skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was expecting a load of manure, but... the technical data and information was actually very insightful. I would love to see a longer running historical revision of this, say from the late 90s til now. Once upon a time everything was static and monetization almost unheard of. Oh how far the web has come...
I personally live in London and love it, but if your main market is New York (for whatever it is you do) it seems sensible to be nearby.
Maybe we should have an HN poll for "best engineering team", rather than each startup claiming to be one.
I for one would vote for typesafe. Or precog. Pound for pound, there's more value per developer in those two companies than anywhere else.
I always thought that the fact that workers don't jam was one of the coolest little details of the game that made it so awesome! I never would have thought that it was basically an ugly, last-resort bugfix :)
The concern isn't that you are generating too much video -- you can always turn it off.

The concern is that everyone else all around you is generating too much information about everything they see. Think "The Dark Knight," the scene where Batman uses a whole bunch of passive cellphones to map out the city and the people in it. The NSA is already spending enormous amounts of money building giant data warehouses, and there have been some startlingly accurate demos of live facial recognition software. It's really not that farfetched, technologically.
Agreed. Except the common user likely doesn't even know it's enable or how to disable it. Thankfully, Firefox disables by default now.
> While Mozilla are pumping out stellar designs like this, Google are pushing crap like Native Client and their proprietary, binary-only Foxit Reader solution instead, complete with the hundreds of thousands of LOC of insecure C this entails. Rock on, Mozilla!

Why are you dumping on Google? Their browser has been able to handle PDFs for years (including forms!).
I'm a big fan of English suits, wish I had the money.

Here's a good example: http://tailgate365.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Ralph-Fien...
Pound for pound? Their programmers are productive and svelte?
City Supports Tech Startups “Made in NY”
You're lucky. They've made a lot of progress. The beta model really made my lumbago flare up.
The people who know to do that and further know how to do it aren't the bulk of the problem.
...and it displays your visited sites in a grand panorama on the canvas in a new tab, despite having asked for always private browsing.

It could be a regression of both the browser, and the unit test, which isn't such a good news.
"Linearized" PDFs have extra info up front to allow streaming and random access (via range requests).
One of the reasons Starcraft is interesting as an e-sport is because bugs like this have kept the game in racial balance for over a decade.

For example, the game was not designed to give mutalisks the ability to stack on top of each other. However, at some point in the early 2000s, it was discovered that when 11 mutalisks were grouped with 1 overlord, the mutas tended to stack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfqQYJzq7o0 . This meant that an attacking player could deal the damage of 11 units while only exposing the surface area of 1 of them. Using this technique, a pro gamer named July won the 3 OSL tournaments: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/July .

With respect to the path-finding behavior described in the article, there is a funny aspect the author doesn't mention: mining workers still collide with buildings while mining, just not other workers. This lead to a technique known as the manner pylon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmS2ghQyAYI . If a protoss player builds a pylon in their opponent's mineral line with great timing, they can trap their opponent's workers between the minerals and the pylon. This renders the workers useless until the pylon is killed.

In Starcraft-speak, "manner" means being respectful (such as saying "good game" when you lose). The manner pylon got it's name because it is so incredibly annoying to deal with, it will cause anyone to lose their manners.

For those of you who might be familiar with Starcraft, but not the competitive scene, you should know that pro players are executing these techniques at a rate of hundreds of APM (actions per minute): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4UTDudShDY
Chrome already has its own PDF viewer, presumably implemented in C or C++ or whatever, so they probably don't care about making it available for Chromium. Perhaps they bought the rights to the source code they based it on, and are unable to open source it.
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How about web browsers showing you graphics? Animated graphics? Videos? 3D graphics?
True, as with plain Adobe Reader. I spend a large part of my day reading .PDFs, both in and out of my browser, and Firefox became a much less effective "power tool" when they took the liberty of disabling the Reader plugin. I couldn't care less how long it takes to load a .PDF -- snappy rendering and navigation is everything, and you don't get that from JavaScript.

It took a surprising (to me) amount of hacking to re-enable native .PDF rendering. As far as I'm concerned, pdf.js is one of those increasingly-common cases where Mozilla has unilaterally decided that it knows Just What I Need, and followed up by attempting to impose it without offering me a choice.
His letter shows the classic signs of someone uncomfortable expressing himself in words. Reading his letter is like watching someone ice skate for the first time -- all the expected motions are there, but without any familiarity or sense of style.
Thanks - so you aren't surreptitiously flying to prospect's towns and coincidentally running into them?
> When you are so different there is no frame of reference to figure life out.

I can relate to this. As I spend time withdrawn from society (including cybercultures like reddit), my views distance from everyone else's, and it becomes harder to relate to people.

