skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm the developer and (first-time) comics artist. Instead of the traditional blog, we distilled our notes into this webcomic.

I'm a big fan of Scott McCloud's books (Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, Making Comics). I hadn't drawn any long-form comics before, and drawing people is still hard/scary. I had a few books lined up on the process of making comics but no time to read them, so I just bit the bullet with a copy of Manga Studio and drew it. It took a little less than a week.

Comments are welcome.

Sales data: 3600+ downloads in the first 2 days, a little IAP.

This comic is not intended (or likely) to have much of an impact on sales. We just wanted to get our story out there, and hopefully a few less "developers got greedy" App Store reviews.
I can't work with a TV on either. And music with lyrics is hard to program to as well. Ambient music is ok, I usually find it helps get me into the zone. I thought that was pretty normal though...
It seems like a great initiative and they seem to be doing it the right way, staying lean, cutting unnecessary expenses and using technology a lot. Yet when I think about it, what I loved back in those years was the interaction with other kids, the noise, the sort of controlled chaos. I don't know if they would have been able to keep me sitting in a lab, glued to a monitor. But alas, those were different times and I do remember getting very excited when we got our first, really really old computers and how we tried by any means to get some time with them. I am not even that old and yet I feel I live in a completely different world. Times have changed, and so fast :)
haha! yes we did with 6-8 hours of sleep :)
Hehe, port 1337. Nice.

How long did it take you to make this game?
> I never noticed or accepted that I had mild A.D.D. until a few months ago and around that time, I started thinking about methods to work with it.

Not to be rude, but it's unclear whether the author has had an actual professional diagnosis. ADHD is one of the most commonly self-diagnosed conditions, and also one of the most commonly misdiagnosed conditions.

It doesn't help that ADHD is much more difficult to diagnose in individuals (particularly adults) who perform well in other metrics (IQ, etc.), as they oftentimes have simply developed compensatory mechanisms - these same mechanisms which have enabled them to have success also make a diagnosis much more difficult, even for professionals.

> It’s nice. I can let the A.D.D. run wild when I’m thinking about a problem or how to solve it but when I sit down to solve the problem, I force myself into that zone and try my hardest not to let anything in while I check mini-task after mini-task off on my list.

'Hyperfocus' is common in individuals with ADHD, but this doesn't sound quite right - hyperfocus isn't something that can be turned on and off easily. With ADHD, focusing on programming is a challenge as much as anything else is.
Well, Unix would do it.

Honestly never heard of these though, thanks.
I can't take the word "privilege" seriously anymore. I'm generally liberal myself, but the extremists have coopted the word to mean "all white and/or male people everywhere" and I just cannot get behind that.

A hacker girl can't get married or visit her husband in the hospital due to lack of legal standing. That's why every female has it worse than men, you can clearly see this as gay men can get married and trans men never experience discrimination. Don't forget, all black people everywhere have it awful and all white people have it great. Those gay kids getting bullied to death need to check their privilege, geez.

(You may also enjoy this, which pokes fun at the recent phenomenon: http://fuckyeahsocialjusticesally.tumblr.com/ )

The privilege metaphor is great for people who can only think in terms of black and white, good or evil, privilege or nonprivileged. In truth, reality is greyscale.
To implement this correctly, put your service's email address in the "Sender:" header (and also for the "mail from" when establishing the SMTP connection) to remain SPF compliant while still keeping the user's email address in the "From:" header:

http://www.openspf.org/Best_Practices/Webgenerated

Note that this will show up as "(user's info) on behalf of (your app's info)" or "(user's info) via (your app's info)" depending on the recipient's mail client.
No reason that glibc can't include a validate_format_string routine to be run at compile-time by gcc. There are already so many conditional compilation sections in both codebases that another #ifdef GNU in gcc isn't going to hurt anyone :)
I think the product looks awesome, but I would never use it. (I am a student.)

Here's why: For me, it appears to attempt to solve the problems of: a calendar, reminders, and school-related task management.

During the first week of each class, I "process" the syllabus by adding the major assignment due dates (usually 3-5 over the course of a quarter), and exam dates to my Google Calendar. This is a pretty quick process. It's so little overhead that I think setting up a sharing system with others to try to share the data is actually more overhead. (I have used a setup like this for 10 years myself, and I expect most students have something similar.)

I get text-message based reminders a week in advance for these special events (a separate calendar from my usual one for easy color differentiation). The professors always list and review contents of major exams and details of upcoming projects already anyway.

And finally, my student / project tasks are managed separately in another system alongside all my other projects and areas. It never made sense to me to separate the student side when really my entire life is project-based. For this type of system, I've used text-based GTD, Wunderlist, Taskpaper, etc.

