skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think he included them because they were the original reason for suppressing marijuana, not Big Pharma
> involves being told how to construct a URI

The crucial thing that you're missing is that it's being told how to construct that URI in-band. Not in a piece of documentation that has to be hard-coded into the client.
They are at about $60,000 per day. Not bad considering.
>> Is it the prevailing opinion in the startup community these days that building up personal debt and letting your relationships fail are worthwhile parts of starting a company, or is this, as I suspect, just a sad story about misaligned priorities?

I know someone whose startup didn't work, lost his GF and was in lot of debt. He was well aware of these risks. Someone who runs a startups gives his/her everything to make it work (if determined). Startup founders are optimistic by nature and they are always hopeful that things will work out if they don't give up and work hard. Unfortunately, the trade-off is personal life!
It's funny, because when I first encountered Notes way back when, it was something the department installed without IT approval. Semi-technical users could easily build little tracking and document databases and publish them on the network. People actually liked using it!

(I've always suspected that Gmail was inspired by the old Notes mail interface, which had no 'inbox' and was based on conversation views and tagging.)

Once Notes turned into IT-managed 'groupware' and became a bad parody of MS Outlook, it became completely intolerable. End-users could no longer create databases (or even edit their inbox columns) as most systems were completely locked-down. My last two encounters with it, they didn't even use the DB/workflow side of it, it was only for mail.
The "like" vs "follow" might be true today, but for many artists people clicked on "become fan" not "like". That's a huge semantic difference.
Not bad? That is ridiculously low.
Show HN: Status page for Balanced - Payments for Marketplaces
HTML Datepicker
"Beware the barrenness of a busy life." ~ Socrates
He is either corrupt or incompetent (or both).
You pay your employees with capital, which can come from customers, the government, banks, credit card companies or investors.

Most tech startups do not generate a lot of cash in their early stages, which is why they raise capital from investors who purchase equity stake in the company because they believe the company will be valuable down the road. Page views (and more so user signups/engagement) are one metric by which investors make the decision to invest capital.

Guys, this is what modern capitalism is all about.
Have you actually played Clash of Clans or Hay Day? Those things are amazingly well designed for money printing purposes. Everything in the games are designed to be slippery conversion funnels filled with hooks that pull you deeper and deeper. The idea is to monetize addiction with very high conversion rates.

Some of the ingredients: free to play, every action prompts a IAP (wait or pay), quick&easy progress in beginning, instantly addictive, competitive (leaderboards&prizes), social pressure (you have to join a clan and fight for it) etc. All of this very well executed in a great game.

Edit: So, the author's point that they 'just executed proven idea better and added content' is not the reason why they are so successful. It's the starting point. Real innovation here is that they are probably among the first who really focus on conversion optimization in games.
Ah, the clickwrap and EULA argument. I hated it back in the 90s when it was introduced.
They copied the gameplay style and tutorial. Again, I mentioned many times it's a smart move. I don't think they copied CODE or did anything shady. But go play galaxy life and then Clash of Clans. It's dead obvious.
It's not generic failure, it's very specific - it's an accurate description of a failure scenario that affects many startup founders. In a lot of cases, these sacrifices happen creepingly and gradually. The lesson in this case is recognizing the signs of overcommitment and a preview of what failure can look like. Apparently, you didn't need this lesson, and that's totally fine. I for my part would have considered myself very fortunate if somebody had given me this kind of preview before everything actually turned to shit.

You complain about banality, and maybe that's an accurate label. Anything that doesn't concern or engage you could be considered banal. Maybe life is largely banal, in hindsight at least.
But that's the case with any software update. So that makes it my responsibility to make and keep a comprehensive backup of my system and app data before I initiate the update, if I want to be able to go back. Either that or I accept the possibility that I'll have to start over with my data. So what? How is that any different than software on a personal computer?

