skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, Lloyds of London have huge numbers of clients. There is not one person / group of people who will personally lose a huge amount of money if that pays out. The money will come from someone else's car insurance not paying out.
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Why Amazon might win in mobile, while Microsoft sputters
It is. But once you slog through hell long enough, it's not so bad anymore.
Thanks. I do have a description further down, but I've also added a description in the screenshot caption.
Just like comments that demonstrate the writer is not lucid.
I would like to know this info as well.
That explains why Apple supports customers using iDevices however they want, while Google locks down Android and asserts that it should be a federal crime to run unapproved software. Wait. Maybe it's a bit more complex.
According to a recent talk by a lead developer, the website does now implement Symfony2 components on top of the Zend Framework.

https://speakerdeck.com/u/jcleveley/p/how-we-built-the-new-r...
"It soured my opinion of the whole article before I even read it"

Seriously? The fact that an embedded video started playing soured your opinion of the article? Maybe you guys should chill out a bit. Sometimes comments like this lead me to believe the author wants recognition at somebody else's expense.
Looks like he embraced and extended it. Not using #000 is one thing, having almost no contrast is another.
from the comments: bokmann on twitter

I was not the speaker whose demo he redid, but was there with the speaker and had a similar point in my metaprogramming talk.

Here is the code from my talk, and a new file named 'yehuda_inspiration.rb' that discusses Yehuda's change to the demo.
https://gist.github.com/1893359

In short, the other presenter was not wrong... he had a piece of code that was stylistically different than what Yehuda would have written (see the 'include vs. extend' comments in that gist. Feel free to read that code example in that gist and make up your own mind.

I know first hand the other presenter did not take offense to this - although Yehuda claiming something is wrong when it is solely a style issue is a bit hubris.
This move is sure to upset the Hacker News and tech enthusiast crowds. After all, who wants to pay full price for a product that continues to deliver ads to you? The tacit contract across the web is that free == ad supported, while paid == no ads.

However, I'm not so sure if the average consumer (the target audience for the Kindle) will even think twice about this. Consider cable TV; People happily pay for cable TV subscriptions which still include commercial ads. They (arguably) don't get in the way of the end-user experience, yet they subsidize the costs for TV programming. Likewise, the ads on the Kindle are limited to the lock screen and kept out of the way of the actual user experience.

Also note that Amazon has deliberately chosen to not offer a higher-priced version without ads. Without an option to pay more to remove ads, the consumer will never have to debate whether or not the annoyance of the ads is worth $30 dollars to them. Instead, the ads become a fact of life and are accepted without question by the end users. Even better, it widens the Kindle advertising demographic to include those with the most disposable income who would otherwise pay to remove the ads. Smart move.
As someone that lives in an area with no wired broadband i would have to say that the free internet package that Google is offering is a pretty swell taxpayer compensation.
The first bit seems very much "Hire a UX guy, not a graphic designer" but it does got better. Still, the "sell, sell, sell" feeling of the piece leaves me cold.
The "collapse whole thread" feature is very cool (and useful).

I don't use Chrome.
I would be fine with my municipality providing this kind of subsidy to a broadband provider that offered something like Google's free plan.

http://fiber.google.com/plans/residential/

Up to 5Mbps download, 1Mbps upload speed • No data caps • Free service guaranteed for at least 7 years • Includes Network Box
$300 construction fee (one time or 12 monthly payments of $25) + taxes and fees

(Disclaimer: I will soon work for Google, but I don't and won't speak for them.)
How can I convince my boss that ANSI C is inadequate for our new project?
Source: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn965-wheel-patented-in-...

Seems legit. But you're right, it won't stand up in any court.
reddit has a /compsci that is pretty good, and /programming gets pretty much all the same technical articles hn does without the entrepreneurship ones.
Great, I have actually found the description - tried to point out there were no apparent benefits at first glance, which should be the main focus on sites, trying to sell something.
Some HN members know other HM members in real life. You have business or personal relationships with others that also read, post, and comment on this forum. Some of you have never met any other HN member in real life, but do consider some HN members as friends and acquaintances.

I, on the other hand, have met none of you and don't carry on a virtual relationship with any other HN member. I consume your news and up-vote articles that I want to see more of on this forum. And on rare occasion I will post a comment.

All that said, besides PG, I absolutely don't care what the USERNAME is of the original poster.

I do scan the front page to see if there is any article is an extraordinary number of POINTS or COMMENTS. POINTS and COMMENTS are probably 75% of the reason why I click on a link of the front page. And the more comments a link has, the most likely, I will click on the COMMENTS thread before I even read the article. 25% of the time I will click on a link because it contains a keyword (to include the URL snippet) which is in regard to something I care about.
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Dashku is now open source
Try fullscreen Sdl or rotating one monitor's picture.
why is actually this necessary? In linux, you could create a PAM module that proofs your identity somehow and then says "ok" to the login subsystem.

