skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mentioned NPR because that is what I happened to be listening to at the time, but they seem to prefer Twitter over Facebook (vs. BBC, which seems to be the opposite). NPR's physical corporate address is on their site, and if you were to send a physical sign to the organization with the noted personality addressed properly, I believe it would easily get to its destination. Put your business card in the same package.

Same for any other organization: just send these signs to the physical addresses, and consider the costs your advertising/ promotions costs. I'm sure some "social media consultants" would love to have @twitterusername signs on their office doors to demonstrate to their clients how savvy they are.
Plus "letter-size" paper wasn't the standard until the 1980s, and most of the world uses an actual standard, A4.

> The American Forest and Paper Association argues that the dimension originates from the days of manual paper making, and that the 11-inch length of the page is about a quarter of "the average maximum stretch of an experienced vatman's arms". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_(paper_size)
My vote? Option 1, where the Win 8 UI looked like this:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/24/2822891/windows-desktop-ui...

I would buy that, not the current abomination. It's Metro without stupid colored tiles. It's real design, not programmers implementing a spec.
> Treehouse is a good product

From what I can deduce (after paying for an account for the better part of a year) is that they've spent more in marketing than they have in developing something on par with the interactive experience you get from CodeSchool, Codecademy, etc. and hiring people that can create legitimate lesson plans and are good at teaching those lessons.

None of these educational sites have hit the nail on the head, but Treehouse's lessons were less-than-engaging on top of making it entirely too easy for me to skip through their them to fake my [badge] credentials if I wanted to.
The Medvedev Effect On Finnish Startups - NordicHug In Particular
All the unsuccessful Chromebooks and the Revue Google TV. Both of those have only recently started to pick-up when they started using ARM chips. And now Google is repeating the mistake by starting to put Intel chips in its Motorola devices.

This is also a very bad strategic mistake because if Intel succeeds in mobile, and becomes popular, who do you think it will help most? Google? No way. That situation would help Microsoft, because they can start using the x86 chips that got popular on Android to promote their x86 tablets and hybrids, where Microsoft has a real strength because of legacy apps.

So Google is now pushing Intel chips into the market, and gaining who knows what, because I don't see any benefit for them, but definitely helping Microsoft in the long term. If Intel survives, Microsoft survives. You'd think Google would realize that and doesn't want that.

Google has absolutely no need for Intel in the future, even for their data centers. Microsoft's future pretty much depends on Intel and x86 chips. I don't understand why Google isn't taking full advantage of this weakness of their competitor, and instead it's trying to put Intel back in the game.
Sure, I hope it's helpful!
The Hidden Side of Ingress
>I think that the proper purpose of government is to secure my individual rights, particularly property rights, so that I can pursue my happiness. Laws should serve me, and everyone, in that sense. (I also believe this brings the best overall outcome for society, but that's beside the point.)

You can define anything equivalently as a right or an obligation. "The government should protect my right to own land" ~ "The government should provide soldiers (presumably funded through taxation) to evict other people from my land"; there's no qualitative distinction between property rights and e.g. a right to healthcare.

Copyright law does not make individuals more free, quite the opposite. It gives a small number of powerful organizations the power to control the much larger number of individuals who would want to create derivative works. There seems to be this weird blind spot on the political right where they're perfectly happy for people to be oppressed as long as it's not by the government. (Of course, the left has the opposite problem).

>I do not have any duty to "serve the common good." If we keep going towards that model, to the point that my own productive work is no longer productive for me, I will literally "go on strike" and just do manual labor to survive.

I hope this bluff gets called. Every aspect of modern life is made possible by others serving the common good. And frankly, society would be better off without the "creativity" of those who are producing works just for the paycheck.
That's only an incremental advantage. Note that SpaceX also has an equatorial launch site but they haven't used it since the Falcon 1 because it's just not as practical as operating out of Florida/California.

