skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm from SLO and would love this. I'm currently down in Orange County until late October but once I'm back I would definitely come to SLO meetups.
How did it work out for you?
As someone who learned sproutcore last fall, I found the documentation really lacking, and it hasn't gotten much better since then. Mostly I learned by reading the source code, which fortunately is very clear, but that's too much effort for most people to take.

Regardless, I'm very excited for 1.4. There was so little public progress since 1.0.1042 was released that it seemed as if the project had lost momentum. I'm glad to see that's not the case and that Strobe is pushing ahead to improve things.
Or the Reader feature in Safari.
From the HN Guidelines: "Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them."

You have nothing new here, nor do you have any evidence to back up your claim that emacs is superior to vim for development purposes. I'm not agreeing nor disagreeing with you here - I don't have the authority to as I don't have enough experience with Emacs to make that call. Emacs is a great piece of software, and I think that we can all agree upon that here even if we aren't a user of it (such as myself), but that doesn't mean we can make un-cited statements about it.
I don't understand your comment. You agree with yummyfajitas assertion, you appear to make a separate and mostly orthogonal assertion which borders on a refutation (I think the subtext being "the rich should help others pull themselves up") but perhaps I am misinterpreting.

I believe yfs point was progressive taxation is a bad idea because it costs the rich more but they get less out of it. I don't understand how your comment meshes with yfs. Care to elaborate?
I don't like using the term "bloat."

It's an extremely non-specific term that people use to describe software they don't care for, much as people cast arguments they don't like as "FUD".

I was in a conversation with someone who said he felt IE 9 was bloated. I asked him why. "The right-click context menu is too big."

"Uses too much RAM", "requires too much disk space", and "has too many dependencies" can all be valid complaints. But it seems that in most uses, "bloat" = "has one or more features I don't use."
I think many people will get along on a lowered income in retirement and will be paying taxes in a lower bracket than they do as working people.

You're right about that...most people will work for 40 years and then retire, cutting off their main source of income and dropping to a lower tax bracket. My parents, on the other hand, have made more money since retiring 5 years ago than they made in the 30 years prior (mainly through real estate investments). I think entrepreneurial types will likely fall into this category, where they continue to make more year after year, even into retirement, and so the Roth IRA makes sense at least for now.

I'm predicting a VAT within the next 15 years, but hopefully there will be some grandfather (pun intended) clause that phases it gradually for IRAs opened now.
I could literally hear them typing as I presented
them with questions that they weren’t familiar with.

I've had this happen to me while conducting phone interviews more times than I'd ever expected. It's amazing that people think they can get away with it or that it's in any way appropriate.
No offense, but what's good about Catalyst is the community.
I think the better question is not "where are you putting your money?" but "are you putting money away at all?"
As a touch typist, it has always seemed to me that making it easier to hit Ctrl with one hand than the other is going to build bad habits.
> The problem with evolution in general is that it doesn't select the best approaches, it selects the most popular ones.

Not sure what you mean by this. At least in a biological setting, natural selection selects for `adaptive' features, i.e., those which best solve some problem that an organism has. (OK, it's more complicated than that, but let's take that as a working definition.) It does not select `popular' features. Rather, features become popular because they are adaptive and hence selected for.

Now, programming language evolution may not always work like biological evolution, and in both cases there may be other selection pressures at work. But I don't see a reason to think that, insofar as programming language evolution is like biological evolution, the `natural selection' of language features by the community would favor what's arbitrarily popular, instead of what's best at solving a common problem.
Please elaborate on why modal vs. chord is specious. The Vim people and E authors don't seem to think it's wrong, so the explanation isn't obvious.

I'm not being sarcastic -- I'd love to hear an argument that modal editing doesn't matter, because it's one of the core features of Vim (probably the core feature) that draws me to the editor.
I'm just trying to get what I think is a useful application into the hands of the people who would find it useful. If you find that irritating, just keep scrolling by.
Yes. Boyd was a great sage of air warfare. A national hero.
I wouldn't say sproutcore specializes in pushing data to the client, it really is a 'full stack' client side framework. That said, this is one thing that sproutcore does do quite well, the interface for hooking up to JSON datasources is very simple and effective (particularly useful are cascading data sources, which they've recent added and really cleans up the code where there used to be huge if-else if blocks on queries inside your data source file).
Controversy over iTunes 10 UI
What I'm saying is without the U.S. economy most successfull people wouldn't be successful. There's a price to participate in our economy.
Lowering taxes on the rich is the basis of supply side economics, which has been proven wrong time and time again.
iframe would be the lowest-level of integration. A better solution would allowing a SC app to take over a specific element on the page, and we're definitely looking at that solution.

