skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That wasn't the reason given though. He didn't say he did it just because Steve Jobs did it. He said that he did it for the same reason that Steve Jobs did it...which is that he doesn't have to think about what to wear.
yep. When I just started I struggled through GoF's Design Patterns and even sorta tricked myself into believing I understood it. Well, I didn't. At all. 5 years later though it was one of the most insightful and useful reads ever.
Very cool! Thanks for sharing that
Thanks! I've replaced the video with this one to avoid the auto-play issue.
Managing HTML with Star Script
In principle anyone with eligible work can apply. Its even possible for unincorporated individuals to claim SR&ED on personal tax.

I would recommend though that you go to one of the public info sessions held in your area, since there are various angles to be aware of, that will help you optimize your claim. For example:

- a small Canadian corp typically gets a better rate than a claim on personal tax;

- if you're a "specified employee" (meaning you own 10% or more of the corp) they place certain caps on things like how much of the "proxy amount" you can apply in your claim

- a lot of the claim revolves around how much of your expenses was for eligible work. You typically have to be careful that a founder who is also doing marketing etc, is only claiming for the portion of time spent on the R&D part.

They go into all of this in the public info sessions, and they typically have specialists from various SR&ED areas available to answer pretty much any question.

You can also call them on various info lines, e.g. they offer a "first-time claimant" service where they try to make it easier for people looking at doing a first SR&ED claim, even coming out to visit your business if helpful.

They also offer a "preclaim project review" service where they'll give you a prelim opinion on the eligibility of a project, without you having to file a formal claim. (While this is not guarantee, it can for instance be used while raising funding, to demonstrate to prospective investors that you have a reasonable expectation of getting SR&ED support).

In fact there are a lot of public info sessions coming up in the near future:
http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/txcrdt/sred-rsde/smnr-eng.html
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Sometimes you have to deal with what you have, not what you want.
Very cool and best of luck Jeremy. Especially love the DVR button.
For a T-shirt? I paid less than that for my last laptop.
Very nice! I've wanted something like this for as long as I've been a RecordStream (https://github.com/benbernard/RecordStream) fanatic.
Thanks! I put this tool together to tackle a bunch of common tasks I had - groveling through large JSON responses from webservices, using templates to generate documents based on structured config data, etc. I'm really happy that other people are finding it useful too. If you have any feature requests, post them!!!
Keep in mind, it was a movie and the metaphor was constructed around chaos/complexity. If you read the books, Hammond actually needed an entire other island, Isla Sorna, to produce batches of dinosaurs and allow them to mature. Most of the embryos did not reach maturity. He also had a much larger control room on that island to oversee the main island.

If your Facebook data gets exploited, it could affect you in big ways.
Any plans to release the template engine as a standalone package?
No, not at all. Wikipedia is not responsible for another person misusing it.
Along these lines, Steve Jobs didn't wear his iconic turtle neck and jeans when he was just a startup. Markula impressed upon him early that if he didn't dress well, people wouldn't trust him. So steve Jobs wore suits. An bowties. And looked really nice.

[1] Early days: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2_JFL5szJk4/To0Tl8nuP2I/AAAAAAAADq...
[2] Jobs and the Mac: https://s3.amazonaws.com/hackedu/jobs1984.jpg
How to reach #1 on Hacker News. Point out something obvious about a popular tech company, but use a catchy pop-culture idiom.
I see no harm to wearing a logo to represent one's company everyday. I also do not see any real value added. I understand that it can be advertisement. To me that is a quiet a stretch, unless thousands of people see that logo daily.

On the other hand, wearing the same thing everyday does save time and brain effort. I wear the same thing everyday and have done so for about two years. Technically my shirts are different, but I have narrowed down my options considerably. I own five pairs of the same pants(outlier; black). I have twelve button up shirts in plain colors (four are white, four are blue, two are grey, two are green). I either wear a NAU blazer or a black light jacket. I have three of the same sneakers and one pair of dress of shoes.

Everyday I wake up grab a pair of pants and a shirt. Depending on the weather, I can grab a jacket or not.

I consider it a type of lifehack. I do not think it is for everyone. It really simplified that part of my life.
Regarding Valve's T-shaped employees:

When I first read Valve's employee handbook, I thought the T thing was a bad idea because it killed the chances of people who would probably be really good candidates. But after thinking about it some more, I see where Valve is coming from.

I spent the last decade working as a non-teaching/research faculty member in academia, where the T/R faculty members were (for the most part) either vertical lines or em dashes. The vertical pipes were world renowned experts in their fields, but their fields were niches within niches. They never strayed far outside of their comfort zones, and a lot of them ended up publishing essentially the same half dozen papers over and over for the entire span of their careers. The em dashes had broad knowledge across a large swath of subject matter and made great 1000- and 2000-level course instructors, but they never really became experts at anything and their research output suffered.