Comparatively, SpaceX is operating a much simpler rocket that is manufactured much less expensively than the Ariane 5, by about a factor of 10 or so.
Second the JSF C++ standart

You can ignore the more restrictive rules (for embedded systems) if that's your case.
Backbone.js tips: Model is stateful
Just curious...can someone knowledgeable in these matters comment on how the Indian GSLV ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geosynchronous_Satellite_Launch... ) compares to the SpaceX rockets?
I love Google, so I don't really care that much that they're getting data this way. I'm just looking forward to using the improved maps. What do you think?
I apologize. I thought the use of "Bizarro" as a prefix would make it clear it wasn't really you saying those things, but the reference might not be as recognized as I think and I just realized Google probably omits it... I just sent an email to PG to see if he/a HN moderator will delete the comment.
If your formulas are not very complex, use Apple's Grapher.app (in /Application/Utilities/ folder). Write your formula there, command-c it and paste it in the Pages document :)
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I think this is awesome. Most of the time I don't really need more then you put, so it is simple, obvious and looks good. I like it and it could be good tool for collaboration if it used anything but localstorage which I suppose is easy to fix, I forked it so...
Thanks for making this.
It triggers some people, like b----. Also, saying b---- helps normalize sexism, already an obvious problem in the men's club of software. You can see this phenomenon in action among the more overtly sexist people emboldened to put people down.

I go to tech conferences and usually the only females are wives, waitstaff and salespeople. In Ruby talks, I've seen pictures of objectified, near-naked (even fully naked) females. You can support this, but I'm not.

We don't live in some egalitarian utopia. If we did, those words might be quaint. As it is, there's loads of gender violence and injustice. If you don't agree, fine; that's why there's activism. (That recent Ruby conference maybe shouldn't have been cancelled, unless there's something I haven't heard about. But certainly it does show that it's possible to strike back against stubborn misogynists.)
> I find it quite offensive to base arguments on the assumption that the sum of any person is nothing but their gender and the colour of their skin.

That is not what is being assumed, and that is also not what this discussion is about.

You can disagree as to whether diversity is a laudable goal or not (I and others will vigorously defend that it is), or we can have a discussion about whether BritRuby was organized in a coherent manner (I would argue that there isn't really enough evidence to assess), or we could look at how other conferences have been organized (which is what Avdi does in this post).

What we should not do is take offense just to take offense, and take this away from a discussion of what it is that we can and should do, into an argument about who's more offended.

> Because I don't know the exact line up for that conference

Just sayin', but it might be helpful to find out what the lineup was before taking offense.
You are generalizing. Every group has assholes. Hyper-sensitive is probably closer to the truth.
Trust me when I say that the lack of success of Chromebooks and Google TV have very little to do with Intel.

With that said, Intel has been way too slow in its race against ARM, but saying that this has impacted Google I don't find credible.
No that's usually just the salary without the other costs incurred to the employer.
The social TV check in space is kind of bizarre right now there's a ton of players Viggle, Miso, Zeebox, Shazam, Umami, Into Now etc.

The networks love the idea but adoption rates seem pretty low, I'm expecting to see a lot of consolidation in this space. Zeebox probably has the best chance of success since its backed by Comcast/NBCU which controls a pretty large swatch of the networks available.
> I find it quite offensive to base arguments on the assumption that the sum of any person is nothing but their gender and the colour of their skin.

Good thing the OP didn't do anything of the sort, or else you would be quite offended.
Win8 Architecture: ARM vs CloverTrail
The simplest solution of all is probably to use HTTPS for _ALL_ connections, whether to widgets or to your site. The cost (in encryption overhead) is trivial* and the value is never having to worry about things like this.

* - unless it prevents you from using a CDN to distribute images and other static-but-large content. Which it shouldn't, if you do it right.
I work at the largest IFE vendor in the world, and I can tell you that current satellite networking implementations would not be able to support a full aircraft. So if they did offer it, they would have to price it very high to keep an appropriate level of service.

