skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the more important note is that if they don't hit the goal, all those people won't have paid anything.

Whereas without this fundraising period, the first people in are going to say "I'm the first person in, if I pay $50 there's nobody else to talk to", and... then nobody becomes the first to pay it. (Well not nobody, but few people.)
Eye-Fi[1]'s Wi-Fi enabled SD cards already do this, and it's beautiful. Only downsides are cost and that you have to turn the camera on once you get home.

[1] http://www.eye.fi/
App.net: to fund or not to fund?
Mine: http://gist.io/3302301

I don't like the github merge button so I don't use it.

Also I always rebase on master, and squash/edit some commits before merging on master.
To be clear: No. This is wrong. Do not follow this advice. The 'alkaline diet' does not work.

http://www.skepdic.com/alkalinediet.html

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/DSH/coral2...
What an optimistic question!

Try: "How much of your codebase isn't understood by any people at all?" :)
Nitpick++: the Netherlands is/are not taking part in the olympics; the kingdom of the Netherlands is (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Netherlands)

Also: even London2012.com calls the home nation Great Britain, not the United Kingdom.
There WILL be a Kindle version (I emailed him). I think it's just not listed in pre-order.

(I actually convinced a friend of mine who wrote a great new book on dealing with analysts, Up and to the Right (http://www.amazon.com/UP-RIGHT-Strategy-Influence-ebook/dp/B...) that he should do an ebook. For some reason he thought it would cause piracy!)
Did you even read the article or join.app.net?
It seems to me as an outsider as well that any kind of physical activity is generally looked down. Not absolutely but more in a 'if you don't have to, why would you' way.

Plus, it's so hot most of the time that any serious aerobic activity is difficult to maintain.
I wouldn't mind if all Amazon links on hn got a hn referral link and donated to Room to Read.
So that doesn't make sense. If I have a website running on AWS, do I have my users pay AWS for me?
Uhm, who cares? Whatever the link is, you will have to pay the same price anyway and the commission would end up in Amazon's pockets. Luckily, Danielle is nice enough to donate all the proceeds to charity.

I just pre-ordered mine through this link, you're welcome.
From the fortune files:

This is the first numerical problem I ever did. It demonstrates the
power of computers:

Enter lots of data on calorie & nutritive content of foods. Instruct
the thing to maximize a function describing nutritive content, with a
minimum level of each component, for fixed caloric content. The
results are that one should eat each day:

1/2 chicken
1 egg
1 glass of skim milk
27 heads of lettuce.
-- Rev. Adrian Melott
Yes, a random page in w3schools is for developers, not for beginners. And yes, they do have tutorials where beginners should begin with. After the tutorial, they indeed know what a block element and a style is.

Google downgraded w3schools in search. It used to be constently the first result. Now it is rather 5th or 6th.
Yeah, and the "anti college movement" isn't about CS at Stanford, either, it's about the thousands of small private and for-profit schools graduating (or not graduating, usually) a bunch of Communications majors.
Not at all ;) thanks (not a native English speaker)
If people, beginners or not, come to w3schools and take it as the bible then they are in the wrong field and need to quit NOW.

I'd say it was fairly obvious that this is a bare bones basics site (I used it, albeit about 10 years ago) that needs to lead on to something else...

But granted they should may be put in a "next steps" type section of things people should read in to further.
Why won't he just change site? YouTube isn't the only video service out there.
Yep rebasing is a good idea, but it's a little complicated I find for being part of an "ubiquitous" process within a team
How so? I'm running Xmonad with GNOME 3.4 right now.
Many here wrote it's "big corporation vs. the little guy". The truth is different. It's really YouTube implementing an automated system that is good at identifying small fragments of contents, but totally lacks common sense regarding attributions, fair use and such.

Here is what happened to me to prove my point. On the http://www.taodyne.com web site, there's a small video. If you switch the sound on, you'll hear a music I quickly put together in a few minutes using GarageBand. Despite this being my own (not very good) creation, the YouTube system kicked in and told me I was infringing on some other guy's rights. Why? Because that other guy happens to have used the same loops I used for his own commercial music.

