skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thermal extremes of space are severe, and can easily render a simple zip tie to be useless. Another issue is the potential for materials (plastics are a particular headache) to offgass in a vacuum, which can send nasty contamination into places that it shouldn't be (like sensitive instruments). They actually test these components in vacuum chambers while thermally cycling the assemblies to figure this out.
Mark Cuban's Response to http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/09/03/david-ebersman-the-ma...

Like always, love his rationale and thinking. I never understood people's view that facebook needs to be obsessed with the stock price (apart from the mentioned employee options). That might just be the naive youngen in me, but what facebook should, and in my opinion does care bout is its product line and users.
Woah! Completely missed that it was published in August 2011, not 2012. Thanks!
I had some trouble manually retyping my UDID. It turns out that once you click on the serial number, you can go to Edit->Copy Identifier (UDID).
works on Chrome on my Mac but not on my Linux VM.
Wow, the article posted didn't seem totally out of place here. Your post, on the other hand, doesn't remotely belong here. Are you even an old timer on this site? You certainly don't write like one.
Is there a web framework? Go on Rails?
They are video tutorials of the case studies. So they cover designing an app and a login form in Photoshop, then implementing those designs using Interface Builder and Xcode. About 2.5+ hours of video.
Just to use a widely known example - Pebble that raised millions of dollars on KS. In Pebble's case, each donation was tied to a pre-order. Since the watches have not been delivered, that money is not recognized as revenue on Pebble's income statement. Instead, it is "Deferred Revenue," a liability on Pebble's balance sheet. So, Pebble got an asset (cash) but incurred an offsetting liability (Deferred Revenue). There is no change in equity value, and there is no income until the revenue is recognized (watches are delivered).
They're coming for you. Run!!
Document management on the cloud
Is the formatting of this blog meant to be iPad unfriendly?

http://pic.twitter.com/rLOyOHbh
I can't imagine the next-gen consoles selling that well in the future either. Most people would want them for the media access, but there are and will be much better and cheaper options for that.
I'm thinking of criticism like, "You say that you think moderation is important, but you don't always act that way. Are you some kind of hypocrite?"
Why don't you allow partial UDID searches? I should be able to type, say, ten digits and see some results. You could also make it so I type the first eight and the last eight characters.

Easier data entry and I don't have to give you my full UDID.
More that it is easier for a classroom to teach an old stable language than invest in new things that might not last. It is rare to see an accomplished programmer who started writing any code in Java... most started with JS (younger folks) or educational environments like Logo/Scratch or super simple envs like Basic.
I was half kidding, but found this: http://www.getwebgo.com/ and http://code.google.com/p/goweb/
This article misses the origin of the term 'growth hacker'. There are two primary shifts that got us here:

1. Marketing moving from being an external function to an internal function that is embedded in the product. Thus product design, product development, and product management skills are becoming very important skills to possess as part of a marketing function.

2. As marketing channels shift from being largely immeasurable to measurable at a very detailed level the marketing function demands more understanding of data and statistics.

Hence the term "growth hacker". Someone with product design, product development, and product management skills who also has a solid understanding of data and statistics, then leverages these skills to direct marketing efforts whether internal (product driven) or external (advertising/content driven).
Amazon and Epix strike movie deal
Implementation of Social Sharing into Jekyll
You know Perl gets hassled because of the variable sigils, but when I've taught Perl to newcomers it didn't seem to be much on an issue. Maybe this is because Modern Perl tends to be more clean and OO, there's not the sigil busyness you might see in old Perl code used by admins in the mid 1990's. I think this is really just something people that use other languages are bothered by. I know we all have preferences. When I do Javascript I tend to miss the sigils a bit :)
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Does B make sense? First install a new OS before learning what a loop is?
I generate about $25k/year in mostly-passive-income from single family rental homes. I average 20 hours/year maintaining this income stream in answering email, collecting invoices for my accountant, and making the occasional tough decision about renovating/repairing/waiting.

I got there after placing subcontractors for about 2 years with various companies, which built up the cash reserves that let me purchase the rental properties with no mortgages.

