skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Unfortunately we live in a world where all too often, laws are for the little people."

This is sort of the crux of it. We are degenerating into a true oligarchy and/or gangster state in which there are two different systems of law: one for the politically connected and one for the plebs.
I had the pleasure of going through FounderFuel at the same time as the Listn folks - they aren't the type to base their positioning on comparing with other services. I think it's safe to say they only used the X to Y connotation for its great subject line value.

Congrats to the M5Labs boy band :-)
physic?
I'd never buy heroin from a website, but I see the Silk Road as cyber-civil-disobedience, and I hope the persona of DPR and the site itself are as unsinkable as they claim.

The drug war is a ghastly thing, and the number of people we lock up in the US is more shameful than our foreign policy. You can begrudge the first DPR his lame security, shady murder contracts, and ill-gotten fortune, but he's the product of our system, and his shame is our shame.
For anyone wondering, here is the official site: http://www.arangodb.org/foxx
I've heard it described as, "gray is a color, grey is a colour"
Ok, so as someone who has used the "design perspective" to avoid verbalizing something I simply understood to be true intuitively, what are good resources for understanding the theory and explaining UX choices?
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This is why hitching yourself to the wrong boss can be extremely detrimental to your career. A good boss would compensate and promote any 50+ hour rockstar performer for making him look good. As the organization gets bigger, the manager with the most senior people often wins, regardless of competency. If a boss is not giving out raises and fighting for promotions, he is going to have to play out more political capital in order to get anything done, or to cover his ass when shit doesn't get done.
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Holy shit I just downloaded the trial of Midtown madness (!!) This used to be my jam!

The first website I ever built was dedicated to that game and I got tens of hundreds of thousands of visitors. How I managed to do that when I was like 14 or something I'm not sure.

I had every cheat, trick and hack under the sun, fully documented with photos.

My favorite was also the Motocross Madness throttle bug. If you went to buy a specific joystick and used the throttle hat, it would instantly gas the bike up to like 50,000cc's and you could do jumps so high that it would glitch, like a mile in the air.
How do you do that by accident? Somebody had to design, implement, and test a feature to sniff and store data off wireless networks.
I think a key point is that, unless planets rotate in a plane that nearly osculates our line of sight vector they will not be observed by current methods. Basically any planet whose orbit from our perspective looks like an oval rather than a left-right wobble will not be observed by current methods which check for light flickers as the planets cross their star. There are complex factors at work here, but I'd think a reasonable approximation would be that solar systems plane of rotation are oriented randomly.

So, given random rotation, if we would expect to observe 1 out of 100 plants using this method and then find that there are planets around 1 out of 200, we can extrapolate that (1/100)/(1/200)= 1/2 of suns have planets. That explains the discrepancy anyway; since so many don't rotate in the right plane the fact that we observe them at the frequency we do, rare as it is, means they are in fact quite common. The universe just got a lot more exciting!
Let them code things up as static HTML then add in your dynamic stuff after.
My personal opinion is that it's more likely that the access was given by a telecom that Google leased from than from Google itself.
Yes, you can extend the Developer Tools. More information at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/DevToolsAPI & https://github.com/victorporof/Restartless-Template
Totally agree - it's a great lifestyle. +1: It works for me too - have been doing it for 7 years now.
Old small post I wrote on this: https://oinksoft.com/blog/view/2/
How is insurance a scam?

Insurance is a bet and for an insurer to make money you have to bet that your luck is going to be considerably worse than the average.

People should just get together in large groups and pool their money, it would be much cheaper.
" It is VERY hard to hire good senior engineers. My company (Amazon) pays a ton of money, has offices in great cities but still we find hiring hard."

Why?

Can you positively exclude the influence of the known long-hour culture?
ui-view does indeed look quite interesting. but the description didn't really explain it for me.

a simplified description is that its a router for multiple-panes. where different related states can make use of inheritance.

http://txt.fliglio.com/2013/05/angularjs-state-management-wi...

http://jsfiddle.net/benschwartz/LhydD/
I work in a company that uses Git, plus Subversion for legacy stuff. I use Mercurial with hg-git and hgsubversion. There are occasional hiccups, but they mostly work like a charm. I'm happy because i get to use Mercurial, and my colleagues are happy because they have someone who can help them out by running complex revset queries!
Well I certainly understand your point, but the question was 'are big companies encrypting their inter-DC traffic' and the answer is 'yes', even if it's backdoored without their knowledge.
Why do they have a duty to?
That's true. My comment was premised on the assumption that we want to retain a World Champion title. And there is definitely a whole new element that comes into play with matches. If we still want to stick to the tradition of a world championship match, perhaps the best way to do it is to have a double round robin of the top 10 players, and the top two finishers then play a match for the title of World Champion.