Another perfectly worthy solution might be to theme the SC app so it looks like your main app.
A marginal/progressive tax rate works.
Have you considered that it might be the result of innate toy preference? It's pretty well established that the difference is innate (http://www.scribd.com/full/36579212?access_key=key-1ztjrngs9...), and it might have an influence on these early stories.
Sorry I haven't fixed this yet. I've been swamped with other projects.

I was thinking about it tonight... what do you think of some kind of double-tap combo that would enable/disable ViKing functionality, like ctrl-ctrl?
Imagine a tool that would take the output of a profiler and render an interactive graphic like this for both: (A) data structure sizes and (B) run-time performance. That would be incredibly useful.
Windows Phone 7's Syncing Software to be PC-only
this is a bit newer http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os
I would prefer a service that just focuses on the .pdf discovery rather than a viewer, so like Google Scholar with some social services around it.

You can still get the viewing stats, your just not at the services whim, simply move your file and the service will just remove the listing. Makes sense to me, probably some stuff like this out there seems fairly obvious.
I'm gonna skip the book and wait for them to make into a movie. This has Mel Gibdon written all over it.
How many boxes of nickels does it take to make rent for a few months?
The TTC is also much cleaner than London or NYC. I think we in TO complain a lot, but for what limited area our subway does cover, it is pretty good.
Instapaper'd this. No way I can read that article on that website.
Try to pay attention. I'm not arguing against an increasing marginal tax system.

I'm arguing that tax revenue should not grow with income level, they should grow with population [1]. Crime is a part of society, but increasing income levels do not increase crime or increase the cost of road repairs.

Take your favorite progressive tax system. Multiply all tax rates by 1/2. Your new tax system is just as progressive as the old one.

[1] That's my leading order argument. As a second order correction, poor people tend to cost more money than rich people.
You too can write modular web applications with Rack
I'm actually waiting to buy a Netbook until it comes out, in the vain hope that someone will ship a decent ARM-based system using it.

But it is just slightly-extended Chrome running directly in X unparented without the standard Gnome Desktop BS on otherwise stock Ubuntu.
"The value of your service to a user isn't going to increase simply due to the passage of time or growth of your site."

I disagree, at least in one specific case. A new dating site doesn't have enough of a userbase of the gender that I am interested in for me to signup and pay a monthly fee. If they successfully complete their marketing play, I will gladly sign up.
TextMate doesn't have split windows?!
Geoffrey Grosenbach on how to learn any programming language
There is middle cases to where they build it up for 4-5 years and most of the investors cashout to a big player like intuit buying a sizeable chunk.
Let's say I need to change a word. With Gedit, I double-click the word and retype it the right way. With Vim, I press j until I'm on the line where the word is, then I press w until I'm at the beginning of the word, then I press cw to change the word, retype it the right way, and press escape to go back to command mode.

Triple-clicking in Gedit highlights a line. Triple-clicking and dragging highlights a contiguous group of lines. In Vim, I'd need to move to the line I want to begin my selection on ([number]G or jjj), then press V, then press jjj until everything is selected. And I don't have to deal with the fact that the default way of deleting things overwrites the default clipboard either.

I do use Vim when I need to process lines in a text document (with macros), when I'm editing files on a server, or when I'm writing a git commit message. I suppose I could use Vim in much the same way as Gedit through its mouse capability, but I dislike the lack of interface between my system clipboard and Vim's, and the fact that when I paste code in to a Vim document, the indentation gets all screwed up.
I believe ez77 is saying to make it so that the 2 factor auth. comes every time you try to change your password whereas this seems to be designed to only be used the first time you use a computer with an account. I may be mistaken though.
Agreed, there are few scenarios where any product is just plain "better" than another product. I wish more "versus" articles were as balanced as this.
Right, your ideology prevents you from seeing any good ever coming from government. You don't want better government, only less. In the real world adults realize that government is a necessary part of a functioning civil society and like anything else you get what you pay for.

I am a liberal and believe that government should provide more social services. But I also agree with many conservatives that there is waste, inefficiency and corruption in government, just like in any other large organization. It would be a better country if Republicans took this passion and tried to make government better, more efficient, more business-like, etc. But instead they only ever want to tear government down and give the money to their rich daddies so John Galt can save us all.
"Not to use these tricks all the time, but to use them when you need to."

Or so you can recognize when they are being used, disarm them, neutralize your adversary, and steer the process toward understanding the big picture, defining the underlying problem/s, and collaboratively making the best decision for the business as a whole.
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http://mashable.com/2010/09/19/facebook-we-are-not-building-...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1706638
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IPad 2 comes out after the New Year
It's absolutely a take-away for any career. You can chase bucks when you're young, but there's a good chance it will cost you bucks in the long run. It's more important to get a solid start to your career and be associated with quality operations than it is to take the cuhiest, highest paying graduate jobs.

