skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple of points that a lot of people are missing:

1) You can use a separate account for iCloud and iTunes purchases. The default is to configure them as the same, because it simplifies the setup process and matches use cases for most people.

2) The matter of licensing and multiple purchases isn't just an Apple concern, it's a general software licensing concern. You can't buy one copy of Microsoft Office and install it on all of your PCs either. You'll start getting activation errors after the first couple of activations. That's because the licensing is per-device, not per person. In general, people don't understand software licensing, but the fact that you can buy an app on the App Store one time for 99¢ and install it on multiple iOS devices is actually a huge improvement for end users. The trade-off is that you have to do so under a single iTunes account. This requires a minimal amount of additional configuration.
Ther are different categories of skillsets that one aquires over the years and are important. For me, the most important one has been People's skills which include communication, negotiations and ability to influence. These might sound cliched but in my experience of almost a decade of professional work, these values are very imporatnt. Technical skills etc. are of course important but you will pick those up over the years once you have a few years of real world experience.
Because they need it...
Is there some form of timestamp which is better than the full date at the bottom of the page?
What It's Like To Work Future Style
In my multiple corporate jobs, my best recollection is 7 holidays, like so:

Memorial Day 1
4th of July 1
Labor Day 1
Thanksgiving 1
Christmas - New Years 3 (one day moves between the
two, depending upon the
calendar / weekdays for a
particular year)

Some places also gave the day after Thanksgiving; however, this was increasingly disappearing (personally observed at more than one location during my tenure). Some (fewer) places also made Christmas Eve and/or New Years Eve a standing holiday; again, this was disappearing from practice.

Paid vacation often started at two weeks -- 10 days. However, depending upon your manager, you could end up consuming a significant portion of that for doctors appointments, home maintenance, managing whatever problem the kids have, etc. (Some managers insist you take every hour out of the office as time off; others are more flexible.)

A fairly standard policy seemed to be to add one week (5 days) of paid vacation after 5 years tenure. Another week at 10 years tenure. Most such increases maxed out at 3 or 4 weeks vacation, no matter the length of tenure.

Sick days were increasingly disappearing; this seemed to be a target of management consultants' recommendations for "streamlining" operations.

Some workplaces were/are somewhat more generous; however, none of that is mandated. (And again, the consultants with their "best practices" seem to have been making inroads on this -- just as they've continued to wedge people into smaller and smaller cubes having lower and fewer walls.)

I mention all this in part because I think many higher level technical people are somewhat sheltered. (Not all, though.) While technical, I worked fairly closely with many people who were not, and the above was not unusual.
Well, I'm a European myself, but the corrections sounds a little on the pedantic side:

>"Most of Europe has the euro as a common currency" -- Only 17 of Europe's 50 countries use the Euro.

Yes. Only some of the LARGEST countries, for a total of 332 million people. Not to mention that he did say "most".

>"Europe is great for an American tech entrepreneur because wealth is better distributed"
The difference between the Scandinavian countries and, say, Russia is enourmous when it comes to wealth distribution.

That's one of the reasons most people don't include Russia when they talk about Europe. Not to mention that it can even refer only to the EU countries.

>"More consumers can buy your products and services"
Certainly depends on whether you're selling to Swiss or Romanians.

The same point keeps repeated.

It's as if someone talked about investing in the US, and someone felt obliged to blog about the differences between Illinois and New York and rural Idaho, Mississippi, Alabama and South Dakota.

Yes, we got it already. It's not like someone will go to invest blindly to the _geographic region_ that is Europe. He will most likely go to what is called Western Europe, or the EU.
Ask HN: what tools can help me build a quote marketplace?
I am looking at creating a service similar to designQuote.net, which I would summarize as lead gen arbitrage in web design space.

I will need to manage leads from both businesses and web agencies, and put them into contact, but also disclose limited information on the public pages.

Are there any software out there I could use to avoid starting from scratch?
Scope creep suggestion: It may be cheesy but I believe a rotating little GIF animation on the home page/header of how a small part of a car works would draw in people. As it is now, it is static.

Think more http://www.brainpop.com, less Encyclopedia Brittanica
I would buy this as an epub.
http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/against.h...

Chapter nine.
You actually removed the word "new" from the middle of his sentence, which IMO changes the meaning substantially.
"OK, but to be honest we just don't have that money available at the moment. Is there anything else we could do? We don't want to lose you, but we have to be realistic."
Batman Physics
So what you're saying is that he actually believes what he's saying? THAT BASTARD. Thanks for alerting us.
Language isn't the only cultural barrier. Lets stop being obstructive - the argument is sound. There are many sub-cultures in North America. They have profoundly different outlooks.

