skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading this or something alarmingly similar (that too was about Oh, The Places You’ll Go!) a while back on HN... But this one was published today! What the hell is going on? Is it deja vu or it's just a happy coincidence?!!

Edit: Good... "Oh, The Places You'll Go! site:news.ycombinator.com" Google search helped me assure myself I'm not crazy. This is the other article: http://daltoncaldwell.com/oh-the-places-youll-go and HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4061059

Funny thing is that both are using Svbtle, which helped further confuse me.

I won't remove this comment (which is definitely off-topic and non-constructive) because I think others might experience the same shock as mine and it would save them a bit of Googling...
It is here too in France.
I would love to read an article about optimizing for SpiderMonkey, or at least explaining what optimizations SpiderMonkey does differently than V8.
It's good because it's not something that should be done.

Ask yourself why you need to detect the user agent.
Please don't post outages on HN. Most of them are partial (affecting only a small percentage of users) and transitory (lasting only a few minutes) and there's nothing we can do about it. Also, Google is working fine for me.
I think the worst thing that Google ever did was associate their company with "don't be evil" because everytime their name comes up someone will start speaking about how X action of theirs is 'evil'.

I understand you may not agree with everything they do, but that doesn't make it 'evil'.

Evil has to be more.
Learn to use the good standards and it will simply save your time. You won't "learn more" by not using the best tools there is, you'll simply learn the hard way... Which you shouldn't be doing if there's an easy way.

KISS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle
YAGNI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAGNI

By which I mean: always go with the easiest solution to your problem. Developers have a hard time doing that... I get you.
congrats guys! I did a ton of work with Jive on their collaboration platform and while they were lacking on the real-time side of things, they were otherwise awesome to work with and it seems they are plugging holes with these great acquisitions.
Theodore Geisel did start writing under his real name, for his college's humor magazine. But then he and his friends got caught drinking gin and the dean banned them from extracurricular activities, including writing for the magazine. That's when he started writing under a pen name: his middle name... Seuss.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Seuss#College
I'm working on whathavei, a personal inventory and social shopping app for people to track and share information about all the products they own. I definitely want to incorporate information about what people paid for and where they bought things.
http://www.whathavei.com/

Let me know what you think about having this app, and specifically about this feature and for cars.
Thanks
I would feel better about this framework if the demo site worked on an iPad. I know that is shallow, but there you have it.
How about this Indiegogo to educate Congress:
http://www.indiegogo.com/tech-literacy
Google was never "do no evil", only "don't be evil" which is very different.
Assassinate your way across the Galaxy - Elite on Kickstarter
Aren't the controls a bit tiny? Don't you mis-tap controls (in Safari, for example)? That's my biggest concern because even on my iPad 2, I sometimes mis-tap buttons and controls (haven't seen an iPad mini in person yet)...
The greatest group of political scientists? You're referring the founding fathers.

Why didn't they institute proportional representation? Why did they have an electoral college?

Why didn't they abolish slavery and institute women's vote right away?

This FF worship has got to stop. It gives Republicans some slack to spew their lies about gun control and other constitution-backed tomfoolery.
Meetings.io is fantastic; congratulations on the acquisition! Maybe I can convince my coworkers to start using it as well, now.
http://xkcd.com/869/
I'd like to just re-map my current keyboard to accept this method. Of course, I'd only have one button for the thumbs...
The keyboard trainer seems to be slightly broken, ASET != ARST and NEIO != NIOP. I'm on Win7, Chrome 23

http://i.imgur.com/cdQdj.png
Okay I think I see. So you're making a service like HSN's FlexPay, but this service will be available on any retail sites that opt-in to your service for payments. That sounds doable as long as you get retailers on board.
I think you're reading a false dichotomy in NDT's comment that wasn't actually intended.
It frustrates me that there's no mention of Android. This could have been a working demo with an APK provided. I'm not sure about the overlay mode but it may be possible.

edit: As an update to this, it looks like it's possible the keyboard could be set to a 0 height View, and the Candidates view could be used, as that does not cause an application to be resized.
3 million devices in 3 days might be more impressive from someone else at this point. There are a lot of people that will line up to buy a new iPad even though they just bought the previous iPad a week ago.
> I'm noticing rampant selection bias on hn. It's important to remember that most of the people on this planet are nothing like us.

And there's the crux. There is a forum just like this one somewhere on the Internet that is entirely devoted to Justin Bieber. It probably has more users than HN.

To you and Mr. Tyson, they're ignorant twits because ...

> They don't care about politics, about science, about reason or about anything outside of their day to day lives and relationships.

To me? It's just a conflict of interest. They're different. Apples and oranges.

