skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think branding is the hard part either, but it does take some non-trivial amount of time to build up a brand that becomes a common household name. I was merely pointing out that some of the existing content publishers aren't that far away from figuring it out, and they have excellent existing brands on their side.

Interestingly, old publishing technology (delivering a mass-produced hard copy into people's hands with no way to electronically communicate a typeset soft copy) essentially acted as an anti-trust barrier for newspaper publishers - having a national newspaper monopoly was not feasible (unless a magnate would buy up every local newspaper in the country). Today there is no such limitation - there's no reason for multiple newspaper publishers to exist, in the same way there is no reason for multiple video streaming sites to exist - YouTube can take it all. I don't think we can call this a solved problem until there's a YouTube for news content.

I can't wait for a startup (or for one of the existing publishers) to establish an infrastructure compelling enough for all of the best writers from all newspapers to switch to it (in addition to a huge number of really good guest authors who aren't professional journalists). It drives me crazy that the NYT is sitting on an excellent brand and a perfect position to do it, and they're basically doing nothing about it. They hire great journalists, and provide a medium for great guest authors, but they just won't take the leap and take this to it's logical extreme. When this happens, the poor excuse for good journalism we call "news" can finally die off and we'll be left to consume really good, valuable content.
I can't believe this made BBC. My sites have been pirated several times.

http://novaurora.com (original)
http://person-design.com/ (chinese knockoff)

As lead designer at Mint.com the site design/code was copied a half dozen times that I knew about.
I understand the issues with the pre-processor, but I still think C is better off with it than without it. I know it can be abused horrifically but it can also be abused in really nice and convenient ways. If you construct you macros right they can be useful or even wonderful. In that sense the pre-processor is very C-like.

The things that makes macros actually nice are some of the gcc extensions, like the ({ }) block expression syntax and typeof().
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As long as "anyone" == "Accredited investor", I believe that's mostly true:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accredited_investor
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On second thought, ideally these should be different options. When used in a module we add our own function wrapper but still want the "var"s. In the REPL we don't want the "var"s (making the safety wrapper useless, but harmless)
It already works on Narwhal (http://narwhaljs.org). See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1014508
CoffeeScript's now up to 0.1.3, which includes --interactive to launch a CoffeeScript REPL, and --run to compile and execute scripts in a single pass. Both options depend on a working Narwhal installation.
Be careful with __proto__, it's non-standard and will break in some engines.
Most definitely. Looks like there are hundreds of products actively on sale there Right Now.

If you got that far without marketing, finding someone who's got those marketing skills and will but is looking for something pre-built to start from and expand upon will be fairly trivial, those people exist, lots of them in fact.
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Come to think of it, you could pull a minor publicity stunt (and attract more buyers) by simply putting Onista up for sale on... Onista.
It seems you should use "Horse extends Animal.prototype" in your examples or just make "Horse extends Animal" compile to "Horse.prototype.__proto__ = Animal.prototype". Also a subclass constructor should call the one of the superclass. Otherwise, a single Animal instance is shared by all subclass instances and for no reason Animal is created simply to declare a subclass.
To get the equivalent of __proto__ that works in every engine see goog.inherits from Closure.
Sweet!

Now, add a minifying pass after compilation for deployment and you'll have created a dream platform for client-side scripting (-:

edit: another suggestion since one of your goals is terseness: you may want to alias "prototype" to "proto".

edit2: as much as I like the column for asignment (present in both JS itself and Ruby 1.9), I'm not really fan of the +:, -:, etc. combined operators, at least in a math context. &&: and ||: look fine though so it's perhaps a matter of getting used to it.

edit3: I just discover your underscore.js library. Do you plan to include it in the CoffeScript standard lib?

edit4: oh... And I hope you like the color of this brand new bikeshed I just built in front of your coffe shop ;-)
I don't even mean to be so down on the 787. For what it is, it seems like a cool step forward. I'm more upset about it being 2010 and there being no Mars bases, floating robot cities, etc. There were some pretty clear promises made about the future when we were kids that have really fizzled.
Making the size part of the type is a useful feature in some cases. The compiler can benefit from this information to optimize the data structure and its manipulation.

