skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know the branding can act as a mask over different companies e.g. Sony VAIOs http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/357289/sony-announces-division-t.... As you point out we're going from US mobile to UK broadband. But the point of the brand is to give consumers confidence in a consistent level of service and I thought it vaguely relevant to mention my experience.

Yes, by password for their service I mean the password chosen for my @virginmedia.com login where I can access/pay bills, look at phone calls made etc. I imagine if I had a TV package with them there would be other things I could do via their website.

I was pretty shocked that anyone - staff or otherwise - had access to my password.
I think the author meant "There are exceptions, in the real life meaning of the word", rather than the unwind-the-stack-when-a-bobo-happens programming construct.
Think youre right. Here is one thats even nicer: http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-78548530/stock-vector-vector...
ISPS in the UK are blocking sites as "mature" when they are not.

I have yet to see an outcry.
Yes, it is presumably doing some inverse kinematics in there somewhere. I wonder how they stabilised it.
I fiddled with acme a few times over the years, but never got around using it for a real project (I did use sam for quite a while about 10 years ago). I'd like to see the "advanced" version of this screencast, i.e. someone doing a small programming project with it, coding, debugging etc.

And preferable not a C/Go unix CLI/server, where you probably have decent cooling and can stay within acme all the time. The trivial blog web app example would be interesting, maybe in Java, Ruby, Perl, Python etc., so that it's easier to compare this with IDEs or vim/emacs.
Agree that the main problem in Kickstarter is communication. You should NEVER put money if you don't understand that you are betting on the product and the team. It is a high risk decision, which hopefully most of the times goes reasonable good (I got last week headphones by a Kickstarter project and everything went just fine)

But removing the possibility of offering a product seems too much. I think that, after a little while and a few big "unfortunate" projects, the process (specially for deliverable goods) will be more understood and there will be more pressure in showing the team skills, previous products, etc. Right now that's not very clear (though you can research on your own, of course)
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While they "technically" receive a donation from you and send you a gift, I think most judges would see an exchange of money for an item and say that somebody definitely is selling something.
I've been programming for about 21 years now, and I would like to echo points so eloquently expressed by this junior said :)
The $50 icons are done by offshoaring companies. They make their money by turning over designs very quickly, not paying their designers very much, and reusing designs over and over (with small modifications). None of the designs are built from scratch. Most are dreadfully ugly; this is the most attractive Elance icon I've ever seen, and I don't think it's gorgeous by any stretch.

If you want a geniunely good designed icon just go to dribbble, be willing to spend $500+ and you'll get something unique.
What would Jack do?
It may be harder to measure 'efficiency' of nuclear (which we use here), solar and wind. Certainly they are more sustainable. Maybe we want the 'sustainability metric' instead.
Braintree’s open for business in Canada and Europe
Onion code: as you peel back the layers your cry more.
Thanks @digitalengineer for your comments, yes it's relatively cheep from all the offering's. Actually this is my first try, and the result absolutely exceeds my expectation. i guess it's because the designer is from India, so the cost is kept low. i dont think it's possible in US or EU...
I think the line of descent is Cedar -> Oberon -> Acme.

My Oberon usage was quite a while ago (really liked the system, although it was a bit impractical). The big difference being the object-/module-oriented nature of it, as compared to acme's Unix text piping.

Oberon's System 3 is a pretty decent example of transitioning from a text-based environment to a richer GUI, by the way.
WTH, that's my pwd! :-)
Most of the article seems critical of the diamond industry. Have they not done people a service by providing them with a nice product that they can enjoy?

There are certainly moral problems with how they built their empire, but why are clever marketing and aggressive pricing bad things? The former is simply how you tell people about new products. Remember diamonds went from being owned by almost no one to being owned by lots of people. If those rings make them happy, then why is it our business?

How is DeBeers marketing any different from Apple marketing?

Of course, the article does do a good job in warning people that their diamonds may have little resale value. But that's a risk most buyers are willing to take. After all, most non-divorced people don't sell their wedding and engagement rings.
Kickstarter needs to have a rule that the rewards cannot be the item being proposed.

