skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the major value propositions with Spreedly. Independently vault your cards.
I just tried to get it. All alarmbells going off here.

First it wants your email address to install, then you have to 'pay with a tweet' or 'pay with a facebook post'

Thankfully it's shoddy programming, you can dismiss the facebook post page without publishing and click the download link:

http://1.upld.to/Gd9

Will verify this first though, could be something scary...
Reproduced from Italy just a couple of minutes ago.
We're fitting the machines into our “transactive memory”
I think the intension was to focus on the 80% of functionality that people use the most and consider the remaining 20$ as not-useful, which is generally ok by me. I think it's still better than the feature rich outlook.
For me, the main annoyance is cc and bcc which I use quite often. Really, how often do you edit the subject?? more than once a week?
Well, if you need the atan function you probably know what it should do and apart from that why does the Number:tan method take an array of arguments when only one is ever used? So at least it should be usable like tan(Number::Number::TRIG_ARC).
Noticed that Alfred's default search URL for Google wouldn't work with
the timer: http://www.google.com/search?q=set+timer+for+10+seconds

It has to be https://www.google.com/#q=timer+for+10+seconds so I made a
custom search URL and can now use the timer through Alfred.
It's also called job security - there's a lot of old crap to clean up no matter what the language.
Usually when I see smart people talking about security, they think about what attack vector/situation you are trying to protect against. In this case, the situation you are trying to protect against is not keeping your phone locked when you are in custody or at gun point. The situation is someone unlocking your phone if someone swipes it from your pocket, you lose your phone, or simply leave it on your desk for a few moments as you go to the bathroom at the office. So, yes, a biometric scanner, even one that is easily beaten by an attacker, is good for this purpose.

Whatever the case, maybe we should step back and get some more perspective. How many of us don't put locks on our shared computers and phones because we don't want the inconvenience of ensuring everybody that should be allowed to use it can? My phone is a shared device and I removed any and all locks on it as I got very tired of "oh, let me unlock that for you." Basically, I want everybody that can reach it physically (when it isn't lost or stolen) to be able to access it and make calls, surf the web, use the map, search contacts, play games, etc. Is any phone locking mechanism going to work perfectly, probably not. Being able to set up my phone to unlock for anybody in my family and friends circle by something like fingerprints is a pretty good start.
I miss C# something rotten. It's such a great language, and I miss being able to use stuff like LINQ every day. But the community just isn't here - everyone is working on huge-scale corporate projects, and comparatively few are working on great stuff like Nancy.fx (a lightweight web MVC framework).

That said, I bought a license for MonoTouch, and I'm hoping that I'll be able to use C# for cool stuff in the future. Just with as little of the ASP.NET stuff as possible.
The article certainly suggests that Tesco has had some role in the manufacturing of the device - the link through to their announcement even states they were involved in the design. Obviously there is a broad spectrum of meaning to this from simply badging an existing product to digging up the silicon and everything in between. However, the decision to do something beyond selling another brand is different. Tesco have also invested heavily in the BlinkBox brand too and my guess is this device is meant to compliment or even drive people to their video on demand offering. Is this being branded under their 'Tecknica' moniker?
I like the new Gmail. It organizes my various categories of email nicely, and has a nice UI.
> Why I Moved Away From Microsoft ASP.NET

Because its almost 2014?
I don't understand why this comment is being downvoted. Is it a little abrasive? Sure. But it's also absolutely correct. The comment he's replying to is simply misinformed. While it's true that iTunes music got rid of DRM years ago, iTunes video content still has it. If you're buying movies or TV shows to watch on an Apple TV, that content is locked into Apple's ecosystem unless you manage to crack their DRM.
On the other hand, good design isn't simply making every single button and control visible on the page so nobody ever has to click more than once to use one. Good design is recognizing which features are used the most and making those one click away while hiding less used features that for most people just clutter up the interface.
I think the point here is that you'd have to do something like
this

$x = new Number(1)
$y = clone $x;
$y->absolute();

to work with the absolute value of variable $x without actually changing $x
There's not much to say about the 1st paragraph other than observation and extrapolation of trends. Not a change of direction, rather BAU + time. I do agree with your observation that we have different PR campaigns, which is a correct and valid point. Poland had a mostly centrally controlled economy pretending to be Marxist, and we have a mostly centrally controlled economy pretending to be capitalist, wildly different PR but same operation conditions, and in practice the operating conditions are more important than the PR.

