skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well personally, I wouldn't want to go to Hooters with my workmates anyway... it seems like a form of unwanted intimacy. I prefer to think of my workmates as machines that consume dollars and produce work; seeing them leering at women would force me to think of them as people, and that's just getting dangerously close to blending personal and professional relationships.

That's a fair and understandable position. I'm different in that I prefer to have fairly intimate (not necessarily sexual though) relations with my co-workers. The companies I've enjoyed working at the most, were the ones where we did things like going out to bars together after work, etc. For me, I like to blur those lines... life is life, I'm not a big fan of boundaries, borders, rules, limits, regulations, etc.

But, then again, I'm a fairly libertine leaning libertarian, so I can accept that not everyone will share my views...
>On the other hand, UBUT does everything Wifi, but mesh.

The UniFi stuff will "mesh".
He's not "settling" in the legal sense. He's settling in the sense that he's putting the dispute to bed. We'll see how it turns out for him.
Hi HN! I work for Facebook's Public Policy Team focusing on our Security efforts. Unfortunately, this was indeed a glitch in our spam prevention system.

We integrate with many different external blacklists (https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-security/link-shim-p...) including Norton and when there's a block on their service we provide a warning to our users. I have already reached out to Norton to notify them, however, the cause for the block is a question best suited for their team. We only use our external blacklist system to protect our users and would never use it to reduce traffic for competitive reasons.
> I bet this is the last Mac Pro. If you wanted to kill a product line, an “update” like today’s would be a good way to clear out parts and keep selling to a few desperate buyers for a bit longer without any real investment.

Apple's products build off one another. Apple is not going to kill the Mac Pro line because the iPad and iPhone would suffer.
definitely impressive. He's no longer a billionaire however.

Buying an NBA team right now seems a bit odd.
Eh? Basically every review I've read for it has said it's one of, if not the best phone ever (not exaggerating), save for the relatively weak camera.
Looking at chart2.js - canvas if the browser supports it with a fallback to flash.
Apple’s iOS 6 adds new Maps app, Siri updates, Facebook integration and more
As @abruzzi said, it wasn't until the iPhone that other manufacturers started putting "touchscreen" at the top of their features lists.

Apple wasn't first with the iPhone or iPod, but they sure as hell changed the product landscape after they released them.
Shepherds Bush Market station on The London Underground
This predominately residential area has a mix of urban and suburban features that make it a popular place to live. Visiting the area for the first time? You can get here via Shepherds Bush or Shepherds Bush Market station on the London Underground.
Like what? Yes there have been some enhancements but the fundamental UI vocabulary and representation is the same. iOS was a big leap forward from the alternatives in 2007. Nothing we've seen since has been even close to as radical.

Like I said, no fundamental changes.
Apple just killed the Pixels
Not Australian so don't know much about the E-3, but it seems Canadians have a similar visa (TN-1) - indefinitely renewable also.

The trick is that it's a non-resident-intent visa, which is to say, while it's indefinitely renewable on paper, at some point USCIS is going to point out that you've been here for an awfully long time and you risk the renewal not going through.

Not sure if the same applies to E-3.
Dropbox? They stole from Dropbox? Becuse iDisk never existed I guess?

"do not disturb" on a phone is only there becaus of some shitty desktop app that changes your Skype status to do not disturb?

Importing Facebook contacts never would have occurred to anyone at apple if not for some gmail plugin?

This article is worse than the one this discussion page is for.
Announcing Hipmunk's $15M Series B Funding
I deal with embedded hardware all day long as well. I don't need a case of Raspberry Pis. I need a guarantee that the board will be available for the next five years.

My customers have products that run for that long, even longer. I can't be changing hardware every year because the chip has been end-of-lifed or has become suddenly scarce and the price has quadrupled. And this happens a lot. Even the pico-ITX stuff disappears and reappears constantly, especially when it's from Asia.
By the way, an easier way to potentially avoid situations like this (for those wondering what is/isn't appropriate in a work environment but are having trouble conceptualizing what's "appropriate" in a work context):

Just don't go to shitty lunch places (like Hooters).

