skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Default settings aren't optimal, yes, but try looking around for answers on jQuery forum and Phonegap Google groups, and you'll find useful tips how to make interface more robust.

E.g., for my links I use following code. It binds a tap event (instead of a standard jQuery Mobile click event) to a button/link, resulting in almost no delay.

$('#footer-menu a').on('tap vmousedown', function () {
window.location.href = $(this).attr('href');
});
I was gonna say, is this about John Travolta?
Supporting Play Framework on OpenShift with the DIY Application Type
Ask HN: What's your url?
What is the url that you use to refer yourself? What do you expect others to use when they are doing it? What are the advantages and disadvantages if they don't intersect?

(0) github, (1)twitter,(2)blog hosted at a domain with your name, (3) Linkedin, (4) facebook, (5) g+, (5) other

After a hackathon last year, when people were sending goodbye and stay in touch mails - each mail started looking like a json response with a lot of key value pairs ...
Suitcase Foley in Australia
Retired Illinois couple share $656M lottery jackpot
I think the Zen folks call this "mindfulness."
Spain today, US tomorrow. Unless we make the dollar even more worthless, $1 trillion+ deficits are not exactly sustainable
I'm sure his children don't see his worth as a father improved by the time he spends coding open source instead of interacting with them. A similar thing can be said for every other non-programmer he interacts with. Perhaps he won't leave the programming legacy that you or he would like, but that doesn't discount the value of the other legacies he may create in the meantime.

(Apologies if my gender bias above is incorrect.)

I think that the 501 argument at its core is that we shouldn't judge a programmer's personal value solely by their programming. Programming is the one thing that everyone in this argument has in common, so it's easy to turn it into the only metric by which we judge people. Any other metric might not apply to all of us, so it would be of limited use.

I think 501 developers are tired of being scorned or feeling guilty for not dedicating themselves to programming all the time when other segments of their life need attention too. But let's face it - if they weren't passionate about programming, they would hardly take the time out to make the argument.
The only thing I really disagreed with was the notion that 501 developers aren't necessarily good developers.

I've worked with some folks who belied that argument. Good, solid work, but no more than 8 hours of it. In all fairness, this usually (though not always) was the result of having been exploited. They were great developers working 18 hours a day, 6+ days a week, until they came in and quit. Realizing how necessary they were, the employers were able to strike a deal that kept them. Usually the only complaint were the work hours. Employers give them a gentler schedule and they stay, still producing good code.

I get the motivations for the 501 guys, and will freely admit there were places I worked where I wasn't happy, and that unhappiness expressed itself as a nonchalant attitude toward the work.

Of course, once I realized it, I made it a priority to get out; to get myself somewhere I could enjoy the work, and to get my employer the opportunity to get somebody in place of me that might enjoy the work they were doing. I didn't feel it was fair to either party for me to be that guy, and sadly, the work itself was exhilarating, it was a variety of factors within the team that made the job unenjoyable.

I miss the work. :'(
"Where did I ever say that I didn't do those things?"

meet

"Just because I don't do these things, it does not mean I'm not a passionate programmer."

I apologize if I incorrectly read your statement.

As for passion:

I mean, a lot of people are passionate about Jesus, and are passionate about the Chicago Bears, and are passionate about Jersey Shore.

That doesn't mean that they're doing anything genuinely useful.

The problem here is that it isn't enough to be passionate. You have to be doing Good--and if you look at my original wording, that was very much what I asked (albeit with poor capitalization): what Good are you?

Again, if all you do is dump code into the maw of some proprietary system without writing about it or trying to share your knowledge or give away your tools, well, you haven't really helped anyone who isn't a user of your project, right?
Personally, I don't care much about blog views. I write, you can read. If it helps you, great. I'm not out to make money with my blog and as such I couldn't care less about how many readers I have. I do, however, care a ton about how fast it loads and how competently it is built because that reflects entirely on me.
Yep, so you just switch them off completely for Android devices with code like

$(document).bind("mobileinit", function () {
//apply overrides here
if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Android") != -1) {
$.mobile.defaultPageTransition = 'none';
$.mobile.defaultDialogTransition = 'none';
});
Oh, you know what's bothering me?

