skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a wonderful story. It's a real tragedy that most children don't have role models like this.
Why did you open with that sentence? Were you replying to someone or just trying to instigate an argument?
LOAD81 is good for this purpose too, thanks to antirez:

http://github.com/anitrez/load81
What SOME successful people happen to do with the first hour of their day. Correlation != Causation.
Properly written that way to make you feel connected to a human - and not some cold, no feeling facistic reviewer.
This is the comment I was replying to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4454819 It makes no claims that ClO2 is an effective in vivo treatment for malaria.
I am guessing that if there is already a Zimbra Desktop process, the 16:30 job has no effect.

And I am guessing that if the process's main window is already maximized, the 16:32 job has no effect.
The creator stated push notifications as one of the main points of the application. Rather than being about getting raw information, this app is more about general awareness.
Hmm, I have used Cabify and it's a horribly slow application. Now I know why.
I found matplotlib to be extremely helpful in my research...I also just donated.
Latest version of Dolphin (on iOS, anyway) remixes this a bit. Swiping left still goes to bookmarks. But now swiping right goes to tabs. There's a button bar on the bottom, and a navbar on the top. Both of these automatically disappear when you scroll down, and automatically reappear when you scroll up.

Still getting used to it, but my initial impression is that it's a pretty slick interface.
I really think it would be hard for anyone to notice you and glorify you with a reputation as the "guy who never checks email before 9am". That old quote .. 'no one thinks about you as much as you do' comes to mind. He just said give it an hour, not forever.
Apple's Genius Bar Manual That Teaches its Employees How To Manipulate Customers
Don't worry about the ugliness. If others find it useful you will find them submitting patches that take the ugliness away. And you've got more important things to worry about like adding new features and making the copy even better.
That's why the second point is so important. It isn't just Adobe people (the oracle in your comment) or Silicon Valley startups dismissing Gimp, it is the in-the-trenches graphic designers that do their work for $12/hr in a small rural town. That's a huge barrier to overcome. It isn't impossible, but with your other examples progress in numbers was seen all the time with MySQL. Not so much with Gimp, right?

(Also I'm not like all-in for Adobe. I'd love to see something hit the PS market, but I just don't see Gimp being the one to do it. Something like http://www.pixelmator.com/ has a better shot, because they seem to be making good traction in a fraction of the time as Gimp)
This piece makes excellent points, as do the comments. If thieves can't sell/move the bikes, then they will not steal. This provides a better solution -- theft deterrent, marks multiple parts, recovery component, cost effective, simple to use: http://www.identidots.com/IdentiDotsInAction.aspx
As far as I'm concerned, Rubymotion shoudn't decrease the performance of an app...
We have the same problem in the major cities of Brazil. I live in Curitiba and i lost 9 bikes stolen 'till now.

Jhansen - www.ciclismo.esp.br
An Obvious Lift-off
What he is really looking for is a conspiracy. These alternative medicine quacks all claim they just want their product (and it always is already a product...) researched. When asked why they don't have it researched, like any other prospective treatment is, they drop hints at "big pharmacy" silencing them (as you can see he has done in his original post).

The entire point is to turn the lack of evidence into evidence of its effectiveness.
Yes, I used /dev/null.
"There are so many cheap android phones on the chinese market used by older people who barely even know how to check their email with it"

What kind of condescending agist crap is this? How do you know this for a fact? And just how old are these "older people"? I know plenty of people in their 60s with iPhones and Android phones that have dozens of apps they use regularly. What makes the 18-30 year old crowd better than them?
I read your comments where you mentioned Louis a couple of times before I realized you were probably saying (what I'd spell as) geez louise.

I kept clicking on the usernames of the people you replied to trying to find how you knew them as Louis. :)
Supports versus recommends are two different things. To do master-master correctly, you need either some sort of conflict resolution or a locking manager. MySQL has neither.
My grandparents always lament how complicated things are these days. They too just want a simple 1-10 and on/off remote. These do exist, but I keep reminding them why it's not possible for them: they have cable. And a DVR. And a DVD player. And a sound bar.

In the days of simple on/off TVs, these didn't exist. I know they're not going to give up the Food Network, ESPN, Nickelodeon for the great-grandkids, CSI, etc. Things are more complicated now for a reason. When there were only 3 channels, you only needed one remote with 10 buttons on it. I agree that interfaces have gotten out of control (I can enter the menu on my TV without the remote, but I can't exit it?), but the reality is, you get features or you get simplicity. There's no way to control 3 or 4 disparate systems with all their capabilities with only 10 buttons and no on-screen interface.
Given how RubyMotion works (not an interpreter unlike regular Ruby), if the app is slow (I didn't test!) then it's very likely not related to RubyMotion.
Braintree's open for business in Canada and Europe
While most people focus on the cross-platform promise of HTML5, it's great the author also brought up the collaborative opportunities with HTML5 games.

