skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty strange that this needs to have a workaround, though, as this would make hangouts much easier to join and get people into G+ as a whole. And if the workaround is this easy, it can't be that hard for Google to incorporate this as a legitimate feature.
PhantomJS 1.6 is massively unstable. Downgrade to 1.5. I'm really surprised this hasn't been fixed yet - there are bugs in their tracker related to it.
What would be the objectives of a human mission? I'm wondering if it's mostly an ego thing since the robots can do most of the science stuff.
The (Literally) Lean Startup: How to Slim Down While Starting Up
Apple has made its choice: thin is more important than green
>I don't think VC has too much to worry about. $99 for an Ouya is definitely selling at a loss;

You can buy Chinese TV sticks with Android 4.0 and better GPUs (Mali 400) right now for 50 dollars. http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/581994032/hot_sale_mini_HD...

These will be a lot more powerful by March 2013.
Any chance someone could update this to work with a recent FF, Safari, or Chrome?
I do both. Specific unit tests for individual classes and methods, then full stack testing for integrating things together. You have to do both to have good and fast tests.

If you do true BDD, you'll start from the outside (integration tests) and work your way in (unit tests).
Yes, this is what worries me too.
If they wanted to reel developers in on this what they should be releasing like right now is some documentation for developers.

Since the hardware is not released yet they should be showing developers how to emulate as-close-as-possible to this on a regular PC (including which commodity joypad you should be testing with) so they can be confident that their game will only require minor tweaking when the final hardware is released.

OT: It seems to be very easy to get HellBanned from HN which makes it seem pretty cruel.
You only need a handful of people not to like your first few posts to effectively kill your chances of contributing to the community and potentially wasting a lot of your time.

Perhaps a system like , you can only downvote comments from users under a certain karma threshold if you also flag them as trolling/spam
> We did not invent democracy. We didn’t even invent modern democracy. There were parliamentary systems in England and other parts of Europe over a hundred years before we created government.

This is a pretty foolish statement from an otherwise reasonable article. Parliament in England was not remotely representative until 1867 by the most generous measure, and more reasonably not until the early 20th century. So far as I know, the only modern government of consequence which could lay claim to being a "democracy" prior to the US is probably San Marino, and its representation is, shall we say, odd.

I think that the US can indeed lay claim to being the first modern democracy: its government was absolutely radical at the time, and more importantly it stood as an example to other later movements (starting with the French).
Was that a change, or just a press release clarifying his existing position on the issue? Cause I'm betting the latter.
Excellent comment, too bad I can only upvote once!
Doesn't seem to do it for my signature - does it only happen in Conversation Mode or whatever it's called?
Cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:mv1XfrS...
George R. R. Martin is the author of the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series, otherwise known as Game of Thrones--the title of the first book and the HBO adaptation.

He has gone as long as six years between book releases in the series.
Wondering why Walgreen's (or CVS, or fill in your favorite store here) didn't do this already on their own. An app that allows you to scan the camera roll, select pics, then upload to their machines for printing... seems obvious.

Is this more feasible because the pics are already mirrored on kicksend's servers, saving upload time?
To do it.

And while we're there, science the place up.

There are still some experiments we can only do in person that can't be done with robots. I can imagine experiments relating to terraforming would be high on the list.
Cached:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&#...
So now opening a text file is "cutting edge?" [1]

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4226539

PS, just like clicking "More" on HN front page after reading a few articles results in a "cutting edge" error.
George R. R. Martin. Wrote the Game of Thrones novel series. He's known for taking his time with writing his novels and instead focuses on other things, like ranting about the NY Jets. His last book, "A Dance of Dragons" took about 5+ years to finish and get to publication. It was published in 2011, the last novel before that was published in 2005.
For an enraged camel, you seem rather affectionate.

Also, not all Americans are like that.
I'm not claustrophobic, unless I look at this picture.
He took so serious making a cosplay or something like that...
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The price above doesn't hold for the opposite direction. Everyone asking me for flight prices, go to flightfox and I'm sure you'll be happy with the results.
Thanks,
Michael
Austerity measures in Greece were also very strict. Greece is the only country in the developed world in the last fifty years that managed to lower the deficit by 5% in a single year. Salaries at the public sector have been reduced by 40%.

