skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This will promote a flood of apps exploring real-money gambling on all platforms. Google and Apple are probably worried on the due diligence on this kind of games, if the odds are respected, if there is no possibility of rigged games, etc etc
Square should automatically wave fees after collecting $275 per month.
The New Razor Keyboard with a touchscreen to run widget apps
Google Redeemable Gift Cards For Google Play Store
I have a Dell Vostro V131 with UEFI. I wasn't counting the POST, just the operating system boot from start to login screen.
+1. Slicehost was my first VPS provider. Loved you guys.
ZURB Foundation 3 Stencils
Since version 1.6, "data-dojo-attr='foo'" is preferred; "dojoAttr='foo'" will not be supported in 2.0 [1][2].

More details: Dojo 1.x to 2.0 migration guide [3]

[1] http://dojotoolkit.org/features/1.6/html5data-attributes

[2] http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.8/releasenotes/1.6....

[3] http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.8/releasenotes/migr...
I'm saying it is outrageous for the UK government to use a UK law that was put in place to deal with extreme circumstances involving terrorism and threats to national security as a thinly veiled threat in a case that revolves around someone wanted for questioning about a rape and sexual assault, yes.

Especially when making use of said law might very well be in violation of international treaties, and have severe implications for the diplomatic protections of embassies worldwide.
Linked from other comments in this thread:

http://web.archive.org/web/20060202181857/http://textdrive.c...
Judge Koh is an interesting figure. I have a feeling she's going to go a long way in the judiciary.
I do mixed martial arts every single day not because I love exercise but due to joint / weight problems. I have not lost a pound but the health benefits are amazing.

You have more energy. People want to go home and relax to do it all over again. If you workout, you have the energy to get home and start working again. It really has a profound impact on your burnout / mental health.
Let's Give Robin van Persie Our Blessings...This Way
To paraphrase someone else, when planet-bound civilizations fall to barbarism, people revert to agrarian societies; when space-based habitats fall to barbarism, everybody dies.

The difference being that maintaining a habitat takes a lot of technology that is constantly kept in working order.
I suspect this cuts right to the core of "why" Joyent would dump pretty low-overhead services and catch the flack over it. The hardware requirements to provide this shared hosting environment has plunged over the years; it's part of why I disagree with the "why did you EXPECT a lifetime deal" folks - because I always assumed that such a level of service would get cheaper and easier.

Except the one thing that doesn't get cheaper is the human power needed to administer the stuff and deal with the people. And as Joyent moves away from that sort of thing it becomes an unusual task and a drain on core business.

Which doesn't mean I think this is okay; the smart thing would have been to hand all of us lifetimers a lifetime bottom-tier slice. But I see why they'd want to be out of shared hosting.
As an ex aspiring classical musician, this is a topic near to my heart. I think the article is somewhat besides the point. You can agree with all of it, and yet still believe that you'll succeed in your chosen field because you're better. You think you'll be one of the few, who -- through superior talent, dedication, passion, etc... -- will make it. That's the delusion that kept me going for too long. Not any misconception that there was actually a market for classical flutists.
The fairest way to offer "lifetime" or "unlimited" plans is to include a simple warranty:

"If we ever cancel this plan, we will refund your money in full."
Well, we might end up thinking there was life on Mars when we're really the ones that brought it. It might screw with the science.
More the reason web will win over "mobile." "Mobile" to me is not a platform - it is a medium of consumption. The web is and always will be the platform in my mind.

This is great. If people can iterate on mobile like they can on the web, theres no telling how fast things can move.
IOW, being a "full stack" generalist is getting harder, imho

But more valuable. Coding with people who started with Rails, they may not know that there are 1000x differences between things that seem equivalent to them. In ye olden dayes it was hard to be off by that much because the problems would surface sooner.

I know people who make incredibly good money cleaning up after teams that lack a single full-stack person.
I like it. Discovery is one of the big problems for startups and anyone working to make that easier deserves thanks.
Well, the comments here certainly do.

Apart from that though, there aren't all that many "other" professions where you can "just" invent something new and go and become an entrepeneur just like that. They have a higher entry barrier, so I do think the article is very much about CS, dismissing everything else just outright from the onset.
I think most investors would agree with this entire post... EXCEPT for one point. I think if you asked the top Valley investors what they thought of the "Scale up and out" point (tl;dr Dave is contending that the valley is getting comparatively less important, geographically speaking), I think they'd almost universally disagree. This is a big bet from Dave/500s. As someone who doesn't necessarily love living in the Valley, I hope he's right. :-)
I've found that my weakest bets on fundamentals are with tech stocks. With anything else, I'm right as much as I expect to be - about 50% of the time.

