skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When balancing my dislike for furthering the practice of gambling with my dislike for the increasingly excessive use of force by the politicians and their servants, I think I should still side with the software developer. Since the politicians and their servants seem to be trying to intimidate our side, I would be for a solution in which we start intimidating back. Otherwise, our own position will keep eroding until nothing's left.
Some really great startups over here.
Which building? Ours definitely isn't "almost everyone" but I can imagine the proportion might be different in CSG for example.
This is right. The best thing MOOCs have going for them are their prices. And it gets more compelling every year as traditional universities continue to price more and more students out of the market.
Assuming you own or have the space for a second monitor.
Maybe we're reading it wrong, but "cash" doesn't have to be hard bills, just in money that he actually received. If they had received wire transfers into a checking account it would be accurate to describe that as "cash".
"Force yourself into a box" - Jack White on Restiction & Creativity (video)
>Doesn't seem to me to be a great thing to have on your website for self promotion.

Yes, he should have lied about the fact, as a real professional would.
This was very carefully considered. A blog post explaining all of the design decision will be published in the near future.

Essentially, I wanted to use setup.cfg's new 'requires-python' directive. However, distutils2 has been stalled and its future is in question. Distlib was also considered, but it's also quite controversial.

There are some other exciting Python packaging projects being developed actively that seek to solve these problems. We plan to support these standards when the time is right. In the meantime, a simple runtime.txt file suits everyone's needs perfectly.
Samsung confirms it will launch Tizen-based devices in 2013
See above comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5002564
Wow, you have a serious chip on your shoulder. Nothing you're saying here is more than a gross stereotypical generalization that's no better than whatever ignorant flames you read that shaped your opinion. Are you perhaps one of the Java devs that DHH poked in the eye back in the day?
I like the idea. The biggest problem would be to make it safe against voter intimidation/vote buying etc. by making it possible to build hierarchies of delegated votes small enough to chase down individuals.
Perfection is unobtainable by it's very nature. If you froze the world and left the designer alone for centuries what came out would not be perfection. Don't kid yourself that it would be otherwise.
On Shakespeare
> What other purpose could gambling software be used for? It's irrelevant whether it was sold to overseas countries since, given the nature of the internet, New Yorkers would have access to those sites.

That's absolutely relevant. There are US companies that make slot machines. Most places in the country their products are illegal, just like the activities that this gambling software allows for. If an underground casino gets busted and is found to have slot machines, it's not the maker of the slot machines that is in trouble (unless there is evidence they were sold illegally).
Why Southeast Asia is the world’s most exciting region for startups in 2013
I do use workspaces. And I maximize the applications because when they're the only one on the workspace I rarely have a reason not to have them fill the screen.
Where did patents come into play?
Try out ec2 whilst keeping the desktop for a few weeks. If it goes well then you will earn some cash from the desktop sale along with learning how AWS works. In the long-term however, I'm not sure if it is the most economical option -- that really depends on how much power you need along with other factors.
The Internet-enabled Washing Machine
this is neat - all went good, until I incidentally pressed the 'clear canvas' button on cover page. no undo there?

looking forward for more advance features - full screen, double page editing, collaborative editing and review comments ?
Tribute no, but diplomacy is a different thing.
Not necessarily; what is a Paypal payment? "Money Order" implies simply a monetary transfer in some circles, similar to a Western Union/moneygram transaction.
We should be living in the future already
This does not show that a man can go "further". It's about who ends first.

And even at that, the race started at 1980, but the first time a man on foot won the race was in 2004.

One "man on foot" win in 24 races and that man being a marathon runner, does not bode well with the idea that man in general can outrun horses for long distances.
Same - for most of us, the technical execution is the easy part. Whenever I have an idea nowadays, I try to figure out a couple distribution points and also get some early market validation before getting started. Read more about the Lean Methodology :)
Maybe I am the crazy one, but it feels like the real issue is that design practices are just less practical (mature?) than software engineering ones. We both strive for perfection and idealize great work. The difference is that few places allow for that kind of waste in their software departments because history has shown us that endless supplies of time and money just result in waste and churn, not significant changes in quality.
Thanks for trying out Papyrus.
Will try and add these features soon.
Mondelez Taps Nine Tech Startups For Big New Mobile Program
Totally agree; been guilty of it myself in the past. Getting the perfect modular golden-ratio-derived grid is less important than shipping, but being excellent is better than being good.

Designer culture in startups is still relatively new; most of us are still relatively recent imports from graphic design & advertising agencies where things are totally different.