That said... If I could sign into your app the first week of my class and have all this done automatically for me, I would be very happy.
At a tangent, Zack previously talked about the Single Application Mode in osx Lion. Its appears to not work in Mountain Lion. http://zackshapiro.com/post/26300586593/single-application-m...
I think the ADD aids my procrastination. I let it take my procrastination to a whole new level.

I agree, it's absolutely over-diagnosed. That's why I made a point to keep calling it mild in my post. It's not doctor prescribed, just a hunch that I have.

I think we all have attention trouble, especially today where everything is vying for our attention with a little ounce of dopamine. I notice when I don't want to do something, that's when I really let the ADD/procrastination combo kick in and run wild.
Can you point out exactly where he promoted "sexist points of view regarding women and work?"

Because as far as I can tell, regardless of whether he is right or wrong (I think he is wrong), his blog post had very little to do with expressing a sexist point of view of women, and was more of a critique of how we currently judge discrimination and how the current dialogue around sexism is framed.
Ask HN: Finding businesses/companies to trial custom software
Hi HN,

I create software applications for myself that I never deploy outside my own computer.

I have recently created a web application that allows users to create lists with custom column names and links between lists (in the back end it creates the tables and relationships, so the user basically builds a relational database application without knowing any coding)

My question is, is there any way to find out if this application would be useful to businesses? I'm not sure of other similar products available, I know mine would need some tidy up before being available for deployment. And if so how would I find potential businesses for feedback or implementation?

Thanks
I think you are right that most of the violence we see aren't really a result of hate speach.

However, I think the parent's point is still valid in the more general sense, that our weakening of free speech due to threats of violence sends the signal that terrorism is an effective means of politics. Having said that, reading a history books also sends that signal, although it likely frames it in terms of guerilla warfare, and cutting losses, and such.
Why are you storing user name and password as plain text in browser local storage? Isn't that a security issue if someone else uses that same browser.
Thanks for reminding me about SO. BRB.
Clever. When we create that one, I'll password protect it and make sure it stays off HackerNews ;-)
This metaphor is overly simplistic to the point of absurdity. I wish people would stop profligately promoting this nonsense.
Thanks David! We found that out after deploying for the competition (RailsRumble 2012). We can't quite fix it now, but it should be changed after the judging.

I appreciate the support and heads up!
I have some questions about freelancing as it pertains to writing long-form journalism.

Would it be alright if I sent you them via email? My email is stevenj134@gmail.com. Or if you leave your email I'll contact you. Would really appreciate it.
For sure read this as "Erotic data structures."
This is really interesting in light of the recent reddit fiasco involving violentacrez and voyeuristic photos being published. I mean people were clearly up in arms about the invasion of privacy and supported subreddits like creepshots being banned despite the fact that they're perfectly legal. I wonder whether these same people see the similiarity between themselves and Muslims who want the blasphemous publication of prophets banned.
Tor Being Used by Thousands of Bradley Mannings
The article's reuse of antirez tweets at the end would've been better had they also included the surrounding context--without that, it's harder to formulate useful opinions.

Also the Ebola analogy was poor; something along the lines of "In general if there is a health problem caused by disease A to victim B, it is always shortsighted to talk about treating only the symptoms of A (and ignoring environmental factors such as sanitation, etc.)".

I don't mind the rage and anger, but tighter rhetoric would be more effective here.
It indeed appears to be unable to catch exceptions that happen in event handlers that aren't attached with jQuery or directly in <script/> tags not wrapped in .ready() events, which is interesting because doing so is totally possible: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/window.onerror

There's an argument to be made for attaching event handlers any way besides using jQuery would be bad practice, but not waiting for .ready() to fire is totally normal for sites practicing Progressive Enhancement that put all the <script/> tags at the end of the <body/>.
I've seen people say with a straight face that when a white person is a victim of a black person's crime, the white person deserves it because SLAVERY!

I've also had people tell me that the civilians who died in the WTC attacks deserved it because America is evil and imperialistic in its dealing with other countries. This [HARD-MODE!!] metaphor has gone over great with this same crowd, not so much with me, who thinks the people who are dead got a game over and aren't really playing on any difficulty anymore.
"Blasphemy" is one of those things I do not get. Religious criticism seems to unearth the general insecurity that people have about their religion (whatever is might be).

If people would be sufficiently secure about their religious views any criticism would just be ignored and people would go on about their business.

(Well, the truth is that people are angry to begin with, and religion is just a nice excuse to vent this anger).

The other part that baffles me are "hate crimes". That word makes no sense. What the heck is a "hate crime"? Are there violent non-hate crimes?
I'm surprised to see this on HN. Linux kernel RCs are released weekly, there were 7 RCs of 3.6 before the final release. Is there something special in this one that I'm missing?
Exactly - Changing copy via a tool like the now-defunct but open sourced CopyCopter, small tweaks here and there could completely be within the scope for a non-technical analyst to deploy once deemed ready.

