skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your startup is more likely dead because you're comparing yourself to Facebook, not because it's not enchanting. There are a gazillion and a half CMS operations out there, and they all seem to make enough money to keep going. CMS is not enchanting. Not even Medium. If you want to be successful, look to be sustainable, not play the business lottery like Twitter and SnapChat.

And the rest of the advise in here is just pat. People will be more likely to buy from you if they like you? You don't say! You should anticipate problems ahead of time? Well I'll be!

Why is your business failing? It's probably because you don't understand your customers. It's probably because you never talked to them in the first place. Here is an exercise that actually works: go outside. Go to the nearest local business you can find. Talk to a person who works there, bonus if it's the owner. Browse the store. Introduce yourself. Make up a story about being new to the neighborhood and needing a shower head or something if you have to. Get them talking about themselves. Ask them how long they have been there. Establish a repoir. Pay attention. People will tell you the problems they have. They are always looking for a solution. Just listen, and you will discover it. No, you can't do it from your desk. Get on your feet and go outside. In half an hour of talking to a real, potential customer, you'll have more good business ideas than from 6 months of sitting around with your partners brainstorming ideas.

Then do it again. Make this your Saturday morning habit. Go to every coffee shop or dog grooming business or what have you in your area and talk to anyone you can. Be "that" guy who talks to strangers in public places. It works.

I'll even save you a little time and tell you what people don't want: They don't want computers. Whatever they like doing, it's most likely not anything called "computing" and they just want more time to do that thing but find themselves too often distracted by "computing" to do it.
Kanjoya  Experience Project is hiring iOS Engineers 
Kanjoya, Inc. is a tech start-up in downtown San Francisco, backed by Floodgate, Baseline, SV Angel and Mark Cuban.

We're a team of passionate, driven, creative, and fun-loving people building an exciting emotional analytics platform where we map language to emotions. We are the first of its kind to use this sentiment analysis solution.

If this sounds like an opportunity that you would like to learn more about Please let me know, I'd be happy to chat at your convenience.
tom@kanjoya.com
For me Charlie Parker sums up the necessity of a formal education even if it is not explicitly used in practice:
"Master your instrument, master the music & then forget all that & just play."

How very true across so many aspects of life!

Science doesn't happen through formalism. People learn the body of material that's been proven, then they get new intuitions, then afterwards they try to formally prove their insight. This isn't entirely inconsistent with EDW either. A lot of his point is that programmers need to know how to think symbolically, and if you truly prove the correctness of things, you can build the base of knowledge on top of it. If not, you're frequently wondering why things don't work.
> Of course it's hard to tell if allowing arbitrary exceptions also allows the same kind of problem.

As illustrated above, there are always arbitrary exceptions, because the people can informally let kids off the hook. The problem is that the punishments are so high. Why can't zero tolerance use less drastic punishments?
Another great example of how to hone your app's strategy by adapting to the cultural expectation (even when the obstacles are illegal and unfortunate). Thanks for sharing!
To be fair, Notch did just spend a few years of his life thinking entirely in terms of axis-aligned boxes. ;-)
He is actually exploring the development of a new language; see the DOT (Dependent Object Types) paper: http://www.cs.uwm.edu/~boyland/fool2012/papers/fool2012_subm...

It will be based on Scala, and similar enough that, if things work out, we could have Scala.next without a Python 2 to 3 glacial transition.

Of course, Scala 2.1.x branch is making great strides as is, and AFAIK, the DOT language is still a research project, so not likely that we'll be seeing Scala.next anytime soon.
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> Public schools needed a blunt instrument to simply beat the notion of blind obedience to authority into thick adolescent skulls, and they got it through zero tolerance policies.

