skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been wondering recently whether having a team of top flight developers in your tiny startup is actually a good idea. Developers need things to do. More developers directly equates to adding features (assuming you have a reasonable team who understand modern deployment, frameworks, testing, etc). It must be possible to have more development resources than you can do user testing for (eg finding out what users want/need).

At what point does available development talent make "featuritis" inevitable?

Clearly, in a startup like GoCardless where they're dealing with banks, financial regulations, etc that's unlikely to be a problem, but if you're making yet-another-photo-sharing-app or it's-just-chat-but-different-this-time-honest-dot-io it should be a small concern.
Yep, these are the ones I was referring to. Nothing major, and I do like my setup.
You should write an article on why you shouldn't write articles about the reasonable reaction to hating infographics.
Ubuntu App Development Advocacy Session
Quite honestly, that workflow looks just as complicated as anything I've seen with svn.
Dave Balter on dunnhumby Ventures and the future of retail
The author of the article goes a step too far in saying Nokia was deliberately run into the ground, but the result is indistinguishable. The real villain is Windows Phone. Had Nokia kept options open and had tried other OSs, they would have, at least, seen different levels of market acceptance among the OS choices. The argument that they had to "focus" is specious. No other OEM ever harmed their results by hedging their OS bets.
Quick Tip: Read Text file Programmatically in iOS using Objective-C
In an English locale (as the rest of the UI suggests), "Montag" isn't a day at all, let alone the current day.

The incorrect text is a UI bug, certainly, but the underlying issue suggested in multiple places is, how can you distinguish between a negative action and an accent in apps where both of those are identified by the same colour?
The problem is that pepper/nacl is only available on Chrome, so it's a lot of work just to work on a single browser.
I like her argument that we should seek the "neutrality of the network, guided only by technical and ethical criteria, rendering it inadmissible to restrict it for political, commercial, religious or any other purposes."

I disagree the UN is the best place to accomplish that aim.
Weird how there isn't an option for $500, $800, $1500

There is, sort of. It's easy to look at the interior of, say, a 737 and conclude there are only two or three "classes" (economy and first, and possibly some sort of premium-rate economy with extra legroom), but fare-wise there's enormous variation.

On -- to take an example legacy carrier -- United, the "economy" cabin is actually made up of fourteen different fare classes. Deciding how many seats to offer in each fare class on a given instance of a given flight on a given day is a stupendously complex task which largely gets hidden from the customer (for completeness' sake, "first class" and "business class", on planes which have them, have three additional fare classes each).

A big part of it is that there's more to it than just the seat, which is obvious since all those different "economy" fare classes end up in the same or very similar physical things-to-sit-on. The number of factors, though, is frighteningly large.

For example, your origin and ultimate destination factor into the fare, as do whether it's one-way or round-trip, and how far in advance you booked, and whether you wanted a refundable ticket, and whether it was booked by a corporate travel department on your behalf, and whether it was a seat offered to third-party travel-booking and search sites, and what day of week and time of day the flight is operating, and whether it's a seasonal offer to a popular vacation destination, and... that's the tip of the iceberg.
Ok, I was simplifying; diplomatic sanctions are an option, and, I think, the appropriate way to handle the case of "this country is generally ok apart from harbouring some international criminals.
> Don't worry too much about kids taking over the country -- voter participation by people younger than 40 is so low that you could drop the voting age to zero and it wouldn't affect the results that much.

Well then let's do that. Seriously. Making assumptions on participation for youths in elections is akin to making assumptions on how women would vote before Women's Suffrage. While you may be correct, it's impossible to say that they're apathetic for such and such reasons when they're not even allowed to vote until the age of 18.
There's a saying in the airline industry that goes something like this: "What's the fastest way to become a millionaire in the airline industry? Start with a billion dollars."

I don't work in the airlines, but I'm a private pilot with lots of friends and family who do work or have worked in the airlines (and in the aviation industry in general).

