skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But FFS why did you have to bring apple in to this. Absolutely nothing to do with this, quit it.

No, actually he made a very good point by bringing Apple into it. Apple, see, is the very place were design and UX reigns supreme over other considerations (of course they also have faults, every team has).

So, OSS developers bashing Apple and its UIs, are not the very best community to nurture biding UI designers.
Graylog2 (http://graylog2.org/) - Log management & analytics in browser

Torch (for hosted Graylog https://www.torch.sh/)
This way you are also able to sponsor international events like the Olympics, not possible with buy.com.
If you're an engineer doing scrum, and the product owners are "telling you what to do", imo you're doing scrum wrong. Engineers should be involved in turning user stories into tasks.

Even outside scrum, even in a traditional workplace, good managers don't "tell you what to do", because they know it's demotivational. Good managers explain to you why something needs to be done, that is, how it will benefit the enterprise, and let you do it.
That is a great comment and apparently he is hell banned for a single massively downvoted apple snark. Either heavy down voting automatically triggers a ban or the moderators are smoking something.
Or sumup
I'd say those are both the kind of moves where it is hard to tell up front if they're insane or actually inspired.
That's a good point, but I think that present advantage will turn against China later on when all those only children find themselves having to support two elderly parents, a situation permeating the society on a massive scale.

As they say, China's the first country to "get old before it got rich".
I'd say Firefox is a pretty good example of how open-source can counter the issue of monoculture by providing the industry a viable platform from which they can challenge the incumbent browser.
Shell startup scripts
Two things I've noticed with Photoshop and 3D modelling software like Blender:

- There's always a faster way to do what you want, but you have to know about it. It seems like every photoshop tutorial I see introduces a new, difficult brush or technique. I guess the only way to be acquainted with these is to spend a ton of time in the software, messing with everything. Essentially, you need to make a career - or life-consuming hobby of it. Otherwise you have a very small set of tools which can do everything, but excruciatingly slowly.

- Artists spend hours doing even simple things, because it's a craft and they want it to be perfect. Programmers are used to knocking out quick iterations and seeing immediate results. I'm not sure if this takes a different sort of mindset, longer attention span, or just a real dedication to what you do. I suspect OP's dad has this mindset, because fine woodworking would be similar in this respect.

I've just accepted that I'm not cut out for art; I take photos, but I don't even have the patience to do post. It's a very foreign mindset to me - it seems tedious, but every choice really does require human interaction, and skilled interaction at that.
Fun fact: The name Rakuten sounds similar to the name of a medication against acne used by teenagers in Israel.
Modern email clients use threading and quote-hiding to make everything look like bottom-posting. People who want to see context for your reply can just look up and see previous messages.

I agree that you want discussion posts in chronological order, oldest to newest reading down, whether this is on a blog or email, but technology has changed so that this is no longer the responsibility of the poster.
oldie but goldie: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
You'll have bugs either way. That's a fact of life, and the vast majority of a developers time will always be spent debugging.

What legacy code does is inhibit your ability to make the fundamental changes you need to implement in order to stay competitive. And I'm not saying throw you code out every other week. And I'm not saying every attempt to rewrite your product should replace what you already have. But the for all the costs associated with re-writing your product, they pale into insignificance when compared to being put out of business.
DC Startup CrowdCusp Making The Best Of Things Before SEC Regulations
You no longer have to think about it. Just send your message in the way that's the default for your mail client, and modern mail readers like gmail will make it easy for your readers to get appropriate context.
They Actually Plan to Mine Asteroids. Here’s How
Going through some of the discussions and views and opinions on legacy code rewrites, I thought I should provide another relevant reading warstory:

An oldie but a goldie: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

EDIT While I was reading the thread, it appears @jodrellblank had also posted it in the discussion elsewhere in the thread.
I think the biggest problem is not so much the equity that you can lose, but also the time startups lose, especially in many of the newly created accelerators.
I have seen founders being obligated to attend 9-5 in poorly designed co-working office-spaces when their own arrangements are much more efficient, having to pitch daily to people that have no impact on your success and having to attend day-long workshops on subjects they already master or are irrelevant to their challenges.
In that way I have seen startups join accelerators and wasting a lot of time boosting the accelerators themselves (especially if they are corporate-driven) but decelerating themselves.
When it comes to Demoday, there suddenly are few investors and even fewer press.
The key thing that new accelerators don't realize is that YC did this for many, many years until their current status quo. Many accelerators think that just by calling a demo-day and showing ten startups that they pumped a total of $500K in, they will be the next YC. If they don't have the track-record yet, they better have 200K of followup cash ready for each startup to show that they really mean it and that their curation process resulted in a meaningful selection.
Roaccutane? I used it in my teens here in Ireland.
Tell it to Best Buy :)
The site in the OP is not accessible right now, but by reading the other comments I assume it's about the paperwork you have to go through after you signed up for PayMill.

My experience is that it takes an hour to sign up, then they'll send you some papers to sign and you are good to go and ready to accept payments.

Then a month later you'll get an email telling you to go through a certification done by a third-party. You'll have to download a .rtf with about 20 pages, formatted in a horrible way and go through the answers with no real guidance. You don't have to fill in a lot of information if you are using PayMill because you are not actually storing any sensitive information on your servers. That's not really PayMill's fault because it's required by law but it's _very_ annoying and I had to resubmit it twice because I missed some fields (Which isn't really that surprising if you look at the way the document is designed).

A few weeks later I had to go through another verification required by EU's money laundering laws. But it was basically just signing a document at the post office so they can verify it with your passport.

Edit: I have to add that PayMill's Support Staff is brilliant and they really care about their customers. They probably hate the required paperwork as much as we do.
Nope, I don't get any numbers/labels either.
Seems like the website is incompatible with a bunch of browsers.
hipchat - IM

parse.com - API integration

symbaloo.com - entry points collection

teamviewer - screen share
How often have you done this? How often does it work? What fraction of people you communicate with are using sufficiently proper mail clients?
I totally agree. We sell jewelry on Buy.com (among other places), and I saw the CEO speak at a conference we were invited to. He's a pretty visionary guy and I wouldnt bet against him.
I'm not sure why you think there is little research on personalized medicine in the US? There is tons. It's just turning out to be much more difficult than was originally hoped (see: results from GWAS studies, etc.).
Wow, psychological reactance.. there's a name for my illness! I thought I was the only freak who procrastinated immensely on a task just because someone ordered me to do it--especially if I was just about to do it anyways. Since I was a kid I would get bummed because if I did as ordered, the person would think I was only doing it because I was told, and self motivation has always been my biggest driver. Luckily I love my day job exactly for the lack of direct pressure from superiors.
Just adding a datapoint. I went through the verification and it was annoying to print, fill out, scan and send but not that horrible. The staff was helpful and followed through with the whole process. They even rang me up at one point because there weren’t any transactions coming through to see if I needed any help with the software end of things (that wasn’t the case, but nice to know they care).
Then redesign LibreOfice for Windows (in Photoshop) and hand over the artwork to the programmers, which, I think, would gladly implement something good-looking.
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Print version:
http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/97042-a-chinese...

Web version (3 pgs):
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-14/a-chinese-ha...

OT sidenote: why are so many mobile versions so unreadable on web?
Here are a few that we use.

Airbrake (http://airbrake.io/) - Exception logging.

Campfire (http://campfirenow.com/) - Chat.

Librato (https://metrics.librato.com/) - Hosted graphing.

Mixpanel (http://mixpanel.com/) - Analytics, people tracking.

Pagerduty (http://www.pagerduty.com/) - Monitoring alerts.

Sendgrid (http://sendgrid.com/) - Sending emails.

Sprintly (https://sprint.ly/) - Project management.

Tarsnap (http://www.tarsnap.com/) - Offsite backups.