There is no need to know your password in order to log you in, if the security subsystem is well designed.

On the other hand, if your home volume is encrypted, the system has to get the right key somehow; so the key itself should be stored in a way that's accessible to the fingerprint auth software (i.e. in clear).

Usually the encryption key is based on the user password but it doesn't have to be the cleartext password. So, using biometrics only, the home volume encryption is weakened, but the password isn't necessarily revealed, and that's an important distinction given that most of the people use the same (or few) password(s) everywhere.
Possibly the easiest way to register to vote
Zend Framework has a disastrous cascading dependency issue. If you're only using one tiny piece, you're probably okay, but if you need something higher-level or if you need a few components that work together, chances are you've just added a ton of files to your project, and that any backtrace you look at is going to be entirely useless.

Symfony has required PHP 5.3 for a long time. Even in 1.4 many plugins required 5.3 and very often the trunk would break on 5.2 because a 5.3 feature squeeked in and had to be rolled back.

Symfony is cutting edge, lean, and for people who want to get maximum productivity out of their time and their LoC. Zend Framework is for people who don't know better.
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I really like the general theme of pointing the designer into the core of the startup, and think a lot of this is very good, accurate advice.

As a long time designer turned developer, supported. I would have made the tone a little less preachy (and added a dash of "relatively speaking"), but hey, I didn't write it.
A few years ago I was absolutely positive that the Chromebooks would be $50 and mostly ad-supported. When they turned out to be $300 with no forced ads I was shocked and totally turned off the idea. Cheap computing with ads seems like a pretty solid model for vendors going forward (well, not MS or Apple) and I'm surprised it has taken this long to really get going.
What does it help that the corporation is going to use the account only for the corporation? How does that cover the bank when the corporation fails to deliver on its promises to customers and then goes bankrupt, leaving the bank on the hook for chargebacks?
I wonder if the stimulus package would have been better received if it had included more easy to point to wins like this in it. Rebuilding aging physical infrastructure is incredibly important, but I think there might be more bang for the political/physical dollar if you are focusing on creating new digital infrastructure. Pointing to a road that no longer has potholes isn't as attention grabbing as giving people a 100x boost in internet speed.
TV Makers Join Forces Against Smartphone Giants
Yes, my first thought on reading that short argument was that it has all the logical rigor of INTERCAL.

I especially like the leap the author took from 'an iDevice is an end in itself' to 'users can see this' to 'obviously that's why it is selling so well'. Not a one of those logical leaps is even plausible IMO, let alone so obvious that it can be thrown out there without further justification.
It seems like there should be some sort of corollary to "endless September" - an endless parade of suggestions on how to "fix" a community and nostalgia for the past.
I'm subscribed to something that includes feeds/friends_status.php. Maybe googling for that will help.
CakePHP and Symfony are two completely different beasts. If you don't see the merits of Symfony yet, chances are you're not working on projects of a scale that benefit from using Symfony.
Phase-change memory chips could dethrone flash memory
You get hookers to clean your slash?

NB: This joke makes more sense for Brits.
I would have liked to see an ad-free option, but given the quality of the ads, I'd have to try it out to see if it would bother me first.
Agree. Since I tend to skimread the frontpage and open all links I think is interesting in new tabs, autoplay leads to a closed tab without even looking.
I like the idea and congratulations on your first app. My only criticism about the landing page are some of the superlatives put me off slightly (e.g. Foreman Switches Your Apps Quickly _and It's Amazing_) -- I wonder if other people got the same feeling?

Perhaps I don't have a sense of humour when I'm at work.
I don't really think it has anything to do with egos. Maybe this goes back to steve yegge's conservative vs liberal languages. clojure & python have communities that are much more conservative than ruby's. Yegge's argument that python is conservative, is due to google's style guide which forbids metaprogramming.

Yegge is fairly accurate with his conservative vs liberal rating in regard to each language community. Compare the type of mailing list posts in golang-nuts to nodejs; there's definitely more arguments in nodejs than in golang.
That would do massive damage to Foxconn and given that they're the single largest private employer in China, I suspect that the Chinese government would be pretty keen to make sure that that didn't happen.
I think Amazon could make more money by offering an option to disable the ads for $x. Whoever is willing to pay is likely not someone to click on the ads anyway, but they avoid upsetting people who don't want to rent out their eyeballs.
I couldn't agree more. Also, there are plenty of run of the mill "news" articles from tech crunch et. al. But there are still more than plenty of interesting programming/hacker articles and nuggets of goodness posted.
Metafilter is on of the very few internet forums which maintains high quality. It costs you $5 to join and if you abuse your membership you will have your membership cancelled without refund or appeal.

