skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
good point.. it's not because the application itself seems monolithic the underlying strcuture is.

Apart from that, how on earth would the author go about teaching an average Joe-that-wants-to-type-a-letter that instead of having to open a single program and start doing everything he can imagine, he now has to use 100 seperate programs each entitled to a certain task?
500px is a Canadian startup in Toronto. They been on the front page of hacker news several times. The word order made perfect sense.
You mean the completely arbitrary several thousand percent price hike with still absolutely no customer service and multi-week turn around times when you can report issues?

No...no bad taste at all.
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Agreed here. I'm not really convinced that there's a series A crunch so much as there's a seed funding glut.

Anecdotally, it seems easier than ever to raise notes on a team, a dream, and a powerpoint deck. And the amounts being raised seem higher than ever.
MeshLife
I just ordered this based on your recommendation. Thank you!
This is pretty awesome. I've wanted something like this for a while but was too lazy to create it myself. Thanks for doing this.
Is this really that big a problem though? I mean irrespective of how many people in SV disagree with the candidate, eventually if he/she throws enough money at the problem, he should be able to sort it out? After all, Porn is the canonical example for something that not a lot of engineering people would work on but still manages to attract enough talent to work on some really hard problems.
If people work it so there's graceful degradation then it'll transform plenty of things for a large segment of the internet using public. Disparity isn't great but if there's developers pushing features out for the other main browsers it'll hopefully light a fire under the IE team.
Interesting indeed - I recently read the Economic Naturalist which briefly explained the reasons behind the price for last minute tickets (for the curious ones, http://goo.gl/oE1UK)
I live in Europe and can definitely say that people do tend to buy their plane tickets a VERY long time in advance (a plane ticket from London to Athens can easily cost 10 EUR if bought well in advance).

Bus/train tickets tend to be pretty much the same anyway, whether u buy them in advance or a day before...
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If a national candidate cannot be organized and inspirational enough to generate donations, how can they hope to succeed as president? I would argue that fundraising is much easier than, say, passing a major piece of legislation.
Thanks, that's what I figured, but some of the terms such as "instances" was confusing me.
I think benjaminwootton was talking about solving the sync/merge problem..? There are still plenty of opportunities in that space, no?

It's easy to say 'your app needs sync', and I agree it _should_ be part of every app, but depending on what data you're dealing with, this isn't easy to do.
> I wish this was true. Most of the "childfree" people I know are really obnoxious and in-your-face about it.

Interesting, where do you live? I have yet to find anyone else in my social circles that has made this decision, nor have I heard anyone outside of the internet take this stance in my presence, especially naggingly so.
Very cool library! The one thing all of these type of things lack (e.g. this, dojo.dialog()) is that they are non-blocking to the execution thread, unlike alert()/confirm()/prompt(). I know it's not their fault, javascript doesn't allow this natively, but i feel like that would be immensely useful for general user input, form validation and the like. Yes, I am aware that it can be done currently through workarounds, I'm just saying that allowing certain native objects to be blocking upon further user input, would be immensely useful and save code readability

EDIT: Care to explain why I'm getting downvoted? Said nothing offensive, and I'm clearly on-topic.
I lean Democrat but the GOP just took the wrong strategy this time around... they'll learn. If they can't find any good technologists that support their cause, pulling out a checkbook will reverse people's party alliances in an instant.

Believe me they'll unfortunately adapt.

From my perspective they have many more issues they need to sort out before this one to get themselves back together.
How do you feel they've done that?
This is almost as good as your beard dude.
I found this project that would fit the bill: http://fabien-d.github.com/alertify.js/

See "Customizable Log Messages".
Police bust Australia's biggest credit card fraud ring
Agreed. Looks like someone reported an issue already:
https://github.com/fabien-d/alertify.js/issues/3
I was not making negative statement about Amazon.

