skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should also check out Marionette (http://marionettejs.com/) as another Backbone-based framework. It's similar in terms of views, and provides some additional events and methods by default (onClose, onRender etc.).
I'm actually juggling between Mint and ReadyForZero for this exact reason. It's not ideal but it's the best I have come up with for now.
Ilya Grigorik ran an excellent programming blog while running PostRank (and continues to run it after being acquired by Google) http://www.igvita.com/
It would be easy enough to show that becoming a poet didn't make someone happy. But if they became a poet, and then became happy? Surely its pretty obvious that the connection wouldn't be testable in the slightest.
As in I give you this money and you make sure I can keep giving you money.
No one would be impressed if they couldn't see it.
Slave labor isn't exploitative simply because slave owners campaign against anti-slavery laws. It's exploitative because the slaves themselves are being forced to work against their will. Slavery would not suddenly become more justifiable if its practitioners adopted a vow of silence with regard to its legality.

The same applies here. Whether or not prison owners campaign for policies that would put more people in prison is irrelevant to the question of whether those prisoners are being treated fairly.
Damn I'd better stop blogging. I want to make sure I'm successful.
I agree with ya. There's big room for db connection improvement in Django.
What about you, pg? Arguably you are the co-founder of a successful company which takes up most of your time, and you blog.

I'm not sure what's the point of this statement. Few successful CEO's blog. Few politicians blog. Few celebrities blog. Few people blog. So what?
Your filing cabinet example is spot on.

If the cabinet for storing blank paper that I don't care about (and it's my cabinet, not something entrusted to me for safeguarding) requires a passcode, then I'd both set the passcode to '0000000' or '123456', and write it on a post-it note right there.

Similarly, if some website or forum that I don't care about (and don't fear if someone or everyone accesses my account) starts for me to require an account+password that I don't want - then I'd both set the password to something trivial ('password' ?) and ensure that my browser stores it so I don't have to. In an ideal world, I wouldn't have that account/password at all - most of accounts listed in my browser password-list are accounts where some site forces me to keep a password that I don't want to 'keep an account', do 'personalization', etc.

For example, I have a (free) account on Spotify. Is there any good reason why I should have a secure password there? Is there any good reason why I shouldn't tweet that password to everyone, other that Spotify itself might dislike it?
That seems to be an article about using transcranial stimulation to treat major depression, but you're replying to something that didn't even mention major depression. Which specifically are you calling pseudoscience: using transcranial stimulation to treat major depression, or is the very belief that current can be routed through the skull the piece of pseudoscience here? Thanks.
Architecture - a forest near Nanjing is a showcase for modern design.
I really enjoy Jason Freedman's posts, but I suspect 42Floors and many of the examples given in this comment thread don't meet Keith Rabois' criteria which he mentions in the Twitter exchange.

"change the world, or $1 Billion exit or 10x for series A, B investors and 5x for later."
Mike experience did not look that bad after all, ultimately with some patience on his side he has an app up on the store. Either on the side of the client or on the developer there is a very hard work to do in order to accomplish a simple app. I think Mike underestimates the challenge and I wish him good luck on the development side, a new trip is waiting for him.
Does Alex Turnbull, CEO of Groove count?

http://www.groovehq.com/blog
Taptrix (the developers behind Inkpad and Brushes) was YC S10, though if I remember correctly they joined YC after their Brushes app was already a smashing success on the iPad. Brushes was released the same day the iPad 1 came out and the two guys behind it were both Apple veterans. [1] [2]

Brushes — This startup created the Brushes application for painting on your iPhone or iPad. The app was used to create the well-known iPhone covers for the New Yorker. With 250,000 paying users and $60,000 in monthly revenue, Brushes apparently holds the YC record for most profitable startup on Demo Day. Its eventual goal is to become the “Adobe of touch devices” by building a suite of apps. [3]

If I had to guess, I'd say the devs probably have enough money to retire. Congrats! Thank you for contributing your code to the world.

