skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been working on something similar this year (https://www.entomic.com) that helps developers build cross-browser, responsive sites.

As an editor, all changes update immediately on all connected browsers and devices as they're being made to help see when things start going wrong.

Although it doesn't support javascript yet, all HTML and CSS changes do get pushed instantly to connected devices without the need to host a local server.
oh my god

cf. http://markmail.org/message/ogk6p5jv33d5oyvb
That does look great. Makes me all the sadder that Seattle just lost Makerhaus. Hands-on access to a laser cutter has been incredibly useful for some of my projects and prototyping.
Ivy league students today are on average much smarter than ivy league students in 1950.

If the point of grades is to sort students then sure, grades are "inflated" in that they don't accurately reflect increasingly fine distinctions in intelligence or effort. But if grades are supposed to reflect how well students understand the material on some sort of remotely absolute scale then we should expect to see average grades going up over time.
I'd recommend adding http://harpjs.com/ as well. Static web server with built-in preprocessing (and it compiles to static content of course). You can mix jade, md, less, stylus, etc.
I unfriend you. :-)
I think the issue is that eccentric professors aren't as good at competing for grant money as people who treat academics like any other career.

Increasing the funding probably just creates more of the latter, not of the former.
Can't find or don't need
A toy native code compiler for a made-up language where all functions are anonymous.

All programming languages are horrible in certain crippling ways. It's my hope that this one will be slightly less bad in some areas (undoubtedly with the expense of some glaring deficits). It's pretty cool to have first-class functions, type extension methods, PHP-like vectors/maps, and still end up with a sub-4KB exe.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ovaludi.no...

I've been working (and still am) on an Android puzzle game using libgdx. The puzzle requires to fill a board with Xs and Os while obeying the no-three rule (no three Xs or Os in a row) and the same number rule (same number of Xs and Os on each line and column).

The puzzle turned out to be quite challenging and addictive, similar to sudoku. The most difficult part of development was that I would start the game to see check a new feature and I wouldn't get back to development until I finished filling the board.

The most interesting part of development was writing the algorithm that generates the board in order to ensure a unique solution and account for the various levels of difficulty.

I've already published a version of the game and I'm currently working on adding some features to it.
http://cutcss.com

Creating responsive CSS with flexible layouts is still ridiculously hard, mostly done by hand and I want to fix that with a GUI.
Firewall here at work blocked this site, reason - pornography :(
Who downvoted me? Please disclose the reason for doing so.
I am working on a free Windows application for Nest products (Learning Thermostat and Protect Smoke & CO alarm).

Primarily a notifier (heating on, Smoke or CO emergency etc), it also gives you thermostat temperature and home/away control.

You can see the status of your Nest devices at-a-glance by means of a series of icons (one for each device) down in the taskbar notification area (aka system tray).

Currently seeking beta testers!

More details at http://richardeverett.com/Nest

All feedback (good and bad) as well as feature suggestions welcomed.
Why not? You can simply open a storyboard and review it, no?
I've always enjoyed informal guides, but oddly enough I share your frustration.

Heck, I loved "Learn You a Haskell," yet this one reads very patronizing for some reason, and I can't figure out why.
You cannot exaggerate what rsync can do... I use it to backup my almost full 120gb Kubuntu system disk daily, and it goes through 700k files in ~ 2-3 minutes. Oh, and it does it live, while I'm working.
"What we want from Apple isn't new technology. We want human warmth — a possibility of living a more fulfilled, meaningful life."

