skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However people who are just learning about programming electronics don't really want to have to figure out the joys of GPIOA3 being shared with the ADC when trying to attach an LED.

The Arduino and similar products (microcontrollers right down to PICs) seem interesting and appealing, but I'd much rather approach the issue from an EE perspective, and the thought of learning to do this like in the article - with the chip itself on a breadboard, seems much more appealing.

It's just a very intimidating space, and I have no idea how to approach it iteratively without jumping straight in to something like the Arduino, which presumably hides a lot of the complexity. I've looked at Sparkfun and would love to understand enough to start using some of the cool looking components on it.

Do you have any insight or suggestions for a path to learning this?
I think we're all upset more about the attitude and approach of how LV went about this.

You can't patent Colors / Helvetica Neue / Rounded Corner Squares. It just reeks of tactics similar to patent trolls.

I think a while back there was blog theme used that was similar to Svbtle, but there was no take down notice or such nonsense. It generated a decent discussion and conversations about something that's too close in style.

Look at @layervault on Twitter, they are just getting destroyed right now. Even by designers, their main target audience.

If they went along the lines like 'Hey, this is pretty similar to our design. We think it's cool we inspired you but can you deviate it from us a bit more or re-name the project to like Layervault Bootstrap?' I mean why not - have your name in the same conversation as Twitter Bootstrap!

A total botched and missed opportunity.
It makes me happy that Designer News has (what I consider at least) noticeably inferior design to HN.

Have we established exactly which elements are allegedly infringing copyright? I've gone though both websites and I don't see it...
It looks like nginx will soon have SPDY v2/v3 support built-in[0] (rather than having to recompile) which should definitely help to boost support as well.

[0]: http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/roadmap
I admit I wasn't aware of the quality of his work or his actual productivity. I had heard from others that he was good but not special, and when he finally left we didn't feel like we lost a critical player.

The things that made us think he wasn't productive were: 1.) when he emailed the company saying he was sick and then show up at the company party later that day (more than once); 2.) his solicitation of others to watch non-work-related videos with him during business hours; 3.) his inability to face up to the fact he was soliciting others to watch non-work-related videos with him during business hours.
A Hundred Thousand True Fans Isn’t Enough?
And you should still not focus on them! That is a statistical fallacy.

Improve the system, and everything improves. Don't focus on outliers—they will always exist. You'll be killing individual ants when you really want to go after the queen.
You can because you’re still using logging if you want. You only use a different ‘Handler’ which writes your entries to stderr instead of into a file. That’s the advantage of logging’s modularity.

In the examples, I set the log level to INFO for instance.
Couldn't you just wash the eggs before use?
I really really like LayerVault's style a lot and there's no doubt that Flat-UI is influenced by it, but it's not as if LV created this in a vaccuum. Dribbble (which is my main way of watching design trends) has had this stuff pretty common over the past three years.

They look visually similar. As well as dozens of other pieces/sites.
This is the attitude that puzzles me. I install Debian. I launch X, with no configuration. My WM starts in the optimal resolution. Sound, which has for years been a major pain point, pretty much just works; Pulse and ALSA may suck, but I've used both with great success and no fiddling of drivers

As for upgrade issues... I apt-get upgrade weekly because things are getting fixed. OS X is still shipping the same out-of-date copy of BSD tools they've been using for years.
Plus that very bad sounding situation, even if true, was not addressed at all by this new policy.
Yes, we need to create a new DN. LayerVault really has proven they are not the right entity to be running it.
Or now you have to pass the Klingon mic around so that the remote worker would hear properly

There are other issues with remote work, but honestly the company should spring for a decent phone. A few hundred bucks is more than enough, and your business surely has other needs for a decent speakerphone.
Cisimple releases RESTful/real-time API w/ Pusher channels
Maybe if you compare them side by side, I don't know. When I first saw UI Kit however I immediately thought LayerVault had 'open sourced' their design as it looked so similar. I later learned the kit was created by a 3rd party.
LayerVault discussion - https://news.layervault.com/stories/1992-layervault-whats-up...

http://i.imm.io/YnAs.png haha :)
They should be, but they are not. And don't get me started on the ensuing hell if you are trying to share your desktop via WebEx or Lync.

