skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, we've been using Balsamiq, it's fantastic for a lot of things but there are times when a higher-fidelity tool is needed.

On top of this, we are also creating a standardized look and toolset for all of our apps - something sort of like Bootstrap - so there are many situations where it would be great to be able to just assemble the UI pieces that we've already defined and say 'what do you think of this?' or even run through some informal usabiltiy testing.

Side note: I think Balsamiq is the main reason I was so disappointed in Axure. Balsamiq is so efficient and so good at what it does, and Axure... well, you kind of wonder if anyone at Axure actually uses Axure.
Is there a relation to Google Talk for those outside of Android/Gmail web? I was under the impression that every XMPP app on iOS just stopped working properly a year or so ago. (In fact, this was a primary reason my sister went from iPhone 4 -> GSIII last year, since she uses Talk extensively with her friends.)
"Tends to be spooky..." Finally! We're narrowing in on a more precise definition of the problem.
I don't have a terribly long name, but I still end up signing some doodle that is made up of initials.
U.S. Secretly Obtains Two Months of A.P. Phone Records

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5701436
The nice thing about this is the courses are free, so you can sample them or even take them all and do homeworks, before deciding whether you want to pay for credentialing.
The rules of the game demand that academics publish in respectable venues, not "somewhere". Publications in fake non-peer-reviewed journals ought to count for nothing and convincing people to hire or promote you based on fake publications is a form of fraud.

Maybe these people can find jobs on Wall Street.
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"Request an invite".

Dear god, Google still thinking it's a cute little startup. It really is the Microsoft story all over again.
Not all videos stored on YouTube show up on YouTube search... it's a setting.
More than a little, e.g. WRT the "traitorous eight" and California job hopping:

"I'm not saying California firms like it when talented employees leave with know-how acquired on the company's dime. But the broader ethos of the valley regards such activity as not only acceptable but essential to the economic dynamism of the region."

No, by long standing public policy (way before the Silicon Valley or even HP day) non-competes are unenforceable. Perhaps something of this ethos has developed as a result, but I'm sure the law came before the ethos. Well, maybe HP back in the good old days was relaxed about this, but definitely not Shockley the junk yard dog. If he'd started his firm elsewhere we very possibly wouldn't be communicating on this forum right now, because of how this would have slowed progress of the field.
Stanford is over $1m/student, and Harvard is at $1.5m/student. Yale is at $1.7m/student.
Don't be angry...JetBrains sounds happy:

"Confirmed! Android Studio is a new IDE that Google is developing in cooperation with JetBrains and based on IntelliJ IDEA. Details shortly."
https://twitter.com/jetbrains/status/334725715922669568
"I think the decision to hug or shake...."

Two great greetings that go great together!
Not just you. Anyone know why?
Me too - oDesk is great. There seems to be a lot of animosity from valley-type developers on here towards offshore freelancers and their clients. These 'rock-star' developers come across as entitled to me as a non-professional junior developer.

Believe it or not, some of us really are building sustainable businesses outside of the valley often using offshore developers instead of local without burning through millions in VC money. In fact, we really have no other options.

The blog articles are great, keep them coming Trevor.
I think you forget that many of these instruments have _antennas_. While they are very well insulated against unwanted interference, it's not like it's feasible to protect against _any_ interference. After all, the pilots are talking on an unencrypted air band with the tower, and the same is the case with DME, VOR, ILS and GPS.
Fortunately for her, there doesn't seem to be any way to report that.
If we rearrange the quote from the article:

"Does your business
accept funds from customers
and
send the funds based on customers' instructions
(Money Transmitter)?"

Most businesses accept funds from customers, but few outside the financial services industry transmit the funds based on customers' instructions (assuming refunds and gift cards do not count).
And for how many definitions of "comparable?" Lose a point for careless reading.
I don't see anything wrong with this. There are any number of scalability, data quality, and other problems that will inevitably crop up when you scale out something like this. Short of a Death Star full of genetically engineered QA monkeys Google has to launch this incrementally to avoid the complete disaster that was Apple Maps.

