skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typography is pretty awful on Android in general. Both Roboto and Droid Sans are nightmare Frankenfonts.

Font rendering on Android is bulky, blocky, and fails to consider how humans read letterforms. So, even if a designer can convince the team to license a better font, it’ll end up a smeared mess on users’ screens.

The API calls to layout type on Android suck. (iOS sucks slightly less depending on how willing your UI engineer is willing to devote to this most basic foundation of design.)

“U MAD, BRO?”

Yeah. I get paid to be a picky snob about what the user sees and how they feel about the product. It pisses me off to look at Android because its not disappointing, the way Win8 is, but actively anti-design. Why pay to license good fonts? Why make a system for rendering type nicely? Because this stuff is basic user experience. It's like going into a hotel and discovering that the paint is yellowing. That hotel is more likely to have dirty towels, no hot water, smelly sheets, and bed bugs.
I have a few types of meditation and spiritual practice that have definitely helped me in my business life. Specifically, Pranayama breathing, sitting meditation, running and yoga.

For dealing with the stresses of an entrepreneurial lifestyle, I find Pranayama to be a very valuable tool. It is a style of deep abdominal breathing in slow, measured rhythm. Often, when I am stressed, my breathing gets shallower, and I find Pranayama an excellent way for me to reclaim my breath, and with it my sense of inner calm. There are iOS apps and YouTube videos which can help you learn.

Sitting meditation also helps me stay calm and centered throughout the day, and also gives me something like the mental equivalent of clearing my desk to start the day.

I find running and yoga to both be meditative in nature, they are excellent ways to counter the often sedentary lifestyle that we have as technology entrepreneurs.

I'd say making love and recreational driving also confer meditation-like benefits when approached with a certain frame of mind.
Equal Opportunity, Our National Myth
Tips for work-life balance
> the Chinese don't have a right to ignore other countries' IP if they want those same countries to respect theirs.

But that "right" is a "moral right", that us perhaps want to impose on it. Not sure if it is an enforceable law.

If we stick to the moral approach. China might see it as hypocrisy as well. From their point of view they can say "well you stole to improve your industry, you burned coal like it was nobody's business to ramp up your steel mills, now you tell us we have to be green, and waste all this money duplicating R&D effort -- that's not fair, and it is our _right_ to do however we please".

Now practically I don't agree with that, but from a more rational position, I could see their point, as well.

It also seemed rather silly when we make fun of Chinese for stealing our high tech technology (stealth, radar, etc). It would seem pretty irrational and wasteful from their point of view _not_ to spend $100k to bribe some spy and instead do spend $10b developing stuff from scratch.
And at least here in Spain you should not forget the TERRIBLE way of integrating payments in your site if you're not PCI compliant. When you try to pay you end up in a ugly POS terminal that with some browsers shows misleading JS alerts when you click on the pay button.
I thought it was interesting, though I didn't vote on it either way. It seems reasonably meaty and brings up some interesting questions about journalism and governance. I guess it's not the best thing I've seen on HN, but I wouldn't put it among the top things I would like to see less of on HN either (self-help-book-style blog posts about "lifehacking", dieting/fitness plans, etc., are #1 on that list).
- Offer a kindle to your wife

- Offer a tablet to your wife

- Buy reusable diapers (it's more trouble, but cheaper on long run)

- Explain to the wife about the dangers of some plastics (BPAs, phtalates) and convince her to buy form local artisans (without trying to be political, tell her some of the toys are made by kids not much younger than your own)

- Put stuff in boxes you know she won't use. Store them away from her (a shed, storage unit, etc). After a year or so, ask her if she knows where item A,B,C is, and if she needs it. More likely she will have no idea where it is. Explain to her that if the last year she didn't needed that purple striped sweater, she probably won't need it ever. Suggest selling or donating.

- Ask for hand-me-downs from friends and family for your kid. It will be harder for he to justify buying new clothes ('But he needs a new pair of trousers') when you can point to the bunch that was given to you.

I think just those 5 things reduced a lot of the stuff we have in the house.

You will have to manage this of course, you can't expect everything to go your way. She will buy that dress/shoes, but avoid you doing it too just because she tells you also need new shoes. Also, we go on vacation (for her benefit as I really not into it) every once in a while. It is a partnership after.
Just for scale, ~25 billion pounds of beef is consumed each year in the U.S.

(http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/animal-products/cattle-beef/s...)

So about 1 pound of antibiotics for every 800 or 900 pounds of beef. Apparently a beef steer dresses out to about 60% meat, so those 800 to 900 pounds of beef represent 1300 to 1500 pounds of cattle.

