skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
but why can't you be arbitrary (within the confines of the law)? particularly a small company. you don't have to justify your actions - just don't work with people you don't want to. why does it have to be consistent or logical? just say "fuck em" and move on...

what, in short, is so bad about being faithful to what you feel?
I do think there may be some honest criticisms for it. But regarding gitspective, my design is bad. Very bad. So bad, I considered making everything shades of hot pink so it might motivate a designer (who would normally pass) to help me out.

I would expect with a better design the back-and-forth would flow would look a lot easier on the eyes.
Moral implications of work automation, bonuses, fairness to coworkers
Best blogs for Machine Learning and Data Mining?
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First off, that site is simply gorgeous. Seriously.

Secondly, I have a request to the makers of the site: Could you make this open-source? Or at least make the platform available for other people to create lessons on?

I think something like this would make computer science education amazingly simple to share around the world. Given some additional plug-ins, this platform could move beyond the simpler html/css/javascript coding, and straight into more intricate lessons on all sorts of programming languages. Throw in a social voting aspect, and the best lessons for each topic would be able to rise to the top of the heap. If it were open, then people would be able to translate the typed lessons into various languages so that everyone could learn the fundamentals of computing.

Like I said, the site is excellent as-is. It just seems to me that there is a huge amount of untapped potential here that needs to be taken advantage of.
Is it me or they "changed" the icons 2-3 times in last 6 months? I don't want to disrespect you guys, you are doing a great job :D, but github currently really needs some form of deck to track down project dependencies activity and people activity too.
I already started something here http://bit.ly/GFB0XD
I think every business should be opinionated to some degree. Call it ethics if you must.

I would snapcancel that account but not snoop around in data and actively try to find people that offend me to boot them.

If they tell you they do something that you have ethical objections against shut down their account. Just imagine how you'd feel if he'd use your system to troll 5k people.

I think the law shouldn't be your ultimate guideline it should be your moral and ethical standards in combination with the law.
Programmer advices which I wish someone had told me
Are there any easy cloud platforms or whatever that support easy deployment for Vert.x?
I think Firebase will eventually figure out how to pull off their service. After all, they aren't planning on leaving beta until the end of the year (according to their support rep). It is frustrating though. I really dislike when companies promise solutions to problems they haven't even figured out yet.
Agreed. Looking through their styleguide[0] it looks quite conceptually similar to Twitter Bootstrap and would be useful as a starting point for site development.

[0] https://github.com/styleguide/css/1.0
since no one has any idea what their financials really look like

I'm guessing the SEC has a good idea. http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1490281/0001047469110...
Efforts under way to get more accurate accounting of bot-infected machines
I don't get it... there's no content, and it requires me to sign up, just to search? I would suggest you add some sample content that is publicly viewable.

When you go to Pinterest, you Pinstantly know what the site does.

:)
Well, if the issue is a frayed cord, I agree, substitution, as you said, is cheap.

But of course you could describe a cord as "frayed" but only because it's a little dirty, but the isolation is still in good shape
Because boards don't make decisions overnight, especially considering that it sounds like there is some hostility on the Yahoo board.
Another interesting industry to look at through this lens is game development. Game companies develop and sell software (and sometimes hardware) to consumers, so they must be technology companies, right?

Wrong. The games industry is not a tech business, it is an entertainment business that just so happens deliver entertainment through software. Looking at things from this perspective can be very illuminating, especially if you're looking at things like the success of Nintendo's Wii six or so years ago.
That's a very good thought. We struggled with that during the development of -hitch-has() and a few others. Ultimately we landed on the position of getting an implementation out there that was functionally equivalent.

CSS Selectors 4 (http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-selectors4-20110929/#subject) points out a syntax that is currently using "$". But that has also been suggested as "!" in the past. It's a tough thing to get nailed down, but we decided we'd rather not wait to have the functionality.
Wow, sorry, I completely missed the "not" in your post. My bad.
Just so that it doesn't make any difference to you or your presentation doesn't mean that you should avoid it. It is a best practice to include them and semantically right thing to do. It gives a structure to your document and defines what your document is about.

I don't see it as a redundant tag, not at all.
While learning Hadoop is a good idea, if you're bored in grad school, you're doing it wrong.
This is pretty much what we struggled with -- at one point, we thought about how dumb we would feel if we did everything we could to streamline the guy's workflow and then received one of his letters demanding payment.

