skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a pretty dumb move to begin with for him.

Edit: If you disagree, please tell me why I am wrong. Brian Reynolds had a hand in creating classics, and he went to work for a company infamous for its lack of creativity. It was a terrible fit, and -- at least in my eyes -- tarnished the great stature of Reynolds.
The sound of the dialup, pictured
Philly is slowly becoming a vibrant tech hub. Props to all who organize events in the area and create things like this!
Musk being a publicity whore has no relation to the safety of the batteries. The fact they catch fire during normal flight operation demonstrate they are not.
Turntables? Those usually only get used when something (like an engine or motor unit) needs to be turned around. Many motor units that I see can operate just as well without turning around; some have cabins at both ends, or are in mated pair configurations with a "backwards" facing motor unit. Most carriages (that I see on a regular basis) have either half the seats facing one way, and half the other, or are reversible.

Regular switching track suffices to switch which end of a train a motor units runs on, and some smaller passenger trains can work fine in "push" instead of "pull" mode.
Everyone should try this!
May have been posted in another comment (couldn't see it) but apparently this is the location ( found on a reddit comment) on google maps https://maps.google.com/?ll=51.460852,88.427083&spn=0.00...
Show HN: My first Chrome Extension, inspired by Aaron Swartz.
This is true but I'm willing to give him a pass for being open to questions and writing such an exhaustive post-mortem of the process...plus, the original blog post he linked to didn't do a good job of linking to the final product (as it was written before publication, I guess).
Can't you just develop an Android app now and repackage it for the BB10? Is it that easy or have I heard wrong?
"We've created a new position at BlackBerry, a Global Creative Director."

"We needed someone who is creative, and into technology."

"Alicia Keys is BlackBerry's new Creative Director."

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
old, but funny
I got a pretty good chuckle out of this.

Cheekiness aside, what's a good way determine how angry your developers are?
DRM in HTML5
A relative of mine has experience advising hundreds of small business start-ups. She would definitely tell people that they have to be passionate about what they do. It's the passion that keeps you going when things are really tough.

If you're working as part of a larger company, maybe passion doesn't matter as much, but personally if I were doing a job I didn't love or feel passionate about then I'd leave that job and try something different (and I have done just that in the past).

RS
Yes, the anti-suicide brigade is out in full force today.

It's their decision. There are myriad reasons someone may want to end his/her life. It's not the role of someone not in the headspace of the suicider to comment on what they're going through.

It's astounding that so many people want to restrict the freedom of others to be released from suffering.
Have you made anything using it yet?
So Musk lays down his ideas for good battery design and is backed up by a guy from MIT. Seems fairly solid.

Boeing guy says something like "I design battery cells not to fail, then assume they will. I then design battery so if one cell fails others won't. Then I assume they will and design for that."

What we know is that the cells fail, then batteries fail, then noxious smoke blows into the cabin, so if what he says is true his designs have failed in three different ways. Seems to me Musk has more credibility here.

Now, is this guy a clown? No -- he's probably a smart, competent guy who is doing what he's required to do given the situation he's in, while he's probably just been in ten meetings where people screamed "I told you so!" at each other.
Encryption is hard enough for developers and IT people to understand.

You have , for example websites that say "your data is protected by 256 bit encryption!". What does that even mean? Is just encrypted in transit? Is it only stored in an encrypted form on the other end? What is the key and who has to know it?

There is also a pretty big disadvantage to using good crypto, mainly if you lose/forget the key (or password used to derive it) you are completely fucked.
Fundamental Guidelines of E-Commerce Checkout Design
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Keyboard events in Javascript are broken
Alicia Keys is a wonderful singer.
> Please, if you find an issue like this, be nice. Tell the maintainers privately.

Nick. I dont support today's PoC, I don't, really. But I told you. Twice in a week. I feel deeply sad now.
Influencing Founders: Have We Reached "Peak Hoodie?"
Agreed. You can still get a lot of the code-reuse benefits without lock-in by using tools like Browserify and Socket.io. With Browserify (or any of the other CommonJS packagers), I can use the same lib directory for both my client and server code, and all my utilities/templates/validators/algorithms/NPM modules work on both. One of the most awesome things about Socket.io that's not really emphasized in the docs is that the API for client and server is almost exactly the same, so you can change your mind almost on a whim whether you want a certain RPC to work on the client or the server.

To me, it's a lot easier to "grok" exactly what's going on when you're using a simple middleware layer and a simple socket framework, than when you're using a full-stack solution like Meteor.
What I Learned From a Two-Year Fund Raising Process
why are so many people excited over this? all I got was...blackberry has apps...what's my incentive to switch from android then?
Thanks for all your work Nick!
I thought that might be how he meant it , just seems an odd way to say it since it seems more like saying "classically trained musician".
Respectfully, RubyGems has already been compromised. Not telling anyone has zero advantages to RubyGem users.

