skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in a similar boat, its not "unlimited time off", its "we trust you to take what you need". I personally feel that I do pretty well with this system. I probably take 6-8 weeks off per year, usually no more than 2 weeks at a time. It's generally well planed, especially for the periods that are more than a day or two long. Theres only a couple of other people that take as much time as me, but I've never noticed any ill will towards any of us from either management or coworkers. (I think I take a healthy amount of vacation and that my preformance yhe rest of the time reflects this.)

Also worth mentioning, I'm usually somewhat available during vacations if something comes up - for example, I spent Christmas eve debugging a couple of years ago.
I love the alpha level OAuth sequence of kicking you to the browser and then re-launching the app through the application url. :D Digging app a lot so far tho
they have a "featured" profile here:

http://tapfame.com/daniel.amitay/

But I agree that requiring Facebook is always a big turn off of many people ( me included )
If you mean Bluetooth 4.0, its bandwidth is like 50kbps IIRC. It can't be used for anything other than heartbeat monitors and stuff like that.

I know absolutely nothing about Bluetooth, but I watched a WWDC 2012 video about it just for fun. It was an extremely well-done introduction to this technology.

Session 703, Core Bluetooth 101 - https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2012/ (requires a free developer account)
Her project is funded at 2600%. Why bother with internet trolls? They certainly won't go away because you appeal to them with facts or pleas. The only response is to ignore them.
> they do the bear minimum, they do enough to not get sued

The bear minimum is all they have to do. That's why it's called the minimum.

> they claim with a straight face that they're supporting artists

Correct me if I'm wrong, but "artists" is not a single entity or trade group. They are supporting artists that choose to use their service for distribution. They aren't supporting Rihanna, and I'm fairly certain that they don't have to.

> "we comply with DMCA so it's okay"

Well yeah. They do comply (as ruled here). So it is okay.

Sites like reddit and HN and, yes, Grooveshark couldn't get off the ground if they had to proactively filter 100% of submitted content. We as a society have decided that we value that over stopping 100% of illegal copying so we're okay with laws that work to take the content down afterwards.
Killing a Library
We should make that featured portfolio a bit more prominent. Thanks for the feedback!
Well, first of all it's frankly impossibly difficult to distinguish between people who genuinely believe in the things they're saying, people who don't but say these things out of a perception that they're acceptable, and people who don't but say them to get a reaction. Attempts at lumping all of those into a single group and one-dimensionally analyzing are doomed to failure.

Second, SRS is... well. SRS is actually kind of a good example of that problem: it started out as a bunch of guys parodying (among other things) stereotypes of radical feminism for the lulz, and then picked up some people who went along because they took the posts seriously and as a sign that it was OK, and also picked up some true believers. Now it's impossible to tell those groups apart, and it's mostly just as shitty as everything else these days.
Can't believe Tumblr is not able to handle the traffic :(

sorry man
This is one of those situations where one should be very careful with concluding anything.

As I read and understood it the misogyny in effect is for instance female players being sent pictures of mens penises. Not that different from what we know from the chat roulette experiment.

Now that is obviously bad style but it's definitely not something that only exist in games and media and thus treating it as if it's something specific to media or games is probably what created the outcry (not defending it just explaining it). Try and go to a disco and see the hot ladies being hit on from all sides.

In some countries they suppress this behavior by forcing the women to wear vails so no one can see them and stoning them to death for adultery.

Whether receiving "dick shots" is the other side of men and woman having equal rights I am not sure, but calling an end to misogony is like calling and end men.

I wish her luck.
What he is saying is, if you have this plastic keyboard attached to your iPad, then you are stuck in software-keyboard mode. If you dismiss the software keyboard, then you have no access to the UI now displayed on the bottom half of the screen, without pulling off the plastic keyboard.

I tend to agree -- there are only a very few iPad apps that are designed to be used 100% of the time with the soft keyboard displayed. Even in mail, for example, you switch back and forth between browse and edit mode.
May I suggest you haven't thought your position through as carefully as you should then? You made an assertion for which you lack "the proof to back it up". Isn't that exactly what you're claiming ought to be a tort?

Personally, I'm happy that I don't usually have to go double check every single fact I assert on forums like this one. That does mean that I'm wrong occasionally, but I'm happy to be corrected by others. I think less interesting conversations would happen if this wasn't true.
I prefer good life over innovations. But that's just me...
$100M NBA Contract Signed on an iPad
Is her cause any different from those, who want to portrait video games as glorify violence and concluding therefore that they makes grownups more violent?