I appreciate Hacker News because people here tend to be unusually receptive to independent thought.
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Lots of people have had the mistaken impressin that Glass magically overlays your entire vision--see all the breathless posts about ad banners being automatically rendered onto your cereal boxes. Seems to me that the video is about your view with Glass, how it's just a little screen in the corner, and what the UI looks like.
I've tried the official Github Windows GUI interface and still found it fairly confusing.
A fair point, but in practice I get fellow engineers trying to quote the sequence numbers at me.
Summary: "I'd rather pay slave wages."

Of course he would. Of course, the French union workers might be a bit too far on the other end of the spectrum.
In what sense is it a YC clone, other than being an accelerator?
There has never been a successful society of an serious complexity that had law that could be codified in a form where one person could understand them all. In feudal England prior to the ascension of the common law courts, instead of law you had power: the King (acting through representatives) or lower lords would adjudicate disputes and regulate society.

Saying "we have too many laws--nobody can know them all at once" is like saying "Linux has too many lines of code--nobody can understand it all at once." The complexity is unavoidable. You can shift it around, but you can't get rid of it.
This is a startup that's trying to apply new materials (think high-tech athletic wear) to dress clothes: http://ministryofsupply.com/

So far they have some dress shirts.
Jawbone Acquires Mobile Health Startup Massive Health In Big Talent Acquisition
Very good comment. This open letter is copied in every right wing economic blogs as a demonstration that unions are killing companies, when really no OECD country can compete with China or India for low wages.

The big public rant about how bad things are in the factory looks just like a large media spin to justify the closure of the factory.
The page used to be relatively static, a bit outdated, not as intuitive as it could be, and with a design that was aging. Her explanation is perfect for conveying what they've focused on changing without dwelling on the old status.
That seems to be what they do, in my experience.
Normally I wouldn't detract from someone's opinion of something I wrote by responding to summaries. I believe people should be allowed to judge for themselves whether opinions are accurate and when authors jump in defensively it's a slipper slope to derailing the conversation. However, your summary is factually misleading. You imply I was physically abused which I was not. Hopefully my article doesn't give that impression, I didn't mean to do so. I don't have foot wounds. They're bible cysts, basically fluid that leak from my joints into my feet. Here is a quick wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganglion_cyst. I'll leave it up to others to judge the rest of your summary.
The page is dynamic and fresh = the content is changing and up-to-date.

Intuitive = easy to use, especially important for Yahoo's demographic

Beautiful design = nice to look at.

I think that sentence covers the redesign pretty well and isn't just "buzzword soup."
My personal experience has been similar. When a group conversation peters out, its easy for a lot of people to pull out their phones instead of continuing the conversation - and when one person pulls it out, everyone else does as well.

It definitely seems more noticeable among the ~17-18 age group than ~20-25 (20 here but I had an odd childhood and behavior patterns like this were explicitly discouraged.)

Good news is that not everyone does this.
Java applets are necessary for folder uploads. Right now, only 1 browser supports folder uploads, and that's Google Chrome. All others allow single or multi-file uploads, but not folders. This is a HUGE problem for some medical and document-management use cases. Until folder uploads work natively in other browsers (IE7+, FF, Safari), applets are not only necessary, but essential.
Nobody except the German tax authorities. As a company in Germany you have to hand in your tax statements electronically. In order to do so you have to go through some weird Applet-based authentication process.

The sooner Oracle axes Applets the sooner the German tax authorities will have to axe their completely messed up software as well. This will take some time, though.

While I completely agree with the underlying sentiment, you can hardly say Applets aren't used anymore.
Impressive piece of Javascript, but it's quite heavy on my CPU. I will continue using Evince for the time being.
Am I missing something here?

Square Readers
free [1]

Heckler Design WindFall iPad Stand
$129.99 (free shipping) [2]

APG Vasario 1616 Cash Drawer
$102.18 (free shipping) [3]

I don't understand why I would pay $66.83 for the convenience of having these items shipped to me in a pretty box.

[1]: https://squareup.com/reader
[2]: http://hecklerdesign.com/windfall/
[3]: http://www.amazon.com/APG-Vasario-VB-1616-MultiPRO-interface...
I'm confused by this comment. What change would you expect? What would the benefit be? (Just interested.)
Actually, PDF files can be optimized for streaming: http://acroeng.adobe.com/wp/?page_id=27

It's covered in Annex F of the PDF spec: https://wwwimages2.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/pdf...
Your final sentence is cruel and out of line.
I watched parts of the first Mojam, it was educational!