As for your last statement, we’re a rich country because we didn’t embrace communism as you guys did.
Bullets about the Higgs Boson to get you through a cocktail party
My guess is that the people who were insanely friendly lived in areas where they didn't get to meet too many foreigners.
Familiarity breeds contempt as they say.
I'll See It When I Believe it - DivineBytes
Take the main point and not the details. Here's another example: women/minority voting. Not the first country or culture to allow that, either.
Also false. They never shipped those and they were also nt Macs. those were developer only machines that you could lease and they were built using standard Intel boards which had that unused TPM module.
I really think this advice depends on the idea and the person. If I had a great idea, and more and more people kept telling me how great it was, I would be even more motivated to go out and make it happen. On the same token, if everybody told me it didn't make sense, that's the type of feedback you need to refine an idea, make it more clear, or even decide to scrap it. At some point you need some sort of outside validation or criticism

On the other end, I agree with the author it's important to spend a lot of time with your idea before you share it. 9 times out of 10 you haven't fleshed it out enough, considered all the angles before it's ready to share, and that's when an idea is really fragile
This is hard for me to accept as a pragmatic person but I have seen it happen to me over and over...
Anyone know how to control what the Open with button offers? E.g. it's offering "Open with Sublime Text 2" and I'd rather have an Open with MacVim.
yes. looks like they preempted not having to care ;-)
You go to a very good school. You'll land on your feet in SF afterwards. Michigan + self-directed learning >>> App Academy.

It's a very difficult lifestyle adjustment to go back to school after you leave. You're almost done.
Indeed, specially since KS says they wont step in if things go south, meaning you'll have tens of thousands of backers pissed at both ouya and KS
Let's be real, America is a Republic, and Republics came from Rome.

Things America doesn't know about america: We are NOT a democracy, we are a REPUBLIC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_democracy
What kind of degree could you get online?
Exactly. Eventually everyone turned to feature testing and it became common sense in clj.

comp.lang.javascript's FAQ on browser-sniffing: http://jibbering.com/faq/notes/detect-browser/
Which they? That same site says that it's the donors who would have to pay the tax, not the recipients:

The donor is generally responsible for paying the gift tax.

http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=108139,00....
From my experience (German, studied and worked in the states, traveler) the list is pretty spot on. BUT I think it applies mostly to Joe Sixpack. Most of my friends and people I met are not really like that. Maybe just enough so that you can tell them apart from Canadians ;)
Don't beat yourself up about it, it is what it is and you are who you are. And I personally like the American mentality, mostly because I can't take most of it seriously. And Joe Sixpack isn't any better in other countries. So keep on shouting U - S - A, U - S - A, I'll even join in :)
I wonder if you are exaggerating to make a point or you actually believe Americans take little to no vacation because the laws don't mandate it.

In finance you get 8 market holidays a year. The federal government has 10. On top of that, most white collar employees get 2 weeks of vacation their first year. After a year or two it's pretty standard to take 3-4.
I would agree with this completely. I just walked away confused from this whole post.

Contrasting information, too much information, no focus (from a crazy quick glance) on anything but space pics. The founder plaque actually bugged me, because your name will be on the wall while contributor's won't.

My two cents on why I didn't dig in more.
While that mali gpu is very nice the extra cores, codecs and ram with the tegra makes it much more of an all around solution. While the cheap single core + mali socs that are doing such high volume are damn impressive performers don't overlook the advantages they get with a bigger name design including dev boards, long lifetime parts, better qa&docs and the nvidia developer outreach programs.
Sorry, should have added a footnote for him: http://georgerrmartin.com/ There's also a wikipedia article, of course.

He wrote the first 3 books of his 7 book series at a normal pace, about every 18 months, but then slowed to a crawl for book 4 - something like a 5 year delay. Writer's block happens, but what makes people angry is that he continues to have an extensive "extra-curricular" schedule involving workshops, cons, and travel. And he's told his fans "I don't owe you anything," and has shown not only not-shame, but active antipathy to those who have the temerity to call him out on his irresponsibility. What's worse, is that his bad behavior is being rewarded with new interest thanks to the HBO miniseries of the books.

I mean, manipulating financial markets for gain, losing your bets, and taking taxpayer money to give yourself a bonus is one thing, but leaving fantasy readers in a lurch is quite another level of villainy.
we have an external svn reference in core to table layout, something git doesn't support. your best bet is to check out libgdx from svn to et the externals.

it definitely does build, otherwise jenkins would scream at me all the time :)
"If you’re extremely talented or intelligent, the US is probably the best place in the world to live."

This is one of the most important points.

For the average American HackerNews reader, life is radically different from the rest of America. I am given opportunities, networks, connections and chances that I wouldn't be able to get this easily anywhere else in the World.

The genius of America seems to come from a few very key categories that exist to this day. Silicon Valley is one of them; Hollywood or Wall Street might be others.

But outside that, our average is a rather poor showing compared to a lot of other countries around the world that more collectively seem to take care of their people.

