a strange coincidence that two nearly identical platforms launch within days of each other.
Feature Request:

It would be great to get a weekly or monthly summary.

Nice work.
Something has to create the condition where people begin to notice that engineering and tech is kind of a male thing and, say, nursing, is kind of a female thing on average.

Yes, our disagreement is about the cause of those conditions. You've observed a correlation between sex and interest in STEM, but that correlation does not prove that sex is intrinsically linked to interest in STEM. Do you also consider black men to be naturally averse to education because black women graduate college 2:1 compared to black men?

but you can't tell me that with all the effort that goes into getting girls into STEM, the tide wouldn't have been turned by now had the phenomenon been based purely on nurture

It does not follow that women are less inclined towards STEM because efforts to increase women in STEM careers has not "turned the tide"

Women are just as mentally capable as men with regard to STEM, trying to link a nebulous concept such as "natural interest" to sex is absurd.
Same here. I wish they had a free quota of around 1-2K calls per month.
The Instagram Deal: A Mark Zuckerberg Production
Efficiently using memory when you have three levels (Hypervisor->OS->JVM) that are largely opaque to each other is an real challenge. Doing ballooning at the JVM level [0] instead of the OS level makes sense for VMs primarily running Java applications. VMware often seems to be the first to get a new technology out, but their competition quickly follows (e.g. KSM for transparent page sharing and compcache for memory compression). I wonder if Oracle or Red Hat are working on their own JVM ballooning implementation.

[0] http://pubs.vmware.com/vfabric5/topic/.../vfabric-tc-server-...
It's not an iPhone accessory. It's a wrist computer and can work with Android (actually better than iPhone), PC, Mac, Linux, etc. It's clearly a different class of product than a mere watchband.
Something I admire about BBEdit, and all of Bare Bones' software, is the detailed release notes that accompany each new version. Not everyone wants to read through pages of additions and fixes, but those that do know exactly what has changed and what to expect upon updating. It's an example I would love to see more software companies follow.
TAC is largely AdSense partner payouts - and likely things like Chrome distribution deals and Android partner agreements now. Saying "net income grew almost as much as TAC" is basically saying "Google's AdSense, Chrome, and Android businesses are a healthy and growing segment of its total revenues."

Note that you can spin this to look bad for Google either way. If TAC was low, it'd be "Google gyps their AdSense partners, and soon there'll be a publisher revolt", something I've occasionally seen complained about on HN. If TAC is high, it's "Google's numbers don't look good; clearly their business is in trouble." The numbers are what they are; if you want a useful picture of whether to invest, you need to understand the business better than that.
I unsubscribed from the mailing list after this article. No compelling evidence (other than "Tim Cook is not a product guy"). Giving a time horizon or recent evidence on statements such as "Apple is a great company but realistically, can they continue like this ad infinitum? History says no." seems required to be taken seriously.
Perl does cache whether an SV contains something usable as an integer (the IOK flag) or a floating point number (the NOK flag). That's why you almost never see `looks_like_number` on its own and always called after using one of the appropriate flag checking macros.
It's less about attention span and more about signal/noise ratio.
We've discussed this many, many times, and I think for us starting off it's just a really careful balance. You can definitely make technical depth 'sexy' in the same way vein of what makes Wikipedia sexy (depth, thoroughness), but it comes down to process and not so much delivery.

At least that's what we decided. If you make your elevator pitch about how you are guaranteeing a cure for cancer, maybe you're sacrificing value. But if you make the pitch about the process and steps, while validating basic things like fraud, ability, capacity, then maybe you're onto something.
ECMAScript.next: arrow functions and method definitions
Ctrl (or Cmd) Click, done.
Great blog post. These principles are what really can prevent a company culture for changing for the worse. Of course this assumes there's a "culture" in place to start, but for companies that have one, this is really useful advice.
First you said - "It's easier for Google to just withdraw money from it's own bank account and deposit it to another one and call it "net income"." This is absolute nonsense, and what I was responding to.

