skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Completely agree. Right now I'm sitting in the garden under a tree. When it gets too hot (mid-afternoon) I'm going down to the office, where I've also scheduled all my conference calls for this afternoon so I can focus on working the rest of the week. The flexibility to do both is extraordinary for my well-being, as there are days I simply don't feel like working alone.
I am but an egg, but . . .

"Test Driven JavaScript Development", Chris Johansen, might serve. Not many exercises, but it walks through some of the core JavaScript principles, using tests as a learning / exploring device. "Here's a test showing how the << this >> keyword works."

It also walks through several examples of test driven development, touching on design principles as it goes. It does a great job of walking through the practicalities forcing some design choices, and the implications of the alternatives.

I came away from this with a much better grasp of JavaScript, development process, and design principles generally. I don't think I've gotten more from any single book.

But I'm a newbie still trying to learn these things. More experienced folks may find the book tiresome.
They do invest the money, and make quite a bit of money on it as well. They have a range of short term to long term investments, as most companies who have lots of cash do. They also invest a lot in factories that build parts for their devices, ensuring a cheap, early supply of new components.
Hey guys. I'm the dev manager for Veracity. I thought I could answer a couple of questions.

On the problem it solves: stonemetal has it about right. Veracity wants to be a way for companies to take advantage of DVCS without giving up many things they need. The Apache license and file locks are a couple examples that exist today. We have plans for more. We're not trying to out-git git.

On documentation: yeah, it's awfully sparse right now. We're working on it. We didn't think the Q&A site would solve the problem, but we do hope it ameliorates it somewhat in the mean time. :)
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My minds eye always sees a '90s-era Seth Green character as the man behind the keyboard of Anonymous/LulzSec.
i guess it's a bit too late to ask, as this is sliding off the front page, but why the animosity here? the article rings true with my experience of yale (lived in new haven last year) and, a little less so, of cambridge (where i worked for 7 years).

surely you're not all offended alumni (especially since i suspect alumni would recognise the truth)? is this the same wannabe attitude that makes americans defend tax cuts for the rich? it's not that you are benefiting from the cronyism, but you sure would like to be?
> The website that started these conversations has listed only ocean fish

http://whichfish.org/detail/catfish_us_farmed.html
http://whichfish.org/detail/crayfish_us.html
http://whichfish.org/detail/trout_rainbow_trout.html
http://whichfish.org/detail/tilapia_organic_or_closed_produc...
Why can't we use cool Apps like this at work/university?
For the record, the dev version (at least) of chrome will now open developer tools with the F12 shortcut, meaning F12 now works in Chrome/FF/IE9
> If I had the nerve I would join them.

.. having convinced yourself it is not the ultimate meta-honey-pot.
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Well, these are also short-term gains. When developers are your mainstay and the culture tanks everything else goes with it. Despite these cuts they say that Google's offering multi-million deals to hang on to talent that may go to a hotter startup for less and those are just the stars. Potential stars probably think of Google like working at a bank, stable but boring.
You've heard of skype, yes?
One of the things I hate about B2B marketing is vendors that won't quote a price in public.

It's how I qualify vendors. No price on the web site, no call to a salesperson. Period, you lost the sale.
When I read the section on dropping support for PowerPC-application support altogether on this version of Mac OS X, I couldn't help but think of the video of someone upgrading from Windows 1.0 all the way to Windows 7, and many of the features/applications still working. Why did Mac throw out a feature they had working? Couldn't they have retained it, just not upgraded it anymore? (Or given it to the community?)

Full Disclosure: I'm a Microsoft employee. These views are my own, but I am supporting our product.
Many countries don't have gas piped in, so a pipe is connected to a tank of gas sitting outside and often only used for cooking.
I think personal autonomy is underrated in most facets of life - we're just seeing the effects of it in this article on this particular study.

I really really really disliked growing up in my family. It's not that I hated them, but I hated having to be around them all the time. Forced vacations on someone else's schedule, forced meal times, etc. I just really hated it. That was taken (even by my family) as rejecting them, which wasn't the case, but hard to articulate when you're 9.

I really enjoy having time with my brothers now (and my parents) but it's because it's on my time and my schedule.

I am pretty sensitive to sound, and having to sit around people who chew with their mouth open is torture. Same thing with gum chewing. I left a job once partially because I was forced to sit in the same room with someone who'd taken up gum chewing. Growing up with the family, meal times were really bad. Now, as an adult, I can politely leave the room for a few minutes if I need to (to destress) but as a kid, I couldn't.

