skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Paperclip.js: Compiled templates for the Browser, and Node.js
Regarding Carousel: it was only in the past few weeks that they finally got around to letting users exempt content.

I really wanted to like Carousel. I've tried several times, but somewhere in my Dropbox are a mess of backed up websites, most of which aren't even mine. Scrolling through the very lovely Carousel views wasn't quite as rewarding as the demos when the photos I cared about were mixed up with stock photo thumbnails, web graphics and other junk.

Dropbox bought cloud photo services SnapJoy and Loom, they've got good people. But the letting the ability to filter content fall by the wayside for years was a terrible failure of design and likely contributed to Carousel's foundering.
Our thesis is that storing and analyzing ad hoc data is not a solved problem -- while it may be pretty easy at some scales, it is rather hard at others.

Keen IO takes an API-based approach to the problem, which means:

- developer abstractions are higher level than rolling your own

- scalability is as easy as "my bill went up" (as opposed to "my ALTER statements stopped working!" or "I need to leave mongo and buy a book on distributed system engineering!"

- ability to cover new/emergent use cases is a lot higher than you would get with an off-the-shelf analytics product
As a developer, does it make sense to build shopify apps? Curious to hear about shopify apps and its ecosystem
Love the first part of this story. Managers should see to the morale of their team's morale - some variety and entertainment amid all the hustle, not to mention ensuring that everyone's eating and exercising, getting enough sunshine will do the company a lot of good.
Design never had a seat at the table to begin with. The very idea of having design goals is largely anathema to most companies, they could never imagine actually letting a product dictate organizational proceedings.

The goal is to make money, not make a product. To make money, you figure out where to jam a lever in, then pry as much cash flow as you can from it. This is why people are worried about SEO rather than UX.

Design does not work as a competing voice in a cacaphony. It has to be the only voice, the main voice. Design is the table. That was what Jobs understood, that's what he built into his company, that's why Apple is still killing it.
Those economics change drastically when cheap, mass storage of electricity is available. Spend all day charging your batteries with solar and wind, then discharge them in the evening. You could afford to underbid conventional fuels with renewables at similar margins and still negative-price nuclear. But that's the great thing about capitalism: it adapts to small efficiency gains in commodities production very quickly.
Looking at the first few cars listed on that page – it looks like each has stats that sum to exactly 300, so this may have been a hardcoded limit preventing what you describe.
Learning languages the natural way
Lawyer representing whistle blowers finds malware on drive supplied by cops
[note: I work at Keen and have a lot of biases :)]

The main alternative to Keen IO is to build your own backend. Some developers will always prefer that, but many folks don't have the time & resources to devote to constructing & maintaining an analytics backend. Here are some things that people appreciate about Keen IO:

- The ability to start collecting & querying their event data immediately & easily

- Keen's uptime and reliability (transferring backend ops from their pager to ours).

- Not having to worry about scalability. For customers who are collecting billions of events per month and planning to double in less than a year, data challenges are less trivial.

- A point and click query interface that can be used by some non-devs to run analysis, create graphs, extract data, etc

- Query & visualization libraries that allow you to create reporting interfaces (websites/dashboards/customer-facing-analytics) much more quickly

- A growing inventory of features & open source tools that build on the API (scoped keys, caching, notifications, dashboard templates, etc)
The only appropriate correction is to remove bias. That's it. That's the only morally defensible goal. Trying to get a numerical balance isn't feminism, it's metric-based thinking, optimizing the thing that's easy to measure. It's a fallacy in measuring productivity and it's a fallacy here.

How about this: Should we mandate a numerical balance between men and women in grade school teachers? Should we not hire qualified women until there's a 1:1 ratio between men to women in K-6 education? Why or why not?
Moley Robotics' Robot Chef Makes Gourmet Food
Isn't Tomato way out of date? Wikipedia shows the last stable release was almost 5 years ago, and the website shows no dates on its releases (not a good sign). I ran Tomato for a long time and loved it, but I just got too nervous running such old software as the gateway to my network. Ended up upgrading to a cheap TP-Link router, switching to the latest and greatest OpenWRT release, and haven't had any complaints at all.
Percona Acquires Tokutek to Move onto MongoDB and NoSQL
Docker Raises $95M Because Silicon Valley Loves Containers
"amendments to streamline" oxymoron?
Silly question perhaps… If alternative energy sources in combination with batteries increase independence from those who supply it, and reduced demand during peak times allows rates to fall, isn't there a point where investments in infrastructure (or maintenance thereof) will stop being profitable, etc etc.
What thin client that can run Pfsense is $40?
> culture of elitism

