skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author may be misunderstanding what would be needed in a watch that really was connected through Bluetooth LE aka Smart aka 4 to a phone. It would not need as much of a processor as the nano, which has to do the computing on its own. And my BT4 fitness device batteries last multiple months.

It would need just enough processor to communicate over BT, update the display, and relay inputs back to the parent device. And with a flexible hi-res color e-ink display, the battery could go a month.

Not saying they're making a slave device. But if they are, it wouldn't necessarily need much power.
Name sounds very similar to ColdFusion on Wheels (though as pointed out in referenced previous article, seems to have no connection)

http://cfwheels.org/
I find that keeping a journal helps tremendously when I'm feeling low or find myself dwelling on negative thoughts. I believe it's because you can get away with fuzzy thinking when your thoughts are only in your head. Once you put them on paper you're forced to refine them and any distortion or irrationality in them becomes more apparent.
That's what I thought too at first, but GTTA is listed as a licensee.
This was my schedule too, but it kept shifting 1 hour forward until it circled back to a normal 10pm-6am schedule, though my partner did appreciate not having to listen to my laptop's abnormally loud mouse button's clicking sound all night.
The downvoting icon is wrong: http://cl.ly/image/111r3V1A0W0r
For the love of baby jesus why can't people get the 'H' right.
A quick glance at the patents informs me that patent #1 (CA 2283239) does not have anything to do with your app. Patent #2 (CA 2363556) MAY be applicable to your app, but its doubtful. As I am not a lawyer (nor do I play one on TV), You will want to contact a legal representative. But it appears to me that you are dealing with a patent troll. Good Luck!
My Hacker News looks like this:

http://cl.ly/image/1e061p3Q2U0U
http://cl.ly/image/0B1s3m1R1b1Y

I'm using a custom stylesheet, which you can find here:

https://gist.github.com/kballenegger/5022493

--

I forked this from something somebody posted here a while ago, but I cannot remember it. If anybody knows the source, I'd be more than happy to throw a comment in there for credit.
No reason it couldn’t be. I’ll do some code-tidying and put up a git repo for it.
Ruby parser here: https://gist.github.com/jm/5022483 Please fork and improve. :)
My understanding (source: most recent verge podcast) was that the touch screen doesn't support pinch to zoom - is that incorrect? I'd love to be wrong
Photo Interactive: The Civil War, Now in Living Color
Http://www.redtube.com/49151
Why would you want to hide that from an investor? Why is this guy raising a series A when he's already have these difficulties? Rather than stressing about raising money, he should put thought into what he is doing. Raising a series A when a person says "struggling and unsure of what we were doing" seems like it would only bring them up in greater strength in the future.
It can boot Linux but the trackpad and touchscreen doesn't work.

Again. Why wouldn't you buy a MacBook Pro that is usable out of the box ?
You might have to move your eyes left/right to read.

But it sure beats having to move your head.
A failed bruteforce attack on the EFI PIN lock of a MacBook Pro
Ouch, the smug, it hurts! Are you writing embedded code in your cloud utopia? There is more to life than just web apps, even today. Some of us still need computers with physical ports.
Urg. Off topic, but I dislike this perl/ruby tendency of calling hash tables hashes. When I see the word hash, I always think of a value (ie a hash code) and not a data structure. Why couldn't they call it a hash map, hash table, map, table, dictionary etc like all the other languages...?
That is my conclusion as well and I will be seeking legal help.

I thought that if there is anyone out there that dealt with or is dealing with the same issue, I could get some help.
"Firefox Abandons Standards, Will Soon Stop Honoring HTTP Specification, Throwing Away Valid Headers It Doesn't Like". Admittedly, I'm biased.
Agreed, but the problem is, it has been overused to the point that they have become nuisances. I really don't want to be a parasite, so I usually go disable abp on sites that I trust (which, ironically, makes all those "thanks for not using adblocker" messages on reddit rather counterproductive.)
How not to send invite emails
I got this email from a site just now, entirely unrequested.