An invitation/queue system seems like the perfect answer.
Autistic Girl from SF found dead in Lake County
I'm getting "Hangouts has not been enabled for your account". I'm guessing this is because my work account has Google+ disabled. So are you going to have to be on Google+ to use their messaging product now? Will they shut off Google Talk for regular gmail users?
It's too bad WebGL isn't usable yet. It's still disabled by default in multiple popular browsers, and in the browsers that have it enabled, it's a security risk (which is precisely the reason why some browsers, such as Safari, don't enable it).
If I use Adium on my Desktop and Hangouts on my phone will I see the group chats / google hangouts?
Python: PyObjC

Lua: LuaCocoa, LuaWax, TLC

JavaScript: JSCocoa

Perl: CamelBones

More:
http://cocoadev.com/wiki/CocoaBridges
Equipment Failure May Cut Kepler Mission Short
Right: If my tax-deductible Health Savings Account money is actually going to get me "stress-related therapy" in the form of a hand job, the IRS wants to know.

And probably more than they usually want to know about these things.
"older schools, in the aggregate, have more alumni,"

What would effectively be the difference in alumni between a college founded in 1693 and 1890 or even 1930 by that thinking?
Evolution of the Firefox Codebase
Scientists Now Able To Convert Human Skin Cells Into Embryonic Stem Cells
Great point. To "as cheap as possible" I'd add "but still functions."

It doesn't have to be great or amazing. It can be quite mediocre. It just have to be enough to know whether it's solving a real need customers have.
Oh, it's ridiculous. Still, I though HNers who saw the other post would want to see it.
As someone with a Dutch "Van *" last name, I run into this issue all the time as well. Unlike the author, it doesn't upset me, I don't really care.

Sure, I was a little worried when the guy at the DMV warned me that the California system would always register my name wrong -- adding 'Van' as part of my last name along with my middle name. He told me to just mention it and everything would be fine.

Sure, it was pretty annoying the next time I went into the DMV and the guy blew me off, saying the system was fine. Sure enough, a few weeks later, my license arrived in the mail, incorrect. Unfortunately, they won't change it unless I bring them a passport or a birth certificate and pay to get it fixed, but it's not the end of the world. That change has persisted, and now my Washington State license still has my wrong name. Oh well.

Because my last name is much longer then the author's - 27 characters including spaces - it's been truncated since Kindergarden, and my University ID is still misprinted. Oh well.

I guess my point is that it's not the end of the world, there are bigger fish to fry.
Does it feel odd to anyone else that you click the "Request an invite" button and it doesn't ask who you are? Also nowhere on the page does it show my identity.
For the more technical people there is an I/O developer session on the future of Google Maps. Starting sometime soon....

https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/326458345
There's no way he would have set things up to go from boot to skype without at least one password.
Like most new Google things, it doesn't seem to be enabled for my Google Apps account. There's no clear indication of how to do this (if it's possible at this point).

Say what you want about Apple, but onboarding for iMessages and Facetime did not require navigating a byzantine admin panel. I understand that Google Apps is a different beast, but there's something to be said for a chat service _just working_ in the way that iMessages does: you put in someone's phone number (or email) and if they are registered it works.

I recently tried to use my non-Google Jabber account with a friend who's on Gmail. Apparently Google no longer allows invites from non-Google Jabber accounts in the chat built into Gmail. Getting chat to work with a new contact even just between Gmail accounts would sometimes require some pretty opaque incantations -- and with external Jabber accounts it's even worse! There's no indication that your invite didn't go through to them, and I was never able to get his invite to come through to me.

tl;dr Based on my prior experience with Google and their IM products, I'm not convinced this could be an iMessage/Kik/WhatsApp replacement. Will my mom be able to use it?
I still use Trillian on iOS for Google Talk and it works fine.
Wow, my numbers were way off. That emphasizes my point even further.
no the big change is getting rid of dividing the screen between a list of search results and the map itself.
Recently, my wife and I started a company and she's handling the international IT recruiting side (I do consulting/training) and for years I've written a blog about how to be an expat. I'm actually a freelance software engineer with a background in economics. This leads to me to having an extreme amount of knowledge about this topic and while the article had a few issues, it's mostly spot on.