It is actively moderated by 'staff' who delete egregiously off-topic posts (and their followups) and you can't post new topics for a week after joining.

Some of this doesn't apply to HN but penalties only work if they hurt. I mean who cares about losing karma? It only appears when someone checks your profile and it confers no advantage whatsoever (that I know of, perhaps I don't have enough).

And really, isn't some of this just people getting old who should have moved on? Like your grandpa going to the bar he frequented years ago but complaining about all these young people and their loud music. Perhaps the complainers should reflect that HN is no longer for them.

What are cost free impediments to trolls and spammers? Impose a time delay between joining and being able to reply, and a longer delay before being able to post new topics.
I'm no expert, but it probably isn't necessary:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163803.aspx

So it's more that it is a poor implementation.
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The distinction I was attempting to make is that there is a difference between what is true or false, and what should be enforced by law and what shouldn't.

Consider the recently proposed ban on large servings of sweetened drinks. Do these promote diabetes costing the country lots of money in eventual treatment and lost productivity? Absolutely. Does the government have any business telling me what I drink with my Quarter Pounder and Large Fries? No.

I believe the answer to something like diabetes is more nuanced, such as the promotion of healthy eating habits in general, removing the massive grain subsidies that promote the existence of lots of cheap carbs and the availability of lots of meat. I'm sure a sociologist or psychologist could come up with better ideas for promoting health diets without being excessively coercive.
Seems to only be on the lock screen.

In theory they could put whatever they want there, but I guess they will keep it low profile. Like related books, games and appliances that are relevant to your amazon profile.

Question now is if other tablet manufacturers have to go ad-supported in order to compete or if they'll play the "no ads here" card.
Came here to post this. For some reason a blog post about design or UX posted to HN (by a design / UX guy no less!) has at least one failing in the user interface department that can be spotted by a $0.02 programmer.
They already do offer this option. The article says it costs $30.
Heh.

As an outsider to the ruby community (though a fan of the language), I'm not sure I have the right to an opinion on these dramas, but as a frequent unwitting observer of these events (since these dramas end up on sites I frequent and so on), I'd like to offer this thought:

The whole "coders-as-rockstars" meme, and the attendant treatment/fascination with these people -- I would be a slightly happier person if the world let that idea go. To me, it seems like this idea is where a lot of these dramas come from. People whose "celebrity" is overvalued, and people who pay way too much attention to these people. Coders are not rock stars. They're just not. They might be really good at what they do, they might even be 10x better than average, but its just not the same thing as being a "rockstar" and all the preening that comes with that, culturally or otherwise.

I can't think of anything less rockstarish than arguing with people over the internet or being a jerk at a usergroup.

The fact that these "dramas" are even news to anyone is just a side effect of the fact that people give certain drama queens way more attention than they deserve. I mean I'll admit it's entertaining -- but at the end of the day I feel like the fact that some guy was a jerk at a local conference, I mean, I just don't care. It's like intellectual junk food. I get a rise out of it, but it leaves me feeling like I haven't consumed something that makes me a better person.
The problem with that would've been losing all the lobbying dollars and campaign donations from the telecom industry.
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I think the karma penalty for commenting is not a bad idea, but I think taking away the ability to comment is untenable. As others have pointed out, it's too easy to game by making a new account.

A possible alternative would be to take away voting privileges if the karma score drops too low, but even this should be done as a local drop rather than a global one. Otherwise, established members with lots of karma can slide into mediocre commenting without penalty.

However, if you take away voting privileges for losing karma too quickly, then new users must not be able to vote. Otherwise, once again, it is simply too easy to create a new account when you lose your privileges.
Tried that too. Didn't work. I was Gucci. People wanted Walmart. At one point the entire thing becomes highly illogical. For example, people knowingly choosing to buy product that is known to be of low quality and unreliable. One of my resellers back then told me "if we sell ten of those, twelve come back broken". Still, people, for some reason, continued to buy that product. This is just one example of what woke me up to the reality that price elasticity only applies to specific, and sometimes only textbook, examples.
I read that they won't be offering this option on the new models.
We already subsidize Big Cable, and they have a wonderful history of taking the money and running (with damn near zero repercussions).

Kansas City seems to have tried something different, and Google is actually holding up their end of the bargain. If this is the alternative to Time Warner flushing money down the toilet, then I really don't see how this can possibly be an issue. I would happily contribute state/ city taxes to a subsidy for solid 1GBit u/d connection.
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> But isn't it backwards to have the generator suggest where to put trigger points instead of the consumer?