I paid 30 Euros for 'net access on a lufthansa flight and only saw only 3 other people in the Economy cabin using it.
The reason I'm using GMail (as opposed to FastMail) is primarily their terrific integration with Android. The excellent GMail app, the contact and calendaring syncing.

I'd really love to use Fastmail, but I see no way I could sync my contacts in a seamless way.

I can't see how your solution would solve this, so no, I would not use.
youtube-widgets.com still may, depending on product requirements, need to have some notion of your Youtube account credentials. This would, in turn, potentially make youtube-widgets.com into a back door into your Gmail if somebody wasn't careful. (grumble grumble The decision to merge the Youtube and all-powerful-Google* logins was about my least favorite login decision since OpenID $INSERT_HYPERBOLIC_SOUNDING_REFERENCES_TO_BAD_MYTHICAL_EVENTS_ WHICH_WHILE_BAD_ARE_STILL_NOT_AS_BAD_AS_OPENID.
Bulgarian torrent tracker forum hacked and accused of collecting user IP
I wrote an article about the purpose of the game. Why it was built. you can check it out here if you like: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4805229
BCP – using experts for regulatory compliance
How about Lisp? I know, I know, it's a religion and all that, but let's put it this way: you can get high-performance Lisp code, there are Lisp compilers that allow you to do things at the machine level (SBCL, for example, has support for pointers and inserting assembly language instructions), and OSes have been written in Lisp in the past.

Why this over C++? Well, first of all, basically anything is better is C++ at this point, but as for why Lisp in particular, there are a few reasons. First, I won't deny my own biases -- I know Lisp, I use it in my work, and I know that the tools to do the things I mentioned above already exist (perhaps an ML fan can answer whether or not such things are available in SML or OCaml). Second, Lisp is never really "out of date," in the sense that you do not need to rewrite your compiler to introduce a new language feature (consider what was required to add lexical closures to C++, and compare to something like CLOS, which can be implemented in macros for Lisps that do not have object oriented constructs). Finally, there is the expressive power of Lisp; an experienced Lisp programmer will run laps around an experienced C++ programmer, simply because it is easier to describe a complicated program in Lisp than in C++ (this argument also applies to ML, Haskell, Python, and dozens of other languages; again, I will not deny a personal bias towards Lisp).
Project with real-life impact. (cheap land mine detonator)
The whole point of SemiAccurate is to report "true rumors" before they become official, so pretty much everything they publish is officially denied. So either this article is completely wrong or it's right but AMD isn't willing to admit it yet.
4 Reasons Why You Should Read Your Programming History
Learning Rails: The Uniqueness Validation.
Elon Musk "Mars Pioneer Award" Acceptance Speech
Sure, you can use Win8 without "Metro," but the live tile display still replaces the start menu. There are lots of unnecessarily buried system interactions that require using Metro.
> What makes you think that you should ever be able to take for free, something that someone else created?...I think a content creator should be able to place any copyright terms on their work.

When it isn't backed by natural scarcity, but through gov't regulation.

People can currently keep control of copyrightable goods forever -- it's called not sharing the good. If they want to publish the good, there are natural consequences. These natural consequences are adjusted by gov't protection through copyright.

I could just as well ask you why you think people should be able to take for free, gov't protection of their intangible works forever without ever giving back.

Copyright is a gov't invented "right." The only reason the right is even offered is that there is supposed to be mutual benefit for the creators and the general public.
Even after all these years, I can't help but assume this is all a giant trick to get people to visit the site again. Like the article says, my fingers refuse to type the domain.
The incredible true story of an SEM who eschewed Google for social media
>> With the grasshopper technology the cost of a flight to orbit basically is the cost of rocket fuel...

>Even my car costs significantly more than just the fuel.

yes, but the cost of using your car for a drive from home to work is basically the cost of car fuel. As opposed to the cost of a full car + fuel because you decide to blow your car up once you get to destination, like we now do for rockets.
So let's get the question clarified: Why don't cash-strapped US carriers take their planes offline to add this expensive, FAA-certified equipment to their aircraft?