This will perfectly enforce the realization that it's INVESTMENT with risk and not a purchase of the item.
Adding more value was our biggest lesson. If you don't feel that your product or service has enough value to make it a no-brainer for your customer, keep adding.
SourceForge & Slashdot sold to Dice for $20M
I think this approach to color selection is a wee bit patronizing, assuming that all users are the same (and gives waaaaay to much credibility/authority to graphic designers). Never mind that even if you agree with the intended choice, you'd need to make adjustments to cope with environmental factors (displays, light etc.).
I do not think Kickstarter projects can be viewed under legal framework of merchants and consumer protection.

A project much more like an investment prospectus than it is a sales offering.

So I would be interested in knowing if the SEC has already had a look at the Kickstarter legal setup, and if not, it may well be the next step (ie not suing Kickstarter, but refering them to SEC)

The laws around prospectus and offerings are setup very explicitly to avoid your situaton 2) - so I would be very surprised if kickstarter projects are not somehow explicitly avoiding those regulations - or if they are in fact compliant
Extremists will find ground that is fertile regardless.
I think we'd get a much better situation going in the world if people learn how to properly respond to being offended... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tn2EhGK5ok

That film was silly at worst, and people who are using it as an excuse to do harm and violence, are just that, excusing their savagery, intolerance, hatred, blood-lust away so they don't appear to be sub-human.

The real story here is that western values and culture is incompatible with Islam.
what debts?
I just threw my nastygrams in the bin for 10 years. Didn't do me any harm in the long run. I did have some guy knocking on my door about it. He was "removed" from my property forcefully as he was trespassing. Nothing came of it.

I have a television now (for the children) but that is it. When they're gone, it's going as well.
Thanks for the feedback! We feel that now is a time of unprecedented noise when it comes to managing our digital lives. Five years ago we weren't juggling the shear number of blogs, daily deal sites, and multiple social feeds that we are today.
Yes, excellent point. You can extend this into so many scenarios like becoming standard issue for police officers and military personnel. Even something as creepy as an individual utilizing it to record you in public without your knowledge or the ability for individuals to activate it and see what you're seeing real-time.
YEah, that is not a supportable claim. Probably the appliance dealer was speaking colloquially. In any case the federal standard changes pretty regularly, resulting in an erratic dropping of electric consumption requirements.

There are plenty of buttons on the washer (which is a user-interface nightmare of its own). Two help a little: 'Heavy Duty' and 'Extra Rinse'. Selecting both leaves the clothes smelling slightly less of sweat and dirt. And of course when the cycle completes, it turns off to save (miniscule) power. Turning it on results in the default settings again!

Googling it, I see no hack to defeat the settings. Just a lot of talk about strange error codes and how to reset them. Sigh.
That's essentially what the mysteriously vanished Android@Home was.
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Then you'll be surprised to learn that these were once trademarks:

- Aspirin
- Escalator
- Yo-yo
- Zipper
> Groovy's semicolon-less mode has lots of syntax restrictions. E.g.this doesn't compile...

I would't say 'lots'. It pretty much boils down to one thing: 'leave the operator on the previous line'

println true ?

"yes" :

"no"

For example is just fine.
This

$50 for an icon is like paying $50 for a simple CMS.

Of course, for $50 they get a stock icon with their name on it (like, click on Edit Text on PS and type the new one)

"Wooden texture is a fashionable design in 2012"

Yes, please, skeuomorphism up to 11 "because it's fashionable"
99 Kickstarter Problems but getting the product isn't one: Problem #1: NOT getting the product. Problems #2-#99) 98 emails updating you on the product you will never receive.
> For the one case where people needed global control flow transfer (error handling) exceptions were developed. This was a progress from the extreme universality and abstraction of a goto-driven program to the concretion and specificity of pieces (such as procedures) solving specific problems.

