skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really.

We were (extremely) lucky as she slept through 7pm-7am straight from 3 months. Now she's older and wants to push the boundaries and assert herself she's battling us (and herself) at bedtime. It's usually 8pm but can be 9pm before she conks out but she is rarely ever awake before 6am, most days it's 6.30am. She's probably up in the night two or three times a week but has never failed to go back to sleep within minutes once tucked back in.

Of course I can choose to not go to bed until 1am every night, but with a highly mobile wriggly vocal 6am alarm clock that is impossible to ignore or 'snooze' you quickly learn not to. I've only got myself to blame if I don't get my 7 or 8 hours of sleep a night.

It's more the wistful memories of lazy weekend afternoons I used to spend slumped on the sofa watching football and not really achieving anything of an entire day (or weekend). A day at work is easy compared to keeping an active two year old entertained (but work is a lot more dull and far less rewarding - and I like my job!).
I don't think the interface itself is something that is originally Game Makers either - it's been done before.
You can use HTML5 pushState in Ember.js [1] and Backbone so application state is captured in actual URL path instead of URL location hash. The server can see enough information to render a page.

[1] http://www.kaspertidemann.com/how-to-make-ember-js-use-histo...
They don't necessarily have to be flaws big enough to bring down the Communist government, they just have to be big enough to bring down their rise as a global power, or at least cause something of a contraction.
Yeah, i've always found that quite odd. Do you seriously need to refresh the package db every. single. time? I might agree that cron-based/user-initiated solutions are suboptimal (some users will just not bother, which is a security and support problem), but surely there is a compromise, like limiting the refresh to once a week.

(Cue some RedHat fanboi saying "but it's easy, you just do xyz" -- no, it's not easy unless it's default behaviour. Otherwise we might as well just run OpenBSD, because opening network ports every time you have to sneeze is "so easy".)
Updating Views with Events, Models and Rivets
1. Cache. Cache, cache, cache. Cache. Consider turning off most of these caches for normal production work, then turn them on when you really need them. This way if you normally run at 90% of your capabilities, you can turn on caches and still be able to handle a massive traffic spike.

2. Backup servers. Make sure you have a way to quickly spin up more machines. If you're using EC2, just launch a few extra machines, it's really easy as long as it's not the database being the bottleneck.

3. Turn off anything unimportant. During the traffic spike of Obama, there were undoubtedly some background processes that could be ran later. Just pause those for a while and make them continue later. As long as it's a spike and the background processes aren't that important, this works well.

4. Turn off some front-end stuff. Reddit, for example, disabled commenting on Obama's IAMA for a while, instead forcing a cached version of the homepage. It really helps performance and doesn't really hurt the visitors too much. Sure, they can't comment, but with 15000 comments it's not likely that your comment gets read by Obama anyway.

On 1 and 2: always make sure you have room to handle spikes. Get backup servers ready but don't turn those into real production servers. Always ensure you have a buffer. Maybe embed some code that makes your site extra heavy, then give it a switch to turn off that extra code in case of a big spike? If you always run your site on full capacity hardware, you can't plan for spikes.
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They might of been loss making at first, but people seem to forget that mass manufacturing and general technology improvements make things a lot cheaper to make over the life of the product.
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Not sure why Rails is in the title. This is only about enabling SPDY in nginx. It would work with any application server behind it.
Even if both Google's and Amazon's app stores reject an app, there are still other markets. And you can just download APKs from websites/ftp/etc and install them to your android, no market required.
Social insurance in Germany was Bismarck's invention. Everybody paid. One in ten lived long enough to collect any benefits. Now you will have 30% of the society to cover living cost of the other 70%. They can vote for financial pyramids in their beloved democracy as much as they want. Guess what, the ponzie schemes will still not work.
Helping nations keep track of progress through their crimes against humanity is more IBM's business.

Apple is merely interested in the fall from grace, not the accounting.
Or rejecting apps by pulitzer prize winning political cartoonists for "Ridiculing Public Figures" - http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/15/when-youre-good-enough-for-a-...
Bookmarking this comment as an example of one approach to security... we'll see how it turns out!
BREAKING NEWS: Sales people use sales tactics to make sales!

Details at 10.
Can I ask a question? Why is this on HN? Where's the connection with "hackers" and their interests?

p.s. psychology isn't a science, no matter how often it's described that way.
I won't comment on all of this (rather pointless) rant, but just last points:

> The icon for side scrolling (three stacked lines) is dire.

