skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, I owe you a beer even if it doesn't work!
Python violates most users expectations via differences in object immutability
I think this is a game theory problem. CEOs (looking at you, GM) and politicians up against tough unions have an easy out with no "cost" to themselves. They pass the buck by placating unions with pension concessions so all seems well during their tenure. Long after they've collected their bonuses or enjoyed reelection, someone else gets to deal with the unsustainable consequences.
This is built into the Scala API -
foo.getOrElse(bar, "beebop")

Stuff like this should be built into the standard language.
This is really not nice for Open Source. I can understand that Oracle wants to make money, but they are really creating big barriers for corporations using Java. The lawsuit is marking the start of Java's decline. Its a matter of time before something replaces it.
So in another 15 years, there will be subsidies for startups that grow corn?
I remember seeing this some 6 months ago. Not really news.
Even when broken down by industry group and job type (apples-to-apples), public-sector employees make significantly more than their private-sector counterparts, see this Department of Labor press release:

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ecec.pdf

(On page 3 is a comparison of % spent on different benefits for public- vs. private-sector; not sure what conclusions can be drawn from it.)
An alternate title - "10 things that signal you should leave the interview and not even consider working for the company"

If any 2 of these had happened I wouldn't even consider working there. You can only image what the culture must be like there. There's something to be said for treating candidates like humans, even if you don't really want to be interviewing.
Except there's no mainstream, tea-party-a-like leftists loudly advocating that strategy in the US.
See http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2009/12... for a skeptical take on this.
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This is the first stanza of my vimrc.
I use :sp and :vsp a lot. My capslock key is mapped to behave like left control.
The result is moving between files is a matter of holding capslock and pressing hjk or l.
I argue it's a lot faster than using a mouse or even control and pageup/down in a tab-based IDE.
For opening new files, tab completion is a godsend, and then there's other bonuses to using vim, like
:!grep "def functionImLookingFor" lib/*.py
and, when I'm sifting through logfiles for patterns, :%!grep has become one of my most often used tools.
I don't think that assumption is usually true. Knowing a lot of people in finance, it doesn't seem hard to me to conclude that the employees making over $1M can have any range of talent from "breathes, and has a pulse" to "rockstar finance guru". To the extent talent is required, it's often bureaucratic ladder-climbing talent.
Groupon's Andrew Mason at GROW commenting on the Gap Groupon (video)
Conde Nast refuses to run Prop 19 ads on reddit
I use emacs for splitting so I don't generally need this feature. Actually most of my screen sessions only have a single window with emacs in it. I use screen mainly to attach and detach sessions.
The problem of VIM is that, you need to do a lot of configuration yourself. While this is fan for me, I never recommend it to anyone who has less patience than I have. Any IDE would be much easier for them.
I'm basically reposting my comments on this video from my company blog...

The big takeaway is in the first few lines of this video:

"This is a very complicated world. This is a very noisy world and we're not going to get a chance... to get people to remember much about us. No company is. And so we have to be really clear on what we want them to know about us."

The whole branding/selling thing goes like this...

Lunch pitch ~15 minutes > Bar pitch: ~5 minutes > Elevator pitch: ~30 seconds > ?

That last one is your brand. It's the ultimate quick pitch. You've got 5 seconds, what do you want someone to know about you and what you do for a living?

If you don't know you're in trouble.
If you're not providing services to others and all you do is SEO then by definition I think you are gaming the system. So yes, that's almost certain to be very closely coupled to Google specifically.
One really simple thing that was driving me crazy was when an app pops up a dialog with buttons. Coming from Linux and Windows, where you can tab between the buttons and just hit enter to click the selected button, I was shocked that Mac doesn't do this.

Turns out, Enter always fires the default button that's colored blue (e.g. Save), but you have to hit Space to fire the button that's highlighted (i.e. just outlined in blue).

That simple revelation has prevented me from defenstrating my MBP in a fit of pique.
This has been around for at least a year.
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This reminded me of a story I saw a while back about Google patenting a modular datacenter structure:

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/06/18/googl...

I wonder how similar these designs are
Groupon Co-Founder to Headline Midwest's Largest Startup Conference
Apple's "Think Different / Change the World" ad was a brilliant piece of marketing. But it doesn't seem that really stuck as the core value of their brand. If Nike's message is "we hang around great athletes," Apple's message today is "we hang around the young and hip," [1] which is different than "we hang around people who change the world."

