skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, as I said to another commenter, my observation wasn't "MeeGo was poop," it was "MeeGo wasn't ready."

I'll admit that when the Windows Phone rumors started -- which was right after I'd been laid off from Nokia, as the product I was working on was being transformed into something that no longer needed the server-side components I was developing -- I dismissed them out of hand. (And got some level of unintended fame by calling them "loony" on my blog, and having that picked up by BGR. I'm surprised Nokia didn't hire me back at that point just so they could fire me again.) While I think MeeGo was fairly unusable at that point, it seemed to me that in 6-8 months with serious work it could have been awesome. And, apparently, in the shipping N9 it was.

The specific "what if" question I've thought of that parallels yours is whether they could have gotten, say, two MeeGo devices out in 2011, and three more in 2012, which would have put them in roughly the same place they're in with Windows Phone, but with an OS that was entirely theirs and with what might well have been a larger ecosystem. The MeeGo team had only predicted being able to get three devices out by the end of 2012; maybe if they'd been convincingly optimistic things might have gone differently.
http://github.com/component
Her point is that her product is a counterexample to the parent commenter, not that it came without effort. Where is she ever saying it doesn't take effort?
My Quest for a Logo
I think I'm not understanding what you're trying to say. Maybe it's that small wins for large number of individuals outweighs large losses for small numbers of individual?
For what it's worth, the only thing you sacrifice in Python by omitting trivial a getter/setter pair is the docstring: unlike Java, the syntax doesn't change, and, for Python classes, there is no such thing as .NET-style "binary compatibility".
"Nothing like an ad hominem"

Well if that's an ad hominem then my example of what I've done myself wouldn't have been used, would it?

And where are the words "taking advantage" which you quote appearing in anything that I have written?
Complain to Apple.
I was at a hackathon last weeked called Hackfood[1] that.. well, sounds exactly like the name would imply.

Someone made a really quick hack called DeliveryHop that was actually a really interesting idea. Basically, a system for 'free agents' to pick up orders from restaurants and deliver them, rather than restaurants using their own employees. It seems like it has a ton of benefits (for one, the delivery guy could pick up from multiple restaurants delivering to the same area = efficiency), and could easily expand beyond restaurants.

I have no idea how much restaurants really care about the cost of deliveries, though- in a not-insignificant number of cases it's probably the owner's son doing the delivery, or similar. Still, a fascinating idea.

[1] http://pandodaily.com/2012/10/08/hacking-food-deliciously-wi...
Please point out exactly what "snips" I took at patio11
The dust and planets will start to radiate ... at the blackbody rate.

On average, that's somewhere in the neighborhood of 3K.
If the niche products are doing so well, then why the need to sell consulting? I mean if you have a product that is truly revolutionizing the time management space, one would think that business would constinue to grow and require a lot of energy to maintain.

It seems like this niche is a given number of programmers with poor time management skills surfing the web (what a coincidence :). Giving them a quick fix impulse buy is the niche. You will not catch enough fish to last a lifetime but some not-so-smart fish will get caught in the net, consistently.

And we can apply this same idea to selling admission to a talk or sellling an ebook. The point is to sell a perceived quick fix to people who are foolish enough to believe in such things.

No one would question this works as a "business". People _will_ pay. I would not doubt someone could make 30K in one month.

What's being questioned is whether you want to sell to an audience of people who you know will, with very rare exception, never have that success. This is because they believe in quick fixes. And of those rare cases where a buyer does succeed, can you really take credit for their success?
What I'm saying is that it's a misleading language feature and something to bear in mind. It's not really a case of just being pythonic.
Earlier this summer I made a commitment to write 1,000 words a day. I haven't always been consistent, but I am now at 87 days in a row. That writing has turned into a popular book, many blog posts, and now I'm halfway through a second book.

This process has changed my income, influence, and how I tackle complicated projects. Just start writing.

The first book is here: http://NathanBarry.com/app-design-handbook
Plus, Amazon's DRM is pretty trivial to strip off.
They can't add that feature because they already have it.
I wasn't familiar with that type of braka, and had to look it up. I can't see a hub on the back wheel, and I don't see him using any type of back-pedal or braking action to stop (just his feet).

So, yes, for those few bikes that don't have conventional brakes, this lighting system may be an option.

That doesn't change the fact that this product will be useless to the majority of people who might purchase (sorry, sponsor :-) it through KickStarter, at least without sacrificing the ability to stop.

The fact that this isn't called out in the video or text is deceptive. There's no way he isn't aware of this serious shortcoming.
It's dishonest to tell visitors the queue is due to high demand (what message do they see if demand is low?) and fail to disclose that the service does not exist and may not even be feasible at the offered price point. This kind of chaff cast into the marketplace makes it harder for customers and legitimate service providers to find each other. Market research is fine (with consent) but it's not a license to deceive the public about what you're doing.
A Real Life SaaS Case Study: Eloqua. Marketo. Pardot.
Interesting, maybe it's because I'm English, it felt like the right expression.