Telling people to avoid using RubyGems and to audit if they've used it recently helps protect users.

Responsible disclosure is about avoiding giving bad guys new attack vectors and ensuring that the maintainer has the best chance of fixing the issue before a blackhat discovers and exploits it. That doesn't apply in this case.
I used a standing desk for about 6 months, one with comfort matting. I didn't notice a difference. I also think standing desks don't offer any health benefits over sitting. I can state my reasons why if there is any interest.
> From what we know right now, no other changes on our S3 bucket have taken place, and we're going to check the logs to make sure.

Do you think it makes sense to disable pulling down gems until you know for sure nothing in S3 is compromised?
This is huge. It really annoys me when people say "well I've always loved programming." That's great, but you're the exception, both in that you always loved programming and in that the thing you love is quite lucrative. I know a ton of people who are very intelligent and talented that have had to go through a trial and error process of figuring out how their talents will lead them to a career. Telling them to "follow your passion" is putting the cart before the horse.

In my experience people find their passion by working hard at something with reasonable potential. If you work hard at something it may not turn out to be the thing you love but it will expose you to other people who value your work, as well as their own and you can find ways to pivot.
I like your second idea. This will vary so drastically from app to app. For some apps you might need the designer to make a logo and a few images (assuming you use out of the box icons). That could be a 95/5 split on effort. A game or super visual app COULD go 50/50 on time expenditure but that's probably rare. Also, depends on the skill levels. Should you assume that value per hour are equal?

For instance, if I were to bring a pro designer onto a project that he was only doing %25 of the time on, I'd probably give him 50% cut (because his time is worth double what mine is). Ultimately, kind of a complicated question.
I don't think this is a counterpoint. They said that it makes sense to be vertical early on. Look at the Ford Rouge Works where iron ore and rubber came in one side and Model A's came off the other.

Now, it's a very mature category where it's all about refinement, not major innovation - so it's good to develop an interchangeable supplier base because you increase competition between them and you don't need to do anything radical.

If you look at SpaceX for example, they make >90% of their parts because there's full-stack innovation going on constantly.
It's not about doing something you love, it's about not doing something you hate.
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Is this maybe an opportunity to re-evaluate the volunteer only aspect of RubyGems? I love the service (as I'm sure thousands of others do) and I'd happily pay for a subscription model that would fund a full-time developer/maintainer for the service. Based on how critical it is to the Ruby community I can't imagine that I'm alone in thinking this.

Just a suggestion!
stand barefoot on office (read: hard) carpet. I do however find that I need to sit down for a few minutes every hour or so.
State of the Congress 2013
How representative are our representatives?
A few more links:

Actual site of extension: http://www.nonews.info/

Google Chrome web store link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/no-news-is-good-ne...

GitHub page (source): https://github.com/JDStraughan/nonews
http://WHYLaunched.com - What Have You Launched - A site specifically related to your question. Users can submit their new "launches" or collaborate on other business ideas. Don't have a new launch at the moment? Feel free to browse the other submissions and give feedback. Very early stage but hopefully we gain traction soon.
But thanks for your work anyway.
Matting is essential, even if it's just some unfashionably padded shoes. Even working summer retail jobs as a teen it was evident that standing for long periods of time just hurts if you're not standing on something. You may notice that cashiers often stand on pads.

I don't think it takes much, though. I stand on what looks like a Shamwow yoga mat.
The goal is to keep blackberry users from switching to android and stop the hemorraghing. Then they can worry about getting customers back.
My sense is that Elon Musk is currently the most influential founder to the hacker/startup community but I could be wrong.
Proof of Concept?
I don't agree with you on the magical one thumb experience. I don't feel that my Android and iOS devices allow me to navigate that smoothly throughout my content, social networks and applications in general. The keyboard and the one thumb mode was also very impressive.
"HN Ask:" Is there a simple way to create a comment wall?
I need to create a comment wall for a web app. The kind of wall I´m looking for should include: comment wall, like button and add comment. It should also display the picture of the user that has posted a comment.

Do you know any piece of code available to avoid starting from scratch?

Thanks!
For some reason your comments are coming across with a lot of hostility. I'm not sure why, but my knowledge of Nader's book comes from having read about it when I was younger and took an interest in the topic. I'm happy to be proven wrong about the attempt by the auto industry to smear Nader - and his success at proving this attempt and defending his thesis - but I'm confused about why this discussion is starting to feel personal.
You could even give this hypothetical show a name like Good Eats.
The Movement to Give Away Your Internet for the Good of Humanity
Very clever. Seems like it would be pretty good for getting rid of blinks.
ryankinal is the author of the post.
Obama backs startup visas
>> but it certainly seems deceptive <<

You go too far -- your lack of understanding is simply your lack of understanding ;)

What are you told the table shows?

