skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article contains a lot of enterprisey gibberish. However, from what I inferred from the few meaningful passages, I suppose Espresso Logic could be quite useful.

Unfortunately, the sign-up process currently only returns a blank page. If the description in the article and on the website is correct though, Espresso Logic does for database-backed business processes what AngularJS does for front end logic or what Excel does for spreadsheets:

It allows you to create REST services from database tables. These services can be used for composing more complex business processes. The software watches changes to the data and propagates these changes to each process that uses said data.

Pretty much like when you change a cell in Excel that change is reflected in each formula that makes use of that cell's data.

If done correctly and in a usable fashion this is huge stuff along the lines of Bret Victor's reactive documents paradigm: http://worrydream.com/Tangle/
One thing I don't think many people have realised yet is that in addition to the cheap games and freemium model, Steam is selling other goods too, under the guise of giving away virtual goods for free.

These goods are given away for free - trading cards, for example. However, in order to actually trade them you have to transfer your money into Steam to buy them from another player. That money cannot be withdrawn, it can only move around the ecosystem and eventually get spent on games. Effectively, they have already made the sale, it's just a matter of waiting for you to redeem the money - or not.

I find it interesting that people are willing to pay other users real money for these goods, when (I assume) they wouldn't be willing to pay the money directly to VALVE - even when this is effectively the end result. It's an extension to the freemium model in my eyes.
If the alternatives are Hasbro and Mattel, I'm actually quite happy with Lego being so big.

As for the pink lego, there are balancing up and downsides there. I totally hate the gendered toy segregation, and Lego now goes along with it. But Lego didn't cause it, and by doing it too, they're probably getting more Lego in the hands of girls, which I consider a good thing.

So do something bad in order to achieve something good, or refuse the bad and thereby end up reinforcing it? By not having pink Lego, they'd unintentionally make Lego a boys-only toy. By making gender specific lego, they make lego a toy for everyone again (which it was before this stupid pink rash took over the toy industry).
This is awesome! Well defined, and I like the design and intro video. I wish there were something like this for writing journal articles. Right now, it's a total pain.
You've expressed my point of view better than I ever could have. I tried to make it clear that this program will not change much for those who are 2+ standard deviations to the right of average. For the majority, this is a great deal.
When the price drops enough, I sometimes buy something because of the "ooh, that's a good deal, I might play that someday".

And... sometimes I don't get around to playing those games, because something more interesting comes along before I get around to it.

So yes, the developer isn't making as much per user, but I believe the increased volume would often make up for it.
EDIT: Ha. I forgot IE is part of Windows, damn.

Sure, but who's next on this service installation?
I also want to make an analogy of asking Dell to upgrade 2GB to 4GB or to 8GB. I don't know how much an upgrade cost now, but a few years back it was about $20-$40? It was worth it to upgrade a hardware, not quite sure how it plays out asking Dell to install Firefox at ~$27 USD. Also consider Firefox upgrades every few months; things going to break, I don't know if Dell is ready to do GOOD support, or just one of those "have you tried power off and restart your computer?" This is also something Mozilla might need to look at as SUMO can get pretty overwhelming. The web is sometimes too technical to debug :(
I just wish I knew what they were. Sigh.

That's not hard: they put out a report months ago concluding that the claimed advantages of WebP were in reality slim to nonexistent, and that it could likely be matched and even outperformed by improved JPEG encoders...which is exactly what they're building now.
If the price moves against you (down if you have written a put, up if you have written a call) then you never get the chance to buy the options back at a profit. You might get a bit of theta decay, but equally any large moves will tend to kill you on the gamma and vega.

