skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're on Windows, setting up Ruby on Rails and using it can be pretty difficult because you need a proper terminal, and Windows' Command Prompt sucks. We've used Vagrant virtual boxes with Ubuntu with our Windows users at Bloc.

There are also lots of other issues with running Ruby on Windows like character encoding, file paths, and particular gems not working properly, but overall the experience of setting it up is pretty painful for beginners and a huge deterrent to learning to program.
Building a gun requires a whole new set of hoops to jump through.

It is not legal to manufacture firearms unless you are licensed. The ATF will freak out and confiscate everything if they get wind of you building so much as a zip gun.

Also I assume that if the GP is planning on 3D printing an AR-15 once it's feasible (already illegal), he is planning on manufacturing a fully automatic version. That would be manufacturing a "machine gun" and would bring serious jail time.
It's too bad there's no legal precedent for investing in the future income of individuals, otherwise maybe the Theil Fellowship could be a profitable and growing business...
sure this is what i meant , im not going to teach them
basic now ... i want to start teaching them stuff like basic logic and other stuff ( which i dont know what they are)
that when they in older age introduce to programming they already have the tools to ease the process
Alt headline: Microsoft continues to misunderstand the concept of branding.
I would suggest changing the behavior of pushing the entire page down to one where just the username and password boxes descend from the top and situate themselves next to a stationary Login button. I don't like when the page moves from underneath my cursor, which happens with homepage takeover ads.

Have you gotten any feedback about the domain name? kite-e-d-u-dot-com could be confused as kite.edu.com
How impressive how you really haven't been paying attention.

Are you that misinformed that you need me to cite my comment?

Or, do you, like most on HN consider themselves to be well informed and intelligent?

Then how about you do some research, look into the history of a large number of people and their careers:

Do you know how any of the following people came to be in their positions: (clue: you'd need to know what they were doing over the last 45 years)

GHW bush
Cheyney
Dov zakheim
Rumsfeld
Ashcroft
Tom Ridge

If you know where these guys have come from and what they have been doing (more than just Wikipedia) you'd be a bit closet to understanding some of the things we are dealing with.

Rather than downvote, why don't you ask for information.
Buying a mac to run the simulator on is much more expensive than buying an ipad.
Email is meant for asynchronous communication (or at least it is supposed to be).

Any immediate alerting that relies on email communication is broken. You should not be constantly having to watch your inbox simply to be parsing messages to figure out what alerts are meaningful. Let the machines do that work for you by setting up and constantly refining your alerts correctly.
AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED??

Great read, really can't wait for part 2.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_Homerdrive - the truckers already have this! =P

At least the packages that end up on the doorstep still require human delivery. Normalizing addresses and pin pointing the exact location still isn't quite good enough.

But yes, unintended consequences will surely make things interesting. The productive will become more productive, and the 99% will get that much larger...
So very amused by this!
i hate unity. it's nothing but distracting eye candy. a non standard waste of resources. but i like ubuntu overall so at the mo i use xubuntu. suits all my needs without unity.

but ubuntu is still an organisation to support especially in terms of them helping produce hardware that will be 100% linux compatible no matter what distro i choose to run.
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I don't read articles espousing insular design practices, and I'm calling that a feature.
That is a slanderous statement.

L send you an email about your slandering me claiming that I am stating such things.

Learc83:

I have no intention of breaking the law. For you to post such slander online is outrageous. Let's hope we do not meet face to face.

My family has been a responsible gun owning family for more than 150 years.

I am appalled and angered that you simply assume that I would seek the most illegal form of weapon should I simply be able to print it.

Shall I assume that you have a propensity for rape if I were to know you were not a virgin?

My point in my original post was that should politicians who are abstracted from the understanding of how information exists will always err on the side on insane restrictions not based in the reality of how that information is actually disseminated or accessed.

You cannot outlaw knowledge, or intelligence.

However, in your case, it appears you can aschew it.
#1 on HN for Six Hours: Postmortem
if you don't mind having a 10-key you can get a realforce 103 for $235 from elite keyboards. The switches supposedly have a 30 million press lifecycle, significantly higher than most keyboards, so it should last many years.

I bought both an 87UB (the $400 one) and a 103UB, and kept the 103UB because I both prefer the feeling of it over the 87, and also discovered that I like having a 10-key again. Had pretty much abandoned them.
$99 is an easy line to overlook on even a small-business account, especially when it's going to a theoretically reputable company like 37s.

