skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Oatmeal responds to "Tesla wasn't God and Thomas Edison wasn't the Devil"
I would venture a similar guess. I haven't listened to The Talk Show, but I did listen to The Critical Path with Horace Dedieu for its first few months and based on that I would say that Benjamin isn't even that great of a guide -- I often found his questions and reactions to Dedieu to be naive or uninformed, which eventually irritated me out of listening. His voice is nice to listen to, but I'm not terribly interested in what he has to say.
People come to hackathons for many reasons. Prize money for an api at a hackathon is just one way to spend your marketing dollars as a company. On the receiving end, some people try to make a living of winning prizes at hackathons, or at least some serious beer money.
Funny how most git users out there (at least according to the git user's survery 2011 [1]) use Linux, yet github seems to go out of its way not to build a tool for its majority of users. I would also go as far as to extrapolate and state that most github users are Linux users (which is true for every programmer I know on github).

Would it have been that hard to just use Qt and build a cross platform tool? Or is that not hipster-friendly enough?

I guess it's cool to profit, not that cool to give back. I wouldn't use their tool anyway but I think they're assholes on this one.

[1] https://www.survs.com/results/Q5CA9SKQ/P7DE07F0PL
Only I don't want my text to be "strong", I want it to be bold, and I don't want my italicized items to me "emphasized", I bloody want them in italics.

I don't consider my bolds and italics to be mere style and much less I consider them mere suggestions.

Bold and italic are typographic conventions of author _intent_ (that is: semantics) with centuries of use. I put them there in purpose, and I don't want them converted to anything else via styling. Sure, someone can style "b" as "purple text with a yellow dotted underline", but I might as well make my _actual_ intention clear.

Outside of its proper context, "semantic" is just a BS notion that got popular with designers and co because it sounds sophisticated, giving rise to inane arguments similar to how many angels fit in the head of a needle.
Carsabi Opens Access To Car Data (Apparently Green Cars Are Cheaper?)
No apology needed! I appreciate your pointing out that the intent of my comment was unclear. That is valuable feedback indeed.
Its mostly been a twitter based phenom.

http://twitter.com/#!/Mike_FTW

Check out the tweets from May 19 when it seemed to have blown up. Gruber's twitter feed seems more silent.
LinkedIn users actually have money, though.
I know what MHL is. I suspect that the majority of HN reader know what it is. It doesn't change the fact that the Apple 30 pin dock connected offers Apple a greater scope in terms of future proofing that a potentially shortsighted standard.

As to the votes, I personally don't have the karma to do it and wouldn't if I did. I guess they are coming because of the petulant and rude tone of your comments.
> If everything you've written is useless, showing it off is not going to help you.

I agree, but how else does one apply to a job that __requires__ a Github-like hyperlink?
HTML 5 - an introduction of the new web language (online course)
17 free videos - In this course we will see the HTML 5. This new version of HTML is not standardized yet. It is supported in some browsers like Firefox and Opera. Although the specification is not locked down yet, the browser support is mature enough to experiment with its features.
The Hottest Thing in Startups? Babies (A founder-father's homebirth story)
How about neither, and just try to comprehend that tables are a common use case that if we haven't perfected yet in HTML editors it's web programmers/standards' fault and not Word's?
In areas of tort liability, it's routine for there to be a determination that party A is liable for X%, B is liable for Y%, etc..

Historically, I don't think this would come up as much in copyright law. General torts often involve a confluence of events triggered by multiple actors, whereas copyright violations have usually been clearly the act of a single person or entity, so I'm not sure there's much case law around this.
How are you defining bloat? Base install size? RAM usage? Startup speed? System responsiveness? Pre-installed applications?
tl;dr Guy upset with the tiny snippet of himself on 60 minutes and how it made a false claim about what he was teaching.
An electronic nose to sniff out disease - video
One of my hero's and closest friends is deaf -- my younger brother. This is a wonderful article. Honest and sincere. Very cool of your founders to let you post this.