I got /there/ by inviting some young dude to a conference I organised whom I'd met at another conference. He and I worked together to match talented young programmers with companies that wanted them. Nice work if you can get it.
Many of these comments treat "kickstarter" as a homogenous group of companies. Each project on Kickstarter is different, and the resulting liabilities would be different. In many of the most successful cases, the funding is tied to a pre-order of a product. In that case, the company has an obligation to the funder to deliver the product (or possibly refund the cash). Whether the funder acts on that obligation is a separate question, but s/he is a creditor to the company.
This is awesome. I spent the summer working from Excelerate Labs at 1871 Chicago, where Code Academy (now Starter League) teaches their classes. Neal and Michael are doing things right, and the Chicago tech/startup community has benefited greatly from it. Jason Fried was a mentor at Excelerate this summer and it's great that he's giving back to the Chicago community. Chicago is becoming a new hub for startups, and the Starter League has graduated many talented developers that are now working on their own startup or for others.
Entrepreneurs Can Be The Key To Global Connectivity
I'd file that under "domain knowledge". Not only marketers need that though. If I am a coder and develop software that is used in fishing (and thus aquire knowledge about this domain), what does that make me? A maritime hacker?
It's just a big mess. Why is the background brown, but then the background of the text black? Do you find those colours complement each other? Along with the blue, the whole design looks really grimy and dingy.

Why are you telling me the date? I know today's date.

I don't like the battery of social network icons, you may disagree.

I also don't like the swearing. I think it's unprofessional, however also very subjective.

Strange mix of sans and serif fonts, with no apparent reason for which is which. "Growth Hacker? Bite me!" is serif, below that "Why the term 'growth hacking' is just another buzz word" is sans. Below that "A rant by Dirk" which is serif, apart from the single word "rant".
Rails Asset Pipeline, CoffeeScript edge cases, and solutions
Amazon Partners With EPIX, Brings 3,000 More Titles To Prime Instant Video
It would have to be the tracker, not the client, and at best it could somewhat reduce the number of other clients' IP addresses available to suspicious clients, since the classification is based on how they interact with other clients, whose IP addresses they of course have to know.
Thanks! I hope people learn a lot from them. I've learned so much from everyone's web design and dev blogs over the years that I really feel the need to share what I've learned.
You can also click to show your UDID, leave your mouse where it is, and CMD-C like usual.
While the JOBS act made crowdfunding possible, it is still regulated by the SEC, and kickstarter is not a crowdfunding platform. Kickstarter cannot be a market for equity in companies.
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Please read the associated blog post that went along with the site. http://www.zachleat.com/web/manifesto/

"I’ve been reluctant to share the slides because I certainly don’t want developers to take them as dogmatic truth. Rather, I’d love for people to see a forest using trees they’ve planted themselves."

Certainly scrolling could be improved. I'll definitely look into improving the performance. I honestly had no idea this slide deck would get this much attention.
For a fact? How so?
http://pic.twitter.com/rLOyOHbh

The formatting of this blog is just awful for iPad users zooming in on the text.
Sensationalist reporting gets and grabs an audience.
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6 or 7, usually depending on whether you were born later or earlier in the year.
Steam isn't really a walled garden. Most of the titles on steam are things you can quite happily buy independently and install yourself. Steam won't stop you. Hell, I sometimes buy cheaper games on a competing service (like GMG) and Steam will still quite happily take on the license key from that purchase when I ask it to.
Much respect for the frankness and forthrightness with which he addressed this. I've always taken the exponential increase in the cost of bug fixes with time for granted. I won't do so in the future. We need more empirical studies of software development!
I can't really tell you. That guy is "Gordon Freeman", the main character in the Half-Life game serie. According to the following article, it comes from the "Lambda complex" where he's working on in the first serie, which is in also made-up for the game: http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Lambda_logo
This is fantastic! Thanks for the link.
1 million Apple UDIDs allegedly leaked from FBI laptop
Here is one that is literally just 1 page: http://i.imgur.com/tpze9.jpg
I don't have any language cheatsheets anymore and just use http://hyperpolyglot.org/ it has great examples and comparisons for most all languages I'm interested in, in a nice and easy to read format too.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Site appears to have bitten the dust
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Is the address the white house?
most growth hackers or growth pros are product managers or product editors,so the post starts with the wrong premise.

Also, your accusations against growth hackers are titled based rather than what they do or learning about what growth hackers do. If growth hackers choose to identify themselves with each other in a new way, I don't think there is an issue. Let them be. Remember, front-end engineering wasn't considered much of a position 5 years ago. Same with UX, UI, data scientist, etc. How about SEO specialist or direct-marketers.... Can they self-idenitfy a new sub-division of marketing?

Adam Smith was right, people specialize as an industry expands to offer greater value in a niche. Growth has become essential to startups. Growth teams are becoming standard at scaling startups. Thus, growth hackers appeared.

