skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My service is about iOS Games. Its a discovery service.

onion2k mentioned the 'playing with new stuff' part as well. But, I guess you're right, unless I dont somehow communicate with them, I'd never know.

And for communication, your link looks great. Right now, I am using Signals by Hubspot to keep track of emails and user behaviour. It does almost the same thing as well. Will try the tips part as well. Thanks!
I'm glad I bought my mother an iPhone 3GS, why? because it won't upgrade to iOS7 and she won't have to relearn how to use it again.
I'm pretty sure this is a giant joke ? Or nothing is implemented yet (and still, kind of jokish especially in description)?
Could you elaborate? Right now it sounds like you've made a snap judgement without actually trying it.
Developing On A Chromebook: Initial Thoughts
It's funny, because, while I'm not extremely isolated, I have lived through periods of my life when all my family was abroad (I stayed in Uruguay, most emigrated, others studied abroad), and I have few local friends.

No amount of telephone calls, chats, Facebook or Skyping can compare to in-person interaction. I have a photo of a recent Christmas, with 3 screens with Skype calls to family in Canada and Europe on each screen, and while it helps to "be" there more than just a phone call, it's still nowhere near the same.

It is of course anecdotal, but that was my experience.

I didn't have a full-wall videoscreen with HD, maybe for a limited environment like a meeting it can be a very reasonable simulation... but at least in Latin countries like mine, "real" negotiations and bonding/trust building occur over a shared meal or other shared experiences, which cannot be currently simulated.

Going back to the original topic: business air travel isn't dying soon.

Maybe some inmersive 3-d environment will finally kill it (and we'll see Second Life as an innovation before its time, much like the Apple Newton?)
Scalding, Scala and Tornado
Kanye West Interview With Zane Lowe
While I agree with the general idea behind the article (object orient your css), I think the second demonstration involving margins is an example of OOCSS gone wrong.

If you are injecting your markup elements with classes like "mbm mts mrl" (or padding, or anything else that is essentially just a css property), this is not much different than just inlining your styles. If you want this level of reusability in your css, use sass and create these as placeholders. From there give your dom element a some kind of class(es) that can extend several of these placeholder values.

Ian Storm had a very well written article that hits on this more: http://ianstormtaylor.com/oocss-plus-sass-is-the-best-way-to...
FreeSwitch isn't really a "successor" to Asterisk -- Asterisk is still very much in active development (as is FreeSwitch - I think). More like a competing (in a good way) project. See:

http://www.freeswitch.org/node/117
Sure, we've got the j. edgar hoover era and everything going along with that, but that's a case of individualized, nominally illegal wiretapping. Now we're talking about broad-based wiretapping with entire buildings dedicated to it, operating practically in the open compared to the cloak-and-dagger stuff of yore.
guys in brothels don't get to personally know their whore, they say "i want a red head with big boobs" and pay the cash.

i still say the analogy is apt.
I have been working on a Mac app off and on for a few months. I don't have any background in native programming though, as my experience has been pretty much completely from web engineering and javascript/Python.

My biggest issues have been 1) Lack of a development community and 2) Both too much documentation and not enough.

1) The Mac dev forums from Apple are almost dead. Asking a question on StackOverflow is a literal crapshoot as to whether you'll get an answer or not. I don't know where to begin looking for an active, vibrant Mac developer community.

2) Apple's documentation is simultaneously rich and deep while being incredibly sparse, inconsistent, and maze-like. Very frequently you can find a description on SO or a blog post referencing something you need, yet the link is broken because Apple is very bad about maintaining and forwarding links when they change their URL structure.

There are entire classes of questions that I don't even know how to research or ask about yet I know should have answers when I encounter them.

Not too long ago I was doing something with AVFoundation. There was a particular setting that I needed to change, and by looking at the signature of a similar feature that plugged in the same way I knew it should be there. But I couldn't find it. The docs in this feature said nothing about it. I searched high and low for 2 days for sample code or anything that implemented this thing. I was getting nowhere.