Punishing teenagers for violating drug laws or damaging property is "beating the notion of blind obedience to authority into thick adolescent skulls"??? What do you think is going to happen to them when they turn 18?
I had a student of EDW as my Programming Languages instructor. Someone asked my prof, "How do you debug?" His response, "I don't. I prove that the code is correct before I type anything."
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Intro to Developing Bluetooth Smart Applications for Android
Kanjoya is seeking a Director of Engineering 
Kanjoya, Inc. is a tech start-up in downtown San Francisco, backed by Floodgate, Baseline, SV Angel and Mark Cuban.<p>We're a team of passionate, driven, creative, and fun-loving people building an exciting emotional analytics platform where we map language to emotions. We are the first of its kind to use this sentiment analysis solution.<p>If this sounds like an opportunity that you would like to learn more about Please let me know, I'd be happy to chat at your convenience.
Tom@Kanjoya.com
I guess maybe by mixing different medications that each individually contain high levels of paracetamol? A lot of different over-the-counter medications contain it and if you took 3 separate meds you could quickly end up in that situation.
What’s it like to go on a daytime TV show?
ADTs are algebraic data types. They are quite simple, and have nothing to do with the IO type which haskell uses to constrain side effects. An ADT is just a type made up of ORs and ANDs:

data Bool = False | True
data Tree a = Leaf a | Branch (Tree a) (Tree a)
My understanding is that usually you want both because AABB is good for broad-phase because it's so quick then true polygon collision can be done in a narrow phase.
Silicon Valley 40 under 40
a.k.a. "Muphry's Law".
Studio Pirates Its Own Game, Because Why The Hell Not
There are a variety of levels of power.
What 5-sigma means in that context is it would take a 5-sigma outlier to explain the observations by chance alone.
Yea, more-or-less.

Here is a short summary of some of the major changes:

– Tables with `data-sortable` attribute are automatically initialized.

– The sort arrows are made with CSS-border triangles instead of special characters.

– The sort arrows are always present but hidden for non-sorted columns so that columns don't resize when sorting.

– `sorttable_`-prefixed class names are now `data-` attributes, so they are valid HTML5.

– The library doesn't attempt to recognize date formats. Instead, it recommends you add `data-value="#{ timeInMillis }"` to your <td> containing a human-readable date string.

I'm sure there are more that I can't think of at the moment, but that's a decent list.
25 days of Angular - Day 3: Preventing flickering on Angular
My tests so far are encouraging. I'd like to know their intent with Scala. That plugin seemed to go nowhere for years, and ScalaIDE/Eclipse looked like it would be the only option. But ScalaIDE is still pretty buggy. If they are committed to making Scala support as good as their Java stuff, that would be awesome.
Email is unsecurable
If I was happy using my Google account everywhere, I would probably also be happy with Google Groups.

Why not use something like Mozilla Persona for authentication instead? That way, you're not automatically excluding people who don't have Google, as well all the benefits concerning privacy and vendor lock-in.
I liked his practical comments on how to manage upwards. Execute for your boss, do quicker prototypes, and give bad news fast.
From the bottle of acetaminophen on my desk:

Take 1 or 2 tablets with water, every 4 to 6 hours. If pain or fever does not respond to 1 tablet, take 2 tablets at the next dose."

Now, why wait to take 2 tablets? And maybe your headache is really bad. If 2 are stronger, 4 must be better.... 4 pills every four hours means that in a day you can get 8 grams dosage. Sure, it says "No more than 8", but it's in tiny letters, and most people don't actually realise just how serious the danger is.

16 tablets over the course of the day isn't really what most people think of as a drug overdose for something as "innocent" as tylenol. In addition, some cold medicine has acetaminophen in it, and you might not realize that your cough syrup was contributing to your dosage. Then bam, liver failure.

If you're genuinely curious, there's a really good episode of This American Life on acetaminophen poisoning and the labeling standards set by the FDA.

Link: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/505/u...
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>> You have a strong and broad technical background ...
Hey all, Ian Jennings from Hacker League here. Today is a very exciting day for my co-founders Mike Swift and Abe Stanway and I. We don't think Hacker League could have gone to a better company.