My favorite exchange at the meeting couple of weeks ago (with a remote sales rep).

Meeting organizer: Just press the Start button and then type...
Sales Rep: I don't see any Start button.

This went on for 5 minutes with 20 people in the meeting waiting around. Turned out, sales rep got a new Windows 8 laptop - no Start button.
Posted a Show HN [1] a couple of hrs ago for mine:

Habit Domino, the simplest habit forming app that could possibly work
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simpthings...

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5331560
I've certainly experimented with iTerm2, but, except for radically better copy+paste performance of large blocks of text, nothing about it really pulled me in. Perhaps I should spend more time with it.

To your points - Tabs are cmd+shift { }, which feel very natural on my keyboard given the location of cmd+shift - you 'chord" thumb+little finger and then switch windows with your right hand (or maybe it's just entered my finger DNA).

Windows Switching is the OS X standard Cmd+`

PageUp/Page down are just your standard Fn+Up/Down - but, I'll admit I just normally use the touch pad it's so fast, particularly with two+finger drag + acceleration.

The loss of the middle put-on would probably be painful - but I've never had one, so no huge impact to me personally. (Copy/Paste are, once again, touch pad reflexes that I do constantly).

But - with all that said - I really should spend more time with iTerm2 - lots of people rave about it. Time to give it another try.
> Flat-UI doesn't seem to have any assets that mirror anything on LayerVault's.

I would say that is the issue in a nutshell. LayerVault is claiming they are the exclusive rights-holders, yet absolutely nothing in Flat-UI is the same as anything on LayerVault's public site.

The only possible angle remaining would be if LayerVault had a bunch of these elements behind their paywall... something tells me that's not the case.

Edit: Alright, I admit the colour Turquoise is used on both pages. Still, I'm fairly confident turquoise boxes (of differing shapes!) are not copyrightable.
Why The New SHIELD Bill Can't Stop Patent Abuse
They've latched onto a throw-away issue for some cheap goodwill. They are proposing to permit unlocking outside of service contract terms and limits. This causes some discomfort for their telco buddies, but it is relatively minor, and the telcos continue to receive other goodwill from the Administration and Congress that far outweighs this.

And, this comes at a time when Congress et al. are effectively doing squat about the sequester and many other more significant, and/or time critical, issues.

I have a completely cynical opinion of this latest "action" by the Administration and Congress. It is entirely self-serving. They are doing you no favors; rather, they are simply attempting to buy some cheap goodwill.
I sit next to the team that built this, and work with them nearly every day. They are every bit as awesome as the dropdown would suggest, and you should definitely email Chad about working with them if you are interested in projects like this.
Always wise words from Micah. Thanks for contributing!!
Could a site have a policy where if you issue a DMCA takedown for something on the site they drop your content and ban you?

It's sort of like the logic of GPL.
Don't pretty much all launches have insurance? The rate of failure is high enough that it seems necessary unless you are a gambler.
Ask HN: Per Page Print Cost with a Color Laser Printer?
Any idea how much it works out at to print a page using a colour laser printer? I want to print out 5,000 articles featuring a color picture.
First of all, "getting away" with something by relying on someone else to know what you don't know but need to use is hardly a virtue. If someone wants to work like that, to each his own. The problem I have is people telling the next generation that since you can "get away" without math, that it isn't important to take it very seriously as a programmer.

Second of all, like you said, you can get the "hack" done without math. I would say the less hacks you have to use in your programs the better, and the best practice is to code at a high enough level of generality that you don't need any hacks at all. Without math, so much time is spent (or wasted) tinkering around, and you don't often end up with the optimal solution. Whereas a strong math background lets you skip all that tinkering, because you are able to properly plan a solution before you even write a single line of code.
I see no reason why hackers and designers can't mix :)
I don't know if any progress gets made in this debate. Its an interesting Rorshak test scenario.

