skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So how do you pay for medical bills when you or a spouse gets cancer and needs chemotherapy, or even something as basic as a root canal causing horrendous pain? Will all that fit in a 27k budget?
but what's weird is that the Facebook app also does both of these things already, just not quite as well. It's especially weird with Messenger because I think both apps can get push notifications.
I think if you're going to dramatically alter your browser, you should probably avoid commenting on page quirks or features.

"When I turn off my screen, the BBC's website is all black! Very bad UX!"
It does. See drgath's comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4019500
Thanks for the post. I disagree with Kickstarter approach - "You have to learn how to fail in order to succeed" - http://www.creativitypost.com/psychology/famous_failures
sure, but my father was a professional programmer from the late 1960s until the 1990s, and he had never heard the term until I told him about it, in like 2005 - when it became a fad.
I'm in the US, and it doesn't look like it's available yet. I'm just searching the App Store on my iPhone, though; I'm not sure if things show up there later or something.
I'm not sure that Apple's UX is that much better than Windows7/Gnome/Unity. They have done a very good job of making it easy for you to buy from them with the integration of iTunes but a single button mouse and a single menubar at the top doesn't necessarily make every app easier to use.

Where they do shine is in build quality and user experience which comes from owning the entire product - HW/OS/sales channel/support - and having enough margin to do it well. That's the difference between them and an equally specced Sony laptop running Windows.

It's the profit margin that really makes them special. Sony used to make products of this design and build quality but then to compete had to cut costs and so quality and had to accept the bloatware and stickers. Apple's brilliance has been in managing the process so that they can cut production costs while increasing quality and adding more stuff.

I give a huge amount of credit to Cook for this. Jobs demanding rounded corners on dialogs or sticking to a single button mouse whatever focus groups said was good technical leadership, Ive's produce design is great. But dominating the manufacture and supply network to the extent that Apple have done and with the effectiveness they have done is a major achievement and is not easy.

Look at Boeing having to delay the 7E7 because it couldn't get rivets - while Apple has 747 freighters booked ready to fly new products straight to the store the day they are released.
Because Facebook wants to be the platform and not the app. At some point we'll realize that Zuckerburg was out to replace Windows not Myspace
git is just a facade for the git-* commands.
Can somebody explain how a donate button like the one on this page complies with the PayPal TOS?

I looked into adding one to a site, but the PayPal terms seem to make it pretty clear they're for non-profits or giving money for a specific cause. If you get >$10k in "donations" they can/will even hold your money and require "proof" it's going to the cause you tell people it's going to.

I've seen the buttons on a number of sites, and they rarely seem to match up with the PayPal TOS for donations. Does PayPal not enforce that requirement?

In my case, I've decided to go with a small, one time signup fee, but I'm still curious.
Checked exceptions require that the calling function acknowledge that an error has occurred

But why do they require the client to acknowledge the error? Better stated, why would one use a checked exception versus an unchecked? The general wisdom (and perhaps this is where I'm mistaken) is that checked exceptions generally indicate a more recoverable error. This is why checkedness doesn't belong in the function itself: it's an indication to the caller of the error's recoverability, which is completely unknowable.
Was this inspired by antirez's lamernews? http://lamernews.com/

It's funny to see two different HN clones, both of them coming from Italy :)
Twitter.com down?
Isn't the point here that instead of creating hardware and developing the software on top of it, Facebook is creating its own mobile offering in reverse? Building all of the software and setting the hardware component as priority two.

Facebook Messenger's new read/delivered functionality is much like BBM or iMessage. They just unveiled their app store. Now a Photos app.

Once the core apps are done and everybody who has an iOS or Android phone already uses them and enjoys them, convincing people to jump to an actual Facebook phone may not be a stretch.

