skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Understanding Play2 Iteratees for Normal Humans
Apple store home office
Would you mind to link to any of it. After only seeing 'coming soon' windows, without any content, for a a dozen tries I gave up.
Bog Post - Monitoring VMware ESX/vSphere with Opsview
This blog post details how to monitor VMware ESX and VM’s running on ESX using Opsview
Avon earnings
Lessons learned from a failed startup.
Electronic sensing with your fingertips
> Just because a major tech blog says something is true does not mean every man and his dog will agree, especially over something like UI polish.

That's exactly what I meant...my point is that a journalist's (supposedly) unbiased assessment is much more reliable than some random guy's opinion on the matter.

> I personally think it's much better compared to a few generations ago, but still has a few more rough spots than iOS.

I would love to know what some of these "rough spots" are. I don't own any Apple products, but happened to use a friend's iPad 3 yesterday, the first time I was using the device. After hearing so much praise on HN about how the interface was "so smooth", I was rather disappointed to find that basic things like text input and scrolling caused significant lag. Now I'm finding it difficult to take praise of iOS at face value.
Very simple and realtime file sharing directly from within Twitter
I have been a member since 99. The place had some of the best discussions I have ever participated in perhaps because you have to pay for it. Unfortunately it's not what it used to be.

Still, I can't get my head around whether it would make sense to do a paid discussion forum.
T-SQL CASE functions
It's a marketing term for a marketer.
Plugins you should put in your vimrc
I flagged this because the post doesn't go beyond stating platitudes. Some specific examples or case studies could add interest and would reinforce your point.
Out of personal curiosity: compared to the trolling before, how does your karma do? (especially given that most 6-figure karma "stars" mostly post half-funny, hivemind-compliant one-liners.. cheap laughs without substance.)
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Tech journalists are not really known for their unbiased writing ability.
Do you feel that there is more value making a desktop web app and making it responsive to work with mobile devices, rather than making a straight mobile app?
This is worrisome:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.7319
This.
While it's true many people buy Apple gear because of branding and image, well, that's marketing for you. That's how retail works.
As a well seasoned computer guy, I've chosen every single mac I've purchased over the last number of years. There was a time when I wouldn't touch one with a 10 foot pole, and I'm sure a time will come when I won't want a new one.

I've used enough different operating systems in all kinds of configurations over the last 20+ years to decide like a grown-up what I'm going to spend a considerable amount of time using.. not because other people think it's cool, but because it fits my budget and works for me.
My recommendation to others is: Try stuff and use what works for you.
Google’s “Did You Mean” Hack in Python
Ask HN: Any solopreneurs here?
Would love to connect and exchange notes with other solopreneurs.

* What businesses do you run?
* How much time do you spend on them?
* How long have you been at it?
* Do you outsource to contractors, VA's?
* Is is sustainable or do you have to take up day jobs or do consulting on the side?
* How do you deal with being the only employee (motivation, validation, automation, ...)?
Ask HN: Use Kickstarter for Academic Research?
Might it be more efficient than grant writing and less fraught with potential conflicts of interest than partnering with corporate and governmental institutions?
The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link had some great catalogues. They're sort of available now as PDF.

(http://www.wholeearth.com/history-whole-earth-catalog.php)

These were the kind of eclectic collections of well curated items that make great books. I'd be interested if there's something similar.
Swap.io - sync your clouds based on automatic or semi-automatic rules
Stopped reading on that line.

Bought an iOS device some time ago (coming from Android) and I'm still trying to find anything "superior" to Android's UI. It's just a matter of taste.
"Growth hacker" is the in vogue jargon for "marketer". I have read arguments promoting the title on the basis that there is an increased reliance on quantitative analysis but the bottom line is they are just marketers naturally applying their craft to their own job titles.

For those that would disagree, please tell me what would differ on a growth hacker's resume vs. a marketing professional's resume. A big clue that they are the same role is that both jobs would list user acquisition numbers as a key metric of their work efficacy.
SEEKING FREELANCER / CO-FOUNDER - Stockholm, Sweden / Remote

I am working on a self-funded project, call it a start-up. My progress with Python is unfortunately not going to result in a MVP anytime soon; and that is why I am open to team up with a full-stack developer that can be in charge of the development; as a freelancer or co-founder.

Contact mail at magnusforsberg.com for more information.
Elon Musk Mahalo Mentor Interview on PayPal, SpaceX, and Tesla
> want to see if a service can be built in which the users are the customers instead of the advertisers.

That's not accurate. The $50 is for a full year of App.net service. That's all. Where is the binding agreement that that says what you are suggesting?

People like to quip that if you aren't paying for something, you are what's being sold. Frankly, the same is true even if you are paying for something. We should have learned by not that unless it's spelled out, we should be wary. After all, if App.net gets bought out, you've effectively paid to become the product.

