skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, we can't shift to Java--we're consultants. We're a total MS and esri (GIS) shop. I was hoping for some hints that ASP.NET could integrate smoothly w/ PostGres in order to offer something else to clients.
>Dairy requires that cows be forcibly inseminated

Moreover, that produces calves, and it turns out that half of those calves are male. Those males typically get turned into veal.

And another side effect caused by that is that those calves are forcibly taken from their mothers, which is intensely traumatic for both. It is common for the cows to injure themselves struggling to go after their calves as they are taken away.
Don Norman's 2009 Business of Software talk on product and service/system design is excellent.

http://businessofsoftware.org/2010/06/don-norman-at-business...
According that argument you shouldn't spend any fiat currencies either, because it's more profitable to convert all of it to bitcoins.
Machine Learning and the Jargons
If you'd like to take action against Ag-Gag, I suggest signing the petition at http://www.ag-gag.org/. You might also want to consider subscribing to the FarmForward mailing list and/or making a donation - http://www.farmforward.com
ERIPP is cool (I spoke to the author years ago), but to my knowledge it hasn't been updated in a while. And I cover 20+ services at the moment, so it's not just HTTP.
I wonder if this will help push Google to start serving AdSense over SSL?
This reads like a giant advertisement for why scientists should learn to code. Not only would they not be helpless in the face of stupid formats, they'd be far more likely to pick a decent one to store the data in the first place.
I'd say OSX is pretty mainstream for web development in my experience. If Hoodie was only available for the Atari ST then perhaps it would be a hipster framework.
Yeah, we are basically copying Microsoft.

Edit: No harm done :)
> The important thing to remember is that this currency is not inherently worthless.

Yes, it is. Like all fiat currencies, Bitcoins (as distinct from the physical artifacts in which some of them might be housed) have no inherent value, only the value that results from the fact that some people are currently willing to accept them for other things.

> As long as people will still accept and trade in bitcoin, Bitcoin will never be as susceptible to collapse as other historical bubbles.

"As long as people accept and trade in X, X will never be as susceptible to collapse as other historic bubbles" is equally true for all possible values of X. The difficulty is predicting when and to what degree people will stop accepting X.
If someone can kill an animal that they've raised from birth and cared for each day- without wincing, without feeling it in their heart for days- I don't want to buy meat from that person.
9.47 / 15 years

Then: First job 16 yrs old cashier at mexican resturant
Now: Lead Engineer
For pdfs that are coming from some sort of consistent system, the conversion tools in xpdf work pretty well.
Yeah, this is what I suspect meetings about this product line were like too. Everyone's talking about the hardware, and everyone is pissed off what what the "software guys" want the hardware to do. "We have to support what?" "With how much memory?!" etc.
I went to JC Penney this past weekend and it was wonderful. I got some jeans and a shirt for like 40 bucks.

They had a coupon though, it was spend 50 get 10 off. I didn't have one and the cashier used the one at the register. She also used an iPhone to ring up up instead of the cash register sitting in front of her.
You mean... the Japanese Yen?

Nintendo and Sony posting record losses as the Yen continues to get stronger and stronger. The $200 Wii console sold the best in 2010 and 2011, but because the Yen deflated so much Nintendo lost money on the USD -> Yen conversion and overall didn't do so well.
Not all HN submissions are created equal:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=harlox

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=joeyczikk1

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=vantech

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=KnowltonThomas

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=vancity
About the smartness aspect of it:
You have set top boxes like Roku which are designed well. Hell my PS3 is fairly easy to use. The previous generation of the LG smart TVs were also pretty good without having to deal with the gestures.

As for dealing with switching the inputs, many older TVs and computer monitors come with a simple enough mechanism to switch between various inputs. This particular article may be about regression in the UI.

There is nothing "new" Apple can do here. If they end up doing something it will not be not that far off from existing and very functional UIs.
Yeah, I don't think it's a good or safe idea, but it would at least be exciting to see them try.
hi

I am trying very hard not to be dumb, but this is beating me

seemingly Kanso? and Hoodie both have JS stubs at the client and server end, these synch with each other, then synch with whatever you are using at client (say backbone) and server (node? CouchDB? My Postgres server behind my python app?)

If thats roughly right, why do I do this? I control my server apps no? Why wrap them in another layer? Json->backbone is hardly a difficult synch operation - I mean its called synch().

I really am interested in understanding the philosophy and driving ideas here - everyone has a moment of clarity where they can see how to build an app or a framework, and how it will come together - I am not attacking you (yet !) - please describe your moment of clarity.
A lot of companies make profit by selling SSL as an pro feature. Just look at all those services where SSL login is only available at a certain cost level. (And using SSL only for the login form is a joke, too.)

