skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you serious. It's a bot.
You should probably link to the source? http://press.weather.com/press-releases/wu-ios-app-crowd/
Judging from the culture of zappos, I think they were doing this just for the fun of it, not to actually stick it to him. It falls under: Zappos Family Core Value #3:
Create Fun And A Little Weirdness

I would absolutely agree it's not worth responding in order to stand up to some insult like this.
Let's just try some searches for some common names using github code search with a ".js" extension filter

hideImage vs hide_image: 424 vs 50

toggleItem vs toggle_item: 1022 vs 52

clickElement vs click_element: 3469 vs 368

Coding conventions by statistics :)

https://github.com/search?q=searchPage+extension%3Ajs&type=C...
Many countries have rules against publicly recommending a stock without a proper certification
> However I really wish artists actually earnt money from it.

How so? Why do you get to decide how much the distribution model gets for delivering a good service to you? Without them, the product/service never arrives. I'm not saying I disagree with you, but I think just because the assumption that "mp3 reproduction is cheap" doesn't mean there are other forces (marketing for example) at work here. Lest we forget these services cannot be cheaply made in a factory overseas.
Finding the story in 150 million rows of data
Also, the technically incorrect piece of this article seems pretty minor. I don't understand why some people are getting so worked up about it.

Because the effort it would have taken to not make the mistake is so minimal (Google: BGP, first result is wikipedia, read for a few minutes), that it carries rather unfortunate implications for the author and their attention to detail, and by extension their qualifications as a journalist.

Journalists have an obligation to report factually and correctly to the best of their ability, but they are not infallible.

With the above in mind, I'll bet you $large_amount_of_cash this is never corrected.
What We Know and Don’t Know So Far
Yay, nice subtle way to make people hate spending time in their private offices: Make it feel like a punishment, akin to solitairy confinement.

No, a good private office should have natural light coming in through windows!
Just for fair argument sake, Apple copies too.
These Anti-Google T-Shirts Just Make Microsoft Look Pathetic
First, tell us where you're getting "deeply offended" from any of this. Is it that it became a subject of criticism at all?
Doctor Who Doodle
It will be interesting to see how this rolls around. I have listened to people complain about the insecurity of BGP for years. Got to experience a bit of it when a bad router update our ASIN in it and sent our traffic out and about briefly (fortunately just pushing up latency not killing the web site.)

It is currently the most effective and useless DDOS strategy to push a black hole route out for the 'target.' Effective since all their packets will stop getting to them, useless because it points exactly at the point where it is coming from, and NOCs have gotten reasonably good at working around bogus advertisements. So it is short lived.
That might be the best pro Scala (your "Why Scala?" blurb) statement I've heard yet. :)
I find logging/tracing (that can be enabled/disabled at run time) to be very valuable for debugging, both during development and in production. I blogged about it here: http://henrikwarne.com/2013/05/05/great-programmers-write-de...
How to triumphed over useless meetings
Yes; with request / responses reanimating a continuation, and with a copy-on-write tree of activation records instead of a stack.

But the usability probably wouldn't be fantastic.
I agree that I should have written it past-tense... But, until recently, it was clear that Twitter's name was attached to the project. A Google search for "Twitter Bootstrap" pulls up all the relevant docs, and the first line of the 2.3.2 docs is "Built at Twitter by @mdo and @fat"
You have to be careful when evaluating your product vs a competitor, when you're talking about HCI - especially when you know that your competitor (Apple) has sued over look and feel before.

