skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok: I think one easily gets the other impression from your want/need distinction. Regardless: the first two paragraphs do not even touch on that: that person might 'need' an Xbox, but not one that has a working blue video composite. The point is that there is an elasticity to the demand curve for everything that the person might 'want', but there is no obvious breaking point where you suddenly end up with a 'need': and a great example is that you do not really 'need' food, you just want it very very badly.
How did you setup eclipse to open files over sftp? Remote System Explorer?

I installed this one but I don't like it :/
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how should that work out? innertoy.com, I dont get it.
His Master's Voice by Stanislaw Lem is about trying to decipher an alien radio transmission, and focuses a lot on the mathematics and information theory involved as far as I remember.
+1 for that! I would really like that feature as a major feature in some editor. The one which had that pretty good was ZDE (Zend Development Environment) 5.5 but it's buggy and pretty old now (and not maintained anymore).

I already thought about writing an own editor exclusively for that, but it's too much work to build everything from scratch imo.
If it were a phishing scam, I'd still have to give the phisher a thumbs up for using sproutcore & CSS3 techniques on the site. There's a significant amount of javascript for a phishing page.
I guess Cyberduck falls under the TextMate+Remote Filesystem Mount category but for me, it's relatively painless. You save a file in TextMate and Cyberduck updates the file on the remote server automatically.
Hey I didn't mean to offend Perl long-timers. See my response to btilly...

Hacker News is a bit of an exception to what you find in the real world (where 3 years of experience with a language can be considered as better than average).
Hiya Slowpoke. You seem to be new to HN. That's cool. We're very much unlike some other Internet communities which you've spent time on. In particular, we place a wee bit of emphasis on treating people like they are people, even when interacting with them over HTTP.

My name is Patrick. Pleased to meet you. I run a business which helps teach little kids to read, and spend a lot of time on HN as my hobby. A lot of HNers know me, have spoken to me, or have shaken my hand in person, because I'm a fairly personable guy. Most do not say "Hello Patrick, pleased to meet you, I don't give half a fuck whether you starve to death." That would be a wee bit uncouth.

We have guidelines here for the community's consensus on talking to each other: http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

I'd also like to leave you with a video from Derek Sivers, who also happens to be a HNer. I think the lesson is rather important.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfwwHa-7Ux8
They are probably pretty convinced that if your only competitive advantage is restricting access to information, you are doing it right.

I mean, isn't capitalism basically wrapped around the idea that without competition, businesses will act in their own best interest, which is diametrically opposed to the interests of consumers? That is to say, given the choice any "smart" business will leap at the chance to lock out competition, because that is in the best interests of the business (if it can get away with it)?

Anyway, what this is really about is getting the information faster. I don't really see anything wrong with that; some information is just time sensitive, and a good informant will practically be in the business of getting you information faster than his competitors... I see this as much the same thing.
And I can appreciate the response... the information you're providing is absolutely interesting... perspective is different, nothing more... Is hard to discuss such things without some numbers... keep writing. :)
It's not so much restricting access to information as getting and acting on it quicker.

In "the olden days" there were very similar trades done by people who (for example) could get information about tea clippers from China arriving in England. Now, it's automated, but the idea is the same.
I'm curious if they are using SC1.6 or some custom build. Maybe even 2.0?
I haven't denied my parent post. You are quoting me out of context - it doesn't make sense if you don't include the full sentence, and you aren't explaining why you think I'm claiming needs are not subjective.

Where have I said anything about me agreeing or disagreeing with people's needs? Certainly not in that quote. My position is simply that Google's advertising doesn't necessarily serve the function of matching people with suppliers of what they want or need because it's an attention auction which is agnostic to the idea of need or want.

You also haven't addressed what part of what I've said is 'pontificating' or why I don't have the right to express my views.
I could consider writing mobile app where you would be able to attach the picture and complain. I want to keep my app generic.

I am not really looking for how to monetize the app. Well, I mean it woud be nice to see that happening, but so far it's just for fun.
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In this case "many" means a minority. The majority have voted with their dollars over the past several decades and overwhelmingly chosen products that are manufactured wherever is cheapest.
Sublime Text 2's config files have JSON-like syntax, but allow C (/* */) and C++ (//) style comments.
It's a competition to be the most photogenic AWS-using startup.

