skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a reason to include this directly in Django rather than leaving it as a pluggable app? Updates/bug-fixes/features are way easier to push when it's not tied into the official update cycle, letting you be a lot more agile.
I didn't want to cede so much ground to someone so obviously anti-poor at the outset. Better to limit it to the point and reduce the risk of a derail. Something like "so you think poor people should use government money on toys" would have appeared almost instantly and prevented the few good comments that came out of the discussion.
I love kickstarter as much as the next guy, but this is stupid. You just threw 10% of your donations away. I don't think Kickstarter is necessarily the best tool for this kind of fundraising.
No, I didn't read blogs from dead people before, but I have read articles with a larger font size.
Show HN: HackerTweets
Twitter Core App Cancelled for Ubuntu Touch
Interesting. I need Google Chrome to view these slides. (Doesn't work in Firefox 20 Beta.)
Journey From RequireJS to Browserify
One size does not fit all.
I think it is worth mentioning that in addition to the $900 million in cuts required from the sequester since the sequester has gone into effect, Congress has proposed cutting their funding an additional $300 million this year. Therefore, pinning all this to the sequester seems a little unfair. http://www.app.com/article/20130321/NJNEWS17/303210108/Seque...

Sadly I worry these cuts are more political than practical, but then again it just says the programs are being suspended until they are reviewed so hopefully they'll still come back and maybe some waste will be discovered in the process too.
How and Why to Become a Lifelong Learner
Outreach is actually the most important part of NASA's budget - you must make a good case that it is a good idea to spend money on space research, and you must make the results available to the public. If you don't do the first bit there may not be more money in the future, politicians will put the cash elsewhere, and if you don't do the second part you have neglected your duty to the taxpaying public.
I like how the decision makers say we need to grow out of our debt problems. Then they cut programs like this? Do they think we will actually grow with cuts to STEM education? The advent of the internet, biotechnology, hell...even proprietary trading. Almost all the recent growth cycles have been fueled by STEM.

The decision makers are foolishly creating a massive technical debt.
Going into debt for a wedding, in the USA, is very common.

So is divorce. I did the math, and it came up wanting.
My Father's Horniness
> But the customers have stopped listening by now and are giggling along with a game that makes farting noises when you mash a red gradient rectangle with your nose.

People just want to have fun with games, they don't care about how advanced the AI is, or the physics of explosions and stuff like that. Sure, some people do care about this things...

Did the company make any research to see if there was demand for this kind of game? Doesn't matter how technically advanced the game is if no one want's to play it.
You can always check the data in Freebase: http://www.freebase.com/m/09v5l5c?links&lang=en&hist...
This got some media attention in germany when heise.de first put this out. Facebook immediately threatend them to terminate their app-id / violating tos etc.

But later on they backpaddled and made an offical statement that you are allowed to use an modified like button that does not resemble the orginal like button (icon).
Having survived the first dot.com crash reading stuff like this always makes my "smells like a bubble" detector go off. Although to be fair I don't really sense that in NYC, so maybe this is more a reflection of silicon valley.
I agree with you to a large extent, but you're doing the same thing by making sweeping mischaracterizations.

For example, you mention 'Biden can spend a million dollars on one night hotel stays in Paris and London.' I looked into this, and indeed two one-night stays in each city totaled up to about that amount. But in each case, they booked out over 100 rooms. Now the VP certainly has an entourage of secret service agents and personal assistants, but the majority of those rooms were likely occupied by policy administrators of one sort or another there to meet their opposite numbers in Paris and London. This is why state visits are a big deal; on TV we just see handshakes and maybe a snippet of a speech, but all sorts of diplomatic work - trade negotiations, extradition discussions, etc. - takes place out of sight of the cameras. State visits are planned months in advance so that bureaucracies can coordinate the international dimension of their activities around them. A million bucks is cheap at the price if it advances economic progress.

Now you may not have noticed, but one of the more interesting things in the state of the Union speech the President gave last month was a commitment to a new US-EU Free Trade Agrreement, which would be the largest trade deal in history: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21439945 which would be worth hundreds of billions annually in increased economic activity. You bet I want the VP to take a bunch of policy wonks along with him when he goes overseas.