I'd bet that had Samsung done an analysis of the iPhone that was evaluating the first-principles and then had a separate team work from those first-principles to design a clean UI they would have been much better off. Really though, having emails and presentations that say "we need to make our phone more like the iPhone" is pretty damning. It seems like they've done a better job recently when they just go and do their own thing.
While I can see cases where a sharp divide mightn't make sense (token feature or token product) this is prominent look & feel in a flagship product. Which is to say "I agree" - I have mostly negative sentiments about patents in general and this one in particular, it's not really fair to call this "trolling".
They are just apps that use the ChromeOS development library (JS, HTML, CSS and some custom APIs). Think of it like Cocoa on OS X. Except they can also run in the Chrome browser on other OSes. I don't understand why people get so riled up about this.
I wonder if they're going to get the rights to Gnutella and W.A.S.T.E. in the deal too.
Remember all that fun we were having yesterday?
I recently made the same decision.
The JPEG artifacts here really hurt. A png would also have been smaller probably.
SnapBack in Safari used to be really handy for these sorts of pages, however I think that feature is gone now. From what I recall it would take you back to either the last typed URL, bookmarked URL or search results page.
App.net still don't get me. Or anyone else.
Why not let them? Most people don't care much about music and don't get much from it either. That's the point of freemium/cheapium/dontcarium.
TypeScript uses npm as a package manager yes, but there is unfortunately no support for using Node within TypeScript yet on Visual Studio. There are definitions for node/express/etc, just cannot compile them directly in Visual Studio and also have debugging (unless the linked package in the OP has changed that).
Your point is a little vague. I'm not suggesting at all that I should decide the distribution model. I'm just suggesting that its a shame that support for the people who make the content has to come from outside such a useful service
Sure we go! At least 3 people on our dev team are remote, myself included.
Apple Is Trying To Block This Weird Warning Video by CEO Tim Cook
You feel "sorry" for a multi-billion dollar family owned conglomerate that's existed since 1938?

Though I don't believe anything "intellectual" should be property, I buy products because they are good, period. As long as Apple continues to make better products, I'll continue to buy them without any sense of shame whatsoever.
@dba7dba You are hellbanned. This means that most users cannot read your comments.
I am very much in favor of a low time commitment project interview, something that takes maybe 3-4 hours to complete.

I've written a ton of code in my career, and 99% of it is wholly owned by the companies who I wrote it in the employ of, and I don't have the legal right to show it to anyone much less put it on public display. Some people would say the answer to that is doing OSS/other projects in my spare time... but I have hobbies, and other interests, and don't want to spend my whole life writing code.

Give me an opportunity at no cost to you and low (time) cost to me to show what I can do, and we will both be in a better position to evaluate each other.
> Have you ever worn over-the-ear headphones for 10 hours? It's uncomfortable.

I can barely wear 'phones for 10 minutes. Because it physically hurts.

I have worn 'phones for hours on end a decade or so ago (my weapons of choice were K271s before my ear issues flared up and made that a non-option). They could get pretty hot around the ears, but they were very comfortable.

> Drowning out coworker nonsense with loud music is permanently damaging to your hearing.

There are cans and buds with good isolation (or noise-cancelling).
To be fair, some people also punctuate their anecdotes with irrelevant experimental data from people working alone on well-defined toy projects.
It's unbelievable how much money Apple is extorting from other companies for a simple UI technique. Disgusting.
Maybe they could offer a tiered subscription model wherein heavy users pay more?
No. Feynman never took issue with integration notation or how integration is defined or taught. The story you're referring to is how he learned of a technique for computing integrals that was not covered in schools. The technique is called "differentiation under the integral", and is arguably even more involved.
> By the way, I’m looking for a summer internship! So contact me!

In case someone didn't get to the end but is looking for an intern, FYI!
Swagger: a complete framework implementation to work with RESTful web services
This is the kind of thing that makes me want to switch back to Windows.

I like VS since I've been using it to develop a C# app these last two months. I miss a lot of things because I'm too deep in CLI usage (like git...help me...), but had I had it when I tried to play with Ruby on Windows 7 three years ago and discovered the pain of the windows CLI, maybe I would've stayed there.