That's another interesting place to draw the line, though -- self-preservation, or at least protection of your own industry. It's pretty compelling, although it still feels a bit odd to be protective of only one's own industry, while being okay with things that might be destructive to others. Hm.
I bet most people upvoted before clicking the link.
Also, you can implement data synchronization over a messaging layer but not the other way around. So I'd say our approach is actually more flexible. And we do plan to introduce APIs to make data synchronization easier.
Well ... actually we can. The web server configuration has been changed to handle this amount of requests and it is working pretty good right now. :) We did not really anticipate that much traffic, as it is far more than what we usually see. So the web server was not configured for such a situation and ran out of workers to handle the requests.

Creating a static site at first was just a much faster and safer solution, especially as the original site did not contain anything apart from the two lines of text.
You know, jury nullification is a thing. One aspect of this is when there is evidence to convict someone of a crime, the jury may choose to not convict if they feel the law is not just. This is a power granted to citizens (of the USA) to help us govern ourselves in in case our legal system becomes unjust or corrupt.

You are in the position of (some) power. By knowingly choosing to to help someone do something unethical, you contribute to furthering unethical behavior. Also, what is the difference between "a jerk ... speaking up" and "an asshole"? Is an asshole still an asshole if their business is legal?

I think you should reconsider your sign. It shouldn't say We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone, it should say Greed is good. Remember, all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with making money, but don't try and rationalize your ethics away.
I personally did not like the colors on the repository icons. Grey just doesnt strike me as a color that inspires liveliness and energy. I liked the yellow better. Please keep some color around the repo list, thats what I care about most and I think a lot of people do too.
I wish they had something to let you know how far down you are on the wait list and how long it will be approximately until you can finally get an account. I signed up for the wait list nearly a year ago. Getting a bit frustrated with how long it's taking.
Talent That Scales
This is a great post because you go in expecting "we kicked that patent troll to the curb! Yeah!" and it turns out instead to be a reasoned set of implications of running a service-based business.
<img> tags at least have the alt attribute.

And <a> tags have the title attribute.
Hawkee is now Google+ for programmers
Application developer network for programmers to share code, apps and projects.
What do you do if you're in a country where the law allows evil acts?
I upvoted you for being a voice of reason. I also find it interesting how much the startup community in general hates on MBAs, and yet they also know so little about finance. (I don't know much about finance, either, but from just a little bit of self-education I feel like I know more than the average Techcrunch etc blogger.)
Thanks for the feedback, I think I will implement all of those. The title links were meant to link to a "source" so that you can provide credit, but they don't seem to be used much so I will probably just link to the comments as you suggested and put a little "source" link beside it if someone wants to give credit.
I thought the new icons looked beautiful..
Do you darn your socks? I knew how to do so, maybe 45 years ago.
'Ghost town' being built in US to test new technologies
Nigel Farage, Leader of the UKIP: Break up the Euro-zone or EU will collapse
Google Maps For Android Gets Offers, Business Photos & Indoor Walking Directions
Dinner w/ Hunter Walk + Jason Shellen
All net proceeds benefit Architecture for Humanity, a nonprofit that seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian crisis.
Spy on random strangers even easier
I appreciate that these will scale better than images, but I never grokked the icons in the top right corner. To me, a repository isn't much like a "book", and I still remember hunting for the "log out" link in frustration before realizing it was the door with an arrow. Since you've pretty much pegged the header at ~900px wide, I still think text links would be more usable and you have the horizontal room for it.

That being said, since it seems like you're incorporating these metaphors into other parts of the site--like I notice the book icon by the repo name now--maybe the metaphors will eventually stick. But in the meanwhile it has been a little confusing.
Privacy: Lawmakers Introduce Legislation to Protect Internet Passwords
I would say go for it. Hadoop is becoming more of a norm in industry and I can tell you from personal experience that having prior hands-on Hadoop work makes your resume pop a little more.

Even better is if you're able to muck around in core Hadoop versus abstracted management layers like Cloudera. The things you have to learn in maintaining a Hadoop cluster like cloud systems management, tuning, running jobs, etc. makes for valuable experience, even if niche.
Dell readies Ubuntu Linux laptop for developers
No, because even fair trade socks are cheap enough for me to not bother. I'm not great at darning, and I'd have uncomfortable socks.

Maybe it's something I should learn.
I'm reminded of the Newton clipboard. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhivPLXrLjk
I think spire.io is more geared towards people making new applications. If you already have a working backend, keep using it. However, if you are making a new web application, you need to pick your battles; do you spend your time writing server code and setting up a server, or do you spend your time writing the actual application? It is a reinventing the wheel thing. You want to spend your time writing the parts of your app that are DIFFERENT and actually core to your application.
Down for me too. I can't see a cached version in Google too.
(I work at the Less Annoying CRM)

Since a few people have brought up similar points, I'd like to address them here. My gut instinct was to tell the patent troll to fuck off. I still wish we had done that. But that would set a terrible precedent and turn us into something that I hate: the App Store

Pretty much everyone here hates how arbitrary and opaque the approval system is in the App Store. It seems like there's a post on HN almost every day ranting about this. If we don't have a clear set of guidelines for what we will and won't allow, how can any of our customers trust our service?

