skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree. I do think though that right now the Buffer App team is pretty small and slowly growing. Plus when a product is constantly changing or getting upgraded, it can be difficult to know all the answers all the time.

I do feel this post is pretty sincere and I liked the fact that she was honest with her mistake.
Mock.js Javascript Mock Library
Compiler Warnings for Objective-C Developers
Running on rails 4 it should be:

$ rails g migration add_uuid_to_postgresql

class AddUuidToPostgresql < ActiveRecord::Migration
execute("CREATE EXTENSION uuid-ossp;")
end

$ rake db:migrate && rake db:test:prepare

Then create a table as shown in the article, and it should work.
I found your blog engaging and also a more honest attempt to try this out.
To throw a completely different wrench into the mix, I mostly just use Django to provide an API anymore, and for session handling.

I love and use Django, and have built large projects where I haven't really run into any limitations with it[1], but for the most part, nowadays my workflow is to pip install django, south, tastypie, then load in a template with Backbone and Marionette, then get to town.

Templates are either Mustache or Underscore, depending.

[1] - Yeah, it could be faster, but if you have a large, confusing database schema that you inherited, the Django ORM is great for getting things stood up, and then just tune the queries after the fact. It's still a huge timesaver vs. writing every query by hand.
Pull yourself together, your posts are easily proven factually wrong and your garbage posts are destroying HN.

In addition to BP's $4billion criminal settlement, BP executives were individually indicted for manslaughter and other crimes, and many of the subcontractors also face charges:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2012/11/15/bp-n...
It's not just the stigma that IT isn't womanly, it's the idea that a young girl... already completely dejected by her peers (read "females"), couldn't integrate herself better in classes made up of 100% high school boys (which are her peers as much as the other girls).
Unless this high school girl is incredibly hard to get along with, she will most likely make friends, males or females.
I am surprised there are so few women in IT.
Clojure is not compatible with Lisp. It's a new Lisp dialect. Just like Logo, Dylan and a few others.

Common Lisp is the successor to Maclisp, which came out of McCarthy's Lisp. Thus you can port most old code to Common Lisp without much pain.

When people switched from Maclisp to Common Lisp, they patched their code. For some time the same code base ran in different dialects.

If you switch from Common Lisp to Clojure, you can rewrite everything or even just forget it anyway.
Mint literally is a weed in the meadow behind my house.
I had almost all of those issues except when I, filled with hate and competitiveness, decided to drop everything off and focus it paid off.

Maybe even with the good result I should know I'm making a mistake.
The amount of highly processed carbohydrates is frightening and far from "healthy"[1]. It's unfortunate, but to eat healthy costs more, because healthy food spoils.

I look at it like this: if a food doesn't spoil[2], it is most likely because bacteria and fungus can get no nutritional value from it. Do I want to eat that?

1. http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Scienc...

2. There are some exceptions, of course, but surprisingly few.
Did Microsoft run into any trademark issues calling the format "Office Open XML", considering one of the competitors to the Microsoft Office suite is called "Open Office".
So I wasn't the only one that noticed the free apple... Around here a single apple is $0.50-$1 depending on the size. I too can eat for less than a dollar by simply not counting the expensive parts.
This is a Chrome extension that uses NaCl, so I don't think it supports multiple browsers or will any time soon.
So cool to hear this. We're trying something similar with the entire staff at SEOmoz. Everyone knows the product in different ways and takes turns as part of the "Help" team. It's a new concept but great to hear how others are doing it.
I second that emotion.

Though one could admire the issue moving away from "women in tech" to "non-geek persons in tech" ;)
At the DB level, it facilitates master-master replication set-up, eliminating the auto_increment collision problems.
Master-master replication, in turn, allows building distributed applications that can handle net splits reasonably well.
I have no problem with him making money for posting something. I wish everyone on here was able to capitalize in some way for their work.
Are you sure it's not because the default branch is empty? It's a design choice [1] for all the other Android kernel images.