There is a significant shortage of developers and ardit23 explained, with rapid growth of young companies fighting to hire developers but not able to pay Google-sized salaries, the vast majority of the job salaries are constrained by limited budgets of entrepreneurs. Until this industry stabilizes, it's going to be hard to get accurate price signals.

And despite your contention, I know of plenty of devs who make >100K. I speak at conferences all over Europe and the US and I meet these people face-to-face all the time. Just because you don't know them doesn't mean they don't exist. That being said, part of the reason I know roughly what they make is because they work for big names like Google, or they are in-demand freelancers (we can charge buckets of money in the right situation). Hell, I know one guy who made €30K for a week of training! (search for top-notch training, note the cost per student, multiply that by a decent class size and five days. You don't turn that trick very often, but when you do, it's a lot of money).

And $75 to $80k in New York? No way in hell I'd take pay that low to work there.
I use KDE and there are two situations where I get "hidden" modals.

One is when FF decides I need to enter my master password more than once - eg a restart that opens more than one page that requires authorisation.

The other is when an app crashes, if there are multiple crashes then the crash reporter hides subsequent error dialogs.

What's most frustrating is when the ordering gets broken, probably due to my interactions, and one can't click the topmost dialog as it's blocked by a later dialog.

Generally the dialogs aren't hidden because you see them on the application bar but with grouping on (the default) they get hidden within the group. It might be worse with things like sloppy focus or focus stealing prevention set differently.

If I can't see a dialog on MS Windows I'll try Alt-Tab then hit escape, then Alt-F4, then try and bring up task manager ...
Can we talk about the icon. I am not a designer but quotes inside of a word balloon? Don't word balloons and quotes have the same purpose?
> They'll settle that balance somehow (that's a bit complex and irrelevant)

Well, no, that's extremely relevant. How is that debt settled?

I'm quite certain they don't send over a truck full of cash.

If it's just a matter of Bank A telling Bank B to adjust their books and Bank B taking their word for it, then Bank A isn't losing anything. They just created that money out of thin air.
I think we can all agree that not allowing spaces or dashes in a name field is poor, poor programming.
Looks cool! How do you compare against say craigslist ?
Well, at least you were funny that time.
"what with the enormous new lab science and academic classroom buildings, swank honors dorms"

That infrastructure investment is to make the school attractive to future students (you already are a student). Same as Starbucks will periodically renovate or a company might provide employee perks.

Many improvements are also done for parents on college visits to make the school seem attractive to them.
I am a 32 year old male from South America... here a handshake is way to formal for most interactions... For example... You go out with 2 friends for a beer... they bring a 3rd friend you don't really know... it's ok to shake his hand, but if you kiss him, nobody will be offended...

Scenario 2 : You are at a birthday party/after office/whatever social gathering, and you are presented a person from the opposite sex DO NOT shake his/her hand... That is as rude as you can get, what are you afraid of?

Scenario 3 : You go to your girlfriends house, and are introduced to his father, you shake his hand, because you ate trying to show respect. After the first few visits, you will most likely kiss him hello/goodbye

Also, in Latin America we do 1 kiss mostly, in Brazil 2 kisses are the norm, some other places are up to 3...

So I believe no matter what happens, try to talk about it, stay open, and remember that awkwardness tends to go away the minute you say "I'm sorry, that was awkward, was I supposed to kiss or shake?"

