skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't totally buy the innovation of it at first either, but I think beyond a fun social platform, I think it offers a really interesting platform for generating "real" discussions or feedback. For example, a company could use something like this to host a Q&A with management, or for a focus group, etc. In other words, I could see this replacing some of the application for Survey Monkey by having an interactive yet still anonymous way for people to have a frank discussion. Who knows, maybe parents and teachers could talk with their kids, even! :)
Interesting. I kept wanting to rotate the cube in your game. Nice to see it in the 3d-logic game the other commenter mentions. Do you plan to add that?
Git & Markdown for legal and government documents could get very interesting.

Markdown extensions for inline change-indications may be part of the puzzle as well:

http://criticmarkup.com/users-guide.php
You probably got downvoted because you just listed this bug without offering any type of proof that this bug actually happened.
Awesome. I was just commenting to our lawyers the other day how badly the legal industry needs better version control for documents.

The existing paradigm is to pay associates $300/hr to pass redlined word documents back and forth or markup docs by hand during phone calls / meetings and then give the hand marked up docs to legal assistants to input changes.

Inevitably things get lost in translation and it's difficult to figure out why things changed versions ago. It's also very expensive.

The resistance to change is driven by the fact that the majority of lawyers make a lot of money being inefficient.

I'm guessing github is not the preferred interface for lawyers but it could very well be the engine behind a more "lawyer friendly" interface.

Great to see the seeds of change being sewn, anyways.
Ask HN: Can anyone in Google hook me up with a desk for a few hours today?
OK, I know this has virtually 0% chance of working, but I am attending a meetup at Google's HQ tonight & traveling to attend, just wondering if anyone one working in Google could let me use a spare desk, chair or corner for a few hours today - from around 1 to about 6pm. Promise I'll be quiet & stay out of everyones way :)
This isn't at all related to my comment. Did you reply to the wrong one?
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If you are devising a new product concept, the very first telephone (or ipod or ipad) say, then what is gained by doing this? Your customers have no point of reference. In general, asking customers what they think is only useful if you are iterating on the known and familiar. Otherwise it is just harvesting random opinions, most of which will be variants of "make it more like what we already know".
I use a bash function to immediately display the code:

function qrshow(){ qrencode -s 10 "$1" -o - | display - ; }
This happens with Win7's start search. Considering that many power users use start search without the mouse (i.e. hit windows key, start typing the name of something, hit enter) it's a really bad implementation.

The Mac equivalent (cmd+space to trigger spotlight, start typing, hit return) behaves as it should. If you move your mouse it'll highlight what is under it, otherwise the highlight stays on the top result as you type.
What is the CPU?
24V is just fine for a string of up to 6 LEDs. Your comment leads me to think you haven't designed many switching regulators. You can drive up to six LEDs from 24V at 92% efficiency with 6 components (I have a device I've designed in front of me that proves it): one IC, an inductor, a resistor, a diode and two tiny capacitors.
Thankyou. I remember VRRP being a bit of a mess from inception due to
the Cisco patent claims against the original IETF draft (too similar to
their patented HSRP). Are there still a lot of compatibility problems
across vendors? At home I used to use CARP (Common Address Redundancy
Protocol) on OpenBSD, but I haven't done it for awhile, and I know it's
improved a lot since then (i.e. pfsync(4), ifstated(8), ...).
Awesome little game. How do you plan on making money, if I may ask? I really like the design language, very "flat" and modern looking. I'd like to see more games taking this approach.
You could have it start at a random spot in a sequential list.
When Carrie Fisher was cast as Princess Leia in 1976, the reason was simple -- she could be hired for almost nothing.

Carrie Fisher is being cast as Princess Leia in 2013 for the same reason -- she can be hired for almost nothing.