These Node.js tools are especially great. I spend a lot of time on CLI running my app, installing a module, watching my dev logs,... I couldn't ever imagine anyone using node.js on windows. Now I can and it looks great.
How to be a strong cyclist, fast runner & super toned athlete
My thought is trainerroad.com helps with cycling, but for running and building core strength, having the right form is really crucial. If I can't afford to hire a personal coach to correct me every time, how about a device that tracks my form and tells me when I'm doing it wrong? Like running - you need to lean slightly forward so gravitational pull naturally pushes your body forward, so you become a more efficient runner. And weight lifting - I need to build my core strength, but don't know if my workouts in the gym are correct. Be good to have a device to watch me like a coach would and tell me when I'm doing it right or wrong. Thoughts, anyone?
Define "installation"? My definition of installation is whether or not I can install it on a PC that is locked down by a system's administrator. While it may (or may not) be possible to lock down Chrome from being able to install apps, I've never been anywhere that did, despite those machines being otherwise locked down.

Otherwise, the benefits are

- being able to develop in just HTML/CSS/JS

- being able to deploy to Windows, Linux, OSX, anywhere Chrome runs

- No infrastructure costs to host / distribute (unless your app has server-side functionality)

etc., etc.
the intensity of the project should ramp with the seriousness of both sides; we start with a 30 minute phone screen then a very simple 30 minute "make these tests pass" and then bring people in for a day of coding/chatting. requiring a project as a first-pass filter is a bit much to ask of candidates and interviewers.
Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. My issue is that in order to listen to Spotify songs offline users still needs a Spotify client. Whenever they advertise iPod/mp3 player sync one obviously thinks that one can transfer the music to a regular iPod. For me this is misleading. (1) But yes, I should have read https://support.spotify.com/us/learn-more/guides/#!/article/... first. They do warn about it.

Yes, iOS supports also iPod sync for local mp3 files in addition to Spotify client but it's a rather useless feature for most. There is no clear reason why iPod sync in Spotify is necessary at all, it is confusing the offering as it has no relevance to the music that Spotify as a service offers.

(1) https://www.spotify.com/us/#premium
Listen on all your devices
Download music & listen offline
Although its not available in India yet, it was trivial to figure out how to use it in countries where its unavailable. One of the best UIs you will ever see in a music app. My movement from one place to other is seamless. Their algorithm which recommends new songs based on my listening history has worked out brilliantly for me and I am consistently discovering new good artists.
The Woman Who Single-Handedly Taped 35 Years Of TV News
Wow, what a misinformed article.

- the author doesn't realize irreversible transactions is actually a benefit for merchants

- the author incorrectly uses the term "ponzi scheme" (he applies it to gold as well)

- the author is unaware of rapid adoption of Bitcoin by merchants (BitPay's 10,000 merchants...)

- the author is unaware of many practical benefits of bitcoin (people escaping their country's inflationary currencies, sending money abroad with lower fees, etc)
Game of chess
Chess is an old and very difficult game. At least if you want to play it professionally. Casual player also can find great joy in playing chess. So if you want to know more about chess or get a nice set of chess figures come and check our website.
I think they have plans for that after they have fully pledged their KickStarter.
If you're thinking of tournament poker, than I can see what you're saying. Try watching some deep-stacked cash games sometime though; this is the most high-level and interesting poker to watch (and also the most instructive).
I should've said "EVERYTHING.... that I like to listen to". There are definitely gaps.
This is pretty cool stuff imho. I'm wondering how they believe they can transfer a micron scale surface patterning to a fabric though and keep it flexible and durable. That seems unlikely to succeed.
I thought working in WordPerfect's text mode was an extremely easy and productive way to do document formatting. Then again, I still remember the little keyboard shortcut cheat sheet [1] at the top of our PC at home.