The exponential grow of CPU processing power has led to discard such optimizations in benefit of code simplicity. But hand held devices with limited energy, computing and storage capacity may put it back into perspective.
When this happens, the poor excuse for good journalism we call "news" can finally die off and we'll be left to consume really good, valuable content.

I guess I'm drifting a little more off topic, but oh well.

Do you think there is potential for harm in a model where straight news isn't presented? One of the advantages of instant news is that there is little time for someone to weave their own views into what they write[1]. Despite how much I enjoy The Economist, its impossible to call their writing unbiased.

[1] I suppose its possible to take the opposite view on this. A responsible journalist will try to keep their views out of the article, but that is difficult and takes time, so their instant writing will be full of personal views. I guess it depends on how opinionated the journalist is on the news they are reporting and how unbiased they want to be.
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The real problem here is that there is an incentive for everyone except the donor. The hospitals make lots of money. The doctors make lots of money. The patient gets a new organ. Even the organ transport companies get paid.

But the organ donor gets nothing.

In Iran, they made it legal for organ donors or their families to be compensated and the waitlist for organs cleared out in one day!

How's that for an incentive.
Absolutely, no problem on that front.

You'd probably have to hit NL with some pretty high powered nukes to leave me without a backup, one in Groningen, one in Amsterdam and one in Landgraaf, that's a triangle roughly 200 km on each side.

But it still feels pretty dumb.
Some ideas that quickly come to mind.

Number of bugs caught in test. Number of lines of code written, fewer would be better, but it's difficult to measure this, because more functionality is often correlated to lines of code.

Number of hours of maintenance required after release. Bugs found after release. Downtime caused by code written by the developer. Amount of time projects are delayed due to the developer. Number of hours or days code is ready before deadline. Speed of the application or functionality they write. Longevity of the code.
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There's a classic experiment where people turn some pegs a quarter turn for an hour or so. There were three groups, the first was paid a dollar, the second $20, and third was control, paid nothing. Of the three groups, which do you think enjoyed the work the most?

Well, the one dollar group said they enjoyed it the most and indicated they were most likely to do an experiment like it in the future? Why? You can read more here: http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Festinger/

So what this says is, when you get paid enough money, you can admit to yourself that what you are doing for the money isn't that great and you don't like it. If you aren't paid that much, then you have to justify to yourself why you are doing it and this might include that you enjoy it, you're helping a group, "doing your part," or some other reason besides being fairly compensated. Otherwise, you'd say, "I do it for the money."

I wonder if collectively, programmers/hackers/IT people work for less than their value and so they (we) compensate for the lack of compensation with "passion for the work."
Heh I appreciate the intention and Merry Christmas to you too, but is this really needed on HN or worth karma?
Merry Christmas to you!
Given the mysterious and timely conversion of the site's stylesheet to a Christmas theme, I'd say it's appropriate enough.
Yeah definitely, just like for karma to loosely match someone's contributions. Would have no problem if pg posted this. Oh well it's all good fun :-)
Very true. Between Rewire and Cubase you had almost a complete music studio as early as 1996.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCycle_%28software%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubase#Cubase_VST3.0_Macintosh
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We don't have Christmas here, so, happy holiday everyone!
Happy non-denominational holiday, which I will spend celebrating family :)
I was looking through the Etherpad blog today and came across your exact idea: http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/embedding-etherpad

The etherpad blog is actually an extension of etherpad itself, but they didn't include the blog template in the open source release (the guts are there, just not the UI). Anybody want to poke them and see why it didn't get added?
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Which issues has the preprocessor ?
I tend to ask, not how you use the framework, but rather how the framework works. How does routing actually work? How do named scopes work? How would you implement the {before|after} filters on models... etc.