Nevertheless, I think a lot of people will see her casting as a perfect choice -- I certainly will.
That may have divined inspiration from the LV icons, but that is in no way copied.
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i love the design style toggle
Trademark, exactly. Not copyright.
I think OP is referring to the merchant side of things being US only.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=720,maximum-scale=1.0">

Might have something to do with it. Your HTML/BODY tags are not allowed to extend to 100%, forcing your body/html to max at 720. Not allowing your "gray background" to extend 100%
China beats your price by $0.95 and has free shipping :)

http://dx.com/p/arduino-pro-mini-microcontroller-circuit-boa...
| the host has to restore the removed
| content within a certain time period

10 ~ 14 days, IIRC.
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He was the #1 customer. I think he was building products that were good enough to use himself, because he knew that would impress others. He was a respectful narcissist.

Maybe I'm not using the correct words or my sight isn't accurate, but at least that's the legacy I got from his life.

Building something that makes you proud and you strongly believe it's the best. And convincing people to think about your product the way you do yourself.
Steve Jobs did listen to customers--more than most business executives. He famously read his own email and would write back to customers directly. He made major strategic decisions based on customer feedback, for instance by reversing direction and releasing an SDK for native apps on the iPhone.

He just didn't let customers set the future direction of products. The reason for that is well explained in The Innovator's Dilemma.
Am I the only one here who sees nothing wrong with copying icons? Layer Vault doesn't own the things they freely display for others to imitate.

I'm repulsed at the idea of "owning" a visual depiction of a fucking newspaper.

And yes, I've worked for years of my life as a designer. I know what if feels like to have people copy you.
I don't get why is detecting the mouse direction necessary in the case of the Amazon dropdown; I can see the utility in the Bootstrap example that the article highlights, but if the dropdown menu and its submenus both fit in a perfect square, wouldn't it be enough to detect whether the cursor is inside of either the menu or the submenu to properly show/hide the dropdown and its submenus? What are the drawbacks of this method compared to detecting the mouse direction like the article suggests?
Developer at SocialSci here. You're absolutely correct, the incentive for gaming the system is always there. The difference is that we also incentivize consistency and are very proactive about tracking down fake accounts through various means. You're right that it's a difficult problem, but while Amazon turns a blind eye to such abuse, our system is designed from the start to both disincentivize and prevent it, and in the meantime encourage good consistent high-quality responses over time.

We don't claim to entirely prevent fraud, but we're very confident that we raise the barrier and reduce the rate significantly.
Great stuff.

* The cube could do with some lighting hints

* Some visual clues on the menu would be helpful. I didn't know how to get past the tutorial besides randomly swiping.
This gets into the differences between unit testing and integration testing. Sometimes it is worth just making sure that your repository class can actually insert, find, and delete data. It's just a different part of the "testing pyramid" (http://watirmelon.com/tag/software-testing-pyramid/)
> I'm not happy with html links.

Try something else instead of trying to break a very basic piece of web functionality with an unworkable requirement that you dream up.
Congrats on doing that. Please keep us posted on the progress of the commercial part. Now that the game is out and since it's a good game, i'd be really curious to know how you plan to get people to buy it, and if it succeeded.
Same sentiments. I didn't get the game till the last 10 seconds - and up till that point, it was rather boring.

But It's a beautiful looking game and when the light bulb went off of how the game is played, I will be downloading it.

Perhaps edit the video so it shows more of the core gameplay (like the part in the last 10s in the video).
Pretty great work with all the little touches. How were you able to write both the web version as well as the iOS versions? Did you have two different code bases, or did you use something like Phonegap or trigger.io?

Were you in game dev before you quit to do this?

And would there be a possibility of rotating the cube?
No one will answer this.

If they say "no", they're speaking for Amazon, and saying "we give you a right to infringe our patent". If they say "yes", they're speaking for Amazon, and making the firm look douchey.