It's also nice for a consultant who manages many clients, which we included in the copy in other places.
Thank you for the detailed writeup, taking down antirez's post point by point. Thank you also for your just and well expressed anger.
I doubt the general public and the Supreme Court would accept your logic for a span of almost fifty years, whereas they don't seem to have had much of a problem with Justice Holmes'. I think that tells us quite a lot about how human psychology tends to work in these cases, though your opinion may differ. I suspect time will tell which of us is the more accurate, though I wish it wouldn't.
I don't know if anyone has ever told you this, but real life is a lot more difficult than a video game.
Has_reputation (Rails)
Reminds me of http://www.jonathanrauch.com/jrauch_articles/height_discrimi...

Conclusion: "For centuries, short men have shrugged their shoulders and carried on. They, at least, still see themselves, and are seen by others, as variegated individuals, not as a monotonal social group. That may be the best approach to all such human characteristics."
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I wonder how many of the men commenting with sympathy for antirez have spoken up consistently (or at all) when women in their field are the targets of obvious and horrible misogyny. If they educate themselves about what we're talking about, and how pervasive it is, maybe they would understand the level of anger -- and why women leave (or never enter) the field.
At first, I thought this wasn't a big deal because JSON really is just text.

Then I realized that this will help in validation. Go Postgres!
Releases are easy if you don't stop to think about what could go wrong.
I also felt that way. I think the title would be better rephrased (something along the lines of "people think your startup is spam") or put in quotation marks to indicate this aspect better.
The release of -rc1 indicates the closure of the merge window for the next major kernel version, and this announcement thus indicates all the major new features that'll appear in the next kernel. -rcN for N!=1 doesn't typically draw as much interest.
Nice App.
The idea looks really great
kEEP IT UP :)
OLX Serves 40 million pageviews per day using MariaDB
The book "Mastery" by George Leonard is a distilled version of "The Inner Game of Tennis." Highly recommended, and it can be had for a few bucks shipped on Amazon.
Couldn't be possible without your help and contribution.
You are aware that this is a 19th century translation, right?
Also check out http://ratchet.io which also supports debug-style logging so you can, for example, wrap console.log() to debug client-side issues in production.
Take a hard look at the shuttle. Most of it - the weight, the complexity, the cost - comes from trying to bring it back intact. Wings, landing gear, hydraulics, flight control systems, etc., is all there solely to bring it back.

All that extra weight means a much bigger rocket is needed to push it up, it means you've got far, far less payload, and you're still stuck in low earth orbit only.

Weight is so expensive I don't think the economics can ever pan out for reusable rockets.
Steam doesn't allow in-app purchases that circumvent their distribution system, and that's a load of crap.

The idea there is probably something along the lines of preventing developers from selling their game for $0.99 and "unlocking" it in-app for $59.00.
Rate limit changes for unauthenticated requests
Do you think that all murders happen because the murderer hates the victim? I think it's very possible for their to be violent non-hate crimes (e.g., murder for hire, killing witnesses to another crime, etc).
http://railsrumble.com/entries/263-ucommently
http://ucommently.com/

Busy weekend but I was able to get my app out. My little brother was all like you should make textsfromlastnight for funny YouTube comments.... Probably wont win any awards, but I had a lot of fun! :) Its cool to see a lot of other people went solo too and came up with some cool stuff!
For the most part, I agree.

Affirmative action in hiring only serves to promote stereotypes. I wish they'd do away with it so I wouldn't have to deal with people telling me that it'll be omg SO easy for me because I'm a minority. Just treat me the same as everyone else. As it is, the suspicion of my abilities is justified, because most minorities have been let in despite much lower stats in order to satisfy racial/gender quotas and etc. I can't blame people for thinking I might not have gotten in on my own merits when I have no way of telling whether or not I DID get in on my own merits.

Don't lower the bar--help us train.
Reminds me of the Hemingway quote: "Write drunk; edit sober."

I'd give it a go, if it were legal, but I've coded and written while inebriated a few times. It worked out great, but I haven't got the stomach for regular drinking so it's not common. It seems to be a good way to turn down the inner censor.
Not entirely a new idea http://errorception.com/
Apple repairs ask for root password
Had an interesting experience at the apple store the other day. Brought my 2009 MBP in because the screen was starting to have some issues. As part of the documentation, the rep asked me to input my username and password to their report form. Not thinking, I did so, assuming my password would be hidden. It was not - it was right there in plain text. Not to worry! It doesn't get printed out. It only gets stored in case the repair facility needs it to access my computer. It was at this point I woke up and had a WTF moment. Of course, I immediately changed my password, and thanked myself for not using that password for anything else. But still seems rather bizarre behavior.
Syte: Simple but powerful packaged personal site
iPad can't open zip files?!
looking forward for more feedback in future.
Exactly, without all those wings, landing gear, flight controls, hydraulics, etc., you've got weight avaible to spend on payload. Remember the "pay" in payload, it's the point of the mission.

