skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those Office blurbs are horrific, I thought this was a joke. These are selling points in the 21st century? Are you kidding me? Technology is supposed to make things efficient so you don't have to spend your entire day pushing pencils, not facilitate an around-the-clock rat race.
Green Email Boxes?
Rape and Dog are entire sections of Japanese porn stores. So, in case you're keeping score. Japan 1 UK 0.
Show HN: Which stores are open near you?
You'll go far, kid! Glad you found someone here who can help you with the back-end.
I'll give you the last item, but the rest are junk. Sorry.

I would rather, for music, use http://www.paia.com/ or http://www.doepfer.de/ for example.
I've been using Meteor for a couple of years now, and although it does a lot of magic, I recommend using it only for very simple projects.

For this application, meteor may be suitable, but keep in mind that you'll need to build a lot of your supporting infrastructure until Meteor 1.0 comes out.

Reasons not to use Meteor:

It is currently very difficult to accurately profile memory issues.

Simple html mixups can take half an hour to debug due to the fact that they'll only show up in production, and in minimized/uglified form.

MongoDB costs 'money' to scale properly (sharding across multiple machines with lots of memory (if your database grows).

Edit: This is not a simple project, so maybe meteor is asking for trouble since it's not very mature yet.
Wow that movie has a trailer that looks really good! So it's very obviously an almost direct copy of Kung Fu Panda, but they did put a lot of work in it. You can see it lacks some polish here and there, but on the whole I'm surprised at the quality of the graphics and animation.
I work for a book store that sells roughly 40,000 items on Amazon (some but not all of those via FBA), and since I've been in charge of the Amazon sales, I've had our account "permanently" shut down several times. Each time, I've written an appeal that gets our account reinstated in just a week, and I can tell you that, based on this article, the seller did not write the correct kind of appeal.

When you're kicked off, Amazon very clearly says (I'm paraphrasing) "If you appeal, explain why this happened and how you're going to prevent it from happening again". At this point, your only option (if you want to continue selling on Amazon) is to suck up your pride and do exactly that. You can not argue against their decision. You have to tell them you messed up and tell them you're going to fix it, whether or not you messed up and whether or not you're actually going to change anything. It's essentially that simple. Just try to make your "changes" sound as bullet proof as possible, and if possible, mention that you've already implemented them.

I am by no means excusing Amazon, mind you. I completely sympathize with the OP, and dealing with Amazon in any way is the worst kind of bureaucratic BS I've ever dealt with. (It once took me over 6 months to get the title of a book corrected, and during that entire time I had the book in my possession and sent Amazon copious pictures of it with the corrected title.) The only reason I knew how to write successful appeals was because another seller once told me. Otherwise, I would have done exactly the same thing, and suffered exactly the same problems.

edit: I should add that it seems as though all correspondence with Amazon is handled by very very low level employees, and there always seems to be a checklist or script they're always working off of. Unless you hit certain points on their presumed checklists in your emails (including your appeals), nothing gets done at all.
Why does that read like Yahoo answers?
How did you collect all the data you needed for this?
They aren't penalizing you, think of it as a very generous referral bonus where if you can prove you shared it they offer you a discount even if none of your friends click through.

Nobody is forcing them to give anybody a discount, it's seriously just a nice gesture, nothing to be cynical about.
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Why are winforms no longer an option? Surely, as long as WinAPI exists, there will be a .NET layer for it.
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Is Adult Life “Nothing But High School”?
Thanks for the reply! Very interesting.

I am very excited by the future of rendering in the cloud: that has the potential to change our industry massively.
I stupidly didn't take notes (as usual) so I fear I don't have anything to provide right now, but if it's being hashed out in an issue or pull request of some sort I could post it there if I hit it again.
Then when I check to see if it is illegal do I get arrested?
They went from just under 30k submissions a day to just under 80k submissions a day in 2 years. That's 166% growth in 2 years. That's not "slowly"

Further, you'd expect growth of submissions in a "best rise to the top" system to be lower that growth of overall use.

A traffic chart, or a chart of the total number of votes (not just upvotes) would be a far better estimate of their true growth.
OK, that's VERY neat. So we could simply write a Ruby script to pipe geometry data from one application to another, for example?
How to Fix Low Speaker Volume on the Nexus 5
To explain the tech behind this: What we do is a little different than most other services.

While Yelp, Google and others provide business hours, they're mostly user-submitted which means that somebody has to report an error before the hours can be updated - it also means that people can report anything as store hours even though they might be wrong.

