skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am from Bulgaria. Every country has its flaws. If this article was about Bulgaria. I myself would feel a bit hurt. I would immediately try to lesson the blow of some of the arguments and accusations.

And just for the record, I'm being brutally honest about my own home country. India with all its problems has much more of a future than Bulgaria does. Bulgaria's population is shrinking, business is shrinking, villages are shrinking. Every 5 years we go back and see how things have shrunk, life is a bit harder, and corruption shows it's head in more places. Each year Bulgarian businesses have less potential customers. At least in India everything is growing, things are incrementally getting better.

My whole argument is that the author writing posts like this is not going to change anything or do anything productive or constructive. It's just going to hurt feelings without creating action. It's a useless article for Indians because it's not encouraging, has no call to action, and just plain hurts. In fact reading his article just makes me want to stay away from India. Honestly, India was one of the places I wanted to visit in the next 10 years. After reading that and mentally combining it with all the other "I went to India and was shocked and disappointed" articles it makes me want to avoid the country altogether for the next 30 years.

Everyone's country has shit. But if you're going to talk about the shit in Country_X. Equally talk about the flowers too. Otherwise the people living in that shit have their motivation and drive to make it better taken away. And others are given an overly negative view of Country_X.
Five Legal Pitfalls That Sink Many Good Startups
Because if the results look too much like an actual site, people will think it's the real template.
> it is still an opportunity for speculators who can do the timing right.

Gamblers - it is still an opportunity for gamblers who can do the timing right.
I'm a programmer. Those feeds look useful, thanks! :)
WD's Red is the first line of NAS-specific hard drives
Incredibly good feedback. Thank you!

A lot of these items are on our plate already and we'll address them as soon as we get some bandwidth.

- We'll try to improve the Stencil/Images tab usability
- Stencils are already using tags/aliases when searching them. Categories will be extremely beneficial as well.
- Templates are on our plate too.
Are there any optimizations in the Chrome app version of this?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nlfbhphohgafllkjna...
A monopoly is a market with only one supplier.

Pepsi and Coke are not a monopoly - as you explicitly acknowledge, there are at least two suppliers in this market.

Microsoft was never a monopoly, there were always other suppliers (Sun, Be, IBM, Apple, Linux, at different points in time).
We have an endless supply of the best coffee available on the planet. We receive between 50 to 100 samples every month. We work with NYC's top baristas to do blind tastings of every sample we receive and we keep detailed sensory records (awesome db of data on coffee evaluations, btw!).

After all that, only the top 3 coffees from that process make it into our boxes. And, we partner with General Assembly to provide those same 3 coffees as our office coffee.

So it's coffee heaven.
Of course it is unethical. Regardless of anything your contract might state and regardless of your other options, if your employer needs you, you are bound by duty to stay. You have an ethical obligation to make things as easy as possible for your colleagues, no matter what hardships or long-term commitments this requires that you take on. Having collaborated on a project with others gives the collaboraters an unlimited moral claim on your future time and energy.
Most of our developers use Ubuntu and I just tried to play Score Rush and it worked fine for me on Chrome under Ubuntu. Perhaps the browser is black-listing your video card and not supporting WebGL? If I can get more details about your system I can try to help.
Looks like the Council tabled the matter until november.

https://twitter.com/SegravesWTOP/status/222696651620483072

Does anyone know if this means Uber gets to operate Uber X in the meantime?
If you're talking about PHP's anonymous functions then yes I agree they have made life a lot easier. I was talking more about projects like Swiftmailer for instance, example:

// Create a message
$message = Swift_Message::newInstance('Wonderful Subject')
->setFrom(array('john@doe.com' => 'John Doe'))
->setTo(array('receiver@domain.org', 'other@domain.org' => 'A name'))
->setBody('Here is the message itself')
;
It's not just you. For me, the "graph" is blank. (Chrome on Windows)
Thanks for the link. The Score Rush and Space Ark demos represent you much better, especially since they are by third-party developers (despite the poor video quality). Were they both running in pure WebGL under Chrome, or did they rely on your native plugin? I was unable to find any documentation on your site that actually explained what specific features require the plugin.
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Thank god there's a picture of a fat dude on the page. Had it been a picture of a hot girl in a bikini and we'd hear drama about this for a week.
The Instagram founders are exceptionally cool. After the $1B Facebook acquisition Mike Krieger kept right on answering questions on the instagram-api mailing list without missing a beat, as if nothing had happened.
I believe that the point made before the courts was that a legal principle that had not shown up once in litigation in nearly two hundred years is obscure enough that even a lawyer could be excused for failing to remember its existence.

At this point that would be a legal principle that has shown up only once in over 200 years, and which created precedent supporting the claim that it is so obscure that even a lawyer could be excused for failing to remember its existence.

