skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A 4 day city-wide Startup Festival (India)
Selling out in style: indie developers make ’advergames' cool
Sony, Unilever, General Mills, EA - Major brands seeking Data Scientists
Major lessons from the demise of The Daily
Very good points. Thanks for the insights!
Honestly, hackathons are all about bullshit.
I've attended to several hackathons and won several price(AT&T, Angelhack, ...).

And the more you bullshit the more you get close to the win. You even can win without coding, you only need a great talk with a great use case.
How to bring back the Start menu and button to Windows 8
congrats on magnetic pens - really cool idea and they look nice. if there is anything patentable here -- you should go for it. then try to go after big guys have them sell those and just cut you a check (sorry for off topic but couldnt find your email)
Can't wait to play around with the api. Definitely the best pricing I've seen.
> It's also my understanding that Europeans don't necessarily get subsidized phones, either—but they still (nominally) control which phones are allowed on their networks.

Europe is not a nation. It differs from country to country. Sweden has both subsidized and no contract phones.
Review: Acer’s C7 Chromebook is $199 and feelin’ fine (relatively)
Does any know if there are any scripts/css around that could help me create something like this? I'm more of a tinkerer than a coder
>"It's a little disappointing to see these hyperbolic comments on a site I normally associate with an educated, smart, logically-thinking group of people."

What's really disappointing is that there are educated, smart, logically-thinking people who refuse to believe that there is any hype behind the quality and customer service of Apple. Both are okay, but not exceptional.

I'm on my second MBA. I had the 2010 model, then traded it in for the 2011. The first model was good; never had a problem, but only owned it for a year. This latest version is having trackpad issues: I use real click, not tap-to-click. But my trackpad has become so sensitive to pressure that you can hardly rest your finger on the pad without a click registering. When doing anything more than web-browsing, it's nearly unusable, requiring me to carry a mouse around.

Now this sucks, because to me the Apple trackpad is the biggest reason for owning one of their laptops. I have Apple Care, but they seem to think that everything is fine. So I'm out of luck...until I get a new laptop. The next one can't be an Apple.

As the author writes, it's hard to understand being told you have no issue, when there is clearly a problem. And this tarnishes Apple's reputation for HIGH quality and GREAT customer service.
This book is by a programmer, for programmers, to help them quantify their happiness and take action to improve it, instead of focusing on churning widgets (GTD) or whatever it is you focus on.
I'm asking because if I don't find something that works well, I'm going to build something.

Right now I use a .txt file, Gmail, & Dropbox to keep things organized, but I'd like to a place online that works with all that instead of trying to replace it.
While it seems ridiculous now that I think about it, I thought I was tuning in to a live video stream from Mars. Damn.
If you suspect a site has been compromised, wouldn't a better approach be to submit this as a text article explaining your reasons rather than linking to the affected site? Depending on the nature of the hack, the title could easily have been:

Was Tumblr hacked in order to do drive-by malware installs? (tumblr.com)

Now everyone who clicks is potentially at risk.
An idea when it's going to be released to the public?
Hot Swappable Nameservers
easyDNS has released "hot swappable nameservers" (or Proactive Nameservers) in marketing speak.
Basically it's failover at the nameserver level.
Why would you call a gem, a company which proliferates insecure walled IM gardens (based on non compliant XMPP which precludes using any normal clients), instead of advancing secure and federated IM networks based on standard XMPP interoperable with any compliant client? Their approach is really ugly.
Thanks for posting this. I thought about buying one before the end of the year, but now I'll wait for the second generation.
In most markets, the law does not allow beta products and caveat emptor. Warranties against product flaws are mandatory. Personally, I would consider ghosting as shown by the OP a defect covered by warranty. In addition to that, a premium brand should treat early adopters well, especially those who bought the flagship product. This is the point OP seems to be making. However, due to their own design decisions, they have made this very expensive, which incentivizes them to provide shitty service, which is damaging their brand image.
Shocking Next-Gen Law Enforcement Handcuff System Revealed
I was an Apple certified repair technician for three years until 2010 and the ghosting issue is very real, I saw it on several displays. The best thing is to just keep calling them/going to an Apple store until they fix it for free. I agree that their customer service could use some work in this department.
My experience has been that "Windows 8 Apps" default to the 2x1 tile size and all "pre-Windows 8 Apps" default to the 1x1 tile size that displays their "desktop icon".

So the rule could be: "All apps start at 2x1 if they have a 2x1 tile designed, otherwise they start at 1x1"
> There is a micro-USB charging port on your popSLATE that passes charge through to your phone so you don't have to take the cover off.

