skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think people are beginning to realize that at the end of the day it costs a certain amount of money to get a plane from A to B and you can pay upfront on BA or have it weaseled out of you on Ryanair. Even Michael O'Leary (Ryanair CEO) is starting to tone it down. E.g. if you paid by card, Ryanair would charge you the card fee not per payment, but per ticket and per leg, so a group of 4, return flights booked together in one payment, would pay 8x the card processing fee. Oh, and there's no way not to pay by card, did I mention? Whereas on BA the card fee is 0, and you can pay cash at the desk if you really want to!
"We're Mesa Airlines, and we're ready to provide you with the nonexistent service you deserve as the bottom-feeding low-budget traveler you are!"
On top of all these other changes, Google's "Knowledge Graph" and other Google-owned properties are taking up more and more of the search results than ever before. Google Shopping, YouTube, Google+ and Adwords all take up more screen real estate with every Google update and design tweak.

Look at this query for example: https://www.google.com/search?q=telescopes

I see 20 links to ads and Google owned properties and only 2 to actual 3rd party websites. That's insane. (edit: That's above the fold, on page load...more 3rd party listings if you keep scrolling but most users don't)
So rather than having a lengthy standard it has lots of small non-standardized and brittle performance optimizations?

I remain skeptical over whether this tradeoff is worth it.
It's precisely where the idea of a corporation comes in. How can a group of people risk so much? The only way is if it fails they don't go to prison or suffer for the rest of their lives because of that failure. Otherwise it would be very hard to convince people to take such enormous risks.

The main "problem" with capitalistic business is in expectations. People need to realize that every day comes with risk. And only through that risk do we see reward. But the little guy working the line, he just wants a paycheck with no risk. Unfortunately there would be very little reward if that were so.
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the UX designers behind the flat trend seem not realize that there is no mouseover in touch UI which is why you can get away with it in desktop UI.

flat design seems even more applicable for print design, i.e. completely non-interactive
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What privacy reasons? As soon as you land on that site, they can geoIP you, evercookie you, browser thumbprint you, and if they participate in network-based cookie lookup systems, they can probably even identify who you are. Why does the keyword you searched matter at that point?
What I find worrisome is that these UI ideas are bleeding over into OSX. Take a look at the new Build Phases tab in Xcode. It used to be nice and clear, now it's just a see of white, and it's hard to visually see how different elements on that page relate to each other, especially on a large screen.

As I often say, life is about balance. Apple used to have way too much UI chrome. Now they have way too little. I hope they swing back a bit and find that balance soon. An I hope they stop sticking so many pure white backgrounds all over the place, it makes it hard on the eyes, at least for me.
You might also be pleased to know that the primary focus of the last release is a powerful format converter, nbconvert.

It can do some simple transformation:
http://ipython.org/ipython-doc/rel-1.1.0/interactive/nbconve...

Or you can build a custom transformer:
http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/Carreau/post...
The timer circles go gray when touched to indicate you can hold the button and then let go when you are ready.
Have fun!

I recommend you start with the Nock tutorial:

http://www.urbit.org/2013/08/22/Chapter-2-nock.html

The build instructions in this file are out of date, use the ones from the Arvo chapter. Also, probably the best short overview is the header comment in the Hoon compiler:

https://github.com/urbit/urbit/blob/master/urb/zod/arvo/hoon...

Also don't miss the video: https://vimeo.com/75312418
Definitely market positioning is a key factor, but I think the "me, me, me" attitude is also a large part of it. Most start-up founders looking to "raise awareness" (as one start-up founder told me) are interested in getting attention for their product rather than providing something of real value to the market. Ultimately when you have a message that has value, it will spread on its own (for the most part).
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Jason (OP) here.

Yep, know that feeling. Well.

Would love to have you over to the office to chat. Ping me offline. jason at 42floors
I had a teacher who said "horseshoes and hand-grenades." Continuing the "h" sounds, I added hydrogen bombs :)
Was that Mixpanel css written by hand? Maybe it's just slightly inefficient css generated by sass/less/stylus.
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I too bought the N9 last year... but I didn't realize it until now that I had similar feelings for that purchase
No, it was the world's most popular smartphone vendor.

It was in serious financial trouble, but it still ruled the world.
Flowers fade, but you'll be hard pressed to forget a grenade.
Yes they do, but it wasn't working and would time out.
The top voted post on this thread appears to be a DO employee asking you to permit them to discuss your case. Will you allow it?

edit: Post disappeared. Was https://gist.github.com/ceejayoz/75dd46bf5ae957f9c4fd
First of all, I wouldn't call Backbone a framework. It's more like a library. It's only about 1500 lines of code with lot's of comments.