I do wonder how many potential candidates have been scared away by the publication of Valve's employee handbook and that image of the Heavy Weapons Guy, though. I certainly have. (I fear my T is too wide and not tall enough, so I don't even bother sending in a CV despite having a desire to work there.)
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Custom cookie cutter cloud factory
Maybe if it's out of band somewhere. If comments are not worth reading (IMHO the purpose of downvoting) I would usually prefer not to plow through subthreads explaining why.
Stripe moves to JSONP; adds CORS support
GM to hire 10,000 IT pros as it 'insources' work
Yes, but talking when appropriate. People who run their mouths are terrible leaders.
Media Destruction Guidance - NSA
"I haven't contributed much to Wikipedia, but what little I DO contribute wouldn't be there if Jimmy Wales owned it all. Instead, it is available for anyone to reuse... for good OR for bad."

Does anyone remember CDDB?
Whereto? I appreciate your contributions to HN.
Maybe the only reason why Steve Jobs wore a black turtle neck
every day is because without it, he'd never be able to use an
Apple computer due to the high gloss screen reflections?

Personally, I think staring at my reflection all day long is
a bit vain, but of course, to each their own.
Your comment made me realize why my comment was wrong: the issue isn't listening in, the issue is recording. Recording someone else's conversation without the permission of a participant is illegal in most states.
Tough times on the road to Starcraft
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/extrapolating.png
I was wondering why comments were allowed on the blog post!
A Firefox Smartphone for the Developing World
I agree with rodly that this feels like a different app. If someone does make it, I hope s/he calls it "No Touching!" after the recurring joke in Arrested Development, where every time a family member tries to touch imprisoned George Bluth, Senior, a prison guard yells "No Touching!"
It's a great idea, until Honduras decides it wants a bigger cut of money from the land or somebody comes to power who could care less what the previous government signed up for. This is as applicable to any first-world country as it is to Honduras: the power balance is way out of whack.

Maybe with Honduras it is close enough to equal to make it work. I hope it does, because, as padobson said, "What the hell?"[1].

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4491131
“Pong” gets a physics boost, by way of HTML5
Consensuses I've noticed on HN:

- Paypal screws merchants over.

- Startups are cool.

- PG is God.

- The US should be more liberal, like SF or Europe.
I see this more analogous to walking into an unlocked house.

While the doors are all unlocked, it's still illegal to open, enter and search.
Thanks for the feedback. Plenty of ways to [insert proverb here] and stretch the intellectual curiosity using new tools.
>> "Twitter was a utility. Now it's ABC."

I honestly have no idea what this means. Twitter is still a utility for communication. ABC is a content provider, not a utility.

>> " It could have changed the world in the way that, you know, the web changed the world."

I am also scratching my head at this statement. Perhaps you could elaborate, I have no concept of how Twitter could have changed the world in the way that the World Wide Web did. WWW was an astronomical leap in the way we perceive and use the Internet. Twitter has been a revelation for many average consumers who did not take advantage of the social nature of the web as many people had previously, but to compare it to the creation of the WWW itself is--in my view--a little far-fetched.

>> "But instead it's changing the world in the way that cable news changes the world. "

I again respectfully have no concept of what you are talking about.

And finally, generally: All this hand-wringing about Twitter irrationally eschewing it's mantle as the savior of humanity and as the last true final hope for a social web and social networking services in general (or whatever values you are projecting on this company)....

Wow... I mean seriously guys? We're talking about closing down a few client-side API's among other things.

Don't you think this hyperbole is getting just a tad out of touch with reality?
Thanks, ANTSANTS! It makes me happy to see that you and others appreciated the humor.
Anti-Piracy Outfits Think Megaupload, Demonoid & BTjunkie Are Still Alive
I never said anything about success.

We don't need to inject discrimination and close-mindedness, but we do need to counteract it. That means we can't just passively "be open".
Stanford Online: A crash course in creativity
Your comment is exactly why getting into programming for the first time is a shit experience for many people.

I even had Ph.D. TAs in college with the same attitude.

Unbelievable.
Of course not, but they're still responsible for being wrong in the first place.
"Cool alternatives to democracy"???

Personally I wouldn't conflate a political philosophy, which Libertarianism is, with democracy, a form of government. A libertarian government could be fascist, democratic, or anything in between.

I'm not sure why democracy isn't "cool" in of itself - sure, it isn't a be all and end all, and you can argue that X's implementation is wrong for Y and Z reasons, but fundamentally I can get behind Churchill when he said "democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried".
Houston - Apple Push Notifications; No Dirigible Required
You're quite correct. The old 'Latin' script (our uppercase letters) where revived in the renaissance - and were slowly merged with the Hunnish script (our lower case letters) - about the same time as they adopted Arabic numerals (read right to left, for added confusion).

