skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people, especially those who don't know what a plugin is, should emphatically NOT be disabling javascript wholesale and without exceptions in Firefox. And I disagree that its incredibly hard to google, find NoScript, and follow the directions to install it.
The Streaming article is still being written; I got impatient. :)

We should have a post up with more details about the native protocol 2.0 this week or next.
The second time this has come up today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_theseus
The ultimate in minimal design?
>It's not just that I could have told you this. It's that I ranted and screamed this to anyone who would listen at age 14*

When you're 14 you'll also shout that it's unjust that your parents don't let you hang out with your 21 year old crush you met of FB. Or that they don't let you ignore school and focus on a career as a professional videogame player.
This seems like really forced wishful thinking. Sure Apple makes you jump through a lot of annoying hoops, but it doesn't matter how cynical you are you can't hand-wave away the security benefits, and you certainly can't ignore the revenue differentials. I think Android is moving in the right direction, and actually I've used it as my primary phone for years now (I've owned 2 Nexus phones and the old G1), but waiting 5 days for approval (which is the average I've experienced for 6 submissions over the last 2 months) is not as big of a hurdle as the article paints. There's certainly nothing that requires waterfall development or "waiting months".
No - what platform/browser are you using?
What they should do is find the divorce stats and throw that in the mix.
This looks very interesting, thanks for sharing. I especially like that you decided to go with a fantasy football app - can't say I've seen many tutorials do that ;) And last but not least, I like that you chose the MEAN stack, for no reason other than I am unfamiliar with it and have been meaning to look into it.
So I had this clever little comment worked out. I was going to say that a formula for designing a unique building - and, hence, gaining a star reputation - would be to pick a design that everyone else knows has a fatal flaw. That way no others like it would have been built. But, reading the comments I see that this exact mistake has been made more than once. So much for theory.
"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

— Carl Sagan (1934–1996)
New jQuery rich text editor (contenteditable) and image editor
Already patented. You even have the choice of which patent you would like to infringe:

- Apple: http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20100227632
- RIM: http://www.uberphones.com/2010/12/rim-sues-kik-patent-infringement/
- MS: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2009/mar09/03-25AXIGENPR.aspx
You can do it on the back of an envelope. Radius of curvature sets the focal length and the min and max elevations of the sun are set by your latitude. If there's any elevation between the min and max where the reflection will hit the ground even close to the focal length of the building, you will have a problem.

It's the same optics calculations anyone designing a concentrating solar power system would do, and while you need to be careful if you want accurate answers, it's not complicated to see if it has the slightest chance of working.
Apperian Announces New Free Mobile App Management Product
Not to be rude or offend you, but, why? You're saying a newspaper spend 10 hours researching and writing a 700-word article about your wedding? Is this a "local flavour" type article, like they might do about assorted residents? Or are your families famous or ? Did you pay for this kind of placement? Perhaps I'm socially inept here, I just feel like I'm missing something.

As far as being in the dataset, certainly they aren't analyzing every flavour-style thing article, just "announcements"? Just like a 2-page life-in-review article on someone famous when they die doesn't really go in the obit section, does it?
> I know that Android users are starved for slick apps that look good and work well, because I'm one of them (when using my Nexus 7). But as a developer I know that I can't make money from them.

> There is no way forward for (paid) Android apps that can make a living.

Why do you say this? I concede it may be true for games, but games are actually one of the hardest places to make a living. Make not-game apps and your expectation of payment and your likelihood of piracy plummet.
No problem! Guide looks solid otherwise- will give it a run through when I have some free time :)
Being me has gotten me to where I am

Actually you had a lot of help.
Haha. No its okay. UI sucks, you didn't like it. That is fine. No need to apologize. I am a CSS handicap. :/

Yes indeed it is disheartening. It is a magnificent book(from what I've read till now) and its a shame to see Dr. Knuths efforts being so badly treated.
Working with a large Angular app, I've found it much nicer to split away from the "Rails"-style convention of grouping by type (controllers, models, etc) and instead grouping by modules. This plays especially well with Angular where you can group everything within a module together and include a single module which ties all the dependencies together.

Curious if others do something similar and group code together by modules or does everyone group by type?
Nice work! I love how all the individual components are one big scrollspy. We (Coursefork) had a call with Eric yesterday to figure out how to make this kind of material "forkable", but something we didn't talk about was this idea of charging for the "source source code". What exactly does that mean?
Jumpstarter is the kind of product that just leaves people in awe. I've shown it both to developer friends and to my girlfriend and the reaction has always been the same: "How can I get an invite?".

It's so nice that you're finally in Beta and that you get to show the world what you've been working on for so long. Congrats guys!
Thank you.

