skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd agree that while I really dont have a full picture of the economics of the current startup atmosphere (does anyone?), the culture right now is a pretty strong indicator to me that things are going to stagnate or trend down. IMHO there is a pretty toxic layer of culture that has built up from all the hype that for the most part is adding negative value. I dont really give a crap if people think it fits their definition of a "bubble" or not - if the focus is not on providing tangible value to others, the market will eventually figure it out and value it appropriately. I think there is a large and growing segment of startups that view their business as existing to just bring value to themselves (although will obviously never be admitted) - business plans that stop at getting funding, comfy office suites, parties, etc. Part of this is getting driven by a segment of newly inspired newcomers that view startups as essentially just a cool atmosphere where they could get rich rather than what startups really should be to be successful ... a slog through utter absolute shit to try to do something that really matters to the people involved.
I'm glad they cleared that up for us.
I am pretty happy with Enqueue as a replacement for iTunes, it plays flac's too.

http://www.enqueueapp.com/ (No affiliation)
I don't care about cross-platform, but I feel abandoning DRM-free is really moving away from the original concept.
Really like the DRA concept from google - same durability, but reduced availability.

Comparing to reduced durability of Amazon RRS, it's a nice happy medium between the normal storage and Glacier.
Fair and fairly scary point.
http://www.squarespace.com/ and http://www.virb.com/ are going to have the best looking pre-defined templates. If this person is wanting something for a portfolio, http://www.cargocollective.com/ has some good stuff.

http://salon.io/ from a ShowHN yesterday is also in this realm. The landing page says it's for images/portfolios but their inline editor lets you do pretty much whatever.
If this guy isn't held responsible for the content, you would be creating a loophole in the law.

If I wanted to distribute illegal content safely, I could just run a Tor exit node and claim that the illegal content originated from somewhere within Tor instead of from my machines.
This is a brilliant move by Staples.

- Get people through their doors (to ultimately browse and purchase stuff)

- Associate 3D printing with the Staples brand so that when personal units hit the market, people will "know" where to buy them
> Natural selection only works if unfit individuals
> are killed off prior to breeding.

> since nearly everyone survives to breed.

No one needs to be killed off for natural selection to work. If they have some attribute that prevents them from finding a mate, that is also natural selection at work.
Sputnik – Dell’s Ubuntu-based developer laptop is here
If I do my job right in an interview, I corner you into something we disagree on, and you tell me why you think I'm wrong. We get to learn how we handle conflict, and if we can have a reasonable disagreement. ;)
I'd say that the biggest problem is that they tried to launch their product on what appears[1] to be a 4G host, representing maybe $3-400 of hardware cost (maybe more if you buy premium, I doubt Linode does).

I mean, careful configuration and capacity planning is important. But what happened to straightforward conservative hardware purchasing where you get a much bigger system than you think you need? It's not like bigger hosts are that expensive: splurge for an EC2 2XL ($30/day I think) or three for the week you launch and have a simple plan in place for bringing up more to handle bursty load.

[1] The OOM killer picked a 2.7G Java process to kill. It usually picks the biggest thing available, so I'm guessing at 4G total.
Well, it's extra publicity for them, which is typically a good thing.

How do you feel about CDC's "there are no zombies" press release?
Ronald Jenkees: Days Away (New 2012 CD)
It's rather odd when someone says natural selection is completely 'dead'. Do they think everyone in the world has an equal chance of finding a partner and has the same number of children? Of course not. Even to this day there are factors that determine whose genes are passed down more frequently than others.

I can't stress this enough, but there is simply no goal for evolution. Up until relatively recently, it just so happened that larger brains and other features we consider 'human' have been beneficial. Even if it may not be a big factor now, don't decry it as evolution being 'dead', or even worse, that people are devolving.

If certain genetic traits allow certain people to pass their genes down to more offspring then you have all you need. It's a very simple concept with major consequences.
For the organic material to be on top of the frozen ice is a fascinating find. I wonder what's below that? I suppose any permanently shaded areas on that planet have huge potential.
Not using an American English accent. Kashi commercial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3vOZVUX454
A bundle of SOMETHING alright!

