skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's fun until there's an accident. Then it wouldn't be fun at all. I'll gladly trade "joking with the driver" for a driver licensed and insured to drive other people. Companies like Lyft make a point of saying they aren't affiliated with the drivers and have no liability. That means you're depending on the driver's personal (likely state minimum) insurance.

For me, choosing to ride with vetted drivers who have the proper insurance is an easy choice. I'm willing to pay much more for that. If I feel the need to joke around with someone during the ride, I just bring a friend. It certainly costs more (all other things being equal), to have a properly insured driver come pick you up. I think it's worth it.

For me, "Fun" comes far down the list of things I look for in a transportation service. Safe cars, vetted drivers, quick pickups and professional service are all much more important to me than riding with a driver who is "fun" (or who put a mustache on the front of their car with the hopes of appearing fun). I've had a couple UberX rides now, and honestly, that's the sweet spot for me (affordable ride, clean cars, professional drivers, timely service, environmentally-friendly and properly insured). It hits all the things I'm looking for in a transportation service, at a price very close to a Taxi.
Ha, I always forget that! Thanks!
That was the point. Execution time is mostly inconsequential when compared to things like development time and competitive edge provided by the language you're using - you know, the actual money makings factors.
Being Compliant Is Not Only Training And Rules, It’s Culture
The problem is that this approach helps his workflow and it does absolutely nothing for mine. I understand what he describes, I just can't relate to it.
The technology and features of the engine and platform look awesome! That quake demo is really slick (and seems it was released 2 years ago, would be nice to see some newer videos).

I'm worried about the pricing model though, you say it's free but on the developers page it mentions that Turbulenz is able to put any game developed with it on their site at any time they like. That doesn't sit right with me and perhaps you could improve that in some way to attract more developers to use the engine (I can see you're following in apples footsteps but you really don't have the market power apple has).

Also when I went to the main website it's telling me Javascript is disabled even though it's not. I'm running Chrome V22 (the latest beta) on Windows 7 and have whitelisted the domain in adblocker to no avail.
Canvas is definitely faster than SVG for scaling objects in the HTML dom. I had to switch to canvas for the same reason for mockuptiger
We're making a competitor: https://circleci.com/?join=hn. We're a lot like semaphore, except our tests run much faster, we do automatic parallelization, and we support python, node, clojure and PHP.

We're in beta, but you can check it out here: https://circleci.com/?join=hn
Related (or identical):

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4211021 <- Comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4211271 <- Comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4212427

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4212488

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4223137
Given the amount of people who are victims of scams and frauds within the mainstream banking system, and the habit of paypal to freeze people's accounts and hold their money on a frighteningly regular basis, I am not sure that bitcoin is any worse from a safety point of view.
I use it on the rare occasion I want to move a url from the desktop (where I use chrome). Aside from that, Safari works well for me. (The desktop remote debugging coming in 6.0 is really nice, too.)

I'd probably use it for bookmark sync, too, but my bookmarks are such an unmanageable mess I usually just google stuff I need to find again. (Beyond a few very static bookmarks.)
Value and Growth Hypothesis
Not sure why an enterprise would want to host their source code at a separate company when it is just as easy to host their own source control system (git, mercurial, tfs, whatever) with their other cloud services (S3, Azure). I do not think enterprises see their source as a "social" connection, and do not see any benefit to thinking of it as such.
I imagine the response was in regards to cabs, where reputation doesn't matter. If you replaced Company A and Company B, with Taxi Driver A and Taxi Driver B, you'd see a system where reputation doesn't matter (especially if they can legally keep people from competing with them on price). Reputation does matter when it comes to hiring a car from a company like Uber. If they blow it, I have a real option of not using them anymore.
Why Ouya Won’t Be Yet Another Vaporware Gaming Console Upstart
So have you heard of www.mail-pilot.com?
Ummm. Step 1 of any 12 Step program.
Gaming on android is a sad, laggy affair. There's too much input and audio latency for it to be a serious gaming platform.
Excluindo pastas com arquivos dentro utilizando PHP
I think it will succeed because cost is important, and they understand that android solves two difficult problems for any gaming platform - development of quality titles and distribution of these titles.

The specs are an important consideration, but they won't matter if the thing is too expensive to gain a large following.

Their largest problem will be their sales channel I suspect.

I hope they kick ass.
It already reached 200K! WOW! Looking forward to this one...
what not to read as an entrepreneur
AirPlay for all? Miracast promises video streaming without the router
To prevent sharing out except to Facebook, Instagram would have to disable its API and stop saving photos to Camera Roll. I don't expect either of those to happen.

