skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. But why limit it to internal apps? I do b2b solutions and the services I write using Bootstrap has higher UX quality than what people there are used to. Sometimes I just change the background image and keep the default Bootstrap look.

Also, it's so much fun picking out components and putting them together to make it looke awesome.
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Now they got backed, I don't see the reason why would they not make the keyboard. But if their business partners are getting paid is another story.
http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/867302-pic-starbucks-with-...
Just for interest [I'm not saying it's broken either] but this is interesting DLP progress announced within the last 12 hours:

https://listserv.nodak.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=NMBRTHRY;23651c...
Grunt-image – Optimize PNG, JPEG, GIF images.
I'm able to reach Coursera just fine. I don't live in any of those countries (nor I'm from any of them). I just thought it'd be nice to make them available to everyone, because that's the way it should be.

I use coursera downloader because it's hard to keep up with Coursera's own schedule. I already have a ton of materials from different courses on my computer and I would be happy to make them available to everyone, but my upload speed sucks.
How remote debugging works in chrome
Take a look at: http://argus.tcp4me.com/
It easy to use and quick to configure. Polls via snmp and stores in rrds.
At first glance I did not like it.. but imho it beats other products in terms of simplicity.

If you are looking for something bigger, then zabbix (http://www.zabbix.com/) might be an option. It is not that easy to get running, but has capabilities like dependency based notifications. For example: "Only alarm me of missing ping responses if the router of that box is reachable." I think it is a fantastic piece of software although I had to build an argus-like monitoring interface for it, so that less trained staff is able to work with it.
The performance of _.each should be very close to that of the native Array#forEach because it delegates to the native method when it's available: https://github.com/jashkenas/underscore/blob/6db5b93eac3eacd...
Just a few hours ago, a newly minted Ubuntu binary was crashing due a library version mismatch. I thought I had updated the shared libraries to point to the new versions. But definitely something was still hooked to the old version. I just couldn't figure out how/where. ldd wasn't of much help because everything was OK according to it. "If only I can get a bit more info when the binary is running and spit out everything before the crash."

Tried my luck with gdb. Sure enough...there was libQt5DBus pointing to the old libs leading to the crash. If you are feeling particularly adventurous, you can step one instruction at a time after starting. Even without debug symbols, there is quite a lot of info that be used while troubleshooting.
I don't program, but I run an online agency & am able to get serious work done quite often.
Those are patched against the myriad of bugs and vulnerabilities from the last 8 years... haha?
Agreed. This is one for small claims court. Although I'm not sure if small claims can make him prove how much he's sold of what, if he's already stopped sending statements of royalties to the developers.
Most CSS Frameworks require jQuery.
Most designers are familiar w/ jQuery.
If you use CDN, some other app likely downloaded jQuery already.

People that are not fans of jQuery are people that are are only familiar w/ MVC on client side and are not using APIs (ex: Parse, Kinvey, etc.)
> ... just want to check the RAM usage, HD usage, and CPU usage of all of these servers in 1 dashboard.

Cacti
The fundraising period hasn't ended yet, at the time of writing this there's 12 hours to go, and judging by the Kickstarter comments people who have already backed the project are starting to reduce/remove their backing. I wonder if this is the first time there's a chance a project that reaches its target on Kickstarter ends up under the target by the end?
I can't squat below parallel without getting pain in my hip joint and/or knees after a while. I am not built for low squatting, and especially not for going ass to grass. A lot of longer-limbed people can't hit full depth in a proper position.
I didn't down vote, nor did I reply since I think your argument is a bit scattered. Obviously, we should consume less, but we should also push for better production methods. The argument that someone is willing to ruin their environment if we aren't isn't that useful; I know from first hand experience that it isn't viable in the long term....
it completely depends on the proportions

long-limbed people have more difficulty with this, while shorter-limbed people don't have difficulty with this after a little stretching
Probably a bit late at this stage but it's important to make sure that the seed investors don't own too large a percentage of the company, especially if they have follow-on rights. A messy cap table can kill an otherwise good investment.

Series A investors might also want to see your seed deck and see if you managed to achieve what you told your seed investors you'd achieve.

In terms of specifics it depends very much on the nature of the business. The expectations of where an enterprise startup vs a social network vs a mobile game are very different. The best thing you can do is benchmark with similar (non-competitive businesses).
> It's for people not making enough money (or not having the clue) to hire systems talent.

That may be true compared to doing your own racks, but not compared to renting managed servers at a monthly basis.

Every time I price out AWS vs alternatives, I end up with the same: If you need a server for more than about 8 hours a day, renting a managed server at a monthly basis tends to come out substantially cheaper. And that doesn't increase sysadmin workload; in fact many hosting providers now offers APIs for provisioning monthly billed services too, just generally with lead times in hours instead of minutes/seconds, so it takes really bursty traffic before taking the hassle of auto-scaling with cloud instances becomes worthwhile.
> You should always know what browser feature you are using.