But I've seen programmers exhibit the same deadly perfectionism in startups (namely, premature optimization. overly-ambitious architecture for week-long MVPs, and writing hundreds of lines of Rspec tests for code that is designed to be thrown out after an experiment).
Buzzfeed Raises $19 Million to Make LOL Content for the Social Web
Well, it may not even matter. As you can see they are very heavy-handed. That means they do not fear any reprisals for this. That is obviously where the problem is. Ultimately, respect is always based on the fear for reprisals.
Sending cold emails shouldn't be the black art that is supposedly is. If you need to improve your emailing skills (cold or otherwise), you really need to be answering one question. Why? Why are you sending the email and why should the recipient read it?

It doesn't really matter what your goal is. It normally falls in to the following buckets:

- start relationship (cold opener)

- maintain relationship (information/email series)

- click on a link (signup/purchase)

All these are about persuasion. Many of Caldini's principles still apply: Reciprocity, Commitment and Consistency, Social Proof, Authority, Liking and Scarcity. (I would add Empathy to that list). However, more importantly, you should be providing something of true value otherwise, you're just spamming.
Its really nice to see them bringing in even more flexibility in platforms and environments.

I just hope they had taken a little bit more care in ensuring backward compatibility - both my apps (which I have been running for 7+ months) lost code deployment ability (errors on deploy). The fact that it happened exactly at a time we discovered a major issue in our code base and were stuck without being able to push hot fixes was a major bummer.

Shot off an email to their support 2 hours back - haven't heard back yet.

Fortunately, we sniffed the issue to the new buildpack and found a work around by pointing our apps to use an older buildpack (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/buildpacks). While it caused us real heartburn for quite some time, kudos to them for building an infrastructure that is extremely configurable (which enabled the workaround).

Update: Heroku support got back with the same work around. They are debugging the issue with the new buildpack.
>What other purpose could gambling software be used for?

It could be lawfully used for gambling in OTHER countries. But actually this question is absurd. Writing gambling software is not illegal in New York. The burden of establishing a lawful motive is not on the defendant; instead the prosecution must prove that the activity he conducted was directly in support of illegal activity. That is a big difference.
No, the judge is WRONG. Apple is RIGHT. I got confused when I visited wwww.amazon.com I thought it was the apple store and opened up my itunes in vain.

I also tried visiting store.apple.com and thought it was the Amazon's store, because it had the word 'store' in it. So, Amazon should sue Apple too...

Just one conclusion - Fuck apple anyway.
Django 1.5 should be released any day now, which adds support for Python 3!
It's not a matter of anyone egotistically "clinging" to something. The fact is that user params come in with string keys, so an app has to be doing something unusual to be vulnerable. This drastically cuts down the number of vulnerable apps. It is what it is.
this is a lot more interesting than the actual movie.
I recently wrapped up a 6 month project that entailed extensive Fitbit integration. My client is a fortune 500 company and even with their resources it took them months to become a Fitbit partner. Fitbit also charged a ridiculous amount of money for accessing the 100K devices we were provisioning as compared to the competitors.

If accessing the collector data is important I would consider looking at some of the fitbit competitors, as they have much more open APIs. Fitlinxx (http://www.fitlinxx.net/pebble-activity-monitor.htm) and Fitbug both come to mind.
Vigil: A programming language with eternal moral vigilance
Of course it damages maintainability when moving the cursor around becomes erratic. Your colleagues should probably configure their editors properly to remove trailing whitespace.
I have to admit that I prefer http://leanpub.com
FYI, It's ok to output at 3v3 volts to a 5v device if the device will still work, but don't read input from a 5v device or you might damage your Pi; the pins are wired directly to the Broadcom chip with no resistance.
Or Quebec?
Sweet list... Should have been submitted at Listnerd.com, but still good ;-)
You can go live in a country where there is no TSA.

This is possible/easy only if:

1. You have enough knowledge, skill sets to get a job in the "dozen countries"

2. Or, have enough money to start a business

3. Don't have family commitments, kids etc

4. The U.S is still the best place to be, if you are in tech and few other sectors

Also, it amounts to giving up. What if you relocate to a new country, and the same thing happens there too? There is no guarantee that it wouldn't happen.

That said, could you please list the dozen countries you mentioned? Just curious to know.
There is no speed of light, it's just a conversion between space and time right?

I get tired of slippery slope everything is true or false arguments, I expect it on reddit but not really here.
> All written in machine code: that's even lower-level than assembler!

Can you clarify? I don't know much about the history of this game or the BBC Micro. But do you mean to say this was written byte by byte by hand? I'm imagining someone typing each individual byte of an opcode here. If so, that's pretty amazing.
Ask HN: Third-party use of Facebook Connect App?
I stumbled upon this campaign on Facebook (possibly by SW airlines.)

https://www.inbizi.info/southwest/?tr#
(NOTE: Don't give access to this app. Its spams on your wall / photos)

Refresh this page, everytime it shows a 'Login to Facebook' via Sponsor (Yelp, FourSquare, AirBnB and so on).

