skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pinboard has also a roadmap, so you know what to expect in the next months.

The monthly fee is a good "you can stop when you want" argument. If a new bookmark service with an innovative feature comes out in 2 months, you can change without hesitation.

Maybe propose both choices. Something like 22$/year or 1,99$/month.
I've noticed a spike in emails from recruiters for jobs/gigs in California recently, both from the companies cited (I've had emails from all 3) and from others. I've lost track of how many times in the last week alone I've had to tell recruiters "I'm not willing to move to California at the moment". Thinking of making a macro for it.

Also, I've come close a few times to telling recruiters to tell their clients to please discover the joys of ssh/sftp/dropbox/basecamp/email/irc/phone, ie. telecommuting. I'm increasingly finding it funny that employers care where my body is considering how an extreme gap there is between the demand for qualified engineers and the supply of available+interested+affordable ones.
Auto advance is going a bit too far. It's a recipe for mediocrity. Nobody can time transitions that regularly, and missing beats are ugly and painful.

I'd rather see a rule: Advance the slide within X seconds or it will auto advance. Then limit the number of words, or something, instead of the number of slides.
Somewhat relevant to the topic - Mike Pall discusses (2009) the usage of llvm for lua - he's not ditching the approach, just pointing out the difficulties, and why he took on making luajit the way it is:

http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2009-06/msg00071.html
Didn't their auctions appear to make money hand over fist? Were they rigged? Did they start doing poorly, recently? If you just multiplied the price of their bids by the number of bids, it would seem they were doing very well. What was really going on?
It would be interesting, but it wouldn't be a representative 50% sample.
Specs are great: Java and Scala both have specs. Not having a spec can be OK if the language designer doesn't change things too often, and announces it well in advance when they do, e.g. Python.

What's worst is, say, when the language "Product Manager" leads a standardization committee that hasn't done anything for 7 years, yet often changes the language implementation overnight so code samples in other people's books and blogs no longer work.
The Simpsons Season 22 Episode 17
Control-click.

Needing two hands to get a context menu is the kind of thing that makes me question the 'minimalism' of OSX. Same as needing two keys(/hands) to do 'delete to the right'
I find your comment a bit strange, since the article is actually suggesting the opposite.

The thesis of the article is that Android and Chrome are already profitable businesses thanks to increased search revenue, not merely strategic projects. So they're exactly the opposite of spoiler moves that are trying to undercut a competitor's business. Of course it's easy enough to find examples of the latter in the tech world.
A big one Mike misses (because it isn't as critical for Lua AFAIK) is escape analysis. For PyPy our aggressive escape analysis can bring huge wins on things like numeric code and some types of string processing, but no static compilers really do this type of optimization, because it's not very important in C-type languages.
As nxn said, IE9 is the first release with canvas support. But even there oCanvas won't work currently I think. Browser compatibility was not my highest priority before the first release. But that will be tested and improved in later releases. I have also noticed that Opera has really weird rendering on both Mac and Windows. Windows browsers in general are also a little quirky on this. But it will be tested and improved more soon.
Great example of a company which established a strong user base and a comfortable format to ease in new users. I don't think this article is indicative of twitter's over-rated status in popular culture, I see it as good establishment within popular culture and 20,000 people who love and drive a company. From everything I've learned about startups, that's a growing and winning company.
At the end of the day, which comments are getting the attention?

The ones with content. In the sample quotes in the article, Linux is attacking ideas and attitudes, not people.
You claim not to understand, but I strongly suspect that you have correctly figured out exactly where all the money's going.
It may sound stupid to say this, but when I first clicked through, I did not read the top horizontal bar, and thought the question was whether the item was the word above the picture; as a result, I did not even realize that the question was whether it was a snack, and I answered the question wrong a number of times. I think I learned a valuable lesson in UX design from this, thank you!
Yeah but if you wiin, then you wiin the item.

How is it that people can spell and punctuate everything else correctly but can't remember the difference between lose and loose? (I see this all the time, and it's even becoming frequent on HN. I just don't get it).

Keep spelling lose that way, my friend, and eventually you will get your just deserts. (hope at least SOMEBODY gets the joke)
I'm a big fan of this move by Cornell, but not, I think for the same reasons as most. First, I can't fault journals for charging fees. After all, they need to make money, and as long as it's a good value, people will pay it.

I like it because it will add some much needed competition into the journal pricing. Most likely, Nature is not going to change their pricing. If you have an article worthy of being published there, most people are going to pay a few grand and be happy to do so just to have their paper published. Assuming publishing prices do become transparent, I don't think it will drastically change the pricing system, but it will allow people to evaluate the value of such a publication.