So there's no evil intent here, but a nasty side effects of YouTube's automated content detection system. In my opinion, it is nobody's fault but Google's: the corporations don't really have lawyers bent on claiming your stuff, they just happen to take advantage of Google's offer to monetize on what they do, and then they happen to have entered something in YouTube that YouTube identified as similar to yours.

It's important to point out that there's no evil intent on Google's part either. What they did is a great way to grant us the ability to use musics in videos we post, compensating the artists with ad revenues. But given the volume of data that enters YouTube every day, it has to be automated. And right now, the automat is good at picking similarities, bad at analyzing whether it's infringing or not.﻿
Well put. I'm following now, and I agree.

I still maintain that it's pointless to lash out at the snarky commenters... If they ARE being snarky, lashing out isn't going to help, and if they aren't, we'll risk alienating to genuine commenters.

I respect your judgement with regards to the dynamics of the community more than mine, but I'd like to suggest that it may still serve us well to give the benefit of the doubt. I think we're all basically in agreement at this point, however.

Good discussion!
I agree with atacrawl... No one would ship a boat if it didn't float. It's acceptable in todays software to ship a very simple version, especially on mobile devices, and Grid looks awesome. I wouldn't want more feature in it for version 1, but I don't see how it reinvents spreadsheets. It is something new entirely, that seems to be a perfect fit for content creation on touch devices, but it looks closer to a powerpoint/keynote concurrent than a spreadsheet one.
How about adjusting by the number of Olympians per country?
Well I guess if they implement arithmetic they will be fine, the average consumer can do without pivot tables and HLOOKUP.
And judging from what they already built they should be able to manage that. I hope they don't teach the app to interpret decimal numbers as dates. This ranks as one of the top stupidest feature ideas in the world. Has a 99% miss rate for me.
All the time I thought app.net was some iOS marketplace or app generator and thus instantly dismissed anything I saw about it. Very unfortunate name in my opinion.
Thank you! The lower part isn't really a good fit, but the upper part is nice to look at.
I concluded some time ago that nationalism is another form of religion.

Or at the very least they share many of the same irrational and sociological attributes.
Can you extend this great gesture when the ebook is published as well? I would rather read it the softcopy.
Given the http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1591845297/?tag=referly-20 URL how does referly know which of its users to pass Amazon's commission onto? Several could turn up to refer on the same product.
SSToolkit: Collection of well-documented iOS classes for making life easier
china sent 380. GB is the host country. It gets automatic entries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics#Sorted_by_...
... or Java.
Agreed.

I got to visit jail inmates as part of a voluntary effort. I met a person that had killed their parents with a katana, he told me that everybody was an assassin, but they didn't knew that.

I had know people that in the WWII were put a fire gun in their head telling them to kill other people in refuge's camps or they would be shot. They didn't.

Those people had the opportunity to become villains.

This is done today in Africa when there are wars with children being forced to kill their parents(guerrillas recruit children this way), girls being raped. We had to psychologically treat them when they got out of the guerrilla. Some children refuse to do that and are killed on the go.
It might be approachable, but that doesn't make it any less horrible.

Yes, some people find it useful when they don't know better, but I suspect those people at that point they would have found almost any tutorial useful.
It helps. Let's take the example of numbers. You begin learning as a child with 1, 2, 3... Everything is an integer and begins with one. Rapidly, you learn the notion of 0. And then at school, at some point, come the negative numbers. You have to "throw the ladder" that numbers are integer and begin with 1. You still know how to count, indeed in a more complex way.

Let's say you begin with markup, and just put the style as a tag to begin with. At some point, you know what a style does, but you have to throw the ladder that it has to be inside the markup, and externalize it to .css file.