Seeing what life is like from the techie side of the road as a deaf man is a great reminder to work more collaboratively with our colleagues whether they are deaf, or any other cool things that make them unique. e.g. English as a 2nd or 3rd language. etc.

Wishing you the best of luck.
That might be the case had the author not used words like lie and slander, which are big charges. Similar to plagiarizing in an educational context, you don't ring that bell unless you know exactly what it means.
@Amyjane made some, @Marcoarment retweeted a bunch, and Gruber has been making passive-aggressive posts to Daring Fireball.
This page seems to indicate that both are coming May 24.

http://panic.com/coda/comingsoon.html

"Coda 2 and Diet Coda
will be available May 24, 2012."
Android outsold iPhone for the first time in 2010 at which time the iPhone had been out for 3 years. In 2012 they sold 50% more phones in 2012 which while significant is hardly the type of dominate market position your talking about. If you look at the iPhone growth in the US it's mostly a question of increasing the number of carriers vs increasing the market share at any one carrier, so no Google had little impact on promoting iPhone sales.
as long as enough investors think it's worth 100 billion. . .

. . . for now, and continue to increase their estimation of the company's worth in the future.

That's a key caveat. The easiest way to get hurt by an overvaluation is to conflate what people are valuing something at right now with what it's actually worth. Overvaluations and undervaluations both tend to regress back toward a fair valuation over the long haul. Even poor valuations that most everyone agrees with for the moment. People's opinions can and will change.
Bad News: The BRICs Might Be Hitting A Wall
Someday History will look upon us, destroying one man's life because he shared a bunch of stupid songs and will judge intellectual "property" as one of the most awful, destructive and evil bad ideas of humankind.
> They have a big sign on the counter saying "please like us on facebook" and when you buy a sandwich the staff ask you if you are on facebook.

Personally, I dislike this sort of approach. If I need to like something to get something in return (sometimes a coupon or a download), I usually un-like the thing immediately thereafter and try to scrub all traces of it from my wall.

Yes, this is going against the spirit of the exchange, but it's my FB account (in as much as I can say it is), not yours.
Yeah, I'm actually in the process of switching to Python/Django from Rails, so its great to hear how well it scales.
I would agree with you if these were complimentary skills we're talking about. However, programming and UX design are almost contradictory.

For programming, you need a mathematical inclination, attention to detail, willingness to sit down and focus on one concrete task at a time, etc. For UX (and any kind of other) design, you need more an ability to create art - paint with broad strokes, look at the big picture, etc.

This is my opinion, YMMV, feel free to disagree, etc
My boss is a workaholic. I didn't think much of it at first. It's his company, I understand why he's putting so much effort into it.

But it didn't take too long to start feeling the pressure from everyone to put in crazy hours like he is.. even if he's the sole owner and no one else but him will profit from it directly.
I used nmap a lot during the 2.5 days (c. 2001), and was even a (very occasional) contributor as they were porting to Windows. I can safely say I have 0 idea how 90% of its functionality works anymore - and I think that's a testament to how far the project has come.

It was best of breed then, and is up there with the most successful open source projects - certainly in the security space, but maybe even anywhere.

Hats off to Fyodor and the rest of the team. This looks like really excellent work.
Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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Seems to be running JSP & Struts and includes a standalone Tomcat server. (From looking in the tar)
Please, please don't name your installer 'setup.exe'

When I browse to my downloads folder, the most frustrating thing in the world is trying to figure out where 'setup.exe' came from.
Why you should use Heroku for your next start-up
LOVE this. Homebirth is so scary until you learn more about it. Then the opposite becomes true.
This seems cool, but as someone who has never seen emberjs before, the "js" part of the "getting started with emberjs is easy" was not very clear.

It's clearly some model/controller logic, but what is ArrayController? And how is the view chosen?

