skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on what your definition of transpose is. I guess I always just looked as it as transposing the characters to the left of and to the right of the cursor and then moving the cursor right, which I guess is dragging a character forward. You learn something new every day!
Hulu already blocking new TV-focused Web browser Kylo?
This reminds me of my muji chronotebook, which I bought after being referenced by Jack Cheng.

http://jackcheng.com/stuff-i-love-muji-chronotebook

Its really awesome. I find it the perfect balance of flexibility and structure within a notebook. The way times are laid out are cool, but yet remain unobtrusive.
Some code I found myself writing recently:

var fader = Faders.Default,
test = document.createElement('div');

'o moz webkit'.split(' ').forEach(function(prefix) {
test.style.cssText = '-' + prefix + '-transition-property: opacity;';
prefix = prefix === 'moz' ? 'Moz' : prefix;
if (typeof test.style[prefix + 'TransitionProperty'] !== 'undefined') {
fader = Faders.Transition;
fader.use(prefix);
}
});

Would really rather not have to do something like that again.
This is basically the approach we used when we named http://HeavyInk.com - right down to the script to check for available .com names!

... except we did it pre-launch, so we didn't have customers to query.

All in all, I think that it's a good approach.
It's really about getting people to remember you. People remember a good story.
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DDG most certainly does not "win" with regards to privacy. No man or corporation can win without being tested, and DDG does not appear to have been tested. We'll see how they fare when it comes time to match what they've written on paper with their actions.
It was mentioned already and I'd like to re-emphasize :

Talk to a good psychologist or psychiatrist and consider medication for a limited time at least.

I was the same. No problems with friends, colleagues or on the internet, but walking into a bar or into a party would frighten the holy crap out of me.

Cognitive therapy in combination with Effexor (Efexor herearound) helped me a hell of a lot. It's basically an antidepressant, which is also indicated for Social Anxiety Disorder in a relatively low dosis and in the extended release version. There may be others, but this worked pretty good for me.

A major disclaimer :

Although I seem to recognize a lot of the symptoms that I had (sometimes have, but this is much rarer now) I am not a physician or even a psychologist. Anecdotal experience may be valid in my case, but each person is different and what works for one, may be a side effect ladden horror for others. Before you even consider altering your brain chemistry (which I don't think is inherently wrong and meds are pretty subtle nowadays) you must discuss this with a professional, period.

In any case: I _guarantee_ that you can do something about it. it may need work and a professional to get there, but you can do it.

Good luck on your journey
I'm not sure that a good name has to be "Illustrative of our service". This can be good or bad, depending on the case.

I personally favor names that can let you change course in the future. That said, the new name "OfficeDrop" is general enough if you already have a line of business.
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It seems like this system, necessarily works outside the laws of supply and demand. How will you handle adding a new member to the team in a couple of years, if the market price for that person is significantly higher then your stated salary?
Sometimes I think thats why Meta/Heavy rock works so well for me. It's easy to ignore the lyrics in the song and the vocals seem more like just another instrument.
actually you could end up having 5:

-o-superstyle

-webkit-superstyle

-moz-superstyle

-ms-superstyle

superstyle /* for new versions released after standard becomes stable */

And only if no more new browsers appear.
Congratulations on getting a nice little side business going. The great thing about having a product to sell is now people will (hopefully) buy it even though you don't have to keep working on it. Rinse and repeat a few times and you'll have a nice addition to your income even if you stop making new screencasts.
When knowledge makes us hesitate
That's just not normal, a lot of shops would actually prefer to repair the wheel if they have a larger profit margin on labor than parts. Check some more bike shops, I'm sure you'll find one that'll do it for a reasonable price.

Alternatively, you could learn to do it yourself, though you do need a truing stand. If you live in a large metro area, there are places like LA's Bike Kitchen, where expensive tools like truing stands are available free for use (donations highly encouraged), and volunteers will tell you how to fix it yourself.
My brother was diagnosed with an extremely rare form of cancer last year, a few hours after taking possession of his first home and being responsible for a mortgage. He had 14 hours of surgery to remove an eye socket and half of the top of his jaw and then rebuild it with titanium and hip bone. 10+ weeks of radiation treatment. They're about to start what is technically cosmetic surgery, to give him new teeth and tighten up the side of his face they've been working on. He's back at work now, but he had about 4 months off work.

The cost of the medical treatment? A few thousand for sundry expenses. Australia's Medicare system picked up the tab for virtually all of it. He asked them the face value (hoho!) of the treatments, but no one was really sure how to work it out - it's at least 6 figures. I dread to think what it would have cost in the US...

He didn't lose his house or car. The baby that was born during his treatment didn't bankrupt anyone. He still has a job.

