skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple's 'iTV' to dominate high-end TVs, other vendors in 'crisis mode'
You need to make a lot of money to finance your spaceship startup.
For a moment I wanted to make this: http://www.robotis.com/xe/bioloid_en into a dangling carrot for myself, since I love robots and recent achievements in robot bipedal movement.

But it failed. Goal was too far from me at my current hourly rate and instead of stubbornly inching my way towards it I just started to want it less and less.
Yeah, we need a crypto library like JQuery where it's open and people can use a common implementation.
3 FREE Ways to Validate Your Business Idea
I entered meow too. It also forget my word and fingerprint.
I really want to read. Topic is right down my alley.

Unfortunately, the page is literally broken and unreadable on Android ICS with Chrome :(
Just did that via "send feedback".

Many thanks, apart from that i didnt find any bugs so far and everything works as on my local machine via the Dropbox integration!
Was Feynman talking about precession (like in a top or a planet) ?
I have both a 17" macbook pro (work machine) and a 13" macbook air (personal machine). I would not happily trade either one of them for anything else. I find the bigger screen is invaluable for coding; the small size of my personal machine makes it great for travel.
"Cursor keys are not the way to move around in VIM"

That's why it's lame. You most certainly CAN. I don't care that other functions combine with hjkl in vim. They're useful but using hjkl for left/right/up/down is annoying and the restriction in this "tutorial" makes it that much worse.
Box has had this for a while and I have also been using ge.tt to do this. Nice to do it from desktop tho.
> there is practically nothing to change to Gmail to make it great in my opinion.

Sounds like you're not even a member of their potential user base if you're already happy with the Gmail interface.
Because premature optimization is the root of all evil
I didn't say IDEs weren't powerful or bad. I indicated the opposite. Sports cars are fantastic. They are really fun to drive. I would start walking if everyone in America had one. Too dangerous.
I've seen the trailer since several month ago, not interested, terrible acting.. But i still love the comics.
Yes, this is a big deal and hasn't been attempted nearly enough yet. I believe Git will let you implement your own "hunk" handlers (I know Darcs would) so you should be able to do it there.

Once you have that it should be much easier to check in more granularity, produce a more accurate map of dependencies and roll out refactorings that didn't work out.
No no. Charlene definitely has an SMG. The video itself is heavy on external pyrotechnics (targets loaded with petrol), but Charlene is packing more than a simple rifle.

Assuming it's real.
I didn't say IDEs weren't powerful or good in and of themselves. I indicated the opposite. Sports cars are fantastic. They are really fun to drive. I would start walking if everyone in America had one. Too dangerous.
You can put 16GB in the newest 17" Macbook Pro's. I have one, and that's what I did. I also swapped the optical drive for a second hard drive, and replaced the primary hard drive with an SSD.
He states in the video it's a sub-machine gun with 100 rounds capacity.
Prices will only go down to the point where enough people are willing to pay enough to make the product viable. When that price point is reached, the machines gain new capabilities instead of dropping further in price.

Another factor is software compatibility - if you design a machine that has capabilities similar to an entry level PC but can't run Windows, your market is much reduced. That's the main reason why this is an x86-dominated world that only recently became multi-core and 64-bit. This is another reason why PCs gained capabilities instead of lower prices - PC makers have to future-proof their products by making them compatible with future versions of Windows.

In order to compensate for that, you will have to go the Raspberry Pi route and build something where compatibility is not important and hitch a ride with a competing software ecosystem.
Show HN:jQuery plugin for new UK cookie legislation
I did it all for the cookie is a jQuery plugin that I put together that sort of mimics bt.com's implementation of their cookie-consent request popup.
This is pretty bare-bones - just the popup in the bottom right of the screen with a Yes/No button that will set a cookie to "yes" or "no" as a starter for ten.<p>Source: https://github.com/poissonpie/I-did-it-all-for-the-cookie<p>Some background for reference:
The UK is implementing new laws which state that websites need to gain consent before storing cookies on user's machines. Previous HN thread discussing the law (which gave me the idea): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3867166
Considering it is a movie about getting a PhD, I'm surprised they didn't try to fund it through an NSF grant!
Speaking of large laptops, where are the 21" laptops?
I think he meant it only takes them a "few weeks" to understand a whole technology (e.g the entire Android API rather than the listview).

