skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the main benefit of ClimbingWeather.com is ability to quickly find climbing areas. Looking for the forecast for Indian Creek, Joshua Tree, the Gunks, Cathedral Spires? You don't need to find the nearest town or hope the forecast is right (maybe you'll find it is 10 degrees difference due to elevation). Agreed that the growth potential might be somewhat limited, but there is still a small and solid audience that likes the format.
"Cuban, 55, is accused of selling his 600,000 shares of the former Mamma.com Inc on June 28 and 29, 2004, soon after learning from Chief Executive Guy Fauré that it was planning an equity offering that could dilute his 6.3 percent stake."

What if a CEO or company executive discloses such information to an investor against the investors "will" or desire? What if, for example, a "dark" executive wants to guarantee that an investor can't sell their shares by intentionally telling/informing an investor of similar news that would affect their investment? After the investor is told such information "against their will" solely to handcuff their ability to move their shares what can an investor do?
but then I won't be able to see my screen
Introduction to Power Electronics
Really? You hire someone on the spot without asking them if they have experience elsewhere on different programs? Not a very smart move from the start...
How about, various groups acting independently for their own various reasons, and some of them sometimes claiming the name, and others having it attributed to them?
I think the most important thing to remember is that the goal of growth hacking is to get growth and get more users. The 652 Actionable Growth Hacks You Can Do Today! type articles lose sight of that and end up with the goal of growth hacking to growth hack.
Because parsing XML can become a bottomless pit of nightmares and sorrow. Unholy floating point calculations that make Baby Jesus cry.

Meanwhile, pixel rasters are a finite array of bytes, confined to specific dimensions and resolutions. Plain old integers in 24 bit color with an 8 bit transparency channel.

And, specifically with respect to PNG, those pixel values are compressed row-by-row, using the DEFLATE algorithm.
Don't know about Commodore BASIC, but in Locomotive BASIC on the Amstrad CPC, "?" was just a text-entry convenience rather than a memory-saver. BASIC was stored tokenised, so "?" was one byte same as "PRINT" (in fact, I think it was the same byte).
The Libreoffice experience in Linux leaves something to be desired - particularly some parts like the pitifully slow spreadsheet app (Calc) and its charting facilities, or the desktop database app (Base) and its bizarre interface.

So even if you achieve parity across platforms, Office users are going to find a lot to complain about... with reason. Not because Office is great, but just because Libreoffice is lacking in polish, still, in so many ways.

I've evangelized Libreoffice to users for years, but some parts of the suite are just terrible no matter how you look at it, and meanwhile alternatives like Google Docs and Gnumeric have established themselves... Even if you improve Libreoffice across the board, this isn't really going to drive adoption so much as lubricate it slightly for people who want to replace Office. Things like Steam encouraging game development for Linux are going to have a much larger impact.
...which they have gotten overly aggressive on; creating a myriad of issues with normal website functionality.
Except shipping packaging (even when pared down by Amazon) is rarely designed to show off the object in question and such boxes (unless specifically designed for certain objects) would have quite a bit of wasted space in the storage units.

Further, you're basically operating a vending machine at that point, but with limited inventory, space losses, undesirable packaging and an undesirable location. (low foot traffic)

The obvious improvement is to just make a proper "redbox for things" vending machine, designed around a few optimized packaging dimensions and start leasing more-visible/accessible spaces to host it.

But what is that, if not just a (small) robotic convenience store? If you could pull off such a machine, why not just build a larger version and outright compete with 7-11?
The Clockwise/Spiral Rule
So basically they're as real or unreal as Anonymous.
The most notable use that comes to mind for me is that in the 2001: A Space Odyssey book the monolith around Saturn is called a stargate.
Insurance is accepting a small but certain loss to prevent a large and unlikely loss. Gambling is accepting a small but certain loss in the hopes of getting a large and unlikely gain.

