skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A HTTP command line interface for humans
You present that like it's contrary to my point, but it's not.

If legal action had been attempted and failed, that would be interesting! But here there's no indication that the matter has been brought before a court.
I enjoyed the get-going immediacy - something more apps should do more of.

One thing that threw me off my stride: hitting return in the Article Title field let me make arbitrarily multiline article titles. I expected it would take my cursor to the Article Body. Is this deliberate? How often do people want titles containing linebreaks?
I sent it to her, and it's a long article. I'm hoping she reads most of it.

We went out for coffee after shopping. She knows I'm right about diamonds. Her issue is a) she has difficulty listening to me about these things because she's stubborn and feels like I'm manipulating her b) she doesn't want to buck the trend, be different, and have to explain things to her friends and family.

She hates being different, and she hates being the centre of attention. She feels that by not getting a diamond engagement ring, others will speak ill of her behind her back, and she doesn't want to stand out like that.

I'm the opposite. I could care less what others think. I don't love being the centre of attention, but I don't mind it. I hate being conformant though.

Anyway, it's not criticism of her. I love her dearly, I just need her to see the light.
I have a backlog of courses on Coursera. Right now it's this one, the NLP course and Andrew Ng's ML course. I have a project in mind that would benefit greatly from all three.

I've started putting it together in small pieces but ML and NLP are tough topics to learn without some sort of instruction.

I have a pretty good grasp of Scala but I learned in sort of an ad-hoc fashion and I'm looking forward to learning what I imagine will be idiomatic Scala.
How is this trash on the front page?
All clicks by accidents are unfair to the advertisers. They pay for clicks which were never intended.
Elderly care and health will actually spawn a lot of tech jobs as well. As druiid said, robotics is one field. But tech is basically all over health nowadays as well.

So yes, there will be plenty of jobs in tech.
Mirror: http://i.imgur.com/sap5e.jpg
I hope there are big "MOM" and "DAD" stickers on the car.
For those not familiar with the UK, magistrates are non-lawyers, and "upstanding members of community" who sit as judge / jury in lowest levels of UK court system.

It simply "satisified my intellectual curiosity" to see what and who pass through our legal system - although the seeming prevalence of sexual offenders is a bit worrisome.
Would love an invite too. howard.yeend@gg.com
Maybe there should not be, but there was.
The Ruby programming language and the Ruby on Rails framework would be your best bet. The ecosystem is quite polished on building web apps.
This looks really nice - great work, signed up!
Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4521560

Also submitted:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4510143

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4517928
Questions from a tech interview with a big Internet company
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Perhaps Divshot could have some plugins that allow you to take the generated markup and specify, for example, which elements should repeat from an array passed through from Rails, or Django, etc. Then export that kind of code.
Export to HAML would also be nice.
</bluesky>
Ha ha... I found this (http://tech.slashdot.org/story/01/11/17/204207/message-from-...):

(About "Junis", a hacker from Kabul two months after 9/11)

There are many computers in Afghanistan, Junis said, many in clusters in cities like Kabul and Kandahar (news reports have frequently mentioned that Bin-Laden's organization used both e-mail and encrypted files to communicate). Computer geeks are already hooking up with one another all over the country; Junis isn't the only Afghan e-mailing these days. He says other coders and gamers hid their PC's as well. Meanwhile, he's especially eager to get his hands on the Apple iPod, and has been drooling over the Apple website site since he got back online. And some things, of course, never change. "I thought they were going to get Microsoft," he wrote. "I guess not."
No, I don't reject it. I'm simply making the point that, still, some people (the majority of people) are not up to Lisp. Most folks never read the manual, just hop on board and start coding.

So, thus, the (Very) slow acceptance of Lisp.
Unbelievable how ONE in SIX pin numbers are either 1234 or 1111.

I guess they're right, mine is 1234
Did you have any opinion on the guy's previous kickstarter which has slipped 6 months and consisted of a cardboard box?

