skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You'd model the rocket exhaust as individual particles or suffer the blocky animation. But it's not rocket science :)

'Realm of the Mad God' works this way, with the added affront to purity of having rotated pixels. I think it works rather well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpMdFFxFbY4
The blatant copying by Samsung of Apple (even down to icon colors and packaging design) is just as obvious as Zynga's ripoff.

I honestly can't believe you that you think this could possibly be true. Then again, Apple fans can get pretty overzealous.
A thought-provoking note. It's 37Signals' prerogative to not give out free accounts, of course - but this underlines the societal importance of open source and freemium services. Code can be freedom, after all.
Except Gmail does that now via G+ data.
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i got that. but i don't call that something that 'works'. my point is that making cash isn't the only condition that needs to be met for something to 'work'. i take issue with his use of 'it works'.
Please, please, Redis next? =)
To summarize: either MagSafe is a solution to a made-up problem, or you're more careful, value your stuff more, and are less accident prone than most people.
This feels like deja vu. I asked a similar question in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4182993

B2B is also very dysfunctional. You almost have to operate in a different reality to survive there.

diskdoctor answered with "Marketing and selling software to enterprises is the most dysfunctional cycle of decision making you will ever see in business. In almost all cases the individuals in the business who actually derive value from the technology are entirely disconnected from those who make the purchasing decisions. Many times those purchasing decisions are made based on "perceived" synergies with other software systems already owned from the same vendor, having never been vetted by the actually consumer in the business."

This is probably the biggest difficulty in B2B.

Steve Jobs even said something similar "What I love about the consumer market, that I always hated about the enterprise market, is that we come up with a product, we try to tell everybody about it, and every person votes for themselves. They go ‘yes’ or ‘no,’ and if enough of them say ‘yes,’ we get to come to work tomorrow. That’s how it works. It’s really simple. With the enterprise market, it’s not so simple. The people that use the products don’t decide for themselves, and the people that make those decisions sometimes are confused. We love just trying to make the best products in the world for people and having them tell us by how they vote with their wallets whether we’re on track or not.”
Vegan bacon?
Honestly, this is why I would never, ever consider using something like Google App Engine for anything other than a toy. Google is not a support organization. Except for ads, you can't count on them for anything B2B.
I've personally yanked a laptop off of a dining room table by tripping over the cord, but that was many years ago. But more recently, my 4 year old has pulled the mag-safe adapter out of my MBP a couple of times. Someone I used to work with had the unfortunate experience of having part of the AC adapter plug break off and get stuck in the side of an older MacBook. That was an impossible fix.

So, here's another data point or two... I've been very happy with the mag-safe adapter. It's one of those things that you don't need until you do. And if you don't have it, you could do some real damage.
True, good point, caffeine and coffee really go hand-in-hand with the coder life - I switched from coffee to green-tea about 5 years back myself though.

Actually, depending on the type of pot and how you are wired it can be an upper or a downer (it's actually classified a hallucinogen). There are two strains - sativa and indica's - and for some the indica will knock you on your butt while the other will actually give you an odd focused, upbeat kind of buzz. Not that I would know personally, ahem...
What are you an emotionless corporate suit? Of course little guy vs. big guy has relevance. Consumers are very emotional creatures. You might be logical but the world around you is not.

Why do you think we all flocked to Google and give it a chance back in early days of Lycos, Yahoo, MS, & AltaVista? It wasn't because we were educated about its new "page rank" algorithm. It was the story behind the company. The same thing that led us towards Facebook and Craigslist. It's NOT the only factor in using a service, the service has to be good obviously and provide something the others don't. But there are endless cases where being better doesn't bring home the bacon. It's the human element, the emotional factor that can win people over and get them to give you a try.

"Little guy" is simply a way of saying "ability to have empathy for". When a company is vulnerable, non aggressive, new, innocent, we tend to see them as something pure and beautiful that must be protected from a brutal world. like a flower. Cheesy I know, but it works.
Do it. netrw has a lot more features than NERDTree and comes as default.
Indeed, choosing between beer or coffee depends on the type of meeting. If it's exploring doing business or a negotiation I generally propose coffee, whereas if it's sharing war stories or a friend then beer is great.
I am, too. That does not greatly affect the group's average affinity.

