skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure I buy this argument. USB cables are everywhere (and ports are everywhere)... like the macbook. Then again, it'd be more costly to remove USB ports from a macbook since nobody would buy such a laptop in the current market. But if that were the real reason for this, wouldn't it be better to switch to a small USB form factor like most phone manufacturers?

Also 1% seems really high. If it were destroying phones, my random guess is .1% or .01%.

Could you explain more your thought process here? Maybe I'd get the argument more. (Also, keep up the good work. Lots of respect.)
Speaking of Vim, does anyone know when they might release the next version?
TAKE THE EASY WAY OUT.

Have you ever watched a show like Kitchen Nightmares (or the many other variants now)? It's a show where a famous chef (Gordon Ramsay) comes into a restaurant in trouble and rescues it. Easily 90% of the stuff he does is just the basics. Clean things up, keep the decor up to date (and also clean), keep the menu small and packed with high quality items, etc. None of it is rocket surgery, but so many restaurants fail at such things.

And the same is true everywhere. Whether it's in online businesses, the UX for applications, or software architecture.

I highly recommend to everyone to take the easy way out first. Keep things simple, keep things clean, do the obvious thing at every step. Chances are this will lead to success and it will give you the ability to maybe try some less obvious things in the future.
It must be great to have such naive clients.
Wow, that 'kudos nipple' is terrible. It's not even clear what's happened after the rather unclear "don't move" instruction.
Running a Business With Staff Scattered Around the World
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> Apple is said to have stopped approving third-party proposals for connector-equipped accessories in recent months

Isn't it possible they've just stopped approving new ones as part of their big secrecy around the next iPhone? The accessory market seems to be one of the big sources of iPhone rumours (whether correct or not). If they are changing the device specs they probably don't want new accessories appearing for the old iPhone, and they will want even less to give away any information that would lead to the accessories being compatible with the new iPhone.
Ask HN: How to manage remote teams better?
Our team is split between CA & India. We've a daily scrum to discuss what was done the day before and things to do on that day. All of us are on our private IRC channel to ensure everyone's on the same page.

Still, quite a few things even though non-major (which are important to make the product polished) get lost due to distance and time zone differences.

Can you share some of the things you learnt while managing remote teams?
Pear iPhone App: Simplest way to share your photos
Its just amazing to watch Amazon and Google go at it like this. Reminds me of the Tymshare business model, they rented out mainframes to lots and lots of companies, basically got all of the OpEx paid for and then they could offer their own services that needed a mainframe for less money because they had a free mainframe :-). As long as the capacity you sell leaves enough capacity on the table for your own use this is a really nice business model.
This video has about 5 seconds worth of content.

1. The company of the name
2. What the company will do.

You need to write your copy, memorize your copy, and practice your copy until it stops sounding memorized. Then re-shoot with a target of 30 seconds MAX. Your call to action is to get people to put in an email, you shouldn't need a video for that, but if you have to have one make it short.

It would also be good to have very very specific content in the video that demonstrates why your SEO site is better than any other SEO site out there.
http://designinghypermediaapis.com/

This is one that I bought and enjoy. He also set up a mailing list so readers had a place to discuss.
I don't know any games like that, but I would suggest getting her another dog that she can start raising again.
Typing "save" is very far from being unambiguous though. Should it be "save", "store", "write down", "file away", "preserve" or another one of a few dozen ways an unsuspecting person could come up with? Should you type "please" too? At least with GUI there is a button that semi-obviously can be clicked, even if it is unclear what it does. Discoverability is way better with GUI.
Just a little bit of confirmation bias there, from my own experience. That notwithstanding, 4chan most definitely has a higher rate of homosexuals than the rest of the internet.
Advice to the novice programmer
Hmm I put in my email address and hit join, then nothing happened. Not entirely sure it went through.
This looks really cool. Will have to get one to talk to my r-pi as I think it is a bit lonely.

