skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what bothers me about the "Sweden will send him to the US" argument.

I don't get why he's concerned about it, AND(at the same time) is in the UK, who, out of any country in the world, is quite possibly the MOST likely to agree to a US extradition request.
Interesting. It would be great to see some docs touching on pros/cons vs jython, jpype, etc

I for one am interested in keeping everything in cpython if possible. But I currently have a web service in jython...
There are gigantic piles of money being made off of the smartphone market. None of these companies are going to stop investing in this market for as long as they can, unless the courts force them to stop.
You don't think this is a least bit sensationalized?
seems the demo doesn't work for me due to js errors. However, seems https://github.com/eternicode/bootstrap-datepicker is good for single datepicker.
The Political Inclination of Programming Languages
Why Startups should hire Lispers
Moving to s3 now :)
Apple Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company Ever
I've seen this being done by county jail inmates for many years. All one needs is an industrial size staple.
You might have a point, though I hope there a few more years in me yet before I hit true old man status (I am 25).
Former DNSChanger addresses out in the wild again
Have you ever used one of the re-usable K-cups? I've yet to find one that works well, generally they end up dumping grounds into my cup. Brand name cups are too expensive for me to feel comfortable drinking every morning.
In this same vein, I encountered a bug when I was picking a date after the default selected end date in Chrome 12.0.742.112. Essentially, I couldn't actually select the date. It wouldn't take.

The expected behavior is that I could not only select a date, but the "end date" calendar should jump to at least whatever month-year I selected my start date at if the selected start date comes after the selected end date. Even nicer if you tie the event to the month selection so that the end date calendar's minimum month-year is the furthest point the start date's month-year calendar has gone.
I'm assuming the article is accurate, in which case there's pretty much no reason for Assange not to go to Sweden and clear all this up, unless of course he's guilty.

Certainly as things stand he gives a lot of people -- myself included -- the impression that he's guilty, and if the only reason he has for not wanting to face the music in Sweden is that he's afraid of extradition to the US then, assuming the article is accurate, he's damaging his cause by fighting extradition.
Marketing yourself toward some girls dorm across the campus seems great :)
I'll be a little impolite and reuse my comment on a previous, somewhat similar story:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4404549

I think it contains some information that is relevant for those trying to make sense of this:

I found this overview from the Swedish prosecutor to be very helpful:

http://www.aklagare.se/In-English/Media/The-Assange-Matter/T...

Obviously this is "biased" -- but I've not been able to spot any "overt" errors here. I've been looking at Norwegian and Swedish media in addition to the (pretty fact starved) international media coverage -- and I was also under the impression that Assange wasn't considered a suspect -- he is.

I have no idea why apparently no media source has managed to get this right -- as presented it has appeared that Assange has been wanted extradited to testify -- which makes absolutely no (legal) sense. It would appear that's not what has happened.

My (personal, IANAL etc) interpretation of the events is that a complaint was filed against Assange -- the prosecutor that handled the case found no reason to prosecute. Then (probably due to political pressure -- although I have no evidence of this) -- the head prosecutor picks up the case again, and an arrest warrant is issued.

The whole affair dovetails a little to nicely with CIA procedure for discrediting inconvenient persons, eg:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

That being said, it's not inconceivable that Assange is a misogynistic pig -- he certainly appear to have a bit of an ego -- and I don't think anyone would be against him being sentenced in a fair trial.

However, the political pressure involved in this case seems rather extreme -- I do think there's a real danger of Assange disappearing into a black bag at some point -- after all if the US wants him, it would be for espionage -- and kidnapping a single individual is nothing compared to drone strike assassinations.

It is of course inconvenient that this dissident is white, articulate and currently in a country that has a working government.

A Swedish English language media source I discovered recently might also be of interest:

http://www.thelocal.se/42424/20120804/

Additionally, I came across this old piece by Virginia Wolf that also highlights some of the political pressure that seems to be involved in this case:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/post_1435_b_797188....
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I used to brew in aeropress but I switched to Chemex recently. You need like 30g of moderately-coarse grind coffee to make 0.5l coffee so it's good if you have some decent grinder (I use Ascaso i-2 mini). It's also good if you can pour water precisely - I use hario buono kettle.
I've found that the time of day doesn't matter as much as the current state of the problem I'm trying to solve.

If I've hit a groove and a path forward is in my head, productivity is through the roof. Otherwise I'm in thinking/experimental mode, and productivity (seems) like it has reached 0. True, I'm still learning and iterating, but...you know the feeling.

Also, once you have a family and/or a "normal" job, it gets much harder to pick what times you are productive. 1am - 4am would be a touch choice in most jobs - have to be in at ~8am or so, right?
> Shit-talking in the pub.