The bigger lesson is, political boundaries suck at defining people or culture.
Apparently they check for something else: http://blog.chpwn.com/post/38491252231
Is there any evidence that this actually affects SEO or rankings?
4 Mistakes To Avoid When Negotiating
I'm trained as a paramedic. I routinely make those sorts of assessments (much more frequently than most physicians, in fact). It's unlikely you carry anything in your medkit that I don't carry in my ambulance.

My question is mostly if the 'physcian' requirement could be circumvented if someone with medical training (other than a physician) were in contact with a physician on the ground. If, for example, I were to explain to a remote physician that there's someone on board who is experiencing A, B, and C, and I would like to do X, Y, and Z. If the doc concurs with the decision, would that be enough, or is there some set in stone policy that couldn't possibly be overridden?
That's not the argument I was making. I would much prefer that NYT make it harder to get in, and not assume their customers are idiots.
It's a cool animation, but it overstates the incorrectness of the heliocentric model.

There is no absolute reference frame, so the heliocentric model is perfectly valid if we take the Sun as the reference. This model is (closer to) correct if we take the galactic core as the reference.

There are two remaining issues:

1) The planets do not rotate exactly in the plane normal to the sun's movement through the galaxy (I think it's closer to a plane bisected by the sun's path but I can't remember).

2) What makes the galactic core an appropriate reference? We could also take the movement of our local galactic cluster, which, by the same bigger-is-better logic, is more correct. As far as this animation is concerned though, it would be roughly the same result, just different speeds, I guess.

Neat animation though.
I think the issue (as touched on in the article) is that devs don't want to make "browser games" so much as they want to make games. The main advantage of being able to render within a browser window would be to provide a quick playable demo.
When you play an imersive game you want the whole screen because it is taking your full attention.

When it comes to games I'd prefer just to manage everything within Steam or via desktop shortcuts, whether it is written in C++ , C# or JS is an irrelevant implementation detail for the player.

Of course by providing an installer for popular OSs that just fires up chrome in fullscreen mode could easily solve this problem.

Another (possible) issue is that most game devs like to keep their source private and include DRM. JS doesn't lend itself so well to that type of approach.
Yes. We're talking about Western Europe, which doesn't include Scandinavia, which is where the author's from. And I don't think there's a conspiracy involved, I think it's just because that's where the largest economies in the area are: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomin...

The author has visited Western Europe but many Americans have too.
It's unfortunate really. Philosophically I'm much more aligned with Android and overall I prefer the Android API but music apps are my passion and Android is so far behind there it's not even funny.

Cool synth, by the way. I'd like to see more of these kinds of experimental instruments on the iPad.
Alright, somebody has to draw the line somewhere.

Every time DHH goes off on one of his little rants and angers a lot of people in the process it's not just those people that get affected, and not just emotionally either. These Ruby [on Rails] dramas have a real-world impact on the rest of us, the hundreds of thousands of us that use Rails every day to make a living. It affects us in that it makes us all look like unprofessional schoolground children. Rails already has a stigma of "hipster" developers that tend to be up their own asses, and episodes like this really don't help our image. Especially not when the global developer community is not as massive as you'd like to believe, especially when people talk - to other developers, to potential and existing clients that then get per-conceptions of unprofessionalism, and to newbie developers that shy away and look into alternative languages and frameworks because they don't want to be associated with this wankery.

DHH's post, particularly the second paragraph, seriously comes across as if the core "team of chefs" is doing us all a massive favour and if we want to keep benefiting from the really beautiful thing that Rails is then we should shut the fuck up and take what we're given. Well this isn't Pyongyang (if we're going to play with metaphors) and DHH is not our dear leader. Yes of course I, and all the other Rails developers and immensely grateful for the framework's existence, but it's OSS now. There are thousands of contributors and so many more times commits than that to the projects since it did become OSS.

The community either needs a revolution or a fork because this downward spiral of foul air is just going to continue spreading and affecting us all. I'm sure if a couple of well respected individuals decided to take that route, a whole lot of people would back them up - I know I sure as hell would.

Pawel - a Rails developer.
Why are well-traveled people such douchebags?
> They once built an elevator shaft without any plans or previous experience, having projected unquestionable confidence to the people who’d hired them

Wait, was this for a film set, or was this an actual elevator shaft that people will be using to zip up and down a building?

Because if it's the latter, I'm terrified.
I have gone the complete opposite direction of the many questioning who wears a watch anymore. Recently I picked up my first automatic, a Seiko of course. I have worn it for about 2 months now, and am about to tear into it. There are a lot of sites that sell after market hands, faces and of course straps. The movement I picked up is well documented and will allow me to get into it without too much problem. There is something magical about a device that requires no power other than being worn. It tells decent time, but loses a few seconds a month. Thats part of the charm of it. Can your GPS Mobile device tell better time? Of course it can. But that isn't really the point. After only two months, I feel quite an attachment to it and actually feel naked without it. I do use it functionally though. A quick flick of the wrist will always be faster than pulling a phone out of the pocket, pushing a button and putting it back in your pocket. There is of course the aesthetic/fashion aspect as well. Currently I have a nice nato strap which has received a ton of compliments. After many years of no watch and relying on PDA's and Smart Phones, I can safely say I am now a watch wearer for life.
I'm 29
> And for good measure, include all the social share buttons junk. Google+, FB, Twitter, etc... Especially for if you get popular on HN. You'll want those sharing karmas

Ugh, no, for crap's sake, don't do this. People will share things if they want to.

