skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My most reliable clients have been through contacts I made when I had crap cubicle jobs. I don't know your situation but it may be worth snagging a cube job long enough to meet people. And it may be totally counter-intuitive and potentially mind-crushing, but the people in sales meet all the clients who have money to spend on development. If you could find your way into the social events that sales people go to you'll be halfway there. It's cynical, but getting gigs depends on people seeing you as "a good guy" more than whatever skills you have.

That said, one trick I learned was to always scan the local news looking for local businesses who recently got grants or some other windfall of funding. I assumed (usually correctly) that they would spend some of that windfall on building or revamping their website. I got some good long-term work that way. It was a cold call, but one with research behind it
AI War is an excellent game and the AI does some surprisingly smart things sometimes (not to mention that you can have tens of thousands of units in a game).

But AI War is also a very different gameplay experience to most other RTS games, so while its a good game in its own right and does have good AI, it may leave you disappointed if you're looking for a more traditional experience.

Not to mention that its an insanely hard game but I guess that's the price you pay for "good" AI!
This is, foremost, not at all too good to be true.

The Mele A1000 http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/hacking_the_mele_a1000... is $70, a mere $20 more: it's 2x the board real-estate, another $4 in connectors, it has a case, and it's been around for ~1 year now.

What's interesting is how lagged the development world is from the consumer electronics world. If you want an Allwinner A10, or a Marvell Kirkwood/ ARMADA 300 piece of kit, and you want it at the best possible price, possibly before dev kits show up, you need to scope out consumer electronics, not dev boards. The Mele was a product, this lack's the consumer experience of a product, is just a platform, and it, like many dev kits, show lag v.s. what the consumer boys are up to.

This is simply a small board exposing a very cheap ARM A8 SoC that does everything (just add ram+flash): hold on to your fucking pants and get used to the future. Course, may not materialize. My OpenPandora hasn't. ;)
When I used to work on windows I created a little AutoHotKey script that remapped my keyboard when ever the capslock key was on:
https://github.com/xavi-/Keyboard-Remapper

It mapped I,J,K,L to the arrow keys, U to the home key, O to the end key, N to backspace, M into the del, and etc... Did wonders for my wrists.
" culture magically comes out of it is ludicrous"

What I was trying to say is that it's well nigh impossible to force a culture to go in a certain way. Most you can do is have a certain type of work process, don't micromanage, have a flat structure, small teams and let people be independent and/or support employees working remotely if they wish (if you want that kind of culture that is).

"Hire based on that as best you can, with people you believe will fit with your culture"

I was also saying that you can't really determine culture fit in the course of a regular interview process. You can somewhat determine their work ethic from asking them about past experiences and projects.

Otherwise, I think we are pretty much saying the same thing.
Simple Network Ping Tool with Shell and store the results as HTML file
Facebook PPC Intelligence added to SEMrush Lineup
The study concludes that receiving prayer doesn't necessarily grant any health benefits, but thinking someone is praying for you may cause you to have more complications after surgery.

Is that irony?
The implication is that the package helped (in part or in whole, that's not implied) sweeten the deal. How does the fact that it was decided half a year go make it obvious that the implication is wrong? Wasn't Svartholm wanted back then?
If your case is legitimate, you can hire someone on contingency who only gets paid if you do.
Once again lack of Go support in App Engine
Fair point, but I see it more as a question of degree.

It's not preposterous to say "I'm leaving you because you do too much of something I don't want (pollute, overcharge, play bad hold music, whatever) for someone else that does a little less of that same thing that I don't want (pollute, overcharge, play bad hold music, whatever)"

If the market pressure is strong enough (I don't think it is, this is all hypothetical) then it could be something that Apple and Microsoft and Android and others actively compete on.
Http://www.ausetute.com.au/namhaloa.html
Hmm, what exactly do you mean by "sprawl" typist? I've never really considered too many different typing styles, and wondered if some are easier on your body or not.
Using a computer to do the things we normally do, e.g., sending bits to each other, requires that we adopt metaphors.
Even something as basic as a "email" is a metaphor.

