skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A pivot is when a company (usually a smaller company) decides that their current business model/idea isn't working, and "pivots" to another idea. Though to be fair, I arrived at this definition only by seeing it enough times on HN and defining it via context.
Look, it's not about the rock, it's about the message: "I would hurt poor people for you." Romantic.
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I noticed that at least one other person suggested opening the link in a new tab. This seems to defeat this hack in Chrome and IE 9. It probably defeates it in all browsers, since the new tab is in a different context than where the javascript is being executed and therefore can not be redirected by the javascript.
So your original post is meaningless since you decried solving other peoples' problems... but solving other peoples' problems could completely fall under the set of "solving your problems".

"Is anything we do truly altruistic?" is a fun question philosophically, but makes for really circular/meaningless HN comments.
Test case: http://codepen.io/beeglebug/pen/ntLbv
This is unfair to bullshit. Bullshit has intrinsic value as a fertilizer.
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister - a great book about software projects management

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days by Jessica Livingstone - fascinating stories of founders of companies both young and old
Xbox 720 document reveals Blu-ray drive, new Kinect and always-on internet
From Websense's site:
Potentially Damaging Content - sites likely to contain little or no useful content
(source: http://www.websense.com/content/urlcategories.aspx)

Could it be because your page is almost entirely a list of links? (not saying that's bad, personally)

You could try contacting Websense:
What you can do if you feel a website has been incorrectly categorized.
... You can also suggest that Websense researchers reevaluate a categorization by e-mailing suggest@websense.com.
That answer is essentially, "each professor should write their own textbook", since an extensive series of notes intended to be used in a course of study, along with practice problems, is pretty much a draft textbook.

You never learned to share?
>>This was true for young developers or people without the right experience developing web sites at the time.

Very true. Transformative my ass. I was already pretty efficient at building websites without rails.
Apologies, I shouldn't have leaped to conclusions. However, from what I can see it is very similar as laconic, from the interface to the implementation. Laconic also has the advantage of most tags being predefined as methods, and a much longer burn-in and maturity. Not to detract from your efforts, but I'd probably recommend most people go with that if they're looking for something to rely on for practical use right now.

Keep at it, though! Maybe you can find a way to improve laconic, or to differentiate your own library. It's fun and a good way to learn, regardless.
> Amazon had absolutely no choice about shutting you down.

This is not true at all. Amazon could have issued them a trademark license.
Hunt The Bug (2010 - plain C)
I hope it stays ugly and keeps people who care about this away. Will improve the quality of the contributions I think.
Hope, or expect?
You're also forgetting WinFS. WinFS was apparently his baby during the development of Windows Vista (aka Longhorn), but was one of the things cut when shedding cruft. I can't find a reference to it, but I recall hearing that there were grumblings from the rank-and-file about 'making a pig fly' (not exactly, but something similar) with regards to Gates' focus/drive on WinFS.
You can still separate your view and logic in pure Javascript, too.
Unable to reproduce in MSIE10:

http://jsfiddle.net/4Zukm/
Monopoly abuse and other anticompetitive actions that ultimately inflated prices. Why do you think the DoJ got involved?
In most fields that would be called a "conflict of interest". When you're lucky enough to be in such a position, you're right, you generally don't need to bribe yourself.
I'd consider adding some articles from http://rmurphey.com/ ( that's where I started reading about large javascript apps), http://peter.michaux.ca/ (very interesting), and even some of the demo apps from http://rightjs.org/, like https://github.com/MadRabbit/typing-ninja, are pretty good for learning javascript. IMHO.
| They have a huge following, they must be good.

Good at what is the question. Not levelling anything at them specifically, but there are plenty of people with large followings that are basically 'good' at getting large followings and making money off of them (e.g. tele-vangelists).
That code won't kill it, it seems to need a width and height, see this one:

http://codepen.io/beeglebug/pen/ntLbv
Announcing Backbone.js 1.0
Ian Hickson on content providers and the reason for DRM
The single worst foreign policy decision in American history
Because it _may_ solve someone else's problem too. And someone else _may_ contribute something back that also solves one of my problems.
It's not about that.