Whenever others submit "Show HN" stories they get upvoted to the front page and I give them feedback, sometimes spending 30 minutes on helping them fix some of their design problems. But when I submit my "Show HN" site, which I've tried 3 times now, it never makes it anywhere and I don't get feedback. So I give and I don't get anything back.

I put in more than I get out. When this happens I leave the community permanently and never look back. I'm thinking of leaving HN. This will be the 4th time I'm leaving a community because I'm putting in more than what I'm getting out of it. HN has turned into TechCrunch, a place for nothing but tech news so wanna be entrepreneurs that don't do anything but dick around on the internet can read about other people's tech success and live in someone else's glory.

How the hell does the "Facebook Acquires Instagram" story help any of us? How has that information enriched your life or helped you create something? We're suppose to be a community that helps each other out, because startups and websites are hard, and occasionally talk about some tech news. Now it's just tech news 24/7.

I've got a few more Show HN submitions, if those don't go anywhere I'm out.

Edit: Here's what I wanted to show. Thanks for your guy's support.
http://www.timeforzen.com
Interesting. In my view of the world is that there are no sick days, no personal days, no vacation days and no holidays. Fuck all that.

As long as you own and are responsible for what you are supposed to be doing and deliver on the commitments made you are free to manage your time as you see fit. In reality, it's a team decision and not the decision of the boss (me, in this case). If someone wants to go out of town to see a concert or take the kids to Disneyland for a few days, we talk about it. More often than not there are no issues and the answer is "send pictures". Sometimes the answer is "OK, but could you take the laptop and see if you can finish this little chunk of code". When it can't happen it is obvious to everyone.

Want to take a month off to go down to Argentina? Let's figure out how to do it. You might have to drag along the laptop and keep up with some stuff, but there are probably few reasons to say no. Can I come?

The same applies to sick days or "personal" days (who came up with that term?). You are sick? Please go to the doctor and stay home? Need to go take care of that speeding ticket? Take the day if you have to.

This also applies to work hours. Sometimes you have to put in the time to get something done. When discussed as a team these instanced become self-evident.

I said in another post that I am no stranger to 18 hour days. I hate doing it, but sometimes you have to. In all cases this kind of thing must be fully justified. It can't be the norm. If it is, something is seriously wrong or you need more people.

9 to 5 programmers have one guarantee: They will work 9 to 5 every day and will be held to strict rules when it comes to vacation, personal and sick days. If you want to work a strict 9 to 5 schedule I have to treat you differently. I have to treat you by the letter of the law. So, while the guy/gal in the other plan is in Argentina having fun and doing some coding, the 501'er will be clocking in and out and accounting for meal time and vacation days. Yuck!

I, personally, hate that kind of work accounting. Not for me. To each his/her own.
That layout never fails to impress me. So detailed it has miniature traffic accidents, miniature bank robberies, and one time I think I saw a miniature terrorist incident.
Uncle Bob: After the Disaster
They shouldn't, and I don't expect them too. The point is that someone who is effectively jumping to the head of the line for profitable trades isn't really "providing liquidity".

When I think of liquidity providers, I'm thinking of market makers who post prices at which they either buy or sell, offered long enough to allow other traders to hit either.
I can speak only for Haskell-land, but I honestly see no truth in any of the author's negative arguments towards the functional programming community.

I have been doing most of my programming in Haskell for 3 years now, having worked in Ruby and Python before that. I can tell you that the Haskell community is among the most cordial, helpful and communicative I have ever seen in any field. In fact, many members of the community will cry foul if anyone dons on a "smug" attitude at any point; I've seen countless comments on reddit get buried for this alone.