'Throw' just means 'GOTO up somewhere' it is a posh goto...
Wow you're only the 3 millionth to post a PHP beginners tutorial. Most here are probably more interested in howto scale PHP to 1 billion users or so (like Facebook), not to learn howto write hello world.
as a young startup, it's important to balance between attractiveness and expense, Dribbble is too expensive for me...
Sorry, my original reply with the screenshot included a command line, but it got lost in the internet tubes, and when I reposted the reply I forgot the command line.

acme -f /mnt/font/ComicSansMS/16a/font is how I made the screenshot. Run fontsrv -p . to get a list of the fonts you can use.
The Second Test
We actually started work on backstitch before Google's announcement but seeing the number of petitions to save the service as well the outraged comments by the passionate user base we are more than happy to step in as a replacement :)
Developers do generally write bad resumes/CVs, and the tech acronyms and buzzwords are probably more intended to get the attention of both human drone scanners and applicant tracking systems that score resumes based on keywords. I think the software industry is moving away from resumes/CVs as we currently know them, and will soon be at a point where someone will list some companies, a brief narrative profile, links to a couple accounts, and access to various code.

Some additional ideas on disrupting tech recruiting
Thread on HN http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4535547
Blog http://jobtipsforgeeks.com/2012/09/17/disrupt/
The idea is that the BBC maintains its independence by being financed through its own separately collected tax. The alternative is a system like they have in Australia where the state broadcasting company is a mouthpiece for the party in power, or like in the U.S. where commercial television speaks mainly for corporate interests. Out of all the taxes in the U.K., this is the one I resent least (especially because it's optional in the sense that you're entitled not to pay it if you don't want to have a tv).
while (xs.Any(x => f(x))) { }

Pulling things out into other functions makes it even clearer.

Though yes, the goto is clearer than the labelled continue. I wouldn't necessarily agree that it's less error prone though.
Seems like change for the sake of change and a huge waste of mobile real estate.

Feels very 'Facebook timeline'-y to me.
The number read in Korean ("one thousand and four") has the same pronunciation as the word for angel: both are 천사 ("cheonsa").

http://translate.google.co.kr/?tab=wT#en/ko/one%20thousand%2...
I felt like this for years- annoyed at the insistence that I pay the fee even though I don't own a TV. Then, in a moment of inspiration, I took 2 minutes to fill out the online form and haven't been bothered since.

However, the BBC offers quality TV without the even greater annoyance of incessant commercials. Take the Olympics: NBC was criticised for their delayed and edited broadcast while the BBC broadcast nearly all events live (some 20+ channels) and without any commercial breaks.

Unfortunately, we can't have commercial free TV without the fee.
Hmm? Apart from the proportional text what would you lose? Even IBM line drawing characters should be able to simulate the scrollbars and dividing lines. Given a sufficiently high-resolution text mode, multiple columns should pose no problem, either.

Granted, I see no real reason for it, as you might as well hook the existing code into e.g. Linux' framebuffer mode, instead of porting it to curses. It would run over ssh, of course, but so does acme with X forwarding, and the best general solution would probably involve merging sam's client/server mode with acme.
We're looking for a Human iOS engineer.
Human (AMS/SFO) is hiring.

Human informs you how your daily activity can improve your lifestyle.

We learn from your behavioral patterns to provide you with suggestions that can lead to healthier decisions - whether that’s losing weight, reducing stress, or running faster.

We compare your information with the accumulation of your own data and our community’s data to get more accurate results.
Maybe. It would depend on what their contracts stated I would imagine.
What's wrong with a switch?
I'm really surprised there haven't been any class action law suits against Kickstarter projects and/or Kickstarter. For most projects Kickstarter isn't a feel-good donation system, it's a way of pre-purchasing a product. If you promise to provide an item for someone's money and don't deliver you've broken the law.
G-Cloud is interesting. What G-Cloud is doing as far as I'm aware is making a lot of government IT stuff into a commodity. So, for instance, something like making a Wordpress theme or providing a hosting service, that becomes a commodity service. There are then pre-approved suppliers. This is kind of sensible: in the private sector, I don't have to go through a complicated process to decide whether to use Rackspace or Linode or EC2 or whatever for a small project.