If the ads were only on their own domains, this could have gone undetected. The whole thing was discovered as a result of using those 'legit' websites, and as far as I can tell from the article, using those was an essential part of the scam, i.e. without it, it might not work... but I'm just wondering why.
Modit - Games & apps for anyone, built by everyone
I'm not solving someone else's problem unless it either is also my problem or solving it solves another problem I have.

In this case it's obvious adding the requested feature solves no problem of the maintainer.
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Great news - congrats on everything Luke!
Yeah, I "get it". Sheesh, no need to be so fucking condescending. If it's so easy to pick winners why aren't you doing more angel investing instead of complaining about hot air from VCs?
Yeah, but I think it's limited to a select few, as you might expect. They also have their own DNS system IIRC.
What's happening right now (ChromeOS, cloud computing, etc) is basically what Microsoft feared back in the day. They feared that the browser would become the operating system, which is why they engaged in anti-competitive behaviour in the browser space. It could be argued that they delayed this by acting to quash it for their own benefit.

(I realize that there are plenty of nuanced arguments to be had here.)
Ad networks know who they cut a check to. There is always a paper trail in this business, even if he registered the domains in somebody els's name (risky strategy if so - that somebody else would be legal owner).
I think using Google forms is a much better way to do it. No signups, no pricing, and most importantly if my website is static why would I want to add forms to it.

One more thing the process is far too complex for a person with just a static website.
Schneier: On Security Awareness Training
Do you mind saying what tool you find so objectionable? There are a LOT of tools out there for project management. Some are absolutely horrible, for sure. Some aren't so bad.

Ignoring that though, I'd say, if anything, Agile promotes using simple tools like wallboards (physical wallboards, with physical cards). I don't really think you can pin using a bad tool on the Agile community when they largely prefer not to use these tools in the first place.
BB10 Fails the UK Government’s High Security Testing
No. It's a symptom of non-thinkers.

They exist in all walks of life and all project processes. Agile is not immune from this, but nor it it any worse.
I'm not defending layervault's overuse of the concept, but one of the (many) ways to achieve typographic hierarchy is to map the contrast of an element to the relative importance of that element. Look at it this way: Without even reading it, you know that the gray text is supplemental or auxiliary information, because it has this visual cue.

Of course, sacrificing readability to achieve this definitely isn't the best MO.
What company in Portugal do you work for?
Backbone.js 1.0.0 Released
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New Samsung Security Flaw - Disable Lockscreen, Total Control
The word originally came from Eric Ries and the Lean Startup (I think). Pivot does indeed mean changing to another idea, though the emphasis is on "change direction with one foot on the ground", ie, not just scrapping everything to do something completely new. Though nowadays it seems pivot can mean everything from "slight change in direction" to "completely give up".
It seems unlikely that with such restricted access to technology they would be able to cultivate top-calibre talent for cyber attacks.
Twitter granted patent on Twitter-like services
Show HN: ScreenIt - Broadcast photo slideshows and documents from your phone
Python: x += 1 vs x = x + 1
We need to use IE for most banking/online shopping sites.
So the market share of Windows/IE in Korea is higher than other parts of the world.

Most people have Windows/IE installed together with their preferred OS/browser, myself included.

For mobile banking the situation's a little bit better but it is cumbersome nonetheless.

I think the payment system in S. Korea has a lot of potential for disruption, but the current regulatory laws force the businesses to use ActiveX.
Kevin Lynch's Adobe Myth Hackers: Flash on iPhone
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Are there any specific articles (or videos etc) from Rebecca and Peter you recommend? :)
Most likely it's been hacked! :))
Yes indeed, and also leaves everyone in the muck when the lead dev leaves. Your left with a load of code you had wish you had documented as well as the previous frameworks.
The value of existing frameworks is the documentation and stack overflow answers.
> Many jewelers were confused and incredulous when we asked about one.