I'm really disappointed. I know the site has been doing very well monetarily with their format but stuff like this discredits them to me.

For most people I think Humble Bundle was about doing good while also building awareness of indie developers. I've tried so many games I would never have heard of let alone purchased because of the site.

Hopefully their next release won't be Disappointing Bundle 2.
Show HN: SenchaFiddle.com updated with ExtJS [BETA]
Feedback is appreciated.
Gotta be honest: although the new UI is very much functional, it looks like absolute shit.
Can someone convince me there is a non-stupid reason for having to close Xcode to make the upgrade?
Even if everyone survives long enough to have children, that doesn't mean they all have equal numbers of children.
No, the first few bundles gave away keys for any price. They changed it during a bundle where this was a big problem with a contest that Steam was holding at the same time.
iOS developer here, see the same thing with any article writing positively about an Apple product
It's not. It has an improved database engine and a new UI. That's pretty much it.
Amazing how much free consulting work companies are getting through job interviews these days... It almost makes you think a lot of companies now have an incentive to pretend to be hiring just to get this input.

By the way, if anyone's interested, I posted a cpl days ago to no avail the following breakdown of job openings results in select cities by select keywords via Indeed.com's API (I'm new to python and having some fun):
http://i.imgur.com/hGlSb.png
They're not in wide circulation. People were wondering if they were vaporware actually - but I've only see parts once, and they were pretty good. People still use the old Helisys machines that there's corporate servicer of them:

http://www.cubictechnologies.com/Helisys.htm
WebRTC is not the only requirement for live video streaming. You also need PeerConnection
I see that mostly as a crutch to let you use a Chromebook as something closer to a real computer. It hasn't been pushed in nearly the same way that ActiveX was.
If the police are sophisticated enough to track illegal activity to this guy's IP address, then they ought to be sophisticated enough that they will also perform some digital forensics on his computers (not to mention, smart enough that they can probably understand vaguely what Tor does). If he's really involved in something, they will expect to find some evidence of that on his machine. If it's coming from other users, through Tor, then the evidence ought to demonstrate that.
Its a fair point, its much more codified elsewhere than it was at one time. And to be fair the US has been doing things like locking people in Guantanamo without due process which is disturbing in itself. The point I was trying to make clear was that I recognize trying to interpret a story involving the actions of a the police in a country which doesn't have the same legal climate as the one I live in, it fraught with dangers in making assumptions that don't or won't hold up.
I use cat when I want it to still be there for use with another command (I have more aliased to less).
Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, even has lakes of either methane or ethane. (It is pretty cold out there.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_interstellar_and_circum...
Me too, love Coverity although I'm only using it for C right now.
rageviews

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There's also a big generation gap between those who think checks are ridiculous archaic and those who think they are a heck of a lot simpler than doing it online.
Chrome, Android, Maps, AdWords (or pretty much all their Ads products), YouTube, Analytics, Docs ... should I keep going?
I had to open in separate windows and compare side by side to see the difference (obvious though it is) - by some weird coincidence, Neil Young was wailing "Four dead in Ohio" over my headphones while I was looking...
The Startup Scene: On the Outside, Looking In
This. Punish those who cause harm.

Possessing a certain sequence of 0s and 1s does not cause harm.
static analysis is always going to result in a deluge of false positives

i think the future is symbolic execution, which due to a lot of factors is becoming practical
Google is basically telling Amazon: "You do not want to play this price-cutting game with us".

It's a great strategy from Google especially if they think they can match any move from Amazon in this way, and if they can sustain it for a long period of time.

It's basically game theory, and at this point, Amazon would be smart to stop cutting prices just for the sake of out-competing Google on price. And if they do that, Google might also stop doing it, because as in game theory, they know continuing an aggressive price war in this manner is only going to hurt both of them, because they are both very resilient and they won't take each other out in this way anyway.

