skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You get the groups that get out of the gate and are just outright lucky. Then the second groups who figured it out. Then you have the third group that worked to get there.

Then you have the last group that tried everything and failed to know what that one thing is that could work.

You just have to wait.

I've been at this for twelve years, since I was in my teens. The struggle stories takes time to mature for that redemption.
"I learned to code to launch my new startup" .. and here it is. That's implicit to me.
Have you been tracking calorie intake, both before and after the diet change? That's the deciding factor for your weight. Metabolism, wheat/yeast sensitivity or even normal exercise only has a minor impact.

I would think dropping something as common as wheat would have significant impact on your diet, or?
> And with this decision you break 99% of the web on mobile devices.

There's nothing broken about it. You can zoom in just fine; you just have to scroll back and forth, much like if you had a desktop browser opened to a tiny size.

What you describe is "broken" is actually conforming to HTML and CSS spec; Android is the one that's technically "broken". Internet Explorer had a knack for creating "features" that broke spec, too, and look how that turned out.

> Finally, it's a much better solution for visually impaired people since you can scale the fonts quickly as big as you want and the text just reflows.

Again, accessibility has always been the responsibility of the the web designer and developer. Do you also expect web browsers to analyze images and generate missing alt text? (That would actually be pretty cool, but again, there shouldn't be an expectation for it).

I understand why Android has chosen to include those features, but by doing that, they're potentially breaking the UX that the web designers expect the user to have.

It really has nothing to do with commercial interests and everything to do with separating the responsibilities of the web browser and the web developer.

EDIT: I'm not saying that Android is wrong for including that functionality, but to say that people should be up-in-arms at Apple for not including spec-breaking functionality is a bit ridiculous.
Nice! My first entry will be w3schools
Oh, hell yeah! I want a mobile-enabled web site on my iPad, not another useless app-wrapper proxy for a web site. Shouldn't the fact that I remember the URL be enough??
http://www.postbox-inc.com
If you're Irish, there is another layer to Father Ted that you'll get. Basically it's mostly a very good satire of Ireland and Irish culture. Most of the personalities are based on Irish personalities, and there is a lot of references to Irish society (the Bishop with the son happened, the Dancing Priest existed, the Lovely Girls Competition is the Rose of Tralee, etc.)
"Anyone that’s ever manually compiled a Linux kernel knows this. You can’t strip ext3 support from the kernel after it’s already built any more than you can add Reiser4 support to the kernel without re-building it."

Ummm.. Kernel modules anyone?

Or do I have something wrong here? Have I taken something out of context?
Android's development pace is slowing down, as is iOSes. Smartphones are not an innovative platform any more. It used to be that OSes got major new features like universal voice dictation, universal search, and turn-by-turn navigation, but in the last couple of years the two major platforms have been getting very iterative improvements; performance upgrades, visual polishes, proprietary assistant apps...

That's because the smartphone market is slowing undergoing commoditization. We're only a few years away from when Samsung could realistically swap out Android for another OS that looks on the surface to be the same and not many people will notice.
We try to keep consultants from signing anything at all; that's why we have a legal department. But there are some clients that require explicit background checks, and we case-by-case them.

I'm not aware of anyone here authorizing a credit check. We have no idea what anyone's credit score here is.
Android works perfectly well without a data plan. I have none because I'm usually on WiFi and when I'm not, any McDonalds or Starbucks will work. I've occasionally thought of getting one, but last time I shopped for it, I couldn't find one at a reasonable price given low usage.

But then, I've never used search by SMS. Finding WiFi makes more sense.
K-12 Entrepreneurship: Slow Entry, Distant Exit
Is it just me, or is this article incredibly full of crap? First he goes on about how the Fed is lying about inflation, then he kicks OWS. If he threw in a claim that Fannie Mae caused the housing bubble, we'd have the insider trifecta.
I tried this briefly with a Transformer Prime last year, and that didn't work. Keyboard and screen weren't good enough. That part is what has changed in a year :-)
I hope you know that by allowing clients to run your credit, you're doing a major disservice to everyone else in the industry and you're part of the problem.

The thought that bad credit has anything whatsoever to do with sitting on vulnerabilities is offensive and ridiculous. Use a criminal background check to find criminal behavior. A person with bad credit doesn't have a criminal record. Don't act like they do, and don't help others act like they do.

Half the people I've met in this industry have poor money management. Don't hire them to be accountants. It has absolutely no bearing on their ability to do their job and speaks nothing to their integrity.

In fact, I can name more than a few examples to suggest bad credit negatively correlates with hire-worthiness. They're so wrapped up in hacking that their bills and often their health (leading to more bills) get neglected. Money management is a different skill. And it is a skill, not a measure of integrity.
It's also possible to just use Applicative with <*> and <$>
> I have no idea what could be done about this problem

Um, how about judging people based on the quality and quantity of work/projects/whatever they produce, rather then what times of the day and for how long their rear ends are sitting at 'work'?