Subject: [URGENT] Streem.io - Watch Movies & TV Shows Instantly!

Body: "Hey there,

One of your friends just invited you to Streem.io, a new service that lets you watch your favorite movies and TV shows anywhere, anytime. Streem lets you browse and watch movies and TV shows in our catalog from various providers, all for free. You can also add your own media content via upload or transfer it in through BitTorrent, cloud storage, or a URL to store and stream it instantly on any device, and share it all with your friends and family!

Sign up at www.streem.io today. We're also giving away $5,000 in cash prizes to the top people that refer their friends, so sign up, get your friends on board, and enjoy!

Thanks for your support,
The Streem Team

Unsubscribe <link>"

The mail didn't use a high priority flag, but nothing about this email is urgent in any fashion. You don't tell me which friend invited me, which makes it dubious that anyone actually did. Why is there an unsubscribe link for a single email? This implies you're going to spam me more.

Unfortunately it came through a forwarded email address, so I can't mark it as spam on that provider, only locally.

Please don't do this for your invites and startup mails.
you should see impress.js.. thats another good one
http://bartaz.github.com/impress.js/#/bored
Ask HN: What have you learned building a threaded comment system?
I'm building a threaded comment system for a web app I am working on and would like to tap into the community wisdom on best practices for making a comment system that works.

Technical implementation tips are of as much interest as the (social) mechanics that ensure high quality spam-free discussion.

The main examples I'm drawing from are HN and reddit, but you can only learn so much by reading their source code.

It's been a while since I've seen a thread on this, so I'll ask:

What have you learned building a threaded comment system?
Unlike TOML, most people are case insensitive.
I presume you mean the ”how the technology takes over most employment” part, rather than either of the dystopias (one poorly masquerading as a utopia) that are presented as a resulting false dichotomy?
You can find some people giving them on twitter: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23DesignerNews
Agile estimation is a waste of time
Let me go straight into my point that agile estimation is a waste of time given that if you are estimating the number of hours it will take for a user story to be completed. This is totally stupid and insane and only idiots will do it. The purpose of agile estimation is to estimate complexity and size of any given user story and it has nothing to do with actual hours......
I agree with that. 'map' or 'dictionary' are the best choices I think (or 'associative array', but why bring arrays into it). That's the interface, of which a hash table is just one possible implementation.
Depending on your budget, I'm a big fan of a commercial tool called PrinceXML, which consumes [html|xml]+css and produces PDF. All of the big self publishers accept PDF as one of their printing targets.

Of course, this means you're writing a book in HTML, which is either a huge win or an enormous loss, depending on who you are. But, given that it's HN, I figure there's a half decent chance this is right for you.

There's a free version you can try it out with; the commercial version is around five hundred bucks. In my opinion, totally worth it. YMMV.
Poorly implemented here, though a sound concept when done correctly.

Information Architects (the creators of iA writer) shared an interesting post [1] on responsive typography that you may find interesting. One rational for having smaller text on small viewports, in addition to saving space, is to adjust for the distance that most readers view content on their phones from. We tend to hold our phones closer to our eyes, sit farther from our desktops, and hold tablets some distance in the middle. Having smaller text on a phone therefore accommodates that. Trent Walton wrote a useful post on the subject as well [2].

1. http://informationarchitects.net/blog/responsive-typography-...
2. http://trentwalton.com/2012/06/19/fluid-type
At I got an internship at a Fortune 500, so it's possible.
I agree with you about iTunes 11. I was scared since I knew they were changing the look up dramatically, but I have to say after giving it a fair shake, I like it much better than the old one. The "up next" list is absolutely 100% better than the old way.

Now when I'm coding I put it on random, go through the list pruning away all the crap I'm not in the mood for (which takes about 1 or 2 minutes) and then I've got an hour or 2 of solid music that's random but vetted. It's great for setting up a nice zone.

I used to get yanked out of my zone every time something came on that I didn't want to hear (it's a small yank, but a yank nonetheless).
As proper nouns become more common, they first lose any capitalization in the middle of the word, and then finally capitalization of the initial letter. It's human language. It happens.
"YC has invested $8 million... more than 400 companies in over 30 markets."