Yes that is a bit uncharitable to call this: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/limemouse/scanbox-turn-y... a foldable cardboard box, but it is a whole lot simpler than putting together a light bulb that out performs every other bulb in the market for less money.

So when someone who knows how tough putting something like this together is, sees folks buying into it, they twitch. Seems like the author of this piece twitched pretty hard.
Press release from MS: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2012/Sep12/09-18RI...
Double buffering with dishwashers turns them into magic cupboards. I don't know why most kitchens only come with one.

One is enough if it's a Fisher & Paykel DishDrawer. Two independent dishwashers in one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawer_dishwasher

For storing things it probably wouldn't be big enough for more than a couple of people though. Also, magnet is better than sticker.
Yes really.

I lived through (pause to count...) eight prime ministers. I can't recall any of those governments loving the BBC to death :-)

For some reason vaguely impartial reporting seems to annoy politicians - left or right.
Early 00's I would have said (I have a low-4-digit ID on there).
For kickstarter, this isn't only a question of strict legality and having the right weasel-words in their small print. It's also a question of reputation.

There's already a bunch of stories in the press about projects failing to deliver, and the more backers get shafted the worse this will get. If no-one wants to invest in Kickstarter projects that'll be bad for kickstarter.

There's a whole bunch of different things Kickstarter could do about hardware projects failing to deliver. Why they aren't taking action yet is a mystery to me.
Besides the repeating numbers, I dare to say a big percentage of pins start with 19 because people use their year of birth as pin.
You might be interested in this job posting from the "Who's hiring" thread from August:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4323765

TalentDrive is essentially working on this. (Note: I am affiliated with the company in that my employer shares the same parent company as TalentDrive.)
It is perfectly possible for both of the following to be true: (1) The community gets what it deserves. (2) Some of the people giving it what it deserves are behaving shamefully.

(At least, it is if "gets what it deserves" means "gets something it's got no right to anything better than" rather than "gets exactly what, in some kind of best possible world, it would get".)

Having said which, I don't think it's all that shameful to write what you think will get the most votes. But I'd rather you didn't.
Can someone explain to me what the appeal is of tap-to-click on trackpads? It's obviously terrible for usability for anyone with less-than-perfect motor control, but even for someone with ordinary dexterity like myself, it can be infuriating. I don't want to have to tread lightly around my trackpad just to keep from accidentally clicking on stuff.

And it's not just me; I watch other people use laptops, and their usage is generally littered with unintended taps; they just don't seem to care that they keep randomly misplacing their keyboard focus or switching to other applications.

I mean, I get that it's slightly easier to tap on the trackpad than it is to click with your thumb. But how can that possibly make up for all the time lost to accidental input?
Microsoft warns on previously unseen IE bug.
You're on HN so I'd say your doing quite well! Keep it up, just keep improving. Heck, just look at twitter now! Theyhad a shutterstock design as well. All in good time...
I don't the USA following Japan here. The US is more amenable to immigration and less amenable to providing universal healthcare that can afford a several thousand dollar personal robot.
It may have lost its luster, but SourceForge is a far more popular site than Github. Granted SourceForge is more for apps and Github is more for code, so SF gets more visitors stopping in to download apps like Pidgin, OpenOffice, GIMP, PortableApps.com, etc.
TechCrunch | Personal search engine CloudMagic 2 overhauled
I suppose it could be seen that way. Then again, he said " lots of wifi electronics into the bulb" which is a weird statement in and of itself. Lots? More like one chip with supporting components.

Yes, the embedded system inside this lightbulb will need to be rated to operate at higher than usual temperatures when compared to, say, the electronics inside your VCR.

Typical commercial-grade integrated circuits are rated for a range from 0 to about 70 degrees C (32 to 158 degrees Farenheit). Industrial components typically push the upper limit to 85 deg. C (185 deg. F).
Ah, yes. That makes sense then. Because I don't have a formal background in computer science, I was just reading it as "puts". When you read it, do you think to yourself "put string"?

