skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually they don't. That SEC document came out in 2011. Auditors are continuing to find issues:

http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2012/04/02/groupon-ouch/

From the article:

The surprise announcement no doubt raised new alarm bells for investors and analysts. The company has already changed how it counts revenue and has a history of using unconventional accounting metrics to value its business.

But the latest accounting issues — which reflect how the company failed to set aside enough money for customer refunds — occur as the company is trying to gain trust and confidence from investors and analysts.
It would be a very good addition to Bret Victor's reactive document widgets.
> 7. Complete credit card numbers used on Order(s)

Can you fail PCI compliance if you're able and do this? What if you use a third party system such as Stripe where you have no access to the full credit card number?
Curious that in an effort to combat credit card skimming, the cops are requesting SparkFun to print out full credit card information for thousands of innocent parties.
Beautiful, but, when is this ever the best UX for a control (outside of sound mixers and sequencers)?

(I'm expecting/hoping to get schooled on this.)
The prudent approach to fad investments is to ignore them, instead find things which are overlooked in the fad, hence undervalued, and put your money in them. I'd be surprised if Buffet was doing anything much different. And, by definition, no one can 'get the timing right' in bubbles, some are lucky, most aren't.
It's a long way from the cell culture to the human being when it comes to pharmaceutical effects. That is one of the main reasons it costs so much to develop new drugs--most compounds that produce promising effects in vitro are indistinguishable from placebo during human trials (if they even get that far).

The pharmaceutical industry actually tested BPA as an estrogen replacement decades ago, and did not adopt it because BPA did not produce measurable results. Today most of the BPA warnings are based on extrapolations from cell cultures. But based on the history of drug development such extrapolations are rarely valid. This is why U.S. regulatory agencies have not banned BPA; there just hasn't any solid evidence yet that BPA harms humans at the incidental levels of exposure most people experience.
Huh? Presence of parentheses != s expressions. For starters, the expression "foo" AND "bar" is valid, but not an s expression.
Codeshelver looks nice. I have been using Gitmarks for a while and its amazing.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dbjampjhnhcfjgcapn...
Qt Creator 2.5.0 released
How To Identify Talent
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I implemented something like this for my 'Clock' iOS app about 6 months ago.

Check out:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/clock-free/id497161475?mt=8
and double tap to set the alarm using this UI metaphor.

The takeaway for me was that UIWebView is still too unresponsive to handle touch events, so although the app uses HTML5, the touch event handling had to be implemented in ObC.
+1 on the font size - that's a big problem in particular if you happen to have a large screen.

But forcing everything into the same font seems a bit excessive; I've actually seen a couple of sites make really nice use of fonts, and you can still install an extension that turns your page into an "easy reading" mode on a key press.

What do you do about fixed width vs proportional fonts?
This site lets you track the funding progress of Kickstarter projects:

http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper-wa...
Spinto CMS
Knobs are the primary interface in many live music controllers. Check out Ableton live, or the evolution uc-33 to see how they are commonly used. Would be very neat for a web based controller.

EDIT: Oops, I guess I can't read
Yes, It is a mix of "Scarcity", "Limited-duration" and "social Proof".

http://persuasive-patterns.com/patterns/scarcity

http://persuasive-patterns.com/patterns/Limited-duration

http://persuasive-patterns.com/patterns/social-proof
Actually the title attribute is used to annoy users who have their mouse cursor on the page by displaying exactly the same text again that's already in the link or para.

At least in 90% of the cases I've seen it used, probably by some overzealous OCD person wanting to fill in _all_ the attributes.
I'd actually say this is an example of the "scarcity effect."

http://www.neurosciencemarketing.com/blog/articles/scarcity-...

WORCHEL, LEE, AND ADEWOLE (1975) asked people to rate chocolate chip cookies. They put 10 cookies in one jar and two of the same cookies in another jar. The cookies from the two-cookie jar received higher ratings—even though the cookies were exactly the same! Not only that, but if there were a lot of cookies in the jar, and then a short time later most of the cookies were gone, the cookies that were left received an even higher rating than cookies that were in a jar where the number of cookies didn’t change. [From Neuro Web Design by Susan Weinschenck.]
In general this is probably more useful for touch devices--the paradigm of a knob is much more realistic when you're using your fingers. Though it would make a nice progress indicator regardless of touch.
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Maybe the mousewheel can be put to use here?

http://archive.plugins.jquery.com/project/mousewheel (untested)
Very slick looking stuff man. If I could suggest something, it would be to give an option to show the data display numbers outside of the circle, or give an option to call a callback handler when the data changes. This way a finger motion adjusts the knob, and the data display is not obscured. Good stuff.
Alternate title: Kickstarter raises $500K in Pebble funding round
It could also be used as a percentage indicator for instance a round a persons picture in the middle.
But should it have?
Introducing the App Center
I think we need to distinguish between the concept of "repairable" vs. "user repairable." An iMac hard drive is designed to be very repairable; but it's not designed to be easily user-repairable.
I think Less Annoying was most interested in making an easy rule for themselves to follow, in the expectation that they'd have to make similar decisions in the future. "Is it legal," they decided, is easier to answer than "is it unethical." If they decided in the other direction, they'd have to evaluate the ethics of each of their customers. This, in their opinion, would drain their resources. If they're right, they made a decision that increases their ability to assist their ethical customers in doing good. So the net effect of the decision to draw the line at legality might still be positive from a preference-utility point of view.