I was just pointing out that this trend is going to continue to make the mobile developer who's trying to target multiple platform's job harder.
Ahh I see. I know some processor now forgo the requirement of addresses, eliminating alot of fields and barriers even more. It may take quite a while to get used (and feels scary too).
ProCog releases API to Search Index
What's the difference? We trust such data to be in all sorts of insecure places. Do you really think one of the low payed secretaries at a medical office isn't easily bribable? Or that every IT system your data eventually touches has Bruce Schneier doing their security?
You've hit the nail on the head. This describes perfectly the annoyances I come across while going through 3.3 docs.
It's really interesting that Bootstrap is becoming another layer of abstraction to be found in a lot of projects, like jQuery before it.

So far I'm pretty sure that's not a bad thing.
One div: The single element HTML/CSS icon database
Cooliris iOS photo-viewing app gets 1.5M installs
The bigger complaint I've got with App Engine, which I don't have with this, is that it's complete lock-in.

If I write my app against Heroku, I can pick up and move to AWS, Rackspace, Azure, or even a local cloud such as vSphere, VMware Fusion, or Hyper-V, quite easily. That's because the PostgreSQL/Unicorn/Redis/whatever that's on Heroku is the same as what I can run on any of those other services. Even if I use Microsoft's technologies, it's generally not that hard to move form a pure Windows stack to a Mono/PostgreSQL one these days.

That's not true for App Engine. Their database engine exists nowhere else. Their general web stack exists nowhere else. Yes, I know about Appscale, but it hasn't been updated in forever, and empirically, I don't think that HBase's performance is a real replacement for Google's data storage. As a result, if Google radically alters their pricing--as they've done before--then you just have to shut up and take it.

I don't want that kind of lock-in, no matter how awesome the product is.
If GOP pays top-dollar which should be their philosophy, I'll def. work for them. It's about monies.
> It really highlights the old-world vs. new you see between the two parties.

That's a bit much. Somebody made the right call infrastructure-wise and somebody made the wrong one. That's it.

If anything, Republicans are more "new-world" regarding tech policy in general, ie copyright/intellectual property.
Interesting, in the past I've had the manufacturer require an in-person meeting at the facilities (which is basically their way of fact checking I guess) before coming through but for components never had them require a PO first.

On a funny/related note back when I worked at Google and was looking into compressing air during windy periods and then feeding it back through compressed air motors for energy and cooling, I tried to get specs and pricing from MTI, the French company that Tata Motors was said to be buying their motors from. In spite of being from Google and offering up the possibility of a very press worthy installation they wouldn't even give me the time of day. I figured they didn't actually have anything at that point and since Tata didn't ship their car for several years I continue to hold that belief. (I don't even know if Tata ever shipped their car, one option was buying cars and just taking out the engine)
Student-Loan Delinquencies Now Surpass Credit Cards
I increased the price of two of my Mac App Store apps:

Reddit Notifier https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/reddit-notifier/id468366517?...

$1.99 -> $2.99

EdgeCase https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/edgecase/id513826860?mt=12

$4.99 -> $7.99

Sales numbers for both have remained close enough to constant so these price increases have lead to a nice little bump in revenue. I would say to aim for the high end of the price "range" you're targeting. If someone will pay $2, they'll probably also buy at $3 but perhaps not at $6. Your app looks like a vital part of a person's workflow... try $9.99.
That's the thing, though - they threw something like four times the amount of money at it than the Dems did and it still failed. The best metaphor is a Fortune 500 vs. a scrappy startup - who is more agile and can pivot faster?
Private, individual & group short text messaging, aka Dark Social
You forgot to mention "cognitive context switching."
Which apps make money?
Despite Ceasefire, Israel-Gaza War Continues Online
Of course it will all be built. People are just playing politics.
Are you saying it would be good for them to block? Why?

When they execute, they run a callback with the input provided. Inside that callback, do whatever you need to do that requires some input.
I am begging you to reconsider this project. At best it is useless, at worst it will get people killed. In a very literal sense you have fatally misunderstood how LGVs and cyclists interact, because you have failed to take into account the relative motion of the vehicles.