Obviously a lawyer whose attention was drawn to the 3rd should draw a correct inference. But there is so much to the law, and lawyers focus so much on precedent from previous cases, that a lawyer can be excused for forgetting about it.
I'm from Brazil and a ruby developer. Can I exchange the trip for a visa?
I would apply if I had any skills in Ruby, but alas, I've done mostly .Net / iOS development. That said, I absolutely love postings like this!
So you think it's good for the employer if an employee wants to quit because they think they are underpaid to stay and work on said project? Especially when they seem to they are screwing him?
It's listed as "iPad 3rd generation" under the compatibility section for accessories on the apple store.
Steve Wozniak On Google Glass And MS Surface
Nice app. Do you mind sharing what technologies you use to power the app? e.g. any JavaScript libraries, frameworks, etc?
The Committee hearing is happening RIGHT NOW.

You can see the topics and watch a LIVE VIDEO here:
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/Markups%202012/mark_0710...

Note: As can be seen on the topic list, there are a number of different topics, and the IPAA is not being discussed yet as of writing this comment.
(This second, they're talking about Child Prevention Act of 2012, HR 6063.)
Mike has been an example of good citizenship in the Redis community as well. Always helpful, kind, and providing important feedbacks.
That 45 day head start must be divided by the number of users running the program though.
They were for sale on the Google Play Store the same day that the Nexus 7 was announced...
I've tried a few Wikipedia apps... I always end up not using them since I find Wikipedia pages via Google and there is no way to redirect you from the web to an app. (Wikipedia could choose to do it on their end but they don't.)
SharePoint makes Microsoft billions of dollars per year of revenue (the only concrete number I could find was $2B, but it was from a blog that didn't cite sources). If github can pivot from code sharing to general work sharing, $100M doesn't seem like quite so much money.

Edit: $800M/yr in 2007 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2007/jul07/07-26SP...
Plato said ...

Just kidding. I don't know. They're probably cool.
He was being sarcastic (I hope).
Augmented Reality Living Room Table
I would gladly use an UberX service at slightly higher than cab prices to supplant all of my taxi cab use. $15 cab ride can be pricey. Their town car service will likely remain untouched but why would you want anyone to legislate against an efficient service providing high quality customer service where drivers still benefit? I can't think of an argument for it that does not involve oligopoly / racketeering arguments.
It's extremely pretty, though I question some of the UX desicisions.

Double-tapping an item makes it vanish. Due to the seemingly random selection of nodes that appear when re-searching for a parent node, that item may never be seen again...

Seems odd that a gesture like double-tapping, while not often used in iOS, would result in the exact opposite action of the familiar double-clicking to drill down or expand of other UIs.
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Reminds me that if you keep clicking the first link (ignoring anything in brackets) of the article on a wikipedia page you will eventually hit philosophy and then get in a 3-4 page loop.

edit: Having just checked, the loop is now a 2 page loop between reality and philosophy.
It would be nice if the SDK were available for linux.
They have over a billion in the bank and are still profitable. People LOVE stories about RIM going down the drain for whatever reason, so these stats are conveniently not mentioned. I am not saying there are no problems, but really this is one bandwagon that needs to sloooooow doooown.
Hacker News Pro app looking to be acquired for $2,000 on Apptopia
May not even be fixable, if it's just calling out to an Apple webview component.
We have some women on the team at Craft Coffee, and let's just say that you are correct, sir.
I admire them for trying to bring a cheap platform for (indie) gaming and such, but I don't get some points:

They are claiming that "all the games will be free-to-play" and then in the FAQ they rectify it by saying that all games will have at least a "free-demo", which is not F2P, but nonetheless it means it will offer both kinds.

Now let's see what kind of games they might bring to this platform: most of the F2P games that are available are either MMORPGs or some kind of FPS (ruling out flash games, of course). You don't find these formats on consoles, and why? Keyboard and mouse, which is totally the opposite of what they are trying to offer. Even though there are a lot of FPS games on consoles, there is not a single one the F2P format.

The other kind of games (the non-F2P) will be mostly indie games, which is great. But still limited to the use of a controller! There are some amazing ones like Super Meat Boy and Bastion, but not many!
Noise Free says Apple stole its technology, sues to stop patent claim
I think thing missing from this is a perspective on whether the respondents are happy with this situation, or feel that they are/would be "forced" to commit wrongdoing--to keep up with everyone else's wrongdoing.