The best analog I can think of are colleges themselves (and not just because of the academic connection). The value of both colleges and journals are significantly affected by their reputation. The price of the colleges have not leveled out, nor have they gone to zero (closer the opposite of both), but the prices do reflect the perceived "value" of that education. Hopefully the same will happen for journals.
Feels like a spin on Delaunay triangulation, but it's not--- cool!
This reminds me of the Overprice Tags project by Benjamin Mako Hill of the MIT Media Lab/Sloan. See http://mako.cc/fun/overpricetags/

Students at MIT, Brown, and other schools labelled the journals in their libraries with pricetags showing the cost the university was paying for each journal. Nuclear Physics A&B <//elsevier.com/locate/nuclphysa> cost $25,888 in 2005.

Similarly, Students for Free Culture have been working on both the Open University Project and the Open Access Project, pressing universities to reform their use of journals. See http://freeculture.org/

Lastly, public universities have been known to disclose the cost of journals they subscribe to -regardless of NDA status- at the issuing of FOIA or CPRA type requests. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Public_Records_Act
Odd. The context of the article and the rest of what you wrote, I would have expected a word like "friends" or phrase like "cool guys" in place of the vulgarity.

Did you dislike these people?
No. The only people I see who will happily pay for twitter are the marketing people. Why would I pay for sharing what I think. They can make money on what I share through ads, though. Or sell the data.
That was my first thought as well. The games are rated 17+ for a reason: graphic violence and strong language in a "fun" context is not something I would want my 12-year old experiencing for hours on end.
"Topology" was the most prestigious journal in its field (i.e., mathematical topology). It and lots of other journals got bought up by Elsevier, who then proceeded to raise the prices to stratospheric levels.

The editors decided they didn't feel like playing along:

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/topology-letter.pdf
Samsung needs to realize that in order to compete with Apple on its home turf, it's not enough to copy Apple's products. Samsung also needs to copy Apple's marketing savvy.

Right now, they're going about it the wrong way. First they announce the Galaxy Player, a supposed competitor to the iPod touch, which has yet to materialize. Then they brag about having sold 2 million Galaxy Tabs. Soon after, they have to retract that statement; it was the number of Tabs shipped to retailers, at that point they weren't sold to consumers. Next, they had a Korean exec with poor English language skills making statements about the Galaxy Tab's sales [0], explaining that "sales are quite smooth" while also stating "sell-out wasn’t as fast as we expected". This week, we find out that Samsung cancelled the previously announced Galaxy Tab 10.1, replacing it with a non-working prototype of a new 10.1 tablet, not mentioning a shipping date for the actual product. And then this, a commercial with bad actors being presented as customers who've seen and used the product (which doesn't exist).

- Only announce products that you're ready to ship.
- Don't let just anyone at your company comment on those products.
- Hire only the best firms to create your ads.
- Communicate emotion, not features.

[0] http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/01/31/samsung-galaxy-tab-sa...
So, "drag and drop" out of iPhoto isn't what you want, and you don't want to just use the "open file" dialog from another OSX app (since that lets you access all parts of the iPhoto library), and then you don't like how you have to click down a few folders once you do use "show package contents"?

The only person going out of their way to make this difficult is you.

FFS, Apple is far from perfect, but the things you're complaining about have pretty simple answers.
The Great Language Land Grab
I was just there for an interview - it is very nice, new office space with plenty of parking. In true fashion, some of the tenants were racing RC cars around in the empty space, so whether it's due to layoffs or just an inability to rent, there's definitely more space in that building for interested startups.

I'm not sure what the exact terms are or even what the PA market looks like, but not having to sweat about office space seems on the surface like a Good Thing for a startup outgrowing their current digs (or living room).
Another factor that makes O'Reilly different: Lots of their customers are open source / Linux users, who are usually opposed to drm, have the technical knowledge to break drm, and are used to standing up for what they believe to be digital rights.

This means if they used DRM, it would likely be broken, openly, by their target users
It's like I'm a mind reader or something. :)
Sorry, french native here! thank you.
"Gruber did it" is the new "Simpsons did it"?
Dupe, flagged.

See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2369094
Why would it be? Is it because you believe there are no strategies to penny auction bidding? Just for comparison's sake, is there a strategy to roulette in casinos or to lotteries run by private corporations on behalf of the government?
The answer is just 3 words: depth first search. I don't get why such a tedious article was written for such a simple, common, and obvious solution.
At vmworld 2010 Samsung had a big TV playing a Steve Jobs-esque keynote presentation introducing some new product. The really odd thing was that it was entirely faked. The speaker, the audience, the applause, everything. Somebody there has a crazy obsession with Apple and has led their company into the uncanny valley of imitation.
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No kidding! They keep stealing my people! ;)

Seriously though, it's been making things tough. We've really had to step up our game lately to make compelling arguments. Luckily, we have some advantages over those guys, like being able to push code live to millions of people with pretty much no bureaucracy.
That's really it, Buffet doesn't make bets, he takes sure things when no one else wants them. This is why he always under performs the market in booms and outperforms during busts. He finds the companies he likes and waits for the price to be right.