I've become that guy, that whenever a sticky fact comes up for debate, people just turn to me because they know I'll be looking it up.

What I really enjoy is when some asshole refutes the evidence and stops talking to me. For good.
I won't disagree with that entirely but the Debian / Ubuntu community has shown considerably above average willingness to make major changes to fix that.
Compare each to C, Haskell, Prolog, Lisp. They suddenly appear very similar.
The keyframe at the beginning is missing, and it looks like the intra frames between any two keyframes are in a random order.

Also, please use this: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_mp4_module.html. I want to be able to skip ahead in the video. (Edit: You're using RTMP, so this won't work. But wowza and fms both support seeking if configured correctly.)
There's a great scene in Band of Brothers, where a veteran non-com is showing the young privates about to do a combat jump to hold onto their rifles instead of attaching them to their gear. "be ready to fight when you land or die" is what he tells them.
The non-com gained that experience first hand after his first own jump and his rifle was lost in the prop wash.

I wonder how a Gen-Y would have reacted to that...
"Most valuable" is a highly subjective term. Apple currently has the largest market capitalization. (quantity of public stock multiplied by current stock price.)
Why We Must Do What Has Never Been Done
I'm going to drop the cathedral and bazaar analogy, because I don't feel like debating the exact meaning of the terms.

It seems to me that quality is about having someone on the top who is willing to give direction and vision to a project, instead of having every person who scratches their own itch full influence. Contributors are great. But letting everyone pull in their own direction doesn't lead to something that feels well engineered.

PHK seems to be calling this vision and cohesive design (a-priori or not) the "cathedral model". I agree strongly that for a project to work well and feel "high quality", it needs some source of a unified idiom.
The homepage could probably use a bit more detail. The idea is you upload a image, tell us what you need counted in it, and then we get you back a number.

You could use this for gathering statistics about an audience at an event, inventory counting, or field research. Part of our goal in putting this out is to see where it will get used.

We'll definitely work on improving the homepage and look at making a free option.
I didn't find any mention of this on the Bootstrap github project. And I feel I must ask: why? Bootstrap includes dropdowns, how is this different?
Thanks for the link, that was really good presentation. I hope everybody watch it.
OP here. Just need to mention we're YC S12.
we have been thinking about extending the functionality to mobile apps but i guess its still a long way to go. However if you use phonegap, titanium or something similar, tourmyapp might still work for you :)
I also worked on OS X, and I think you're misinterpreting "Cathedral" vs "Bazaar", especially given your later definition:

> The only thing that distinguishes the Cathedral and the Bazaar is whether or not there is one single individual in whose head the only valid vision of the completed project exists.

Core OS and related groups has long consisted of VERY different teams each working in their own fiefdoms with their own methodologies. There was a somewhat coherent vision overall, but everybody achieved it in their own way, with very mixed results -- OS X has some tremendously terrible code. Security framework, Installer team, mDNS, anything related to Server ...

To be honest, I'm not even sure what your point actually is.
Open infrastructure and the common good
I suppose it's foolish to belabor the point, but (a) is it just me or are you sounding a bit of a bully? and (b) everything you wrote is untrue.

My impression comes from observing language: it is saturated with idioms. You can't throw them all out (without a lot of unnatural effort) nor is there any need to. You might as well say that a musician should use only notes and not chords, or avoid standard chord progressions. If you can find any significant piece of writing that avoids idioms, I'd like to see it.

Idioms are not cliches. An idiom is a phrase whose meaning is more than the sum of its words. A cliche is a phrase that has become hackneyed through overuse. (Nor, by the way, are cliches necessarily obfuscatory. "Get your ducks in a row" is, but "Live and learn" is not.)

Style manuals have their place but are hardly scripture, and there are countless examples of great writers breaking every rule in the book. Indeed, Strunk & White breaks its own rules, sometimes when describing the very rule it's breaking (which is part of its charm [1]). So even if your claim were correct, it wouldn't prove anything. But I'm pretty sure it isn't correct. Since you claim that Chicago, Zinsser, and Strunk & White all agree on the point, please show us where; I'd like to see. All three of those texts are searchable online and I couldn't come up with anything. But I only tried for a few minutes.

[1] Just for fun, here is an example: "Students of the language will argue that try and has won through and become idiom. Indeed it has, and it is relaxed and acceptable. But try to is precise, and when you are writing formal prose, try and write try to." How can anyone not love E.B. White?
All you're doing here is endorsing sophistry over knowledge.

There's a place for logic and there's a place for facts. Focusing on one over the other leads to persons being so "open-minded" that their brain falls out.
One possible explanation is it would be harder to fight US extradition if he's under arrest in Sweden or jailed.
Court Reaffirms Right of Myriad Genetics to Patent Genes
I find that age only has an indirect effect on respect. People who get respect usually have it pretty quickly when you meet them and are able to retain it through their actions. They don't have to ask people to respect them. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with age, but it is somewhat based on a track record and the confidence that experience brings. A young person usually has no track record yet, but they may be very charismatic or inventive or have other respectable qualities. The respect will come, but It has to happen naturally for us all.

