skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I forgot that games even existed on it. Did anyone use it? Seems to confirm that Facebook is indeed not their actual competitor.
Oh, and one of my favorite parts: it is something different. It's nice to, one or two days a week, do work that is totally different from the work you do 9-5.
"If Newegg is signaling that no money from them is easy, then that seems to be the best way to fend off all the lawsuits, no matter the level of perceived merit."

I get your point but would you agree that otoh it is entirely possible that a patent troll might decide to take them on in order to show that they won't go away easy as well? (variation of a Moral hazard?)

Additionally we don't really have complete data on every demand made by trolls it's not as if someone who decides to settle (and/or the patent troll) is publicly disclosing all agreements made prior to legal action, right?

We only know about when lawsuits are filed and settled. We don't know about someone settling before a suit is filed at all.

As an example a domain owner might have a publicly stated policy that they will never turn over a domain when someone comes calling even if they file a lawsuit UDRP etc. And in fact there are people that do this (google rick schwartz domain king). But how do we know the times that Mr. XYZ gets approached and does settle? It wouldn't be in his interest to tell the world about that and he could easily have an agreement with the other company that he will only agree if they don't disclose the info.
I think that a lot of what's wrong with Groupon is thanks to the current CEO (co-CEO?) and former (while Mason was there) chairman Eric Lefkofsky[0], rather than Andrew Mason. Of course, that doesn't absolve Mason of any responsibility, but it was sort of like the situation with Bush and Cheney.

0: http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/1/4043566/andrew-masons-deal-...
Well that depends, what's my real identity? The nickname and unified web presence everyone recognises me for, or what it says on my passport?

If the former, then yes, if the latter, then no.
On the contrary, I make my share of idiotic or ride comments. However, I feel that those comments, too, are part of my presence on HN, if some one cares to look (I don't think anybody does but I routinely go back and reread my lowest and highest rated comments.
Totally agree. And I'll try to write some stuff about facilitating that communication in future posts.

I didn't mean to come off like a cranky passive aggressive ass. I mean, I am. I just didn't mean to come off that way ;)

This was just a hack at providing some definitive timelines to an often nebulous arrangement.
No. I haven't posted with my real information since 1997 when I realized that dejanews.com was forever.
As far as I know all of the teams are aware of each other and even share some resources (code) as well as insights about best practice and API design.

The angular people probably have the most experience re real-world usage and what works better and what doesn't. Web UI afaik is getting inspiration from Angular and closely tracking polymer spec & API wise.

I expect (and I don't have a crystal ball) that Angular will eventually adopt more and more Web Component stuff as it gets supported by browsers and might add polyfills from polymer (many projects will want to look at and use polyfills from polymer I think)

If you want to experience the power of Web Components right now Web UI is the project that will get you the farthest in terms of browser support from what I understand.

It might look like three different efforts but they are closely related from a 'learn something new & push boundaries'-POV :)

We as web developers are the ones who benefit from this.
The big takeaway seems to be that as long as you don't become an alcoholic and are able to adequately maintain relationships you'll probably be ok.
Oh man if I could customize this, it would be perfect. Very well done though.
It's a planetary empire founded on human interaction, sourcing information that wasn't available online.
http://www.nand2tetris.org/software.php
Like Angular.js from an end-user/developer's perspective but goes beyond that. Instead of being a framework it is an effort to polyfill the actual Web Components spec.

This means that Polymer will eventually be supported natively by browsers which means that in the future we'll have something like Angular without needing to do the heavy-lifting at the framework-level.

:)
>> "First, images are out-of-proportionally big. They steal the attention away from the texts... You eyes will inevitably look at Larry’s face and the new Android Studio but did you notice much of the text at all?"

I think this is the point. I can immediately tell what these posts are about via the image without having to read anything. I can then read the details if I want. Also, If G+ is anything like Facebook one of the most shared content types is photos so it makes sense to prioritise them.

>> Third problem, the lack of discipline in using the whitespace. Whitespace is one of the most powerful, visually pleasing and least intrusive way to bring orders and visual hierarchies to a design. Yet what do you think of the whitespace in this Best of #Python page?"

This seems like a bad example. Normally that whitespace (the link) would contain an image and some text previewing the link. They just couldn't parse it from the webpage. In this case the OP just picked an example to fit his complaint.
Disagree.