As I said in another comment, writing options covered or not is basically a bet against volatility.
27$ in time to install Firefox? Dell PC are THAT slow?!
Mac Vs Windows Pc : Which One Is Better?
For appointments, just as an example, I believe emis and others offer their own separate systems and apps for this and also provide hosted sites. No idea if they are more secure but that's where the important data lives, on systems like that, not on these wordpress sites. There are 2-3 that almost all gps use, not sure on hospitals.

http://www.emis-online.com

I do agree with most of what you're saying though, and this is far from an ideal situation. Probably a central system makes most sense long term but gov seems unable (or more recently unwilling) to deliver.
I didn't read that as implying everyone would be publish to Steam. In the context of related comments from Valve, I believe they're considering allowing others to more easily use the Steam distribution system to build their own storefronts.

This would allow third parties to create their own Steam-like stores, built on Steam, collating games from whoever submits them - imagine Humble Bundle, or a store that exclusively sells 3d platformers, or a publisher with a storefront with only their own games. Valve could still pick games out of these to put them on the official Steam store front. Plus Valve still gets a x% cut of each sale.
> Objective: Become a force in the cloud while delighting our users by adding services to our products.

> Measurable goal in 2014: End the year with 20M people using a Firefox account.

That's what I want to see from Mozilla. I want to have a johndoe@firefox.com account and use it as my login account to the firefox cloud, to all the services mozilla will provide.

They need engagement, I was an early user of phoenix more than ten years ago. I dumped firefox for safari and never touched a single mozilla property again. No need to.

Now they have to seduce me again, they need to bring me day after day to their properties. They need email, chat, cloud storage, documents, notes, blogs, everything I can do, everything I want to store, send, exchange, communicate, enjoy, play with.

Everything.

Then they can insert ads and compete with google. Billions over billions.

Then they can offer premium accounts with premium features. Billions over billions.

That's sustainability.

That's a plan.
The form should know that travel between MDW and DTW is not eligible before I enter in all my info. Kinda infuriating.
I might be wrong but from what I remember from two years ago the constant annoyance of switching keybindings between each app was one of the things that prevented me from becoming a fan of OSX and I really tried. (I think the resident fanboy at that site had an explanation about Cocoa and Carbon(?) keybindings but to dumb me it just didn't cut it.)
Asian Americans Unfairly Discriminated in College Admissions
An amusing story along those lines:

"In 2012, the StarTribune newspaper in Minneapolis tracked the movement of the Mayor R.T. Rybak's car 41 times at license police readers in the prior year. The newspaper put the information on a map and gathered the data through public records requests.

As a result of that report, the mayor directed the police chief to recommend a new policy on data retention, the ACLU said."
And you invalidated the concept with your witty one-liner. Well done, very thorough criticism of markets.
This is very interesting and well done. I have a few questions.

1. Am I allowed to sell the files elsewhere? For example, sell the .mobi file on Amazon Kindle and publish a printed version via CreateSpace.

2. Are the files watermarked at all with Softcover's branding?

3. Is this open to authors everywhere or are there restrictions?

4. Will this handle sale taxes for authors? I'm a Canadian author with a PST/GST account, will I be able to collect that from Canadian customers?

PS: The Browse and Setup links on conqueringthecommandline.com are meant to point to softcover.io, so they are broken at the moment.
Yes probably needs the ability to do an oral Viva - funnily enough one of my uncles did that at Oxford back in the 50's for his MA as his writing was so bad :-)
Haha - I was excited too! They guy was super nice and even stopped so I could take a picture :)
It probably wouldn't have gotten this far up if it was the original boring title
I did that as well! Beautiful stuff, good on the developer.
In both my examples, the options were written out of the money. That means the premium is small (because the option is unlikely to be executed - premium is always largest for at the money options). Whether or not the premium offsets the difference between strike and spot totally depends on the size of the move! If the option starts $10 out of the money with a $5 premium, and it ends up $10 in the money, you've lost $5 whichever way you look at it.

Your advice of combining options and stocks is at best a little naive, and at worst will be a disaster for anyone who's not a sophisticated options trader.
When we first launched Checkout, we tried to emphasize that this was a canvas for Stripe to test out improvements. The last paragraph of the launch blog post[1] was

For anything it’s worth, I had never come across the idea of Checkout as a test platform before this discussion, nor seen that blog post. We first discovered Checkout while looking through the basic integration documentation on your site as it was at the time (probably about a year ago) and it seemed like the obvious way to go rather than having yet another form to implement manually and then use stripe.js.

