skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing is more permanent than the temporary:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/243216
Good thoughts.

If apps and the tools to make them become so modular, you could see the concept taken to its logical conclusion. Rather than just customizing at the broad business level, enabling businesses to customize apps based on more granular customer segments?
If you're going the marriage route, it's not that bad. My wife and I did it without a lawyer despite every source out there telling you that you're crazy to do that (probably written by lawyers).

Don't get me wrong, the process is a horrible pain in the ass and needs vast reforms, but it's not much more painful than a complex tax return. If you go the lawyer route, I imagine it's pretty smooth sailing.
Nice. I have not tried dotcloud since it first came out and the command line and docs were just not ready for prime time.

I have to say things are hugely improved since then and at least on par with Heroku and with much more fine grained control over costs. Great work!
Absolutely. Programming is writing, except in addition to targeting an audience of humans, you're also writing for computers.
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"Lose disk space"?

That seems rather silly--especially since spinning rusty glass storage is so cheap.
At least in Germany, one of the considerations is that we provide a good amount of financial benefits.
So while people moving over here probably wouldn't be that big of a problem, extending those benefits to people that never paid in would.
On the other hand we also can't NOT pay them seeing as our constitutions first article is about the state protecting human dignity. This includes not living on the street or starving.

That being said, the EU introduced the free movement of labor, so it's going at least in the right direction :)
It's been a few years but I always enjoyed using Ogre's API. It was nice.

That said, Ogre has always been clear about it only being a 3D engine and not a game engine (which add network, sound, input, etc. capabilities).
There has to be webm output support, firefox and chrome don't support mp4. And as always, it would really be helpful if s3 supported notifications, so you could automatically put a message into SQS or add a job to this new transcoding service when a file is uploaded to a bucket.
Why EDN?
The graphs bother me. Okay, so 61 Python developer positions offer 0.5-1% and 59 offer 0.25-0.5%; presumably 0.5% is more common than 0.49 or 0.51, so where is 0.5 categorized? Which value is inclusive in the range and which is exclusive?

Since the graphs tend to be split on relatively common values they don't add much insight to the job postings.
Yeah - I was struck by an interesting thought - don't blame the banks

Well actually you can, but we are in a massive period of transition, where technologically based unemployment is chucking middle income earners onto the fire.

The sensible response to temporary unemployment is to borrow to cover the down period and pick up with a new job - but for millions there is no job

So debt was take. On massively across the board - and debt is what was revealed in the 2008 bust up - there was no where else to hide the debts and bang

Not sure if its coherent analysis but interesting (read race against the machine)
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And finally, Apple doesn't need ZFS, necessarily. They need a standardized FS though. HFS+ is ghetto, and a drive formatted HFS+ is essentially useless to any other type of machine.

I could make the argument about Reiser or ExtN outside of *nix, or NTFS outside of windows. There's a better attack here to be made than this one.
I've been using Scirra's Construct 2 (http://www.scirra.com/construct2) and like it so far. I do programming for my day job but I like how this abstracts things that I need to do to make a game like tying art assets to game rules so I can focus on the game design and less time on learning lots of subsystems.

Curious to hear about other game engines as well.
Update: This is what Bookstore chose to do who asked HN for help
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Thank you. I hope you get a chance to check it out. It is FREE to use, and what ever comments you have good or bad, we would love to hear them.
As did a man named Sylvan Hart. In the 1930s escaped the Great Depression by settling in north-central Idaho and lived out his days there alone until his death in 1980. He put his engineering education to good use, mining ore and smelting it to make tools, as well as hunting and farming to sustain himself.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1...
So they upgrade the storage, and suddenly the post-PC era as predicted by the prophet has cometh.

I thought in the post-PC era we store data on transient clouds with unlimited storage. Oops.
It's not that weird, considering the program was apparently written in Delphi. There were some efforts to port Delphi to Linux a few years ago (Kylix) and the Lazarus project provides a portable runtime of something resembling Delphi, but still lightyears away from providing code compatibility.

Kind of a shame though, as it looks like a really nice program.
Yes, state organisation seems to be conflicting with the idea of free travel as a basic human right. The free movement of labour, too, is not quite there yet, either, but as you said, at least the direction seems ok.
But to make it happen we are launching a funding campaign: http://www.indiegogo.com/lorem-ipsum-books/x/2246908?c=home
Show HN: Close.io by Elastic (YC W11)
I highly recommend Construct 2: http://www.scirra.com/construct2

It takes care of most of the heavy lifting when developing games for HTML5, but it still has a very open and powerful scripting language (unlike something like gamesalad which is more like using pre-built blocks).