I can't think of any place that's objectionable in this context that's actually a decent place to go.
No, it really doesn't boil down to that. Silicon Valley Startup culture does currently create a hostile attitude for a lot of female founders and potential female employees.

NYC is handing us our ass on female founders and employees, partly because they come closer to getting this right.

Perhaps we should consider learning something here?
It's quite a clever way to make a show of fundraising ability, and possibly scaring Funky Junk away.
I'm not really interested in how he could have handled things to have a better outcome... What I do find extremely interesting is that he's in a particular situation that he can't get out of that's just a horrible cycle of death and destruction. And it seems to draw some eery parallels with real life.
I disagree about the cost/benefit of selling using strip clubs. When you concede to taking customers to strip clubs, you in effect declare your sales team to be a male-only operation. Fuck that. Not worth it.
Alas.

They're not as bad as they were at first. That's something.

I'm still embarrassed to be a member of HN when these threads roll around.

Thank you, by the way - you generally do an excellent job of being a voice of reason here.
Wahwah. Is there really room in the market for this?
Sketchkit - Wireframing iPhone apps in Keynote
Newegg refuses to repair defective laptop because user installed Linux
Nice analysis. Especially given that a large proportion of users will spend less than 2 seconds on a site before leaving unless they're drawn in by compelling content.
Ask HN: Critique/review my first app, Milestone
Around this time last year, I built my first app for Windows Phone. There was no barrier to entry, since I already had the tools from my day job, but without hardware, I developed it entirely in the emulator.

Unfortunately, this meant I didn't really get to see what sort of consensus the WP7 community had reached on how apps should behave, and just went by Microsoft's UI guidelines. Thankfully, a friend of mine in another state had a device, and with some feedback, I recently released another version. Sales however, remain at zero.

I know I've probably missed my window, but I'm sure it couldn't hurt to ask if there are features it should have that it's currently missing, anything that it does that people find annoying, etc...

The app is called Milestone, and aims to fulfill jwz's famous college student use case. I can remember every important date in my relationship with my wife, but drew a blank every time she asked how many days it had been since I'd moved to Austin. I thought it would be a good idea to have an app that kept track of how long it had been since (or until) a number of events, and the idea for Milestone was born.

I figured your significant other might appreciate the fact that you remembered it's been 7 months since your first kiss. Then again, they may not, but it probably couldn't hurt.

Any thoughts, critiques, or reviews are welcome.

You can find the app at: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/fed4cede-0da1-e011-986b-78e7d1fa76f8
...because Apple helps them hide the "Personal Hotspot" preference option via a carrier settings file.

Blame Apple for caving.
> Online "bullying" isn't really bullying though. It's your computer telling you that some human being apparently said something.

What? Compare to:

> "bullying" on paper isn't really bullying though. It's marks on paper telling you that some human being apparently said something.

> "bullying" on your voicemail isn't really bullying though. It's recorded sounds telling you that some human being apparently said something.

The medium is irrelevant; the content is what's relevant.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think that a work environment shouldn't be difficult for one person, and easy for another based on a discriminating factor, but let's be realistic people!

There are going to be situations in life where you'll be uncomfortable. It might be because of your values, gender, faith, or race. It will happen. It will happen to the person standing next to you at some point.

How about we all grow up and move past these points, and build cool stuff? I don't care if it is done in a Hooters or a Bed, Bath, and Beyond.
My H1B expires in 2013 (first 3 years). Does anyone know if this affects my ability to renew my H1B for another 3 years?
I think the current Mac Pros are probably for customers like my last job, a medical school neuroscience lab that used Mac Pros to run the experiments at the five experiment rigs. If one of those Mac Pros needs to be replaced, something roughly equivalent would suffice - there's no pressing need for thunderbolt or USB 3, the goal is simply to replace the hardware ASAP and have a functional rig for doing the work.
America's First Public Food Forest
I think it was excellent design that democracy is sub-optimal for defensive war and terrible for offensive war. You wouldn't want the choice best economy with no drawbacks. Otherwise, democracy would be the dominant strategy.
>> Nobody knew about it for years, yet it was derided when discovered and documented.