If that has always been the policy, perhaps we should have known and somehow we missed it. In any case, while you’re almost certainly right that most of the issues I mentioned are fixable, it seems like an even clearer decision to move to stripe.js now, because the one issue that it seems won’t be fixed — because it’s already working as intended from your point of view — is ensuring stability in our UX.

we should probably create a customer-facing "Why you should trust Stripe" page

I could not agree with this more strongly. If I could have directed my hesitant prospect to a single page setting out Stripe’s credentials, preferably linked to reputable independent sources for verification, then if nothing else it would have saved us a lot of time trying to figure out what to say and then probably coming up with much the same answer as 1,964 other businesses who use Stripe anyway. :-)
It seems your customers are telling you EXACTLY what they want - an option to remove 'Remember Me'. You don't seem to want a conversation about it so much as a chance to sell people on it.
"Firefox is the cloud"

Now that's a motto.

I want my johndoe@firefox.com account.
This is how I buy Kindle books. $10? I'll wait until its $2-$3 for when I'm on vacation and binge.
Transform any dataset into an HTTP API
Somewhat unrelated ...

I wish Apple would add local type inference to Objective-C, perhaps using the existing id type or some keyword like var in C#. It would make the code so much more quicker to write, less verbose, a bit easier to change.

I mean reading and writing something like:

var color = [UIColor green];
var viewController = [[MyViewController alloc] initWithBackgroundColor:color];

Is so much more pleasant as:

UIColor *color = [UIColor green];
MyViewController *viewController = [[MyViewController alloc] initWithBackgroundColor:color];
Modular Phones Are A Brilliant Idea.
DigitalOcean Redesigns Their Homepage
Our Mobile Devices are Sophisticated IRC Clients
.. or that IE comes with Windows and Google pays to include Chrome in Dell computers. For example, here's a 2009 note involving Sony: http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/sony-defaults...
OpenSSH.

That one project and the integrity with which he has run it forgives all the problems you might perceive him to have had.

And yes, sometimes you have no option but to be an ass hole to get your point across. Linus has equally been accused of the same.
but surf the internet for a couple days without restarting Firefox (27.0.1) on Ubuntu (13.10) and Firefox still grinds to a half, taking more than half a second to change tabs or register other UI input.

Shrug, I do this all the time as I never restart the browser. And your timer test is WORKSFORME too :-/
Made the same thing yesterday: http://www.davidhampgonsalves.com/spritz-like-rsvp-reader-bo...

HN will probably see a lot of these in the next few days.

Edit: Some users requested keybindings and I found them useful(pause, skip, rewind, etc).
You can't use metacritic? I find it to be pretty reliable.
It's this kind of proactive engagement and quest for a clear understanding of your users and their goals that has had me waiting so impatiently for Stripe to become available in Australia.

We're prelaunch right now, but are about to implement Stripe (what will likely be checkout) shortly, after having already settled with a local payments provider.

If you're ever this side of the pond be sure to look me up and we will grab a beer.
Getty Images makes its images free to use
It reads like the sort of project proposal I would write, and I don't mean that in a good way. ;)
So, the technical part isn’t that crazy tbh — as soon as you respect some pretty straightforward principles you should be fine (animate only transform/opacity, favour requestAnimationFrame over setInterval, transitionend/animationend events over setTimeout, …). The complicated part was mostly the “creative” process, ie. how fast should the animation run (some people read, others don’t), what's the appropriate bezier-curve, how make the play button “engaging” enough so people don’t feel like they’re gonna watch a billion-hour screencast, etc.
Isn't it simply a matter of delegating it to a library -- the encoding and decoding I mean? I have had occasion to use Java and Python libraries for this and faced no problems.
Hallucinogens have done wnders for my PTSD and depression issues. Please do not confuse them with Amphetamines or other non-hallucinogens.