Being able to control where you work is great, but just reaffirms that as humans, we are happier when we are in control all aspects of our own lives.
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"ClojureScript does not currently support regular expression literals using #"" "

This one seems like a big deal, given how often I find myself using regexes in clojure. Is it on its way and is there a workaround currently?
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It is probably difficult or non-sensical to run a gas line or store natural gas on-site at an office building simply to heat the water for washing hands. I assume the same office building does not have hot showers or baths, either.

My questions, though, does his home hot water heater use gas or electricity to heat the water?
All the "good sir", "hello thar", monocle stuff dates back to the SA forums, which is where 4chan originally grew out of amongst other places. It was considered funny by some, but quickly grew out of control as people with no working sense of humour took up meme-repetition as a substitute.

There was a time when you could get your account deleted for saying "good sir" on SA, it was that prevalent and annoying.

A lot of the lulzsec schtick reads like classic SA banter, I wouldn't be surprised if topiary used to post there. It could just be because of the aforementioned SA-->4chan lineage.
Interestingly... no. The heat tiles are an incredibly cool* bit of engineering that retain heat like mad.

To the extent that you can technically pick up a panel that is super-hot inside and it will take a reasonable lenght of time to actually burn you! (the quote I remember reading was that at 750 Celsius inside, it would take around 15 seconds to burn you). They are designed specifically like this to slowly soak up the heat of re-entry (because if they heated up too fast it, obviously, makes them useless :)). Think "thermos flask".

The tiles (at least the outside of them) cool significantly during the latter stage of the re-entry glide so are maybe... 100-200 Celsius upon landing. You can brush against them and not feel it.

(all of this is my recollection from reading a technical paper some years ago about the HRSI tiles they use)

* err, pun not intended :) honest
Of course Google leaves the tech news sites' profiles up. They want the coverage to keep the product positioned in a good light with the publications that will keep it top of mind with the early adopters who will give it the momentum it needs to keep growing.

If they shut down those press sites, they'll pay less attention, write about "inflexible Google" and risk spoiling the current bromance between the early adpoters and Google+.

So while it is inconsistent, not "fair" and completely transparent in it's aim, it also makes total sense.
Wow. I didn't know Google Closure implemented a real optimizer like that.
I think every country in the world has a negative cash hoard, except perhaps Norway?
I see no evidence to suggest Apple is trying to kill Flash. It looks like a bug.

Due to performance issues, security issues (on a closed platform), battery life issues and finally, issues of building a strong and stable developer community Flash just isn't a good fit for iOS. I think it should be available in the App Store for those that don't care about the issues but it shouldn't be pre-installed on iOS with all of its problems.
In the firmware, not the disk.
Radioactive Japanese Fish are "okay to eat".
If you quote someone for a project, and never specify that you're going to want approximate $X, wouldn't that mean you're quoting 'free'?
My guess(since there is a dearth of documentation at this point) is that it is token based. When you say a file requires locking it records that the file needs to be locked and that you currently own the lock. Then as you push, knowledge of the fact that this file needs a lock is spread.

The only other option I really see working is having a designated lock node, so you are centralized only when you need to do locking.
An uninformed electorate isn't helping, but I don't see how voting is going to fix this.

I'm starting to believe that the smart people just don't want to be politicians. It's a good way to become rich and famous, though.
Did you even read the lede?

>Scientists aiming their gene sequencers at commercial seafood are discovering rampant labeling fraud in supermarket coolers and restaurant tables: cheap fish is often substituted for expensive fillets, and overfished species are passed off as fish whose numbers are plentiful.

The link states that overfished species are being intentionally mis-labelled. I would say that, yes, we might as well not bother if the seafood industry is going to pull these kind of shenanigans, absent some sort of regulation from the government (an unpopular sentiment here).
I wonder if they'll ever understand the people they're trying to protect are actually the victims in their actions.

They hack Sony. Sony loses millions. How do you think they're going to recapture their loses? By passing the loss onto consumers. Increased prices for TV's, games, anything Sony makes is going to increase in price to recoup their loses.

Clearly they haven't thought this all the way through.
I don't really love Zynga, but I can't see what is wrong or unethical in this. Its not nice, but they don't owe it to you to be nice or 'not evil'.
Xamarin Gets All IP Rights for Mono and Related Products
Well, if you have the yard space, and need the separation between work and family, I recommend something like this:

http://modern-shed.com/home.aspx
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This isn't any different than dozens of other "special offers" a typical consumer encounters every day. I get calls all the time telling me I've won a free trip somewhere, for example.
How do we know this is for legit?
Stairs are a breeze to climb if you are even moderately fit. (Even climbing stairs will make you fit enough to climb stairs.)
Even renting, moving for work is ridiculous. If you work in The Metro Area (whichever one that is) jobs can be all over the place. Wherever you move, most of the jobs are not there. Not to mention the expense of moving; I wonder how long it takes to recover the cost of a move?

