skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could always try http://typecast.com for this, which allows you to preview and compare fonts from multiple web font providers (disclosure: I'm on the team there).
Very nice, JR, best guide I've seen.

I've always wished, though, that all "getting started" guides would just provide a chef recipe or machine image with everything ready to go. Getting to know a language shouldn't require jumping through an hour of hoops and documentation to get it set up.

(Of course, the guide here is broader than simply getting your system set up.)
Hi thematt,

Actually, Balanced Payouts is the product that we're showing HN here today.

Balanced Payments is the umbrella payment company that arches over Balanced Processing, the credit card processing/ach debit arm, and Balanced Payouts, the ach credit arm.

I'm happy to take suggestions on how to clarify that, if that wasn't clear from the homepage.
I had mentioned Quartz due to the fact that it's a web platform built with consistency across devices in mind. I was focusing on the point that while native makes a lot of sense in most cases, with publications (with a reader base across all platforms) the way in which Quartz went about producing their product was wise. The design isn't necessarily great, as many people would say, but the solution they arrived at is one which I feel will reverberate throughout the year.
When people suggest this is a stupid idea, I think there's a profound misunderstanding of how enticing exclusivity is.

Not everyone gets to send a piece in to the NYTimes, the WSJ, the National Review and get it published as an op-ed. But for someone in political science or macroeconomics it's definitely a status symbol. Note that anyone could just as easily put something on their own blog. In fact, many people who regularly send in pieces do publish on their own blogs. People who have much larger fan-bases, power, and immediate influence than almost anyone in tech still seem to find value in spending a few hours writing a piece for no profit, no ad revenues, no pictures next to their name. Larry Summers, who was the head of arguably the most gate-keeper-ish institution in the nation still wanted to get his views published in the WSJ.

Tech people may not view these venues as worthwhile for their field. What then, is the prestigious place to have your content featured? I think Svbtle could be that. If you own something every influential person wants to be featured in, that would be huge. You'd be a gatekeeper of ideas.
$ howdoi program

Why do you need the Apple Developer Program Enrollment ID? I also tried to apply to the iOS Developer Program this weekend.
I applied, I paid and I got my activation codes. But then when I tried to activate with my Apple ID I got an error saying (in my case) they "were not able to successfully verify my identity". In that error message there was an Enrollment ID# consisting of both letters and numbers, a total of 10 characters, that I was supposed to include when contacting the support regarding this issue. I have not seen the same Enrollment ID somewhere else in the process and therefore I assume it is some kind of internal ID for my signing up process and you should only see it/use it when you hit some problems during the process.

I'll figure it out one of these days.
As I told pg, my opinion of you impacts Svbtle so minutely that it might as well not even exist. But, it is still my opinion of you.

Let's be honest, Dustin, that article was from 2009. It wasn't exactly written in the '80s when you were on a coke binge. I think your attitude in a lot of blog posts reflects quite negatively on who you are as a person, and that's where a lot of the hate for you comes from.

You're presumptuous about our industry in a lot of ways without much to show in terms of accomplishment. Often I've asked, who is Dustin Curtis? Why is he telling me the important things about building a startup? The answers to these questions are thin, vague, or nonexistent. I'm glad you have opinion and I certainly don't resent yours, but I also don't position myself as a commentator on all things Silicon Valley without having actually done anything in Silicon Valley. This isn't a critique of you nearly as much as it is a critique of punditry, I think, since I haven't given it much thought; that said, it's still my reaction to most of your writing.

I don't hate you, as it were, nor do I seek every opportunity to piss on your brand, I just hold a quite-negative opinion and will share it if asked. Again, as I told pg above, I'm also willing to be proven wrong but you've simply made it worse since I developed it.