This distinction matters because if it is the latter, then it should be possible to take steps to change the culture to something that is more sustainable and self-policing. Most people want to do the right thing, and they just need to feel supported in doing so. This is the essence of "nation building" like what the U.S. is trying to do in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But if 25% of Wall St. executives are happy committing wrongdoing, then a much more aggressive and intrusive level of ongoing enforcement will be needed.
Yes. Seriously. If we decide to hire somebody from outside the US who wants to move to NYC, we will sponsor a visa. You should apply.
A link to Pebble on Kickstarter for those who want it:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper...
Yeah, I was. Since I'm getting quite a few down votes I'll just add that I felt the sarcasm was warranted because I don't understand why this question even needs to be asked. What would ever make someone think that they had some sort of ethical obligation to start some project just because their employer asked them to? And even if the thought did occur to you, the implications are obviously absurd.
I don't think I'm a speculator. I just started mining back in the day when CPU mining was still viable. Early in the day when we got a 50 bitcoin batch every other week. I didn't buy a single bitcoin. I just sold the ones I mined. Is this really speculation?
Cool. I guess I'm going to have to give it a shot.
I don't feel very good about the idea of DR just being duplicate servers in a different zone. You don't know what kind of problem could ripple out and affect more zones, or all of them. A completely different host/cloud/colo provider seems like a safer bet.
That's called a 'fluent interface.'

It's useful in some instances, and is a bit different than currying because PHP doesn't really support proper currying.
It's refreshing, honestly. It seems to have more of a clear focus on real value to the user and it feels more like a labor of love and craft on the part of its creator, Mr. Cegłowski... its refreshing to see someone try to make something good rather than something that's simply sellable to VC's.

Now, admittedly, he's probably not getting rich off of the site – the exact number of paying users is hard to discern, but there are 7k more active users now than a year ago, so assuming 50% of people who buy in use it at least once every 30 days, then, conservatively, he's grossed somewhere north of 100k in the last year, right? Even if that's off by a factor of 2, it's not a killing – but it's real money as costs are likely reasonably low given the content he's serving and the low overhead such a small operation would require.

On top of that are the $25/year archival accounts. If 5% of all active users pay for archival accounts (that's a utter guess), that grosses another ~$29k/year. That's workable, definitely... but again, not a killing.
Yes. 100k for developers is definitely on the low end (not even including overhead), and for others it might be on the high end, so assuming most of their employees are developers, 10M is a pretty low estimate of their payroll.
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Graphical analysis refers to the practice of conducting technical analysis using information gleaned from the charts of the asset being traded. In the currency market, the assets traded would be currencies.
I like the idea of creating actions from within your email client. Integration with some project management tools like pivotal or trello would really smooth off this part of my workflow.
> First order of business would be to cut the $50 billion per year in oil industry subsidies in the U.S.

Those supposed "oil industry subsidies" just keep getting bigger and bigger. In 2009, the claim from an environmental think tank was "approximately $72 billion over 5 years":

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090918100004.ht...

Where do you get your figures?

EDIT: Here's a good summary of where things stand. Nowhere near $50B, and the oil companies have a reasonable argument that the money they pay in royalties to drill in foreign nations is aptly described as a tax. http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/breaking-it-down-oil-i.... Most of the other "subsidies" are the sort of tax breaks available to any producer of manufactured or extracted goods. Even windmills.
I might be wrong, but as far as I know they haven't sold yet (it's still got to clear regulators?) so although he technically could have walked away I don't think it would been sensible as he isn't going to be able to cash out yet?
If only there was some other means of social collaboration. Threads tend to enforce a hierarchy that is not enforced in normal social situations. If several root level comments all present the same idea, maybe it would make sense to respond to all of them with a single well structured response. The only way to do that with threads is via copy/paste. If only there was less structure. Maybe a collaborative note-taking technology is the solution?
Everything run in pure WebGL. The sound used Web Audio (but we also support HTML5 Audio).

We do not demo anything running with the plugin any more.

Lack of WebGL support is the only reason to use the plugin. Now we also have a pure JavaScript 3D physics and collision solution (to be available on the next SDK release).
Right. This model effectively caps all game prices to that of an ad-supported game, which can only be a few bucks at most.

If a player can play for free on Turbulenz (with ads), then I'm going to have a hard selling my game elsewhere for $10.

And if I can't sell a $10 game with this platform, then we won't see AAA titles either.
The Clojure's start-up is slow because the source files are compiled. But once your program is launched, its perfs are correct and very close to Java. About the immutable data structure, don't forget each method doesn't return a copy of the data. It's more clever using changes detection.

You can read a lot of information about this part of Clojure in the book "Practical Clojure". I'm reading it and I'm learning some stuffs about Clojure.

To conclude, Clojure is fine for "long" program running.
Pushing 1080p off a mobile GPU on a console with 1Gb of RAM is cool and all but good luck doing anything else impressive besides... well pushing 1080p. This thing is closer to a phone than a real console.
Not yet. We're planning Offline support, Google Drive, notifications and many others.
I agree, Enigmail has been around longer than I've actively used it (for the record, I had installed it occasionally before, but hardly used it). The point I was making is that it seems to be stable and mature software now, and that maturity has existed for a reasonably long time. Surely there's not much point in holding a grudge against software with a buggy past; that'd severely limit the pool of available software...
The app itself looks gorgeous, but I dont understand the primary use case. I've been writing papers and researching for years now, and I've never found the little idea cloud thing -- it seems more like a way to connect suspects in cop movies than an actually helpful way of visualizing discrete data.
The problem is that CCs and PayPal is much easier to use and it is much safer than Bitcoins.