Bear in mind that it is in the jeweller's interest to perpetuate such superstitions as it means they can persuade many customers to buy a new ring instead.

Buying a diamonds as a romantic gesture, the buyer is vulnerable for two reasons:

1) They're unlikely to have much experience of buying jewellery; for many, this is the only occasion.

2) They probably feel very strongly about the gesture; it's very important that they get it right. Overspending pales beside the risk of offending the love of their life and/or subjecting them to negative judgement by their peers.

As a result, it is all too easy for jewellers to intimidate the buyer by telling them exactly what is 'expected' and charging absurd prices for it.
Haha, "little or no useful content" ;)

I'll send them an email. Thanks!
Chameleons, botnets and click fraud | Naked SecurityNaked Security
Cool!

Give a look at Metwit API too, I think you cold build something cool in less time:

http://Metwit.com/developers/

;)
Thanks Jess! Amazing to have Brad Feld involved.
I've not seen a non-TeX layout engine that produces remotely acceptable results for setting mathematical material, for instance for line-breaking equations. I'm sure it is possible but I don't believe it exists at the moment.
Isle of Wight girl Daisy Morris has flying prehistoric beast named after her
Animation Effects in Menu - Introduction to Kendo UI
I guess you don't like Perl much then.
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I just finished reading this and it's a goldmine of information.

If anything, it's priced too low ;)

The best part for me was the focus on bootstrapping costs and the lists of things to take into account when budgeting.
>What could possibly be "hard experience" with rules lawyering? Just say no.

If you have a weak department leadership, and a strong dean of students (one who favors student excuses), you can have a lot of students who will successfully challenge grades on dubious grounds.
That has nothing to do with it whatsoever. They specified why they hate about rails, the magic. Personally, I simply cannot stand magic in frameworks I use. That's because I don't become truly productive when using a framework until I fully understand how everything works.

It is not enough that it does work, I have to understand how it does. Otherwise, I'm constantly bogged down when implementing every single feature thinking about possible security and performance issues down the line. The performance thing might be premature optimisation in some cases, but the security definitely is not.

That's why I hate when frameworks or IDEs have so much magic -- I'm looking at you Xcode, I can't count the times I was wondering if a particular statement would cause a memory leak or not before I finally understood most of the related magic Xcode and the toolchain for iOS dev do.

For me at least, magic saps my productivity, it doesn't boost it. It also offers a steeper learning curve to proper mastery to get to that point where I'm actually productive. So yes, I haven't tried ruby on rails but I can definitely see myself hating it if it has too much magic.
Walled fields of knowledge
There are several links to University IP policies here:
http://www.adec.edu/user/ip-policies.html

Most of them exempt things made on your own time.

University of Kentucky claims rights to almost anything (even "drawings") students make while in any of "certain University units" (including the "Computing Center"):
http://www.adec.edu/intellectualproperty/uky.html

It's not clear whether a dorm room is one of those "certain University units" or not. I don't think so, but it'd depend on the phrasing of the dorm room mission statement.

These policies are not trivial to sort out...
Expect more of the same from South Korea in the weeks, months, and (unfortunately) years to come. These massive attacks have been happening for many years now, and nobody seems to have learned a thing.

The latest news here in Korea says that bank employees' PCs were infected through a compromised third-party package management system. Only two years ago, 35 million accounts at one of South Korea's most popular social networking services was compromised through a similar route: the attackers broke into the update servers of a popular antivirus software, which was used on employees' PCs. Same story, only with different companies.

And of course, by "PC", I mean machines running Windows XP with the user always logged in as administrator and IE's security setting somewhere between Medium-Low and Low, because how else are you going to browse the ActiveX web? The companies that provide package management systems and antivirus software probably also use similar PCs, which is likely to be one of the reasons why they got compromised in the first place.