Here's a current problem I'm working on. I subscribed to some app service on the internet for $1.99/m through google wallet. After a month, I cancelled the subscription via my google wallet subscriptions. To my surprise, the next month I received another $1.99 charge. So I cancelled it, and sent a message to the app maker through Google Wallet -- no reply. The next month, another charge. I cancelled it, this time, went looking on the app makers website, found an unsubscribe form, thought, "ahh, here we go," never heard from them. Next month, $1.99 charge. I cancel it and after 5 minutes of intense clicking, find a number to google wallet customer service!!! I called, explained my situation, reconfirmed my credit cards, addresses, email, name, etc, to be told to fill out a form, wait 3-5 business days to receive an email from someone that should be able to fix my problems. At this point I feel an email won't help me, so I ask, "Are you sure there isn't a phone number? I would really like to get this resolved today" politely. I was then informed that the specialists are not yet reachable by phone. So, I'm waiting now for a reply from a specialist who will hopefully solve my problem.

Imagine you're at the store register with your kids and your credit card is declined wrongly. Embarrassed, you leave your cart, call the bank, explain your situation, and they say, "We're sorry to hear that, we are emailing you a form, please fill it out. You can expect a reply via email in 3-5 business days from someone who might help." That simply wouldn't be acceptable.

I believe that you want to change the world, Google, but sometimes you need to focus more resources on the world you've already changed.
The article concludes: There’s no evidence that anyone, human or machine, is reading your confidential messages.

Well obviously, a machine is reading your confidential messages, if only to scan them for links. In the most benign case, the link scanning could be done in the skype client (closed source software on your machine), and MS's servers are seeing a list of links + an encrypted message.

But we just don't know, do we?
Hey, these guys can help you :) http://www.startupsanonymo.us/

Had a chat to them, they've talked with several hundred startup founders now I assume. Great stuff, someone fund this please btw? :)
Given the fact that I can switch to one-column layout, I should probably shut up now. But just for the sake of a lively debate, let me say this: if I can't read the thing, I can't skim it either. I just don't know how to move my eyes around. Instead of skimming for the posts that I find important, I would end up making a random choice between things I see and things I overlook. But then perhaps that's fully intended with any kind of social media: you can never be sure if you missed anything or not.
Oracle to change Java version numbers
Thanks for the example!

Does this mean that it is the value="{{age}}" attribute that is causing the binding?

What happens if I want to do something like: <input value="{{firstName}} {{lastName}}"></input>?
How Google updated Android without releasing version 4.3
The main problem I see with these types of layouts is that if you are displaying reverse chronological content, it needs to be in a single column.

Items that have no bearing on when it was posted, i.e. Pintrest, can adapt just fine to this multi-column layout.
Is there a way to download the casts?
cut bait
I see now. I guess since there wasn't a closing quotation mark my brain just decided to invent one at a random point.
Does it have Google Reader API compatibility? I have an app on my iPhone that uses the Google Reader API. I want something that will work with it.
Also if you are interested in Polymer but want to actually use it in production right now (like we to at Blossom.io) check out Dart's Web UI:

http://www.dartlang.org/articles/web-ui/

It's like travelling to the future :)
A $1 Display That Lets You See With Your Tongue
Yes, because it forces me to be honest: intellectually, socially, and otherwise. If I post stupid crap here, it's on me. If I post smart crap on here, hey, that's also pretty cool. But mostly, I like the rigor that transparency forces.
Congress asks Google if Glass infringes 'on the privacy of the average American'
If you inspect the DOM, you can see the links to the MP4/WebM videos. We'll add download links and a podcast feed soon.
Mozilla has a very similar project that is aligned with polymer:

http://www.x-tags.org/

Looks like we'll get actual browser support for Web Components eventually :)
I like the idea of reminding users of password rules, perhaps after the first password entry failure.
OpenSUSE Considers Replacing LXDE With E17
I am confused about it myself. I can do a 30 second side plank (35 seconds? Not so much.) so I've been doing two sets.
Cool study, but this is obligatory:

Roger Meyers, head of Itchy&Scratchy studios: Allright,
heads up you bunch of low- lifes. This is Abraham Simpson,
and from now on you guys are going to take all of your cues
from him. He's got something you couldn't get at your
expensive, ivy-league schools: life experience.

One of the post-college kids: Actually, I wrote my
thesis on life experience.
MtGox’s Dwolla Account Seized For Unlicensed Money Transmission
"Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!" -Hawthorne
The problem with this is that then there is no institutional memory. Many student groups in colleges (at least at my college) fight the same problems in a recurring cycle every 4 years, because no one remembers why it didn't work out last time - the groups that avoid this are the ones that maintain connections with alumni or have a stable mentor. And this is for small groups that know each other well. If you had a corporation with 100s of people, it couldn't hold itself together with 25-30% annual employee turnover.

This articles mentality only really works if you are being hired to do a specific project, as an independent contractor, in the context of a larger team. Its also better for young people whose skill set is changing rapidly and may become better suited to different positions more quickly, as opposed to someone who has years of domain expertise and needs stability.
> When the ESA had a computing system ..