If you want proof, just ask a question on StackOverflow[1], join #haskell on freenode or check out the reddit[2] page.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/haskell

[2]: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/
A great example of GDP is government spending. A cut to government spending reduces GDP whether that money is productive or flushed down the toilet. Spain's GDP will shrink simply because the government spends less, the reduced spending should stimulate the local economy by transferring the money back to the people to spend.
Exactly. Or, I put in in savings you go out and buy crap. Just to be sure you also load up on credit cards. GDP goes nuts...for a while.
Avi Bryant Joins Etsy
I've not implemented SNI myself yet as a chunk of our clients fall in the "stoneage" category, running XP+IE8 or in at least one case XP+IE6.

I'll take your warnings as things to thoroughly test if I ever need to try implement it.

You are right in noting that mobile platforms apparently don't support it well at all.

Really IPv6 is the answer, but for out clients at least that is even more "future magic" then running a decent browser...
Not only that - but this notion that "you should only work on what you're passionate about" can kill projects when versatility is required. 'I'm not really passionate about doing database interoperability stuff in Java - I took this job because I wanted to write Python.' Well. A job is a job, no matter what your passion is - and someone who will patiently and carefully slog through for 40 hours a week regardless of their passions is worth more to my team than somebody who'll give 80 hours a week to their one passion and zero hours to anything different.
> If your phone is infected with malware
> and
> you don't trust it anymore

Those don't necessarily go hand-in-hand.
Also that was $800 Million through 2010, we are now 2 years on and counting.
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Ask HN: Yaibe.com 
Hi HN. I'm a culinary school student interested in creating a marketplace of sorts for food outside of traditional eating establishments.

This includes people selling food out of their homes, serving dishes in warehouses after hours, and the like.

I understand this is legally a gray area but, from what I understand, so was Airbnb's model.

My idea of the MVP is a marketplace where amateur chefs and adventurous foodies find each other and transact.

I figured the first step was to create a launch page and garner interest in the top foodie cities. So I'm focusing on that right now.

How would you get this off the ground?
Natalia Luckyanova on Sexism in Tech
"People who want anything from our company but only make eye contact with Keith are making a big mistake," says Natalia Luckyanova, co-founder of Imangi Studios.
Wow, this actually works (although it is super slow) in firefox mobile on my droid bionic.
I found these links which I found being very useful:
7 Non-Obvious SaaS Startup Lessons From HubSpot
http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/13320/SaaS-101-7-Simple...

HootSuite: A software-as-a-service success story
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/07/06/hootsuite-a-software-a...
I dont think it gets much friendlier than Learn You a Haskell

http://learnyouahaskell.com/
Tell HN: Google deactivated Adsense on richtweets.com
A few years a go I registered the domain richtweets.com and coded the the app during a weekend. On richtweets.com you create a page and post the link and some characters on Twitter, using the Twitter API.

I did no marketing, but the site got some traction and has now about 50K visits monthly. (https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/richtweets.com)

I used Adsense, to monetize the site, but Google deactivated Adsense on richtweets.com today and this is the reason http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66361
No Startup Idea, No Problem for Canadian Incubator
The difference being, will.i.am is still alive an could have recorded his hologram. The Tupac one would have to have been stitched together from old performances/photos, with hefty use of CGI.
Also, only private creditors had to take a haircut. State creditors (IMF, ECB) have so far not had to take a haircut at all, so the net reduction in Greek debt levels is far less than the "haircut" figures would have you believe at first glance.
I may have to name a villain in a video game "Spacinar."
They arent any worse off, they just need to find something productive to do with their life, like everyone else.
Think JSON.Next. So you get a lightweight interchange format but you regain the extensibility of XML.
True but not that important in this case. These factors tend to make it hard to compare GDP across countries or across time frames large enough for societies to change, but if a countries GDP suddenly falls by 5% it isn't because a bunch of people got married. In the long run GDP correlates with wealth, and in the short term it correlates quite well. And since it's easy to measure, we can legitimately use it in the way that the article uses it.
Square may be seeking new round at whopping $4B valuation
I don't think Keynesians advocate "spending more than you have" forever. The thrust, as a I understand it, of their arguments is that deficit spending can be useful in getting out of a downturn and can have beneficial aspects. Of course, if done improperly, it can have bad effects.
Hey Chris,