I think this sums up nicely what's wrong here: The belief that technology will make your life more fulfilled or meaningful. I didn't watch the live keynote (I don't have the required Apple gear) but saw excerpts on Youtube, and frankly, I find the level of religiousness surrounding this event appalling. Maybe I'm just old-fashioned, but I really don't like how emotionally charged most products are today, in the sense that they are supposed to not only solve a technological problem, but at the same time fulfill a social or even religious role and provide "human warmth", as the author puts it. It's not only Apple who does this (BMW comes to mind with their Mini commercials), but it seems they perfected this art to a point where their events have more resemblance to a Lenie Riefenstahl movie than a trade show (no comparison intended beyond the aesthetics of the presentation). And does technology actually live up to the promise? Studies show that, although we have more superficial interactions through technology, the number of close friends diminishes and more and more people become socially isolated. Take the metro / subway in any big, affluent city these days, and look around you. What do you see? People whose eyes are glued to their phone screens, oblivious to the persons around them, looking for "human warmth" in their virtual companion. That's really not the society I want to live in.

Sorry for the rant, I just think that especially people who are very savvy and enthusiastic about technology and full of entrepreneurial spirit (like most readers of HN) are especially susceptible to this kind of religious admiration of technology and should sometimes take a step back to ask themselves what kind of society they're actually creating with their actions.
Thank god Apple doesn't follow advice given by bloggers on the internet. Release one watch? Seriously? The wide variety of options is one of the reasons Apple has a shot at getting people to adopt smart watches when everyone else has failed so far. It's why they invited fashion industry people, and it's why many of them loved it. A wearable is a fashion accessory first and foremost. When it comes to looks, people like options - we've seen this with the iPhone. People quickly got bored of black, then they got bored of white. Most people also accessorise with cases, not to protect their device, but for aesthetic reasons and individuality.

As for all the 'Jobs wouldn't have done that' BS, how do you know? There's a reason Jobs told them not to do what he would do but to do their own thing. Not even Jobs new what he wanted. He changed his opinion regularly: no video iPods, then he released a video iPod. No bigger screen iPhone, then the iPhone 5.

This is one of those things that you look at and think you could do better but in reality dozens of the worlds smartest people have spent years researching and working on it and they have very good reasons for not doing the ideas you've come up with in 4 days.
Hi Walter,

Curator = Creates a page about a subject using his knowledge

Publisher = Creates a linkblock or uses existing linkblock of curator and embeds this on his website (widget)

Reader clicks on link in widget -> revenue to publisher

Reader clicks on curator name at the bottom of the widget -> goes to the ZEEF page the widget originates from

Reader clicks on link on the page -> revenue to curator
Did Google create a better smartwatch interface than Apple?
California Threatens to Shut Down Uber's New Carpooling Service
I think you have a small layout bug on your website: When you mouseover the animated stick man at the bottom of the page some text pops up, but it's in the top-left corner of the page and half off the page (tested in IE11, Chrome and Firefox).
Ah, always look for confounders :)
Credits - A built from scratch cryptocurrency that seeks to solve a few pain points with current cryptocurrencies.

* Aiming for instantaneous(ish) transaction confirmations.

* Much easier and safer to develop against the protocol than Satoshi clients.

* New consensus algorithm that doesn't require paying $2 million per day in electricity and hardware to secure the network.

http://getcredits.io
https://github.com/CryptoCredits/credits
Bear in mind this is from a website called 'phandroid' and is therefore unlikely to be impartial. However the screenshots are rather interesting.

If you sent them back in time a couple of years and asked someone to pick which side was more 'Apple'-ey, would they choose the left or right?
I'm working on a Chrome extension for Gmail. The main feature is Tab completion of templates. If you do a lot of Gmail it might save you a lot of time:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quicktext-for-chro...
Dozens of soldiers in Israeli SIGINT Unit 8200 refuse to wiretap Palestinians
I posted this a few days ago....

What would todays presentation would have looked like if Steve Jobs was still around?
-There would have been fewer leaks before the big unveiling.

-There would have been fewer features mentioned in the presentation.

-There would have been fewer features in the product in favor of a faster ship date.

-There would have been fewer choices in terms of colors, straps and models.

This is a totally unfair comparison, especially as I don't work at Apple and have yet to wear the device.