Not saying that will ultimately happen, but it seems like this approach is keeping that door wide open.
Not to veer too far from the main discussion, but 'git' isn't just some giant monolithic binary. The 'git' command is a wrapper around a bunch of different, relatively modular binaries. They each even have their own man page. (e.g. 'git push' maps to 'git-push'). Each is just a unique action that can be applied to a common data structure (the git repository).
Ugh.. has Indian govt banned Twitter next!
I remember a time before Jobs returned when Apple would buy the third-party apps that they put into their OS, instead of just ripping them off.
We call the unix paradigm now the iOS paradigm?
Thanks, Peroni. I was pretty much going to say this is some of the worst advice I've seen yet, but you gave a better summary.
These are trez useful aren't then. I've been using them to organise client office hours for a while.
From india, works for me
I was thinking the other day "if I wanted to market myself as a 40 year old RoR contractor, what's my one paragraph description / resume / pitch".

It boiled down to:

After 20 years of experience at startups, my key skill is simple : I GOD DAMN SHIP WORKING CODE. I'm up on some of the latest technologies, and not up on others, but if you want someone to take a half-assed project that's over schedule and over budget, get it cleaned up, made working, made maintainable, debugged, and DEPLOYED - with every little quirky bit that separates 'mostly done' from 'actually done', then I'm your man.
"Stealing" features is one thing, taking advantage of your control over a particular market to shut out the "competition" you "stole" said features from isn't justifiable in any way (IMHO).
Sculley actually had a great 'product guy' for a while in JL Gassee. The Mac II and Powerbook lines were excellent, and the profits were huge. It was only later on when things started going off the rails.
Well I said "the project is the same" but what if it wasn't? What if the engineers focus on building features that take less space instead of ones that requires multiple megs of new code? Or what if they can tell the global supply people years in advance what new hardware they'll need (more accelerometers, more accurate touch sensors, or different antennas for upcoming 5 GHz wifi support, etc.).
Down for me (uk)
Convenience is still scarce. Digital content doesn't seem quite as abundant to less technically inclined people than HN readers.
As I understand it, most of the ad networks do the same thing in their opt-outs. You're not opting out of being cookied. You're just opting out of "personalized" advertising. Most non-technical users who "don't want cookies on my computer" would probably dislike a truly cookie-less web.
Look closer at git, and you'll see that it's actually a collection of smaller programs (each of the git commands is made as a separate executable before being combined into git)
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The Unix paradigm is more about even smaller composable tools.
Several years back I posted several essays critical of the NoSQL euphoria. Being in my 30s, I wasn't surprised to see several argue that it was because I was just too old, man. Only that was a steaming pile of horseshit: My criticism was founded entirely in a knowledgeable, experienced analysis, and not simply brash adoption because something was new and different (an affliction that impacts developers of all ages). The new silver bullet.

Reminds me of an experience I recently had. I was in a room full of programmers where the conversation quickly turned into an exchange about newer technologies between a group of mostly up-and-coming Ruby guys (who I'll call 'youngsters' for lack of a better weasel word), and a group of mostly older and established enterprise developers (the 'oldsters').

It was weird to sit on the sidelines and watch the exchange. The oldsters were asking interesting and probing questions about some of the technologies that were popular with the youngsters. Nothing really confrontational. Just a lot of genuine curiosity, tempered with a little bit of cautious skepticism (presumably borne of experience).

The youngsters, on the other hand, seemed to be taking all of it rather defensively. And they did a whole lot of question-dodging. Or apparently failing to understand that they failed to understand the question (admittedly I didn't really understand a lot of these questions either - I'm a youngster myself), and giving unsatisfying answers as a result. And generally making me worry that the Dunning-Kruger effect might have been a factor in how the conversation was unfolding.

Don't know where I'm going with this, other than to say that it was a rather instructive experience for me.
All exceptions (checked or otherwise) disclaim and defer the error in a type safe way (unchecked exceptions can be declared in the throws clause too!)

