skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
all this is true if we add "for XCode based development" as a qualifier to "Definitely NOT Apple"

I use an ageing (4yo) 13" macbook as my primary development machine and it works fine. I'm no where near geeky (or whatever term you use) to be even thinking about fiddling with OS internals and I've never hit an OSX bug that bothered me much
I never said those words that you put in "quotes."

I love it when people argue with words they "made up."

:-)
I don't know if the important thing is gestures per se so much as it is a sense of the theatrical.

Actors are unique in the performing arts because they "play" two instruments simultaneously. The first and most obvious one is their voice. But the second is their body -- how they move, carry themselves, and relate physically to the other people on stage. A great actor can take the same words another actor just read and turn them into a completely different character, just by the way they use their body.

When people think about public speaking they mostly focus on the voice, but just like in acting the body is important too. The great speakers know how to use the voice and the body together to reinforce the messages each sends to the audience.

If you want to develop your skills with voice and body, acting classes can be a great way to do that, as can training in improv.
No more ew than people being on IE.
In my opinion, flash is a viable alternative where modern technologies aren't able to be used, especially if it's a trivial enhancement.
Ask HN: Any promising models beyond the ranking so many startup ideas rely on?  
It seems to me ranking is a powerful tool but perhaps one we rely on too much in the online industry. I wonder what creative ideas are out there either as alternatives, or to augment simple ranking. Any companies that have done interesting things in this area?
Hah!

I should have put "imho" at the end of every sentence.

You got me!! :-)
My weekend project: Sideboard - Ration what you read.
Actually people who are not geeks whose vision isn't that great can really see the difference. I happen to be such a person. Even though of course I am quite technically proficient, which I suppose would make me a "geek."
If I've gleaned your logic correctly, saying "I built this in three days" attracts the most critique. As such, if you're looking for critique (insensitive or otherwise), that seems like exactly the sort of preface to attach to the title of your submission.

I agree that nobody should be impressed... with all the Rails Rumbles, Django-dashes and StartupWeekend projects I've seen in the past, it takes quite a bit to wow me with a 76 hour project, but I don't know know why that should bother the creator either way.

Edit: Sorry, my eyes are glazed over, and I just realized that's basically exactly what the GP said. Apologies for being repetitive.
Instant Android Webview Code
Outstanding quality is what defines Apple. Imho of course.
$100 million and 2 years later, nothing changed. What a waste of time and money.
ignorantGuru (the author of that article) ended up talking to Benjamin Otte, the lead developer behind GTK+ currently, about ignorantGuru, about the issue of themes breaking.
Otte explained the reasons behind this, and acknowledged not ideal communication and developers and encouraged more to get involved to steer the project in a way that they find desirable.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687752#c9
As they say, put up, or hack up.
Very impressed! The translated Chinese is far better than those translated by any other translation tools I've seen on earth in my entire life!
I think I'd rather stay with crapware.

Companies, I don't care about your offers. When I will want to buy something, I'll Google myself a better deal.

Damn, it's just so wrong...
>The singular man acting as CEO did all this, and more! He is smarter than everyone else ever.

Doesn't matter is he was the smartest or not, all those happened under HIS watch. The same holds true for every other CEO.

And, as a CEO, he did "success" 4 times at 3 different companies: at Apple 1977, at NeXT (which he sold to Apple for a nice sum and their OS is still going strong), at Pixar and at Apple 1997-2010.

>Or he just used smart and predatory business practices

Predatory? As if Apple was MS in the nineties with 98% PC share and a de-facto monopoly?

You don't get to use "predatory" when you're at 2% of the PC market, near bankrupt and with competitors asking you to close the company and give back the stock money.

Not even when you are at 10% of the market for that matter. With 2-3 established competitors in each segment you compete, only the quality of your offerings can be your leverage.

As for "smart", yes, "he just used smart", as you condescendingly put it. If only the competitors "just used smart" themselves...