That said, if you are on MAOI's or SSRI's, you would do well to end their use before attempting any hallucinogen stronger than cannabis.
Real life has never sprung a random topic on me at 7:30 AM and required me to have a handwritten essay written 25 minutes later. This essay, in a wildly naive attempt to limit the subjective value of writing, was judged largely on "coherency".

We had computers back in 2005, and almost all students typed their school essays out, but the college board hadn't got with it. Since it took me so long to handwrite things, I didn't have a moment to think about the topic. Instead, my strategy was to prepare an extremely formulaic essay, and then furiously write as fast as I could. Hey, it worked, except I was already stressed and tired by the end of the essay with over 3 hours of test to go.

To backtrack a bit, I've always assumed the SAT to be about aptitude for reasoning, not about throwing "real life" challenges at you.
Yes, buy enterprise-class hardware (Latitude, etc.) instead of the consumer brands (Inspiron, etc.)

Dell also has a program for large enough IT departments where they'll use a buyer-provided disk image at the factory so machines can be deployed right out of the box.
This doesn’t address your main point, but Mozilla’s side of the Gmail+cmd bug has been fixed in Firefox 29. Google now needs to remove their mitigation on their side: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341886#c67
> Is it not possible that this is just market segmentation? Like, the people you are referring to would never pay for those games otherwise.

I can't speak for other people, but as someone who lives in Eastern Europe where the monthly minimum wage is around $200 (two hundred USD), I definitely fall into this segment of the market.

Before Steam became this widespread I didn't buy games at all, even when I started working. $60 is a lot here.
ATM the target release is 29, but it may be bumped to 30.
This is right:

> The scan of the license plan is not really the issue

This is wrong:

> it's the collecting of the scan, tagging it with GPS, and aggregating the scan into large, permanent databases that can be accessed by both government and private corporations.

The real issue is the legal requirement that every car must have license plates and that every car must be registered to a "person" (individual or corporation).

If there were no such requirements, we wouldn't be having this discussion in the first place.
I went through this while experimenting with cryptocat, it's confusing as hell. the group fingerprint is your fingerprint, in that chatroom, for that session.

I peeked at some of the issues on Github and it looks like they're adding challenge-response for OTP verification so you can have a way to prove identity without an active out of band channel.
emscripten depends on LLVM, guess who is the biggest backer of that project?

Would you mind to expand a bit about "vague and baseless"?
Or maybe you could spend some time and learn the history of canvas element, or CSS transforms?

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Nov/0080.h...

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2007Nov/0090.h...

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-whatwg-archive/20...

As for "all new WebAPI's" you'd be surprised how many of them were first implemented in WebKit.
WebRTC? Chrome—fall 2012. Firefox—summer 2013
No, they are stating that they technically have a large enough sample for the results to be meaningful if the sample were unbiased (what they call 'scientifically random') - a large enough sample size is a necessary but not sufficient condition to allow valid statistical inferences to be drawn.
Repository of software quotes
I always assumed analogies were explicitly designed as a mechanism for testing vocabulary, not reasoning. I don't understand how analogies would have any value in testing reasoning skills. I can't imagine an analogy question that isn't either obvious or subjective.
This hasn't stopped them from taking stances, though?

Diversifying the income seem to be an important goal right now, even if the userbase hasn't been very sympathetic so far.
FontStruct is proprietary flash.

Typism is dead, no one worked on it for ages.

http://prototypo.io is new, active, libre, Angular, on github, but! it suffers from the classic problem of processing and such; designing visual things isnt best done by writing code. Its why metafont didnt catch on - https://www.google.co.in/search?q=why+metafont+didnt+catch+o...

