skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you're working from home and it's making you feel crappy because you're not socializing, you're working bizarre hours, and you're not capable of picking up non-work-related hobbies?

Why jump into immediately advertising your co-working space? Feels like a weird bait-and-switch. Why not stick out the work-from-home thing for a bit and actually see if you can solve some of these problems? Because, yes, if you can then you'll have a nicely flexible life. Hell, start with working only during normal business hours. Do things with buddies in the evenings. Join a sports league. Then see how you feel.

Right now, this reads a bit like: "I tried using chopsticks instead of a fork for the first time, and after poking myself in the eye a dozen times, I decided chopsticks aren't for me and that I should instead open a fork factory."

Also: I work from home. I am an independent developer. It's a "real job." Can we please put to rest this stupid idea that freelancing isn't "real?" It's very real.
Well I do hope they intend to use WebRTC and WebM for Hangouts soon.
Genius Hour: What's It All About?
Not getting any connection errors from chrome.
As an art+tech person, I highly encourage those of you with money to spare to make inroads into the art world and support those of us who perceive and express that which is new, strange, and beautiful about this world. Artists are always at the forefront of technological and social change. You owe more to them than you know.
Pebble Raises $15 Million as Wave of Smart Watches Arrives
Marketing: Less guff, more puff
30 Must Read Posts on Lead Generation
Nice, a win for the good guys. I'm glad to see the '131 patent die but it died last year anyway due to its expiration. Sad that it caused pain up to this point. I keep hoping we'll plateau on the silly patents as everything between '92 and '98 starts to expire.

The other interesting thing here (and it was evident in Oracle v. Google as well) is that the judiciary is coming up to speed on both the technology aspects of these patents and the general inanity of trying to "obvious" stuff.

I really hope this is another sign of the beginning of the end for this abuse of the patent system.
Yes, we are planning to add gay/lesbians support, but we have a problem because the comments you post are limited to your gender (girls can see other girls comments, boys can see other boys comments). But we are definitely thinking about it!
Does this mean I'll need to leave pidgin/finch?
My battery life is no where near that terrible. I'm not sure what he has running constantly, but I can GAME on my Surface Pro for 5+ hours without plugging in. It's still bad for a "tablet", but not any worse than my HP Elite Book with the same specs.
Honerable mention for Betalist :)
Framer 2: Modern Prototyping, now with Photoshop integration
Does SublimeLinter work correctly now with different versions of Python? In ST2, SL parses code as Python 2.6, which gets some 2.7 syntax marked as invalid (e.g. with statement with more than one bind).

I would imagine this gets worse with ST3 embedding Python 3.
WordPress is being pushed only because the majority of web developers can tinker with PHP only.

I think you're forgetting that most of the people who use Wordpress aren't web developers at all, and most of the 'web developers' who use Wordpress probably can't code much, either, because they won't need to. The ease of the Wordpress install is something they advertise. Once you ever have to touch the code, yes, it's a nightmare, even if you're inured to the horrors of php code. Most 'web development' jobs with Wordpress involve the install, setting up themes, maybe editing the css and installing plugins (because even that is still more arcane than some non-technical bloggers and people want to deal with.)

The "low bar for entry" for PHP comes up as an epithet now and again, but if you're trying to increase the adoption of your particular language, having an application the plebs can run isn't necessarily a bad thing. Does anything similar exist in the Python or Ruby worlds yet, for which someone wouldn't be expected to know how to use a terminal, or handle git?

It is, I think, almost entirely down to being less of a hassle than anything else out there, and especially less of a hassle than anything not written in PHP. Call it laziness if you will, and I wouldn't entirely disagree with you.
It's certainly not the only problem with systems configuration. However, it is a broad problem: it applies to more than just systems. And, as you may have guessed from my examples, I don't really do systems stuff all that much. But I do deal with a bunch of other configuration files and formats!

