skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, that's where a lot of the cuts are going. Nobody is saying, "Let's cut spending by shifting work away from major government contractors to smaller, scrappier companies." Nobody in Washington, anyhow.

And really, there's plenty of common sense and honesty in how governments spend money. Long ago I did a 6-month contract for a state government agency. I came away impressed. They were no more bureaucratic or wasteful than the large companies I've worked for. Like megacorps, many of the employees were clock-punchers who had all initiative beaten out of them. But many were sincere public servants who were getting good stuff done despite the bad incentives.
> You really think $33 million is a reasonable number for building a web interface to existing data?

Apparently, he/she does.

I really wish I could understand why, though. Government corruption and waste hurts us all. Why do some people blow it off so easily?
You also said

> It sounds like his conception of "objects" is a more user-facing thing; an object is something you see on your screen and can interact with and manipulate by programming. This view blurs the line between users and programmers. I'm not sure this is a terribly realistic model for how normal people want to interact with computers.

Which misrepresents his contribution rather badly.
On the iron_worker upload crawler step:

ERROR -- IronWorkerNG: Can't find src with path='node_modules'
This is a minor, surface-level thing and completely separate from the actual functionality of your app, but: when I read 'Mailcules', I think 'molecules', not 'Hercules.'
Well, I've to admit I don't know the details of their closing, just what I've read. That they sold about 1.2 million copies according to VGchartz and an article quoted they needed 3 million to break even. Still, 1.2 million copies in 5 months that's a lot of copies. I've some friends doing games, and it boggles me how often I hear another AAA game studio shut down.
The command line version of it (mdfind) seems to search the entire file system.
YouTube does that at great expense and, I believe, partially as the result of a legal settlement, unless I'm mistaken.. Your suggestion would create a one-way ratchet wherein everyone would have to do as much or more than everyone else, in spite of the law or the cost of doing so.

The standard they must adhere to is the law. If this is unreasonable, and law is often unreasonable, the proper response is to change the law, not to ask the courts to create their own standard of compliance that excludes someone who is, by your own admission, DMCA compliant.
Twitter is building a media business using other people’s content
Planetary Resources Announces Agreement with Virgin Galactic
Awesome app and idea. very useful!
>Are you seriously suggesting that someone who is the target of a campaign of harassment is "using" the aggressors as a way to boost their visibility?

Yes. And you agree in your next sentence, the reason it blew up is because of all the trolling.

>You are very deliberately saying that she deserves what she gets and that it is her fault that she is being attacked and doxed.

I said nothing of the sort, what on earth are you talking about? I said she doesn't ignore the trolls as the parent poster suggested, because the trolls are how she got so over funded, and how she is trying to further this event into a career. How exactly is "she is being smart and taking advantage of the trolls, so it is not in her best interests to ignore them" blaming her for being attacked? Glad you can tell I hate women from your imagined version of me saying things that don't even vaguely resemble anything I said though.
Exactly, switching jobs is generally not an option.

Sadly for many japanese, they see suicide as an easier out than trying to find a new job. Long hours and no vacation also clearly lead to depression. I'd rather see my gf drop down to a part-time job (baito) than give up completely.
I personally had tremendous fun following Matthijs Hollemans' tutorials (http://www.raywenderlich.com/store/ios-apprentice).

You can get the first tutorial for free if you sign up for the raywenderlich.com newsletter. It assumes no prior knowledge of iOS or Objective-C and runs you through building a simple game. Then for 54$ you can get the three other tutorials.

The second tutorial shows you step by step how to build a checklist app (using Storyboards).

The third tutorial is about doing a simpler version of Foursquare (using Core Location, Map Kit, the camera and photo library, Core Data and Core Animation).