Where have I seen that exact phrase before?

http://ycuniverse.com/ycombinator-companies
Unless Google has done a lot of work with WebKit then it is going to be a pretty awful experience. You only have to compare the native Google Maps with the web version to know that "touch" is poorly handled by browsers. It is an order of magnitude slower that apps which like it or not are the benchmark Google needs to compete against.
Another parser for Ruby is hiding over here: https://github.com/parkr/tock
This bit of ruby should take care of it

HashMap = HashTable = Map = Table = Dictionary = Hash

And if you're feeling adventurous,

Object.send :remove_const, :Hash
> and why you are sad to see it go.

not the GP, but I highly doubt it's going to go anywhere. Mozilla's decision is just going to accelerate the arms race into more and more esoteric ways of tracking you... I'd heard about evercookie, but tcp-level analysis was news to me.
Interesting, most of the cranky search stuff seems to come from the Ukraine or Russia. I've seen some Chinese activity but perhaps because we're a search engine [1] the Chinese government blocks us for their citizens.

Its probably not sustainable to just block the entire country long term though. You have to figure out a different way of figuring out folks who are real from folks who aren't otherwise you end up with really irritated users.

[1] blekko.com
Preprocessor information is absolutely necessary.

High-level, vague descriptions are not.

Instead, I'd have some indicators of maturity, complexity and such - year introduced, version number, lines of code, documentation quality (okay, the last one is subjective.)

Actively developed/maintained or not?

Author name?
Would this be considered legal?

[ [1,2], ["a", "b"] ]
A nix package specification can depend on a specific version/build of another package (such as a JS library), with the version being as specific as the md5 hash of its contents.
Can you outline the law a company or individual would be breaking if you pretended to sell something to someone and didn't charge them for it without giving a solid reason?

Given you didn't save their credit card, issue a receipt stating payment was received in cash, or accused them of a crime what exactly is the crime being committed here?

Perhaps more hoax than fraud?
It looks sort of similar to this:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...

But maybe that extension spawned from whatever you had seen.
NetBeans IDE 7.3 Released
# line 36
text.split("#").first

This will have trouble with a line like:

tweet = "TOML is #awesomesauce"

--

# line 43
array = $1.split(",").map {|s| s.strip.gsub(/\"(.*)\"/, '\1')}

You should recurse into coerce here, or you'll just lose types. (Also you're assuming arrays of strings.)

array = $1.split(",").map {|s| coerce(s) }

--

You're also not dealing with nested key groups. (eg. [servers.alpha]).

--

That being said, naïve string parsing is a terrible way to build a new markup language implementation. It's the reason the Markdown landscape is such a mess[1]. What this really needed is a formal grammar.

[1]: I actually tried to fixed that by writing a formal lexer & informal parser for Markdown in a side-project of mine[2]. It's not quite there yet, because for practicality reasons I wrote my own parser instead of a formal AST-generating parser.

https://gist.github.com/kballenegger/29dabe4b6e762ee221df

[2]: http://getmacchiato.com
I'll be the first to ask: whats wrong with JSON?
Actually Google Maps in IE10 with touch screen pretty well and I am assuming Chrome will handle it well if not better...
Even if they finally manage to register the 'python' trademark, I guess their project will be so severely boycotted that it won't stand a chance of succeeding. I think they've just found a way to get advertisement for free and they will finally give up with the trademark claim, but that's just a wild guess.

What I'd like to point out is that in many countries there is the concept of 'unregistered trademark':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unregistered_trademark

Quoting from the Wikipedia page:

They may however benefit from protection due to other features of the law in relation to trademarks, such as protection for unregistered marks in the United Kingdom resulting from Passing off law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passing_off

Passing off is a common law tort which can be used to enforce unregistered trademark rights.

I am not a lawyer and I cannot tell if the above applies to the current situation. I am just pointing it out just in case 'python' can be considered as an unregistered trademark (held by the Python Foundation) in the UK and thus get any benefits or protection from any local laws.