Either that or we're not "real" developers. :)
You really think that Microsoft should be prevented from bundling a browser with windows? And that consumers would benefit from this?
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The SmartStatus is actually fully configurable, so you can choose which applications/websites you appear red/yellow/green for. So if you set Hacker News and your IDE to the same color, then your coworkers won't be able to tell :-)
Yea, why do you think the diary industry is fighting against raw milk?
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moleskine, which is kind of weird though if you think about it: any other sketchbook is likely to be a magnitude cheaper and would for me probably suffice the purpose of doodling/sketching just as well. I do catch myself subconsciously factoring this in when sketching/doodling though by using the paper surface more errr... economically ;-) The best reason I could think of is the leather cover; it holds amazingly well in my overly packed backpack :)
I observed this very thing with Facebook too. (Facebook Ads are clicked by bots.. Facebook has 80 million fake users..) HN front page seems to contain at least one of these stories at any given time.
This is only perception and not reality. If Steve was still alive this post would have still come out and the T shaped adapter would still be used on new Mac laptops.

There are a few fallacies at play in your comment and you're far from the only one to have said similar things. First off, both the L and T shaped adapters have their pros and cons. I personally prefer the T shaped adapter. The author of this piece has taken his opinion and turned it into an indictment of Apple which I get because it is an opinion piece after all but as readers we should be able to see that this isn't true for everyone. The reality is that both have their pros and cons and Apple chose T shaped adapters. For as many people out there that complain there are just as many who prefer it (myself included). The product pipeline isn't going to go downhill for years. It's well known that Jobs left the company with several years worth of products that'll be rolled out. What there is to worry about is when that pipeline ends.

The last thing that people forget is that Apple has always made mistakes. Even while Jobs was at the company. For as many hits as they have they have a ton of misses. Overall they do a great job and the ratio of hits to missed hasn't swung in favor of misses at all yet. It's just that now that Jobs is gone people understandably wonder if "this is it" for Apple whenever they miss. Considering that it hasn't even been a year since Jobs passed and how strong an influence he had at Apple it's only natural for people to take criticism that would have happened with or without Jobs and frame it in the context of Apple going downhill since Jobs died.

Apple is as strong as ever. They make amazing products as usual. They fuck up sometimes... Also as usual.
I think this is a key point. While the Steam cash cow is generating enormous profits, they have a lot of freedom to experiment. They have an almost complete monopoly of the digital game download world. It's to some extent reminiscent of the freedom that Google had early on when they were absolutely dominating search, and they weren't trying too hard to attack other fields.

It remains to be seen if that's the only reason why their current structure is working, but that's at the very least a valid hypothesis.
It seems to work in Firefox 15.0 as well as Chromium.
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Anyone have input on how to best identify the first people disseminating the false media?

A few notable pro-Assad twitter users were quick with spreading the links around, started to think about potential ways to trace sharing backwards as far as possible. Suggestions?
How about we give them the TSA annual budget for a year? ($8+ billion)
Ah, thank you! For some reason, reading "Fully Customizable" on the site I didn't understand it as such. Is it possible to set (until chosen otherwise) uniformly to red/yellow/green? As in, to override the SmartStatus and use it as run of the mill IM applications without losing the settings?
Actually, you had me right the first time.

I'm mostly talking about offline brand building advertising. "Nobody is lining up to fill billboards" - I just bought some advertising on the checkout lane for the Safeway nearest google. (If that works, I think it will mostly work because it's so unusual. That, and the density of potential customers in the area.)

Really, I think sponsorship is an extremely effective way to build your brand; way more effective than billboards. I mean, if you can sponsor something that the people you sell to care deeply about. But, that's nearly impossible to track. My theory is that a customer might click on an adword (or organic search result) and sign up because they saw me at SCALE or something... but there is really no way for me to prove that.
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I'm wondering if you went straight into a startup or sole proprietorship?

If you ever spent time in a mid or large sized company and talked with people in various departments and what sucks about their day to day tasks, then ideas are abound (or as previously mentioned, make friends with people who work in such environments, and pick their brains about what sucks). PMs have their pain points, sales guys have their pain points, IT guys have their pain points, etc.
Let me point out that the only people EA seems to screw over are the people dumb enough to work for them. Zynga goes out and rips off independent third parties.

So, I would lean toward rooting for EA on this one, but not because I like EA.
"General" and "private"? That's two levels, not flat. But ok, so we're obviously using our terms differently. There is still a radical difference between an organization with fixed hierarchical roles and one in which individuals allocate their own time and respect only such authority as emerges during the work itself.

There's another point. In my experience with emergent authority on teams, even if Alice emerges as group leader, that hardly gives her "executive authority". If she begins to insist on making arbitrary decisions, she will soon be knocked down a peg and carry less respect. In other words, these forms of authority (emergent vs. executive) are not the same.
ad·ver·tise·ment/ˈadvərˌtīzmənt/
Noun:
A notice or announcement in a public medium promoting a product, service, or event or publicizing a job vacancy.