Some people were questioning if these emails were real ("who tells their professor they're slacking?"). I have always chosen to communicate in an open and honest way.

I'm particularly happy that I was able to dig up this email because it paints a great picture of our early hustle. We would find hackathon events any way we could and RSVP right away. Much to our surprise, not every hackathon has a place to stay overnight, so we often ended up crashing on our friend's couches. In one specific case I remember pushing 8 chairs together to form a bed.

At the first hackathon we released Hacker League at, our friend challenged us to sign up 10 events.

When I presented the company to this class I remember ending the presentation with "This is a real company, and we've run 13 events to date." The professor shouted that that was "a success" and that I should be very proud. Since then we've powered hundreds of events.

At the time it wasn't clear if we were developing an app for hackers, people who were interested in hackathons, organizers, or just anybody in tech. We weren't really sure what we were building, just that we wanted it for ourselves.

I think a key part of our success was determining a market and sticking with it (thanks professor). At some point we declared Hacker League as "a platform for hackathons" and although the site was used by everybody in attendance, the focus was on organizers. If the organizers used it, so would the attendees.

A huge benefit of the hackathon format that for every hackathon we attended, there were a few people in the audience who were either organizers or thinking about organizing an event. This helped the site go viral within the hackathon community.

You also might remember me from Mote.io, an app I launched a few months ago on HN.
http://mote.io
"All the power in the world" is overstating the case a bit.

> because it's what allows you to sell something not as good for more money instead of selling something better at razor-thin margins

Competition isn't turned off because of marketing. Any company that has a poor product with a large margin is subject to a competitor selling a better product at the same price or a similar quality product at a lower price. McDonald's and Burger King sell competitive (to each other) products at razor thin margins for this reason, and, by the way, not generally at higher prices than smaller competitor with much smaller marketing budgets.

The diamond case is tricky because it has to convey solid honesty on the top of a many-layered set of explicitly un-stated expectations - so any attempt to "get out of it" would be viewed with suspicion, voiding the entire purpose. De Beers definitely and cleverly cornered that market and yes, that gave them some power. That said, it would be silly to expect that there did not exist substitutes in the market. Emerald jewelry goes way back.
This American Life recently did an episode on how even a few tablets over the recommended dose can cause serious harm in some people: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/505/u...
Plantronics' wearable head-tracking device concept
I don't know of enough places that use Nexus to say whether it is common practice or not, however we do not bundle jar files with sources at my place of employment where we do use Nexus. If we wanted to bundle sources into jar that would have to be done so explicitly, as it would require something like mavens source plugin. In fact in maven the standard seems to be to include sources in a separate jar, if one wants to publish the sources i.e. again requiring explicit choice and configuration.
What makes the recommended approach in the workspace documentation "global"?
Maybe add the ability to expand and minimize explanations like the ones used in code editors to minimize blocks of code. Love the tool
One can be both upset with an accusation and glad that the accusation was dismissed.
"and browsed around"

This seems to be key. Did he just verify the credentials, or did he poke around thereafter? If the latter, Prezi has a better case but they should have stated it more clearly.
RECAP 2: Record iPhone calls in iPad and Android mobile/tablet
I don't understand the relevance of the title to the service, but it seems like an interesting way of using the bitcoin blockchain to strongly time-stamp messages.

Also the fact that it costs you money to send a message and the more you spend the more "important" the message is happens to be interesting.
This is a no-brainer. Surely the risk of putting off skilled people from your bug bounty program due to the press from this could cost you a lot more than $500.
I'm a little biased, but just from reading through, it looks like the original does some pretty out-of-date things. I'm annotating the copy in the new project's repo, just to allow me to link to line numbers, but this IS THE LEGACY PROJECT'S CODE:

- Webdings: https://github.com/HubSpot/sortable/blob/37894eb51bda9f0e438...

- Using class names, rather than data attributes, for everything: https://github.com/HubSpot/sortable/blob/37894eb51bda9f0e438...