And in the fourth tutorial you'll learn how to make a clone of the default iTunes app by using the iTunes Store Search API (http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentati...) as well as AFNetworking.
Use Evernote with Yahoo's Placemaker API to parse for places in your notes
From the screenshot:
"One moment. Looks like you're on an iPhone 4S and running Windows?"
Let me get this straight. The user is sitting in front of its windows machine, and happily taps on its iPhone to chat with customer support for a piece of software running on its Windows machine?
Sorry, I may not have been clear (and you may have replied to my comment before I finished editing it).

I think that a specific and timely discussion — such as the top comment on the Aaron Winborn post — is more useful than a general and decontextualized protest thread against overeager post renaming.
Main issues with Facebook iOS app are network related in my experience, especially since much of it is just a web view.

Facebook website in Mobile Safari is very close to iOS app today.
> $99 for an Ouya is definitely selling at a loss;

I doubt that. $99 is probably just above cost with 1 controller, depending on production volume and how you factor in NRE. Generally speaking the big price break on electronics comes at 10,000 units which I imagine would be on the low end of their intended order given the number of backers already.

Most of the cost in mobile devices lies in the screen, battery, touch panel and associated circuitry. This device doesn't have any of those. A Tegra 3 SoC only runs about $15 in volume. For comparison, Apple sells the ATV for ~$100 and the original was reported to cost ~$64 to build, I don't have any data on the newer models but I doubt the cost has changed much, if anything its lower.
It's a guest article. That's not his site.
Very powerful analogy. However, with a small team I've always felt it makes sense to have one, maybe two "rafts" at a time. You need to execute something completely to know if its effective. I've found if you are splitting your time between too many rafts, they're all going to prove to be unfruitful, regardless of their potential
The balance we're trying to strike with the syntax is for it to be as succinct as possible, while being human readable and as natural as possible. How would you make the syntax better
This company kind of sucks. They dangle the typical japanese seniority pyramid in front of hires, but my girlfriend has been at this for 10 years now and it's not leading anywhere nice.
Japan doesn't need better employees (the majority of my cowokers were very capable, and some of the hackers I have come to know in the past year are rather incredible), it needs better leaders.
I am beginning to see some advantages. Still struggling with search (is there no "or" operator?), but I'll try it out for a while.
I don't know why more people don't talk about this. People rave about Canadian health care, but seem to ignore the fact that many, many people with serious illnesses come to the US for treatment because they can get care here that they are apparently unable to get in Canada. Of course, this is going to be limited to the very wealthy or people with private insurance (assuming it covers treatment abroad - I really have no idea).

I don't doubt that Canadian health care is fine for everyday needs, but pretending it will solve everyone's problems is ignoring reality.
But isn't twitter all about following other people? Don't they have to migrate to the new service first?
Sorry, but for a hacker streamlining procurement procedures sounds like a huge and extreemly boring timesink.

Wouldn't this be something an mba would love anyway?
I met Aaron a couple years ago at a DrupalCamp media module sprint. He's been generous with his time and efforts to help others. I'm sad to see him struggle in his latest video. I hope the best for him and his family.
1) 'Comes off as' is more often than not wrong in a text based conversation where you don't know the other party. I didn't intend to nitpick, I wanted to emphasize 50m. 15m would be impressive, but 50m is just so much more unbelievable.

2) 'This isn't reddit' is a bullshit appendix for any comment. Thank you for helping me understand that the comment might be misunderstood. Let me return the favor by saying that your last sentence is (objective) useless or harmful, please avoid it.
It is nowhere near as easy as you suppose to filter out all unlicensed content with a computer program. If you believe otherwise, feel free to create and market such a system so that we can judge for ourselves. Google, a company who has plenty of capable coders, wrote their own such system. It misidentified birdcalls as copyrighted music:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120227/00152917884/guy-ge...
Best way to get new clients as a new freelance developer?
Hey guys,
I want to freelance part-time while I complete my studies. I recently found work on a 5 week contract for a local developer. I found that job by e-mailing every mobile app developer in my city to see if they had work available.