You get money; Amazon gets publicity ("look at these cool AWS-using startups!") and information ("huh, I had no idea so many people were doing X... maybe we need to offer X as a service").
Wait, what? Sony has mostly abandoned their Japanese production of Televisions. They are made in China. Maybe you're thinking of Sharp?
Splatting is when you draw with a point cloud but fill in in-between the points to make a solid surface during the rendering. It's only necessary if you get close enough to your point cloud that the points don't map to adjacent pixels.
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The main thing wrong with Xcode 4 is that it is incredibly unstable, compared to any other major IDE (Xcode 3 included).

It crashes several times every day, without fail. It also does things like bork its own project files such that they can no longer be opened, and the programmer has to roll back to an earlier version and make the changes again.
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I personally don't, but I know some programmers who often do.
See: http://blog.macromates.com/2011/lion-notes/
I'm sorry, but as much as I respect people both on Reddit and Hacker News, I wonder where does all the enthusiasm come from, when:

* demos show nothing new from a technological perspective

* the presenter sounds like a door-to-door salesperson

* as it seems to me, the only purpose of the demo is to raise a hype and somehow (I still don't understand) they succeeded

Euclideon got financed by Australian government.

I really hope the board took a critical approach and relied on at least /some/ technical expertise to grant these people A$ 2m. If they made this decision based just on a demo - I'm moving to Australia at once, where I will invent a technology you have never seen in your whole life before. Ever.
I haven't written a lot of Joose code, but I use anonymous classes and store their constructors as attributes of a lexically scoped object I inject where I need it, so as to avoid global pollution. So far it works nicely.
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"Doesn't mean that humans are able to understand.."

I guess all of the work in physics, chemistry and other sciences of the past thousands years was all in delusion?

Nothing was learned, nothing.
It's not necessary to be fluent in German?
You should take a look at this: http://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/j1ekt/writeonly_my_ass...
Are there any other modal editors besides vim?
Maybe, you'd have to be an expert in rendering engines to know. Too bad none of those work for the patent office or are ever likely to.
You are missing half a sentence there.

It looks like humans are very capable of understanding non-human-scale nature, just not intuitively.
The ads are the means to an end, not the other way around. You do what you can to change the world and make a difference, you work on something amazing that you care about, the ads are (often times) your way to fund your ideas while helping other businesses thrive (by bringing in users through buying advertising).
I'm not going to google the rest but if they don't have one there is no reason why they can't.

That somehow fails to convince me that other language ecosystems parallel the CPAN in breadth, scope, maturity, and ecosystem. See CPAN Testers, for example.
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They sure love showing off screenshots on Mac OS X. But when are they going to follow the basic Mac OS X convention of putting the close button on the left, and centering the tab titles?
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The show is really for people who have read the books. It is accurate to the first novel and even contains a significant amount of dialog from it, but it doesn't frame things as well as George Martin's writing can. I especially noticed this watching the show with my wife (who has not read the books) and having to continually explain things to her that were obviously lacking in the show. Many of the characters actions and some events only seem aligned with the characters if you understand them from the novels.

In short, it lacks the depth that the books provide. This is probably true of most adaptations, but because they appear to be keeping as closely to the book as possible; it is much more noticeable.

As an aside, the Wire is my all time favorite television show.
The amount of money involved is quite substantial.

There are rumors that one single person had 25000 bitcoins stored at mybtc. That's a very painful amount of money to be panicking about...

Another bad sign is that the company behind mybitcoin.com was apparantly set up off shore and nobody knows who the owner is (AFAIK).

Just like MtGox, MyBTC.com simply was the market leader by virtue of being first.
Keep it moving people.. there's no bubble here...
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Assuming the first five minutes is the same as the prologue of the book, they show up as a significant factor later down the line.
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Surely a lot of that is due, not to lighting/shadows/rendering, but to the incredible subtlety required of the animation?

HL2 has some pretty amazingly convincing faces, and that's obviously not because it has the best rendering engine.
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A lot of the discussion here is focused on teachers because we think that they are the keystone to a quality education. I would argue that teachers are a vital part but they lack the power that family and culture have. In many Asian cultures, the power of the family is crushing and the values that the parents have translate to intense pressure to do well in the education environment. It doesn't matter if your teacher is good; the message is that you will force yourself to succeed in education.