It's more a comment on config formats in general.
This looks like it could be the thing that tips me over into buying RubyMotion. Well done guys.
Since I started making my own product and freelancing, I've increased my OSS contribution by a lot.
I got eleven eleven days streaking on Github and the contribution graph looks heavy since I quit - and I have a hard time giving it up.

The last two months, I've done four different libraries for iOS that are used by other people as well as bugfixes, new features and readme updates for other libraries that I use.

All of this, because I can pick what hours I do client work and I don't spend two hours a day traveling to & from an office.

Job security is fake. Especially pre-profit places.
Second that! And a pretty accurate one.
Good to know I'm not the only one ;)
I initially deployed my website on s3 but latency was noticeable. google's cloud storage loads the site instantaneously. There are more tools available to upload to S3 but google cloud storage's web admin now provides a way to upload files now. In order to host a website on google storage, you need to jump through a couple of hoops (proving to google that you own the domain).

My websites are static, single page apps so I leave them on "set it and forget it" mode.

You can test ping times on my site if you like:
http://fixparser.targetcompid.com
http://datafa.me
For the past month, I've been checking on G+ before Twitter and other media or sources. Here is how I was dragged into it.

I had never used Facebook, and I had never used Google+. I guess I was too busy with Emacs.

Then recently I had to hit Google+ to follow some community thread on the Deep Learning channel, https://plus.google.com/communities/112866381580457264725

Somehow, the researchers from the field did settle there. Next I started reading the Machine Learning community threads, then the C++ one, etc...
Eventually I did post to the Machine Learning community, and I saw the hits on our website, a few hundreds every day, for a few days, not much, but I could tell the right people were visiting, because they were spending way more time than visitors from other sources.

So my current understanding is that G+ is worth for its communities, and the targeted traffic it offers... my 2cents :)
The Yoix Scripting Language
Considering people have close to zero control over how Microsoft licenses, say, SQL Server? Yes.

And I never said they hated MS. I just said that increased revenue doesn't necessarily mean anyone is consciously buying in. Upgrading the old Exchange Server and adding another Domain Controller makes MS more money but for the IT department, the decision is simply "keep what we have under support and updated".

If you want to gauge how happy IT is with MS, you need to look at what they're choosing for brand new projects.

My anecdotal experience is that (happily or not) MS shops continue to choose MS. And small shops that couldn't afford MS anyway continue to not choose MS.
Does one need to be a hacker to sign up for this site?

As a thought experiment, do you think it would be that difficult to get, say, 15 or 20 people who love professional bike racing to sign up, and coordinate voting up an article about Bradley Wiggins' difficulties at the Giro d'Italia, which some of us hackers find to be very interesting reading?
Essentially, yes. I convinced work to buy me a Pro after around a decade of being Windows free... and I'm underwhelmed. I like the hardware. But having two entirely separate interfaces is really terrible. Like he pointed out, it's no longer intuitive how to interact with the device, you have to constantly switch between input modes which is extremely annoying.
The problem with Google Hangouts: Intent
Linux Mint 15 'Olivia' released
It doesn't look like anyone knew...
"Alcatel-Lucent's corporate representative, at the heart of its massive licensing campaign, couldn't even name the technology or the patents it was suing Newegg over."
Perhaps this is a good demonstration of why buying based on price is not in your long-term best interest?
Startup PR Tip: To Get Press, Don't Pitch Your Product
It also looks like JEdits less cool older brother.
YMMV but for my specific setup, it was just easier on all fronts. My French isn't terrible (my partner is French) but English is my mother tongue and what I'm most comfortable in (especially for business stuff). It's also much easier to get quick, good access to startup focussed legal advice. Then there's the SEIS scheme which is very attractive if I run out of runway after launching and need to look at additional seed funding. Company incorporation is easy and inexpensive. Rent is cheap if you aren't in the South East (and I'm not locked in to a long contract as is standard in France). If my startup turns out to be successful and I need to employ people it's much easier and more cost effective to do this in the UK than in France. And the list goes on.