That sounds interesting. Any link?
I don't see the problem, sweeping left-to-right-to-left while scrolling seems to work for me to skim it (the icons and text identifying the source at the top of items and the pictures are the main visual points of interest and I use them to decide if I want to read more of an article.)

But I suppose its one of those things that's likely to be highly subjective.
It depends, if you plan to scan our entire data set it could take 30-40 seconds (roughly ~2.8TB), but we have our data partitioned based on a key that makes sense for the kind of data you'd need to populate a web page and these queries are fast enough (< 2 seconds) for aggregations that come in via AJAX.

We haven't yet had a chance to optimize our environment either. For example, our nodes are still running a pretty old version of CentOS, so we have LLVM disabled (which would help a lot for huge batch computations...see http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2013/02/inside-cloudera-impala...).

Also, our data is stored in RCFile, which is not exactly the most optimized columnar storage format. We're working on a plan to get everything over the new Parquet (http://parquet.io/) columnar format for another boost in performance.

We haven't come across any real drawbacks using Impala as of yet, it fits our needs pretty well.

Disclaimer: I work for Cloudera in their internal Tools Team, we like to dog food our stuff :).

Edit: One drawback of Impala is the lack of UDF support, but this is something that will be coming in a later release.
To be fair, it's a great ride. You seriously can't beat it as a learning tool. Lawyers and their double meanings, eh? :)

As for not being able to stop the ride, I used to agree with you, but I've since learned how to beat it. At least in North America, the trick is to counter their offers (arrest, obligation to show ID, etc) with a demand for consideration. That consideration can be in the form of payment, information, or performance on their end.

Basically, Kim Dotcom needs to have a chat with Timothy Geihtner about how he was released from the main NYPD station (less than four hours after being arrested for felonies), and he'll never spend a night in Jail again.
BackBlaze - As Seen on Ellen
Support for parallel suites on mocha
Just to echo this: I was in a similar situation and did this (though without asking for healthcare) and it was the best decision I made throughout the course of the experience. Everything crystalized pretty quickly that they didn't have a plan to pay me and I was able to get out without burning through the rest of my bank account.
One caucus in Congress asked Google whether they will protect privacy. Google PR will respond as vaguely as possible, reassuring them that they will protect the privacy of users, and that users can already and will be able to opt out of certain types of data collection.

I, for one, am far more concerned about being filmed and photographed nonstop in public.
> If you inspect the DOM, you can see the links to the MP4/WebM videos. We'll add download links and a podcast feed soon.

Classic ember.js team response.

(the webcasts are great though)
Google my name and youll find me... and a neat python templating thing I'm unaffiliated with.
Contrast between 2005 and 2013 may not be so high
Once you are comfortable doing this routine I would highly recommend the Insanity Workout.
I am curious where you used flags to compile packages in Arch. You need to read manuals, for sure. But, installing unofficial packages from AUR is a breeze - just unzip and then makepkg -si.
And each of those individual operations must be preserved. The example of account credit/debit is not used because it reflects reality 100%, but because its a simple-to-understand example to illustrate the power of transactions. Most developers should be able to look beyond that simplification and see how they can put transactions to work (or see that they are unnecessary).
Go 1.1 and Juju (videos from GoSF)
Aaron Swartz Versus the Bankers
JoeKM. Look at many comments about the bad jobs Groupon has created etc... I am not saying that respect is deserved, but that Andrew seems to have earned respect based on actual achievements.
I don't like the idea of monolithic email products. I wish I had the option to purchase the following items a la carte:

* A polished email client with consistently designed mobile, desktop, console, and web apps.

* Spam filtering and email classification [1]

* Sending/receiving

* Archive/backup

[1] Especially this.
Whether or not the charge holds any water, it isn't any surprise that they would come after the author. "xWithFriends" is something Zynga/Whoever Zynga Acquired came up with, and chances are if ScrabbleWithFriends didn't exist/wasn't extremely popular, the author would have chose a different name for his app.

This is no different to me than Facebook and Apple having a hissy fit over the "*book" and "i[A-Z][a-z]+ terms". I don't think its any stretch of the imagination that someone might associate "CupidWithFriends" with Zynga or any of the related apps.

Just think of the shitstorm that would happen if Google were to name their self driving car the "iCar." Whether or not Google could say "well its not consumer electronics, its an automobile." doesn't change the fact that most people would initially believe that is was Apple's car, not Google's.
Mighty and Napoleon are as important as Google Glass
The title really has to be changed to "A 75-Year Harvard Study on Men Finds What It Takes To Live A Happy Life". I clicked and was disappointed.
I just tweaked the GP's example to used <input value="{{name}} ({{age}})"></input>, which rendered as expected. The field wasn't bound to the age or name properties though, which makes sense.

In practice, this almost seems like "sugar" that automatically binds an input to a value if it's value contains ONLY the property.