I bet that one single "update your billing information" email detailing what the $99 was for, followed by culling everyone who hadn't updated their information within 30 days would result in an 80%+ drop-off in the revenue of Sortfolio. Not even disclosure that the service was for sale and hadn't been updated in a year - simply a "hey, you're paying $99/mo for Sortfolio. Please click here to confirm you want to continue doing so."

37signals are running the same scam as AOL dial-up here - they're relying on people who have forgotten to hit an "unsubscribe" button rather than providing real value. Personally, I had a lot of respect for 37signals going into this blog post, but I think that's pretty darn slimy.
Well just like Emails haven't completely replaced Postal services. You will still need drivers. You will need people to drive Ambulances, Race cars and things like vehicles for banks and other important things.

But when big paradigm shifts like this happen, generally a lot of people end up loosing jobs.
This situation presents an interesting contrast with that of Instagram. Here you have a site generating revenue - and more importantly profit - that is on sale for 0.00048 the sale price of Instagram... and then gets absolutely skewered in the comments for suggesting such an amount. Obviously, the purchase of Instagram comes with much more than simply a maintenance-free website and some paying customers. I'm not saying that Instagram is or is not worth $1B or that Sortfolio is or is not worth $480k, I'm just saying there's probably an interesting nugget hidden in this contrast that says something about what we value these days.
Please make sure you keep us all up-to-date on the trial, can't wait to hear you argue that he should have assumed you downloaded STL files without a purpose because you didn't intend to use them.

By the way I'm not fussed about considering myself informed and intelligent, I'm happy enough with "not a whack job".
Because it mentions it directly in the link that this discussion is about.

"Since Sortfolio is hooked up to our centralized billing system, you’ll need to write your own code to charge customers."
Facebook to Marketers, It’s Time for a Click to Action
http://codestre.am/ ?
I think Sortfolio's secret weapon is not the code, the design or the feature set -- which I'm sure are all good -- but the fact that it was promoted by and connected from, eyeball traffic-wise, the huge audience that 37Signals, Basecamp, JF, DHH, already have. That said, if they can find a buyer who also has the ability to park it adjacent to a pre-existing web property, then it could be a smart buy. But if you don't have that? Probably a bad buy at the price they're asking. I'm reminded of how Atwood and Spolsky banded together to leverage their pre-existing eyeball streams to promote and get StackOverflow off the ground (essentially a repeat of what Spolsky did alone with his blog and FogCreek, but then on a large scale). There are lots of easy ways to make money if you already are famous and/or have a large traffic base. (See Paris Hilton.) Those methods don't exist for folks who don't start with that.
What are the effects of recent Google panda updates 2012
The problem with the manic loner method of learning to code is that it can lead to burnout really quickly. I taught myself to code in a similar way. It was my senior year in college, I was getting a degree in creative writing, and my only programming knowledge was whatever was still rattling around my head from an introductory course in high school. I had an idea for something that I wanted to build, so I bought an HTML for Dummies book and started working my way down the stack. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, jQuery, cron, VPS hosting, web APIs, and on and on.

After three months of manic reading and coding, I had a working product and enough programming knowledge to get a job with a local startup. I was also a wreck. It got to the point where opening up a text editor made me nauseous. The main reason I applied for the job at the startup was to work with other coders, to alleviate my stress and isolation, but it was a marketing startup at its core, and all the other developers worked remotely. The people I worked with were great, and they had nothing but good things to say about my work, but I was the only on-site developer. It made me feel even more isolated.

Honestly, I felt like a fraud. I spent most of my time at work teaching myself new tools. I felt like these were things that I should just know, and I couldn't convince myself that I was doing a good job, because there was no developer community around me. In retrospect, I know that my stress was irrational. Textbook impostor syndrome. Every time I fixed a bug for a customer, which I did a few times every day, I was protecting a revenue stream worth several times my hourly wage. But because the community wasn't there, and because I had burnt myself out over months of manic self-education, I couldn't internalize this at the time. I brought up my issues with the CEO - who was in the room next to me, since it was a small shop - but no matter how many times he assured me that I was doing a great job, it didn't cut through the burnout and the stress. When I graduated, I left the job behind. I also left coding behind, for about eight months. I made a few static HTML/CSS pages for various projects, but that was it.

I'm back to coding again now. Everything is fresh and fun again. I'm working on an ambitious project, and I'm still a team of one. But I'm going to start visiting meetups and getting involved in the community, because I've felt the stress of being completely on my own.

Your mental makeup may be different. You may be able to continue learning and coding on your own indefinitely and never succumb to burnout, paranoia, panic, or isolation. If so, that's great! I'm a little worried about your note at the end, though. Most people can't do this on their own, and it's not a knock on their aptitude. The emotional toll of isolation is what brings people down, and it's perfectly normal.
>> A computer language would never be copyrightable anyway because it is not a fixed expression

This helps! Thanks.