Add a family and kids and now you're uprooting everyone in your house from their schools and relationships and jobs.
That is absolutely incredible. Thank you!
>In short, the minute I start deciding on my own when to break the law and disrespect other people's property rights because of a cause -- even a legitimate cause -- I become an enemy of everybody.

' [...] at first glance it may seem rather paradoxical for us consciously to break laws. One may well ask: "How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?" The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that "an unjust law is no law at all."'

Martin Luther King Jr, Letter from a Birmingham Jail -- http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.h...

If you want to argue that some of Anon's actions have been unethical, that's fair, and many people -- including some anons -- will agree with you. However, there are certainly times when breaking the law is justified in support of the rights of the people.
They are in no way "modern day Robin Hoods". Hoodlums maybe.
Oh come on. People said the same damn thing about every activist in history.

"Don't anger Sony because they'll only make prices higher for everybody!" Yes. Their costs will be higher, so economically they'll either take less profit or have higher prices. Then they will be at a disadvantage in the marketplace. At some point the cold equations of economics will dictate that they either change their ways or die.
"he's completely oblivious to the ongoing evolution of HTML5 and Javascript"

I sincerely hope he's also dead wrong on the acceptability of a single company owning your communication in 2011.
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"The biggest problem is the fuzzy line between work and home."

This is something you learn to manage. The fuzzy line is there whether or not you work from home. If you are a programmer or other IT type you probably already have the ability to do _some_ work from home and possibly have to be on-call sometimes (or all the time -- which I've done before).
Please stop trying to obfuscate your product's pricing. I won't buy from you unless you give me clear pricing. If I can't work out for myself how much money it will save/make me, that's the fault of your supporting marketing materials.
Dude Tries to Raise $1 Million For Charity By Trading Highlighters
If Sony's prizes rise, other companies will sell more TV's. The market for TV's is a decent one as far as I know.
I have never, in my life, seen a more trivial and annoying list than this one:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14201796

To "wait on" instead of "wait for" when you're not a waiter - once read a friend's comment about being in a station waiting on a train.

Seriously? And are these Americans:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z9hbf-IRig

The whole list is like that.
"These governments and corporations are our enemy."

They are douches, plain and simple.
Sure. They should issue a $50/ share special dividend, and they'd still have enough left over to buy eBay.

It's arrogant corporate behavior that's only being put up with while their growth rate is so high. Watch how quick the knives come out when they slip up.
Four Fish by Paul Greenberg - tackles this very subject. I recommend it. http://roundvalleyfishing.com/2011/06/15/book-review-four-fi...
As someone also rather sensitive to sound, I highly recommend Bose noise canceling headphones. It is the perfect socially frictionless solution to loud office environments.
Do you have an example that shows how to use ARel to do relational algebra?
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> Make impassioned speech then go break into the neighbor's house and scatter his secret documents all over the lawn

Sorry, but that's a pretty bad analogy.
Lesson learned - work naked, be productive. Words to live by.
Yeah, I should stop hanging around iOS developers - I'm loosing sense of what is under NDA and what's not. :)
I don't think the average person on HN is the target audience for this in the first place. If you know HTML5 and Javascript and work in a web-based environment most of the time, then this probably won't help you much.

On the other hand, if you are, like me, one of the many people in academia who would love to have a way to embed interactive graphs and tables into your papers to make them more understandable for the reader, then this is potentially very useful. Especially since very few people in academia (outside CS departments anyway) know or have any interest in learning HTML5, and many already use or have easy access to Mathematica to begin with.

Also, Wolfram being a corporation is irrelevant. Some problems are best solved by large corporations trying to make money. That may or may not be the case here, but they definitely have an incentive to keep the format open (in some sense) and promulgate the free CDN reader (much like Adobe has done in the past).
The biggest difference that I noticed is how much more clearly the sales letter describes what Highrise does. It also does a better job of explaining how it benefits users.

