skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like Riak you mean? Is that pun or valid criticism.

I think Riak is a very successful product with features (distribution, simplicity, fault tolerance and scalability) that few (if any) others can match.
In one way, yes: Evernote provides something that would be much more difficult to otherwise have; at least compared to creating a news source.

While I'm a big fan of the NYTimes and read it almost every day (and indirectly pay for it), I could go read any number of other papers. I might miss the great journalism but can find other decent sources of news and writing.
Ask HN: Some advices for an eprocurement solution?
Hi,

I am working on a eprocurement solution for professionals and SMEs. Basically, it started with the idea of providing a simple reverse auction platform, but I am now thinking of adding more features (you don't run auctions every day normally and I want this solution to be a part of the long term relationships buyer-vendor so that I can charge a monthly fee).

I now want to provide some smart way of doing vendor and quotes management. Especially, for the quote part I want to create a distinction between the requester and purchaser. Basically, the requester will require the part, the purchaser (or purchase dep.) will receive the request and do a quote request (or reverse auction). Quote request and reverse auctions will be easy as vendors and materials will be in the system already (no need to email people around).

Now, the question is, do you think this set of features, if well executed, is enough as a first launch solution, or you think I would need some more? I was thinking that the "closing" of this process would be a 3 way match, basically the order is closed when the good and the invoice are received and all have the same price.
you might want to look into pallet do achieve what you want if you're not afraid of clojure.
The Ubuntu Software Centre already has paid apps, and this SDK wouldn't be all that useful, seeing as how Gtk, GL and so on are well documented anyway.
From reading these comments in this thread, it seems that this score is used to evaluate whether to allow the said employee to transfer.

HR won't stop transfer with a 3.0-3.1, especially if those are more than a year in the past, but no one will want you. It's the standard ill of closed-allocation shops. When projects compete for people, the result is better projects. When people compete for projects, the result is worse people.

Captivity is the most common reason for bad perf. Second place is plain old punishment for things that are political in nature. In third place is "storying", which is when a manager gives bad reviews (and often projects with low visibility and no hope of success) to a good employee to bring him within an inch of his life, puts him through a PIP, and then starts giving him more reasonable scores. The manager gets a story about "rescuing" an "underperformer" and looks like a good boss, but the employee is lucky to transition into the company's lower-middle class, because no one wants a guy who was put on a PIP 5 years ago (having stayed with the company, while under the PIP, reflects on him worse than the PIP itself). The fourth-place cause of bad performance reviews is when the manager takes out someone he fears might be better than him.

Somewhere about #13 on that list is actual low performance, because 95+% of real underperformers are so good at underperforming as to be political wizards (they have a lifetime's worth of experience playing politics, since they can't rely on ability) and never end up on the Perf list.
Smartype: Keep the keyboard, remove the rest.
Finally Android tablets have caught up to (and even surpassed on some things) the iPad. [Of course iOS vs Android is a big choice.] It's taken just 4 years!

Nexus 10 - clearly better than the iPad on price, display (resolution, size, aspect ratio), sound, Wifi, RAM, GPS. Battery life is unknown though, GPU likely to be worse.

Nexus 7 - beats the iPad Mini on price and resolution, matches on most other things.
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Originally there was just StackOverflow, a Q&A site for programmers to get answers to their programming questions.

But the users wanted a place to get answers from other programmers about non-code questions, so Programmers (then called Not-Programming-Related) was created.

The site was originally for questions that weren't asking about code, but that were still seeking answers from other Programmers, such as What's your favorite programming cartoon?, How to you deal with people who ask you to fix your computer?, Why are there so few female programmers?, How can I keep my hands healthy when I spend all day typing?, What are good snacks to eat while programming?, etc.

At some point during the beta period, SE decided this type of site didn't meet their standards, so decided to change the site's scope and direction to being for "conceptual questions about software development" only.

The problem was, they didn't make that clear to the users, and didn't start enforcing that change until about a year after the site was created. And to make the problem worse, the site name stayed Programmers.SE, which leads many users to think the site is still a StackExchange site about programmers.

So we had a huge community of users who thought the site was a place to get answers from other programmers about non-code questions, and we had a team of moderators who knew the site was actually about conceptual questions about software development.

When questions started getting closed and deleted, particularly highly-voted questions, many users didn't understand why and got upset over it. This lead to a lot of tension in the community, and as a result many of the old users left.