Expenses are high and often unpredictable, and profits are low. A lot of airlines operate on incredibly thin margins, where only one problem could push them into bankruptcy. Back in 2008, Frontier Airlines had to go into bankruptcy (and was ultimately acquired by Republic) due to a dispute with its credit card processor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_Airlines#Bankruptcy_an...

Competition is also fierce and is almost entirely price-based. While there have been a few attempts at competing on other metrics (there were several attempts to start business-class only airlines in the late 90s and early 2000s) have almost universally failed. In fact, the only one I can think of currently is OpenSkies, and it is backed by a major airline (British Airways).

It's also (as you would expect) a very complex regulatory and legal environment. Simply getting off the ground can take years of work.

I have idly thought about a small airline that would connect a handful of smaller towns across the Southeast that lack affordable or convenient air service to larger airports, where they could interconnect with the majors. But when I even begin to look at the numbers, despite what an exciting idea I think it could be, I know there is no way it would be successful.
This is awesome, we made a realtime news like this http://mashrd.com would love to work together.
Here's a tin-foil-hat needing random theory of the day: Apple gave keys (and protocol) to decode iMessages to PRC Government, in return for being allowed to sell iPhones in China. Somehow they leaked, and now someone in China is offering this service.

(adjusts tin-foil lined colander on head)
Dwarf Fortress has never been and will probably never be for public mass consumption. Unless of course they code in a giant Fortress swallowing dragon named "The Public"
My 2011 iMac came with a 500gb hdd. I decided to upgrade it to a 256gb ssd. Coming from a Windows PC background, I figured it would be a 15 minute at most installation. I even ordered the $40 hdd replacement kit from OWC, and it took me a good 2-3 hours to carefully disassemble and reassemble. The worst part was sliding the motherboard back down below the bezel. Holy shit I was gonna throw the thing against the wall.

But yes, for the most part I agree with you but we still aren't quite there yet. I think it wouldn't be too much to ask to have the ssd located in an easy to access spot like the ram is.
> "It isn't hard to replace them. You pull out your iPhone, use the Apple Store App to schedule an appointment, drop off your iMac at the store, go have lunch at Sbarro and then pick it up and go home."

This sounds pretty annoying. Around here that means lugging your giant 27" iMac down the stairs of your walkup, down the stairs of the subway, up the stairs of the subway, and over to the Apple Store. Then doing it all in reverse.

Or calling an Uber - either way, inconvenience, cost, and annoyance that seem hardly necessary.

What I really want is to be able to sit on my ass, wait for a hard drive to show up at my doorstep (via Amazon, or Apple themselves, I really don't care), and pull a lever/panel and slip the new one in. If you want to play up the "this needs to be fixed NOW" angle, it'd still be cheaper and more pleasant for Apple to send a bike messenger over with a new hard drive from the Apple Store and let me do it without disentangling the iMac from my workstation setup and hauling it.

For a company that espouses "it just works", one of these sounds way less annoying than the other.
I love how those iMac can run windows. the hardware is nice, and it runs windows, since laptop PC hardware is not that good.
Show HN Germany: Facebook Gifts sucked so I'm building geeshenk
Internet novelty fad syndrome growth by exponential ego expansion?

"I've found this thing I think is cool! I want other people to like me, so I'll tell them about it. If they like it, they'll thank me for showing it to them and my life will have meaning!"
The McKinsey reports is summed up in the joke: "How do you make a small fortune in the airline business? You start with a large one."
I didn't even know the color changed until I read this article. I'm read green color blind/deficient.
Luckily, I haven't seen anyone mention "Windoze" recently on HN... ;)
Okay, on that point, I think it's fine to attack debate opponents as long as your are attacking them 1) on the merits of their points or 2) personal traits that are germane to the discussion.