And, once the equipment in installed, how do carriers make back that expense? Do they give it away, hoping that customers will choose their airline over others because it has wifi and not just on the cost of the seat as usual? Every plane is already packed. Where do the gains come from?

The external antennas also add drag to the fuselage, which means more fuel to burn and more money lost there. Who pays for that? Who convinces the flight attendants to suddenly become tech support? They're busy rebooting the in-flight entertainment systems three times per trip as it is.
Rebuilding Rails - Build an Opinionated Web Framework in Ruby
This is awesome! Forget the haters and keep building it. I don't think I would pay more than $5/mo but I like the direction you're going.
Although I tend to check bags to not be a part of the "stuff the overheads bin" battle on most flights, Wi-Fi is the only extra I'll pay for on a plane. I've got no interest in stale food, alcohol, duty free, extra legroom or first class.

However, I don't plan my itinerary on it. In particular, Delta is much more likely to have Wi-Fi on the long hop from the hub to the west coast than Usair, but Usair is much more able to find me return flights that aren't a redeye... It took just one night looking at a Texas sky that was the color of television static to decide I'd rather skip Wi-Fi than fly the redeye home.
Don't have game app data, but I have a lifestyle app that serves banners:

AdMob (iOS) - .09 eCPM | 99.87% Fill Rate
AdMob (Android) - .54 eCPM | 99.95% Fill Rate

iAd (iOS) - .56 eCPM | 84.41% Fill Rate

I won't share impressions, but iAD is by far the most profitable stream for me after sales and in-app purchase.
Is Kickstarter Dead For Tech?
Touche. Rather than ask other people if there exist issues with the intended story saving and voting features, I will start using browser bookmarks. Thank you for your valuable feedback. Pre-emtpive: "I know this is not the proper place to file a 'bug-report'"

*edit: not alone (semi-old) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4164468
Fantastic post. It's infuriating to read all the comments by programmers, both on github and reddit, who seem to think there was a tumblr-esque witch hunt by the evil PC brigade against the poor BritRuby organizers, when that just wasn't the case— and hardly ever is.

If anything, the responses by the community only prove there's still a problem with diversity.
Touch is also much faster than visual or audio. With Chisenbop, I can count at around 15Hz, which is faster than I can look at the things I am trying to count.
Correct. Elop is Full of Shit. Period. My faith is back in Nokia, when they supply a phone with Google, Nexus by Nokia. Now that would be something. Elop still doesn't seem to understand that Android is "The Windows" of the mobile devices. We don't need yet another closed ecosystem, that is Microsoft's. If there is ever going to be the third ecosystem, that would be in lines of MeeGo/Tizen/Jolla.
Wii U users reporting bricked consoles
I'll take it. Who says health is the end-all and be-all of human existence?

I'll come back for my claim chowder when the US economy collapses Greek-style, thanks to a fiat currency controlled by a private entity like the Fed, crony corporate welfarism (I'm repeating myself), and the fact that people have now figured out that they can vote themselves goodies. The Republic is over, as the founders warned us when the latter would happen.
Indeed the infamous o-rings sealed connections between pieces which logically wouldn't have been separate.
Wikipedia links this Forbes article that states that he owns 2/3s of SpaceX:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/calebmelby/2012/03/12/how-elon-m...

That isn't a very long list of investors to answer to.
$92,000 is what the employee gets paid by the company. It would include any costs incurred by the employee (income tax, transportation costs, etc.), but would not include things like benefits, insurance, etc. that are paid for by the employer. That is, in part, why you need, at least, twice the rate of your employee in order to be able to afford them.
Slightly un-HN-y title?
Hey HN! Thanks for the upvotes.