It's a shame that these are making money from that basic consumer security. Especially since SSL is neither expensive nor need a lot of performance.
Fix JC Penney. You have 3 minutes. Go!!
>Or some of the European diesels, some of which are pushing 100 MPG.

Unless I'm terribly mistaken, you are thinking of vehicles that were tested on a different driving cycle with a larger gallon (imperial vs US). If compared on an EPA cycle with US gallons, those cars get closer to 50 mpg.
Retail is the original massively multi-player role-playing game.
PCI Express 3.0 is 1GB/s aka 8Gb/s per lane, you seem to have got confused between GB/s and Gb/s. Three lanes would give you more than you need for a new thunderbolt port.

Also if you take x79 which is a consumer platform it has 40 PCI Express 3.0 lanes which would be enough for 16 of the new thunderbolt ports.
Ask HN: Are ignored "Show HN"s a reflection of the project?
Obviously to some degree the answer to this is always "yes" ...but timing of post, quality of title, etc. all must matter to a certain degree too, right?

I've done 4 or 5 "Show HNs" over the last 2 months for my current project (as I've added new features) and I've gotten basically one comment. I can't decide if this is a reflection of my project not being interesting, something about HN, or my total lack of marketing skills (or something else)?

I'd really appreciate any input... or "just" ideas for marketing for hackers. Every tip I read seems to basically be: spam but don't spam. For whatever reason I have a real problem reaching out to people because I feel like I am spamming them...and then when I go ahead and do it anyway I just get ignored anyway. Thoughts?

Thanks!
Reading the comments it's clear that majority people do not understand what it is, mostly because the title is misleading.

It's a custom, toy browser with Ruby support, not "Ruby in the Browser" (where the implication is that the browser == chrome or firefox or safari).

I'm just trying to clarify that so that people don't get the wrong impression from the misleading title.
Define high quality clothing and masses.
> But humans aren't rational creatures

I think that is the sad part.
This is exactly what I tell students in my Git courses during the first hour.

Git checkout is a command to read something from your .git-folder to your working directory.

Especially for people coming from ClearCase, the concept of Git checkout needs to be clarified as fast as possible. (In CC checkout means you make an element (file) editable for you, and possibly reserve it to you too)
Because by this time they have already seen this and are lawyered up.
While anecdotal, I can personally confirm this. my wife LOVES shopping for "the deal" -- it's all a game to her. I tease her a lot because there are countless times where she comes home with widgets that we don't immediately need, but were purchased solely because of their discount %.

For her, something at a low price point to begin with appears cheap, however you take that same item and slap a high MSRP on it with a 50% discount down to that same first price point... now we're talking!
My advice is to do something. Disney doesn't know they infringed, some sub-sub contractor did this. But eventually, they will find the image and assume that the original author is the infringer, and they're sticklers about this.

If the author does nothing, she may find herself in the unfortunate position of spending lots of money in court to prove that she didn't "steal" her own picture.
How virtualization in ARM works?
Mike Hearn has talked some on how you could use existing functionality in the bitcoin protocol to issue loans. Around 25:50 he talks about ripple + bitcoin which is a practical autonomous lending system. A little bit simpler than the smart property way which is pretty deep down in the protocol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD4L7xDNCmA&t=17m30s
> Third use - transfer money easily across borders, for example a migrant worker sending money to family. No red tape, no forex hassles, no worry about future value (unless the value tanks while you're transferring, of course.)

The "no red tape, no forex hassles" are largely because of immaturity in the regulation of "virtual currencies" that exist largely because most states haven't gotten around to addressing them because of scale issues compared to traditional soveriegn currencies.

This is already starting change.
Built-in streaming apps. No screwing with a second remote, or another device like an Apple/WD TV. Those are 'better' but a Smart TV is simpler.
So I don't know how much gold it would take to rock the price, but I'm guessing it's enough as to be non-trivially "lost" however, any random flashdrive could contain any number of btc.
Retroactively justifying things is what we always do. Here's an excerpt from Dan Ariely's "The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty":

> The experience taught me that sometimes (perhaps often) we don't make choices based on our explicit preferences. Instead, we have a gut feeling about what we want, and we go through a process of mental gymnastics, applying all kinds of justifications to manipulate the criteria. That ways, we can get what we really want, but at the same time keep up the appearance -- to ourselves and to others -- that we are acting in accordance with our rational and well-reasoned preferences.

Simply replace all occurrence of "we" with "mercurial/git fanboys" based on your own preferences ;)
http://dappered.com/2012/10/in-person-the-nick-wooster-influ...
If you're reading about surviving a ground-up rewrite when you're supposed to be _doing_ a ground up rewrite, you're doing it wrong. Read about design patterns, focus on your core business, and stop trying to focus on the "five things to make your rewrite successful".
FWIW I too wrote a camo clone, but in Go[1]. Decently sized project for learning a new language. At $dayjob we have a python version too (considering replacing it with the Go version at some point)...