[1] http://appadvice.com/appnn/2010/03/brushes-ipad-launch-scree...

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/24/y-combinator-demo-day-2/

[3] http://venturebeat.com/2010/08/24/five-new-y-combinator-star...
Those are all cool, if you're sick or disabled in some way. What about for those of us who are healthy as a horse and want to supersede the natural state? What if I want to be able to sense EM fields, or put a sensor in me to monitor my sleep to avoid the hassle of a headband and a now-super-expensive Zeo, or put a bluetooth transmitter in me to ease data management between internal and external devices, or put a GPS sensor in me, or put a gyro&accelerometer in me that lets me do gestures independent of a wiimote or kinect, how about RFID in my hands and forehead?

Of course those things aren't the coolest imaginable, but some things I can imagine would be really quite hard with the limitations of flesh. I'm currently content to be hopeful for mind uploading, then using artificial/robotic/simulacratic bodies of various sizes with lots of neat features for the times a version of me wishes to explore meatspace...
Some people really like writing, or blogging, so they do it anyway, whether is useful or not.

I think the point Keith is making that successful people don't have time to blog, or the blog really doesn't help that much. They prioritize their time to do things that actually matter for their business, rather than being on top of HN or being tweeted 1000 times.

It's not the whole truth. When you have actually "made it", had some successes, you don't need the promotion or visibility that much, but when you're just starting out, basically anything might help.
Wired article about Shot Spotter:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.04/shotspotter.html
I started using YNAB in May of this year, and I can say without exaggeration that is has changed my life. Great method, instruction, and support.

I have personally convinced several other people to start using it, and happily evangelize the product whenever the topic of personal finance or budgeting comes up.

Also, with all the focus on web apps, it is interesting to see (and use) software that is sold as a proper download.
"Would you rather have your children engineering the financial system creating more problems for us, or having a chance of saving the world?"

Yep the financial system has a whole host of problems that everyone knows but "saving the world" is just meaningless marketing mumbo jumbo for SV - lets be clear that Google is not saving the world nor is any other SV company. We by and large push ads in exchange for information - its a valuable business model but lets get over ourselves.
That doesn't answer my question :p
So if I want to run this today and get the best experience, what phone should I buy?
Wow, at least round off the corners!
I basically started it to get away from Hostgator which along with other providers started to oversell anything under the sun and presented gradually degraded speed and quality of service.

So I got dedicated server to myself and fully configured it for hosting needs including automated iptables-based firewall protection and malware protection.
Then i sent emails to my past web. dev clients out of which a few signed up.

Right off the bat I started to offer malware protection for which site5 charges $30+/mo (10 sites max) and thevault.com charges $40/mo (1 site).

I offer everything for $25/mo, unlimited sites, no BS, firewall, complete malware detection/protection, daily account-wide, off-site (off-continent actually) backups for which I renting specialized service in another country.

Originally I was hoping to just cover my costs but it started to become profitable already - so I plan to boost this side of effort.

People do see value in this where they feel protected and having fast service without doing anything.
From the link:

Alex Bangash ‏@AlexBangash
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@rabois @hunterwalk great observations... seems like we are in world of promoters. Those who can't build, tweet and blog.

and

Keith Rabois ‏@rabois
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@hunterwalk @AlexBangash I don't know of a single successful CEO or entrepreneur who blogs regularly.

for ONCE, and I mean for ONCE, I agree with some twitter garbage linked on HN.