You could argue that these are somehow related, that the young and hip would be attracted by the Think Different ad. I don't dispute that. But the later ads of kids jamming with their iPod ear buds communicate a message that is much closer to the general perception of Apple as a brand today.

--

[1] In the clothing industry, this type of positioning wouldn't be noteworthy or distinguishing. But in consumer electronics, advertising more like Abercrombie & Fitch and less like IBM has worked out brilliantly for them.

[2] The pre-2000 perception of Apple's brand was also somewhat tangential to the idea of changing the world. Their core message was "we're not IBM." In the talk, Jobs mentions this shouldn't be their core message, but clearly it was. The 1984 ad reinforced this, and even the 1997 Think Different ad retrenched this ground by riffing off of IBM's motto.

[3] Edit: The idea that Apple's core customer is someone who "values their time" and is not a computer geek is meaninglessly broad. Every customer values his or her time, and in any mainstream industry, the vast majority of customers are not computer geeks.

[4] Edit: Was it the success of the iPod that made Apple hip, or was the perception of the iPod being hip part of what made it such a success? Clearly it did become a fashion accessory. The product's clean design was congruent with this message.
3:22. "The core value of Apple... is that we believe that people with passion... can change the world for the better."
I believe you can submit and apply for all of your ideas. If YC happens to pick the idea you have no co-founder for, then i'm sure you'll be able to find someone with that very specific set of skills during YC.
I have a slightly different question: considering I have no interest in emigrating to the States, what if my hypothetical startup gets funded by YC or any other american early stage venture firm?

Would I be able to incorporate in US and pay taxes accordingly? Can I keep working from my home country? What are the real, tangible advantages of running your team in US, other then the favorable startup environment you can get in places such as the Valley/SF? Are investors much less inclined to funding foreign teams, does it makes it more troublesome?

Sorry for the loads of questions, but sometimes I fail at understanding why so many people think is a must to go to the states to get a startup off the ground.

And thanks to anyone who will take the time to answer.
10 things i learned from the jQuery source[video]
This could be just a box in the Iranian government's network which got hacked and hijacked into serving warez.

I once worked as sysadmin in a brazilian university, and it was quite common to stumble on unmaintained and hacked boxes serving warez or movies via FTP with dir hierarchies like /path/to/ftp/root/--==tagged-by-this-group==--/--==uploaded-by-that-group==--/warez/.
Expressing your opinions in written English > using mathematical signs to communicate ideas. (sorry couldn't resist) :)

However, I do agree that the founder's story is just as, if not more important than the idea.
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How is that particular graph making that point? I can see for the 2nd pension-cost graph, but the job-losses graph appears to me to be implying "private-sector employment is falling much faster than public-sector employment". But, by using absolute numbers, it implies that the "correct" outcome, where the two curves would roughly track each other, would be for public-sector job losses in raw numbers to be equal to private-sector job losses, which would be absurd given the large difference in total jobs. With those scales, there is almost no economic situation that would result in the public-sector line being anything but flat, because its raw numbers are far too small to register much of a blip in either direction.

It's hard for me to come up with a good reason for that particular choice of graph other than "political spin". One of many reasons I've switched to reading The Economist rather than the Wall Street Journal for economics-meets-politics news, since the Economist makes a more conscientious effort imo to avoid slanting their data or infographics in the direction of their editorial line (and they do take roughly the same free-market editorial line).
I am leery of an article posting about warez on an Iranian server and then providing links. Downloading files from an Iranian server is sure to ping some monitors as well as generate some hits on federal systems. It could create a lot of work, or cover for cyber ops.
That's probably a little overly tough, but I agree with your sentiment.

It does have some value, but the excessive machismo is not particularly appealing. Yes, you get shit done. Yes, getting shit done is a prerequisite to getting a startup done. No, that doesn't make you some kind of super-human being. There are plenty of others out there, outside the world of startups, who get tremendous amounts of shit done.

With a bit more life experience, you may learn that there's more to effectiveness than being "tough". You can get a whole lot more done with intelligence than with mere bullishness.
not being able to clear an account's movie history (whether for privacy or just a change in preference that affects recommendations).

no android client.
Steve Jobs is right about branding in this video, and it's for exactly these reasons that I'm not a big fan of Apple. Their core values are about dictating what developers can do with their hardware. Selling software shouldn't be about one person having the power to dictate what goes into a store. That's not a free market. Users shouldn't have to "jail break" their own hardware just to be able to use it as they wish. That's disempowering people with technology, not empowering them. I don't much care for those kinds of core values.
What software did you use for this? I have tried a few cookie blocking extensions for Firefox but haven't found a good one.