[1]: https://github.com/cactus/go-camo
If there was any kind of ballpark figure on how many bags they have sold, that would be a good starting point.
That quotation is also how James Surowiecki ends his pretty decent column on Ron Johnson: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/financial/2013/03/25/130325ta_...
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This man here speaks the truth. Without revenue, it is easier to get a $30k grant than it is to find an angel investor willing to invest for the same amount. (Source: I raised a $30k grant in about 3 meetings and 5 hours of paper work. I also spent about 6 months with two idiot "angel investors" from Ryerson Angel Network when I was young and dumb and didn't close a dime. One guy said he wanted to invest but sheepishly said "I'll have to ask my wife first, since it is $10k". More like RRSP investors. The only angel investor in Toronto that is worth anything is the one guy from maple that told me that nobody in the city has any money and to just get on bootstrapping.)

It is even easier to raise $800k in grant money too. Depending on your startup, the CMF may think that your startup is in fact an "emerging digital platform" that has promise. Most startups I know that raised this type of capital did so from Americans.

If you are a Canadian angel that disagrees, feel free to talk to me. I know a bunch of pre-revenue startups that are cool, but you won't ever hear of because they've all given up hoping to raise Canadian cash.
The great Canadian startups I know don't look incredibly highly of government programs (namely SR&ED and IRAP). They're great, but can be distracting, taking you away from building value in your startup and into filling out meaningless forms. That said, free money is free money, and I've seen successful startups (that aren't politically connected) leverage these programs without being distracted.
I wouldn't call it optimism. Both of the 'infringers' you linked to paid plenty of money for it.

I can't say that article of yours makes your point nearly as well as you might like, either. I hope it doesn't represent your general attitude towards derivative works (or just derivative works you don't appreciate aesthetically, whichever).
> It's a sad state of affairs in American consumerism that folks are attracted more to discounts than low prices.

The largest retailer in the world is Walmart, which doesn't really use discounts except to clear inventory, and advertises "always low prices".

American consumerism does love low prices. The problem is that if you play that game, you compete with Walmart and lose.
If by diploma you mean a 2 year (which is usually what it means in Canada), it won't be enough on its own.

You can actually get an exemption if you can demonstrate equivalent knowledge and a career progression towards it. What that usually means is having a professor of your field vouch for your knowledge and being able to prove work history for 3 or 4 years of each of the four years of university you didn't take. A two year diploma may cut that amount in half, but I wouldn't necessarily count on it.

If your work history is hard to prove you may want to try other types of visas. TN-1s aren't so difficult, but re-entry can apparently be a pain. You can also get an equivalent to an H-1B by working for a Canadian subsidiary (of, say, MS or Google) for about a year and then getting a transfer to the American head office. I believe these are much easier to get.

And then there's the traditional ways, like being sponsored by family etc. Unfortunately, no matter what, a degree will make it much much easier.
What's sad is that these tendencies can be exploited (see attached pictures in my original post) and that we'll subject ourselves to all kinds of stress with regards to deal hunting just to find a bargain that might not end up being a bargain.

And while I know that humans aren't rational creatures (in fact it was my research for a number of years), some of this can be fixed with market leadership and "training" customers to understand that they're acting against their best interest by demanding an economy in which marked prices are in fact price anchoring deceptions.
p2p sync is actually a hard problem, you might want to look into the theory :)

The value of Hoodie is putting everything together into a way that a jQuery / backbone dev can be productive with.

It sounds like you are way more advanced, as such, you will have a way easier time managing all the pieces.

> Why?

Because we like building apps that way :)
Cooking up the connected kitchen
Key difference: kan.so is Couch specific. Hoodie is not. We do not try to make another nice library to wrap CouchDB. We try to make a nice JavaScript API for the most common backend tasks.

We start with a dream API, and build from there.
I think this is an amazing example of an employee who is a bad fit. Ron was clearly a star at Apple but he was a dud at J.C. Penny. There will be lots of arguments about why that is, from classic operational economics to somewhat fuzzier buyer happiness metrics, but the more interesting message is that the problems can't be fixed by swapping out one piece.

This is true in groups too. I've seen groups lose a star player, only to have another 'star' swapped in but with a different vibe and it all goes to hell. This seems to be magnified with CEOs.

I know that I do not have the fortitude that it takes to be successful in a walmart/target/costco kind of retail space. So I wish him luck.
Thanks Dylan, will look into this. Do you have any good blogs you can recommend for getting started?
Absolutely agree, and I personally use this as a potential red flag for new people we hire.

