skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Sure, it's easy to be successful when you've been successfull and there is no problem using your company as your own virtual playground"

Possibly but also remember that when you have something you have something to loose as well.
Neat -- poking around in the console, it looks like Webmaker is using Backbone.js ... I was wondering if anyone from the Webmaker team could tell us what exactly it's using it for?
Thanks for that explanation. One last question: why would you do 'jam install backbone'? Are people developing all their client-side code in the node environment as well?

[Or, it seems like maybe node in this case is just a dependency for jam, which is simply a tool used to make all your JavaScript development easier, without introducing any extra runtime dependencies.]
This feels like they're a bit confused about which target audience and abstraction layer they're aiming to. This is like trying to get more kids to program by trying to show them how easy and fun assembly language is. Shouldn't your energy be better spent developing, promoting and educating the use of higher level tools? It's hard for me to think of an use case for this. What kind of people, exactly would this help?

Don't get me wrong. I'm all for teaching more people to code. More importantly, getting more people to build stuff. But trying to teach newcomers to something historically bloated like HTML, sounds discouraging. Many others said before, HTML, CSS, JavaScript are pretty much the Machine Language of the web. It made sense for us to learn those first when it was all we had. But moved forward, it seems more intelligent to get more people to build stuff by having them use higher abstraction layers first. Even more, try to develop even higher layers that'll enable even more people to contribute.

I love Mozilla and I love the initiative. But I don't honestly think this will help much.
looking for reasons to use this. Other than educational purposes? And where are the pages hosted? This is basically for one off displays of random content?
Given the reactions to Facebook's past privacy debacles I would be surprised if they didn't allow people to opt out.
Yes - exactly like dotCloud's sandbox :)
Eh, it's only an overreaction if you have no sense of humor and don't consider how offensive and stressful it is to be shaken down for $20,000 the way Inman was.
I only have very specific first-hand knowledge, but Android's OneNote application is free, released by Microsoft. If you think about it you'll likely come to the conclusion that Word wouldn't be free, but at first blush I'd believe it.
Get ready, http://book.com, you're next!
I literally shudder at the thought of editing code from within a browser. That said, it does seem useful for introducing html.
For me, the best way to understand art is to compare it directly with music (and the comparison holds very well, as music is a form of art).

Think about pop music, and your feelings towards it. Many of my peers think that much of pop music is usually a bunch of crap and hardly ever listen to the radio (myself included). People love to proclaim which music is 'the best' and which music 'sucks', and they also love to argue about it endlessly. But if you look at this from a logical standpoint, you are a dog chasing your own tail if you want to argue about music opinions. You are pitting opinion against opinion, and there is nothing concrete to support either side, which makes it an utterly stupid and useless argument to have.

Let's add some logic to the music argument, then, to actually make it productive. Here's a good metric - which musician has the most fans and makes the most money off their music. If this is the metric you are viewing it from, you could most certainly say that pop is technically the "best" music out there, then prove it with numbers. And there would be no debating it.

But I bet there are a lot of people squirming to disagree with me at this point. And they wouldn't be wrong. Perhaps popularity isn't the metric that defines the word "best". In fact, the word "best" is a stupid word to use in arguments overall. Just replace that with "most popular", "most lucrative", or "my personal favorite", and we have an argument that can actually be carried out in a civil manner and solidly proven.

The words "good" and "best" ALWAYS mean "in my opinion, good" and "in my opinion, the best". And like music, art is all about opinions. You can call anything art, and you can call anything crap. If you can convince enough people to think your art is "good", it will then likely become more popular and lucrative. This part of it is all about psychology, and taking advantage of people and their emotions.

My personal opinion about art is that it is a piece that evokes emotion in the viewer and sends some message about the world that the artist is trying to get across. The "better" in my opinion the art is, the higher the percentage of viewers get this message, and the stronger it resonates with them.

Hope this helps...
I have to completely dis-agree with Woz here. The scenarios he is bringing up are things that a typical user of an Apple product would never ask. 95% of the people just want to look up contacts, addresses, movie times, sports info, schedules. Everyday things. Apple is optimizing for that. They day when most people are asking prime numbers greater then 87, I am sure Siri will be optimized for that.

And remember, Siri in its previous versions would send all recorded text to a server for processing, and a result would shoot back. In current implementation, Siri is doing all voice process on the device and handling queries directly in realtime -- optimization have to be made and limits do have to be imposed.

There is a difference between making an application to show technical prowess, and an application that is actually going to be used by consumers to solve everyday problems. And they are very different kinds of products.