Mu - unask the question.
Only 10 levels?
You Think You Know It's Bad, But It's Actually Worse
Another great use case for the singleton pattern.
This is generally our philosophy.
Thanks Taylor! Completely agree with you on your points about lawyer workflow. I'm working on a few things at Fenwick (Series Seed on GitHub is just one) that will hopefully get some of these roadblocks out of the way in the future.
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I've started pretending that all my commit messages will finish the statement, "I made this change because..."
There's arguably the talking heads as well:

http://dribbble.com/shots/800428-LayerVault-icon-set-for-del...

http://i.imgur.com/xDDULcG.png
Here are a thousand other ways to design a clock. http://dribbble.com/search?q=clock+icon
Except their share price!
Commercial payloads, yes, government payloads tend to "self-insure" or not insure at all.
s/copied/used as inspiration/

Copyright means you literally copied the design. Are you maybe confusing copyright and trademark? With trademark, you can get in trouble for creating brand confusion, which has a more to do with the look and feel than the actual copy.
All it manages to show is that as a designer he is not very original and maybe influenced a bit too much about what he is inspired by. But this in itself is not a copyright violation.
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Reminds me of bit of "colorbind" and "flow" iphone games. it's really cool to see how small changes to a game makes it interesting again.
Ah, I see. Good point, we currently don't call that out anywhere prominently, but we should. Thanks for clarifying.
We're deploying troll-proofs by the minute. We went live with this as an MVP. GhostOps are on their way, sticking to agile CD style for this.
Too many variables, IMHO (dev experience, team size, technology stack, etc.). Startups in particular are inherently volatile places, and basing such a study on them is fraught with problems.

Most notably, the measure of "success" in startup-land is not irrevocably tied to code quality. Plenty of projects have succeeded despite their engineering and not because of it.
The host cannot restore that content within 10 days.

10 days can be a long time to have stuff go unexpectedly offline.
>> The reason for that is well explained in The Innovator's Dilemma.

Side note/question: I know there's three books in that "series": Innovator's Dilemma, Innovator's Solution, and Seeing What's Next. For someone who has not read any of them, what's the correct order? Are all three required, or is there overlap between the contents?
Ten percent is too high.
When you plug it into your 24" monitor, use it like you would Windows 7. All the keyboard short-cuts are there, you can press Windows Key + Type in anything you want to run and press enter or you can switch to desktop mode.

I really don't understand all this Windows 8 hate. I switched to using Mac-only (due to my new job) about 7 months ago and when I first tried using Windows 8, it took about 5 minutes before I found everything I needed.

If you are a beginner-user, Windows 8 is even easier since you probably just use Office + Internet Explorer which are right there in front of you in big tiles.

Intermediate-users can switch to desktop mode if they need.

Power-users can work even faster since now there are more keyboard shortcuts and that same desktop mode is there if you really want it.

Can you explain what prevents you from using Windows 8 like you would use Windows 7?
The Country That Stopped Reading
Reminds me very much of Flow Free:
iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flow-free/id526641427
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bigduckgam...

Incidentally, it would be nice if you could backtrack to remove colored path blocks if you make a mistake like accidentally dragging across a small corner. I've only tried the webapp version, so not sure if that works in the iOS one.
Am Yo Private Dancer
Lots of fun! Great looking and all that, too!
Except the strategy gets a little stale after the second level when you realize that at least one of the colors always has to take a really roundabout way to get to its partner.
What I notice is, although the author compares the gloriousness of Win8 to various other products, he takes very special care to not mention iOS or a single Apple product. Not once.
Just curious, how old are you?

Please respond.
I really like your landing page. Do you know of any other game devs that have a playable demo on their landing page or did you come up with the idea yourself?
If you move your mouse straight down within the left side, the submenu should change immediately.
This:

On October 28th, the Library of Congress
decided to not renew an exemption for
carrier unlocking cell phones*

Should be changed as follows:

"decided to not renew" => "decided NOT to renew" =(or)=> "FAILED to renew"

at first glance, I misread it as "decided to renew".