It's not clear that this is the thinking they were using, and it's a false dichotomy. There might be any number of easy rules to follow that do a better job of approximating ethical judgement than "is it legal." A possible reason not to try for one of these might be because it's impractical. Less Annoying employees are people, and people tend to have irrationally-strongly-held beliefs about ethics. They are in the habit of not questioning the law or other peoples' religions, but this would step outside those boundaries. You end up with a company full of people who think it's their duty to force the company's ethics to be consistent with their own.
The link got about 13000 hits so far, thereof about 5000 hits with a
referrer value containing "ycombinator". But as only 3481 hits occured
during the 3 days before it was posted on HN, I guess that actually
about 9000 hits are due to HN.

I think the hardware platform is not really interesting, as the DDOS was
only caused by the worker pool of Apache2 being too small. Each hit of
the site creates about 30 additional request for css,js,png and gif
files. So 9000 hits in 3h mean something like 270.000 requests in 3h.
Apparently this was too much for 50 workers.
I'm glad you commented on this. This entire post is very timely, but I was just thinking about what to do if multiple archetype's apply to you. I'm guessing traction/revenue is almost always going to trump the others, but the idea of mixing a few of them together (without it becoming too confusing) seems like the better strategy?
From the report: "The terms “high-speed connections” and “broadband connections” are synonyms in this report" and defines them as 200kbps+.

We could let this devolve into a semantic argument about "broadband," "real broadband," etc. but what would be the point?

My point is that according to that 2008 FCC report, 99.7% of US zipcodes have a choice of 200kbps+ internet provider, and most have even better. This doesn't include any of the networks that have been built out since 2008, like the 4G 6Mbps network I'm using right now.

It's simply not true that "very few homes" only have high-speed internet through a cable or telephone company.
Facebook launching an app store
I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at here. Should we stop selling Arduinos because they can be programmed for nefarious purposes, in addition to lowering the barrier to entry for embedded electronics in the classroom? How about spools of wire because wire can be made a part of something far more sinister than we can imagine? Should Apple stop selling the iPhone because it's also bluetooth-enabled?

I understand where you're coming from, but think it's entirely ungrounded in this case. We actively work with the DHS on export control. There is a very real risk involved in selling the products we do, but I don't think that should stop us from our goal of education and - right there at the bottom of every page on our site - sharing ingenuity.
Really nice. I'd make one change if I had the time to fork it myself... allow vertical and/or horizontal mouse movement to control the slider in addition to circular movement. In some cases (such as time-based scrubbing), having the control spin one or more times by moving the mouse across the window is easier than trying to adjust it by circling.
Welcome to the real world -- it's kinda messy but the booze helps you get used to it.

Personally, I prefer a bad decision based on reason than a good one based on emotion. So you get an informal +1 in my book.

Also, it might help you (and apparently a lot of posters) to develop multiple means to achieve desired ends. Does everyone with whom one disagrees deserve the banhammer?

Certain groups have darkened and stained the pages of history with their rigid ways of dealing with undesirables. Divide the world into black and white at your own peril.
Does it matter if they're free if you don't like them?
Ha, whoops, you're right. Ironically, I jumped to assume this because internally the "structured search" api was in fact s-expression based (at least as of a couple years ago). Looks like they made it infix for the public api? WTH
Not designers. Not coders. Just builders.
A lightweight database for JSON documents exposed through HTTP
Neither credit card numbers nor IP addresses were included because we don’t retain that information for our own protection as an organization.

In general, you can not be compelled to produce something which you do not have. This is why you see legislation proposed with mandatory retention policies for various businesses.
They're for GitHub use only.
> Am I reading this correctly that then these 20 people have their info in the public record after this trial closes?

Nope. The subpoena is in the public record. The data SparkFun sent in response to the subpoena is not in the public record. It will just go to the investigators who are trying to track down the credit card thieves.

If the investigation leads to someone being charged with a crime, and that leads to a trial, the proceedings of that trial will be in the public record, but there would be no reason for the information for the customers NOT charged with the crime to be entered into the record at that trial.