Destination > Journey ?
Just explain to them that distilled water is inorganic and watch their brains hurt.
Google has their own intermediate certificate. The root they use is Equifax.
"Using a small screen that has a ten hour battery life and can run programs locally", then?
The technology was just premature. Of course fantasy worlds ala the cyberspace of science fiction are something people will be interested in. The problem is that we are nowhere near the technology to make a virtual world that is 1/10th as compelling as the real world.

So for now we are stuck with purpose-built networked games and applications that enhance reality rather than replace it. I don't see the next step happening until either a major breakthrough in computing power and/or AI. Assuming we can find a new hockeystick from the current plateau, I expect virtual worlds with the addictiveness of heroine are inevitable.

I will be an old man and yell at the kids to get off my lawn.
This is a commonly told version of the tale, but I don't think it's accurate. Kodak didn't get blindsided by the advent of digital, in fact they were the first ones there (literally the first commercial DSLR was a Kodak).

Their main problem appeared to be both technological and competitive. In the very early stages of digital SLRs Kodak provided sensors to all of the big players, establishing themselves as the go-to OEM for sensor tech.

And then Canon decided to not put the most important component of their camera in someone else's hands, and folded sensor tech into their own company as a core component. This was also the age where Canon was eating Nikon for lunch through superior design and marketing, so Kodak lost not only a large customer, but their remaining ones were being pummeled in the market.

Nikon followed soon afterward, though in the long run they were unable to sustain their own semiconductor R&D and now run primarily Sony sensors.

Kodak went from the go-to OEM for sensor technology to nibbling at the extremely niche sector of scientific equipment photo sensors and rich-surgeon-toy cameras like the Leica M9. It's a sad tale really, and while I'm sure Kodak had many opportunities to avoid their demise, the whole story isn't quite a textbook tale of ridiculously bad management.

Nowadays there are few companies actually building digital sensors. Canon is the big one, Sony is the next big one (which also power Panasonic, Olympus, Nikon, Pentax, and Sony's own cameras). Samsung is the straggler - their OEM business has gone kaput in recent years, but they are still building sensors for their own cameras (which are largely failing in the market). Fuji is the standout in the pack, still making their own sensors despite being comparatively a tiny fish in the pond.
I assume this is going to be really diverse. depending on the business that you run.
I'm more curious about the way this is delivered.
Everyone should read Schumpeter. He might just be the single most relevant economist to the world today.
Thoughts on TypeEngine
> It turns out that the change doesn’t affect most personal Profiles. Instead, it’s only applicable to Pages — such as the one for TIME — and for individuals with more than 10,000 followers, who Facebook thinks are likely have active communities on their pages.
Understanding Python Super [video]
Banks need to tackle IT complexity
I think it's a bad decision. In order to read the text, I need to zoom in. But I can only zoom in on a part of the page, so I need to scroll sideways back and forth to read the beginning and end of lines in the same paragraph.

It's a bad decision. I should be able to size and flow the page to fit my display, wrapping it appropriately.

Yes, the designer should a layout that does this for mobile devices anyway. But the phone should also make it possible to sensibly read sites that don't.
I'm also confused. Because if you now integrate your application with Mir/Unity Next won't you be required to release it under the GPLv3 ?
Father Ted is a great, and shockingly accurate, satire of Ireland. UKians might not get that at first...
It's not "unoptimized", it has a different design[1] than other language implementations, resulting in different performance characteristics.

[1] http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
Horrible timing, virtual worlds are about to make a major comeback as the oculus rift makes them compelling again. Just wandering around a static environment with the oculus is more fun than the best AAA titles on traditional consoles.
What's really interesting about all of this is the deflation that results from all this automation. Cellphones and video games are well known examples but it's easy to forget that plenty of free flash games are as good or better than all Atari games and most first gen Nintendo games. Fanfiction + ranking means the classic pulp novel is somewhat obsolete. Now fanfiction and flash games are not actually free but a few banner adds are enough to keep things going.

The downside seems to be the loss of durable goods, but other than my car they represent a tiny fraction of my budget and cars are much better now than a even just 20 years ago.

In the US housing, healthcare, and education seem to be what's killing the middle class without those areas we would just say we are in The middle of a huge deflationary period. And printing money can fix deflation.
One giveaway is the emphasis on the time spent (a whole six week!)

People had been asking for updates after my original post (http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/working-on-android/) explaining the setup. By now it is over two months and I'm still not complaining...

If you're a developer used to IDEs and big screens, this might sound like trying to work with one hand tied behind your back. I never found need for such tools, and so it works fine for me. Vim and tmux are just beautiful on such a screen!
People with 401Ks or IRAs are people who have taken active measures to improve their own financial security decades from now in exchange for lower in-pocket funds at this moment.