Why? If I just drop jQuery in and treat that as my API baseline, what do I lose? A little performance, a few hundred kilobytes' download (almost certainly cached from a CDN anyway). And it frees me up from remembering a bunch of corner cases and keeping track of a bunch of implementation details, letting me focus my attention on more important things.
A kickstarter project cannot go under funding goal in the last 24 hours if it has already reached its goal. You can back out if you contribution doesn't bring the project below goal. Part of the anti-trolling rules.
Isn't the message about libraries?
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Those IP laws are the same things that underpin the GPL and other Open Source licenses.

Granted, trademarks can sometimes be silly, copyright terms far too long and software patents ridiculous but at heart they do provide some very strong value.
Ask HN: would you use an API for managing ACL?
I find it hard to manage all the roles of an application on every platform and starting a new project I need to rebuild the same ACL over and over again. I looked for a cloud solution but could not find any and I am thinking of building one myself. So my question is would you use such an API, or would it be useful for you or your company?
According to one of the forum posts linked elsewhere in this thread [1] his company's accounts are in the red, so even if someone were to sue and win, they aren't going to see any money.

[1] http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showpost.php?p=750206&...
Just evolve to eat metal. Easy. There. All is fixed.
Unlock Mac Using iPhone TouchID with this tweak
You have long legs, that's why.
Seems to be down at the moment, does anyone know of a cached version? Haven't managed to find one myself.
In practice, especially for javascript usage, the old CSS selectors cover all the bases.

The new-stuff, while great for styling, isn't all that relevant for scripting. nth-child, say, is often (though not always) simply an indexing operation on the return value of querySelectorAll; and in general you don't even want that since usually you have a specific element in mind and have labelled that element with a class to find it.

I don't support IE8 anymore, and use CSS3 liberally in the actual css, yet I can't think of more than a handful of cases I used the selectors from javascript, certainly none of them critical. Do you actually use this?
They can probably be found in any writing since about when people discovered that manipulation and lying got them a warmer spot in the cave and a bigger slice of mammoth pie.
Still up, just slow.
From the article:

"We’ve been hearing a few people complain that Boeing is “wasting fuel,” by flying the 747-8 Freighter today in the “12″ pattern."

Jeez. People really will complain about anything these days.
I don't think "castrated" is the word you meant :-) Perhaps "constrained" or "restricted"
That's interesting, did not know that. However, from what I've read it seems you are entitled to a refund on your backing at any time, so even if technically the funding goal is reached the real funds may be a different amount.
I'm interested in knowing more since we do development and system integration for client in this kind of budget, and we didn't find a decent hosting provider in years of trying. Could you name some of those managed providers, including the one you work for?
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There is absolutely no shortage of drinking water in the US.

(1) Both US freshwater (surface + groundwater) and groundwater usage in the US has been flat for 40+ years despite the population growing by 50%.

(2) Less than 2% for freshwater and 5% of groundwater is used for domestic uses (shower, washing, drinking, etc).

(3) Less than 1% of domestic water is used for drinking.

So of the 350 billion gallons of freshwater used in the US every day only 250 million is used for drinking. That is 0.07%! We could easily double the amount of drinking water with only a miniscule decrease in the water used for farming. And it is not like this problem is getting worse as usage is flat.

There is no reason to worry about a shortage of drinking water in the US.
People aren't backing out, they are reducing their pledge. Do same anti-trolling measures deal with that?
>It's difficult to modify
The CSS is easy to change IMO. Because you can just override it.
>requires jQuery and its own massive JS file, and is huge.
Fair point on jQuery but you can use the customiser to get rid of most of the JS you won't use
That's from the private beta:

"We are using a simple severity ranking scheme: Low - Medium - High - Critical. Rewards range from $100 up to $5000 and are determined at our discretion based on a number of factors. For example, if you find a reflected XSS that is only possible in Opera, and Opera is only 1.64% of our traffic, then the severity and reward will be lower. But a persistent XSS that works in Chrome, at 59.53% of our traffic, will earn a much larger reward."
/!\ SPOILER /!\

The conclusion of the piece is that JavaScript really is herpes.

Seriously, guys...
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I feel the same way, and I think it's quite normal. It might not be the stated reason for not evaluating an idea, but I think it's often the real reason.

I mean, it's seems so obvious, right? Don't spend lots of time building something unless you're pretty sure there's a market. You can't be "pretty sure there's a marked" unless you actually check. Engineers & programmers are often quite analytical people. Still we somehow miss this obvious conclusion.