The autism/vaccine link has been studied to death, far more than it should have been. It doesn't exist. But people still bring it up. Is that a good faith debate? I feel like the anti-vaccine discussion wants to be treated as an equal on a scientific basis, but is unwilling to do the hard work being aware of and understanding the research on the topic. I think they deserve to be treated with scorn, because a good faith effort to educate them has been happening for the better part of a decade and it has had little effect. Science is a bitch. If you don't get the answer you like, you don't get an unlimited number of do-overs.

EDIT: though, I think you have a legit gripe on GMOs.
Shut the Front Door: iMac gets 1 TB SSD
I used to work with people who called it horsey books. I thought they were morons for doing that. Turns out they were morons for completely different reasons now?
Hi Josh - I'm the same. Building solutions to these kinds of problems is really interesting.

We've not implemented that yet, but I've spoken to another company doing similar things with around 100 agents and they've managed to implement this using Twilio's conferencing facility. It's easy to drop in and out of a conference silently, which is perfect for this.

Our support is certainly not at scale, and lots more features will become appropriate as we grow, from letting people schedule callbacks to manager eavesdropping to more sophisticated management of waiting calls.

Have you built anything like this?
"it can teach us a lot about how a sloppy interface implementation can successfully confuse users"

As I read that one of those in-viewport, youtube-a-like progress bars was repeatedly shooting across the top of the screen.
I am not sure what ur service covers, but I would focus on the following:

1. Personally write or use something like http://www1.toutapp.com/ to reach out to the subscribers and see if you can get a 5 min phone call or something. Worst case, send them a survey and provide $5 starbucks card as an incentive.
2. Write content (tips/tricks) email each week and send out

For some people (including myself) I want to play with new tools. For others, it might be a pricing/feature/who knows - which is why you should talk to them
Nokia is a dead company. My prediction: in 5 years time, it will be but a distant memory.
Only in US, in the rest of the world it is a different story.
>Right. You're the center of the universe

No; but you are at the center of a strawman.

Didn't the fact that I already wrote that "Twilight is targeted at teenage girls" stop you from writing all those dreadful "counter-examples" (as if I believed that the fictual setting of a show automatically and necesarrily determines the target audience?)

If I followed the strawman logic you accuse me of having, I'd have said "Twilight is targeted at vampires and girls having affairs with them". I did not.

As for your rude question, no, I'm just at the center of a big enough and profitable demographic -- geeks, semi-geeks, etc that have come out of the woodwork ever since the mid-nineties/early oughts, and for which tons of media content is produced, from J. Abraham's and Josh Whedon's stuff, to the nth comic book movie and down to Kevin Smith's Comic Book Men TV series.

The "counter-examples" that you provide, are workplaces and professions, that have served as generic backdrops for drama for ages. They are not about a specific demographic, and their content and references are not targeted at them. On a medical drama, for example, the content is all about relationships, tension, love affairs, etc, not the practice of medicine. They characters might as well be lawyers and the show would still work, whereas in BBT the content is all about the geek references, and nothing is generic and universal.

You even seem unaware of the fact that shows can be targeted a specific demographic, like, say, Friends created for 20-somethings, or Sex and The City created for 30+ women.
Yes, but for many flights, especially international ones, the charge for those seats is not worth it.

I was looking into flights to Japan, and the Premium Economy tickets are literally double the regular economy tickets.

Many domestic flights have Premium Economy for less than double the price, but it's still expensive enough and the benefits not great enough (generally only a couple of inches of legroom--no change in seat width, no better service, etc) to generally not be worth it unless you are flying cross country.
The author really doesn't have enough information to provide that level of evidence
Another good one is An American saga: Juan Trippe and his Pan Am empire. A decent chunk of the book is essentially the other side of the story that is portrayed in the Aviator (i.e. Trippe trying to get monopoly status for Pan Am's international routes).
Good place to find out about alternative programming in Europe
Why even Lean startups need functional specs
How to obtain “fresh mind” results?
The idea isn't to be simpler than SVN, the idea is to be more flexible than SVN.