I love the fact that more people are building these kind of devices at this price point. I have been looking at pc104 boards for years but they were always far too expensive for anything with some decent kick.

Give it a few more iterations and a few more people trying to build similar devices and then there is a proper marketplace for essentially a new consumer device class, in much the same way as the OLPC project was the catalyst for the emergence of dirt cheap netbooks. There will be tonnes of people working on this after witnessing the demand for the r-pis.

And anyone who thinks that the r-pi lot will do anything other than welcome things like this is off their head. They are a non-profit with the stated aim of getting as many of these kind of small cheap devices out there as possible.

Remember, you don't compete against an organisation like that in the normal sense of the word, as if you put them out of business by doing it bigger and better and cheaper, then all you have done is helped them to achieve their objective without them having to do as much work.

Personally I suspect that it is exactly the kind of development the r-pi lot were hoping for.
> I think it's the exact opposite. Their employees work because they've figured out a great culture, and they value it highly, and hold it as sacred. That's a company value, not an employee value. It's shared, and it comes from the whole group, glued together by the resolve of a leadership that knows it.

I think one can tell a lot about companies and people by the way they hire. Is their attitude extractive or do they act to preserve and create value? I think a lot of people greedily seek A-Listers because they've heard that's the way to succeed and make money. To me, that's sort of like people who start playing a new genre of music because it's now cool. The real value is in people who are passionate for deeper reasons.
Traditional landline calls are not encrypted. Do they not get the same expectation of privacy?

What if you are using a landline with a 90s style cordless phone? No encryption there, those things just spewed analog RF like baby monitors and cordless microphones. You can easily pick up those signals from the street; even further if you want to get slightly fancy with your antenna.
Recurly outage update - "Great progress to report"
> It might be time for Americans to pass a system where every new law has to be reviewed by the Supreme Court, like it happens in other countries.

I've always wondered why it is that we don't do that here. It's very much in line with the 'checks and balances' concept of the government's structure.
Yeah, but the OtherOS isn't really why the majority of people buy PS3s, they buy them for the games.

The point is that walled gardens have been around for a long time, but it seems like people are more likely to get their knickers in a knot when Apple does it.
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> Why is it that we aren't seeing the bot approach to AI implanted into single player games? Why aren't we facing opponents who have their own missions/agendas in single player games, who are bound to the same controls/restrictions/exploits as yourself?

It is hard to put difficulty curves on those kind of AI, and they often are implemented to use full scale path searching to find objectives, so in games with larger maps they would either need to blind to things in the distance or consume excessive processing power.

I remember the Skarr in the original Unreal would be hunting the Nali until you came around and they would attack you. Their behaviors were amazing at the time (and honestly, they still are better than 99% of game AI) in that they would dodge, feign death, hide in cover, and act as packs when in groups to fight you.

They were also distinctly harder at the time than almost any other AI opponent. So much so that I remember a tremendous amount of complaining that their AI was too good.

> I want AI that wants to do something, like another player would, that isn't concerned with me in particular, that has it's own goals/rewards instead of just fighting me or spouting dialogue at me.

The problem with this is that not enough people would pay for the complex AI. Game are about profit motive, and sadly making sophisticated artificial worlds of intelligent bots doesn't bring home the bacon. It is absolutely possible, especially in an MMO kind of setting, since you can just throw more CPU cores to do all the complex logic for whatever fancy AI your NPCs are using, but nobody seems interested.
Not on residential, which is why I mention that. In any urban city environment my money is on cameras moreso than not.
At least when I still browsed /b/, gore was almost entirely to dissuade people from browsing. The logic being that if you couldn't get over it, you weren't all that welcome.
How to be a technology start-up mentor
Needs excel support.
There are on simple MMORPGs, you have to sell your soul.
Yup, it's a requirement that mobile phones sold in the EU be chargeable through Micro USB. Apple released a dock-to-microUSB adapter there.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2011/11/hands-on-with-the-iphon...
Conversely, I find audio editing software is usually an example of skeuomorphism gone nuts. I don't mind a bit of it to guide me using concepts I already understand, but what is the purpose of imitating all of the bad parts of real life?