If you use Backbone, you'll have to reimplement/include other libraries to use the right design-patterns. And this takes time.
AngularJS and Ember.js makes these decisions for you which saves alot of time.
"Why should we care about NoScript users?"
I'd be willing to bet against it. There's so much cruft that has to be kept in for compatibility reasons that I really doubt it. Also, the Mac offers much more functionality than an iPad, you'd need to expand UIKit a lot to run on Mac hardware. Maybe they deprecate AppKit and introduce UIKit alongside, like with Carbon, but I doubt they have the manpower for that right now. I guess they'd rather concentrate on making UIKit better on ARM than porting it somewhere else
The iOS 6 version of the alarms app for iPad had a similarly confusing interface. It's a complete disaster -- one that I was hoping they would remedy in iOS 7, but that doesn't seem to have happened. I've always been surprised that this app managed to get out of Apple's internal UI review -- now not once but twice.
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When do you do code review?
I recently did sit with my 91-year-old grandfather on his deathbed, and I don't think much in his working life would have even made the list. I'm still working out how to apply that lesson.
> If you are able to think of very few that require a degree (both directly or indirectly), outside of IT, what are those? And please limit yourself to professions that are spawned from degrees. A carpenter, electrician, etc., are not taught at colleges.

I feel like you are moving the posts again to support your argument. In the context of promoting going to college, you have to look at the jobs that everyone will be doing. If 100% of the population had a STEM degree, 100% of the population will not be doing STEM jobs. That is not how it works.

Agriculture comes to mind as a university accredited program, and while I'm sure it can be useful, you do not need a degree in agriculture to be a successful farmer. So, what makes a profession spawn from a degree? An electrician's job is deeply rooted in the research done by physicist and electrical engineers, so why does it not count?

Perhaps it is only those doing cutting edge research who should be counted as a degree-spawned profession? I would be on board with that definition. Reimplementing someone else's algorithm that you learned in a CS program always seemed more like being a carpenter anyway. The people creating new algorithms that have never been seen before are in a different class. Keep in mind that you're also talking about a tiny fraction of the population actually doing that kind of work though, and those types of jobs are almost impossible to get unless you are the best of the best. Promoting more people to get a degree is not going to improve that situation.

Speaking of electrical engineering, there was an article in a national newspaper a month or two ago about the top jobs (pay wise) for people without degrees, and electrical engineer was near the top of the list. Programming and IT work did not even make the cut at all.
It is not the frameworks that are bringing about the change. http://oocss.org/ and http://smacss.com are bringing about this change. Bootstrap's CSS techniques are written with a heavy bias on OOCSS, and by doing that it is setting a good example. I'll give you that.
I would never advocate that someone build a production stack with a single physical server -- I've generally used three servers in concert in such situations.
It's fairly easy to make them non-brittle, because it's very easy to rig a testing framework to run both the hand-optimized "jet" and the pure code, and compare them.

Standardizing performance is a subtler and more interesting point. It's a fairly safe bet that anything in the kernel that needs to be is jet-propelled. Above that layer, who knows? Good old normative text may handle it.

But in general, the feeling should be like the difference between hardware GL and software GL. The developer doesn't see it and the user sees it only as fast versus slow.
I can understand this position and can even understand why you can't just take this article as being authorization..... even though it's pretty clear (imho) that the linked article is practically begging for DO to explain publicly why the account was terminated.
If you have no money to begin with, you're probably in no position to commit a real financial crime. "Poor people financial crimes" are still crimes involving some level of physical violence (breaking into a house, picking someone's pocket, etc).

If you do have money to begin with, taking it all away and imposing fines/wage garnishment as penalties are a major deterrent.
That's one of the top features coming in the next version!
I'd totally agree with Google part. Their free services (Search, Maps, Mail) are amazing but once you're doing business with them, they are a PITA to work with.
Do you really care about customized UI so much that you'd rather ship a WebKit view than not have any?
My grandfather worked in real estate and owned a number of commercial buildings that he lost during the great depression. It took him sixteen years, but he paid every one of his creditors off with interest.

I always took it as an example of the right way to act. But I have relatives that thought he was a fool not to declare bankruptcy and move on. There will always be people on both sides of that question, but he continues to be my inspiration as an entrepreneur.
How / where should I host a static site?
I'm planning to move my site a static site generator (probably Jekyll) sometime in the near future. I'm starting to think about hosting options. My top requirement is for the host to be fast and reliable. I'd also like to have great customer service in case any problems arise. Beyond these factors, I'd like it to be as affordable as possible. I'd love to hear your thoughts...