Macs are getting popular nowadays among chic teenagers and college kids, but on the other hand, a long-time member of an IT forum that I frequent recently asked whether he should upgrade from IE6 to IE8 on his primary computer. We might make the best Android phones in the world, but the rest of South Korea's IT infrastructure is nothing but a series of facepalms.

And the first thing the leaders do is blame North Korea. Which they have been doing every time something similar happened in the last 4-5 years. I don't know whether it's actually NK or not, but as for improving the system, nope, my brother's university still asks him to disable several of IE9's security measures every time he logs in.
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Ooh, my new favorite is North Carolina A&T State University:

"We don't have any such policies in place at this time. The university has initiated a faculty interest group which meets regularly to discuss these issues and similiar DL opportunities. Some interesting things are coming out these discussions."

http://www.adec.edu/intellectualproperty/ncat.html
If you want to buy some sparkly jewelry to signify engagement I highly recommend moissanite. It looks better than Diamond because it is double refractive. Also, no one will be able to tell a difference. 3 times I've taken my wife's rings to jewelery stores to have it cleaned or have a small stone replaced and every time I have to tell the Jeweler that it is moissanite. If you do tell people it is moissanite be prepared to hear "Didn't you want a 'real' stone?' or " It looks dirty " especially from Jewelers.
Yeah!

Now that Weather is in the game with apps for the two most popular smartphone platforms, Kenny is looking to the next frontier: cars.

Voice-activated weather apps for the car would be "very useful and specific to the driver," says Kenny. "This will be a very interesting platform for us."

>> http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/talkingtech/201...

;)
I understanding that it uses the command-line TeX compiler. If there is a way to hook it to https://github.com/manuels/texlive.js/ that'd be very interesting.
By commoditizing PCs by licensing to Compaq and setting off a pricing war among OEMs leading to lower prices and massive uptake of PCs.

By releasing a free browser when Netscape used to charge people for access to the World Wide Web (however when Google does the same thing with Android using their search profits and killing RIM/Nokia by dumping a free product, it's a good thing). And by releasing a better browser than Netscape during the 4.0 era.

Or something, I don't know. Linus says it best though:
http://www.osnews.com/story/21887/Linus_Microsoft_Hatred_is_...

I've usually find it unproductive to argue facts with people with such an affliction.
Are you suggesting that Russia or the US are supplying North Korea with the know-how? :P

1. He/she was only quoting the Korea Herald.

2. We don't have credentials on these "South Korean experts." I would expect that if they are not part of the military then they might have even less knowledge of what they are talking about.

3. North Korea is a bigger threat to South Korea than China is. That may skew opinions.
It's always amusing to see the two parallel readerships of HN collide. I love a good fireworks display.

Like BBC radio 4 has a leftie, public-services-union-member audience and a rightwing traditionalist audience who are largely unaware of each other, HN has an ivy league educated randian-hero readership and a more old-school, "just give me an ounce of weed and a hex editor and I'm happy forever" readership, and both is convinced the other is intruding on their community.
What do you get that gitk doesn't give you?
First world problems V.Linkedin.com
"Haughey called LinkedIn "a virus" because the address book import feature LinkedIn uses works very similarly to viruses that email a victim's entire address book."
So what should we call someone who fails to understand what they're doing in a webform?
Google+ is not the Internet
Pierre Deligne's Abel Prize winning work - Tim Gowers' description
The DOJ "got involved" because Microsoft didn't want to play the lobbying game, so the government decided to teach them a lesson. http://washingtonexaminer.com/carney-how-hatch-forced-micros...
or jsut hang around with people
When I raise my objections to the crappy tool (Jira in this particular case), I'm greeted with an avalanche about how it's the best tool for Agile.