>> Where does this difference come from? <<

Check the same thing for 2 other language implementations were the arithmetic should be easy. For example, Java median 2.04 and Smalltalk median 21.22 -- the direct comparison shows 11x as the rounded median of the Smalltalk/Java program times.
Oh really? Hm. Well, maybe I'm bashing their marketing too early. But I've been typing with one thumb on iOS and Android for like 4 years and have been pretty well satisfied. It could be improved I'm sure, and maybe BB has improved it. But whatever they've done, calling it 'Magic' makes me laugh.
An automatic wire stripper. I was at a convention center and it seemed like such a scam (one of those douchey salesman). I threw out the money for it because it wasn't too expensive and seemed neat. One of the most enjoyable tools I have to use. Not sure why, maybe it's just from the years of using knives/nail trimmers/crappy wire strippers as a kid.

Kind of like this:
http://www.amazon.com/Automatic-Wire-Stripper-with-Cutter/dp...
I am not personally interested in doing this. Nothing is stopping others, though: http://www.gemfury.com/
>but I would have been happier if the root cause was fixed.

But it was fixed. It just took a clever enough incremental improvement to move back to square one.
It's easy to get more free disk space on iPhone/iPad
I'm not disputing anything here, but I just want to emphasize that if they have the S3 credentials, replacing any gem is trivial. And they wouldn't need to replace every gem. Picking the 10 most popular ones would have pretty big fallout.

And, if like most people you don't verify your installed gems (not that you really can if they're not signed), you're going to have a very bad day. The "tracking" aspect is a situation where it doesn't matter because at that point, you're hosed anyway.

Also, walking S3 is not particularly fast. So if the plan is to walk all gem files to verify them, expect that to take a while. Hopefully they have bucket logging enabled.
Does anybody know if Mailbox is investor funded or is it bootstrapped?
The Data Doesn't Lie: iOS Apps Are Better Than Android
Show HN: ✎ - Edit any Webpage in your Browser Bookmarklet
Hilary: the most poisoned baby name in US history
Are there any encrypted alternatives to Skype?
Applebaum's difficulties don't stem from any misunderstood technical magic afaik. The popo don't like what he's doing, but I think they understand it quite well.
I'm writing a REPL-based IDE for Gambit Scheme called Glass Table[0]. One of my inspirations was how easy it was to type in -- and change -- BASIC programs right inside the interpreter. And our fancy, advanced Lisp environments can't even give us this much? Even a SLIME-based workflow consists of typing a program into an editor and then submitting it to the REPL; why can't the REPL simply remember your program instead and save it out when instructed to?

My belief is that interaction with a computer should be simple, and should take the form of a conversation. Computers are not like other machines because we can converse with them; we can ask questions and get meaningful answers. It was a revelation that came to me when I was five years old, poking at my Commodore VIC-20 -- in BASIC.

[0] http://github.com/bitwize/glasstable
Yes, and they'll pay you per app AND they are doing a revenue guarantee for the year above a download threshold I believe.
I wish I could see it :(

Link from us homepage:
http://global.blackberry.com/blackberry-10.html?iid=us:bb:de...

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http://screencast.com/t/jMhPotAn
"Desire to help Boeing is real & am corresponding w 787 chief engineer."
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/295162137297428480
Sprint retrospective and daily SCRUM based on facts and solid metrics part 1
Not all of the companies are successful or have been successful. They were successful at a specific point in time, doing a specific thing (like getting through problem interviews, for example) but it doesn't mean they were big hits as companies.

And many of the cases studies are about companies that were struggling with problems and managed to improve. The e-book specifically (and Lean Analytics, the book) aren't about understanding why startups failed, they're about how to use analytics to minimize failure and iterate past it.
Of course all of those potential problems would be compounded by having large cells with poor isolation.
I'm not sure the author hasn't run too far with his thesis here. Every modern airliner is outsourced to a major and entire systems must be designed by the supplier that provides them. If the requirements are understood this usually isn't an issue.

Major components of an airliner are often designed and manufactured in geographically separate locations. In the case of Airbus each national entity has different processes in some cases and this has caused issues in the past. The 787 is no different in this respect where entire systems are manufactured and built by different entities and then transported for finally assembly. In the case of the 787, if the author is correct that modularization has caused the issues then one would expect that the largest issues would occur with the major elements such as wings as they are built entirely by a subcontractor in japan. Of course, there have been no such issues.