I need some advice on finding more work.
I read this article http://robbieabed.com/how-to-make-money-as-a-new-developer and tried its advice. Thus far it's been unsuccessful.

What would you guys recommend?
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I think it would help them avoid some common problems if they did have developer documentation prior to the kickstarter launch, that said though it wasn't clear from their page what they were seeking the funding for exactly, and that is where i decided I couldn't participate.

Either the funding is "to develop the platform and make it available for developers to write games" or "to get the platform we've developed into production so that games written for it will have a wide audience."

If its the former then there is a much bigger gamble here, they may not be able to make it compelling enough to actually be a competitive game platform. If its the latter then they should have the 'big' pieces in place software wise and the remainder might be just refinement. Reading their collateral and listening to their pitch I think it is more if A than it is B but I would love to hear differently.

I keep trying to remember the DirectX guy who created a company to make 'game develoment for the masses' and then faded away, damn my aging neurons.
If you use Tweetbot on another service and no one is around to hear it does it make a make a tweet?
You can download the data behind the interface here:

ftp://ftp2.census.gov/

My point being that the census data is independent of factfinder.
I've also Tokyo seems more westernized in both culture and business, I guess due to offices having a lot of competition from foreign headquarters?

Sadly, my girlfriend lives in Kagoshima, at the ass-end of backwardness. Convincing her parents that I'm not going to murder their daughter is going to be hard enough! (Japanese news media's treatment of foreigners is rivaled only by Fox News I think). As a white, european male, it's been enlightening being at this end of racism.
Believe me, I'm quite sure that I "get it".

"I'm not a violently hateful person but I act like one, and that's the joke" is not something that helps; it's something that makes problems worse. And I certainly "get it" enough to know that if I said that there I'd receive a response of "LOL TONE ARGUMENT BENNED!!!11one", which just kinda proves the point in my original comment, y'know?

In all seriousness, if people want to do good and fight evil, donate to/volunteer at a shelter. SRS is, at best, the equivalent of a yellow-ribbon bumper sticker, and accomplishes about as much as those do. And at its worst, it's people who either are in need of or are pretending to be in need of a whole lot of counseling.
Partisan nothing. It's only partisan if you think large private corps are somehow immune to wasting money. You think IBM charges fair, efficient prices for their private consulting? Big and bloated is big and bloated, whether it's Capital-G Government or the behaloed private sector.

I'd be willing to gamble real money on the following 2 facts about this project:

1) First thing IBM did was bill themselves for a couple hundred licenses of their own software.

2) The majority of the money was pissed away in meetings, and the majority of the dev time was spent on horrible multi-thousand line stored procedures for the ETL.
In reality, Apple seems to be ok with releasing new software once it runs fast enough on current hardware. So it might not run that great on old hardware. That's how progress is made but means it might not make much sense to upgrade. My iPhone 4 is definitely pokier on iOS 5 than it was on iOS 4.
Looks good. Did you contact the artists for their permission or simply look for creative common photos?

As a web developer my only suggestion would be to hone the design's responsiveness. It's odd though because on one hand, it's odd to see your header width responsive but not the content, but on the other hand, it's pretty functional because not everything is a link, which is good with phones. Was this intentional?
Good Warranty, Bad Warranty, Apple Warranty
They've had a number of opportunities to raise the price. They did an initial batch at $95, and then they've raised the cap on the $99 batch over and over.

At any time they could have not raised the cap on the $99 batch and opened a new one at $125 (for example), and they haven't done so.

So either they know $99 is a good price for their product or they're complete fools...
Good thing we didn't go with them, then :) .

Personally, I thought Guidewire fit our needs very well (but I'm at the very bottom of the totem pole).
As always... simple hacks, the best hacks!
Overhauling mobile.Twitter.com from the ground up
Really? I actually found it to be quite stable for a scrape project I had; it was rather trivial too though.