Edit - Ha, beaten by 1 minute.
It also reminded me of this, an old episode of This American Life:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/80/ru...
I wish this would exist all my existing IMAP emails. Then I'd use this.
Compiling Go code is super easy; but how easy it is to cross-compile from e.g. OS X to Linux? Or from Windows to Linux? And would there be an advantage over the current situation? (This is a genuinely naive question; I'm fairly new to Go!)
Thank you, the author gave no indication of who the hell he was talking about.
TechCrunch vs. Hacker News: Which is a better front page to launch your startup?
Well removing the emotion it's just a very inaccurate way to describe what appears to be happening.
I completely agree with some of what you're saying but it's criticisms like "There's NO way to get to the hard drive: they just hide everything and give you Documents, Pictures, etc...." that seem misguided: of course you should hide the inner workings of the OS from the average user, but it's absolutely trivial for anybody to see their hard drive if they want to (including hidden files). The easiest of which doesn't require any advanced knowledge, but is just a matter of going into Finder preferences and checking "Show these items on the desktop: [] Hard disks"

Criticising Apple for hiding things that the average user shouldn't know about seems to be getting in the way of completely valid criticisms like what you say about OS X needing a more modern FS.
Python doing something right
Rails Is Omakase: A Dramatic Reading
The Pearson executives should be publicly whipped for producing such a system. My girlfriend took a graphics design course at the local JC and the whole system was managed by Pearson. She has a disability so she likes to view her textbooks on her iPad and do her programming and photoshop on her desktop. She couldnt do that because Pearson didnt support the iPad. And there's more. All communication with the teacher was done through a Pearson email system, so she had to logon to their system to see if there was any email for her. She got dinged because she didnt use their email system to communicate with the other students. For her final project she was required to upload her website project to their system for the teacher to review, but there was a 256K limit on file uploads so she couldnt upload her images. There we were at 2am Monday morning setting up a website on 1&1 so she could present her site to the class that morning. (And I had to get up at 5:30 to commute to San Francisco, 220 miles.)

Fortunately the teacher was willing to accept a url to a commercial website instead of the Pearson garbage.

I could rant on and on, but thankfully (for you) I have a meeting in 5 minutes. :-)
We evaluated Twilio, but decided against it due to lower call quality. Their gateways are virtualized in the cloud and this can lead to timing issues or hollow/tinny sounding audio. Twilio also lacked their SIP endpoint (not sure if this is still in beta) at the time we started building Close.io, which would have allowed us to do native calling. We ended up working with Plivo (another YC company) and have been happy with our choice.
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forked :)
Show HN: My first weekend project-ThreeBar, a welcome bar for content promotion
I've done a lot of standalone apps, but ThreeBar is my first service and "weekend project." I built it to take on a new type of project, but I've actually been using the service myself for a couple of months now on my own websites.

ThreeBar is a "welcome bar" service. Essentially, you can customize a small bar with your own message, button, colors, and action to prompt your website's visitors to do "something." The bar will slide down from the top of the page, and your visitor can either click the button to go to a URL or dismiss the bar, in which case it won't be shown to them again.

One use case would be an author that wants to promote his or her new book-- you could put a discount code in the ThreeBar for your website's visitors. Or, if you would like to have more Twitter followers, you could promote your Twitter account by asking your visitors to follow you.

All of this is hosted, so you just drop a script tag into your website's source code (think Google Analytics) and it just works. You can then update, add, or remove different messages from the ThreeBar dashboard without having to update the embed code.

ThreeBar also tracks a bunch of analytics, including the number of times a bar is viewed, closed, or clicked. All of these analytics combined with the ability to rotate different messages or colors schemes could be used for A/B testing. If a bright red bar is being closed at a much higher rate than one that is black, you may want to consider toning the color down, for example.

I'm curious to hear your feedback on the site and service. Please let me know if there's something that stands out, something that would make the service more valuable to a user, any feedback on pricing, or if you have any questions!

You can see a demo of the bar itself on the ThreeBar website (https://threebar.net) or my own website (http://andrewmunsell.com).

Feel free to email me (andrew@threebar.net) with any comments or questions.

https://threebar.net/
> (into a notebook; not onto a computer)

I've been thinking about getting an electric typewriter just for this reason - to force myself to write without editing, but with a bit more speed than handwriting generally allows.

Plus, I mean, come on -- typewriters are just cool. I had a mechanical one as a kid that my sister-in-law now uses as a handsome display piece. Probably my most favorite childhood toy besides Legos.
Is China the next United States?
The thing that surprised me when I recently renewed my password was reading some fine print that said you can't even legally leave the U.S without a passport. Like I'm a prisoner here unless I have that piece of paper. I can understand requiring a passport before getting on an international flight or something, just as a practical matter, but the legal speak there somehow rubs me wrong. Unless there's more fine print to amend that fine print.
A clickable link: https://threebar.net
>The reduction of the universe to cause and effect and smaller and smaller particles simply leads to nihilism.