"The British Oxford English Dictionary flags jibe in the sense of “to agree with” as “chiefly U.S.” Unlike Merriam-Webster, however, the OED includes this definition under the word jive:

b. intr. To make sense; to fit in. U.S. Cf JIBE v."

http://americanenglishdoctor.com/wordpress/jive-and-jibe
Yes, true, but Olbers' Paradox was posed long before the Big Bang theory or the idea that the universe is expanding.

In a static universe such as Einstein proposed in 1916, eventually the entire universe would heat up to the temperature of its stars. This made Olbers' paradox an important reality-test, and reality failed the test.

It was only because of the Big Bang and universal expansion was Olbers' Paradox reconciled with observation.
It's entirely possible that you could mount the strip below the brake track.
I like the ambiguity in the title, is it Hipster speak or is it literal? Who knows.

This article is an excellent discourse on the corportification of the gaming experience. It really points out the notion that 'smart money doesn't innovate, it evaluates' which is so prevalent in the casual game space. So much data, the temptation to use it is impossible to resist, but then going against it becomes equally impossible.

I don't think the revolution is over though. There is a lot of money to be made in entertainment, but it is true that trying to make it mathematically or through statistical analysis is in peril. Actual game designers, folks who can conceive out of whole cloth a fun and entertaining gaming experience, will come out on top.
In the "updates" section, he shows that there is a new system to attach some phosphorescent plastic between the spokes next to the rim. It isn't clear if these are included with the standard backer price, but it does allow the system to be used on bikes with brakes. Hopefully he updates the front page to make this more apparent, since it was my first question also.
Traits of successful non-technical solo founders
the idea of universe size increasing speed now comes to my mind,

if the speed is greater or equal to speed of light, how we can be sure that we won't see ourselves in telescope?

I mean, even if the radius is infinite, because speed is increasing, we should see sun light returning to us over universe surface at some point
"devs aren't gonna have to worry about it"

Yeah, out of context but I think this is telling. I know a lot of devs who ignore one browser or another or ignore mile or ignore desktop or only do responsive design as opposed to building out a mobile only site and vice versa. In most cases they do some mental gymnastics to convince themselves they don't need to worry about a certain segment of the market. I think is is dangerous in that it can cost you a lot of money. Many times these decisions are made because they don't want to pay for supporting X or don't want to learn how. Then they justify it by saying that market segment X is too small to support. Instead of being based on reality it instead is just a self-fulfilling prophecy. Market segment X doesn't use site Y not because they're so small but simply because X is not supported. Imagine HN launched today. Today is HN's first day and for some reason PG said we won't support IE because HNers are all using "better" "modern" browsers. Then he checks the logs and sees a very small portion of IE users that steadily shrinks. Is the portion small because Hackers who use IE are few and far between? Maybe. Or maybe it's because people who visited HN on IE couldn't access the site and so they didn't spread word to their friends who may also use IE and of course they never return because the site never worked for them to begin with and so the number of IE users remains small enough to be ignored. But in reality we know that there are definitely enough HN users on IE to justify supporting it. I know because I see my own logs from HN referrals from posts I've made in the past or people reading my profile. The percentage is lower than other browsers but definitely more than a trickle and surely not low enough to justify not supporting IE if I ever had to make that decision.

My whole point is that I think it's dangerous to make assumptions about your audience because they often become self-fufilling prophecies. You can't say a certain platform isn't worth supporting until you have data to show it and you can't get that data (at least not accurate data) unless you support the platform in question to begin with.

I do agree with you about Windows phone though. At this point, at least in the mobile space, I think companies would be smart to make their mobile browsers compatible with what's out there now rather than releasing a mobile browser and expecting developers to cater to it. I wonder if the iPhone would've taken off like it did had they decided to release a very stripped down version of Safari and expect devs to modify their sites to support it.
It's a pretty cool little hack. Nice usage of the API.

It's not very respectful though towards the limits to their service, especially since they use S3[1] as part of their backend - :. rampant usage of this type of tool could definitely put a dent in their bottom line (bandwidth costs / etc.)

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/help/7/en
Sure, if you're comfortable with a website that will "pretty much work" for a decently-sized chunk (YMMV) of your users.

If you'd rather have it "definitely work" for those users, then test it.
"Hacker" has many meanings. A quick read of the Wikipedia entry for the term shows you that. RFC 1392 defines a hacker as "A person who delights in having an intimate understanding of the internal workings of a system, computers and computer networks in particular." The only way to tell which definition is in use is via context, and for this case the meaning is unambiguously aligned with the RFC 1392 definition.