How long does it take to learn a new metaphor? How difficult is it?

It's far easier to just stick with the metaphors you already know. And that is, I think, what "most" people do.

This applies to more than just computers.

"Some" people might like to keep trying new metaphors every week. Who knows?

One thing is for sure. Everyone learns the "email" metaphor.

Not just some people. Everyone. Food for thought.

I think the author is spot on when he says that in this context (computers) metaphors create limitations rather than educating people about what computers can really do. I even see this among developers who, one would think, are the people resposnible for enabling users to unlock the full potential of their computers. They are stuck on certain metaphors which limit what they can imagine and therefore implement. Independent thinking and striving for originality are in short supply among developers. The attack of the clones never ceases, in case, clones of whatever developers see other developers have done.

However, as insightful as the reference to "skeudomorphism" may be, it's clear the author's goal with this post is trying to downplay Kicksend competitors. Maybe ones that are styled like Instagram? (Polaroid metaphor?)

How many hoops does someone have to jump through to use Kicksend versus using something like Instagram/Facebook (for lack of better examples)? And do they have to pay for the "service"? Maybe that could be a factor?
Overview: Version 1.1 of the Twitter API
Last time I played Supreme Commander 2 (about a year ago), had the most braindead AI I've seen in an RTS in a while. The single player skirmish (and I normally prefer skirmishes to campaigns) was therefore unsatisfying and frustratingly annoying to play due to shockingly bad AI.

Maybe they've updated and improved it?
Yet police can legally impersonate you if they have your cell. Police in WA state confiscated a cell from a dealer, read past messages, then set up new deals to arrest the users.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4266538
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Is anybody credible running this story yet?
Well, this is one way to make bitcoins look seedy and give a negative impression to politicians and the mainstream.

But on the other hand, kind of bad ass.
Craftsmen absolutely think about what's stronger and more durable, not just what's nicest looking (especially for non-visible parts!). I've got a few pieces of pretty decent antique furniture that's made its way down to me in my family (stuff made by craftsmen, not by mass production), and the hidden pieces aren't finished or styled to the same degree as the front ones. The purpose of the back and other non-visible parts is to hold stuff together, not to look nice. I would also point out, from your own link, the specs for their "the ledge":

"available with a solid domestic walnut top, sides and doors with a plywood bottom and low voc finish or painted mdf."

(Of course, these little details about what's "the right way to do it" are rather irrelevant to the greater point, which is that if you're the type to want to do things the right way, you're going to do things that way. Just don't hate on plywood, it has its uses (and feel free to come up with the programming equivalent!))

Edit -- some more notes on plywood: a sizable piece of plywood (like for the back of a chest of drawers or bookshelf) is going to be stronger (especially with regard to bending, IIRC) and vastly cheaper than a solid piece of wood since it only needs thin pieces of veneer with good grain for the outer layers. And IMO, it looks nicer than having several individual solid-wood boards jointed together in parallel.
Oh nice. I came across JSON Pointer a couple of days ago (whilst working with JSON Schema). It didn't fully make sense at the time, but now you've put it like that, I can see how even that simple (GET-only) extension to your average REST API could be pretty handy for getting at commonly-used properties.

I may just implement it as a secret-squirrel feature in the API I'm working on right now.
Awesome. I thought it was legit until about half way through. Some pissed off person dragging the Kickstarter guy through the mud... very entertaining.
US v Skinner Amicus Brief in Support of Petition for Rehearing En Banc [pdf]
Nitpick: While I agree with the idea (of accountability), the fact of the matter is that the FBI--being what they are and doing what they do--actually does have things to hide, often with good reason, even.
Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony do the same with their consoles, but I don't really see a whole lot of complaining about that.

Why is the curated walled garden so egregious with a smartphone?