I think the first step in getting beyond tantrum politics is to address things on their merits and in their proper context, not in the form of zingers and stereotypes.
FWIW, we use Google Hangouts for conference calls.
This is the moral equivalent of a single imgur page, just formatted differently. I flagged it.
"unqualified/foreign/unmotivated"

So "foreign" is in the same category as unqualified and/or unmotivated ? WTF ???
Comic Sheds Light on Secret Army Spy Unit
Agreed. This is a fantastic presentation of long-format text. The balance between readability, design, and imagery is very well done. I would love to see more journalistic publishers take a leaf from this book.
Every time these disruptions happen people said we had hit a tipping point and it was going to be different this time. Not sure how this time is different.
The 5 Worst UX Mistakes Websites Make
I would think teams rejected post-interview would have a better chance in subsequent batches than teams rejected pre-interview considering YC clearly saw something in the team they invited.
Things like this keep faith in humanity alive.
Guess that clears enough budget to buy more F35's. Because what future needs inspired engineers right?
Sure. The NASA Outreach Program. Teaching our kids how to design, build, and operate spaceships. Without it they're all going into liberal arts.

Sorry, but I have a feeling education and science will survive the Sequestocalypse just fine. Although if we don't get the budget under control today, our kids won't have the money for space exploration in the future.
The sequester is serious business in science. A scientific workforce and the equipment they need must be maintained; it's not easy to ramp up or down capacity as demand and funding levels shift. The pipeline for an individual into a high-level science career is measured in DECADES. If you screw with funding levels for a few years you're blowing a gigantic hole into the side of your already-leaky pipeline.

Science was a pretty lousy career choice before all this started, but these budget shenanigans will only drive the smartest and most capable young people out of science for better paid, less uncertain vocations.
>Can you see the difference?

No, I can't because every man is not a rapist. Your scenario assumes that the men are malevolent and the women benevolent. If you remove this prejudice, you will see the scene as I do. The same thing.

>Just like you can tell your boss a joke where someone's getting fired, but you could feel uncomfortable if he was the one telling the joke.

The comparison is flawed in three ways. Firstly, every boss can potentially fire an employee but every man is not a rapist. If two known rapists came and sat next to me at a bus stop and started making sexual jokes, I would feel scared even as a man.

Secondly, sexual jokes describe any joke that is related to something sexual. A joke where someone is getting fired is very specific and has a victim. You cannot compare the two (unless you are imagining a small subset of sexual jokes that have a victim but this is not what we are talking about).

Thirdly, In your bus stop scene the two men are engaged in private conversation. In your office scene, the boss is telling the joke directly to the employee.
We knew there was no huge demand for Ultratron. Although, Binding of Isaac.

Our original blog post was about how much it costs to make such a game, and how much money such a game earns typically, not about whether it's a failure or success.
Installation is actually a problem with Rails, and web app development as a whole.

Think about PHP: Drop files in the web server directory, add a database and user, edit the app configuration file to point to said database and user, and you're done.

Then there's Rails apps. Gitolite is actually fairly typical: Install a ton of packages (including ssh, redis, and postfix daemons which need to be secured), compile your own Ruby (and keep it up to date), install the Bundler gem, configure Gitlab, configure Gitlab shell, configure Unicorn, configure the database, install gems with bundler, bundle exec rake gitlab:setup RAILS_ENV=production (I have no idea what this does), install an init script, update your rc.d, then set up an nginx reverse proxy [1].

If you're used to setting up web apps, this is typical, and very well-described by the provided instructions. If you're used to the PHP experience, or you've only ever installed distro-packaged apps with apt-get or equivalent, this process feels really unreasonably long and painful.

I remember that the Discourse folks said that they were aware that installation was a pain point, and they were working on making it easier.

Lowering the barriers to installation is actually something that web applications written in Ruby/Python/Node.js really need to do in order to begin to compete with PHP solutions among more casual administrators.

A big part of the problem is isolation from the system package manager. I have a Redmine install on the same server as Gitolite, which I manage via apt-get. I'd really like to have a version of the Gitlab instructions that keeps non-system packages (like the self-compiled Ruby) self-contained in /home/git, so they don't break anything else.

[1] https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/5-0-stable/doc/ins...
Strange, there's an exit button right there in front of me straight away on my demo version.
Beam ball Soccer with robots
This reminds me of the Calif. Sate Park toilet paper debacle of 2010 [1]. Since followed up with a surplus of cash the State Park did not report to the state [2]. The priorities are indeed out of whack and taxpayers are getting screwed.