Even if the deal might fall through, I could easily imagine Mike taking a day or two to celebrate instead of jumping back in and answering questions, particularly on the instagram-api list, since nurturing a slowly-growing ecosystem is not Instagram's best path to a successful exit. Logically, I think he did it because he's a nice guy.
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Why story telling should be in your business skills set
Is there anything out there right now that handles email attachments like described in this pitch? I would love the ability to see all the attachments ever sent to me, organized by date/sender/filetype. Or clicking on a contact and seeing all attachments I've shared with that person.
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What's a non-engineering problem? The examples given in the article, love and happiness (I don't believe in free will), certainly are engineering problems; or rather, treating them as engineering problems (the "lifehacker" approach) will generally lead to greater success.

As for some problems not being worth solving, sure. But that's a key facet of the engineering/lifehacking approach: don't prematurely optimize, and don't try and optimize anything until you've figured out how to measure your goal.

So unless you have an example of a problem where engineering strategies don't apply, I'm going to keep applying them.
While there are some tools and apps that do this (AppSalesMobile), it is important to gain and then read those reviews. Good or Bad, ratings/reviews drive sales

There are some pretty spammy ways of getting reviews. Popup an alert that says "Show us some love" which redirects to the app store review page and "leave feedback" which sends an email to developers. (I think that article was on HN a while back)
I don't see Amazon SimpleDB in this list, rather Postgres and Redis.

Can someone who knows more about various DBs opine on this. Is it better to run your own DB as Instagram seems to be doing or is relying on SimpleDB good enough if you don't need such high performance.

Also, as happens with many startups, how easy/difficult is data migration when startups try to scale and need to scale fast.
Since we're being pedantic, scalability doesn't mean "becomes faster".

Your definitions are generally right if you replace "becomes faster" with "handles more load". Something that scales is something that can handle additional load without slowing down as much as the next thing, or that has a prescriptive method for preventing such slowdowns (like adding more hardware or moving to a bigger server).

You're generally spot on but for that point though.
You can track reviews for an iOS app by subscribing to its rss feed.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/rss/customerreviews/id=[your_apps_apple_id]/sortBy=mostRecent/xml

For example, here's the RSS feed URL for the Facebook app.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/rss/customerreviews/id=284882215/...
This is an universal trait of people trying to cope with limits. I've always know it as "ingenio mexicano" or "mexicanada", roughly translated as mexican wit. It is a matter of national pride and accepted wisdom that nowhere in the world people are as cleaver as we are.

See some examples at: http://quependejadas.com/tag/gracioso/page/2/

The most amazing thing is that most of these images are probably not Mexican at all, but stolen from redneck sites (search for: Look, I fixed it). That is 100% in character with the spirit of mexicanada. Why actually fix anything when I can find someone else who did it and steal the credit!!!
No but Apple going out of business (what they fear of Blackberry, even if unlikely short term) would hinder their ability to deploy software, which is pretty bad too.
Enterprise sales?
Interesting. I found lots of similarities to Finnish culture in the article and Finnish language doesn't have a word for small talk either.
That's just mean. Comments like this ^ sidetrack the whole post from what-could-be an interesting discussion into a group bashing over irrelevant little details.
The expressed point of view is heresy on HN, so your point is not that far-fetched.
Well explained, and an awesome way to say "We are hiring a DevOps"
Google translate: "I love you"
A refreshing perspective here - particularly the part about not trying to compete with the market leaders, but instead carve out your own niche..
> Because favoring the trains would mean fewer cars on the road, something the city needs.

Yes, so that I can drive faster.
I ran a website speed test on this page; it performed very poorly (load time more than 14 seconds). Personally, I'd rather see websites with real speed, rather than something pretty that just has the impression of speed.

In my opinion, having a web page fade in is just a gimmick.
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Even Outlook has it. Right click, Follow up to create a task; right click, Categorize - to assign category. Out of the box, no plugins required.
Can Ivy leaguers groomed for success navigate the failure-friendly tech economy?
In general, quitting should not be considered unethical in today's world since there is no loyalty from the employer's side as well. In your case specifically, I do not see a problem quitting. In fact, it is something that you should do given your circumstances of being underpaid etc.

Whenever you have doubts about quitting or you feel bad about quitting, just remember. Your employer, not matter how good your relationship is with them, will not think twice if they have to get rid of you for whatever reason (budget always being an easy explanation). So do yourself a favor and quit if you really want to.
In my preparation between the accepted application and the interview, I was cautioned that the interviewers will not remember your application when you walk in the room.

