skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By "we" do you mean "you"? I can't imagine buying $2,000 shoes as a college student. Now that I think about it, I can't imagine buying $2,000 shoes, period.
> I'm one of the weirdos who always shopped at JC Penney.

I discovered Land's End recently. My mom bought me some clothes for a gift and I found them to be simple and decent quality. I always thought it was a catalog business for old people to shop but I guess I got old enough to no care about brands, I just like it when clothes don't fall apart at the seems after a wash or two.
In "how much I pay to eat out" money, no. (It is like...50 Chicken McNuggets tho)
In "how much apps typically cost" money, yeah.

It could be really useful, but in the end its still just a collection of stuff you can find somewhere else. You have to consciously open it every time you want to use it, as opposed to Mission Control in OS X where you can just swipe left and see your widgets. Not knocking the usability of it, just making an observation
Great responsive design. Anyone know which (if any) of the responsive frameworks/libraries were used to make this?
Would notes survive a rebase workflow? (not that the original tip's empty commit does, which is quite a flaw)
$10 is quite a bit to pay before I know how "custom" my custom data input can be. Especially when there are quite a few open source similar-looking dashboards (like dashing: https://github.com/Shopify/dashing). Sure, not a full-blown app (but how hard is it to full-screen a browser from a set top box?)

I need to track a lot of metrics. Very few of them have been covered by Panic. I'm happy to pay a bit for good design, but I don't feel like forking over cash on the promise that it "might" cover my use case.
It not only looks like an S from a keyboard, that's absolutely what it is, no question.
We never have all of the facts. Criticism is an important way to learn from other's mistakes. Sometimes you have to make due with the limited data you have.

Also, it's actually very common for someone who has considerable knowledge in a certain area to be wrong. The market/technology/customers/etc can all pass them by, while their thought process remains stagnant.
Interesting... How did they manage to work around item 10.4 of Apple's guidelines?
I am so perplexed by the argument that "doing good shouldn't be profitable". Why is it that if I make a violent video game, everyone is fine with me profiting, but if I dare find a way to make money by helping people, then all of a sudden I'm scummy? Would the world really be that bad if education, feeding the hungry, and curing diseases was also super profitable? As opposed to having all our best minds enticed into making yet another crazy financial instrument where very few people will scoff at what you are doing?

Meanwhile, the alternative proposal still seems to be "we need people to do these things out of the goodness of their heart AND to simultaneously be ready to sacrifice living a comfortable life in the process. That's reserved for frivolous ventures. Make a choice: get rich or help people." Good luck with that. No wonder education is in the state its in.
Dell Unveils Ubuntu Laptop Despite Potential Microsoft Loan
The Ubuntu love between Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) and Canonical (which has been heating up in recent months after a long lull) continued to grow this week. Indeed, Dell's Alienware gaming laptops gained Ubuntu Linux options. At a time when Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) may loan Dell roughly $2 billion, Dell is aggressively promoting Ubuntu in a way it hasn't done since circa 2008.
Ask HN: Does Monthly Pricing Suck For Desktop Apps?
I don't think so - but this is the pushback I've noticed when talking to users.

They are perfectly happy to pay this way for a web app but seem unhappy to consider it for desktop apps even though it has a number of benefits:

- Monthly pricing allows you to spread the cost of the software and if you don't like it you only pay as long as you used it
- The software developers can offer silent updates quickly and often to keep adding features and fixing bugs
- The software developers are only maintaining one master branch of code - keeping their costs lower which can be passed on to the customer
- Most users are paying a regular payment anyway: a product cycle is around a year with most desktop products - after that you have to buy a new version to get new features

Why is this and will it ever change?
The shot that nearly killed me: War photographers – a special report
> it's a far different game selling top of the line future-thinking tech products and selling affordable clothing.

There is something to be said about drinking your own kool-aid (marketing). It only works for a top/luxury brands. Apple devs can keep believing they work the for the greatest company and they would be right. In most other cases it is important to not drink your own kool-aid. Keep telling customers about all the cool and hip features and products, but always be looking over your shoulder, always test, always doubt.
Is there any app like this already out for desktop Macs? I have an old iMac that I would love to repurpose for a status board.

I was considering throwing together a one-off webpage with a bunch of favorite sites in frames that refresh, but that wouldn't be nearly as nice to look at as an app like this with prebuilt widgets that are designed to be laid out in a fullscreen grid.

I wanted to just use Dashboard, but it is really slow (widgets seem to freeze for minutes at a time, and Web Clips randomly fail to work for no apparent reason).
Flexible sure, but not efficient. There's no way freelancing is overall a more efficient allocation of labor than employment.

The problem is that in freelance you're getting a bunch of specialized labor to spend a considerable portion of their time performing a non-productive task: i.e., sales.

