skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely look forward to having an account with Simple soon.

'Safe to spend' balance is brilliant and is something I have to do manually in Excel by playing with numbers.

However, if I keep a zero-sum budget it would be nice to have multiple safe-to-spend balances. If I understand correctly[1], with Simple I can presumably just set non-bill budgets (eg. fuel, clothing, mini-savings, misc/blow) as bills or even goals to fake it. That way, 'safe to spend' will always be $0 (give or take) — in essence managing a virtual envelope system, making my personal finances much easier to handle than the current grunt work one has to endure.

[1] "Safe to Spend is your account balance minus what you've saved toward goals, minus pending contributions toward goals, minus pending bills in the current pay cycle." https://www.simple.com/blog/Saving/simple-budgeting-and-rain...
Definitely the right direction:

http://www.itjobswatch.co.uk/jobs/uk/hadoop.do

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/255142/idc_exp...

http://www.mckinsey.com/Insights/MGI/Research/Technology_and...

Although I'd second the point that getting your hands dirty with the Hadoop core is likely more valuable than straight sysadmin work.
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In all the DAW software and plugins I've used, there is at least an option to enable traditional up/down or left/right click-dragging. The knob still appears to spin, but you get the precise control of linear motion. Any good audio software will show you the numerical value anyway, so it's a bit of a stretch to say that knob widgets like this one are standard.
No one person deserves the credit. Duke was groundbreaking, but even without him there would have still been Billy Strayhorn and Charles Mingus and Thad Jones pushing the same boundaries of group writing and harmony, to name just a few.
Who in the world would buy a $1000 laptop with Intel's 3000 series graphics chipset?

If this is supposed to compete with the MacBook Air, Dell completely missed the boat, especially with a $799 air coming out within the next 3 months (oops, beans spilled... sorry Apple).

Additionally, I'd rather have the MacBook Air so I can run Windows AND Mac OSX and write native iPhone apps, and I'd still spend the same $999.

Yes, Apple too missed the boat by using Intel's 3000 graphics chipset, and YES, Apple's hard drive is smaller, but NO, the Dell can't run OSX...

Why can't these folks just give us a 10-hour, 14" Air-like laptop with an nVidia 560Ti, 256GB solid state, and 8GB of DDR3-1600 RAM for $999? THAT's what we really want, right?

Right?

Beuller?
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Y Combinator here I come – update 2
I prefer no icons... https://gist.github.com/2648857
Hey Kabir, you're in the queue for a beta invite now.
rackspace is doing a lot these days in OpenSource
Glad you like it! We spent all weekend hacking away on this - really excited to show it to everyone.

Behind the scenes we're running iOS apps on Macs and streaming the screen to you - sort of like a remote-desktop connection into a running app. We've built up a bunch of infrastructure to do that for our main product.

To make the RubyMotion REPL magic happen, we looked at the how RubyMotion launcher worked. RubyMotion apps expose the REPL over a UNIX socket, and you can write expressions and read results from there. So, we connect into that.

If anyone is curious, here's a DTrace script for peeking at the traffic going over the RubyMotion REPL socket: https://gist.github.com/2624774
I think the only concern here is that the plain-text csv file containing these 20 rows was sent via email to his attorney, which was probably forwarded on to the requesting detective. That file is in no way encrypted and is essentially sitting in two email servers, two desktop machines, and possible mobile devices.. all of which are vulnerable to attack from multiple vectors. The file should have, at the least, been encrypted.
Sorry, I could have sworn I read it without it and then noticed it when I checked back later. I edited my previous statement.
This is actually really cool for other things than RubyMotion. The biggest drawback of having to pay for frameworks and development toolkits is that you cannot easily test drive them (the reason I am a fan of the free-for-personal GPL/BSD + commercial license model). This potentially takes away some of those concerns.
> ... which means Dole and Chiquita will have to give up the notion of "basically-free labor".

