skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes it's made for the kindle. Sorry. I figured too late i could have done it as html converted mobi/epub file.
People who were around technology businesses in the 1990s, please illuminate me: wasn't it common for pretentious managers to adopt fancy job titles? (I may have read too much Dilbert.)

This is really just marketing with a better knowledge of the technical possibilities. Do we really need a new job title?
Note--think I'm wrong about these types of process switches requiring a TLB shootdown. It think it's just cache invalidation.
Previous thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4027378
B&N is stocking Amazon published books on their website according to the first article you linked, just not their physical books in the physical stores. And they are doing a blanket restriction, not picking through the contents of the books and demanding editorial control.
Notice that you conflate developer and project as well. You want to support "a particular developer", but you expect commitment to "the project".

So is the donation with regards to the developer or a particular project? The developer doesn't get the donation with any regards to whether it is aimed at them or the project. Is the developer free to work on a different project? Does the person who donates even know? It just seems like it can lead to disappointment and frustration.

I believe I've seen some developers outright reject no-strings attached donations for this reason. What is expected of them? Should they feel beholden to those who give, and even if they shouldn't does psychology inevitably lead to that?

That's why I feel like it has to be hard goals. This is expected for this, and not a donation which has too many unintended consequences.

I don't mean to be overly argumentative.
Poverty is the new slavery
Hi all. Hacker New Full allows you to login, vote up/down, and comment on threads. It has been plagued by loading errors for a while because I was using the ihackernews api (which returned a lot of errors), but I finally wrote my own HN api service which uses heavy caching to play nice with HN. I'm really sorry it took so long to get updated, but please give it another try if you gave up on it because of the errors!
He lost me with his "Objective-C ...has evolved over the past two years to become an "easier" language ... "

I would argue that it has less to do with the ease of the language and instead the market effects of iOS.
Take each letter he wrote and subtract one.
Or . . . "A List of 5 Things That Are Not Windows 8". Kind of a weird "article". ?
Suggest changing the title to: "Imager Reveals Grid-Like Brain Connections Simpler Than Previously Believed."
NBC's Chief Digital Officer explains why NBC is a dinosaur.
That was exactly my first thought, too. Seems strange from a company that is so design centered. The fact that it violates the aesthetic sense of an engineer is probably a bad sign.
Thanks very much, Jonanin!

Unfortunately, I'm still saving up for my first Macbook. Otherwise: I'd be all over this request for you.
Here is Kindle Version http://readlists.com/9361f21e
We live in an era when most companies are competing neck to neck on technology.

This is a key insight. Design isn't any more or less "important" today - it has simply become a more critical place of battle. If two products are even in terms of features, design can be the tiebreaker.
Thanks, streptomycin!

I will definitely check out PyGObject. I didn't even know it existed.
"The people who are giving do so because they expect something in return."

I believe they don't. Gift tips have no strings attached on either side. It's like employment at will, where either party is free to call it off at any time.

"[E]ither the receiver is tied to that nebulous expectation of production, or they can take a break and risk losing whatever funding they received before and the resulting need to build that up again."

I think it's a matter of telling your story openly and transparently. If people see me working productively for a year and then I blog about how I'm burned out and plan to take a break for a month, I would expect my funders to understand and not totally bail on me. I mean, I could set up visits around the country and have a nice vacation and still keep the story rolling. If I'm finding my living on Gittip I have to have a relationship with my anonymous funders and trust them. The Internet lets us have a relationship with the anonymous crowd.