That's why I help start http://metapolator.com which will become a much more powerful online font editor, because it allows you to design typeface families instead of letters.
Robert Green on the 48 Laws of Power - Joe Rogan Podcast
Servo is long-term, not 2014. It’s a very interesting project, but don’t expect any fruits from their labours any time soon.
Online commenting: A right to remain anonymous?
It's a really weird place to use JP2K -- they're functionally not space limited, or compute limited, so what's the advantage of wavelets? You could just gzip V210 or something.
If they really did create two sets of disk images based on presence of Firefox, Dell could argue that the price is not for the software but for other differences between the disk images.

Note that I'm not arguing about the spirit of the actions, but merely about whether Mozilla actually has a case here
Posting here because everything he says about Hollywood, business, etc. and all the Machiavellian stuff that goes on is very relevant to startupland as well.

Early in the interview he makes the point that Hollywood veils its brutality under a lot of liberal rhetoric, and I couldn't help but think that Silicon Valley and the startup scene in general is absolutely identical in this way.
You make it sound like bootstrapping a business to 7 figures is a walk in the park.
Opps. I forgot all about that. :) Thanks for pointing out. Been a Linux user for far too long.
Yeah. Believing that companies ought to disappear because of the invisible hand of the market is like believing that things ought to stay down because of the invisible hand of gravity.
What's hard about it? If you can eliminate even one answer it's in your favor to guess.
I can't remember when the last major ui redesign was.

The next major UI update landed in Firefox 29 (currently in Aurora).
Delivering Experiences Through Email (Part 2 of 3)
I wasn't aware any PC manufacturers had integrity or consumer trust left, the least of which being Dell. Have you fired up a newly shipped Dell PC lately? It's a cesspool of crapware. No less than a dozen Dell Utilities, "anti-virus", media players, etc.

Don't worry though, they'd be happy to work on your "slow" computer if you purchase the support add-on.
However,

-foo

is even better. :-)
I was also unpleasantly surprised. My initial reaction was that Stripe had jumped the shark to create a Paypalesque checkout experience.

I switched to Stripe Checkout to allow me to focus on other tasks. I was using a versioned API (v2 in the URI), and then it was changed unexpededly. I had to stop in the middle of busy week and go code up my own payment form and get it into production.

My chagrin wasn't just over the UI changes, it was also that the data fields collected and passed to my app changed. (The "Name on Card" field was dropped and email address added)

I think it would've been prudent to respect the versioned API (https://checkout.stripe.com/v2/checkout.js), and do A/B testing on the latest (https://checkout.stripe.com/checkout.js).
"Hacktivist" issue #2 [preview]
I'm sorry that it comes across this way. Checkout is an optional product. I've tried to explain that 1) we'll remove it if we find data that suggests it's bad, and 2) we're in no way strongly opposed to removing it. I mean, we're not wedded to any particular aspect of Checkout -- we just want to stay true to the goal of making informed, data-driven decisions and reducing complexity for merchants. If it's bad, we won't just add an option to remove it -- we'll remove it for everyone. This goes for any change in Checkout.
Why Does Everyone Hate Monsanto? - lessons in spin control
The world's largest photo service just made its pictures free to use
I can't speak for Ruby, but in both Java and Python I've never seen a bug this embarrassingly bad. I mean, this bug simply would not have happened in a language with a working boolean type, or with exceptions (I trust the ZeroMQ guy's judgement about as far as I can throw him).
They overlap, but are quite different. Arduino is a high end microcontroller, Pi is low end computer. If you want real time and low power, you want to be on the microcontroller side of that divide.
Heh, I knew this title seemed awfully familiar. Here's the discussion on Hacker News which (presumably) spawned this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7331693
Google Fonts has only single style families on purpose, to prioritize a limited budget, so the most popular single style fonts can be improved into families with confidence there is demand for them.

But expanding single styles into families is not as easy as it should be. That's why I help start http://metapolator.com which takes www.metaflop.com and removes the 'write metafont code' part of the process.

As you say, if you want the fonts to be better sooner than Google, you can pay for it - either by commissioning the designer to improve the open source fonts or by going across the street to a paid web font service.