Although I'm now confused. The list in the animation at the top is:
Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla, CodeIgniter, Symfony, CakePHP, Laravel, Yii, Angular, Magento

While the subsequent list is:
Wordpress, Drupal, Magento, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, OpenCart, Joomla, Concrete5, Kohana, phpBB, Symfony

So are Laravel, Yii, Angular, OpenCart, Concrete5, Kohana, and phpBB up and running, coming soon, or just possibilities?

And with the, "(Also vanilla HTML and PHP/MySQL)." bit, does that mean someone could also run something like MediaWiki, just without Jumpstarter flow?
I don't think that Apple will release a wrist device until there is a good use case for it and curved glass is inexpensive enough to produce in large quantities.
We are giving you free access to the ebook online. If you want to take it offline, we've made a nice PDF version that you can purchase to support our ongoing efforts. If you don't want to support our ongoing efforts to make the tutorial better, you can always 'print to pdf' and take it with you offline.
That was only in one particular year IIRC.
Is There a U.S. IT Worker Shortage?
Andro.js: mix behaviours into objects
> Why? Cause people pay for apps there. They don't on the Play Store.

Is this based on your opinion, or what?
Again: that's quite correct, but the issue is that my view on compulsory schooling (at least, as we currently have it) has held up for another ten years after that and even proven persuasive to my parents.

Read the rest of the comment. I dropped out of high school at 16, then went to university at 18, graduated university with honors, and have now worked in the tech industry and started graduate school at an elite institution. And I honestly don't think I could have done any of it if I'd stayed in high school.

On top of my own example, my fiancee is one of the people the article mentions as being brilliant, obedient, excellent little students who find themselves completely and utterly burned-out by the whole process.
Javascript is a harder language then most web development languages when you really get into it (OOP, inheritance, scope, first class functions, callbacks, closures, compile time errors). If you go into it thinking your going to save brain power you may be in for a rude awakening.

The advantage is you can do real time async stuff a lot better then with other frameworks.
The problem is that people have built false expectations for themselves about what Android is, and even created false definitions of what open source is. All Android is is the operating system. Take any Linux distro, and strip out all the applications bundled with it and you don't have much. All open source means is that you can legally fork it.

People have created their own definitions for these things on no basis. There's a reason why there are so many terms in the open source world. There's Open Source. There's Free software. There's Free and Open Source software. They all mean different things, and the reason we nerds have so many definitions is precisely to avoid these kinds of misconception and false expectations. Ironically they've become complicated enough that everyone else ignores their definitions.
I thought it was because no one liked any of Yahoo's logos.
I think the difference in development comes in when you need to do some hardware testing. With apple you need to design for 3 different display sizes, with 2 resolutions each. You also have to test your product on (at most) 12 different devices, and that's if you really want to cover the field. On the other hand, with Android, if you want to do it right, you need to design for hundreds of different screen sizes, all kinds of different aspect ratios and resolutions, and hundreds of different hardware devices. Or you can forgo all that, and just assume (incorrectly) that majority of the Android users run the latest and greatest Galaxy hardware.
If you're breadboarding a lot, or manually stuffing printed circuit boards, or otherwise doing manual assembly in some way, you quickly learn to read most common ranges of values on sight. Maybe some people like to keep a reminder around for when you encounter weird values, or when troubleshooting.
I don't know. A lifetime of Tintin comic books and "Septante et un" sounds pretty good.
+1 on creating a developer centric intro video. Having tried your product, I know that a video like that would get serious traction on a place like HN.
Speaking as someone who lives in a... well, "under-developed" country to be pollitically correct, I can say that even when you expect shit like this to happen and are even prepared for it, there's certainly no way to make it better if no one complains or says anything.

At least the author seems to be making an effort to rise above this "shit that happens". How? by studying and working hard to be able to get a shot at, either leaving the country, achieving a better quality of life (i.e. more money, whenever money does make things better, which is certainly not all things) and/or by complaining and raising flags about this and hoping that enough fuss will make some poeple move their asses and change things.
I am sorry that I came across as insulting. I interpreted your putting "citations" between quotation marks and then calling them impressive as sarcasm. I'm not sure how else to interpret it, but I will accept at face value your assurance that it was not intended that way.

I did not intend my statement as calling you an asshole. Rather, I perceived your comment as assholish. I assume that you are not an asshole, so I was requesting that you not act like one.
Good to see you're not bitter about that.
> I can also lock the iPhone remotely when I get a RenWeb alert that she didn't turn in her homework!

You should totally productize this.
Thank you for the thoughtful answer. I'm really happy that you find it useful. I have noted your feedback and will work through it.

> students who are new to LaTeX tend to misuse or not fully recognize the full power of LaTeX. I realize that this may not be the target audience of your project and so if any of my comments are not appropriate, please disregard them.