I finally went back and watched the original 2 WWDC videos where AVFoundation was being introduced in 2011. After 2 hours and literally in the last 2-3 minutes of the 2nd video, the speaker casually mentioned the feature I was working with. I about flipped my lid at that point.

The property was exactly where I expected it. Xcode wasn't autocompleting it for some reason and I think there was a camel-case issue that was making it fail. All in all it was extremely frustrating.

I'm being vague about the details because this all happened about a year ago and I haven't thought much about it.

If anyone knows if/how you can display a window in the app while recording the screen with AVFoundation and not record that window, you'd save me a ton of time and frustration. Otherwise I fear I have to stop using AVFoundation and do my own implementation which I think is a very bad idea.
A hideous script that wipes Facebook activity of your choice
I find that following a prefix method works quite well for organizing a lot CSS. For example (using sass):

.home-header-h1{
font-size: 20pt;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
line-height: 1.3;
}
.home-header-h1-blue{
@extend .home-header-h1;
color: blue;
}
.home-header-h1-green{
@extend .home-header-h1;
color: green;
}

This helps keep classes out of your HTML and avoids large amounts of nested CSS. Here's the compiled source:

.home-header-h1, .home-header-h1-blue, .home-header-h1-green {
font-size: 20pt;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
line-height: 1.3; }

.home-header-h1-blue {
color: blue; }

.home-header-h1-green {
color: green; }
Indeed, insane day. FYI the service is back up.
I've worked with a ton of programmers over my career and I know some that are truly better than the rest. But I only know one guy that is the 10x guy. He is filled with energy and cranks out good solid code every single day. This is after he bikes 20+ miles to work. And then 20+ home. He is a machine and I've never seen anyone like him since. That's one guy out of hundreds I've met. I tend to think everyone wants to be the 10x guy, but more likely they're just "good" programmers who want to be better. And that's not a terrible thing. Not every pilot needs to be Chuck Yeager, some just have to fly freight around in a way that doesn't get them or someone else killed.
Huh. Well, the more you know, and all that.
That link is marketing fluff. You don't need to take a laptop to Everest to understand that moving part are prone to breakage over time or that a rigid casing will better-protect interior parts. Carbon fiber is prone to cracking while aluminum will generally just dent.
Schneier on Security: Apple's iPhone Fingerprint Reader Successfully Hacked
Here be dragons: advances in problems you didn’t even know you had
"In truth" implies you have a fact to share, when in fact, it's just your opinion. Better to use "In all honesty" since you were being a bit dishonest in saying that "IOS7 apps are littered with this kind of stuff".
I think this otherwise-great article is weakened by its praise of Manning. Unlike the heroic Snowden, Manning leaked an enormous bulk of documents that she didn't actually review in detail, which showed little to no wrongdoing relative to the bulk of the texts leaked. This seems useless, reckless, and spiteful. http://www.quora.com/Chelsea-formerly-PFC-Bradley-Manning/Is...
Nice share! I think all our apps need that button.
Yeah that makes you feel really insecure.
This * 1000.

Just because the output isn't 100% optimal doesn't mean the input isn't sane, maintainable, or clean.
JetBrains announces free version of PyCharm 3.0, PyCharm Community Edition
"Any change can be construed as kicking a percentage of users to the curb."

True! But not by a rational person.
Bridgewater founder explains how economy works in 30 min video
Unnecessarily repetitive annoying response is unnecessarily repetitive. And annoying. Did I mention that it was unnecessarily repetitive? And also annoying? Because it totally is both unnecessarily repetitive and annoying.
> certain new technologies

of which his employer makes/uses/promotes several.