If retirement accounts were ended tomorrow and all that money was deposited directly into their checking accounts, they wouldn't go out and spend it on televisions and new rims. They would invest it, probably into the same low-risk ETFs or mutual funds that were being held in the retirement accounts.

The only difference would be a change in when the money is taxed.
The argument that the post was making was that there is zero weight to the claim that this decision was made for technical reasons.

Further, the post makes the point that choosing an open-source baseline as the first system you support means that there's a clear and relatively straightforward path to compatibility. Setting that target at a proprietary fork of that system does nothing to improve the situation.
Schema changes are not dead easy when you have hundreds of millions of rows and/or hundreds of GBs of data.
Revenue wise, there is still a lot of money to be made on SMS, even in countries like the US where smartphones are king. SMS aggregators and gateways still make significant amounts of money, and it's not decreasing.
Flesh-Eating Plant Cleaned Junk From Its Minimalist Genome
Yes, his web site is definitely not cool, but thank you for linking to it. I'll have to brew a decent coffee or three over the next week and take some time to read some of his stuff because it looks pretty good. Discounting the animated spiders and mention of COBOL!
Not to mention the army of people who make our communication and internet infrastructure function.

Innovation is not zero-sum.
You can't move money from a 401k to "the market", because 401k accounts are already a vehicle for market investment in the form of low-fee ETFs or mutual funds.
How you validate if the CSS or HTML is rendered as supposed to be?
This happens a lot with landing pages because many times there is no 2nd page view as people don't convert. In landing pages this metric is super important. If a person left after 5 seconds your page is probably ugly. If a person leaves after 1min your content might not be convincing enough or no clear call to action. You need to know when people usually leave your page in order to know how to fix it. In http://www.pagealizer.com/ we track the time spent on page (beside other metrics) by pinging the visitor.
Google image search usually do a good job to find the source
I am surprised by the quality of some fanfiction. I've read Sherlock Holmes pastiches that I doubt I could have distinguished from Doyle's work if I were blinded.
for android on dolphin browser you can change the user agent and get around all of this but then the mobile version of the site doesnt load so thats kind of a hassle. i agree that a really good mobile site would work a lot better in most cases.
Dude. DEBUG is True right now. If you didn't code this, tell the person who did that DEBUG is currently True so he/she can change that.

Also, why did your devs create the entire django project in a single django app? I bet that's difficult to keep track of.
IRIX?
An Android App for Droplr: Androplr
The good thing about this decoupled setup is that switching costs (in time, not in money) are amazingly low.

If something new and interesting comes up, I can just switch to that device and reconnect to my existing tmux sessions. Maybe Ubuntu will deliver a great tablet, or Google ship that rumoured Chrome OS tablet? I could be up and running on one of those in minutes
Way better read than the OP. You seem to be pretty well-versed in the field. What readings would you recommend to someone interested in historical linguistics?
On a College Waiting List? Sending Cookies Isn’t Going to Help
> Sometimes forgiveness and acceptance is the best medicine.

Sometimes it's not. I don't wish ill of my mother even at this point, hopefully she's happy over in Holland with her new life. And I would certainly never deign to tell your grandmother what she should do, I'm assuming she maintained contact because she had good reasons to.

But I have kids of my own to think about, a wife of my own, and a very short life of my own to live, so I'm not going to waste a minute of it worrying about someone who could not reciprocate in kind. I stress myself enough worrying about the people who do care for me.

If my kids still respect me when they grow up I want it to be because I demonstrated a reason to earn their respect, not because I guilt-tripped them into feeling they have to live up to some familial bond which society imposes upon them.

Edit: I did end up calling my stepmother earlier today as well. Pays to stay involved, I guess.
Support what you want to see
I've been creating a bunch of angularjs directives for d3 for a project at work and was thinking about seeing if they would let me put them up on github. I've seen FullScale's danglejs, but it's not as configurable as we'd like and only has a handful of visualizations.

If you're interested in us open-sourcing them, please let me know and I'll convince them to let me put the code up.

ex: to produce this http://mbostock.github.io/d3/talk/20111018/tree.html

<collapsible-tree orient="horizontal" bind="treeData" click-node="handleNodeClick" dbl-click-node="handleNodeDblClick"></collapsible-tree>
Their other option is to declare android essentially a lost cause, let the device manufacturers do whatever they want to it, and develop their own "pure google" platform that runs on top of android and works around any OEM specific customizations.