The metrics request is a good one, having seen the graphs I'm certain of peak conventional domestic oil production, peak median inflation adjusted real world income, and peak housing affordability. I'm pretty sure of local minimum of parasitic services (FIRE sector etc) and a local maxima of educational affordability and a couple I suspect but have no proof of at this time like a peak in the metric of quantity/quality of health care divided by its cost and also social class mobility has statistically ended other than in a downward direction where it has expanded a lot.
is your zoom or DPI set to non-default?
No, the first url worked for the timer fine for me.
I believe there are none in Lund because one time this girl came in to Stapelbäddsparken with her father and said that they couldn't find these places in Lund.

So if you want to hack hardware I suggest hack space called Fabriken at Stapelbäddsparken in Malmö.

If you want to hack software I suggest hack space Bageriet at Volframsgatan (http://forskningsavd.se) or Hack space at Kontrapunkt (Norra Grängesbergsgatan 26b).
Creating a Realistic Rain Effect with Canvas and JavaScript
In a way this almost seems to make sense. If Tesco are going to sell a tablet in store then it may as well be one they can preload with software that makes them more money, either through video rentals or food delivery.

There's a part of me that wonders how many they're likely to sell at that price point, since it doesn't really feel like an impulse buy, however my local Sainsbury had 42" TVs prominently displayed as you walked in the other day, so presumably there are people who pop out for a bottle of milk and then come home with a TV.
Couldn't agree more. If you want to develop in cutting edge technologies for your weeks-old startup then code away and enjoy living on the edge (with all of it's pros and cons). But almost everything else (not just enterprise) lags behind and for good (many) reason(s).

I work for clients and while I'm tempted to offer new technologies, I'm aware that this client will be using this tool for years, most likely as-is. Stability, maintainability and long term investment is many time more important than gee-whiz tech.
Show HN: Moistly - Never forget to water your plants
https://www.google.com/search?q=flights+to+new+york

https://www.google.com/search?q=flights+to+new+york+from+la

https://www.google.com/search?q=calories+in+a+pint
You can always use a desktop client. I've never seen the attraction of "webmail"
Then you have no right to complain.

Much open source exists because people in the event of scratching their own itch, happen to release something as it might be of use to others.

When others contribute it helps make the solution more generic/robust as it is guided towards meeting multiple requirement sets.

Do you have any idea how shit it was writing software in the 1990s without the breadth of tools we have today that are open source and permissively licensed?

PyPy is a smallish project with very limited funding. If you try it out and it doesn't help you complete your goals, find another way. That might be to make it better somehow and if you don't have the resources, find an other way to meet your business goals.
How performant is Java on the RPi? I'd like to see some videos of the DukePad in action
Wait - what are we waiting in line for again?
I don't think there attitude is really "food first", the food gets people in through the front door every week, but given the placement of things other than food (think DVDs, games, books, and mobile phones) in my local store their profit is likely to be far higher on things other than food where they don't have to squeeze the margins quite so hard.
Well that sucks.

Some alternative ideas, though these are likely even less helpful than my previous one, is to contact Bradley M. Kuhn (he is on the FSF's board of directors) via one of the methods at http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/contact/contact-bkuhn.html and as a long shot, contact the Software Freedom Law Center. (I say "long shot" since I think they only do work for not-for-profit clients.)
Skype on Windows 8 is a UX abomination. Whenever I get a call and it's ringing, I can never find where to pick up and miss the call. Every time. I'm sure I'll figure it out one of these days.
.NET certainly gets the brunt of the "it's not hip" posts. Yea, there's a lotta junk programs, because they make it easy for people to use in an enterprise. There's also a lot of junk java, etc.