My question - does Facebook allows this? Is it done with permission (or through sponsorship of FourSquare / AirBnB / Yelp and others?)
It gives us neighborhood-specific representation (or at least should). This neighborhood may have different needs and wants than the neighborhood next to it, and both should be represented by a politician who understands those needs.
emacs, xmonad and ansible are making me most productive at the moment.
I guess that's down to personal preference. I feel that some applications just don't suit full screen.
> "He sold a Bugatti Veyron in a state where driving over 75mph was illegal."

With gambling software, the only thing you can do is illegal gambling. With a Bugatti Veyron, well as long as its speed is not locked at 75mph+, you can drive it all your life without doing anything illegal.
Would like to know your thoughts. Your feedback would be very helpful
How many rational numbers exist between 0 and 1?
"He sold fireworks in a county where it's illegal to set off fireworks."
Look. It is our own fault, since we are not doing anything about it. They will never, ever respect us, unless they seriously fear us.
I understand and agree with the point you were making. Last comment was for funsies.
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How do we know they haven't already been trying to make this game for the last 10 years... ;)
This is indeed correct.

The only people they can afford are plaintiffs attorneys who take the cases on commission.
Using has_secure_password for Rails authentication
Yes - designers are crazy
I believe the Fitbit is nothing more than a step counter type of device. I could be wrong, but that's what it looks like.

The Bodymedia FIT has actual sensors, it's an armband you have to wear. It monitors temperature among other things. It has been tested against, a $40,000 "portable oxygen analyzer", the gold standard for measuring calories. (source: http://www.bodymedia.com/the_science.html)

Regarding the Bodymedia FIT developer program. It looks you still need a subscription though and one still needs to upload the data from the armband to the website to get at it. Seems kind of pointless. I would want to get the data directly from the USB armband without a subscription.
I'd like to recommend Component[1] which makes issues like this disappear.

[1]https://github.com/component/component
I'm speaking in generalities, and not just specific to phones. The whole point of my post was that being the best isn't enough, a product also needs great marketing and approval from the technical community. What was just as good or better means nothing now, because hindsight can come up with any number of reasons why the status quo was better than the change required for Product X to take over.
To be honest, I actually originally misread the sentence as "out-of-control family reasons", missing the "my" - and the sentence is not as bad as I thought (or to put it another way, not necessarily bad at all).

However, there is a huge difference between "lying", and choosing good phrasing (or even omitting unnecessary information), and your comment strikes me as very naive.
Oh man, am I guilty of not using dot syntax consistently. I actually try not to use it because it is so out of place with the rest of the code, but it's a leftover habit from other languages, and old habits die hard.
Depends on what kind of mobile apps you are writing. Most of the apps I've worked on written tend to deal with video/ pixel level image conversions. In these cases it's really common to say convert an rgb pixel array to yuv or simliar and a linq expression on one of those arrays would quite simply kill the app. Which I think is the best counter argument to the op. C# might be fine until you decide to do something beyond the normal performance wise. Then you are back to square one learning the native supported tools, IMO you are much better off learning the native environments from the ground up.
Great - people would start drinking fruit juice instead :-)
Exactly, the issue mentioned shouldn't be why there's a semicolon before the function wrap, but why are you wrapping your code like that in the first place.
I can tell you now that I've been out of grad school for around a year or so:

Many companies are not product-focused. The goal of producing a good product using sensible techniques is only a small part of what happens. Companies are mainly social relations, specifically fiefdoms. At the top of the social hierarchy is an organization which can produce a "good enough" product to earn an income to keep the company afloat, while supporting the back-stabbing that goes on at the high levels.

Competing viciously for those dollars are hundreds of individuals. Their work is optimal when they bring the company, the commons, or the social fabric nearest to the brink of destruction. These people really don't care about sharing. If a company is not doing well, it doesn't make sense to them to utilize new techniques (such as sharing software) to make it better. They would rather loot the company and move on.

This is especially true of companies which have reached maturation separately, then been artificially bonded, such as the two newspapers you mention. From the outside, they may appear as two large pools of positively-charged molecules and you're wondering why the negatively-charged (connotations not implied here) molecules of software don't simply attract and stick. The reason is that the companies are not uniform entities... They're deeply complex structures with all kinds of spikes, moats, alarms, etc. to keep foreign entities, such as uncertainty and loss of control - away.