No. edn is self-describing, and all descriptions bottom out on built-in types. Having each date/instant or extended type proclaim it is an #inst or #whatever means a single handler will ensure they all become proper types on the consumer side, with no knowledge of the application or document structure at all. And if no specific handler is installed, a generic handler can at least ensure that the value returned keeps track that the tagged element was tagged, and how, rather than just silently yielding a string with some encoded cruft in it.

The world you are describing is that 'context-sensitive' world mentioned in the edn rationale, where the consuming app must know that the cruft inside the dob: string inside a particular map in a particular context is actually a date or :id is a uuid or whatever, and also know how they represented. Ditto the lastEdited: field, startDate: and foo: fields etc. Are they all the same? Handling any particular document means having complete knowledge of such details.

Context-sensitivity greatly complicates applications and thwarts generic processing.
On the bottom of every page is a clearly defined link for everyone to
make whatever "Feature Requests" they want:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363

The owner of this site, pg, helpfully provides that thread for
feature/meta discussion, and kindly requests for feature/meta discussion
be placed there.

If you had searched for and read all of the previous meta discussion on
potential HN features, then you'd know your suggestion has already been
proposed many times and debated to death in near endless variations.

The only important question is why you decided to ignore the polite
request of the person who created and pays for this site with your
attempt to grab attention for your feature request proposal?

You probably had good intentions, and were overly excited by your idea,
but you just didn't stop to do the needed homework and think things
through completely. Don't feel too bad, everyone has "Fire Aim Ready"
moments.
The ad-supported price is not really the full price if you can pay $30 post-purchase to disable the ads, is it?

Sounds like instead of selling two flavors up front (ad-supported and no-ads for $30 more) they've just pushed the second option behind the purchase barrier.
That is for the e-reader. The Fire has no such option.
With the Kindle Touch if I leave wireless off; which is perfect okay for an e-reader; I do not get ads after awhile. Granted with the new Fires your not going to want to go that route.

I never did figure out why Amazon loaded me down with baby ads one week. From newborn's clothing to pampers ads. I have never ordered the like and nothing in my immediate future trends that way. When it is working I tend to see more books than anything else on the sleep screen.
They deprecated RSS the other day. Even if that's not deprecated yet, you should assume it will be at some point. They seem to be slowly removing access to everything.
Recruiters may be your best way to get your foot in the door. Once you're here the jobs seems to find themselves - tech events, meetups, and other events will quickly build a network, and at least for now, you'd never want for a job.

First things first: get a LinkedIn profile if you don't have one already. Spruce it up, keyword it straight to hell - name drop pretty much every technology, field, and subfield you have substantial experience in. Almost all recruiters rely heavily (some would say exclusively) on LinkedIn for discovery, make sure you're positioned to show up in their searches.

Secondly, if you have friends in the Bay Area, Seattle, or NYC, they're probably being contacted daily by recruiters - tell them to send some your way. US recruiters may not be actively seeking out Canadians, but if a qualified one lands on their doorsteps I'm certain they would be pleased.

I have a recruiter I've worked with in the past I'm happy with (disclosure: I don't get any kickbacks or anything), if you want to contact me privately we can see if there's a fit there (email in my profile).
Not that, how are you supposed to comment the first time? I guess a new signup gets 10 karma or something.

But then if your karma is reduced to a certain threshold and you can no longer comment, how are you supposed to build your karma back up to comment?

What's stopping this bad apple from just creating another anonymous account? It's not like you're losing money if your HN account becomes useless.
great point about the sources.
May i suggest line-height: 160%

I know it will take away a few links from the viewarea but you will be able to read them faster IMHO.
When I have a look on the photo, I think that the depth has to be remarkably long. That is because the sign "RESTAURANT" looks very clear. In other words small aperture and short exposure time. This is not taken by Lumia camera shot.
Well, you could acquire it with the passing of time. Say for those with a karma below 25, they get 1 point a day until they reach 25.
If money and relationships come first you're suggesting that this other company has more money than Apple? Or indeed more clout (given how big a client of Foxconn, the largest private employer in China, it is)?
Yes, and it's still fairly revolutionary for a designer to even think of UX or usability, contrary to what the article claims.

This feels a bit like if a programmer went round and said 'everybody uses node.js these days, are you getting a programmer who uses PHP or Node.js' completely ignoring the fact that the proportion of php to node code written is like 99.999 : 0.001.

Most of the designs I see still give little thought to the UX of the entire experience.

He even mentions it himself without realising the irony:

I spend a lot of my time just getting everyone on the team—designers included—to see the problem in a different way, not the way it has been implemented).
The new Paperwhite is $119, or $139 without ads.