I think part of the reason you can feel like you are learning faster when you are younger is because you look at everything enthusiastically and hammer through your education seeking out the juicy good bits of a technology and kind of glossing over everything else.

As I get older I find myself evaluating things much more slowly and cynically, checking under every rock for things that can bite me in the ass.
Newspapers Dying are not a Tragedy
the targets explode as they have exploding packs added to them for effect. Based on his other videos looking legit I doubt this is fake.
Beer-sharing Facebook app launched
I'm against the class keyword for a couple of reasons:

1) Prototypical inheritance is different from classical inheritance. If we add the class keyword with either have to make it work like most classical languages work (Python, Java, C#, Ruby) or we confuse new JS developers with keywords that look familiar but work differently.

2) The argument is that "you don't have to use it", which is fine, but in reality we know that browser vendors will optimize the hell out of the class keyword and we'll be forced to use it for that reason alone.
In Nothing We Trust
I doubt GWT is dead, as some major Google properties are built using it, including AdWords.

That said, I really wish Google would work a bit more on polishing GWT. It's an amazing technology, but the documentation is woeful (the official docs have a lot of "docs coming soon"), and the UI out of the box doesn't compare e.g. to Bootstrap.

I don't really understand why Google haven't fixed this; I expect it's simply because it's not as interesting from an engineering point of view.
I am trying hard to get of out of the "don't need to make money" mindset.
It served me very well for years: the decision that money was less important than time allowed me to travel the world for 10 years while having a small online business.

But now that I want my business to grow, I am really struggling with the fact that I can live with little money.
This is fine with me, but the people who joined my project deserve better: they deserve a strong and stable company.

I am trying to find a way to "go for the money" even though my nature is not to.
It's not easy.
Thanks for the article.
I wish they'd have provided a download-only option, but I suppose unlimited online streaming sorta makes up for it.
If someone's foolish enough to run javascript and flash on Tor, of course it's trivially easy to defeat it!
Tips to start a cost-effective startup - observations from the trenches
Cookies don't cross site boundaries - e.g., cnn.com can't read a cookie set by foxnews.com.

Just to emphasize that this is meant to demonstrate privacy risks, not to be taken as a feature suggestion...
Gaming-Specific Crowd Funding Platform Gambitious: Don’t Donate, Invest
You have been able to do it in a couple of months by using http://views.fm
How Do You Do Content?
I hope they don't do this, it's hard enough to work with a 17" screen. I usually run two windows side-by-side with BetterSnapTool. Carrying an external monitor everywhere I go is impractical.
Impressive but fake.

It looks like it's a textured object before take-off.
Inconsistent dust when taking off the first time.
His piloting of it is too good.
Needlessly fake distortions on the video feed.
No recoil on the video feed.
Sound too much like a helicopter and not an electric
quadrocopter in first scene.
Weird recoil when it's in the air shooting.
Doesn't interact with the dust properly in mid-air.
Lack of dust when on its way to the window.
Piloting far too perfect through the window.
Final explosion does not center on the drone but other parts of the car.
He mentions it's going to be in an upcoming computer game.

The reason people believe it's real is that the CGI is almost out of the uncanny valley and the rest is covered by the fact it's totally plausible. I have been waiting to see such a device for a few years now and there are no doubt quite a few similar machines in a prototype stage from various companies.
Is that Ubuntu specific? I'm running Debian Wheezy with an Intel GM45, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that hot plugging of my monitor worked. I'd read in the past, that that was Intel specific. Either way it's very welcome. I'd imagined I'd be stuck with Windows because of poor multi-monitor support - on my laptop.