What would you offers as an alternative? This solution is used to reveal menu. Menu is a list of items. Three lines represent a list of items.

> It's a shitty, unintuitive adopted practice because Facebook and a
> few other players did it.

What exactly makes it shitty? How is it not intuitive? Even if you don't know what a button with three lines does it does not take a lot of intuition to try and tap said button. Once you tap it you see what it does. Then you see the same in the other apps.
I'm not sure that is an "objective" summary, and hence the challenge with the type of site/place you are wishing for...
I already have click-to-run turned on for Flash due to it screwing up page rendering in Chrome on Linux.
No, that's just bad manipulation.

If a salesperson is good at their job, you walk away thinking that you came to the decision yourself without any coercion at all.
Standard customer service really. This is nothing new, just a well-executed image and customer relationship plan with a system to put it in place effectively across their whole company.

Customer service and sales is apparently is A-OK if done by any other company, but if done by Apple suddenly it's "manipulating customers?". Absolute hogwash.
Ok, I agree with that because I haven't had any personal interactions with DHH and only know from what I have read about him or in his comments. So it was inappropriate. But I still feel the point I am making is valid as far as Jason's thoughts juxtaposed against DHH's apparent behavior. The truth is DHH appears to be a prima donna.

It is interesting how DHH thought seems to get a pass on his behavior on HN in a "boys will be boys" kind of way because what he has accomplished.
You could always use the GNU ld (or gold) with the LLVM output. Binutils is a trivially easy compile on Linux, though I'm not as certain about Darwin.

Editted to add: if you're building your OS with someone else's prepackaged toolchain, you're in for a bunch of hurt. The toolchain is, broadly, part of the OS. Writing a handful of custom linker scripts isn't the only spot where you'll need to hack at this stuff.
One feature I have wanted that would solve a frustration I have with Strava is the ability to quickly "prune" a ride the same way you edit a video. When riding I don't want to think about pausing the computer and other meters when taking breaks. Instead I want to have the option to record everything and then edit out the segments that I know were stops. The app could even autodetect part you may want to prune by recognizing when your GPS coordinates remain relatively static for extended periods or time.
Innovation: the most abused word in tech
Damn, you guys really talk about people and countries like they're pawns on a chess board.
This field of research is far more advanced than I thought, actually.

For instance, in the minute 25:12, they show a graph that compares how often the time to collision among a human driver (a professional one, actually) and the self-driving car. For small reaction times, the self-driving car outperforms the humans by far. It is of course expected, but it shows that driverless cars are not that distant in the future already.

The biggest issue is how to avoid those outlier situations, such as a plastic bag being interpreted as an obstacle and making a mess. Fixing these is a huge challenge.
Yes, many (but not all) of Apple's developer documents do, especially developer release notes for new and/or experimental features.
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You're absolutely correct. It's always best to consider all the characteristics of the app design. So, I'd like to hear your alternatives to a Back button in your experience. Even the example linked below, Sidetap http://http://sidetap.it/, it toggles between the menu button and the Back button. An anti-pattern that I wouldn't really recommend.

The frequency of use is a variable between apps and users. Hopefully it's been taken into consider during UX / design.

This is what initiated our discussion. We simply didn't like the bottom menu bar that had 3 to 4 options and an elipses. The elipses takes you to another screen that lists the remaining options. It was a developing crutch for too many nav options. Our nav has 7 items this release and 8 to 9 next release. It is text only and the reason is because we limited each item to a 42px+ tap zones. We had issues with iconography as well as keeping it simple.

The opportunity for expansion is a positive feature of slide menus, no argument. In fact, that was the strongest argument for it initially and probably the single most reason if we convert to a slide at a later time. However, the counter argument is that if our navigation gets so wide as to scroll off screen then maybe we can reconsider the structure and revise. Opportunities abound.

I wish I could. It's in build phase slated for late Q4 release. Great counterpoints, btw.
DRYing up your JavaScript Jasmine tests with the data provider pattern
I don't look down my nose at people "who do something like sell a product" - I have great respect for their skills, and for what they do. I, too, sell products and provide services, I just do it in a different context, albeit still computer based. Business-wise the activities have a lot in common. I'm trying to point out that the skills required in scraping databases and arranging things on screens is not what I do, and I find it hard. If nothing else it's an acknowledgement that people who do web development are skills I don't have.

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.