I like to think I'm commanding the computer to do something, so for me it would be preferable to see commands in the English command form - put, instead of puts. But, thanks for the "puts" background - that makes more sense now!
Photo Shoot - everybody has a camera, but does not have time to really learn it

Basic Idea: Setup a big room/maze with multiple rooms/shooting range where people can practice their skills with their (or borrowed camera).

The twist: do it in the busy airport where people are forced to have time to kill. As there is no stock to sell, the amount of space required is probably not too high, a bit like the mini-massage rooms.

Make money on:
* Sell the cameras they practice with (possibly with Amazon delivery to where they are going)
* Sell photography DVDs and/or online services
* Sell ebooks
* Allow travelling professional photographers do a mini-training when they are passing through airport anyway. Sell their product when they do.

Advertise on tripit based on people's itineraries passing through that airport with more than X hours wait.

Use CameraSim
* as pre-workshop training
* run it on the computers next to the training while people wait
* give it away (branded) as part of the training

Franchise!!!

And a whole lot of other tie-ins/money making. I have 3 page write up around it.
New Twitter: On becoming Facebook
If that ad brings them to what they were looking for... does it matter?
How a made up product increased conversions by 233%
Inasmuch as clicks are a valid metric for advertising performance, it is only because they prove that an ad is prominent on a page. So in that sense, there's really nothing wrong with accidental clicks.
Verily. I'm agreeing and intending to use this as a template for a DIY project too.
First photos of working iPad Mini
Or just, you know, turn off tap-to-click.
Our bluesky visions aren't so different, but no promises that outrageous just yet :)
In a related vein, I would love an e-ink screen that was essentially just a high-resolution informational display. Recipes would be good for this, but also things like the weather, news headlines, what's on my calendar for the day, etc. It could sync up once an hour or so, and the layout and content would be controlled by me via a web UI.
Something similar was offered by connex.io but unfortunately they've closed recently.
Capturing as much capital as possible.
I'm right at the beginning of designing my templates for a Bootstrap/Django project, so this is a really great time to see this. I'd really like the ability to tweak the designs without needing to edit a text file and reload the browser.

Question: do you guys support custom Bootstrap themes?

(Oh, and I wouldn't turn down an invite. The email I signed up with is in my profile.)
Third! Please email me as well :-)
At least, give me a multi-column timeline instead of one at 522px fixed width.
A real fMRI high: My ecstasy brain scan
Thanks - I think more apps don't do it partly because they don't prioritize the single thing they want to be amazing at. Throwww only really has one broad-use case... writing shit... so it makes it easier to do this.

Wish I could say it was optional, but I'm not that clever.

I thought most people used "tab" to go to the next field. Didn't occur to me that "enter" was common. Looks like it is for at least one person. Let me do some reading/surveying. I might add that to next version. Thanks again.
What are these Satellite Telocom jobs, and how do you get them? Are these like VLSI design, Spread Spectrum coding, and antenna design, or is there some other layer that is supposed to be where the jobs growth is? If I search "Satellite Telecommunications" on any jobs site, it doesn't show that many jobs, and most of them seem to be defense related that require clearance.
Ok, let me ask then - does MS Surface run Office better than a cheaper netbook? Does the Surface run iOS or Android killer apps?

If the answer the above questions are "no", then why get a Surface?
I submitted my first Mac app, Foreman, about two weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4488910 . The response was phenomenal and it really motivated me to continue working on the project to make it improvements.

I'm selling it now for $4, and the source is still on github: https://github.com/flyingmachine/foreman . I'd love any feedback on the web site or on the app itself. You can still download a slightly older version for free: http://www.flyingmachinestudios.com/assets/apps/foreman.zip.