Both of these options (backup or clean start) are burdens I am more than willing to accept and bear in exchange for having the freedom to backlevel my software as I see fit. Apple doesn't need to support people's downgrading efforts (as in, hold their hand, explain how to do it, etc.), but they've gone way beyond "not supporting" it. Going out of your way to develop a system that prevents downgrading? WTF?

I've said this on other forums, so I apologize if it sounds like I'm repeating myself, but the way I look at it is that if Apple is going to insist that I can never, ever reinstall an older version of the OS, then they are absolutely on the hook to deliver 100% bug-free software every single release. That's impossible, even for Apple (:-P). People aren't perfect, and they make mistakes. So it is absolutely imperative that they give their customers an "out" that they can elect to take if a bug or shortcoming of a software update introduces an undue burden for the user, and they need that functionality to work the way it did before while a new version (hopefully with a fix to your problem) is developed, tested/QA'd, and finally shipped. That kind of thing doesn't happen overnight, and it is not reasonable for software companies to expect people to live with certain classes of bugs or other problems while the fix takes 2-3 months to ship.

Enterprise system operators wouldn't stand for that kind of behavior from a vendor; if Cisco has a showstopper regression in their latest code that ends up biting people in the butt, there is NO way an admin worth his salt is going to keep running that version until the fix is in.

Heck, PC users wouldn't stand for that kind of behavior, either: can you imagine the outcry that would have resulted if Microsoft had told everybody who upgraded their PCs that were previously running XP to Vista that they're not allowed to undo the upgrade, even via a format and reinstall? Or what would have happened if, once Vista had been released, Microsoft told people that if anyone still running XP ever needs or wants to perform a clean-install of Windows, they would be forced to install the latest available version of Windows (Vista)? (Technically they could kind of do this if they elected to shut down the product activation servers for XP, but to Microsoft's credit, they have not done so and have shown no indications that they are even thinking about doing this.)

Apple does both of these things with iOS: technical enforcement of downgrade prevention, and also technical enforcement (through the same mechanism) of forced upgrade to the latest version during OS reinstall, regardless of what you're currently running. I find it crazy that people put up with it.
I can't reproduce- what version of chrome are you using? I'm re-evaluating all my loops to increase general safety.
What if I utilize an RC plane on my property up to 490ft. Does that extend my rights? Say I have RC drones that regularly patrol at ~400ft the perimeter of my property.
I don't think that the current direction of absorbing everything into either systemd or X11 is the right direction for the Linux ecosystem to take. I find it particularly amusing that, just as Wayland was being created, other developers decided to move input handling out of an independent daemon, hal, and into XInput2.

I hope that the Gentoo developers eventually settle on a single, lightweight udev daemon that does one thing and does it well, so that it remains useful outside of the Gnome+Xorg+systemd desktop stack.
I second that. Huge fan of Halo, and huge fan of our military. EMP grenades can be extremely helpful, but the more advanced the enemy the more damage it will do. Thus, if used against us, it would hurt a lot.
I've found that companies are more open to Friday beers until someone has an incident on the way home.

But back in the dotcom bubble the startup I was at had beer in the pop machine on Fridays.

Now I work at home and have a beer fridge just outside my home office door.
And amazingly, on the NeXT, it installed off of about 3 floppy disks.
Nokia's "Here Maps" iOS App Is a Buggy Eyesore
McGann Tells His Story of Unusual Watch Arrest at Oakland Airport
It is super annoying that Apple does not unlock this menu when they unlock phones. Apparently it's present on some, but I don't know which. (The menu being settings > general > network > general data network)

Instead, I just jailbroke my iphone 4 and installed the TetherMe app, which unlocks this menu. I don't use tethering or any other jailbreak functions, and am stuck on iOS 5 until a new jailbreak is released, but it's such a huge time saver that I would recommend it for iphones that aren't on iOS 6 yet.
Microsoft is playing its usual strategy here: start with a "toy" and slowly ascend the features/quality ladder with each release; all the while undercutting the competition on price.