Multiple monitors need a good window manager. I sacked off my second monitor out of frustration in the past, I wanted shortcuts to move apps to the other screen, the ability to turn off one screen when not needed - I inevitably had to turn it back on, when I'd loose a window or dialogue somewhere. Full screen apps chose the wrong monitor, some windows sat between monitors etc. It was just a bind, and a distraction in the end. Virtual desktops were a better fit for me because of the inadequacies.
The lack of shadows in some shots give it away as well
Infrastructure Deficit Disorder: The Doctor is In
adding more programmers doesnt make it faster to develop things. it just means more time in meetings.
Why Are Apple Products So Expensive…
Cloud Haskell came after my work, so I do not know how it fares. I remember that I saw it and thought that there were neat ideas in there.

My guess is that it would simplify the amount of work I had to do in code since CH would subsume many of my lines.
Out of curiosity, how old are you?
A loophole that amounts to the same thing, as the article says.
Agreed I am a freelancer and I am always on the road, in a good deal of my working situations I don't have the luxury of hooking my laptop up to a second monitor. If Apple killed the MBP 17 it would suck of me. I understand that my use case may be a niche and not the norm, but I would have to imagine there is more than just a handful that have similar needs for the 17. If they kill the 17 I would probably look at building out a hackintosh system on a large screen PC laptop rather than move down to the 17. I have been anxious for this refresh, due to the fact that I skip a refresh so my 17MBP now is the generation before the current offering, as such I can't upgrade past the 8GB ram barrier which I am really starting to feel when running VMWare. I hope the news is just rumor, because I could have already switched to a PC laptop with a hackintosh set-up, but I have been grinning and bearing it knowing a refresh was around the corner.
"zero point" is perfect. My guilty refrain is "if I could just just get laid off or fired, I could work on my fun ideas. " Maybe one day my subconscious will do it for me. My subconscious actually did get me out of school when it was time for me to leave, bombing easy classes by not handing in work, to get my non-math/computer-science grades low enough that the administration sent me on vacation.
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There's plenty to take offense to in this article, but perhaps it would be wise to take one implication to heart: as you progress, don't forget to improve your soft skills just as you improve your technical skills. Whatever you make of this, it would be folly to argue with the assertion that managing other people requires strong communication skills.
If you are 40 today, its reasonable to expect that you graduated college in 1994. That's 32 years after Purdue University opened the first computer science program in 1962.
Be careful.

"Now I have another Rails project lined up for a NYC fashion site that pays about 15% more per hour than my day job"

Contracting is vastly different than being an employee. Your employer pays considerably more than 15% more per hour for you (employer portion of taxes, portion of health insurance , etc.) As a contractor you'll be responsible for those expenses.
I received a scam charge from a vapourous business without an office near an emergency room I received services from. It was for 30 dollars. I took the bill to the emergency room I went to and they said they don't recognize that bill and as far as they are concerned don't care if I pay it or not. I was unable to locate the address in the hospital.

And when I called the number they insisted I pay the bill. I went in circles with them trying to find out their association with any service rendered in the building I was in. Trying to reconcile the fact that the nice lady at finance dept at the emergency room doesn't recognize your business.

I could not make progress in reconciling the disagreement, so I told them that based on my analysis of the situation, you are scam artists, and I will not pay you anything. If you want to contest this, please coordinate with the nice lady at finance in the ER. Never heard from them again.

