skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been saying for years that there is a killer opportunity for Microsoft in the enterprise: develop a single platform for serving applications that serves a tablet view to tablet users, a desktop view to desktop users and a mobile view to mobile users.

My startup is doing things that way (although not for Microsoft products, obviously). Being able to create an 'app' that is write once, run well on Desktop/Tablet/Mobile, with efficient UIs on all of them, is pretty dang useful, at least in the business market.
Funnily enough, I watched Dr. Strangelove for the first time last night and was saddened by the assumed accuracy of its portrayal of political and governmental theater.
I don't have an iphone. I have an Android phone which is larger (65mm width) than an iphone 5, but decidedly smaller than a phablet.

My phone is just on the edge of one-hand usability (I can mostly manage it but sometimes things get pretty awkward) and I often wish I had something iphone-sized instead, but choice is pretty limited among smaller Android phones (they exist, but tend to be old/slow/etc).

People I know with phablets use them like tablets (almost always with two hands etc). That's fine if you want a small tablet, but it isn't really an adequate replacement for a traditional smartphone. They're just different things.
I'm guessing it's that link to Netflix from your provider that is busier at that time. I use a local provider for internet service, that despite offering crappy customer service, has given me consistent speeds, and no buffering issues with Netflix or Youtube at all.
It looks like the author has added a short piece explaining why she didn't cover women. I'm not really sure why she wouldn't have just included the one or two relevant sentences here in her original article.

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/why-no-women-story-si...
1) Privatization of food sources is by far the most successful form of food production. All alternatives have provided inferior results, some catastrophically so (Cambodia under Khmer Rouge, etc. Ironically, the current international fishery management regime is not entirely unlike the collective farm practices of the Khmer Rouge!).

2) Due to the international nature of fisheries, they would have to be sold by the UN or another ad hoc international body. (The current regional-international fishery management orgs could probably work)

3) Catch shares are not related to fishery privatization. Catch shares are simply the most efficient method of carrying out traditional regulatory limits. The goal of fishery privatization is to turn around the fish population collapse, not sustain the collapse (which is what traditional regulation does).
Oh come on, don't pat yourself on the back for not liking Godwin's law when you haven't even bothered to understand what he was saying.

It's criticism of people who resort to screaming Hitler when it is not warranted!

That idiots have used an observation to shout down conversations is not the fault of the observer.
defer and async are about eliminating round trip latency by opening multiple simultaneous http connections. Multiple TCP streams are sometimes faster than one. (I say sometimes, because negotiating a new connection has an overhead)
This article does a good job to demonstrate ways to attract and retain talent. The only thing I'd disagree with is that they won't come to you. If you do the other things listed, and become known as a shop that does things right and treats employees well, they will come to you. Reputation of several companies makes their recruiting efforts much easier.

The article doesn't really address the alleged developer shortage referenced in the title. Even if every company did these things, and did them well, would they still all be able to meet their hiring needs?
Yahoo moves website services to Irish hub
And I agree with you completely. But they believe that they need it and will not release content otherwise.
The link title is missing the operative word "single". It's about changing the number of requests, not the type of request.
Just like everyone who gets shafted by a Windows app goes and complains to Microsoft?
I seriously doubt that pro-bono counsel actually worked 24/7 for 7 years on this case. I also doubt the 3-5MM amount, which is probably designed to extract as much cash from the government when the time comes (it's probably 3x of whatever the ceiling is for the damage award).

More than likely, the 7 year figure involved about a month of form submitting, a month or two of figuring out the system/process, a few days in court, and a whole lot of wait time.

At the end, this complicated matter worked itself out. In a secret court no less. Which is a testament to itself.
The App Store exists for the benefit of one organization: Apple. Whether users or developers benefit from it entirely depends on how their goals align with the goals of Apple. It is a very real and stark example of the principal-agent problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal-agent_problem
Ask HN admins: How many people upvote a story, then click on it?
I found myself upvoting a story due to its title, then clicking to open it.

I'm curious about two things:
1- How many people do that
2- What would happen if you stopped counting those clicks?
SF planning commission votes to accept Union Square Apple Store
Wow that's a ridiculous spin of them to make...
> I don't think that's the general sentiment among Americans thinking of their history, especially with respect to the last quarter of the 1900s

"General" implies majority, yes? In which case isn't your statement almost tautologically true? At least if most Americans are part of the majority?

Instead, shouldn't we ask instead how those of the historically "wrong color", "wrong gender", "wrong religion", and "wrong politics" perceive things?

Certainly in 2006, "Atheists, who account for about 3 percent of the U.S. population, offer a glaring exception to the rule of increasing social tolerance over the last 30 years" http://www1.umn.edu/news/news-releases/2006/UR_RELEASE_MIG_2...