That said, pretty much every enterprise database vendor will soak you for every cent you have.

Whenever folk tell me that "relational doesn't scale", I explain that it's been scaled up and out for decades. Don't believe me? Ring any Fortune 500 and ask.

... and then ask how much it's costing them. Be prepared for sticker shock.
Ask HN: Review my StartUp VersionEye.com
We just changed the design and the pricing last week. And we did many small improvements in the last weeks.

I would like to have feedback from developers how they like the service. Bug reports and feature requests are welcome. Any kind of feedback is appreciated.
Interview with guy arrested at airport for wearing an elaborate wristwatch
Intermediate source submitted because apparently patch.com is autobanned here
Elizabeth Gilbert: Your elusive creative genius
have you heard of the WADL? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Application_Description_Lan...
In my experience (about 12 years of practical web development, so certainly not as much as some here), wireframing is most useful when applied to projects that have a "what" but not a "how."

Whether it's an internal/personal project or something for a client, it seems to me that most ideas usually fall under "conceived by interface" or "other." If someone wants you to build a web forum, chances are that idea is based on how they want the forum to work and what the user interface should involve; if they want you to build a penny auction website, chances are good (based on several actual requests and one actual paying client) that the business model and not the UX are the driving force behind the project.

For projects that do lend themselves to wireframing, I've heard of several great tools -- Mockingbird is the only one I can recall -- but I am a pen and paper guy. As a developer, I think it removes me from the "I'm programming now" mindset that immediately jumps to data models and dependencies.

I do think this is more useful for general site layouts, though, than for completely building a site on paper (or in whatever medium). As a designer, this may not be your first concern, but the practical reality of user experience is that requirements are never the same at the end as they were during the beginning, so high-level concepts and ubiquitous elements like navigation are (hopefully) more likely to stick to The Plan than the details of each page.

Basically, separating user workflows and specific site functionality from wireframes helps to make sure your wireframes are both useful and more likely to stay flexible and relevant throughout development.
I love it. So simple. So elegant.
All of the top grossing free-to-play games are like that. DragonVale used to occupy the top spot, and is similar.

The current #7 top-grossing app is Slotomania. I like to think of all these free-to-play games like Slotomania. They're addictive, have colorful graphics, and either make you wait to earn more coins, or succumb to your addiction and pay up (real $) to get (fake $) coins NOW.
AC/DC changes stance, releases entire catalog through iTunes
Good read! Seems like good advice.
It makes sense that graduates from elite schools would be afraid of trying new things, since they're used to success and never had to deal with failure. I never thought of that.
I don't think it does.
udev also now requires systemd, which means, you have no choice, but to use systemd.

systemd also brings it's own dependencies.

But that's just conveniently omitted from such explanation posts.
FWIW, I saw a drone hovering above the 5 freeway back in September right after the border patrol crossing. I think it was in the strip between Camp Pendleton and Oceanside.

It looked about the size of a microwave or a toaster oven, had at least 4 blades, and seemed to have a ridiculously good, likely six-axis attitude control and was simply hovering over the 5 doing god-knows-what.

Definitely a strange welcome to San Diego after being gone for 5 years.
>It's not generic failure, it's very specific - it's an accurate description of a failure scenario that affects many startup founders.

You just described "generic failure". If it happens to many startups, its generic to startups, which was the point. There's nothing here to learn except it sucks to fail. Which anyone that's ever done anything in life is already aware of.
There's a pretty strong correlation between "frameworks that are actually used" and "frameworks with high complexity" here. That makes sense to me: most of the software systems I've worked with that are actually used have a lot of warts to them. It comes from having users, who never seem to want to do the simple thing.
There's plenty of MS SQL Server blogs, but the truly good ones are independent.
Google Consumer Surveys Election Data: Quest for Best Visualization & Analysis
I love the 3 big icons/images for status. That's what people want to see when they first come to the page.I also love the columns for twitter comments paired with yellow<->red spectrum of when there was trouble.

