skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no ads in this client, on any screen, presumptuous one. next time look before you embarrass yourself.
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Samsung Announces World’s Thinnest Laptop: the Series 9. Uh oh Apple.
I'm inclined to agree with your points, I always preferred the linux client over the windows one, but skype just gets on my nerves recently. My team has switched to mumble for meetings and stuff and we find it immeasurably better. Plus, channels are a much better method for general collaboration than the outdated concept of conference calls.
See: "rocket surgeon", or "enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot".

Also: jashkenas wrote Backbone.
Yeah, he's a friend and very good at what he does. We worked together over a year ago. I've been talking to him for awhile about this new project but he's just too busy. I understand. Life gets in the way sometimes.

Good to know about oDesk and the like.

I am located in Bend, Oregon but moving (back) to the Bay Area very soon. So I will obviously be in a developer-rich area. (My friend/developer is located in SF.)

Thanks for your advice - it's much appreciated.
@conanite:

I happen to work for RPX, and it's actually a very common misconception that people believe our model is identical to IV's.

The biggest difference is that RPX does not assert its patents, ever. It's our business model to protect operating companies making honest money from trolls. If you decide not to give RPX "protection money", we won't do anything to harm you. It's up to you to sign up for our services.

Another difference is that we also intervene in our clients' litigations, and help them resolve their lawsuits by buying patent licenses on their behalf. And we have advisory services for new companies not familiar with the rules of patent litigation, and patent market intelligence for those who want to keep up with what's happening.
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Every scribd link is marked as private for me Hacker News for some reason, is this broken for anyone else or..?
Yet another use case for Tactile Layer panels
There does not seem to be any requirement to say how the registrar will work, ie if it is private, public or restricted to certain categories. I don't mind public tlds and some restrictions (like .book is for books but open for registration to anyone). And fully private ones if they are company names like .Samsung are perhaps OK by me if the words are not generuc. But we don't know what .book or .love will be yet.
i like how it requires both gnome and qt4.
I liked the "attach a screenshot of this page" feature. Keep up the good work.
I see. For me I haven't found anything like that, where task X would be better in go and task Y would be better in haskell. Everything I've done was always better in haskell. It was just an annoying pain in the ass the whole time because of super slow compile times, or running out of RAM compiling, or package conflicts from cabal hating me, or .cabal files requiring spaces instead of tabs, or haskell code I want to modify being some giant mess of arbitrarily aligned with a million spaces craziness that makes cool things like "diff" useless. It just feels like rather than "haskell needs to stop being so crazy", the "go needs to gain modern features" approach is more likely to actually be possible.
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I absolutely hate anything inside of a kids app that gives my kid the opportunity to buy, install, or even view anything I haven't vetted. Ads are especially bad.

I like the idea of a buy button that makes you prove you're an adult by typing xyz in a box, or some other trivial-for-an-adult task, before it launches the store. IIRC Zoodles' "Kid Mode" has a voice that says "ask an adult to help you with this" any time a kid tries to access a premium feature.
(blog author)

not everyone gets to choose the database. Not everyone rips out every mysql installation they come across.

There's buckets of other database-related posts on my blog. This one is quite different: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/16399069781/googl...
To be fair, I wasn't presuming anything. While I applaud the release of the Linux version, I was merely trying to show that Microsoft's stewardship of Skype seems to be headed in a rather unsavory direction.
It definitely could be more than 'just' a developer role.

As I mentioned in another comment, I'd love to have someone that takes ownership (literally and figuratively) for the project.