[1] : https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!msg/android-bu...
I'm not getting it because the reasoning is not sound. Your reasoning is basically "the numbers are BIG! so a factor of 2x doesn't matter". If you can get your lottery tickets for half price, you can buy twice as many lottery tickets, and double your chances. Equivalently, getting 1% of Google or 5% of Google is a 5x difference, which is huge. That could easily mean the difference between a net profit or net loss for an investor over all his investments.

If you really believe that the terms don't matter, then I'm sure lots of YC startups are happy to take money from you at terms that are 5x better than what YC offers.
Show HN: Visualize positions of a string
Thought experiments aren't as reliable as controlled experiments for objectively measuring the speed and efficacy of user interfaces, and interviewing actual users for discovering subjective preferences.

We performed a controlled experiment in 1988 that compared eight item pie menus to linear menus, which showed that pie menus were significantly faster and had lower error rates than linear menus.

Users didn't have a problem with them in 1988, and probably won't now: "The most mouse naive users, while finding linear menus easier, tended to be better at pie menus and commented that with practice, they would probably be superior and in fact prefer the pie menus because of their speed and minimization of hand movement with the mouse. Not surprisingly, therefore, most of those preferring linear menus did not have a strong preference on the scaled subjective questionnaire."

An Empirical Comparison of Pie vs. Linear Menus

Jack Callahan, Don Hopkins, Mark Weiser () and Ben Shneiderman.

Computer Science Department University of Maryland College Park, Maryland 20742

() Computer Science Laboratory, Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, Calif. 94303.

Presented at ACM CHI'88 Conference, Washington DC, 1988.

http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/100

The Design and Implementation of Pie Menus -- Dr. Dobb's Journal, Dec. 1991

There're Fast, Easy, and Self-Revealing.

Copyright (C) 1991 by Don Hopkins.

Originally published in Dr. Dobb's Journal, Dec. 1991, lead cover story, user interface issue.

http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/98
I manage the Community team at SEOmoz, and part of the team's job is to do customer service via our social channels. We try to respond quickly whether we have the answer or not, to let them know we're working on it. It does help the community member feel like they're being taken care of quickly and that we're listening to them.
Had this been a few years later, they could've transported it via helicopter:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_Mi-12
http://www.mulholland-drive.net/studies/classical.htm

Basically, the first part of the movie is Betty's dream and the second part is harsh reallity. After watching it, I was as confused as you but still was amazed by the movie. What I like about Lynch's movies is the "trippy" experience.
I don't think it's necessarily poor financial decision making that leads to payday loans. If you are poor you are unlikely to qualify for a regular loan and you might not have family who can lend you the money you need.

If you find yourself with a week until payday and £0 in the bank it may be difficult not to consider the option.
And the corollary of that rule: "I want a pony too!!!"
Like someone posted right below your, because everyone wants to belong to a Grandfalloon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granfalloon

It's easier to "belong to a club" by saying either "I like computers", "I like sports" or "I like my nails painted" than by saying "I like computers, sports and nails painted".

But didn't we learn that the world isn't binary? :)
Would like to reply, but not in public. Doesn't seem possible... Empty HN profile, nothing to find on the site, etc.

Didn't have that much to say, it's not really worth emailing me so that I have your email address (or something), but it's annoying to have no contact info whatsoever.
1%?? Lol they charge 150% where I live until the regulators clamped down on them and class action lawsuits happened. Now it's $50 maximum per week they can charge, but they get around this with NSF fees and late charges.

They also hit bank accounts with EFT withdrawal up to 3x per day if the first one didn't clear, which is $40 NSF charge each time. Unfortunately because these lenders signed a piece of paper allowing for automatic withdrawal, the payday loan company then steals all your money the day before you are paid, so your account will be debited -$200 for a $100 loan you missed a payment for, factoring in all the NSF and late charges. Since most people are paid with direct deposit nothing they could do to stop this. Bank will also charge interest on the overdraft.