Almost as appealing as the screen is that I could charge my phone with any Micro USB cord, instead of these $20 Lightning cables.
That's an important question to ask yourself. And the converse is equally important: "if you're willing to work with a low and very unreliable income stream for a while, why be someone else's employee?"

The "early employee" in the middle can be a tricky spot. There's a phrase I read on HN a while back "the founders get rich, the early employees get screwed, and the late employees get paid."

I think this phrase does a better job identifying a risk than an inevitability, but it is worth thinking about.
Three times? Is the article trying to count the Darksaber or something?
Have you ever done the "flex test" with an MBA and a T61? Very noticeable different with a magnesium rollcage vs. an aluminum unibody. There is no flex in a T61.
Shucks.

I don't even have a dog in this fight except for the following facts

1) I am a current owner of the storied T61 and
2) I have grown fond of the stupendously neat rMBP and am mulling getting one.

That and you can throw the damn thing across the room and
it'll still work. Mine is 5 years old, has been thrown,
dropped, spilled on, yanked off the table, stood on and
it's as good as new.

Now that I've been made familiar with the fact that the T61 is in very small company of notebooks that can put up with even moderate household battery - a fact I've long suspected but never gloated about, given it's outmodedness - I am suddenly struck with angst over my limited options.

Yes, T61 is all those things that the author mentioned.

My T61 has survived falls on hardwood floors, physical shocks in poorly padded cases and other uncharitable abuse.

I just can't fathom the prospect of not being able to do all those things to my new notebook, whatever the eventual pick is.

rMBP owners: Please do share your insights into the mean level of abuse your units have handsomely survived.
Exactly. You can't use the results to say that one language is faster than another. It doesn't even make sense.

(That's the context of the conversation, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4851781)
I apologize -- I meant "punished" somewhat poetically. I meant only to convey that HN had shunned my comments with downvotes, fading those comments into the background of the page.

The point is that I am questioning what those expectations of the audience are. If you have read those threads, preferably in context, would you mind giving me your own personal judgement about whether or not my voice in those discussions is unwelcome or should be removed from the room? Particularly when set aside those comments of mine that were deemed to be welcome?
I had the same problem with a rMBP. Apple replaced mine at the Apple Store even though I couldn't show them the problem while I was there. They even gave me the extra charging brick that came in the new machine's box.

I have a friend with a base model rMBP who took it into the Apple Store, and they replaced his with the maxed out model because that's the only configuration they had left in stock.
Facebook Mobile Use May Be Near Its Saturation Point In The United States
I 100% feel like this. I work in the enterprise space and it's amazing how many people have never heard of a MVP. When I tell them that their mobile version of their on-premise software needs to follow a lean approach they usually respond with "so you mean like how we used to build software?!?" When I go through this drill, their eyes light up like I've just told them that the new messiah is coming tomorrow. It's really powerful stuff and while I don't have a single massive success under my belt (but hopefully on my way), I do truly believe it's the way to go, and if it's not, I'll die trying to figure out the right way to get companies to support disruptive technology.

I've personally had many failures in my past, which I've only recently been happy to be very public with people about. My greatest personal success has been the realization that those failures are by far my greatest accomplishments.
UK is no different from the rest of Europe. 2 years - Apple just don't make it obvious.

http://www.apple.com/uk/legal/statutory-warranty/

See also: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19788361
Blog Post - Adding Multiple Templates to a VMware Guest
This blog post tells you how to create multiple VMware monitoring service checks using Opsview's in-built VMware Guest templates.
SMS Vulnerability in Twitter, Facebook, and Venmo
They decided to copy Apple and have an "innovative GUI". Surprise, surprise, it turned out shitty, just like OS X.
Dear santa: Please Buy Me This $26000 Transforming Robot
Irish isn't actually available as a translation for Dropbox - they only provided an Irish translation for the announcement on that page.
I think a really important one is missing: getting feedback early and often from players. As soon as your core game loop is done, you should play test it with people from within your target audience (we often use lego and cardboard or really simple Unity prototypes). Then do the same in a regular rhythm (e.g. weekly) while you implement, refine and polish.
Hmm. No issues on Chrome for me. Try running it in incognito? Maybe an extension's interfering.
I'm actually rather keen to get one. I guess the appeal for me is A) a neat toy for particular occasions, and B) personal ideas of using less-subjective feedback for understanding and controlling myself toward goals. But I want to see some example pictures from the actual device before committing money to it.
Live Now: Curiosity Rover Update
100% on point.. No one has ever gone down the exact same path your going down. What works might not work again and what never works might work once..
http://cssdeck.com/
It says CSS, but it's basically JSFiddle with the ability to "play" the code as the person types it. It's also used as a platform to teach others how to program - http://cssdeck.com/codecasts

I personally think this is a lot more helpful than just snippets (which is more like what coderwall.com is).
Thanks for asking these questions. I gave myself a head smack for not including some of this info on the page itself. I'll add in, but answer here:

1. Absolutely runs in a browser and we're doing all we can to make it a first-class citizen. The idea is that you can bring ad hoc members to the team without them having to do any setup.