If a stationary cyclist is waiting at the nearside of a stationary LGV, then your device may potentially signal to the driver that there is a cyclist in his blind spot; Of course, this is a situation which no cyclist should ever allow to occur and is a mistake that kills several women every year in London. Encouraging people to take such a position would be a disastrous own-goal.

If a cyclist is undertaking an LGV, then the symbol will precede them into the driver's blind spot, only emerging when it is already too late. Cyclists usually travel at between two and eight metres per second. The reaction time of a healthy driver to a visual stimulus is between 0.7 and two seconds. If your device allows a cyclist to be noticed by an LGV driver in this scenario, they will be noticed too late for the driver to abort their manoeuvre and prevent the right-of-way violation.

Speak to an expert on the subject and model the scenario - the mathematics is quite straightforward. I'm sorry to shit on your dreams, but it's human lives we're dealing with.
I think you're projecting a bit. FWIW I'm pushing 30, have worked on the East coast for finance as well as "in the valley", and generally fall on Yegge's "conservative" side of the spectrum.

A lot of other commenters immediately jumped to the medical records argument, but all I was saying is that for a LOT of companies that make the "we have to have everything on site" argument...it's just not true.
Launching WordPress into the Google cloud
An important devil's advocate point: what about business travel? If business travel isn't included, there's a pretty big chunk of travel spend missing in this data. And it would certainly skew the advance booking metric.

However, I could see mozio fitting well in a corporate booking tool.
I have a business degree and an MBA and I agree with this statement. If I could go back, I would major is something more technical.

But, I also have an MBA. And I would get that again.
The "ha" sound is like in hash, but it's a distinct syllable on it's own, without the "sh". The second syllable is more like "she". The "ha" and "shi" have the same weight, so the whole word is 2 syllables and 2 morae, unlike either of the two examples you gave (which are 3 morae each.)

It usually means "bridge" (橋) in the name Hashimoto, but can also mean "chopsticks" (箸) or "edge" (端), with a slightly different pitch (largely indistinguishable for non-speakers)
I would argue that they just directed that money in the wrong direction. If the parties advertise money for campaign oriented tech Im sure the startup community will increasingly take notice and be willing to service any paying customer.
Ask HN: Ruby or Python hacker in Palo Alto Area
Looking for a hacker in the Palo Alto area that is willing to hack together a project with us. We're currently a small team of 2 with front-end and iOS experience.

Can provide accommodation for next 2-3 weeks if needed in a shared house. Ideally you will stay with us or be able to work daily. You will be the core backend guy.

Possible co-founder role or paid.

Experience: +2 years
Knowledge:

- Ruby on Rails and/or Python
- Redis or MongoDB
- GIT
- Google Maps

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The scarce resource in being a successful politican isn't really money, and it certainly isn't being smart, progressive, or informed. It's the ability to persuade people. Regardless, I think the idea that anyone could be president is kind of sweet but not very relevant. Most people can't or don't want to be elected to president of their high school class, let alone anything bigger. Democracy simply means that you get to vote, not that anyone could be president.
Since nobody seems to have noticed yet: bonus points for using native methods and not using JQuery.
Killer feature(idea): Work with a Kinect sensor on a feedback loop to update the playlist based on number of people, size of the room, acoustics, aggregate playlist taste of people who "check-in" to the room so their tastes gets included (you're a good host right?). I imagine it would bring a more social component to the playlist and put that social component to use.
MobileWorks (YC S11) is hiring a Marketing and Communication Manager
Sorry, Microsoft, I'm not buying your attack on Google Shopping.
Reading this write-up after having read Nate Silver's post[1] today on how the Republican party has a harder time getting Silicon Valley talent leads to an interesting thought. Going forward the party that can successfully target the younger, smarter base will have a SUBSTANTIAL advantage in developing better systems. Assuming there is not some ceiling on how much better technology can impact efficiency, these systems will translate to exponentially more effective platforms for the party with the brightest youth.