However, don't default to grey, default to green if nothing went wrong. :+1: otherwise.
Thanks. Take me more than 1 minute to do it.
// If datePassed is true
else if ( datePassed === true ) {

Yes, very well documented. >.>
Yep, forms (and presently, Tastypie) are the biggest hassle for me as well. Digging through the internals of CBVs in order to figure out annoying little mixin-related quirks probably comes second.

Even in spite of all that, it's still the nicest (and by far the most well-documented) framework I've used.

If I had to pick one complaint, I'd say the "define fields as class-variables" for forms and models is a bit too magical, and picking through the metaclass implementation to understand exactly what things happen when can be a pain, and I'm not 100% sold that 'reduced boilerplate' is a good enough reason for it (there may be other good reasons. I'm just whining :)).
Exactly. And given the relative difficulty of undoing bad legislation versus stopping it from passing (and even stopping it often takes a huge effort), whoever can afford the most persistence wins, by just waiting for the other side to slip up once.
Isn't the new model first-to-file though? So you'd have a second group of robots actually patenting things coming out of the generator.
It is weird to ask for the subject of an email before writing an email.

I'm sure I'm not the only person who has change (or left blank to begin with) the subject once I've written the email.

Also I've observed a lot of people who write the content first then fill out the top (To, CC, BCC) after. Often the content effects who should/can see the email.

The current UX is wrong given mis-sending, mis-addressing still occurs.
How did this make it to the front page? People write this every day. If I am missing something please let me know because then I may just have to fork it.
We would be better off if we didn't arm terrorists in the first place, because they end up attacking us.

http://cryptome.org/tim-osman.htm

The US armed the Taliban when they were fighting the Soviet invasion.
Sometimes I feel like the JS community is more concerned with "style" than practicality. I always do one variable per var, so much more readable and much easier to debug.
Take a look at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4811123
http://www.jtict.com/blog/rails-wicket-grails-play-lift-jsp/

This benchmark is based on Play 1 but you can see Japid is 4 - 5 times faster than the Scala template
Of course it probably isn't healthy to make a business the center of your life

If you don't, though, you will likely be outcompeted by those who do.

It's a simple, obvious truth, not a value judgement.
For what it's worth, the tutorial described there reminds me of at least one RTS I've played, although I can't place which one. Particularly that you start the game under attack. Maybe a C&C game or an Age of Empires game?

Not sure.
Many Thanks :-) That was a lot of work.
Here's one:
https://github.com/perifer/timePicker

Demo:
http://labs.perifer.se/timedatepicker/

(I'm not the author.)

Edit: Added link to demo since that's the first thing I usually look for.
Looks like Chrome's native date pickers are competing with fortnight. When I click on one of the input fields, while holding the click in, I get a fortnight picker. As soon as I let go, I get a native picker.
They've got a popular driver and a Formula One win this year, so they'll probably stick around a while longer.
Nice work, thanks for the contribution. Will definitely use. Funny thing to, just created a web app that centers around a calendar and date picking. Was using jQuery UI datepicker but with some tweaking, I might use this.
I like how it has December as a month too.
They are finely-tuned psychological conditioning/manipulation machines.

Do not confuse them for games.
Chrome 23 on Mac. Still happening with FF, even after upgrading to 17.0. FF's "Unresponsive script" alert box mentions line 103.

It's not just loops that can trigger this stuff. It's also callbacks that trigger the same callbacks.
Most of these articles are about the long tail of app developers who didn't make anything. I don't see how gaming is any different to that.