I'm currently under the Auto-Entrepreneur scheme here and frankly it's a bordel :) I'd like to kill URSAFF sometimes...

Edit: I should also say that I'm out in the sticks in the Limousin region. I imagine things are a bit better in Paris. Where are you guys based?
Solving the Travelling Salesman Problem using D-Wave's BlackBox compiler
Haven't read http://www.dwavesys.com/en/dev-tutorial-intro.html yet, but also looks interesting.
What if, instead of a function pointer, an interface happened to be at that address? Given that interfaces are extremely common in Go, it seems plausible to me that many addresses in the heap could contain interfaces (and if they don't, then it may be possible to manipulate an application to create many interfaces so that they do). An attacker could overwrite the vtable pointer to point to attacker-supplied memory, and then an indirect call through the vtable could jump to shellcode.
Might want to change the title to note that it is the New Zealand Supreme Court, not the US Supreme Court.
I don't think there's a requirement to completely shut down, only a requirement to cut off your data output. You can keep calculating your speed and position, you just stop telling the outside world.
Sharp starts production of 3200x1800 notebook LCD panels in June
Quite awesomely ironic. I feel very sorry for the guy who has to contact site owners one by one and deal with email answers after their Perl script has automated a few million comments all over the net...
Germany also has legal prostitution. And I think Belgium as well.
The patent (US #5649131, there's a link in the article) covers a general scheme for standardized communication between a server and client (the patent refers to 'host' and 'terminal').

Specifically, the server and client agree on a set of defined 'objects' (in this case including text boxes, drop-down menus, and images). The client then displays said objects to the user by following instructions from the server. The claimed innovation seems to be that the server and client talk about the aforementioned objects rather than sending exact descriptions of the client's display back and forth.

Alcatel-Lucent intended to apply the patent very broadly - consider a web server as the 'host' and a web browser as the 'terminal', for example.
Qualcomm cofounder Irwin M. Jacobs wins the 2013 IEEE Medal of Honor
Funny, I didn't notice the negative connotation here. But maybe that's because of sentences I heard lately:

"Hey, what's the problem with being a fucking whore?" (Street whore¹ in Dexter –forgot which episode.)

"I have a lot of respect for whores." (witness in a radio documentary —quite moving, by the way.)

[1] I swear I mean no disrespect.
So in the end it is something like a Hopfield Network implemented in a physical system?
Awesome.me Helps You Shine a Light On... YOU
It's like feeding the troll...in reverse.
Pebble is hiring iOS, Android, web and embedded developers
Hey HN, slightly off-topic question: is it possible to have a "login to our website with HN" capability? similar to facebook and twitter connect.
Digital Ocean introduces two-factor authentication
Don't be modest...Motion-Xray[1] is a pretty awesome prototyping tool as well.

[1] https://github.com/colinta/motion-xray
getting the same untrusted notice on Firefox...at work.
"I believe 90+% of revenue comes from adwords and adsense, not selling user information to intelligence agencies,..."

Err... what exactly do you think AdWords and AdSense are? Think about what it means to target ads... they advertisers are not paying to know what browser you're using. They're paying to get their ads targeted on whatever Google knows about you. Even if the knowledge doesn't transfer directly, the advertisers don't really care, they've got what they want.
Same security warning here. Using Firefox 20.0.1 at work.
> A tragic story, but my money is on the IRS in this one.

Or at least 20% of it is.
I'd say the patent, at least the beginning, is fairly readable. I don't see any way that it could be applied to suing any of these companies though... perhaps that's the point: http://www.google.com/patents/US5649131?dq=5649131&hl=en...

From a quick read, it appears to be about a server keeping track of menus and clicks on those menus that happen on some client (e.g. smartphone?) app. That seems like absolute nonsense to me, but I may be getting tripped up by the use of the term "host computer."
Oh, please don't do this:

"Historically, these features [vote ups and comments] are hard to use on small devices and I want to make an app that is easy to use."