While we're on the topic, any suggestions around hosting of media assets would also be of interest to me. Should I host these on the same server or would it be better to host them on a separate asset server? What are the performance, reliability and cost concerns involved in this decision?
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Yes, this. The worst possible outcome for a startup is a slow, drawn-out death. The second-worst outcome is treading water without clear success.
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This makes me wonder about the legality of all this. Isn't the CEO supposed to act in the company's best interest ? By giving him a bonus for selling the company at a low price, isn't the board somehow betraying the shareholders ?
Did Nokia's shareholders agree to this ?
I think that the NSA's game plan would be the other way around.

1) Write a patch the implements a subtle security flaw in GPG.
2) Kidnap Bruce Schneier's dog
3) Send ransom note to Bruce Schneier with instructions
4) Bruce Schneier announces fake security hole in GPG and submits tainted patch to foundation
5) Foundation rejects tainted patch
5.5) Have Schneier make a big stink about the foundation not fixing the (non-existent) bug or implementing the (tainted) patch
6) Assassinate Schneier to keep him quiet
7) Mainstream declares it ridiculous that the NSA would have killed Schneier
8) Start rumor that the NSA hijacked the foundation and killed Schneier for trying to patch a critical bug.
9) The foundation's report on the security of the original code is now discredited.
10) Previously secure individuals now install the tainted NSA patch to protect themselves from a non-existent bug
11) If anyone points out the flaw in the patch or the non-existence of the original bug, hire sock-puppets to accuse them of being NSA sock-puppets.
But with classes with "green" and "blue" in the names, you're still mixing meaning and presentation and hurting maintainability. See: http://thecodelesscode.com/case/95
If valve couples this to a reasonably priced htpc and sell it they could get nearly every game available on steam ruining on it using wine.

That's easy because like with consoles you have only one hardware configuration so getting a game to run properly on wine or even better than on windows would be a walk in the park compared to porting it.

Of course this trick won't work with the millions of hardware combinations in today's PCs.
This is really, really neat.

I really like the concepts in Avro and Urbit. Particularly interesting for me is the checkpoint/replay, distributed version control, and neighbours.

This is a really cool experiment!
Interesting that it's a sort of scientific decision based on testing.
To build your startup? No.

To have fun? Why not.
There's also no way to message Mac users from Whatsapp. When I'm at my computer, I don't want to have to use my phone to IM people.
Good. Whenever I visit PopSci I'm amazed at how low quality the comments are. They felt like they belonged more on Fox News than a science site.
The affected user posted in this thread a good number of minutes after this rose to the top (and subsequently deleted that post). This seems telling to me.
As a Gen Y kid, you nailed it.

We're not anarchists. Well, ok, most of us will claim to be anarchists of some sort. But what's really going on is that we almost all, to a man, feel hugely betrayed by society's institutions.

That doesn't mean we hate institutions and all want to move to the desert and become survivalist maniacs. It means we want institutions that actually do their job of making society run well.
Geocities.
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This comment provides zero insight into the TOS violation. Those details do not matter whatsoever, what matters is what you are doing.

Unless you provide that information this post comes across as a rant.
Upvote, since this account says they are the 'Cofounder [of] DigitalOcean.com'.
A few other suggestions while we're at it:

1. The pull down to add is not intuitive. Just use a + button in the right hand corner.

2. Have the ability to export history to email (csv, json, whatever).

3. Indicator of how many days there has been a streak.
"A GP is certainly not a neurosurgeon, and therefore cannot possibly do the same job. Ditto with embedded programming vs a "front-end" developer."

Cannot possibly do the same job? Really?

I've done embedded programming, front-end web programming, back-end web programming, desktop app programming for Win32, Qt/Linux, game programming, OS system level programming and currently do mobile app programming, among other types of programming. And I'm not particularly special, I know quite a few other people personally who have done various combinations of these jobs and others at a high level of skill in each specialization. That's sort of my basic point is that really good and flexible programmers are not fungible products you can really ascribe any productively multiplier to.
That line is drawn by conflict of interest
Thanks, but Avro is someone else's cool project!

(Arvo is named for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvo_P%C3%A4rt.)
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Yes, that happens a lot for new users. Thing is, once you DO know how to do something, it makes complete sense, and is very memorable - you won't forget it.

Sometimes the issue isn't so much making the interface usable, but instead teaching the user how to use it and in a way they won't forget.
i use heroku. Lots of markdown/ruby based frameworks to help you out.
But then you are probably getting close in pricing to running the stack on AWS, as you don't need to have that much reserved infrastructure when you can easily replace it when there are problems with the server
It doesn't matter, they're all fine. You aren't going to succeed or fail based on the framework choice. Just use whatever you know. The only non agnostic advice is for you to use to use Postgres. Don't use something like Mongo, it's trying to solve problems you don't even have.
I'm not a techcrunch hater and have little problem with pr-driven articles but...slow news day?
> But the little guy working the line, he just wants a paycheck with no risk. Unfortunately there would be very little reward if that were so.