As it says, there has been a trend of "increasing social tolerance" over the last part of the 20th century, but that's not the same as couldn't.
There is no moratorium, and "Godwin's Law" is just some guy's pithy observation. It doesn't mean shit in the end. As far as I'm concerned, anybody "invoking Godwin's Law" should be downvoted to the 9th circle of Hell. shrug
That's interesting, I haven't seen the later comments in US media so far. What I have noticed over time, though, is same kind monotonous, pointed, news buzz builds up for every other geopolitical event. Iraq, Iraq, Iraq. Iran, Iran, Iran. Libya Libya Libya. Syria Syria Syria. It's like an extremely well oiled machine. I really wonder how this works on the inside, with all these regular people journalists, some of which I actually know, who I can't imagine to be part of some conspiracy. I don't think very many people actually consciously realize what's happening, but somehow it is. It is probably the 'establishment', cynical elite, that doesn't care for ethics, but for (geo)politic advantage for the party, or country.
I agree with you and I would add one other small thing on the "they are not going to come to you" point. Working from the assumption that this is a true proposition, it still wouldn't make recruiting a problem which is easily unpackable. Many HR and recruiting departments very actively look for candidates. The latter part of the article discusses how to set apart your company; I just wanted to make the distinction that although they may not "come to you", it is still the case that many employers are aware of this already and do actively recruit.
Note that since it says 'size == 0', it's not merely "not a certain check", but a check that passes for almost all overflowing values :)
Sadly these pictures remind me of parts of Syria right now.
Your former company is falling to pieces. No fault of yours, but you might have checked it out before you linked to it.

For clarification as to my comment.

The lie: I behave this way because of the place I live.

The truth: I am responsible for my behavior, regardless of where I live.

The fault, therefore, is not Silicon Valley, but the choices I make every day.

Finally, congratulations, you not only have a choice of how you behave, but you also enjoy the rare choice of being able to choose where you live.

Enjoy your choices. That's all I was trying to say. And I think Silicon Valley is a beautiful area, so don't knock it unless you have a legitimate gripe ;)
That was very strange. I was thinking, "Really? Has this guy never opened a box before?"

What was interesting was I repeated this story and later found this site and others and started looking back at what was said and no feel bad that I was "hacked" by the news guy in believing something that wasn't true. I wonder if their hotel story is just as bogus. I had forgotten briefly that you can never trust your news organizations when you live in an authoritarian state :-(
OT, but related: One way to eliminate the lower price competitors is to "buy" their stuff, but with a card that has no money/credit on it. It'll be 10 days before Amazon allows the item to re-listed.

Had this happen to me three times in a row on the same item. Why do arbitrage when you can simply nuke any lower-priced competition at no cost?

In my case, every other item for sale, regardless of seller, was at least $150 higher. (I eventually sold the item on Craigslist for cash.)
"Would the US government and news media (all owned by multinational conglomerates) implement a enormous propaganda campaign demanding the repeal of Russian Federation Federal Law No. 135-FZ because of the potential revenue loss a company in violation could incur with a 90 day suspension resulting in lower than projected revenues leading to a negative impact on the company’s stock price and ultimately causing a negative impact on key US economic indicators?"

"With all that in mind, we can conclude that the only accurate, fact-based, logical answer to the question is YES"

Wow, just wow.

This guy is a nutjob. He argues with a straight face that the Russian law isn't targeting the LGBT community, just non-traditional sexual relationships. He's either a liar about his long involvement in the LGBT community or he's learned absolutely nothing from it, as it's classic couching of terms as cover.

He even brings up the (unenforceable) anti-sodomy laws in US states, discussing how the majority of them are actually written to outlaw sodomy (non-vaginal intercourse) between any two people, not just same-sex couples, but they were used as tools to specifically target homosexual long after they were no longer (or rarely) enforced against heterosexual people. And yet he can't seem to connect the dots.

In any case, this goes from infuriating to fucking stupid pretty quickly. Check out the pages culminating in the conclusion I quoted above on page 70.
You're right. I'm planning on publishing on other platforms soon, I wanted to focus on one first.
Because they break the rules of Apple's ecosystem outright, any attempts at sneaking them in should be dealt with by banning the devs.

They clearly were not making a mistake, it was calculated in the hopes it wouldn't get caught.
Probably poor joke aside, I'd never heard of adults riding tricycles, so thanks in any case for the informative answers.
You can use

text-align: justify;

on inline-block elements to avoid floats.