(Note that this RFC comes from the days when 'hacker' was becoming a widespread term for someone who breaks into computer systems; the RFC attempts to distinguish between a 'hacker' and a 'cracker.')
{m}brace the cloud
Cool. You managed to read the first sentence of the copyright section of article. Now read the rest of it.
I lived in the UK in the '90s, and at least back then, they still had twice-daily delivery. Even more impressive, in many cases you'd get same-day delivery of normal mail to addresses at the other end of the country.

One very memorable experience I had was sending a check in the mail to London, from Edinburgh, in the morning, and then receiving in return the ordered merchandise in the evening of the same day!!

[Those two cities are very major destinations and so mail between them is presumably well-optimized, but I was pretty flabbergasted that this was possible...]
Given what your typical MAD SCIENTIST can do with a handful of gears and a steam boiler, I usually tag it as a subgenre of fantasy, not of SF. Just like Tolkien's medievalism, it's set in a romanticized version of the world before the technological revolution in progress as its being written. With magic.

I predict that once the Information Revolution is over, and the next one has begun, there will be people writing fiction set in an exaggerated, magical caricature of the early 2000s.
Nice! For those without Android, dayscore.net has similar functionality, (no daily reports though)
Windows 8: Hardware That Will Physically Hurt
I'm right there with you. Although I think the benefits are probably more for the parents than the kids - and that's ok. You and kids will enjoy time together more than either you will enjoy a pool.
I'd like to congratulate you, not only for your app (that is pretty nice) but for being open to criticism and help a lot of new developers making your app open.

Thanks!
And that it is still relevant suggests some truisms lay within it.
Great idea, it does look like the Tron bikes. I think putting the front and rear lights will attract more pledges.
Thanks hadn't spotted that - it really should be on the front page. So it seems when he first put this kick-starter up he really had overlooked the obvious (despite having no brakes himself) or hoped everyone else would overlook it, until potential backers pointed out that it wasn't going to fly.

Now he has a bigger problem - his new system appears to work by wedging into the spokes where they converge at the rim, so he will need to supply the correct radius of strip for every size rim on the market.
this should fix that. ls -l | sed -e :a -e 's/\s\(.*[0-9]\)\([0-9]\{3\}\) /\1,\2 /;ta'

correction: sorry it will only fix the modifications to the filename - the year is still broken.
Is anybody else tired of reading x traits/qualities required to perform y and z? Seems like every other post is highlighting what you need to have to achieve everything you can ever want. It's like a bad collection of extracts from self-help books.
"CAN WINDOWS PHONE 8 SAVE NOKIA? No."

He goes through a lot of interesting analysis of the past, then asks THE KEY question about the future, and just dismisses it with a negative answer without any analysis and calls Elop clinically insane. Instead of a personal attack on Elop, I'd like to see more about why the strategy will fail going forward. Being that these are now occurring:

1. WP marketshare is increasing very very steadily.

2. WP reviews are great and user satisfaction is great.

3. WP8 and Windows 8 are both about to come out in a few weeks, and although Microsoft has taken some risks, there is massive potential.

4. Nokia's new phones look great, have several impressive unique points of differentiation, and in some ways are clearly superior to any other phone on the market (e.g. Pureview).

5. The news about positive WP phone sales in China and India. Taking into consideration the fact that they have great phones at several price points.

6. The existing reports of the new feature phone line are promising (Asha).
Reflective tape on the rims is a common solution. There's reflective tape that looks black in daylight and is available at any bike shop. There are reflectors you can put on the spokes, too, also available at any bike shop.

Here's a video showing what reflective tape looks like in the dark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bm5muia44XI&feature=relmf...

As for actively illuminated lights, there are a large number of commercial products available. I'm too lazy, but anybody tempted to donate to a project melodramatically promising to "save lives" in the name of somebody's beloved grandfather should first drop by their local bike shop and see if perhaps it's already possible to light themselves up however they want for a modest amount of money.
Could you name a few so this discussion can make more sense?

TPB could easily run without ads. In my mind adding ads to something should generally not affect legality.

A guy who prints DVDs with movies on them and sells them on the street is a commercial pirate. A guy that takes DVDs someone else made and brings them to people is a courier. It's not a very complicated distinction.
The one demonstrated in the video or described in the pledge page wouldn't. I've since learned here is an alternative flawed solution in the updates section.

Other than for the "cool" factor (which suits his old-fashioned bike), good old fashioned clip-on reflectors will do a far better job.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TwentyMinutesInto... comes close.
Yeah, but this is my whole point. Finally in version 4 they stop mucking around with the requests before they give it to you. Someone, somewhere in the depths of MS clearly believe they understand HTTP better than you do. And keep guessing what you really 'meant'.

Even though they quite clearly don't understand and actually really don't get HTTP. For example take the fact that it's nigh impossible to get the actual request body in ASP.Net. Who's bright idea was that?