Reality is elitist. You either know how to do things or you don't, and if you don't, you fail. Sometimes you fail anyway. That's elitism.
I've seen their ads follow me all over the internet, if you go and start something on their website they wont give up easy.
Okay, I'll bite. How is a blog-meets-magazine website going to help me with "learning languages the natural way"?
That's Healthkit land. It should.
There is if you expect anyone to take you seriously.
Where in Mexico is this?
The goal is to make a great product that makes money. Its not one or the other. Design by definition sits in the middle of business requirements and user needs. Otherwise its just art.
Perhaps that's not the end of the world. Is Google's primary burden to growth their quality of engineering? I doubt it, so weighing the entire interview on coding skills seems like a mistake, one that is compounded by creating a homogenous culture where everyone has the same blind spots.
Show HN: Funge++, a procedural Befunge-93 Extension
So I got inspired today, and threw this together.

it's a procedural extension of the Befunge-93 language called Funge++

Linked, you'll find the open source C++ interpreter I made for it, FungePP. (you'll have to build from source, as I've only compiled and tested it for 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04 )

The key change is the addition of the gate control or 'H' which has the following behavior, "pop y, x, and d. move the PC to x,y with direction d%4 where 0=N,1=E,2=S,3=W"

With this addition, (essentially a goto) Fungoid programmers like myself can now implement the procedural programming paradigm. I've attached some sample Funge++ programs to both demonstrate the gate, and backwards compatability with Befunge-93

https://github.com/CzechsMix/FungePP
GAO says newer aircraft are vulnerable to hacking from wifi
I think the difference between $500 and $40 won't be liked much in most of the u.s. since people get much more value from a full line braille machine. But i could be wrong - but to save yourself a lot of work, maybe it would be easier to ask blind people for their opinion , maybe in (reddit.com/r/blind , or quora) ?

An alternative could be talking with blind people in the third world, maybe this single cell solution would be good enough for them ?

The other option is to really work on basic mechanisms to make the basic cell far cheaper. For example [1] , which uses electrodes and small electric current as the basic sensations(not sure if good idea).

Also , there's a company called senseg doing tactile displays for tablets. Since tablets have quite a large area(and the price of components is highly constrained), and a braille strip could need far less,maybe they could offer a cost competitive solution. And they also have an sdk(and maybe tablets).

[1]http://aac-rerc.psu.edu/wordpressmu/RESNA-SDC/2013/06/19/pan...
I guess you can run afl-fuzz along side LLVM's LibFuzzer for even better results. Fuzzing is getting very interesting. =)

http://llvm.org/docs/LibFuzzer.html
I don't know. Aren't there are also plenty of recent successes that owe a lot of their success to good design? This feels like an attempt to slap on a grand narrative when it's really nothing more than "most new products fail". More relevant would be a study of the exceptional cases--successes--to see if there's a correlation with an improving standard of design.
That would be the "reanimated" part of "reanimated corpse"; I think you've significantly misinterpreted my point there. MariaDB is not dead; it's undead. A zombie. Or perhaps resurrected and now serving as a database messiah. Whatever the case, it's the end-result of something that's dead (MySQL) no longer being dead.
Agreed - I've been using SockJS for a while and haven't had any issues. It's got a super-simple API. (intended to be as close to the WebSocket API as possible)

If your language of choice has a SockJS implementation, I'd recommend it as a first option.
> I agree with the author that a guy is a man is a guy.

This depends on dialect, and saying that some dialects are wrong, or sexist, is bigoted in a "regionalist" fashion.
I'm not a part of this conversation but I was assuming you were playing the role of the condescending nerd who tells other people how to think. was I wrong?
He probably just doesn't like Mach. I don't blame 'im; L4 is far superior.
Ah, I see. Still, 1000 USD a month is still quite affordable... more affordable then I'd have thought. Thank you for the clarification.
"It has to be the only voice"... what?

I'm a product manager at a tech company, and the job is listening to that cacophony & prioritizing. Sometimes that's design, sometimes not. It's not black and white
This is actually much worse than it could be, because of this:

> • Treating all short-term rental hosts equally by striking the current difference in the law between “hosted” and “un-hosted” short-term rentals.

Hosted rentals SHOULD have lesser regulation and restrictions. Nobody's going to turn your spare bedroom into a meth lab with you in the apartment. Most of the negative externalities of these types of rentals come when people are able to provide 'unhosted' rentals.
I am reminded of Scheiner's adage that we live in an age of data pollution, like Victorian smogs and it takes real pea-soupers like this to make us think there might be better ways.

I mean - that is dumb by anyone's standards.
For sites created by an agency, making a web page is still a combination of designer and programmer tasks. Some people do both task types but it's usually a division of labor.