I understand that you want to make a minimal app (personal preference or laziness – doesn't really matter), but claiming that vote ups ("like buttons") are hard to use on a mobile device just makes it sound like you weren't able to build it.

It's your app, and you can do what ever you feel fit with it. There's no need to excuse your decisions with made up facts.
Building PhoneGap mobile app from the ground up
4 piece tutorial for getting PhoneGap wrapped mobile project off the ground and adding HTTP communication, data storage, geo location, splash screens and other things. check it out if interested in hybrid mobile frameworks.
The problem seems to me that sex work is stigmatized and, as a direct result of that, still not legalized and regulated in too many 1st world countries.

The 1st world global cultural gap (between e.g. the US and Europe, or even northern and souther Europe) may seem small when you stroll through your average mall to shop for apparel.

But it is often huge when it comes to views about morale and what is considered ok or not ok.

To someone from northern Europe who is living in a country where sex work is 'ok' in most people's view, legalized anyway and regulated in recent years, this LinkedIn stuff is one of these stories that sound like they're from another, previous century.
In the past, when? In the past, screen resolution was lower on screens roughly the same size as we use now.

I find it weird how rarely people (including myself) modify the zoom level of the webpages they visit, unless they have vision problems, or are using a phone/tablet.

Erring on the side of caution, too big a font is better than too small a font.

The default font size for `p` is 16px, and it can be thought of the ideal size for text[1] on the browser. People will argue for bigger or smaller fonts[2], but I think that I see more people complaining about small fonts than big fonts, and with new higher resolution displays that have inconsistent ways of displaying pages across devices (is 1px a physical pixel? It isn't supposed to be, but most of the time it is, so front end designers assume they are, but the display size doesn't change... everybody uses a 1200x900 screen, right?), just make it readable on small high resolution displays.

Having said that, a much bigger problem than small/big fonts is low contrast font color. If people using zoom is uncommon, people using personalised style sheets are unicorns.

[1]: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/07/16-pixels-body-co...
[2]: http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/211/is-there-an-optima...
For $1,000 I would hope it's good hardware.
I don't know much about IBM products but I'm a heavy Oracle DB user in the process of migrating to Postgres due to simple problems, cost not being one of them. In fact, you will see a lot of users still using very old Oracle versions and getting full support from oracle.

Oracle (DB product) is the wrong choice for most startups, I actually wrote a post about that some time ago: http://eduardo.intermeta.com.br/posts/2013/2/1/this-is-why-y...
It's all Fire and Motion. Google wants this to gain traction so that competing email clients spend cycles gaining feature parity. And for what? Make clicking a link easier?
I found it pretty easy; I went from an asus transformer (14 hours real-world, and I did use it) to a samsung ultrabook-like (<4 hours). Just get in the habit of plugging it in; how much of the day do you really spend away from a power socket? It might not be for everyone, but it's been fine for me.
> "Alcatel Lucent, meanwhile, they drag out some random VP—who happens to be a decorated Navy veteran, who happens to be handsome and has a beautiful wife and kids—but the guy didn't know what patents were being asserted. What a joke."

This is pathetic. You have a billion dollar company try to play legal hardball and they don't even do the most basic coaching of your executive team. They must have been getting really comfortable in East Texas to fuck up this bad.
Jeff Dean awarded the ACM Infosys Foundation Award in Computing Sciences
Brent the author here. I agree that battery life isn't a small problem - note that I put (?) next to "small" as a way of noting that the problems aren't nitpicking.
Yosee Support link on the itunes page points at the broken link support.yosee.com

Cool intro although it took a while to load for me.
Google shuts down Quickoffice R&D offices in Russia and Ukraine
Plus, the decrease they talk about in Florida is only by fractions of a second, anyway.

The decision was made for poor reasons. There's nothing preventing them from making the same decision for the same reasons again, effectively increasing the reduction of time. It's important to call out poor behavior in government lest, even if it's slight, lest it become institutionalized and then exacerbated.
Brendan Eich: C is for Cookie
Ask HN: What do you think about Google Wallet w/ Email?
Is it going to change things this time around?
Nevada.
Implementation-specific email headers aren't new, and many providers have been leveraging them in one way or another -- probably since email itself came to be. Outlook is a great example here. It's basically just value-add's for the client.