But I think we are all wondering, can Apple continue to innovate as successfully without Steve around?
Why Africa Must Invest in Intellectual Capital, Not Natural Resources
It would be good if it faded into the next song rather than have the 1-2 sec delay while it switches to the next video.
Out of interest, if Yahoo had continued on this path who would the USG put in prison for the noncompliance? The CEO? If so, the FISA ruling isn't that secret anymore, if the CEO of a global firm gets put in prison. Would have been fascinating to see a CEO play that out. Suicidal, but interesting nevertheless.

Notably:

June 18, 2007: Yahoo! co-founder Jerry
Yang replaces Terry Semel as CEO.

Assuming this process started whilst Semel was still onboard, Yang took over the reins and continued the fight.
>> "Take the metro / subway in any big, affluent city these days, and look around youself. What do you see? People whose eyes are glued to their phone screens, oblivious to the people around them, looking for "human warmth" in their virtual companion. That's really not the society I want to live in."

I agree with a lot of what you said but this isn't correct. True we all have out faces buried in our devices but before that we had them buried in newspapers. [0][1][2] No matter the decade people don't look for human warmth on public transport. They want to get on, look down, and get off.

[0] http://img.qz.com/2014/01/baghi49cyaaz2ps.jpg?w=1024&h=714
[1] http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/05/01/article-2137695-12...
[2] https://www.wodumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Riders-...
Bill Gross tries again with IdeaMarket
I can count the number of multiple-choice tests I had on the fingers of my hands, and all of them were tests preparing for tech certifications.

When discussing the multiple choice format between students, we've always thought that it's way easier to get the guess the right answer between choices than to show how you got there.

It's even worse outside of math classes, say history, and you're asked "when did $COUNTRY get its independence", obviously, it's much easier when you have a list of choices to choose from.
http://dineserve.com

We're building a marketplace where chefs buy local ingredients directly from purveyors.

Our complementary back-of-the-house app for iOS has 500+ MAU and we're adding ordering functionality to it this month!

We'll also open our API once we have enough restaurants and purveyors onboard that will allow developers to mine our growing dataset.

Looking for help and also would love to hear how developers want to use our data! Shoot me an email if you're interested in chatting at kirill@[projectname].com.
You forgot a link to the Hello world example :)
More like what am I "writing"!

I am writing a free ebook on Ionic Framework / Angular / Firebase. Check it out http://www.innovie.com/

I will post on Amazon soon but subscribe to get early preview.
Thanks for the update... added it to the article. :-)
To indict.
If you're only going after Al Capone because you can't get him for other crimes and other tax evaders go free that's still selective enforcement.
Similar to: http://admin.infrno.net/startup_job_explorer/api.html
This seems to be fundamental problem with programming texts. I was reading a couple of javascript books recently (eloquent javascript and javascript allonge) and I was struck by the sheer amount of background knowledge you needed to have.

Most of that I've picked up over the last 20 years, but not all of it (or else I wouldn't be reading the books) so I constantly felt like I was having something I knew explained to me in too much detail or having crazy new concepts thrown at me without enough context.

I mostly felt sorry for total newcomers, particularly as I realised most of my knowledge was historical trivia or workarounds rather than actual useful. Once I noticed the above, the amount of crufty irrelevances we have to deal with became obvious, and that's doubly true in JS for the browser.

My only constructive thought was to break things into smaller skippable sections. I personally would skim rather than skip, but advanced warning that the section would only cover stuff I thought I already knew would be helpful.
By which he means, not nearly anything close to what could even remotely be considered enough.

We in the EU like to smugly look at the USA with an air of superiority. But we're not much different — there is a small group that is outraged, and most people simply don't care.
We're scratching our own itch and we're building Pushline

http://www.getpushline.com/

It's an Android to Mac/PC notification mirroring and device control app.

Still in some sort of public beta, accepting feedbacks, enjoying the engineering challenge behind it, figuring out what matters most to us in order to build it next.
Please Rust-lang, why, oh why, do you choose to name function 'fn' and module 'mod', dont you expect to read any of the programs you write!?

How is anyone supposed to read fn main(). Fun main? Fen main? F of N? Is it related to ln in println?