As well as all the obvious ones - GitHub, Google Apps, Dropbox, etc.
Who Says Americans Spend Irresponsibly?
Have tried merging and rebasing, absolutely wonderful!
Thanks! That's great to hear! :-]
Policy or politics? A Close Reading of Geithner's exit interview
Site's taking ages to load, so here's the google cache http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tBHXw_P...
Hipchat (http://hipchat.com) - team collaboration

Stripe (http://stripe.com) - payments

Mandrill (http://mandrill.com) - email

Tinfoil Security (http://tinfoilsecurity.com) - web security

Help Scout (http://helpscout.net) - help desk / customer support
Except that Skrill is 4x faster to say, is far shorter to type in, and is slang for "money".
If you like TypeScript you should also checkout Haxe (http://haxe.org)
AMD style is terrible and should be discouraged. It leaks how it does things too much into the source code and you again end up with boilerplate bs.
No, it's because because "facebook" has never been used as a common noun to describe social networks - as in, "I'll go log onto the facebook," referring to MySpace or LiveJournal or something. This conversation is about businesses which are named after the field they are in. (The equivalent is if Facebook were named "Social Network.")

Also, I doubt most people have really heard of the concept of a physical facebook. From my understanding, it's limited to Harvard and maybe other schools around there.
The hard part about disrupting the hearing aid industry is that most of what people are paying for is service. First there are a lot of reasons that people could have hearing loss where a hearing aid isn't the right choice, like a tumor. Then they need to figure out how to get the darned things in and configured the way they want. Then they need to figure out that they don't like it when they're on then phone, then you tweak the programming. Then they call because they can't figure out how to replace the battery, then they hate it because they can hear the fridge running again, then they finally go out and find out it doesn't work in noisy places, so you tweak it again, and so on.
Plus hearing aid programming isn't prescriptive, like determining a vision prescription. People have different expectations and experiences of hearing as well as different audio environments in their lives. Automating testing or programming is a almost a wicked problem and then you'll get to face the American Association of Audiologist.
I'd love to see it happen but I spent a year helping a company with deep pockets try and it's a lot less simple than it seems. Driving down manufacturing costs isn't enough to truly disrupt that industry.
I understand that you don't want to start a browser flame war, and neither i do, but:

>Configuration

Sometimes Chrome is easier to configure (With Firefox you need to enable click to play in about:config, while Chrome has a checkbox somewhere in the "advanced" menu), sometimes is harder (Try to configure a proxy in chrome)

>Ease of migration

I haven't tested it myself, but i know that Firefox can load your history/bookmarks from Internet Explorer and Chrome.
If you mean between the same browser, Firefox Sync is on par with Chrome for me.

>Developer tools

Chrome has better tools ootb, but you can install Firebug in Firefox which is mostly on par.

>Extensibility

You're talking about addon? Because Firefox's addon can be way more powerful than Chrome's addon.

>System footprint

Firefox usually uses less memory than Chrome (but it's more prone to memory leaks).
For the CPU, i don't know about Chrome, but my Firefox installation is currently using about ~1% of it
New version of browserify will be much leaner. Also, if you don't use the node modules it doesn't matter.

Your thing could use some tests if you hope for people to trust it :)
Stripe ( http://stripe.com )- Payment processing

Sendgrid ( http://sendgrid.com )- Sending emails

Autotax ( http://autotax.me )- Automated 1099 & sales tax filing

Trello ( http://trello.com ) - Trask tracking

New Relic ( http://newrelic.com ) - Server/app monitoring
I don't know why they wouldn't work on a Mac Mini. I'm not the one who did the work, so I'm not sure about upstream status. Best people to ask are Alexander Graf and René Rebe. But if anyone wants to grab the patches and advocate for them upstream, that would be awesome.
Myths Prevent Entrepreneur Thinking About Employees
This might be another good reason for the UNIX philosophy of keeping functionality (command line) and GUI separate.
Airbrake (http://www.airbrake.io)

Jenkins

New Relic (http://www.newrelic.com)

Jira (http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/overview)
This is a insightful and interesting article but for a lot of folks I think accelerators are Extremely helpful.