It is fine to express a distaste for a growth hacker by what he or she does, seems silly to dislike them for their title. That is like saying "I hate chocolate because of they call it "chocolate""

I must say degrading the work Sean Ellis and Andrew Chen have done by comparing them to meaningless consultants from the dot-com era is disgusting. Andrew Chen is one of the most brilliant viral engineers on this planet. Sean Ellis has rocketed several companies to success and just acquired a KISS company. I don't respect ad hominem attacks, neither should you.
Instagram merger approved
I've been using Ian's secure shoelace knot for about two years now, it's really fantastic.

http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/secureknot.htm
My prediction:

A full body haptic feedback suit/ exoskeleton to work with the Oculus Rift. It will give the player the sensation of running, jumping, flying, holding (crowbars) and being hit by objects etc. All in complete safety.

The exterior design will be based on the HEV suit, and will be launched with Half Life 3 as a Steam for Linux exclusive.

And in Half Life 3 the HEV suit will incorporate a short-range jetpack, allowing the player to leap between rooftops and fly for short distances.
TBH, I doubt that Apple gives a shit- they would just declare it a leak, if they even get prosecuted. But that could be just my tinfoil hat talking.
He didn't say it was false. He did say it was unsupported.
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It says a lot of the trackers were not on the blocklists.
Ok, I added a PDF: http://www.golang-book.com/assets/pdf/gobook.pdf
I'm fairly obsessed with fantasy football, but I have no idea what this game is about from reading your homepage. Also, launching one day before the season doesn't give me a lot of time to decide whether to commit to something for the season. Keep at it -- there's lot of ground to break in fantasy. I work on a fantasy product (http://www.footballverdict.com) and it's a fun space. We can swap user acquisition strategies and highs and lows.
I've just gone through it page-by-page, and didn't see a table like that. Using the 20th Anniversary Edition, I also looked through the summarized list of claims in each chapter, and the 20-year retrospective, and did not see the table or a section that might have been a textual version of the same data.

Perhaps the closest bit I found was in the chapter "Plan One to Throw Away": "The total cost of maintaining a widely used program is typically 40 percent or more of the cost of developing it" (p 121). Similarly, another section quotes Capers Jones, "Focus on quality, and productivity will follow" (p 217, emphasis original).

That, I think, is about as close as MMM gets to these claims.
I sometimes make basic freeby sites for friends. Fully grown adults get really excited about having their own web page up on the net. I've got to admit I had fun with LOGO back in the day, but if I'd been able to manipulate the internet, now that would have been exciting...
A linux based Steam box of some sort seems like a fairly obvious guess.

With the recent interest in wearable computing I wouldn't be surprised if this is more about peripherals than gaming rigs. Working on additional HID's (heads up displays, kinect-a-likes, voice) might well be a more valuable addition to their software platform than getting into the console wars.

Or possibly a handheld. They seem to have 2 ends of the gaming market, high end FPS graphics fests which sell to people willing to build console smashing gaming rigs, and casual gamers who like the Bejewlled type games. It would be very hard to create a console that taps their existing muscle gamers, but capturing the gameboy, iphone casuals might be possible.

If they did go towards console territory what I'd love to see rather than a closed box console would be a line of Steam certified hardware so you could build a PC that matched your pocket, upgrade in future, and be guaranteed compatibility with the Steam linux distro it runs.
Another option is Github, which ranks Go as the 27th most popular language. https://github.com/languages/Go
Looking nice. Submitted to Reddit for you http://www.reddit.com/r/sports/comments/zc5dt/af_social_fant...
Are you surprised by that? The 10x longer statement doesn't surprise me at all. If you ask someone, "Please implement a Java class that has the following methods and behaves like this" you might expect any competent programmer to finish within ~3x of each other.

But given some more nebulous task, where architectural decisions must be made and serious research and testing needs to be done, it's not surprising at all. For example, if you asked someone, "Please write me a library so that I can send and receive XMPP messages," I would expect a large number of otherwise competent programmers to make a significant number of false starts and poor decisions, and generally take much more time than the guy who has experience writing libraries and interpreting text protocols. For example, consider the case of Ron Jeffries and Peter Norvig writing a sudoku solver[1] (this example is a perennial favorite of mine in all sorts of discussions).

And I don't think anything is "very seriously wrong" with this situation. Different skillsets and competence levels result in drastically different results. I think this is true of any profession that is largely about creative problem-solving: some can do it efficiently, some cannot. Programming is just a unique case because there are so many people trying it and not being deterred due to poor performance because there is such a demand.

[1] http://ravimohan.blogspot.com/2007/04/learning-from-sudoku-s...
I was confused at first given that 37 Signals are famed for avoiding growth for growth's sake and a focus on not taking external VC style investment - I thought "damn, these guys just undid years of sound advice" and then I saw the key line

"This isn’t a traditional investment. We’re not looking to get out, we’re looking to stay in."