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C++ "smart" pointers do not free you from thinking about memory management; the fact that you are expected to choose between shared_ptr and weak_ptr should be enough to tell you that. Unlike languages with a garbage collector, C++ requires programmers to spend their time trying to figure out if they will create a cyclic data structure, and then also to figure out where that cycle should be broken. That is moderately better than having to figure out when it is OK to free memory and when it is necessary to free memory, but only moderately. Let's put it this way: if you were writing a doubly-linked list, where would you put the shared_ptr, and where would you put the weak_ptr (or would you just give up, use "dumb" pointers, and have destructors free memory)?
This app looks incredible but I have absolutely no interest in using a Gmail look alike without all the Gmail features aka android integration, amazing spam blocking, etc, etc, etc (this list could be extensive and most other people have already covered it).

You have the looks down but what you need to seriously focus on now is the back-end and how you might be able to bring all the gmail features people love along.
I absolutely agree with you -- the fact that he's a VC has a lot of bearing on what he writes. Ditto for many of the other people whose posts often end up on the front page of HN. Which goes largely without remark!

And you summarized my approach pretty well -- that it's a lot better to have $500k/yr nice and steady and 'easy' than a tiny sliver of the tiniest chance at a $10-100M payout.

There's just one thing which you missed about that: in most cases, a Liquidity Event doesn't lead to $500k/yr for more than a few years, much less freedom, because of lock-in, and dilution, and taxation. A $100m sale is vanishingly unlikely, and most importantly, to get there you will have to have taken on lots of funding, so it's not like that's your $100m sale.

Then what? You have to start over again.

What I really promote is also an investment model, an self-investment in yourself instead of hoping to receive investment from someone else. Assets are the gift that keep on giving. In the long run, most talented people can make far more from my kind of business than they could from an exit (even assuming they could have a fairly good-sized exit!).

Re: "it should be noted that you have an interest in forwarding this kind of a story as a valuable model of entrepreneurship…"

A lot less financially vested than you might think. My class always sells out, with barely lifting a finger… I don't have to be here to stump for the traditional way of doing business in order to make my living. Emotionally, I'm very vested, because I'm tired of watching people suffer simply because they didn't know there was a viable alternative (because the folks who write about entrepreneurship almost all come from the same exact root stock).
Atwood is an admitted fan of Microsoft products, so yeah, this is written from that perspective. Blogs aren't encyclopedias - they don't have to be NPOV to be worth reading.

If you don't want to read opinion posts written by people who are partial towards one platform or another, you're going to cut yourself off from an awful lot of potentially interesting writing. (E.g. Jeff Atwood & Ed Bott, John Gruber & MG Siegler, Jon Corbet & Bruce Byfield, to pick two fans each respectively of Microsoft, Apple, and Linux).

(Of course, the worst thing is to only read blogs from people whose biases you share, under the delusion that they're the only objective ones...)
That's what they said about horses. Then along came Henry Ford.
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Day-UM! I am not charging enough for Android work.
The cost of fuel is under 3% of total launch costs.
I'm honestly and genuinely curious, I promise you this isn't snark, snide, cynicism, sarcasm or otherwise: what about the word "bitch" normalizes sexism?
Off-topic; looks like there is a mistake in the PHP example on your homepage:

$request->setPostFields(array('from' =>'Excited User <Excited User <me@samples.mailgun.org>',
Keep a low profile and cross your fingers.
Slightly OT, but I'm a bit annoyed at HN's recent... scatological shift.

Since when did it become vogue to, pardon the pun, shit all over people in your blog posts/titles?

Apparently entrepreneurship is better known as entrepreneurshit. Then we find out that that itself is bullshit. And now Elop is full of shit.

Shit. Shit. Shit. And more to the point, can we as a community and industry not do anything except put down others with sensationalist linkbait titles? Can we not criticize companies and people without acting like a bunch of 12 year-olds who just figured out some cuss words?

Where is the decorum and mutual respect? Why is it that every. single. day I come on hacker news and every. single. day I find some blogger slagging another blogger? Why do we act like the macho-male version of Mean Girls?