So on payday you have nothing, and are forced to go back to the payday loan company just to survive but are now paying even higher interest, because you defaulted once. Sounds like they are well regulated where you live but not here they are still loan sharks.
This is exactly what I meant about expert "stage 3" users, in my other comment above (below, wherever).
Really just following through consistently. Recently I was trying to start out slow and do 30-45 minutes of brisk walking several days per week. I did it for 2 weeks before something came up and I missed a couple of days and I never got back into it.

Until today (yayy) I have been working the graveyard shift at work. I'm going to give it another go with a more sane schedule and focus on being consistent on the times I do go exercise.
I laughed when I read what you said. Lipton reminds me of when I would get sick as a child and that is what my mother gave me (this was back when Lipton was the tea there really wasn't much else around at that time.)
That's if you're lucky enough to be in a hotel, and not out on the street, where you'd be lucky to have access to even a hot plate.
Scrolling and paging by dragging and gesturing on an iPad or touchpad.
Most of the articles you have linked, as far as I can tell, say the case for breastfeeding has been overstated (fine, more controlled studies need to be done) but a benefit still exists. You are overstating your case.

>(the technical term for it is appeal to nature fallacy).

A couple hundred million years of evolution is just a hippie fantasy, I guess. If the evidence isn't there, fine, but I can't for the life of me understand how the null hypothesis among hackers is always natural = bad.

>Breastfeeding is only free if a woman's time has no value.

First, why couldn't they pump? Are you saying they don't have time for pumping, but they can afford child care and formula? These people are buying formula from overseas. From a quick search, it appears western families are paying $100-$200+/month (that doesn't include shipping) for formula and I'm not convinced poor Chinese workers are earning much (if any) more than that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_wages_in_China
Have you ever played "The Sims"?
Why is recessed lighting evil?
> You're competing against the awesome developer doing their own thing.

Every developer can come of with delusional visions, ridiculous sales projections or greedy scamming schemes, but not every business person can develop software.
It's also useful if you don't want your URLs to expose how many of a certain thing you have, whether it be users, posts, payments etc. A lot of sites let you derive how much activity they have based on how fast their numeric IDs increment. You could use a separate token alongside the pkey to do the same but this feature just makes it simpler.
Technically, it should have been zoning restrictions keeping homes away from the plant. The town of West actually grew up around that plant - it essentially didn't exist until after the plant opened.
You can get by basically anywhere in Europe without a car. Sure, you might have to walk 20 or 30 minutes or so (one-way), but the wear on your shoes from that is absolutely negligible.
I'm talking about a mentally sane person.
You can find 2$ (actually a LOT more) simply opening the trash bin near you.
People already keep their smartphones on table in busy bars, and maybe their wallet in a back pocket. This isn't any easier to steal than that, and has way less impact than having to freeze your credit cards for instance.

Much will depend on the price of the final Glass, but if it is down to around the price of designer sunglasses, I don't see a big threat.
I'm not clear how to get a Google Drive workflow using Dropbox and an app.

i.e:

1. A single canonical version of each document with a change history.
2. Simultaneous real-time editing by multiple users with conflict resolution.

Dropbox has pretty limited locking and conflict resolution even if you don't factor in live editing.
OP recommends more sleep. Brand new study says less sleep actually helps depressed people.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-sleep-d...
Why I am building a product with a tiny market
Incompetence as Encouragement
But, I couldn't install it because it depends on the curl library and the curl library depends on linux binaries. I develop on Windows.

There's a curl binary for Windows that uses cygwin. I had no problems developing Windows haskell apps based off curl FFI.
I know this is inappropriate but I got a kick out of imagining your customers dining on sand witches. Brilliant!
This kind of sounds like people setting interest rates. I've heard that's gone well for us... Twice.
If this is how Google goes head-to-head with Microsoft, I have to confess it doesn't look that good for Google. :)

On the other hand, my wife has been perfectly happy with LibreOffice. (Was not as happy with LaTeX. :) )
1% a day is 360% a year, which sounds very high, but is less than missing a payment sometimes. You would use them when it made sense, and borrow an amount that you could pay back. Many people are paid weekly, so it might cost £5.