I had the same reaction, then I thought they did this on purpose to downplay how really impressive Flame is. I imagine the people writing these blogs are actually thinking "Holy S%$&!" behind closed doors or within other security circles.
On the decline? Of course not. Have they peaked? Maybe.
> " The way you can solve this problem is by telling every freshman to major in Computer Science"

I don't think that'd fix it - we're not really short on CS grads, we're short on CS grads that can write software. That's part of the xenophobia and hostility against H1B's - you have a lot of CS graduates who are just plain not very good programmers, who feel slighted that they're being passed over in favor of an international who's actually competent.
The characters of the various ecosystems in Southeast Asia
Experiments with WebSocket Performance (for HTML5 games)
I have a Nexus S (4G Sprint variant). I got the update to ICS a couple months back and the phone has become more and more unstable. The same thing seemed to happen with the updates my older HTC phone got as well. My experience with Android devices thus far can be summed up in 3 words:

Bitrot, bitrot, bitrot.
The mobile app developer’s dilemma: Growing users or revenue in the early stage
The other problem with focus groups - they aren't independent. There will always be one person who sounds convincing, and the rest will be biased to whatever that person thinks.

The advantage of focus groups is, you can identify themes which resonate. For example, the group might say "integrated" sounds good. That doesn't mean you want an integrated product, it just means that you need a sticker which says "integrated", and some justification (We integrate with Facebook, via our "Like" buttons!)
Don't hit on women at the office.

Of course, because it's not like you spend a significant portion of your life at the office (post school) and the office is probably where a majority of your interactions with other people will occur... nothing like passing up meeting the partner of your dreams because he/she happens to be a co-worker and is therefore automatically off-limits.

What a load of horse-shit.

Flirting, complimenting, asking out co-workers is no sin... Again, there's a line between doing "normal people things" and "sexual harassment." Advocating the former is NOT endorsing the latter.

but at least by being specific I don't have to debate on the slippery slope with you about it.

Who's debating? It's just a friendly discussion as far as I'm concerned. You're welcome to believe whatever you like; and I'm not likely to change my views on any of this based on this discussion.
Crafting Minimal Circular 3D Buttons with CSS
Right. For me, I'm not really into selling my resources to other professionals; for that I'd rather hand them out for free and see what they turn into in the hands of other creatives like is done on Dribbble already (also because I imagine that it is faster for a real designer to be inspired and create new assets than it is for them to download mine and waste time going through the layers, making tweaks, etc). If I'm going to be profiting off of it, I'd be selling the work as-is to devs and/or people that can hardly manage their way around Photoshop or sliced up into sprites and/or straight-up CSS. That being said, while code is more out-of-the-box useful, I can't really justify selling it either since all it takes is a View > Source to steal it.

I'm much more likely to search and find what I need on a service as vast (and generally free) as deviantArt than I am to look on ThemeForest, iStockPhoto or the like. Something about people and money makes the quality of the content go down in order to just churn it out and on the opposite end, the buyer's remorse is greater when you open the file and it isn't what you'd hoped.
That's a valid concern. (I don't think I've yet met a female salesperson or even sales engineer in enterprise tech, security, or networking, but being on the leading edge of change there would be desirable.)
As a legacy customer who's been with Verizon for over 10 years, their push to get me off the unlimited data plan has caused me to strongly reconsider jumping ship (after contract) to a pre-paid provider like T-mobile or Virgin. They're just playing a shell game, raising rates and reducing features while distracting with language. Seriously, knock it off.
I posted this in the other thread, and I've been thinking about it more overnight.

Yes, this was a pretty "lame" update.

At this point, there are two things Apple could be doing:

1. The Mac Pro is EOL. Dead. Gone.

2. The Mac Pro is alive and well, and they're working on a new model.

Now, if the truth is option #1, why would they release this "lame" update now? There is no reason to. When they wanted to kill the xServe, they just killed it. Done.