They're related but opposite concepts.
Speaking of not creating value, repetitive advice blogging is poisonous.
Moore's is about transistor density on an IC.

When the target embedded circuit needs (and energy needs) are far, far tidier, it is laughable to think that a bunch of wasted IC overhead will undercut any advantage to developing the prototype on a board like this. Simple things can and will be simple.

ATMEGA's are looking for problems. General devices don't compete with specialized. See CPU vs. ASIC's in bitcoin. Hi bitcoin miners with GPU's... show me your hands. Here's your ass back.

And I think that's the comment's point. These prototyping platforms are nice for some narrow band of testing ideas, but don't translate for the "hacking the internet all the things!!!" when compared to what the trained circuit-designers do in their sleep and get mass-produced by morning coffee.

I can make drop-shadows in photoshop and you use CSS3? I'll just use the data layer plugin to make the bestest sites evar!
does anyone even remember ramen profitability anymore?

Interesting thought. If the standard mode is now to get VCs and angels to plow cash into your venture, is anybody actually depending on the profits of their venture to eat anymore?
FileNotFoundException	A carpenter should always know where his tools are.

I prefer : "Where is my key?" (6:30AM)
Good point. By being the only gender type in the class I could see it being hard to even want to stay in there in general.
Agent App Helps Android Phones Anticipate Users’ Needs
Historical context, thanks!
Hi,

While editing a file, Google Web Designer uses -webkit prefixes. However, when you publish your content, the publish dialog allows you to specify additional vendor prefixes (or no prefixes) in the output so the content works in different browsers.

I hope this helps.

Thanks,
Nivesh
(Google Web Developer)
URL parameters ARE RESTful and I agree that your use case is exactly where parameters are useful.
I don't exactly know the truth of your statements above, but I've spent my life doing all of that cool stuff. I've written code for flight computers, done machine vision for factory inspection, supported cancer research by doing stats and data analytics, written 3D viewers/playback for aircraft black boxes, worked on robots and UAV for several years, and now I'm doing some computer vision + AI work that I can't make public just yet. And I had other opportunities, like working for private space launch, which I declined.

How? Mostly (not entirely) by working for a defense contractor. Everyone seems to knock corporate jobs, but I swear to you I've done so much cool stuff because it is only companies that size that can bid on and win this interesting work. Plus, I went to university (another false meme around here - college is just a piece of paper), where I learned the chemistry, physics, electrical engineering, and math to do all this stuff.

There is plenty of pain in big government type projects, but there is pain in every thing important. Do you want to wrestle with undocumented CSS behavior, or wrestle with how to program this robot, or how to reduce defect rates in your machine in the factory, or how to make this plane fly. Sentence structure doesn't make it clear, but I consider only the first boring, and the rest extremely interesting.

There are a lot of those kinds of jobs. You may not live in SF anymore, and end up at an airbase in Iowa, or in Albuquerque, or Huntsville. OTOH, your pay will be absolutely amazing compared to local property prices, and you can raise a family, go on great vacations, and not worry about living in the crazy bubble we are in right now.

I know it won't appeal to everyone, but I swear to you there are tons of extremely interesting, challenging jobs out there that aren't start ups, and aren't corporate internal reporting apps (TPS reports). You will need to be far more than a Ruby on Rails developer, CSS+HTML5 jockey, or what have you.

edit: all of the above is written by a US citizen. I don't know what opportunities are like in other countries, and don't mean to imply that any of the above applies to anyone but a US citizen. I don't know.
No Chromebook support? Interesting.
I would be interested to more details on how your architect things - we've been in the process of moving the business logic of our app into service objects as 2000 line models have become a bit unmanageable :D
Is there some reason why the open source desktop is a worse idea in the US? I don't think so...
Ohh that sounds good... I've never done it before - fancy giving me a pull request? :)
Or your spouse?
It sounds like you are suggesting a rather perverse sort of inheritance where the "right" to San Francisco stock is granted to those who are born into it irregardless of that man's wealth, merit, or ability.