- Hardcoded date formats which would make localization tough: https://github.com/HubSpot/sortable/blob/37894eb51bda9f0e438...

- Sorting in JavaScript (not using Array.prototype.sort): https://github.com/HubSpot/sortable/blob/37894eb51bda9f0e438...

- Overriding event bindings in a destructive manner: https://github.com/HubSpot/sortable/blob/37894eb51bda9f0e438...

Not to mention stuff I just find objectionable:

- Useless comments: https://github.com/HubSpot/sortable/blob/37894eb51bda9f0e438...

- Mistabbing: https://github.com/HubSpot/sortable/blob/37894eb51bda9f0e438...

It also looks like this one is 1/3 the length.

To be fair though, the original was written seven years ago, and still works, so it's not really fair to criticize it by modern standards. Suffice it to say that it was time for something new.
Thanks for all the condescension. That a gender stereotype exists in gaming is hardly new information. I would've liked something like "Shaky marketing in the 80's helped establish the current stereotype" and then I would've known that the article presents arguments to support this.
He is 79 years old, retired, and he is still delivering. The ultimate computer scientist?
I think he meant scan the source code for security issues and then report those bugs one by one ...
Thank you for the link. When I read the original article about them making new laws, the libertarian in me twitches. Even moreso when I think about unintended consequences:

As an example: what happens when someone is accused of revenge porn, yet is innocent? Similar to the original victim, the accused is also subjected to mob justice, and the court of public opinion makes up its mind based on whose story gets to the news wires first, fastest, and farthest.

Consider, hypothetically: a woman uploads the pictures & videos herself, and then accuses her former lover, so that she can make his live hell for it. It could happen.

That's where I get nervous about the idea being bandied about that making some new law to handle some specific thing will necessarily be effective ... it may, it may not, but the details and specific execution matter greatly.
You can liquidate bitcoin in about 5 minutes using Coinbase.
Apologies made, I have not intended to mean that having to be pretty is women's destiny.

My comment was controversial opinion, to the "girls shall not be encouraged to look pretty".
I had unrealistic expectations of this IDE... Some of the current enhancements are nice (Search anywhere, for example).. The favorite theme they tout (Darcula) is not yet upto Sublime's theme, IMO. Somehow it feels gratuitously helpful-- and I can't accuse it of getting in the way (an easy trap to fall into). When it came to Python, I could not stand Pycharm - which uses the kernel from the java Idea-IDE. (disclosure: when i code Python I use emacs, idle, or Wing Ide). So there is something in its DNA that I end up tolerating - but am not crazy about. edit: I ran away from eclipse - that atrocity, so Idea was a refugee camp.
So you claim he learnt a language and a new technology quickly, solely because he uses an IDE? I doubt so...

The Norvig quote sounds more reasonable.
> And you think the worker would be better off if you didn't buy it? No they'd just be unemployed or employed at a worse job.

As a matter of fact, I do. The world is littered with suffering due to Western economic expansion (exploitation). For evidence, see the Banana Republics [0] generated in Latin America due to large fruit producers invading under the banner of "this is better for you." Globalization has an extraordinary human cost.

> The money you lose by buying more expensive local products, plus the the probability that the small amount of your money that actually goes to a local worker will make him less likely to rob, times the probability that he would rob your house specifically...

> Even with absurd estimates of how likely that is, it's still cheaper just to spend the money you save on insurance than what you would gain from slightly reducing the risk of robbery.

Did you even look at the artifact that I submitted? 73% of the money you spend locally stays in the community, whereas 43% stays in the community if you shop big-box. Furthermore, there is more than one "guy down the street." If everyone in your neighborhood is now suddenly suffering due to money leaving the community, what does that do to your probability model?

> What are you referring to that has been reduced in quality so much it actually costs more in the long run (especially things where this is done without the consumer's knowledge or choice to buy higher quality elsewhere.)? And can you actually attribute that to Walmart specifically, and it wouldn't have happened anyways? Or even just people making irrational purchasing decisions or just having a high time preference?