That's good advice about pitching the vision and culture - I'll do that for sure.
It's hard to diagnose, but as other says (and your stats point out), there is something giving a little amateur feel.
From a blog point of view, you should definitely show your authors, to make a genuine, personal impression to readers.
The part of the name of the blog that says 'Biz Startup Tech Blog', it may sound too generic, but also a bit pretentious, and it lacks originality (even if it works from a SEO point of view?). I'll also work on the tagline, to describe better what the blog is about. You could try things like "Personal insights of an entrepreneurial journey", maybe also A/B test it... Tell your visitors you are for real, before they leave.
And last, but not the least, I think the images are not helping. Usually images help make everything a little more attractive, but here, it's not the case. They are giving an amateurish, cheap feel. Try something else on that front. You could avoid the images unless they really illustrate your point with some personal sources: a screenshot from your project, stats, etc.
And please, tell us the results of the experiment!
I can see Apple going with Intel as a foundry for ARM SoC but I doubt they will switch to x86.
I suspect an ion drive system could do it. You still need to slingshot somewhat, and you would gain flexibility if you didn't try to fly by all the planets on the way out. New Horizons [1] looks to hit the Kuiper belt in 10 yrs so considerably faster than Voyager.

[1] http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/mission/mission_timeline.php
I have developed a similar app before. Users can set up reminders through a message to a bot on AIM, gchat, MSN ...
Then later they will receive a reminder message from the bot.
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> Further, cloud companies will probably be resistant to a service like yours because it will negatively impact their margins.

I should mention that we've been approached by a number of cloud providers who want to be included in our system. We currently support AWS, Microsoft Azure and Rackspace.
> or if you were in earnest about only needing the raw HTML from the sub-view, how about just rendering the row templates within the table template, making your render function as simple as this:

And if you want to delegate the handling of these DOM lines to sub-views (for event handling), you can instantiate them after rendering and call `View#setElement` with a row each.
I could understand a lawyer writing a letter they later regret on behalf of a client, but he followed that up by trying to get IndieGoGo to take down a charitable fundraiser.

TheOatmeal didn't direct a mob to attack FunnyJunk or their lawyer. TheOatmeal said what happened and directed a mob to express their emotions by donating to two charities. If some people got mad at FunnyJunk's lawyer, that's his problem. Maybe he can bill FunnyJunk for the time it takes to deal with the backlash from their ill-advised actions.
This is pretty typical of the series. There are 3 or 4 drivers to a car for the Le Mans race (24 hours continuous racing). Two or 3 of those will be professional drivers, and one is a rich amateur who brings money. Pay-to-play.

How much you pay and how much you play is up for negotiation. Every team is different.
I don't know about the rest of the DoD, but I know that most of the fire brigades on Marine Corps and Army bases are using IE7 or Firefox.

But I don't think their CAC-managed systems allow them access to the web at large.
The community Skype package has been updated to Skype 4 now, so no need for the AUR. http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/skype/
Ooops. Thanks for the correction. (That'll teach a techie to blubber about biology!)
Show HN: miLifemap apps launch to preserve a families most meaningful memories
My Internet Corp. (mi Corp) just launched mi Lifemap web, iPhone and iPad apps - a powerful new utility for storing and archiving a family's most meaningful memories. If there are any mom or dad hackers out there I would love any and all feedback! of course, I would be grateful for all feedback as well.
www.miLifemap.com
As a new dad, I have all of my digital photos and videos and Twitter, FB, & 4Sq. intuitively organized & archived and we have an eBeneficiary system to preserve accounts across generations. We have a full product suite with lots of unique and cool features that I believe families and the HN community will find very interesting.
Please let me know what you think as we will be building out the team and roadmap aggressively!
Thank you!
There is of course short time between taps which if exceeded, then the tap counts is reset. I'll think about another unlock, I'll just collect the feedback and decide.
I've got some feedback on overlaying strokes, so I'll think about it for sure.
Thanks for the tips!
Thank you, I thoroughly enjoyed this guide. It seems however, that your initial assumption is somewhat invalid: you wanted to build an architecture that a compiler writer would design.