Amazon, the market leader, trying to beat Google on price, would be like Coca-Cola trying to beat Pepsi on price, and racing to the bottom. Coca-Cola has learned a long time ago that it's okay if Pepsi is slightly cheaper. Same goes for Verizon and AT&T.

I think they will both still continue to cut their prices at a regular time period, as hardware prices fall, but only for the sake of expanding the market and getting new classes of customers that otherwise wouldn't use their services, and not just to try and steal from each other.
Right, that's my thinking... based on how much I used to hear about Foursquare years ago, I would think they'd have more users by now if they're on a path to success.

When I looked at some business reviews on Foursquare (while traveling— was in Washington, DC area) it was disconcerting how a large majority of reviews seemed to be from 2009-10.
I think it would probably be better to just make "temp to hire" the norm and start lot's of people, keep those who seem to excel.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not talking about cut-throat competition and giant classes feeding into one position.

I'm just thinking you can't tell how someone's going to do until they're in, and you should be able to get them in quicker and easier to find out. Finally, a lot of good people can learn quickly.

I suppose what I suggest is real hands-on mentorship which is not the norm in American management today...
The Mobile Cliff
I'm pretty happy that at 33 my life isn't really any different than it was at 17, except that I know more, have more stuff, have more money, and know more people. I guess I have slightly less physical endurance (although, not really), but rarely is that the primary factor for success.
Amazing lifestyle!! Thanks for the detailed response!
OK. Now I'm curious. What would be the sort of things you would try to corner me into?
You could get a 13 or 15" Macbook Pro (Not retina) and install Linux on it. (I use OSX with Macports which is fine for my needs but the fresh install of Linux is still an option). I really like the Apple Hardware although I am becoming gradually less enthusiastic about their attempts to make OSX more like iOS.
The Shape of Sound (video)
I believe the failing in the UX is that you jump to the story above with little warning. You then have to scroll all the way back to the story you intended to read. It'd be much less annoying if the story loaded but didn't change my position.
It was never about principles, or being cross-platform, or even for charity for me. Personally, I just wanted cool games for a low price. And this particular Humble Bundle delivers.

Three of the four games are ones that I very nearly purchased in the past, so I'm thrilled. This is a great deal for me!
Compromise: Vim!
Introducing The Humble Not For Linux Bundle
Talk is cheap man. Show us a piece of working code on par with let's say the iOS APIs, and then you can pull that one off again.
Please don't use URL shorteners here on HN. They break many of the underpinnings of the www and hypermedia, and deprive users of important context (will it take me to goatse or malware? will I be rickrolled?).
I'm not real familiar with Mcor's technology, but they claim the results are like wood, which seems like it would be good enough for a lot of the use-cases people are using PLA and the like for.

But more than that, sometimes you just want to bring your 2D printed page to life for presentations and things of that nature. Paper-printed 3D models would be perfect for that. Given Staples' primary audience, I would assume this it he market they are really going after.
I just got a Dell Inspiron N5050 laptop (not from the US) that came pre-loaded with Ubuntu some time ago, and I have to say -- the Linux support is astounding.

Absolutely everything works. The integrated webcam, closing the lid putting it to sleep, the various built-in keyboard keys (for changing brightness, volume, ..), et cetra.

Can't say how happy I am with it. And it only cost $450. The specs are: Core i3-2570, 8GB DDR3, 320GB HDD, Intel HD 3000 Graphics (no discrete). The laptop looks and feels nice too.
How Extreme is your Startup? - Our Journey Through a Canadian Accelerator
http://blog.kera.io/post/36826627638/how-extreme-is-your-startup-our-journey-through-a
Sounds like a price war started between Google and Amazon. Good :) Hopefully other providers will join.
BTW - you can compare cloud prices at http://www.cloudorado.com
Yeah, i stopped reading as soon as I saw what the resolution is. I have a current 13" (ASUS u36sd with more ram & a ssd I put in) and really, the screen is the only thing I dislike on my laptop now, which I've had for over a year now. Give me more pixels :(
New version seems faster in some respects, but at least ridiculously slow in another: searching with the Column Browser open.