Coincidentally, they already have a platform that they maintain complete control over and that runs on top of other operating systems - Chrome. and android just got brought under the umbrella of the chrome division.
I've noticed that when I comment on a page and come back later, my comment appears at the top. Now I realize it probably only appears that way to me. That's good, because I was wondering why FB was choosing to highlight the comments that it did.
Portability and battery life were certainly the main points, not hardware costs :-)

I'm explaining the reasons and the pros and cons better in the original post: http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/working-on-android/
There was recently an article on HN [1] that explained how Tide laundry detergent had become a form of money in some U.S. cities. It can be bought with welfare checks and exchanged for drugs.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5023204
I am not usually a fan of articles about "growth hacking" because I don't think the term means much, but this articles does outline some interesting growth methods employed by some famous companies & why they required an initial phase of growth first.
Lego is very fun (well I think so), but an app to just play lego isn't going to do as well as a lego app with game mechanic and goals to accomplish.

Minecraft has some simple mechanics. You can collect stuff. You craft stuff. You have to survive. That makes it fun to get into. And yes the creativity and community builds on that to achieve some amazing things which amplifies the fun, and at that point you can ignore the survival/goal part of it. It's quite a bit different from a virtual world like Second Life.
The original paper is at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...
The money saving part is obviously of little consequence, it was there mainly because people had asked about it several times, and also because I'm constantly amazed how cheap modern technology has become
Neither of those are true actually. Phone companies check your credit, but they don't report back, unless it's negative information due to collections. Neither does paying rent.

You only get positive information on your credit report for loans, credit cards, lines of credit.
300.00 initial total
50.00 card unreturned, unused
66.26 returned unspent
55.28 food
74.61 food, phone minutes ($15) and cigarettes
53.85 LCBO: Liquor Control Board of Ontario

Finding out what that unexplained acronym meant made
a big difference to my understanding of the story.
Am I understanding properly that all it took to destroy OWS in the popular consciousness was to deny them access to a single park?
So if worried, do this after a university degree; make sure not to let your skills rust; pick up practical experience... and then take a job (even temporarily) if things go downhill?

Broke is better than massively in debt - so don't take on debt.

Burnt out is more difficult, but at least somewhat in your hands (and pretty easy to come by in the course of a 'professional' career).

Unemployable? Now that one's wholly in your hands.

Being an entrepreneur seems like a fair, if still-unorthodox way of gaining a lot of life experience, fast. Surely this a lot healthier than many alternatives (including 'just keep your shoes clean and get a white-collar job', right en-route for potential mid-life crisis and regret?)

Surely, with the experience gained (learning to execute, if naught else), the whole endeavour is a success of sorts irrespective of what happens to the startup?
How to Have an Epiphany
betterment.com their you're done.
> Why go to a place to play games when I can just play the games directly.

Both StarCrafts and WarCraft 3 had excellent custom game/scenario engines. Three leading game genres, MOBA, Tower Defense and Tug of War, got started as scenarios for these games.

There is a lot of demand for a place to play games, especially if the tools are right.
I switched to a (non-developer-mode) Chromebook recently for work. It's a great development machine for what I use it for. My main workstation basically runs Chrome, Emacs, and some xterms. On my Pixel, I can just use Secure Shell to ssh to my tmux session and be working on exactly what I was using on my desktop. (Port forwarding works too, if you're developing a web app or something.) It's like being at my desktop except the keyboard and ergonomics aren't as good.

If I need to edit a screencast or image, two things I've never done for work ever in my life, I can just use Chrome Remote Desktop to log into my workstation. (I have a friend who logs in to his Windows machine at home using Chrome Remote Desktop and plays Final Fantasy. It's that usable!)

For what it's worth, I never really used a laptop until I got my Chromebook Pixel, because it was so painful to keep it up to date and my configuration sync'd. My Thinkpad X220 has been sitting dead on my windowsill for about a year. With ChromeOS, I don't have to deal with that anymore; I can just open up my computer and use it. And it's that usability that makes it worthwhile to me. (I also love the touchscreen and high resolution display!)

I'm also pretty excited about the flexibility of the Chrome APIs for writing packaged apps. One thing that made me apprehensive about switching from a Linux laptop to a Chromebook was that I wouldn't be able to use all the features of my portable HF SDR ham radio (an Elecraft KX3) while traveling with only my laptop. But, fixing this is just a simple matter of programming -- you can write a Chrome app that controls a USB device, and you can read incoming audio. (Meaning that you can tune the radio and read the I/Q signal via the soundcard. The only snag is that the Chromebook Pixel has only one channel of input, and you need two to reassemble the nearby radio signals. But a USB dongle can fix that problem.) Anyway, I'm looking forward to the era where complex cross-platform software is just a click away, and right now the tools exist. It's time to start using them!
I wouldn't classify Chip Morningstar, Vernor Vinge, Neal Stephenson as nontechnical people.
You'd think that something like the ISS would run *nix from the start. I'm surprised it took them so long to switch.