The problem, in my humble opinion, always stems from ignorance. As a culture, we're just not as aware or respectful as we should be. Other countries know more about the World than we do. That leads to more open-ness and respect.
Rote kissing isn't affection.
Come to think of it most of them are in the last 6 months and aren't much delayed. There's Pen-Type A, Ubooly, Pebble, Remee, Blink/Steady, Hickies, Backpacks by MHM and the Bosavi Headlamp. The only one with a real delay is Pen-Type A.
Unfair to Andrew to drag him into a discussion about the larger community of folks who are trying honestly and diligently to help startup guys? Yep, I do. But you started this with a remark about how HN'ers would just snark-out his service, to which I replied that there were good reasons to be careful about choosing what you consume that had nothing to do with Mixergy. Then you followed up with a comment about startup failures and a full-length article on your blog. What do you expect? No reply? Surely you know me better than that :)

"...Do you really expect all the useful information to be custom tailored to exactly your requirements?..."

No, I do not. The discussion here was about best expenditures for startup help, not about what my expectations are. In fact, my conclusion is that such advice cannot exist, why would I expect it?

And there's no blaming of the medium going on, just an acknowledgment of its limitations. It's a great medium for entertainment, and 25 bucks or whatever is a fine price to pay to be entertained. With enough listeners, odds are that somebody somewhere will get that spark they need from each podcast, so it's definitely worth it as an exercise from the publisher's standpoint. The math works out completely different for the consumer, however.

The question you should have asked me is this: okay smarty-pants, how would YOU go about doing this?

I don't have a firm answer, but I've been encouraged watching experts politely argue over real-world problems. So a startup approaches with problem X and two people who have been around the block take up contradictory positions and have at it, with the petitioner playing the role of questioner. As the discussion progresses, the audience can interject questions (many times using IM or whatnot) and those help pin each position down.

What happens here is that during the process of challenging the answers, a broader argument and discussion happens around whatever the problem to be solved is. This increases the "surface area" of the piece of advice and help; it is described in various scenarios and under various edge-conditions. The places where it might fit more exactly in a reader's situation greatly increases.

That's just one idea. There are others. Outlining a problem like this is a great way to start figuring out ways forward. Apologies if I only sounded unfairly negative.
How dare he!
moat people put their logic updates in render, others have a separate thread. we don't want to force any architecure on anyone as libgdx is a framework, not an engine. this is getting way to off-topic. i suggest you register at our forums where you can get input from lots of knowledgeable people on such matters :)
Space Monkey Raises $2.25M Led By Google Ventures And Venture51
We are only raising $154K because we have people actively fundraising corporate sponsorships, and we are leaving the rest to them. Additionally, this portion of the funds will make sure the Dojo continues to exist, while reaching the rest of the way to the goal will open all four buildings.
I was assuming he was positing it as an absurd example: he is clearly not a public figure, and was wrongly accused of something on the front page. Also, the distinction between public figure and private citizen is clearly not whether or not they are newsworthy; such a distinction, as you point out, would always come up "public figure" by definition.

I was going to explain the rational used, but Wikipedia to the rescue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_figure
The answer is not to be quiet. Shady operators in government count on your cynicism to win. Do not give up.
That's completely reversed from most of the US.

Vacation is usually paid out, sick time expires.
Also, many employers require vacation be scheduled in advance, while sick can be on-demand.
There is a contributors plaque too at the $1024 level, the founders plaque is shown to give an idea of what it will look like.
I would say the only thing essential for a barebones code editor is being indentation-aware. Next come nice-to-haves like syntax-highlighting, directory trees, multiple tabs, etc.

Sublime is great. I will be using it for everything except heavily REPL-oriented languages (as in Clojure - I dearly hope Light Table delivers).
"Grooveshark CHOOSE not to do this."

Of course they don't, it's not their job to police someone else's copyrights. Do you think Escape's shareholders wouldn't sue the officers of the company for breach of fiduciary duty if they discovered they were spending company funds to prop up some other business? If you own a copyright, it's your own job to enforce it. Why should copyright holders get to freeload off Grooveshark's work?
Why I’m concerned about the Wii U
نتيجة الثانوية العامة 2012
Customers love to think that they've "beat" a merchant. They will then have a lot more positive feelings about the transaction, plus they'll often go round telling everyone about the "secret" they've discovered.

I've used this to my client's advantage by seeding coupon sites with special coupons. They don't get much of a better deal than anyone who sees other promotions on the site, but you can trick them into spending more money with minimums.
Also, here's Resig's take on feature detection circa '07:

"Yawwwwnnnnn.... this is, quite possibly, the most inane set of ramblings set up by someone who has obviously never created a JavaScript library of any kind, nor has used JavaScript code in any sort of production environment."

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.javascript/QVlJ0bz...

>> Do you have any idea how many agents jQuery will identify as IE?
>The ones we care about?

I wonder why jQuery eventually turned to feature testing...
That's exactly what I meant!

I understand how hard it is though for the founders of efforts like this one - they are valuing all the work and effort it went to making this a reality. Thus they feel that a $30/unit cost covers all that effort.