Even though Western values are quickly taking root here, (via the movies, music, etc.), there exists a tremendous amount of cultural pressure to "excel academically" (for some definition of this idea). I speak mainly for China because that is the education system I'm most familiar with, but I assume that we can find similar patterns in other Asian cultures: mom and dad work 5 am to 8 pm selling egg pancakes for 50 cents a pop on the side of the street while little Johnny (or Jenny) goes to school from 7 am to 4 pm with a two hour break between 12 pm and 2 pm. When they get home, they get to look forward to 6 hours of homework. No going to soccer, maybe some piano lessons if you're rich enough. Certainly no time for video games, making out with your girlfriend, creating a gang, doing drugs (although there are exceptions, I'm speaking in broad generalizations here…).

But there does not exist this idea that you can be who you want to be, that somehow you can have a good life by developing other talents. There's also not this idea that you have a choice. I've encountered college students that tell me that they /have to/ graduate. This means that if they don't pass their tests, they will find some other way to get their diploma.

Compare this to your typical attitudes towards education in America. I'm not saying that one is better than the other, I'm just saying that there is so much pressure engrained in certain cultures "to do well" (i.e. score high on a standardized test) that makes it hard for American culture to compete.

This explanation does not explain why European cultures fare much better. I'd love to hear what some of the cultural attitudes towards education are from there as well as the strength of family influence.
But will the games be 100,000x more fun?
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Eh, I'm not committed to vim as an experience. I still like TextMate's rather point-and-click editing style, and Vico does that compellingly where MacVim... doesn't.
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First, this guy has a right to his opinion, and that's OK (I work at Google). But Google does not exist to serve ads. It exists to control the internet, to suck money out of it, and to keep other companies from encroaching on its territory. This is why it is attracting attention from Washington.

Back to the matter at hand---finding work...hard work...that is fulfilling is not easy, but I think it is worth it. Many people find this outside of what they do for a living, so the only criticism of this piece I have is that it suggests that it is ONLY possible to find fulfillment through the thing you do to pay the rent and put food on the table.

I've seen OPower's website. I like it. This is a great idea, and I'm happy to see it take off, so I can see this being very fulfilling work - perhaps the most important work of a lifetime, way more unique and special than one of Google's foot soldiers. But not everyone has that chance, that opportunity, a role like that, and yet everyone has the chance, the opportunity to orient themselves to seek out what is fulfilling to them, to lead a meaningful life, which often involves changing jobs! And I don't think the author understands that this is a universal drive, something which transcends the place of employment.
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How to show your products or services to customer?
Such as Google AD. Do you have any experience or other efficient way?
I don't know about python, but ruby's gems are quite inferior. Just two points:

gems has no idea if any specific gem is already installed, so if you ask it to, it will just install over whatever is there, no matter if it's the same or not.

Additionally it does not automatically run tests and abort if they fail, so the chance of installing a broken gem over your existing working gem is pretty big.
"the 2-year-old startup" -- nice bit of background research there.
Wow, the remaining 400 mill is a 200k salary * 500 people * 4 years. Is Twitter past 500 employees?
What services would you use for executing the trades?
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There's this (from a google image search): http://atomictango.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/spending-p...
115 days ago, you posted that you had quit your job and struck out on your own. Is this the project you've been working on since then?
So, AirBnb did the right thing (which they would have to implement sooner or later anyway) and got tons of free publicity in process. Not bad after all :) Congrats, Brian, and good luck to your venture!
Wow, that is a monster bet.

From the NVCA's own data that deal alone is nearly equivalent to Q2's top TEN deals:

http://www.nvca.org/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc...

You want to talk about "disruptive": DST and their limitless oligarch cash coming in and liquidating employees before a traditional liquidity event (public stock).

Wow.
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20 fps in software. They're still finishing hardware rendering.
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I'm pretty disappointed in an article like this coming from The Economist. This is nothing more than poorly-researched piling onto the popular anti-patent sentiment.

Case In Point 1: If the company suing Spotify is truly a patent troll (i.e. a non-practicing entity), then buying into IV's patent fund would not help them. Having defensive patents only works when the aggressor has a line of business that could be threatened with patent infringement.