Just some feedback from fresh eyes
Life-hacks to get healthier & fitter without actually exercising
Contrast with Android where every device is a developer device - one tickbox in the settings is all that is required. No accounts, registration, handing over money, authorizing devices etc (yes I'm looking at you Apple).
I'm assuming this is hyperbole, since that actually turns out to be like a question answered every 6 seconds -- but what kind of questions were you answering in volume like that? I'm curious because it seems to have had such a large impact on your bottom line.
ChrisFornof: What is the normal workflow after filling the dev kit application form? I got redirected to the homepage with no confirmation step or email. I wouldn't want to double-apply.
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This phenomenon was first observed by Aristotle and named after Erasto Mpemba. The Mpemba Effect. It is still unknown why sometimes hot water can freeze faster than cold water.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpemba_effect

A definitive answer would provide profound glimpses into subatomic particle theory and quantum mechanics of how heat travels from one particle to another.
> We already had.

This is one of those truisms that technologists love to repeat over and over again. "It already exists, so it is not revolutionary." I think it just a curse of the people working on the tech.

To technologists, the tech isn't that amazing or revolutionary. "We already had that 5 years ago!". What they miss, and will probably continue to miss as long as there is technology, is that what is amazing is making it available to everyone in an accessible format.

It's the go-to example, but that was the genius of Apple. Sure, all the tech was already there, but what was revolutionary was starting the path to putting a computer in every home.

A machine or piece of technology by itself isn't any more amazing than anything else. Having it available and easy to use for all of humanity is very revolutionary.
Design is a Job, Podcasting is a Bloodsport
No, you can't reliably calculate it forward or backwards. To figure out the offset for dates in the past, you'd have to store the list of when leap seconds are added. This system is hardly a "just the number of seconds since epoch", but now have a arbitrary data attached. The official group that figures out leap seconds can't predict things more than 6 months in advance. How are you going to figure out in advance what's going to happen in 2 years time?
The uniformity of buying recommendations makes this seemingly useless. I looked up 4 very different make and model combinations and every recommendation was "Buy a 2009-2011 for the best value"

But it's neat that greens are cheap.
Effective communication is about what people agree on. Government recognition is one avenue for that, but it often follows the populace rather than leading it.
Those look neat. Thanks for sharing.

Link to Parallax Robot Comparison Chart for reference: http://www.parallax.com/RobotComparisonChart/tabid/524/Defau...
Gamestop allegedly deceiving customers into signing up for digital subscription
I have no example of a skill that took "a lifetime to master" as I am only 28 years old and would not call myself a "master" of anything at this point. However, I can describe the last two projects I worked on.

One was implenting an image quality algorithm for a medical imaging system. I did not do this on my own, but I will wager that it was far more complex and involved than any UI code you last wrote. I had to understand the science behind the algorithm, implement it, and then make it fast (it is run on huge images).

My next project was optimizing a heap memory manager for the device which captures these images. Not PhD level physics here, but not trivial and not something I would expect a UX guy to do.

So yeah, I take a bit of offense when you lump all programmers into the same bucket. Not all programming is engineering IMO, and to compare writing a UI to writing a thread scheduler, a memory manager, a new programming language, etc. is just ridiculous.

I'm not saying that UI work is dumb simple. It is incredibly hard to get right, but that kind of complexity is not technical. It takes a certain kind of aptitude and knowledge to do work that is closer to the metal and closer to concepts taught in CS. Creating a UI is not CS, it is wiring up bits of code that other people wrote in a such a way to be useful to a non-programmer.

So yes, a UX guy could probably be writing his or her own UI's in about 6 months to a year. I would not hire this person into the group I work on because they will be overwhelmed by technical complexity that they simply won't be able to handle.
The 5 Most Important People for Entrepreneurs to Have on Their Side
From these figures they seem to burn over 100k per month on outsourced cloud services alone. Holy shit.
From a Facebook Founder, a Social Network for the Office
I'm curious as to why you're switching. Care to share? I'm a long-time Django guy who's just been thrown into some Rails projects so I am going to be learning it shortly.
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I found this profoundly depressing.