Is there truth to this?
All the zones are geographically apart so its equivalent to putting server in different cloud/colo and probability that all of them gets "blown" away simultaneously is very less.
Looks really bad on my retina Macbook pro, all pixelated. If he's to do that JPG stuff, he ought to include x2 images :)
I totally agree. It's like time stopped in the bookmark managers world.
If you're worried about logging who did what under the user, you can disable password access, and use ssh keys. IIRC, ssh can log which key was used to log in. I'm not sure how audit-able this would be (for example) in determining which user logged into 'prod' ran the malicious process.
Skytrain is packed during rush hour, but it's not as packed otherwise. It seems to go everywhere I need it to when I visit Bangkok, though.

Beijing cut the subway to 2 yuan during/after the olympics (it was 4 yuan before and even in 1999 it was 3 yuan). The result is that the subway is very elgalatarian and very packed; I avoid it for the taxi accordingly (spend about 80 yuan a day on taxis). But Beijing traffic is also worse than Bangkok's, and there is more regulation (no private minibuses, not many tuktuk that are useful). Whatever they do, the answer to our problems probably isn't more taxis but public transit is also a problem (for the middle class).

I like Japan the best, where the transit is affordable, convenient, and mostly comfortable (when not rush hour).
Xobni for Outlook does it. https://www.xobni.com/
The interesting point here to me is, is there any obligation for service continuity across an acquisition? Any at all?
The biz site had been updated:

4. Release your game on any web destination of your choice, including your
own website or established online platforms such as Facebook. There are no
royalty or license payments due to Turbulenz.

You can release your game anywhere by yourself and it would be free.
Alternatively, you can also release it on turbulenz.com and we will get 30%
from all the payments we process.
Dragging a file is not easier for me than clicking Save in whatever program I'm using to manipulate the file.
They do until you have to show auditors who logged in and when.

SSH has logging. Also if you have audit-requirements then the login-log is normally the least of your worries.

That's why God invented Active Directory.

That must be one cruel god you have there...
The surprising impact of the iPhone on AT&T and Verizon’s rivalry
This is what I do!
Gaming and Technology
If it falls back gracefully, why not?

As pointed by others, the site just is a bunch of JPEGs, which is a very bad choice indeed (accessibility, search engine access, speed, etc).

But aesthetics do matter. If done properly, you could just grab the content and use your favority reader with a click of a button in case you desagree with the author's taste.
This is a very good point and probably one that I undervalued going in.
Activists & web developers to the US Congress: Halt SOPA/PIPA & revise them
In June 2008, their market cap was $83B. In June 2011, it dropped to $13.6B. Today they are down to $4B.

As for cash on hand, they were sitting on twice that amount last year.

The decline is extremely significant and it does no one any good to pretend that they could ride this out for 5-10 years.
I left an employer after designing a large project. I might have put them in a time crunch on that one.

But I didn't feel bad about that, because they had just had me work mandatory overtime and weekends throughout the summer to finish a project that slipped anyway.

Projects at that company lasted over a year. I wasn't waiting for the next one.

The guy I was working with on that project seemed a little bitter when I left. I hope he realized that there's more than one way for your partner to be hit by a bus. I didn't throw him under it. If he was understaffed he should look to management, not to me.
All the games are free to play, supported by in game payments. There are no plans for ads on the site. We want to allow developers to make a game that is compatible with the payment models that are being used successfully on other platforms on the web.
There is only a minute of deliberation between interviews which isn't enough time to pull out the next application and refresh on it before the next interview is scheduled to begin.
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On your mac, Chrome is a browser with its own render engine, and javascript engine. Thats not the case on iOS.

So, the only reaon to use Chrome on iOS, is because you like the interface better. If not, why keep it installed?
You come off as more then withholding judgement opinion. You come off as challenging the general consensus opinion, including the academic one.

I'm going to give you the benefit of doubt and assume that you are in fact reacting to what you see as a censorship of discussion by tabooing the whole subject. My point with the Orwell quote is that in most cases of European "denial," it was being promoted almost exclusively by Nazi/Fascist sympathizers. Hence the labeling and stigmatization of "holocaust deniers," which incidentally was initiated mostly by the Germans of the 1950s, disgusted by the sins of their fathers.

In the 1960s Palestinians adopted a skeptical-conspiracy "denial" that was part of their conflict with Zionism. IE the holocaust myth was fabricated as an excuse for Zionist colonialism. The current chairman of the PA, for example wrote his doctoral thesis on the subject. Over about 20 years this simultaneously percolated into what has become semi-religious beliefs in the Muslim world on one hand and backed away from by its original proponents as their evidence was strongly and insistently refuted in academia. The aforementioned chairman, for example, no longer promotes these ideas. In the instances that it has merged with religion it has also adopted various medieval anti-jewish mythology and/or 19th century Czarist propaganda. Various Muslim brotherhood affiliates streams, for example, believe in the Czarist "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" document.