Are apples better than oranges? In some cases, but not in all. Anyway, I don't want to live in a world filled with only apples. Variety is the spice of life. Go spend some time with an orange.
People who wish they were foodies? What makes a true foodie?
Sure; physical chording keyboards have been around for decades: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chording_keyboard
No, this is vindictive: http://freespire.com/. That's a site set up by a former exec of a defunct company, attacking its former CEO. shawnee_'s comment is exploding with tact by comparison, and any HR drone who doesn't see the difference doesn't deserve their position.
Fair enough, I always considered looking into production and customer issues, digging through log files, and doing code review as part of 'coding', even though that's not the literal meaning.

Perhaps I'm using that term a bit too loosely then :)
exactly...is the landing page not explaining this concept fully?
What decade was Photoshop first written in and how long did it take to open a file?
Nice, that's pretty slick... I also have to admit, sweet domain name (that's one I'll remember for sure :D).
The problem with distributed social networks
1. To be fair, (I assume) most of the posts on Justin Bieber forums are from people that are not of voting age.

2. People think of them as 'ignorant twits' because they don't realize that by ignoring such things decisions that affect them are being made for them. It's too easy to find yourself in a situation you don't like because you were too busy ignoring what was going on to realize what was happening. E.g.:

“There’s no point in acting all surprised about it. All
the planning charts and demolition orders have been on
display in your local planning department on Alpha Centauri
for fifty of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time
to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to
start making a fuss about it now.”
If you're curious, it'll be enlightening to pay some attention to modern RC aircraft. Lipo batteries and inexpensive brushless motor controllers have changed the hobby dramatically since the '90s. Fuel powered RC aircraft are definitely no longer the majority.
If Theodore Geisel felt he was stuck in the waiting place for too long (and therefore missed his chance to write the great American novel), his work does not reflect it and is obviously immensely important. So was he really right about how bad the "waiting place" is, given the work he actually created while there?
Looks great, is there a hosted link somewhere for people to play with without having to download?
I like the 'sanity check' at the bottom. :)
You have to take into consideration what your goals are and I'm guessing you want to create a sustainable business. Read up Lean Startup by Eric Ries and get your product out there quickly by using "things" to ease the process.
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No, because Intel isn't shipping in the high-volume mobile platforms currently in major use [1]. Because as of October 2012, publications are talking about Intel's "first real smartphone".

I'm not talking about engineering capability, but rather shipped units.

[1] Yes, I know you use one of the few Intel mobile phones in use. But your phone's model doesn't rank on Google Analytics for any major site. That's what I mean by "in major use".
If you create such a group, one specific guideline you may find useful, on top of standard stuff like "be civil", is "no labeling another person with any label they would not voluntarily apply to themselves". This helps to weed out subtle incivilities, like calling people anti-whatever, that people might otherwise feel like they can get away with.
Try landscape mode.
Hmm

I'd argue detecting iPad 2 in landscape mode would be an opportunity for an extra RHS column

While on Mini, you'd just drop that

Shame we can not have that possibility, as the extra 19% of screen makes an extra column readable.
If this is failing for you, make sure you haven't blocked twitter using Ghostery or the like, as this causes the script to error out.

Uncaught ReferenceError: twttr is not defined app.js:196
setupWinner app.js:196

Maybe the script can be made a bit more robust in this case?
Ask HN: Alternatives to iGoogle?
I don't know if I'm the only person who actually uses iGoogle or what, but I'm not crazy about the fact that its going away. Does anybody have a good alternative capable of all of the same things?
This is a very important point to make: data interchange formats typically much slower to manipulate and require much more RAM to do so, as they will require mapping back and forth to the internal data structures actually used at runtime. If you take a look at an older (pre-"x" formats) Office document, you will find a lot of its complexity (in addition to the aforementioned backwards compatibility and "numerous unrelated features" issue) relates to figuring out how to edit and resave enormous documents quickly.
Very cool, but the fact that the keyboard on the screen doesn't match the output (input?) nor the asetniop 'idea' makes it incredibly confusing and was enough for me to say 'ok, I'm done'. Unless it's just a problem that I'm experiencing, it doesn't seem like the author (or anyone) ever tested this tutorial out.
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We get these, have seen a case where we refunded but apparently they were going after the currency conversion amount with the chargeback. Do some providers offer longer settlements? Feels like we only get a few hours a lot of the time to void a transaction.
No, I'm advocating for not drawing a distinction between iPhone and iPad when figuring out the size of touch areas on touch-enabled apps, whether the app is optimized for an iPhone-sized display or whether it's a touch-enabled "normal" page.
Yes. Besides piston-based engines, you can even get real turbines, both for jets and helicopters - see JetCat for example.
Show HN: Compose music with sounds from around the web (uses the Web Audio API)
NP - Good luck!
I still consider Elite as one of the greatest games of all time. The fact the original developers are behind this gives it a load of credibility.