just because someone did "good things" previously doesn't mean their actions and/or comments are all inherently "good".
I love the part where he talks about how he thinks everything should be doable through the internet. Need food? internet. Need dates? internet. Need entertainment? internet. Totally true that most job boards don't work.
The complete Touch ID hack (German text but Video with English subtitles)
Looks neat. I have no idea what Vanish is though.
Why MariaDB+Galera vs. MySQL Cluster?
I read the political decision of Maria being more robust and non-Oracle, but was MySQL Cluster considered? And if not, why?
My biggest gripe with iOS 7 is how I can't predict that a UI element is tappable. With every new app (i.e. every app I already have that has been updated for iOS 7 and automatically upgraded by the iOS without me really knowing) I find myself having to tap various bits of UI stuff to figure things out. What's fascinating to me is seeing how my 2 year old does with it.
What about when people back in the day argued that links on the web were difficult to use because they were just underlined text instead of buttons? Lots of link styles today have no text decoration but are rather just a different color, and are as easy as ever to use.
The Facebook CSS is so utterly specific that they may as well use style attributes directly.
Although the context of hierarchy is useful in CSS, there isn't a need to specify the styles with the hierarchy. That increases the specificity as a side-effect, which is a bad thing for maintainability. SMACSS suggests showing the hierarchy in class names instead. For example: use .main-dialog-heading{}' instead of '.main-dialog .heading h2 {}'.

Edit: I actually wrote a detailed blog post on it: http://sriharisriraman.in/blog/2013/09/08/dont-nest-css/
I look forward to seeing your smartphone UI.
Can't really trust you guys to deliver anything if you really think data visualization was invented sometime in the early 2000's.
This seems more like a benefit in the offer package to Elop. It's like the board was saying to Elop: "hey we know our company is in hard times. Try your best but if you fail, that's ok, we'll pay you for your trouble. But make sure you sell it off to a buyer"

I think the new Blackberry CEO had a similar offer. In case of a buyout, he ges paid.
Make sure you're accounting for vacant months, and for maintenance.
that is not exactly perceived well by the average HR/recruiter.
Honestly, I do think that NeoGAF is one of the better video game forums out there, given that registration is strictly restricted to school, work, and ISP email addresses[0]. But even so, you still have wade through many unproductive one-liners to find a post of modicum importance. And as far as I have heard, NeoGAF is frequently visited by game journalists and developers alike, so the bar is already pretty high.

Some people have tried making more mature gaming communities, such as the owner of Insomnia who enforces a very strict posting guideline[1] and requires a paid subscription in order to participate[2], but I feel that these types of communities are often too restrictive in the types of content they can provide, often limiting themselves to specific discussions on higher level game mechanics of specific genres, and, as a result, lack the diversity found in forums like NeoGAF.

[0]http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=390708
[1]http://insomnia.ac/commentary/posting_guidelines/
[2]http://culture.vg/subscribe.html
You might want to file a bug, report to one of the IPython mailing lists, ask a question on StackOverflow, ask a question in the IPython hipchat or IRC channel... really anything except for leaving rude comments on HN.
I'm seeing quite a few comments across the web from people saying they were in the 1.5%, which makes me wonder how accurate that number is. Then again, Gmail has a LOT of users, so that could be a very accurate number.

We use Google Apps for Business and were experiencing delays of several hours, and I did receive some bounces when sending to others within my organization. Strangely, most of this happened when using Outlook with Google Apps Sync - not when using the web interface.

Still, we've been very happy with the service - things like this happen every once in a while. We made do until it was straightened out.
Let's call what it is not about: user privacy. Adwords, that I guess gobbles most clicks on a lot of searches, still transmits the data.

This is the latest from a desperate Google. Why is Google desperate? Virtually all their money is being made via ads, their original business plan. Asteroid mining and other BS "We're curing death" press releases aside, Google is dependent on adwords so they need to keep turning knobs to force sites to advertise. Their PE is 25+ so they need to show huge increase quarter to quarter to keep the scheme going.

This month Google also made the Keyword Tool for advertisers only. And in another major coincidence after Page took over, Google has made major algo changes (Panda, Penguin) giving sites virtually no way to come back in ranking but that greatly improved Google's revenue. Shocking, huh? Of course they can advertise to make up for the lost traffic, like the sites that rank high (brands.)