From a design perspective, I'm really impressed with how they managed to adopt the sales letter format without it seeming spammy/scammy. A lot of that probably has to do with the typography.
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A fascinating thing here is that despite all of Apple's current products, all the rising sales numbers, all the hype, popularity and air of coolness surrounding them and all the generally good news about them and all that... up to the launch of Lion, the share price has hardly moved and if anything it went down - just because Steve Jobs announced he would retire.
Facebook ad Clickthrough rates
I've so little success with facebook ads. I keep trying though, even tried using some provocative photos (still G rated) and those got banned... ugh
I've had very bad experiences with these types of organizations. I once visited an institute for blind people and I had the chance to see them using the computer lab. I was moved by the scene: all these eager young people hungry for learning, and yet they didn't have internet. Their Braille library was 20 books.

So I made a huge effort and found someone who could donate a router, took $500 in savings (which, as a student in Mexico, was quite a sum) and asked friend to match my donation. So my donation was in essence two years of internet.

Some time went by and when I followed up, the router was stowed in a closet and my donation had gone to "administrative purposes" because they were having trouble making ends meet.

This is a huge problem in charitable organizations, most of the money doesn't go to the people who need it, it goes towards maintaining the organization and generating more money through bothersome print and phone campaigns.

I've met a couple of people who have worked in these organizations, and they become jaded once they catch the mechanics. There are certainly exceptions: The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation and the Turner Foundation function on the funds provided by their founders.

I still believe in charity, but in a more peer-to-peer fashion, not necessarily involving money but mentoring that builds long-standing roads to success.
Fridge is Joining Google+ Team
Cool Infographic about Social + Travel
Shows the impact that social applications have on the travel industry.
Howto: Make a timelapse video like the errant cron task nytimes one
I disagree. There were quite a few dot-coms that could have been successful had they IPO'ed before the crash, and additional dot-coms that should have never been acquired, yet because of such an acquisition, allowed the ownership of the Dallas Mavericks.

The burst will not be as devastating simply because not as many people are directly involved.

I am still using eBay and Amazon, and even Yahoo is still around (which acquired Viaweb).

Do you honestly think Twitter is worth $8 billion dollars without a business model?

Please, read this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Exit-Strategy-Douglas-Rushkoff/dp/1887...
Fridge development team joining Google+
Just got the email. Congrats guys!
So if the Montgomery public transit system went down in 1955, it was the protestors' fault?
I'm not sure how one follows the other. Anything launched in the past 100 days (such as Plus) would have had to have been in the works for months or years. This seems to be the folly of judging one man's impact on an organization of tens of thousands of people.
I could never get into multiple virtual desktops either. No matter how carefully I arrange my windows into different spaces I always end up with a scenario where I need to re-arrange windows to fit whatever task I'm working on. Ends up being a huge waste of time for me. The only benefit I get from spaces is a clean looking desktop but "Hide Others" solves that problem fairly well.
I find the statement of Greg Maxwell - who uploaded the text - courageous; quoting as to why he did not upload them anonymously:

"...that the obviously overzealous prosecutors of Aaron Swartz would
probably accuse him of it and add it to their growing list of ridiculous
charges. This didn't sit well with my conscience, and I generally believe that anything worth doing is worth attaching your name to.

I'm interested in hearing about any enjoyable discoveries or even useful
applications which come of this archive..."

Any ideas for useful applications and legal implications?
Google+ acquires Fridge
Nokia deep in red, decline of €782M from same quarter
Interesting article. I've heard of future partners meeting during Startup weekends, and this seems like another great place for new ideas and like-minded individuals.
NextSpace SF is one of great coworking space. you have to pay anyways. Try browse some at meetup.com, not really sure is there any hn meetups soon.

anyway you run your own project?
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You fail to address who exactly the neighbor is. If it is a random home, the act would be silly and garner little sympathy for the attacker.

If it was the home of the mastermind hurting half the town and some of the documents represented parts of his plan to hurt, it would seem more justified.
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Lion looks a lot to me like a return to OS X's NextStep roots: spartan and understated with color used sparingly and mostly for emphasis.
I think the advantage of a Google+ API would be that you can limit what circles apps can access when you login with your Google+ account. Assuming Zynga made a Google+ version of Farmville, you could set it so Farmville only accessed your fellow farmers circle. Whether or not 3rd Party Client support is available is less important in my opinion for determining whether or not Google+ can outmatch rival social networks.
Acer buys iGware, makes a $320 million bet on the cloud
Tata is now building the world's cheapest home at $720
I love the fact that the Closure compiler realizes "oh, that's 2" and outputs it. Personally I'll probably give them more time to build things out a bit in case they start adding some of the missing pieces like transients, but I'm more exited by this the more I read.
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