(A) Lot of accelerators are readily accepting foreign companies and entrepreneurs. Helping provide them a base and also help with visa issues. Which would be very tough on their own.

(B) Many of these ideas are not well polished and need to refined further and converted into a viable business. And accelerators also help founders hyper-focus on the product.

With that said if you have a little cash for a few months time, have already started to work on your MVP and have decent connections in the industry. Then working in a co-working space and hacking your product is the best thing to do.

But each case is unique IMHO.
I use these for Hacker Monthly (http://hackermonthly.com):

SendGrid (http://sendgrid.com) - transactional emails (sending digital issues to subscribers).

MailChimp (http://mailchimp.com) - newsletter.

Linode (http://linode.com) - VPS hosting.

Harvest (http://getharvest.com) - invoicing (for corporate customers + advertisers).

FetchApp (http://fetchapp.com) - digital delivery (for single issue purchase).
Previously used E-Junkie.

PayPal - payment gateway (sadly, one of the only choice for Malaysian).

Gumroad (http://gumroad.com) - I use this as a 'PayPal alternative' for customers who wish to pay directly with their credit card (and refuse to have anything to do with PayPal).

Pivotal Tracker (http://pivotaltracker.com) - project management for HM's backend app

ODesk (http://odesk.com) - finding and managing my remote team (currently in the size of 4).
Thanks!

Now that I have read the article I think it's not really fair to compare payment providers working under EU jurisdiction and US jurisdiction. If it'd be easy to just skip the paperwork in the EU I'm pretty sure Stripe would've just rolled out their services in Europe in the first place.
After the GNOME 3 disaster, it's understandable why many developers within the open source community have become skeptical of designers and their contributions.

Within a single release cycle, these designers managed to destroy what was once among the most vibrant of all open source projects. The existing GNOME users have been alienated by the absolutely horrible UI. Among their ranks were many good developers and other contributors, too, whose absence now prevents the project from recovering. A large portion of these users moved on to KDE or Xfce, rather than MATE, causing further harm to the GNOME project and community.

There are other cases, too. Windows 8 and the UI changes starting with Firefox 4 are other recent, and major, examples of the work of designers going terribly wrong. The end result is software that is nearly unusable, or much less usable than previous versions.

The skepticism you describe is very well earned and deserved.
Benchmark to entry and then constraints.

Like level one of a libreoffice effort would be to organize all the buttons on all the dialogs and make sure they are consistent, or something like that. There are probably a couple hundred standard ones, it's not sexy. It is some work though.

A level 10 would be doing something like reinventing the ribbon from office, which might be more of a gtk+ task than a libreoffice task, and the libreoffice guys might not even think that's in their domain or their problem. I think that could be a justifiable position too.

You have to actually collaborate a lot with the team just to find all of the work for both of these. Ux guys don't seem to be dedicated enough to those projects. And fwiw, the projects themselves might not be open to spending energy "reskinning" especially when libreoffice has so much other technical debt.
PayMill data could be used by the Samwers to cough identify cough trends and interesting business ideas
US scientists found aliens life on Earth
Negotiating
Hosted TFS
Stackify - app ops
Twilio sms
SendGrid email
Chargify - billing software
Pusher - web sockets
Actually, considering that Rakuten is really trying to expand internationally, it is a really bold move to change the official language to get employees to look a bit over the horizon.

Have you ever used the original japanese Rakuten site? It is incredibly awful, just like many other japanese sites, because in Japan the focus is on different things. But if you try to expand with this mentality to the west, you are going to fail and people will laugh at your crappy attempts.

So actually, I think this move is incredibly smart.
Generally, you are not allowed to use other payment methods except it is physical goods/services or the digital goods can be consumed outside of the app.

http://play.google.com/intl/en/about/developer-content-polic...
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Not to be pedantic, but:

{users: [{name: 'joe', age: 12}, {name: 'bob', age: 23}]}
<users><user name='joe' age='12' /><user name='bob' age='23' /></users>
This article isn't about the individual unmasking of a hacker, but more about the humanistic element of unintentionally leaving clues about your identity while masquerading online.