I think the more likely scenario is option #2, but for whatever reason, they have not been able to build an Ivy Bridge/USB 3/Thunderbolt beast to their liking yet. At D10, Tim Cook clearly said they don't build things to "arbitrary schedules, or price points... they just build the best products they can".
So a few months ago when it became clear the "new" Mac Pro was not going to be ready any time soon, they green-lighted this "lame" bump, to hold over until the new beast is actually ready.

I think this "lame" update shows a heartbeat for the Mac Pro, as a hold-over until something newer is actually ready to go prime-time.

(The difficulty I always think of is will the Thunderbolt port(s) be on the gfx card, or the motherboard? Hmmm)
Being a bit inspired by the design on the Svbtle network, I'm surprised you didn't go with proxima-nova.
The use of representatives isn't just because direct democracy is unfeasible, it also provides a dampening effect, and hopefully provides a foothold for experts to weigh in alongside public opinion.
Are you saying Emacs is finally getting a decent editor? ;)
Having switched to Vim, multiple cursors are the only reason I ever use Sublime Text anymore. They are insanely, amazingly awesome and powerful. I can't wait to see your efforts at porting the idea to Vim.
Would Australians in general have strong preferences about parts of the US? It would seem like the "stronger tech community" argument works IFF you're in Silicon Valley, not so much if you're in North Dakota....
Well, don't forget our lovely European regulations. The costs of hiring employees and handling business in Europe is higher than in US if I'm not mistaken.

That's a cost I'm willing to take. I don't want sweatshops like China, or CEOs who can threaten all employees with at will firings if they don't give up their stock options (Zynga IIRC). Give me good old fashioned rights any day.
How do you get PyPy, Django and PostgreSQL to work together?
Actually, no I didn't, dude. My phone's 2+ years old and was a high-end eclair-era device. But I also wasn't complaining and I don't need or want your pity.
She agreed to the license now, and I took a look at docs. As my parent had mentioned (and I apparently missed it!), there are no docs regarding those Smart Banners yet. And release notes says:

In iOS 6 beta 1, Smart App Banners in Safari show App Store information
for an app above web content. In this seed, the app launching UI and
functionality portion of Smart App Banners is not available.

So it seems we have to wait till seed 2.

This quora question is about the same thing, but without any answers (yet): http://www.quora.com/iOS-6/How-will-Smart-App-Banners-work
Thats a rather wordy getting started. No code samples? No pictures?
In the reviews i read, the Galaxy S II was the best Android phone. I'm not sure about the current state with the S III released.
"Sure, it was a more polished product * * * ."

That's exactly his point. Even if others offered the feature first, it's what's behind the bullet list that makes it a successful product (polish, if you will).
> "how important is this really in practice"

It's pretty important to user satisfaction that Joe can say to Sally "You have an iPhone, right? Check out what they can do now!" And Sally be able to say "Mine does that too? Awesome!"

As opposed to Android, where Joe and Sally can barely help one another through the various UI skins half the time, let alone share enjoyment in cool new software features on devices purchased mere months apart.

(Sure, with iOS there are updates and features that don't get patched into older devices. But those situations are vanishingly few compared to Android.)

So, as an answer to the various times this question has been posed in this thread: Yes. It's a big deal to normal users that reasonably contemporary devices behave the same and generally have the same software features. And it's a very big deal for them to find out they bought the 'wrong' phone, not six months ago, because they got a model that will likely never get the cool new software feature their friend just showed them.

The degree to which updates don't matter, is the degree to which the users are barely interested in the device at all and use them as little more than a flip phone with better email and browser.