(Incidentally, just because it's called G-Cloud doesn't mean that all or even most of the things they are spending money on are "cloud computing" services, but then that's a big fuzzy bullshit word anyway. Pretty much everything these days involves putting things on the Internet, so I guess it could be claimed to be cloud computing since there are computers hooked up to The Cloud, formerly known as the Internet).

The problem is that quite a lot of technological spending by the government isn't on commodity stuff but on custom development work. And because of the procurement process, that often doesn't get done in a lean manner. (But I don't know, I'm just a developer. I only play a bureaucrat on TV.)
These people aren’t just being seduced by a clever sales pitch: they’re being shepherded there by lots of very high-profile blogs, such as Wired and TechCrunch and Mashable and GigaOm.

Its funny that reuters is writing this, because, they were shepherding a lot of people on an inferior product too, The iPhone 5.
See my post above though, even Kickstarter's Guidelines say there is a legal obligation to deliver.
Slashdot and SourceForge sold to Dice Holdings
I was hoping for some details, but really there's nothing there, just a couple of historical facts and extremely obvious predictions..
Its read "one thousand four". The 'and' is unnecessary and ambiguous. One of my hot buttons.
This is a very weak tutorial. It neglects a lot of best practices (like: in templating style, keep your PHP tags on the same line). You also capitalized Echo, which is a capital offense (no pun intended) in PHP.
So true. I'm working on 2 personal projects at the moment. Sometimes I spend hours on it, sometimes only minutes. But I work on them EVERY single day. It always fun working on them. There is no fixed schedule, there are not milestones (ofc the is some sort of vision), still I progress quite fast and stay motivated.
Book Review: Envisioning Information
It's not a perfect fit, but it's unsettling to me how close the leading PIN digit graph corresponds to Benford's Law ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law ). You would think intentional human randomness would not fit this distribution.
Although I wonder how it is structured - why can some Imams get by with issuing such statements?

It's not very structured. Islam doesn't really have big religious organizations like the Catholic Church per se. And Salafism tends to be explicitly somewhat anarchist. Some crazy imams call for murder. Some of the more radical Muslims around here (Indonesia) tend to vandalize night clubs during Ramadan. That's mostly how far it goes. At least here, most Indonesians don't really want religious violence and Jakarta elections are probably bigger reasons for concern than is the movie.

As for Christian equivalents, Ian Paisley comes to mind, but we aren't going to blame the fact that Christians believe their sect is right and others are wrong for the Northern Irish troubles are we?

In case you are wondering, I am a heathen. I follow the older paths, and often lift a horn, preferably of mead, to Odhinn, Thorr, and Freyr....
If you want to know what they're up to, read their publications, not their emails.

If they aren't publishing, then that's when things get fishy.
Highlights the need for some basic A/B testing platform within app stores, though I see the complexity that prevents it being a priority.
They could, but honestly they should just be more insistent that project founders make more use of the existing tools. They provide a way to say there's a limited number of awards available at a given tier; if you're not going to be able to scale past ten thousand quickly, then don't let more than ten thousand people sign up to receive the product - at least not from the first round.
Vaguely related: http://www.tomscott.com/evil/
Maybe cvs should have a meta-tag section?
The title font is horrible imho.
Sure, ravioli code can be a problem, although you are supposed to be aggressively refactoring away trivial classes. Perhaps my experience is different to yours, but I've encountered "under-object oriented" code far more often than "over-object oriented". I guess it's based on the format of complexity you're used to - some people like their 20K LOC "classes". I prefer mine in the 100 to 500 LOC range, even if that results in "too many" classes.
What constitutes a "personal email?" I can't find it explicitly stated anywhere whether this was a personal email address or his official university address, but if it's the latter I can't see how that is at all construed as personal.
>so far there’s zero evidence that it’s a good way of providing startup capital for would-be businesses

Flagged immediately for this statement. Troll journalism.
Is there anything similar to this that doesn't require registration?