My own opinion is that managing teams might mean that some folks are remote, and it might mean that they aren't, but the goal is the mission of the team and if you're all aligned on that then you working out specific communication or productivity problems is a lot easier, for everyone.

That said, there are people who make it their goal to work as little as possible and not get fired. Some folks are really good at it. Sometimes I've felt that if an individual put as much effort and thought into their engineering as they did on creative ways to game the system they would be a lot more productive. There are also folks who are conflicted about their goals, they are working because it pays a salary and perhaps has benefits, but they are really passionate about something else like a musical career or one guy I knew was trying to be a chef.

Generally though if you've signed up to manage someone, that includes understanding what they are working on and their work habits with respect to the rest of the team. Understand that while your manager might ask you to do your job better you can also ask them to do their job better. It is completely legit to tell your manager that you're bothered by folks slacking off or being twits.
I don't know anything about the situation at Yahoo, but in any company of 14,000 people, I find it hard to believe inter-team/department tension is based on objective reality.

e.g. If sales and engineering don't get along, engineering will tend to believe sales is always taking advantage of sleazy junkets and sales will tend to believe engineering is playing games all day, regardless of the reality. [1]

So removing perks from one or both feuding groups can hardly be expected to address any underlying problems, real or imagined.

[1] Those situations are basically the adult version of the infamous Robber's Cave Study.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robber%27s_Cave_study#Robbers_c...
I like the way how Github handles DMCA requests by the way, everything's out in the open, including the lame claims people come up with.
Toronto’s population overtakes Chicago
I wanted to share this with you guys because it's taken around 3 years of reading HN to really convince myself to quit my job and build my a business with my friends
That's 163 vs 486 characters, so, as I expected you'd need about three times the amount of code to do the same thing in C++.

And just look at the difference in readability/simplicity. I can explain the Python code to my 12 year-old cousin, the C++ version though...
You're totally right. Compiles for aosp add up quick when testing or building for multiple devices. Even cyanogenmod's (the largest group) nightly automated builds are done on bare metal servers.
Email exchange between Steve Jobs and James Murdoch
Or 'open smb://...' from the terminal.

open works with loads of protocols, not just files, for example 'open vnc://host' works out of the box.
I was thinking exactly the same, but also, wouldn't the current employees afraid to be fired? They are not founders after all.
Great game! Played to level 5 on your site, heading to download it onto iPhone now, for more playage later.

Without having looked yet, what is your revenue model, if there is one? Is the plan to release this for free, build an audience, a name, get feedback and all that - to go bigger later with a new game?
yes, chrome on iOS is unsable because of this. I'd love to use Chrome more, but even lightweight js sites are tediously slow on chrome/ios
Any time I see someone that thinks they can put conciousness into words, and they start off by saying "Consciousness is just..." I know that person has no clue.
It's been a while since I played with Putty - and i"m not near a windows system to do the quick compare contrast - but the rapid resizability of windows and the re-wrapping of text seemed to have been an issue in my memory. I seem to recall that they always inherited the god-awful windowsOS context for windows, so I couldn't just resize windows - had to go through the WindowOS environment.

Terminal.App has a wonderful and instant resizing capability. And it's integration with the MacBook Pro/Air's touch pad is, really, second to none.
Alan Turing & A Queer History of Computing
LayerVault copyrighted turquoise color? :)) so funny
The reason why we started to get annoyed with him because the company party was announced after he had emailed in sick, and then he decided to show up. I think the fact that he could work from home laid bare his douchebag self, and yes that was why he was annoying.