Ive tried rust, but it just doesnt parse well in my mind. More time is spent for me parseing out the bullshit terse keywords than the meaning of the program.

Ada gets this right, there you have to write exactly what you mean, end begin, if then. Simple clear.

Terseness, shorts and abbrevations, thts now hw you wrt anyng.
I think you've just agreed with the OP's premise. Your criteria for A-player is that they be adaptable. You hire people who are adaptable and you're happy with those people because they meet your criteria.

But other employers have different criteria. Some value productivity over adaptability: they like people who can product vast amounts of value in a specific set of circumstances, and they're happy to ensure those circumstances are met. The classic example of this is the "no social skills" code geek who can churn out vast amounts of production code but is totally unable to handle a meeting with a customer to agree requirements.

I agree with your sentiment about loving work. That point of Flow where work and play meet is where people get to shine and be great. But it's a different place for everyone, and some are not that adaptable.
Not if you're Chinese, or Abyssinian.

The conflicts that became WWII started at different times in different places.
A Biomimetic high-dimensional vector space : deep learning JSON API
http://admin.infrno.net/startup_job_explorer/api.html
In an era of 'parallel construction', you build a separate case and use that as leverage.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
You just know these bankers loved the cloak and dagger stuff in combination with a high profile consumer company. I love how the CFO was signaled that it was OK to talk when a deputy of theirs took a green apple out of her bag and put it on a table.
http://rushapp.co

Rush is Spritz powered speed reading app for iOS.
I've always been fascinated with speed reading. Decided to build this a couple of months back.

Dev work is finished. Getting ready for launch.
So, don't communicate with the shareholders of a public company outside of official company channels. That's a fairly easy rule.
Sounds like a great idea, sort of like a non-romantic version of Tinder for hackers.
I am writing a Wavelet Transform and de-noising library over OpenCV. Its fun but tough.
Brief Introduction to NoSQL
oh fuck off steve jobs thought u were dead and world was better without u!
Would be interested to have a chat. Can you send me email so we can have skype call? Always good to have some expert advice :) frido.van.driem@zeef.com.
We launched a jobs board for the Finance industry earlier this week:

https://www.financejobs.co :)

If you're in the finance space, email me (in my profile) for a great deal you can't refuse!
You can pre-order using an iPhone or an iPad. The iPhone ran out of stock very quickly, but the store on the iPad still had some more.
A how-to guide for technical founders that suddenly have to hire and manage a development team.
A reStructuredText derivative – Kaj Markup Language. (My personal taste. :P)

https://github.com/jakwings/Kaj-Markup-Language (demo including)

It is almost done, and has a JavaScript/Node.js implementation), but documentations are not ready.
I'm fairly certain that, at least when I was using it a year or so ago, the Duolingo website was better than the Android app. So it's odd that they chose this as one of the first apps to port.

Maybe the Android app had better offline support?
Software-wise, just got a few scrappy demos I've thrown together. One creates an RSS feed for YouTube channels so you can subscribe to them as video podcasts. Problem is, it relies on hot-linking Google's servers and I'm sure it breaks all sorts of conditions in their Terms of Service. Still, want to finish it so I can at least use it myself.

Outside of that, I'm working on a screencast series for the Meteor JavaScript framework:

http://meteortips.com/screencasts

Launches in a few days. Then I'll start working on the next update to my (free) book about Meteor:

http://meteortips.com/book

:)
Are you launching this specific to SF, or other cities as well?
JobCrawler: http://admin.infrno.net/startup_job_explorer/
not a book, by a slide deck I cam across yesterday on OO design from Arduino perspective https://speakerdeck.com/supherman/object-oriented-design-the...
Built and launched http://www.encorebeat.com in the past couple weeks. We found that finding new, good electronic dance music is very time-consuming/difficult, so we built a Product Hunt for EDM.

It got a great reception on PH itself!
http://yathletics.com - a men's activewear company that's going to make only one product per category.