This is suboptimal use of time for the worker, since those hours aren't billable. This is suboptimal use of time for the employer, since evaluating bids and candidates isn't free either.

In cases where the employer does not have enough work to justify a full-time hire, this is an acceptable cost of doing business in order for the work to be done. It doesn't scale beyond this group though.

Having a bunch of engineers spend a significant portion of their time performing salesmanship rather than engineering is very inefficient, though it may achieve locally optimal results for the individual if you account for flexibility.
You must pay extra for HDTV out? What?
That's where the dev provides HTML, this is where the user provides HTML.
> If it's the output of a manual process in an interactive tool (e.g. a CAD program) then the distinction is fuzzier. It's not really the "editable source", but then neither can it be automatically derived by a build system.

It sounds like what you'd really want, in that case, would be an ASCII-encoded log-structured manipulation-history format--sort of similar to a Redis Append-Only File.
> However going head to head with AT&T in Austin will not help this effort. AT&T is signaling Google and, more importantly, other potential gigabit internet service providers that it will compete with you and thus reduce your margins in a very capital intensive (i.e. risky) business.

Lots of firms with an established role in a market "signal" things like that when a competitor is heading to market with a new product ahead of them. Fewer of them follow through effectively.
Total number of tries. If you've only succeeded or failed a handful of times, you might not be trying enough ways.
http://www.telemetryapp.com
That is one advantage of on-branch distributed bug tracking. One advantage you also get, which is more important on large projects, is knowing which bugs have had their fixes merged into the branch you are working on. This is a bit unwieldy with just text TODO files since you have to keep finished TODOs around and then merge them, usually manually solving conflicts, as changes move between branches. For this purpose I use a dedicated distributed bug tracker https://github.com/travisb-ca/nitpick after I had evaluated pretty much all the alternatives.

For a very small team a simple text file can work, but for teams of more than a handful some tool support is necessary.
Key Big Data Terms You Should Know
Yes, just like in the USA, the large majority is white (72% for USA, Sweden doesn't measure ethnicity). And Sweden has more foreign born inhabitants than the US (12.4% for US and 15% for Sweden).

So, just dismissing comparisons with the Scandinavian countries based on homogeneity of population might be hasty.
I think it's the nature of their business; if everything goes well, you're moderately pleased. If anything goes wrong, you are furious. Combine that with various difficult problems (efficient routing, relying on external parties, etc), and you have a difficult job.
It's a feature that adds value. They are capturing that value via an in-app payment. If the value you would receive from this feature is less than the asking price, don't pay for it. Pretty simple, really.
Coinbase, a YC company, recently raised 600k[1]. It was crowdfuneded though:

Having completed the FundersClub (YC S12) crowdfunding round, Coinbase raised $268,700, a little over its goal of $250,000, from 61 FundersClub members

[1] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2012/09/coinbase-...
My initial reaction is that it's related to securities law.
College or where I am from university is definitely not for everyone. Mostly everyone I work with went to university and presumably have HECS debts (student loans) they need to pay off now they're working. I, on the other hand finished high school and taught myself a few programming languages, learned how to talk myself up and went and got a job.

If I had kids and they wanted to drop out and teach themselves something, I would be all for it. Although we are moving to a different place, companies seem to have a growing fascination with degrees thinking they're relevant or important when the reality is you probably use 5% of the degree you just got $75,000 into debt for, if you're lucky.

Dropping out isn't for everyone. Some people only learn when they're being taught and people like you and I teach ourselves and can get by on street smarts.
So many of these suggestions are mechanical chore-doers. If I could automate my home to inspire me, that would be something. To wake me up intelligently, get me pumped up to work out, inspire me with art and music at other times... you get the idea.
> Now let me see where else I can buy some decent clothes, dishes and sheets...

Actually an interesting question. I remember going to department stores, and malls more often. But thinking about it, I haven't been doing that lately. So where to do people get their clothes, dishes and sheets?

I pick stuff up on Amazon often. That would be tough with clothes having to send them back many times when they don't fit. Maybe I just reached a point when I could afford to get more quality stuff that doesn't need replaced so I just don't shop for it as much.

Is there a website for example that if I send my measurements, they can show me a couple of models dressed in a few styles, and I would pick which ones I like (like Netflix does with movies). It would figure out my style, then the would just filter or sort clothes I would like and would fit me. I would pay for that. It would save me time for example.
I saw a question, which I found nothing wrong about, and I answered it because I could. BTW, I am also an Indian and a male. Neither did I see anybody judge someone, except - now, you maybe.

[edit: I just realised I told him/her the gender of a different guy. He/she wanted gender of OP some other post :-) ]
Yes, 'pro' is in 'you need to get one of these if you want a screen big enough to get actual work done on'
While Apple Stores was a brand new project, turnover at JCPanny required completely different strategy and most importantly managing expectations of both internal and external stakeholders i.e. customers.