The only things that need to come back are the astronauts.
Is that really where the name comes from? I thought Notch said it was "10 to the c", referring to the "0x0001 0000 0000 0000 years" from the story.
Microsoft launches all-in-one Xbox Music service, comes to Xbox and Windows 8
This is just noise. Nobody should care about this release; it's just more commodity software with generic features. With some exceptions, kernels are no longer a key piece of the value chain.
This is every parent’s dilemma http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis
History is interesting sometimes.

As Chamberlain and Dalladier brilliantly showed with the Munich Agreement, it can be a good thing to appease a potential adversary which feels wronged for some reason by giving in to their demands and forgetting for a while about one's law or best interests - for a "greater cause". They did in fact avoid a war.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement

But since the agreement was made possible by the fear of the potential alternative outcome (failed negotiations -> risk war), which was of different significance to the opponents (one could say, with hindsight, that one of the negotiating parties wanted an opportunity to go to war), an advantage could be gained by the party with attached less significance to the bad outcome.

The result was in fact positive for all the negotiators : they all got what they wanted. But the ones with an interest in a war were given the zone where the border defenses and the banks were - even if the result was positive for all, some gained more - and not just "more", but strategically more.

In other words, reaching an agreement failed to consider the strategic significance of the advantage that was given away.

Slippery slope? Maybe. The real problem is not just incentivizing a very destructive conduct, but it seems very similar - giving away one's best defenses in exchange of a short-lived peace.

Why ? Just like a pen is mightier than a sword, free speech is the best defense of democracy.

Why is no one interested in free speech? (in one of the posts: "I'd be willing to take that risk, the answer is no")

It looks like a public good - one which utility is the sum of marginal utility, with individual marginal utilities not enough to offset the cost of this good.

That's bad.

But there's something to learn - any group that can manage to make its adversary give them their best defense is applying a good strategy - so threatening violence works, while giving in to the demand of bullies with diverging interest doesn't.

(Please do not interpret this post as an endorsement of any party, faith, or country - the strategy here is just very interesting)
Show HN: Published my personal CV creator to GitHub
At the moment Koi Deploy allows you to add GitHub repositories as 'Projects' and set up multiple Heroku instances for that project. You can then schedule or instantly deploy your application from any branch/git ref with the click of a button.

The deploy process:

* Turns on maintenance mode

* Does a backup of your database using pgbackups (support for others later)

* Pushes your code to Heroku

* Runs migrations

* Turns off maintenance mode

* Sends you an email to notify you of success or failure

In the future we would like to add support for a bunch more features including provisioning new Heroku instances and showing you the commits that will be pushed. We want to become the place to do managed deployment to Heroku. It's to easy to forget to do a backup or forget to turn on maintenance mode when deploying manually. At our day job, we have 10s of Heroku instances and being able to see the status of multiple deploys at once is going to be a major win for us.
Some other interesting moments of aeronautical derring-do:

Imagine piloting an unpowered aircraft with no wings which could best be described as a "flying bathtub" and by "flying" what is meant is "falling". This is the M2-F{1,2,3}, designed to test lifting body aerodynamics and unpowered landings, much of this research helped in the design of the shuttle orbiter. But in 1967 pilot Bruce Peterson was involved in a spectacular crash that was later used in the opening of the TV show The Six Million Dollar Man, he survived: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jvGJhJINlc

Also consider the X-15. Unlike the SR-71 the X-15 didn't cruise around at high speeds it just accelerated to very high speeds using a rocket engine and then glided. These aircraft, dropped off the wing of a B-52, these aircraft would eventually travel up to nearly mach 7 and over 100 km altitude. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_X-15

Also it's worth considering that the Space Ship One rocket powered sub-orbital space plane gets up to around mach 3 on ascent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipOne

Or, consider the Apollo 10 spacecraft, which reentered the Earth's atmosphere at a speed of nearly 40,000 kph after returning from the moon (over ten times the highest recorded speed of the SR-71).
I can see 5 year old events in google calendar.
Here's the strawpoll version (live results, quantitative option):

http://strawpoll.me/4231
Some (dead) people might disagree with you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_van_Gogh_(film_director)
I've curious, under what conditions is a smushed list useful?
Google Space from mrdoob
Well, if you don't agree with the social justice crowd, that automatically makes you a privileged white person. Duh.
and 45% of statistics ending in 0 or 5 are made up.
Doesn't matter. Only the From: and Sender: matter.
Some did.
https://github.com/railsrumble/

Mine was:
https://github.com/railsrumble/r12-team-263

I'm definitely looking forward to going through the other entries! :)
I wish the author would have given some examples of how programming had cured his ADD, e.g. examples of reduced symptoms of ADD in various life situations after programming.