I know it, but it's still hard to do it.
> Also, what ever happened to trademarks? I thought they were defined as adjectives

Sorry? Apple is an adjective?
It's been stuck 'Connecting...' for quite a while. I suppose I should've expected such a response from a community used to 16 minute loading times (my first computer was a ZX Spectrum). ;-)
Another post from a dev who got scammed by this company: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/952953995/bluetooth-zx-...
Here's the whole thread (it's paginated differently than the original link):

Page 1: https://archive.is/b0H9K

Page 2: https://archive.is/Np2K5

Page 3: https://archive.is/oPnmq
I don't know. His parents spent all that money to send him to a public school (that's private for most of the world) and then a top university. And it turns out he gets all his ideas from newspapers and TV drama.
Fairly painless upgrade as well. We are using TWBS 3.0 on an internal admin system. I just dropped the new bootstrap-sass gem into rails and it was done. There are a few things that needed to be changed:

1) The button text is now huge
2) For some reason the forms all screwed up when using a:

<label>
Name
<input>
</label>

Layout
Care to elaborate? When I get new messages in a IM window on Lync, and the window is not active, the icon on the taskbar is being blinked.
Ask HN: What happened to PearLinux OS? 
The website's (http://pearlinux.org/) not opening and I see this question in Quora (http://www.quora.com/Who-has-bought-Pear-OS). Is it true?
Posted and discussed extensively 4 weeks ago [1]. Looks like this was not caught as a duplicate because the present submitter submitted the "print" link.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7003627
Wat.

Wat.

blinks Wat.

This must be stupidest thing I've ever read in my entire life. It's like saying that we should all affix a gun to our hand because it works so well in FPS.

Or that hiding in a corner makes you recover from cancer. I don't care if he didn't say it really.

I blame either him for saying or the journalist for writing so illogical.
Thanks for those, very cool and useful! Every time I see blog posts like the above, and comments like yours and others, it reminds me just how much stuff I either don't know or should learn more about.
Apple sells more than iPhones and iPads, they also make desktop and laptop computers, and they are also the biggest music distributor in the world, Apple isn't limited to hardware, and the majority of people who own iPhones (or, at least the majority of people I know that own iPhones) have purchased multiple iPhones, and will continue to upgrade because of planned obsolescence.
KeenIO lets you gather any data in any form
Why not use backwards document references? Put the post id on each comment and query like Comments.find({post: post._id}, {limit: 30}) to get 30 comments. Why would you store all of the comments for a Post on the post itself?
Weebly (YC W07) is seeking a Senior Product Manager
Weebly enables entrepreneurs to create a site, blog, or online store they are proud to share. We have a nimble, efficient team that is focused on building a surprisingly easy product experience to meet the needs of millions around the world.

As our first Product Manager hire, you’ll work directly with our Chief Product Officer, collaborating closely with our team of world-class designers and engineers to ship high quality products as quickly as possible.

In this unique position, you’ll help define the experience for entrepreneurs and their customers on a grand scale. Ranked as a Quantcast Top 25 network, we power well over 100M unique visitors a month across our desktop, mobile, and native app platforms.

As a product management leader, you have the opportunity for immense impact, helping to drive our aggressive roadmap from vision to launch.

You’ll be a great fit as a Product Manager with the following qualities:

Understand good design: You have an in-depth understanding of what makes a user experience good or bad, and strong intuition for what people want to do.

Think Big: You think beyond the horizon, articulating new and disruptive opportunities for the product and platform.

Simplify the complex: You can easily understand a complex idea or feature, simplify the requirements, and know how to derive 80% of the value with 20% of the effort.

Wear many hats: You have a strong background in many fields and can relate cross functionally between design, engineering, marketing, and even BD. You are the ultimate facilitator, the oil in the engine, and will do what it takes to push things forward.

Prioritize: You can prioritize a complex roadmap, balancing quick wins and platform investments for maximum impact in the least amount of time.

Technical background: You have a computer science degree or a deep technical understanding allowing you to communicate effectively with engineers and understand technical tradeoffs.

Ability to work with others: You have excellent interpersonal skills. You’re a great listener. You place the success of the company and product ahead of any particular idea.

Leadership: Others naturally look to you for guidance. You inspire others to think bigger. You understand group dynamics and can effectively communicate to get desired results.

Terrific communicator: You can communicate, both verbally and written, in a clear and concise way to the intended audience.

Write effective copy: You can write product copy that articulates the proper meaning and tone with as few words as possible.

Know how to execute: You stay focused and motivate others to execute efficiently.

Please apply at jobs@weebly.com
A VC like YC could effectively give $0 and probably still be worth the 7% for the connections/track record alone.