The difference is that we can require them to be dealt with by the caller, which is generally thought to be an indicator of the recoverability of the error (I should not have said severity, sorry) which does not belong in the function as it makes no sense in the context of a function.
How does the app know who I am without asking me to log into Facebook? Is it guessing somehow from my FB app's login + UUID? Or am I missing something basic
gaga experiment's nice, I'm planning such a thing and reading your post I was thinking that the balloon (no luck) could gets sucked into a jet/rotor engine of a flying by aircraft.

Did you had a way to check the air traffic?
That's exactly what tried to say. I would have guessed that about 90 to 95% would fail. I suppose I wasn't clear. And now it's too late to edit.
Doesn't Apple have some boilerplate that specifically disallows peer-to-peer content transfer in iOS apps? Streaming-only may edge around the language, but may still run afoul of the intent.

I think it may be premature to blame this on Apple removing a competitor to make way for a first-party feature. I think their content partners are just extremely sensitive about this issue and these clauses and their enforcement are just a price Apple is currently willing to pay to keep them happy.

See also: wifi hotspot functionality and provider desire to charge for tethering.
Unless I'm really stupid, this only works if you happened to buy in 1973.

You see the big downward trends in the stocks in 1998 and 2007?

Now pretend you invested in 1997 or 2006 instead of 1973. All of a sudden the graph would be transformed to show Gold as the clear winner. The guy's clearly an amateur, even as someone who has no interest in stocks whatsoever, never take advice from someone like this.

If you invest at the wrong time you lose money. The problem with graphs like this demonstrating the 'long-term' is that people conveniently pick a year that works for their point. The other common one is that people always pick just after the great depression to demonstrate stock market growth over time.
You know I have an iPod touch and completely forgot about it haha
Hearing about AOL throws me back to the late 90s.

And whenever I hear about them it is never in a technical context as in "check out this new database AOL techs created" it is more of "remember how AOL used to send people a ton of CDs?" or "Check out the statistics of people still using dial up"

I don't even remember what made them sort of quitely disappear from the radar? Was it broadband from cable companies and Verizon's Fios?

So I am wondering what do AOL tech people do there? Is it just maintenance to keep the dial-up server pool working?
I don't really like it either, but is this something that could be legislated somehow?
I guess it depends on what kind of music you are recording, but do the first songs you release to potential listeners have to be professionally edited or mixed? As long as its recorded using somewhat decent equipment, it seems like that would be enough to get something together to release.
So their arguments establishing a causal chain back to a certain system of values is too long to summarize here?

Um, too obvious to summarize here? I really find it difficult to believe you're this obtuse. You seem quite adept with words but I'm not sure you're saying much.

Do you really find it difficult to get from the Enlightenment beliefs that all men are born equally free, equally good and equally talented, to Cabrini-Green?

If all men were equally noble, a social system that treats all men as nobles - that is, by making them financially independent and (pretty much) free of external government - would create a "vertical community" full of noblemen. Indeed this very thought is found in all sorts of 19th-century reformers (and 18th and 20th). Google "and above this ridge new peaks will rise."

Instead, every time the experiment is tried - in both the modern and antique worlds - we get Cabrini-Green or something like it. The epitome not of nobility, but of ignobility.

Proving no more than the basic counter-Enlightenment reality that the poor are not (on average) natural noblemen, and need for the sake of their own humanity to be forced to work if they want to eat. (Actually, this is true of most of the non-poor as well.) Whether this compulsion is implemented by an overseer with a whip, or by impersonal economic forces, is not terribly meaningful on an individual basis.
I agree - I'm not going to argue that children aren't a lot of work or take a tremendous amount of (what used to be) free time. However, I've found that it really makes me evaluate what I do, put it into the perspective, and maintain focus through to the end. Obviously, I don't have as much time to dilly-dally as I used to, but I can still be very productive with the time I do have (rather - I take much more advantage of that time).
> If anything, Apple under Tim Cook will embrace efficiency to an even greater degree, especially as the company grows bigger and more complex -- to the dismay of those who think techies should rule the roost.