It's actually somewhat more difficult to tell whether someone knows how to use Rails well. My only suggestion is to sit down in front of an editor with them and work through actually building something small but meaningful.
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I thought this was going to be about Ocarina. Building on Mario 64 it pretty much set the standard for 3d combat that is still used.
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Have a little generosity :) I would give you some of my karma if I could.
It is really an instance of the same problem. Walther Brights "fat pointer" proposal would give you length embedded strings for free.
I'd ask the candidate to pair program with a developer for a week. You'll know immediately if the candidate can integrate with the team. Plus it'll reveal his knowledge during the session.
Could be wrong, but I think the question was "what interview questions?" The interview is, for argument's sake, the second screen (the first one being the review of the cover letter/email and resume/cv or whatever). The third screen might be an audition or trial, such as you've described.
I wish I had the time to sit down with every candidate and program with them for a week :) Unfortunately, none of us do, so I'm looking to come up with a handful of questions that can effectively weed out the inexperienced from the experienced as early as possible in the hiring process.
+1. though not fully committed mytime to move my services and stuff to prgmr servers yet, still it is/was much more fun and trust building when communicating with a real person while trying to solve issues.
They don't necessarily have to be questions like "How does routing work in Rails?", they could be "interactive" questions that involve writing a relatively small amount of code (e.g. write a Generator to do X).
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2. Get into shape (again).

3. Eat better.

4. Learn economics.

5. Learn more about algorithms.
(might as well reply to myself!)

I finished the postgres support today along with a sane one step installer. Give it a try.
Do you think there is potential for harm in a model where straight news isn't presented?

I don't think straight news will disappear, to the contrary, I think the volume and level of detail of straight news will increase exponentially. It will just move to Twitter (or a similar platform). Build a good UI for Twitter trending topics, and you've got straight news. But I do think there will be little money for straight news content providers, since anyone can post a tweet - all the money in that space will just go to the publishing platform (looks like it's going to be Twitter).

The reasons why news and journalism are tightly coupled are completely rooted in old technological limitations - newspapers were the only ones who could deliver breaking news, and they were also the only ones who could publish opinions. So journalism is traditionally perceived as a mix of the two, to the point where the idea the two can be separate is alien to people. But once we take modern communication technology to its logical conclusion, it looks like news and journalism will go their separate ways - there is no longer a reason for them to be tightly coupled. Twitter will handle the news delivery, and some other platform will handle original commentary delivery.

So no, I don't think there is any danger at all.
I'd rather see more efforts to bring women into the top of the startup funnel, vs. singling them out later on if they become successful.

There is some value in having good examples of successful women in entrepreneurship in convincing more women that they should consider it, but I think "this person in my graduate department launched a startup" is probably more significant (regardless of gender) than "a famous woman startup founder and CEO exits, although I've never met her".

women 2.0 actually does a pretty good job with other programs to try to bring qualified women into the startup world (partnership with Founder Institute, various meetups, etc.). I think the most valuable thing would be attracting more women into college entrepreneurship clubs, entrepreneurial classes in undergraduate and MBA programs, and in non-startups, encouraging them to take responsibility to project/product management on products which may become spinouts or startups.
What I want for christmas on news.yc: Everybody fill out your profile! There are too many people here who say useful things, but there's no way to contact you (no, the email field in your profile isn't public).

I imagine few people here have grounds for staying completely anonymous. Not everybody is a rich bastard trying to kick unwashed beggars to the curb.

So click on your name in the upper right hand corner and write something about yourself with contact info. You'll be glad you did!
I can see where you are coming from with your call for quality content, but lets question this for a minute.

I don't see much new in the world now vs 15 years ago that would shift the economics to high quality publishing. Technology and the internet can provide a better platform for crowdsourcing journalism or easier dissemination and aggregation of information, but these are different from just creating and consuming high quality content.

I think what's new is the ability to personalize the information. One way to think about it is that industrial revolution was all about economical mass production, and one of the first things to be mass produced was written text with the help of the Gutenberg press. No one knows what information revolution is really about yet, but one of the promises is economical mass customization, and the news is a perfect first candidate for this (more distant candidates being economically producing clothes that fit you perfectly, for example).