An 'ad' doesn't have to be paid for. And connotations are not definitions.
from the docs: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/innodb-memcached.html

"MySQL 5.6 includes a NoSQL interface, using an integrated memcached daemon that can automatically store data and retrieve it from an InnoDB table. By default, you use the memcached API purely to speed up database operations, letting InnoDB handle memory caching using its buffer pool mechanism. Advanced users can enable the traditional memcached in-memory caching and control whether operations look up and store data in memory, in InnoDB tables, or both. This offering provides users with the best of both worlds"
As others have alluded to, Chrome for Windows is making fonts on this page impossibly hard to read.

I'm beginning to think that rendering horribly in Chrome for Windows is the Internet's latest "Built on a Mac" badge.
Maybe so that it's always at your fingertips, figuratively speaking? I like that now I won't have to open a new tab and search for an online base64 converter, for example.
This is meaningless without comparing to non-developers, or the general population. For all we know from this data, developers may like beer less than non-developers. Combine this with the problems cited by jmduke, and I'm not sure it is enhancing the reputation of the "developer focused industry analyst firm" that published it. Yes, I have no sense of humor.
because in the long run their clones are better than the originals.

Nonsense. Zynga just used it's position and money to better advertise, brand, & connect their games together using facebook as a marketing channel. MS did the same thing with Internet Explorer. IE had the highest market share all these years NOT because it was better than Netscape, Firefox, & Opera. But because MS used their position, money, and installed base. Once at the top, a monopoly is hard to overthrow.
Right now, you can manually set your status to either Online or Unavailable. If you're unavailable, then people can't initiate video connections with you, and your status is gray. If you set your status to Online, then people can chat you and your colored status is determined by which application/website you have in the foreground. The application/website to color mapping is something you can configure yourself, but right now it's not possible to force yourself to a particular color for a period of time, although that's a great idea that we can implement in a coming release.
Without JITs, you greatly limit the languages you can run quickly (no JavaScript, no C#, no Java, no Lua, etc. etc.) - that's a lot to give up.

3D is also a lot to give up.

I understand if you happen to not care about speed or 3D, and that's fine, but most people do.
If you can still edit the link, how about fixing it to link to the story, not to the comment?
Unfortunately, the "group of crooks" is very large, and it starts from the very top.
Corruption on all levels is considered normal, and it has been a norm in the society for centuries. Only extremely strong leaders (such as Peter the Great, or Stalin) could push any real changes, which didn't last long after they were gone.
By no means does she have it all..How can she have it all when she is going to have her child raised by someone else for a majority of the time.

There are always trade offs

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Dropbox found a way around that. It's heavily used within corporations, but the adoption decision gets made by each individual acting alone.

Ping Li has an excellent paper on this: http://www.accel.com/assets/resources/files/17/original_rena...
Sierra Nevada and SpaceX have almost the same number of employees. So not sure why you think they're bloated and SpaceX isn't.

Personally I'm happy NASA spread the money around. The last thing we need is the government to simply build another Boeing or Lockheed. And by that I mean: if SpaceX has 100% of the market because of NASAs funding, I fully expect them to stop competing on price (at some point).
You're statistically insignificant.
Yep, this is standard practice at Google, Facebook, basically anywhere now. Wring what you can out of your customers, then screw them over. Send threats and destroy their work, then hide.

Facebook does this too. They'll delete the pages of even PAYING ADVERTISERS with no excuse and no contact information, after no behavior that could possibly warrant such an action.

It's disgraceful. It's time for people to realize that your use of Google and other "free" services isn't free. They're SELLING your information, and for that you should demand proper treatment.
Pilsner Urquell FTW!
>Changing consumer behavior

Kevin Maney, in Trade-Off, posits that something needs to be 10x cheaper (or better, or faster or...) to compel someone to change a behavior. Ray Ozzie liked to apply this rule during his tenure at MS as well. Obviously, measure 10x cheaper is much easier than measuring 10x better but the point remains that if you're asking people to change their behaviors in any meaningful fashion, you need to give them real incentives.
Edit: adding line break for clarity.
How are they demonstrating this "trust"?
And this is of course ignoring the decision to go with 8, not any other reasonable number, different colors in the first place. ;)
Like any other resource or dependency that you build into your business, using a platform requires an ROI calculation of some sort. The distribution advantage needs to be worth the risk.
Male birds also wear and display decorative plumage in order to attract mates, whereas female birds tend to be more drap. Obviously it's natural for men to look and dress prettily in order to demonstrate their attractiveness to women, who as the ones being wooed don't need to put in the same kind of effort.

It's funny how selective our analogies to nature are sometimes.
Speaking as someone who learned a lot from Usenet back in the day, I'm going to have to disagree with you. Remembering nuggets of data from old posts has made me able to pull off feats of magic at times when I shouldn't have known anything about a system in question (because I had never touched one before). Even just knowing where to look can give you a head start.