Your comment about rewarding consistent but rarely brilliant versus uneven but great bring up another interesting nuance about matches versus tournaments. Fischer complained that once a player gets ahead in a match, there is no motivation to play fighting chess because every half point bring him closer to winning a match, and players are therefore incentivized to play for a draw. In a tournament, that usually isn't the case since the leader will typically have a few players nipping at his heels.
Congratulations to a talented, tightly-knit team of founders. It's rare to find four people who have such great synergy and single unified direction. They have a great mix of design, engineering and marketing among them and the fact they are so in love with music coupled with this round of financing tells me the Listn app will keep growing.

Go kill it!
Well, we're based in Berlin and things here are not at all comparable to the US. We were thinking of moving to SF for fundraising and bizdev -- however the move overhead seems a bit too much.

Can you recommend incubators/accelerators based on Charleston ? a quick gsearch revealed a few, but can't seem to find successful startups graduating from them.
What did you especially like about it?
Totally agree that the current approach is not working, and that's why I say that, regardless of which drugs we choose to fully legalize, all of them should be decriminalized. Most people who become addicts are already traumatized in some way and throwing them into the machinery of the criminal justice system only compounds the problem.

The healthcare situation also makes it worse. My brother had considerable difficulty obtaining Suboxone, and even after establishing a relationship with the only doctor in our area who prescribes it, was not able to afford the enormous expense. It's just pathetic that he had a much easier time acquiring this legal drug illegally from fellow addicts.

I wish you the very best with your recovery.
Then go ahead and make the argument.

Also, unless you are an anarchist who rejects all forms of capitalism, then I would argue you do support the use of violence and force, you just support a different kind of authoritarianism.
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Strange that this dropped off the page so quickly, I think it's an interesting post.

I'd like to add that it's quite possible to have a high growth company that does not take on institutional investment. My company is neither a Lifestyle business (I also hate that term, I think it's an awesome thing) or a VC-backed startup, but we have lots of users and are making really nice revenue.

The costs have gone down so much, that I think the reason people still think fundraising is required is because they can't afford to live or hire in SF without it, and there is a lot of pressure by successful investors for young founders to make the "big" bets.

My goal is to have an id software, 37signals, MailChimp, Atlassian, GitHub, Campaign Monitor, etc. kind of company. Now those companies are/were fucking cool. Plus, they've actually stuck around for more than a few years!
I believe the word you're looking for is "infinitely."

Infinitesimally implies very small/not a lot:

"1: taking on values arbitrarily close to but greater than zero
2: immeasurably or incalculably small <an infinitesimal difference>" (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/infinitesimal)
The expression "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" applies to spam too. The best spam filter is the one you don't need.
"Ten Years After Decriminalization, Drug Abuse Down by Half in Portugal"

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/07/05/ten-years-af...
You are. You're. YOU'RE. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
Mercurial's phases are to Git as FreeBSD's jails are to Linux.
Interesting to see the list. The first ten entries on that list are all legally protected professions, with strict supply control (via licensing boards, etc).
Who in their right mind broadcasts account information and passwords unencrypted and expects it to not be recorded? That would be akin to using a megaphone and yelling your credit card numbers and expecting your neighbours to pretend they didn't hear you.
I've started using it over the last month. The docs on the web site are good and this hands-on tutorial was also helpful:

https://github.com/leucos/ansible-tuto

I'm actually not sure it's better than the shell scripts it replaced so I may end up switching back.
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More like a PR employee for MS reads HN. Seems like a move by a concerned PR person and not an engineer who most likely would have recognized the significance of the positive feedback on sites like HN.

Let's hope someone with some history at MS rectifies the situation and rel-launches the site with the accompanying HN post announcing it.
The fact that we regard it as "civilized" discourse to treat people with respect regardless of how barbaric their remarks are is one of the problems with our present state of civilization.
There was no ad hominem here, just insults. You've fallen into the "ad hominem fallacy fallacy." :-) http://plover.net/~bonds/adhominem.html
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Good for them, seems like a pretty cool option for those who may want to implement data analysis into their shopping platform. Would love to see them add a discount to shopify users if possible.

"By examining bazillions of data points, the company can determine..."

Why include the line above? It says later in the article that it processes 5.3B pieces of data per month, just say that.
This is not as strange as it might look at the first glance.

A lot of ordinary characters can be represented as two (or more) Unicode code points - for instance an unaccented Latin letter and a combining accent.

Flags emoji seem more like a hack on the side of the font or text renderer. If you look at the Unicode representation it actually spells out the ISO country code. Some fonts probably define a ligature containing these two characters that looks like a flag instead of two separate Latin characters.