Here's a meta question that explains the full history: http://meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/q/3412/1130

But I think also related is this answer, which contains some graphs showing question trends and more importantly, close rates. Note that none of the graphs include deleted questions. http://meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/a/3140/1130
According to his website:
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Dance with Objective-C dynamic types
Google News wars are here again: Schmidt vs France on ‘news tax’
Clojure bin2json
The black proved slightly harder to track than the yellow and red balls, as it didn't have a particularly distinctive hue. The first step towards tracking the black was filtering out everything except the green surface, which is demonstrated in the video. Unfortunately we ran out of time before getting the black tracked.
Wow! looks awesome.
a WYSIWYG editor may not suitable for layout manager. The idea is separating content from the template (layout/grid). However Bootstrap Live Editor also provides a basic grid insertion function as in the demo, which can be used to insert multi column text, etc.
I'm not necessarily supporting the concept, but this seems a strained objection. It's equivocating the word "public." People who get social security (which comes from the government, and so is just as "public") can use it for religious causes and no one bats an eye.

And SCOTUS has approved vouchers funded via tax credits.
PressDoc Embargo Launches to Make Life Easier for Writers and PRs
Open allocation seems to have one drawback. You still do need (a few) managers and executives (not to order people around, but to keep track of the bigger picture) but it's hard to hire managers from outside into an open-allocation shop because typically they want promises of authority, and OA is directed through leadership rather than intimidation.

Most companies move toward the closed-allocation end of the spectrum because they perceive a need to do so in executive recruiting. Most executives don't want to take a position where they won't have the power to unilaterally fire people.
More Art Project online for you to explore
Wikipedia Zero grows readership in Africa and Asia
I'm surprised by the large skew towards CDMA vs GSM for iPhone 5 devices. Verizon winning converts from AT&T?
I like the topic, but have to say the article wasn't that great - the author didn't seem to have experience with puppet and had to be corrected in the comments section heavily.

While on the topic of devops, worth checking out:

http://palletops.com

http://linkedin.github.com/glu/docs/latest/html/index.html
'Concerned parent unhappy at adult TV celebrity appearing at local teen disco'
> ...might be communicated by nameless "people familiar with the matter" who liked Scott.

Good luck finding such people, though. I'm not sure what it says (you could take it as evidence that Forstall was as bad as this story portrays, or as evidence that people had it out for him and would be willing to unjustly badmouth him), but he does not seem to be well liked at all, especially among insiders.
Philips Debuts Hue Wireless LED System
Yes, it can be used in as many as clients' commercial projects or websites/domains (unlimited). However, re-packaged in a template product for distribution is not covered (separate license is required).
It really says something then, that 80% of the vote is still Yes.
I too find Unity unwieldy. I discovered alt+~ yesterday, which allows switching among local file windows--that was a huge slowdown for me!
Ask HN: What product can be built around automatic summarization algorithms?
Hi, I have an automatic summarization algorithm for web articles (extraction only). What product can be built from it? Or how can it be used as a startup product?
Why Doesn’t Apple Use Micro-USB?
I think this is true, but you also need the other side of that coin -- the ability to can the professionals pretty easily.
A few reasons:

* Charter schools would pull out the best students (or at least the ones with the most motivated parents). Research generally suggests weak students get lots of benefit from being in class with strong students.

* Public schools benefit greatly from economies of scale. If 10% of students (and thus money) is taken away, the public school still needs to pay for existing fixed infrastructure

* Charter schools frequently take the cheapest students — special ed students, for example, are still left to public schools.

Taken together, this makes charter schools a net negative.
The debate rages on: Violent games should be banned
totally reminds me of http://www.schlussdienst.net/html/canvas-flowers/canvas-flow...
Pumpktris: Playable Tetris game embedded in a jack-o'-lantern
We run an Agile process where the client is involved as Product Owner in the team. The client can add stories at any stage, and set the priority in the backlog at any time. They just can't change the current sprint's stories and priorities. That way they can make as many changes as they want, and the impact of those changes are always visible.

Why limit the client to an arbitrary number of changes (like 2 in this example?) The whole idea of Agile development is that we cannot know everything in the beginning, so we spec as much as we can in the beginning, and leave room to change our minds at a later stage.

Of course, we explain this way of working up front as well, and we make the benefits clear to the client. They have to buy into this before we start with anything. It works very well when they do buy in though.
Don't underestimate "a storm". A hurricane releases about 1.3 x 10^17 joules/day [1] of raw kinetic energy (wind), and that's not including rain and flooding. That's equivalent to 31 megatons per day. The most powerful US nuclear weapons today are about 25 megatons.

[1] - http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/D7.html
Canvas Tentacle simulation using inverse kinematics
If you think that those are good ideas, I think you should (a) vote for extension, and (b) upvote those suggestions so that The Powers That Be see them. If they see those suggestions, but also see significant vote opposition to extending deadlines, they probably won't implement them.
I think is an unrealistic approach.