I'm not sure I recall Apple ever bragging about being an "open" marketplace past the "If you don't like our app store, build a web app" statements they've made in the past.

And as for "After an item has been sold, the former owner has no say in how the item is used by its new owner.", that depends. For commodities, sure, but there such things as sales contracts that can restrict what is done with an item that has been sold.
I can't expound on this enough: Dvorak, Dvorak, Dvorak.

Just try it. I know it was never designed to solve RSI, but it really does work wonders. I had RSI in my mid-teens (18 hours a day on the PC since I was 8 years old), and I switched to Dvorak because I thought I'd type faster with it, and because I thought it'd be cool to type different from everyone else. Silly me. But glad I did, because I have never suffered from wrist problems ever again, 10 years down the line.

Don't just take it from me. There are thousands of people out there with a similar experience. The layout of a Dvorak keyboard presents much less strain for your tendons and muscles, and is far more relaxed and natural. Your body will thank you. It is worth the hassle, it is worth the inconvenience, and it is worth the the time it'll take to re-learn to touch type.
http://www.wecute.com
A left skew would imply that the median is to the right of the mean.
PwC has already made a statement to the effect that no such incursion has been detected and no documents were compromised. The whole thing seems like a setup to get a bidding war going(though they're hardly making any bitcoins, yet).

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2012/09...
Sorian is a mod that specifically improves the AI.
I was thinking more of the "alpha" and "omega" mixins which made no immediate sense to me. I'm guess its part of your "golden ratio" code, but it still doesnt seem truly "semantic"

And I really dont see how Semantic.gs isn't responsive? Set its grid representation to percentages, write a few media queries, and its as responsive as any other grid system out there. The inherent behavior of the CSS box model + Percentage based semantic.gs + media queries is as responsive as I think you can get.... its all I've ever needed to do ANY responsive design I can imagine. I've never felt limited by Semantic.gs in terms of responsive design.

I really dont see how you could make that any easier? Are your mixins generating media queries? Is it really that hard to calculate a golden ratio and use it with Semantic.gs?

Edit: http://semantic.gs/examples/responsive/responsive.html
they even have a Responsive example on the front page of their website, so I really dont understand why you think Semantic.gs isnt responsive?

> i.e. it doesn't come with a straightforward way to change the grid for specific breakpoints.

isn't that what media queries are for?
On AT&T dial *639# to get a text message with your upgrade status.
I just looked at some Polychord screenshots and it looks great, nothing like the bizarre garish skins of iPad contacts or iMovie.

Good work.
Focusing on the wrong point.

It's not a matter of censoring anything, because the AppStore is theirs, and they can do whatever they want and not even have to explain their decision.

It's about defining who is the owner of the device, and who controls what goes or not in it. This is the case you can take to court.
Bashing skeuomorphism is the easy way out.

Non physical affordances don't come easy, and like it or not our brains are trained in a world of 3 dimensions made of matter. Dieter Rams built things around their functional components, the materials available and the other constraints given to him by a physical world.

Edward Tufte preaches that content rules and all else is extra. We can certainly minimize everything that isn't the focus, we should, after all. But abandoning the lessons from skueomorphism really means you are throwing out every hint of natural world affordances in your interfaces. The first 3 dimensional shading or shadow and you have veered into the land of skeuomorphism - and that's ok, because a world of flat squares with Helvetica labels takes a whole lot more mental cycles to process than that beveled 3d button, and it always will.

I look forward to seeing what you are doing with kicksend- with or without hints of the physical world.
I'm not really following your math, the point is that it's a shit-ton of money for Cambodia, whether we're talking about $60M or $30M per year.
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I thank you, in the same way I thank Ubuntu for existing:

Someone needs to draw away the popular attention from those with the will to get stuff done.

If I can re-furl my barbs & continue, if the Cubieboard were taking orders right now it would be a shit show of people coming in from Engadget and HN and all over buying these things up then being extremely aggravated they A) don't just work B) require some fairly serious willingness to chase out the good information on uboot, the sunxi platform, & to get your OS installed: there's not much in the way of authoritative, well compiled references for doing so.