I think apparel brands offer too many choices so I'm creating a brand that keeps it simple but at the same time invests in making very high quality products. For ex: the first product we launched is our athletic shirt - SilverAir. It's made using silver which kills the odor-causing bacteria in your sweat, so you can wear the shirt for the entire day and feel fresh, or reuse the shirt more often (i do).

The fabric is completely new and something we made from scratch. Without letting cost be a factor, we sourced some of the best yarns you can buy and achieved a feel that is super comfortable while being lightweight and breathable. To manufacture, we use seamless knitting machines so the body of the shirt does not have any stitches on it. (trust me, the silver is what sells but the most loved feature by our customers is the material and how you feel as if you're not wearing anything - in a good way)
I've been working on a video course for conversion optimization in software companies, and it's been taking much longer than I expected. There's no convenient way to show-and-tell, other than an email mini-course I made for it, and I don't want to link to that for fear of shilling.

What does it do? Ideally, get J. Random Product Person at a software company up to the point where they can confidently A/B test the marketing site and increase sales of the company.

What problem does it solve? "We know we should be A/B testing but we don't know how to get started." and "So we did A/B tests, and had a few results, and we think the business is better off than it was before, but we're not sure, and we're not confident that 'throw stuff at the wall' is the best way to go about this. Do you have any suggestions?", which are the two most common pieces of feedback from software companies about A/B testing I've had in the last, oh, five years or so.

When will it launch? Last August ^H^H December ^H^H May ^H^H July ^H^H I'm really hoping to ship it before Halloween.
An integrated party lighting / video projection software that listens to music real-time and allows synchronization to different metrical levels.

Website: http://wavesum.net

Here I tutorial for some of the video control stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02TU6ysHIW4
The DMX lighting part is in progress.

All feedback is welcome.
thats actually pretty good

i too believe in the single device. and explaining why its been made.
otherwise, apple is another samsung.

heck i dont even own any apple product but thats still something i liked and respected.

turns out my next phone is the ze compact. close to the perfect size. :p
Print them.

Pick out once picture from your last batch, print it, and display it somewhere you can see it.

The hundreds of others won't matter - they will never be seen again. But the one that you print, that you can actually see, that'll remind you why you're taking pictures in the first place.
I am developing a a bucket list application,
http://calm-gorge-2271.herokuapp.com
Is a web application which creates a bucketlist for you and provides you a list of ideas which user can add to their list.
It allows user to add a target date and date of achievement for their ideas.
Still under development phase and looking to complete within a month,also figuring out other featu
res like giving ratings when user completes their bucketlist idea!
Vimtronner: A Multiplayer, CLI Vim Trainer Built on Node.js and Socket.io
Does "cerebellar agenesis" sound English to you? Almost all things in medicine have almost universal names derived from Greek and/or Latin. Of course, until a few hundred years ago it was because those were the languages of science; these days the terms still fill the same purpose as they did back then - providing a common vocabulary for people from diverse origins.
> Apple doesn't give a shit about old iPhones

..

> my almost 3-year old iphone 4S is still getting updates the same day a new phone does

..

>great, so we agree

No. I don't think you do.
I am working on a platform that helps you to write unit tests for your application code. Unit testing is currently yet another code base that you have to maintain and change each time you change your main code base. There is surely value in it, but I believe that we dont extract extra value out of them than mere assertions.

http://www.dhi.io
HowTo: Androguard with Docker
If you visit Bellingham, you'd do well to visit one of the best brewpubs on the West Coast: Boundary Bay Brewery, home to award-winning IPAs (often available from the cask) and a surprisingly-solid menu.

With a university and proximity to Seattle and Vancouver, I'm not too surprised to see a nascent techie scene. A little stimulus would be good for the local economy, which has been quite depressed.
Linux too, please? An REST API would be sweet.
I'm working on a game that reads the files and folders in your computer and generates a Huge castle based on it:
http://adventuros.evelend.com/blog/
Cocoa Developers – Everything about Swift in one overview