Gittip wants to make it easier for receivers to tell their story. See:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/133

This is really WFP's thread, but I'm interested in seeing your site.
On Fedora 17:

# yum -y install cabal-install
# cabal update
# cabal install gitit
Resolving dependencies...
cabal: cannot configure old-time-1.1.0.0. It requires base >=4.4 && <5
For the dependency on base >=4.4 && <5 there are these packages: base-4.4.0.0,
base-4.4.1.0, base-4.5.0.0 and base-4.5.1.0. However none of them are
available.
base-4.4.0.0 was excluded because base-4.3.1.0 was selected instead
base-4.4.0.0 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any
base-4.4.1.0 was excluded because base-4.3.1.0 was selected instead
base-4.4.1.0 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any
base-4.5.0.0 was excluded because base-4.3.1.0 was selected instead
base-4.5.0.0 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any
base-4.5.1.0 was excluded because base-4.3.1.0 was selected instead
base-4.5.1.0 was excluded because of the top level dependency base -any

Sigh. "Haskell Platform" indeed. If I can't get it and run it, I
won't try it. Ruby and Python and Perl and Node make this work...
I just got my Nexus 7 and can't wait to try it out!
The images are quite large (usually over 10MB, at least). Re-sizing them not only saves space, but ensures your desktop doesn't do anything weird when trying to scale by itself.
Awesome! I'd love to link to yours when/if you get it up and running. I would very much like to make this in OSX myself, but as I said in another comment: I still don't have a Macbook.
That's not quite the whole picture. Those 190+ countries were and are doing all they can to get the control of information flow back. If there is one urge both authoritarian and democratic governments share these days, it's deanonymizing the Internet user base. Thus any initiative to authorize people's speech online will have a tremendous backing throughout the world, and it has little to do with social market dynamics.
Avoiding the 1-for-1 point breakdown, if you saw the amount of traffic a single vendor can push to your app via integration awareness (blog post, integration directories, mailing list, etc.) one would come to the conclusion that it is a viable marketing channel.

The spirit of OP is not that you should ignore traditional marketing; it simply points out an alternative most may not be aware of.
This was my response to the NYTimes article ( http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/opinion/sunday/is-algebra-... ) that questioned whether algebra should be required for American students. I believe that it is a powerful way to learn how to problem solve.
Better-read with good probability, better-educated with good probability. But no specific reason for them to be more intelligent, because there is no process to make that especially likely.

It is a job one gets by deciding to do it, sticking to it, paying one's dues over a long period, cultivating connections, building a personal brand. Like so many other jobs...

Professors should be respected in direct proportion to their actually demonstrated knowledge, and only in the fields where that knowledge has been demonstrated... other than this we should not respect them more than teachers of high school or elementary school, who usually have greater expertise and dedication in teaching.
The specific dust factor that is mentioned in the EDL video is dust, kicked up in descent, settling on the instruments within the robot.

Do you have a reference to the contamination rationale playing a role for the choice of a crane for MSL? Because I have not heard that mentioned.
Innovations Snuffed Out by Craigslist
As software integrates into everything more deeply are we going to get childish names for every profession?

Marketers are growth hackers, doctors will be health hackers, lawyers will be justice hackers?

Then we can ensure that even when software is as fundamental to our society as law or transportation or materials engineering there will still be a nice sheen of hucksterism and bullshit on top.

Good job software people, keep ensuring that society as a whole will assume that the software people need to always be underneath someone who is actually a professional on the org chart.

Everyone here must be familiar with the "software is eating the world" meme. That means that technical marketers are not growth hackers, they are good marketers who are keeping up to date with what's needed to do their job.
Until Alex has updated the homepage, you should hopefully get a decent experience in http://player.fm/series/hnpod as I've been optimising the UI for mobile lately.
You know that google was doing it's best to be in compliance with the strict Olypic IP rules, law and regulations for every country. According to Techdirt, the Olympics in over-protecting their intellectual property -- even to the level of getting host countries to pass special IP laws that only apply to the Olympics...See another techdirt article:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120713/12025919694/olympi...
You said that the user data is "not Craigslist's data", but the license agreement shows that it is Craigslist's data. They have an exclusive license and power to enforce it.