With tech, I find I'm much closer to being wrong 80% of the time. I think our knowledge of the industry makes us believe we have more information than everyone else, and thus that we're in a better position to make bets. In reality, the things we know that your average investor doesn't aren't as crucial to the bottom line.
I was cynical when I clicked on the link-bait title, but you're totally mischaracterizing what the article said. It's like you didn't read it.

The article doesn't advise learning to program to build an app so you can be useful like CS people.

His point is that you need to do something that others value. You need to adapt to the markets out there and learn how to sell rather than think you can go make a great living weaving baskets from bubblegum wrappers because that's "your passion".

For a given set of goals, I think that his advice is spot on. If I were to quibble with the article it's in the assumption that everyone has his goals.

Maybe I don't want to make a bunch of money. Maybe I'm happy barely getting by as long as I can play the pan flute to people wandering through the New Orleans French Quarter.

Then again, this is an article up-voted on HN, a site dedicated to entrepreneurs.
Society should provide everyone with minimum food/shelter/health/education

... paid for by?
Building a Web Product - Start to Finish
I tested it out for the Chicagoland area to see how much saturation they have here, and did a search for a trip from the city to a NW suburb for tomorrow.

1 result came up, so I clicked, and it brought up a Craigslist page within an iFrame. Is Ridejoy just scraping Craigslist? Genuinely curious.
>"I love the sarcastic titles..."

Whoops! You did it, too.

The title annoys me because I clicked on it wanting to read about hate. I'm just that kind of person.
This is very cool but not a free lunch. The fees have to come from somewhere. How about no fees for chargebacks too?
I definitely like the black status bar, but for some reason I think the rounded corners just make the applications feel claustrophobic. Or, maybe it's just because I prefer Android. But I honestly feel that a black status bar but straight corners is the best feel for me, personally.
Two and a half months, actually. Which is still a lot less than the lifetime we were promised (unless you're a fruitfly or something, I guess) but you have a little longer to migrate your stuff.
The Bingo Event Horizon
What? Index funds don't steal the dividends from you, they contribute to the performance or are paid out.

Generally look at the performance index to evaluate returns, NEVER NEVER the price index, please.

The total return of the S&P 500 from January 1999 until now is 47.7%, or 2.91% per annum (EDIT: had incorrect numbers!). Not a good return, but you also picked one of the worst dates.

Please also note that the price and dividend returns ADD UP. You don't need to choose between one or the other.
hm, so you have to check the GPU via JS to check if the user can handle 3D transforms?

about:gpu is nice. thanks.
learn to read: https://help.squareup.com/customer/portal/articles/11861-wha...
So all China needs is for a Chinese woman to claim the Dalai Lama raped her in China, and China can demand the Dalai Lama be extradited to China! Brilliant!
"Miscommunication"? You must be joking. They consented to have sex if he used a condom. He tricked one of them and forced the other one to penetrate without a condom. That is sex without consent. And AFAIK it is not the first time he did this. This seems to be his MO.

I am not saying he should be extradited to Sweden without a guaranty he will not be sent to the US. But the allegations are serious.
The markets do not dictate the fact that we can't afford to just all sit around and be total hippies. It's the universe and ecosystem we live in. The natural state of being is such that if you just sit around and play in the stereotypical sense of the term, you will die. If you can just sit and do nothing, yet still be watered, fed, clothed, sheltered, and medically cared for, it is because someone is working for you to have those things. They don't just spontaneously burst into being. It isn't capitalism creating this reality, it's entropy and evolution.

Despite superficial appearances, we are not rich enough to just let everyone do as they please. Efficiency and profit aren't "just" evil things, they are the lifeblood that allows people to do something other than work. You decry them, yet without them, you have no foundation to stand on to create the world you say you want. Be careful, lest you get what you are asking for.

It is the capitalist system that has created enough wealth to allow you to become detached enough from this reality to even begin to think these thoughts. It is a rare anomaly in human history, not our natural state of being.
I'd just like to note, that anyone who starts saving for retirement at 45 isn't likely to have a great outcome. If they started in 1999, yes they got a rough deal, but that's what happens when you start 25 years too late. Index fund or great advisor isn't the problem here.
Raymond Hettiger and Jessica McKellar as keynote speakers! Yeah!
You have an ... interesting definition of "blatantly obvious".

There are a number of legitimate reasons Sweden would refuse this idea. Foremost among them is that, in the event this questioning leads to a decision to arrest, it likely can't be performed.
I paid $1399 for my TextDrive/Joyent "Three Martini Lunch" hosting, about six years ago. Which works out around $20/month. In retrospect, paying that amount up front doesn't seem "too good to be true", unfortunately.
Maybe Judge Koh isn't familiar with the Reality Distortion Field.
Wanted to thank the HN community for all your encouragement. I first released the Diffbot API as a "Show HN:" post last year (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2310852). $2M+ and lots of hard work later, we're powering some of the largest destination sites out there like Stumbleupon and the new Digg.
How to suck at your religion
In today's market, if you are umemployed, it is extremely difficult to get through large corporations even though not completely impossible. Your better bet is to go with startups or smaller companies. Have something to show. Github? SO ? blog ? etc. Do your homework about the company before you approach them. Don't just say "Hey I am a brilliant coder who can do xxx". That puts you in competition with several others. Instead, know as much as about the company. For example, if you say "hey I know you guys build x and I have done y in similar space and can offer you my service to further build/enhance x". Then, you catch their attention because you are talking about their problem not your problem. At that point, they may not care whether you are unemployed or employed.
> and have no cross browser issues--although no iOS to be fair...