HOW!?!?! It may lead YOU to nihilism. It doesn't lead me to nihilism.

>I am not going to get into your 'answers', because I think they are also leaps of faith.

I'm not quite sure which of the points you think are leaps of faith, but I've cited mainly uncontroversial and fundamental facts. For example, we know that the universe has a quantum nature as defined by quantum mechanics. This isn't a leap of faith, it's based on the fact that the standard model makes predictions, that when verified in the real world, are accurate to an insane degree. The theory of Evolution by natural selection, is also backed by massive amount of evidence. For you to claim that this is a leap of faith is akin to, for example, believing that Jesus risen from the dead, is ridiculous.

>The vedic literatures explain the material body is by nature temporary (in contrast to the eternal living force)

What is the evidence for this "eternal living force". You seemed to be using ancient scriptures as an authority, though you must realize that these books were written by men, just like you and me, just as fallible, with all the faults and weakness of a typical modern human except without the massive body knowledge we have available to us today. I'm not sure how much an ancient Indian man can tell me about the nature of reality given he had less awareness of the real world, than an 8 child of today would. Furthermore, how did this body of knowledge come to be compiled? Thinking on it really really hard? So given all these facts, why should you trust them to tell you anything?
I've worked with a couple of school systems. Generally speaking, they're a mess and a situation like this comes as no surprise.

The kids and actual educators are caught between the competing interests of:

1) Parents groups, potentially led by self-serving parents. Multiple times I've seen a group demand the county a adopt a specific technical solution - which happens to be sold by the company where one parent is an account rep.

2) Individual schools trying to create their own standards. Not uncommon half a dozen schools spend tens of thousands each on some solution rather than pull together on a something centralized at a tiny fraction of the per school cost. Any large-scale solution ends up being a committee-driven decision, likely involving #3.

3) Aggressive vendors and VARs who sell solutions from the top-down via relationships and Gartner studies in place of quality or specific fit.

4) Under-skilled administrators.
If only it had an alternate user interface, like a GUI or something.
I've had occasional issues with cookie-based login sites due to conflicts with Chrome browser plugins. (In my case, LastPass was the culprit.)

There was also a known issue with safari and facebook login.

YMMV.
Google's Plan to Snatch Shopping from Amazon Is Working
We can do a historical import. Shoot us an email at support@close.io and let us know from what date you'd like us to start importing from.
Amazon bought Zappos and Kiva
Happy families are all the same. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

-The opening lines of Anna Karenina

I really do suggest reading the classics. Relationships have been explored by the masters for centuries. Unfortunately the only time most people are exposed to them are in high school, before people have really experienced life.
Wordpress being epic and the most used CMS and gravity forms being the most used form plugin...

You might want to consider releasing a plugin to feed leads from gravity forms into your solution. My $.02.
Home-Remodeling App Houzz Brings Home $35 Million
I calmed down pretty quickly :)

Changes so far: stopped mass iPad purchase to use as cameras (!?), different acceptable use policy (which stops people being hung without good reason), open systems policy I.e. no single vendor, fired RM PLC, halfed expenditure on consultants, new smartboards which don't fall over every 3 months, got rid of LGFL Fronter, two new IT staff.

All in 9 months.
I don't think this post goes far enough. It's not only ok to write bad code, it's also ok to commit bad code, and to use such programs in anger. Most code is not actually going to be important. It's ok for that code to be crap. What's generally not ok is contaminating already existing high-quality components with quick kludges. Likewise it's not ok for programs that turn out to be important to remain in a crappy state, even if they started out as such.

I write dozens of shell pipelines every day. Some graduate to actually being saved in files and cleaned up a bit. Some of those start needing new features, and end up rewritten as quick and dirty perl scripts. A few of those see constant use in more and more circumstances and end up accumulating an ever larger number of features. Once that program grows large enough, it'll become obvious that it'll become unmaintainable at some point. And you can either evolve that code into a less crappy state when other changes are made, or you can rewrite it from scratch.

And the thing is, you can't really know in advance what kind of a program a given problem really warrants. Is it shell pipeline that'll only ever be run three times, or will it end up as a core component of somebody's workflow. Since you can't predict these things, you have to play the odds. If most programs end up as important tools, it'd be insane to risk the need of multiple rewrites. While if most programs end up just gathering dust somewhere, it'd be insane to polish them to perfection before committing. And even if "nothing lives longer than temporary code" is a nice soundbite, I don't actually believe that for a moment. I'd bet that most temporary code actually dies almost instantly. It's just some kind of observation bias.
I have no idear how "accessibility" is defined. I'd say getty is quite accessible, but well, I don't know, I never relied on it. But yet, that is no excuse to start a hole desktop. Just like a program can use gtk (theoretically) without a gnome desktop it should be able to do the same with for a braille display.