* Dangly cables that get in the way of stuff and are hard to follow, and you can't even tilt your head to see around them (and "Each cable plugs into exactly two holes"?)

* Physical-styled knobs. Often harder to control and more ambiguous than sliders or other circular controls that don't try to imitate a physical knob.

* Lack of selective disclosure and dimming leads to very overloaded UIs

* Mode switch/up/down buttons rather than directly selectable options

* Pointless ornamentation like screws, fans, handles

* Constraints in the physical model will often translate to constraints in the software

* Often only intuitive to people who are familiar with the thing it's based on

There's no reason you can't take the good parts of a physical interface and use those elements in a virtual interface, but there's no need to try and make it exactly the same. All UI is vaguely based on something that came before it, often something physical ("desktop", "window", "folder"..)

That's not to say Reason isn't great software, but honestly, music software does tend to be somewhat confusing anyway, and also tends to be very skeuomorphic.
That's why the new iPhone cables will be $10 each or three for $29:

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/05/apple-will-be-only-suppl...
According to iLounge, Apple expects to sell $US 100 million by the end of this year. That is no small amount but it's certainly not a large one for them. This makes me think that this move is about embracing the new dock connector, fast. They are gonna force the accessory makers to build the new 9 pin connector into their products instead of building the old 30 pin connector and bundling the adapter. Given that there are more than 500 million iPod compatible devices, I say the accessory makers need a little incentive.

I think if they could stop licensing the old adapter for any new product they'll do it without of doubt. It's about establishing a new dock standard not about screwing third parties (which they are doing anyway, but as a side effect.)
after the join form there is a lot of blank scrolling that ends up at the twitter/facebook calls to actions (which I assume are supposed to appear after submission... I did not test).

edit: regarding the video itself, I'd also be more interested if there were some visual demos/examples of the product.
I did misstate the percentages, as you noticed.

I don't think that whether or not he wants health insurance should matter when talking about his income. Won't his health insurance cost the same amount if he increases his pre-tax income by 25%(I'm a bit ignorant of health insurance costs, I still have TriCare through the Army). It seems to me that even if he paid about a third of the extra $24k in taxes, that he would still be adding $16k to his current take home income, which is still over 30% more than he was making.
I prefer the notion of labeling adulterated foods as "imitation", so when you go to the grocery store, you'll see things like "imitation" bread, cheese, etc.
Getting costs in most civil cases is no longer about making financial restitution - the litigants are usually
so well funded it does not matter

cost awards indicate not only did the jury agree with you, but your case was so strong the other side should be punished for bringing it. Compare to cads where costs of a dollar are awarded.

As for sex, forswearing sex before a sporting match is / was a common means of getting teams away from disruptive or chaotic marriages by wiley coaches, and could be seen as a sunk cost in winning the match. Even if you were awarded restitution after the match the costs were sunk so it does not matter if costs are awarded or not (see the too well funded to care above)
Would this tend to politicize the court? As it is, the court can at least ostensibly maintain some distance from the political lawmaking process. If it was an integral part, judges would be subject to a lot more political pressure.
Kongregate has some fun stuff -

http://www.kongregate.com/mmo-games
A simple thumbs-up icon would be understandable by everyone, which is almost skeumorphic in its own way, since it refers to a physical thumbs-up... Reference to the physical world can be a very useful thing.

"OK" is one of the worlds best understood words, in any language. Simple, elegant, and a powerful. This is an important point. Very information efficient. All of this is synoymous with good design. Skeumorphic, or not.
We have a surplus of food in this country precisely because of major agrobusiness, because maximizing profits means maximizing efficiency and yield.