If the license agreement isn't enough, then I guess I don't know what you mean by "not Craigslist's data".
Debt is the new slavery (and often connected to poverty). It's the old company town / company store model applied to the entire developed world.
The thing that strikes me is that it would have been a lot smarter for craigslist to either buy padmapper or create their own version of it. I get craigslist general stance of keeping things simple because its hard to predict the consequences of changes (something that's been brought up in interviews w/ craig in the past), and the upsides of keeping the site as basic as possible, but with something like padmapper you can almost view it as being a real life proof of concept that's been shown to work.

Obviously it's something people want, so why wouldn't they integrate it? I don't get the business goal here.
I just don't see how anyone is going to get a sustainable, recurring income out of Gittip. But give it a shot I guess.
MS has always been good about providing settings to disable whatever their latest horrific train wreck of a UI is, (except for windows 7), so people turning metro off will be a no brainer, take 5 seconds, and noone will really care except for tablet purchasing suckerfish
What we built at start up week end
I use Windows 8 on oneof my work desktops and it's certainly superior to Win7 in almost every way that I've encountered.

The Win8 desktop is better than the Win7 desktop, and Win8 seems faster in general. I'm only in Metro for brief moments in time. I suspect I'll use Metro more once I get a tablet, but for most users the Win8 desktop is a good upgrade from Win7.

Unlike Vista, there's no perf regression going to Win8. And the user experience in Win8 seems at least as nice as Win7. Seems odd to want to skip it. Especially since you can upgrade to Win8 Pro for $40. My home desktop has Win7 Home Premium which doesn't include Remote Desktop. I look forward to getting Win8 on it and Remote Desktop all for $40.
Previously, VeriFone mounted a FUD campaign against Square, arguing fake apps could steal your credit card numbers.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/09/verifone-takes-the-gloves-o...
A few people would, but many others would be able to say "This is a quality comment, but stupid idea".
To open a file in new tab just use 't' instead of Enter.
Good idea, but train your OCR properly. There's no reason for recognition mistakes if your text is taken from a screenshot (not deformed, not randomised font).
Yes, it has been around for a long time. Deal is that these people decide to build a business for themselves and not others. Counterexample? Dan Kennedy is a good and recent one (recent as in still alive). His partner, Bill Glazer, is also a good example.
Yes, Ikiwiki was an inspiration to us: besides the goal of supporting multiple revision backends, John also took the idea of caching from it when we ran into performance issues on page loads.
Good points. I did not get that message from the blog post, and I appreciate you mentioning your understanding of it.
Here you go:
https://github.com/TyrGodOfWar/nasa-apod-desktop

Err, I don't know what's polite in terms of editing the readme and stuff. I hope what I did is acceptable.

It only sets it for the space I'm on when I run the script. I have no idea what will happen with crontab. But, you can also just use this to populate the folder, and have osx change the photo every hour or so from the menu.

I also removed the re-sizing.
If you want to install the python imaging library, `brew install pil` works. Then just uncomment the function.
Context switches and serialization in Node
How I built CV Kiwi in 5 hours.
I believe you when you and others say they don't expect specific results and no-strings attached, I just feel like it is human nature that when we give something of value, particularly money, we expect something in return. That's because money is inherently tied up into the idea that you get something of value for it. I'm not sure you can really break that. Perhaps it is a non-issue in practice.

The site is http://www.kodefund.com. It is somewhat of a Kickstarter only for open source projects, and you can also do a "reverse" project which helps you to get both funding and someone else to work on your idea, whether a library or bug fix or whatever. I've tried to further distill some of the ideas here: http://www.kodefund.com/about/. I agree that it is someone else's thread, so that is the last time I'll link it here.

I do like your open dev model. It is interesting to see problems so quickly turn into issues that anyone can work on.
I am puzzled at how you know what would have prevented the tragedies.
The relationship between individuals and projects is a huge open question for Gittip. Here's the current state of my thinking (long thread preceding):

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/27#issuecom...