I genuinely feel bad for you (and I mean that), that you want to accomplish something but you have to deal with this crap when you do. If you're self-aware about why it happens, I can sympathize, as I've made grievous mistakes in my life that cost me some reputation as well. If you aren't, then you should figure out why it's happening.
I'm willing to bet that you have a US market "GS3". That's a Qualcom Snapdragon S4 phone, not Exynos (seriously: it's an entirely different set of electronics in the same box). It works much better largely because it shares the same SoC as the Nexus 4.

And yet, in comparison with it's cousin the N4, it's not nearly as well supported or trouble free. Buy. A. Nexus. Phone.
In other words, all high school students.
Is it just me or is the data file not available for free despite being in the Amazon Public Dataset S3 bucket?

*Edit: The problem seems to be fixed now.
Really love the simplicity of it. Salesforce is often overkill and the design is uninspiring.

Best of luck.
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but 'hater' smells like a categorical ad hominem attack which may kill any critical thinking against someone 'you' like. neither 'i hate', nore 'you are hater' belong to a mindful discussion where experiences and reasonings collide, imho.

edit: despite saying that, i am indeed a curious follower of dustin curtis, which i learned during recent discussions, he was fiercely and mostly wrongly criticized. (namely, i have personal positive impression in my limbic system for him).
I'll be waiting for this before I get a Fitbit. And excuse the imagery, but it seems you have to wear clothes in bed for the vibrate-to-wake feature to work with the existing versions ;)
Then isn't the word "haters" misapplied here?

What I've seen in this thread is that people have reasons for disliking Dustin, some of which directly relate to Svbtle. To the extent that they don't directly relate, though, people are quite explicitly saying they evaluate Svbtle separate from Dustin.

And by far the most common reaction expressed is a lack of understanding any valid business model for the network, which in your op you say is quite understandable.

What I don't see in this thread is any willful misconstruing of the project. Which seems to be the requirement for a "hater".
Nice work triv.io!
Finally, using slot machine mechanics to my advantage. Thanks for this
> I don't think something I wrote several years ago in a completely different context should impact your opinion of Svbtle as a network.

Do you hold others to the same standard? How quickly do you forget about their unrelated past?

The problem you're experiencing is that it is much easier to gain the "douche" label than it is to get rid of it.
>> I'm surprised no one has linked to this

Someone just did.
Thanks! Yes, we are working on Gmail integration and we're going to do it intelligently so that ClinchPad is smart enough to attach your incoming mail to the correct lead.

Thanks for the suggestion for multiple pipelines. Wasn't really sure whether people would need that as it is single purpose vs. something like Trello which is multi-purpose. I've added it as a proposal to our issue tracker though and we'll implement if we get requests from the users.
Despite his fame, Bieber is a minor who probably suffers from many of the same problems we all did at his age. If he is being bullied to the point where he is compelled to challenge it on Facebook, I have no problem curbing it.

I do not believe our basic treatment of children should change just because they're famous. Fame is, after all, not a cure for bullying.
The greatest technological leap you’d have to explain to someone from the 1950s
What would the greatest technological leap you’d have to explain to someone who time traveled from the 1950’s?

I possess a device in my pocket that is capable of accessing the entirety of information known to man.
I use it to look at pictures of cats and get in arguments with strangers.

via http://bit.ly/VCSgjM
Temporarily or forever? :)
I do agree. I didn't mention that for the sake of gestures. I used that as an example of affordance.
Very nice. I like the -l feature but wish the link could appear with the normal answer, doesn't seem to be a way to do that.
Strong disagree that worldwide publication of a revealing photograph is comparable to a whispering campaign.
Now you are either misinformed or trying to get away with unwarranted PHP bashing. PHP scales well.

Rest assured, plenty real annoyances with php :-)
Actually I have a not-quite-a-nexus-anymore "Verizon Galaxy Nexus" (toro) in my pocket, so I feel your pain. If anything this supports my point, doesn't it? I tried to follow the "Just Buy A Nexus" advice and still got burned because Verizon/Google couldn't support the device on AOSP.