I'm also surprised by the number of crimes the author admits to committing.
Can someone describe emberjs in one line?

(Their description of a framework for making ambitious web apps is a bit vague imho and i don't want to spend 15 mins reading docs about something that may not be of any use to me at all.)
Looks nice, but it's pretty difficult to read that typeface on that dotted background, especially on Windows. Better on a Mac, but still not great.
I was sent to a result page that read, "Your developer application has been confirmed. Thanks for your interest in Leap."
Ambition: It’ll kill you, if you don’t kill it first
I was taken to a confirmation page that read, "Your developer application has been confirmed. Thanks for your interest in Leap."
Would have been a good idea to give more examples of how the guitar actually sounds. The vid at the end makes it sound like a $10 synth...
The Simple Gibbs example in Julia
Facebook was born in a university dorm room, not a university lab (or department lounge). Facebook is a great product, and has spawned some interesting technology created to solve a massive scaling problem, but what cause the scaling problem to begin with was a product created with a good intuition for what people love, built with some existing, not academic, technologies.
Look forward to upgrading my 5.21. Congrats on a new major release.
How does it work more precisely? For example, can it correctly detect strumming and flageolets?
"Google has been trying to diversify their business and create another significant revenue stream for years. No dice so far."

I look forward to seeing the next full quarterly results that include the new Google Drive & additional storage plans. It was such a big price increase from the old plans I would think there will be an impact even if sign up #s of paid plans were low.
Donning the 'Pink Collar': More Men Enter Fields Dominated by Women
More guides are in progress.
I'm talking about impact, not sales. I started off using sales as a measure of impact, so I can see where the misunderstanding came from. That's a possible measure of impact, but probably not useful here.

Android made it easy to make a good smartphone by removing the biggest hurdle. What matters in the history books is who had a lasting impact. Will the future look like Android where the basic software is free to duplicate and modify? Or will it look like Apple's tightly controlled system?

History doesn't seem to favor Apple's way of doing things. Apple's way can never create as diverse a market as Google's has.
Is it possible to get a view that shows average price AND the number of samples (maybe if you mouse over a column) at the same time? Or maybe some info about stuff like variance, stdev, median, etc?

Trying to figure out why green cars are cheaper:

It looks like green cars are mostly from 97 to 2003 in a roughly normal curve, while most other colors are exponential (so mostly from the last couple years instead, and dropping off dramatically once you reach 2005 and older). Not counting purple, which has 8 samples and is therefore mostly useless, hah.
Also:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/andrewdeagon/neckfx-do-i...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/conversationmedia/tabber...

http://www.musicalight.com/
It's a JavaScript MVC framework.
It's not a rigged demo. (I saw them film it.)
Tim Cook and Samsung CEO Choi Gee-sung Meeting Today to Discuss Patent Issues
Agreed! There are a few tools in the world that I love unreservedly, and nmap is one of them. (A couple of other networking ones are tcpdump, wireshark, and mtr.) It's one of those things where every key aspect has been thought through and polished so thoroughly that I want to send somebody a bouquet.
I really did enjoy using Coda when I was doing PHP work around 2008-2009 (got my company to buy me a copy). Now that I work primarily in Ruby and forced myself to learn Vim a few months ago, I can't ever imagine myself going back to Coda.

That said, it looks like they added a bunch of features I would have loved back then.
Ack, that music makes me feel like I just found a dark and dangerous bonus level in Mario.
Well, if an app author is going to go the extra mile and write a mechanism to complement apple's deficient review system, you can't really ask them to be neutral while doing so. Think about it for a second, how could they have done it differently? The only viable option is to remove the link to leaving a review after the positive feedback and that's removing functionality(If I found an app useful I want to help the developer by leaving a positive review). I can't really blame anyone for not adding a link to leaving a review after the user has given negative feedback, I definitely wouldn't to it.