Apple understands this.
Facebook already does facial recognition. It's part of the upload flow for photos.
Google reports 'alarming' rise in government censorship requests
Yes, I'm sure Microsoft won't sue you for trademark violation at all.
Looks like javascript is not allowed here. If so - what is the purpose of all this? Does anyone still make pages which have zero javascript?

But the html editor is a really nice one :-)
Considering that Microsoft Word is a registered trademark of Microsoft that the author of this app is presumably not licensed to use, I would think that Apple should have no issue removing it.
This is a "great" scam. I can't belive people is falling for it. But worst, I can't believe Apple "stantards" approved this one.
It is incredible the amount of people that doesn't read at all. Not even the small description.
Whatever people choose as their monuments of highest value reflect directly on what sort of world they want to live in.
I'm going to be looking into this. I hate putting "WebKit only" on things, but this was the simplest solution I could find. Thank you for this!
Treat Local Design as a Design Project
Thanks, you were great too.
Totally... that developer sounds like a kids name. Also the logo looks a little bit crappy. Even for a noob.
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Perhaps you should reference title 17 of the U.S. Code. Section 411 deals with registration and civil infringement actions. Specifically 17 USC § 411 (a) says:

"Except for an action brought for a violation of the rights of the author under section 106A (a), and subject to the provisions of subsection (b), [1] no civil action for infringement of the copyright in any United States work shall be instituted until preregistration or registration of the copyright claim has been made in accordance with this title. "
This is so deceitful. If they weren't trying to swindle people they would have named it "Tips and Tricks for Microsoft Word" or "Microsoft Word 2012 Helper". This product is not "Microsoft Word 2012" and they should not get away with naming it as such. I rarely say this about small companies, but I hope they get sued into bankruptcy by the big M. Most importantly, I hope everyone who purchased it gets their money back without having to ask.
I'm a Web Developer w/No Design Skills - Should I Still Have a Portfolio?
This seems to come up a lot lately. See my answer here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4050665
Ask HN: Trying to find a short story about a Turing Test that appeared here
I've been trying to find a short story that was posted here a few months ago for a while now, but its eluded me despite relentless googling. I'll describe the story as best as I remember it here, I'd really appreciate it if anyone can tell me where to find it.

There is a scientist (or someone who is conducting an experiment) to test whether an AI passes the Turing Test. The test is conducted by the scientist conversing with the subjects and gauging their response. The whole story is a conversation between the scientist and the human discussing the test. At the end of the story, inferring from the dialogue between the scientist and him, the "human" finds out that it is, in fact the AI and not the human.
Coding guidelines adapted from Pixar's rules for writing a story.
I agree that consistency of UI is, broadly, an important part of general usability, but I think that the web has been more unforgivably destructive towards this than mobile, which is a younger and inherently more constrained environment.

This is why bootstrap is so important: it gives the consistent look and feel to the web that has been missing for so long.
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These look like great changes. An alternate interpretation:

1. Third parties can't do nefarious things such as share my data with Facebook or tell my insurance company should I have watched some "surviving cancer" documentary in the past. They're enforcing laws which protect the privacy of my viewing history.

2. Someone can't gouge consumers by layering on additional fees to access what you've already paid for. eg: "Want to watch Netflix on your mobile device? That'll be $5/movie, please, and will show up on your next AT&T statement."

3. An application presenting itself as being a Netflix app can't pull the rug out from under you and make it easy to accidentally click on an iTunes version of the movie, get charged $4.99, and the third party gets an affiliate commission.

4. Third parties can no longer in bad faith scrape the Netflix database and use it for non-Netflix purposes. Do they really need to enforce common sense and decency here? There are many other sources for movie data if sites need that info.
I love that you used that AD reference in a way that I hadn't interpreted before. Assuming this isn't just confirmation bias (remembering only the poorly sung birthday songs), I wonder what about their linguistics/popular music scales would lead to that. Just how Japanese have trouble's with "L"'s and Americans have trouble with rolling-r's (which I think are objectively harder than L's)
Watch out, Book.com - you're next.
Looks like the walled garden's walls are pretty easy to hop over these days.
Whether you're a windows developer, a mac developer, a web developer, an app developer, or working for any other kind of software-based business you are putting some of your eggs in someone else's basket.
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Personal attack?! What do you call threatening to sue a person for $20000? Any decent person, lawyer or not, should have refused to write such a letter.

Besides, nothing in Inman's blog post indicates the attack to be directed against Carreon, he just assumed it was. In fact, seeing as he uses phrases like "your website", it makes more sense to assume the attack is against FunnyJunk and/or its owners.
The Nokia Torture
I totally agree with you. Implementing this with WebGL would be much, much easier. However, I believe there is a need for lighting effects for simple interfaces built with HTML and CSS. The library is more for intermediate developers who want to add a touch of lighting without heavy programming.