So on average each animal is getting a little less than 1 pound of antibiotics each year (edit: Oops, I ignored that the Wired numbers roll up all livestock antibiotics. So there is pork and poultry further diluting that 1 pound).
I didn't downvote you, but I'm not sure this is a helpful comment. I flagged the story because I think that's a much more useful and direct way to express that you don't think a certain story belongs on this site. And I realize I'm being a hypocrite here, but the only thing worse than off-topic stories is lengthy debates over what is and is not off-topic.

(And, incidentally, the stories on HN tend to get rather off-topic over the weekend when, I imagine, much of its core user base is not checking the site. I wouldn't sweat it too much.)
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This whole app fatigue concept is such nonsense. What percentage of websites have 50k active users? Do we have website fatigue?

Good apps will rise to the top. That is what they call a market.
The whole point of ssh is to be able to log into one's machine from elsewhere on the wide internet. I find it's precisely when I'm somewhere public (i.e. coffee shop or public transport wifi) that I want access to my home machine - on my work machine (i.e. in the office) anything I need is already there. If you don't need it to be publicly accessible, why would you be running sshd at all?
I wouldn't say the homogeneity is disturbing. Like attracting like is a common human theme. However, it is a bit disappointing.

That said, it seems like SV isn't really into the media agency industry, either. Even Apple's marketing is done mostly in Los Angeles. Maybe this particular company would be better off in NYC or LA?
He misses a lot of the intricacies of the Android design site ( http://developer.android.com/design/index.html ). You are actually recommended to make your content touchable rather than putting every action in the top right as an icon. If I made a weather app, for example, I may have little day or hour graphics that can be tapped for more about that item. Even for the action bar there is a split mode that puts actions on the bottom as well.

Similarly, he has the density classes wrong. There's XXHDPI, XHDPI, MDPI, and LDPI and they don't correspond to set resolutions. It's recommended by the Android Developer blog to actually change layouts based on a certain DP width (DP being a density independent pixel that normalizes measurements across density classes) rather than do x sizes of the same screen for each density. E.g. so screens with a lot of pixel real estate across get an extra list on the left, things like that.
After you've learned hundreds of interfaces over 3 decades, you learn that newer can be, but isn't always better. So when I see YAIR, (Yet Another Interface Redesign), I get a case of deja poo, (I have seen this shit before).
> I would hope that the on board software wouldn't use those front brakes during light deceleration.

No, this isn't safe. A car that only allowed one set of wheels to brake would in some cases spin around dangerously. Safe brakes must apply the same force on all four (or more) wheels simultaneously.

Remember that the computer can't possibly know if the car is sliding across black ice, a situation in which the application of even force is an absolute requirement for a safe stop.
The author left out my favorite: less. Pressing F at the end of a file is the same as tail -f, with the important difference that you can always press Ctrl-C and go back to standard less mode in case something interesting flies by.
Again, this maybe hard with wife/kids.

When single I changed countries every 1-2 years (moved a lot around Europe). I learned to live with very little, but it isn't as easy when you have wife/kids (and uprooting your kid just for the sake of minimalism isn't really fair).
It's worth to note that this paper describes different approach than what was done by commercial lisp machines: Implementing Lisp interpreter directly by hardware state machine. It was done on single smallish NMOS ASIC that was actually manufactured and tested. By the way, essentially half of examples and exercises in SICP is directly related to this endeavor.
Love to discuss this, but I'm not allowed to read the article because paywall.
You are entitled to have your prospective. For me, I am saddened by the idea that someone lost their life fighting a system that prosecutes a person for the very thing they claim to be in favor of.
IPython to Latex and Vice-Versa
https://github.com/ipython/nbconvert
Incubators and VCs may be oranges and apples, but YC started a new kind of incubation system, to which the name "accelerator" (which is in common use) is more fitting than "incubator".

A traditional VC, compared to an incubator, was able to offer access to bigger money in the next rounds (whether the VC's own, or other funds it co-invests in), and networking.

But YC (and other accelerators) actually give you everything a traditional VC does. The main difference is bureaucracy & first round size: A traditional VC spends 2-3 whole months trying to decide if to take a deal or not; therefore it makes no sense to invest anything less than $500K (and often no less than $2M), and you have 1-2 investments/year/partner.

YC and other accelerators invest ~$20K, with (comparatively) no overhead, but otherwise give the same access to networking and future money.