I doubt that anyone will be harassed over this, unless we use a very loose definition of harassment. Most likely the investigators will take the list of customers, look up these people to see if any of them have a record of prior criminal activity, and concentrate on those.

If they do question the rest, mostly likely the investigators will simply ask them what they purchased the board for. The customer will then enthusiastically launch into a description of the neat gadget they built and insist on showing it to the investigator and explaining in excruciating detail exactly how it works. The investigator will see the SparkFun board, see that the device is obviously not a credit card scanner, and try to figure out how to escape the enthusiastic hobbyist without being rude to him.
Familiar with the term, but what I don't know is if a similar move on their part today would work, do you have any insights into that?

Argentina recently nationalized a lot of their energy infrastructure and its pissed off some big oil folks but while in the past they might start up a guerilla army to cause trouble I haven't seen that so far. And of course in terms of economies Argentina is way above Honduras so I get that it isn't a fair comparison. But without first hand knowledge our sources I struggle to reason about the success chances for Honduras' efforts beyond some basic human action / reaction models.
I connected my account and it said the party was full and they weren't letting more people in. I'm not sure what the point of that was.
seriously? i personally think this is an enormously exciting space to watch people explore, and i'm glad that the field seems to be enjoying a renaissance of sorts at the moment. there are a lot of powerful features that modern languages have developed, and if some of them can be brought to the C world without sacrificing the low-level features that systems programmers need, it will benefit everyone.
German universities are financed by the states. You probably won't find many good operations people or programmers working for that little money.
Sorry to be pedantic but you made a common mistake that always bothers me. Don't say "literally miss the wagon" when you mean a figurative wagon.

Not attacking you or anything. Just trying to help.
I was in the same situation, my girlfriend and I preferred a less urban place. We ended up living in Campbell (I used the VTA light rail + Caltrain to get to work). We looked at some places in Cupertino and Palo Alto, but they were too pricey.

I'd recommend Campbell or Mountain View. Both have VTA light rail stops which will get you to Cupertino or San Jose. If you live in Campbell, you can make a transfer at downtown San Jose to get on the Caltrain. It's almost an hour to get to Palo Alto or 1.5 hours to get to SF.

Mountain View has Hacker Dojo and a large downtown. Campbell has NSCoder nights for Cocoa devs, but that's all I'm aware of. My girlfriend loved their farmer's market every Sunday.

About cars, we still needed one living in Campbell. Public transportation won't get you everywhere. On the bright side, we were able to share just one.

EDIT: I forgot to mention, Sunnyvale and Milpitas are also affordable with light rail stations. Although Milpitas is right next to a dump, so some people have a tough time living there during summer.
What about shiv or boilerplate?
The First Amendment only protects freedom of speech from government interference. On your private property you are free to limit speech as you see fit, unless state or local laws have broadened free speech rights to work against private actors.

So unless the latter exception applies, your thought experiment is broken early in the chain. You are free to apply your own free speech limitations as long as you are within the bound of other laws, e.g. you're not discriminating in some other way that is illegal.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._Ro...
In Las Vegas? What is this the 80s or 90s again? What were they thinking. They should have kept it in seattle and use it as a recruiting relocation opportunity, or in SV to maximize participation.
I'd like to see something similar to Ohloh's "Uses This" feature.
Audio software made a bit of mess with the whole knob vs. slider thing. Digidesign released several products that used their linear fader code, but they only changed the graphics -- not the mouse code! Yup, you'd move up or down and the thing would randomly turn clockwise or counterclockwise.

Somehow this became a standard.

20 years of customer confusion and complaints yields this advice: there are at least three common modes for interacting. 1) up/down | left/right, 2) radial (follow the mouse pointer) and 3) relative radial (follow the pointer, but use it as an an offset in degrees of the original position).

The latter is useful for something like a volume control (or any real-world control, really). Otherwise one wrong click and you're at max.

In each mode you want both a linear and logarithmic scaling option. Otherwise you have the "soundblaster volume" problem where all the range is between 0 and 30, and 31 to 100 is largely ornamental.

There's a bonus mode using the number in the middle as a target. If you click and drag on that, you get the up/down mode even if the outside zone is normally radial. This guarantees that nobody is happy and seems to be the alternate standard in much audio software.

Click to activate THEN mousewheel to increment/decrement (again, using the linear or log scaling) is a sane compromise.
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If CSS and browsers weren't so broken and there was a convenient, semantic alternative, I'm sure github would have used that instead. Unfortunately icon fonts are one of the most convenient and compatible 'hacks' to render vector icons in the current climate.