Another example: many of us are worried that Google might randomly shut down our accounts. This would be devastating. I'm sure that Google normally only shuts down accounts with good cause, but they still are developing a reputation for being a company you can't trust. We can't afford to give our customers a reason to worry about that happening with our service.

So the question is, is there a way to tell the patent troll to go screw himself without jeopardizing our trustworthiness with our real customers?
This just made me think of the show 'Deadwood'....
<img> has the title attribute too, but title is meant for displaying additional information via a tooltip. alt is for alternative text to be used in place of the image.

Does any screen reader actually read the value of a title attribute on a link containing text? I doubt it. Instead it would descend into the <a> tag and try to read the text therein.
How long should a job hunt take for a PhD scientist?
Alau.me Wants To Fix iOS Marketing With Bit.ly-Like Links
Objective-C isn't used in XNU the kernel that Mac OS X uses, Mach is a mixture of C and C++ (A subset of it actually, known as IOKit).
(Yeah, this is actually our CEO, Tyler.)
As is the case with both The Elements of Style and etiquette or any 'art,' you need to know the rules before you can break them.
Dell is "dead"? I suppose relative to the incredible profits of Apple, every other company is dead.
This looks promising and is something that is needed. It is tough tracking whether a click actually led to a download through the appstore.
Compile Vim with Python & Ruby support on OSX with Homebrew
The "shake" effect in Windows will cause everything but the active window to minimize - it's possible the action can be bound to other commands.

"does anything like this exist for windows?"
Not the exact same but if you start to drag then you can alt-tab to focus the application where you want to drop (if you can't see it already)
Acquisition? Healthcare in Canada is managed provincially, so there are difference between each province. In Ontario, OHIP (Ontario Health Insurance Plan) covers a wide range of health services; however, it does not pay for services that are not medically necessary, such as cosmetic surgery.

OHIP is paid for out Federal Transfer payments and Ontario taxes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario_Health_Insurance_Plan

There is an external health premium (aka a tax) that maxes at $900 annually. OHIP generally costs about 10cents of every tax dollar spent in Ontario http://news.ontario.ca/mohltc/en/2012/05/a-real-wage-freeze-...

But it is accounted for in existing personal and corporate taxes.
You might be right. As much as telling this guy to fuck off would have felt great, though, it also felt wrong to us to inject our opinions into it. But, well, I could probably be convinced by your perspective, too -- which is why I wrote this post.

I suppose one consideration would be a legal one. We're not legal experts, and for some entities, turning them away for being distasteful or what they believe -- based on what we feel -- could be considered discrimination.

And finally, we think having some consistency is pretty important. Sure, we could just do this case-by-case and that, frankly, would be pretty nice. But it's also not really fair to our users, I think, who should know that we work with some kind of framework in making decisions so that they don't have to worry about us getting pissed off and shutting down their account for (what they see as) insufficient reason.
Simple is building a product that they are certain will be successful. VC's should be clamoring to get involved with Simple.

Look at the Simple Twitter feed and you'll see people begging for invites.

I am still hoping for an invite Spring '12 as my last email from them indicated. :)
How did he know they were a patent troll? From the description, they sound like the original owner of the patent, the patent appears to be newly granted, and we don't know if they are practicing the patent themselves or not.

There is some variation in the meaning of "patent troll", but an original owner practicing the patent promptly going after people who infringe is not a patent troll under most accepted definitions.
I love Inferno, but the actual kernel is written in C, not Limbo.
That's what I did when I got my 17" HP Pavillion. I had it wiped and was installing Ubuntu within 20 minutes of unpacking. Later on down the road, I thought, "Hmmm I could really use at Windows 7 Home install for Visual Studio... maybe I should install it in a VM, after all, it would technically be running on the same hardware". So that's what I did. I called MS and used the COA sticker serial number on the bottom of my laptop. So weeks like this, where I'm doing plenty of C# development, I don't have to find another machine. That $20 OS comes in pretty handy.
This is just a publicity stunt for this company. It's an ad.

"Oh hey look, we have patent trolls using our product"
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Agreed, color is the most immediately recognizable thing about an object and this is just as bad as when Lion washed out the folder colors. It looks more minimalist/modern but is less usable. Even low-saturation colors would be nice. You could do this with font icons just by printing them in slightly different colors (like a terminal, sigh).