It may never live up to the expectations that will be placed on it
You have 1-3 days to capture an amount you previously authorized. You only have so little time because you're authorizing and capturing at the same time. If you need more time to review, decouple them. Some payment gateways also let you decide the settlement cutoff time, so you can set it after business hours.
[Kickstarter] Dogfighting Quadcopter - $99
I don't think any method of input that relies on auto-complete, suggestions or predictions can ever reach the utility of a physical keyboard. Also, most people have invested years learning the normal qwerty keyboard, I don't see how people would be willing to adopt anything new unless it's better in all cases (including corner cases like <>!/\{}[]), or they have absolutely no choice (T9).

The only way I could see any improvement for touch screens is if you could track finger tips while they're hoovering, so that you get more information to disambiguate what the user is intending.
My GF just found out a few hours ago that she was the victim of a similar scheme. Someone used her Amazon account (which has her credit card info) to donate to a Kickstarter account. Unfortunately, she has no way of finding out which Kickstarter account. Luckily, her credit card company took care of everything without a hassle. She also spoke with Amazon customer service, and they "were completely useless and almost hung up because they didn't know what Kickstarter was."
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Ok

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That sounds like a bug in the iPad browser?
Good idea! Added a check to see if twttr is defined, if it isn't I just don't add the share through twitter button. Thanks!
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No, but most of the early infrastructure for the internet was publicly-funded (between government labs and universities).
Thank you Apple! Good decision there. If your site needs special tweaks just because the screen is a mere 19% smaller then your design sucks. Just my opinion.
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This game was awesome, and one I really envied the BBC Model B owners for having.

One request: Please make docking at a space station easier :-)
Do what makes you happy. If you enjoy what you do and the company is good, you can excel and make an impact. Having good people to work with is so important so weigh that heavily.

A couple of my previous jobs/companies were very similar to those two scenarios. It was actually at the bigger company that I made more of an impact, had more flexibility, learned more, made professional connections, and made more in salary/bonus/stock.

It's much more a function of whether the organization is a winning, efficient, organized, functional team than the size. Large companies always have bureaucracy but small ones can too.
+1 emacs users should definitely try magit for this. I use the git CLI a ton but never for interactive staging at the hunk / sub-hunk level.
Has been on HN before (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=575122) but it was years ago. I mention this just in case others are having the same feeling of deja vu as me.
I think you should weight the number of stars per repo higher. I think I am winning on number of repos and number of gists, but I think the user I'm battling beat me. Quality > Quantity.
We've always been at war with 9.7"
Hey, that's great, but you could already do rapid app prototyping all the way to full app development with Kendo Mobile. Paired with PhoneGap it's a highly productive way to build an app.
I give up. I failed to find the awesomeness. I see a login form (view). Ratchet is an MVC framework, your page does nothing. :(
what annoyed you? it seemed perfectly fine to me. in fact, it resonated with something else i was reading earlier today, about the linux ecosystem and its tendency to value projects for the quality of their code rather than for their usability - in both cases, it's useful to have an outsider's perspective of cultural blind spots you may have developed.
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I for many important things and against others, but one cannot vote on just a few issues the way our system works.

We wouldn't to sacrifice some things for other things if we could be represented by a person of our choosing. And, no, I don't mean choosing between two choices someone else picked.

When you're influence gets watered down and distorted, that means other people are getting more than their fair share of the power.

And no you know how banking works.
Also got the same error due to the Twitter button not loading. It might be a good idea to handle that case in the code.
Not that concept art, screenshots, or videos ensure success, but the complete lack of all three seems quite odd these days. Especially for a $2 million goal. That's fricking nuts.

If I'm counting correctly only 5 projects (out of thousands) have made that much and their project pages were insanely snazzy and detailed: http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/games/most-fu...

Also, the pitch seems like something someone wrote on a napkin. "Raw performance" doesn't make a game gorgeous.

>Imagine what is now possible, squeezing the last drop of performance from modern computers in the way “Elite” and “Frontier” did in their days? It is not just a question of raw performance (though of course these elements will make it look gorgeous), but we can push the way the networking works too – something very few people had access to in the days of Frontier.

All of this compels me to post the obligatory PA comic: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2012/05/04
Indeed, they are called Stenotypes. Court reporters write on them at rates of 180 wpm, real champions reach twice that. But this ASETNIOP that's sold here says that experienced users reach just 80 wpm. What's up there, is it poor design?
Really? I'd definitely commit before running tests. You can always use reset to redo the commit later. Branches are cheap, commits are cheap.
I think you are mixing up 2 different things:

To "bootstrap" - verb - means building a business without borrowing money. See 37signals.

http://37signals.com/bootstrapped

vs.