My 2 cents
imho, pretty much. you can do pretty much everything in ironpython, but i can't see you getting much support for it in a .net shop. the latest books for it are pretty old too, and overall it doesn't seem very active.

f# has lot's of pythonish elements anyway. and the clr bindings are better documented
Given that YC is essentially the "Harvard" of startup accelerators, I think that by analyzing how Harvard got to where it is today, we can gain a lot of insight into YC's success as well.

Not unlike YC, Harvard was also the first of its kind (oldest college in the US), which gives them a first mover advantage right off the bat. And then somewhere along the way, just like YC with Airbnb and Dropbox, Harvard too probably got "lucky" early on with several alums who became super rich and successful, who then started giving back to the Harvard community via generous donations of their money and time, which coupled with their first-mover advantage resulted in a virtuous cycle of success that no other university has been able to replicate since.

Smash cut to the present, and Harvard has a $32 BILLION war chest (endowment) and a network of alumni who go out of their way to ensure that the next generation of Harvard students can succeed as well.

Lastly, I think YC's small size has been essential to its success. I myself went to a very small liberal arts college (total student body of only ~2,000), and the small size allows for a level of intimacy and personal care that larger universities could never dream of. It also causes us to feel like underdogs and war buddies, and thus that much more willing to help other alums in order to keep growing and sustaining our small but precious community.

Oh and btw, it just so happens that pg got his Masters and PhD from Harvard. Coincidence? You tell me :P
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I love F# (I'm currently a contractor with the F# team in Microsoft Research), and I'm delighted to see people advocating its use. I prefer F# to C# by a wide margin. But C# is still a really well designed language, which makes it much harder for F# to gain wider traction than if it were competing primarily against a weaker language like Java.
Show HN: Top Statistically High Causes of Death for Programmers (CDC/NIOSH)
Conversat.io is a free WebRTC multi-user video chat app
conversat.io is a free video chat tool with no account, no signup, and no plugins. Just pick a room and meet people there.
Don't have time to work on it now, but it looks like you'll need to recurse while parsing arrays. Right now, only arrays of strings that don't contain commas are handled correctly.
Can't wait to see the end result.

This reminds me of a new project I'm working on called Leewh. It's based on Wheel and kinda has the same overall function, but I needed something to get my project rolling quickly and using .ini and JSON syntax separately felt... well... too square, I guess.

I figured I'll come up with something more well rounded.
> This is not just for startup founders.

The OP resonated quite strongly with me, and I am neither a founder nor (currently) an employee of a startup.

IMO, the struggle that is described here is inherently universal. It's shared by anyone who has to maintain a facade of success while facing intense insecurity (often financial).

Likewise, the emotions described will ring very familiar to anyone who suffers or has suffered with depression - regardless of triggers.

> My personal bank account & business accounts both overdrawn, tens of thousands of dollars in debt to family members and my credit cards maxed out or closed. I've had no cash in my pocket and a dwindling supply of food in the cabinet.

On a smaller monetary scale, that is in fact me at this very moment. Last week I was de-facto homeless (living in a $10/day rental car). I don't want to wax poetic about my mental state at the time, but it bordered on the worst.

I was eventually able to swallow my pride and confided in some close friends and family that I was tapped out financially, physically drained and psychologically in quite a dark place.

Knowing, viscerally, that I have a support network that is in the know about my situation and willing to back me up was very powerful. If / when I move past this particular time in my life, I know that I most likely could not have done it without them.

I think I used to view that as a sign of weakness and dependence. Perhaps it is, but that's not really something that concerns me any more.
Yes, and I think it's arrogance on the part of Wordpress (there I did it) folks to insist that everyone capitalize it in the prescribed manner. Especially since they weren't consistent from the get-go. They even went so far as to make Wordpress (trolol) itself filter content to be capitalized if someone tries using the lower case p. http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/07/08/lowercase-p-dan...
I would think that even for a static site you'd at least want to generate the index as part of the build process, not (like fullproof) do that on the client as well. Of course, for client-side apps that never touch a server and store user content in Local Storage or some-such, that's not really an option. I'd wager 99% of us don't have that problem, though. Still, kudos to the author, looks well thought-out.
> You're able to get old data back now in a way that you couldn't before... and can't on other systems.