But then you make all design decisions by looking at what the toolchain does well, which is inevitably the feature set of the most popular processors. Which are, in turn, designed by hardware engineers, per your original assumption.
Does it call you?
Quer ganhar dinheiro e passear numa ilha exótica?
A "Tomtom" conhecida fabricante de GPS está a pedir ajuda para mapear ilhas exóticas. A empresa está a oferecer 10.000 euros como pagamento a quem quiser colaborar com a empresa no mapeamento destas ilhas. Este é um emprego que qualquer um de nós gostaria de ter. A missão passa por estar duas semanas na ilha a percorrer todas as ruas e caminhos existentes para que possa ser desenvolvido o sistema de GPS para a mesma. Saiba como se pode inscrever em http://www.autoportal.iol.pt
Whoa whoa whoa...they just fired all the old Trolltech employees???
Hmm... I have 31 purchases from newegg and returned 25 of those purchases with 0 problems. That's 80% return rate with 100% satisfaction.

I'm glad we hold companies accountable as consumers, but why do we focus on one employee's action without forgiveness? The issue was resolved, get over it. I'm tired of rant articles being posted to HN.
I hope and doubt that Internet Vigilantes who are going to be sending threatening emails are not here.
It's hard to understand and celebrate the glories of the Internet as a vehicle for "freedom and free speech" and all that good stuff, when all too often large communities within it participate in acts that are all too banal and primitive as is mob vigilanteism.

So is the Internet truly a pinnacle of a civilized and free society, or the regression into a barbaric state? Cause this seems pretty barbaric to me...

(I am not condoning the lawyer's or FunkyJunk's actions. I think they are wrong. I just think there are better and more civilized ways of reacting to and handling this).
I tend to grab MinGW from http://nuwen.net/mingw.html Have you looked at that yet?
then the only loser is FunnyJunk.

Doesn't the fact that we're having this conversation and he looks foolish prove that this assumption is wrong?
Is your friend able to help screen interview applicants? I'd get him involved as much as he's able to help, even if it's just filtering out the obnoxiously underqualified resumes at first.
Is there any javascript API to use your layout to show simple messages instead of any pre-created notification? Basically I would like to use one messaging UI to show your notification with all targeting specified as well as my custom messages (like error/sucess messages)
I don't think they really give you a structural way to use regexes; more of a procedural way, where you can embed regexes within explicit loops that iterate over lines, matching and updating state-variables as you go. Unlike regexes, which are declarative and abstract away the details of the match algorithm and its internal match-progress variables, you are explicitly maintaining the match state there. I find myself writing manual-FSM code like if($scanning_for_new_record) { /.../; }. And even that only really works if you can do a one-pass match, without needing to backtrack across line boundaries.

It's inelegant enough that I sometimes do a two-step process instead: 1) transform the input so that whatever view I want of it maps to a line-oriented format; and then 2) process the result in the standard Unix line-oriented fashion.
I've already played with that, but it had bad side effect on something (I can't remember what exactly that was). I am going back to that in next updates.
I work in West Michigan which unfortunately doesn't have the same new-tech support Detroit is getting, but honestly I'd rather see it in Detroit. That city needs the attention and help its starting to get, and it will help the state as a whole (as well as northern Ohio/Toledo).

The business community there is pushing so hard to get the city up and running again. They're even donating money to the government to build a light rail/commuter rail system (enough money to run it for 10 years at no taxpayer expense)[1]. It's a really positive attitude, and absolutely inspiring. Maybe someday I'll find myself down on Woodward Ave as well.

[1]http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/2012/05/30/private-f...
Here's one (just the motherboard for $79US -- add a DIMM and some kind of storage, stick in a box):

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0079VVLZG

I haven't bought one yet, but am eyeing them for my next gadget project. Intel has a family of boards in this price range.
Keep getting surprised how much we have going on here in Louisville, KY[0]. Though mentioning I'm from KY elsewhere has led to comments such as "You have computers? And shoes?"

[0] shameless plug, if you're in the area next Wed: http://plancast.com/p/btcm
I wonder how many people will be woken in the middle of the night by bugs caused by this.
Very cool, congrats on shipping!