It doesn't matter if that friendly visitor coming to their door is a good Samaritan who wants to give out free cookies and teach them how to make cookies more efficiently or more deliciously. They already have reliable ways to make enough money and any newcomer is only going to disrupt how that flows. To make more money, they prefer social means, not technical ones. Why mess with - or even consider - software and other work when you can hire, fire and deceive people through antisocial practices of marketing, human resources, the stock market, etc.? Software is too wild - anyone (even teenagers for crissake) can write it and it's too powerful. So don't stake the business on software, stake it on social relations.

If your goal is to make a better product, find a better system of social relations. If you want to make your technological solution work, appeal to the antisocial tendencies in the hierarchy.
I just discovered a related bug that's much more severe than what I initially thought. So yes, man, this is bad :-(
The 'hit windows key and type' in Unity reminds me of the dmenu system in a dwm based desktop. There are links around with Unity2d (the QT based version of Unity supported up to and including 12.04) and xmonad. I've not tried those. Unity 3d is basically a compiz plug-in, and so compiz is the window manager.

On my bog standard cheap 1080p monitor, I quite like the dwm main left and right stack tiling behaviour. Focus follows mouse with keyboard shortcuts for cycling focus. Mod-m brings the currently focussed window into 'monacle' mode, i.e. full screen. Mod-t sends the window back to its original tiled position.

Warning: trying out the dwm/dmenu repo package on 12.04 with Unity lead to problems with incompatible .desktop files, so odd behaviour in a dwm session with no obvious way back to log-in window. I had to stop X, use a tty to uninstall dwm and then got back to Unity. I've not fiddled around to find what the problem was. May have been sorted now.

Nice to have all this choice isn't it?
i'm not a treehouse user, and while i hear awesome stories about their company (like having a 4-day work week, or getting funding although they don't plan an "exit"), I don't know anything about the quality of their lessons...

but I do know two free resources for learning rails, and having used both of them I can wholeheartedly recommend them:

https://class.coursera.org/saas/lecture/preview

http://ruby.railstutorial.org/

after completing these two you will be able to build your own web app, and go from there. afterward it's not so much about learning rails in general. it's more about coming across a very specific problem that you encounter while building your app, in which case google is your friend.

i really don't want to bad mouth treehouse, but i feel like there are enough free resources out there to get you started. especially for rails. on the other hand, paying 25$ dollars a month, might keep you committed.
but he sold them to people outside the country, where using fireworks is legal, right? it was those people that sold them back to where it is illegal... (if i understand correctly).
The examples in the article do benefit the user by reducing fatigue.
> With a Bugatti Veyron, well as long as its speed is not locked at 75mph+, you can drive it all your life without doing anything illegal.

That's a good part of my point.

> With gambling software, the only thing you can do is illegal gambling.

That's untrue.
Or try liftbit as noted above: https://github.com/openyou/libfitbit
Nice piece of advice, thanks for sharing!
You abuse process -> You gain a bond requirement to do anything as a lawyer (Write correspondence, sue people, etc).

Sorry if that wasn't clear I meant "People who have abused process have to post bonds"
Pagination is lazy
Oh it is not so bad..but I agree it needs a little tweak. I really like the 'pinterest look' red buttons though!
Absolutely!

I hope it's clear that I'm not suggesting there are no other ways to solve this problem. I just tried to pick an example of something I actually learned reading the book that arose as a consequence of things I thought I already knew but hadn't put together.

I was trying to give a sense of why, if you look at the TOC and see that it discusses topics A, B, and C that you already know, you may be very pleasantly surprised when you read the book by something you didn't know about A+B, B+C, A+C, or A+B+C.
no car, food<100$ a month, living with room mates.
Legally perhaps, but if I say Skype the product Skype comes to mind, that's fine, because their company name became a verb. In the other direction however if I take a word such as "Apple" and name my company that then I gain an advantage that any time anyone who speaks English eats an Apple my company name has the chance to come to mind. This restricts the English language by binding generic words through memory to companies thus diluting their usefulness.
> With gambling software, the only thing you can do is illegal gambling.

You can also do legal gambling.
As I have said in another comment: I originally misread the sentence as "out-of-control family reasons", missing the "my" - and the sentence is not as bad as I thought (or to put it another way, not necessarily bad at all).

Unfortunately I can't edit or delete the original comment.
Although these changes may seem like an unnecessary level of attention to detail, its important to keep in mind that this would be a very minor change to make design and engineering-wise. We're not talking about moving around elements or re-doing the entire design, just changing some colors/gradients. In my opinion, the little bit of extra effort required to put this level of polish on a product is completely worth it.

Most problems with perfectionism in design and engineering come from people making bad decisions early on in the design/development process and not realizing that something is fundamentally wrong until much later on--when its much harder to fix.
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Yeah I agree.