I neglected to mention that the company eventually decided to make it a policy to not email the entire company about working from home. This made him much more tolerable. :-)
This certainly corresponds to me personally. I used to put off testing, thinking I'd have more time later, but then I'd add "just one more" feature before doing testing, over and over again. The list of tests I needed to write would grow until it seemed overwhelming, making me somewhat depressed thinking about all the testing I still needed to do. Since shifting to TDD, I get into the habit of writing tests before writing code, and the depressing test-related feelings are gone, which makes me a much happier programmer.
Oh dear. Now I have to stick with Twitter Bootstrap.
This needs to be the top comment here, rather than people insinuating that LV called for a DMCA takedown because 'they look alike'
I'm a little sad that Marissa seemingly doesn't seem to get incentives. Your people are probably not coming in likely because the company is not providing a positive environment. To speculate after a number of set of layoffs, getting mediocre raises with no correlation to effort, cutbacks on everything, no upward mobility, etc etc you end up with a bunch of employees that got gouged too many times. (Ive never worked at Yahoo but worked at a couple of companies that are where they are now so this is my own guess). The problem for an employee in this sort of environment is that in a low morale workplace you will end up being basically abused and taken advantage of if you show up with a smile on your face ready to tackle the company's issues.

So what's the dumbest (and easiest) thing for a manager to do when morale sucks... try to force you to be happy and productive which is essentially what Marissa is going to do just like any other clueless CEO. IMHO she should have handled this very differently. If you want people to show up give them a reason to or just fire them - you cant make an already demoralized person happy again by taking away an incentive to stay with you.
Three Things Men Can Learn From Women in the Workplace
I really don't know of anything comprehensive. Cypherpunks was actually a mailing list, and I believe you can download full archives of it. One of the big part's he's referring to is Phil Zimmerman creating PGP, and I'd bet you can find some history about its legal troubles. Stories about RSA code on a t-shirt to protest the export bans would be another notable cypherpunk moment that got press. The EFF breaking DES with deepcrack in the 90's was also a cypherpunk project.

There may well be a comprehensive history of the movement out there, but I haven't heard of one. He might know of a good one, he's @moxie
(I do product at CropUp.)

For now we're focused on physical products, which come with a couple of challenges sellers of digital products usually don't have to worry about, like taxes, fulfillment, returns/refunds, etc. Our goal is to provide a product that equips sellers with everything needed for selling online and to make it real simple, so that they can focus on making their products and don't have to worry about selling them.
Micah, thanks for writing such a open post. We need more of this sort of open dialog in our industry. We have to push through the 'killing it' mentality that is too common now and start to have the type of dialog that keeps our community strong and lets all of us help each other when we're struggling and let's us reach out to one another when we're stuck.
Well done. I love that you allow users to try out the game on your site first. I wasn't initially inclined to download the app, but after trying the game I was hooked.
"Unique_ptrs are a total game changer"

You meant that a linear type system is a total game changes. Unique_ptrs are an ugly hack to emulate a linear type system in an inadequate language.
this works too :)
For the box that shows a random service, I'd recommend just making it sequential. When it randomly comes back to a service I've seen before, I assume that I've seen all the services.

For example, I got: YouTube, Tumblr, YouTube, YouTube, Twitter
^this.

They have proven to be an closed elitist circle and they go against the web openness nature of the web and development.
Really cool project, I backed! I love colorful socks, but it's always hard to balance between h&m cheap socks that last 2 cleanings, or my favorite socks from Pink, but being 30$ a pair, I keep them as gift ideas from others...
hopefully you'll bring quality :)
Maybe they own a few hex codes.
The best place I've seen QR codes is on the tube.