Modeling 3D objects – like the Photon crane – with CSS is absurd! It was done solely for that initial "neato!" effect.

Hope that helps clear some things up.
It depends what you want to experiment with. If you have real users who are paying you real money there are things you can test you wouldn't otherwise be able to to.
Facebook already used the Face.com API extensively. Rumors about this circulated here (Israel) this past month. This is great news.
does anyone know what size it is now?
> Thimble makes it ridiculously simple to create your own web pages.

Ridiculously simple way would be to edit straight inside the page.

Why contentEditable-based in-place editing is still missing in so many blog and website engines?

Navigating between html editor and preview feels a bit wrong and old when targeting regular users.

I'm not saying that only Thimble is the "old and wrong". I've been wondering about the same issue also with wordpress, drupal, joomla etc.
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Generally speaking, rational people control their reactions and act in appropriate ways. This is especially true in stressful situations.

An over reaction can be justified by stress, but it is not excused. And in this situation, Inman is going to be held accountable for his actions.
Are developers able to change the name of their app after it is approved and published in the app store? Because, if so, there might be a reasonable explanation for this mistake:

1. Developer submits app named "Tips for Microsoft Word".
2. App is approved.
3. Developer changes app name to "Microsoft Word 2012".
4. Profit?
Is it really unthinkable to trade for more than 20 days?

Does anyone play long-term in this game?
hah, of course Book.com is owned by B&N. Can't wait for a FaceNook tablet.
I remember a brief discussion of this on HN from about a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2425228
Thanks for trying. Paypal shut me down because they think I'm a financial services provider and are asking for all my professional membership licenses :(

Ssssh: If you click the paypal button now, I've redirected it to upgrade you for free!
Plain old HTML is a fundamental building block of the web. It was designed to be, and still succeeds in being, a simple to learn tool to create documents for consumption by web browsers.

Sure, it has added complexity over the years, but you don't need to know every tag & attribute or CSS & Javascript to get started and see results immediately.
To developers complaining that this is not an IDE they'd actually use: where did you get the idea that this tool is meant to be an IDE for professionals? This is clearly an educational tool, and I think it looks pretty good for that.

0. pick text editor 1. install text editor 2. find some sample html 3. open file in your browser 4. find some resources for learning HTML & CSS (yep, w3schools) 5. learn that validators exist 6. learn that linters exist etc. etc.

With mozilla thimble: 1. click to start new project 2. try stuff (instant feedback), learn about code validation (instant feedback), share your page etc. 3. level up to more robust environment.
How to unlock creativity
I had the same thought.

A simple google search would have shown them that the acronym is already taken.

I am still unhappy with Google co-opting the word "Go" from an ancient and very popular Board Game. Atleast they have the excuse that the domains are different (One a board game and the other a programming language).

Two software projects which offer foreign function interface functionality from a higher level language to C with the same acronym? This is irresponsible.
I am a webdeveloper and always looking for personal projects to help on =]
Here is a good resource of developers and designers, for sure.
Curious -- given that you would be recognized in other people's photos, would they have a list of faces which are opted out, once recognized?

For the very purpose of storing your opt-out preference, they would have to keep a record of your facial features, or you would continuously come up again as people tagged you manually.
> And in this situation, Inman is going to be held accountable for his actions.

I agree. I hope he gets what's coming to him for raising over $100k in charitable donations.
Direct link to GitHub repo: https://github.com/prototypemagic/django-projectbuilder/
Thanks for trying. Paypal shut me down because they think I'm a financial services provider and are asking for all my professional membership licenses :(

Ssssh: If you click the paypal button now, I've redirected it to upgrade you for free!

I haven't tried this on my Galaxy Nexus so I'm surprised that it worked as well as it did on your phone.
the Bible is full of people begging God to act. You mostly don't hear what happens.

Life is a journey. What happens to someone who peeks in their 20's and declines from then on?

God says...
and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed:
whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they
journeyed.

9:22 Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the
cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of
Israel abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken
up, they journeyed.

9:23 At the commandment of the LORD they rested in the tents, and at
the commandment of the LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge of
the LORD, at the commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

10:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 10:2 Make thee two
trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou
mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the
journeying of the camps.
About my motivation: My wife shows her work and curates shows in the LA area. Consequently for the last 20 years I've spent a lot of time in galleries and museums. I was just trying to get across some of the thinking of the curators who decide what to put on the plaques. Not trying to get into an argument, particularly.