If we can build a self-driving car good enough to carry the rich and famous, a self-picking banana cart is a no brainer. Then nobody will be on the poors' backs.

They had better have a service economy ready when it happens.
I've been living with this schedule for 2 semesters. Luckily I work from home and live 10 minutes from school so my transportation is about to 2 hours a week.

Recreational programming has stopped for me. The little free time I have is consumed by housework and when that is finished I usually just watch TV or a Movie to rest my mind.

I'm really motivated and genuinely enjoy my classes. I don't think I could do it otherwise.
I hate to be pedantic here, but I think you mean "shill" instead of "shrill". Technically what you did there is called a malapropism, where two similar sounding words are misused because the alternative wording could make sense as well. I always thought the saying was "for all intensive purposes", but the actual saying is "for all intents and purposes".
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Apple releases OS X 10.7.4 Lion
You do not need threads for shared memory. I know of quite a few high-performance software systems that use process isolation and yet leverage shared memory via mechanisms like mmap() for IPC.
Are you planning on keeping Structum distributed, or do you want to bring the team together?
I think this quote sums up some of the thinking behind this:

"Some would say that a repository is storage — a place where you store your code — somewhat like a box."

So why isn't the icon a box? Why instead spend the rest of the paragraph justifying the book icon? It might be understood well enough by the Github designers, but the metaphor isn't universal enough to be recognisable at a glance.

This is made worse because the icon for 'readme' and 'wiki' are also books. That could be confusing without the text.

The other example is the icons for watching. 'Add' tends to be represented as a plus icon. In this case 'watching' has a plus icon in it, while 'unwatch' has a cross icon. This doesn't appear to make sense.

One might wonder why, when there are present and available dichotomies (open eye, shut eye), there's such a mix and match of metaphors.
This is standard 20th century history. It's also the standard Communist line (Galeano, Zinn, etc). Its only correspondence with reality is the statement that everything wrong with Latin America is the US's fault. While this is true, everything else is a lie.

The truth about Latin America is that it's suffering from 200 years of revolutionary ideology exported from El Norte. All its functional institutions date to Spanish rule (which is why "colonial" is applied indiscriminately to anything that isn't ugly in Mexico). Things started to suck in the 19th century when revolutionary Enlightenment ideology, all of Anglo-American origin, destroyed first colonial, then clerical and aristocratic rule, in the process producing approximately a zillion very very nasty civil wars.

And of course comparing 19th-century revolutionary ideology to its 20th-century successor is like comparing strychnine to cyanide. Where did all these ideologies come from? Dude, do you really have to ask? Ergo "pobre Mexico, tan lejos de Dios, tan cerca a los Estados Unidos."

For instance, it's grimly hilarious that today, with Mexico the world capital of decapitation, anyone could conceivably praise the Mexican Revolution. If Woodrow Wilson and Americans like him hadn't been so intent on "teaching Mexico to elect good men," the Porfiriato could easily have lasted another century:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porfirio_D%C3%ADaz

Instead, thanks to John Reed and his ilk:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Reed_(journalist)

You wind up with this dude:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teodoro_Garc%C3%ADa_Simental

whom I'm pretty sure neither the Porfiriato nor New Spain would have wasted much time in hanging. Etc, etc, etc.

took a course on Mesoamerican colonial history from the former Honduran Minister of Culture, who fled to the US after the 2009 coup.

And no doubt wishes the State Department would repeat its usual trick of deposing all Latin American governments which aren't headed by Harvard professors, or completely Americanized natives acceptable to such. Strangely, this position is commonly referred to as "anti-Americanism" - possibly for the same reason tall men are called "Tiny."

Needless to say, the golpistas in Honduras are a hell of a lot more Honduran than anyone who has ever taught a course at Harvard (or wherever). If you prefer them to the Harvard professors, you're an imperialist. Hell of a world we live in, ain't it?