This story again proves that flexibility and desire to learn matters much more than hard skills and experience. Apple approach only works for Apple.
If I have something natively running on my computer, it's mine now. I don't like to pay for it more than once.

This is what goes in my and users' minds, most likely.
> higher competing offers

It took me far too long to realize that this is 90% of salary negotiation. Get multiple offers. Have people bid over you.

We should probably teach this to people. I'd say particularly women, but we should really just teach it to everyone. There's some evidence that if enough people in a certain group know how to haggle (not necessarily all) then it benefits all members of that group. Haggling is expensive, if people think you're savvy, that you'll only take their final offer, they'll just start with their best offer. If 9 out of 10 people will haggle, it's a waste of time to search for the tenth.

So help your fellow employees negotiate, it will get you better offers in the long run.

Ian Ayers probably has the best work on discrimination through negotiation strategies, how you can get differences without animus, it's kinda his bailiwick:

1) http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2118176?uid=3739936...

2) http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
That does look pretty and awesome for business data, but do you know of anything similar that is more plugged into personal and social data sources like the OP? I wouldn't be so eager to e.g. recode a weather API that pushes specifically to Telemetry's service when there are already zillions of weather widgets and APIs out there.
I've got some UX nitpicks with the search results...

Stuff like: http://www.rogerebert.com/great-movies

doesn't actually present basic information to the user, like movie release date, director, cast, or studio (instead presenting the month/day/year the review was written). Additionally, date filtering sorts the list by the date each review was written, which isn't particularly useful.

Search results expand to a multi-column layout when browser width increases, which makes them hard to scan (imagine if Google did this).

Because results aren't paginated or loaded all at once, there's no way to tell how many results you have in a search. How many "Great Movies" reviews are there? How many have I been presented with so far? There's no way to tell unless you scroll through all of them as they load in.

Otherwise the presentation seems very clean, and in general snappier than the suntimes.com behemoth.
If you haven't heard about Greenfoot, it's a project with similar idea.
http://www.greenfoot.org
This is great, but I have to sacrifice a perfectly good iPad to run on the TV out. This would be perfect if the Apple TV allowed apps.
Mixpanel is the top-shelf solution at the moment. There are a variety of other options, including flurry, KISSmetrics, and a new product from testflight, depending on your preferred price/features blend. Try quora for compare & contrast questions.
Totally agree. When I first joined HN (2100+ days ago) there were posts nearly every day of the 'Show HN: My new startup/website/app/etc' type and the thoughtful feedback and comments were genuinely helpful and insightful. It wasn't uncommon for multiple people to actually take screenshots and rework design elements, provide thorough user interaction impressions and potential improvements, offer assistance in numerous ways (debugging, introductions, alpha/beta testing, etc.), and be generally supportive. HN truly seemed like a community of semi-collaborative or at least fully helpful hackers.

It saddens me that the most common response these days seems to be some version of 'Let me list all the reasons why this is crap.'

What happened?
Welp, time to sell.

The price two days later: $234. Up $84.

Required reading for prognosticators:

I'm Raising My Bitcoin Price Target To $400
http://www.businessinsider.com/im-raising-my-bitcoin-price-t...
Except for the fact that you can detect that there is steganographic content it is aweseome :-) UMich's CITI group put together a tool to find stegonagraphic images and tested it on ebay. Now I don't have a Sun system to run their tool (if I could even load it off of QIC tape!) but the basic idea was that steganographic encoding techniques interfered with the natural noise of the image. As I recall they used techniques similar to what the SETI@Home guys were using to detect the presence of signal in noise. Dr. Peter Honeyman could tell you more and probably point you at the sources. If would be a great followup to that work to see how well it detects your images.
The real response was exactly as brutally honest. Except that they did not name the other companies.
Are they actually supporting AppleTV? I was not aware that AppleTV apps existed. There seems to be some speculation that they are coming this fall. Perhaps Panic knows something we don't?

Edit: The App Store only says "Compatible with iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later.".
> My best personal example (which will remain unnamed)

It would be interesting to hear at least reason why it is unnamed. E.g. is it very simple? Or maybe you don't want to get associated with it too much?
Please vertically center the text on those buttons!
Way to take his statement out of context to set up a piss-weak strawman argument.

His original statement (and what you excised, in italics):

> The iPhone in entirety and OS X lately are aimed directly at people who don't know how to use computers even if it comes at the expense of those who do.

That's basically a truism. What's been happening over the past three releases of OS X is testament to that.

There will come a day when users like me can no longer install and run whatever they'd like on their Apple computers; all application downloads will be funneled through the App Store, and you'll have to "jailbreak" your laptop just to do anything useful with it. I may have already purchased my last Mac.
I'm so jealous.
I do most of my editing on remote machines (both at work and at home) and haven't really been able to find a setup that works smoothly for this.