Sure, she wants to just "research" it, but by the position taking in the proposal the outcome seems already quite "expectable".
I don't think VCs should be worried about Kickstarter, at least in the near future. A VC can see the long-term value of a business idea, whereas Kickstarter supporters are just excited to get their hands on a shiny new toy.

I think it's a lot harder to get crowds of people excited enough about your unreleased social app to raise significant capital than it is for a handful of VCs, who will then have a vested interest in your subsequent success.
"In a hearing last month, Jacobson’s attorney argued that his client’s reputation was hurt"

Now, is it possible to prove this claim? I don't believe so. I know the comparison is not the best one, but we have cases where a perfectly healthy child is given a vaccine shoot and goes into full comma, and yet parents lose in court because judge decides that there is no proof that this vaccine was a cause and parents cannot prove it did because they do not owe a Time Machine to go back in time, deny vaccinating and monitor their child being perfectly fine months later.
Social surplus. To put this in perspective, I believe there's a stat that the total number of man hours spent creating wikipedia is equivalent to a fraction of the time the US spends watching prime time television on an average weekday evening. (I think it's from a Clay Shirky essay.)
It looks like I have to manually enter each app's URL.
I like how easy it was to try Kickfolio - just enter app names. http://kickfolio.com/
I agree with this point and I too adore kickstarter. Generally, the startup advice I've been receiving is to show vision by creating a really solid pitch rather than actually building (or only build for pitch purposes). I understand why this would be the case since if I can build the right emotional state which leads to the same or better outcome (raise $$) at a fraction of the time/cost, why wouldn't I? However, this has caused me to be jaded. Instead of getting excited about new products, I'm now very cautious. I'm asking myself... is the focus on the sales approach right for this product or does it weaken its credibility?
In my reading of your post the thesis seemed to be "no real problem here, just internet kids being internet kids".

I don't think it is helpful to gloss over the legitamately serious issue of outsized misogyny and threats against women with a presense on the internet. I think it is likely that this sort of behavior inhibits female contributors to open source software and the tech world.
I think the key point that this article is missing, and maybe it's just assumed by the author, is that when you're sending out the life rafts in an uncharted direction you get enough user feedback to either work the feature into your product or not.
New Homeland Security Laser Scanner Reads People At Molecular Level
Wow - what a completely, totally, idiotic and tone deaf move on the part of the City of San Francisco. Government continues to baffle me.
just checked it..seems ok:

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/natari.us
You are blaming the victim, though. And you seem unwilling to realize that this is what you're doing.

It's akin to blaming a woman for getting raped, because "she shouldn't have been wearing that outfit".

It doesn't matter that it takes very little to spark them. It's a terrible thing that people behave this way, and the fault lies solely on those who behave in this manner.

You comments are demonstrating perfectly the pervasiveness of the problem.
definitely should put up a screenshot or example of a profile on the homepage. please don't expect me to commit and login with my fb info unless i know exactly what i'm getting
Ahh, quite right. I've deleted my comment as I can see that there is a demo of sorts.

I don't know how I missed this on the first try. Maybe it should be more prominent. I simply wanted to check out the site and the two biggest things staring me in the face were that I was a developer or a company. Both of these required something I wasn't willing to give up: Facebook login or company details including email.

It would still be nice to see some sort of actual demo of the process or how it works without having to provide that kind of information rather than an example portfolio.
Define face the criticism.

If you mean take her serious or change their behaviour, then no, they don't have to. They don't even have to listen to her, for the same reason I don't listen to priests who tell me I go to hell for being a sinner.

If you mean they have to accept that she has the right to speak her mind, then yes, but so does does who disagree with her.

It is either freedom of speech or no freedom of speech.
Could you provide some background on that? I was under the impression that ShitRedditSays is an outgrowth of the attempt to embarass reddit into getting rid of the child porn subforum on their site.
Another recent incident involving (an apparently well known) comdeian Tosh-something which might point to a larger cultural trend as the culprit rather than a bunch of kids on 4chan:

http://breakfastcookie.tumblr.com/post/26879625651/so-a-girl...
Want to get a free shake from McDonalds?

As I discovered last week, even if you throw your half-full drink on the floor thanks to shaky-handed incompetence, walking up to the counter apologising profusely and asking for a mop will achieve the same result. Along someone else for you to apologise to when they arrive to mop up your mess.
7 minutes of terror, the challenges of getting to mars
I think in IT you are creative person and you can't create more than you want to. You can be extremely productive but there is upper limit. If you get 10 days and don't get 28 days like European you get that 18 days in some other way.
Even more wise is realizing that it's ludicrous to most people!
Thank you for your comment!

