skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has always been a problem for me, I'm very huge on waiting and then doing a bunch of shit in the mean time because I'm bored.

The problem is twofold:

1. I keep creating stuff that I don't care enough about. Thus it doesn't get the love it deserves and after a while starts looking bad on my "permanent record".

2. Because I keep being busy with things, the thing I'm waiting for keeps getting pushed back.

This sucks and I often try very hard to avoid this problem. One thing I've started doing is that whenever I get an impulse to say "I have to wait for X", I try to understand why I'm waiting.

if I can't come up with a really good reason (for instance, because the market/tech opportunity for project X isn't there yet, or maybe I simply can't fit another X into my life), then I shelf X for a while.

My biggest X is "move out of country". The reason for waiting is I don't have enough money saved up for a buffer to tie me over possible/probable dips in freelancing income. I think this is a good enough reason for waiting.
"The older developer has fewer potential years to give to the company."

That 58 year old developer probably won't reach retirement age for many years. Even if they retire promptly at 65 (which fewer people are doing these days), that would potentially be seven years of employment with the company that hired them. How many young developers expect to stay at the same company for seven years? (Talking about employees here; obviously if you're a founder, it's different.)
I am so sick of this "Apple users are uninformed" rubbish. If we want to play this game then how about this survey:
http://www.androidauthority.com/are-iphone-users-richer-bett...

Apple iPhone users are generally older, better-educated and earn higher than those using Android. Aren't generalisations fun !
FRAND doesn't mean that the fee is the same for everyone. FRAND royalty deals are negotiated on a case-by-case basis - such deals will often include a cross-license for some of the other party's patents, and this will tend to reduce the royalty paid.
> If AMD had the resources to produce a low power, slower clocked chip, why was Turion such a dog?

Because not even Intel can maintain two different architectures at once and stay competitive. AMD would surely go bankrupt before they could complete a major architecture re-design.
So basically this is the most popular article about Gittip?
Did you guys build your site using Bootstrap or at least Bootstrap as starting point? It looks like a lot of similar components function like Bootstrap ones. If you did, amazing work taking the bootstrap design and making it unique to your product and not "just another standard Bootstrap design!"

Also, great product! It looks beautiful and makes for fast prototyping! I can't wait to try it out! :)
If you need to store non-UTF8 data, MongoDB has a binary data type:

http://php.net/manual/en/class.mongobindata.php

You can't do things like regex searches on binary data, but since MongoDB supports different data types within the same "column", you can just store some as UTF8 and some as binary, depending on whether the string has non-UTF8 characters in it.
Unless you have a tendency to commit criminal acts or something against society, which is the definition of antisocial, the appropiate word you are looking for is asocial.
Multiple critical vulnerabilities in Sophos (antivirus) products
Interesting, an HN user has given life to the site that ted nyman described in his post "The Horrible Future of Social" on October the 30th. http://ted.io/the-horrible-future-of-social.html
In Symfony2 (php) migrations are created by comparing the new schema with the old one. Is that not the case for Rails? What do you mean 'constantly writing migrations'?
Shopping website analyzes behavior and creates personalized recommendations
WhoBrain.com is a website for clothing and accessories that personalizes its platform to accommodate size, style, and brand preferences.
Felix's Node.js Test Driven Development Guide
Honestly, the only reason I go to Yelp these days is to see the restaurants hours of operation.

If Google maps would integrate this then I wouldn't have to deal with Yelp's UI.
Business vs Engineering
So you think that his vote on the Science and Technology committee is irrelevant? Currently he's chair of the investigations group investigating the EPA for conducting tests on airborne particulates with human volunteers. Chairman Broun feels that the EPA should not be conducting these tests on the groundt that the EPA believes these particulates to be dangerous, and so it's too risky for the EPA to gather evidence in support of this theory. Of course, without such evidence, there's no basis for the EPA to make policy, and the House Science and Technology committee wants to abolish the EPA anyway.

I'm sorry you're having a problem thinking this through. I personally can't get with someone who rejects most of what we know about geology and life sciences being in charge of federal funding for science. Rep. Broun is just one example among many from that particular committee, which also includes Todd Akin, who believes women can't become pregnant from rape, and Lamar Smith, author of SOPA.
jQuery Mobile's components are mobile-oriented, but don't by default capture the look-and-feel of iOS.
First, this is a discussion about Motorola not Samsung. But basically you have no idea what you are talking about.
I went through a bunch of typing tutorials in high school (Mavis Beacon etc). Nothing worked and everything was painful till I encountered a game called Typing of the Dead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Typing_of_the_Dead ). Three weeks of killing zombies by typing huge words at them forced me to

1) Use proper keys.
2) Learn to type without looking.