I love this casual dismissal of tablet/mobile phone users as if it were a non-issue.
By everyone. It's 2012, we have plenty of food and materials to provide for every human being, it's just a matter of distribution.
In the case of Denmark, taxes. The idea is that in a Western country with a reasonably high standard of living, it's possible to shift the playing field on which individuals compete so that it takes place between, say [$20k,inf] rather than [$0,inf]. The tradeoff is some percentage taken off the upside in return for a cap on the downside. Seems reasonably fair to me, and I don't mind paying taxes for that safety net to exist. One can make all sorts of arguments about exactly where to set the thresholds, but the American attitude that seems to be a kind of visceral anger baffles me. As someone well into the middle class, I don't feel some kind of moral indignation that I could be making 10% more money if only there wasn't this healthcare and housing for poor people.
We actually take this very seriously at Betable. We do due diligence on all games that go live with our platform. There are two reasons: the legal reasons, and because the long-term health of our ecosystem depends on it. If players get ripped off, they won't come back. We're going to make sure every game is legal, fair and fun for those reasons.
Lots of companies including government do lifetime memberships and they aren't scams. I cat get lifetime fishing license with the state of california instead of paying $50 a year. I can get a lifetime pass to legoland here in california. REI has lifetime membership model, restaurants in my area offer lifetime drinks if you by a glass from them. These aren't charades and why do we always blame the victim?
I see a potential for abuse - if the cash back on certain credit cards exceeds the max rate, people could cycle money through for profit.

e.g. I had a 2% cash back credit card

Cashback: 21k/mo * 2%=$420

Fees: $275

Upside potential: $145/mo

Not much profit possible, but with multiple accounts at roughly 2 $400 swipes per day per account, I would watch out for something like this.
Seems like they should have some sort of fallback to users of IE can at least get some information about the conference

Very neat effect though. Is this based on actual folding math or is it just a series of neat animations? Like could this be built into a sort of popup book framework?
Then if you don't want interest rate risk go for short duration. It isn't like that isn't available. Don't expect high yields, of course.
My problem is that the article makes great sweeping points, pretending to talk about some sort of general truth while in fact catering to a very specific readership, HN possibly being exactly that.

I am aware what HN is, what bothers me is the generalising tendency apparent here without actually being self-reflecting enough to also see that not everybody's world works like that. I find this to be observable in both the article and many comments.
Very timely! I found the article you reference http://andrewchen.co/2012/08/15/mobile-app-startups-are-fail... very interesting yesterday - being able to push major changes to application UI at "web speed" is a better way to launch and iterate. Downloading your new toolkit now...
Nice. Make sure to come this year for sure - I guarantee it will be even more mind expanding.
I thoroughly enjoyed the realism in this piece. It is refreshing. "But it will take the courage to confront reality..." Yes!
I always assumed the difference between a "startup" and a "small business" was that the small business was trying to make money, whereas a startup might be, but usually was not, interested in profit.
It's pretty easy for a promise + money exchanged to become a contract.
So two things that I've never understood.

1) Why is it just now that someone's actually providing competitive service in this space? We've had people selling CC machines and service for years...

2) Where (in general, not just with Square) does the money actually go? It seems that prior to Square announcing this, getting under 2-3% or so was nearly impossible. On the scale of the US economy alone, that's HUGE money. What are the fixed per-transactions costs? Its just pushing around bits in a system right?
MicroEval (YC S12) Aims To Take The Pain Out Of Performance Reviews
Harvard Researchers Turn Book Into DNA Code
How a drug mule named "Big Foot" helped create terrible GPS search law
I think 1 is incorrect. There are two types of interviews in Sweden. Normal police interviews and 24:8 interviews. The purpose of a 24:8 interview is to determine if it is necessary to arrest the suspect, and has nothing to do with if the suspect will be charged or not. (Though he must be charged soon after being arrested or let free.) So they do only need to have a normal police interview with Assange at this stage. The 24:8 interview should be held once Assange has arrived in Sweden.