What a chilling example of a socialist government system interfering in his personal life!
The reason we didn't define it is that it's incredibly tricky. There are some people with no education and no track record with incredible skills, drive, and professionalism. There are others with long track records who are less skillful in some areas. After trying to write up clear definitions for a while, we realized that we can't do it right without writing fifty pages of legaleze, so we decided not to waste time on it.

In practice, when you have only three levels, most people have a good intuitive feel for where they fall, and it's usually in tune with our evaluation. I agree that this system has its problems, and we'll try to work out the kinks over time. It will be interesting to see how it evolves.
I've got to believe that any truly revolutionary technology could be spun into a story of a bubble that "Didn't pop."

The printing press comes to mind as the most obvious example. Literacy ballooned after it, which led too the entire print medium, which in turn was necessary before anyone would have thought of electronic text, and the internet.

I think the key is that when a new underlying technology comes around, it doesn't pop. The bubbles created from people creative usage of that technology are what pops.
Yeah; sometimes you can find a pre-print, local institution earlier version, etc., but if you want to read it on the ACM you've got to e.g. join it and get a Digital Library subscription for around $200/year (there are probably other options).

I'm thinking hard about this in the medium future for a project I'm working on, but for now ... well, since some time in the late '90s or so I couldn't justify the ACM membership (then again, that was a Dark Age for programming languages, my only academic CS area of interest).
To perform this analysis you must further explore the true costs of the first scenario.
I know your probably being sarcastic but I would argue that evangelizing OSS is one way of contributing.
The biggest issue I have with the Startup Visa Act is that if this is a person that we want to let in because of an investment, then this is a person we want to let in, period. Just give them a green card.

What this act tries to do, in a sense, is outsource the decision making (to the investors).

The biggest problem with the H1B visa is that it allows the employer to hold this unholy ax over the visa holder. It's absurd and counterproductive. These are people we should want in this country. Arguments against illegal immigration do not apply here.

So, if an investor actually invests in a startup with a foreign founder, just give that person a green card or a long visitor's visa depending on what he wants (I assume not everyone wants to move to the US). The whole talk of a successful entrepreneur is ridiculous when so many startups fail. We want that entrepreneur even if this particular venture fails.
People voted to put it there. I've submitted things that people haven't voted on at all, which surprised me, but that's how it goes. Some things get votes, some things don't.
Supports Snow Leopard 64bit. Been looking forward to this.
Is there really a NYC start-up boom? And if so, what's causing it?
Have you considered defining the ranks based on the job responsibilities rather than the backgrounds of the applicants? e.g., "will need to do X without supervision" / "will need to supervise more junior people" / etc?
+1 for RWW. The quality of comments is much better on RWW, and their coverage is usually more in-depth than either TechCrunch's or Mashable's. With Mashable in particular, updates are so frequent that I don't think you'd stay on the front page very long.
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As much as meta-posting is discouraged in general, I believe part of the reason HN has stayed high quality for so long is that meta-discussion is occasionally tolerated. For example, when the community voted to ban valleywag stories.

That said, rather than starting meta discussions I prefer to submit good content. I felt like writing a rant about the state of HN last week, but I submitted a paper on red-black trees in Haskell instead. It seems like a more constructive approach.
StackOverflow.com vs.Experts-Exchange.com
It would be great if they had a .torrent or some faster servers, downloads from haskell.org always go at a snail's pace for me.
Learning new languages considered harmful? No.
Making decisions blindly is far worse than hesitation. I agree that you can't let new information keep you from making a decision forever, but it's valuable to take a bit of time to fully consider the repercussions this information may have on you.
Answers on top > Scrolling all the way to the bottom for answers.
Publishing salary ranges in advance tends to be a very effective way of making sure that you never need to make that choice.
Thanks!

Having a passive income stream like this has been a goal of mine for years. Selling a digital product like this is a great fit.

My long-term goal for this is the freedom to take time off and travel while being supported by my business income.
I think if you plot track record vs. productivity you'll end up with a (largely) normally distributed curve. If you plot track record vs. cost, you'll get a curve that rises exponentially. Eventually, talented people get paid exorbitant salaries based entirely on their previous accomplishments, and these are exactly the types of people you don't want to hire (because their cost isn't justified by their productivity). It's logical, then, to form a world-class team of first employees largely composed of diamonds in the rough, or 'potentially world class' as you put it.
This is exactly the sort of thing languages that wish to become popular need. User-friendly applies to programming environments too; batteries included should be the result - they can always be removed later.