In a perfect world you'd be right, or perhaps even in a world where IE hadn't held the entire Internet back 10 years.
>So not to sound like a complete ass, here's what I would've used instead - a gear for preferences, a "power off/on" symbol for logout, a simple blank page with a plus sign for "new", some sort of inbox or even an envelope for "notifications". Just keep it simple and don't overthink

Great point, especially about using + for new. They don't need to abstract the concept of a repository, they just need to abstract the concept of the Create/New action.

Their users will of course know it means to create a new repository, rather than a MS Word Document, email, sandwich, or whatever, simply based on context.

They've gotten into their heads that they need to create a new design language for version control concepts. And perhaps that's true for the Fork and Merge buttons, which are actions unique to version control, but not for everything. Create, Logoff, Notifications, etc. are not unique to version control at all. Just reuse what everyone is familiar with for those.
The full text capability itself is great to have added, no more rolling our own indices / stemmers and taking StringListProperty to the max and using hacks with parent keys[1].

That said, bummed that the compound filtering expressions are apparently not powerful enough to find ranges [2], and therefor filter based on location. Sigh, guess we're still stuck with geoboxes for a while longer.

[1] http://www.billkatz.com/2009/6/Simple-Full-Text-Search-for-A...

[2] http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=72...
Orangutans use an iPad
Car drivers have come to expect a certain level of convenience when fueling their vehicles. The primary difficulty in the widespread adoption of electric cars is that this level of convenience is being reduced([1]). These stations are an interesting experiment in reducing the inconvenience, but it will be really hard for them to reach the critical mass.

[1] Prices will come down with purely with economies of scale. This can be enhanced through government intervention with things like higher car taxes, parking, etc for non-electric
Maybe what we're in isn't a funding bubble, but a trust bubble?

Edit: I don't mean to say that Pebble will not deliver, and in fact I think they will, but at some point one of these high-profile kickstarters is going to fail to deliver (possibly at no fault of their own) and that is going to be unfortunate for everyone involved, and will probably cause a big stir. Hopefully Kickstarter handles it well.
Did the watchers and forks buttons also change?

They just to just be an icon and a number, now I see an icon/text button. Also, I can't see a list of watchers/forks by clicking on them now.
Its really strange, I get annoyed each time I put on a dvd for my son. If it at least could remember that I've seen the warnings and the spinning universal 100 times before.

I wrote a blog post in frustration a while back, wishing we would get cookies in the dvd to avoid that. :)
http://text.krona.tm/post/11012559642/bring-cookies-from-the...
It should be but

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svg#Support_for_SVG_in_web_brow...
Having one's private information placed into (assuredly sealed) evidence in a criminal trial is hardly "harassment". This is what subpoenas are for: evidence exists that might constitute proof of a crime, and courts have (and have always had) the authority to demand its production. There's nothing unique here. If these were 20 paper records from a vacuum tube supplier in 1939, surely the court would have requested (and gotten) the same thing.
True, but its very rare that an institution subscribes on a journal-by-journal basis. The pricing structure makes this approach ridiculously expensive and impractical. The price of a dozen or two a la carte journals will usually cost as much as a package of all the journals in that subject area (including the ones you want specifically). Some journals, like the journal Nature, are only available when you buy a massively expensive package. Individual journal subscriptions also often come in packages grouped by years; you have to buy a different set if you want a set of volumes from 1890-1940, 1940-1990 or a package that sunsets all volumes over 10 years prior.

This isn't as much a problem when you back subscription packages. The downside of purchasing this way is that when your subscription lapses, you lose all the access you had (since you don't 'own' it). Were you to go the a la carte method, you 'own' them but have to pay a $100+ 'hosting fee', per journal on a yearly basis.

The ridiculous prices to subscribe to a la carte journals is one of the primary problems, and the biggest gun that he publishers have to our head.
They take up less room than a slider. And certain controls are commonly radial: dimmers, volume dials, focus. Sometimes it just feels right.
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My question is, will they actually be able to meet anyones expectations?
The issue is that demand to SMS is pretty inflexible, whereas demand for wherever the cost is really coming from probably is not.

The Telcos are using SMS money to subsidize more expensive parts of the business that people will probably opt out of if they were charged the full amount.

I don't know enough to say what those are, but you're right, the SMS money probably isn't all profit. Right-pricing SMS will probably mean that some other part of the business would be cut back (unfortunately R&D is often a victim).

When the current shareholders are pitted against the future shareholders, the future shareholders often lose.
FSF statement on jury's partial verdict in Oracle v Google
I think you're a bit too hung up on the -isms here. Libertarianism! Colonialism! I better take my place on the line in defense of my -ism!

The comments I saw were providing context on how Honduras is different than other places where the economic development zone city idea worked.

Personally, I'd be most worried that the city can't really deliver on it's supposed guarantee of freedom from the surrounding climate. There was a coup there a few years ago, laws don't stop armed forces. Investors know this and might not invest.

On the other hand, gotta try something.
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