[1] http://www.retrothing.com/2006/06/wordperfect_51_.html
Completely off topic, but it's days like these that I truly miss Groklaw...
ah yes, the ol' condescending "you'll find someone someday" line.

did you ever consider that some (many, actually) people are not optimizing for long term mating strategy, and are rather playing the game to maximize short-term sexual rewards?

or does that simply not exist as a valid goal in your worldview, because you refuse to acknowledge its legitimacy?
There's a fair bit of data (opening books) and configuration that can differ between two otherwise equivalent engines.
Not sure if serious

But if you are, they did try to join the social-war: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So.cl

And failed.. The site actually seems to be down right now, I don't think they announced it being killed off though.
BART rejects contract provision on family leave
Well I thought the chance was none zero when WinAmp was going to expire directly. I upgraded it to 'slim' in the event Microsoft actually buys it from AOL.
It does sound worse, but I want some numbers to back it up.
How We Bootstrapped AirPair to Ramen Profitability (and YC W14)
The exceedingly rare Unicorn VC
I miss having an office.

I also miss having 2 30" monitors in my office.

Who would have ever thought that working conditions for engineers would be more comfortable in florida than the bay area? Not me, and boy was I wrong.
Spotify premium lets you do this, including sync to mobile.
The Perfect Brew
Just for emphasis :) Some chat clients convert _x_ to x. I feel it does a better job than a pair of em tags.
I read this post as being the same project for everyone, that was extracted from real work, not 'we're going to put this in production once you're done with it.'
Running Netflix OSS on Docker with Nirmata
Is Gmail down
in Turkey
502. That’s an error.
I don't think Foundation 4 supported IE8.

It's not a huge deal except for the navbar, which is horribly broken in IE8. There are workarounds though.
It's not protectionism, but rather an attempt to enforce particular rules of the game in the face of changing economic profiles.

In a nutshell, American IP policy is predicated on the understanding that the production of IP is America's competitive advantage. The U.S. can't compete with asian countries for low-cost manufacturing, but still dominates when it comes to software, design, etc. There is a reason phones designed and built in China run software written in California.

Thus, the U.S. wants to enforce rules that treat design as a protectable asset. The reasoning is this: if Apple spends a bunch of money coming up with a really effective design, Samsung shouldn't just be able to get the benefit of that work for free. It's the mirror of the physical property rules which ensure that if Samsung invests a bunch of money in some new manufacturing facility, Apple can't just get the benefit of that work for free.

I think such suits will become more common as developed economies keep transitioning away from manufacturing. The law quite easily protects the output of China's industrial production (physical things). It's not as effective in protecting the output of America's industries (content, designs).
My boss didn't knew this trick on Windows 
For resizing windows, use the Windows button + arrow keys to maximize, right center, left center or minimize the current window.

Neat & productive, if you didn't knew that
Experimenting with Biochip Implants (Robotics & Engineering)
Seems kind of obvious yes? I mean if you're building an OS (ChromeOS) and you want to do native development, you build your tools to work in the OS right? Or am I missing something here? One of the coolest things about early databases was the 'web based' development environment, except for the sql injection attacks of course :-)
In sort of the way chemical weapons are different from nuclear weapons?

Indeed, they're quite different, yet the world would still be a better place without them.
Also works with .Net and is totally awesome! (already used it for my Web Api).

I don't know about the alternative implementations of Swagger though.
Why that probably doesn't mean what you think it means: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/07/android-ma...
Magnetic switches could use 10,000 times less power than silicon transistors
Releasing your first Android app
Part 1 certainly is very strawperson in not addressing the real issue, cost.

Everyone knows open offices are worse but they are also far cheaper, if productivity is down 15% but TCO of the office space saves more then that's ok.

Labour is a commodity, it has value but so do many other factors.

Part 2 perhaps will talk on this issue.
Hacker News: News for nerds, stuff that matters
I hate LinkedIn, but I've always found that to be a feature, not a bug.

I very seldom bother with LinkedIn, but on the rare occasions that I do, it's always because of a connection I don't want to miss out on. My boss from 10 years ago, for example, found me on LinkedIn and connected, and I accepted that connection with zero hesitation. He was a great manager, and literally made everybody around him better, and I'm more than happy to have my name alongside his.