And if your reading my comment, that means that the self-aggrandizing "creators" and "entrepreneur" douchebags who have single handedly ruined HN with bullshit like this haven't voted me down yet.
The Ubuntu Gnome spin looks very promising with the combination of the Ubuntu ecosystem and the Gnome desktop environment.

the only fly in the ointment (for me at least) is the distros uncertain future as Canonical developers are not keen on moving to the latest version of Gnome (http://www.webupd8.org/2013/10/ubuntu-1404-lts-to-stay-on-gt...) and longer term the focus will be on QT and other technologies as Unity and Mir mature.
pg blogs? Or are you thinking of his essays?
Cold emailing has worked out well for me in a research context. I needed help and some leads from a couple archaeologists and linguists, reaching out directly, yet demonstrating knowledge of their research in the area worked out well. I'm not an archaeologist, myself, at the time I wasn't even with the Ronin Institute, I was just a Barista with an interest in their field, but each got back to me within 24 hours with the information I needed to move forward in my research.

Conversely, the cold emails I've received have always been very welcome, though I do encourage people to reach out to me for expert opinion or whatever else.

Finally, the cold phone calls I've received have always been a very negative experience for me. A lot of that is on me, but the immediacy of the phone is a major inconvenience most of the time, especially when there are so many time-delayed methods of robust communication now.
Snazzy Maps - Color Schemes for Google Maps
I agree - though I don't know which solution would be better (standardization of industry APIs as I propose, or a FOSS project to build and maintain a system that could hit all of these systems).

I think a mix of both would be best, though both are also wrought with many more difficulties than we have gone into here. For example, just a couple that come up off the top of my head:

* API Standardization issues

- Many of these companies likely have custom sets of data that they expect, validation rules, their own auth procedures that they'd be hesitant to let go of etc...
- Smaller companies (such as in my ECSI example) would likely shy away from the costs of creating such an API for their own services, thus still resulting in the need for custom solutions
- Larger companies would also hesitate to change - either due to their own org/system complexity, or just a desire to not spend money on something that doesn't feel core to their business. Healthcare integration standardization is severely hampered by this, for example.
- Many of these companies may actually be charging for access to their data backend, which would still thwart the use of standardized APIs even after they were adopted.

* FOSS System Issues

- To create the integrations, companies would have to actually both expose it to you and allow you access. The creators of the FOSS system would have to somehow convince these companies to essentially open up their systems to the world. That would be fantastic I think, but it would be very tough to convince companies.
- You'd need a large number of dedicated people to the cause - and not just developers to create and maintain the integrations, but also people with the skills needed to negotiate with the businesses for whatever kinds of back-end deals have to occur to keep the integration online and functional on the financial institution's side. So far, we've been good at finding an army of excellent developers to drive FOSS - for this kind of integration pursuit, the FOSS movement would also need to be good at finding an army of excellent businessmen, lawyers, etc... that would be as dedicated and available as the software development force (I'd be all for such an expansion of scope in the Open Source movement)
- The "charging for access" issue above would still be a problem here.

Now, none of these are reasons not to do it - merely a statement of risks and a peek into the scope and effort needed for such an approach. It's not something I'd ever have the time or energy to lead the charge on personally, but kudos to whoever could rally the army (and the political will) needed to make it happen.
There are lots of good reasons to release a mobile app's source, especially if it's a side project. Maybe you don't have time to work on it anymore, and it's not getting the love you think it deserves. Maybe there's a more practical reason, such as taking a new job in a related field and having to remove the app to avoid conflicts (although it sounds more the former in this case).

I'd love to open source one of my iOS apps, but it's a bit of a hack and I'm honestly rather embarrassed by the code!
My point was that your question wasn't very interesting.
In the film "Manda Bala", there's a scene where a team of surgeons, led by the world expert in this particular procedure, insert a scrap of reshaped intercostal cartilage under a patient's scalp to reconstruct an amputated ear. The motion the team displays in that two second clip is a beautiful as any choreographed dance move.
If the challenge is to "think of successful entrepreneurs or CEOs who blog", I can think of a bunch off the top of my head:

Leo W. at Buffer - http://blog.bufferapp.com/author/leo

Ryan Carson at Treehouse - http://ryancarson.com/

Jason Fried & DHH - http://37signals.com/svn

Matt Mullenweg - http://ma.tt/

Patio11 - http://www.kalzumeus.com/
You'd find that book interesting. One of Tetlock's (many) findings is that almost everyone overpredicts outlier events. That is, we expect large deviations to occur far more often than they usually do. This is especially true of the "Hedgehogs", but "Foxes" do it also.
This enrages me. I feel horrible for the developer.