Though to be fair, the CM 10.1 builds on toro work just fine. I sweat a little at every update though.
This seems to be a recurring theme round these parts.
Not sure if this thread was thought up after seeing the Quora email digest, but..

http://www.quora.com/Prisons/What-is-it-like-to-be-exposed-t...
It's called a Piston. That's not any sort of confirmation, but it makes it plausible to me that it will be the Steam box.
Discoverability is a massive issue for me still. I use a Netflix for most of my content in the UK (I have no TV) but I struggle to find content that is of interest - although after effort it does exist.

I am not sure it is as simple as just better recommendations.
No, I think it's solvable and even easy (depending on definition). Beforing you gave the tips I saw that "scrambled" trimmed the response always at the same byte length. Then I saw everytime it returned something different. Then, doing a "for i in $(seq 0 50); do curl izhack.com:12345 | head -7 | tail -1 | cut -c 1-250; done; I could see the pattern.

Doing the same for the other lines, replacing head -7 with head -8, head -9, etc I grabbed the repetition columns for all 5 lines. Each line had different columns repeated.

Creating a 5x300 grid and marking the cells where repetition occurs you see there's a symmetry. The repeats 5 times, where at column 58 every line repeats and it marks the repetition.

This is where I left, I still don't know the meaning of the last line. When I first run, coincidentally the server returned "sAlt" :-)

I was only asking if you knew the book because you seem to like puzzles and me too. As I liked the book I thought you might like and was trying to start a conversation.

Sorry!
We're always trying to speed up the flow of funds, which is why we offer next-day ACH transfers rather than 3-5 days. Also, our original product used to do instant account-to-account transfers, but that product couldn't scale. We may dust off that tech though if we can find a way to make it work at scale.
You're misunderstanding how this normally develops.

I'll give you an example. Let's take the common version. Don't worry, I'll make it short:

Two 15 year old girls hang out one weekend and decide to take sexy pictures of each other. They share the photos with a few other trusted girl friends over time. Everything's ok, so far. Two months later, the girls are now "enemies". Or some girl in that small peer group, (clique), falls out with some other girl, you get the idea. One of them forwards pictures to a larger social group for the purpose of demeaning the girl or maybe demeaning multiple girls. BAM. Disaster. Photos are being forwarded everywhere. Parents are calling. Fights are breaking out in the halls, because maybe someone's brother is a hot-head. etc.

Now... who exactly do you prosecute for "distributing child pornography". The girl who was victimized by the bullying right? She was the one who INITIALLY forwarded the images. Do you see the problem school administrators face?
Thanks. We're focused on making it more and more simple and adding new features to it in a way that they remain out of the way. Love to hear any suggestions about how the UX and UI can be improved, that is my favorite part of working on it. :)
I think he's a bit of a d too, but I never heard about the AA story and just looked it up[1]. I assumed someone got fired because he was whining, but it seems AA fired someone for breaking their NDA to talk about why the website was so crappy. So, to me the story is more AA being the asshole in that story.

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/6531610/America...
The fact that N4 sold out instantly means little by itself without knowing how many phones they produced.
At night the tracker is within the sleep wrist band, so it vibrates near your wrist. So feel free to pull a Marilyn Monroe. :-P
Actually, it comes with a wristband to clip it to for sleeping.
> I don't like Dustin Curtis as a person, based on prior history (i.e., American Airlines, presumption in his articles bordering on know-it-all after accomplishing little, and so on). You might find that the majority of the haters you're talking about feel the same

I'm guessing that pg's comment was at least partially in response to my own below[0], and you've exactly stated my issue with Curtis and the Svbtle network. There's nothing horribly wrong with the general concept behind Svbtle - perhaps it'll work, perhaps not. It's definitely legitimate enough that it's worth a shot.