VMS would like a word with you. :-)
> There should only be one way to do anything.

[...]

> There are two ways to make keys.

I guess I haven't had enough whiskey yet.
Source: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/surveillance/NOMS/icd-occ-fo...

Data is '84-'98.
Chrome and Safari both use WebKit and it handles it terribly.

So again. Unless Google has added something magical in recent builds of WebKit that hasn't yet made it to the iPad then it will equally be terrible.
1440x900 is just enough for me to use Sublime Text 2 in two column mode, or Xcode with the assistant editor. I do have to hide any sidebars for both to be usable.

I stand by earlier post for, say, a web browser or email client.
Also — we built this with SimpleWebRTC (http://simplewebrtc.com), which Henrik Joreteg wrote to cut through the complexity required to get up and running with WebRTC.
Hey I fixed the link. I think your skin def looks better than the default HN skin. You should pay some attention to how it adapts to different levels of zoom though. I really prefer the one I linked for this reason. Things like inline replies and tagging are just nice extras.
I thought it was funny that Google AdSense for Content decided to put up an add for "SugarDaddyForMe" on that page.
well, personally i use monodevelop(xamarinstudio) 4.0 and mono 3.0.3 in archlinux.

you need a fork of the fsharpbindings project
https://github.com/xamarin/fsharpbinding

have you tried using fsharpx from nuget? monodevelop has nuget support as of now.
https://github.com/squidge/monodevelop-nuget-addin/tree/xs-n...

I also just built fsharpx.core and fsharpx.http with monodevelop(right now) and it built fine for me.
There's a downvoting icon? I only see one up arrow. You must be special.
The README says not to mix data types because "that's stupid" (which I don't know if I agree with); but I don't know if that answers your question.

You have an array of array, which at that level, satisfies the spec. The children individually keep types contained.

That said, I'm going to assume the intent is to not allow that.
I don't like this, beyond the discussion if 3rd party cookies are good or bad, these measures are always for the worst.

Not long ago IE set DoNotTrack by default. What happened? Every single company that respected the user decision for DoNotTrack, stopped doing so since it wasn't the user, but a browser the one who decided that.

Long story short: All the effort done with DoNotTrack was wasted.

With this story, cookie tracking is far from perfection. It might be great for ad companies, might me useful for retailers and might be creepy for some users, but IMO is the safest way there's to date to keep the equilibrium. There are choices to be protected from cookie tracking and there's plenty of information.
The type of person who is arrogant while drunk is generally arrogant while sober as well ...
What is wrong with JSON? Everything already supports it.

JSON has two drawbacks: a lack of comments (although you could add "#" keys in relevant places) and no binary support (arbitrary conventions include base64) but this doesn't support binary anyway.
First try to get the contact info for a decision maker at the company (see if they have a "Team" or "About" or "About the Company" kind of page and then use Google on the names). Typically the administrator contact is going to be some sysadmin guy, but if all else fails you can contact the administrator email.

Some tips on negotiation: Make the first offer. Your first offer should be one that you would be absolutely overwhelmingly ecstatic to get. It shouldn't be too high as to make them reject you instantly, but it should be high enough that they'll make a counter offer (at a lower price). Remember, your goal is to get the highest price they're willing to pay.

Adjust your price based on 1)How big the company is (it's ability to pay) and 2)How common the two word name is + TLD.
A good two word .com can go for the tens of thousands. A less common two word .com can go for the thousands. Look at sedo.com (the domain marketplace) for a good idea of the kinds of prices you target.
Check out the github repo. I wrote a worker.js "polyfill" that's meant to emulate web workers for node. I want to apply this to the browser at some point but for now there are hard dependencies on Worker and URL.
You should have at least 500 points of karma to see it.