Are you using Twilio to power the calls?

Some quick feedback:

1. I'd recommend having a clock selector for the "wake up time" -- right now it's not clear whether I'm setting an alarm for minutes from now, or for a specific time in the future, and what time zone it will be in.

2. Signing up initially is a friction point -- you might want to just let people set an alarm with a phone number, and then after they set a few alarms, send them a text prompting them to create an online account where they can manage all their alarms. You can use the phone number as a unique identifier before they create an account to store all the different reminders.

Congrats again on launching!
Please use Google instead of posting mindless sarcasm.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/opinion/09lee.html?_r=1
I got sued once in a similar way, for an app a competitor claimed copied their UI and violated trade dress, copyright etc. Apple didn't pull our app though, and it seems so fraught that Apple is making legal judgments both ways.

Our competitor sent a complaint to Apple, so we re-assured Apple, sued the complaining company, they counter-sued, and eventually settled.

The suit cost about 20k and we made minor changes to the app UI as a result. Waste of time and money for everyone.

Throwaway account and no other details because I'm under NDA.
So here's a blind hacker (I have some sight – but not for computers). I'm employed software consultant and wanna be entrepreneur. I currently work on MS stack (everything – web/windows/database); but basically, I have found that I can work on any stack (whether Python/ruby/php if I so desire). So far wherever I have worked, I have outperformed my sighted peers (even seniors) with my ability to provide instant solution to issues and creative ideas.

I enjoy creating things and coding (whether simple/complex) has never created a problem for me (in fact, I often help my peers with there technical issues). But every now and then I come across a tool/application/website that is poorly accessible or not at all accessible and I have to waste my time adapting to it rather than using it for the task I originally intended. This is not a complain; I can understand that the interface of a app is limited to the worldview and needs of its creater. So if he uses an image for a button without an alt/title attribute is because his needs and worldview lack the knowledge that those attributes can be useful for people who can't see images.

A program can be made decently accessible without much effort, one needs to make sure only couple of things:
1) That every element is accessible via keyboard, and
2) every element has a textual information directly/indirectly attached to it stating its purpose. Be it an alt/title text for images, label for checkboxes, and so on.
Note the first point doesn't apply to web page elements like p/ul/ol/etc.

If you want to do more, you may add shortcut keys for elements that you perceive will be used more than others (yes not to every odd element as it will exhaust available keys very quickly), for web pages structure content using ARIA regions, headings and ... well there are many things you can do if you desire to, but those couple of things are what you should at least be doing, and that should not be anything complecated to do if you try a little.
Thank you for the feedback, I really appreciate it!
> [...] threatening to sue The Oatmeal for $20,000 for defamation [...]

This is incorrect. As everyone here probably knows, they demanded $20k to refrain from suing, they did not file a lawsuit asking for $20k.
The odd thing though is that (at least in the US) film payments are based on a percentage of ticket sales, not number of showings. I used to work at a repertoire theater, and we added late night showings at the last minute on sever occasions based on audience demand.
Very clean UI. I like how you can still do the traditional strokes. The touch to paint can be fun for older kids. This is definitely different from the typical coloring apps.

One suggestion: You should seriously consider iOS if you haven't already. While the Android market desparately needs apps like this, your engagement will be through the roof on iOS since you've designed an app that caters to the tastes of a typical iOS user.

Monetization: I'd recommend pricing it at $1.99 & having a sale weekend during which you give it away for free. Check out this terrific write up for details. I think it was on HN. http://www.1312.ru/blog/Pocket-Lists-sales-13500-in-first-3-...
This is mostly based on what I've seen personally, and hearsay around the community, perhaps PG would like to weigh in?

Mods have the ability to 'hellban' people, make it so all their submissions and posts are not seen by anyone except themselves, unless you turn on the "showdead" option in your profile. Users can become automatically hell banned if their comment karma is too negative.