My only gripe is with the cryptic error messages I was receiving when executing JavaScript in a casper browser. But that could have just been my ignorance and unfamiliarity.
Is there such thing as plain text?
Will Windows Azure Trap You into Buying More of Their Service?
> Can somebody give an example of a complicated electronics Kickstarter project that has shipped successfully?

I'd challenge defining this as complicated, you can more or less copy the Tegra 3 dev board and repackage it. Making sure the software (drivers, UI) are smooth will be much more challenging.
Will fix all these issues in the next release. Thanks glimcat.

Reg faceblocked: we'll let you create a portfolio without auth. To get freelance gigs though, you'll need to either FB auth or Linkedin auth.

Reg Demo: redesigning landing page

Reg demo profile: will add a few more demo profiles.

Reg flawed animations: could you be more specific?
Um...the FAQ button link 404s. You should probably fix that (it currently is linking to http://www.hipmob.com/www.pricing.html#faq)
Screenshot is from a live mobile chat with a user of a remote game control app . . .
Well 4.0 includes "classic" and the new low-power mode. But I see on Wikipedia that BT has a 3 Mbps mode (aside from the 802.11 "high-speed" mode), do you know what that would refer to?
This is amazing. Thank you for posting it!
Andrew Youderian's posts are always perceptive. As a dude who runs all his own blogs, I have to admit he has me thinking twice about the whole self-hosting thang. Good for sites I know will achieve limited traffic (like my HOA), but WPEngine may be worth considering for bigger commercial sites. I do loves my own plugins, though.
This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
I think there's 2 things that are especially true for technical people that cause people to worry about taking vacation time (where you are completely disconnected) that are almost polar opposite.

Firstly there is a worry about if your co-workers are competent enough to do take care of your time critical work in your absence, they may believe that they are but that is not necessarily true.

As an anecdote, I took a couple of days off a while ago. At the time I was away an urgent issue came up which required a small reconfiguration on the server.

Not wanting to bother me a co-worker attempted to resolve this himself. Unfortunately he did this in a rather hamfisted way by overriding a lot of stuff he didn't understand that I had done for security reasons.

Result, I come back to an inbox full of complaints about email no longer working. After some probeing I find that our server IP address is on several blacklists for sending spam. I then discover that the server has a rootkit on it.
This means that I have to work a large number of extra hours correcting this problem which more than nullifies the time I got off for vacation.

The result of this is that I actually feel less stressed on vacation if I have a smartphone for my work email with me and know that people don't worry about contacting me.

The other opposite problem is that perhaps your co-workers are competent and can take over your duties with no hiccup to the organisation, now suddenly you are stressed that management might not think that you justify your salary so well.
Would it be possible to make the text inside the Quicklook window selectable?
I often just want to quickly copy something from a file, and Quicklook would be the fastest way to do so.
Encryption made easy.
IMO I don't tell interns to "go out drinking if anyone offers". Generally, we invite people out and let them make up their own mind.
true. true.
They're looking at what seems to be an early 2013 release. So, yes, I'd definitely say they need a decent level of developer documentation like-now.

I would bet that to a large extent this could be called a land-grab platform--"get in early or don't get in"--and that makes them particularly important to have well in advance.
An "alternative" doesn't mean "has to be as good or better at everything that C++ does".

Most programs don't have garbage collection latency issues. Look at Android or Windows Phone - all the user-level apps are written in garbage-collected language and they work just fine.

Look at web - all the interaction is written in JavaScript and Gmail works just fine.

At this point in the discussion people usually bring "real time" applications. Approximately no-one writes those applications.

Go is an alternative to C++ in the sense that many (but not all) programs that you had to write in C++ you can now write in Go.
I'm a guy. It's hard to find a woman in a game portrayed in a way that appeals to me. Or a guy, for that matter. What's with all the musclebound power fantasy tripe?
I like the idea, but I cannot imagine normals using it en masse. It seems so natural to those familiar with software engineering because it's basically a little language embedded into email conversations. For someone unfamiliar with computer science concepts like translation, languages, compilers, etc, it would be a formidable thing to learn and use.
I was actually thinking about this earlier. Why is pdf so hard to deal with? And why is around in the first place? I can imagine a future where html5/js combo is enough to convert a set of html pages to a nice offline-supported readable format.