I'm pointing this out because you're in for a highly anti-climactic read.
Moqups (https://www.moqups.com/) - Wireframing tool

Sendgrid (http://sendgrid.com/) - Sending emails

Braintree (https://www.braintreepayments.com/) - Payments

Deployd (http://www.deployd.com/) - Quickly design and build APIs

Github (https://github.com/) - Project hosting and issue tracker
Lua in the NetBSD Kernel [pdf]
Weird. They spent so long working on the buy.com brand, and now they've chosen a new name - harder to remember, harder to type in. The meaning behind Rakuten, 'optimism', doesn't really fit what they do either. I'd love to know who decided to rebrand buy.com to this, and why.
I don't see how contributing to servo defends against monoculture.
This is racist. If it was a US hacker nobody would care. But ooooooh it's a Chinese hacker. How evil! China soooo evil!
It works even better if you do it while hanging upside down and while your spouse or significant other sacrifices a live chicken.

Seriously, it's a physical switch. There's no "calibration". "Recalibrate" a physical switch by doing some magic ritual in the Calculator app? If you believe that worked, I have some really high-quality HDMI and SATA cables you might be interested in purchasing, for very reasonable prices.
Are developers still limited to a minimum subscription of $1/increment? So its ether $12/year or $1/year... I don't understand this.
I'm almost 100% sure all of the projects you've mentioned have at least one UI/UX designer. The problem as I see it is that you can't just throw more designers at a problem and have it work any better or faster.
You mean someone will combine this with the netflix database and will proceed to de-anonymize this based on what they were thinking during the scan?

The AOL data release was a total fiasco in that it wasn't anonymized properly and because they were not aware of the state of the art.

And it is not like they are not releasing it, they are releasing it! Just not on an instantaneous download.

As for AOL, I'm quite grateful they did what they did, I got quite a bit of mileage out of their data.
Buy.com is such a generic name, it's hard to associate any kind of unique brand to it. Rakuten is only 7 letters long and is associated with a meaning? Yeah!
I believe the same thing is happening with Play.com too, which has all the Rakuten branding applied.
Ask HN: why are requests pushed to heroku dynos?
The last days saw numerous discussions on HN on intelligent vs random routing on heroku. One thing that I don't understand is why requests are routed to dynos when they are entering the heroku mesh, and in the case of random routing might get stuck behind a slow request.

What I don't: why are requests pushed to dynos, and why doesn't a dyno actively pulls a request from some kind of shared queue after it is done processing the previous request.

Can someone explain this?
I don't really see the point of a European Stripe clone, since in Europe we're dealing with a completely different set of problems when it comes to online payment.

In many countries it's relatively painless if not trivial to set up a merchant account and start accepting payments through one of the many payment service providers, so for the internal market a Stripe-like service doesn't offer much of an advantage over tried and trusted local services.

If you want to accept payments across Europe, especially the many local direct payment solutions which are often much more popular than credit cards (and Paymill doesn't support any of them), you'll run into a whole different class of problems which any service will have a hard time solving.

But if you want to disrupt the European online payment market, then that's the problem to solve.
Not sure if you're being tongue-in-cheek, but Mozilla doesn't have any moral superiority over Google, Apple, or Microsoft. At the end of the day, we're talking about individuals here.
John Lindquist's videos are a godsend when it comes to learning Angular. His videos finally convinced me to switch to doing all of my web development in IDEA (since I had a license anyways) with the AngularJS plugin.

I found out about his videos through the other ones he put on JetBrains TV[0]. If you're looking for an absolute crash course in AngularJS, the ones on JetBrains TV are the best.

[0] http://tv.jetbrains.net/channel/webstorm/angularjs , http://tv.jetbrains.net/videocontent/angularjs-custom-compon...