Hmm... owning a city as a cooperative? I don't see why not. There are certainly institutional frameworks in which it can and would work.

Further, you could take inheritance tax from the value of the urban citizenship when someone inherits it by coming of age as a citizen/resident of the city. If someone couldn't pay the tax (which could be charged as a portion the market price of rent/purchase in that city), they would be forced out of the city, as today. However, when their citizenship/residency right would be outright sold, the tax would be less than 100%, so they would at least partially recoup on a financial level the loss of their home.

Sounds like a bizarrely good idea. Thanks for thinking of it.
Justin.tv Spinoff Twitch Raises $20M for Live Video Gaming
Ask HN: Best anti-glare or no-backlit monitor?
Any good no-backlit computer monitors, like the Kindle?

What's a good low/no glare monitor?
Entirely feasible, but of course at that point they pretty much are real, and not a bogey-man.
And that is why, 25 years on, I still use hard tabs rather than spaces.

I got into the habit on the Amstrad CPC using the Maxam assembler. 40k was the limit for a source file and some of the stuff I did, like a UK-wide route-planning program (think an enormously primitive version of Autoroute), seriously pushed that.

Having hard tabs, rather than eight spaces, was a major memory saving, while still retaining readable code. Well, as readable as Z80 ever got. Haven't managed to wean myself off them since...
The problem with reading Hofstadter is that, because he's so brilliant and so lucid, you'll often find yourself readily him uncritically: thoroughly convinced by anything he's saying, and simply absorbing it all.

Some of his books, the aforementioned in particular, are works of insight and genius. Others, such as his recent book on metaphor-as-thought, are speculative steps onto a bit thinner ice.

(Note: I realize Hofstadter and his colleagues have spent decades exploring metaphor-based AI, and that there might be something quite real to it -- but he doesn't make a convincing case for the sufficiency of this hypothesis, though he insists it's there).
Computers are fast: A moment of appreciation for LuaJIT
>> “Here’s the formula if you want to build a billion-dollar internet company,” he said. “Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time…Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.”

Here's the thing: Successful people tend to give simple advice like this where they are just stating the obvious. In the real world, every entrepreneur is already doing this - they are identifying needs, and using technology to solve those needs. That alone doesn't allow you to create a successful company, much less the 'billion dollar company' Ev talks about.

Creating a successful company likely involves a lot of hard work, identifying how to stand apart from the competition, and above all luck. Unless I'm just trying to give a speech to an appreciative audience, or get pageviews, I wouldn't claim that there's any 'formula' to it at all.
Re: the author's experience with Android: Android 2.x doesn't support SVG. It makes up 33% of the devices that visit the Google Play store

http://caniuse.com/#cats=SVG

http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
Well, many websites uses simple graphics, simple logos...
It's 2013 - yes, and nowadays simple, flat, design is modern, rather than graphics with a lot of effects, that was modern in the past, IMHO.

But I agree with your argument regarding to something is not properly - yes, that can be the reason why people don't see the whole thing as reliable
I'm not disagreeing with you completely. I don't think I would be thrilled creating a consumer product with this kit. However, you have to admit that this would be very ideal for rapid prototyping. Unlike you, I have never programmed hardware. I think that what I would do with this product is build a prototype or two or three, just to a point where I get a proof of concept nailed down. From there, I'll be extra-motivated to reduce the size and improve power-consumption, reliability, and responsiveness by learning C in the context of embedded programming.
I'd laugh if I didn't think it was so pathetic. Google seems to have more of a disconnect in what each hand is doing than Microsoft...and that's saying a lot.
That's debatable. Fedora is great, but it is not very stable and skews toward the power users (documentation for solving common problems has a tendency to exercise Linux power user skills, for example).
Sounds a lot like HNWatcher (http://hnwatcher.com)
Google's Hummingbird Takes Flight: SEOs Give Insight On Google's New Algorithm
I choose to disable adblock on all sites, and only block ads on websites I feel are not legit or are going overboard with the ads.
They should learn a thing or two about marketing
Everytime I see a google product - it mentions ads !
A Better Product Backlog
for nested data - I 100% agree. I'd do that and use params for things like ordering or filtering on other fields:

http://mystore.com/electronics/computers/manufacturer/apple/type/laptop#?order=-price&size=medium