First, my day rate as a professional full-time iOS dev is higher than what he paid for the entire project. Granted, I've been writing software for almost 20 years now, the last six strictly Cocoa and iOS, and I live in NYC. But even then, all I can tell him is that he got what he paid for.

Second, if a client is going to withhold final payment based on Apple acceptance, there is no way I would work for them. Specially for some dumb app like this.

But the part that really irks me is the last bit about "doing it yourself next time". Good luck with that. I would love to be around the moment you have the epiphany about how much you got for how little you spent and what an asshole you are about whining about it.
You'll need to time to research more irrelevant cat pictures for your blog.
They're probably saying that because haskell was originally implemented in lisp and the optional parenthesis make it look a lot more lispish (though I still wouldn't call it a true lisp)
NSA, GCHQ among worst surveillance offenders, Snowden says
No, I'm not. I replied to your post in the context you provided with your hypothetical example. I stand behind my point for whatever (profitable) industry you wish to apply it to. Or in other words. If a prison seeks to expand its inmate population for any economic reason, that, in itself is exploitation.
Mastering Modern Payments[1] has earned more than $14k in revenue since I launched it in the middle of August. Real ongoing costs are $5/mo for the VM that the sales application sits on, and that's basically it. I figured that I broke even for time-spent when it hit $7k.

[1]: https://www.petekeen.net/mastering-modern-payments
Interesting! From that link, it sounds like they're paying a large sum of money to use someone else's integration solution. That could be an option - I wonder just how much money they are shelling out. (and whether Intuit is said integrator!)
And, https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ip
At least some of these providers have API's now! Mint was probably screen-scraping for awhile, and they made it.
I have to agree with you. I've been using it for years, ever since I started getting real amounts of money in my account. I only wish it would work with my 401k.
> or for money upfront

You must not be doing this for very long. I don't work with clients who don't pay 50% upfront for fixed fee projects. And those types of projects I try to avoid.
I've not known conservatives to say, "hey, there's a bunch of minorities working in occupation X, we're aganst it."
Even 10x is a finite number. Growth is not unlimited it never was and never will be. That is the point I was trying to make.
Similar, but plain text and, thus, easier to parse, if necessary, e.g.:

$ IP=`curl https://icanhazip.com/`
$ echo $IP
What does the number of women in science or business have to do with smartness?

Most businesses are pretty stupid, if you think about it - buy cheap sell high, or produce something people need.

As for science, it's mostly tedious research by poor PhD students with professors taking most of the credit. Occasionally there's a breakthrough, a cause for celebration (and hopefully real world application).
Specs being more or less fixed is fairly standard for any creative industry. Otherwise you end up doing many multiples of the work you originally signed on for for people who are continually changing their mind or having one extra little thing. You wouldn't say to a builder who came to your house to fix the roof "Oh, and while you're up there, the chimney needs doing." And not expect to pay for it.

How you handle that varies, I don't work on a fixed fee - I give estimates but it costs what it costs, so in many ways it's easier for me. Still, I give people three goes to change their minds about the graphical assets and placement of interface elements, within the specs we've worked out of course - and then if they want to change it we work something new out or we go ahead with one of the prototypes they like; I'm not going to be messed around by someone who can't make up their mind, there are other clients. The way I look at it my initial contract is to make up to three rough versions of the thing for them - and if we're working well together we take it from there, or if we're not we walk away from the thing.

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Other points -

Hired someone who may have had flawed English skills, (from reading the back and forth)

Paid $800 and expected top notch service.

Unclear milestones.