Twitter Bootstrap - noun - a frontend web framework that helps speed up building websites and prototypes.

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
This could have good potential for bringing swarm robotics-style R&D to the common public
This is true, but there are container formats just as old like .mov that are quite nice to work with. (While your still sniggering, keep in mind that .mov has a lot in common with MPEG4.)

Whenever I need to write a binary serialization format, I usually copy .mov's tree of structs format, it's ridiculously fast, extensible, and keeps people away from C++ terrible stream operators/Java's BinaryReaderWhateverFactoryErrorProneOneIntAtATimeReader.
I appreciate the first code comment more after the introduction:

if(sign!='8BIM') break; // sanity check

"Sanity check" as in "let's make sure it's really a PSD before we go insane".
if by 'taken over' you mean 'pooped all over'
We're written in Clojure, so we're looking for people with Clojure/Scheme/Haskell/Scala experience.

Yes, I've heard of Nix. I'd love to use it :)
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There's at least one story by Issac Asimov about that. There was at least one computer coordinating the world. I think it was "All the Troubles of the World".
Ok, that wasn't fair. A proper foodie is an aficionado.

To compare it to tech, it's the difference between someone who understand technology and has a background in it versus a self-proclaimed 'techno-geek' who slobbers over a best buy flyer.
Well, some software is.

If it's software that's in your product, or helps your product be produced more efficiently, and is a source of competitive advantage, you'd be foolish to outsource that.

The software that runs payroll, or general ledger? Feel free to outsource that.
pretty fun!
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Yes, though HNSearch hasn't quite caught up yet:

http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=git...
The most successful game Kickstarter campaigns (Double Fine, Eternity) have shown nothing[1], allowing donators to project their own desires onto the project instead of being constrained by the game's actual direction. Time will tell whether this is brilliant or foolhardy.

[1] They tend to update the pages after they get the money, so you can't judge them by what they look like now.
One thing I don't like about it is that you often can't keep splitting chunks down to the line level. I usually end up having to type 'e' to edit the patch manually.
No worries :)

I should have opened a pull request for you!

Awesome to see the quick turn around on your repo, though I haven't seen it deployed yet. It looks like you are using Heroku to deploy, have you not deployed yet or do I need to refresh my client-side resources?
Autocomplete is a bugbear of mine, since it's the fastest way to type on a touch keyboard and people have a bad habit of not proof reading stuff that they are sending.

It seems that at least every few days I get an Email like this.

Subject: Very Important!

< Incomprehensible >

Sent from my iPhone
That is arguably not theft

That is common law theft. Property taken, no consent, deprives legitimate owner of use of it. The thief gaining value from the property is not an element of the crime.
I suspect the lack of any tactile/haptic feedback introduces a small refractory period between keys/letters.
I fell into this trap recently. I had a pretty good PCB design that had been lying around for a month, which I started designing about four months ago. I kept waiting though. I wanted to think of something that would be a problem and solve it before I have to. I want to jump a generation of iterating. And I did this for about a month. I waited a month, when I could have spent $25 and gotten boards by the time I started working on it again. Real world feedback is unparalleled in its ability to let you see what you're doing. I'm still waiting on the boards, but they'll be here soon and then I start making it...

Since I sent it out, I have thought of a couple nice 'features' that would have reduced some of my work load, but only about 3 minutes a board. I waited a month to save three minutes........

I forget what author I was reading (one of the many posts on 'doing something') when I had a moment of clarity - JUST SEND THE DAMN THING OUT. I reviewed it a little bit, said whatever, sent it out. We'll see how it works when I get it.

It's easy to forget how nice it is do develop software. You get instant feedback as to whether something works on the surface level. It would be much worse to code on a system where you wrote 100 lines of code, had to send it out and get the compiled version back in a week. Syntax error on line 4, no feedback given for lines 5-100. Hardware is a much more elusive beast, but having something physical, something that you can bring with you, that isn't created from a plane of RGB lights, that you can hold, touch, and feel.

There's always a double edged sword, for every problem there is an opportunity, you lose a little bit of something for every convenience you take up in your life, the hardware software divide is one with the sense of touch and smell. Software currently doesn't feel or smell like anything. It doesn't weigh anything. It has no value outside of the tubes. A piece of hardware can reach across different boundaries and engage different senses.
Apart from the fact that a lot of non-IT companies (EG Banks) pay better than IT ones. Money may not be a prime motivator, but it is a motivator,
Perhaps the answer is to use a coloured border or something similar?
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