We are really most on giving users new content on what their interesting in and finding out whats new...

Pinterest is most likely a photo-sharing community where Devvox allows you to share from a variety of options and make sure it reach your audience... as for reddit which i will be honest i dont really use it... looks like more of a link-heaven kind-of...
Interesting idea!

Not sure why but I have only read your main headline when I looked at the page for the third time. My attention was completely drawn to anything below that blue-black bar. It has almost camouflage-like properties.

In the featured portfolio all tooltip app names are "App Name".
The negativity is skepticism that they can deliver what they're promising, and concern over the fallout if they don't.

It's not a character attack.
While I would tend agree with you that we don't need to change email, your examples actually do fit quite nicely into the "email as to-do list" idea:

An email from Nan would be a "read and reply" task. The email from Mr. Mamboto, assuming it's not caught by my spam filter, also requires me to take action.
One thing that's come up in this article, it seems that Kickstarter's members are often willing to give free money to developers. Why?

Kickstarter is referred to again and again, even by posters in this discussion, as a "micro-investment" site. That's a nice thought, except that Kickstarter funders get zero equity in what they produce. This makes great sense in funding an artist to create a new piano concerto, or produce a documentary on Rwanda. It also makes sense for development or improvement of Free Software, where the world will benefit from the result. It makes much less sense for people to fund the for-profit development of hardware that will ultimately be sold at a mark-up.

Have we somehow fooled ourselves into thinking that we are improving the world by bankrolling the creation of a more stylish iPhone dock? Or, is it the street cred of saying, "Yeah, I knew them when they were on Kickstarter..."?
You cannot base a good argument on two data points. I suggest a 3rd point which I believe is a counterexample to your hypothesis:

Israel has more startups per capita than any country in the world, but has socialized working laws. The legal minimum is 10 (I think), the exact amount for engineers varies from company to company, but it's usually at least 15-18 days of paid vacation per year with some of the bigger employers offering 20-30. We also get 3 months maternity leave, several months of unemployment, etc. Not as good as France or Holland, but much better than the US.

I'd say the approach of the US with regards to anything social can work against risk taking. e.g. Healthcare.

It's much easier to take risks when you have a social safety net.
has a really nice light feel to it
For the record, I label myself male, and so do all of my female friends who play games. We all refuse to use our voices during gameplay. It's not limited to gaming, either. We've all got male-sounding handles for a number of platforms/forums/etc.

Why? Not worth the shitstorm. I'll never really understand, I guess. Just can't empathize with the overwhelming need to harass, belittle, and attack people online just because of a single identifier. I'm glad I can't. I bet it feels really empty.
Why is this suddenly a big deal now? These "punch random annoying celebrity X" flash games have been around since the 90s. I don't see Justin Bieber desperately trying to drum up more media attention even though a dozen people have made the same game out of his face. But of course, it is a horrible crime to do it to a "feminist", that's totally different right?

Also, it is sad and ironic that losttrap (the guy who made the game) has gotten just as much abuse from the feminists as Anita got in the first place. They thought it was terrible when it happened to Anita, but are perfectly happy to do the same thing themselves. It is especially bad to see how much of their abuse has focused on his sexuality.
FTC give Google $22.5M slap on the wrist
I would be surprised if they didn't have some kind of funding. If the video is shot in their office, they have at least a dozen employees or so.

A lot of Kickstarter projects these days seem to be more about building hype and gathering pre-orders, rather than raising just enough money to get off the ground.

That said, I agree Kickstarter should be concerned about one of these multi-million dollar projects failing spectacularly.
> "Is Groupon Good for Retailers?"

Many say yes, many say no.

The retailers that say "no" due to bad experience are generally those who either miscalculated demand for the offer or were pressured by the groupon rep into making too good an offer despite their better judgement.

If you are a retailer interested in any scheme like this you absolutely must make sure your offer is gated such that it simply can't end up costing you too much, and make sure that what you decide to do is decided based on what you know will work for your business (or at least can't break your business) and not based on the advice of the rep who's job it is to get you to offer as much as possible. And as with anything else, do not allow yourself to be rushed into making a decision.
I find mixpanel to be really good here also. Unfortunately, I quickly surpassed Mixpanel's 500 user free tier and it's been less useful ever since, but it still tracks events and has a lot of really helpful views on your data.

Recently, I've started homebrewing my own solution using Firebase (www.firebase.com). I've found it extremely straightforward and am enjoying having more control over my analytics data.
> merely stating an interesting observation.