Furthermore, I don't use iOS, but if review patterns are similar to those on Android(and I can't really see why they wouldn't be) then I can really see where the app's author is coming from. Most negative reviews I've seen(especially on actually good apps) have been things like "1-star doesn't work!" in a sea of "5-star awesome app!". You can hardly blame a developer for wanting to know how it "doesn't work" instead of just getting a vague review that doesn't explain anything.
Version 3 of activeCollab Project Management Web App Released
Zynga Nightmare Continues
The great-grand parent's original point was that a language that needs tools to be written effectively is a flawed language. If I diverted that into a meaningless argument about what type of tools are best, then I apologize.

I stand by my original point though. I wouldn't want to write in any programming language without tooling and the availability of sophisticated tooling (of many different styles) for a given language is a strength not a weakness.
Imagine surgeons who can't touch a surface with his/her hands due to hygiene concerns using it to manipulate various images/scans of the patient on the table in front of him/her.
Well, it's about time. I mean, it only took 3 years.

Coda has always been for the "front end" developer. I've moved on to PHPStorm and Sublime. But I will be taking look at Coda 2.

I don't see the cost anywhere?
Gee, I wonder why they chose to launch it for students first?
2. "Product visionary" is the term thrown around nowadays. Much like "ninja" and "rockstars" in dev jobs listings. CEO is the product guy. And in an early stage startup (< 10 employees) he should actively code if he is technical. Or design (in case designer) or make sales pitches (if he is sales guy/gal).

Its everyone's responsibility to contribute to product specs . Of course CEO/Founder should be leading that effort.

BYOD - I'm part of founding team and so are bunch of my friends. In none of the case I see founders are diverting funds for personal gratification. And most of the founders I know take lesser salary than their employees. Liquid cash is like ocean in desert. Unless startups have venture funding or huge revenues, its pointless to buy every device for every member of company.
Exactly. One should just about always store UTC time.
I believe Apple tried this in its early years, some time after Jobs returned from India and prior to his ouster, and that it didn't work so well. There were problems with employees comparing salaries and feeling slighted at pay differences and whatnot.

I just recall reading that in one of the books about Jobs and Apple, but don't recall the details or which book. Anyone else more familiar with this episode in Apple's history?
> None of us want to understand every single domain of knowledge from set theory or quantum physics up to cosmology or social psychology.

Speak for yourself. All of those are fascinating.
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Unfortunately this probably would have gotten more attention with a different title("Vim editing mode for Xcode 4" maybe?). Interesting project but still fairly alpha. Shu is pretty good at fixing bugs when filled. (I am not quite sure he sleeps)
People still pay for text messaging even though they don't need to. If you care, the iPhone includes built in support for custom ring tones and there are apps that make it even simpler.

http://www.demogeek.com/2009/07/31/how-to-add-custom-rington...
Target audience is developers. Many "people with discerning taste" would prefer not to tie their accounts to third-party accounts.
I'm sad that the on-site docs are still inferior compared to the in-code comment docs. For example, the on-site docs hardly mention the built-in state manager, but they're very thoroughly documented in the code [1]. Many people (myself included) people will usually resort to searching Google before looking in the code when trying to figure out how to do something.

Ember team, any insight as to what's being done to rectify this, or why this is?

[1] https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/blob/master/packages/emb...
oh yeah, this has nothing to do with what you should buy - we just built the tool after a few beers this weekend because it seemed like it would be cool to easily visualize every car for sale in SF... hope its enjoyable!

also - we are building a comprehensive recommendation engine for the top 50-100 models by collecting everything from EPA & NHTSA safety data to style awards and max lifetime mileage. this is probably a month out and has required getting pretty creative about crawling a number of heterogeneous data sources
Except Gist doesn't make it easy to categorize / browse. Gist has its place, Snipt has a slightly different use case.
I was more thinking about the problem looking for a solution part.