What are the links? I'll be happy to give feedback.Shoot me a mail if you like!
Wasn't that the problem that about.me was supposed to fix?
Sad, isn't it? Just shows where the priorities are these days...
Slightly more complex - and worse than that.

If you are completely poor, you are 'almost' OK. Hospitals don't actually dump people on the street (well a few did).
The problem is that the costs for everyone else are hugely inflated to pay for this.

So if you have a job and go to hospital and your insurance doesn't cover you - for some administrative reason, or you just changed job and the insurance doesn't kick in, or it's an existing condition and your new insurance doesn't cover it. Then you are really screwed - you are looking at the price of a new car for a relatively minor case (broken leg, appendix) or your house for anything major.

The major problem (and the reason the US has a 3rd world life expectancy) is that the system really doesn't fit for any sort of preventative medicine. Vaccinations, healthy lifestyle stuff and especially screening are a fraction of what they would be in Europe.
Well, OOP had some help in the form of C++. It was easy to sneak in because it didn't strictly require people who were used to C to change their habits. Folks could, in effect, switch compilers first and then learn the language at their leisure. Of course, you could also make the argument (and I would) that C++ wasn't really an object-oriented language so much as a structured language with classes thrown in.

Most of the popular functional languages, on the other hand, require folks to do a whole lot of mental gearshifting before they can be productive in the new language. That's a natural impediment to adoption.

I suspect, though, that functional programming has finally found its C++, in the form of more recent versions of C#. Like with C++, it doesn't require users to immediately switch programming styles to be able to get the job done. Also like C++, though, you really can't use the language to its full capacity without getting very comfortable with a lot of functional programming concepts. Pretty much all of the neat new stuff in the .NET 4 class libraries, for example, is built around higher-order programming. Most of it will also be useless (or at least severely crippled) for someone who can't get past relying on mutable state.
The last sentence of your second graf is what I was trying to capture with my "upsetting" sentence; sorry for the poor choice of words.

It's a great book.
Are you sure your were poorer, in an overall wholistic sna. Did your purchase enrich your life by $599?

I know I got more than two years of use out of my iPhone 1 and then passed it on to my 2 year old daughter who used it for over a year. Well worth the investment and for all the little gripes or complaints I did have I still feel like I got more than I paid (including phone cost + carrier fees).
I give people a link to my website (timdavi.es) which is a glorified portal to my various online presences: GitHub, LinkedIn, G+, etc.
Really? That sounds rather obvious and a bit too cheeky to me. To twist it the other way around: If cost run over in a government project, who else could you hold responsible?

Sure, it's not a great thing that this happens, but it seems like a douche point to make when the government simply has no other choice.

Edit: Sorry, misread 'government contractors' as 'government agencies'. I was under the impression that he is talking about NASA.
Zuckerberg negotiated Instagram deal without Facebook board approval
PowerInbox - Connect API brings apps to email with no download
Last I remember, the FAA doesn't certify software. A certified simulator is a hardware installation. There's really nothing specific required of the software; early "certified" simulators were just instrument gauges and a trivially simple flight model. There are some FlightGear-based training devices too.
OOP's problem wasn't so much smugness as a messiah complex, or maybe cargo-cult application of OOP when it really wasn't a good fit for the problem.
> "Trades are agreed to in milliseconds"

One might ask "why is this important if the transfer itself takes days?"