Learning is a progressive experience.
I agree. Most users are not interested in understanding/testing the new UI concepts introduced in Gnome 3. It cannot be "the default wm" anymore. This is a very diplomatic way to say it.
Looking at your profile, which indicates you are technically proficient, I'm struggling to understand how you have come to the conclusion in the headline. Unless you're just looking for attention, in which case er, well played.

The two hostnames point at two completely separate pieces of infrastructure.

If you want to support every URI under www.nasa.gov on the naked domain, you would need to deploy web resources on that separate network to handle the redirects, and maintain them.

Perhaps a willingness to be pragmatic and leave this job for another day is the reason they are successful in other areas such as, you know, putting a robot on Mars.
Could have been a mistake?
You can limit the sodium intake on the options page
Very much agree. I would call it a gridded paper canvas / sketch book rather then spreadsheet. The metaphor is one of a generic data presentation context / place holder rather than 2d relational modeling medium, a compute data context such as a spreadsheet. Sure you can draw pixel art in excel but it is an abuse of the potential of the medium rather then the primary reason for it. You can do the same in MS Paint for instance but not the other way around.

Moreover my reaction to criticism by pg on your comment is that while the demo video is indeed neat, it is also a bit contrived. I would rather shoot myself than go through all these steps to make plan for a simple camping trip. I cannot also imagine doing any serious data work on it. It is not about being negative to the idea of potentially a useful implementation of spreadsheets in tablets, but when a particular design is presented you cannot not have a critical debate for the sole reason of demotivating innovation. It is exactly the other way around, criticism is the only way you may get an agro objectivish feedback for what may or not work in a design and seek to improve.
I guess the difference is the inclusion of the non-competing members of the team. http://totallympics.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=231... claims 542 for GB, and 386 for China.

GB has a larger team because it a) made an enormous extra effort and b) automatically qualifies for every sport it enters. Sports such as waterpolo, volleyball, football, and hockey typically admit only the world's top 12 or so of countries. GB probably has an entry in all of them. Being team sports, that adds up.

The interesting thing to see for GB is how far they will fall back in ten years time. They were abysmal in 1996 (one gold), but grew since.
I might be slightly out of date, but IMHO Qt has always only emulated the look and feel of the platform it was running on by painting all their widgets on their own. While the themes were certainly very good (much better, than, say Java/Swing's "native" themes), Qt apps still left that uncanny-valley feeling.
Israel is not a theocracy.
Largest democracy? Governments can change without wars/madness.

Forward drive? At least the Indian nationals I meet in UK. Bags of self confidence and focus.
He's right that WSJ security coverage is by far the best of any "normal" publication. I also think WSJ AllThingsD is probably the best general startup coverage (and also headed by a woman).
That's a tad presumptuous.
There is. Look in the meal options.
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Needs error bars.
I like the approach but why not use the full site name instead of a 3 letter acronym? It would be easier to remember.
Is it just in case of a leak the link between the acronym and the site is not easily spotted?
Out of all the cross-platform toolkits Qt is the absolute best. For example, the Windows themes are literally flawless. It also takes into account so many things that other toolkits don't: native (file picker) dialogs, proper button order, paddings, etc.
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EveryTalk.tv: Find and learn from conference talks
or Notion!
I'd love it if it could suggest your week's menu and then hook into your online grocery shopping too
Some information is available here, including variable bit rate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electra_(radio)
It struck me the author runs his apps as root (in screenshots). But then I remembered he's using node.js to handle "thousands of concurrent connections".
> survive the 9 MPa and 450 C on the surface on Venus

not even mentioning the sulfur acid rains, lead sulfide snow and lack of magnetic field (cosmic rays penetrating atmosphere if it would be weakened)
There is no "one point" for all.

For you $20 is the threshold. But for Warren Buffet? But for a small business that could earn $2000 more a year with a great social service? For a Venezuelan person whose same $20 means a ton of work?