Other alphabets (Greek and Cyrillic) created capital letters in emulation much later (circa 1800's). Most alphabets/sylabaries (Arabic, Hebrew, Korean, Japanese, etc) don't have upper and lower cases.

Likewise punctuation, which prosidic languages (like English) need to signal stress and emphasis which can transform meaning, but which are also absent from lots of other writing systems.

I think talk of 'more modern' or 'less modern' is nonsense though. Writing is an imperfect representation of speaking, and whatever works is just fine.
Synopsis: A fanboy, disappointed by the lack of exciting rumors about the iPhone5, laments his inability to get a life outside of the Apple cosmos and suggests that Apple should release nothing in place of the iPhone5 so that he can have some "time off".

Seriously dude, you don't have to buy every bloody Apple product or follow every release show. Give yourself a year off. Keep the 4S. Use the money you save to buy yourself some climbing gear or a snowboard. Go have fun.
> See that? Two different interpretations of the same feature. Just because you hate autoplay doesn't mean everyone does.

Sure, all that makes perfect sense. None of that invalidates anything that I said though:)
This is some really great advice, 'The best UIs often start as written conversations between the user and the system.'
Kinda surprising to see this much negativity about this idea only three months after it was discussed before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4084095 The comments there seem a bit less negative I think.

I started doing this shortly after that post, although I'd been thinking about it for longer. I have to say, my decision had nothing to do with saving time or context switching or Steve Jobs (even though what I picked, black t-shirts and jeans, is evocative of Jobs).

I made this decision because thinking about what to wear has always involved a little anxiety for me. I grew up never wearing the right thing, and was bullied and taunted a little bit for it, along with the usual things nerds are tormented about. Even though I'm no longer a socially outcast geek in high school, thinking about what to wear and how to dress gave me discomfort. Now it doesn't. I bet a lot of people who decide to go this route have similar feelings, of varying degrees.

I'm sure this won't last forever, and as I get older or work in a different, less forgiving company, I may need to adapt my "uniform" to be a bit more formal, but I really think people shouldn't take it so seriously here. Obviously if you're selling your startup every day, you might want to think about what you wear, although the OPs approach of wearing a branded t-shirt doesn't seem terrible.

But in general, we're hackers, we should be judging each other by our skills, not what we wear.
We also choose to avoid making those sorts of decisions when we're focusing on more important things, preferably putting them off for other times. For example, it's common for coders to close their door, not check their e-mail, etc. when they want to be "in the zone".

When I'm getting ready in the morning, I tend to be focused on the important things. In my case, as a stay-at-home dad, the important things tend to be plans for teaching my son and helping him with his disability. I've arranged the rest of my morning to be as automatic as possible so I don't have to think about what clothes to wear or what to have for breakfast.

Incidentally, my son and I were just walking around with buckets on our heads pretending to be robots. Counting robots, not production robots :)
"he has a reason for doing it that Steve Jobs had first" come on. He's an icon but lately people seem to get confused and sounding like he invented half of what the world is today. He did not invent the single shirt behaviour at all. Even my grand grand mother always told us she used to have a bunch of copies of here favourite skirt around, hand made and all, because it was so easy. And she lived already half a century before Jobs was even born.
Cool!

Lots of people are also suggesting hiding the other apps. I might try to implement this as an option, but what I'm going for is de-cluttering the command-tab app switcher, and I don't think hiding the apps will achieve that. However, this feedback is inspiring me to see if it's possible to hack the task list, or whatever it's called.
Why are you finding problems with app.net instead of focussing on it;s good parts and possibilities. You say and talk about some fundamental differences with companies facebook and apple, but why should anyone believe your assessment. Future can not be predicted in the world of technology and app.net has a good chance like any other company.
What's the ?ref=hn in the URL about? I'm intrigued if there's some way to track this sort of thing at GitHub. Or was it just to get around its two previous posts? ;-) (Not that I can blame you for that, gotta keep trying.)
StereoDose
Except this isn't a house, this is wifi. Driving around picking up wifi signals from public networks through automated systems is very different. I've seen nothing but crappy analogies since this whole thing started.
> it's [Real UX Designers'] responsibility to think about and WORRY about user needs, user goals, and user objectives and then design a product/site/app that meets and exceed these user objectives.

I know what you think you're saying, but read it over to yourself a few times. This is a tautology: you're saying that UX Designers are good because their responsibility is to do what UX Designers do.

And it's fundamentally wrong: the real party whose responsibility it is to make sure all that stuff happens is the product owner (entrepreneur in this case). The UX Design just has a job to do. The fact that it's a definable job isn't an argument that it should be someone's sole responsibility.
Wow.. why didn't anyone ever try this before??? :P (it's Friday and some people will never study history)
If you mention some companies a few people will rabidly upvote your comment, and a few people will rabidly downvote your comment. It doesn't matter what your comment actually is. Online communities are used to this kind of religious war. It's sort of surprising to see it so blatantly here.