Things were very bad in the UK until recently, and in many ways still are, but the companies have come under a lot of regulatory pressure, and are being... better. I'm afraid that sometimes you have to choose between 2 evils.

People are not dumb, and 1.2 million (3/100th the population) took a payday loan in 2009. You could credit a lower number to individual poor judgment, but these are rational economic operators borrowing small amounts at high interest rates to avoid hunger or larger losses due to cash flow problems.
different genre, but I find the starcraft community pretty good. The culture of even wishing your opponent(s) glhf (good luck have fun) and saying gg (good game) afterwards is pretty respectful (most of the time).
Fully agreed - IMHO this article again shows how removed from reality some people are and seemingly nothing is left out to polarise society further (a/k/a the poor are only to stupid - look here they can live a healthy diet on even less).

a few thoughts on this article:

(1) compare the energy / fat / etc in this article with the rations given to the British people during WWII and shortly afterwards - I estimate the article's diet is even below those and nobody would ever dare to deny those enduring that time lived in abundance or a healthy diet.

(2) one more "... live on xxx £ for a few days" - Hypocrites, a few days does not make a difference.
You can easily live on a few sugar cubes & apples (plus water) for 10 or more days. Most people would not feel different after that, and in our obese societies some even pay thousands of £s for such a minimal diet to loose some weight. The difference comes from 2-3 months or a year. When you're actually poor like many in the UK - being in such a situation (for indefinitely or until you win the lottery - about the same) adds a massive psychological toll on top that should not be underestimated. Hint to understand: If I tell you at the beginning of a 2 months software development task that all code you're going to write during these 2 months will be dumped unseen, ask yourself how much of a great coder you will be - so much about motivation and psychological toll.

(3) it is generally no fun to be poor even if some tell you otherwise - you're excluded from society, constantly humiliated and shown that you're worth nothing. This is even worse if you have children.

(4) With the changes in the social systems during the last decade(s) in Europe there is almost no chance to get out of this situation by yourself particularly if you're over 50 or have been unemployed longer than 2 years. And you get there much quicker than any politician would publicly admit. If you're self-employed, a few people not paying their bills, a few new contracts not signed - bang you're there.

There is a petition running at change.org that already more than 475'000 Brits have signed to asked bigmouth IDS (work & pensions secretary) who claimed he could easily live on £7 a day to actually do it and do it for longer than a few days - sign it to at least show you disregards with these politics ( http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/iain-duncan-smith-iain... ).
Note that £1 is $1.54 and that pricing is not necessarily the same in the US and the UK, where I found the UK to be more expensive than Germany when it comes to groceries – tight competition really does help to bring prices down.
This one?

The Design and Implementation of Pie Menus

There're Fast, Easy, and Self-Revealing.

Copyright (C) 1991 by Don Hopkins.

Originally published in Dr. Dobb's Journal, Dec. 1991, lead cover story, user interface issue.

http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/98

More stuff at:

Home > topics > Software > Pie Menus
http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/taxonomy_menu/4/49/14

And here are some pie menus for Unity3D:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMN1LQ7qx9g

And this explains the pie menus and visual programming in The Sims:
http://www.DonHopkins.com/home/movies/TheSimsPieMenus.mov
My first desire for Medium
The cost of electricity is quite low. If you are actually so broke you can't afford it, there's probably places you can leech. It depends on where you are, but 10c / kwh won't be a huge cost. Say 5c to cook a bowl of soup.

Then there's the rice cooker - good for a year, and costs $20. That's another 5c.
Apps & Droid
Only downside: this makes the URLs very long sometimes.
Poverty isn't a consumption level; poverty is when you're on the edge of losing everything.
"Sleep, it seems, is a massive part of my behavioural defense mechanism."