Edit: I could be nuts, but they are printing in slightly different colors now, whereas just an hour ago they were all gray. Somebody at github just made my day.
Unicode code points do have names and standardized meanings, so it's not a good idea to abuse them.

Hopefully the 'create' one uses f003, which apparently lies in PRIVATE_USE_AREA [0]

.mini-icon.create::before {
content: "\f003";
}

[0] http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/f003/index.htm
I semi-agree with what you did in this case, and here's why.

If you had spontaneously canceled his account, without having stipulated what kind of behaviour you find unacceptable in the Terms of Service beforehand, he could rightfully accuse you of being capricious and arbitrary. As a customer, that kind of action on your part would definitely make me think twice before signing up. Even though I'm not a patent troll, what if you some day decided that what I was using it for was also unacceptable? Speaking of the letter of the law, the ToS that you both agreed to didn't mention anything about patent trolling being out of bounds.

What I would do in future is maintain a list of un-OK uses as a schedule to the ToS, but grandfather existing clients into the old ToS (perhaps with a 30 day grace period, allowing customers to export all of their data). In the case of customers using the software to do things you don't like, rather than terminate their account, just politely ask them to take their custom elsewhere (with no obligation to do so). I think you'll find that most people would rather be where they're wanted.

Caveat: IANAL. You might not be able to do that sort of thing (although I'm nearly sure you can).
No, they haven't. GitHub only recently changed their top toolbar layout to include those icons, and today expanded them with even more indistinguishable-at-a-glance ones.
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I feel like you're cherry picking examples to prove a somewhat dubious point.

I would like clarification: Are you advocating we shouldn't donate used items to charity, or that we shouldn't donate unusable items to charity?

If the former, then how do you propose those less fortunate purchase items outside of their budget? I've gone to thrift and goodwill stores; many of the electronics and clothing there are perfectly usable.

If the latter, I completely agree, though am not sure why this is pertinent to the discussion. Broken junk isn't generally sellable except as scrap.
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> Interesting that none of those systems are in active usage...

That's a ridiculous dismissal to make; we live in a world where hand-written assembly is considered a badge of honor, where people prefer to patch up a 40-year-old dinosaur rather than make something new, where people to go ridiculous lengths to avoid using a mouse simply because Unix didn't have mouse support in 1973. Is it any wonder that we're not using anything better?
Ask HN- Yo, where do all the app geniuses hang out
I have been working on a project for a while and I have a few meetings that will come up where I need to have some kind of prototype of an app that I will need developed.

I work with some great programmers, but they are in a very specific field and I am having a hard time finding someone I can hire to help with the app development, first the prototype and then full scale if/after I land the contracts. So, here it is... I am Looking for
ideas on finding and hiring an app developer to do a basic app prototype for the Android OS...bonus points if you can do IOS too.

App is essentially 5 screens taking user through a transaction and would use potential client's graphics to minimize design work:

Screens: (1) Potential Client's Icon (2) Choose product (3) Choose product delivery method (4) Opt out of additional product features (5)
Capture user selections in a 2d barcode capable of being scanned off a cellphone screen.

I think this is fairly straightforward, but am not an expert so I could be missing something.

I really need to know where to look to find the right person and greatly appreciate any pointers. If anyone has suggestions or is
personally interested please contact me at projectmail7@gmail.com
http://darcsden.com/alex/darcsden/patches
You definitely showed all of us that your moral compass is tightly bound to the law. Instead of telling this despicable customer to leave, you gave him the grand tour.

Your blog post could have been an explanation of your reasoning and moral outrage, making you look better while providing transparency for your customers to trust.
TL;DR

1. We reject customers who speak harshly about our software. They hurt our feelings, and we simply won't stand for that.

2. We welcome customers who rob and kill as a matter of business. If it satisfies minimum legal requirements, we are happy to make a buck.

3. We are so proud of our reasoning ability that we are going on record to say that we welcome patent trolls and the Ku Klux Klan.
The content of the post was not at all what I expected.

The funny thing about principles is they're easy to have when they're not being tested. For example:

"'I really don’t want this guy’s money,' Tyler said at one point. We’re glad not to have it."

That's a lot easier to say when the offer of money is no longer on the table. I'm not sure at what point that was actually said, but in the article it comes after giving this guy a demo of the system, making genuine recommendations about his entire process, and doing actual customization work for the guy.

Patent trolling aside, using the law of the land to justify going against your personal conscience is a horrible idea.
to be completely honest - I am sitll confused what Simple does differently than Mint.com

also - have been on the waiting list forever...
Thank you for posting this. It was one of the most thought-provoking things I have seen on HN for weeks.
For the record: it took 8 people to design and implement their new icons. 8 people.