Which, while accurate for a certain population of users, hardly supports the relevance of any possible Android feature advantage.
Free To Fail: The Pitfalls of Working Pro-Bono
Most of those laws are European law, that would apply to all EU countries.
You realize that the INS hasn't existed for 9 years? If you're going to run on old stereotypes, keeping the lingo up to date might help.
I'm not sure that it's so much "xenophobia" as the fact that companies are pretty well-known to be abusing the H1-B process right now to avoid hiring qualified Americans. The advantages for employers are quite strong, not least because H1-B holders have far less mobility and are essentially at the mercy of the employer.
Hmm.... More on the "democratic peace" (it's not so clear cut): http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/demowar.htm
Buy a 3-slot Thunderbolt PCIe expansion chassis, fill it with top-end Mac-compatible video cards, and connect it to a Mac Mini via Thunderbolt.

I think you can daisy-chain six of these Thunderbolt-PCIe boxes, which would give you, what 36 monitors?

And not thunderbolt monitors, they'd be whatever the gfx cards you use support, so probably DVI or HDMI or DisplayPort.
Only the really low-end Android phones and the Galaxy S2 and the Galaxy Note and the Motorola Droid 4 and others.. So yeah, only the low-end phones.
none of this applies to the user. There's nothing they can do about the process except not use it - my examples were specifically Google's solution.

Several companies were in the news after they got burned with it.
Lame... so lame.
Maybe her boyfriend was in that picture and that's what this post is all about.

I bet everyone is smiling in that pic.
It certainly doesn't work for finance, etc - which is why I don't want to work in those industries! But yes, fair enough - I'm not saying it'll work for everyone.
Your problem meeting women = YOUR PROBLEM.

Keep it out of the office.

When your unwanted advances, innocuous though they seem to you --- the "libertine libertarian" who "prefers to keep his/her workplace relationships intimate" --- result in a complaint from a coworker drafted on a law firm's paperwork, your company will fold like an unsuited 7-2 and pay up, probably to the tune of a year's headcount, and you'll have inflicted that on them because you think your personal life trumps the business.

I've watched this happen multiple times. There's no real fight. Nobody has their day in court. Your company counsel says "we'd be fucking idiots to spend the money taking this to court" and you say "but there's absolutely no merit to the argument" and he says "that doesn't matter" and poof! out goes a person's salary for a year.

You can be a hard-ass about this and call this list "horseshit", but the only reason you haven't been handed your ass on this issue in real life is that most employees aren't savvy enough to have their complaints drafted for $100 by a lawyer. Let me help them out: HAVE YOUR HR COMPLAINT DELIVERED ON A LAW FIRM'S LETTERHEAD SO YOU CAN COLLECT A YEAR OR TWO'S SALARY. There. I feel better. It's fun to rant!
I'd actually really like this if it wasn't for the BS extra charge to add a tablet or notebook. As I'm only using data, there is no reason for there to be an extra charge. I'd switch if it wasn't for that.
The only thing more open than android is the consumers anal cavity, thanks to the way handset makers and network operators treat their customers.

Seriously, "install whatever android you can get working on it"?? I have a diploma in network engineering, I write web apps and I manage Linux servers. I don't want to play "guess the right Frankenstein mix" with a phone. I want to use it

I really do think the "android tinkerers" who go on about "customising" sit there all day and endlessly fuck about with a phone, that they never actually use because they're too busy "customising" it.

Apparently "customising" may also mean "embracing the openness of android and fuckin around to implement/fix features that shouldn't need fixing"
If you are in demand, then mobility is really not an issue. I know a friend who switched jobs within 6 months of coming here.
Making JavaScript testing in the browser not suck with Sinon.js
I bet they're tired of the shape and are trying to figure out how to do something different.

Ideally they'd come up with something that could somehow work better in either rack mount or desktop usage.
AWS Cloud Best Practice: Introduction to High Availability Deployment
What they are doing is childish. They want to sit on their rights and have those protected at the same time. It's like eating an apple and still having it.

Not only that - they actively harm the whole market by doing so. People outside USA are forced to torrent their shows, and when they learned torrent they proceed to download other media, too, that they could have paid for.

You do not "take steps". "Taking steps" isn't the same as caring about something. The way they "take steps" is inherently peristaltic.