Use row-based layouts, but without the <table>s.
ISPs generally block them because they attract DDoS attacks like flies on... Rice. Attacks have collateral damage to other customers, and consumes a lot of support resources.
CoinJar appears to be available only in the Australian appstore. Anybody in other countries able to get it?
Does it have code collapse yet?
He was held responsible for a massacre 5 miles from where I was born. I did a school project on it and stood in a stone tower room where local women and children had gone for refuge but were discovered and slaughtered. Even closer to home was a spot where as Cromwell's army passed a man stood looking at them. His behaviour was viewed as impudent and he was summarily hanged.
As a small kid he was the devil incarnate to me.
Since then my view has become a lot less black and white but it's hard to shake off childhood associations entirely.
I really don't get why people like tablets. I gave it a try with an ipad air, but I sold it. There's nothing I can do on a tablet that I can't do more efficiently on my laptop. As soon as typing is involved, the laptop is much better.

Even for things that don't involve using the keyboard, I prefer my laptop. The screen is much bigger and stays in place more easily.

Really, I don't see how anyone that knows how to use a keyboard could prefer a tablet to a laptop. The only advantage I see is portability, and ease of use for technophobics.

Well, maybe I'm getting old and can't adjust to new technology.
Sure, investing makes tons of sense, but does that mean checking and savings accounts shouldn't exist? Individuals are better off with the bank accounts denominated in a currency with a fixed supply. That's so clearly true to me that I don't understand why you disagree.

A widely adopted currency with a fixed supply will slowly increase in value as the demand to perform transactions in that currency increases. The whole point of central bank currencies is to make sure the value slowly decreases over time. Sure, it's good for the economy, but individuals don't make choices based on what's good for the economy. They look out for number one.

"Not all cryptocurrencies are deflationary."

Inflationary cryptocurrencies will not succeed. Imagine there was no dominant currency in your country today. You gave goods or services to someone, and in return, they give you a choice of payment in two currencies: one with an increasing supply and one with a fixed supply. Which would you choose?
I'm also a physician and my hospital uses a similar product that I wrote with symfony. It's rough but we've been using for three years now. If you are interested in helping me take it to the next step or you need a doctor as part of your project, just contact me. carotids at g mail
I know. I am 100% sure I copy pasted the title from git but it somehow changed by itself.
Agreed. The solution I like is http://beeminder.com/.
It's really fun to read in Firefox's 3D View[0].

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[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/3D_View
Oh, to be clear: I'm asking the admins to look up the data, not polling the audience. Though doing so and then checking against the real data would be an interesting experiment on bias!
Brackets doesn't ship with code folding, but there's an extension that adds code folding. (I haven't the extension personally, so I can't comment on how well it works...)
> The first country that wises up to bitcoin, starts investing in mining and other bitcoin infrastructure in a big way, and legitimises its mainstream usage as a currency, is going to reap tremendous benefits.

I think it would be far more likely for a country to invest in their own digital currency: DollarCoin, SterlingCoin, EuroCoin, YuanCoin, etc.

Whether this would be through mining, or simply transaction verification, could be interesting (and desirable simply to close one loophole cash has - it is extremely hard to trace, therefore some transactions remain untaxed). When monetary policy changes, a change in the specification is deployed. CountryCoins would likely be fungible with physical cash (of that country).
Hey mate,

This is not reliable, might be low if you are on a 6 figure incom and it might not be good where you live (I live in Aus) but try look up research panel/focus group recruiters in your city - I work in Market Research and we generally pay $50-100 per hour, online surveys through these groups can be good too (~$50-60 per hour) (A LOT better than doing them through online based agencies.)

For those in Perth, Western Australia and interested we use ResearchPanel and West Coast Field Services.

Some food for thought anyway!
Any particular reason for that? It seems like it should come standard, and it's what initially made me switch back to Sublime.
TinyKeep Dungeon Generation Demo
I'd hazard a guess that everyone here understands how arbitrage is supposed to work.

But how valuable is market making, really? Is it always a good thing that "well-run" markets tend towards the extremes of having razor-thin producer excess or razor-thin consumer excess? Because that's what seems to happen in big/equilibrium markets. One party has a slightly stronger bargaining position and the process of market-making teases that out and translates it into "one person wins big, one person wins just-barely-more-than-nothing." In the process, some of that excess winds up in the hands of middlemen, so to argue that "it's a feature, not a bug" you have to show not only that the value of driving one party's margins to 0 is positive, but that it exceeds the sum of the value captured by middlemen in the process.

Sometimes we can throw up our hands and say "eh, you win some you lose some," but other times the result is so unspeakably horrific that this attitude goes from "unproductive" to "evil." Example: labor markets. Is it a feature or a bug that unskilled laborers don't manage to capture any of their producer excess, and that the equilibrium wage would lie just north of what what was required to make work preferable to starvation and homelessness (less, actually, because some people will be willing to invest savings/debt/daddy's$$ in acquiring experience = differentiation = freedom from the crushing competition)?

Look, I don't know of any system that I'm convinced is better. But that doesn't make the market perfect, so let's not pretend that its shit doesn't stink. In particular, is it possible to structure a market in some way to split the excess? Are there any big/equilibrium markets people know of that we could look to for inspiration?
It's called a fallacy of composition.
I was giving an example of a more difficult situation to dispute, with card present and the person's personal information available for PIN reset. Electronic charges with card not present are easy to dispute anytime.