The little guys working the lines usually don't have safety nets and credentials—inherited money, money from previously founded business, mentors, a reputation, or even supportive relatives—so their fear of failure is somewhat justified.
Top patent court screws up slipper patents, how can it rule sensibly on phones?
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Try a different browser. I've used Chrome Mac, Firefox Win, Firefox Mac, Safari. I just logged in using Safari (mac) 6.0.5 and found it working while 6.0.4 did not.
But now we want to know.

edit: stop deleting your posts, you douche.
It took me more than "a few weeks" to get comfortable with it. In fact, I actively advised people to avoid it until the last beta and the GM.

As of the last beta and GM, either iOS suddenly changed drastically for the better, or my perception finally adapted.

Either way, now the old version is frustrating, lacking essential features to accomplish common intents. I believe it's my acceptance or comprehension of the new flow that shifted.

FWIW, I work with several major versions in the course of my day, from 4.x through 7.x.
I'm pretty sure you opened this to the public.
1 and 3 are also coming in the second version. I just added 2 to the backlog. Thanks!
Simple, so many start-ups so little ink. And certain connected VCs take over Techcrunch, Panda Daily, BI etc for their dozens of start-ups, leaving even less room for the rest.
Nobody seems to get that this is the first 3D printer with which printing can be easily parallelized! This is going to be huuuuuuuge!
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Pick the right tools for the job. If you're doing an MVP web app, NodeJS, Rails, PHP, Django, ColdFusion (N other frameworks here) will all get it done.

Yes, I said ColdFusion. That thing that was hot the 90's.

This post reminds me that customers don't care what stack you use, as long as it solves their problem: http://pud.com/post/9582597828/why-must-you-laugh-at-my-back...
> It's an illustration of why banks and bank debt are so important in our economy! This capital-intensive sort of business doesn't happen by an entrepreneur writing a $1 billion check from funds he has on hand.

Aren't you just pushing the "problem" back one step? The entrepreneur writing a $1 billion check from funds he has on hand is now the banker, not the airline guy. Of course, I guess these days you can keep pushing that back until you hit the federal reserve (or other central bank).
Anecdotally, I acquire such a frame of mind after a session of Civilization IV (just tried recently, never played strategy video games before). Everything looks like time or resource investment with a goal, and I feel a bit detached emotionally when making choices. I guess I should be worried that this feels unusual :)
This notion that technology is responsible for inequality and unemployment both now and in the future has been making the rounds lately, but it has got to stop. So much about this is just flat out wrong, but just as bad is that it helps the real villains shift the blame. Technological progress has been making low-productivity jobs obsolete and replacing them with high-productivity ones at least since the Industrial Revolution. In theory that's a good thing since productivity growth is the source of societal wealth that is supposed to raise living standards. The reality sometimes falls short of the theory, but only because wealthy elites try to capture the gains for themselves. Stop falling for the misdirection about "the robots taking our jobs."
A machine emulator as a module, that's pretty pretty.
I am in the process of shutting down my first company and I would like to thank you for sharing your experience because every decision I make right now has huge ethical implications.
I agree that "the system" has no intrinsic value, and is purely an engineering problem. This is obvious. But this sentiment is often erroneously taken as an argument for naively re-architecting the current system.

Us engineer/programmer types know that the last thing you want to do is a total rewrite of a working system, because its precise setup often contains domain knowledge that we don't have. "I don't know what this piece does, but it's ugly and seems problematic" does not necessarily imply "this piece should be removed or changed using my current level of expertise".

The analogy is not perfect, because civilizations are not really intelligently designed, so they can often contain crud that's just crud, but the same goes for you own body. Do you have the domain knowledge to determine that the appendix does nothing, the little finger is noncritical, and the liver is critical? Do Snowden or Swartz have the domain knowledge of the workings of civilization to make a decision like that for everybody?

It's that kind of naive wholesale re-architecting that dropped the ball on the Congo, Zimbabwe, etc, and caused a hundred million to die by communism.

As much as I think Swartz was right to challenge the rent seekers in science publication, and Snowden was right to undermine the NSA, I think there's really something to be said for being careful with this stuff.

Sure there's a lot of apparent problems in our current civilization, but please consider that we might occupy a relatively optimized position in a sea of dysfunctional possible societies, and that the exact mechanics of that may be nontrivial and beyond the understanding of you or me or any of these other "Generation W" troublemakers (of which I am one). The stakes are high enough that we really ought to be careful.

>Another superstition trampled under the relentless feet of reason.

This doesn't seem like rational thought, it seems like endorsement of destructive mob behavior backed by quasi-religious ideals.

Would you recognize naive problematic restructuring when you saw it, or are you just using this sentiment as another soldier in the war against some fixed enemy?