Disclaimer: my father was a US vice-consul in the Dominican Republic. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
That's "traditional" in audio software. In 2D graphics software, radial manipulation is common. And don't forget the wonky 3D software modes where you just wiggle the mouse until something sort of rotates. Those are my favorite.
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I'm pretty sure DeviantArt is.
Well no, to be honest, I certainly don't do that. If I am at say, Moscone Center or a Wal-mart or a low-rent casino, and a toilet is clogged with shit, I don't go wandering around to hunt down a maintenance man and report it to him. I just use another stall.

Now, if it was instead the toilet at a restaurant or other venue that I frequent, where I am welcomed and treated with respect, then of course I would alert the staff to their problem.

But a developer's relationship with Apple is much more the former than the latter. (I file really awesome bug reports for other software I use, like OmniGraffle or Arq.)

It's also important to note that I didn't begin with this attitude; I ended up with it after filing dozens of detailed Radar bugs over the years, and evaluating how shitty the response from Apple is.

As others have pointed out, if a developer spends 5+ hours isolating a crippling bug in your shit[1], and filing it with a repro case[2], and you don't even have the courtesy to let them follow changes to the bug when it's marked as a duplicate, then well... you're kind of a rude and arrogant asshole. So developers become less likely to keep performing this service for you... unless they really really really want the bug fixed.

[1]http://masonmark.com/the-xcode-fairy

[2]https://github.com/masonmark/XcodeCorruptOnOpenBugDemo
All of these "coders must learn design" articles ignore the fact that most programmers are not web developers and that sizable chinks of the industry simply never touch frontend code at all.

For a lot of developers there is little career incentive to develop design skills.
Kind of ... the focus has to be on the number before the mousewheel works though: http://jsfiddle.net/dmethvin/gDfcY/
Which of the existing coroutine implementations have you tried, and what did you dislike about it?
The only time I enjoyed using software dial-knobs was when I had a hardware controller to tweak them with.

In that situation having the visuals match is handy to avoid dissonance.

In general, I dislike software knobs. They're an example of skeuomorphism that could be done much better.
It’s a much nicer input mechanism to just click and drag left/right or up/down, or to use a scroll wheel (or trackpad scrolling).

What distinguishes a physical knob from a physical slider is that the knob affords relative movements, rather than absolute ones: you turn the knob with the same motion from every starting setting and your hand stays in the same place, whereas a slider has a distinct physical position corresponding to each setting. This allows control of knobs at various scales, from careful adjustments (“fine tuning”) up through fast dramatic changes. [And this is why the iPod wheel was such an ingenious input device.] Sometimes you want one type of control, and sometimes you want the other.

This particular software implementation, however, has the interface characteristics of a physical slider, not a physical knob. The visual display of these knobs is probably alright for some uses though, if you swapped out the mouse logic.

I really wish that browsers would get around to implementing mouse lock, so that it would be possible to construct interface widgets where a click/drag could perform some action without necessarily moving the pointer around the screen. http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/pointerlock/raw-file/default/index.htm...

Edit: to answer your question, I think relative adjustments are often appropriate in tools for picking or adjusting values, for everything from scrolling down a long page (witness the popularity of scroll wheels over clicking on scrollbars) to modifying parameters in interactive diagrams, to changing color or line width in vector drawing tools, &c. Physical examples of knobs are common: toaster settings, old manual camera controls, radio tuners, car steering wheels, pedals on a bike, fishing reels, hand drills, clocks & timers, and so on. Relative controls are underused in software, and I think showing them visually as knobs can be helpful in some cases, though getting the implementation details right is important.
> I think one of the questions you have to ask yourself is whether your primary responsibility to protect the interests of your real users (the non-patent trolls) or to take a stand against people you don't like.

Using the phrase "primary responsibility" doesn't change the fact that helping unethical people do unethical things puts evil into the world. It sounds like you (and Less Annoying) are subconsciously reasoning with the goal of never being held responsible for evil. That's different from minimizing evil.