With that said, I usually just go to the print page of some links and read. You will be surprised how many sites inadvertently give the best reading experience through their printer page (NYT for example)
It was quite obvious it emulates the scrollbars on the desktop, but i have no iphone, and made no such assumption about what it actually does on mobile.

Ive been following Qooxdoo for quite some time, and the level of browser normalisation ( from keyboard events to how scrollbars render ) is insane.

And so is the performance, and the tricks they pull. For example: they recyle dom nodes. They have different array looping constructs based on the target platform. They emulate their own event bubbling system. There is a whole range of performance tests you can try on their website as well.

The real question is, can we get this kind of performance with more idiomatic html/css.
Then there is Hyperwocky, of course: http://partners.nytimes.com/library/cyber/hyperwocky/indexhy...
Pretty awesome distillation of the history of software tools since, oh, no later than 1980.

Back in the dino days, the rate of change was tiny compared to today's daily delta V. We mostly had monthly and a few weekly rags to tell us about the next big thing; there weren't that many next big things, anyway. Hey, it was a really big deal when cartridge tapes came out and we didn't have to thread a 1/2 inch magtape by hand anymore... Geez, who could forget 1-base-T networking? or 9600 baud modems? Whew.

Don't get me started on software innovations like Oracle SQL\Forms! ManOhMan! Fergit CICS!

Seriously - the barrier of entry is so low now, that the least of us can throw something up on the wall and if it sticks or even just leaves a little residue, the flies are all over it, preaching it up, "This is the best shit ever."

There really isn't much new out there, mostly it's just lots of new flavor wheels. Think "Hudsucker Proxy" at times like this...
Yes, in this context a "big deal" refers to media coverage of a non-event. Are you not cool with that?

There is no cultural study involved here, someone is making a series of videos where she reads tvtropes pages. You are correct, she was attacked for it, but that's not what this article is about. This is about the "game" that was made of hitting her, which was not in response to her making videos, but rather a response to her (quite successful) attempts to portray everyone critical of her as a lunatic. The "if I am going to get accused of being crazy, I am going to act like" approach. Not a very effective approach I don't think, but characterizing it as an attack on her for doing a study is inaccurate.

None of my comments are angry or poisonous, one is frustrated with the strawman repeating troll. While you are counting and categorizing my comments in this thread, perhaps you noticed how many are responses to people directly asking me questions? If you want me to post less, why did you also directly ask me questions? Do you not want me to answer them?

I'm not sure why you are so upset that I don't share your opinion on something, so much so that you would like me to just go away so you aren't inconvenienced by my presence. But your arrogance and condescension is very impressive, I am pleased to know that you have my best interests at heart and know what is best for me. I will be sure to refrain from sharing my opinion in the future before consulting you on its correctness.
Juries don't get to decide points of law. Judges make those determinations precisely because of what you just said.

If you don't like it, you can advocate for a change in the law. Frankly, you underrate the difficulty sites like Grooveshark face. Copyright infringement relies upon whether or not a person has permission and that's not something a computer program can determine.

You're using a simple heuristic that doesn't work well at scale, relies upon human judgement (which also doesn't scale), and fails utterly when the marketing departments of these places put out their own leaked versions of things (see Viacom v. YouTube) which are permitted.

It's weird how often I hear how "easy" this is. This is HN. If you want me to believe that it's easy, create a computer program that acts as a filter and we'll see how well it works in the real world. I realize that you see someone getting shafted and want to fix that. That's a good thing. The problem is that you advocate for a solution that would merely shaft someone else instead. That's not a good thing.