Also I notice you say "Back when I experimented.." -- was there a reason it didn't work out in the end?
I've read that at the height of the French monarchy right before the revolution, a disproportionate number of labor was being employed in textiles to create the extravagant, lavish and enormously expensive dresses for the royal court. We're talking like 25+% of what we would call their GDP. (If you really want to understand capital, wealth & labor in terms of the bigger picture, I highly recommend skipping the baseless, mostly fictional "modern" econ textbooks, and go read some political economy history books. The more thing changes, etc, etc)

Your point hits right to the heart of the matter. And it's why I utterly despise the rich so much. When I look out on the world, I don't see what is actual, rather I see all the lost potential(opportunity cost). It's heartbreaking. And it's not just how much wealth they take—it's also how much resources they divert from the natural ebb & flow of capital to support their meaningless, empty, wasteful lifestyles. And all for no practical reason other than keeping up with the Joneses. Meanwhile people are starving and killing each other in ghettos not 10 miles away.

It's funny how such a stat like the French textiles leaps right out in historical hindsight, yet every era of human history has it's own economic sinkhole into which the rich and the powerful throw societies collective wealth. I suppose for the present day US, instead of lavish dresses for the royals, it's lavish military spending for the gravy-train DoD fucktards. (We'll hit a $1 trillion defense budget in less than 5 years! If that doesn't make you want to take to the streets with a molotov, then nothing will). They don't realize it yet, because they are all narrow minded pigs blinded towards their own trough, but their economic parasitism will inevitable trigger another revolution in America. Malcom X's proverbial chickens will indeed come home to roost, and it's going to be simple, unsustainable economics that triggers it. Archaeologists will dig us up in 1,000 years and wonder why we couldn't see the pattern.

Wealth = Exploitation.

QED, bitches. If this belief makes me a radical socialist, so fucking be it! I know I'm right from a high level perspective.
If you're somewhat interested, first, negotiate. Make them understand that this won't be cheap. They have likely decided that this way (acquiring + salary) is cheaper than building it themselves, and they're likely offering you a lot less than they are willing to pay.

1. double the price (from, say, 150,000 US to 300,000 US, or from 500 to 1,000). Just double it. Really. You can always go down.

2. Ask for a guaranteed yearly salary of 150,000 to 200,000 US$, with benefits. This is not too much.

Then see how they respond.

As for the hiring: make sure they are responsible for getting the visas. I don't think they should be able to see the full source code in advance, it is quite possible that they are just trying to steal your ideas.
That commercial still give me goosebumps
"So how do vim/emacs users do?"

vim
- ctags for class/method navigation
- fuzzyfinder for buffer/file system navigation
Really it is the private sector employees that make much less than public employees. Except of course the CEOs and other way over paid executives.....
Not exactly what you're asking for, but I found the only thing that "cured" RSI for me was push ups. Check out http://hundredpushups.com/ and give it a shot for a few weeks, I'll bet you see a difference. I struggled with RSI for years before hitting on it.
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And NERDtree. http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1658
I hope such lawsuits bring an end to software patents.
Just don't allow future expenses.
Shipping containers are made to stand up to the rigors of sea travel so I guess they're confident they can withstand storms. Still it's a ballsy move and I'd think the exposure to the elements would be a net negative, even factoring in heat dissipation through the air with natural wind, etc.
I agree. Whenever I witness such an utter lack of imagination, I console myself by thinking that line from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide that has the phrase "super-intelligent shades of blue". Just imagine colors being intelligent! That's the best alien life-form I've heard of.
Cool chat with Andrew Mason:scalable grouponing
"Fried Beer" &#153(pending) Invented
While I see the Google vs. Oracle Java struggle getting ugly, I don't think this marks the decline of Java at all. Most corporations invested in Java are not building their own version of Java- do they really care how this goes down? In addition what language is in any position to replace Java?
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is a translation of

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is a translation of

result = self.foo() if baz>10 else self.bar()