>and somehow was the only major player to realize eyecandy will win over configuration for everyone that wants just a "tv" into the internet

What won for OS X, iOS was "eye candy"? You don't get this UX thing at all, do you?

If it was mere "eye candy" that mattered, we would be rocking Enlightenment 16 themes designed by Kai Krause on our Alienware laptops...
By theory, you have gained some knowledge about Monads.
The hard part about Monads is, how you implement them to solve your problem. I would say, practice hard; then only you will truely master the concept.

Try to solve as many problems as you can, using monads.
When you will be comfortable with aspect oriented programming (which the monads encourage), and easily speak functional language, then you can tell yourself that you have now mastered the concept. Even after that practice hard.
While I applaud any move to bring more payment options in Europe this is really still very german focused and appears only half baked. The English documentation is interesting with lots of muddled terminology and when you start the application process bit's of it are still in german in places. The site also seems to lack error and confirm messages (wondering if this is simply not translated)

For those in the UK jumping for joy at a Stripe like payment gateway there is a bit of a gotcha it only supports Euros.

Also there is no details about who is actually processing the payments and several interesting and dubious (but again could simply be translation problems) statements about PCI compliance on the site which could make due diligence interesting.

Something to watch, but for UK merchants I suspect it may be a lot of work to get going so not quite the frictionless option people are holding out for. Be interesting to hear from a German companies perspective to see if similar issues exist on the paymill.de site?
Certainly having experience with Lisp/Scheme will make it easier to deal with Macros.

As a "newbie" to Scheme, (well, actually what I played with was Arc, but I think it belongs to the Scheme family) I was able to write a few macros, and seeing them work in action was very nice indeed.

The tricky part is maintaining the macros or changing their behavior. It's like that saying goes: if you write code as cleverly as you can, you are not smart enough to debug it, because debugging is twice as hard.
Online polls more accurate than telephone polls this election
This connection is untrusted.

The certificate is only valid for the following names:
.paymill.de , paymill.de

http://i.imm.io/Lcpp.jpeg

Anyone else getting this error?
Gesticulation helps the speaker as well. A recent thesis (unpublished) in my graduate program examined the effect of allowing a lecturer to move around and gesticulate vs. sitting still at a microphone. There were positive effects both in the viewer seeing the movement (not surprising) and, more interestingly, the lecture recorded with movement was better (subjective rating, comprehension) even when the viewer could not see the speaker.
Smaller publishers re-syndicate stories, which means you gather a whole host of backlinks...not just the TC one. Plus the google algorithm is much more complicated than just PageRank. They've pretty much said PR is a small part of the algorithm nowadays.

There are a lot of other signals taken into account, and getting covered by a mainstream blog is a good signal. You benefit from their domain authority even if the page authority remains pretty low.
Indeed - the enthusiasm to use body gestures should be limited to a level compatible with the audience.

As the author explained, it depends on the audience culture.

Suggesting a liberated use of body language to a hacker audience may result in many Dwight-like performances...

(good tip - don't stroke the table with your fist closed)
If there's humility in calling your bosses idiots, is it in the form of sarcasm? I understand the "wow, I'm in this position" thing, but there's a disconnect.
Ask HN: Who wrote Orca?
So, Romney's Orca campaigning application was supposedly written with Microsoft and a third party contract firm. Who was this firm? Anyone know? I'm more interested in figuring out whether they outright sabotaged the thing, or if it was just mismanaged and rushed. It's the first I've heard of software failures being involved in election coordination failures, and I find it interesting from a forensic stand point.
Marine 'treasure trove' could bring revolution in medicine and industry
Not a shocking verdict. Honestly I'm shocked that it's as well constructed as it is, considering its niche. However, I do disagree with this line:

>There is no logical reason this phone should be running Gingerbread.