So, what rights is App.net giving you for paying $50? What promises have they made that can be enforced?

Take this:

> We will never sell your personal data, content, feed, interests, clicks, or anything else to advertisers. We promise.

Maybe I'm just cynical, but that doesn't mean much. I mean, you don't have to sell the data to sell being able to advertise using that data. It's very easy to get away with saying this and still provide data to 3rd parties or allow for advertising to target users.

My hope is that App.net is sincere. But unless they've hidden it, nothing on their site suggests they are doing what people say they are doing.
I like the idea. How can we hold them accountable, assuring the research that was intended to be done, actually gets done?
Because 'reporter' isn't the proper term for people who are paid by the people they are writing about; it's 'copywriter.'
So opinion pieces are not allowed now on HN? it seems like every second post on the front page is like this.
Mobile Gaming Mavens on the real cost of user acquisition
I did see those, indeed. Caldera's was somewhat successful in making Linux easier to install - at least when compared to the Debian and Slackware installers of the time. At least, I managed to install it on my machine. I would also mention Conectiva's as an easy to install and use Linux.

Unfortunately, at that time, the lack of desktop applications was a huge problem for the average user. Today, many people read e-mail, collaborate on documents and engage in a large part of their social lives through a browser. That was not the case in the early 2000s. Having an easy to use (or Windows-like) file manager, application launcher or even package manager was not enough.

Perhaps it's unfair to give credit to Canonical for making Ubuntu grandma-friendly when a lot of its ease of use comes from applications like LibreOffice, Thunderbird and Firefox (and Gmail, Gdocs and Facebook).
Finally a piece of spiritual advice that makes sense in contrast to the "always be shipping", "cult of done" and other such garbage that sometimes gets pitched on this forum.
Nope, all "thing" tables have exactly the same schema as each other. Ditto "data" and "xref" tables.
_For good error reports back to the user, you'd have to have a fairly large amount of logic in the catch block._

Serious question. How is that a reason to have that _amount of logic_ in the function body?

Having IDE/editors which can fold blocks of code and having the catch blocks collapsed by default will make code reading/understanding of code easier. IMO.

Actually, I may try something like makng the try-cacth the body of the function on a small to medium size project just to see the tradeoffs.
What Makes Software Great?
I agree with you. The TL;DR is do scary stuff and don't be afraid to offend people. I'm not quite sure what dirty secret they're supposed to be confessing though. It's a fairly vacuous and vapid blog post that appears to just exist to promote the fact they want a new client.
Darth Vader | Authspot
The original article claimed that the bloggers had repeatedly insisted on being reporters - not that they were unaware of the distinction.

This writer either missed that or is ignoring it as inconvenient.
Bruce Willis may sue Apple for the owners’ rights of iTunes collection
As an aside, I find some irony in the fact that a growth hacker uses blogspot. All Blogspot blogs are blocked in China without the use of a vpn. Thus, a sizeable chunk of potential readers is excluded.
They are probably just interested in the "American aid". No wonder the US Government doesn't want to cut the aid to other countries. It's not about "not helping the poor there anymore". It's about being able to bribe the Governments there to do their will.
Yakuza
On the contrary, it's just that this piece doesn't even seem to express an opinion beyond the clichéd "Growth is painful".
This is a great format to display it in as it's so honest, you've embedded all of the first hand sources instead of writing out a polished story of how you were formed and your story thus far.
My "change on my agreement with them" was to quit.

Including myself, three of the four reddit programmers came to that conclusion within the same six month period. (Props to spladug for keeping the flame alive!)
Not such a pain once you figure it out...
And for any of us compiling stuff... seriously, are we pretending we don't all use remote linux slices/machines/whatever all over the place?

My laptops are just workstations to do day-to-day life stuff and a portal into my virtual computer world, where I'm working with remote displays, browser windows, command lines all over, and all that jazz. If it's anything remotely server related that needs to be on all the time, I'm likely not running it on my laptop anyway - it'll be on a linux box somewhere.

Or, if I'm on the move and it's really important to get a project done, a local VM on the little macbook.
Very useful, thanks. These days I changed double quotes to single so many times and this comes just in the right moment!
Personal observation:

I cannot get over how far this "super entrepreneur"'s personality is from the glib, fast-talking "operator" personality type fetishized by most venture capitalists, business gurus, and MBA programs. I mean... he hesitates, down-plays his role on occasion, and does not come across as an off-the-charts narcissist.

Steve Jobs, another businessman to show phenomenal performance, also does not match the stereotypical "operator." He's slightly closer, but far, far too artsy, opinionated, and individualistic.

I've seen a lot of startups started by the stereotypical "operator" in my tenure on this planet -- some I've seen from a distance and some I've been involved in -- and I can't say they look to be all that successful compared with the average.