Good luck.
This bit from Ira Glass has coincidentally been making the rounds lately in various forms:

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/309485-nobody-tells-this-to-...
> requires no unproven technology

what will you make the pusher plate out of?
I agree with you from the pragmatic viewpoint, what can we do now, but you're proposing a workaround to a system that (IMHO) addresses the wrong problem and is fundamentally broken.

Maybe it addresses an old problem from before the information age, maybe at that point your best hope was to send someone off to represent you, someone whom you felt was in tune with your community and would do what they did with a deep understanding of who you were. Perhaps this was necessary because you couldn't hope to keep up with the news or the unfolding of events in a timely fashion.

Now this is no use to anyone, every candidate is a mess of good and bad, I want my voice to be heard on the things I believe in, not just on voting in some asshole who happens to be slightly better than some other asshole. Because the first asshole takes your vote as a mandate to pursue their full 'platform', regardless of the fact that most people voted for them simply because they had one less repellent, abhorrent policy on their manifesto.

Swiss style democracy should be spread around the world.
Yup, me too. Great to see a big-idea tech outfit gain traction. Congrats.
Nothing's wrong with focusing on customer value and quality, but you also have to focus on customer acquisition. You don't have to either make a good product your customers like or do a publicity stunt to attract more customers. You can do both.
Eh, I disagree. Programming can help you achieve flow, too. Flow seems like a meta-goal.
If by 'broken' you mean 'has taken over the internet'...
Or using a backend weighting system for computing total score for a location.

Low weights: new users, numerous reviews (spamming), low rated reviews

High weights: older users, high rated reviews
We didn't use Bootstrap for anything on the docs. To be fair though, we're all homies and even had @mdo do a quick code review before releasing :)
> generally older, better-educated and earn higher

Could easily be argued that older more "professional" users as you infer are very much less informed than younger more tech savvy android users
Well, neither does Ratchet really. The default look of iOS is not this, which I think is a good thing for Ratchet. Stock iOS is stale. It's the custom apps that have really made a meaningful mark on users.
Aren't these FRAND patent fees handled through the actual baseband chipset manufacturer? From a logistics point of view, it seems like it would much simpler for Qualcomm to charge each of the licensees a fee for using the licensed tech present in their chip. Otherwise, it's all x FRAND committee members going out and looking for fees from all y manufacturers that use the patents in question.
> It is harder to get a whole country to agree on one leader

The point isn't for the whole country to agree. The point is to raise the lowest common denominator, so to speak.
MySQL Connector/Python
How much does inspiration cost?
We are in a great position to witness an almost perfect experiment.

Dropbox vs Google Drive.

It's especially great because Dropbox is the best kind of startup, and Google is the best kind of big company.
Don't worry guys, Meetings.io is not going away and will keep running as per usual.
Best wishes to you but I just want to reiterate what larrys says.

Your home page could really do with a one-sentence description of what makes you different from adsense (and saying "Effortlessly serve the best ads" doesn't count - that's just blah-blah stuff)
Any reason you went with Ducksboard over Geckoboard ?
First of all, I think it might be good if the FTC sue Motorola to explicitly nail down how FRAND patents can be used.

Secondly, I'm happy to see Motorola (Google) going after Apple and Microsoft with these patents. They are the two greatest perpetrators of unreasonable software patent abuse and they also both helped shape the system as it currently exists.

To be clear: If Motorola were going after other companies, I would have a problem with that type of behavior. Apple and Microsoft, however, deserve every kind of patent abuse they are getting (and then some).
Oxford U: MSc in Mathematics and the Foundations of Computer Science
Jony Ive is Now Playing the Steve Jobs Role
From everything I've read about Sir Jony Ive, he might actually be a better Steve Jobs than Steve Jobs was.
If decoherence is "untestable" relative to collapse, then so too, collapse is "untestable" relative to decoherence.

Of course! Nobody questions that. The two are equivalent. That means, neither is more true than the other. You just happen to be in the minority which feels that thinking about multiple worlds makes their head ache less than thinking about the state vector reduction.

What if the history of physics had transpired differently—what if Hugh Everett and John Wheeler had stood in the place of Bohr and Heisenberg, and vice versa?