A clearer way to make your case would be to say that taking a stand is too expensive (vs not-my-problem.) Maybe the company's resources are better spent assisting ethical customers. Maybe this assistance yields more revenue, further increasing the ability to assist ethical customers. Now you have an exponential growth rate of net good, so you have a big-O notation argument for not policing evil. (... actually, exponential growth rates of small business revenue are really sigmoidal, not exponential, so it will probably be better to switch back to thinking about ethics when you approach market saturation)

I don't feel like I owe sympathy to people who are concerned with culpability rather than with utility, and I doubt you do either.
The fact that you are suggesting that the U.S. should fight to maintain its deficit. You seem to be confused.
With the new design I have issue reading the light gray text on the white background. It looks like the line weight is set too thin.. at least this is on Chrome & FF11 on Ubuntu 11.10
Pharmacists are state licensed, and granted special privileges based on that license; they don't get to be the final say about what they will or won't do.

I don't see a problem with the other three. In fact, the third I actively encourage.
I for one am glad to see Honduras on the news for something positive. In it's current state Honduras will continue to spiral down as everyone becomes poorer and the government becomes even less dependable. I think that actually getting giving free enterprise more freedom is the way to go to actually start generating wealth and stop poverty. Hopefully the idea will get somewhere and will continue to be supported by the governments to come.
Business models are very well defined. The online business models are product/service sales, subscription, retail, commission, advertising and digital licensing.

The pitch types listed are a good start, but are neither mutually exclusive, nor wholly exhaustive.
That's a great point that I hadn't considered. However, backend code does affect user experience, and having an understanding of design goals will help vet features and decisions.
so if my math is right approx 25 req/sec put paid to it. interesting. Perhaps I should re-think inlining js and css on landing pages.
> ... how could it possibly be solved by creating an area that is dominated by a board of a few wealthy people ...

Some wealthy people want to tax a million prosperous citizens, not rule a million peasants. Not only do you get richer that way, it is safer.
Could I get in on the beta as well? Thanks.
As someone wanting to be better versed in business models, can you point our a resource that provides a clear taxonomy?
Thanks so much Johnny! I've learned a ton from HN and try my best to share useful things with the community. Just signed up for the festivalist newsletter too, looks like an awesome project.
It's part of the original constitution: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxing_and_Spending_Clause

Copyright is a few clauses down (8): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause
Was Sphinx too much of a PITA to make those workable before?
How Henry Ford taught us everything we don't know about mobile (yet)
:has has been a part of jquery for forever. XPath has axis which allows similar expressive powers.

As noted elsewhere in the comments, this has been long (a decade plus) planned for "some future CSS" by editors and contributors. It didn't make the cut for selectors level 3 for reasons discussed in other comments here. It is currently part of 4 in potentially modified (and less powerful) form.

Personally, I find myself wanting it all the time. I frequently find myself littering HTML with (otherwise nonsensical) classes to achieve the sorts of things that this makes easy.
Sure, I can speculate:

They could very well be Factoring[1].

Since the Kickstarter payout is pretty much guaranteed at such-and-such date, they could quite easily "unlock" (factor) some of their future Accounts Receivable for a small percentage discount.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoring_(finance)
Mark Cuban is a clueless publicity whore. But he does have a lot of marketing ability because of his fame. There is a pervasive misconception that if somebody is wealthy, then whatever they say is right, regardless of their domain expertise. You can tell by some of the questions he asks that he has no clue what he is talking about. Put him in a room of PE analysts and he'd get eaten alive.

But the reality is that most people who go on the show need sales, and having Mark Cuban willing to advertise for you on Twitter and such is very valuable for a growing business. His "expertise" is of little to no value. I certainly agree with you there.
I'd love to provide those, but they are few and far between. It would probably take me 2x longer to write this post if I had to unearth slide decks or videos for each pitch type. Hopefully the "what it sounds like" is enough to get you started.
The article (and much of the case so far) is talking about copyright, not patents.