Awesome, glad to see someone investing for reasons other than flipping a company
Ugh. "playing around with freelancing instead of looking for a job". I hate what society has become in regards to jobs. I find it so backwards that so many people believe what everyone should do is go find some boring huge company to slave away at until the majority of your life is over.
I welcome any data that you care to provide.
That this person is going to design peripherals is pure speculation on the part of the article's author, and it seems to stem exclusively (looking at the original ad) from this sentence: "Even basic input, the keyboard and mouse, haven’t really changed in any meaningful way over the years." In context, though, that sentence could just as easily be just an example of one way in which innovation in the Mac/PC space has stagnated.

The alternate interpretation that this person will be designing whole systems is equally plausible to me, especially given their investment into the Linux space. Initially, that move didn't make a whole lot of sense because the Linux desktop space is so small and (particularly where issues around graphics drivers and the like are concerned) requires a fair bit of technical acumen. A ChromeOS-like strategy makes much more sense, though: heavily tailor the OS user experience to fit your specific target audience, and vertically integrate so you control the hardware, and the user never has to touch drivers or configs. Then it's not "Linux," anymore, it's "SteamOS" or whatever.
It is actually on the correct side. The screenshot a bit old. My bad.
http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2011/september/cyber_091611
“The exchange of strategic and threat intelligence is really the bread and butter of the NCFTA,” said Special Agent Eric Strom, who heads the FBI unit—the Cyber Initiative and Resource Fusion Unit (CIRFU)—assigned to the NCFTA. “The success of this effort at every level comes down to the free flow of information among our partners.”

Dan Larkin (the FBI Agent who setup NCFTA in 1997)
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dan-larkin/25/90/910

Note that he used to be with CIRFU.

Now, check it out:
https://www.allclearid.com/plans/mobile-app
This is awesome!

One of my favorite things about programming with other people is when one of us has one of those magical moments where something just "clicks".

Sometimes it's simple like when someone finally understood OR in MySQL (I couldn't believe some of the things he had built without using it!).

I can still remember the time I first got the difference between server and client side code, and the first time the DOM really made sense - that one blew my mind, I felt like I could see the matrix!

You guys are helping people have those moments!
I've come across Football Verdict before, love the clean design! I'm definitely having trouble explaining how the game works in few enough words for a landing page, so fair critique there.

This is a one man side-project, so I wish I could have launched sooner, but I'm just happy I got it out the door before the season started.

Let's definitely connect - I'll reach out!
This become even more important when anyone can add false information to a tracker.
Back then you couldn't just take a pill to get rid of any diseases you might pick up.
WebGL Visualization of Obama's Reddit AMA
As a programmer, I have to agree. Of the many skills I think every kid should know, programming does not really rank highly. I'd rather they teach something like cooking or first-aid.
It seems he wasn't able to see some of the sources. One cost money to see, one is out of print and not available...

It may be true and noble that since he isn't able to verify the data himself, he shouldn't have used it. But if you can't see the sources, you also can't state that the data is incorrect. One of those books he couldn't find might contain the data that directly corroborates this.

I suspect the cost of fixing defects has more to do with your internal process, and less to do with how much work it takes to find and fix the actual defect. I have a client I work for now for which I need about 10 days lead time to get code from development to production. So it might take 1 hour to fix a bug that is discovered, and 8 hours to do the paperwork and go through the formal process of moving code through testing, staging and finally to production.
Saccades could provide an alternative secure biometric identification technology
Just Adwords and Google Analytics.

Web Development keywords tend to be expensive, so it was cheaper to focus on many long tail terms rather than compete for "wordpress", "web development", etc.

I started out with hundreds of terms related to building and converting sites to WordPress , and used Adwords and Google Analytics data to kill off any term that was costing me significantly without bringing in any leads.

Incidentally, I started out with Content Network enabled, but found that it brought no leads and cost more than search clicks. Not sure if that was click fraud or what, but killing Content Network was the best optimization decision I made.
It's not a country-wide mandate.

AFAIK no country/state has compulsory programming classes for any level in the same way they require maths etc ((please tell me if I'm wrong!). If so, that's rather surprising in 2012.
Pirate Bay founder Warg to be expelled from Cambodia
"Persecution". Nice. Let's cool it with the inflammatory rhetoric. You may not agree with Apple's legal methods in solving a dispute, but it's hardly a persecution--particularly because Samsung is suing just as much (and has already threatened to sue over LTE).