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/media-lab/social-media/14...

http://www.business2community.com/social-media/a-hot-button-...

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/too-many-social-media-sha...

etc.
>Well, no it doesn't. Italy and Greece are extremely different to Scandinavia. At least regarding to things like temperament and culture. They are much more like Bulgaria and Turkey, though they may not really be willing to admit that. You can't really sell to Italians by operating in Denmark.

Really? As I Greek (with Italian acenstry), I really doubt this BS. Italians, for one, do plenty of business with European companies operating outside their country, be it Denmark of whatever. You know, companies like Nokia, Skype, et al.

>So no, you can't generalize. You will be wrong every single time.

Which doesn't matter at all, the only thing that matters is if you'd be closer to being right, with less effort, in _aggregate_ than when non-generalising.
Honest question: how popular is rbenv? Should I be using it rather than rvm? https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv lists apparently bad things that rvm does; are those significant reasons to prefer rbenv?
If you wanted your password reset for the first couple of years, didn't you have to email pg personally?
I need to do it anyway. I'm taking on more and more Android work and I know sooner or later I'm going to have to dig into the native layer. Thanks for the words of encouragement.
The author forgot one of the greatest and multiplatform frameworks: Cocos2D for HTML5[1] and Cocos2D with Javascript bindings [2]

[1] http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/t/js-tests/tests/

[2] https://github.com/zynga/jsbindings#readme
they will not just be at youtube. much better, they will be available for streaming and download un various, some genuinely free, formats at http://media.ccc.de
So use C and Assembler instead of Linux and create the OS and kernel that works for you.
People are way too into Linux...

My point is - some of us are trying to build websites and get work done and were attracted to a full-stack framework so we didn't have to keep reinventing the wheel and so we can benefit from an ecosystem.
I switched from a Mac display to a monitor from Eizo. My eyes have been thankful ever since.
Can we agree on the colloquial: "American"=USAian , "European"=EUian ? (And specify otherwise if otherwise?)
Really? Since when? Do you have a link to docs? I've seen some hacks involving associated references but it was my understanding that categories were not allowed to add instance variables because Apple would have to make member access much slower to allow that kind of extension.
I've used it a lot and it works very well. However, at present I'm using stock Ubuntu 12.04 with the studio (mostly music production based) applications loaded through standard apt-get means. In the past Ubuntu Studio packaged a kernel built with Ingo Molnar's low-latency patches, but the stock kernel is good enough for real-time, low-latency production these days. Other than having most of the applications that you'd need packaged for you - a valuable service for new users - I'm not sure what Ubuntu Studio brings to the table for experienced users.
Yes, I'm using the proprietary drivers (for a variety of reasons, but CUDA support chief among them) and I had that exact setup for about five minutes.

Using Xinerama forces compositing off, which makes for a less than snappy experience. I have three Dell 3000wfp's and without compositing turned on, the tearing is more than noticeable. I might be able to tolerate it, but I know that it is capable of working nicely (a la TwinView).
Blackjack already said this, but humans can gain up to 0.5lbs of muscle per week. And this assumes perfect sleep, perfect diet, and a perfect workout regimen. A little more than that number is possible, but you have to be either genetically gifted, or use steroids. Assuming neither, the 40 pounds you gained over the past six months was mostly fat. You are probably confused because gaining muscle can make someone look less fat, as muscles are emphasized more.
Yes, when the author makes a point to mention Russia twice, it's obvious he's being pedantic.
The obvious next step to me would be for you to repeat this process with another out of print book now that you've established a market and proven its viability.

Offer the copyright holder some share of the profit and scale like mad.

Great stuff!
> I could make an almost identical argument about the usage of terms like "Americans".

I hear you and partly agree, but the comparison is a stretch.

In USA, how many hours by car do you need to find a local that doesn't speak your language?

The very same ad can easily be broadcast US-wide. Never do that in Europe (not that anyone has ever tried).

Trying to impose a law on all EU countries alone is usually unsuccessful [1].
Cultures are quite different. The feeling of being part of EU is far weaker than that of being part of your European nation. We don't say we are EU citizens. We don't watch the same thing on TV. We don't read the same newspapers. We don't have the same food habits.

My point: European countries are by far further apart than US states, and as a result, generalizations are more likely to fail.