The food surplus in this country has as much to do with dysfunctional legislation as it does maximizing profits.
> They said something similar about dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT).

Ooooh scary letters.

To be clear: DDT is not very toxic to humans. The reason we stopped using it was because it was becoming not very toxic to mosquitoes, as well, as they evolved resistance, in addition to what it was doing to birds. We still use DDT in regions where malaria is most dangerous.

http://www.pan-uk.org/pestnews/Actives/ddt.htm

> In one study involving humans, 17 people ate 35 mg/man daily (about 0.5 mg/kg daily) for 18 months suffering no ill-effect(25). In another study volunteers ate 0.31 to 0.61 mg/kg daily without any noticeable effects(26).

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/ridley/tutorials/The_theo...

> DDT-resistant mosquitoes were first detected in India in 1959, and they have increased so rapidly that when a local spray program is begun now, most mosquitoes become resistant in a matter of months rather than years.

Also:

> We also don't know what has been hidden or destroyed by corporations

Without any evidence, this is fear-mongering. This is what fear-mongering is. Using rumors and innuendo to make people afraid without saying anything of substance.
I'm curious as to why this didn't fall under inevitable discovery? I imagine that a dead 6 year old, having received blows to the stomach, would warrant an actual investigation and (most likely) the phone records of everyone at the scene could have been subpoenaed.
Honduras sets stage for 3 privately run cities
Now I love my iDevices, but this is just wrong. How is this legal? It's okay, there's always China!

I don't know why, but when I hear stores like such I wonder how in the hell is it fair for Microsoft to get sued for about $1bn by the "EU" for including Windows Media player and IE in XP (in Europe), but Apple not to be for including iTunes and Safari. And now, pretty much monopolizing the iDevice sync business.

Anybody have an information/insight?
A salient difference in that example was that the owner was arrested and the device confiscated in the process - the activity happened on a device already in police custody. In the example in this article, there was no arrest until the phone was examined.
I used to suffer from quite acute RSI. I am naturally suspicious of anecdotal reports of miracle cures, but for me at least a Kinesis keyboard pretty much solved my problem entirely. I'm much more conscientious than I used to be about posture, taking rest breaks and stretching, but none of that was as important in my case as having the right Keyboard.

I'm so paranoid about the company going out of business - they seem sort of small and niche - that I keep TWO spares at any time.
Is this a problem with the default setup of Nginx out of the box, or has GitHub intentionally disabled session resumption?
I'm an American (US) citizen, but OK, let's say I want to do my startup in Scotland. Is there a new "come to the UK and live here and do a startup for as long as it takes" visa that I'm not aware of?
Country after country (I'm talking to you Canada) makes all kinds of noises about wanting startups to take root on their soil, but damned if they're going to let any foreigners come to help make it happen. So this article would be more aptly titled "Benefits of basing your startup in Scotland if you're a EU citizen or permanent resident already otherwise buzz off".
Maybe I'm unusual, but I just shelled out $350 for a smartphone in order to save myself 50% off of my phone bill by using a prepaid service.

When I decide whether or not to purchase or subscribe to something, I do the math to figure out which is cheaper in the long run. That being said, if the price difference is negligible and all else is equal, I would probably opt for a recurring payment.
As it stands, the court is the arbiter for whether a law (or section of a law) is legitimate and how it's applied. All this would do is remove the latency between legislation being written and it being 'tested'.
I didn't mean to be discouraging, sorry about that. It's just that I think "replacing Skype" is more about non-technical things than setting up a SIP server. I used to be involved with this industry back in the day of SER 0.x. It was pretty hard to get people to switch to use anything new, but Skype did that. They were just bringing out the Skype USB handsets and other bundle deals in my country back then.

Nowadays I use many different networks for communication, such as Skype, MS Live, GTalk, Facebook. The reason is that different people are online in different networks and they're not switching from A to B just if I ask. They have their own existing contacts in their networks.