My guess is, we wouldn't have had to wait until 1957 for someone to say: "Fuck that noise, let's just forget about the multiple worlds and pretend the wave function collapses when I make a measurement." They would be like, "All right buddy, I'm sure you're totally right that there are really multiple worlds and all that, I'll just act like it's merely a wave function collapse for a moment, just to get on with my work of actually doing something as a physicist." My guess is that would happen within the year.
http://jsfiddle.net/LWFg3/6/ here you go. I call it ouija. Will probably bundle it as a component shortly.
One of the things we're looking at moving forward is using things like this. We're taking a look at various frameworks at the moment as we look to move forward on a few issues (such as request variable abstraction, for which we're looking at Symfony's HttpFoundation/HttpKernel).

However, WordPress still supports PHP 5.2, whereas most frameworks are now 5.3+. There's still a huge [1] userbase still on 5.2, so dropping it isn't really possible at this point in time.

[1]: http://wordpress.org/about/stats/
Get rid of all the plants, wait a few (hundred? thousand?) years.
Ask HN: HN popular algorithm
Do you know or can figure out the algorithm HN uses to put posts on frontpage? It looks like a secret sauce between number of votes + comments + (YC company related)!important; but I am curious to know the closest real answer. Any ideas?
Go.USA.gov Shortener Fail
The Facebook Camera app still hasn't been updated for the iPhone 5. Too bad, because it's an incredible app, much nicer than Instagram (which isn't horrible or anything).
This was my first thought, as well. This would be nice for building a clean, minimal UI for a phonegap app or a mobile web site.
Startup Life - My New Typical Day
Not sure where you can find a standard one, but my bet is 90% is boilerplate stuff. If you don't mind, what doesn't feel right? Did you make him explain each paragraph and reasons for it, and answer questions for you? I use attorney's quite a bit and really push them onto the hot seat, I learned early on they were quick to try and control my meetings with them which is just unacceptable to me.

I did find this with some examples:

http://www.startupcompanylawyer.com/category/convertible-not...

and this:

http://www.docracy.com/2740/convertible-note-term-sheet-temp...

Obviously I am not an attorney and I don't have any convertible notes so I can't answer from first hand knowledge but hopefully those help some.
> Is it safe to say that without a vastly improved mobile experience WordPress is in serious trouble?

Absolutely. We had the WordPress community summit just last week, and one of the topics we discussed several times was mobile. The WordPress apps are good, but there's improvements that can be made to both the apps and the way they interact with a WordPress install, so plans were made to move this stuff forward. It's definitely something that everyone (especially Matt) is interested in.
Wishfully, as I scrolled, I was hoping for: "To opt out of profiles..."

This may be great. I'd just rather take a wait-and-see approach.
Using a template to prototype a project has always been helpful for me. Otherwise, I'm cobbling together an 'ugly' MVP or showing someone mockups. Either can work, but using a clean template early on eliminates noise. It allows your audience to think about feature/function vs. "it's kinda ugly, is it going to look like this?" I can customize and make it my own, or start from scratch later.

Here are plenty more to look at for a quick start:
http://themeforest.net/category/site-templates/admin-templat...
You can find some posts and related information here:

http://www.quora.com/Hacker-News/How-do-you-get-on-the-front...

There was a post back in 2010 with the formula which PG verified. It's probably changed slightly but not substantially since.
Your website is cool, but If all you are doing is setting up some basic widgets like (tables and buttons) why don't you just use interface builder. It's way faster and cuts down on the use of these jerryatric noob tools. Who needs to show someone a prototype of a basic table view anyway? Moreover, creating stuff like this in graphics gives you the resulting assets and similarly creating in interface builder gives you the actual foundation for the app. What a horrible waste of time.
Sorry I mean Motorola. But thanks for addressing my point with that truly insightful comment.
I don't think this title garners enough attention for the article. The 'Vine Nerds' are uprooting an industry by taking a low-cost hardware startup and applying analytics tools from the web, arguably along the lines of pg's hardware commentary. I have seen many more upvotes for ideas with much less traction. Great read.
I don't know, at the time almost everyone way saying they got way more than they were worth. If this were a field with a lot of room for further innovation, I'd tend to agree with you, but social photo sharing? Take the $1B and move on to the next project.
Or it could be that older, better educated and wealthier people are willing to pay a little extra to get something that works. Because you know as you get older you realise that time is more important than money.

My point was that blanket statements like Apple users are uninformed is stupid.
I question your methodology, to be honest. Starting with such loaded search terms is the opposite of the scientific method, since you haven't established any kind of neutral baseline. Picking candidates' names is also problematic, since (as pointed out by numerous people) Obama has been President for a long tome whereas Romney has only been the Republican nominee for 7-8 months. It would have been more rational to start with, say, Democrat and Republican which are comparatively 'timeless' terms. Also, I don't see any indication that you attempted to offset bias in your sample set.