The electrical problems are probably driven more by the extreme demands placed on the power supply than anything else. It wasn't as if Boeing wasn't aware of the risks involved in choosing Li-ion batteries and was just blindsided by a supplier. It made the decision and then sold it to regulatory agencies. If it didn't understand how to make the batteries safe or it wasn't comfortable with the design Boeing should have rejected it.

Yes, we still don't know the root cause of the issues. But suddenly leaping from that to placing blame on McDonnell executives keen a little too keen on outsourcing just based on a hunch is a little strange to say the least.
Just as a comment to any current students who do experience the death or illness of a relative: it's probably best to discuss things with your academic advisor (grad or undergrad) before or instead of contacting individual professors. An email from another prof has infinitely more credibility than one from a student; you only have to discuss it once, with someone you already know; and your advisor should know what resources are available to you and can help you plan the rest of the semester.
But this is a whole new UI for blackberry.

That means they're employees / customers would have to learn a new ui regardless.

While there is already a large possibility that they are already using an Android or iPhone at home.
I have been using a treadmill desk at home for a year or so.

I find my feet get sore if I stand still for long, but not when I walk. A speed around 2 km/h works well for me.

It is necessary to have the monitor and keyboard at proper heights, but that is also true of sitting desks. Bad and badly placed monitors and keyboards, and laptops in particular, are an ergonomic disaster either way.
Fucking nonsense. If you are passionate enough you will apply yourself and master your love until you (and perhaps only you) can figure out how to succeed from it. Contrary to the article, abandoning one's passion is what sucks the fun out of people's lives and careers. Everybody does it. Don't fall for it.
Hmm, I read it at least partly as a riff on the idea of composition: the day is won by designing components with desirable properties out of lesser components which lack them. The parallel to programming seems obvious.

Your reading works too.
this is the earliest version of exploit i've been able to find in the twitter timeline:

https://twitter.com/rubygems/status/296537952320884736 (12:38) 7.27.42 ~ 7 hours ago :(

but there was quite a few exploits pushed
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In my opinion this view is getting weaker. I'm encountering more and more otherwise excellent technical posts or blogs that I'm unwilling to share with others because the author drops an f-bomb just for emphasis.
As an aside, sugars aren't biologically inert either.
I am glad to hear that you are interested in your work, as pleasure in work can be hard to find. Apologies for being in a philosophical mood: I contemplated not responding, and responding otherwise, but finally thought that offering this anecdote might be interesting. Please, take from it what you will.

A Buddhist I know said that the thing that troubled them about the digital media field was how it conflicted with their great respect for some of the ideas that are central to that philosophy. They said that they identified much modern media consumption as intoxication of the mind with what may amount to trivial experiences tangential to achieving happiness and peace, which they viewed as quite apart from the endless sensory experiences of the world. (For a simple example, they pointed to Youtube)

After some searching, this seems to be the reference: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/ptf/dhamma/sacca/sacca4/samma...

A [lay person] should not engage in five types of business. Which five? Business in weapons, business in human beings, business in meat, business in intoxicants, and business in poison.

Personally my friend's perspective did make me feel a little guilty about my work, since I am also (if sporadically) very interested in Buddhist philosophy and because encouraging people to spend their time "in earnest" (from a Buddhist perspective) is no doubt a personal failure as seen by the Buddhist teachings, in so far as I can grasp them myself. Yet, Buddhism also teaches that we should respect the treasure of conscience as a means to change our ways, and it is certainly true that communications of any kind can certainly be a bringer of good ... as well as thoughtless trivia.
Publicly voicing concerns is comparable to convicting?
So Long, RIM: Company Changes Name to BlackBerry
why is this kind of ssh server needed? so you guys do ./manage.py shell on your production server? I don't think this is good.
Not having cable, I had completely forgotten about the food network.
i didn't know of contenteditable before, so 1000+1 thx. in my job i need to scribble above existing pages like crazy, so i mashed together this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5140200 - a one liner / one unicode icon bookmarklet to liveedit any page.
Because if you allow anything outbound and anything inside the LAN then you're screwed anyways (reverse TCP console).
Aren't the side effects mimicked so that participants won't see the lack of them and then know that they're taking the placebo which will defeat the double blind study?

For example, if you're testing fish oil, you wouldn't use a sugar pill since it's easy to know what you're taking by looking at it. You would use something like olive oil.
I suspect that if your passion was 'playing video games', you might find yourself agreeing with the article.
What this article leads me to think is that we need to legally protect the word placebo. It seems grossly misleading to use the word placebo to describe non biologically inert ingredients. To do so is to lie and nothing more.