That's why you play around on the side with all the new stuff. Using ASP.NET MVC lets you write much leaner html, without the need for all those controls, et al. They're releasing a lot of cool tools if you follow the blogs, and you can now just as easily create a clean bootstrapped page as you would in other offerings.
Let me take another viewpoint where everyone is too biased to the idea that the parents put the clamps on their kids. I am an engineering undergrad and honestly, the kids doing Tier-3 Engineering won't be even slightly better off if they weren't. For the simplest reason, for 90% of people there is a no sense of purpose in life except settling for a 20K income and have a well settled family of four.

I see no sign of passion, creativity in 9 out of 10 people. For the remaining "one", there is no stopping them to what they want to become. People want to shrug off their shoulders blaming they were forced to do engg.. without knowing what would they be doing if not it.
One of the first tasks the new CEO will have when Ballmer leaves is the job of convincing Enterprise customers that Microsoft is still here to fill their needs.

That said, the conclusions the author came to may very well be true for classic "Web Forms" projects, and though he noted MVC... i don't feel like he gave it the proper time it deserves. In fact, I find almost the opposite of his sentiments to be true. MVC is a refined platform, and the .NET framework is a joy to work with (personal opinion). Poorly written frameworks exist in any language, but there's also a lot of GREAT code written in .net too.

The platform is expensive, and that sucks... but we sell the product for 100k a pop... so frankly neither our customers or ourselves care about the cost. Developing quickly, and with the best quality possible is more important.
Phones are computers. They're bound to become more complex and powerful over time. Who best understands this and constantly innovates to manage this complexity? Not Samsung. Apple's approach not only pays for this constant innovation, it acquired and retains the people who most care about it. As Christensen himself argues — it's very hard for a company to internally sustain competing business models, and Samsung is in the commodity imitation business (everywhere, not just phones). Just as it can't easily be Apple without ceasing to be Samsung, Apple can't be Samsung without ceasing to be Apple. What's odd is that everyone is happy to let Apple be mercedes. bmw, porsche, and rolls royce while they fight to be GM and Toyota.
this is the same thing in almost any community. You have a handful of people who are dedicated to the open source movement of the language and the reset just sit by the sidelines.

There's nothing wrong with this though. Not everyone has spare time in their lives to dedicate to open source.
https://www.fastmail.fm/ by Opera seems to fit you, although I'm not sure where it's hosted.
That's the common reason people* move to/away from various technologies.

* under 25
> Seeing her cry about this made me change the way I think about what some users go through when they experience unexpected UI changes.

I can understand. My mother is her 60s and is now a Ubuntu user, has broadband, uses Skype & Gmail.

It took her a long time to get used to it. It is funny she has never used Microsoft or Apple or other computer before on a long term level. She thought, Windows for example was a very user "unfriendly".

But back to the complexity. I remember when she was learning it was very frustrating both for her and me. I think it is easy, and she didn't. Now the other day there was a post on HN about how to start a Boeing airliner. I at that moment understood what it is like being faced with a new interface with new rules and paradigms. If I had start a commercial aircraft I would start crying too probably.

Then of course every time Google or Ubuntu messes with their interface, it causes her and me (having to re-teach her) considerable stress.

Sometimes I think corporations go through re-design just because they can. Like there is an timer set to go off every 6 months and designers, new bosses, CEOs all see it go ding and say "aha, let's redesign it". Sometimes it doesn't make it better, it just makes it different even if it was already pretty good.
Don't twitter use torrents to deploy across multiple servers?
I think it's different when the language has open source roots. A ton of ASP.NET libraries are paid products, and support for them comes at a premium. You don't see that anywhere near as much in Ruby or Node.
You are a foreigner when you move to a different place across EU, with all social implications. A worker moving from LA to NYC is not nearly as disadvantaged as one moving from say Sicily to Sweden.