Its been said many times that a lot of YC startups don't need the money and do it for everything else, so yeah, absolutely.
The exact quote from the linked BBC article is:

"In the most serious crimes [such as] child abduction communications data... is absolutely vital. I love watching, as I probably should stop telling people, crime dramas on the television. There's hardly a crime drama where a crime is solved without using the data of a mobile communications device."
Consider running a VPS (or just a router from home) and having sshd bind to port 80 perhaps? :)
From the BBC article referenced by boingboing - "He said TV crime dramas illustrated the value of monitoring mobile data."

From the boingboing article - "David Cameron: TV crime dramas prove we need mass warrantless electronic surveillance"
It's quite interesting to note that Box talks about "customer" while Dropbox talk about "presence".

The really relevant number is how many of those Fortune 500 companies are fully paid up customers vs a just bunch of people using their free personal account to share files within a project on a ad-hoc basis.
Even if what everyone else commented weren't true:

$20,000 Is An Impossible Budget

And yet many many YC-backed companies have made it possible.
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Get creative.
Expressiveness means you waste less of people's time and mental effort.

$(".enemy").after('<div class="crash">').remove()

Without jQuery:

var enemies = document.querySelectorAll(".enemy")
for (var i = 0; i < enemies.length; i++) {
var div = document.createElement("div");
div.className = "crash";
enemies[i].parentNode.insertBefore(div, enemies[i]);
enemies[i].parentNode.removeChild(enemies[i]);
}

Here the last one is comprehensible but even then, it takes longer for a programmer who just found it to figure out what it is doing; and, caring about other peoples time (and future yours) can be referred as 'kind'.
All good questions. The answer is pretty long winded. In short, we love our bare metal and you are not going to be able to rip it out of our cold dead hands. It is stable, fast and cost efficient.

Now for the long winded:

1. We do have a decent amount of spares but not a ton. Our contracts require replacement parts within hours to a day. Some items like F5 gear we have two and no spare. They just replace their gear in hours.

2. Each data center has 24/7 support that can do some minor tasks.

3. Yes, Networking is a pain and you need the right people to do it. It is not cheap either! Luckily our VP of Tech Ops is a networking guru.You mess up networking and you are hosed. Our first networking guy wasn't exactly Tops! So, we know first hand.

Having said all of that, for us there are economies of scale. It is the case if we want to test different machines, databases or any other combination at scale it could cost us several hundred thousand dollars just to run the tests. Yep, we have dropped over 100k for testing at scale. Its simply not sustainable and an irresponsible way to spend investors cash. Also, when you add in multiple environments for dev, test, staging and integration you can quickly see we consume a lot of boxes. So, many in fact, a lot of colocation/cloud services will not work with us unless we plop down large amounts of cash. Let's also factor in AWS wants large up front spend for reserved instances. Thus, if you need the capital to get the amount of compute you need to run your business it is not very hard just to call Dell, Cisco, Nimbix, Equinix or any other vendor and negotiate our own deals. If any of these companies can get half our spend a year they are willing to at least talk.
King not so King anymore.
Indeed. Dyndns tends to be the source of much Internet clap...
I wish a large, well-behaved, games company would produce a game (totally original, good, but simple), posing as an independent developer, publish it, wait for King/Zynga to clone it, then sue their asses off. Seems to me like they're only getting away with this because they can bully the small guys.
XMLHttpRequest was first introduced in IE5. I think in retrospect MS regrets its introduction, but that is another discussion entirely.
Does your browser have a flashing border at the moment? :)
I see a lot of people in both camps on this one.

It seems to me that if you are making a library, and therefore do not want to make assumptions about the availability of jQuery, one potential solution would be to go the route of AngularJS[1] and have a 'soft' dependency on jQuery.

In this instance you would use jQuery if it was present, but fall back on the code found in this submission if it wasn't.

Are there potential downsides to this solution that I am missing?

[1]: http://docs.angularjs.org/api/angular.element
while we wait, could you elaborate on that? ;)
Did Zynga lay off 15% of its workforce to recoup the $527M investment in NaturalMotion? See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7153709

That article says they'll take a $17M charge this year on the lay off and then save about $33M/year. Discounted at 6% per annum that works out to $533M. See http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=-17+%2B+Sum%5B33%2F1.06...

This article says Zynga has "about $1.2 billion in cash and marketable securities on hand." But a dailyfinance article suggests companies aren't really as cash rich as they seem; their money is locked up in offshore tax havens; they can't repatriate it without paying tax on it: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/07/25/why-are-rich-companie...
another rant with no positive steps or alternatives. I am paying the bills, fuck this dude
If you're somewhere in the west you must be at least within reach of 50%. How much overhead do you have? Are you including the office and its costs as well?