I was pretty shocked seeing this board on Engadget today. There've been a steady stream of similar-ish boards, such as the $60 Hackberry, also A10 based, which too is still in "prerelease" form.
The top chart is the throughput for the whole stack over the time period listed in the dropdown.

Googlebot tends toward the opposite of the pages we optimize for. For example, Googlebot is really interested in the 38,291th page of your history.

I think 1 CPU unit is a core, but I'm not sure. It's mostly interesting in terms of relative numbers.

And yes, both api and the web live in the same application servers.
I've used dvorack for around three years... after I started to develop pain in my hands.
The paind would like one or two weeks and then go away then come back after a couple of months.
Since I changed to dvorack, no more pain...

The first 3 weeks were really difficult... but after that, no more pain ever!
The mobile adapted web interface is pretty good now.
Yeah I don't understand this at all. The main reason I don't use Github is because of the high latency. I really dislike their source browser -- it has really low information density and the animation clumsily hides latency.
I'm really keen to try out the Carambola, a $22-EUR device with built-in wifi. It's really barebones in terms of peripherals, but that's perfect for many internet-of-things apps.

http://shop.8devices.com/carambola

Anyone have some experience with these?
Simple and fast CSS page transitions in your hybrid mobile app
Got the same and fixed it by switching to a mechanical keyboard(cherry keyboard with mx blue switches). It's really loud, but totally worth the money.
Please, explain to me how the Galaxy Nexus is the result of "flagrant copying".
In what way is ransoming private sensitive financial information on the Internet "bad ass"? Would it be bad ass if it were a candidate that you liked? You? Your family?

I'm no Romney supporter, but this is the ugliest kind of politics.
Selective archives (users vote to archive a thread) have been around since at least 2007:

http://4chanarchive.org/

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html

Full board archives have been around for quite some time as well:

http://easymodo.net/ (the original complete archiver, now dead)

http://archive.foolz.us/

https://archive.installgentoo.net/

etc.

I'd say the fact that your posts are most likely to be forgotten, even if it is archived, is much more of a negative aspect of the site than a positive. How many times have I spent 30 minutes on a post, only for no one to respond to it, or worse, realize that the thread 404'd? It makes you look at yourself and wonder why you bothered.

Forced anonymity is the interesting part of imageboards -- the text BBS equivalents to anonymous imageboards, based off the original 2chan, manage to maintain a very similar flavor while featuring permanent archival of all posts, and enjoy longer-form discussion as a result.
Slightly more information at The Atlantic Wire, but they seem to be approaching the story cautiously:

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/09/someones-cla...
To be fair, _all_ of them would have closed without the massive government bailout.

If the American auto industry had totally collapsed, there wouldn't have been any cars to sell.
Ah, the old HN switch-a-roo! Everybody loves skeuomorphism right now.

Skeuomorphic designs certainly have their place and help affordance and recognition, and the author seems to acknowledge that. The point he is trying to make is that skeuomorphism is an easy way to make a UI look good, and toss more functional concerns aside; I agree completely.
Are any of these articles criticizing Apple calling for the government to forcibly open the AppStore? No. We are making demands as Apple customers.
Just a note for those who suffer from RSI-related symptoms of some sort or another (because this article doesn't say a word about it): pay attention to your sleeping positions!

I started suffering from pins-and-needles in my fingers a few years ago. As a programmer, I was totally terrified that my typing was ruining my wrists and, despite my best workplace ergonomical efforts, it wasn't getting any better.

After a few months of sporadic symptoms, I noticed that the bad days were really bad in the mornings and got progressively better over the course of a workday. Huh, why would that be? I started paying more attention to how I slept (pillow positions, spine positions, restlessness, temperature, etc.) and noticed that I was curling my wrists pretty badly when I got cold at night or when life was more stressful. I'd literally wake up with both my fists curled into a ball.