To test out the binding sugar, I tried using this input: <input value=" {{name}}"></input> (note the space before {{name}}), which did not bind {{name}} to the input.

I'm still of the opinion that the binding should be more explicit.

Edit: typo fix
You could say he "disrupted" the Yellow Pages and many local newspapers who were the recipients of local advertising dollars. I agree with your statements about job creation though.
Or, you know, the Lean Startup response.

(While I posted this, I have no affiliation, to be clear. I just got a launch email today from being on the list.)
Don't take a sample size of one and extrapolate to everyone.
Indeed. People generally understand when you tell them "I can't afford to live without a paycheck."

Ignore the rest of the things you're worried about, don't say anything about serious doubts or that you think they are idiots, just let them know it's not a viable for you to continue to work without pay. Keep it simple.
>> But I suppose its one of those things that's likely to be highly subjective.

Words of wisdom. Thanks.
No. I live in a very liberal area and I disagree with the liberal worldview on several significant points. In my experience, people have become more harsh towards opposing viewpoints. I've seen enough witch hunts on non-liberals to know I don't want to be the subject of one.
It is almost certainly a joke. Andrew will probably be grumpy that I'm suggesting this, but try googling "Andrew Mason Yoga Video".
Major points for Cheng.

But, look, most trolls don't want to fight it out. They want you to settle. Once word gets out that you will fight to the death, the trolls move on to the next easier target.
Recruiting with Dr. Seuss
I did at one point but I can't remember the password for that account.
Hadn't realized my contact info wasn't there--I guess because this is my second account after I forgot the first one.
Exactly. Just because you've spent the last year barely making ends meet, it doesn't mean that you have to spend another year in a similar situation.

Reassess what's important to you and go for it. You need to ensure that your own personal needs are taken care of first before others, and if that means leaving the startup behind, then so be it.
1.Clone the project to your app’s root folder. See Get the code.
2.Fire up a web server in your app’s directory.
3.Include polymer.js in your main page:
<script src="Polymer/polymer.js"></script>
4.Read the Getting Started guide.

I dont know why, but I really found step 4 very funny at this point.
Microsoft's products cost money (minus piracy), and fought Free Software, which is also Gratis most of the time.

Google is already Gratis (the ads don't count as a price in most people's minds).
Correct. In that example, the value attribute is bound to the element's age property. Basically, anything in {{}}.

> <input value="{{firstName}} {{lastName}}">

This will work as you expect (http://jsbin.com/ecejiy/6/edit). Plus, if either of those property values change, the input.value will be updated accordingly.

By the way, you can also add/define your own syntax for MDV bindings:
https://github.com/Polymer/mdv/blob/master/docs/syntax.md
Yup. This is why I prefer comics done by a solo artist/writer. His update pace is horrifyingly glacial, but he fully exploits the form - his panels are packed with visual information, creative designs, etc. He writes for what he wants to draw, and the imagery pushes the story without being simply a meaningless parade of neat-looking-stuff.

Comic art is wasted on an endless parade of spandex and soap-operas. Using the most visually creative narrative form to tell genre-bound stories about people punching each other is just such a damned shame.

Dresden Codak isn't the perfect webcomic by any stretch, but it's definitely a must read if you want to understand the potential of the medium.
Try travelling on a budget. A really really low budget. You'll have to bum lifts, work casual labour, sleep in less than luxurious places... If you aren't making meaningful human contact after a month on a starting budget of $100, then you probably never will.
Does your product suck? Stop adding new features and zoom in instead
The city needs to 4x the amount of investment capital going into Chicago-based companies. That's the real problem underlying everything. There's not enough money.

It's too hard to raise money for a new startup in Chicago. This leads to fewer startups being funded, which leads to fewer startups, which makes it riskier to join a startup that could go belly up and leave you unemployed for a few months.

In the Bay Area, if you're an engineer and your startup tanks, you can have 5 job offers in a week from other startups. If those tank, you can get 5 more offers, and so on, until something "pops". That's not how it works in Chicago, so there's real risk to joining a startup there.

The reason this works in SF is because there's just a lot more money there going into startups.

A lot of the Chicago startup booster events I've attended in recent years were based on the assertion that the city wasn't retaining top technical talent, but it could if the startup community would just try harder, or something.

The reason the best devs in Chicago are leaving or not working on startups there is because there's not enough rich people and VC funds funding startups to make it risk free and interesting for them to do so.
To be fair, it is a reasonable criticism of Aaron Diaz - he frequently posts feminist-commentary and lambasts others for using sex to sell comics, but he throws a lot of pin-up worthy cheesecake in his work.
It's amazing to see how the GoSF meetups have grown in the past year and continue to grow. Go Iron and go...Go!
Classic, silly, dismissive HN response. </meta>