The main reason is that it gives you certainty and closure. You try to make a trade for + or - X shares of Y at $Z and you get an essentially instant response. You don't have to wait around all day just to know if you've got a deal; you don't have to poke around looking for a slightly better price; you just make the offer and see it accepted immediately, and can move on to other things. (This is the sense in which I meant the word "clear" a few posts up: the trade is cleared from your to-do list, even if the securities take some time to actually move.)

There is a cost for the service of being able to move on: the HFT will likely capture a tiny bit of profit which could have gone to you with more effort. You've traded money for time and effort.
Real-time Speech encoding (G711, Speex, AMR in Javascript)
I totally agree with the author in my experiences. To be fair those individuals were also egotistic elitists in other realms of their life. "If there's anything around here more important than my ego, I want it caught and shot now!"
I was't buggering MS either. I was just stating the state of affairs (as other comments state, Android is equally broken).

I can't tell you what's more likely: To get both XP and Android fixed or to get wide-spread IPv6 deployment.

I have a feeling though that it's probably more likely that we see XP dead and Android fixed than we are going to see the current bulk of XP users (Corporations with crazy firewalls and users of pirated XP in Asia) having IPv6 connectivity.

I would love to be proven wrong though as I see IPv4 scarcity to be a much bigger threat to a free internet than anything else.
Datomic Early Experience - Phase 2
The downside of being better than everyone else is psople tend to assume you're pretentious.

I learned FP by doing it, not asking around what monads are. There are plenty of great tutorials and no one has ever seriously talked about monads in that way.

The only time you really need to know what monads are is when you are building a new one.
Internet Ad Revenue Up 149% - $31BN in 2011
"Window management hasn't changed much"

To be fair, I think this is true across platforms. On what platform is window management better than it was 5 years ago? Sure, Windows lacks a good way to get an overview of all open windows (such as Expose), but I honestly think Aero Snap is a killer feature for desktop use (especially because it supports the keyboard so well). When programming, I often like to have my editor and reference material side by side and Aero Snap make this literally a snap, which is great when the reference material changes frequently. Sadly, when programming, I also like to use a suite of GNU tools, which makes Windows a bit less compelling.

Although you seem to think it's gotten less good, I still think keyboard navigation remains Windows' strongest competitive advantage over OS X. It's also the only thing Windows does better than Gnome Shell which is otherwise the best desktop UI I've experienced.
Its probably a bad idea to attach labels to ones-self. Everyone is different and thats fine.

In my personal experience I have found passion does not equal skill, skill does not equal passion and working long hours does not equal getting things done.

One thing I will say though is that it is important to get outside ones comfort zone; for us programmer types this probably means disconnecting and finding interest outside technology.
Is an "innovation" that nobody wants really innovation, or merely change-for-changes-sake?

I think that if something is better, then people will want it, steal it even. Take those un-skippable previews on some DVDs: people cite them as reasons to scrounge up pirate versions of DVDs. Oh, and how about those abominable "region codes" on DVDs? Are those "innovation" or merely a monopoly-enabled form of price fixing?
Despite many of the very clear comments in this thread pointing out holes in the article, the overall conclusion is unfortunately fairly sound - for the mid term.

The current austerity measures combined with unemployment mean the markets at large do not expect Spain to remain stable enough to invest in. With extremely high unemployment, especially among youth, comes social instability. This kind of instability frightens governments, which typically point to the private sector as the source of all ills and nationalize swaths of industry in order to feed populist sentiment.

This fear is being reflected now, and I tend to agree that I don't expect the mid-term to be kind to Spain. However, in the longer term it may come out better off, provided Germany continues to hold the Eurozone with an iron-wallet.

Germany does (mostly) control the EU by proxy anyway (~ '-')~
Getting life-saving help at the ER is not the same as having access to drugs or other medical care that could have prevented you from needing emergency care in the first place. In fact, there have been studies proving that giving poorer people better access to medical care, even for little things, ends up being cheaper than limiting their care to emergency room visits only.
Is search becoming commoditized?