Of course you are able to move freely and there's no legal barrier preventing your employment, but in practice you are rarely on equal footing with locals. There are both linguistic and cultural externalities at work here, which are simply absent over the pond.
Personal decision support. I simply don't have time to search for the cheapest energy supplier/insurance provider/credit card/mortgage each month but I'm sure I could be saving money. The people who can demonstrably do so on my behalf have my interest.
Somebody should start selling bumper-stickers with catchy phrases like this. I'd get one for my car.
One of the first tasks the new CEO will have when Ballmer leaves is the job of convincing Enterprise customers that Microsoft is still here to fill their needs

I don't think that Enterprise customers are the problem- they already use MS all the time. It's the small to medium size companies that aren't using it - and as they become larger companies it will become a problem for MS.
>" I'm much more concerned about the uneducated person who works as a day laborer and doesn't have the opportunity to pursue a career that might result in a secure retirement."

She felt she was pursuing a career that might result in secure retirement. She was an educated person who was doing what we want educated people to do in our society: teach other people what they know.

>I feel bad for the lady and all.

No, It doesn't really sound like you do.
I don't know about all cases, but in some cases, that's spot on. The Government doesn't need to know WHAT you discussed with Saddam Hussein, they just need to know that you were there at some time talking to Saddam to place you under the radar. In other words, 'information about information'.
Looking for something like this ?

http://blog.nebithi.com/backbone-and-angular-demystifying-th...
Did the same thing too, couldn't find the source at all since it didn't sound like it came from the computer. Thought my phone had gone nuts because it had no indication at all of any alarm...
Update: It's safe. It just swaps the user-agent header on all web requests for the Internet Explorer 8.0 one.

My quick de-obfuscation effort:

chrome["webRequest"]["onBeforeSendHeaders"]["addListener"](function (a) {
var b = a["requestHeaders"];
b[forEach](function (c, d) {
if (c["name"]["toLowerCase"]() =="user-agent") {
c["value"] = "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0)",;
};
});
return {
requestHeaders: b
};
}, {
urls: ["http://mail.google.com/*", "https://mail.google.com/*",
types: ["main_frame", "sub_frame"]
}, ["blocking", requestHeaders]);

Installed it, performs as advertised.
Jeff Atwood talks about moving from .NET to Ruby for Discourse in 'Why Ruby?'

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2013/03/why-ruby.html

Boiled down to the licensing of the requirements to run the stack, and the whole open-sourceness of it all.
the "general use" nature of Google means that they'll never have these functions as prominent features.

Hmm. Why not? Why can't Google continuing builder richer and richer search results, results which become smarter and smarter in matching what users are looking for? The potential level of customisability for a search result/user to a search query is infinite. At higher levels you move beyond the crude "search" metaphor to what Google is really working towards: full brain-augmentation. Not a tool the mind must learn to use, but a tool built to work with the mind, a tool in fact that is tailored perfectly for each and every mind.
I would expect $x to remain the same. What's wrong with:

$x = -3.2;
$y = abs($x);
Clueless: BlackBerry Bought Corporate Jet in July as Layoffs Loomed
ASP.NET is a great tool. If you were to walk into a gig that has a large amount of apps running VS, IIS and SQL Server, its no way you'd even suggest full blown open source. If things were reversed and all they had was Django, Apache and MySQL then of course you'd be a unwise to suggest moving to ASP.NET. I think as programmers we forget we must constantly use the information presented to make the best decision on which tool to use.

IMHO - Your article should read more like your customer base has changed, thus your tools have changed.
One recent one is NoFlo http://noflojs.org/

A well established one for kids & novices is Scratch: http://scratch.mit.edu/

And you can see some other javascript-based visual programming tools here: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/wiki/List-of-lang...
I'm coming from a classic ASP background as well, and jumped straight to MVC (skipping Web Form entirely).