There's an entirely logical reason. The kernel extensions and related drivers for that projector aren't exactly rolled into the android open source project. Samsung has had more pressing priorities to keep track of (The GS3, Note 2, 10.1 Note, and all of the Windows 8 shenanigans) rather than porting the likely overly complex proprietary modules and such required to make the projector work on 4.1 on this niche, low-volume device.
See also evercookie http://samy.pl/evercookie/.
I strongly disagree. 'sense of humor' consistently ranks near the top of 'what people desire in a mate' surveys of both men and women. I'm not going to go off digging up citations for this on a Saturday evening, but I think it's a very important aspect of human relations. Different people find different sorts of things funny, and those preferences are deeply held.
"Not a household name"... yet probably at least one processor in (nearly) every household. It qualifies.
> Of course, Windows 8 doesn't let you do that. SmartFilter blocked every attempt

SmartFilter seems to be a McAfee product. This Windows user has never encountered it.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1995247
you should read about coke/pepsi wars in 3rd world countries.

when it comes to fashion, there are the companies that you hear they use bogus companies to exploit the poor world to save 0.05c/item, and the ones you just haven't yet heard they use bogus companies to exploit the poor world to save 0.05c/item.
Yes, this restrictive control over the App Store is the most unfortunate thing they've developed. I would not be surprised if they tried to lock it down entirely by first changing the default security to "App Store only", and then removing the other options.

I guess great minds think alike, because I'll be jumping ship for web development on Linux in short order.
As a Dvorak typing sysadmin who used to use QWERTY, the vi navigation keys work just fine on Dvorak. As it turns out, once you're used to Dvorak, you see that having the keys next to each other on the keyboard and on the home row doesn't count for anything in any regard, either memorability or efficiency. I had that reservation about Dvorak too, but ... nope. It's just not confusing or a slow down. It's far less of an issue that the sort of kludgy moded editing and reaching for escape. (I'm an Emacs user at heart. I gave both years of usage, and organically ended up using vi for quick edits, emacs for long editing sessions.)

It's sort of like the much-talked-about switch to reverse scrolling in OS X. You may think it's a big deal, but your brain makes the adjustment, and it just doesn't matter. Your vi editing efficiency should be pretty nearly unaffected. It might be very fractionally slower, since the navigation keys aren't on the home row, but .. I never notice it at all. It's definitely not far less efficient.

Not arguing that you should switch, incidentally. I could also touch type 100+ wpm on QWERTY. I never regained my original speed after switching. That's very common for very fast typists. If you don't put systematic effort into speed training, you'll lose some speed for switching. Not that it's that big of a deal.
You can use Stripe for that.
This sounds like a great added feature. Added feature opportunities like this seem important to make this app just that...more than a feature.

I'd hate to see existing Match sites run with your idea as-is. Seems like added depth created by a more tailored experience (this above feature as an excellent example) would help you differentiate significantly enough to be significant on a standalone basis.

tl;dr Steal this^ feature idea before Match, etc., steal yours.
I've never tried to sell apps, but I don't understand your complaint. Are you saying that people were no longer interested in buying your apps because they weren't in the Mac App Store? I'd think that it would improve discoverability in general, not hurt it, not to mention make the purchase process a lot easier.
Perhaps the title has been edited. How do you know this was built in three days?