About "no critical consensus": Saying there's not consensus about meaning, doesn't mean curators don't know if there's value in the work.

Lots of times people know work is good, they just don't agree on why. It takes time to figure out whether it's a dead end or not, or to see where the artist goes with a line of work.

Here's another one: there's lots of work that is loved by even sophisticated collectors, but unliked by artists. (E.g.: large-scale paintings that "look like art" but are not new.) There's lots of work that is liked by curators, but not by many artists or collectors (e.g., work grounded in complex theories).

"arbitrary and picked by some insiders at their whim":

The artistic community operates outside your judgement and scorn. Go in expecting to learn something, and maybe you will.
Another thing worth pointing out: how common is it that an actual valid scientific study is posted and someone says "Well this isn't true in my experience"?

More often than not, it's a case where some other article summarizes (most likely in an incorrect way) another study or someone on HN mentions a study, etc.
Hacked companies fight back with controversial steps
Except Gmail isn't just free for drafting emails, it is free when you send them to real people too.
Lovely looking site
Thanks for the link - that's a very polished tool. My advanced mode lets you step through day-by-day in a similar manner.
Really cool&useful app, especially for long-distance teams that are experiencing timezone difficulties.

Meetings really can suck and take too much time. This app helps me to give feedback and move on with whatever I'm doing ...
Art in Web 3.0
The other guy is being needlessly metaphysical; that's what's tripping you up.
Are you serious about that? If so contact me.
I hadn't heard about that, do you have any links to more info? It sounds interesting.
Clears it up perfectly :)
I disagree. In my experience, this article is wrong.
Sales people instinctively understand that you can't just rationally provide value to your customer; you also have to persuade the customer's decision-makers that you're providing value.

At BigCo, this means you can't just do what's good for the company, you also have to make sure your boss is happy about what you're doing.

This pitfall is especially tempting to hyper-rational programmer types, who think that providing value is sufficient, and that no company (including their personal "company of 1") should ever need sales or marketing departments.
It complains about perfectly valid HTML, e.g.:

<ul>
<li>Item
<li>Item
</ul>

Why doesn't it know about optional end tags? :(
Isn't that the point of this thread? That people are arguably wanting more than they deserve?
A lot of the text reads as though English isn't your first language. If this is true, hire a copywriter and revise your websites text.
Want to know how I know you don't know what constitutes slander in the US?
Are There Too Many Startups
The goal is not just to create web pages but to teach people about the technologies that drives the web (the tool many nonprogrammers use day in and day out). A straight wysiwyg wouldn't achieve that end.
Million Dollar Carrot Dangled As St. Louis Redefines Itself In Start-Up Space
It mentions the three I commented about, or three and a half if you include SocialCam.
yeah, the jam build system is a great tool and has been around a long time. Seems like people should do some more research before naming their projects.
> You would need a detector the size of the solar system in order to collect any meaningful data volume in real-time.

That's absolutely untrue. Why would you need to detect all neutrinos? Even if you were capable of detecting only a quadrillionth of all neutrinos sent your way, I could send 10^20 neutrinos per second your way.

Although this project would be extremely expensive, it's absolutely possible with today's technology.
It's one thing when learned people dig into the science and find issues to disagree about, it is completely different when some ignorant reporter or blogger disagrees just based on anecdotes or how truthy it feels to them
No, you cannot change the App name once the application is in the app store. On top of that, all app names must be unique.
Their other apps: http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/super-racing-real-games/id...

From the looks of it, they're a total scam developer. How does this stuff get into the store? At least two of their apps use the logos of other apps with some quick filtering to change the colors.

I guess Apple isn't doing much more than a cursory check against trademarks when approving apps. That seems really dangerous. Copyright infringement procedures are well defined by the DMCA. Trademark doesn't have an equivalent law.
This could revolutionize the Facebook signup process. Instead of entering all that pesky personal information, just snap a pic with your webcam. They already know all that info!
excited to give this a whirl this weekend.
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In your favor I'll just pretend you didn't mention kdb here

Please explain. What's bad about kdb, besides how nonstandard it is?
Seems like a really interesting site. Why the 5 song limit? I'd actually consider using it, if that limit weren't there :)
Agreed. Depression isn't about happiness versus sadness. Depression is about feeling so overwhelmed by everything in life, about every problem and issue being the same "volume" in your head and being unable to prioritize. This leads to a feeling of helplessness and impairment and withdrawal from decision making - a cycle that perpetuates itself.
Utter joke. Some app reviewers must be getting bribed - no way they can miss this scam app!