We are getting almost all our business hours directly from the stores and sync with them weekly, which (hopefully) increases the quality of the data quite a bit.
Yup, new to Lisp and JVM. All of my experience, brief as it has been, is in Ruby. I've only taken a cursory glance at the book I purchased and frankly I think I'll be ok picking up Clojure. It just may require a lot of focus. Is Emacs the typical editor Clojuristas use? I use vim though I have recently switched to Sublime.
One startup idea which is either commercially nonviable (sounds likely) or is new, would be a startup which is basically a consumer level online internationalized purchasing department.

So if you define a project called "teach my kid titration" it would understand how to get phenolphthalein and other indicators in Belgium, how to get a beaker in Texas (good luck), etc, and for a modest 10% fee of which they keep half and the designer keeps half, they make one CC charge and magically anywhere in the world boxes start arriving.

This would be tremendously helpful with electronic projects, where I get a custom PCB from somebody, some obscure transistor from somewhere else, and COTS support parts from the "big 3" suppliers.

Something tells me the agony of being a purchasing agent can't be abstracted away for a mere 5% commission. And how to intermediate, if at all, shipping, customs, and return disputes. Still, whatever it costs, it would be an interesting and probably worth it to some people.
One quote that I haven't seen any discussion of:

"'We are centralising everything on the internet,' Sunde says, pointing out that Facebook is the dominant social network, Twitter is the dominant microblogging site, Skype is the videophone chat service of choice. 'All of them are based on central servers owned by an American company, which is giving me a really bad vibe when you consider the revelations about the NSA,' he adds. 'It would be impossible to have as much surveillance if we didn't all use these centralised services.'"
Hmm. I wonder: there's no cutoff for the controversial filter? Meaning a post with only one vote and two comments is considered controversial?
For starters, I think all these complaints against the ads are completely valid, but it's still an effective campaign.

I'll play the devil here --

The people this campaign is trying to reach are the decision makers and managers in companies; the people that will be writing the check to Microsoft...

So with that in mind, when they see these ads and think "Sweet, I can get a hold of my team anytime, anywhere, and have them do a quick bit of work, this is awesome" the message is clear.

Argue all you want about how terrible this seems, but these ads will definitely plant that seed in the mind of management.
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Ask HN: What are your top tips for leading a software development team?
I am taking on a new role at my current place of work and have been given a team lead role - a team of 10 people - mix of permanent staff and contractors.

What are your top tips for leading a software development team - useful blogs, articles etc. Tips wanted for management style, team style (eg debate the code not the coder) and what development guidelines to suggest / use
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Fuck You Max
If your street address isn’t on the internet you are doing way better than I.

Some recruiter a 5 or 7 years ago or so went so far as to scan my paper resume, (with my address), did OCR, and posted it on the net.

My wife’s in a profession that needs registration with the state - they post the office address in the net - so no home offices.

Got a land line, and in the white pages - like everyone in my parent’s generation? Your address is on whitepages.com (and plenty of other places.)

The number of ways this info leaks to the net is astounding.
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Even so, they are still forbidden by law from depicting genitalia, aren't they?

Maybe this is a case of legal restrictions generating increased rates of kink.
If you can't reconcile this 37signals campaign against Office365 with their book on remote working, then maybe this explanation will help:

* 37signals believes that empowering employees to work remotely is a good thing (see Remote[1] and We Work Remotely[2]).

* 37signals also believes that a live/work balance is important and it's critically important to confine work to work hours whenever possible (see Rework[3] and various blog posts[4,5]).

* The problem with the Office365 campaign is that it sells remote access to managers with the promise that they can increase productivity by expecting their employees to work from dawn to dusk, and even while in the bathroom or eating meals.

Remote work and employee availability are orthogonal concepts. While remote work may enable more flexible work hours, granting remote access to employees should not come with the expectation that they are available 24/7.

I'm surprised that more people cannot grok this distinction, and if that's true here at HN then I really worry that Microsoft's Office365 campaign may turn out to be prescient.

[1] https://37signals.com/remote/

[2] https://weworkremotely.com

[3] http://37signals.com/rework/

[4] https://37signals.com/svn/posts/3180-a-good-days-work

[5] http://37signals.com/svn/posts/902-fire-the-workaholics

Edit: Fixed grammar issue. Added references.
On the development side: I'd go for firebase, frontender myself and the docs are pretty easy to follow. Since you know angular, you can use angularfire to easily get you started. If you have experience with yeoman you can try out this generator (https://github.com/dsimard/generator-angular-phonegap) which gives you an emulator to phonegap. Didn't try it myself, but seems interesting.