Also, "Library of Congress" should be changed to "Librarian of Congress"
Spam from Amazon SES (no way to report the issue)
I'll give you narcissist, but I don't think Jobs had any respect for anyone else or their opinions.

This may have been a good or bad thing, according to taste.
I second getting the TI Launchpad. Great and super-cheap piece of kit
With Energia (http://energia.nu/) you can even use your Arduino sketches and run them on MSP430 Launchpad!
Relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/1053/

- randall
I’m sorry, but that doesn’t look like a copyright infringement to me. I cannot see any artwork that was directly lifted. The icons may be superficially similar but they are no copies.
There is nothing wrong with someone charging for work that took them time and skills to do.

And there is nothing wrong with you doing the same and open sourcing it.
What has always bothered me, is that the ratio of people consistently talking/blogging/tweeting about how important TDD is to the number of actual resources that can help a junior developer learn and practice good testing habits is a million to one.

I truly believe that TDD works. I truly believe that the jury is already in and that anyone who is serious about becoming a software professional should write tests for every line of code. I really really believe it and want to use it.

That being said, it is so fucking hard to get started with TDD. Oh god, it's so difficult. I've done the katas, done an apprenticeship, read the RSpec book, watched every screencast I could find, everything you can reasonably ask a learning developer to do, and I still find it incredibly impractical to practice TDD when working on most projects, not because I don't want to, but because it's so difficult and time consuming and the resources just aren't there to help make my process quicker.

Here's an idea for the TDD crowd. Every time you're about to write a blog post about why people should use TDD, instead write a blog post about a situation where you applied TDD, the tests you wrote and the code it lead to. We need more examples of TDD in progress, more code snippets, more screencasts. I'm telling you the problem is that the resources just aren't there to encourage these habits. Instead of continuing to have this debate at a semantic level, if there were more testing resources available I think people would naturally flock to it and TDD would win out. Until then, I think it's twitter fights and bad habits for the foreseeable future.

*This comment applies verbatim to security best practices as well.
just tested it on Win7 and it appears they fixed this. pressing windows key and typing reveals a list with the first item selected every time.. unless the mouse moves
I looked at the FAQs of SES, there is no information on where to report the email to. All I could do is "Report Spam" on gmail.
One thing I've wondered is how homogenous your POPs are -- how big is the multiple (in router size/number and server count) between say San Jose POP and Sydney POP. I assume you'd want to scale based on expected traffic which considers each POP nearest, but that changes based on factors outside your control, and could change fairly fast. Plus DoS might come from areas which don't see a lot of regular traffic.
Chrome SPDY Indicator extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/spdy-indicator/mpb...
just played through it and it's a pretty great game. fun and easy to pickup and play right away. so more levels?
Can we stop perpetuating this myth please?

From http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/07/apple-reveals-for-mon...

""Apple is famous for eschewing market research and focus groups during the creation of new products. However, it turns out the company does research consumer sentiment on existing products in order to optimize future designs.

Apple conducts detailed, quarterly iPhone buyer surveys, according to a joint motion regarding the sealing of trial exhibits. "The surveys reveal, country-by-country, the factors driving customers to buy Apple products versus competitive products such as Android," court documents state. The results break down which demographics are most satisfied with Apple’s products, and how different demographics respond to different features. The results also show how consumer preferences differ country to country.