That said, there have been people with whom I've worked alongside for years whose requests I let languish. Good friends, in many cases, and often competent workers, but, at the same time, not necessarily those I'd be willing to speak effusively on for a job recommendation.

In short, my criteria for a LinkedIn connection is whether or not I can answer the phone unprepared and sing to a potential employer about how amazing they are. For anybody I can do that with, accepting the connection is a no-brainer... for everyone else, it's basically a non-starter.

That LinkedIn makes it hard to remove contacts only solidifies that decision for me all the more.
How important is form in weight lifting?
How do we ensure we maintain the right form at all times? Is that possible?
Feeling Festive - Spinningfields Christmas Market
feeling festive? you will ....
It's just that I'm the guy that liked dojo when the world liked jquery.
Should I just go with the majority and choose bootstrap?
As with prior versions of Foundation, Yeoman will get plenty of generators for it. At least ZURB's CLI guarantees an easy way to get the canonical version, which is not always apparent among the various Yeoman generators. Also ZURB seems more Ruby-oriented than JS-oriented, as most of their installation methods are based on the Ruby ecosystem.

Docs are here: http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/.
i'm not talking about commentary, but specifically about "this article's title sucks, but if i try to fix it in the submission it'll get reverted"
It's an everlasting controversial subject. Perfect material for page views and ad revenue.
> A good Broadcast Channel will send at most 1-2 Broadcasts per day

What about the bad channels. I'd love it if that 1-2 broadcasts was a hard limitation. I would be more inclined to subscribe to something I know was forced to pick the most interesting thing they had to say or at least to summarise.
How do I get people to stop bikeshedding?
Please don't insult the monkeys.
Hyundai will sell a hydrogen fuel cell SUV in 2014, 300-mile range expected
But let's be honest, the value of bouncy scroll - as in the cost for an independent invention to come up with something equally good would have been hundreds of millions, so at least it's reasonable, even if it's unethical.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6762890
Think of it as validation of your own idea, competition is always good.
The OP was being shoddy by starting off with the one thing in the article wasn't inaccurate - the attack really involved a man-the-middle strategy, just one that also involved BGP hijacking. If the OP hadn't started that way, it would have easier to "hear" the point about the next few rather egregious lines:

"And for years it[either man-in-the-middle or BGP attacks] has been understood to be possible in theory, but never seen in practice[!?!]. That changed earlier this year when someone — it’s unclear who — diverted Internet traffic from some 150 cities around the world through networks in Belarus and Iceland."

It is worth noting how wrong that is but being accurate when you point to someone else's wrong stuff is one of the first principles.
The author seems to think "governments can't tax" gold and that Bitcoin users aim to avoid taxes as well, which couldn't be farther from the truth.
One element that this misses is the fact that it isn't always clear what size business (or something even what business) you have at the beginning. Meaning, you might take $5m thinking you've got a high growth business only to discover, a long way in, that you've really got a slower growth business. I've seen this happen multiple times where the founders say things like "I love this business - if I was just running it myself, I'd really love it, but the funding makes it a constant fight." Truth is, high growth, highly scalable businesses are probably a bit rarer than we'd all like to admit.
I'm saving this to repost in 5 years. Ha.

There is a lot of uncertainty in establishing a value relative to the dollar because the positive Senate hearings on Monday injected ebullient chaos into the market. Wherever the value temporarily settles it will definitely be "more than last Friday."

Not to mention that most price stability mechanisms for other currencies and commodities don't yet exist for Bitcoin. There are arbitrage opportunities galore but few ways to technically implement them due to the nascent and fragmented market. That will change.
In some states there is a mandate by the bar that you must charge hourly. In California, for instance, you cannot do a flat rate for a pre-nup agreement. I believe the logic is that if it becomes more complicated, the incentive to do a good job disappears. With an hourly rate, an hour on a complicated prenup == an hour in court, with the same expectation of quality and effort.