I have a huge library--~63000 songs; I'm a musician--and although iTunes 10.7 search was quite reasonable, the new iTunes takes several seconds to do anything after typing a query. Even if I turn off "Search Entire Library" (so that it only searches the active screen, like Music) it is incredibly unresponsive. I'm talking ~6 seconds for the UI to update and the program to become responsive again. If I limit the search to only one field (e.g., Composer) it is faster, but still substantially slower than iTunes 10.7 (~2 seconds for the UI to update, compared to the previous results of nearly instant), and it makes the search much less useful.

Closing the Column Browser speeds up filtering, though it's still slower than 10.7.
Google responds to Amazon, but Amazon doesn't need to respond to Google.
> nor do I care to learn how to install a different window manager and thereby spend the time supporting it.

Since you haven't used linux in 5 years I'll be the fanboy that points out Linux, and Ubuntu especially, has grown up a lot since then.

How do you install an application? You open a package manager and hit the install button. Same thing with desktop environments. You want KDE? 'sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop'. Xfce is 'xubuntu-desktop'. Hell, even gnome classic can be installed this way with 'gnome-panel'.

LightDM will automatically notice the new environment. All you have to do is log out, then choose the desktop environment you want and log back in.

Window managers usually take a little more fiddling to install properly but I assume that's not what you meant since you referenced gnome.
There are a million other confounding variables, but you can also track a reasonably strong correlation to income inequality and growth rates in the US over the past several decades.
I look forward to checking this out though I find that with Spotify/Pandora, iCloud iOS backups, and the Podcast app on my iOS devices, I open up iTunes less and less these days. It's not even on my dock anymore.
Congrats to NuFlick!
but that only tells you that there is a windows version, not that there is no other version.

and its curious that I have to look at the chrome of the window and guess that its windows, since I haven't even seen a windows machine in person for several years.
Microsoft seems to be focused on Metro as the way forward. I don't think it's that much of a stretch that they might be pushing JavaScript to the fore-front of their development strategy while starting to side-line C#. I could draw parallels to Apple's sidelining of the Carbon API in favor of their Cocoa API. IIRC, Photoshop is still using the Carbon, even though the majority of development now is in Cocoa.

Granted, I don't follow the Microsoft development community closely, so there may be something that I'm missing out on, but I don't see it to be as 'out there' as claiming vast conspiracy theories surrounding historical events.
World's Tallest Prefab Building to Rise in Brooklyn
It's a cliche thing to say, but hey, you don't have to participate.

If you truly support Humble Bundle and what they do, then you would support them in this endeavor as well -- you are giving them some tip as well (and charities if that's your thing). Does anyone really think that since they are doing this with THQ they are going to simply stop supporting the indie community?

THQ made some bad decisions, and they are desperate. This is a pretty clever move for them, and one can only hope a kick in the butt to pay more attention to what gamers are looking for.
This just isn't true.

A couple of years ago an issue with the USB3 driver broke suspend on laptops with USB3 for quite some time, requiring workarounds. Multi-touch trackpads took some time to get full gesture support. Auto-switch between paired graphics cards still doesn't work.

That's not to say things aren't pretty good now - but to imply that linux doesn't require some fiddling about under the hood hardware-wise is stretching a lot.
one common issue i found is in the use of parantheses , around some expressions .

f (c)->2*x , 5 is ambiguous when you read it ( not sure it even compiles ).

or for generator expressions

f(x) if x<0 for x in E

is really ambiguous when you read it.

Maybe CS should be "less smart" and more strict regarding syntax. Because now the task of writing non ambiguous code lies in the hand of the developer. I really think the language should not evolve in a "super language for ninja" like COCO ( which is just too frightening and insane), just keep exposing the functional side of javascript in a better way.
Natural selection doesn't require death, it just requires different reproduction rates based on genetics.