Mods also have the ability to delete stories from the front page, (occasionally you will see popular, heavily commented stories about factually incorrect information, or just over hyped trolling disappear) or seemingly optionally send a story to the "depths" of the site via some kind of super down vote mechanism. This can also occur if a story is heavily flagged.

These actions are not transparent, or obvious, so it is easy to miss them occurring, perhaps lending to your perception there is no moderation.
Really. What about Apple hardware and software?
Titan: A Highly Scalable, Distributed Graph Database
How do tech. startups do scoping/requirements on projects?
I ask this considering my background as a developer and now more as a Technical Business Analyst/Project Manager. My work has always been with big corporate banking giants and the role of a BA/PM is very critical in dealing with huge development and QA teams.
In a startup, obviously there is no need for such fat especially in the beginning. But I am wondering if this changes as you scale bigger and need to define these type of roles. Sometimes the line is thinner and lot of developers are doing analysis anyway. But just wondering.
TL;DR: Do startups at some stage hire Business Analyst/Project Manager or these roles ?
> old version which works fine

And has a bunch of security holes.
Lynch mobs are real things and have a real history. Lynch mobs as defined, always results in the death of a person or persons at the hands of a mob. An attorney who bit off more than he can chew and as a result received a number of nasty emails is not the victim of a lynch mob.
That is actually really good idea with the update. Thanks!
His example is poor, but the message is that the body of a record can cross line boundaries. While the UNIX tool chain is predicated on the concept line == record, this doesn't have to be the case. With a generic record level marshalling system the class of problems solved by composing command line tools together would be greatly expanded.

What Pike describes is analogous to the RecordReader in Hadoop.
Being in the process of assembling one, I believe the best and most cost-effective printer (though not the simplest) is the one you build for yourself. See the RepRap project and printer models at www.reprap.org. If you want a ready-to-print model, I've heard many good things about Makerbot.

As far as scanners go, I do not have much experience. Most of the projects I have seen are either way too expensive or lack in detail. There is a project named FabScanner that looks promising, though (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:14198).
> I can't think of a great alternative. "Employee" doesn't really fit. Nor does "team-member." "Developer" is too specific

How about "Talent"?
Yes. This is the way to go. I posted pretty much the same thing, but of course it's half as much code in CoffeeScript... time to give that a serious look.
Pulse keeps its finger on the pulse, introducing more than 30 new video channels
Awesome app! I used it to wake myself up while taking a nap at a hackathon. Keep up the work!
What about "one of our support staff made an error and we are doing absolutely nothing about it because stuff happens"?

That, to me, is what seems like the reasonable respond from Newegg, but I don't think anyone would want to hear that.
I'm sure he'd be willing to help - I'll ask him.

Good idea.
I would be very concerned about performance with a SPA built like this.

Do you have any benchmarks of Next SoundCloud's performance compared to the existing SoundCloud?
Is 1024x600 actually a CPU limitation? Do you have the source for that? (really curious)
(edit:) As quite rightly pointed out by stiff, this summary article is actually not lying to us, as its final sentence does explicitly and correctly pointed out that this paper's goal was actually not to attempt to establish any kind of causation here. I will not delete or edit the rest of my comment here, but I would recommend disregarding it.

People who live longer are more likely than people who die young to have children while they are old. People who are children of people who genetically live long are more likely to themselves genetically live long. Thereby it would be surprising--downright shocking (in the scientifically-exciting "time to reevaluate what kinds of traits can be passed down by genes" sense)--if we did not find the statistically significant correlation that people born to older people tend to be genetically able to live longer than people born to young people.

FTR, The paper even admits the possibility of this selection bias, but then seems to just disregard it with a "regardless" as, despite this headline and summary, the paper seemed more excited by the increased evidence that TL was a good marker of longevity. I hate the way people describe science. :(
to be additionally fair, the Skype interface was heading in a downhill direction well before the Microsoft acquisition.