[1] http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/09/california-par...
[2] http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2012/07/23/whats-next-for-the-...
Same here. Unless there's a VERY specific connection between the political angle and something to do with technology / startups, I'm really not interested. I get enough political debate on reddit, from my boss, on http://www.ncgunowners.com, and any number of other places.
We do pay people to go to school already, there are a multitude of retraining programs available for older workers. But as in this article I think the people in question are the reason for these programs not working, the one factory worker in this article didn't like school so he stopped going and went on disability. With that kind of attitude it's going to be hard to help people.
Now they're being forced to make choices, and they're openly attempting to scare the public.

This is why I'm tempted to think the right answer is to look back at the White House and say, "OK, let's keep the sequester. More cuts."

Kind of a game of chicken, and maybe a course to self-destruction, but that doesn't stop me from thinking about it. Part of me says, "so maybe there's a little collateral damage today, but nothing we can't rebuild tomorrow." It's that way with building muscle mass. Bulk up, cut down. You lose a little muscle in the cut, but you get it and more back later.
Why Bitcoin poses an interesting ethical conundrum for journalists
Interesting! When did it come out?
Dart source is run by the Dart engine similarly to how JavaScript is run by the JavaScript engine, so you should be able to edit Dart source in a browser and run it if that browser includes the Dart VM (Dartium).
Stripe launched and developed this way (yc first). Seems to work out pretty well.
The even bigger problem is parents. As long as you have no job, you don't need any help taking care of your kids. As soon as you have a job you find that a huge chunk of your income goes towards taking care of your kids.
The Posterous API was very RESTful and was my first real exploration into that. I wrote an emacs posterous blogging extension, and it was a very valuable learning experience in REST.
What did the baby boomers accomplish besides fighting in Vietnam and presiding over the general decline of the US in the 1970s-1990s? They still have their final act of bankrupting the stae left, true, but I'd argue they've done more than their share already.
All YouTube videos (as far as I know) are easy to download and in friendly formats.
#1 - This woman obviously has gender issues - her domain name says it all (butyoureagirl.com - really?)

#2 - The joke was completely childish and innocuous at best. No, that isn't subjective, it was!. You can't proclaim yourself a geek and tell me you've never heard a dongle joke. Amy Poller made a similar joke during a recent superbowl commercial. I'd be hard-pressed to see her outting her as offensive to all women.

#3 - No, she didn't "save programming" from anything. Programming was never under any threat whatsoever. This were two fellow developers making a silly joke that she completely blew out of proportion. This is nothing but a self righteous individual with illusions of grandeur. What she did was get people fired.

#4 - This was never about anything else but herself. And in the end, we are all feeding a troll
The customer is always right, but the customer is not always aware. Getting noticed is the great challenge of the age.
Meh. NASA outreach sucks in any case. They manage to make space look boring - ever watched one of those conversations between middle schoolers and ISS crew? Just get the kids a few sci-fi books instead, you'll get a much more enthusiastic and motivated next generation of engineers.
I worked at an ad company that was very keen on social sharing. Having played with both the bookmarklet-style links you've cited as well as the official share buttons, I've found the official buttons are better supported. I feel like one day, Facebook is just going to deprecate sharer.php and make everyone use the Like button. Tracking aside, the Like button has a much better UX, whereas sharer.php has been barely maintained in spite of all the changes to Facebook proper in the last few years. I don't think you can even suggest a link title anymore.

Anecdotally, users seem to trust native button more. If it looks like you made your own PNG and linked it to Facebook, they can't trust that you aren't going to try to do something shady to their Facebook account (or open a popup). If you use Facebook's button, it's a familiar experience without providing the publisher's site the opportunity to play man-in-the-middle.

User perception matters. Facebook's button seems to be perceived as more user-friendly than the unknown button on someone else's site, even if the unfamiliar button was designed to be less hostile than Like.
Why am I the only person it seems that loves email? It's like business texting. You can do it asynchronously and it's ubiquitous. Sure it has its negatives and it doesn't replace Skype/GChat or face-to-face, and we can use other apps that are better for certain cases, but I can't imagine myself taking a hard no email stance.
Many of them may not. I remember news covering a McDonalds "national hiring day" where they hired 62,000 out of a million applicants.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-28/mcdonald-s-hires-62...
How closely knit design and engineering teams put Pinterest on a rocket ship
Interesting post - but I'm not sure that it is any better. What I see is 3 or 4 place I now have to check to figure out what is going on. What I like about email is one place to communicate and search.
Binding of Isaac starts off with some elements of classic Rogue Like gameplay that also has a dual stick shooter battle mechanics and is finally topped off with an action adventure dungeon exploration and upgrade system.