It depends. 20% of Americans have 80% of the wealth.
While I do have problems with the simplistic portrayal of China in this article, I agree strongly with the first section: The nationalism that the Olympics typically brings out in people, is disgusting. It's an event that is supposed to bring the people of our world together, but it just seems to make us more hostile instead.
From Digia's blog:

With this acquisition Digia will have an increasing responsibility to the global Qt community, not just the commercial licensing business. We believe in the power of the Qt dual license. It is a great value for Qt that it can be used under an open source and commercial license, since customers have different needs and the licenses have different purposes. Digia wants to continue the good co-operation with different individual contributors and companies working together in the Qt Project. We also are committed to continuing the special relationship Qt has with the KDE community via the KDE Free Qt Foundation. We believe that this symbiosis is valuable for everyone involved.

http://www.digia.com/en/Blogs/Qt-blog/Tuukka-Turunen/Dates/2...
Please add a setting to change measurements to metric globally, not just in the serving size but also the recipes.
http://berlinstartupjobs.com/
There's also an awesome video of that descent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-BwcDNsbmw

Or: http://www.esa.int/esaMI/Cassini-Huygens/SEMKVQOFGLE_1.html (check the hires download!)
I'll bite.

It's possible that you have worked on more projects than are listed on Linkedin, but that's what you've offered as evidence of your "good portfolio" and growth as a developer (the reason, I assume, that you keep distancing yourself from those hapless beginners), so that's what I'll reply to.

You have three web projects and a personal website all listed on your profile.

1. "Metasyllabus Initiative": This is a generic Wordpress site using a contributed theme. I assume this is your first attempt at a personal blog. There doesn't appear to be anything technically special about it, and it hasn't been updated in 8 months. If you stick with web development, get used to that. I haven't updated my blog in a year and a half. Wordpress is great, though, because anyone can set it up and use it. Anyone.

2. "Decision Tree Generator": About as simple as it can get. An independent multi-page Javascript-dependent (Did you learn that on W3Schools?) post form that's easily broken and seems to offer very little utility to the user. The most complicated styling used in this project is probably the absolute-positioned results.

3. "OmicronAlpha.org": This site is down.

4. "www.sagegerard.com": I don't know any serious web developers who would use Concrete5, and the comments I've received even from novices about it (it seems to appeal primarily to novices) have all ended with disappointment.

My point is that you're still a beginner. As a beginner, you don't know as much as the people you're arguing with, and you're making yourself look a bit foolish. W3Schools is a fine resource for anyone who knows that it's often unsafe, inaccurate, and wrong. However, the people who know that don't use W3Schools. My biggest problems with W3Schools (other than the inaccurate information) are that 1) they don't explain that they are not associated in any way with the W3C and 2) they sell overpriced certifications that require a user learns inaccurate information.

I read an article a few years ago (that I'm not possibly going to look for now) about best practices when creating examples and guides. The most important lesson in the article was that you should almost never show wrong examples or antipatterns. I.e., don't show an example of what NOT to do. The reason was that the novice ends up remembering the wrong examples as often (or possibly more often) as the good examples. At that point, the example/guide has failed. That's what W3Schools does. They can add as many disclaimers to their site as they want, but that doesn't change the result. They aren't just not doing as much to help people as they could. They're doing harm to the internet.

And by the way, the second sentence of your blog post is both ambiguous and wrong. Was W3Fools created in 2008 (It wasn't.)? Or did W3Fools teleport back in time to only criticize a 2008 version of W3Schools (They didn't.)?
> The people doing this are savvy and know what they are doing, which is basically conning users with false promises.

Its not the users being conned, but VC "investors".
Ask HN: Best IP Geolocation Database or Service?
Hey HN,
I'm building an app for a Client and I need a good database or service that lets me determine a users location based on their IP address. Right now I'm considering Maxmind GeoIP but I'd like to have something better, just can't seem to find it. I don't care if its free or cost money, the main thing is that its highly relaiable, regularly updated, and maintained.

Thanks in advance!
For those who believe that this couldn't happen... Kim Dotcom. dajaz1.com. Patti Santangelo. Richard O'Dwyer. The list goes on!
I haven't seen a rackmount server with a CD drive for many years.
excellent! well done!
And jolly good luck to him.