Now, if I never remembered this stuff, okay, it would have been time wasted. If that's the case for you and you don't take away anything from blog posts (the closest thing we have to rich Usenet posts any more), then perhaps you could try not reading them.
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I guess that explains why I've been twice as annoyed by it.
Replace 'man' with 'publication' and it still stands. Ad hominem in the abstract is attacking the messenger/venue vs the message itself.

I'm not saying your bigoted, I'm saying your attacking this article because you disagree about where it was voiced since you feel HN should be a religion free zone.

This isn't a religious or evangelical message. It could of been written in a secular feminist publication and it wouldn't be out of place. It could of been an article on the blog of Imam Khomeni, where %90 of the posts are about the supremacy of Islam, it wouldn't matter.
... and this is how we get crappy software. If anything we need more adherence to the construction, specifically, "review". In construction, things are reviewed, certified, analyzed, and tested.

I don't garden like I write software, and I definitely don't write software like I garden. Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to go do something about these ground squirrels eating all the tomatoes.
The one thing that always come to mind with responsiveness is that the more complex the site, the more difficult it is to make responsive web work. Now this may sound intuitive, but I am always astounded as to how people now think that responsive web is the magic bullet to solve all woes.

I think responsive Web is really at its most powerful if the site is minimal (like google). For any advanced site, either lots of care needs to be taken or perhaps the dreaded "m" subdomain?
Replace 'man' with 'publication' and it still stands. Ad hominem in the abstract is attacking the messenger/venue vs the message itself.

I'm not saying your bigoted, I'm saying your attacking this article because you disagree about where it was voiced since you feel HN should be a religion free zone. I then gave examples how other articles written by the religious are written everyday.

This isn't a religious or evangelical message. It could of been written in a secular feminist publication and it wouldn't be out of place. It could of been an article on the blog of Imam Khomeini, where %90 of the posts are about the supremacy of Islam, it wouldn't matter.
A lot of Zynga's employees are game industry developers and Zynga tends to pay better than most for a comparable title and skillset. I know a lot of people thay have left "beloved" console and PC developers to get a better paycheck at Zynga. This is especially true for game designers and artista who have less ability to simply leave games entirely to make more money.
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I think the pressure becomes overwhelming when you are playing with other people's money; that is, when you get investors. There is only one question to ask: how can we make more money? It's usually phrased differently, but that's ultimately the question.

We see this repeatedly with "free" products. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...
Do you mean you haven't heard "three", or "figures"? Because you've definitely heard "six figures".
-$10,000 from the unproductivity.
I have a new MBA (13"), and the power cord falls out constantly. I've developed a tic of grabbing the connector and holding it in if I adjust the laptop in the slightest way to prevent coming unplugged.
The link I posted did actually say that we shouldn't have affirmative action for men in female dominated spaces and should instead try to get rid of the idea of gender roles full-stop in some vague and incompletely defined fashion. (The reason I linked that response in particular was because I read it at the time when the original Atlantic piece came out.)
Carlsberg?
There's also the bit about hiring of EA executives (John Schappert, Jeff Karp, Barry Cottle) who had access to The Sims Social and social IP (pages 13-14).
I'm curious if this is partly because of it being a male dominated profession. I would assume polls of other professions with such chromosome skew would produce similar results.
It is because some shady sites were putting a lock icon as the favicon to make you think it was secured so the tab is the better place for them.
"... The biggest problem with all of them is that they don’t support flexible data structures—they don’t let you define things how you want,..."

Just halved the audience.

When I read this I think of Hawking, "A Brief History of Time" & the advice his editor to remove equations. Does the same hold for Comp Science references? (Must resist the urge to talk CS in main-street press. Must resist the urge to talk CS in main-street press...)
The article isn't quite promoting anything. It's saying "I like this product", not "buy this product".
David Allen commenting on productivity tools says that, in essence, all you need is the ability to create and maintain lists.

In Evernote I have a bunch of notes. One is called 'Projects', one is called 'someday maybe' one is called 'stuff' and then there are a batch of context notes, office, home, etc all the usual GTD notes.

Each of these notes is a list.
So when I open evernote, what I see is a list of lists.
I find this depth of nesting optimal.

It works great. I mainly use it on my phone but, of course, it's available on my PC.

I use evernote only because it means I have an online backup and if I change my phone there's no messy data transfer to arrange.

Used in conjunction with Google calendar it supports GTD perfectly.

I have tried a lot of GTD apps and none beats the simplicity of this when it comes to supporting GTD methodology
+1 That's why Case A doesn't work for me.