I'm sure someone will call that approach "bloat by default", but I think that's a red herring. Good programmers will remove bloat where it matters, and bad programmers will add bloat where it's harmful.
Interesting to me is that they wrote a script to query whois.net when drafting the names up -- I may be misremembering, but I think whois.net sells queries to squatters, meaning if you come up with something really good, and don't purchase it immediately, it's possible that it'll be gone before you actually go to purchase.

Whois.sc uses this as a differentiator for their service, and claim that they don't, so I would suggest at least looking for policy on the whois broker that you're using before writing a script to query them.
Sad.

The lack of apps is what really killed the Pre. I think that everything else listed here except maybe the faulty (as in defective) hardware is a relatively minor point. If the Pre had cool, unique applications, or even just a reasonably-sized selection of average applications, the awkwardness of the clamshell, the mirror on the back, the cramped keyboard, etc., all could have been fixed in a new hardware revision.

A more aggressive, general-purpose ad campaign could have helped too. Targeting women is fine, but kind of silly since in my experience women already have a high attraction to Apple's designs, and should not have been the only focus of their marketing.

If they'd taken more of a Google approach and licensed webOS to other hardware makers, that would have helped a lot too, but in the end the Pre was killed by its lack of developer support and that's the long and short of it.

There's a much larger selection of competent HTML/JavaScript/CSS developers than there are Objective C developers, and the fact that one didn't need a Mac to develop applications would have drawn a lot more devs in that way, I think. It was a good idea.

Word is that the process for Pre development was contrived and horrible. jwz wrote about it a bit. This is mysterious because Palm really made overtures like they "got it", but the actual implementation of the app submittal and review process was basically unusable even for the contingent that wanted to provide apps.
What does "insurance" mean? There are innumerable products which fall under that name. Which will I be required to purchase?

I'm 24 with no health problems. My yearly health expenditures are near zero. My largest expenses are probably biannual teeth cleanings. I really don't need health care.

However if I am hit by a truck I would like to be able to afford someone to set my leg in a cast. So I have true insurance with a high deductible($1500USD/year). This coverage is dirt cheap.

Will I have to pay significantly more in 2014? Why should I have to subsidize fat baby-boomers?
Business is a lot like politics. Things are never as bad as they seem, and they're never as good as they seem either.

Palm's down a lot from $17 because they should have never been at $17. (I bought in around $6 so am a little underwater, but hanging in).

I really think it's their marketing. Palm's never been very good at this, and now they're competing with Apple, a company whose ads have been case studies in college programs for over a quarter century. And the Motorolas and Nokias, who have much more clout with carriers, which still counts for a lot because most people still get a phone (even a smart one) by deciding what carrier they like then going to the store and seeing what looks good.

They seem to have had a fire lit under their ass. I don't know if they'll make something work, but I do know they've got hands-down the best OS on the phone market. Unfortunately as a shareholder I'm a lot more confident in their ability to produce great phones than their ability to sell them lately. Their turbulent period before WebOS pretty much ceded what little control they had of the

"One thousand apps is peanuts compared to the iPhone, which has well over 100,000 apps on offer, or Android's 10,000+ apps."

How many fart apps do you really need? 100x the apps is not 100x as good. In fact, it's probably not even 2x as good. The main thing I do on my Pre is listen to a podcast app that will not be allowed to exist on an iPhone. I'd rather have that one app than 100,000 others. I'm a special case, certainly, but the point is that it's not just a numbers game, and even if it were it would not scale linearly.
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I hit the downvote by mistake on my cell phone and sent the post to zero. Could someone upvote to compensate? Chris and Brendan do great work with the startup digest, and it deserves kudos.
I realize that microbenchmarks like those posted at http://shootout.alioth.debian.org don't really tell us much about a language's performance in or suitability for larger applications, but I must admit I'm surprised that the Haskell programs there aren't significantly shorter than the Java versions. After all, Java is roundly criticized for its verbosity and these kinds of problems seem to be particularly good candidates for short, expressive functional solutions.

Are the Haskell versions written in a non-idiomatic style for performance reasons?
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I think the counterpart to telling your friends about a news service would be getting them to change operating systems and start contributing patches to the new one: both the "userbase" and the "development" of a submission-driven news site are functions of the number (and activity level, and, certainly, quality) of its users.
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Try acting or locution classes. Actors do silly exercises to take away the scenic fear. If you have been a dog or a tree in front of several people, then being human seem a lot easier.
I think this post can be summed up as "With experience comes the ability to make intelligent educated guesses with limited information".

Seems to me that once you reach a certain level of mastery, any chance event that happens can be seen in the light of previous similar chance events, and so that person with the most experience is able to say "this is likely how things will go from here" and move forward.