Hired someone in a dramatically different time zone (always a bit of a pain.)
I firmly believe that Google "is Evil". But not that-evil. Nowhere near Goldman Sachs[2]. GS is the Master of Puppets[1].

Quotes like "Finance is the place you can make your mark on the world. It has to be a personal commitment, because you won’t get credit for it. . . But you will know inside that you have made things happen on a bigger scale than you could at Google." are plain ridiculous. I can think of several good things done by Google. Maybe not for the good of man-kind or some other honorable cause, but I can't recall a single finance giant acting for the good of ANY community.

Stiglitz and Krugman wrote many articles (and books) describing how wall street is heavily flawed, praising arrogance and malpractices by paying huge totally undeserved bonuses to people who never did any real work in their lifespan.

Working in finance, is like saying that you create money out of thin air, because that's what you do actually. The better you are at convincing people that shit is gold, the better you are, the more money you make and so on...

[1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEL6_SuQCu8
[2]: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american...
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Embrace and Reach
Well also money.
What's that old saying? You get what you pay for. What did you expect for $800?

"Oh but it's a simple app" - Well, so is the electrical grid! I delivers power to your house, simple right? Oh wait. NOPE.

Additionally, I do agree that once you've accepted to pay the final fees once development ends, you should pay them then and not when the app is 'accepted onto app store and 10 days have passed so users can report bugs'. What on earth were you thinking? That's not the developer's problem. That's YOUR problem.

I find it nice that he even offered to fix any bugs found on the review process or after the store's release, most developers could charge you extra for this.

Please get this right once and for all: You pay consultants / freelancers a combination of time spent + expertise. Never for a finished product.
Quants are a small fraction of the overall finance jobs landscape. At a finance feeder school, like the LSE, there's not much overlap between those who could work at Google and those who could work at a bulge bracket investment bank. Most simply don't have the technical skills for the former.
Being tweeted 1000 times actually matters for a business if they have their own marketing machine ready to squire, convert and activated visitors.
Perhaps it is a bit exaggerated but I don't think anyone would argue with a straight face that GS does more good in the world than Google.

To me this is a question not of intelligence, IQ, or ability but rather morals and soul. There are so many great individuals who propelled the world forward into a better state because they make a conscious decision to use their gifts for the betterment of fellow human beings.

Goldman Sachs' culture does NOT encourage that. In fact, if you have even a tiny amount of that within you, it will crush it with the power of a thousand black holes.
It's not just that the APIs are hard to deal with. The problem is that I'd imagine that many of these financial institutions will only allow API access and implementation details under an NDA or some equally FOSS-incompatible legal constraint. You'd think that "it's just an API, how close-minded can they get?" The answer is very. I've dealt with these types of integrations before as part of a large corporation, and I've seen API documentation from a partner prefixed by 2 full pages of legalese regarding its use - and that doesn't include the separate document about data retention and caching restrictions. And it's even more of a pipe dream to think that any party could convince these institutions to simplify or standardize their APIs - the legal fees alone for them to make sure that everything's compatible with EACH company's practices/bylaws would probably strike fear into even the most generous donor. I love the FOSS mindset, but as an engineer I have to recognize that it's not the perfect approach for every domain.
(1977) IBM: Personal Computer Not Ready for Primetime Yet.
I agree with that. "Saving the world", "Changing the world" and other big words are often recited by Apple and Google. They didn't change a lot in my view. If it wasn't Steve Jobs inventing the PC another guy would have invented it a year or two later. As Linus Torvalds said "If Linux was not released in 1992, probably in 1993 someone would have come up with a similar idea, because at the time it was the natural thing to do". Kids in Africa are still starving though.
Yes, this is exactly why I started using it. The privacy aspect is only a nice bonus.
I find it hilarious that people think it's just gathering some pieces, applying glue and add pretty graphics.
4-5k/mo from iOS apps and occasional contract work