It's apples to oranges only in the sense that when you're hungry, either one will help you get through the hunger. For one of them, you have to wait much longer in line, and it keeps your hunger at bay for longer.
What was second?
This TED video is a good explanation of the concept of a "connectome" for the layman:
http://www.ted.com/talks/sebastian_seung.html

The simple connectome of c. elegans has been mapped, and there is an open source project to use this dataset and other data to run a full simulation of the worm in a virtual environment:
http://openworm.org
I think Paymill would be a good alternative for us Europeans if not for the pricing. 2.95% + 0.28€ for transaction is really bad if you work with low margins and far far worse what we get working directly with our bank (and don't forget you only see your money once a week).
You are right, and thank you for writing this. Our company agreed early on that tech interest wasn't essential for the success of our business. However, I do think it can be useful for finding engineering talent.
+1. You can even

alias ltail="less -Ri +F"

so you don't have to remember to hit 'F'.

(I generally add -Ri: -R to pass through unprintable characters to avoid borking coloured output; -i so searches are case-insensitive.)
There are applications which are used outside the browsers. And DRM is a perfect example - DRM has no place in the open Web. I don't see a problem with pushing bad technologies off the Web (or altogether off for that matter). Good riddance!

Idea here is rather straightforward. Publishers indeed have a choice to treat their users with respect, or to insult them with DRM. But we aren't talking about them making this choice - it's up to them. We are talking about W3C putting an unethical technology in a Web standard, to oblige some publishers who made that unethical choice. It's unacceptable! It's not different from saying that since malware creators want an ability to affect their users, W3C should standardize malware methods for the Web.
This thing is just as useless now as it was when it launched and was first featured here, one year ago (1). If you want to learn Vim's basics, just run the following command in your terminal as many times as needed to feel comfortable and force yourself to use Vim for gradually more complex and critical tasks:

$ vimtutor

(1) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3043866
Looks spectacular, but why does it have to be a shooter?

I still hope that someone will eventually make a large scale world exploration game. Journey on steroids, basically.
If name dropping high profile people is an important part of your businesses marketing strategy, then it seems reasonable to pursue that <i>if it leads to more revenue/profit</i>

I think OP's issue relates to the weird, self-referential culture of Silicon Valley, where success is measured in buzz and money raised. It goes something like:

Build free software product -> ? -> profit

where ? = Get lots of buzz/hype, grow userbase quickly, raise VC money

Or course, this is similar to another business plan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO5sxLapAts
AWS

Google Apps

Google Analytics

Blogger

MailChimp

Drupal

Desk

Facebook

Twitter

GitHub

Worldpay
I Fasted For 7 Days
I enjoyed reading it. It was a sobering reminder of some highly relevant struggles and challenges concerned citizens the world over face.

The argument can be made there are "other" forums where I could digest this information, but I don't really check "other" forums - I visit HN. I'm glad to get an occasional diversion from the otherwise fairly insular SV-centric content.

Perhaps I lack your sensibilities regarding what constitutes acceptable content on HN, but this is not a post / contribution I would think of flagging.
Part of the struggle is to make sure that one subculture of businessmen in SV isn't allowed to position themselves as entirely representing the interactive media industry. There is already more than them out there... a lot more. But they are so frequently given credit as the only game in town. And they like it that way, it makes them feel more important. It shouldn't be all about just "them".
>Edit: if you downvote, please reply too.

Why do you care about downvotes? Are you actually checking your comment score?
Asana Hearts: Share Gratitude with Your Team
Not necessarily the case. It depends what your market is. The early adopter App Store audience is quite diverse, and not at all like the tech early adopter crowd.

In terms of growth, being on the US front page is absolutely huge, so there's lots of politics about getting on there. If you have connections, it's a lot easier to get up there.
Stop worrying about what other people think, and focus on making a great product or service. If you make something great, people will want a piece of it no matter if they like you personally or not.

Also, getting all emo and throwing a public temper tantrum railing against the people whose help you might need someday isn't doing you any favors.

Get back to work.
Interesting. Now I wonder why Java decided to go the other way with a reversed domain name for packages. E.g., com.company-name.package-name
"[Creator] Unveils Its Next Masterpiece" says a reviewer who has barely seen the game.

This is some horrible journalism right out of the gate.
I should definitely make a port of this for the web. I love things like this.
It's not really the message so much as the wording.[0] And it's not even necessarily a dismissal. A lot of those movements in the 70's worked, in a sense.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5049474
This looks wonderful, but there needs to be a downloadable binary that can just be double clicked. Otherwise you have a huge chicken & egg problem here.
You got it. :-)

Though I admit I wasn't quite expecting a personal Tumblr post to make it to Hacker News.
How is this not a valid concern though? If electric cars are widely adopted, this problem will require a solution.
This is useful to protect sshd from random scans, but to still allow you access from anywhere when you need that access:

http://www.pkts.ca/ssh-faker.shtml
Funny to think that if Twitter handles were fragments of email addresses they would be backwards:

com.twitter@holysee

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By the way, this must be a mistake:

This is a clearly a byproduct of the right-to-left language of the designers of these systems
Moreover Inc pops up spammy surveys and other elements. It was the second Inc link from HN today, and I'll now be trying to avoid them in the future.
Why don't we have tagged memory in today's architectures? Is nobody getting inspiration from the LISP machine or Burroughs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems) architectures? Is it because of the failed Intel iAPX 432?
Prehistoric societies would send their elderly out into the snow to die once they were no longer productive members of the tribe. Nomadic tribes would simply leave behind the elderly who couldn't keep up any more.