Suddenly, your version control, IDE, and test environment are all in the browser. That is powerful stuff.
We were faced with the choice to design the navigation form with our current project. We narrowed it down to the slide menu and the drop down menu formats. I had hesitation with the slide menu as it offers some additional features, however it has some big issues. It typically sits in the upper left corner. Look at any mobile study (Luke W, perhaps) and you'll see the reach zones with users' hands. The right hand hold of the device causes the user to hyperextend their thumb to reach. Additionally, the top left location is sometimes reserved for a Back button in a linear flowing app.

So, we tested the two navigation forms with users in our usability lab. We had 15 users come in and work on multiple devices with various mobile prototypes. We saw a clear case that users preferred a drop down menu located at top right. Users were mostly negative about the location of the left corner slide menu trigger as well as the triple line iconography that typically represents the slide menu button.
These look like mostly iOS apps, targeted to a smaller screen. So it's not quite such a struggle for iPhone users.

Your comment does reflect the design struggles of Android, with it's varying screen sizes. What is a one-handed reach for most people on one phone may not be a one-handed reach for most people on another phone.
- "We hope to launch a new completely redesigned app in the next few weeks, as opposed to months!"

It seems the app for common users is not the RubyMotion app.
You've almost got it, but you've missed the main subtlety: I'm asking a question, not making a statement. I'm not advocating what we should do. I'm stating that what we should do is actually unknown because we don't have all of the information. Specifically, we don't know human behavior when it comes to rotating passwords. If it turns out that people actually choose good passwords under a rotating password policy, then we should keep the rotating password policy.

My only prescription is to say, instead of telling everyone "this is how you should behave" in order to achieve the best security, we should design our security policies based on how people actually behave. My assertion here is that if we do this, we will end up with better actual security than if we came up with a policy that, on paper, is better, but is not well implemented by people in the wild.
The standard response to that in the USA is, would people who commit crimes still commit them (with guns or without) if they thought there was a significant chance of getting shot in the process?
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=g54GL7Da
I clearly stated beginning research in animals. Your metric for determining if in-vivo experiments should be done on animals is interesting. Based on your notion, you should only perform these experiments if you think they will actually work. The problem here is that the metabolic processes of mammals for instance is so complex that we often times have no idea what will be effective and what will not. Oxidizers is a classic case. It is commonly understood that anti-oxidants are good for the body. But you can find research that states that too many anti-oxidants can be bad b/c it inhibits some amount of oxidation which can be good (b/c it kills pathogens).

I am simply advocating investigation based on research, realizing that we actually know very little about oxidation vs anti-oxidation within complex organisms. If we only ever think "inside the box" with what we "think is probable" we will almost certainly never discover many of the mysteries in our biological world.
Have you ever seen the HP Envy (minus the Spectre line)? It looks like an entire Macbook Pro fell off and was caught by Meg Whitman. Something tells me either Apple doesn't have the look of the Macbook protected or perhaps that they just don't care.
How I improved my Hacker News experience
Best use case to test it with: http://startupista.com/corporate-bullshit-generator/
Really? Seems fairly transparent to me.

https://www.braintreepayments.com/pricing

Fastspring charges 5.9% + $0.95 (or optionally 8.9%) and then holds your money for 2 weeks at a time.

The paperwork and $35/month fee (with $75 minimum in transaction fees) are the reason that Braintree can charge their rate.

The lack of those is why Fastspring charges what it does.
E-mail isn't a good urgent communication method for anyone regardless of their level. It's common for people to be away from their e-mail or to only check it periodically while they work. I can get 10 e-mails an hour, I don't stop everything I'm doing for each one to see if it's urgent. I expect people to walk over to me or call for anything that needs to be done in less than half a day or so.
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Right, but does opening more than one window for a single application count? Two chrome windows for instance.
As an Apple fanboy, I've been able to rationalize everything Apple has done concerning the app-store up to now, even if I personally would have like to have seen a way more open and liberal approach. And the overblown anti-Apple FUD, using misplaced terms like "censorship" and "monopoly" whenever an app was thwarted by Apples opaque policies has made it easy to ignore the objections of detractors.

But I find it impossible to justify what is quite obviously a politically motivated rejection.

I still believe this is Apple's store, and they can admit and reject what they like. But if politics comes into it, than that changes my personal perspective on buying Apple products.