Not to suggest that one is more important than another, but sleep is critical for me own depression. Turning off my brain and meditating before bed is possibly the most important part if my day.
Top X lists of anything tend to be a bit odd. John Peel used to say that the songs in 51 to 100 were better than the Festive Fifty.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festive_Fifty)

(I'm a bit surprised by the comments about affiliate links. Affiliate links are much more preferable to me than ad-heavy pages.)
Why I Pay for Draft and Other Free Products
Read In The Gaps
Ask HN: Is there any advantage of using APC + Varnish + Cloudflare?
I am running a content site (php/mysql/smarty) which already uses APC. I am thinking of installing varnish to cache frequently fetched pages as each pageload hits the DB. Am also thinking of using Cloudflare for speedingup static content and provide a cache if server breaks as it does many times.

Am wondering if this setup will offer me a considerable advantage or will I do better just using fewer of them so as to save server resources in the case of apc/varnish and cost in the case of cloudflare?
This is just the temporary location right? Messing around with the Kernel now.
> If anything, Litecoin is magnitudes weaker due to the slower hashrate compared with Bitcoin

But that doesn't say anything about Litecoin, it only says something about Litecoin's current state of being. Bitcoin could similarly be said to have a hashrate surmountable by a few wealthy companies working together. Things will improve over time, and certainly if Litecoin proves to be the better, it will have a bigger hash rate than Bitcoin.

It's like saying "Windows is better because more people use Windows". Yeah of course there is more support for the most used platform, but that doesn't say anything about the quality of a newly released OS X. It may well be better, and in ten years it might be biggest. Not saying it will be, but it might. Same goes for Bitcoin vs Litecoin hashrate.
Quite the opposite. It makes life easier for people who want to avoid MS Office. If they ever have to deal with it due to interactions across the "world boundary" then it's trivial, read support is built into chrome, import/export is built into google drive.

Also, remember that Chrome can potentially live on devices where Office may not be available.
Awesome Django admin enhancements
Definitely agree.

Using an ORM should not exclude also using direct SQL. It should be both.

I believe this brings the best combination. Anytime there is major complexity just drop to normal SQL.

The best of both.
For this to work, the PG role that the Rails app is using has to be a superuser, as AFAIK only superuser roles can execute CREATE EXTENSION.

Does anyone consider this an issue? I have been using non-superuser roles within my Rails apps, and using an outside superuser role to add extensions with an external tool (like pgAdmin).
For moist food at room temperature maybe, but a lot of healthy food resists spoiling by being stored dry or cold.
150% a DAY??
I don't write much HTML anymore (it's all frontend templating and API calls), but I use Django Forms everywhere. For instance, tastypie supports using a Django Form to handle validation in your API[1].

[1] - http://django-tastypie.readthedocs.org/en/latest/validation....
My thoughts exactly. Theft is bound to happen, but I don't think it will be any different than any other gadget.

Maybe we will see some sort of remove viewing apps that will allow us to view what the thief is looking at.
A Review Of Bitcoinin – Bitcoin’s Unique Online Retailer
Yes, I think the percentage of under 30y old entrepreneurs outweighs who do highly scalable startups outweighs the over 30y olds by far.

A billion dollar company after 10y of being in business is not impressive. If you have some money to start with that's easy. The art is to make a billion dollar company with no in itial funding and within 1 year. Talk about resourceful.
All abstractions tend to be leaky.

ORM can abstract DB/SQL for you, but if you really ignore DB/SQL, then it can happily make some queries an order (or two ) of magnitude slower than they should be.

So, you must always think in explicit SQL-query-terms anyway; and then it's just a balance for ease of coding - does the ease of ORM syntactic sugar outweigh the effort for you to double-check if any ORM-built queries don't accidentally do something stupidly slow.