It wasn't so much that they were heartless - they simply did not have the resources to do otherwise.
Likely only on the station Triple J, which does give a strong language warning before songs (but will happily play pretty much anything uncensored).

Most other stations even sensor the line 'big-ass coat'...
Please, please, PLEASE don't store user's passwords in plaintext on the backend...
Well if it was obvious to you how did it also mislead you?
Natas teaches the basics of serverside web-security.
This interview with Girl Talk [1] posted on the thread about Wanz [2] shows, to an outsider, a lot of parallels between the music and startup scenes.

This is likely to have been raised before, but the two are similar in many ways: vast and fragmented with many paths to and definitions of success, prone to fads, full of both hard workers and poseurs, controlled near the top by gatekeepers who pride themselves, correctly or not, on evaluating potential success, jealousy of success, rules that apply to the majority of aspirants and smaller players but not the minority of the very successful, people who look with disdain at others' choices, seeing those choices as more important than they really are, etc.

So it is good to realize that, just as in music, success is context-dependent, and one's popularity with the current stars and hangers-on is a weak indicator of success, and it's good to act on that realization in a useful way, including planting a stake in the ground saying "I'm done with that."

That said, once one's self-confidence and happiness are restored it's also good to not completely reject all aspects of whatever and whoever are popular. Unless someone is a close competitor (in which case they must be crushed or scared off to other pastures ;) ), why not wish for their success and celebrate it? Similarly, conferences are a great way to learn, to teach, and to meet those with the same interests, and so long as attending the conference is not only about being seen by others as attending a conference (or, say, being invited to a panel), and going does not interfere with work, why shouldn't one go?

[1] http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/6415-girl-talk/
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5235168
I saw your post before you deleted it. I didn't get a chance to respond before. I just wanted to say that you probably know a lot more about VM's than I do, and I'll concede that. I don't really know for sure whether switching to a bytecode vm would be great or not for the browser. I know that doing /any/ change to "the web" is a huge uphill battle, and so the ecmascript committee has to make a lot of comprimises for pragmatism. In any case, worse is better, and in the real world we can't have the perfect computer system. Haven't you seen tron legacy?
Yes, but then you have to work a lot harder for your customers.
Macklemore is from Seattle though, right? Makes sense it would hit there first...
well, for the same reasons the urls _should_ be the other way around, plus avoiding inconsistencies with other languages I guess (don't know what languages supported dot-named packages at that time, but I don't think they were the first ones)
Is your nickname a reference to Glengarry Glen Ross?
Here's a few more to add to your list (not all SaaS)...

--ANALYTICS

Snowplow (https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow)

Segment.io (http://segment.io)

--CRM

Close.io (http://close.io),

Streak (http://www.streak.com/)

Base (http://getbase.com)

--SALES

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--CUSTOMER SERVICE

Metaverse Mod Squad (http://metaversemodsquad.com/)

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Titan (http://thinkaurelius.com/)

Tinkerpop (http://www.tinkerpop.com/)

Bulbs (http://bulbflow.com)

Datomic (http://datomic.com)

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Logstash (http://logstash.net)

Lumberjack (https://github.com/jordansissel/lumberjack)

Fluentd (http://fluentd.org),

Flume (https://github.com/cloudera/flume)

Kafka (http://sna-projects.com/kafka/)

Scribe (https://github.com/facebook/scribe/)

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Harvest (http://www.getharvest.com/)

Ballpark (http://www.getballpark.com/)

PaySimple (http://paysimple.com/)

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FreshBooks (http://www.freshbooks.com/)

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Tropo (https://www.tropo.com/)

Twillo (http://www.twilio.com/)

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DuoSecurity (https://www.duosecurity.com/)

Authy (https://www.authy.com/)

CryptoSeal (http://cryptoseal.com/)

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Cloak (https://www.getcloak.com/)

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Olark (http://olark.com)

SnapEngage (http://www.snapengage.com/)

--DESIGNERS

Dribble (http://dribbble.com/)

Sortfolio (http://sortfolio.com/)

--NOTES

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