So, really, I was spending many nights with my wrists curled for hours at a time. That can't be good! To fix this, I started spending a few minutes each night consciously laying my hands flat with my arms at my sides and getting comfortable with a better sleeping position. It took a few months to make this effort a habit, BTW.

Here I am a few years later and guess what? No more pins-and-needles feelings in my fingers. I haven't read any other literature covering this type of sleep-related injury, but I know it exists and I'm sure there are others who suffer needlessly.
Facebook uses a reserved "me" parameter which always refers to the user who authorized the token. For example:

https://graph.facebook.com/me/friends?access_token=TOKEN
Supposedly Yeomen is supposed to drop soon, which- I'm just guessing- is a bunch of inits and tasks built on Grunt to accomplish more. Yeomen is out of Google.
> I'd say the fact that your posts are most likely to be forgotten, even if it is archived, is much more of a negative aspect of the site than a positive.

This is the most magical aspect of 4chan, which is why I don't care for archives.
as someone else pointed out. The $59M is over 2 years, and the foreign aid was decided on 6 months previous to this.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4480754
Isaac Asimov imagined the Khan Academy in 1988
The Nexus devices are generally the most open of all Android devices. Consequently, there's a Firefox OS port, in alpha right now, for the Galaxy Nexus. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1805282

Many Android phones can also run various other distros using chroot.
Social Media in plain English [with videos]
Let's say roughly 1/3 Americans own an iphone [1]. So yes, wether you like them or not and weather it is legal or not, Apple's politics (and I think keeping information from US citizens about their militaries actions is bad politics) are important.

[1] probably not the best link, but probably close enough to the right answer
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_percentage_of_Americans_own_a...
If this were legit, why would they ask for Bitcoins when those are so easy to steal anyway ?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4479370
Something seems wrong: 1e5 /(deaths per 1e5) should be about equal to the life expectancy. But the drop in deaths per 1e5 is much bigger than the increase in life expectancy.

Am I missing something, or is the data SNAFU?
If you don't like it buy an Android!

Honestly, I love how Apple protects the user experience. Whether from spam, or "inappropriate content". They have created a relatively spam-free app store with pretty reliably "clean" content.

I don't even think it is an issue of free speech. I'm all for the web being open and free, but Apple has a right to manage their market the way they see fit. Just because so many people use iPhones doesn't change anything. You are FREE to choose a different phone. If you don't like their app market, go use a phone that has a market you do like.
On topic of RSI, but not related to the article really.

Does anyone else have outer shoulder/lower shoulder blade pain from using laptop keyboards? I seem to have issues starting and I believe that a narrower keyboard combined with my wide shoulders is leading to it. Does anyone have similar experience, and if so, did you have any solutions?

I've got a twiddler2 that I've been trying to use, but its a bit slow learning it. And it sucks for vim keybindings which I tend to like a lot, but may need to be abandoned if its going to lead to pain.
Show HN: Diligu: Our microblogging music-discovery site
http://diligu.com

Would love to hear some feedback.

We also intend drive revenue (it's being implemented as we speak) by having a system where minor artists, for a very small cost - think under 10 cents per user - can reach a targeted group of listeners. The working name of this functionality is "Sponsored Diligus". With this we provide a platform where up-and-coming artists can show their music to the world, for a small fee, and receive instant feedback, instead of having to wait for their listeners to come to them.
the office that is the single worst violator of that philosophy in the world, right?

The president of the United States takes an oath to defend the constitution. Sure, some do it better than others, but I can think of a dozen worse violators of getting personal information that people have decided not to share.
Current status: API v1.1
"... and you ask, and you can find out, and you can follow it up, and you can do it in you own home, at your own speed, in your own direction, on your own time. Then everyone would enjoy learning..."
i hope they sell millions
Maybe there's a message encoded in the image as some sort of double-steganography.
Think outside the startup.