Hard goals to me implies management, and I for one don't want to be a manager. ;^)
And the same thing in "book" version ready to print/read:

http://img.atlastory.com/PeterThielOnStartups.pdf
Why / where exactly does the sky crane fly away after releasing the lander? Is it just to get it safely out of the way?
Yup. Back then it was "guru", "evangelist", and "ninja" (perl ninja, etc).
I think of it as a mix of supporting a developer, and a project. There is a lot of trust in gittip, and that is a good thing. If I ever grow dissatisfied with the developer I am supporting, I can withdraw my support, with no hard feelings.

I get some of these issues. I ran a middle school chess team for about five years. Sometimes I was paid, sometimes it was volunteer. There are different freedoms and pressures in each model. I think there is definitely a place for gittip in the OSS world.
This is a very valid point. There also seems to be a historical correlation of wealth imbalances and great Recession/Depression.

I'm currently working on a crowdfunding (both equity and project) for universities, because I believe that democratization of the venture capital markets will be a good thing for America.

Like most things, the more data points (i.e., crowd investors), the more rational and likely to succeed is the endeavor.
The value of short term thinking
(I'm getting a DNS error?)
I would have initially read that comment as a sardonic remark on the European conception of Romani as needing to be "cleaned up," but I'm not aware of all the cultural issues.
I used this before the errors started getting bad, and it was really great - much better than the alternatives. Looking forward to trying it again!
Thanks, I totally agree. The tessnet2 engine I am using didn't seem to have very in depth training. If it was a more serious project I would have looked to use tesseract 3 which seems to have more flexibility for training.
That's another issue I see with the project. Since these are recurring donations, you can never really count on them. I suppose you can't "count" on keeping a job either, but if you are expecting $60,000 a year to keep your lifestyle up and someone drops out donating for whatever reason, you are in trouble. You can't depend on it the way you would job or an up-front donation.

I'm sounding too critical. I really do like what is being attempted here, there just are hard barriers.
Not a lot? As odds in a lottery that pays millions to the winner (original remark said thousands/millions, but that 'thousands' would seem less than the <15K that the 99.5 would get) and still pays out to everybody, it looks incredibly enticing.

The lie with these kinds of things is not as much in those percentages as it is that it is not a lottery. There are people who can sell anything; they are the winners. Also, typically, there is some kind of pyramid scheme involved. You get stats on the early birds, but you cannot become an early bird yourself.
(may I add a small comment as a (proud) ex-USSR citizen?)
In Soviet Russia, we watched Olympics.

Good luck to you guys :)
fwiw I tend to look at it as a "thank you" and a no-strings "keep up the good work." Same way an actual tip works. That's clearly not the way everyone looks at it though.

Still, donating to an individual for their contributions, rather than to a project with the implied nudge that comes with a donation like that is, imo, the best approach.
Agreed the article is pointless. They basically say stick with your current version of Windows, switch to Linux or switch to Mac or go totally crazy and switch to "the cloud" (Chromebook) or buy a tablet. Wow genius needed to write this article!
That's really irrelevant, though, isn't it?

CL could allow search engines to index but could explicitly disallow third parties (fourth parties?) from using the content, regardless of how that additional party retrieved that content.
Yes, but the reason debt is the new slavery is that it forces you to stay within the system that the debt is in. In the company store model, your debt was only to the company store, so you could not leave the company, in this model, your debt is to the global banking system, so you are only forced to stay within that bound.
"our economy is teetering because people can’t hack the math needed to understand how big a loan they can afford"

That is not so much caused by a lack of math as it is a surplus of delusional optimism. No amount of math will ever beat that. Not only is it a bad example, I can't think of any better examples, and apparently neither can the author.

It may be that my utter incompetence in math makes me less than objective, but I fail to see any convincing argument in the entire article.
It seems that the focus this year was pass phrases. Notice the final note I just added to the website. I should have realized this based on the hints provided at the end of the contest. Anyway, I gave an example on how to crack some.
Strange.