[1]: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/28/in-silic...
Nitpick:

> Temporary files usually start with a dot or a dollar-sign.. to make sure that Nginx never serves any files starting with either of those characters...

> location ~ ~$ { access_log off; log_not_found off; deny all; }

Wouldn't that regex match temporary files ending with ~ (as it should)?
It's the only way to make a "native" app on a Chromebook. As Chromebooks become more popular, these API's become more important (just like Android and iPhone API's).

Conveniently, you can still run them using desktop Chrome. Should be handy for development.
> My thinking is that, if there's a future where we might have regular launches to orbit all of those costs will have to drop.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4844581

> I think it could very well be in that context that a MAGLEV launch-assist vehicle might make sense.

Maglev would indeed allow smaller, less complex vehicles built with less stringent margins to be launched.
I appreciate the argument about SpaceX (and the other thoughtful replies to my question). I just think that this case is fundamentally different from a rocket company. This is something that, to make profit, would need to be used by global airlines, where patent laws are much more enforceable.

My thinking boils down to this: if SpaceX comes up with a novel, patentable way to improve rocketry, China can steal it.

If these guys come up with a much faster aircraft engine, even if China made them for cheap, they could and would prevent United, Lufthansa, BA, and the other big airlines from using it.

China can steal IP when it is used internally, or sold as consumer goods to other countries that violate patent laws. They can't steal IP and sell it to large multinationals.
> "Geeks like to win arguments and value facts above opinions."

I'd rephrase that to be "geeks like to win arguments and like to think they value facts above opinions"

In my experience geeks are no more objective than any other messed up human being on this planet. We just have a giant collective superiority complex about our own supposed factualness.

This is related to the many, many posts you see on HN where programmers belittle professionals of other fields as if they were economists, political scientists, biologists, medical doctors, rocket scientists, architects, structural engineers, or what have you.
Django 1.5 Highlights
Degrades perfectly down to IE7, great example on how to do this - the design and functionality become less and less polished yet it still does the core tasks accurately.
This is a very nice infographic.

I've programmed a lot in PHP and still wonder why its rep is as bad as it is. For anyone deciding what language to learn, I think they would look at the stats and see that PHP is the fastest, the easiest, and the one with the most Jobs - and pick it.

Having said that I'd much rather program in Ruby if I'm doing high level stuff - for some reason, ruby is just more fun or easy and doesn't feel as "dirty" as programming in php does - although I don't know exactly why php feels that way, maybe its the embedded open_tags :)
Ok I'll give it another try starting next week. thank you
Would a Groupon CEO Exit Help the Stock?
Write the code in ES6 and compile it to ES5, then use Modernizer or some equivalent to detect which runtime is supported by the client's browser and serve the appropriate script.
This seems like an overreaction. Facebook has a billion users, so trying to do things like encourage voting is a nice sentiment, but practically useless in my opinion.

It's better for the company to just do what they want, and if they overstep their bounds and if people don't like it, they'll leave, just like they did with MySpace and Friendster. And if people stay, then it means they don't care. People are allowed to have the right to not care what people do with their personal data. I personally care, so I would close my account, but I'm sure there are swathes of people that simply don't care.
IIRC, the reason they spent so much money is because they outsourced it to a bunch of consultants. I am sure that if they wanted to do this properly, they could have organically grown a small team, and done this in-house.
>(but I don't expect that will ever happen.)

You mean happen again? Like it did last summer?
Exactly.

Comparing the two's info sys I can't help but draw a lot of similarities between old vs new, "enterprise"/top down/"consultant shops" vs agile/developer driven, monolithic up front vs bit by bit iterative.