Just imagine if the subject would be "places that legalize gay marriage" instead of drone strikes. The only "objectionable" part of the drone strike app is that it may have a political agenda. That should never be grounds for rejection.
Wait, he didn't start her with jQuery first?! ;)
Agreed. Good points.
Love it, I have had to design 2d and 3d grids before now and the information you gave on faces for polygonal grids has been really helpful and will help me to break the square mold, so to speak.
Historically, professions = Upper/Ruling Classes. Members of the ruling class don't (at least historically want/need) form unions precisely because they are/were the ruling class. [Edit: Professional Associations i believe were fairly common, as a vehicle to further the interests of a specific profession.]
Good example. Forgot to consider that one as well. Thanks!
What about all the phones that have launched with 4.0 and hardware menu buttons?
An issue easily solved by the user pressing "Refresh" on a Web page, or the provider designing a page that refreshes itself at 30-second intervals, and avoiding this entire brouhaha.

If the app was something other than an obvious and trivial Google Maps incarnation, this might be different, and I am in no way excusing Apple's paternalistic behavior, but it isn't as though the content is being suppressed by their decision.

It's better overall if this is a Web page -- it lifts the restriction of being an iOS app, it opens the source to anyone with a working browser. It's a more robust solution to what seems to be a non-problem.
If parental control is truly the main issue, face detection algorithms that also assess your age could be a solution [1], but then again, it seems like Samsung is owning the patent for this [2]. Oops!

Sources:
1. http://www.sync-blog.com/sync/2012/04/how-old-do-you-look-fa...

2. http://www.google.com/patents/US8218080
App.net isn't racist - but it does have a privilege problem
The improper usage of "it's" as possessive made it impossible for me to read this:

"The pronominal possessives hers, its, theirs, yours, and oneself have no apostrophe." - http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk.html
Linkbait? I'm pretty sure they do have a few buildings that are made of half styrofoam covered in plaster, and a bridge filled with garbage and covered in rebar and plaster.
What Startups Should Do When Police Come With A search Warrant
BS argument through and through.

1st* You need an Apple ID with a credit card to use the App Store. Ergo, adult work. Ergo, parental controls can be integrated into the credit card screen by the simple checkbox "Is the user of this account an adult?"

2nd* Supreme Court Justice is given the authority by the state to decide on immense matters after years of honorable (which is their title, by the way) service. Nice attempt at equating that with an app review team, whose job, according to an Apple employee, is to look "at things that may or may not be dcks all day long."

3rd Blabla.

4th* More blabla with qualifiers to look like one of us.
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From South Central to Silicon Valley: How my experiences as a teacher helped me navigate the rocky waters of building a startup company
Designing for Retina
LG unveils super widescreen 21:9 monitor
Have you done any analytics or tracking to see how often they get used?
I fully expected this article to say pretty much the exact opposite. That our view of China is "too weak."
Hi all, this is fixed. It was a user error, not our code- we accidentally selected the wrong transition for the Snapette example. Thanks for alerting us!
Yeah, if my vim infection weren't so advanced, I would investigate org-mode more closely.
I wonder if it's possible to get it to higher than 0.5. I just tried it with some patent gibberish and it only made that score.
--

"This project is a blue sky implementation of a cloud based virtual paradigm which really shifts the boundries of our connected world.

Using patent pending technology to accelerate your business, we use full-stack web-scale systems built on noSQL databases to drive clicks.

And your security is safe with us. We use military grade encryption to protect all your data at rest."
If you spend your days preventing the next global ecological or thermonuclear disaster and looking down your nose at those who do something like sell a product, I find it hard to believe that you have a hard time figuring out something like this without reaching out to the community in this manner, but that is another issue I'm not interested in. What I was asking about is the fact that I have been reading HN for about a year now and I've never seen a "story" like this come into my news feed. I was wondering why one suddenly popped.
I got through level 6 on my own. Level 7 requires an understanding of crypto, which to me isn't a web vulnerability per se. I eventually broke it with the hint that the vulnerability was a hash length extension attack, but I never would have thought of that on my own. Level 8 seemed really involved, and I threw in the towel. :)
"Bullshit" is a word I'd use to describe Finnegan's Wake, but it certainly is valuable & extremely beautiful bullshit.
The UK government's Github
Yeah, I'd much rather have the 12.4% a year of salary that the US government takes from my paycheck (and from my employer on my behalf). We are already getting cheated on our returns, and the Social Security program is still going off the rails in the next decade. It is going to get much much worse.
> The improper usage of "it's" as possessive made it impossible for me to read this ...

Kudos to a person who stands on principle.
Worst case scenario, there's an exploit that punches through spiped. Now you can connect to SSH in the usual manner.

As far as I can see, in the absolute worst case scenario, you end up in an equivalent position to not running spiped at all - it adds, it does not subtract. It's like putting a second locked door in front of the front door to your house - if someone bypasses it, it doesn't make the other door less secure.
Yes, the article seems questionable. He got new hearing aids, so he most likely was able to hear with his old ones, albeit not with high fidelity.