I don't understand this line of logic. Tim has an engineering degree, and optimizations are a core of 'techies.'
iTunes (fka SoundJam), GarageBand[1], and Siri were all bought under Steve's watch.

[1] strictly speaking, it's the developers they bought (along with Logic)
Either your page is down OR your spike in followers just crashed them...

Either way, good work!
Don't forget, people used to say the same stuff about software. The software market reacted by putting a lot of stuff on platforms like Steam, App Stores, or launching things as webapps. Games did this first and most often because they had an estimated 80-90% piracy rate.

Nowdays, it's even easier for software guys to say that MP3s and so on should be free when the dominant modes of end-user software delivery are restricted somehow (with the exception of business software, but businesses are easy to sue). It's not their information that wants to be free, just someone else's.
Intermittently down for me..
Worked for a while and then down again..
HOW TO: Create a Professional Logo For an App
SpaceX capsule successfully completes ISS drive by
Icon space. Assuming most people don't put their related apps in folders, they instead have it all on display. Like shelf space at the grocery store. The more product users can see with your brand, the more they'll

1) Trust the brand

2) Use it

I'm sure if they haven't integrated them yet, they will; and that in itself is a kind of lock-in you could only otherwise get if you owned the OS.
It's also a demonstration of an ethical failure. It was theft.
you could invest is in australia, where banks are giving 5-6% on regular savings accounts: http://www.savingsaccounts.com.au/
Hey, it's Apple's marketplace - private property and all that. Nobody has a right to sell there.

Now, I also think this is a dick move, but it's because of dick moves like this that the patent and copyright systems exist in the first place, and why I think they need to be reformed rather than abandoned.
Actually currency is the same thing. The dollar has value because we all agree it has value. It's not based on gold any longer (though one could argue it's based on oil). It's based on a host of indices that we, as a group set. And those indices are traded and have a set value. Decided by the buyer (us) and seller (us).

I'm not complaining. I'm just pointing out that all of our economy is based on the same principe/model; as long as the vast majority of the group (us) believe the dollar is worth something, it will be.

Anyone who invested in FB at any time (and that includes the big boys) believed that FB was a good investment. In other words, they believed the hype and didn't understand the business. Until someone who they trusted came along and told them to bail. And here we are.

I actively trade. All the time. But FB I didn't touch. I asked myself, at ANY time have I ever clicked an ad on FB? The answer: "No". That meant FB is vapor. People are betting that people (all of us - including the people making the bets) might, sometime in the future click on ads. Or that FB might come up with something. Something. (And I bet it's gonna be selling out personal data - what we browse, like, etc, etc. It's the only real value FB has).
It's a good point.

My countr(ies) of permanent residence have health care for all.

Also, checkout what happened when I took a foreigner into the ER in a Third World country (Ecuador) [1]

When I made the journey, I got a bunch of immunizations (free in Canada) and the doctor had lived and worked in Central and South America for many years. His advice was not to bother with Travel Insurance, because outside America, it would be cheaper to just pay for whatever I needed than pay the premiums, then deductibles, the deal with the hassle. Health-care is only unimaginably expensive in America. In other countries it's priced reasonably and I'm certain something like a root canal or even a broken bone would not have made a significant impact to my budget.

[1]http://theroadchoseme.com/heath-care-in-a-third-world-countr...
Don't mean to overhype, xamuel. For us non-geeks, this is pretty mind-boggling stuff.
Just a guess, but the iOS keychain can be used to share information across applications with a common bundle prefix.
That explains the complaint about DRM-ed downloads. I don't believe that's true anymore for any of the major services.
Why hasn't functional programming taken over yet? [2010]
Tech people at AOL not involved in maintaining the dial-up service are working on about.me, AIM, AOL.com, the Blogsmith CMS, features for blogs running on the Blogsmith CMS (Engadget, Autoblog, etc.), AOL Desktop, Games.com, Huffington Post, AOL Mail, Mapquest, Moviefone, Patch, Shortcuts, TechCrunch, and Winamp, to name a few.
Well, of COURSE as soon as I say we made it faster, we screw something up. It's some kind of blogging rule.
The "Hell Yes" Approach To Better, Bolder Decision Making
I've actually never seen this. Looks very nice. The idea of mine was also to keep the same API (the HTML and the links schema) of HN, to enable re-use of already built crawlers and add-ons.