2. We're starting to build out native apps with deeper integrations (ie, the Mac notification center). We're starting with the commercial desktop and mobile platforms, but as a big fan of Linux I'm eager to have a native client there, too.

3. Right now it's a hosted service, but others, too, have brought up the sensitivity of team data. Reminds me of how Memoto received feedback that eventually brought them to incorporate an option for local storage rather than pushing images to their servers automatically.

4. At this early stage it's a custom protocol, but that was the fastest way to stand up our interface layer. I do think it would greatly help adoption to be XMPP compatible and we're digging in to the potential of that. Video / audio (which is used to complement the chat) is based on WebRTC.
Typical exchange:

Person A: Apple is amazing. Antenna-gate was mass media nonsense.

Person B: I, personally, had major problems with the antenna.

Person C: Why don't you just get rid of your phone then? No one told you to buy one.

Or, I can demand the quality and service I expect from a premium product. What's wrong with that?
My perspective here is in no way Apple-specific, but I was reminded of something quite interesting in this story: if you pass a test and you still have problems, it probably means the test isn't good enough.

Worse, passing a test doesn't magically change the state of the world and make these problems disappear. Turning to the customer and explaining, "there is no problem because you passed the test" does not alter the customer's experience at all: the ghosting still exists.

This has nothing to do with whether or not Apple was smart to behave this way, or what the tolerances should be - I don't have a dog in this fight. Instead, I just wanted to highlight something I have to be reminded of from time to time, in different contexts: no one cares whether you think their problem is real, they care whether the problem still exists for them.

Obvious point: This goes for more than just computer products.
I had the same issue with a 11" MBP back in the day and had the same great fix, although I was told to throw the old battery away.

I also had an issue with a 1Gen time capsule, which when it broke got replaced in store no questions asked.

I guess I have been lucky?
India has a strong judiciary that such acts will not be left unquestioned by the court - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-20551955
Yes, Perl is a big language. But you don't have to learn anywhere near the whole language to be productive in it.
I've mentioned in the comment that I live in India, my bad if I didn't. I think OC had mentioned had mentioned it too.
News Corp. To Shutter Tablet Newspaper The Daily
Totally. I was trying to explain how the concepts and people fit together, to give some context to the tools and approaches we have to choose from.

To your point more directly, I'm of the mindset that you can "do Lean Startup" without explicitly subscribing to it as a methodology. My goal is to help people understand the underlying concepts to see which approaches make the most sense for them, and even to the point where they can adapt them and come up with their own ways.

One of my favourite serial entrepreneurs, Nick Imrie, once told me: "We used to do Lean Startup. We just called it getting experience."
Native Code is Dead
Anyone who's read it care to share their thoughts? I've got more queued up books than I can handle right now!
I would add that it's also an argument against being dependent on the income from an iphone app.

If your income is from one source, you should default to saving more of it than you would if you had a diversified income base.
If you think about it from Google's perspective, its working like its supposed to.

Overzealous fans going on click-fests are a problem for Google's customers (the advertisers). Automatically banning that account and showing those ads elsewhere completely solves that problem. Simple load-balancing at work. What more do they need to do?
Things that keep me awake at night #1: The end of telephony  By Charlie Stross
The Higgs and Wishful Thinking
This is useful only for two kind of people:

- Looking to contribute to Ruby MRI or

- want to understand certain behavior

For rest of us, I don't see much value.
Yikes, not sure what I did to set that off. I'm not angry at Google, I'm just stating the fact that as someone who does business with Google I am constantly aware that our arrangement could be gone at any moment at no-fault of my own and without any recourse.

> If not for Google, you may not have a dime of that money you've earned. I mean, maybe not, right? If so, then you'd have to have gotten that money through someone else doing what Google is doing right? Why not just switch to them if Google does you dirty?

And likewise, Google wouldn't have had their cut for that money either. As best as I can tell it's a mutually beneficial relationship, but Google's lack of transparency does shift the balance (while I can yank all my inventory, that only works going forwards, Google can unilaterally decide to not pay you for what they have already taken).

> How many articles have we seen about Facebook doing exactly that? That's much worse IMO. If I'm giving you money, you better be taking it legitimately. If I'm taking your money, the onus is on me to prove I have taken it honestly. If not, I'd totally expect Google to keep the money -- and they don't keep the money -- they give it back to the advertiser or never charge them to begin with.