This is the first time a product of mine has been so well-received, and I really appreciate everyone's feedback. Thank you!
I don't think you read my entire post. I mention the folded cardboard project as a key indicator of just how unlikely it might be for this lightbulb to get off the ground. My immediate reaction is that Kickstarter ought to put the lightbulb project on hold until, at the very least, the other project sees completion.
Factor in RTT/latency and concurrency. There's no reason multiple requests can't be in-flight at once, up to the point where you're overloading your uplink or the server.
A Chrome extension that solves CAPTCHAs with a click. Charge me 1 USD for 10 credits and then outsource the solving to some of those shady sites for $0.001 each.
Learning photo camera for children (and grandparents)

Fully weather/drop sealed with fixed capacity

Use induction to charge
Use wifi and/or bluetooth to transfer pictures automatically to parents/cloud
Use bluetooth headset for commands, instructions
Probably touchscreen for flexibility and Android for O/S

Camera starts with "press a button" - Ooh, nice start
Over time, unlocks more functionality together with teaching instructions

Sell language packs, gamification around picture taking, online sharing services, etc.

A bit of Furby, a bit of MailyApp, a bit of child-proof camera.
No - not the "unholy" part. Like vidarh I'm someone who loves Ruby (why else would I write a book about it!) but I do agree with him about the internal implementation: it's very confusing and hard to understand. At times, this leaks out into the syntax of an otherwise beautiful language. JRuby and especially Rubinius are great alternatives to MRI if you're interested in studying internals - they're much cleaner and easier to understand.

Sorry I don't know anything about the internals of Smalltalk, Python or Perl and can't comment on them.
"I got tired of reddit being too political and too liberal (although I am a liberal myself) so I was hoping/looking for something else."

Unsubscribe from /r/politics
But why would you? What is the pin for??
If you have a potential client, pre-sell him on it to get funds to supply the other things you're "lacking". Treat it like a free-lance development gig at first and then turn toward a saas model after you've developed it.
I take issue with this math. The first set deals with percentage but ignores overall numerical values. It's the classic 1 -> 2 = +100% while 1,000 -> 1,500 = +50% error. Most new jobs won't necessarily come from the most percentage growth. The numerical value analysis is then isolated to this percentage growth (thus probably ignoring the 1,000 -> 1,500 industries).

For evidence of this, there's an est. +35mil influx of population from 2010 - 2020. If we assume that ~25mil of the influx will be working in 2020, then we have a much more modest ~8.4% growth (from the 2.1mil cited), not the infographic implied +75%.

But that isn't the whole story. There's buggy-whip industry syndrome (ie, negative growth industries): In the next 8 years there will jobs lost to automation; eg., bank tellers yielding to online banking, toll road operators yielding to fast-pay devices, you may even see driver-less taxis by 2020. Many of those people will be forced to change industry.

Since those negative number industries have to be accounted for, just looking at the influx of population is erroneous when considering potential positive influx. Also, the median age is set to increase, so that has to be accounted for as it implies that a larger percentage of people will be of working age.

Napkin math is going to get you in trouble when dealing with this kind of stuff since those things are much harder to estimate, but the 2.1mil cited accounting for 5% of jobs may be a much more reasonable assessment; or it may be 15%, but it's not 75%.

Don't get me wrong, I like the color scheme: nice fonts, good layout; I just find the lensing of the data to be manipulative.

When you have bad stats you have bad conclusions, a misinformed public, and bad public policy. That can't be good.

Besides, claiming a more honest figure of 1/10 of new jobs will be elderly care related doesn't detract from the message of industry's significant growth - it's still a really substantial slice of the pie.
The only person's opinion that matters to me is my girlfriend's, and then my own. I really don't care what others think. I prefer to buck the trend and be non-conformant.

However, I have to take my girlfriend's feelings into account. I have to buy the ring, but she's the one that has to wear it. If she has ill-feelings towards the ring when she wears it, she'll hate it. I'm not saying that's what'll happen, I'm just saying I need to take her wants and needs into account. Simply making a decision for her because "I know what's best." is selfish.