Is everyone else developing everything on their local machines?
The problem with your comparison is that a textbook does not claim to somehow fast-track you to $100/year. It only claims to help you with the current step in your learning which Treehouse doesn't even do effectively.

I tried the Treehouse lectures when I started learning how to code and found them long-winded and basic. A friend of mine also came to the same conclusion independently; he even called to warn me to avoid Treehouse if i hadn't tried it a already... I already had.

In their marketing, Treehouse makes a lot of promises their material is unable to deliver which for me is the big problem here.

Their "perceived value" comes from the fact that they package their basic content very well in a pretty wrapper but these kids would be better off with code-academy, code-school and then the django book or Hartl's Rails tutorial.

That would put them on a path to 100k/year, not Treehouse but as usual, the school officials wont do their research well so they'll just pick the shiniest option.

The only winner here is Treehouse; good for them.
Thanks for your comment Greg,I will check those links out.
I think vi speed is much more theoretical than practical. v5j to select the 5 lines below? Sure, I can't think of a faster mode. BUT in reality

1. you have to check if you're in insert mode or not. Or you think you are, you're not, write vf5, press esc, press u to undo, retype vf5. Or you don't know and you press esc before it, so it's actually esc+v5j, and esc is not the easiest reachable key

2. you have to know you want to go down 5 lines. In reality, you know you want to go "a bit" down, so in a real world situation you either count (slow), make a subtraction with line numbers (slow) try to guess a number of lines, check what you've reached, keep retyping. This is all but "cognitive free". What is cognitive free (although requires more keystroke) is just press shift+down+down+down+down+down, for me.
Yes, but i don't appreciate that they literally made the macbooks too small. The entry-level macbook used to have a 13 inch screen, which i could work on, and now it has an 11 inch screen, which i can't work on. Their post-air line-up basically charges me double (or close enough) for the same form factor that i used to get entry-level. They priced themselves out of my budget, and i got an asus instead.

I think that most people aren't obsessed with smaller, lighter laptops, not since the tablet age. A laptop is something you use to sit down at a desk with, and whatever thinness advantage there is goes away then. Apple is losing laptop sales because their line-up doesn't cater to people's needs as well as it used to do.
Therein's the catch 22, though. To get a better salary you've got to negotiate. However, negotiation is perceived differently if it's done by men versus done by women. When a man does it, it actually improves how he's viewed--"he knows what he's worth! he's confident!" etc. A woman, on the other hand, is more likely to be perceived as ungrateful or even bitchy.

The really f'ed up thing is that even if the hiring manager is female, she views negotiators that same biased way.
Will have a look into this,thanks.
it just streams to AppleTV with AirPlay.
How to review everything?
IIRC only the blog front ends are on the blogspot.com domain. All user logins/blog admin etc are on the blogger.com domain (and no *.blogger.com domains).

(not used their services for ages, so there might be more overlap than i remember)
Same here, have done drive replacement in two out of the three macs i've owned because they broke down within three years after purchase.
That's not exclusive to the imperial system...
It is pretty, and probably looks great on Retina screens. I would be worried though (and would include a "light" theme) when displaying on TVs. Black levels on most low to midrange TVs are notoriously bad, and even worse in high light environments - like it would be if you placed this in your company's lobby.
You're my hero of the day.
Get me block level (vit, cit ...) commands in ST2 and I will switch. They are done very well in Vim.
From their twitter, "Our best guess: non-interactive. Read-only status. Not "widgets" per se."

Source: https://twitter.com/panic/status/321846592921534465
Yes--basically, short-selling just creates the same kind of "flight to quality" gravity that kills markets when people start to feel pessimistic about them, but pulls in the opposite direction: so now, on average, everything will "draw a straight[er] line", but moment-to-moment you'll just have price spikes that kill the short positions in the same way price-plummets kill the long positions.

What Bitcoin really needs to smooth out its volatility, as far as I can tell, is HFT market-makers trading tiny amounts of BTC by the millisecond. Which should theoretically be easier with an all-digital currency--but, if done in "real" BTC, requires probably at least a million times the block-chain growth velocity Bitcoin currently has. It could still probably be done with "BTC liabilities" on a private exchange, though.
I wonder if people would be so opposed to the monetization strategy if he wasn't targeting low-income families? If he was targeting programmer parents to teach their kids, and charging them, would it be bad? I think it's safe to say most gainfully employed programmers could afford this.
Jobs refined one thing at a time over many, many iterations to an incredibly well thought-out polish of design and functionality. His marketing was also incredibly well thought out, carefully iterated, over a long time.

Johnson just seemed to think he could change stuff he didn't like with no iterations and no need to think it through. Plus he had no special focus, unlike Jobs with one key product at a time.