I was going to make that observation over on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4842510 but didn't as it was a generalization and based on reading two articles (that one and the Orca debacle one). Despite that there's truth behind it and this articles puts some numbers behind that truth.
It's a compelling point, albeit in many ways very short-sighted. Though I really do believe we're headed to a full virtual reality. Why live life--the hard, cold future life as depicted in Matrix--when you can be a millionaire in the 20s one day and a pillaging crusader on the next?

We have cultural fantasies and biases that will be hard to break free (or do we want it?), and the possibility of fully reliving those as we please will be a Great Temptation as the writer puts it.

Still I think it's short-sighted in that the people who can be as powerful in real life as everyone else can in the virtual will take advantage of it and control the masses with infinite happiness. So I don't think it's ultimately a good point to stand for the Great Filter.
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Because it's not their government, and it opens a very large door to foreign governments trying to influence elections. Really, this is a question?
Done. Will be fixed on redeploy.
Having an MBA myself (nowhere near from a top-10 school, although friends who have gone to better schools report similar curricula) I don't see B-Schools teaching/reinforcing what it is to be a "manager".

I think the MBA does a disservice because it often either doesn't teach "people management" at all or (worse?) reinforces hard-core Taylorism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_management#Taylor.27...). We get disastrous manage-by-the-numbers and "us vs. them" mentality, ultimately devaluing the role of the manager! If all you need to manage is a report that says how many widgets employee X made relative to compensation you can automate away most management.

Yes, under that definition (not all MBA programs are like that, but it seems the majority are), I think the MBA is bad for the US economy. It promotes underperformance, lack of innovation, and sucks up resources that could better be spent elsewhere.

Instead, they should teach Drucker-ism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Drucker) and Organizational Systems Theory (http://managementhelp.org/organizations/systems.htm).

Managers can and do amazing things by enabling their coworkers to scale better by:

* Removing roadblocks that get in their way

* Listen to, and allow employees to change and shape the culture

* Coach coworkers to improve skills and develop flow

* Help mentor and guide the organization as it scales up

Though, we need far fewer of them if we leave it to stuff like this. It allows organizations to be a lot flatter and scale better without dedicated managers, putting causing downward demand on managers so it seems something most MBA programs won't adopt. Still, it would prevent wholesale manager-bankruptcy that I envision is the future for the "managing" class in most businesses.
According to this link (http://www.g2mil.com/high.htm), air friction is not completely trivial. Additionally rocket engines are more efficient in less dense atmosphere "because the thinner air allows a better plume". They estimate that launching from 30,000 feet provides 9.3% greater thrust.

Note that much of the energy spent for orbital flight is not spend getting height, but spent getting speed. Efficiency is greatly increased if you can reach high speeds without having to carry the reaction mass to reach those speeds.

LEO requires about 7.8 km/s, Skylon's jet engines can go around 1.7 km/s. You are reaching 20% of your orbital velocity without reaction mass.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABRE_(rocket_engine)#Advantage...

The big savings, like spacex's grasshopper project, is of course a reusable space vehicle. The advantage to spacex's approach is that Skylon is a single stage to orbit space plane (you don't need to land a bunch of stages using retro-rockets).

If I was placing a bet, I would bet on spacex since they have a proven track record (rockets are easy, organizing/funding rocket companies is hard). Skylon is a great idea though and it is the general direction that aircraft engine design is headed (a peak at the future).
In my experience this is the rule rather than the exception, most firewall configs are broken in some way and there are often several firewalls on the path. I turn them off where circumstances allow.
Looks like a valid sample to me. Are you bothered by the ordering of the sample members? Then I'd continue the pipeline to include a call to shuf.
What percentage of "job creators" does this cover?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that computer and mathematical jobs are 2.7% of ALL jobs and 5.5% of jobs in SF.[1] I can't find the percentage of NEW jobs that are tech-related.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/ro9/oessanf.htm
Read some Chomsky. It doesn't matter.
Thanks everyone - We've fixed the bug now and it should be working perfectly