You have as many protections as your issuer decides is good business to give you. You can dispute a transaction but they can rule against your claim.

Try disputing a card present transaction in a Rite-Aid on a card with a $1000 limit and get back to us about consumer protections.
It's amusing because I've seen so many people mad at HN's lack of features, and spend so much noise demanding pg add this or that, or creating bookmarklets to "fix" it, or even forking the entire site just to try to modify a part of its functionality. But when offered the chance to collaboratively control the whole thing, on github, now it's "meh? why would anyone want that".
Glad to see this thoroughly debunked
After you buy it, you can smash the device on a wall if you want? wouldnt you?

Now, what if Apple has expressely forbid you to do so.. would you think its fair?

What im trying to elucidate here, is the issue with ownership and property.. if you want to piss in your device you should be allowed to do it.. its yours..

But control what you can use, play or watch inside of your device is ok for you? i dont understand your logic..

Ok, so you are a conscious guy that dont buy the thing because you dont like the policy in it.. but then you need a new TV from JoeTV.. oh wait.. in their terms of service they dont allow your kids to watch TV after 8 PM..

Point being: If one can do it (and are not regulated), everyone else can.. a conscious minority not buying their products wont be even missed..

This is selfish and wont stop the big guys from abusing their power to abuse us
But wait we can still stay on the #Sochiproblems bandwagon right?!
Hm, maybe my comment sounded more harsh than I meant it to - I was more curious because I've seen similar statements from other companies after something bad had happened. Thanks for clarifying.
Or perhaps it will be a sparkling clean codebase, as I'm sure a lot of the low-hanging fruit will be re-factoring existing stuff and improving clarity/readability.
People seem to be questioning the validity of having domain knowledge in node/heroku/mongodb and an approved pull request be a prerequisite for joining a site not obviously about node development, not to the idea of an open source site in and of itself. If people had to learn Arc and have a pull request approved just to join HN, there would be maybe two or three people here.
An equation for intelligence
I'm glad someone took the time to point this out.

Here's the money quote:

"The best advice I can offer: stop taking advice from articles like this!"
A good article, but poorly titled. TL;DR -- there is a developer shortage, but you can overcome it by being smarter than your competitors.
They don't show me any content until I give them my email address? Am I missing something?
>The developers you want to hire are never applying to job listings. The are either gainfully employed, or directly contacting you because they have found your company and love what you do. This field is so saturated right now that the good developers can pick and choose the companies they want to work for.

There is certainly some truth here. I don't consider myself a particularly great developer, but I didn't apply for either my current job or for the previous one; I was contacted by management or the founder. At my previous job, we filled multiple development positions by contacting people we knew and convinced them to join us.
The number two paid app on iOS is based on a $10 GameSalad template
Robot Knits the Perfect Scarf
You're "okay with" someone being in travel-limbo for seven years, effectively a prisoner in their own country, due to a clerical error?

Wow.

This is about as far as you can get from "the system worked", by the way.
It stops plenty of piracy as without it piracy could be as easy as a single click from a place like Netflix, Google Music, etc.

Just because it's easy for you to circumvent doesn't mean it's easy for the everyday user.

But totally agreed that it doesn't belong in web standards.
OK, but I still don't see a compelling business reason that having a payment processor would be good for Apple. They can already process payments, how does helping Barbara at the flea market of Little Jim's Cafe process credit cards help their core businesses?

That sounds more like the "Apple should own everything" school of thought. More like what Google or (old) Microsoft does. It doesn't sound Apple-y.
Legal Troubles Barely Subdue a Bitcoin Evangelist’s Sermons
Apple benefits when people buy their hardware to use Square. Is the benefit of owning them worth the liability and extra costs? I doubt it.
Overstock doesn't accept bitcoins.

It accepts USD in a convoluted payment system from a third party processor.
Journalists are now bought and paid for by rich patrons.

That's one way of looking at it. Another way is that activists use it as an instrument of storytelling their agenda. It's even worse when it masquerades as 'quality' journalism, dressed up in broadsheet (or more to the point, Berliner format) and verbiage.

I feel that there is just too much of the wrong motivation behind 'journalism'.
I don't see any source that I can download and run. Is this a web service? Aren't there other web services already that do this as a service?
Overstock runs a thin margin business. Being able to cut out the 2-3% credit card transaction fee is probably worth the risk for them.
Changes in scope are normal in any project based business, and the agreements between all parties should reflect that reality.

Getting mad wasn't the right thing. Sending an invoice after the fact is kind of the right thing. The right thing is to send a proposal for the additional work when additional work is requested and to lay out a formal process for changing the scope in your initial contract. .