I call bullshit on the whole cult of the glib, narcissistic fast-talker.
Worried about Identity Theft
Worried about Identity Theft
I enjoyed the article, and found the end disappointing and surprising in equal measure. It certainly confounds the readers expectation of "closure".

It made me think of that classic Rumsfeld line: "There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact."
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/donald_rumsfeld_...
This aligns very well with the values of hacker culture: learning, exploration and enabling others to do the same.
The German authorities generally don't take kindly to companies trying to skirt around labor and immigration laws.

No guarantee that they would deal with the issue promptly, of course, but some kind of threat or formal inquiry to whoever was in charge at Samsung probably would have made them back down.
> In line with these stories, my parents always taught me that good manners are about making your guests (or host) feel comfortable. The rules are not the important bit of manners.

This is so funny you should say this because in Germany good old "Knigge" is becoming more popular again but in a way of making yourself feel better about your good manners AND as a foundation to look down on and sneer at others for their clearly inferior manners. So quite the opposite of what you described.
Haven't happened for the last 2 years we've been waiting for them.
Rare Apple I computer put up for auction
Sometimes, love defies reason ;-)
I don't mind that the author prefers the iOS user experience, everybody can have his opinion on that. However, saying that Android is about acceptable as an alternative to iOS, it is just trolling.
The same argument works for any of those systems.. not just linux.

The reality is many people try many systems and settle on one they like.
Don't include the name of the site in the title. Article has a lot of information on async javascript loading and nothing to do with CSS.
Identical story to the Demonoid bust:

The nightmare week for Demonoid has just reached a huge crescendo, with news coming out of Ukraine that following a massive DDoS attack the site has now been busted by local authorities. Those looking for a U.S. connection to the raid won’t be disappointed – a source in the country’s Interior Ministry says that the action was scheduled to coincide with Deputy Prime Minister Valery Khoroshkovsky’s trip to the United States.

Why are these countries offering up sacrifices to the U.S.?
Several typos, sorry, here's a particularly bad case:

"I meant high level stuff on _one_ hand like _denormalized_ data."
I can't speak for other countries, but in Australia there is an 'official' handicap tracking system already in existence:
http://www.golflink.com.au/index.aspx?from=menu

To the best of my knowledge, every registered club golfer is allocated a Golflink number, and the result of each competition round is recorded for calculation handicaps. I don't recall what detailed information is recorded - it might be nothing other than the round result - but for many people this would be 'enough'.
I had thought about developing such a system too, but thought that without creating an 'official' relationship with Golflink my semi-parallel system would (in Australia at least) go nowhere. However, I still think it is a very good idea, as many golfers really love to track all sorts of stats and info.
Not entirely the same, but for those of us on Window, I prefer the look of http://jsil.org.
There is still something to be said about languages that try to reduce the amount of time you spend Testing, debugging, profiling and optimization. Where the goal is to aid you in getting as much of the concept intact to the computer with as little effort as possible. End goal is of course AI.
For most research it's unlikely enough people care about it in order to fund it.
Sure, wireless makes them much more usable, but claiming this is the reason for its success is just as silly as saying laptops weren't successful before Wifi (hint: they were!).

Without cellular data the iPhone would still be a killer device just as a cell phone with a music and video player, and the iPad with a complete office suite and other apps.

Cellular data was widely available in 1996, at least in Europe. I know because I had a PCMCIA card connected to my cell phone at that time.

But of course, you can keep twisting facts to fit your theory all day long if you want, I know nothing I can say will change your opinion.
I haven't bought a running magazine in 25 years, I suppose. But reviews of running shoes could be useful, I thought. And they carried schedules of races.
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Original Vimeo video (just in case someone like me prefers the bigger box) -> http://vimeo.com/45447698
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Not sure about "solopreneur", isn't an entrepreneur just a single person anyway :) Although I wouldn't title myself with either.

I've worked on my own since '03, currently in here http://qiip.me/edlea/blogger/post/4019

I freelance mon-fri 9-5 and I build my project evenings and weekends. When I have enough cash I get some help from another developer.

Interestingly RescueTime says I'm ~10% more productive at weekends when I'm working on my project... so I guess I love to work on it, so I do wish I could do it full time.

Motivation (in no particular order):
1. prove to myself I can do it
2. make money
3. help people with a problem that stops them working on what they love
4. [perceived] freedom
5. challenges not in my freelance work

and if you're curious, http://qiip.me is my project.
How SVG renders as CSS background image on Mobile Safari/Chrome
The results of how mobile Safari and mobile Google Chrome render svg graphics when used as a css background image. Is this a bug or a feature?
Really, really

GWT is not the answer, Dart is not the answer, not writing JS is not the answer (maybe CoffeeScript but I'm skeptical)

JS may have its warts, but in the end that's what browsers understand. That's what you'll have to know to debug things.