This was about 4 years ago at Waldo county general hospital in Maine. I never got anything in writing. It's scary I could have been jailed for that.
I have no idea how my life would look if I had this hunger. Maybe it would be better? I just feel I'm missing on something. I have high iq, about 10 years of commercial experience in coding, nearly 20 years of personal experience in coding so I feel I'm fairly well prepared to make some money. What I lack is constant motivator. Money works as such for a lot of people. Hence my question: How do you get hunger for money? Is that something you have to be born with? Is that something you have to be raised to feel? Do you have to hit the rock bottom and feel actual hunger to get this money hunger?
If the document were printed on sheepskin and available to view in their office from 9am to 5pm, wouldn't that be making the document available to anyone who asks? Or is there specific legislation around a website having it published online and linked to from every page?
Grassroots.org appears to just be away for him to funnel more cash to himself. The charity gives away his SEO services - i.e. donors are just paying for his salary.
what an discouraging article...fuck yea!!
That's an interesting point. All I really want is Illustrator, Photoshop and maybe InDesign.
According to Ray Cromwell on 20/4:

"I notice some people in my feed are worried Google might kill GWT. I can't give specific details now, but there is some good news coming to be announced later, so don't worry. :)"

https://plus.google.com/u/0/110412141990454266397/posts/NnSq...

Also note things like GWT super draft mode
In this case, yes, since it's an extension available for individual users to install. I don't see much of a distinction between removed/ignored if it's a personal preference. For example, it would be wrong of my postman to discard advertising flyers for everyone on his route, but please don't tell me that I'm unethical for immediately discarding them simply because they help subsidize low postage rates.
Things First-Time Founders Regret not saying more often:

"No."
He also mentions that programmers are supposed to move up the ladder, and there are fewer upper management jobs. So obviously there's going to be unemployment for those programmers who don't get the rare slots - but that also implies that getting an English degree becomes more of a lottery ticket than a CS degree.

Do you win the upper management job and continue increasing your income over your entire career? Or do you work at McDonalds? Perhaps you'd rather be a programmer where you aren't assuming so much risk...
I always loved the Mark Twain quote "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

http://www.toinspire.com/author.asp?author=Mark+Twain
I don't think you have said anything wrong, for the record. Go outperforms Erlang, mainly because it is a compiled language. V8 is a JIT-compiler (and it doesn't even interpret per se). In other words, those two systems are usually much faster than the BEAM VM when it comes to raw CPU bound computation.

HiPE does help a lot, but even with HiPE you can't easily beat a language with a static type system like Go: You have much less data to shove around when there are no type tags needed on most data.
The Band's Ex-Tour Manager and USC Professor Blasts Alexis Ohanian
As a point of data, I would pay $8 for this as someone that has never read PhD comics before.

Looks fun.
This is half true; you still can't achieve exact output even with CSS (try viewing even very large sites with FF vs Chrome, they won't be identical to the pixel).

Media queries also let you adapt to devices/monitors, but realistically you can only cover the largest 5 or six cases.

At some point you're going to get user who's on some crazy screen resolution with a sideways monitor, or a strange tablet, and you'll have to sacrifice total control. 'Nature of the beast.
Thank you for writing. I have had people suggest Kickstarter before and I have looked at it. I don't grok what qualifies as a "project". I cannot wrap my brain around why people praise what I have already done but won't donate money, won't promote the site and won't tell me something like "All you need is a rad t-shirt!" It always involves creating something new to get something back for my work. Further, people seem to be openly hostile to me as a person who gives advice. They like me far more as an entertainer. And entertainment sites, like webcomics, do make money. If I have to start from scratch to make money, a new project that lacks the boatloads of emotional baggage and personal scars seems far more logical.
I think you may be seeing a bit of a confirmation bias. Naturally with any group of people who stick it out in one company for a long time you are going to see "lifers". These people are complacent in there careers. They know they aren't getting fired and they are happy not going anywhere. As a result these people are not naturally life long learners either.

I wouldn't use 40 something developers in a large multinational as a representative sample. As the saying go, it's easy to retain average people, it's the exceptional people it's hard to keep around for long.

Also you mentioned .NET, the .NET ecosystem and culture is notoriously corporate, and not very innovative or leading edge, again that's not to say all of .NET is like that, but a large multinational is likely to fit that model pretty well.
That's funny. The price for me is 10$... And usually we get things more expensive in Europe.
I agree with you about Pro and Air convergence. With the `MacBook` gone, there is room for the line to be called just MacBook as well.