So do I have a smoking gun memo? Nope, but it doesn't take a genius to figure it out. Ever wondered why Wikipedia ranks #1 for "computer"? IMO, it has to do with forcing Dell, MS, HP and others to advertise and to increase clicks on ads. I doubt most people want to know what a "computer" is when searching Google on a computer.

That Gmail "promotions tab"? Google attacking another free source of sales and marketing.

P.S. I expect a gazillion down votes from you know who. I don't care.
Please add support for older WWDC events. My test case fails, http://asciiwwdc.com/search?q=avfoundation
It doesn't sound like 'Art' was the problem here. Art Direction is a lot different from a career as a professional artist.
That flight really is all about O&D between two huge financial centers. But on the off chance someone actually wants to connect on this side of the pond, I guess they use the fact that JFK is an AA hub (which is in oneworld along with BA, as well as in the immunized TATL joint venture with them).
Showcasing Seattle Startups
This happened to a friend who runs a DO server on July 22nd. The server had been running for several weeks when it was suddenly taken down out of nowhere for over 4 hours to "verify" the account. There wasn't any warning and my friend immediately provided what they had requested.

Their response? They shut down the server because of "unusual traffic" coming from the server which wasn't even being used yet.. but there was "outbound traffic about 977.38 Mbps at its peak at around 2013-07-22 14:50:00UTC"

They need to fully verify accounts before letting anyone create a server. You shouldn't just take down a server out of nowhere, for several hours, after it's been running for weeks.
That I have to buy Mac OS 10.8 Mountain Lion for $19.99 to install the Xcode update to develop/test on it, since it broke an app I am working on.
> wheat is wheat

Except when it is not. Soft red, soft white, hard red, etc. Grading, protein content, etc. All can change who is willing to buy the product, and more importantly, how much they are willing to pay.
OP here.

Thanks for the feedback. A lot of people seem to be getting hung up on the sass thing. I'm all for sass, I don't think using 15 CSS classes for margins is the best way to handle this. I just wanted to use a watered down illustration for those who don't yet understand sass. Ideally, this should al be abstracted into variables/mixins/extends.

My main point though, is that I'd like to see us working together to decide what the best approach is, then apply that across the board. I don't see any reason for us to continue doing things slightly differently.

Whether you use CSS, SASS, LESS or any other preprocessor, we should be writing reusable CSS. At the moment, that is not happening across the web.
still worldwide it is at 3.7%, pushing literally BILLIONS of money to try to gain some other 0.x points. They can't continue this way forever.
My mother in law barely noticed the upgrade to her 4s, but she did like the iOS7 version of the app 'teevee2'.
While being true, not all Seat configurations are automatically approved for operation. The swapping itself can - as mentioned - be performed overnight.
of interest may be the cyclotomic (http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/cyclotomic/0.3.1...) package for haskell, which can perform exact computation on a decent amount of values.
I think http://smacss.com is what you're looking for.
Why should we take them seriously as a whole if they don't even know this basic history?
Affordable housing for artists
I had the same problem. I was messing with my iptables and messed something up to the point where there was no network. I contacted support and they installed a Ubuntu Live image. (Something that has to be requested)

I used the Live image of my droplet to mount the disk, copy the databases, and websites. Once I was satisfied I got everything I destroyed the droplet.

Before you destroy your droplet, request this!
Surely, you would have figured out which part of the TOS were you violating (if you were). It would be nice if you could relay that in the post or in the comments.
d3's interactivity > excel and tableau in terms of quality data visualization.

anytime someone looks at a chart, they should be able to ask "but what happen's when x, y and z change?" being able to manipulate the data without forcing the audience to run calculations themselves should be the norm. it takes work, but i hope we get there someday.
Log Transport and Distribution with Apache Kafka 0.8
As I understand, he included it. That response from the support is the only information author has.
I've been unfortunate enough to be DDOS-ed on both linode and digital ocean for some of my sites. suffice to say, linode handles the ddos much more gracefully than digital ocean. digital ocean promptly bans you for TOS violation and locks your account after 3 DDOS attempts. I know most people don't have sites that are DDOS-ed often, but if you do run that risk, just know that digital ocean will most likely have you moving pretty quickly.
I understand how you feel. I went on some intensely technical interviews a few years back (late 30s). Many of the questions were the sort of thing you'd expect on an undergraduate data structures and algorithms class, though there were a few brain teasers thrown in there for good measure.