And the browser doesn't have to execute 2x, 3x the code, and use more memory as well

If you want something to help my perception is that it should be a thin shin (like CS) rather than "full bells and whistles" on top like GWT or Dart
I'm trying to do that, but I cannot find the edit button for it :|, I think that is not editable anymore.
Definitely so, if you've run a 3 hour pace. I've run a number under 3; but what I remember about a sub-2:30 pace is that I couldn't manage it.
LTE (as with most 3GPP specs) are heavily patented. All patents are available under FRAND licenses however.
HOw can it spell the doom of Linux desktop? Even if it does not worth with 100% of the folks, it works for a certain % of people, and the total installed base is growing over time as more people try it and find it works for them. That is why you see the share of Linux desktop not GOING DOWN, but being stable or growing a little, while the overall internet population is growing from year to year.

Please stop the "Doom predictions". It won't happen. It does not need to be the MAINSTREAM system to exist.
This is what Apple does right. Windows and Linux were never a realistic option.

If you needed the form-factor of an Air and Creative Suite there really was no decision. Rational or otherwise. There is certainly no conditioning, playing with Ubuntu was pointless.
عارضة أزياء يابانية ترتدى منذ عامان وجه شخصية كرتونية وترفض خلعه 
عارضة أزياء يابانية ترتدى منذ عامان وجه شخصية كرتونية وترفض خلعه
Thanks :) that was the idea; I wanted people to get an impression of how it actually felt to be there at the time.
Why is this sad? It shows we are living in a very service-oriented society where a lot of people will happily let "experts" do all sorts of tasks for them that maybe 50 years ago nobody would have imagined spending money on. Also, I think most quality tires nowadays don't puncture or rip that easily anymore, at least not the ones on sale here in Europe so most people hardly ever have to change or fix tires on the spot; and when having to switch to mandatory winter tires, well, then they obviously prefer to pay a little for it. And I doubt you are able to cost-effectively and efficiently balance and mount your own tires on the rims since you are very likely lacking all the (expensive) tools.

Generally while not very applicable to tires but you can hardly do any repairs on modern cars anymore anyway. So I think these small tasks just died along with repairs. Nowadays cars are "black boxes" and they either drive or you hand the whole thing to someone who will hook it up to a computer and then do magic according to the manufacturer's specifications until that box drives again.
But JavaScript is not (another daft meme) "the assembler of the web" as it is itself interpreted (or what have you) into byte code for execution.

The point is that one should limit the level of abstraction to one which sits in that comfort zone between code that is sensible to humans and code that is sensible to the machine running it and (perhaps more importantly) the available dev/debug tools.
The article describes how for real growth you need polarize your audience. The painful part comes from those who hate your product, but is complemented by those who love it. I know from experience that this is a fact.
I meant mine obviously ;)

For the curious, here's the talk (1 hour) about ahead of time compilation of PHP:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKySEUrP7LA
Knowing how many people it takes to develop a eNodeB is even more impressive. Normally it would be n * 100 engineers (or even n * 1000) working on these projects.
But it will not write JavaScript the way you would write it - and (avoiding arguments about personality in code) that JavaScript will be way harder to follow and debug.
App Icon Wars
Try scrolling to see a really nice CSS3 transition.
I think it would help the discussion if you could define a "large app" as far as JavaScript is concerned and why you think it is a "nightmare".
JSIL is also great, but its philosophy is that yo write .net code and run it in the browser, whereas Saltarelle's (and Script#'s) is that you write Javascript but with better tools. Also, the script that JSIL generates is very far from what you would write by hand, whereas that generated by Saltarelle/Script# can be distinguished from hand-written script primarily because the indentation is always correct and there is never an accidental loose comparison operator.
I don't quite understand the 'Rotation Locker' link.
Android 4.1 includes a _very_ exposed button for that.

Pull down the notification area (works from all non-fullscreen apps) and it's right there, next to the settings button. In fact, it's probably the most accessible setting you get on that device.

So .. given that the pitch is "Rotation Locker makes it easy to lock or unlock automatic screen rotation" I've to say that this doesn't make sense.

The app _does_ seem to have a purpose though (with profiles tied to Locale/Tracker - or if you're stuck on an old version of Android). Just not a big one on the Nexus 7.
Google Nexus 7 '3G' in the Making Claims Site, will launch in 6 Weeks
My bad. Unfortunately I cannot edit the submission anymore. Or I don't see the edit button - which I don't think is the case.
I have a Inspiron 1720 from 2007 and it's still my daily workstation. An amazing machine. The only problem it has is a fading backlight.
the last time this came up as a serious question for me was in a web management console.