Because hey, I'mma scan this QR code, and then remember about it when I'm topside.
so disappointing when our generation(s) act to limit the Internet. LayerVault please stop, we really dig ur stuff.
Vine Takes Early Lead In Video Market Over Viddy, Socialcam And Others
For my startup the answer to that is while I can't afford the rockstar. If you are bootstrapping then you are likely pretty budget conscious and it makes better practical sense to hire an intern or apprentice in this situation. I've actually took kindly to the idea of hiring people who are worse then me due to lack of experience and making an effort to teach them what I know. The downside is that eventually if they become better then me and leave I will have lost my investment, but at least I made an impact for them and I like to tell myself that for most people that is something that transcends financial gain so I'm also investing in karmic opportunities that I'm not aware of yet.
Reply from LayerVault - https://news.layervault.com/stories/1992-layervault-whats-up...
How much would you say you knew about your game before you quit your job? By which I mean, had you sort of started on it before leaving?
The father of all men is 340,000 years old
Ugh. Biz people can be really bad at this, because they think everyone has Powerpoint.

Once when I was remote, I specifically arranged before the meeting with one coworker to set up a kibbutz session (kibbutz is an expect-script that works a lot like screen, and screen may well have worked, too) showing my terminal, and she was hooked up to the projector, so I could visually walk everyone through my code.
WebRTC Working Group Charter extended for two more years (until Feb 28 2015)
Really glad I downloaded Flat UI yesterday before this crap started 'coz I'm gonna be using it for a project this weekend.

Fortunately I only wanted the CSS. If an illustration was stolen (which seems unlikely, or at least it wasn't done with designmodo's knowledge), that won't affect me since I'm not using any of them.
This.

I don't see why you'd spend hours writing a system utility to close apps on a Mac that provides a perfectly easy to use keyboard shortcut.
And here's a reply from Allan:
https://news.layervault.com/stories/1992-layervault-whats-up...

Looks like the pitchforks are out over on HN.

It was pretty straightforward. Our reaction was "Cool, a flat UI theme" to "Wait, this looks familiar" to "Wait, are those our illustrations?".

I contacted the designmodo people over email, because that's the right way to handle this. The owner was being stubborn at first and refused to admit wrongdoing. At that point, I submitted the DMCA request. Eventually, he removed the most blatant icons which (in my eyes) is an admission of guilt.

They even managed to kinda lift the old DN icon :) http://imgur.com/3zoKuvH

If you have some intimiate knowledge of LayerVault's UI (which their designer apparently does), the similarities are a bit more than striking. That's not a huge issue until you release everything together - the icons, the colors, the UI elements, whatever.

We give a lot of our stuff away for free. We put a lot of our projects on cosmos.layervault.com, we write about interesting concepts we've come up with and include the code on our blog, whatever. This isn't about thinking we own "Flat Design" or being mad that there's some other design out there with a similar aesthetic.
Trademark infringement and copyright infringement are different things. The DMCA only deals with copyright.

Plus, it is actually fairly difficult to trademark a color.
We might want to see if they're actually trolls first.

While I know it's pretty de rigueur on HN to assume that anyone who issues a DMCA takedown is evil/a troll/an idiot who doesn't understand the internet, it doesn't mean that some of them aren't being filed because their copyright is actually being violated.

Until there's more evidence either from LayerVault that DesignModo has used their assets, or from DesignModo that they haven't - something beyond DesignModo just shouting "they're lying!" in any case, perhaps it's best to withhold judgement for the time being.
I am not the OP (read the usernames). In fact I don't have a problem with iPhoto at all since I never do photo stuff (don't worry I have issues with just about every other aspect of OS X). I simply wanted to point out that if he had a bad experience with iPhoto then it is fine for him to criticize Mac OS X. Especially considering that dealing with photos is a pretty basic thing for a user to do now adays, and that iPhoto comes with every single mac, and will automatically launch as soon as you plug in a camera.

I believe you are well aware that you are being disingenuous by treating iPhoto as some sort of unrelated third party application that you have no idea why anyone would bring up out of be blue in a discussion about OS X. Who cares if its "non essential", most of the stuff in OS X is completely non-essential (ahem dashboard, photo booth, even mail considering most people use webmail).
How about you look into the issue rather than making bold comments with no basis.

https://twitter.com/Allan/status/309346292902014976 https://twitter.com/Allan/status/309350351054716929