These are actually the perfect audience for the project. You see, the main thing that this tool offers is _convenience_, which is much appreciated by the LaTeX beginners thanks to its steep learning curve and complicated software setups. So please do share it with your students, I hope this helps them one way or another :)

By the way, I've got a proper domain for it: www.texpaste.com
> People in India don't even have the reasonable expectation of riding a public bus without getting raped to death

That was very, very offensive. Are you an Indian? or at the least been to India? My mother has been using public transport for 25 years (now traveling upto 150Kms for her job). She never had a problem. Show some data and or shut up your arrogant mouth.
>But I don't really understand why people think it's disadvantageous if others can find out whether or not you were cute when you were two years old.

Some examples: you child ends up in a viral video and millions of children all over the world and at his school mock it (e.g the Star Wars Kid, and lots of others). How will that affect his growing up?

Or your kid is not really popular at high school, and some other kids dig up a naked baby pic of his. Nothing special, they just circulate it all around school and make fun of him, and he feels like slicing his wrists or something.

Or the kid posts itself something foolish at 16, which makes him unemployable from every employee that would search for him online.
I think you're right. They're still in the baby boomer - brand is everything - mindset. At least she'll have a website where she can post her conference schedules and ebooks.

But seriously, anyone who thinks facebook will be important 10 years from now doesn't know anyone aged 14 to 18. Many articles like this are popping up: http://business.time.com/2013/03/08/is-facebook-losing-its-c...

I don't think parents can truly understand that their kids don't want to be on the same "network" as some of them.

P.S. - Doesn't apply to the flock, just the shepherds. The flock will follow when they feel it's necessary.
Why Does My Brain Sleep? [Google Tech Talk]
This is another post that seems to have missed the point of the linked article. The last graph I saw estimated total revenue from iOS apps was about 2x that of total Play Store revenue (though to be fair, this undercounts Android a little as you can monetize apps via Amazon et. al. too). And of course Android is growing much faster.

The contention in the linked article is that by pushing your "startup" app (which they imply to be a high quality app in a novel category) into the Android ecosystem first you can take advantage of the generally poorer app quality to get a "bigger piece of the pie". (This is the same argument that was made for years about Mac game development, btw.)

I'm not quite sure I buy all of that, but arguing against is has to be a lot more subtle than asserting that Android users "don't pay for apps".
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I've met more kids who wasted their time on a "career" as a professional baseball player than as a professional MLG player. Nobody takes the latter seriously. Too many people imagine the former is a real possibility. It doesn't help that many colleges offer free rides for people who make a good addition to their team.
You write articles about how you want your childs privacy to be respected and hope some of your friends pay attention.

I have a young child, it's normal for most people to ask my permission before putting photos of him on facebook. Generally, the people who live their lives on facebook over-sharing everything don't tend to ask, though I don't know too many people like that..
We're back. Sorry for the downtime.
I understand your sentiments here and do not wish to argue much with it. I share similar concerns too. There have been many(and I mean MANY) accounts of rape in India in the recent year, but that still doesn't mean every time you stand next to an Indian, your chances of getting raped skyrockets.

Having said that, we are working on trying to fix things. I use the word 'we' in the sense that I work with few NGOs who have made women's safety their primary concern and are achieving success in it too. CodeForIndia being one such organization that I am a part of at the moment and also am an active developer in a project about womens safety. Of course, there is a huge chance we will all fail miserably in our attempts, but it would still be better than spreading pessimism all over and not acting at all.

Also while dealing with such wrongful activities, I don't think prioritizing is a good idea. I am not comparing this with rape. I am talking about all corrupt or negligent activites. A lot of people are trying here. Not as many as we'd like to, but still.

I just do not like that a country of over a billion is discredited due to the acts of a few. Neither am I saying that the acts of those few should be ignored, of course not. I would rather appreciate some action being taken over unproductive negative criticism.
I don't think "fruit_basket" (or "fruit_counts", say, addressing your later point) really gives much more clue as to why you're grouping these things than does the templated pair. When there is an informative name, use it, to be sure. Occasionally there's not much more reason than "I am using both of these elsewhere. This is much more the case when things are used locally than when they are exposed in interfaces, to be sure.
Pig vs. MapReduce: When, Why, and How
Twitter Open Sources Summingbird - Streaming Map-Reduce with Hadoop and Storm
The question that arises for me is how the changes affected the performance of the department, however that's measured (e.g. entrepreneurs, investment, placement, grants, average graduate salaries, etc.).

The outcome, good or bad, wouldn't necessarily reflect on the changed proportion of women; it might just as well indicate something about the particular measures they took to achieve it. For instance, they shifted focus more to potential than to prior experience; were their markers for potential the right ones? Were leadership, math, and science emphases balanced properly?