Representation of digits inside keycaps also makes sense to me: it's a normal digit eight (dating back to ASCII) plus a combining character that looks like a keycap.
DigitalOcean lost our data and gave us $500
I also have this same problem. It's one of the things which has made me think about switching to web2py - you can edit templates and css, and do commits directly in the admin. There is something a bit crazy about it though.
Alternatively I don't think it would be that difficult to put a decent JavaScript-based editor on a page and allow editing of certain files, combined with a way of running the collectstatic management command.
Difficult enough for me to not have tried it though.
It's true and they all do it. Usually under the guise of "preauthorization."
Lifestyle business, micropreneur, microisv, indie. None of them are great terms. I am still waiting for someone to come up with a better term for what I do.
Just use http://docs.angularjs.org/api/ng.$sce#methods_trustashtml on your data then use ng-bind-html. It does the same as ng-bind-html-unsafe.
If your daughter was routinely going over to a friend's house where the friend's parent was visibly high on a regular basis how would you feel about it?
What were Tesla investors expecting?
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Some peoples' morals deny life saving medical treatment. Other morals insist that consuming alcohol desecrates a holy temple. Or that porn is evil, or prostitution a "sin". Why would you expect the morals to be based on reason and facts?
I think the word you're after is INCONCEIVABLE
This is really neat! Congratulations to Ben for another great feature.

I don't know if it's coincidence, or maybe personal bias, but since going Open Source the pace of improvements to Feedbin has really picked up.

I subscribe to a metric ton of travel-hacking blogs, gathering all the discounts, promotions,... and now I can finally filter out all the loyalty programs I don't use. Super handy.
>Why?

1. Because we are in a super competitive market. The talent pool at the top end is VERY contested and for every offer from one of FB/GOOG/AMZN/TWTR/MS there is a competing bigger offer elsewhere.

2. The top end doesn't usually move for things like money/perks. They feel ownership to the thing they are building meaning they move only when they are super pissed or are at a logical endpoint. They might also have familial ties to their locale by now.

3. Also even if you move as a super senior engineer, you will have to go through the age old cycle of convincing EVERYONE in the new company that you are worth your salt etc. else you won't garner much respect. This is way harder in these smarter teams.

That's off the top of my head.

>Can you positively exclude the influence of the known long-hour culture?

I think so. Most of the high-achievers seem to not care about this. These are people who ride on the high of solving complex issues and they need the repeated hits.
You mean the web
Submitting an issue is often much more appreciated as a project maintainer than a big code dump pull request.
Sounds like you're talking about P3P, which at least is a ridiculous useless standard that I'm guessing most server operators copy-paste and tweak a http header without understanding it just to get IE to work as expected.
Thank for the link, will check it out.
Thanks Alex, this is great. I think a lot of people have the inspiration and understand the "why" behind learning to code, but the issue most of the time is where to start and having a roadmap for getting there. This is a great resource for that. How many hours per week were you spending on this material, how did you keep yourself motivated, and did you have any people you could go to for resources when you got stuck?
Finally someone is actually DOING something with all the data!

The pricing seems a bit weird though. In any case, Good luck with Granify Kyle
> And the vast numbers are because there are a lot of bad engineers.

> On top of that my college had an FSF chapter, I volunteered there for 2 months after college and spent 2 years on an open-source project.

Awesome re: FSF chapter and Open Source. If more Indian programmers did things like this (as well as start disruptive businesses) to show they're passionate about software, rather than wanting to be an engineer because it's a "respectable profession" Indian programming would be on the up and up and the world would be better for it.
That's basically what Hugh Howey did. His short story "wool" took off and so he focused his efforts on that story line.
Doesn't Apple already do this?
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Well, SETI isn't free, but it doesn't seem too expensive compared to some of the things we invest resources in. As for the spiritual danger of the seeking, I can't say it seems too fraught - finding, on the other hand, would at least require some adjustments to a few creation myths...
> I'm very fortunate to have a badass tech cofounder working with me on a project and he codes in Python. He's also incredibly smart and can pick up any language if he needed to. Should I just focus on Python since that's his language of choice?

If he's going to mentor you, then that's probably a good place to start.

> TeamTreehouse has a good RoR course.

Despite the fact that I like Ruby, I don't think Rails is a great place to start to learn programming. But that's more of a subjective feeling, not something I can explain in concrete terms.

> Udacity has a strong, but hard, Computer Science course using Python.

That's probably a good choice, especially if you want to do it right now and want scheduling flexibility. MITx's 6.00.1x on EdX is also a good choice, but it has a more fixed schedule (and its a couple weeks into the current session, and I don't know when the next one will be.) There's a number of other strong -- often Python-based -- courses available via EdX and Coursera.

> Do I need to just stop making excuses and pick one language? Or can I try to attack 2 language simultaneously?