You can still read email in any client, so why would you choose any specific client? I think the onus remains on the content creators, just as it is on the web and elsewhere on the net, that they only use the extended functionality to enhance the content (and not replace it). An example here would be HTML emails -- which, since you said you prefer plain text, I'm sure you hate? But they are common and those that use them know that they need to include a "view on the web" link for clients who don't understand HTML.

I do like plain text the best though, as I think that's where email excels, though SMS has some overlap. Ultrafunk Popcorn[1] was my preferred email client for 5+ years, and was an awesome client. Required only a conf file and something silly like 200k of RAM to run. Sadly, development stopped on it awhile back I think, though it probably still works just fine. It's the equivalent of the foobar2000 music player, dead simple and efficient.

1. http://web.archive.org/web/20130116201517/http://ultrafunk.c...
Replacing Oneself as CEO
"is it feasible to run it with only 128meg of RAM, yet moderate-sized hard drive, and Pentium-133 style CPU, you think?"

AntiX Linux might be better for that class of machine. The developers seem to run AntiX on low spec machines. AntiX uses scripts & ncurses UIs for a lot of functions.
IOS Subdued
Its interesting to observe that Alcatel Lucent is the successor to certain ATT R&D operations, most notably Bell Labs.
How to smack people in the face with your resume
I think the point he makes about hanging in to it in a hope that Microsoft is going to improve it is the key. Looks like with windows 8.1 they are making a lot of changes based on the feedback, and giving that release away for free. Microsoft better stick to this fast iterative update process if they want people to bet on the new OS.
All Surface reviews read like this. "It's pretty good, except for this long list of things that are terrible about it."
They don't sell the information though, they sell placement.
Ha, this is awesome. I tried to carve out some free time at night to work on something similar for our game engine, and never got too far with it. I'm definitely going to try integrating this and see what it's like.

I've used some tools like Telemetry before:

http://www.radgametools.com/telemetry.htm

And while it was pretty powerful, I found the process of adding custom data visualizers pretty handicapped by their native interface requirements.

With the current state of your code, how hard would it be for someone to add plugin based functionality to implement custom data messages and visualizers?
Well I agree the proliferation of formats is a problem, but I think it's an intractable one. General languages solve the problem of "I can't use config language X because it's missing feature Y", but for every project you bring on board you lose one because they don't want that much power in their config files.
Cold Fusion Redux? EU to Host Meeting on Fleischmann Pons Effect
"hires"? No.

Fanboys work for free.

(From all directions, not just pro-google.)
Wait... so Android Inc didn't exist for the 2 years between its founding in 2003 and Google's acquisition in 2005?
Same thoughts here! I'm not sure starting my own incubator would fill the void, but I can see how joining something like Microha.us might be nice. Anybody know of anything along the same lines in SF?
What happens to that cut if they don't take it. That is the question and with that I'm sure Notch has a charity he approves of.
Nit, geography lesson needed:

>>Of course, if you're in the southern hemisphere, it's not spring for you. Nor if you live in the north Midwest of the US or central Canada. Sorry about that; we just track the weather with PostgreSQL, we don't control it.

I live in the north Midwest (Wisconsin) and it is currently 72F (should hit 80 today) and sunny, with birds chirping outside- I'm pretty sure it is spring- which started Wednesday, March 20 regardless of it being cold as hell here at the time.

I think some native Californians have trouble with the idea it can be under -15F in February and over 100F in August in some places.
also getting an error trying to register. 'the file /tmp/<hash>' does not exist
But not with the new Hangouts service, which was announced to great ballyhoo in the Google I/O keynote yesterday as their new, general-use chat system for the vast bulk of their userbase. Which is what this whole conversation is about.