At least, that's been my experience. When I was green, and something changed, I had no idea what to do. Now, when there's something that changes, it barely slows me down. I've seen it all, I've heard it all, and at the end of the day, everything has a solution.

At least in software.
Yeah; occasionally I'll find a good posting that hasn't gotten much attention and I'll write more of a "teaser" than a summary comment, something that will hopefully help other HN readers quickly figure out if it's worth reading.

A straightforward summary is also OK, but including "tl;dr" (newfangled slang which I had to look up a week or two ago :-) doesn't strike me as particularly polite.
I think a better metric of community involvement should be submission quality, not longevity. petewailes has one non-dead submission: this one. Sorry, but if you're going to complain about declining submission quality, submit something of higher quality!
The Democrats could pass it alone. They didn't want to because they don't want to be accountable for this clusterfuck.
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And that's too bad. They only people that I've ever met that don't have insurance have enough money to pay for it, but choose not to. The poor are already covered by social programs.
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Ya know... those images nearly imply the opposite of what was said. Users scroll to the content they want, and they focus on the things designed to catch their focus. The 80/20 + fold only seems to exist when websites have excessive focus on above-the-fold design. Saying it exists on sites aimed at above-the-fold design because they are designed to make it exist is a worthless argument.

* On Amazon, they did a quick-read of the top, and scrolled past a huge amount of info to get to the meat - the non-5-or-1 star review. Note that the one focused on is a 3-star, and the only non-5-or-1. Frequently, the 5 and 1 star reviews are fluff, so of course people skim past them to get to the more-perceived-as objective reviews.

* On JC Penny, were they just browsing, or looking to buy? I'd be willing to be that staring at sofas doesn't tickle many people's fancy unless they're seriously shopping. Sure, the fold applies to passive skimmers, but find someone determined to find something and I'd be willing to bet you'd see a significantly different eye-pattern. And note that the site isn't particularly heavy above-the-fold: JC Penny's site makes almost no money from people who aren't buying something, why should they worry about passive skimmers in their design? They're already past the front, attention-grabbing pages and into product lists, they're either buying or they're not.

* On the Zyflo CR site, note what content is at the top. Bulleted lists, images, bold, colorful text, etc. Eyecatching. And note how much they read further down the page, because it's all informative. The last bulleted list being skimmed is inconsequential once you realize what the list contains: things already said in the content above it. Other thin areas are excessively technical to most readers, so of course they weren't giving it as much information as the more generally applicable content.

The last site in particular strongly implies the opposite. Note how heavy above-the-fold it is, and how much was read further: http://www.zyflocr.com/zyflocr-healthcare.htm (yes, the article arguably "explains" this by stating that good AtF content encourages people to read further. It still contradicts the 80/20 theory, and seems to me that it implies FAR more that well-designed, easily-scanned information is more likely to be read.)
How long can he keep beating that old horse.

Yes above the fold is where we keep our navigation, main messages etc. most designers know this and design for this, which might as well make his argument circular.

Users look because that is where we have taken extra care to design.

His conclusion really detracts important understanding from another area which is.

How much can you put above the fold without creating a paradox of choice situation which can be much more damaging.

Eye-tracking is fine but it only really tell a very tiny fraction of the story.

Walt Disney used to call this "visual weenies"

If you put a face looking at you in there you will also see users spend a disproportionate amount of time to look at the picture.

Whether it's circular I don't know but this kind of analysis is in my mind too simplistic.
* Because it's much harder to incorporate in EU.

* Because it's much harder to fire employees in EU, which makes employing people much riskier.

* Because the rules for employing people (working hours, vacation, etc) are much stricter.

* Because entrepreneurship is stigmatized in EU.

* Because insolvency in the EU involves years of trusteeship and significant legal hardship.

* Because selling in the EU and elsewhere abroad involves more border crossings and different regulatory regimes.

* Because taxes in EU are spectacularly high, not just for the top earners but all the way down through the middle class.

You could fix all of these today (bk reform is apparently a major theme in Europe) and it might still be a generation before the region becomes competitive with the US.
I'm sure there are external variables I'm not seeing but this graph makes it look as if SO's growth has all been at the expense of Experts Exchange. The total readership seems to have held steady at just north of 1.5M monthly for the last year.
Many of those programs were written several years ago in non-idiomatic Haskell for performance reasons. They should be updated now that GHC is smarter.
It's good to have an enemy. SO has been targeted at destroying Experts Exchange from the beginning.
It's almost impossible to over-state his contributions to computer science, particularly within programming languages, theorem proving and concurrency theory. I never met him, but I have followed and admired his work for some time, and this is a real loss to the community.
Does this mean I can't bootstrap my company?
Finally a concrete, constructive suggestion that actually makes sense.