I'd love to use this for teaching HTML but I can't ask my hundreds of teenage students to all create accounts...

Collaborative isn't a must, anything with syntax highlighting and real-time previews will do.
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No, downvoting won't change the future.

Arguing against my position might work better...
Some old fella I knew who was a young professional as woman joined the ranks in the 60s & 70s had this useful saying: "toilet excuses" which was the whole laundry list of nonsense reasons why women couldn't be building inspectors or firemen or whatnot. "Every building site would need another toilet block and the costs would be tremendous, all to allow one dipshit 21 year old to work for 1 year, get pregnant then leave."

There is something about Kickstarter that makes HN irritable, hoping for failure. I'm not sure what it is exactly and its out of character. I'd like to give the benefit of the doubt but I can smell toilet excuses.

I'm sure that kickstarter has issues and maybe its not a big thing in the long term. But, its a nice idea. It seems to be working. Why is this mob so cranky?
NOt quite - throw doesn't specify where to go, leaves it up to the caller. Very much more useful.
It happened 18 years ago. I never thought it had any effect until 4-5 years ago, when I started getting chronic nosebleeds. 2 years ago I went to a doctor and had the surgery setup, but canceled it cause I wasn't comfortable with the doctor. Going to another doctor in the near future.
cant_tell_if_serious.jpg

I'm not really sure how to take this kickstarter. On the one hand, it's very dismissive of the usual kickstarter crap and in some ways pokes fun at it (check out the donation perks). On the other hand, the incredibly low threshold and semi-serious tone of the end of the listing make it seem genuine.
NPR gave me a coffee mug for my donation. Were they selling it?
> I've been programming for around 20 years now

Me too.

> I've very, very rarely seen goto statements used

I saw them used all the time in Basic =)

> You don't need goto to create code that jumps around

Nope. All you need is a loop, with lots of continue/break statements mixed in. I have seen this quite a bit and I start twitching when I see it. That's the modern equivalent of the goto.
Hi @raverbashing, i read "Wooden texture is a fashionable design in 2012" somewhere, but i forgot where it was...

what's the full name of "skeuomorphism"? so that i can check it in App Store..
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Yeah, my feeling exactly. Whenever I hear/read "there's absolutely/zero no evidence", it smell either ignorance or malevolence.
In every letter I've had with a new bank card it's told me how to change my PIN if I want to. I'm not sure I know anyone who hasn't changed theirs.
Chrome's market share goes up 2% every weekend, IE goes down 3%
yup , absolutely!
I'm not used to this new design, but thats's to be expected. Visually I think it looks great!
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I found one in the PostgreSQL source not to long ago. It was well commented as to why it existed, was well modularized and quite frankly appropriate.

I use "spaghetti code" to refer to code where execution aimlessly wanders between apparent modules. You don't need goto statements to make it happen. SQL-Ledger is a good example of doing this with simple redefinition of functions. It isn't the only kind of bad code though.
How to avoid image blocking
Google "skeuomorphism".
i dont think Apple would consider this, :-(, that's why i wrote and shared it, as Apple is unlikely to figure out for us...
Nice work. Congrats on launching. Looks pretty cool :)
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Rock stars are not overrated
It looks good and should work well for businesses. Clearly Facebook inspired, but that's not a bad thing. Also, Twitter was the only major network without cover images (although they had background images).
It's cool (it is) but if you just want to deploy something similar and don't want to get involved in the browser politics (IE/Safari/Opera don't support direct access to the filefield, and oh yeah, IE in general) you could do worse than to look at http://www.plupload.com/

It supports HTML5 canvas resizing as well as offering Flash/Silverlight/Gears/BrowserPlus for resizing, and if the user doesn't have one of those, it falls back to standard upload form.

And all under GPLv2 (only becomes an issue if you're distributing closed-source websites - eg a template, and perhaps not even then)
Looks like the App.net profile page.