I don't follow 'git flow', but git is flexible enough to allow you to develop your own style. Nothing is pressed on you.
Uh... as I read it the point of this app is the the whole world is able to read your messages. This app is just the existence proof that all that is required is access to the raw packet data.

Clearly most people are going to "trust" Apple Computer more than this app vendor. But the point is that such trust isn't worth anything. The data is hanging out there already.
And we peer into the mind of a third party how?
Cool! This reminds me of a new potential cancer treatment that uses infrared light to heat gold nanoparticles inside a tumor to kill it. The crappy, winding blood vessels inside tumors tend to trap more of the nanoparticles, effectively targeting delivery right into the tumor. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/gold-cancer-0504.html
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That very idea that it's only hard work on an individual level that deteremines one's success is the central myth perpetuated by capitalists to suppress labor and prevent a more equal society.

It is not true now, and it has never been true. Circumstance and privilege, here as elsewhere, has always been a major factor in one's success.

If you think otherwise, you haven't been paying attention to the distribution of wealth in America.
I don't know what to think about the Snowden case, which is why I didn't really engage with it my comments. It's clear that there are immediately practical revelations that have followed from the documents he's leaked. If it were just documents like the one that revealed Verizon had coughed up its whole call database to NSA under the "business records" provision of the PATRIOT act, I'd have no trouble calling him a hero.

It is harder for me to be sympathetic towards Manning. The best-known "revelations" (at least, about misconduct) from those dumps were already known in detail before the disclosure; Reuters published an article that did a scene by scene recap of the video now known as "Collateral Murder", for instance.
The sorting can be adjusted - just click on a column to see the most popular stuff on Twitter, Linkedin:
http://app.buzzsumo.com/#/top-content?result_type=twitter&nu... (twitter)
In a 300,000 user mail system I've seen mail queues grow by many thousands of messages a minute causing hundreds of gigabytes of email to be queued on the disks.

Once the issue is resolved and the queue starts flowing again it can take a very long time for these messages to be sent successfully, especially when you need to scan each one for viruses and account for disk latency that doesn't usually occur on these servers.
To answer point 2: Some people like seeing new things. Just because they want to see it _doesn't_ imply that they want to use it.
Google Now Seeing 2% IPv6 Traffic
I'll grant you understated, but Thinkpads are not better-constructed. The Macbooks are solid pieces of aluminum. I bought an X220 for my dad and it's a solid machine too, but it doesn't have the same rigidity and has more moving parts to go wrong.
Wondering if you can get a cheaper version and upgrade the ram and SSD yourself. You can probably get a faster SSD than what they'd include, and pay less for it.
Of course a $50 electronic badge is more expensive & cumbersome than a sticker and pen. But worse?

This is a badge for a conference about open hardware. Having a badge that encourages attendees to go home and repurpose it is a great way to achieve some of those cool ideas you listed.

Hopefully some attendees will do just that!
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If you are planning to use python 3 for teaching, you should keep away from IPython/this article. I just tried it with python 3.3. The readme says :

"Officially, IPython requires Python version 2.7, or 3.3 and above."

When you try to run IPython using python 3.3.0:
File ".\IPython\config\application.py", line 288
print os.linesep.join(lines)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Again completely wrong because trespassing on the staff lounge is nothing like receiving a response from an HTTP server. It is like asking for the Chinese menu and being given a list of customer records.

EDIT: and then noticing what happened you ask if they have a version in Korean.
Hammond didn't leak information about Stratfor! He attacked them. His actions were straightforwardly criminal, in a way that few people on HN have any problem recognizing, and his case is only blurred by articles like this that attempt to conflate what he did with what he believed.
Obviously. If the administrator locked access to matches, nothing could be burned. The admin is responsible for leaving matches open at the library, and allowing the librarian to do as they please.
This was just posted yesterday...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6430049
Because it was funny, and it was interesting to see what an entirely random algorithm would turn up.