But the other take-away is, it's never too late for a reinvention if you've got the risk appetite.
A little off-topic: I love how in the side panel of the page the sub-title fades in and out as you scroll.
I'd very much be interested in seeing this come to OS X login. I know it might be a bit cliched, but I think this would be pretty great, integrated with multiple logins, etc. Would also go well with a future camera bearing iPad.
Small population with a higher-than-average percentage employed by government.
This has a bizarrely eclectic flavor. (What is with all the SF movies? And if you're going to throw movies in here, why not games or music?) And it is painfully short on actual, you know, tech. No K&R? No introduction to quantum mechanics? No Art of Electronics? No Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down? You would think there might be room in the canon for some actual science or engineering.

Still, upmodded as a fun list of things to read. Just because it doesn't live up to its bombastic title doesn't mean it isn't useful.
tmux+vim+chrome is all i really need. (and a full posix system down below, of course)
For displaying files on the disk it's actually patented.

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5987469.html

Estimated Expiration Date: May 13, 2017
More to the Ballmer / Bezos point (sans the cool formatting):

Do you want a motivated and highly educated worforce and otherwise high-infrastructure state?

X Yes
_ No

Do you want to pay taxes to support it?

_ Yes
X No
It's useless to have N versions of the same library on your system. I prefer that my favorite distro takes care of updating one particular library if there is a security bug than having to wait for google to take care about it.
It's what is done in gentoo: http://phajdan-jr.blogspot.com/2010/08/www-clientchromium-no...
Currently, it uses the system libraries for:

• bzip2,

• codesighs,

• cros,

• icu,

• jemalloc,

• lcov,

• libevent,

• libjpeg,

• libpng,

• libxml,

• libxslt,

• lzma_sdk,

• molokocacao,

• ocmock,

• pyftpdlib,

• simplejson,

• tlslite.

As TODO, there is still zlib due to an issue during compilation.

It would also be great to have V8 as a different project so that it could be used outside of chrome with much less pain.
Thats also one of the best things about Mojolicious! :)
Some other ones:

http://github.com/sofadesign/limonade

http://github.com/jim/fitzgerald

http://github.com/fabpot/Silex (based on Symfony 2)
Having too many features is valid usability complaint. In fact, it probably harms the user quite a bit more than "requires too much disk space".
I could see myself using your service to charge monthly for access to a webapp. Do you have any plans for that, so that a user has to pay only once per month instead of each click? Apologies if that is already in place.
Interesting way of going about things. My approach which I'm trying now is pretty simple. Immersing myself in everything Ruby. Read up a bit on the history and purpose of the language, then learning all the basics, whilst using a few full app tutorials. Along with bugging people on Skype whenever I get a roadblock that Google can't solve ;-)
Right, but none of those stories have connected the phone story with 0.facebook.com and free dataplans. (Or did I miss it?)
> You're going to be trusting the government either way

With money not in a 401k or IRA, one can: keep gold bars in a vault overseas (I do); bury cash or gold in the yard; buy woodland or farmland and trust that local property rights will be maintained; open bank accounts overseas. There's just a whole lot of ways to store wealth outside the easy reach of crazy politicians.

When the money is in a 401k or IRA it is firmly in the grip of the IRS and whatever they might arbitrarily choose to do at some point over the decades.
What I want is NaCL implementations of urxvt+SSH and VNC/RDP.

I don't need yet another local posix system to maintain, I want remote access to my real server where my main screen session lives, and I want that access to live in a tab.
I'd totally go to McDonald's if they served food.
Take away from the article: McDonald's is a tough subject for piloting a FourSquare use-case. Too ubiquitous of a brand to be "discovered", customers probably not interested in location games, and how much more can you sweeten a deal at McDonald's.
You seem to have confused me with some kind of anarchist, or perhaps Glenn Beck. I didn't make any point about what services should be provided, one way or the other.

All I did was point out that the cost of paving 1 mile of road does not increase just because a bunch of rich microsofties moved into town. Perhaps you could remind me when I advocated against government providing police protection or road paving?
There will not be a Mac version of the software available

I'll bet that the number of Mac users who get a Windows Phone will be very small.
It's such a heady experience, isn't it?
For next time, I think you mean "waste" as in dispose of, not "waist" as in pants.

More importantly, teach your neighbor to Google:

http://www.google.com/search?q=Mac%20boot%20keys

Give a man tech help, help him for a day; teach him to Google, help him for life.
She'd probably be attacked by the grammar nazis.
> AMQP will become popular with banks because it looks like enterprise messaging but is much cheaper in terms of license costs. ØMQ will become popular with everyone else because it looks like TCP sockets but is much cheaper in terms of lines of code.