Legacy systems have gone through so many fixes and shifts that it's almost impossible to recreate them without deep understanding of the business demands it meets.

The business part, I would say, is critical to being able to maintain (or re-write) a project.
Samsung's smart tv was a fantastic experience for me personally -- in fact it made me regret I hadn't bought a TV sooner. UN55F6300 was the model we had (and, after ~6 months parted ways with to go back to our ipad) and enjoyed every minute of it.

There were some caveats like the keyboard on the remote not working inside some 3rd party apps. that the TV allowed you to install.
I have found the Pro Git book to be the best:
http://git-scm.com/book

That, and constantly creating your own test repositories to test new commands/concepts. With a distributed VCS it's easy and fast. Just run "git init test" somewhere and start committing!

I also recommend you to use "gitk" when you're learning to constantly look at your history tree. That should clarify the concept "branches are pointers" after a few tests.
This. I'm almost at the 100k mark now (2 years later) but fresh out of college, I wasn't. I still get paid tons above the prevailing wage though. It's just that setting an arbitrary limit is kinda, well, arbitrary. It doesn't take into account any of the differences between jobs / industries. The US needs a lot of engineers in areas where salaries aren't overinflated.

I think setting a percentage could be slightly better. Say, 20% above prevailing wages. That has the effect you want.
Fantastic! I can see this being incredibly useful for cases where you have multiple versions of a framework used in different projects. Right now you can install documentation into Xcode if the project uses appledoc[1], but there's no way to switch between versions.

On the subject of appledoc, are you using a custom template here? It seems to improve on the default one in a few places.

[1]: http://gentlebytes.com/appledoc/
Couldn't have said it better myself; I had the exact same experience.

I'll probably never step foot in there again now that they're going back to their ridiculous pricing strategy.
Alright, Team Hoodie is calling it a day. Thanks for the lively discussion and nice feedback, you’ve been great! :)

See you again tomorrow CEST. <3
I'm sure their licensing contract requires the 3rd parties to warrant intellectual property ownership and indemnify vs. any claims related to it.

So the artist may end up negotiating with the handbag maker, but they might benefit from starting out making a claim against Disney.
Whether his strategy is flawed or not is, unfortunately, not the issue at hand. As great as it would be to discuss the technical merits of what he was trying to achieve, it seems like Johnson's biggest failing was not properly contextualizing what he was trying to do to the company.

For instance, JCP has been rather drastically upgrading the quality of their menswear. They've not only started catering to a much more fashion-oriented consumer (they even brought on Nick Wooster, who was previously at Bergdorf Goodman and Gilt Groupe's high end retail site Park & Bond - http://www.jcpenney.com/dotcom/jsp/browse/marketing/promotio...) but they took a stand that such clothes should be wearable and affordable. It's an audacious, if respectable, goal that anyone should be able to see can't be achieved in a year or two. It took JCrew much longer than that to make a similar transition.

Shareholders should have been very aware that things will get much worse before they get better, as it takes time and conditioning to expunge "bargain basement" from the brain and into something that more closely resembles a homegrown Uniqlo. People gave Johnson credit for doing so at Target but to be fair Target didn't gain traction on the upward move till years after he left. He should have never put himself in a position where people were expecting progress barely a year after taking the reins.

Turning around an entrenched company like JCP is a task that really doesn't follow much of Apple's game plan, and I think Johnson's decade in the tech sector might have spoiled him in estimating customer trends (especially with regards to reconditioning behavior). It's a bummer, as someone into clothes AND tech I feel like the JCP transformation could have been a really great story.
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> I am pretty sure if someone found a stash of gold worth $400.000.000.000 that WOULD actually effect gold prices.

Yes, it would. Spain essentially demonstrated this in the 16th Century, with the New World as the "stash".
I'm not sure what you're looking for exactly, just buy a monitor. We do Smart TV app development across a variety of platforms (Smart TV's, Rokus, Xbox) and the vast majority of this development is done on off the shelf 24" Monitor's with HDMI inputs. We joke all the time that the cheapest TVs are in the monitor aisle. (This is only true to a certain size however)

I should note the LG TVs in the OP are actually great test machines too...
Very few TVs use IPS, since IPS tends to have worse black levels and pixel response time than PVA/MVA (alternatively: it's more expensive to get equivalent specs out of IPS), which are the two specs that TV reviewers care about (black level in particular is the absolute king). IPS's strengths, viewing angles and especially color accuracy, are nowhere near as important to the reviewers, and also not as rigorously measured. And being color accurate is actually considered a detriment in showrooms.
Pretty cool... the only problem is users are not going to demand Ruby in their browser :/

I created RedScript to try and bring Ruby syntax into the browser, still pretty experimental though (and not the real thing!).

https://github.com/AdamBrodzinski/RedScript