On a related note, this shows game developers are making their cash with in-app purchases, much as non-game app developers are increasingly making their money with subscription models.
Some of software companies are "money printing" ,e.g,m$.
The 33 year old ceo of a billion dollar company shares secret
Also check out the Globe visualization:

http://consumersurveys.googleusercontent.com/insights/consum...
Hope you enjoy talking to yourself, because encrypted email only works if the receiving side participates. And realistically, almost nobody does.
Not quite true. The systemd source tree supports building (and using) udev standalone, without systemd. The disturbing part is that Lennart Poettering has stated that he's not happy with that state of affairs and would be happier if they were more tightly coupled.
Most of your points only apply to Scala.

Is there anything Play 2 Java can do that Play 1 Java + Japid template cannot do as well?

Seems like the move to Play 2 and Scala is more political than technical. The Play people formed an alliance with Typesafe, a Scala company, and thus decided to move away from Java and focus on Scala, abandoning their huge Java user base of Play 1.
This is an awesome status page. Honestly the best I have seen from any company.
Thanks for the reply. What is your basic work flow when starting our a new website? photoshop? wireframe? straight to code? Also where do you get your inspiration from?
Windows (8) vs. Android (Jelly Bean)
So, curious what everyone thinks about the two operating systems (and maybe not their current iterations but their potential) and their ability to be utilized on mobile, desktop, tv, etc.

Microsoft made it very clear that they want to unify everything. I like their UI and think it's really some refreshing and different. We'll see how it fairs in the coming months.

Then you have Google Android. While they haven't explicitly stated they are doing the same, I can see them gaining traction with the Nexus line and transitioning upwards to laptops, desktops, TVs. They already have interest in these areas with their Chrome OS and Google TV. Android being so popular and their UI recognized and effective, I can see them abandoning Chrome and pushing Android everywhere.

To me, both companies are heading to the same destination (albeit taking different paths). This is versus Apple which has been very clear in their opposite to the mixing of the two.

Anyways... just wanted to see what others thought and get some discussion going.
HP accuses Autonomy of wrongdoing, takes $8.8 billion charge
I like it. Design is clean and simple. Any customers?
Calling a fork "hate-driven development" is unproductive. Further, I found the linked dismissal of Trinity[0] to be as personal, misguided, and "hateful" as it accused the Trinity developers of being.

[0] http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2012/02/having-a-look-...
Yes. There are already some paying customers.
One of SAM's gas chromatograph columns is chiral: it can separate left-handed molecules from right-handed ones. Terrestrial life uses amino acids that almost all one handedness, while Earthly sugars are mostly the other. Finding a similar pattern on Mars would be a smoking gun demonstration of extraterrestrial life.

http://msl-scicorner.jpl.nasa.gov/Instruments/SAM/
It might be a good idea to read the Wikipedia article on air rights that kordless linked (the GP of your post). IANAL, but it seems like flying an RC plane in the way you describe is just the moving version of a 'spite poll,' which are not considered a 'reasonable' use of the airspace above the land you own. You can operate an RC drone above your property, you just don't have any particular right to use it to get in the way of anyone else who wants to operate an aircraft above your property.
Yeah, I love the idea of Improv too, and wish Excel and Numbers were more like it.

More information on Improv:

• working Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Improv

• sales video showing Improv’s features: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsYsZmhnXR4

There is a modern equivalent to Improv called Quantrix Modeler (http://www.quantrix.com/Product_Editions.htm). It costs more than $1,500 – I haven’t found any good similar program with a consumer price level. But I’ve been trying out the free 30-day demo of Quantrix Modeler, and it seems pretty neat.

You can view a sample Quantrix model on the web: http://publish.quantrix.com:8080/qloudserver/QuantrixViewer..... Try dragging around the Year and Item categories at the right and bottom to see the repivoting.
Switzerland has no requirement that political donations be reported, unlike the us. US states have referendums all the time.
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I don't see much value from the homepage. How is this data actionable? Can you tell me what's going to break if I upgrade? How does this make my devs happier?
I still don't want a store clerk "stamping" my phone. Also seems like there could be a risk of screen damage/scratches.