In a related area, Google seems to think they have mostly exhausted the opportunities to improve their search results in the same way for everyone: they have employed IP geolocation for ages and now they even track your search history by default in order to show you different results from what everyone else is seeing.
Holy ? That's going to cost him a fortune :O
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I think it is important to consider how comfortable a person is with the pay they receive.

That is, if I have to think and worry about necessities then I'm not fully mentally engaged in my work. Being paid enough to live a comfortable life is important.

Conversely, if the difference between 2 jobs is whether or not I can afford something I consider a luxury, then job satisfaction and other non-monetary benefits start to mean something.

Clearly necessities, luxuries, and comfort all being subjective.
Levitt/Dubner themselves mentioned, there is more than money at play in much decision making, such as morals, bad conscience.

One issue (book) that comes to mind is generousity:
http://www.amazon.com/Generous-Man-Helping-Others-Sexiest/dp...
Some questions:
- Would you turn the service over to other people?
- How many would you ask?
- Would the service be easily translatable?
- The video about how it works doesn't work. I would like to see some more information about the inner workings of the system.
- Is the code easy to pick up and go on, or does it demand a lot of study?
- Do you have manuals/documentation about the inner workings?

I have been thinking about creating such a site like this, but in Esperanto (I know, small market BUT a lot of people from a lot of places who know a lot of languages). We do have a great working of a non-auction working marketplace ("Marktplaats") in the Netherlands (now bought by eBay) and as I am good with languages (I speak 9 languages to several extents by now) I would love to have such a service in an international fashion, and eBay just doesn't fit for me (for one instance, it's waaaaay to messy).

I have to warn you however, I'm 20 years old and have more ideas than money, so don't trust I will do everything you will profit from. It's just that I like the idea of the site as I see it now because of personal preferences, and I would love to make it something great if I get the chance :).
Thats a really good point. I see what your saying about the decoupling of straight news and journalism and it seems reasonable in a number of situations (tech news, local news, political news, etc...). But there are situations where this model isn't feasible. Two that come to mind:

1) Investigate journalism. In this case, someone is digging for facts and looking for connections. Tweeting, or any other instant platform, may not be the right medium for this. This looks like one area where news and journalism would need to remain intertwined.

2) Reporting from dangerous areas or areas without good wireless coverage. If someone is reporting facts from Darfur, it seems unlikely that any instant publishing platform could work.

Still, it appears you are probably right for a large number of situations. It looks like the situations I'm describing would need to stay closer to the current model for some time.
Ive replied to all your points clearly. What you propose is best case scenario. But as I said the delay and the key maanagement on the battleield is far too complicated against the benefits.
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1. Spotify (for the music element)
2. Chrome
3. Twitter/BBC News
4. service-now.com
5. 37 signals
6. ??
7. ??
8. Match/Plentyoffish
9. Facebook
10. eBay
11. Google Docs/ Zoho
12. Adwords/Adsense
13. University of Phoenix
14. ??
15. ??
16. Bing
17. Paypal
18. ChromeOS
19. AWS/Rackspace
20. Thefind
21. Mint/Quickbooks
22. Google Docs/Zoho
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26. ??
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If someone asks me how Rails works, I wouldn't be able to answer. It's just something I don't care about. Sure, give me a few hours and I'll figure out everything you asked for, but right off the bat? No way.
>How would you implement the {before|after} filters on models... etc.

Models, or controllers? :)
Let's just say that everyone up here doesn't love our high taxes. :-)

You could of course wish that IKEA would pay its corporate taxes like a good corporate citizen, but maybe the same traits that makes Ingvar Kamprad want to save expenses on everything, including taxes, is the same trait that has also made IKEA the huge success it is?
Ask them to develop something that involves caching the paginated search results of a double-nested resource with file attachments in as little time as possible. hehe
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Opt-out organ donation is essentially saying that your body belongs to the state, which is a road nobody should ever go down.

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