Generally, each page type (template) is drawn at a desktop and mobile resolution to dial in the responsive experience and visual elements on the page. Designers have personal app preferences but it's always something from the Creative Suite - Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign or Fireworks. Some people tinker with wireframing or prototype apps but I've found them distracting.

We sketch wireframes on a paper and go right to coding for something small or internal. When client approval is needed there is always a polished design presented in PDF or PNG with notes explaining the intended functionality.

I like editing in Coda (paid) and Brackets (free). Classic WYSIWYG programs like Dreamweaver are being replaced with interactive apps like Adobe Muse or hybrid custom-hosted templates like Squarespace.

There are so many good CSS frameworks available that you can learn one and make an excellent page in a day. We use Bootstrap for the full blown responsive CSS/HTML/JS framework and Susy for a CSS-only Sass system.

Our new interns start by learning these paid HTML Foundations and Bootstrap courses. https://www.codeschool.com/paths/html-css

Grunt, Bower and Yeoman are the command line tools we use. Grunt helps you automate tasks like minifying your code to save file size or update your browser live while writing HTML, CSS and JS. Brackets has Grunt built in so local page refreshing already works. Bower lets you install lots of well tested CSS and JS (with version dependencies). Yeoman lets you create the shell of that "pro" web page or app from the command line, leveraging Grunt and Bower.
I hope you are right and I hope it works out but I am skeptical.

I will give you a simple example. If you get a random sample of people in the US, I am afraid more than 90% of them won't even understand that investing 5K in a neighbor's kid's shiny new startup is not a binary proposition (invest or don't invest); one actually is buying N of something (shares, options, warrants, etc) for those 5K, with all sorts of properties like seniority, etc, etc, etc.

Regular people can understand a loan - I give a neighbor's kid 5K and get back 5K+3% in 1 year. But equity-based investment is significantly harder to grasp.
I don't think it's fair to judge Paper too harshly based upon download metrics -- if I had to guess, Paper was an experiment designed to produce two things: a working prototype of a modernized Facebook UX as "something to point at" for further thinking, and tooling/processes that would allow the wider company to iterate towards that vision in their main app. The idea that Paper was intended to be a popular app, potentially outstripping the downloads, etc of the primary branded Facebook app seems far-fetched.
The reclining workspace: Why sit while you can recline while working?
Please do not use "western" when you mean "developed".
I don't know about an IPO but I was talking to a Shopify employee at Pycon and he said it's the largest Rails app in the world.
Seems a little high to me, but it does make more sense.
>Plus, who cares what the penalty is if you are playing clean?

Guilt is determined by the opinion of the officials, and not whether or not you did anything wrong.
Apple's routers are based on VxWorks. So if you trust VxWorks' networking, then you can trust Apples routers.

Personally I trust VxWorks over some patchwork router of the week by the usual vendors. It's used in many safety critical/medical applications, including the mars rovers.

The downside being that VxWorks has very low resource requirements, so some vendors use them to cut resources. Hence, You'd better be happy with the factory provided configuration because you can't flash them.
Google's revenue formula is: CTR x CPC x # of Searches. If number of searches & CPCs are under pressure then they will continue to tinker with CTRs by changing ad formats & screwing with the user experience:

https://cgviews.wordpress.com/2014/10/22/google-changing-ad-...

https://cgviews.wordpress.com/2014/10/14/changing-google-ad-...

https://cgviews.wordpress.com/2014/01/15/google-ad-changing-...

https://cgviews.wordpress.com/2014/01/15/googles-changing-ad...
The MBA title in tech already receive some scorn (deserved and not); a PhD with an MBA might be seen as overly pretentious! My guess is that many PhDs with MBAs probably don't advertise the MBA so much.
I don't see the connection between the title and the content ..

Care to explain?
Who is their main competition?

In this the online store and retail POS space I'm aware there are other operators, but Shopify is the only one I can name.

Square I guess in the POS space?
That does seem illogical. It's not some technical aspect of the law, is it, like that if you are in the house for X days of the month then any rental you have in the place that month is considered "hosted"? I'm not familiar with the wording of the law, but it could be out of date in that way or something.
Should Reddit’s powerful mods be reined in?
A great product will make money. Otherwise it wasn't a great product. You can make money without a great product, but you can't have a great product that doesn't make money. Therefore design comes first, business requirements comes second, otherwise your offerings are mediocre to bad. Like my Nexus 5.

There's this trend amongst big companies these days, particularly Google and Amazon, to come up with products that don't solve any of their customer's problems. The way these products happen is business requirements gain priority over design ideals. Someone looking at a spreadsheet looking for places to jam a lever in is choosing product direction.
Ruby-fying JavaScript: Timeout
There are forks of Tomato that have been updated much more recently. I'm running the "Toastman" build of Tomato.
Bright (YC W15) Is Hiring Its First Engineer
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We’re fun, quirky people at heart that come from a variety of backgrounds. Our team includes leaders from Chevron, Sunrun, and tiny startups, and we're supported by First Round Capital, the founders of PayPal, Sunrun, Stripe, Twitch, and many others.