If I built something decent in three days, I would mention the time frame to boast, not as an excuse. That's also how I imagine most people mean it.
Telco's log everything! So it would not have been difficult, if you could connect the phone number to him, to track everything else.
It's not. I've only clicked on ads once or twice in my life and that's mainly for lack of relevance.
In other Apple IP-related news: They've been ordered to pay Swiss Rail $21 million for that clock design debacle http://phys.org/news/2012-11-apple-swiss-rail-21mn-clock.htm...
You're right. I've amended the piece.
Saw this on Reddit earlier. I don't think this is the right approach to solving this problem although it is a niche that could use solving.
Yea i'm even running into this and have only been using it for 2 weeks.... sometimes certain things just won't work the same. On the plus side... it's an easy way to dip your toes into the water and get used to normal/insert/visual, which is what I found to be the hardest part.
Did you read my original comment? My point was precisely that PR is not that important. If you want to rank higher on Google, simply create good content. You cannot depend on the signals they use because they change all the time. Do you have any idea if "getting covered by a mainstream blog" is a signal Google quantifies, let alone uses?
Tweetro Slams into Twitter 100K Token Limit
Yeah, not sure why there is so much confusion in pythonland over an issue that has a trivial solution that was discovered ages ago, moments after the problem first appeared.
Thanks for the good luck! I've definitely been having fun fiddling with MacVim and it's array of plugins in my spare time. The vi-mode is definitely a limiting factor... I find it great for the getting into basics and getting comfortable, especially once you add a block cursor to help switching modes.
From ChuckMcM's original post: But for that company to exist, you have to pay for the products you use, and to get to that point you have to not be able to get something 'good enough' by hacking and slashing something else into shape.

Based on this and other things he said, I think Macs count as the "something else" that can be hacked into shape, since Apple is not specifically targeting all of your listed use cases.

I'm also not the only one who's extrapolated the recent trend of Macs more closely resembling iDevices to imagine a possible future in which Macs become appliances, and the developer-focused computer ChuckMcM envisions can come into being.
Anyone notice "O' Sole Mio" in the background?
Usability is, ultimately, relative to the user.
This already exists: first DLNA and later Airplay. Wifi streaming is laggy and prone to compression artifacts; HDMI, possibly wireless HDMI, would seem to be a better choice in the long run for such a device.

Of course, if you do a lot of impromptu presentations, there's something to be said for the convenience of having your projector, phone, and presentations all in one device.
you do know that it was settled between Apple and SBB ( which probably included the paying of this money ) and no "ordering" was done by anyone anywhere ?
Most things are independently conceived many many times before finally having an implementation that sticks. TI has been working on the DLP picoprojector tech that's in this phone for a while, and as I mentioned elsewhere, The Island (2005) included a scene with a projector phone (I believe Microsoft consulted for that movie).
In C# generics were introduced with version 2.0 (around 4 years after C# 1.0). It is now a language feature I couldn't live without.
Ask HN: Is xkcd writern in Haskell?
I am doing the same thing. Any tips for cool things to do with the oscilloscope?
It is in Jackson, Michigan. Its not actually a dome shape, it's a flat ceiling. The reason for the Mac lab is because of the Apple ecosystem in general. People are more than welcome to bring their own computers. This is definately real, I'm living here. People live here but we are in a transition from hotel to Project Inspire Us.
It would be interesting to see the list (or at least types) of programs you use that require Windows. I've got a CAD program that I've been using forever that does (TurboCAD) and I'm more facile in Corel Draw than Inkscape (which is horribly, horribly under-performing on the same hardware booted into Ubuntu 12.10).
> “HTC is pleased to have resolved its dispute with Apple, so HTC can focus on innovation instead of litigation,” said Peter Chou, CEO of HTC.

Sounds like an attempted burn on Apple, and then...

> “We are glad to have reached a settlement with HTC,” said Tim Cook, CEO of Apple. “We will continue to stay laser focused on product innovation.”

Am I reading into this wrong or is Apple backhanding HTC in this press release?
Save only the hash, or use a data structure like a bloom filter.
The title was edited.
Perhaps its the beginning of the end of all the litigation. It puts HTC in a useful position (although how useful that position is can't be ascertained without knowing how much they are paying everyone per handset)
Michigan is great because you have Detroit and Chicago in close proximity. Detroit was once a great city, the state has an extraordinary history. Because of the depression in Detroit it has caused property to go down to pennies on the dollar. We now have Chicago as tech area and Detroit is heading in that directon. Michigan is great for agriculture because of all the tillable land and for tourism because its a pretty great place to do outdoorsy things like hiking, snow mobiling, water sports, etc. It has all 4 seasons so there is a lot to see and do. Michigan's Governor is a venture capitalist and former tech CEO.
Definitely a problem that needs solving. Craigslist isn't getting the job done, so I took a few assumptions and put something out there. Curious what your thoughts are? I'm always looking for feedback.
I took it that the parent was asking how you made contact with the guy (eg how did you get his email), but on a second reading it's not so clear. I assume his email was probably freely available on the TC site then.
We are taking reservations for December 1st move ins.
Ah, that just got updated.
Well you raise Tiananmen, which is impossible to prove either way. But it is well known that people died amoung chinese (hence the massive emigration during and right after).