My interviewers were young, and at lunch, I tried to talk to them a bit about the business problems they were trying to solve. Their knowledge about this seemed very thin. I pressed a bit, and finally was told that this is what the "product managers" are for.

In short, I realized that they were asking me about these CS-related questions, at least in part, because this is the bubble of their work life.

One interviewer seemed unengaged in the discussion, waiting for a pause. Then he asked "how would you swap two integers without creating a third integer?" At lunch, in between two 3-4 hour blocks of technical interviews.

I'm done with these interviews. Well, ok, if my family was looking at foreclosure and going without health insurance, I'd subject myself to them again. But it is a priority of mine not do do another one of these interviews again.

It's not that I won't do a technical interview per se - there's a wide range of what counts as a technical interview, and not all of them are equally unpleasant. But I will view it as a personal...letdown if I find myself at the whiteboard showing how to add a branch to a binary tree ever again in my life. Or, to put it another way, I don't want to reload data structures and algorithms into "exam ready" memory in my own head again. I know where to find these things when I need them.

The reason I say letdown is that I most definitely do see my own personal role in this. If I fail to establish enough of a personal reputation for competence that people are asking me to do this, then that is, at least in part, my "fault". However, it does come with the territory - as far as creative fields go, software development is an area where the programmer's contributions are fairly obscured (unless they are working on open source projects).
You have to have your server very close to where the trading occurs. If the imbalance in the trade exists for a few microseconds and if your connection takes 10's of milliseconds you have no chance. Secondly these trading firms are hiring PhDs a lot of money to come up with these algorithms. So you need to make sure you can come up with something a little smarter.
> Lots of link styles today have no text decoration but are rather just a different color, and are as easy as ever to use.

They're not, and their relative ease of use is only because users have learned over years that a few words looking markedly different (but not emphasized) might just be links.
Sounds exactly like the problems for WP: can't figure out which is tappable just by looking at it. Maybe that's one of the inevitable pitfalls of flat design?
Yes, you're right. But the idea is to take everything away + impose fines/penalties (but not like those $1 million per download kinds of fines). I just think that jail time seems overboard for this kind of thing. Even a fine that may take a few years to pay off is a pretty harsh punishment. But maybe it'll push our already talented pirates to do something more worthwhile and work to pay them back ?
Good deal, I think I'll buy this.

When it comes to buying games or apps me or our kids the "Unlock All" option is more than just a nice to have, it's a necessity. For me personally it doesn't have to do with convenience or perceived value: Rather it's because I feel that I am not buying into a scam.

If I see item (X) on the market for "Free" + in-app purchases I'm flat out not going to spend any time on it. You offer the same (X) for $5-$20 with everything unlocked and no gimmicky BS sales tactics then I'll pick it up without hesitation.

There are too many applications out there designed to be time and money sinks. The focus tends to be on giving the user just enough and then stalling until they spend more money. It's a dirty, scummy industry.

If you're selling a product (game, book, series, otherwise) and feel it can stand on its own merits then offer a fair price for the complete item with no strings and I'll most likely purchase it.
Nice article! One more important reason why to use class instead of tags: CSS rules are read from right to left. That means the browser will first gather all the h[1-6] and then it will filter the headers down with the other rules from there.

If your CSS rules are applied to classes, it will gather the classes first then filter it down (Resulting in a smaller set in the first place).

CSS processing will be much faster.
Another good game - Simutrans - http://www.simutrans.com/en/