It is made from three classic successful genres all seamlessly blended together.

Content in the game is given to the player at just the right rate of flow. Dozens of initial play-throughs each reveal new items, and on subsequent plays the player begins to understand how to start combining items together.

Then there is the masterfully done difficulty curve. Facing the game straight on results in death, it is only through understanding of items and upgrades that the player has a hope of surviving, with each new discovery extending the player's life span by just a little bit more.

Then finally there was controversy around the game that got it great press coverage, press coverage which was excellently taken advantage of through very well managed sales and deals.

Binding of Isaac isn't a surprise at all. It isn't just a well made game, it is a well made game that gradually unfolds before the player at just the right pace.

So far from what I have seen in this thread, the primary complaint about Ultratron is the pace at which it ramps up. It sounds like people are saying the demo never really ramped up, which is fairly disappointing for a dual stick shooter. Dual Stick Shooters should create a sense of outright fear at times, and pretty early on in the process. Sure have the first level be a "here is how you shoot!" and that level should be over as soon as the player learns how to shoot.

The next lesson? "Here is how you run away. You'll be doing a lot of it."
Go to space, do cool things....outreach problem solved.
Google will allow trademarks as keywords in AdWords campaigns worldwide
Wow, make a thoughful comment and get 0 votes. Make one joke and get 4 downvotes.

The downvotes for the above comment doesn't offend me, they're right and appropriate.

What I do mind is the apparent indifference to thoughtful and insightful comments. Way to keep incentives aligned, HN.

Every time I post and get no votes it teaches me that HN doesn't care. Which would be fine if my comments were like the above, but they're not. I upvote and encourage commenters, but I've grown tired.

So the next time you think of lurkers as people not wanting to contribute, now you know there are alternative explanations.
I worked in the game industry between 2000 and 2006, mostly on MMO titles.

This is a simple supply and demand problem.

There is a HUGE supply of young males who want to work in the gaming industry, and the customer demand for games of the quality which they can supply is insufficient.

This is why you have so many gaming schools that can't actually take all the potential students who want to join, but very few of the graduates can actually get jobs.

In the last few years, there have been so many great games that I can't possibly play them all. This has been lamented by many in recent times. There are just so many people working on games that there are a ton of great games out there, and some of the really good games get ignored because of the pile-on effect that a few of the great games get.

I should note that Puppy Games titles are awesome and work on Linux.

Not related: Lately I've been playing FTL a lot. It's awesome too.
Jeffrey Hammerbacher, Chief Scientist at Cloudera on Big Data
On a wikipedia page, the total number of horses lost by the British is given as 484,000 over the entire war:

"Over the course of the war, Britain lost over 484,000 horses, one horse for every two men"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses_in_World_War_I#Casualtie...
Well... http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57491254/mich-boy-homele...
Ask HN: Career advice for ENTP personality types
I grew up in the 80s and had my first computer when I was 9. Programming came natural to me and I pursued that through my education to degree level. I then worked as a programmer, using various different languages, for 5 years then got into system administration, designing, building and running a linux based multi-site network. I moved on after 5 years and became an IT consultant. Through these years, one thing became apparent: People would throw problems my way and I was able to solve them one way or another. After doing a Myers-Briggs test, I discovered that I was an ENTP personality type - the profile hits the nail on the head. Extremely creative, excellent at problem solving but cannot take a project from cradle to grave without the assistance of others.

The question is this: Are there any other ENTP types out there? What jobs were you able to go for? It looks like "Problem Solver" and "R&D" would be the best bet, but those jobs are rarely advertised. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
My HN reader app failed me. I meant to post this as a reply to another comment.
That is the sequence I found in the code that was embedded in the image file. I don't know in what software it is used.
Absolutely disagree. It's a buyers market unless you're physically located in a tech spot or know the right acronyms of tech.

I don't know where you live, but where I live, there is NO market for programmers.
Never seen that before - what is nas.*.com?