But, sure, you do feel differently about death penalty, gun control, socialism and Mormons from state to state.

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loVjrNFJAik
More than SOPA: the top nine tech policy stories of 2012
I wish there was a better way on HN to know someone's other disciplines. They're usually hidden out of context.
It's surely a developers' paradise - but what about performance?
what did/do you count as your expenses? surely you do not pay 60$/month for hosting. did you add the work you had to do?
I don't know what your ad income is -- and I'm not asking -- but just looking at the HowIDidIt page, this is a book that screams for you to redo it for the iPad in iBooks Author. It's exactly the kind of book that app was made for.

EDIT: And btw, eBooks are my thing, so you really should listen and do it. "The Classic Back in Print for the Tablet (or iPad) Age."
always glad to help; and i really am enjoying the product by the way.

regarding the colour gradient comment: i was referring to the background of the app tile/icon.. it fades from a dark yellowish to a light brownish, a fairly pronounced shift. while there’s nothing wrong with that generally speaking, it tends to contrast (in my opinion, in a bad way) the ‘metro’ design common to the os where gradients are typically avoided, or less pronounced if used, in favour of flatter design (solid colours)..

regarding the wp8 version: totally understand you have to prioritize. if you ever do get around to it, would love to hear your thoughts on the process of porting from w8 to wp8.

all the best
I did Ticketmaster's file compression in 1992.

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/mf_ticketmaster/all/1

Denny gave me an LZW algorithm from a magazine. It's the same code I used at Ticketmaster -- to compress or uncompress a buffer, basically out of the magazine. At Ticketmaster, I did full multiple file archiving with bloom filters and encryption. In SparrowOS, it's individual files.

My LZW applied to 16 color bitmaps is superior in every way to JPG. I get my own graphics compression out of a general purpose lossless algorithm built-in and applied automatically on files ending in ".Z"

I generate my web site myself. I use uncompressed BMP files -- big. I added RLE BMP compression, just for my website.

I don't need BMP file formats -- I have my own graphics format. I use BMP because it interoperates with Windows and the Web.

I'm not interested in multimedia -- more like old school C64 games.

With 16 colors, the standard formats are worthless. You might as well use loss-less.

I could write a phenominally compressed loss-less screen-cast format.
From your blog post: "The cables or other releases could be posted on torrent sites, signed by the Wikileaks organization, and it would be just as effective at generating the media circus and necessary public attention that they seek."

There's your biggest misconception about how the media and world/people's attention works right there.

Why do you think no layperson knows what the heck cryptome is, although they have been leaking stuff for far longer than Wikileaks? Why do you think cryptome (probably) hasn't changed anything and hasn't made anyone aware of anything?

You need the most publicity you can get as a leaking platform, as much as it will kill you (by making a person synonymous to the mission and providing an attack window) at the same time. And actual mass publicity will not be generated by putting it out there via bittorrent, which the majority of journalists don't even know about.
It does, yes. This is my bad. I do not use rbenv, personally. Let's see if HN will let me edit it.
great post. You are obviously a good copy writer. Perhaps you should consider doing your next book on that subject.
Node.js for beginners - Callbacks
> Really? As I Greek (with Italian acenstry), I really doubt this BS.

Well, you can doubt it, but it isn't BS, it's the truth.

I've been looking into the kitchen of a large variety of companies in size, product type, turnover and so on. The vast majority of intra-eu trade stays within the countries themselves with only a relatively small portion going to other countries, usually direct neighbours. Big trade partners within the EU are typically pairs dictated by geographic proximity (for instance the Netherlands and Germany, Germany and Poland and so on) or by the possession of some vast natural resource (eg. Germany - Russia in the case of natural gas).

Generalizing doesn't help at all because it will lead you astray every single time. Companies normally do not deal in the aggregate, they make deals one at-a-time which eventually you can aggregate. But on a case-by-case basis if you used that aggregate information as your inputs you'd get just about all of them wrong.

When in Rome...
How to negotiate for anything
Check out recipes with backbone. I was in a similar place(past to do apps, but not ready for anything substantial) and I found it to be a great help. Truth be told, there is not a lot of good literature on intermediate backbone development and I think that's really hampering its adoption.
Yup, it's impossible to prevent or delete screenshots before they're taken (and you could also do something like take a photo of the device with another camera, if you really wanted). Screenshots are always saved to the Camera Roll on iOS, though, and they can't be taken with or redirected to another location immediately.

Apps like Snapchat and Poke use a detection mechanism just for a better UX, to alert other users after a screenshot happens.
> Germany has always been goods producer. UK has always been a trading nation

Yeah, why has the UK then stopped trading?

Btw., I live in a German Hansestadt, which for centuries has been trading with all the known world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League

The UK can't trade with the US? Haha, what a joke.

Let's face it: the UK has focused on its financial 'industry' and has sold products of questionable quality.