And I have a hard time believing that people struggle with some of the elementary math I see questions about, but I generally assume that they have other skills, and that this stuff is hard for them, so that's why I do what I can to help when I get the opportunity. Different people have different skills, different training, different experience and different talents.

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.

Well, I've been reading HN for about 5 years now, and I've seen them before. Not often, and usually they are fleeting because the answers come quickly and efficiently, so the item never makes it to the Front Page. It doesn't have to.
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I really don't understand how the world of iOS development has become one of the most cloistered developer communities in recent memory. Is it the gold rush mentality, maybe?

Seriously, some of the outright hostility I've seen in the iOS development community is breathtaking. Yes, there is a lot of money to be made in iOS development so, no, you probably don't need to practice community building in order to be successful...today.

Regardless, your snide comment about "Rails engineers" reveals your own ignorance on the subject. There are plenty of software engineers that use Ruby but not Rails, and any developer who cannot use Ruby without Rails is unlikely to be of any threat to "redefine iOS development culture", since RubyMotion is not Rails.

Edit: Also...since when have "hacker" and "respect for knowledge gained over 20+ years" ever had anything to do with each other? Take the "knowledge gained", evaluate it on its merits, and if you find it lacking, who cares over how many years it was gained?!? If you think you can do better, do so.
OpenStand: Internet standards groups embrace open process
China is of a order of magnitude larger than Japan. 1200m vs 120m people. If china modernizes along the lines of Japan pre WWI, it doesn't really matter if they "stall" at some stage. Chineese construction sites look like something out of the movie Contact. The game has been changed. US needs to be paying attention. Technology has increased the ability to "play catch up." On the other hand, its had minimal impact ability to differentiate amongst the more advanced economies.
If you find yourself having a bias based on knowingly incomplete information, then you need to stop and rethink your position.

If another party is purposefully keeping information from me, I'm not going to feel bad for making guesses as to what's up and sharing those guesses.

That said, I don't think "open moderation" is necessarily a good thing. I like the experiment that HN is doing of secret moderation. While I like talking about how communities regulate themselves, "open moderation" usually leads to huge amounts of drama and navel-gazing. It remains to be seen if the benefits of secrecy outweigh the drawbacks.
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For some background, Amit Patel is likely best known for an old BBS game called Solar Realms Elite.
I hope Aereo continues to win. Another company doing the same thing is: http://www.skittertv.com/ - unfortunately neither of them support my local area. Due to my house's construction/location, I can't pick up DTV signals easily and would gladly pay $10-$15/mo to get those channels instead of the minimum $30/mo that my cable company charges for basic package.
Agreed -- and not unlike filmmakers who tune their film during editing to achieve an R rating, or better, who create some pre-release publicity around what rating the film should have.
Kudos to you, good sir. As a woman in Computer Science, I applaud all efforts to get girls interested in programming at a young age. It makes the university CS department much less intimidating to know beforehand what you're getting yourself into.

"What will I teach her next? We are going to build her own little startup."
This does reinforce the post that was on here a few days ago about the liberal use of the term "startup"...
How about ten (or so) nice big buttons with OLED key caps? I've used rather remarkably simple smart remotes in the past; their only real problem being that they used resistive, early-generation LCD touch screens, which are not great from a tactile perspective. A simple, clearly labelled remote that's capable of changing context beats the heck out of three or four devices with dozens of tiny, poorly-labelled rubber chicklets.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is the case, and they use a woot! daily deal/part of a wootoff to clean out remaining stock later after the 2 launches.
Can you expand on your comment about how the iPad didn't find a solid use until the second iteration? Not sure what that means.
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Heh, yeah. Look at that company. A 20 years old dude comes with some hipster unproven technology and the boss jumps at it.

They are doomed to fail.
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Are You Solving the Right Problem?
They won me when I spilt water on my 2 months old Macbook Air and they gave me a new one at no charge.

The genius thought it was really cool that I am a programmer and I was developing apps :-).
268x Query Performance for MongoDB with Fractal Tree Indexes (Say What?)
Maybe queens and bishops, not pawns.

But I think you have it backwards. Chess was created to teach tactics and politics, was it not (at least apocryphally)? This way of thinking may be where chess came from, rather than the other way around.
Bypassing visual builders in favor of code is not a new idea!

It happened as well with .Net and VisualStudio; I used to be a heavy WinForm developer (including visual tools). At some point being able to do everything programmatically proved to be really interesting in my use cases (and on other people projects, too).

Not everyone is going to adopt CSS and Pixate, and people are using RubyMotion without Pixate, too.