But the way dcurtis went about it - the way he worded his initial post on Svbtle, his responses to the Svbtle theme being cloned, and so on, were very off-putting, to say the least. Moreover, the fact that he was so fixated on people copying the theme suggests that he was placing value in the wrong things in Svbtle.

To use a newspaper analogy, is it the layout of the NYTimes that gives it prestige and distinguishes it from your average tabloid rag? Is it the font? Is it the type of paper they use, or the size of the paper? No, it's the content, and the people who create it.

By stirring up such an enormous shitstorm over some people copying the Svbtle theme and creating RoR[1] or WP[2] clones, dcurtis gave up his reputation (which is actually important for running something like Svbtle) in a futile attempt to preserve the uniqueness of the Svbtle theme (which isn't all that important). His best hope now is to spread Svbtle outside the tech community, to people who aren't familiar with him, and thus don't have any impression of him at all yet.

0: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5027577

1: https://github.com/NateW/obtvse

2: https://github.com/gravityonmars/wp-svbtle
I'm curious, does this kind of thing happen in Europe?
You'll have to enable flash for the website in order to use it. Since the flash element is hidden you can't click on it to play.

I'll check the library and see if I can use it. Being a JS noob I just patched up whatever I could find. I know there is lot of scope for improvement in code.
Let me double check that for you. Were you using a valid aws-id and secret?
The prospects of Svbtle are directly related to the brand of the people involved though.
It's going to be fairly difficult, but since you asked:

Step 1: Develop a sufficiently large following among Baltimoreans such that getting featured on mybmore.net meaningfully moves the needle for a business.

Step 2: Charge businesses who would not otherwise be featured in mybmore.net for advertising. You will primarily sell this in $X00 chunks via telephone sales reps.

Should you need good telephone sales reps, ask around at local papers. Their telephone sales reps are exactly who you need to make these sales, and they may soon be be urgently in need of jobs. Why? Local papers already operate on this exact model, and they do not appear to be sustainable, due to high costs and cratering revenues.

Local papers have a host of advantages which you will find it difficult to replicate, such as built-in bases of hundreds of thousands of paying subscribers, irrational advertiser preferences involving overpaying for ads which are nearly untrackable and perform poorly, and cult-like brand loyalty which spans generations. Sadly, these advantages are not merely not in your favor, they work against you, because you will have potential advertisers say things like "Why should I pay you money for advertising to 100 people who we know see my ad, when I could instead pay 100 times more to advertise to 200,000 people who won't see my ad? I'm already spending everything I can afford on advertising."

There exist other potential business models for local-flavored businesses, but they'd involve you doing something more transactional in nature rather than creating videos, so I kept them out of scope for the moment. For example, one could -- hypothetically -- use the site as a portfolio for doing promotional videos of local businesses, and then charge them $X00 a pop for short 5 minute clips that they could e.g. upload to Youtube and thereby generate business from. For example, search for [baltimore hair salons] on Youtube -- now think of all the folks who probably should be showing up there, but don't because they can't figure out how to script, shoot, and host a four minute video showing a nice, professional haircut in a clean environment.
I understand the point, but there is a challenge that has to be met, particularly if you are trying to build a consumer product. It is very easy to fall into the "Inmates are Running the Asylum"[1] trap, the product looks good within the team and to like minded customers but is missing something (or everything) for the broader customer base. This lead an entire industry to spend decades building products that only techies could love...

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Inmates-Are-Running-Asylum-Products/dp...
You are correct with your definition of hater. The problem is that your original post doesn't leave any room for critics who comprehend the svbtles game plan, but still find it unappealing. The implication from your post is that 1) a community misunderstanding exists, and 2) that misunderstanding is caused by either people not being intelligent enough to see what svbtle is doing, or people having a personal vendetta against Dustin.
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How about distributing nude photos of people without their permission is not acceptable?
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Solving your own problems can be a great source of inspiration. But if your goal is get your project widely used, you need to make sure others share that problem.