I've had users sign-up, I've had someone say it works on the Google DNS, but you aren't the first with DNS errors. I'm hosting it on gandi's DNS, I wonder what I'm not doing right.
I'm not trying to win a legal case here, just sayin'...
1. "The broadcast industry does not want American's to know..." Opinion. Why would they want this widely known?
2. "...legally obligated..." OK, that might be a little strong, but I stand by the POV that they can not encrypt this signal. The FCC citations (on Engadget article) make that clear (to me).

It's possible that this works for me (and others) because...
I am a subscriber to my cable company for telephone and internet access (but not TV), and so they can not send a tech out to disconnect me from their grid because it would terminate my current services AND they can not encrypt the Clear QAM signal for the Broadcast TV channels.

Again, I'm not trying to argue some legal case here. But I do think it's more than just the cable company being lazy and not sending a technician out.
Until mobile phones become a lot faster and carry more storage and bandwidth becomes a lot cheaper and more ubiquitous, I believe the most successful approaches simply adapts the underlying framework for use with other languages (and abstraction levels), while simultaneously minimizing the excess baggage/payload required to get a small application up and running. Clojure for Android for instance suffers from this problem (1.7 MB payload), while Scala, Mirah (Ruby-like) and Kawa (Lisp/Scheme) seems to do a decent job on providing thinner wrappers on the host platform. I see the same thing on the web as well, with a multitude of languages targeting javascript as the platform. I did a small writeup on "Android development without Java" on http://kjeldahl.net/d7/node/32 if you want more details than I wrote here.
Looks nice. Just a small warning though, a couple of times per year they will do something fancy with video or JavaScript that will probably break this.
Presumably, a magnet implant would allow you to feel a static magnetic field by moving your hand around, since that would, from your finger's point of view, turn it into a changing magnetic field.
App.net's approach won't solve the problems that Dalton here talks about. Does he have plans that will solve this?
It doesn't need to be a ubuntu/gnome only script, for example to set the wallpaper on fluxbox:

fbsetbg -c $the_file
If only "this sucks and we ought to fix it" were not so pervasively condemned in US business culture, it would be much more pleasant to work in; and there are a lot of things which wouldn't be so broken.
The parent has good advice.

Another good way to meet startups is to attend tech events. Go onto meetup.com and search for tech meetups in whatever area you're interested in. Consider favouring topics like Clojure programming seminars over things like "networking and margaritas for SEO rockstars" or whatever. The crowd will be smaller and more personal (and, in my contrived example, probably more technical!) and you will have a better chance of getting recognised as a regular participant in a small community. You get bonus points if you also volunteer to present an interesting project or something.
> hardwork in developing a user base and repeat customers

The ratio of revenue/visits/whatever metric craigslist has made in the last decade relative to their work is astronomical. They initially may have done hard work, but for most of their existence they have been reaping the continued benefits of winning a lottery 15 years ago. They have engaged in near zero innovation since securing a near-monopoly on online classifieds.

> If Padmapper is that great, and I believe they are, then they will have no problem building up their own user base.

Not necessary true. Craigslist is in a two-sided market, which favors the emergence of a monopoly. Padmapper currently makes the process of finding an apartment easier. The sister site Padlister is working on making offering easier, but the benefits are very small compared to what Padmapper offers renters.

Eventually, Padmapper could displace craigslist, but its going to be a very long process. In the meantime apartment hunters suffer by having to utilize a significantly less efficient UI.
I has messing around with it, and had another application reverse it for just the mouse, and then it got reset or something, and now I don't know which way is the correct way. I think there's a triple negative in the settings. I flipped it again, thinking it was backwards, but not it still feels backwards. Nothing is right anymore. I'll just set it to whatever windows has it, so it's the same when I boot into that.
BEST project shows 1.5'c warming in last 250 years likely due to human activity