I have a cochlear implant (since hearing aids never helped), and I can't make sense out of most sounds. Much less distinguish raspy speech from my best friend. Music is just annoying noise, but I did enjoy playing Medal of Honor and other shooters with the speakers on when I was younger.
Personally I think they should ship with 'Block All' as the default in the plugins settings.
typo in link, fixed: https://github.com/antirez/load81 (and thanks!)
I realize it's not quite the same thing, but how do you think this compares to Port Knocking?
Anyone that wants to administer HP network gear via a web interface, to pick one example.

But yeah, I take your point.
It all depends on the usage and context of the app. Each method has their cases where it's optimal.

If you have a lot of different sections that does not require or option to drill down, then the 'Back' button isn't a major issue.

Hyper extending - how often does the button situated at the top left gets used? Less usage will be fine, more usage may require a more optimal location.

How many items are there in the menu? Are you using icons or just words? Side menu are great for future expansions/features and with an app like FB, where user can have alot of app attached to their acct, it's easier to navigate compared to a drop down/icons based nav.

Any chance to share the app that you guys tested for or is it still being developed?
Big Data and Replication: challenge accepted
Except my GS3 has one, and released on 4.0 with 4.1 due out very soon.

The only phone I can think of that doesn't have that is the Nexus.
> [I ask myself] "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Really? If today were the last day of my life I'd do things very, very differently - I can't imagine that answer ever being "yes".
The link he gave is a custom multiplexing daemon that handles those cases. A timeout value is used to connect to the SSH daemon if the server hasn't received anything from the client.
GNOME OS conversations from GNOME Users And Developers Conference
I find it hard to believe, because even that it runs native code, there is a small penalty of a sandbox environment and it certainly cannot be faster than pure native code.
Thanks Lazare, I had no idea about this concept here.And Xcelerate you can thank me,you got to laugh,get well soon.
The author of this piece, Minxin Pei, has been writing about national policy in China for a long time for a variety of publications. I get the sense, from what I remember of his earlier writings, that his own views on issues have been updated by observing the path that China's development has followed since the end of the Cultural Revolution (back when I began studying the Chinese language and Sinology). There are an increasing number of observers who think the current governance and policies of China are unsustainable. I too think much of the gee-whiz reporting about China's "inevitable rise" in the last few years is very reminiscent of overoptimistic predictions of "Japan as Number One" back in the 1980s. Most likely, the more entrenched democracy and ability to criticize the government openly that the United States has as compared to China will help the United States muddle through and continue to be the world's sole superpower. First-generation immigrants from China like Pei will help that process of the United States adjusting to new world realities of the twenty-first century.
My boss uses his as a phone, and it is awkward. That said, a bluetooth headset should work fine.
Ben Huh of Cheezburger on starting, failing, taking VC, and his favorite meme
The QR code is just a tool…it’s not a solution to a problem.

The problem is typing in long strings (like URLs) into mobile devices, the solution is QR codes.
Would it still be an issue if you drew a long tail '6'?
No circle: drag.
Circle: zoom.
Introduction to CSS - CSS/CSS3 Course - Part 1
DS Game Maker looks suspiciously similar to Game Maker. Have YoYo Games not tried to sue them?
They are not using Rubymotion for their customer app yet.
We include analytics in the campaigns we run. It all depends on the benefit to the user, we've seen good results and have done a case study on one campaign.
I'm a huge fan of Foreign Policy, but I do think that this article is one of their weaker pieces. It basically boils down to saying, "Well, yes, China looks strong, but it has many internal weaknesses that may bring it down, and therefore we should be careful to plan for a future in which the Communist Party falls." Well, that may be true, but it's also unhelpful. It can be said for any country. I mean, no nation is invincible or omnipotent.

Yes, China has flaws in its growth model. But are those flaws large enough to knock down the Chinese Communist Party within the next two decades? I personally don't think so.
When startups don't workout (final part, 5/5)
Not sure how you can love automatic programming but dismiss biology. Humans are an operating system that is not only time dependent, but spatial and gradient dependent self mutating automatic programming with asynchronous message passing that is also time/spatial/gradient dependent.

Oh yea, and inserting breakpoints and print statements not only take months, but also change your code in a case-by-case fashion.

It's like reverse engineering for masochists.
For those like me who enjoyed level8 so much and want to see how their strategy compares to others', go to http://level8-scores.danopia.net/

These two awesome guys (early capturer) rewrote level8 server, set up a level2-like server, and created an IRC bot that lets you run your code (after requesting SSH access to the level2-bonus server) against other in a speedrun on a random flag (same flag for every participant to a round).

Best capture time and lowest requests count wins. It's quite a lot of fun, check it out.
Applying CSS to Different Elements - CSS/CSS3 Course - Part 2
I agree that the Kindle Fire is awful, but the Kindle 4 (the small one without the keyboard) is brilliant. And I'm eagerly awaiting next year's version.

And if buying a dud upsets you, why buy fancy new gadgets on launch day in the first place? Just wait a week or two for the reviews to come in. That's just common sense.