I don't mind it as a bit of election-related marketing, but it doesn't strike me as very rigorous.
Right, and that makes sense. Larger dies are primarily a cost issue; they reduce yield, which increases cost per functional die. More development effort spent on MTBF is a resource issue; work spent improving MTBF is work not spent improving operating frequency, but with enough resources (money) it doesn't have to be a problem.

I could be wrong on this, but I believe IBM's AIX line is not cheap, if you see where I'm going with this.
We've already had a few engineer friends use Ratchet to do just that. Let us know if you do it. We'd love to see it in action.
Another underappreciated tech start in hardware. Appcelerator just announced their partnership with Denso during Codestrong. The Lit Motors C-1 is said to come with app integration. I sincerely hope more OEMs follow this lead, and I hope to be working with them more myself shortly.
I didn't do a ton of comparative research, but I tried them both for about 15min each. They seemed to do about the same thing, but Ducksboard was friendlier aesthetically and everything on their site, from the UI to the docs, seemed simpler than Geckoboard. Seems like they both offer good products, though.

Oh, I also met the Ducksboard guys at Gluecon, so they got the opportunity to explain how it works to me in person. That extra exposure and personal connection probably influenced me quite a bit too.
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You appear to lack imagination. For Square, here is one way to break it down into units which are easily tested:

1. Can I write an iOS app that reads incoming signals via the
headphone jack such that the app can separate the input into
"high" vs. "low" signals with sufficient accuracy?
2. Using "high" vs. "low" signals, can I encode "Hello world"
into a series of signals and then decode that back into
"Hello world" in my iOS app?
3. Can I encode the typical information contained on the magnetic
strip into a series of signals and then decode that back?
4. Can I do step 3 reliably such that errors during transmission
are automatically corrected for?
5. Rather than doing all of the above via prerecorded signals
being played back from another device, can I create hardware
which has data to be transmitted baked into the ROM and still
do the encode/decode?
6. Rather than baking the data into ROM, can the hardware accept
input via a serial port, encode it, transmit that to the iOS
app, and have the iOS app successfully decode it?
7. Instead of using a serial port, can I solder in a magstripe
reader to accept the input from a swiped card and send it to
the iOS app?
8. Rather than just reading the data into an iOS app, can the iOS
app communicate with a server over the internet and transmit
the data to it?
9. Can the iOS app receive a response back from the server?

... and so on. Each one of these are valid goals and are small enough to easily get a win on before moving to the next bigger goal.
People just expect it to be on all mobile devices.

This actually argues that the patents on such technologies are worth more - after all, a mobile device lacking mobile connectivity is worth virtually nothing, regardless of how nice it's scrolling implementation is.

That nicely encapsulates why it's so hard to determine a fair price for a standards-essential patent. In terms of the bounce-back scrolling thing, it's easy: if $30 is more than it's worth to consumers, then Samsung will implement a work-around instead; if not, then they'll license it. The price will tend to the value. For standards-essential patents, the apparent value is very high - but it may have only acquired that value by virtue of being included in the standard in the first place, so charging a price commensurate with its value would not be "fair".

It's not surprising that negotiations over such a price are difficult, particularly when the relationship between the companies involved is already acrimonious. Apple needs a license to these patents for its devices, but would rather pay as close to zero as possible for that; Motorola is required to license the patents for a fair royalty, but would like that license to be as lucrative as possible. Essentially we have a negotiation over price which neither party is permitted to abandon - what is most surprising is that this ever works!
Low-End iPad mini Carries $188 Bill of Materials, Teardown Analysis Reveals
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Yeah, this is the issue with electric aircraft. Fossil fuels are still much more energy dense than batteries (40 MJ/kg vs 2 MJ/kg [1]), plus burning fuel provides a nice weight reduction which increases range [2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density#Common_energy_de...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_(aircraft)
Yep, sure, uh huh.

Except for those small departments for the XBox, Zune, Surface, countless peripherals, and other odds and ends related directly to hardware.
Hrm. So, disclaimer: I don't use Tumblr at all. I get linked occasionally and that's all. This all said, last week I read this:

http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,28354....

Which is suggesting that, instead of trolls, well... downthread, there is this statement: "I will never understand just how Tumblr became such a cesspool of people ineffectually trying to make the world better."
Sony finally gets iOS Reader app
What shocks me is the opposite -- that Gittip is only just now thinking about this.

Their first round of chargebacks are going to be insane, and if they're this far behind they're going to be eaten alive by fraud.