There is also a lot of synergy in his investments, if you look at Geico part of the reason they are able to offer such low rates is that they park most of their excess funds with Berkshire or other similarly outperforming investments.

Or look at BNSF and their trackage to the Powder River Basin. He doesn't want to be in a company like Facebook because he doesn't know that they will be around in 20 years, nor are their competitive advantages (network effect) durable within the industry. Look at a company like Coca-Cola, their advantages are durable and customer base loyal. Coca Cola doesn't need frequent drinker miles to get their customers to remain loyal.

One of the highly overlooked benefits of long term investing is the tax implications and associated transaction fees. If you buy and sell stock frequently you pay capital gains so any other investment needs to be better than the one you currently have by at least the capital gains you'll pay on the sale plus the brokerage fees.
People replace phones every two years. You'd think those big-name manufacturers would care about getting your money next time.
Usually this is an indication of nervousness but you appear to suggest (above) you have so much experience that this wouldn't be a problem.

My ex-husband is extremely introverted. He learned to speak in public but it never, ever stopped being a sweaty-palms, knees-shaking type experience for him. (And he was double majoring in computer sci/history when we divorced.) For some people, experience doesn't really resolve this issue.
I live near that office - how do I get on the waiting list for space?
Out of curiosity what makes this such a big win for Python, but not so much for Lua or C-type languages?
99.9% of my job can be done from home. Yet I still commute 2 hours every day to get to the office.

Why? Because there is just something to be said for working in the same room as the other folks on your team.

Sometimes we'll all work from home, and we'll be in IRC all day chatting the same way we do in the office. Yet when we are in the office, we seem to get more done.

The best example is when I hear some of the other folks talking about a new feature or a code change, and I overhear something that sets off my sysadmin alarm bells. If we weren't in the same room, we'd have to wait until the code review phase to find out, "oh hey, the servers can't DO that."

This way we can head off these problems early with minimal overhead. How annoying would it be to have to send an email every time you had an idea, and then wait for everyone to approve it? When everyone is in the office, we just turn around and finish that process in a few seconds.
Can you give some examples/use cases of how a small business, say an auto garage, would use this?
On the contrary, it encourages disfunction. "Let us remove the consequences of your failures." Gee, I wonder if that memory will make them so grateful that they'll be more careful next time? Sure. It's not like their whole industry is about predicting risks and rewards based on past experience.

Bah. The mistakes will be repeated and the bailout question will arise again. And it will be worse next time.

We should have had the guts to say "fail and die." It would have sucked, but not as much as crushing debt and a sequel.
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'Mapifier.com' sure sounds a lot more trustworthy and descriptive, even though it's a bit on the long side for a shortlink.
I honestly don't know why it's not such a big deal for Lua, but given LuaJIT's performance, and knowing that it doesn't do escape analysis I know it must not be a big deal :) In Python it's a big deal because everything is boxed, and your inner loops just get bogged down with allocations, which are expensive compared to arithmetic operations.
2. Sell an emotional experience, not features.

Something I learned in the course of raising and homeschooling a couple of special needs kids:

Emotion is a form of memory. People who lack much in the way of affect are terrible at making snap decisions. They lack a "gut feeling" to go on. That "gut feeling" is a shorthand way for the brain/body to store info and make decisions quickly. I have one son that is very emotional and capable of making snap decisions. I have one son who has little affect and can't make snap decisions. So I think using "emotional appeal" is a form of shorthand to communicate value to the audience. I don't think I can explain it better than that, but I really think it doesn't deserve the bad rap it gets. Emotional appeal is not some sort of illogical, shallow, silly means to make a decision. It is an alternate means, but not necessarily any less information-dense than scads and scads of logical analysis. In fact, it is probably more information dense (a la "a picture's worth a thousand words" -- "a gut feeling is worth hours and hours of study and analysis") and that is likely why it contains power to sell so much more effectively.

Peace.

Edit: Utterly baffled by the downvote. No one needs to upvote me, but some thoughts as to what the issue is would be appreciated. Thanks.
If you're a small company outside of California, you don't have to compete with Google, Facebook, Twitter, Zygna.... for the best engineers. As a startup you can never match their salaries. Sometimes it's good to be a big fish in a small pond.
Did anyone find a link to the CoffeeScript he used? He's linking to the generated js, but it'd be cool to see the CoffeeScript.
Maybe your next project should be photos of flying saucers and the question "Is this a threat?".
Let's imagine I use a Mac. I open Gmail and I want to send my father a cute picture of his niece. There's no direct way to do this without leaving the application I'm in (Safari) and going somewhere else to get at the picture.