If you never use bitcoin, you wouldn't realize how convenient it is in some situation. For example, when I brought an album, I just sent some coins to the address and then it was a done deal. I don't have to enter my credit card information or enter my username/password.

If you aren't convinced about bitcoin but you have time, you should experiment and find if there's any usecases for bitcoin rather than just dismissing it outright.

Let also note that the security pressure by criminals have lead lot of bitcoin sites to adopt 2 factor authentication. Some figured out that they don't need their wallet online at all and can get away with just using the blockchain to process payment. This meant even if the server were to get hacked, there's no bitcoin to steal. The bitcoin team themsleves are also working on adding multi-signature transactions.
It needs to look like that, otherwise your dumber clients start to complain that the site isn't in the right color, or the images are wrong. If it looks anything like a normal site and not a sketch it causes extreme headaches dealing with some customers.
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Thanks, I wasn't aware of EPIC. Now that I've read more about EPIC and the executive order referenced in this article, I regret posting this link. The article does appear to significantly overstate the EO. But I appreciate all of your comments - this has been enlightening :)
You just cloned Sparrow and called it a "re-design." http://sparrowmailapp.com/
That's fair, though. They'd rather have dirty, labor-intensive manufacturing to grow a middle class out of grinding agricultural poverty and we'd rather have desk jobs and cheap clothes.

It's a fantasy to believe there's anything more than a marginally better alternative. Certainly China is going to industrialize a lot "cleaner" and faster than we did, and when they have a real middle class they'll start caring about pollution a lot more. And it won't be "too late", I suspect.
These fonts are used appropriately here I'd say. They're here to make sure the client knows it's not exactly how the finished product will look like.

EDIT: You can actually select the type of font that you want when creating a new project (Serif, Sans serif, or mono!) :)
Sounds like a great idea with lots of potential for spinoffs.

Basically any Android TV device with a dedicated appstore connected to your credit card has lots of potential. Its a continuations of the entertainment merge (radio, tv, video, games, etc, social web) and thats the correct general direction.

Being based on Android also opens up the possibilities for local variations. In Ireland for example, a great/cheap TV solution is SoarView (6 free-to-air terrestrial Irish TV channels) + FreeSat (UK free-to-air satellite channels) + Netflix (7 euro a month currently). That's not very common though because the hardware is crap and you need someone to come in and set it all up for you. You'll probably have 2 boxes & 3 remotes and need to press lots of buttons to get to everything. "Cable" companies wil spread out the cost, manage the hardware and get Irish & British TV into the same remote.

A box that can pleasantly handle it all and "ephemeralize" it (thus doing all the stuff we haven't thought of yet) would be excellent. Add in some gaming that appeals to wii people and some that appeals to facebook scrabble people and you've got a bomb.

Gaming is probably the best angle and any angle will do. Once you are shipping something that people connect to their tv, there are all sorts of things you can do. I'm glad to see experimentation going on here. I'm also glad to see that its getting to be in the reach of small companies.
I'm not sure if you just implicitly suggested that we (humans) will be mistreated by the general AI (and its offsprings) just like the natives were mistreated by people who followed after Columbus.
You can register a NSURLProtocol to handle networking requests for UIWebView. Some applications use this to provide transparently decrypted local files to a UIWebView.
Stripe for Non-Developers
Stripe for Non-Developers

I'm building a service called MoonClerk that is built on Stripe's API. We're like an abstraction layer for Stripe that let's non-developers use it (no coding required.) Right now we're focusing on recurring payments and offer more functionality than Stripe currently offers in that regards. However, we also do one-time payments. I'd love to get feedback on how to better communicate what we do on our landing page as well as any feedback on what developers/designers would want in this. We're thinking that it will allow web designers the ability to offer an alternative to PayPal when they have limited budgets from clients but still want a beautiful, branded checkout experience.

http://moonclerk.com
That picture is from the Romanian seaside (Romanian gypsies), I have a different angle here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/913zazhaca3i965/lamare.jpg
Quick Feedback:

1. Looks fantastic!

2. Where's the pricing? Coming from the landing page, I could not find it. You should really make this easy to spot.
Ah, I thought they where going for functional as that's the response I got when talking to one of their developers about it.
Here's what I use:

Add the post-by-email email address to your contact list, then use the Send To button in Mobile Safari, type "p-i" and touch the pinboard completion.