This is why I noted European denial separately. A lot of the modern leftist skeptics are influenced by this wave (rather than the earlier fascist one).
MS Outlook has had something along these lines for years - they call it something else ("Quick Click" or something) but it allows you at least one-click colorization + task creation. It's not quite like he lays out but it's the basic idea of his "Actionsteps". I don't use it, and I would consider myself an Outlook power user. I have learned techniques that, quite frankly, just work better for me.
I'm a big fan of using CorkboardMe as a collaborative workspace. This makes it that much better.
Apple Wins Patent for NFC-Enabled 'iTravel' Transportation Ticketing App
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More people need to recruit like this!
Any other areas of your life where you throw the baby out with the bath water?

Someone over salt some food so you assume that everything they say or do with food is wrong?

Refuse to ever get a lift with a friend because they forgot to indicate once so obviously they can't be trusted to drive?

I'm not wild about the way he's presented his website but I'm still willing to look at his ideas about e-mail workflow with an open mind.
This is one of the places where younger folks seem to really be at a disadvantage--you've got to be comfortable moving on.

The conventional wisdom in a lot of industries is that you put in your time with the company, get the watch, get the raises, and all's well. This doesn't really seem to be the case anymore, especially given the way that the economy has been the past few years. Blame what you will--globalization, Wall Street, whatever seems most harmful--but seemingly gone are the days of most companies really taking care of their employees (if they ever existed in the first place) beyond what is legally required.

The worst thing is, minor perks like office coffee or food, or health care, or nice workstations, are easily interpreted by employees as signs that their employer cares about them--employers actually care (or should care, at least) about maximizing employee productivity.

If I have to spend $3,000 dollars up front--say, chair, good workstation, etc.--on an employee who runs me something like $100,000 a year in salary, insurance, and taxes (and that may be pretty low depending on the area), I am not really going to notice the difference, especially if it means that they get more work done. If I spend $5,000/yr in catered lunches, but can guarantee that I get more work out of my employees due to increased communication or loyalty, it pays for itself. Especially if I can bring up the "perks" around the time they might expect raises.

If your company does these sorts of things, don't interpret it as anything other than maximizing an investment. And if your company doesn't, well... that's a thing, isn't it?

The other issue is that younger folks may be insufficiently mercenary and experienced to know when they're being taken for a ride. Hanging in there when you can't get significantly better pay, when you can't fix a broken project, and when you can't improve the working environment is not some sort of badge of honor--it's just plain poor decision-making!
LOL, this looks identical to Sparrow!
Of course paypal account feezes and scams do occur on paypal and traditional banking systems. However what is the percentage?

Every few months a bitcoin site gets lots of attention and boom they get hacked. Usually it is because the site is run by a teen or a college student wanting to make a quick a buck.
If developers tried to solve every problem the
way that life hackers try to add shortcuts to
their life, they would get nothing done.

Can't agree more with this sentence.
We've just discovered the issues with the beta version of Chrome and we're working on fixing it.
As an aside regarding the title: if he was able to "give it to himself" then he had to have it in the first place. If he didn't have it beforehand, he couldn't give it to himself.

Weird turn of phrase.
Postbox does that to some extent. See screenshots:

http://postbox-inc.com/graphics/screenshots
Installing Rails on a Mac Shouldn't Be As Hard As It Is
Will that not change with Jelly Bean and Project butter?
As a finance guy and programming hobbist, I say the whole business reporting thing is a big fat problem I deal with. I get bored easily, especially when updating power points or excel reports. Besides, when things get messy (data scattered all over), there is always a sort of fear that you might put some wrong numbers here and there.

Beware, there are solutions (Hyperion for financials, Business Objects for BI, etc.), but those are all too low level and they have no decent way to build views or to consolidate information from different sources, so people resort to the dreaded Excel, a piece of tech 20 yrs old.

I am pretty sure that technically this is not a big problem, there is no need for Big Data or real time or the like, but anything worth considering has to have a great user experience as Excel has got people used to click their ways out of troubles all the time (at cost of wasting hours on things that should take a couple of minutes).
Who is or will be Amazon for Services?
I think we all know the services space is hot and not really dominated by anyone. Im a fan of many of the niche companies going after individual industries. But will there ever be an "Amazon for services" company? And what do you think that will look like?
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> fade in slowly ... impression of speed

Surely you see the contradiction here.

> It's not just a fancy gimmick.

Right. It's a cheesy gimmick.
There are chrome extensions that solve these functional issues. ActiveInbox and Attachments.me

UI/UX is still up in the air.
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Edit: Seems that Modista is back in business, but here's a screenshot of their website of when they shut down:

http://brownieinmotion.ca/modista_vs_like.com.png
Understanding the SortedDictionary Functionality using Csharp and ASP.NET
When you come down to it earth is a single point of failure, its about how big of a disaster you expect to occur and how big of one you expect to recover from.