Also - the `#` is nice for when you don't want to reload the page.
Even better, you can save 7 characters with:

sum [x | x <- [1..1000], mod x 3 == 0, mod x 5 == 0]

But as you say, that wasn't the point of the article.
We get posts like this all the time, but it isn't actually what is playing out in the world. Apple paid out $5 billion to developers last year and that obviously doesn't include advertising revenue and Android profits. People ARE paying for apps. Developers ARE creating value. These things aren't worthless. I know because I sell lots of paid apps every day, and every month Apple and Google deposit money into my bank account.

My response to this article - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6471131
+1

It does correlate quite a bit to city population, although, the spike in what I presume to be Austin, relative to Dallas or Houston is quite telling.
think.com used to be Thinking Machines. When they folded, their data-mining software business was sold off to Oracle, along with the domain:

http://www.informationweek.com/oracle-buys-data-mining-techn...
Open source solutions would increase transparency and allow others to extend it to include new device vendors. Would also allow an app dependent on the API (of APIs, per se) to go on if the service were to go down or out of business, especially without notice.
A vector format is insufficient to make an image look good at all resolutions. Without hinting, lines are not aligned to pixels, making them blurry.

We have solved this problem with fonts, but it is extremely complex, both for the artist and for the rendering code.
i can smell a django app :P
If your business feeds a global commodities market, then you're probably going to want some advanced telecoms to keep up with pricing, supply chains, and all those mines and processing plants in far flung corners of the globe.
We just thought it did too much for what we needed. It's a great library, and if I were parsing URLs in my apps I'd use it. But we just wanted a single get() interface and support for complex objects in the URL.

Arg.js turns an object like this:

{
tags: ["one", "two", "three"],
deep: {
nested: {
objects: true
}
}
}

into this:

#?tags[0]=one&tags[1]=two&tags[2]=three&deep.nested.objects=true
Having the common modern hobby of wasting my time watching random videos on the internet, I've naturally come across dozens of helmet cam videos taken and uploaded by American and British solders in Iraq and Afghanistan.

They are usually pretty intense and I can't help but feel some respect for people that can keep their composure in those sort of situations, but one thing I always keep on noticing is that in the descriptions of the videos and in the dialog recorded in them, the opposing force is almost always described as "Al Quaeda". Now, ignoring the fact that "Al Quaeda" is hardly known for wearing uniforms, in many of the videos the opposing force cannot even be seen by the soldiers in the video.

I certainly don't blame them for shooting back, there is nothing else you could or should do in that sort of situation, but what makes them so sure it is Al Quaeda? Couldn't it be "angry goat farmer who owns a rifle"? Are angry goat farmers with rifles de-facto Al Quaeda? Does "Al Quaeda" mean anything more than "people who shoot at us"?

Maybe they really do exist, but it seems clear to me that at the very least many of the actions attributed to it by the 'boots on the ground' are associated loosely at best.
Let's not forget the issue that scaling vectors does not necessarily mean scaling intent and communication. Vector imagery for some things sounds great; in practice, it doesn't always come out as well as you'd hope--and certainly not as well as a hand-optimized set of work.