TSA are always stupid, all the time.

Patents are evil. (But no-one knows what to replace them with. And maybe they're only evil for software.)

Facebook is evil and will destroy the Internet, but most certainly are violating all kinds of privacy laws.
The thing is, natural phenomena doesn't follow normal distribution, but the sum of non-normal variables, will approach a Gaussian distribution, as per the Central Limit Theorem[1][2].

The problem is people assuming a normal distribution on a single variable with unknown distribution.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem
[2]: http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/22387/why-it-is-oft...
This does seem a lot more practical than trying to create a habitat in the open ocean first. And it seems like most of the players seem to be pretty on top of the challenges of economic dominance in a nation state that is challenged to grow. I hope it is successful, a new and different kind of Singapore (which is too authoritarian sounding to my taste).

And perhaps it will provide some foundation knowledge to guide the governance of a Lunar 'city/colony' which, if it is too closely aligned with a single nation state might create more problems than it solves.
OK, so why can't ads be optional then? If you want the benefits, then you just "turn on" ads (=helpful suggestions).
If ads are beneficial why would they charge you extra to turn them "off"? Under your reasoning, we should be paying extra to see ads, because we'd get helpful suggestions.

Your argument makes little sense.
Couldn't you say the same about HK, which has been left relatively intact?
I am not a paid supporter of app.net nor have I seen what they have built to date but I'd put money on app.net evolving into something different than what it is today. For those of you who paid into supporting app.net, I think you paid into the people behind app.net and not app.net itself. Give them time to flesh things out before you critique.
I agree with you. There's a point where you can get away with wearing the same thing over and over and sure if you are famous like Steve Jobs was, hell that'll become a thing of its own. Hell once you reach the Steve Jobs level celebrity status, no matter what you do will make news. OMG Steve's diet is like this? He must have figured some dark magic. He dresses like that? There must something to it, let us all try... I think a lot of these visionary founders, etc... are very much closer to the normal every day person, it is the obsession of the public that makes them look more clever than they really are and it just snowballs from there. Once you get past a certain level, you can do anything and there will be a big enough group of people who would make a big deal out of it and praise you for whatever it is that you are doing.
He was a HN user too:

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dlweinreb

Will the black bar come out?
I think it's a very bad idea to use this theme for your personal blog, regardless of what you think of Svbtle. But if you want your choice of blog theme to compete for attention with your ideas, that's your call.
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I like the custom filters http://hnapp.com/ provides. I have one that sets a point threshold stories must pass before they show up in my feedreader. If the signal/noise gets a little too low, I raise the threshold. Works for me :)
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There is a vocal group (maybe also sizable?) who think that rms is not awesome.
I met Dan at a coffee meetup in Cambridge several years back. He was considerate, erudite and unfailingly interesting and excitable.

I wish I gotten to spend more time with him.
That will always happen with popularity. More idiots will inevitably jump on board and dilute the quality.
US Air Bomb Hoax Involves Lots of Stupidity All Around
As Churchill says, it is only a lesser evil.
Paul Graham’s ‘lowball’ accusation of Google Ventures
The performance of doctors follows the normal distribution. I think that extrapolating to programmers is not a huge stretch.

It used to be assumed that differences among hospitals
or doctors in a particular specialty were generally
insignificant. If you plotted a graph showing the
results of all the centers treating cystic fibrosis—or
any other disease, for that matter—people expected that
the curve would look something like a shark fin, with
most places clustered around the very best outcomes.
But the evidence has begun to indicate otherwise. What
you tend to find is a bell curve: a handful of team
with disturbingly poor outcomes for their patients, a
handful with remarkably good results, and a great
undistinguished middle.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/12/06/041206fa_fact?cu...
The fraud/abuse we're talking about in this case is perpetrated by the merchants themselves. Want to see what a system of "real security improvements" looks like for a payment processor that doesn't require your personal credit staked to your account?

It's called Paypal.
AngelList Launches Docs To Help Startups Sign And Close Seed Rounds
What if you memorise it and then put on paper?
Picking up wifi signals is one thing, but I was under the impression that they were locating, connecting and looking at data on these networks.

>Legal scholar Orin Kerr disagrees with Judge Holderman's reasoning. "No one suggests that unsecured wireless networks are set up with the goal that everyone on the network would be free to read the private communications of others," he wrote. "In my view, that ends the matter: the exception doesn’t apply, and the interception of the contents of wireless communications is covered by the Wiretap Act."

And I don't see how automating the process makes it any better. You're still accessing someone's private (albeit unsecured) network.

However, I take my analogy back if this doesn't include actual analyzing of data packets within the unsecured network.
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