It may well be that increasing TAC % implies a worse business for Google, but thats certainly not what your original point was.
Google applying for its own TLDs
Great point. After all, computer science is a relatively unimportant discipline. It's obviously a waning field. As we've seen in the news, people with CS degrees don't make much money and almost never get rich, so they are unlikely to donate to schools later on in life.
Google Beats In Q1 2012: Revenue Up 24 Percent To $10.65B, $2.9B In Net Income
Good navigation starts with good content organization
Monitoring Swift With StatsD
No source besides my discussions with techs in Australia Post, sorry.
Ars > ISSSource > Richard Sale > UPI > News World Communications > Unification Church
Wanted to quickly "open in background tab" through each of them but couldn't it. Leave it to Microsoft research to not deliver web links that work right. "When you're so advanced, you can't even do the basic things!"
congrats, james. i'll whip something up for teamly soon enough:)
Your statement is false as a matter of fact. We have a one-year life-outcomes followup study planned, but the preliminary indications don't fit with 'status quo', and there are plenty of participant comments on the LW thread which explicitly say otherwise. Stop making stuff up.
Well, Iran's leaders have stated that they wish to wipe Israel off the map. At least Israel has a legitimate reason to what they are doing and then some.
Vanity numbers are only a problem if you, the company start believing they matter. They can be great when used as tools for generating hype and getting attention.

I'd give the everyme guys the benefit of the doubt and assume there are other numbers they really care about.
Did you read the article? The point is that the "information" sector needs far fewer low to medium skilled workers than other sectors. It is a statement about the distribution of wealth generated by recent economic growth.
One has to question the reason why this information was leaked now. My guess is that Israel or the US wants Iran to be paranoid about a secret agent within their nuclear facilities and go hunting for a mole. Imagine if Israel planted evidence on a prominent Iranian physicist? Good luck proving your innocence.

The whole Stuxnet story would make for a great spy novel, that's for sure.
As your screenshots show, the project hierarchy is in the sidebar, but the open files are still displayed as horizontal tabs. BBEdit lists the open files under the project file list: http://www.barebones.com/images/bbedit/project-window-lg.png
The fact that it's a smart watch doesn't make charging it any more convenient. Of course, based on the kickstarter results, it's clear many people disagree with my p.o.v. ... =)
Following up, I'm going to try implementing this post: http://www.cambus.net/creating-thumbnails-using-phantomjs-an... over the weekend.
I know it's irrational, but I want something in return for donating. For example, I'd give $20 or so to the hot chili project if he'd send me $2 worth of "something really hot" to me. Somehow getting something in return makes me feel more connected to the project.

Love the idea. Hope it catches on.
Reminds me of term frequency-inverse document frequency (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf*idf) which can be used with cosine similarity to compute something that approximates the "semantic" relatedness of documents. Example and more algo details here: http://www.exsupera.com/sandbox/DCM/html/document.py?id=3
as a dyslexic i'd love to have red wiggly lines under my misspellings while writing checks and such.
Random aside, but when I first saw this comment (it was originally downvoted, IIRC), it sounded like an incoherent insult directed at Firebase for catering to "noob" developers; I only realised that you meant it as a potential marketing line after reading a bit of your comment history :P. I think a colon in place of a comma at the start would have been more clear.
How can I disable that a webpage can hijack right click in Chrome like it's possible in Firefox?
The #1 "low-hanging-fruit" place to find additional revenue is from existing customers - getting people to trust your brand, enter their CC once, etc is much harder than getting them to do it a second time.

Kickstarter feels like a social-network of BUYING enthusiasts - it's a brilliant ecommerce model - get the product nodes to do your marketing for you, then enjoy the network effect of retaining those buyers as your own customers.
Very clever.....now do it for files :D
Spotify iPad Unofficial App
This is what Spotify for iPad should be like. Someone should get this guy a job at Spotify. The mockups for his app are freaking sweet!
http://bookmarkly.com is all Backbone and the code is at https://github.com/dangrossman/Bookmarkly
Just received an email from someone at my company with the link to a section on nav bar design page:

http://www.emediavitals.com/content/navigation-bar-design-4-...

Clicking on the first link to "Good navigation starts with good content organization" Took me to an 'article not found page'

Something about this site providing advice to newspapers is very odd...
On Leaving Yahoo
http://spacelog.org
I don't consider myself a big-L libertarian, but I can't help but notice the "Regulation failed, we need more regulation!" template. If the incredibly burdensome Sarbanes-Oxley was nonetheless "inadequate", then maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response is to give up on the high social costs of inadequately protecting people from themselves under certain circumstances. To look at it another way, what your argument says is that a certain expensive purchase, namely Sarbanes-Oxley, brought less value than expected. Should we buy more of that stuff because now still more is needed, or buy less because the value proposition is diminished?
Wasn't the logo not even a link a couple of days ago? All this whining is ridiculous.
It is. Microsoft development shops that d0 websites for businesses still primarily use WebForms even though it has been essentially deprecated for a few years now. Creating controls is a common paradigm in windows programming going back to the Delphi days so WebForms is easier to learn (even though the html it produces is sacrilege).
Blog spam.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/the-instagram-deal-a-...
What about a great chili con carne recipe?