I absolutely can pin it on the agile community, because if you take the Agile argument away from them, they're left defending a crappy tool with no arguments at all.
Even fearing downvoting I must say these articles, most of them I've been reading in the past month from that site are just plainly wrong assumptions. This article for example try to argues that you can be like BG and try to sell something without actually having it. I say BG had the OS in that time, he just didn't bought it but he knew the SO was right away to be bought (and cheap).
no mention of the closure compiler. pretty insane in my opinion, tis like static analysis and tree shaking is a bad thing.
The change log for 1.0 can be found here: http://backbonejs.org/#changelog

1.0.0 — March 20, 2013

* Renamed Collection's "update" to set, for parallelism with the similar model.set(), and contrast with reset. It's now the default updating mechanism after a fetch. If you'd like to continue using "reset", pass {reset: true}.

* Your route handlers will now receive their URL parameters pre-decoded.

* Added listenToOnce as the analogue of once.

* Added the findWhere method to Collections, similar to where.

* Added the keys, values, pairs, invert, pick, and omit Underscore.js methods to Backbone Models.

* The routes in a Router's route map may now be function literals, instead of references to methods, if you like.

* url and urlRoot properties may now be passed as options when instantiating a new Model.

Congratulations to Jeremy and everyone else who made this milestone possible. We've come a long way in the JS community over the last few years since SproutCore & Cappuccino were all the rage - Backbone has undeniably been a huge part of the progress we've seen.
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The website looks really old style and average.

The menu containing Web marketing, Web designing and so on, needs to modified. Probably a smaller and better font would do the job.

And most importantly the icons for design and development, web management and everything do not follow any theme. They all seem to portray a different theme for the icons. Probably changing them would be a good a option.

Lastly the about section also needs a lighter font color and different font size.
I would normally link to the description itself rather than the blog post, but haven't done so for two reasons:

1. Gowers' blog is excellent, and deserves reading. It is eclectic, and occasionally very specific and deep, but every now and again something accessible pops up that's of general interest

2. The paper is a PDF, and I refuse to submit PDFs for the Scribd scum to appropriate. Yes, I'm biased, but I find what Scribd does to be reprehensible, so I refuse to feed it.
Google Reader just disappeared from the menu
An Analysis: 2012 Downtown Boston Leasing Trends
what's with JavaScript community to make everything end in "js"? You don't see Ruby guys ending every one of their product names in "rb" or Python guys in "py".
I used to see that site a lot, then I mained Nidalee and hit plat l0l she gives no fs about counters

Nevertheless, funny story, I realized it was just bootstrap and it looked quite decent
Many thanks to the whole team of contributors for making a very useful and concise library to build upon. Many frameworks take the "batteries included" approach.. and for JavaScript, I feel that can be a bit overkill since each web app has it's own set of requirements. Backbone has proven to provide _just enough_ for structuring web apps and has clearly been useful in a wide variety of projects [1].

[1]: http://backbonejs.org/#examples
Self-published authors hit by Amazon online royalties cut
Are there any awesome resources on JS minifying/building? We're trying not to link to specific tools, but to great resources that explain the what's and why's.
THe issue of agile is people do not understand how to properly apply it.

If you do a Product you want fixed budget, fixed releases and flexible scope, scrum/agile is the best fit.

If you do Projects you want fixed release and fixed scope and flexible budget. Use waterfall and don't close the budget until the end of the design phase.
SproutCore and Cappuccino have also undeniably been a huge part of the progress we've seen ;)

To expand on your helpful paste, for the detail-oriented among you, the full list of changes and diff is available here: https://github.com/documentcloud/backbone/compare/0.9.10...1...
(A little off-topic but) if you are in such chronic pain all of the time, wouldn't that be similar to the case of not feeling pain at all? Would it be possible to hurt yourself and not even know it, or would the pain still increase beyond a certain threshold when you actually hurt yourself?

E.g. Maybe if you broke your leg, you would notice, but what about a sprain/strain? Would it be possible to not even know, and further injure yourself because your didn't modify your behaviour?