Anyway, I'm slowly whittling her down. She just told me she may be interested in a sapphire ring.
I assume you've asked them, but what did they say?

My guess: Haskell has a very strong academic background. I know it's very popular in the language design community, I mean, it's basically lambda calculus with a very advanced type system, and academic language designers love type systems. Clojure is dynamically typed and is has all the messy compromises of a pragmatic language -- that's my guess.
That's great for the initial build-out, but what happens when I want to change something? I can't use your tool anymore, because for me to move an element on the page means I have to take that generated HTML/CSS and start over again converting it to a view template.

This is a far-off idea, but it would be cool if you had support for various frameworks and could plug into a git repo to map the view data into the templates you're outputting. That way I could continue to use your product for the full lifecycle of development.

Right now I write everything in HTML/CSS by hand and poke around with Firebug to do anything visual with it. I'd love a live-edited version of my view templates with a visual editor like this that generates high-quality code. I would pay a sizable amount of money for such a service.
The Four Things That Motivate Me
One question about finding clients. Would it be worth offering a referral fee (5 or 10%) for people who find you work?
First off, Bangladesh has been on-net gaining land mass in recent years.

Quote: "Satellite images of Bangladesh over the past 32 years show that the country is growing annually by about 20 square kilometres (7.72 square miles)" (source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7532949.stm )

Now, it's true that that article claims that eventually sea level rise will overcome this, but the rate of sea level rise has actually not been accelerating in accordance with the predictions made back then - sea level has been continuing to rise at about the same low rate it had been doing for the last century. (Um, here's one source on that: http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/current-wisdom-n... )

In short, if the people of Bangladesh have any reason to be concerned about "our lightbulbs", it's a distant future concern, not a current one.
US taxpayers paid more to Israeli defense budget than Israelis
It’s Better to be Clear Than Clever
In my years of coding I have had the opportunity to work with, or after, a wide range of types of programmers. Both self taught and professionally trained, and in small and fast paced companies there wasn’t always a set of coding standards in place leaving developers to do what was best in their opinion. Being exposed to such a wide range of approaches proved to be a good way of reading into how each developer thought. It certainly had its entertaining moments. Without a doubt, the biggest lesson extracted from all of this is to leave your ego out of your code, to go the extra mile and to be clear on not just what you are doing in a piece of code, but why. Context is king in code as well!
The Internet As It Was In 1996
Also Y Combinator-backed HelloFax https://www.hellofax.com/
Unlike the ad in the article, Adword ads are usually highly relevant because they often capture the same intent as the first organic result (if done right).
Hey Hilary Mason's grandpa, pay $20/yr for Yahoo mail with no ads!

Yahoo has already solved this problem.
Two Reasons Why Pricing is the Most Important Aspect of Your Business
Stack Overflow (and other sites) -> WordPress

I am happy to contribute to various Stack sites, but my own blog is growing weeds because of it. Would be nice to have an automated summary of all my contributions showing up on the blog. Similar to Twitter activity blogs, but a lot richer.

Free model - run once a week, put a post in, assigned a single choosable subject, add icon “posted by XYZ” with a link to the original site (allow deleting manually)

Commercial model -
chose when to run (frequency/timing/etc)
allow to map sites and/or tags to subjects/tags
allow template of the information and selecting which fields to show.
allow to create post for retroactive content (maybe use StackExchange dumps for past)

I want this one, maybe will make it one day.
If anyone further North in Delaware wants to hold a meetup I have a group of about 10 software engineers getting together to watch the assignments.
I think tap-to-click is an abomination (on Windows, OSX and Linux). The worst was Windows when I re-imaged a laptop without the OEM drivers the generic Windows driver could no longer turn the feature off (argh!). But I think the attraction for designers is trying to support a pickup and drag gesture on the trackpad without using a toggle button.
Because the algorithms determining the content we consume are incredibly important in understanding the systematic biases of the information we internalize?
They aren't, but they are very, very hard to bring down or slow down without a very big botnet.