Still I definitely support anything that can replace Skype, since it's totally closed and there's no way to verify the security. And I hate the Mac client.
Does this mean you're also against undercover agents and informants? What about things like bait cars?
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Dock adapters are $10.

"...Apple-branded new USB cables selling for $19 each."
Don't be careful
"generating revenues of $100 million for every 10 million Dock Connector Adapters it sells for $10"

What is this, I don't even... do they pay by the word at AppleInsider?
Most Google sites (less so lately since there is more Ajax), craigslist, reddit of 4 years ago, HN of 2 years ago. Basically all the bare-bones content-driven sites, since people tend to write JS and CSS in a way that makes the site at least 100% slower.

Amazon is pretty decent. Their full page loads are slow, but they concentrate on above-the-fold time which is OK. I don't use Facebook much, but I think they have pretty good latency.

I think Microsoft's new mail is pretty fast but I haven't used it much.

I would say 1.x seconds for initial HTML is average. And 3-4 seconds for the full page with all assets is average. Github is in the 3-4 seconds range for onload time.

So Github is not particularly bad -- it's just average. It's certainly not "fast".

I feel like Github's perceived latency is pretty bad. I think they end up showing spinners and redrawing various parts of page to try to hide latency, but it makes it seem janky to me.
Why wouldn't they do it? They get away with it every time.
Good for Apple. What about the users though?
I can see Hero Protagonist in those cities delivering pizza right now. Note to self re-read Snow Crash.
Atlassian putting programmers through design bootcamps
Post-Genomics: Wikipedia says no
>Still, if you did a European delivery, it'd probably be very possible to legally drive 100+ MPH on the Autobahn.

No, not 'probably very possible' - it's entirely legal to do 155mph+ on the Autobahn. There's one heading straight out of Munich. (most German cars except Porsche are limited to 155)

Still, running in the car first might be a good idea.
I wish Samsung would sell a similar product using the board and chip from the Galaxy S3.
Luxury Car Tax. Higher wages. etc.

But I think your last point is the key one!
Why Yes, It Is Time for Homemade Satellites
I am a math major, so yes, math checked :), it is still lower. My wife has health insurance, so that is not ann issue (for now). It also happens that they said they have a max salary they decided for engineers, which doesn't apply to the business side. This could be just a negotiation tactic to make me to agree to take the lower salary (I am over that max right now), so I think I'll look what is out there...

Anyway, I think that an hourly rate, strangely, has some good things from the employee's point of view, if you have some value to offer and the job market is healthy. You feel that your commitment is to your work, and that to leave is not such a big deal, less attachment to 'the position', more responsibility to your craft.
There are no ARM with complete open source because they all have the GPU integrated. The Mali is probably the closest to open due to the LIMA project with the Freedreno project backing Qualcomm's Adreno (and maybe work with the Freescale mx5x) getting access to the sources isn't particularly hard (but does require an NDA) but you still won't get the most important part, which is the source to the shader compiler library in there
Three Ways The Apple-Samsung Ruling Affects Your Mobile Strategy
I'm pretty sure he was making a joke and knows that...
> high-fructose corn syrup and corn chips and corn-based cereals

These are bad to the extent they're calorie-dense and nutrient-poor, which most First-Worlders don't need. They're like honey in that respect. Corn isn't the problem.
Amazon to start collecting sales tax from Californians next week
The main homepage doesn't look all that bad, does it? A nice product shot, some specs, and a buy button.

Clicking on things gives varied results though. For example clicking the buy button brings you to a page that indicates you can't actually buy it yet.
Alicebot: Answer Devices Releases Mobile Assistant Benchmark
Ask HN: How would you simplify international money transfer?
Hello HN. What would be your ideal way of making international money transfer really simple? What do you dislike about the way it works now?

I'm working on something in this area and wanted to get different perspectives.

Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts.
That's a legal-political problem, as I mentioned elsethread.
The Best Night $500,000 Can Buy
Nice unix commands