You need:

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Benefits:
We may be focused on a world-changing mission, but we also reward our unbelievably talented team well!

- Highly competitive salaries / bonuses.

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Apply:
Along with your resume, please include links to any projects you've built to jonah@thinkbright.co. We particularly like living, breathing projects.
I am sad that LT didn't succeed as I hoped (I was a backer), but this email highlights a very important feature for succesful open-source projects (which LT was meant to be from the start), which is to make them accessible to other contributors.

Building your project in a niche language (not just Clojure, but ClojureScript) is a risk. Making it tough to follow the code/data flow is indeed a terrible decision (though usually a silent one as a side-effect of other architectural choices). Etc...

I'm an Emacs user, and I'm still waiting for the Next Great Editable Editor. (Though since it moved to Git [thanks ESR!], maybe Emacs itself will get a new wind)
This is probably actionable. As in lawsuit. But, that's probably too American of me to bring up. Regardless, this really sucks. Thank you for pointing it out and bringing attention to it.
One developer writing code by themselves for 2 years will almost always produce a system that they can only understand.

I did it with the Scala IDE back in 2006/2007, unfortunately, complete with mixin layer overuse.
One of the most interesting bits to me is that actual "researchers" were using the nonsense generator to pad their resumes[1]. The whole system is mind-blowingly corrupt.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/32l0ym/at_mit_we_creat...
Human Benchmark: Reaction time
Failed experiments can lead to great results down the road. I'm predicting that LT was probably totally worth it.
I think you're quite right that unhosted rentals are more problematic. Every short-term rental horror story I've heard has involved unhosted rentals.

However, from an enforcement standpoint, I can see how difficult it could potentially be to have to make distinctions in each and every case. If a host is there to let you in the door and then leaves, is that a "hosted" rental? Does the host need to be in the apartment 100% of the time you're there to count as a "hosted" rental? What if he steps out for an hour? Does the host need to employ some sort of time tracking system as evidence of his presence? What if a host and a guest dispute the amount of time the host is present?
A case against using Protobuf for transport in REST Services
I wonder where this "length blindness" comes from, since it certainly leads to a lot of vulnerabilities. Are these programmers who started with a higher-level language than C, one with dynamically sized strings that automatically expand? Do they even know how big the buffer is, or how long the input string could conceivably be? Did they ever consider the case where the input is very, very long?

A funny analogy I've heard is "programmers who don't know the size of their buffers are like drivers who don't know the size of their cars."
I wonder which vendors have the best firmware.
Weirdly, IBAN numbers do not have an agreed international standard beyond the country code and checksum. I guess Finish IBANs are slightly more amenable to brute forcing than UK - but only by 26 digits.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Bank_Account_Nu...
I think it'd be more productive if the city was more focused on improving regulation to build more housing in the city for actual residents rather than trying to stem the loss of units to permanent Airbnb'ing. It seems like every policy maker and lobbying group seems to be ignoring the biggest elephant in the room which is this city needs dramatically MORE HOUSING than it is building (and the infrastructure that goes along with it).

Build more housing please.
I wonder if we have a new problem: silently breaking stuff?
Note that the SQLite authors intentionally did that. It runs on many many systems including ones with trivial amounts of RAM. They have ancient compilers. I've waged a many year campaign to get them to at least use size_t and similar "modern" constructs, but no dice.

They also only use techniques that are at least 20 years old, to avoid patent issues.
Some competitors:

Magento / Magento Go
oscommerce
woocommerce
etsy
squarespace
prestashop
opencart
Wordpress has shopping chart as well.

There are a ton of existing POS providers for stores, more than one can name.
Good article.

I'd suggest that your strongest points are:

1. "Traction trumps all." Demonstrable opportunity is the primary currency.

2. "Be a nice person." Successful people don't like to work with assholes.

3. "Prepare, and be brief." Anything that doesn't add significant value needs to come out of your pitch.

4. "Don’t be deterred by interruptions." These are opportunities. Think of these as buying questions. If they're asking you questions, they're telling you what you need to do to convince them to believe in you.

Good luck all in the next round or other endeavors!
This seems like a narrow definition. A product can be great in the sense of solving an important problem brilliantly but be ahead of its time or not well marketed or not economical to produce.

To me, solving a problem really well is what makes a product great. Making money is certainly related, but it's a distinct challenge.
Is your point that everyone has the same financial judgement, or that homeless people as a group have no better or worse financial judgement than anyone else? Or something else?