It's true that some things have to be changed when translating, but you can't ignore the deliberate structure of the original. Let's say I want to look at how inter-sentence objects work in two languages. I give you the phrase: "Raining cats and dogs. This is what the weather is like." You can't translate it as if it said "It's raining cats and dogs" without losing the basis of comparison entirely.
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Any reason you're using :!grep rather than the built in ctags support? I've found the latter to be very useful but maybe I'm missing some functionality.
Ok, it's up:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1639712
I was the acquirer in a similar situation. (See http://blog.viglink.com/2010/08/02/viglink-acquires-driving-... )

A few thoughts:

* Meeting them in person is 100% imperative. Go to dinner, spend time together, share a bottle of wine. It is important that you like them and vice-versa. If you don't, don't do the deal!

* Inevitably as the deal progresses, something will come up, something with the potential to kill the deal. The personal relationship you built (or didn't) in the point above is what will pull you through (assuming that's what you want.)

* Hire an attorney who gets the culture - someone who operates out of Silicon Valley and knows how these kinds of deals get done. Using an attorney with mismatched cultural expectations will not only put the deal at risk but drive costs way up.

* Beware deal fatigue! Deals that drag on too long have a way of not happening. Get together in person, hammer out key details, turn documents quickly and get it done. It is not done until the wire transfer clears!

* As far as compensation to you, there are three key levers they can pull: Cash now, cash later and equity. How they offer to distribute those tells you a lot about how they see what they're buying. If any of those three buckets is zero, be wary.

Good luck!
Emacs probably doesn't have the best support out-of-the-box to navigate a project, but it can be done with speedbar and ECB [4]. Alternative ways to get around source code include using dired, the directory editor, the various grep commands [5], and some form of tags (I like to use exuberant ctags [6]).

To give examples for the things you mention, emacs has an interface for version control that works consistently with CVS, Subversion, bzr, git, hg, and others. And if you need something more powerful you can use a mode for your specific version control system, like magit for git [1] (I suggest you check this magit screencast [2]). Emacs has a built-in mode to compare files (ediff) [3], to compile programs, run interpreters inside emacs, and so on.

You can see a good overview of these features at [7]. I'm sure you can have a similar setup with vim.

[1] http://philjackson.github.com/magit/

[2] http://vimeo.com/2871241

[3] http://tech-rantings.blogspot.com/2008/12/emacs-diff-ediff-t...

[4] http://ecb.sourceforge.net/screenshots/index.html

[5] http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Gre...

[6] http://ctags.sourceforge.net/

[7] http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/
One way to understand closure is to know that a function object actually contains both the instruction code and an environment table holding the variable bindings, bar = [ code = { return x+y; }, env = [x:3] ]. When bar is called, it uses x's value in its environment.

That's closure. Easy, right?
Their recommendations.

Despite their overtures to help this, they've really been chasing a red herring. Their big $1M challenge got people to give them a 10% better way to predict what an arbitrary movie's rating would be. But that doesn't actually help.

The only thing I want to know is a list of movies that I'm likely to love (and perhaps a warning list of those I'm likely to hate). It's quite alright if they mistake a 4.5 for a 5, and it's alright if there are false negatives.

But they still do a lousy job on the actual recommendations, because they're trying to solve the wrong problem.
Its good to have fast proxy site for place like school where i cannot access my SSH .. Atleast now i can read Hacker News ;-) ...
SSL is workaround for many firewalls!!
> Its a matter of time before something replaces it.

replaces it for new development, perhaps. java itself will probably never go away now, though, lawsuit or not. its footprint is just too huge now. at worst, it'll just stagnate.
It's likely that the Think Different ads were targeted at early adopters back when Apple was reestablishing itself (with designers, architects, etc).

Then as it entered into the mainstream with consumer devices it targeted kids "jamming with their iPods".
Rocky's inspirational speech to his son
I was loathe to respond to the parent, because I didn't want to encourage it.

That said, I can agree with that somewhat, but if I'm buying into a service, I care much, much more about the service I'm paying for than whether or not the founder goes mountain climbing or hang gliding or whatever.
It leaves the impression that their attentions are divided, at the very least.
Availability, I am not sure why(damaged, lost, whatever ) parts of series are unavailable but they don't seem to replace them. I have added several TV series that are a few years old(stuff that isn't on everyone's must watch list but still available on DVD at amazon) and approx. 30% is unavailable.
what language is in any position to replace Java?

Previously, it was any new implementation of the VM...