Getting more women into the program is a great start, but do they go on to be successful? Is leading with gender the right way to do it?
What Are Dickwolves, And What Do They Have To Do With Rape Culture?
>> There is no way forward for (paid) Android apps that can make a living. You need to sell on iOS in order to make any sort of revenue.

Yes, that is kind of sad. As someone who does pay for Android software, I imagine I'm in the minority. I've got extended family members who balk at the notion of paying even a dollar for software on Android.

OTOH, I'm curious how many paid apps on the iOS App store actually hit the break-even point.
Fortune.js - web framework for prototyping rich hypermedia APIs
Trick is to find a balance in the process so that author of an App is legally identifiable. This is to avoid episodes like "Fake Angry Bird App" and "Fake Mobile Banking App".

IMO, when I download ETrade App on my smartphone, it is good to know that someone checked that it was submitted by someone who is from ETrade really. If the process is rigorous for E*Trade, so be it. But as an end user I'd prefer it to be that way instead of making it _my_ responsible to verify before installing the app.
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I'd call that a critique of civilized society.
I'm not following your arguments at all. Android apps must inherently be buggy and "thrown together"? Android apps must "include ALL features" before release?
Fonts are not too large. The base font on any web page should be 16point.
This smells like a flop to me.
>My biggest concern was that if in the future I end up buying a new book, how can I be sure it is the same book that I expected to be delivered, without any page messups or other oddities.

Just buy the American edition, problem solved.
There is some research that backs up the claim.

http://www.idigitaltimes.com/articles/17985/20130531/ios-app...
I know this is smarmy but, check out this screen shot with a google ad in the article: http://imgur.com/dB9cyeQ
Great - another option. I prefer my phone deciding when to do this automatically (and maybe an option to disable it so I can run it into the ground if absolutely necessary).
Really!? Wow! I guess the journalist has read John Taylor Gatto too! (http://johntaylorgatto.com/underground/)
For front-end such as Angular I always group in modules, usually nested modules for larger apps. For back-end systems sometimes type makes more sense, especially when the app grows quite big and uses a layered architecture.
There's some evidence of that here: http://blog.appannie.com/app-annie-index-market-q2-2013/

People on iOS are more willing to buy apps and do more in-app purchases but the gap doesn't seem that wide to bridge, especially as iOS users move to Android.
> IMO, for most people 1-2 really good teachers are all they need.

I could not agree with you more. At least this is the exact case for me. When i was in middle school i was considered below average, below my grade level. I changed schools to a new teacher(3rd grade). It quite literally changed my world. To this day I give that teacher a huge amount of credit for the person i am today.

TL;dr;, yes, 1-2 teachers can make all the difference in the world for a student.
Another article, just basically saying everything Maria Montessori proved years ago, without actually mentioning Montessori. Education has advanced, we just have refused to adopt it. Just ask Larry Paige or Sergey Brin. I'm really happy that I'm in a profession where I can afford to send my kids to a Montessori school.
People also write more apps for the Play Store than ever.

Users do care how easy it is to develop, they care by proxy when they choose the earlier to market, better designed or most inovative one.
References? Well, if you trust that site as your source of medical information more so than first hand accounts, good luck to you.

Fundamentally, stimulant-resembling drugs of all kinds have side effects, and the detriments are predictably related to the drug's primary function. You can't cheat nature.
Slightly less than how strung out you sound. Relax.
I do the same as you. Group by Module - which in my humble opinion is the real intention of the modules.

Oh between I do group by Type inside of a module.
Another key constituency are the school builders. Schools are in constant need of construction and renovation (often because they are poorly built). It is one of the larger budget items in any school district.
There's a big difference between a platform with several hundred thousand known pieces of malware in the wild vs a platform with a tiny handful of what are mostly proof-of-concept apps.

Open vs closed & other religious wars aside, it's ridiculous to imply that both platforms carry the same risk to end users.
Unless of course they lowered the graduating requirements, or the women graduates did significantly poorer, e.g. more Bs and Cs compared to the men (CMU does not, I assume, grade on the curve; MIT doesn't, if you're in an appropriate major you'll gets As and Bs, Ds and Fs only if you're having personal problems).

This, however, is not my impression at all, nor I gather your's.

And let's not forget the cost in depriving 16 men places in the Class of 2004 (12% of 135); unless you were one of them, acceptable in an experiment which may be ultimately successful, but....
Style a native app for iOS 6 and 7 using CSS + media queries
Oh... I thought this was something about the actual reveal based on the Yahoo's metrics. But this is the results of a 12,725 person survey about 5 random logos from Yahoo's first 28 examples. Really... tomorrow could show us exactly this... or something completely different.