HNers: do people think that someone who has got the startup thing out of their system themselves will make a better employee?
How does current set of responsibilities determine state of your knowledge?
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ye gods, another useful headline edited to meaningless moronicity. Seriously, mods, enough of this shit.
Remember that the images we have from Curiosity so far are from the navigational guidance cameras, though. The heavy equipment hasn't been fired up yet.

If I recall, the Mastcam will take a panoramic colour view later today, and that'll take a few days to download. Then we'll have a proper image, for the first time.
I would love the option to not constrain on calories, but (also?) on sugar and starch. This study found that cutting carbohydrates proves more effective than cutting calories in both lowering blood sugar and losing weight (losing weight is only a side note since the study is about diabetes): http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090105175326.ht...

Low-carb diets do work very well for me, but choice of food is really restricted - at least at first sight. I'm sure there are more possibilities than the few I eat every week, and it would be cool if a tool like swole.me/eatthismuch could generate that for me (I read that Tim Ferriss will publish a cook book soon, but that's not the same) :)
Born on Mars? Come on, we MIGHT be able to put a man on the Mars in 15 years, colonizing it so that your kids can be born there is far away.
It seems like Amazon uses OnTrac for delivery to certain areas. We haven't seen any deliveries come through OnTrac as of yet so Amazon may stick with UPS for the particular zip.
Doesn't look like Qt business is a big slice of Digia.
They look like a big multinational IT house.
At http://www.digia.com/en/Home/What-we-do/ it's only mentioned at the far bottom of the page...
Jamaica is also quite hot. Their athletes don't seem to mind so much.
Just want to say fuck QR codes and fuck bitcoin, not terribly constructive but two "advancements" that drive me nuts.
The Mach micro-kernel was originally a BSD kernel fork (iirc 4.2BSD, when dinosaurs roamed the earth). NeXT/Apple added various things like DriverKit and later IOKit to Mach. Apple also took the network stack from FreeBSD, which is traditionally rather modular (for high performance kernel code, anyway).

Together they make up the current XNU hybrid kernel. You can look at most of the sources at opensource.apple.com

There's certainly lots of FreeBSD in OSX, but it's not like OSX is just FreeBSD with a sugar coated Apple UI.
MDN: Too Mozilla centric. I certainly hate devs who make Firefox-only pages more than ones who look up on w3schools. And I've met a few of them ;)

dochub: Where are the tutorials?

Sitepoint: The structure is messy. It looks like a blog, but a historical structure is awful for learning. I want topic categories. Also lots of things I don't care about - books, courses - I just want references and tutorials! MDN is better from this side.

I'm not convinced. You're not going to kill w3schools if you don't understand why so many folks go to that site.

Personally I didn't know dochub, and might probably get back soon on this site. It's clean, and the information is useful, but only when you already understand well what you're doing. It's not for learning the Web concepts. Also, it misses direct mention of browser support for every feature.
Why do you think the world hates them, then?

(aside: There's a long distance between "please stop allowing or encouraging your government to treat other human beings in this terrible, terrible manner. Please think about the crimes done to them by your parents and grandparents - and by you. Please consider how you can encourage peace," and "we hate you." Or there should be, anyway; there are some very invested people.)
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There's a lesson for entrepreneurs here: w3schools makes people happy, despite containing inaccuracies and being far from perfect. It's good enough and was the best available for a long time.
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So what does all this amount to then ... ?

A carte blanche to do what you want to do anyway, regardless of the negative consequences spread through ruthless self-interest.

(I must admit, I wasn't overly surprised when I discovered it's written by Mr Siegler ...)
Browser usage is an indicator of "using a phone as smartphone", no? It even says so in the article.
You should have google'd it, this link has been spreading on Twitter and the UK websites like mad:

http://www.medalspercapita.com/

it has also spread in Australia because, well, check the results and you will see why.