The problem is they can often forget that the outsider will value the end product alone and typically at far less than the creators.

They have a mock up image of a bunch of servers in some racks. thats a hefty price for a bunch of servers with a fairly questionable value for the utility.
This original post is not fair in its definition and presentation of business development. So let's set the record straight. Managing companies does requires taking business decisions 'you have to make' with other businesses. It is not an option. Saying 'all these benefits are nice to have but are not core to the existing strategy of the the target partner' is misleading. Proper BD is precisely the opposite, your have to take into account the core strategy of the target businesses to make it a success. Saying 'Consequently, BD may be ultimately harder to succeed in since it requires a lot of faith and time' -> BD is not preaching or based on beliefs, it relies on sound financial and strategic analysis. BD serves a very different purpose than sales (long term vs short term revenues) and both are equally important beyond the start-up stage.
There's nothing stopping the company from letting you take a vacation that is not a working vacation. The $7,500 is irrelevant to the conversation.
Networking Prostitution
I believe this has almost nothing to do with servers and upload time etc.

People, naturally, don't tend to download some app to print their photos. In fact, people are not inclined to print photos. So there's an app which people actually use every day, it partners with a service provider to sell a service and get commission out of it.

There are examples like Song Pop game gives you to opportunity buy the music you guessed from iTunes. There's an affiliate problem of iTunes for that. Because Apple (iTunes) itself won't be implementing a game to increase sales.

Here, the point is, people won't print their photos every day. But people will take photos every day. So if I would download Walgreen app and can't find anything to print at a moment, I'll forget to use and print it when I take a picture with Instagram. So if I would see a print button integrated in Instagram, it will dramatically increase sales.
A representative constitutional republic to tell the whole story.

The article really lost me on this point. If you look that shallowly at what the Constitution established as a one word description, then yes, there were others before. If you look at the branches and, particularly the division between state and popular representation, the US is much different than what came before. It seems like the typical gloss job we find in high schools these days that really needs to be fixed.
>The point is we don’t really get perspective on what’s close to us until we spend time away from it.

This is so true for so many aspects of our lives, particularly with respect to culture -- whether it be the "America, Fuck Yeah!" attitude or the "Silicon Valley coolaid".
Great idea - hopefully you can partner with Target Stores as well as they have a great picture printing kiosk in most stores.
I find this paragraph really telling. One of the things our authors on Leanpub find really hard is just hitting that publish button. But look at the benefits, both to John and his readers:

Amusingly the book has been extremely successful as
a pre-order e-book at Manning.com – it’s the best-selling
MEAP book of all time. I’ve gotten numerous emails from
readers who’ve gotten enormous benefit from the book,
even in it’s rough form, and this has pleased me greatly.
And if the payments come straight out of your apple ID account that would be fantastic.
I can never forget my friend/coworker telling me over dinner back in 2010, "I now know what those guys who jump into trains must have felt like."
enthusiastic gamers with high disposable incomes

Isn't that a subset of the existing Xbox/PS3 market, in which case developers would be better off targeting Xbox.

The market for Ouya has to be people who are willing to spend some money on a console but not $300; it's not clear that such a niche exists.
We're both a democracy and a republic. You can have oligarchic republic or theocratic republics or whatever else too. I think that hybridization is what people tend to mean when they call the US the first "modern democracy."
Really respect that he chose to prioritise his personal life. Reminds me of the lesson I learnt from Herbert and Harry as a child. http://www.penguin.com.au/products/9780140567830/herbert-har...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the funds are frozen by the US, not NZ. "Submitting to Justice" does not mean "Submit to Prosecutor." It means making yourself available to the Court for the purpose of defending yourself at risk of being found guilty and punished.

US Courts are not going to consider the petitions of someone who won't show up to Court. For example, Roman Polanski wishes to petition the US Courts regarding his Criminal Case. The US Courts correctly refuse to hear those petitions so long as Polanski is hiding from the Court.
> We are poor at expressing gratitude and affection

This is not exclusively (or even originally) an American thing. The author makes the same mistake he complains about: it's not all about America! (Corollary: do not blame the Americans for what the British are actually responsible!) Apparently we inherited "phatic" conversation from the same people we took our language from. For example, in German, unlike in English, there is no word for "small talk": http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13545386
I'm not sure about the parent commenter, but I believe a main point should be allowed to stand if the details are not correct or well thought out. The great slogan no longer inspires me when the details and thus the follow-up are missing.
Nope. More likely indicates that Google has fewer people working to develop code.google.com than you expect.
Having read the article I have to conclude that his email address is broken as "go ahead and email me at hiremeserkan@gmail.com and I'll go through it this week"

Does not have @facebook.com anywere!!! Or is this a perk of working for facebook?