There is a perspective to be gained on programming that comes from learning more than one language (particularly if they aren't closely related languages), but its probably best to focus on one first and then branch out to more if you find a deeper interest.

Probably...
I have a sneaking suspicion that it's a honeypot. Just a hunch.
The problem therein is that, at least in the vast majority of circumstances, everybody thinks that they are being "just", but their justice is always colored by their own personal morals, which may or may not conform to your morals or mine.

I'm sure that the judge who recently disallowed a mother from naming her child "Messiah" felt like he was being just, but that justice was undoubtedly colored by his religious faith.

The judges who uphold "traditional marriage" also probably felt like they were being just, as their justice is shaped by what they personally consider to be 'right' and 'wrong'. The law itself, in too many cases, offers too much ambiguity.

We want states to have the right to do things their own way on issues we want, but not on issues we don't. If we, as people, support the right of gay marriage, we think that states should be required to allow it. However, if we support marijuana is relatively harmless, we think that states should be allowed to legalize it.

These are just examples, but it's hard to come up with a 'pragmatic' solution for what is or isn't just. If justice is based on morality, then whose morality do we base it on? If it's based on whether or not it causes harm to others, then what level of harm do we allow? Freedom of speech is generally harmless, except when it isn't -- except when it's "fire" in a theater, or when it's your neighbors yelling at 3 am, or when it's someone preaching [religion/anti-religion] in contrast to what I want to hear.

In short, it's a very complicated thing, justice, with blurry edges, multiple middles, and an infinite list of value substitutions that muddy the issue. Even those doing the very best things for the most noble of purposes can be considered harmful by others who are also doing the very best things for the most noble of purposes.
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>You claimed that Dart is a flawed language.

I was echoing OP (the one who was bemoaning snark and cynicism). Read his paragraphs. Flawed doesn't mean crippled. There are things about Dart I like.

A language can't be perfect.

>No, they both thrive and benefit from the other.

Pay attention to negative feedback. Some substantial portion of AngularJS devs are unhappy.

>Take a cursory look and you'll find some arguments for Dart

I'm not arguing for Dart's existence here, I'm saying Dart has absolutely no chance of securing the browser's runtime over javascript. Why Dart, why not Go?

>So you know more about dart2js capabilities than the creators of V8 and Dart?

https://github.com/jbdeboer/angular-dart-js-size/blob/master...

173KB. This is ridiculous.

Say whatever you want about benchmarks, Angular.dart is either a terrible port (quite possible) or Dart's transpiler isn't on the level of CoffeeScript or TypeScript.

>This is the condescending and arrogant attitude I spoke of.

I'm asserting something grand and sweeping that I think to be true. Get over it or walk away.
This legalization talk is flawed.

Alcohol is legal, and that doesn't stop people, specially teenagers, from abusing it. It's also proven tobacco addiction starts during adolescence. In this case, legalization is just removing responsibility from the people who profit from it, since in practice the law isn't protecting who it's supposed to protect. Just because something is legal doesn't make it ethical.

Then, we know legalizing certain drugs will only move traffic to worse drugs. Legalize marijuana and dealers will move more crack, just like the mafia moved from alcohol to cocaine after they lifted the prohibition in the US. Now what, the government will legalize crack too? Make even more unethical businesses operate under the law, knowing these products will be abused by teenagers just like alcohol and tobacco today?

There's no easy solution, and no one is addressing the real issue: that substance abuse is cultural and heavily promoted. You talk to young people, and their concept of having a good time is "getting wasted". Dysfunctional families and poverty only worsen the issue.
You could have put a more inspirational quote on the first screenshot.
I respect the fact that you asked. :)

There are lots. Not to be self-serving, but I post all the best links I find on www.thehipperelement.com, if you feel like scanning through them.

But a few, off the top of my head are:

- www.alistapart.com
- http://www.uie.com/articles/ (run by Jared Spool, I think)
- www.smashingmagazine.com is a bit hit and miss, but what they lack in quantity they make up for in quantity.
- www.unbounce.com
- www.goodui.com is a good, quick, visual reference for best practices. You could make a career just from enforcing some of those, haha.

And these two books would lay a good foundation in general:

- "Web Form Design" by LukeW (his blog is also interesting)
- "Don't Make Me Think" by Steve Krug

If you only spent a few hours on those you'd be ahead of the game. And if there is anything you feel is missing from the world, let me know on Twitter and maybe I can write something about it. @HipperElement

Hopefully that helps.
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No one is stopping you from archiving my websites if you think the data will have some importance. It seems like you're suggesting that archive.org is the universal keeper of history and everyone should agree with that idea.
More sectarian than a pure race thing it was Nativist Protestant's vs recently immigrant Catholics.

the KKK started out as an Anti catholic group