As you stated yourself, APIs do seem to fall in the same category. I think the distinction of APIs from language is very complex as there are things which may blur the boundary between the two.
Is Uganda’s stand-up comedy a bubble waiting to burst?
> If quantum systems could really feel in a way that machines really can't, this would solve the problem neatly.

Late to the party, but pretty sure that's the situation we're in.
>"In reality we've received exactly zero requests for IE support, angry or otherwise."

Why would someone bother contacting you when it appears that your site is broken? In other words, the call to action doesn't display technical competence - indeed it implies a level of technical incompetence which probably is not justified.

"We're really sorry, but Paydirt isn't playing nice with your browser" doesn't inspire confidence in the product - it doesn't suggest a high level of customer service, either. Would I really want to trust something as critical as invoicing to this company?

Furthermore, not supporting IE doesn't scale well. At 10,000 users 1.6% is $1600 a month in revenue. At 100,000 it's nearly $200,000 a year in potential revenue - all for what is mostly a one time expense.

Finally, where does this leave room for expanding services such as letting my customer's see their project in real time?

I don't see a business case for it. I'm not saying that there isn't one - just that it hasn't be made.
Someone should post a "...and crickets chirped" post mortem. Not everyone gets this kind of response here but these seem to be the only post mortems which show up here, giving a skewed impression it seems. Besides, I would rather see an analysis of how and why it made it to the front page and stayed there. Good for you that you got scads of traffic. But seeing a listing of your traffic numbers helps me not at all in terms of figuring out how to replicate it.
Interesting - I wonder how folks would have responded in the 1990s if someone had stated "We don't support Macs, and we're calling that a feature."
37signals insults customers, force sale of Sortfolio or shuts it down
Wow. Two in one week. Just a few days ago I came across: http://www.gradecam.com/ which does something very similar but with document cameras rather than fax machines.

It's great to see tools like these being built for those outside the tech bubble.
God is watching. Yer fucked.

God says...
C:\Text\QUIX.TXT

my daughter?
Last night, before this terrible misfortune in which we are plunged
befell us, I saw thee in thy everyday and indoor garments; and now,
without having had time to attire thyself, and without my bringing thee
any joyful tidings to furnish an occasion for adorning and bedecking
thyself, I see thee arrayed in the finest attire it would be in my power
to give thee when fortune was most kind to us. Answer me this; for it
causes me greater anxiety and surprise than even this misfortune itsel

----

If God is not just, yer in even bigger trouble!

Hey, God, do some time travel!

God says...
C:\Text\HUCKFINN.TXT

trouble and had to
leave; and they've took my nigger, which is the only nigger I've got in
the world, and now I'm in a strange country, and ain't got no property no
more, nor nothing, and no way to make my living;' so I set down and
cried. I slept in the woods all night. But what DID become of the raft,
then?--and Jim--poor Jim!"

"Blamed if I know--that is, what's become of the raft. That old fool had
made a trade and got forty dollars, and when we found him in the doggery
the loafers had mat

----

Hazmat

You like to be called "Odin", God?

God says...
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trembling horrible impair unravelled imperishable languages
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lifted first assiduously charges heeded requital Egyptian
abandonedly parted
Making My First Dollar
I don't think your average teacher would have the time to do something like this.
You're not there yet. But you get there, I hope I'm lucky enough to be a part of it.
Such a weird sales tactic - sell it for $480k or shut it down. Isn't that a bit like the landlord of a profitable duplex selling it with the real estate listing as "Buy it for $480k or we'll burn it to the ground"?
Am I alone in feeling insulted in how this blog post was written/handled?
Heh, I literally just read the email from the Azure team right now. I'm not quite sure it means they're rebranding everything though. There's a lot of money put behind the Azure name.

But, simplifying the features and service names would be a good move. I've been with Azure since the early beta days and the branding and naming of services was always confusing. In fact, I missed many features early on simply because I had no idea what they were packaged under.
Ha! Care to share how you accomplished this?
Very good point. A fascinating study in driver behaviour is to go to a high point where you can observe a congested freeway. The Getty Centre above the 405 Freeway in Los Angeles is an excellent example.

The way I would describe it is watching fast-flowing water. Then block it with a piece of wood, and lift it again, then watch the wave pattern flow down the water.

That's exactly what traffic looks like from above. A couple of slow moving cars, someone doing a stupid lane move, and everyone touches the brakes. This ripples down the flow until, much further down the road, people are all stopped and they have no idea why.