Natural selection works strongly when group A dies before reproducing and group B does not. It still works, though more weakly, when group A has an average of 2.0 offspring and group B has an average of 2.1 offspring.

In some parts of the world, natural selection is still significant (the common example: sickle cell anemia drastically increases malaria survival). In many parts of the world, though, differential reproduction appears to be a result of culture / religion / personal choice; it's not well understood how much this relates to genetics, and therefore not clear how much it deserves to be called "natural selection".
My main reason for buying MacBooks these days is actually build quality. The solid aluminum design is just insanely rugged, especially with the light weight of the Air. You could run an 11" inch Air through the tumble cycle of a dryer and it would probably be just fine--albeit a bit dinged up. My Thinkpads were always trashed within a couple years.

I also don't think you can objectively say OSX is the most "polished" Unix. Especially in the area of package management, which, as a developer, takes up a huge part of my week, OSX is sort of half-assedly catching up. And that's only with third party tools like Homebrew and MacPorts.

Other areas OSX is more polished. But as a UNIX it's not a clear winner.
This type of discourse isn't welcome in this community. Please be civil.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Hey. HEY. HEY! We might switch, they don't know for sure, what? Ambiguity. Get with it. Amazon if you don't match the Google prices we all might switch. Whatchagonado.
Some accessibility, usability, SEO and compatibility issues you might want to take a look at:

- Check out your favicon, it doesn't work in IE8, perhaps due to non-standard size, mime-type or non-ico format.

- Strip out the inline CSS.

- The Gothic font has no solid baseline in IE8. The individual letters jump up and down 2-3 px. Perhaps a Fontsquirrel issue?

- The social media buttons hug the browser toolbar. In some browsers there is just a few pixels between clicking Tweet and clicking a bookmark.

- Add alt-attributes to all images, empty if decorative. Specifying width and height will help with rendering or when the images won't load.

- Test your site with noscript. The fall-back font isn't sized properly and lacks enough line-height, so sentences overlap and lay-out breaks.

- Did you forget to style your footer? It uses the browser standard Times New Roman font for me.

- Declare (UTF-8) charset at the document level.

- <a name="foo"> for internal anchors is obsolete.

- Add spacing between links and words: "$129<span>Buy It</span>" or else without styling or for screenreaders it will read: "$129Buy it"

- If you want to support older browsers lack of PNG alpha support, simply bake your PNG's with the website background, convert to 8-bit or add PNG alpha support with javascript or .htc

- Specify canonical or make sure your site serves only one unique page per URL: non-www and www redirects, remove or add trailing slashes, "index" added to the URL's or without, use lowercase in your URL's (both uppercase and lowercase letters return the same page). A combination of the above can result in 256+ different URL's returning the same page.

- Encode spaces or replace them with dashes, for example when linking to your sample chapter PDF.

- http://www.crossbrowserbook.com/Knowledge/index renders differently in different browsers (whitespace near the end). It also lacks a header or footer, so no way to return: visitor trap. On that page a spelling error "startet".

- Consider using summary, <thead> and <tbody> for relational tables, like the browsersupport tables. No alt-attribute on the browser logo's makes this table unusable for the vision impaired.

- Facebook button is in German.

- Study your pagetitles and see if you can target them more. Consider adding the site title. Consider adding a meta description. Consider adding a sample chapter as HTML content to the website. Consider supporting Chrome Frame and future versions of IE (<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge,chrome=1" />).
Top 5 New Features In iTunes 11
Depends on the glue used how recyclable these things are
Zendesk Ready for 2013 IPO
C# was my first programming language and no doubt what caused me to love my trade. I wish Mr. Lippert the best of luck and I hope he finds happiness and new found direction in this new transition.
Mind-breaking
Offering gift cards and getting applicants to take a survey? Call me old fashioned but that would turn me off working there, because that's weird and it would make me think the company was weird.