No Notch coding this time though?
I assume that it is not the laws that are copyrighted but this concrete representation of them - the same way, say, Beethoven's 5th symphony is not copyrighted but recordings of its performances are - to the performers, not the composer.
On Rebranding: The Evolution of a Startup Identity
> What language would Google Glass apps be made in?

In principle, you could write in any language, but you need to realize that the Google Glass system has multiple aspects -- the local code, and the code that provides content from a distant server. The latter aspect has more flexibility as to language.

> I am currently introducing myself to programming and would love to build apps for a piece of hardware like that.

Given that, it might be better to focus on grasping the basic of programming before planning any specific application of that skill in the future.
It's the same thing over and over. When people like two things, they tend to want to see connections between them. Max Weber liked protestantism and capitalism, so he wrote "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism". iuguy likes Northen Europe and hard work, so he posted that collection of stereotypes. Redditors like atheism and science, and to hear them tell it, the two things are basically one and the same.

It's just a very basic psychological mechanism of likes and dislikes, prejudice and favoritism, but masquerading as something intellectual.
Yeah, the one I get is:

"Me and 'X' have been talking and we think you should do 'Y'"

Great, now I have groups of people talking about me.
Obviously a one-off is always going to be source-able from second hand bits and pieces. But if you need to build a these on a regular basis and you need to maintain them then uniformity and slightly higher cost are not an issue.

Nice deal though!
Nobody's ever done a really decent job of the miniaturization before, though. Generally a wearable computer involved an additional enclosure in a backpack or on the belt. The "best" I've seen that's all in one piece is the Golden-i (http://www.mygoldeni.com/home/) and just look at that damn thing.
Never used Glass, but I'm inclined to suspect that it's the Apple Newton: ahead of its time, ground breaking, probably the ancestor of many things to come, but not here yet.

What's missing: full viewports instead of just the top corner thing, probably better resolution, and most importantly cheap ubiquitous wireless broadband. I am not paying another $60/month to have Glass in addition to a smartphone, etc. Pretty much all progress in computer networking and networked devices depends on breaking the carrier oligopolies.
I'd love to see more discussions of high density storage config. Perspective is good.
While there's some truth to that, you also don't achieve success by being penny wise and pound foolish, which that kind of thinking often leads to.
Are you shitting me? That's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard in a discussion pertaining to copyright. Ever. I'm not even going to feign apology that's how terrible of a statement it is. I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul.

I'm going to copy and paste a block of text from "A Economic Analysis of Copyright Law" by Richard Posner. He's a highly respected judge amongst tech geeks at the moment due to his publicly declared war against patents. Please, please read this entire block of text.

"A distinguishing characteristic of intellectual property is its "public good" aspect. While the cost of creating a work subject to copyright protection—for example, a book, movie, song, ballet, lithograph, map, business directory, or computer software program—is often high, the cost of reproducing the work, whether by the creator or by those to whom he has made it available, is often low. And once copies are available to others, it is often inexpensive for these users to make additional copies. If the copies made by the creator of the work are priced at or close to marginal cost, others may be discouraged from making copies, but the creator’s total revenues may not be sufficient to cover the cost of creating the work. Copyright protection—the right of the copyright’s owner to prevent others from making copies—trades off the costs of limiting access to a work against the benefits of providing incentives to create the work in the first place. Striking the correct balance between access and incentives is the central problem in copyright law. For copyright law to promote economic efficiency, its principal legal doctrines must, at least approximately, maximize the benefits from creating additional works minus both the losses from limiting access and the costs of administering copyright protection."

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/IPCoop/89land1.html
> France is a hard working country. It's not where it is today just because there is an Eiffel tower and great bread.

I'm not saying that it isn't. Sorry, I was commenting on etymological and cultural differences. Most of the French people I've worked with have a very different view of work compared to most of the British and German people I've worked with. My thoughts on this are that it's cultural, and that the etymology may correlate with this.
...and made it one of the most interesting units in multiplayer. In programmer-land, where all abstractions should be pure and elegant, the carrier (as implemented in SC1) may be abhorrent, but this is irrelevant because the customers (i.e. the players) loved it.

Some of the quirky behavior of the SC1 carrier was even re-implemented into the upcoming SC2 expansion at the behest of fans. Why? Because it made the unit fun.
Seriously ? I mean exactly how dull and boring do you want this to be. Given how many people worked on it, are impacted by it and what is represents surely a bit of excitement isn't asking too much.
This kind of answer is totally unnecessary. Only because you can't understand someone that's different from you and has different problems, that does not mean you're allowed to ridicule and make fun of their situations.