Apple is asking the results of these surveys only be shown to the jury when proceedings begin next week. Language in the joint motion states, "Knowing what Apple thinks about its customer base preferences is extremely valuable to Apple competitors because it would allow them to infer what product features Apple is likely to offer next, when, and in what markets."
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You should charge for it.
It's actually really good to know that spending the time to make an online demo was worth the effort.
you could go published order. But no matter what you must read Dilemma - its the seminal text.
Generate a list of Fortune 500 companies using your app or website
this got me too. I clicked the arrow, not what it was pointing at.
Agreed, and furthermore: Mocks don't verify that you're calling external code correctly. Suppose you think API method does X, but it actually does Y. You won't detect that with mocks. Maybe you have integration tests (i.e. tests of the entire system working in concert) to account for that, but I say, why not catch these things at every chance you get?
The issue is that when you are hovering over a menu item, and you are aiming to hit a submenu item that is not directly to the right of the menu item. For example, if you are hovering over a menu item and wish to select a a submenu item that is to the right and down the screen, you will take a down-right path UX wise. Normally this would trigger the menu items below (before you make it to the submenu) and thus change the submenu items.
Unlike the earthquake power law graph, the income distribution graph has two tails -- one causes destructive oligarchy, the other demolishes people's incentive to work. Both ends of the graph contain the potential for relatively improbable, but catastrophic, events.

People should remember this when discussing income distribution and public policy -- oligarchy is unfair and dangerous to society, and aggressive income redistribution is ... unfair and dangerous to society. The "sweet spot" is when both groups (the rich and the poor) complain with equal volume. That's why politics is called the art of the possible.
When the Flat UI was released, I was waiting for Layervaults response. In their defence, the style, colors, some of the icons are very close to Layervaults, so I can understand their frustration. I have no doubt that designmodo had more than "inspiration" from Layervault.

Probably they didn't break copyright, but basically they copied the style and made it a commodity (this is like the Svbtle thing all over again). Flat design is a trend, but I haven't seen similar site, with similar colors and style as Layervault. When you ripoff something almost 1:1 in design, necessarily it isn't illegal but it isn't honorable either. As a designer, you shouldn't do that to other designers.
Agree! Thanks.
Honestly, it was just because I built the initial prototype in html5 and the level builder is also html based, since the effort to make a simple 10 level demo was so low we decided to throw it in.
Does certain circles mean most business "thought leaders" for the past twenty years? I mean Tom peters was lamenting demmings low profile at the start of the US "quality" movement.

Demming was all about tight observe/act loops and planning for human frailty. These are not new concepts now, but like healthy eating and regular exercise everyone knows about it and yet businesses don't do it.

I would hardly say he is under recognised in the mainstream of business thought (I mean he never is going to compete with Brad Pitt for recognition status).
But they're similar. They were obviously copied with willful and malicious intent! DMCA sent!

[ Note that the DN logo and the FlatUI newspaper icon that have been held up as examples by LV are about as similar as these two icons. ]
They've been posted upthread, and they aren't copies.
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I've only (yet) read Innovator's Dilemma, I would definitely recommend it. As for order, I suspect publication order would be the best as it would show progression of ideas/learning.
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I see that now. Thanks!
Ask HN: Are you running a web crawler off the following IPs? It's broken
Fellas,

Whoever is running a web crawler on one of the following IPs, check your code. It is sending some garbage as the User-Agent string, e.g.

RMID=007f010001c2513733c300ea;
SERVERID=w2;
SS_MID=672bfcf3-7c0e-492c-b4f5-c4006e444f5chdygi1wn;
ss_lastvisit=1362572526119;
hbfec=OePK5KX7vFq7S0Uk-9GxBTrsv9aAR0LR8BxQl+rkdBh+nV56OyysSNYKFbLQ-;
gae_b_id=X2dhZV9iaW5nb19yYW5kb206NjFDcDJxVzZNRGxadHNGdEFmaTVOZ25...
GOOGAPPUID=582;
BBC-UID=556113279384de3e4f43d838f1fec2a6700c2f5db484512e9aa1244e...
...

Over 4KB of what appears to be some internal crawler's state or data. Involved IPs are:

107.22.13.225 (amazonaws.com)
207.97.227.247 (aux1-ext.rs.github.com)
46.51.203.140 (amazonaws.com)
54.235.37.145 (amazonaws.com)
75.101.190.67 (amazonaws.com)

The crawler is accessing only one page on my server, the one linked from the HN's front page, so I think it's someone from here.