And now you've raised messing with Hukou, I hadn't heard of that happening, and again, you still haven't provided any sources for your info. I imagine it is extremely hard to mess with Hukou as you'd have to change birth records as well, Given china doesn't have a centralised system (for either birth or Hukou) records, it would be very complicated to achieve this.
This really sucks for people who like hundreds of random things. It use to be that people would like EVERYTHING... now that's coming back to bite everyone in the ass.
What is the deal with Gallup?
Most enterprise software projects sabotage themselves.
From my reading of it they didn't do enough user testing or training. But this may have been outside the scope of the contracted firm; they probably delivered exactly what has asked for, and no more.
Not by me. All comments/criticism appreciated. Original title read "Show HN: LaughMatch (MVP built in ~3 days)"
Stop spamming me about vim
Line based editors are a waste of time. I dont care how geeky it makes you feel inside. Grow up and stop wasting everyone's time talking about vim. Its sickening.
Maybe one that wants to keep working through high inflation scenarios.

(But what financial software is running on a NoSQL database?)
The nasty things little Gentile boys & girls do with their bicycle seats
“If she went over to these boys’ house with the intent of rape-luring them and then committing suicide or, worse, tricking them into killing her, then she should be held accountable for her actions.”
Yes! Free is a fantastic, innovative company that is actually bringing positive change to their landscape. A company like Free in the US would be like a fountain of icy water in hell.
I almost joined the Navy's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Power_School . Back then it seemed like it would be really technically challenging but I chickened out at the last moment. :( oh well. Given how my life has gone so far maybe it would have been a good option.

It seems like this NEETS training would have also been neat. Thanks for this link. The nuclear school material is SECRET, so I won't expect to find it, lol. :)
Apple still make Mac Pros... a very niche product... there are probably more people into projector phones than mac pros.

I'll be curious if all the Apple fan boy's retract what they say when the iPhone gets a projector added to it. I suspect they'll argue the: "The market it ready for it now!" line :P
Unless you want to get sued (http://www.extremetech.com/internet/91966-aol-spotify-gigaom...), I would avoid doing this until the legal grey area surrounding non-cookie tracking is resolved. I suppose you might be able to get a user to "agree" to this if you have them agree to a ToS when they sign up, but even then I'm not too sure of that.
That's fantastic!

When the box disappears does that mean the algo has completely lost track of the rider though?
I did one of the TI seminars and got one of their eval boards for free. Their 'StellarisWare' which was basically a bunch of code which did the basic stuff you needed (like init all the registers and what not, provide a simple printf() etc) was really handy. And GCC support was pretty complete, unpacked the archive and blam, was using gmake to build demos on my Linux box. I still fired up the Windows VM to run the downloader as it worked better than the tools on Linux but still, very nice kit. I have encouraged them to add a bit more RAM to their line.
Non-hiring Practices
Show HN: Tattoo Hero: A simple way to find and explore tattoo artist.
Talk to the DSL providers who went out of business about competitive access.
Do online courses spell the end for the traditional university?
Your setup is close to mine, which is Win 7 running VirtualBox and Linux Mint. I've not used a Mac. I like developing with Linux. A friend recommends ditching my double-OS setup in favor of Apple. My question to you is, why don't you use only Apple / Mountain Lion? Why bother with Win 8?