See: http://www.pushing-pixels.org/2011/11/04/about-those-vector-...
Needs repeating every time this comes up: the “spiral rule” is nonsense.

https://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=5080096
I'd like to single-step through the code displayed in a vim editor window, with all the power of vim to navigate it, plus commands to single-step, watch variables, set breakpoints, etc. tmux or screen can't give me that, nor can gdb -tui.
Ask HN: Has anyone got Startup School acceptance emails yet?
S.N. Goenka: The Man who Taught the World to Meditate
As a long-time Linux user on many distributions and a sometime BSD user: I find many of BSD's differences not particularly relevant, let alone endearing. It's just another platform. Although there is a street meme about BSD being real Unix or something, I don't see the point making it a badge of honor to use one rather than the other.
> "'We know that our customers want to live more sustainably and we hope working with Hanergy to make solar panels affordable and easily available helps them do just that,' said Joanna Yarrow, Ikea's head of sustainability in the UK and Ireland."

Semi-disposable furniture doesn't feel particularly sustainable. I guess it'd be better if they included a sensible reuse / recycle programme, and avoided some of the unpleasant materials they sometimes currently use.

They also have some scummy tax shenanigans. Avoiding tax is fine, but it's awkward when you also claim to be socially responsible.

Having an ex-Nazi for a leader is also troubling for some people.

(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/8772...)

> The move follows last month’s revelations that Mr Kamprad at the age of 17 had been an active recruiter and a registered member of the Svensk Socialistisk Samling (SSS), the successor to the Swedish Nazi party.
it's interesting they use there own custom encryption. Can't help but wonder how they compare to gpg, otr etc.
huh? From where I'm sitting adobe looks strong as fuck. Advertising, analytics, publishing. They don't have CRM (yet), but it seems like a very strong b2b company to me.
The less frills and peripherals the better, I guess. Although I've usually seen most cheap desktops come with some entry level video card, so I doubt they have none at all.
The rise of shopping API's
Nice! Would be cool to have a tooltip over the lines to show the location.
The main reason I was resisting
was because I would be giving up
the safety and prestige associated
with life as a Googler

We all have issues with leaving safe jobs.

*edit for style
If you really want it, you can get safe dynamic typing in Haskell using the Data.Dynamic module. However, since you don't really want it, it's a library that isn't introduced in basic tutorials.

This gives you a pragmatic equivalent to no-check, but is almost never used in practice because it turns out to be unnecessary.
Fast SQL in Hadoop with the Impala Query Editor
This really should be titled: "Programming is not computer science."
>>as PNGs are just plain bitmaps<< .png is definitely not a plain bitmap.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics#Compr...
This isn't a function of ghci or Haskell, that's an editor feature. If you want that kind of functionality than emacs is probably your best bet.

Though you can send arbitrary code blocks from vim using vim-slime.

[1] https://github.com/jpalardy/vim-slime
If you have a bad boss, find a new boss. You could just do the right thing, and if your boss has a problem with it, you're fired. Problem solved.

Of course, this assumes that it actually is your boss who's wrong, and you're not just ignorant of the market realities that your business operates in. If you want to avoid that JS hack and drop support for IE6, you better have numbers that show that it's a negligible part of your revenues. And if you do have those numbers, it will be much easier to convince your boss.

(True story: I was working on Google's visual redesign of 2010. As a team, we all estimated that supporting IE6 would double the development cost and add a minimum of 3 months to the schedule. We took this info - along with numbers for IE6 market share - to our managers, who took this to their managers, until it reached the executive level. The verdict: we didn't have to support IE6. This was the first version of Google Search that dropped support for it - Docs had dropped support a couple months earlier - and started the tidal wave of sites not supporting IE6.)
The robotic 7-11 was how Redbox got started, if you recall:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/525037492/Redbox-kiosks-c...

"They also said that while the DVD rentals also did a brisk business, it was rare to see anyone buying the other items"

At least they pivoted successfully!
8 pitches for new shows to fill the "white male antihero fantasy" void
Nope, still intermittently spamming refresh on my gmail
Nope not the end, but the introduction of a tool that real designers can use to do mash ups quicker.
IKEA to start selling solar panels in UK stores
Working on messaging. Please tell me when you think TinyTorch is.
Ah.. thanks for sending that thread.
...or they just start without a concern for whether they are cool.