Sometimes asking around about pain points in other peoples lives/businesses can also be very fruitful
For the Quantified Self folks, note that even by paying for Premium you cannot download your minute-by-minute movement data.
One thing: when I hover over the parts of the pipeline, the tips appear at the bottom of the screen - and are even obscured by Chrome/OSX showing the link destinations. Why not show the tooltips right by the mouse-over?
Picric acid is pretty evil. Don't just store it wet, but store it under a layer of water. Even then I'd be wary of it. Heck, just avoid it, it's too dangerous.

The damn thing blew up while being prodded with a stick by a friend, and I'm pretty sure the concoction was still quite wet.

Well, at least nobody was badly hurt, and we accomplished what we set out to do - which was to detonate a small amount of PA somewhere on the outskirts of town. We just didn't envision exploding it anywhere near one of the members of our team. :/

> Mr Atkinson, I salute you for making it interesting and turning a blind eye

Yeah, let's not mention "blind eyes" in this context.
Rules + APIs are a powerful combination.
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I believe this varies by state and by age (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_North_Ameri...). As I understand it, here in New York, two consenting but unmarried 16-year-olds would technically be engaging in mutual statutory rape, but two 15-year-olds could not be charged with the same crime.
Sure, but what if you think you could come up with a way to design a system for cheap and you want to make sure your system is compliant with code?
IE8 only, no internet / cell access at work... I'm from the DC area and all of my friends that have these issues work for "the government".
On a related note, this article is interesting: "What The Tech World Looks Like To A Teen"

http://www.buzzfeed.com/joshmiller/what-the-tech-world-looks...

It got marked dead on submission. I'm not sure if the domain is marked spam, or I'm banned from submission, or what.
Good points. I've been pushing Trello for our team internally and almost everyone who's had a chance to use it so far loves it. We've even started using it with clients for QA and most clients really like it. Only one client hates it, but they are one of those rare poison-clients we really want to fire. Maybe Trello could even be a great way to qualify new clients :P

I hadn't even noticed the export features and now that I've taken I look a lot of my concerns seem much less important. Thanks!

Still trying to figure out how to effectively use the "due date" feature though. When a card's checklist is complete it still shows as past due. Not a dealbreaker at all though, we'll figure out how to make it work.
The awkward thing with Quartz is that the design itself is great, but the implementation and experience is a total failure in the browser. I am 100% with you on the point you're making, but Quartz makes a better example of what-not-to-do.
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August 2012 : http://www.clearbits.net/creators/146-stack-exchange-data-du...
You can still buy real stump killer (potassium nitrate) if you look hard enough. I even found it at a brick-and-mortar store nearby, but only after a fairly extensive search.
I hope the Light Table guys see this article and incorporate the guide into their OOBE content. hint, hint ;)
It seems to reflect Dustin's attitude overall, though. In reality they have traction because it's an invite-only club they're doing.
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Facebook is a platform. It doesn't have to neccesarily police things, it can open up tools to allow parents to police their kids. What about a way of marking/removing pictures somebody else tags of you? Something that allows parents to help with this stuff spreading maliciously.
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This is pretty awesome. It's nicer than http://www.google.com/webfonts
The same thing could be done in Python (with requests) and Ruby (with whatever-it-is) with more clarity, less confusion, and much less consumption of resources.)

(:headers resp)

This construction is confusing - it breaks environmental model (scoping) and general evaluation rule of Lisps - is :headers a global symbol? a part of foo namespace? Is it macros?

(resp :headers)

On the other hand, this form is perfectly consistent - I'm sending to some closure which is bound in a global or other environment a constant message.

The assumption that the reader function implicitly transforms first form to second is of no good, because it is not obvious and breaks intuition about environments and violates principle of less astonishment.

That thing (:headers resp) returned - what language is it?)
A Google Drive CMS (in Python running on GAE)
Yes, there is. I've used a PHP extension called evalhook for that.