Have you been to a Walmart/Kmart/Target lately? What product have you picked up there recently and thought, "Yeah, this should hold up for a while, thank goodness I saved $2.18 on it!"

Additionally, if you have a high time preference, you should definitely not shop at Walmart. Walmart is responding to competitive pressure by "implementing deep cuts in labor hours at the company’s US stores, setting in motion a "vicious circle" of understaffing, operational miscues, and lost sales that is diminishing the company’s long-term value." [1]

I don't know about you, but wandering around a 100k square foot building with nobody to help in sight sounds like a serious waste of time to me.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic
[1] http://makingchangeatwalmart.org/files/2011/10/The-High-Pric...
Dear everyone who likes to post sensationalist posts that rehash the same "sexist" whining.

This is not news, this is just jumping on the "male-dominated industry" bandwagon.

I get it: tech is mostly composed of white males.
I don't have to be reminded of this every day. I, like many others wish this wouldn't be the case, but posting bitchy articles every day won't solve it.

One commit rejection does not represent the whole "Node community", stop labelling a large group of people based on actions of single individuals.

Instead of wasting time writing posts like this, go and tell women how awesome the tech industry is and get them to be excited about it and help them.

And if by chance you do happen to spot sexist individuals, call them out individually and don't label everyone in the community sexist.
But.. that can be said about any java (jar) programs class files. It is also not difficult to decipher the asm of a disassembled exe file, but to equate that with finding the source code of the program would be disingenuous.
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I'm really in need of accurate iOS Safari emulation in the browser so I hope this brings it. I have a javascript "push-menu" effect that works properly on every device except the iPhone's Safari and debugging it is proving tedious because the effect works in the current dev tols "simulation" of the iPhone as well. On every device the push-menu pushes the other content aside, leaving the button that activated the originally hidden menu still visible. On mobile Safari, the menu covers up the existing content, including the button I would use the close the menu.
Flooding communications channels (in particular, mental bandwidth of front-line employees) with attempts to spearfish is an attack that interferes with operations even when unsuccessful. It does not make sense to ask the world at large to persistently try such attacks.

This case is not like that, though.
I needed something that provided sorting, filtering capability for a recent project. After searching high and low and trying a few options, I finally settled on datatables (http://datatables.net/). It is incredibly feature rich and works very well for my use case.

Sorting is great functionality but if you really want adoption, I suggest you add the richness required by a variety of use cases.
. Sorting
. Filtering (regex, case etc)
. Searching (column or full table)
. Show/Hide columns

I don't mean to undermine to work put in here. It looks great and good luck.
Here's the cached version of the commit: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...

The Nexus Repositories URL (http://intra.prezi.com:8081/nexus/content/repositories) is still not restricted
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We're definitely working on adding additional ways to authenticate. Right now, we're using Google because that's something most people have. We're trying to make a much easier user experience than Google Groups, so that's why you'd want to use ZeroMailer.
What a great interactive post. I never knew canvas was so flexible.
"Firefox OS is a brand currently not available for independent manufacturers not associated with carriers. Geeksphone will work with Mozilla once this option is made available," the company said. "

This seems wrong. The ZTE Open that can be purchased without any carrier contract through Ebay? I personally bought it. So I really do not understand why they are saying that FireFox OS is reserved to carriers. Does somebody know more?
This is a major reason I still do my editing in XEmacs even though I use IntelliJ for debugging.

On a 1920-wide screen, using the standard X11 "6x10" font, I can split an XEmacs frame into three 100-column windows horizontally. I also split vertically, for a total of six. Add a second monitor, and I can see a lot of code! For complex tasks involving changes across multiple files, it's a big help.
Detroit Is Ruled Eligible For Bankruptcy
there is no "Constitutional right to free and appropriate education."

There is in Florida:

http://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Constitution#A9

"Constitutional" need not refer exclusively to the US Constitution.