This kind of abusive behavior is the root of many suicidal (and homicidal) tragedies.
be a expert of or be a novice I am ok with both but dont fake being a expert and cast aspersion when you dont know the jackshit like "regenerative braking"
I believe the security feature is the ability to disable Javascript code that is included within the pdf file. A pdf reader implemented in Javascript is perfectly capable of doing that.
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I think it's more sad to expect others to divine the solution to your problems when they have no point of reference; I think it's sad when expressions of love and concern are rebuffed with a dismissive, "But you don't understand."

Of course poor Aunt Sharon doesn't understand. And no, the onus isn't on you to make her understand. Unless you want her to...in which case, it may take some effort on your part to frame your emotions to her experience.

Even then you may only meet part way. Which you'll have to accept, but not as a failure.
Imagine what happens when they integrate glass with their upcoming x-phone. Win!
It's been its own entity since 1973. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_Home_Rule_...
Sorry, I was thinking of werken (this is the bit where you tell me I'm wrong here too - sorry, I only studied German in high school which was a long time ago).
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That is a good case since customers who typically need a datawarehouse aren't just going to upload data once... they probably are going to upload frequently.
you can smash my head with a hammer (preferably double clawed), but I can't help myself:

php -S localhost:8080

10 chars typing effort spared, and it also supports ...PHP :P
Not sure they can be considered fait accompli necessarily because they are "works". The rule [1] they can't be copyright by virtue of what they are seems more compelling.

[1] http://macwright.org/2013/02/14/the-law-is-public-domain.htm...
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You could, you know, take it off your head. Or exit the house-hunting application.
Look at http://www.cppgm.org/news.html:

2013-02-22: 10,000 enrolled. Programming Assignment 1 Posted. Enrollments Extended:

They also have a time machine.
I've read about that, and to be fair religion has a major cultural impact but I'm not sure how significant it all is in the grand scheme of things (given changes in religion over the years, reformations etc.).
JavaScript Module Pattern (2010)
The first example it mentions, wheretogetmovingboxes.com, has expired:
http://wheretogetmovingboxes.com/

I was wondering, though, how it did for the search "where to get moving boxes"...its PageRank was 1...I'm assuming that with only 300 monthly uniques (compared to the number of people who must ask that question on a daily basis), it didn't do well.

Yet it made $70 a month out of just 300 visitors? That's a pretty high conversion rate.
You know nothing about me or her besides the one anecdote I've shared, and you've concluded that I have a superiority complex and you're giving me relationship advice? Why do arguments on HN always devolve into baseless personal attacks?

Forget your edit, I saw what you had written earlier.
> Perhaps because you can do the same thing in SVN?

And, until (apparently) recently, if you make a mistake SVN will "trash your local copy rather badly" which isn't quite the same thing.
Chrome's PDF plugin is closed source, and written in C.
It is very useful, but not free as in FOSS.
Not if she's a WoW player...
I agree the problem you mention is important but you really shouldn't derail the important point of the parent to rail about your important, somewhat-related but distinct issue. Write a blog, submit it here (with yet another throwaway account if you feel the need). Access to legal codes and excess proliferation of legal codes both matter, both should be talked about and both benefit from avoiding cross talk.

I had thought Hacker News was smart enough to avoid letting even the most intelligent, well articulated thread derailment to get to the top of its pages.
How Bossing People Around Backfires
So I thought it was an interesting look at what I'd consider 'second tier' web sites. But really they are filling the role that is the 'enthusiast' magazine or newsletter.

What this analysis misses is a storefront for a painting company. That is all about lead capture and closing the deal. Harder to quantify. Well, easier for the store but harder for third parties to quantify.

So clear business models for client relationship management and review type editorial. Less clear on 'newsy' type sites or reference sites. Game/App as web service seems pretty clear too as a model.
Interesting read, though I just have one minor complaint about your style of writing... Foot notes after every 3-5 paragraphs is somewhat jarring and hampers the flow of reading your story. I suggest moving all of the foot notes to the bottom of the post and let the reader read them if they want to.

Just my $0.02.
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I learned this lesson the hard way.

Imagine two competitors. Mine got to market first, it had a better feature set, and was more similar to what the consumer was used to (based on similar products on other platforms).

But a competitor shows up. Their product had less features and was "different" to the established things. But their product was easier to use, it had better marketing, and people just flocked to it.

It literally took six months for the competitor to match my offering in terms of features but ultimately none of that matters because if the marketing is good and the UI is easy to use people will just work around everything else/put up with it.

By the time they matched my feature set the writing was already on the wall. Even if I had released an update matching their UI it wouldn't have made a damn bit of difference since they already had the reputation/user-base.
The 'jango' is silent? I'll see myself out.
Saber Blast Lets Brands Team Up To Form A Marketing Alliance
I've always wondered who gets to write the software that syncs traffic signals. Seems like it would be a really fun job.