Of course, it wasn't an algorithm but it's not like the people following knew that.
I certainly did confuse the RSX (ps3 GPU) with libGCM (the ps3 GPU library). I haven't forgotten that OpenGL ES isn't OpenGL - it's OpenGL minus all of the garbage.

It's also true that Xbox 360 did not use DirectX. But they DID have an abstraction in the form of the XDK (Xbox 360 SDK).

Comparing OpenGL and DirectX is not retarded - they are both competing graphics libraries that are slowly converging on the same feature set.
Invite only, gmail beta style.
Really? I find that Ruby works fine on linux. In fact, I doubt anyone is using anything else for their production setup.
For me it's simply an unambiguous 2LA. Apologies to anyone who gets annoyed.
Given that the iMac is the best selling consumer desktop computer ever, I think it’s safe to assume Apple has put some thought into the matter.
Why are the ACA exchanges behind schedule
Last is just the factor that any large IT system like this has a horrible failure rate.
Certainly. However, in cattle car, it's the rubber hose, and no warning.
Conversely, you could say that half the adult population is not mature enough to vote. Or how about your logic applied to Women during the Women's Suffrage movement. They didn't work as much or were as educated back then. Maybe they shouldn't vote- oh wait, nevermind. They were disenfranchised.

What about African Americans in the 1700's? Again, on average less educated and "mature" as one might say due to being a disenfranchised population.

The funniest thing about your vote, is that in 2 years from 16, they somehow magically become mature enough...
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This is the Virgin America model in some ways, with affordably comfortable seats and a relatively livestock-free experience. But while customers like it[1], they're only just now turning profits after 6 years of building a fleet and routes[2]. Doing something different in the airline industry takes a lot of upfront time and money - and that's just for parts of the flying experience airlines actually have control over. The closest they get to changing the airport experience is better lounges and staff.

1: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2329405/Virgin-Ameri...
2: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2013/08/07/eyei...
Uh, I'm just gonna go find a cash machine.
+1 Thanks for the correction.
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You can adjust it with ctrl (or cmd) +/-.
the goal is to keep getting new users, not just hold onto the ones you have

I understand that this is the current goal of the companies you named, but, to put it bluntly, why should I care? My goal is to not have to deal with change just for the sake of change, or because some company wants to keep capturing new users. (Which is why, as I've said in other posts in this thread, I don't use GMail, don't use MS or Apple products, don't keep upgrading my Linux desktop just because somebody invented a new UI, etc.)

Also, "keep getting new users" isn't a sustainable goal anyway. Facebook already has more than a billion users; they don't have too much further to go before everyone that has Internet access at all (apart from a few outliers like me) will have a Facebook account. What do they do then?
Planes crash due to their own mechanical failures far, far more often. If we were to use that logic, than flying itself is already unsafe.
Or they'll pivot, like they've always done before.
The main difference seems to be that TouchID actually works in a way that worth leaving enabled.
Being bought by Microsoft was already their ideal scenario when they took Elop on board.
From the moment I heard that Elop would lead Nokia I assumed that the Nokia board wanted to be acquired and were doing whatever it took to become attractive to the most likely (or highest) perceived bidder.

But to say that Elop sank Nokia is to ignore the trend of the company's financial performance leading up to that point.

(minor edit, redundancy)
Smart. Facilitating the process of creating new customers for you.
The OP seems to believe that any "smart" person can learn any job in hours.

This is Enron thinking ("the smartest guys in the room"). Less controversially, this is what Marissa Mayer designing the new Yahoo! logo seems to think. It is wrong.

It would have been better for Mrs Mayer, Yahoo! --and the rest of the world-- if she had hired a real designer before attempting to do the job herself.
Ask HN: Any [success] stories about Skype plugins/apps shop?
Does anyone here have any experience selling plugins/apps in Skype shop?
A Hands-on review of Firefox OS.
Good read. I like the examples. I have been thinking about writing some Mac Apps. This made me rethink it. :)