In reality every single interface, every single framework they've produced so far has shown a woeful lack of understanding about the web in general and pretty much how it's used outside their world. And I say this as someone who's primarily programmed in VBScript, VB6, C#, Silverlight, ASP.Net and ASP.Net MVC.

I keep almost jumping ship and then they just kinda fix it and I stick around hoping they're not going to make the same mistakes. But they do, jeesus, MVCs ajax stuff is unsurprisingly fucking awful.

But that's the problem with MVC and anything MS led, they don't get the web, they don't get javascript, they keep making incredibly silly decisions.

A good example. Every time I hear 'unobtrusive' js, I just want to scream. They're the cause of this made up problem. No-one else was doing js like that in 2010, no-one else needed unobtrusive javascript. Just MS. There's no such thing as unobtrusive javascript, there's just not writing idiotic magic code like a fucking retard like MS constantly do when it comes to javascript.

And don't even get me started on their 'web services' or WCF. Both deserve to die in a fire.

TL;DR; I love C#, think it's the best language available today by far. I hate asp.net though.
If you use Objective-C just like C, then maybe. Otherwise, no.

And you'd have to be insane to write a game these days in C. It's just not a productive enough language for that. Whatever little speed you give up for Java pays off many times over in speed of development, debuggability, etc.
Ask HN: Getting custom electronics made
So I am designing this little Arduino based sensor kit and wondering about getting it made as a single board with everything built in.

Any suggestions where to start?
China plans 27 new reactors by the end of 2015
Haha fair enough. I did buy a ticket though so maybe I really will see you get drunk on cereal and cartoons. I hope they play Aqua Teen Hunger Force. I got excited when I saw one of the Moononites on the Eventbrite page.
Thank you! I wouldn't have gotten anywhere in coding without open source and the communities around it, so it would be poor form not to try and give something back. Hopefully I'll contribute slightly more elegant code in the future :).
Speaking of salesmanship, this kid has a great future!
Source that obamacare = single payer system?

I'm not fully familiar with it but I've never heard it described that way.
If your definition of "breaking" things is "they don't work on the first try", everything I've ever tried to do was broken.
I wish the title here was the same as the article's title, "Four traits of successful non-technical solo founders". I got half-way through the article before I realised that it was only talking about non-technical solo founders, and it made a lot more sense.

That said, it does sound perfectly reasonable that non-technical solo founders should be product focussed (like somebody in any startup needs to be), have the means and connections to get technical help, and have some understanding of what the people building the product are actually doing.
There's a flat part right by the tire where the brakes contact the rim, but there's also a partially sideways-facing surface as the rim curves around to the other side. You can put tape on that surface without affecting the brakes.
Not with Chrome.
Nice.

Use ActionBarSherlock to make the UI compatible to older versions. Really use to use.

I'm about to launch a site for Android developers. It might be useful to you. Hit me up if you're interested.
What do you think about point number five; graphics? Is graphics an important part in the next future game hit? Graphics is certainly not a priority in the social games that have been succesful so far. The beauty of many hit social games I feel is in that they're so easy to start to use and even my mom understands them, will AAA graphics add to that effectively (since it's so expensive)?
Oh, that's a nice explanation. I like to think that I am not adding something, just always going half the way to 2.0. Still, when this was introduced to me in school, I remember my head hurting a little. :)
Pedal reflectors are required in the UK but it is hard to buy pedals with them...
To be fair, what I am commenting on goes well beyond this specific blog. The type of practice I've described gets much, much worse than what is on this blog. But is essentially the same thing, only to a different degree.

It's ironic that the web has opened up the door to vast amounts of free information and at the same time led to many people believing they can and should sell any information they manage to acquire. Will some people pay? Yes, some people will. Buy my ebook and I'll explain how.
The `this.module` trick is still relying on behaviour that is specific to node. Why not go the simple way then?

typeof process !== 'undefined'
&& process.versions
&& process.versions.node
Honestly I'd say at least 95% of gamification companies were seemingly run by con artists to begin with. Extrinsic motivation completely kills intrinsic motivation, a fact that virtually none of the gamification companies take into account in their design even though presumably most of them know about this since it comes up right away in any decent book on the topic. This means that basically none of these companies had a chance in hell of working. Yet there are tons of investors who've probably never taken more than psych 101 who see these companies and throw tons of money at them without any due diligence, because they intuitively seem like great ideas if you don't understand that they're contraindicated by the academic research. So it just encourages more people to come along and do the same thing.

Note to investors: find someone who understands psychology and the other social sciences to help with your due diligence. And not just normal psychology, but also specifically Internet psych. (Which is actually a field.) For basically all businesses you should be looking at whether they're consistent or inconsistent with what the social sciences suggest will work, work great, or be completely non-viable.

(Also, it should be noted that there are startups that use gamification to good effect, like Squidoo and Ginzametrics, but these are very rare.)