Most people cram for exams and leave it all to the last minute - that's life. So in juxtaposing such a common example - I will generalize and assume a lot of people do the same for just about anything else. It's not some crazy ideology - it's called being a human being. Factors outside someone's control shouldn't mean they should be punished for something that everyone does everyday or has done at some time. No one is perfect, people make mistakes and entrepreneurs more than anyone - that's the beauty of it. However, this isn't some exam - it's an application to find great people, great ideas and amazing companies.

The suggestion from your comment is that great people hit deadlines "no matter what". I couldn't disagree more. Running a startup is about elasticity - not "no matter what". If someone has spent weeks getting their video just right - after doing 1000x iterations of it because they wanted to reach the submission date by 30th "no matter what" but then some act of god comes along - it's fair that it destroys their chance ?

That makes no sense - they were going to hit the deadline according to your logic but now something has come along and destroyed that. The "no matter what" is now irrelevant - its time to be flexible, compassionate and understanding. Walk a mile in their shoes for just one second.

The world we live in is not some crystallized inflexible place and YC is not either - if your idea fails, start another. I, for one, hope that someone amazing comes along because they were allowed to submit after the fact. That's what entrepreneurship is all about - people.

"More than machinery we need humanity; More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost." - Charlie Chaplin (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEUA7owEl7c for some inspiration)
Costs of rationality
Yep, let me add an example link to complement your comment:

https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/braid/

I don't know how big is that, if Ubuntu users are really buying applications.

EDIT: the apt:// URI triggers the Ubuntu Software Center that looks like this http://i.imgur.com/UL3dq.png
Hey, "Why are there so few female programmers?" (http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/5780/why-are-...) is still an acceptable question, it's closed, but only because it's a dupe of "Career Prospects: Women at Management positions in Software" (http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/93462/career-...)

Also, while the community in the good old days was certainly vibrant, it wasn't huge, and it's not huge today either. But at least now we're steadily growing: http://www.quantcast.com/programmers.stackexchange.com

Lastly, I love how you say that the graphs don't include deletions, and one of them (supposedly) show deletions and undeletions. You kinda screwed up the queries there, the graphs don't make sense ;)
Do you have any info about just what Forstall did on OS X back in the day? I can't find much beyond some pretty vague statements, and I don't recall hearing his name at all until iOS started getting attention, while names like Tevanian showed up quite a lot back when Mac OS X was first taking shape.
Asahi Associates - Softbank’s $20 Billion Sprint Purchase.
It's kind of bad PR for Foundation junkies to try to ride on Bootstrap's coattails every time there's a Bootstrap thread on HN. I get that there's bad blood there, but it really makes the Foundation guys look desperate when you beg for attention like this.
Just need to disable the "Bootstrap Snippets" button, and you got the Editor for non bootstrap content/purposes. "Bootstrap Snippets" button is used to insert Bootstrap's elements (Hero Units, Header, Well, Labels, Badges, Buttons, Icon glyphs, Alerts, etc). Google webfont feature is also optional.
Aside from the content, this is a fantastic exposition of the techniques of UX design, and since I teach a unit on that I wanted to make sure I'd be able to give the link to my students. But I'm on my home computer right now, and I manage that from my office computer, so I...

...emailed the link to myself. :P

Which is actually an interesting confirmation of several points the article made. Most of my save-for-later is "I want to consume this, but don't have time" and "I want to come back to this momentarily", for which I use the leave-tabs-open strategy rather than bookmarking or emailing. I knew this article would be great almost from the time I saw the title....
The “thank you” that changed my life
Ad absurdum, appeal to emotion.

Personally, I would find it in bad taste. Profitable? Perhaps... but likely not. At least not directly -- a PR stunt, at most.

So, a rather bad combo overall IMO: would piss people off & not make the buck.
The hypocrisy of Silicon Valley
Over the last few years I've seen friends who blog (admittedly the subject matter being close to that of their work) being encouraged by their managers and bosses to do so - sometimes scheduling days into their working week just to blog.

Whilst their regular 'work' may need to be covered, often the blog brings opportunities for guest posts on other sites and invitations to conference panels or speaking. This is turn is bringing in enough new business to justify and encourage their 'online celebrity'.
I know the flow, use one myself for one of the biggest corporations out there. But in my experience it's more "This is how we wish to work with clients". I see a lot of "squeezing the agency" going on these days. (As in non-paid extra work and revisions despite agreements on how to work).
You may already know this, but if you download the full master, you get the docs included in each release.
I didn't downvote you, I asked you a question. I have an opinion on the relative verbosity of Erlang, and was interested in hearing an explanation of yours.