As for the Rails community, pure iOS people are also interested in RubyMotion (based on my exchanges with developers, that is).

In the end, there is no such thing as lack of respect or bad influence. New tools get created, people pick what works for them. People using Rails used other platforms before and will use other platforms later.

I'll end with an advice to (new?) programmers: don't let fear (of being replaced) choose your skills and tools for you.
Congrats to Mark on his success! For those who haven't had a chance to follow along, Mark has been a constant presence in the community and I'm glad to see his drive and willingness to take the initiative has paid off. His story is also a perfect example of why it is so important to get out, give talks, and participate in your local development communities, even if "local" doesn't overlap with "Silicon Valley" or "NYC".
If the main thing you like about Django is ORM yet are considering a DB layer that doesn't require an ORM (like mongo) - have you looked at Pyramid (previously Pylons)?

Besides giving you only the tools you want, it works very well with a driver like PyMongo. If you're starting out small you can also get free developer hosting with MongoHQ to get you up and running quickly.

Oh and you get to keep doing things in Python which is very nice. I've also had no problems with MongoDB for my web needs and I've worked at a few places that use it without the scary data corruption stories told to developers in order to make them keep drinking their Java.
Thanks for the DS Game Maker link, my nieces are all into NDS, I'll try it with them!
Perhaps the coder could make a game, which invites you to play at flying each drone attack as each one gets reported in, with lots of american flags and funny voiced terrorists to kill. Call it "Patriot Death Force" and have a heavy metal sound track and stuff.

That would probably get through fine.
Ok point taken re fully loaded.

"just how profitable 37signals probably is"

As an aside to this discussion: If they are actually that profitable it's a good idea to fly below the radar and resist making statements about how wildly profitable they are. Doing that might entice competitors to enter the same market and regardless of whether they succeed or not that could kill the goose.

Sometimes of course things are out in the open and it can't be avoided (lines at the restaurant or with public companies, or Oracle posting their 24x7 software support rates where a guy out of his house can do the math). Sometimes you want the publicity for one reason or another. But despite the openness of the internet there are still things that you want to keep to yourself lest everybody and their uncle decides to move into your neighborhood.
JQuery Gantt editor - patch released
Twitter Gardenhose - Save 1% of the Twitter firehose to S3
StackOverflow co-founder has started a new company
Yeah, back when I did phone support for Compaq ~1999 or so, we were trained with pretty similar concern for phrasing. All customer service and tech support, and hell, plenty of non-consumer business involves similar choice phrasings to avoid setting off people who are not going to get their way.
It's always difficult to know for sure but the calculated BOM cost is $143.

http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4230653/TechInsights...
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Reminiscing on my Linux days, I remembered the penguin racing game, Tux Racer.

Bonus: you can run it on Windows 7, today.
Would power and battery life be extended when you dock it with the keyboard?

I think it would be hard to fit a powerful GPU or a big battery in the screen alone. Some extra storage in the keyboard wouldn't hurt either.

Nice to see the hardware manufacturers joining microsofts new paradigm of tablet/laptop combo in windows 8. I bet those who complained about a combo OS before are quieter now.
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The Status of Online Education
Now I'm not bashing anything by this comment, but I'm surprised they built it in Ruby/Rails.

It doesn't really match the traditional integration paths that they're going to have to deal with across direct.gov.uk and I'm genuinely not sure it'll scale up that high if they are pushing people down that route.

We all know what happens once a year when we have to do our tax returns and that's all on a huge Java EE cluster apparently.
> 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?"

I'm pretty sure you don't, at least beyond the first-time setup of the account. My son has an iTunes account and we "fund" it through iTunes gift cards. There is no credit card attached at all. Once his gift card credit is used up, no more purchases for him.
I owned an iPad and an iPad Retina, and I can also attest to a huge jump in use between those versions. The first iPad was excellent, but it was just a little to slow, little too heavy, and little too big. Those issues added up to a product that was fun to use, but less so than a laptop. Truth be told, I think the iPad still suffers from a size/weight issue. If the iPad mini ever becomes a think, I expect my usage of it will change drastically
What happens to retracted papers on non-publisher websites (eg PubMed Central)?
Robot cars on public roads? California says yes
"it is a sustainable business"

If you set your sites low enough you can have a sustainable business. You can mow lawns or you can paint houses. That's being self employed with essentially what amounts to a job. That would be appropriate to talk about in a post about why it's better to do that rather than work for a large company.