All of the tools, methods and results of legitimacy are stacked on Google's side and are kept completely secret. If their secret sauce decides to boot you, they don't even let you know what happened, which is especially rich. The same applies to AdWords, Google hosts an auction but keeps everyone in the dark and asks for their trust. Advertisers don't have any say in click fraud either, it's all left to the secret black box.

It's a pretty ridiculous thing on its face. Imagine an employeer takes you into the conference room in the middle of the month and states that they're not happy with something (but won't say what) and that they're going to have to take your past three pay checks and send you on your way. Frustrating to say the least.

AdSense is great, but not perfect.
Just because you created a web app, doesn't mean you have a startup.
I actually don't think the UX was that bad. Certainly not bad enough to be considered a major factor in the failure of the venture. My own take would be that the costs were too high, the device limitations were off-putting, iPad-only to start was a mistake, and the biggest factor was the daily nature of The Daily. It is nonsensical to have a daily news publication online where the old limitations of printing and distribution no longer exist.
As others have said most flash sites of this kind did the exact same hack and provided an HTML fallback that used JS to replace the fallback div with the correct Object/embed for the browser.
Instagram vulnerability on iPhone allows for account takeover
The parent comment was wrong to brand its opponents fanatics, but yours is also excessively opinionated. TrackPoint versus (Apple) trackpad is, fairly obviously, a matter of taste, not of Kool-Aid.
Pretty cool idea to change background color with meaningful quotes! easy but inspiring for lives!

maybe you can try to enhance it by adding more quotes and making the relationship between quotes and colors.
McAfee Security founder says he’s now out of Belize, eluding investigators
The Design of a Site Meant to be Read
Microsoft invests US$250 Million in Partners in Learning
From my FizzBuzz comment: "I do not object to the broad points being made here." I am not dismissing anything, I am agreeing. I am then trying to add what I believe is a very important problem being missed -- that there are many valuable developers whose personalities mean they will do very badly on a timed paper-programming test in the midst of an interview. Testing of this kind is deeply unfair to them, and deceives the tester. I'm sorry if you feel that's not much of a value-add. I disagree.

Granted, in both of 2 and 3, there's a likelihood of you being voted down because it's a story about an entrepreneurial guy doing well, and you disagreeing with the legitimacy of what he's doing. This is a very entrepreneurial forum, so there's a bias against that.

It's difficult for me to imagine anyone reading those threads and missing that conclusion. It seems to me that it is the primary driver.
We are in no danger of our money being taken away by the government. I feel that these kinds of articles are just begging for attention.

Also, if you see a problem with the government and how much of your money that they keep, change it. I know it's not a simple process, but it's possible.
I looked at a couple of articles (carrots and Lincoln) and didn't see any references. Do you have those somewhere?
To be fair, geeks spent the last decade complaining about never being invited to the cool parties or getting to lay the really hot chicks.

Now everyone is like "grow a beard and get back to the basement damnit"
I18n.js: jQuery i18n plugin
This puzzles me. Let's compare one time action of registration for secure XMPP service (where you have an option of choosing your own ID (JID) and password which you can change later), as well as an option of using a client with extra security like OTR for text messages and ZRTP for audio/video conferencing, with the client which lets you skipping one time step of registration, but gives it for the price of broken insecure approach of using predefined IDs and passwords based on the device ID?

I'd say constant security risk outweighs the "burden" of one time registration step which is a pretty familiar for any user on the web and takes just a few seconds to complete. It's not a decent thing to do for Whatsapp developers to play on users ignorance.
Newb to Newb: How to get involved in an open source project
I guess one advantage he gets is that is works on iOS devices tapping into the hardware acceleration thanks to CSS3 animations.

I fear disable JS will be the new flash blocker :/
I was unable to get a decent job, all I could get were telesales jobs.

I'm close to finishing up my Bachelor's now, I could graduate in June and throw myself full time into my business or I could do next year too which would be my Honours year.
Internet back online in Syria
This is by far the best feedback, and I would add the following questions (as a parent):

* Does the church provide childcare/nursery services?

* If so, which services times do/don't have it?

* Link to financial information or simple budget breakdown [1]
(Making financial information easily accessible is important IMO)

* What mission and community projects/services does the church support and in what amounts?

[1] Examples:
http://www.thevillagechurch.net/flower-mound/about-us/who-we...
http://www.aldersgateumc.org/Resources/2011ChurchBudget/tabi...
Curiosity detected organic compounds!
Still trying to make sure they are not from Earthly contamination!
It's an application not a patent. Also, I did not see anything new, but then again I did not study the diagrams so I may have missed something. However, if there is really nothing new then it's probably not going to be granted so no biggie.
Indeed, it was kind of stupid from the submitter.