But thanks for projecting your insecurities on me.
Highlighted text (Close More Deals, Beautiful Aircraft Presentations etc.) is perceived like links, a different color would be less confusing.
I wrote my feelings here: http://www.codingnot.es/why-i-ll-never-trust-g-wan/
Looks interesting, good luck with it! Good to see more game-dev related startups coming through.
Tuesday: I'd say the storm has cost Google a lot of publicity. Guardian Tech is leading with the Apple management reshuffle, way down the page there's a small article saying 'google were going to launch something or other but had to cancel, here are some rumours'.
Http://www.getapp.com/blog/apps-for-recruiters/#
In California it definitely varies county by county.
It's important to set limits and explicitly say that changes made after approval will cost extra. Otherwise, they'lll just push you to do as much for free as they can get.
The process shown on elweb is just to illustrated the 2-iteration process, not a concrete example on how to make a website, more like an example of using the 2-iteration process on various steps of a project.
This is the kind of stuff I want to see in Hacker News!
What about Trello, is that implied as well?
I assume you're not charging a flat fee, then? The approach described by OP provides much more certainty in terms of scope and budget, which a lot of clients prefer and allows for easier planning of resources for the managers.

How do you deal with resource planning and also billing?
It seems to me that most good specs started out as individual efforts, then once they reached a certain level of maturity and usefulness, got taken over by a committee to polish into a proper standard. For example, C and UNIX. And this is exactly the path that Markdown will end up following, if this effort is successful.
Rails Dev Speed-Up: From Spork to Zeus
There's always an "Oh, I thought of one more small thing..."
There's pretty much two ways to deal with this. Either admit this is a low probability failure scenario and it isn't cost effective to have global redundancies. The outage will be resolved as soon as possible. Or, admit you failed to build a georedundant HA infrastructure and apologize with a tentative plan to build out a redundant infrastructure in a different catastrophe zone.

move the servers? On what planet is server infrastructure movable on a whim?
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The brushstrokes are more in Van Gogh's style. (not the author)
After walking up Madison this morning, there's no power below 39th Street AFAICT.
"This account is written to portray Scott as the bad guy"

Journalistically, the technical term is "hatchet job."

The piece flows like an official leak. On the surface the narrative seems plausible as that of a press event. In depth, it is not.

Forestall cashed out his shares in May, more than a month before the release of the Maps app was announced and almost five months before the letter of apology. Usually, when a senior executive cashes out, it is a clear statement that the direction of the company is such that it no longer appears to be a wise investment - it expresses a loss of faith in the company.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57425920-37/apple-exec-sco...

What I find interesting in this officially unofficial narrative is what its truth would imply about Apple's leadership. In an a distorted reality where Forstall signed the letter rather than Cook, consumers would have said, "Who's that?"

More importantly, Wall Street would have said, "Who's in charge?" Forstall would have been taking on the responsibility as the face of Apple, and Cook would have looked ineffectual as a leader by failing to take responsibility.

A letter bearing Forstall's signature would be a clear statement that he was so vital to Apple's future that he was allowed to atone for such a grave error rather than being summarily sacked. It would have made it nearly impossible to fire him, because of the contradictory signals leadership would be sending.

So I doubt the narrative. I doubt that Apple's leadership is so inept as to have considered anyone but Cook signing a letter. I doubt that Cook is so inept as to not seriously consider not apologizing. I doubt that anyone at Apple is so naive as to have misunderstood what Forstall's stock sale meant.

I believe the truth is simple.

At his level, it's pretty much up or out for "Type A personalities." Forstall did not succeed Jobs as CEO. Six months after Job's death, he sold his stock. A year later he publicly took the fall for Maps. In return, Apple lets 75,000 options vest while he advises Cook over the next year. By signing the apology, Cook looks compassionate to consumers. By sacking Forstall, he looks decisive to Wall Street.

The officially unofficial narrative serves it's purpose. It's more interesting than one about a negotiated severance package and the implementation of a succession plan.

And by getting the media to accuse him of acting Jobsian, Forstall displays a Jobsian brilliance. I suspect there is already a queue of companies seeking him as CEO.
You can't downvote the people responding to your comments, so it's obvious it was not you. The comment was directed at whoever.
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Hahaha. Glad my misuse of "hack" inspired you to write this great post :)
I like to feel the sense of completion of a project. When you let clients run amok adding requirements as they see fit, it lowers my morale as the project completion time drags on longer and longer.
How Important are Ecosystems? Ecosystems are Everything
and here comes our Cloud Media Ecosystem: http://cld.sg/Qq9JMm
Sorry, I don't recall in particular. It was about a year ago.

It was only a basic setup of a user account, a directory tree, and ufw. It took over a minute for either a first or subsequent run on a clean install of Natty. Considering how much more config I had to add and too little time to dedicate to investigating and speeding it up, I had to put Puppet aside.

Good to know 3.0 is a lot faster. I'll give it another look in future.