Also, this seems to depend on Ruby other than Redis. Which means you probably need to buy a VPS or some cloud hosting and set it all up with Redis and Ruby and other stuff. Lots of overhead if you ask me.

While with hckr.it, you simply push it to a Couch and you're done.
Predator UAV military standard for streaming georeferenced video
Ron Gilbert's Game Revealed. The Cave
Unfortunately, many investors would not see this as a bad thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias

I don't think this says much about CoffeeScript, which I use. However I do think it says quite a bit about how GitHub has plenty of room to grow as they make themselves more attractive to a broader market.

A very interesting chart would be GitHub account revenue broken down by file extension. Note that I didn't say language, as the real money is in assets, not code.
Volunteering to fund via kickstarter is....voluntary.

So the risk is on those who are choosing to obtain investment via the KS platform.
They said it couldn't be done, but CoffeeScript bumped Objective-C down to #11.

Of course, I think it's fair to say that there's more Obj-C code than CoffeeScript being written, but less of it is being open-sourced.
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thanks for the info.

will contact them soon ;-)
How the Founder of McAfee Went on the Run in Belize
I just learned about this, but srcset seems better than <picture> for backwards compatibility reasons.

To make images on the ipad3 look great, all we have to do is
change:

<img src="photo.jpg" width=800 height=600 />

to:

<img src="photo.jpg" srcset="photo@2x.jpg 1600w 1200h" width=800 height=600 />

That is a ton cleaner than dealing with <picture> which completely breaks most browsers.
One may believe that it's unscrupulous to undercut another company and co-opt their ideas without believing that the software patent system is tenable or just. Similarly, I believe lying is generally unethical; but I certainly don't believe there should be a law against lying.
A further thought: PG talks about Blub languages and Blub programmers (in both cases, those at level X can look down at level X-3 and see what it's missing, but those at level X-3 look up at level X and just thing "WT*?").

I think that there's an aspect to software engineering that is not captured under the word "programmer", and there are Blub people in this as well: people who know how to get projects finished, maintainable, and deployed understand how the Blub folks fail, but the Blub folks don't understand everything the old farts do, and think that most of it just looks stupid or stick-in-the-mud-ish.
A lot of the people working on the app were from Sofa.
For those who lived the adventure genre's golden era, Ron is the mastermind behind Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion.
Or living in a country with good public health care?
Also http://www.linode.com/wiki/index.php/AndroidL2TPPSKServer (not just for Android clients)
Here is a link to his HN post to save yourself a Google: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3997642
Resque: automatically kill stuck workers and retry failed jobs
I think KickStarter is the PayPal of crowd funding....

But this also means that not every entrepreneur needs what KS offers.
Twitter censors parody account
Exactly. How is reading articles helping you reach your goals? How is just writing down your ideas productive?

Maybe the reason you're not excited about doing those things is because you know that doing them does not equal progress. Being productive means producing something, and not just words on paper (unless you're a writer).

Pick an idea you're really interested in -- something you actually want to use yourself -- and start working on it.
eh, you've obviously never heard the term "getting sherlocked": http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sherlocked , definition 2

edit: nevermind, I had the timeline off- this came to rise after Steve came back.
I think this might have something to do with the App Center they are launching soon. Making people install their own apps through the app center will make them more familiar with it.
It's weird, it works fine in Safari, but not in Chrome (Version 21.0.1145.0 dev).
Try http://sdiehl.github.com/gevent-tutorial/
Well, I guess the habit of no staying seated when credit lines start running from the movies theaters affects the way I watch videoclips on the web...
I agree with you but converting the masses, especially in the workplace, is tough.