On the projectside: Cool that you would take your time and skills to work on a project like that. I had the sad experience of losing someone close through suicide, so... yeah. Thanks.
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the point is they don't need to most of the times, which is actually good thing.
Well I bit and sent a card to the current favour. I'm not normally such a softie, so that's gotta be a good sign. Way to go on the project!
Hard as it may be to believe, there's a difference between things that don't interest you personally and things that are junk. And the existence of things that don't interest you somewhere does not automatically mean that everything there is crap.

Don't see the sort of kits you like being made? Join us! Innovate, and design your own!
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Cringe, laugh or cry if you will, but LoB development has essentially moved to the web.

Overall I think Microsoft's metro/winrt/client focus really abandoned their position of strength in the enterprise. This essentially forces existing Microsoft-friendly enterprises to switch technology stacks (WinRT is a non-trivial migration target) and at the same time gives a significant boost to HTML- the long trail of abandoned platforms should give everyone pause when considering a new one.

I'll put much of the responsibility (blame?) of this on Sinofsky who essentially wanted a clean slate for WinRT to ensure apps were designed for Metro and not half-assed ports. This strategy was fairly cocky and I'll argue could have been done with more finesse to not destroy as much marketshare- right now Win8 needs every inch it can get.
A Theory of Agency
A little tangential, but listening to this might help out with perspective:

http://themoth.org/posts/stories/perfect-moments

And maybe reach out to other suicide prevention non profits?
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I don't know many people in the UK who likes these decisions, I actually wonder how they make it anywhere.

Especially the porn filter, I don't even know why that's still going ahead.
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One of the most important sections of any published research study to look at is the methods section. Here is the methods section from the linked paper:

"Methods Typical daily hours viewing television and
playing electronic games at age 5 years were reported by
mothers of 11 014 children from the UK Millennium
Cohort Study. Conduct problems, emotional symptoms,
peer relationship problems, hyperactivity/inattention and
prosocial behaviour were reported by mothers using the
Strengths and Difﬁculties Questionnaire. Change in
adjustment from age 5 years to 7 years was regressed
on screen exposures; adjusting for family characteristics
and functioning, and child characteristics."

So all the data here were gathered by self-reports from the children's mothers. One of the first things to do to see if these results replicate in another sample is to gather data the next time by third-party observers. How much does a mother's estimate of how much screen time a child has differ from an observation by an objective observer? How much does an objective observer's observation of a child's behavior differ from the mother's self-report? I'd want to know details like that before drawing any particular conclusion about the facts of the world from this interesting study kindly submitted here.
"At Atomic Object, we have a great laptop program. Every few years we’re given the opportunity to purchase a new laptop, 100% of which is paid for upfront by Atomic. Each individual pays the company back for 75% of that computer with deductions from their future profit shares. "

I really do not feel this is great, it even feel a bit sneaky

I would MUCH prefer they buy the laptop & keep it when I'm gone. A 2-3 years old laptop is no use to me when I leave the company.
S-expressions (or lack thereof) basically define a language as being a lisp or not.
reread article please. it doesn't say "increase hard drive size". it says "upgrade hd", to a SSD specifically. which has a huge performance gain on old macbooks without them.

also i guess the humor isn't for everyone but if you didn't take the quote out of context maybe you'd at least have realized it was a joke. "As the saying goes 'RAM is your first defense against a virus'. I’m actually not sure if anyone says that."
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> I am pretty sure I might put up something up there someday

This sounds like a nice way of saying you'll completely forget about this website in several hours and will never put anything on it ever.

Or at least I'm pretty sure that's what it might mean :)
I'd be also willing to help you with the backend pro bono if I think the app has an ability to make positive impact. Check out my profile for some past projects.
I would encourage you to write the entire thing, frontend, backend, content, PR releases, etc.

Two reasons:

1. You're young and still figuring out what you love doing; no better time to experiment and learn. I still have fond memories over the php site I wrote in high school. You could visible tell which functions were written at the beginning of the project versus the end because you'll improve drastically. [1]

2. The project will be more successful with someone who cares for it. Hiring a contractor will make it difficult for you to maintain and improve. Contractors will also expect a specification with penalties if you need to change it. My guess is that you're still experimenting with what can best serve the community so this probably isn't a good fit for contracting as well.

[1] Recommended tech stack (optimizing for documentation and availability of help). Ruby, MongoDB, Heroku (or if ambitious, Linux on Amazon EC2 + nginx). Everything else is pretty similar so once you learn these, the concepts apply reasonably well.

p.s. If money is a concern, you should look into contacting some companies PR/DevRel people and see if they are willing to donate some compute time or services to your cause. (It's probably doing this after launch and getting a better sense of usage and will be easier to convince them that you're legit).
Jekyll can handle either (and some other obscure ones): https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/blob/23ad7fa4bde350e24a5bd...
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I'm mainly a web developer, so I'm biased towards that stance, but I've had to work on LoB programs in web (mvc), winforms, and wpf. Winforms was the worse. I hope I never have to work with one again. WPF was a lot better than winforms.