Case In Point 2: I have to take issue with Lemley's critique of simultaneous invention. To name two high-profile cases, consider the Bell-Gray simultaneous invention of the telephone, or Dow and Exxon's slugfest over metallocene-catalyzed polyethylene patent protection in the late 1990's.
I remember when the first video came out, they said their technology worked "like Google" to find the appropriate pixels to display on the screen. No further description of the technology. Seems too vague to be true.
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There is a signficant cost to obtain data and most of the seemingly simple trades don't make much money anymore. Purchasing realtime market data is very expensive, and you generally need to make 1000$ per trading day to break even. It's not easy in this economic climate, especially if you are trading your own money.

Amongst other things, dark pools and alternative venues have sucked a lot of liquidity that would traditionally hit the market.

The reason the information is available on Wikipedia is because people like me contributed to many of the wiki articles on the topic :)

The profitable opportunities themselves are fleeting and tiny, which means only the first few traders actually get the trades they want. This, coupled with the sheer number of firms (in the hundreds) forces traders to do what it takes to minimize their delays, including obtaining lower latency market data, high performance servers and proximity. And yes, some exchanges (like NYSE) definitely play favorites.
That's fair enough. I think this explains the reactions of others in this thread. The distinction between want and need isn't important to my original point, and I certainly wasn't intending to claim them as objective. It was a careless choice of words.
Yet another text editor. This is exactly what the world needed.
The problem with that argument is that the world in which scores of people are spontaneously re-inventing the same thing, is not the same world in which that invention was made. It's entirely possible for something to be non-obvious when it is invented, then to become completely obvious later.
These are there because Mac is going touch as well (at first only using the macbook and magic trackpads, but I think there will be a stronger merger between OSX and iOS in terms of user input in coming releases.

Guess even a 0-button mouse wasn't enough... the UI hints are all about trackpads and deep touch gestures.
The last line of the story says "in the past year, its head count has grown to 600."
That's absolutely incredible.
It's also the first I'd heard about difficulties with the Amazon App Store (which, if I remember correctly, was opened to great fanfare about how developer & user friendly it was)

It does seem as though Android is an incredibly difficult platform to make money on though.
This site has been littered with complaints (& plenty of iOS-vs-Android posts) about the dev process and lack of buyer activity.

I've actually found myself buying more than I otherwise would have, as a result of this sentiment. I want to support Android dev, and my credit card seems like the most logical way to do that.

Funnily enough, I've never even considered the Amazon market. I wonder what type of people do...
Actually, it would be very possible for a patent to shape the industry without anybody knowing. Ideas spread quickly, and the better the idea, the faster it will spread.

Say AntiLodsys invents micro transactions - which, for the purposes of this post is a non obvious technology that wouldn't have been invented by anyone else anytime soon - and patents a specific implementation of it. Unlike real Lodsys, which bought a junk patent and claims it covers every piece of software that networks, AntiLodsys actually invented something useful, which has value.

Sony, Microsoft, IBM etc are given presentations by AntiLodsys, demonstrating the system they've come up with. They all think it is fantastic, and license the technology.

From this point on, micro transactions will be seen as the direction that the industry is going in, and AntiLodsys is some obscure technology company that most have never heard of.

From there, a whole flood of smaller companies start using micro transactions, violating the patent, and a few years later, AntiLodsys starts sending out legal notices to companies violating its patent. The industry cries foul, because the whole idea of micro transactions is seen as obvious, the way the industry was going, etc. It's painted a patent troll, trying to steal bread from the table of hardworking independent developers.

So there's a situation where, if one accepts the premise of patents to begin with, a company nobody has heard of actually does have a legitimate claim.
This explanation does not explain why European cultures fare much better.

Actually, this explanation does work pretty well for that also. Assume for the moment that Americans of European descent and Europeans have similar cultures.

Americans of European descent achieve test scores which are comparable to the top European nations + Australia.

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/12/amazing-truth-abou...

The only reason the US as a whole does not fare as well as most European nations is because it's large proportion of non-Europeans drag the average down.

You get similar results when comparing Americans with Asian culture to Asians. Your culture explanation has a lot of explanatory power, and almost certainly more explanatory power than any explanation based on school system.

http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-well-do-above-...