People who talk about getting respect usually don't have any real respect, although they may get lip service from everyone if they're in a position of authority.
Can it guide users across different pages?
These people are OCD about their memories, cleaning and pruning the recorded data so it can be reassembled correctly at a later time.
This is illegal in almost every state (though perhaps not Alabama). Thanks to bad laws put on the books (by the insurance agents' lobbies, no less), one cannot provide any referral incentive to anyone that does not possess an insurance agent license. Not even a bag of popcorn. Referly won't get shutdown, but Red Rock Ins Group will probably be receiving a notice from their not-so-friendly state insurance regulator.
I do not approve pixel-per-pixel copies, but if one takes ideas from another and improves upon them, one has my side. All those patent wars and things is just a game invented for those who do not innovate for others, but instead innovate for themselves.
Off topic: There's a comment (http://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=4408271&whence=item...) that breaks the layout because it contains a very long word.

I was trying to find an easy CSS hack to make the layout impervious to long words but it turned out to be a little tricky. Can anyone find a CSS "one-liner" (few-lineser?) that'll fix this?
Haha, thanks for the catch - I just copied that directly from a tweet. I couldn't tweet a magnet link (too long, and not supported by bit.ly) - hence the gist.

Anyway, please feel free to download this piece of history!
You are aware that the same “simple command“ is a checkbox in the OS X system preferences, right?
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>> >> and Samsung couldn't even make the device decent.

>> That's your personal opinion, not the marketplace's opinion. Samsung smartphones are actually quite successful (they currently outsell the iPhone by a factor of ~2x according to latest financial results http://www.osnews.com/story/26228).

Selling well doesn't make any device decent, it only makes it popular.

Getting decent reviews (which Samsung's current phones do get) supports the notion that the Samsung phones are decent.
He didn't manage to get a single advertiser right?
I wouldn't bet against the continued existence of speculative bubbles. Bitcoin's actual utility for money-laundering will provide some support at the bottom when it crashes, but the price curve right now looks an awful lot like simple speculation.
Aeropress at work (inverted method), at home in the morning I use a Nuova Simonelli MCF 50mm burr grinder and a Rancilio Silvia espresso machine (just turned 10 years old!) to make espresso or Americano, depending on my whim that day.
I started it because I had the need to read articles offline in an e-book reader. Also I found it useful to study website in a field and archive them in a file you can send to clients to compare ideas.
It's cognitive biases all the way down. :)
Agreed - this is much more a people issue, but it's nonetheless frustrating.
quite impressive deck.
yes it does guide user across different pages.
"The "courage" of Ecuador in offering asylum to Assange is one of those misconceptions."

That may very well be a misconception, but I am not sure I see how it is a legal misconception.
A free option might not even be necessary, just a "See how it works" page would probably suffice. Take us through a common use case, maybe even use that convention scenario I saw in Saaspire's blog. Take a picture at a convention, upload it to ThingCounter and ask us to count heads, we get back to you with a count of heads.

A video would be even better. Videos are very easy to consume, and it is typically very easy to win people over with a well-done video.
my background is mathematics

You are a terrible example because you come from a formal background of a hard science. Even worse, you come from one where proofs (the cathedral in the mathematics sense) are required or you aren't taken seriously.

The parent was talking about joe schmo off the street or the high school wunderkind who is building "twitter for teens" or "pinterest for social good". They are just slapping it together from the get go without thinking about any aspect of the design. Eventually they'll have to hire the formally schooled to come in and clean it all up, if they actually get anywhere with it.

Which makes me wonder, if more formally educated individuals were in the start up game would the failure rate be so high as it is now?
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Thanks for the tests. I'll check why it has these errors.
I agree completely on the language. I had the idea in mind that the PDF websites were all in english and thought an spanish version would make some difference at least in that market. I should probably translate it in more languages.
This comment shows how design work still goes into each individual car, even after the engineering work is done: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1670859
Founder's Fund Transparent Term Sheet
... well, if I can learn to DRAW, and I was so BAD
at drawing initially, I can pretty much learn to do
anything.

I used to think like that. If I tried hard and applied myself I could do just about anything...until that sort of thing stopped working. It certainly helped but it won't take you to the stars. It just seemed that no matter how hard I tried, I never got better at what I had in mind.