Only later when I did some WPF project, when Web Forms made some sense. I think the whole toolset is basically trying to lure / accommodate the old Win Forms developer to switch to the web (and in this sense, it's a great success).

These days, I'm trying to run even leaner by using ServiceStack.Razor, as most of the stuff I do is service-oriented SPAs.
There's a difference between using a brand-new Node.JS framework that's barely out of alpha and using Rails/Django/etc which whilst fairly new are proven to be stable and reliable, and are in use at big organisations.
I've never seen the attracting of having a fat mail client chug through 20GB of email.
Pomodoro Bookmarklet (powered by Google timer):

1. Create new bookmarklet

2. Name: Pomodoro

3. URL: javascript:window.open("https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=cr#q="+((document.title.index...)?"":"2")+"5+minute+timer&safe=off",'_self');

4. Save

Click on the bookmarklet to toggle between "Work" and "Break" mode.
CloudFlare's Github
Nice try, Gmail UI team guy.
I moved to C# from Java back in 2001 for the RAD projects I had (still using C++ a lot when necessary though.) C# was a great language and it was faster than Java back then. But for the last couple of years all my RAD projects are now in JavaScript and it wouldn't go back.

JavaScript frees me up, where as with C# I feel like I am in a straightjacket where I am forced to write a lot of boilerplate code just to do something quick (a simple Main requires a class to exist!)
You're talking about NK-33s being used by Orbital Sciences?
Get an applicant-tracking system that stores CVs and the result of each interview (with detailed notes), so that you can compare candidates based on data.

I highly recommend trello for this if you're a startup. It's free and it's incredibly simple to manage CV/Candidate tracking with simple lists.

Great article Tom.
I used quotes on food first because this is what Tesco management repeatedly said on the annual general meeting this past june/july... I was quoting them.
You can reproduce it by pretending that the IP is "68.232.35.139" by modifying your own /etc/hosts file, not funny indeed.
The demo doesn't work? (Safari)

There's no point in making web stuff if you can't support major browsers..

EDIT: I take it back. mdkess is right.
I really miss per-application volume control (like in Windows).
"Boring" is pretty safe when it comes to quality and maintainability.
I assume by "startups", you mean Silicon Valley-style tech startups? If we're taking Eric Ries' definition of startup, then agriculture might be the first industry to ever have startups and thousands of years ago, at that.
It's not a trivial task to jump email providers. You're stuck with what you've had for the last 7 years for many reasons.
I would love to run mono in production, it's just so slow and buggy that this isn't possible.

The simple fact is that server is not a priority for xamarin; mobile is. And this is probably a valid optimization.

BizSpark helps though, as far as licensing issues goes.
You may find this essay by Isaac Asimov interesting: "The Relativity of Wrong" [1]

1: http://chem.tufts.edu/answersinscience/relativityofwrong.htm
First Weekend iPhone Sales Top Nine Million, Sets New Record
You have two peculiar observations brought about by one root cause and drifted off into the wrong theoretical cause.

The root cause is the traditional old style vs substance. This fits your observation that its harder to use, both to read and to keyboard. But its not marketed / designed as a tool to do anything, its a fashion accessory, so its irrelevant if its usable. What matters is if its shiny. That led you astray into the whole ageism anti-hipster thing. I also laugh at hipster kids, but the problem in this individual scenario has nothing to do with age.

Imagine if a hardware store released the iHammer and it was just like a conventional hammer, but cost much more so you could show off how rich you must be, and was painted blue, they made the hammer head pointy to be edgy and cool, had lace tied around the handle, and shipped it in a really cool origami clear plastic box. Anyone in search of a productive carpenters tool is going to be horribly disappointed and make fun of the iHammer, but thats not the point, the correct reason to buy a iHammer is to show off to their peers.

iDevices are no longer useful. That's OK. They're supposed to be fashion accessories, not useful devices.
Reproduced a couple minutes ago in Greece. Oh the bug? I didn't check it out yet.