There was no need for an amendment, because patents & copyrights are in the constitution itself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause
What had me outraged was not the terms, but that google wasn't following them. They said to use the name most people knew you by in real life, and proceeded to ban people for doing so. They wouldn't accept extensive documentation of names, only government IDs. (They also accepted blatant photoshops of government IDs.)
Yes there has been lots of bike shedding. A lot of people, myself included, have lobbied that ! in CSS is already an abomination (because in normal programming it generally means 'not').

Currently the discussions/draft/etc don't match or agree on what the syntax or capabilities will be.

Our :-hitch-has is based on the original :has proposal and the existing implementation in jQuery as we feel that this is the best (and clearly the most powerful since it allows you to express more).
Agreed. A nice "bookmark" feature. I think a book would be a great affordance for bookmark but that seems to be taken already by "new repository"
Assuming that the Pebble will cost $150 once (if) it becomes available for retail, and factoring in the fact that some of these watches might never actually ship, I'd rather invest an extra $40 once the watch comes out and I know the quality rather than risk $115 now to save $40.
Ask HN: I'm interning in SF this summer. What do I need?
As the title reads, I'm interning at a small YC-funded startup this summer, and I really need to know what I need!

I have never been to San Francisco before, but I have however been to the US (New York, Florida, Miami).

I really need to know the best way of dealing with various issues that I feel I might encounter.

I plan on getting an AT&T sim to pop into my iPhone to use whilst I'm out there for cheap communication. Is this a good idea?

What is the best way to manage my money? I'm guessing I can't open a bank account over there without a permanent residence, but I really don't want to have to pay to withdraw money from my UK based bank account. How can I achieve this?

Is transport between Palo Alto and SF center good? Is it affordable?

If you have any (yes, I mean any) advice you'd like to give me, I'd really, really appreciate it.

Thanks a lot guys!

jlt
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Not even then. Touch interfaces pay no attention to the rotation of a single point, so this would require two fingers, and if even then, you couldn't rotate it more than 180 degrees (try it without lifting up your hand). Scrollbars seem to win as far as touchscreens are concerned. Also, it's dependent on the visual indicator. For example, to set something at 50%, you need to move the visual indicator to the 50% mark. So, you'd need to first determine whether the indicator is clockwise to the mark, or counterclockwise, and rotate in reverse accordingly. Contrast that with a slider - if you want it at 50%, no problem, just put your finger at the 50% mark and you're done - muscle memory can help with this.
The police might have thought that Sparkfun only sold credit card skimming machines. Hence asking for "all orders" doesn't sound as bad if you consider that they might be thinking that's only those parts.

This matches up with reality since they seem happen when Sparkfun talks to them and they agree to only get the details for that parts.
All of these "coders must learn design" articles

This isn't one of those. It's a "designers should learn to code" article. Which is interesting since I generally find that there are more developers interested in design, than designers interested in code.

In fact I asked HN about this earlier today! (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3949467)
If there was a generic utpclient/utpserver pair of applications that I could use to proxy non-uTP applications, as there is with CCP, I'd try using uTP/LEDBAT. But to my knowledge, there isn't.
Yeah, it's kind of a bad example because it's too extreme. But I think the point still holds, and I wasn't able to come up with a better example of something I have the power, but not the right, to do.
This solution doesn't work. This has a overlapping shadow issue right around where the arrow pops out of the box. It doesn't look as obvious on that tiny shadow you have, on wider shadows it is glaringly obvious and looks terrible.
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Completely agree, but I think the solution is simpler: just like a physical knob, don't let it cross over from 100 to 0 and back. If it's 100, you need to drag it back around the centre to get to 0.
ditto
- love it
- wish there were more languages (I vote Python & ObjC)
My old boss's boss once told our team that he had a dream... that on really high traffic days, our site was so well tuned, all we did was sit back and turn knobs and smoke cigars. This combined with the right backend tools brings that closer to reality. (Because i'm way too lazy to program a real graphical interface)