I don't think an Air should have a discrete GPU though. Ivy Bridge's IGPU is better and I'd much rather see it being able to stand alone upon that.
Same using mobile safari
As a software engineer who is a theater major, I just have two points.

1) College degrees are not vocational degrees and are not job guarantees.
2) When you talk about not being hired because you're not on top of "fad languages", what I hear is you're not being hired because you're not staying up to date in your field. I'm sure there are blogs by petroleum engineers who say they're being discriminated against because they're not up on this "fracking fad".
A little gender experiment confirms that Reddit is full of douchebags
I think that there is middle ground to be had, with some sensible defaults, and sensible configuration options.

Make it good for the mouse, good for touch and good for keyboard! And let me mix it up a bit. And good for small and large screens alike.

The last time I tried Ubuntu, probably 11.10 - I could not use it without a mouse, just because of some wretched dialogues that I couldn't get keyboard focus on!
Maybe it varies from market to market, but here (Toronto), there's almost zero in the way of surplus labor. Rails is fairly well established here in the web arena because of the efforts of companies like Unspace that have been active promoters.
Same using chrome on windows unless I resize the browser and make the width about 1000px
what's really great about the AAR process in the military is that it is set up as an open forum, where rank does not apply. it is time-limited, to be done right after the exercise. it is highly focused, not a bitching session.

see this pdf for details:
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/army/tc_25-20/tc25-20.pd...
same deal, started in 2001 on LAMP stack

2 years ago woke up and started exploring, Groovy, Ruby, and then, bing, penny dropped, Scala.

New life at 40 ;-)

In the end you need passion. I would be shocked if I am not coding full-time at 60, nothing grabs me more...
"Your word has been saved! Now point your browser to any of the following addresses (copy-n-paste) and watch the magic."

Followed by, "It seems you didn't save the word." on the two connecting websites.

Safari 5.1.5, OS X 10.6.8, no add-ons installed. I do, however, have Flash configured to not allow any websites access to local storage unless I specifically say so.
Ask HN: Calculating percentile rank by comparing your score against a benchmark?
3 Reputation & Brand Management Lessons Learned from Metta World Peace
I just added reasoning next to each quote on why people regret saying them.
We find that more experienced sales people are not a great fit to what we are trying to do since they don't get the tech part of our solution, more risk averse etc. We do offer a base + incentive model and not just a commission only model. We are major agnostic as long as people have shown some amount of determination to doing a sales job.
PostGIS 2 released: raster support and indexed nearest-neighbour search
Very interesting idea, but something seems to be off with the email signup - it reports "Error: SMTP Error: Data not accepted. Mail could not be sent." for two addresses I tried, one of them @gmail.com.

However when I try to sign up a second time a minute later with the same address, it reports "Email address is already on the list".
I'm from Europe (Germany) too, and the streaming is 10$.
The "optional download" is an additional 5$
Not necessarily, they fingerprint you using the info the browser gives to them. This site for example uses JS to do the fingerprinting, but it could be just as easily (perhaps less scalable) to do the fingerprinting serverside.

TL;DR serverside code can fingerprint you
I find network-manager takes more time than anything else getting a foot hold onto my wireless network. Other than that Debian Wheezy, with Gnome Classic is pretty good for me on an ancient SATA 1.0 spinner.
We are getting resumes & setting up interviews and then find most people fall of in the interview process & the people who want to go ahead with suddenly get cold feet on the sales oriented jobs. We are using Indeed.com to get a lot of incoming resumes.
It said 'over capacity' before, so I'm wondering if they're having server issues on the mobile version.
More like, Dropbox is the new Amazon S3, except more expensive.
I was founded in 1981.
There seems to be a ton of washed-up ex-IT sorts from America and Australia in China teaching English. The bosses are Chinese teachers of English, themselves English grads, so I guess the post title is quite accurate.
Linkbait title and vapid article.