Basically the process should be:

1) International arrest warrant
2) Police interview in London
3) Charges are laid
4) Extradition to Sweden
5) 24:8 interview to check if Assange is likely to leave the country.
6) Trial

People with more knowledgeable of the law are welcome to correct me
R -> C -> P -- this isn't for publishing but as a way to avoid drawing graphs in InDesign/Photoshop/Illustrator.
Oh and if you're curious about how we built the app - here's an article on our design process:

http://pandodaily.com/2012/08/16/ridejoy-for-ios-behind-the-...
I think there may be some confusion.

The code in question is a configuration option for a third-party jquery plugin. There may be better plugins which expose their configuration options differently but I personally think that the benefits of using the library itself outweigh building something entirely from scratch for a more purist interaction. I've worked with some gross libraries before and I think that the benefit of using them outweighs a few comments for obscure settings.

The third party code in question isn't terrible as you can assume it's the resize delay from its name. I think what made it terrible was the fact that since a magic number was used (16) it wasn't as apparent for a reasonable developer to grasp without questioning it. Yes, some people will know that 16 milliseconds equates to around 60 frames per second but I don't think it's reasonable to assume everyone who looks at it will. It was a bad example on my part, however, as with a constant as opposed to a magic number you don't need the comment at all.

The code smell I mentioned was wrapping a third party configuration in a function as a way to limit commenting. I think commented configuration options make it easier for other developer to grasp why something is configured that way -- especially for code that will be minified.

I don't think I explained well enough that the code in question was from a third party interaction, however, so could see how we may be on different wavelengths. I'm also by no means a purist when it comes to comments though so I'm sure we may have opposing views (although I agree with the general idea as you mentioned to annotate why not how/what).
> How is this so hard to understand?

Because people are too caught up in America-wants-to-kill-Assange conspiracy theories to bother trying to understand.
Unnecessary for China, against someone whose family was within their grasp. That does not mean it wouldn't be a very convenient tool.

You'll note that China found it less troublesome to threaten someones family with violence than to risk a diplomatic incident by violating the integrity of a diplomatic mission.
Congrats Iqram, Kortina, and team!
That is much more expensive. I believe that the $50 fee is for filing online, so in 20 minutes with a credit card you can have confirmation paperwork.
Gah this helped me a lot, thanks. about:gpu told me my WebGL was disabled in about:flags... which it was. Not sure how that happened as that's been annoying me forever.
Please downvote this article. It has nothing to do with news, nor hackers, let alone hackernews. Unless such entries get downvotes, the top of HN will be infested with canned controversial opinion pieces.
"As a heavy <insert functional language here> user, coming from an environment where this sort of functionality has been standard for decades, I can easily say that <refute any claims>. I hope <insert mockery here>."

On another note... it looks great, if it performs well it can be hacked for a REPL environment / code editor plugin.
While the main thesis isn't well-supported, the author makes a series of extremely good points. Being aware of these points is exactly what you need if you do want to really shoot for doing what you really want to do.
Now I m waiting for Stripe to do the same thing
Similar, on Intrade: Julian Assange to be arrested by British police before midnight ET 31 Aug 2012

http://www.intrade.com/v4/markets/contract/?contractId=76447...
Every time I hear this keyboard's name, I'll think of the MST3K episode: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6829772551040700364#
That's nice, but calling Braintree a startup is quite a stretch. (The article doesn't, it's just the HN headline.)
Some trivial professions are grossly overpaid, while many other beneficial professions are grossly underpaid.

I'd like to contest this. Overpaid and underpaid - by what standard?

The standard ought to be how much someone is willing to pay you for your goods or services (whether you're an employee or an entrepreneur).

I think this actually matches people's intuition a lot more than they realize.

Oftentimes, when it seems like someone intuitively ought to make more, it's actually because they are making significantly under what would be a true market rate, because their work is not actually being offered on a free market. Case in point: scientists and educators who work for the government.
not working in Chrome Version 21.0.1180.77 on Linux
There are virtually no fixed costs to actually performing the transactions. The fees are levied by the not-so-competitive Visa/Mastercard/AMEX trio that would love to keep their fees artificially high.
This is a great team and I'm excited for what they will do. Everyone hates performance reviews!
Ridiculous, since the reason to get a new server is that it's cheaper per cycle/byte/watt.
That's an enormous time premium that you are paying. If you're a large holder then it might make sense as downside protection but otherwise I can't see the reason for it.
2) Much of it goes to the credit card interchanges (Visa / MC / Amex / Discover). Those are the folks that end up with the bulk of all these fees. Processors are middle-men that make a surcharge on those rates. Many "traditional" merchants offer interchange-plus rates now.

As for 1), the emergence of mobile devices have really enabled this to happen. Square is really useful in the mobile environment. Prior to that, it was Internet merchants and traditional POS systems.
Ah thanks, didn't see that!
That was kind of a badass decision, by the way. It can't have been easy to sacrifice a pre existing user base for Makr.
Google+ for iOS opens URLs in Chrome, how soon until all Google apps do that?
And hundreds of comments.