Cheers everybody,

mike out.
Facebook has consistently done the same thing with all of their new features (Graph Search, Timeline, etc). I fail to see why this is so egregious?
Hopefully not, given that just yesterday there was a post on how the Saudis were planning on using CAs as an attack vector...
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Slapping? Or is that weird?
... but you'll probably still have trouble setting a US bank account, S3 proxy or not.

(I'm in the same little boat outside of the US territorial waters btw)
That's what we call anecdotal evidence. They hold virtually zero weight in scientific discourse, for obvious reasons.
There's no reason to be flippant.

'This isn’t something that often happens to men.'

I can look past the fact that it's completely unsubstantiated, but is it even necessary in a post about names? Do you think the name of the actress was truncated because of her gender?

When people shorten my name, it's familiar and it's a relief because I don't have to smile through their awkward pronunciation.

I feel embarrassingly over-sensitive, but reading statements like these in tech articles is unnerving.
I've used odesk once or twice. They're all about the same really.

At this point it's beneficial for me to stay on Elance because contractors see how much I've paid out, how consistently I give good ratings, etc. They know I'm a good contractor so they're more likely to bid.

I don't do much to try to get "certain" freelancers. Sometimes I'll sponsor a project if I need it done really quickly (under 48 hours, not a development project) but otherwise I just put it out there.
"There was no question the feds would take an interest in Bitcoin with desire to take it down"

Perhaps, but the only reason that is relevant to attacking a Bitcoin exchange is if Bitcoin cannot survive without exchanges. I personally agree with that view, as everything I have seen suggests that no standalone Bitcoin economy is possible. On the other hand, a large number of people in the Bitcoin community disagree and seem to think that a Bitcoin economy can be bootstrapped.

"Require enough paperwork, and somewhere a sufficient transgression will be found."

The paperwork in this case was not very complicated; it plainly asks if the business transfers money at the request of its customers, and MtGox simply answered "no." It is not as though MtGox is being investigated for not filling out paperwork or for a bad answer to an ambiguous or confusing question. MtGox was already engaged in exchanging Bitcoin for USD and was already performing transfers of money for its customers when those forms were filled out.

I agree with your general sentiment, but I seriously doubt that anyone in the government was sitting there saying, "Bitcoin is a threat, let's take it down! Start with this exchange!" More likely, some regulator somewhere saw that Bitcoin was becoming popular and said, "Let's make sure they are following the same laws that other financial companies are expected to follow." Those laws predate Bitcoin; they may have been set up to protect large banks from small competitors, or they may have been created to protect individual Americans from fraud and predatory companies, but that is an entirely separate issue.
I don't understand why they only have video and no voice only. I use voice a lot, almost never video.
I miss the nice 3d perspective building outlines :(
This will probably be Mac-only. It will not appear on iOS unless Apple also ships BridgeSupport on iOS. BridgeSupport is needed for binding all the Obj-C parts that don't have introspection capabilities (like the C parts).

This is how most of the other full feature bridges work, PyObjC, RubyCocoa/MacRuby, LuaCocoa. Otherwise you are hamstrung anytime you need to deal with something like a C struct (e.g. NSPoint).
Stop reposting that link. If someone tells people that they are doing things incorrectly, and refuses to explain how to do things correctly, then they are unhelpful and useless.
I now have a strong desire to shake your hand.
Ushering in the next generation of computing at Google I/O
Probably the same reason Microsoft is also promoting C++ and JavaScript (both are utterly ugly when compared to C#/F#) for Windows 8 - to expand developer base.
They do perform those tests, but they can't account for all potential future electronics devices.

So, our defense against potentially dangerous future electronics devices is a generic safety announcement at the beginning of the flight with only cursory verification that it was followed?
I remember someone telling me that ignorance of the law is no defense. And I would think it wouldn't be too much to ask that a Federal Reserve Bank President be aware of tax consequences/implications.
That might be power circuit interference or just unshielded power cables. What happens when they are on different circuits?
Google Compute Engine available for everyone, App Engine adds PHP
Often enough, there is simply no need to have someone "imagine it better", because paying someone to get your spec done is enough.