Beautiful.
This sounds like my story, but it took me much longer. However, I don't view myself as alpha or beta, merely someone with confidence who will assert myself if necessary. I think I view the alpha term with derision due to pick-up artists elevating it to be the point of one's life. The emphasis on it reeks of someone needing social redemption of sorts; as if they've committed a heinous sin against society at large by not quite fitting the mold. I've seen a few people sacrifice parts of themselves at this altar; hell, I'm pretty sure I have, somewhere along the way.

Power dynamics are all bullshit (which practically begs for satire), but not playing is a guaranteed loss. I just feel like it doesn't have to be like this, but it is. It disturbs me on an aesthetic level.
You might enjoy George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London. Among many other things, he describes his experiences working (in the 1930's) in the kitchens of a big Paris hotel and a small Paris restaurant -- I was reminded of Bourdain when I read these.
Generally, if you know where you're going its a lot faster to just start typing a search until you get to the word you want than to mess around with j and w (why incremental search isn't default eludes me). I won't claim that will always be faster than a mouse, but it should narrow the difference a lot.

I totally agree with you about the clipboard issues though.
Or... you can go to Laos, Cambodia or Thailand. Much better experience and much nicer people
I take the same approach of a diversified, low-cost ETF portfolio, but a different allocation than you have. Googling for "lazy portfolio" is a good starting point to find out more about this.

In general, I prefer to think about "saving for the future" instead of "saving for retirement". You never know what's around the corner and what you might need, so having a buffer when you need it can make your life a ton easier.
Thomas, I'm going to finally bite here: Is there some thread where you've explained why you favor big-tax big-gov?
yahoo finance has a bunch of downloadable stuff. a lot of folks use that to get started...
"With Vim, I press j until I'm on the line where the word is, then I press w until I'm at the beginning of the word, then I press cw to change the word, retype it the right way, and press escape to go back to command mode."

OK, this is something Vim people need to work on. Using j/k to move more than one or two lines is the wrong way to do things.

I know, I know, we extoll the virtues of hjkl constantly, but really they're barely more effective than the arrow keys.

There are better ways to move around in Vim, such as [f]orward, '[t]il and searching. In your case (changing word XYZ to something else) I would search for the word with /XY… and press return to get there, then edit as you described.

"Triple-clicking in Gedit highlights a line. Triple-clicking and dragging highlights a contiguous group of lines. In Vim, I'd need to move to the line I want to begin my selection on ([number]G or jjj), then press V, then press jjj until everything is selected."

See my previous comment about movement. You'd move to the line you want by using a search (or '{', which moves to empty lines), start your selection with V, and move to the end with another search (or some kind of movement command that gets you where you want to go quickly).

We Vim users need to stop touting our Nethack-honed hjkl skills and start talking about Vim's better movement commands.

"And I don't have to deal with the fact that the default way of deleting things overwrites the default clipboard either."

Yeah, this is dumb. YankRing helps a lot by letting you 'Ctrl+P' to the right text, but I really think Vim should have a "clipboard register" that only gets overwritten when you mean it (and have other registers for the last yanked elements).

"when I paste code in to a Vim document, the indentation gets all screwed up."

If you're using a graphical Vim like gvim or MacVim this simply shouldn't happen. It's a bug and you could report it.

If you're using the command line Vim you might need to do a bit more work to launch Vim and tell it to talk to X. It's a few extra minutes up front, but such is the price of using a terminal-based editor in a graphical environment.
As a Python developer on the Mac, I'm burning with envy.
I'm rich; tax me more
Ipad + VLC Media Player = Awesome
It's about time apple relaxed their rules. VLC was meant for the IPad
Google accounts act like an openid/oauth account. Lots of sites have a "log in with your google account" option.
So what you're saying is as the average income increases, we should decrease the tax rate to maintain a level amount of tax revenue? Then as population grows their taxes should offset their cost?
Maybe in a perfect world, but you can't compare our population to a fixed cost.
I just use a different prefix on the remote machine. Would that help?
Nope. It's one of the biggest complaints about Textmate, and one of the things that led me to (mostly) switch to vim.

A lot of people are pretty upset with the author because rather than choosing to release an incremental update that adds smaller features like this, he decided on a total rewrite and got bogged down with no release in sight.

That said, Textmate still feels remarkably current despite the fact that its last major update was more than 4 years ago.
Spammers on HN? It's more likely than you think
I've seen several articles from the UX Movement site over the past couple of weeks, and to me they all suffer from the same problem.

Is the site designed for those who apply these lessons to share their opinions, or it supposed to be more rigorous? Most of the articles could use a healthy dose of A/B testing to support their claims, patio11 style.