Every road, for a given level of traffic, has an optimum speed that the traffic will flow the best. If robotic control could read that value, and stick to it, you would see Freeways flowing much better.

However, that's all a long way off. I'd settle for widespread fitting of adaptive cruise control and getting people to actually use it.
Clever but how would mom and pop type this into the address bar? I guess this is meant solely for clickable links.
Are you disappointed because women are not contributing to "breakthrough technologies" or do you think there were worthwhile women that were overlooked?
Gruber made one in 2010 (http://daringfireball.net/2010/09/starstruck).
I made one to mimic ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ as the url (url: ˉ⧹ˍ❨ツ❩ˍ⧸ˉ.ws -or- http://xn--zqaala8697bga007bda767m.ws/ ).

Unfortunately, it doesn't work well on all browsers/DNS servers, so it's not very practical.
Points to consider:

★ The "work for less" argument sounds like a weasel game. If you're playing weasel games before I've even started working for you, what are the odds that you'll continue playing games? Pretty high, I'd say.

★ $100/hour for an SAP consultant or a Hadoop expert? Give me a break - that's the rate for a reasonable dev who can build a system themselves.

★ There's usually not a lot of opportunity cost for decent developers when interviewing, since they'll already be employed or doing lots of contract work (and turning more away). A couple of phone calls or emails, or an application or two is usually all it takes.

So... remind me why I should come work for your hypothetical company again?
Downloading an STL is not illegal. Further it is not of a fully automatic version, or any fully operational version. The STL is the largest milled and most expensive pieces. This does NOT produce an illegal weapon. It saves cost, should you have the machinery to make the lower with your own tools.

I appreciate the both of you attempting to appear legally abiding, informed citizens, but you're just a pair of dicks that assume that anyone doing anything outside of your own boxed reality must be a criminal.

Kudos - I am sure you'll do well in politics.

But you sound like freaking idiots assuming what you do.

I am sure you believe yourselves to be well informed, but I am not sure you truly are.

My stating I have the STLs for an AR-15 lower etc is NOT the same as stating I intend to manufacture illegal weapons as the other poster claimed.

So, fuck both of you for attempting to slander my thusly.
I was going to make the same comment but before I made it I "CTRL+F" 57 and found your comment.
Man I can't wait for this to become mature enough that cars can drive themselves without anyone "behind the wheel". I've never learnt to drive, and I would get a Zipcar membership the DAY that happened.
I love the resurgence of the old-school learning model (in-person). It's like university, but focused on practical things instead of trivium. And with the shortage of developer talent today, an 8-week $3,000 course can have a huge return for your students.
No, it's nowhere nearly that complicated to exploit.
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this plus the recent Planetary Resources launch, plus the upcoming SpaceX rendezvous with the ISS are all pretty exciting milestones. some folks out there are pushing the human race forward. not just making trivial fadish photo sharing websites, etc.
1.6% is 1.6% no matter how big the number is...

Personally, if my app were making 12 MILLION DOLLARS a year I'd either
a) not care about that $200k a year
or
b) I'd then have the resources to do something about it

If I were these guys I'd support Spanish and French long before I'd bother chasing that 1.6%, but no one is being critical of them not doing that.
Speaking of IDNs, a few months back I had an idea for a geo service and registered http://⌖.ws — figured U+2316 Position Indicator[1] was a good fit for something related to geolocation.

I never came around to using it, so if a fellow HNer is interested in the domain, drop me a line (email in my profile).

[1] Larger image: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/font/stixgeneral-reg...
At first glance, I thought adioso was another KAYAK competitor. It took me a few minutes to realize that adioso's core value proposition is its ability to predict the best time to buy plane tickets. May I suggest replacing your current home page with something like this...

Buy plane tickets at the best possible time
1) Search for your destination
2) Subscribe for deal alerts
3) Book your ticket to your destination

Furthermore, why limit yourself to plane tickets? Why not combine a few more services like hotels and car rentals? This opens up the possibility of booking entire vacations all through one portal.

Thanks for the great read. I wish you guys the best of luck.
FunnyGames.nl - Bubbles, Mario, Happy Wheels, Monster Maniak, Paarse Pluisje 
FunnyGames is a website specially developed for children. On a weekly base, people are busy with adding new games on the FunnyGames.nl website. Happy Wheels, Bubbles and other all are online games, meaning that all games can be played directly on the website.
Helpful tool...could definitely see it catching on.
Show HN: Email2Face - API & gem to search for profile pictures
What percentage of your users were on IE?
Awesome, thanks. Much appreciated.