As the technical ability of the customer goes down, the input, and therefore the cost, of the developer goes up.

Of course, this falls apart when you get non-technical people hiring grunt coders...

But there is nothing bad about such programmers - they just fullfill a different market sector. And their code is likely just as good. What you pay the premium for is someone to manage the technical side rather than just do as their told.
If you're curious, a model I built ( http://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns ) gives Script a ~25% chance of surviving the next 5 years.
I guess they will handle it like PayPal and all the others.
It seems pretty clear from that: you loose it.
I guess Don Draper was involved in the marketing.
CTO of Jetbrains is talking about this at the moment at Google IO. It could have been a collaboration.
I doubt a proxy will get you in on this. Google isn't that stupid. Financial transactions are seriously monitored by almost every government. You'll probably have to link to a U.S. bank acct or something.
Airplane mode should be 100% acceptable. The suspected interference is supposed to be caused by devices that broadcast "powerful" radio waves. Since airplane mode disables with the WiFi and the cellular antenna, it is impossible for the device to cause interference. At that point it becomes a completely self-contained mini-computer - probably much less harmful than, say, onboard television screens.
I also have a Dutch "Van" in my last name and have given up trying to use the " " (space) in my last name. It just isn't worth the hassle of trying to use it. But I totally agree with you in saying "It's not the end of the world".
I don't think javert being an Objectivist varies based on the observer.
Code coverage wisdom
You're right but:

(1) There is a shortage of top-grade developers / other top-grade IT people - there are only that few and there is a very strong global demand for them - those established in this group can almost always choose from multiple offers at a time with salaries in the region of 200k+ or even much more (if they also have proper business skills).

Start-ups can't attract those via a salary base - those guys normally do start-ups themselves. Better to go for some mentoring / consultancy sessions with these guys and by that create incentives / improvements with your in-house developers. The rule one of them is as good as up to 20 mediocre developers generally applies.

(2) There is a shortage of 25-28 year old senior developers with 10+ years of uninterrupted work experience, having all plus the most exotic skills (each at least 5 years), being in a job with another company and willing to stop there tomorrow and work for 50K or less p.a. gross (that's about 2'300 per month net see cost of living above) - at least double the salary and suddenly people might become interested in job offerings - ask yourself if that marketing guy who's that great in selling himself is really worth 400k p.a. or 200k would also do and you might actually be able to deliver a product after paying your developers an appropriate salary.

(3) There is no shortage in mediocre / average developers with high frustration levels and often outdated skills. Some of them might have been outstanding developers before, but got so frustrated by the silly low monies paid to them in an industry juggling with dozens of billions at a time. Treat those fair and spend some time and you might re-surface their outstanding skills. It's a gamble and might also backfire.

(4) There is no shortage of lobbyists / politicians / industry guys that trumpet around that there is a shortage in developers - we know at least for the EU and the U.S. this is to lower the wages of developers by bringing in developers from low income countries that are completely dependent on having their visas renewed all the time.

Overall with developers you most of the time get what you pay for and how you treat them.
Which security risks are you talking about? In the spec or in the implementations?

Currently, the biggest security risk in WebGL is, indirectly, your graphics driver. As an example, the latest security problem with WebGL was in OS X and had to to with exposing uninitialized memory contents. Of course, it is true that graphics driver writers are only now warming up to the fact that a webpage shouldn't cause a kernel panic and that it shouldn't leak uninitialized memory. Still, the WebGL spec itself has fixed all of the early problems it had.

Sorry if you were aware of this distinction! I hear many people talking about WebGL security issues as they existed in the draft, and I think some clarification of the public opinion is in order.
The personal license (aka a person owns it, not a company) is €179.
From time to time they have huge discounts - they had a Black Friday discount of 75%. Recently there was a 50% discount.

Just watch the news on reddit or here :)