I think this kind of thinking is helpful but it has its ultimate limits, which seem to be set to 'low' for me.
Seems like an amazing car, but the interior looks like it was designed by Homer Simpson.
Memory is an essential, invaluable tool to support knowledge. Knowledge isn't an accumulation of facts, and it's important to chain them into coherent ensembles to be able to understand them, therefore training and enhancing intelligence.
I both try to remember everything of significance (NOT factoids, or phone numbers) AND google everything. This is absolutely not contradictory.
And it's fixed. Looks like some kind of temporary/local issue.
The Ugly Side of Learning to Code
Thanks - I've been rather frustrated by the poor journalistic handiwork associated with this case for some time.

It does seem a bit far fetched that the CIA would grab him from either London or a large town in Sweden. It might not be so far fetched for them to do something if he is serving time in a Swedish prison.

At least the CIA does fly some of its rendition flights through Sweden -- and it's a shorter trip from there to a few choice black sites in Eastern Europe.

Either way, I'd guess the US' motivation at this point is to make sure Assange gets punished and discredited -- and maybe even the discrediting and splintering of Wikileaks.
It's also a response to skyrocketing work hours. In my field (law), 40 years ago it would have been unthinkable to offer unlimited vacation. Yet, many firms today do just that. But, back then a 1600 billable hour year was a solid effort. Today, 2000 is the minimum requirement. Unlimited vacation is offered because there is no way you can take appreciable amounts of it while meeting the billing expectations.
The iPod won because competitors took too long to take the iPod seriously, and then too long to identify why it was successful.

By the time competitors managed to make competitive products, Apple had the iTunes Store and perhaps the most brilliant and long-lasting marketing campaign of a technology product, ever.
More to the point, they won't actually have to cash out until they're ready to make a purchase with their proceeds. This means more money kept in Bitcoin for longer instead of being cashed out to sit in a USD/EUR/GBP bank account somewhere.
Ask HN: Test a desktop graphing application?
Hi HN,

I'm looking for ~5 testers for a quick 15 minute test of two nearly identical versions of an application.

Basically, the application visualizes networks and allows community mining on the network. I've inherited the project and am looking for feedback on the application.

I would be glad to repay you by testing your application / website.

If you're interested, please let me know your e-mail and I'll be in touch within the next hour or two.

Thanks very much!

EDIT: Also, you probably need to be running Linux or Mac.
I'm not a Gen Yer, but I must respond that the situation you describe really should be a teachable moment to the younger worker; explain to them why their idea may have been tried before and failed, or perhaps it was fundamentally unsound for a reason they hadn't thought of.
Former Marine Brandon Raub Is Locked In A Psych Ward Over Facebook Posts
Yes, that's the same I had in mind. Some users may find it convenient and/or don't have the techincal knowledge to install a pdf printer on windows.

I thought it would be a big feature to let users transform many urls in one step. That should be an improvement over printing all the urls separately. Perhaps as a premium service?
There is a third alternative - split the project into manageable parts.
Well, yours is the first comment I've seen in this thread that actually discusses the speech or Wikileaks, rather than rehashing that tired old argument about whether the Swedish actually want to try Assange for rape or whether it's some kind of CIA conspiracy.
The article fails to point out that there is substantial precedent for the UK to ignore extradition requests by other EU members. Augusto Pinochet is perhaps an obvious example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictment_and_arrest_of_August...

Although I am loathe to rank vile behavior in general, crimes against humanity would seem to demand more careful consideration during extradition proceedings than the allegations against Mr. Assange.
Parent is referencing the Twitter blog post about changes in Version 1.1 of the API which stirred some controversy because of the new rules and limitations for 3rd party developers. See the link below:

https://dev.twitter.com/blog/changes-coming-to-twitter-api

I don't know of any similar limitations for Bootstrap, so you can probably safely assume that wickedchicken is kidding.
Wouldn't you want at least two NICs for that?
When I was a bit older I made a primitive calculator in Delphi... you had to enter things in postfix notation, I think, because I couldn't figure out how to do the normal kind.
Now that some browsers have merged the URL bar with the web search bar, you will end up doing this whether you want to or not. And even if it's obviously a URL rather than a search term, Chrome (by default) sends every URL you type to google.com for autocomplete. (For the ten minutes between when I found this feature and I found out how to disable it, I was really angry at Google.)
Way to turn an entire generation into a caricature.

I think a more important workplace trend is Gen Y managing Gen Y.

You're seeing fewer and fewer Gen Y vs. Baby Boomer culture clashes and more Gen Y employees reporting directly to Gen X-ers/older Gen Y-ers with each passing year. Consequently, we're starting to see more openness and flexibility in the workplace but the demand for quality work is (arguably) much higher.
"apt-get install <name of package>" is about as good as software installation gets
I think it would be worth taking a look at the Slashdot voting system, which IMO does the best job I've seen of getting the best signal out of the noise of mass voting.
There are a lot of free printers that you can install. CutePDF and several others.