I think I can safely say that if X breaks Y, and I need Y than X sucks. Especially if it worked before X came. X made things worse.

/edit:
I think that's why Poettering is hated so much. There was community on the Nixes, with their own ecosystem and their own way to do stuff. It's wasn't always beautiful or nice, but their had their way to solve stuff so it would a kind of blend in with the rest. And then Poettering wants to turn it into MacOS X or Windows and adds stuff new users probably appreciate, but the old users never misses. There is a cultural shock. And then it breaks backwards compatibility. It shouldn't suprise anybody that this product should rather be superb and not just medicore to accepted.
The documentary is called "Alone in the Wilderness" - I highly, highly recommend it. His woodworking skills are hard to imagine.

Part 2 was just released in 2012, and PBS have said they will release Part 3 this year or next.

Outwardly it sounds like he lived a lonely existence, though in part 2 we learn his brother was a bush pilot in Alaska, and they would spend summers together flying around, camping and hiking.

Dick also received many visitors at his cabin.
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I'm curious, do you think it was the IDE that was the game changer (excuse the pun)? If JS had a game dev IDE with bundles sound editor etc... do you think it would be as popular as Flash?
I don't understand your statement about how 1% of 100,000 shares is different from 1% of 10,000. How is it different?
Which is welcoming compared to winter. Trust me, when summer finally comes and there are actual green things an animals and berries around, mosquitoes can be tolerated

(I live above 60 degrees north - it's well past -40 here today)
sigh

Form factor MATTERS.

I definitely envision a day where we only have one "computer" and whether that's used as a handheld, tablet, wall projection, or professional workstation just depends on where you choose to "throw" the IO (with all apps responding appropriately).

But we're not there yet. A 128GB iPad does not bring us closer to the true hardware and software changes we'll need to make this happen.
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Despite having grown up and lived in Michigan my whole life I only just now realized that the more-northern parts of the state are considered taiga.
I personally think I agree that it is a better approximation. I'm just trying to help get the discussion pointed in the right direction.

My main point is that I think it's better to frame this as "this is a better approximation" than as "reading is the goal". That's all.
KeepPass + Dropbox. Not a 'great' solution, but it works provided you trust everyone to do the right thing (Dropbox, and your co-founders not being silly and sharing the file with the world.)
Or do you think that because games now have a higher bar we will see fewer but better JS games?
Do you mean, using anonymous structs for struct composition?
you can do something similar with "-std=c11 -fms-extensions"

The only thing it will be missing from plan9 c will be the automatic casting
from the composition to the base struct.. but its just to cast to the base struct when you need to reference only the parent struct, polymorphism.
(Ken Thompson called this effect as "Poor man classes")

Macros can be handy when you need to hide this nasty castings away when not using the plan9 extension..

the nice thing about "-std=c11 -fms-extensions" is that it works with gcc, clang and vc.
Yeah yeah, can't prove a negative, but ok, how about this:

- There is no evidence that there is any intrinsic purpose to life (except in context of the genetic purpose to reproduce).

- Our entire current understanding of the world strongly suggests there is no higher purpose to life.
I spent two years camping and hiking in remote parts of Central and South America, and on the plane on the way home I genuinely thought I was looking at the future when I saw my first iPad.
Awesome to see Mixpanel getting into the revenue game, since it's pretty much the most important thing to get a handle on.

We've just added support for revenue in Analytics.js this morning! (Just track a `revenue` property on your events and we'll take care of the differences between Mixpanel, KISSmetrics and the rest of the providers.)
JPS could do a better job of keeping in touch with the community, if only to post "I am still alive" from time to time. So many similar projects have dies on the vine that when an author goes very quiet for an extended period of time, its a bit troublesome.
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Promises are not great -- I'd much rather have real coroutine support. But given that we don't have real coroutine support, promises are absolutely essential do writing sane, fault-tolerant Javascript.
> I was sad to find out that there were not many options for hosting Go applications. It seems you could run your own server (VPS, etc) or you could deploy to Google App Engine.

Heroku also supports Go: https://gist.github.com/299535bbf56bf3016cba
It says: "We are going ... to find the kids who we think will benefit from having their very own Raspberry Pi" So at least it's not going to end up locked in cupboards.
"Very sad that they're blinded by shiny things and desensitized to their own treasures."

Seems to me this applies for people living in civilization, as they again and again leave it to live as noble savages. Looks a lot like "grass will always be greener on the other side".
A compass is not a map
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I wonder how this could integrate with ad revenue.
Heh. Mac OS had keyboard shortcuts from the beginning, tho.
Nice. I remember that myself.
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