By contrast, if this were a Pages document, I could simply click on "Attach a file" and then browse to the folder where the document lives. In the case of iPhoto and iTunes, this feature - file browsing - is simply not as straightfoward. I don't think that's up for debate. You are free to suggest ways that I can get at the photo (through iPhoto, through another OSX app), but I can't browse to the item the way that I can browse to other files on my filesystem.

> The only person going out of their way to make this difficult is you.

I really don't see how. I want something perfectly normal: I want "Attach a file" to work. In many cases, with many Apple programs, it does. But in a number of other cases (iPhoto, iTunes), it does not. This is not my fault. I am not doing anything special or nerdy or geeky here.
Consumed? That implies that they're actually read (and comprehended rather than downloaded to a stream?), and that they no longer exist afterwards.

Sure, the firehose favors subscriptions, but that's about the only take-away.
It wasn't an attempt to make him look bad. I think many/most people here would agree with the sentiment about standards vs actual usage. And that line was delivered with classic Linus style - blunt and with the subtlety of a chainsaw. That's why I chose it for the title.
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More detail here: http://www.quora.com/How-will-Color-Labs-startup-handle-inap...

"Simply swipe a photo from someone, and a popup will show you to choose Nudity, Violence or Hateful.
That person will then be banned from Color, thus the only way to get back on the system is buying a new iPhone or Android. It's a pretty expensive way to get back in the system, which keeps a very balanced environment. The web is very easy to just recreate an account if you behave badly, it's not the most economical way to behave like this.

We also will ban a person from Color for abusing the reporting system.

More important is that since all the photos you take are public, and they travel around with you, people behave. When you go to work, go to school or are with your friends, and family, they'll see all of your pics you've taken on Color. People who take inappropriate pictures don't want everyone they spend time with in real life that they are that type of person." --Peter Pham, President & Co-Founder of Color
I can't speak for Lua, but for C, it's because all memory management is handled explicitly by the programmer - that precludes optimizations where dynamic allocation is replaced with stack allocation. The C compiler isn't free to change such things, and most C programmers already perform that optimization without thinking about it. (I don't mean to imply that state of affairs is a good thing, it's just so ingrained in a C programmer that they don't think of it as an optimization.)

Also, since C allows access to raw-memory by design, it can't guarantee that, say, my memory allocation in function f() isn't touched by my funky pointer-arithmetic in function g(). (Perhaps in theory it could, but in practice this problem is mind-blowingly difficult.)

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_analysis
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Do you invest your money in a random sample of the S&P 500?
"San Francisco's Twitter… has more than 400 employees and plans to grow to 3,000 employees by July 2013."

Wow. Planned staff increases:

Google: 25%
YouTube: 30%
Facebook: 50%
Twitter: 650% (over 2 years)

That is amazing. I am very curious what organization and methods Twitter has planned to manage scaling up like that.
Is there a list somewhere? this sounds like an interesting idea.
I wondered at first how Patrick could squeeze success from something like Bingo card creation.

I don't anymore.
I don't get it. Why should I care about a faux reality commercial?
>"Since copyright only protects expression [...]"

Copyright law protects interests from the effects of copying. Derivative works are not the original expression but nonetheless are restricted by copyright laws and treaties.

In your example A is committing copyright infringement. They're creating a derivative work by copying the original (albeit not slavishly copying). Person B is arguably committing contributory infringement (commercially enabling A) and is certainly copying a work created tortuously; consider it like handling stolen goods.

It's a nice idea but I don't think that copyright law is naive enough to allow this sort of workaround in practice. If it were then foreign language copies wouldn't be infringing and I'm pretty sure that they are.

IANACL
Anything with a quick fire succession of images and an easily made choice seems to be mildly addictive in a large subset of people. Facemash and Hot or Not being two old examples, but there was one by a HN regular that went viral just a few weeks ago too.. One has to wonder how far you can go with the concept.
Ruby's object model (explained with the C source)
Not really. There's no way to pay less than $15/month unless you pay nothing. It's just a hunch, but I think most Times readers believe the website is worth somewhere between nothing and $15.
The unpainted art-deco shiny metal sides of NY subways is probably more iconic/emblematic.
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This. I don't care how they try to justify it. Only a handful of people are going to pay $500/yr for a single website.
Nice, same date as Leonard Nimoy (and myself).
Do you think it's possible to have such a game with out mortal combat as the central theme and still make a big impact in the gaming world. Cooperative but not cooperating to kill the other team?