But it still couldn't compare with the simplicity of the web. It could have been because I was trying to write a WPF app that acted like the web app. WPF can be nice, and it's definitely nicer than winforms, but web apps are so incredibly simple that I really don't see an advantage. Especially when you consider deployment issues (WPF you need to keep deployments synchronized etc. Web app => single deployment and done).
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Hey kayoone. Let's see:

1. The goal was set after carefully look other software project costs on Kickstarter. Also, 75k is the average income for a software engineer here in Silicon Valley (the living cost here is crazy);

2. The front-end of Frontend is built using AngularJS, our own JS Library, JQuery, JQuery-UI (just for the visual editor, not included on production projects), and QUnit/Jasmine.

3. It uses xtyle framework (also open-source) by default, but you can choose to use Bootstrap;

4. We will first open the Github repository for early backers. After the project is done the repository will be open for everybody else.

Integration with frameworks and CMS systems are on its way. We are planning to release a list of stretch goals for the project.
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> it's just some weird UK puritanism or something

It's politics. The Conservatives (David Cameron's party) are in coalition with the Liberal Democrats. We can debate the merits of the coalition (many do), but the upside is that some of the more extreme policies many Tories wanted to put through have been blocked.

This creates a dilemma for David Cameron, not too dissimilar from that of the US Republicans right now: on the one hand, there's an increasingly vocal wing of the party that favors extremely conservative policies (such as pulling out of the EU completely, replacing the EU Human Rights Act, small government, big cuts, etc). On the other, there's the harsh reality that these policies have no chance of getting through a parliament where they don't have an absolute majority.

So we are left in this situation where David Cameron announces, on a fairly regular basis, policies that are intended to appease his vocal right wing members (a "British Bill of Rights", a referendum to exit the EU, outlawing violent pornography, etc) that realistically have no chance of becoming legislation. In the unlikely event these policies actually do become legislation (such as forcing unemployed people claiming benefits to work for free) they normally end up being struck down by the courts.

I wouldn't disagree with your assessment that the UK is rather more puritan than many of its continental Europe peers - but these policies aren't coming out of that. They're coming out of the fact an election is not all that far away, and the Tories desperately don't want to end up in another coalition government.
No. A game itself predict nothing. But time wasted on them does or inability to cope with reality and escapism into imaginary worlds.

WoW is harmless, while the time wasted on it cannot be taken back or spent on acquiring valuable social experience or self-development.
I'd imagine you can find many of them on Brandsoftheworld
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I suggested Parse because I'm personally using it right now, so I know it well. That's obviously a bias, so take it as such. Firebase looks very similar. If you are going to lean on the greater community, Parse seems slightly better, because of the fact its a fork of Backbone-more people should understand pretty easily what's up with models.

Also, Parse is owned by Facebook and has pretty solid, simple login and integration with social sites.
Doesn't it take a while for a BTC transaction to get confirmation? If so, that doesn't seem very frictionless.

As well, since those transactions can be tracked, I don't think it will take very long for governments to start cracking down on them, and taxing them. They might force you to register your wallet, they will try to break up people who allow for anonymization/laundering of transactions, etc. It doesn't take a lot for real-life friction to make this pretty hard to use unless you just want to meet face-to-face and transfer BTC offline.
> In a further crackdown on what Mr Cameron referred to as ‘the darkest corners of the internet’, Downing Street will tomorrow announce that a national database will be created to give every illegal image a label.

Cameron is laying the foundation to implement his censorship system.
No, but Google has quite a few ex-Microsoft staff. I wonder if they are able to get away with things at Google that they couldn't at Microsoft? ;-)
Because 4chan is the worst place on the internet!!!!!!!!!
YC Interview Feedback - What Next?
After an engaging and dynamic meeting with Paul, Harj, Kirsty, Kevin, we were disappointed and confused by the feedback we received.

We are a strong MIT team passionate about our space (b2b marketplace for fashion and luxury - and our strategic partners are industry leaders).

The feedback suggested that we were not aggressive enough in our model (which we explained was totally adaptable) and this was not what we intended to communicate. We are operating in a large (600bnUSD) uncontested market space and disrupting the sector through our scalable model, designed for growth, but which came across in our interview as too "exclusive".

Any tips on how to assimilate the feedback or other advice post interview and disappointment?