You could make this observation about an awful lot of Kickstarter projects, honestly. Here's a random example from a recent campaign I donated to:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/JoshuaACNewman/mobile-fr...

"It's rather interesting to note that as a society we have advanced enough to the point that we can donate the resources to support roughly 2 average size families[1] for a year to a "game designer" to make a tabletop game about Lego robots."

Honestly, your scare quotes and italics kind of hurt your claim of "no condemnations or moral objections" and make your post come off as kind of judgmental.

[1] just guessing that $40k might be enough to support an "average sized" family depending on the part of the country
How to use bathroom time effectively
Do geeks take time and productivity a little too seriously? Seriously?!
Use OSX Finder Quicklook (Spacebar) to preview all plain text files
Haha. Is it really good enough though? Even really basic things like search are not ideal. I actually think there is room for a super simple email client (i.e. not with labels etc.), but that competes with the native product, but is actually in keeping with the quality of the rest of the functionality.
Seems an optimistic timeline to 'reinvent' memory. They have perhaps forgotten about 'bubble memory' which was going to 'eliminate disks' in 1982.

From the article : "As reported by The Register, at a recent conference in Oxnard, California, HP’s Stan Williams said that commercial memristor hardware will be available by the end of 2014 at the earliest."

So basically we'll get to see real devices perhaps at the end of 2014 (I'm guessing closer to 2017 but we'll see) And we need a couple of years of building/using/repairing them before we see wide spread design wins, then another year before 'memristor' enabled devices hit the market and are or are not competitive.

That said, I'm rooting for them to be successful, flash is in a bad way at the moment with feature size being a hard limit on cell lifetimes.
Normal people should care about politically incorrect jokes. I would also disagree about the 95/5 split on that, but this is clearly coming more from feel than actual data.

Regarding them not being highly upvoted, are you kidding me? There is serious crap that is both highly upvoted and discussed. It's terrible.
Bluetooth runs at ~2 Mbps which is not too shabby. And there's a new (as of BT 3.0) "high-speed" mode which actually sends bluetooth traffic over 802.11, so you can keep your wifi radio off until you actually need to send a lot of data.

edit: I haven't watched your video yet, but thanks for the link :)
Assuming [this](http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html) is your source, I'd note that it "is based on the number of Android devices that have accessed Google Play within a 14-day period".

I suspect that it's only loosely correlated to the number of devices in the wild running that version, but very tightly correlated to the users likely to download an app that you write.
I like the idea. When I worked at appbackr we thought about something similar.

It would be cool when there is a little more data in the about the performance of the app. I think of it like a dribble for app developers that keeps itself up to date. As we're programmers we don't want to maintain it :)

You should talk to my friends from appmonsta. They have a lot of data around apps. Maybe you can work something out.
For me, my Macbook 1,1 can't install 10.7. :(
Thanks. There is a real problem in the marketplace right now. I really think its time for something different for the people who have talent and are stuck at jobs that don't make them happy.
I think there's a fair amount of honest skepticism around the pricing, which isn't the same as simple mean-spiritedness.

I for one really really want this project to succeed! However, I'm afraid that they weren't realistic about the costs associated with building the hardware. But I look forward to be proven wrong.
Why would you think that? We're talking about what Anita wanted money for. She wasn't asking for people to fund " the entire field of racial studies and gender/queer/men's gaze theory". She was asking for money to keep making the same videos she's already been making. And which you can view for yourself to see that calling them "rehashing tvtropes" is actually being pretty generous.
Of course that's not what I meant. She's not doing a PhD in gender or racial studies. It's a series of videos talking about video games. Come on.
> A VC can see the long-term value of a business idea

> Kickstarter supporters are just excited to get their hands on a shiny new toy.

Every kickstarter project I've supported is always about a product in the future. Including this one. Frequently, that shiny toy is years away.

The only difference between kickstarter and a VC is that consumers are deciding if the company will eventually deliver a product they want. You just cut out the middleman. The VC.
The nice thing is that you almost certainly will get some kind of hardware in your hands out of this project for $99. Compare that to years of vaporware hardware where a big announcement is followed by nothing but spending lots of money and never releasing anything.
There's a big difference between playing games on a PC and on a TV. Many people, including myself, don't like to play games on a computer.

It's less relaxed - for most people, it involves sitting at a chair and a desk. It's not easy finding a comfortable gaming position lying on a sofa with a notebook resting awkwardly in your lap.

Sure, you can hook up a gaming PC to a TV, but that's more work than most people are willing to partake in.