skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> invoking ls with a full path is an easy way to
> disable shell aliases

Or doing this:

> 'ls'
Even if it git or another scm wasn't available - just a diff of changes since the file was opened in the editor...
Why does Y Combinator censor small blogs and not big ones?
Even if the content is just as good if not better on the smaller less traffic

intensive or well known blogs? Are they not allowed to post here?

Is there some sort of a deal where if you pay Hackernews or just by virtue of

being a popular site that spams links all over the internet they allow you to

post unlimited amounts of links here without the worry of getting put in a

blacklist filter? While if you aren't a super popular site you basically aren't

allowed to post up even one link a month and if you do you get permanently

blacklisted?

Honest question
AT&T/T-Mobile: is the merger in peril?
I've written C extensions for Ruby and I agree the API is really nice. But a lot of the most useful AI/Machine Learning algorithms involve chunking big data sets through computationally intensive algorithms. This just isn't a strong point for Ruby, C-extension or no.
Any reason why you decided to not distribute it through the Mac Appstore? Genuinely curious.
I hit this with a log trimming script I wrote in perl a few months back. We had one directory with about 4 million files.

Just in case you're curious I left it run and it took about 25 hours to get all of the directory entries. One with about 3 million files took 12 hours, so i'm not sure how long it would have taken if you'd have let ls run on its own accord.

Only 200k files afterwards though. :D

I think i'll poke around with this after I get a coffee, I remember stracing the interpreter and getting annoyed at its 32k or bust behavior. But since I didn't have a time limit I didn't much care about runtime. Thanks for the write up!
I don't mean to say it was accidental. Only that it's not as though Apple's case hinges on precise proportions or trick photography. The resemblance being claimed[1] isn't fabricated, even if it's been embellished. They got an injunction because they were able to convince the court that a) they have a case, and b) they're likely to win, and I don't think that would be any different if the photos were unassailably accurate.

[1]:Even though the photo makes the aspect ratio look similar, they aren't actually claiming that in the text as one of the features of the design that were lifted. They closest they come is citing the exact dimensions (which they list) as "very similar".
You cannot possibly beef up the public school system to the point that it replaces parental attention to children.
All the benchmarks I've seen put JRuby and Rubinius within a factor of 2x or so of 1.9.2 MRI, so you can't count on them to give you a big boost.

But, like you say, there's nothing wrong with using a lighter-weight language to explore. Although Python with numpy/scipy and Matlab/Octave are way ahead here.
Or \ls.
Simple solution. Vim.
That would make for odd office dynamics where the more senior employees are driven to quit by the less senior ones…
Yeah I think the market for Designers is huge - that's basically all we're focused on at Decal is the deployment model and integrating with designers' existing workflows.

It's hard trying to make people realise that we're not "DIY" though :) I've just come up with the phrase "DIY for Designers" which I think captures it pretty well. Designers have, for too long, been punished by dynamic web deployments (the "big 3" Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress) - time to disrupt!
1) This installs EGOTextMateFullScreen plugin (https://github.com/enormego/EGOTextMateFullScreen). I didn't write it and author didn't put a package out.

2) URL Shortening? I didn't have time to write the CSS to format my code on the page. The long links breaks the layout

3) How does it matter how its done as long as it works, especially when I spent more time responding to your comment than writing that script.
Ask Alexis Ohanian anything about your startup on OfficeHours.TV
Simple solution. Emacs.

Oh, wait... Nevermind!
When are patents obvious?
I'll wait until this gem reaches self-awareness and moves itself to github.
celery is awesome and well-documented. but the problem is, it wraps everthing.

conqueue is a weekend project and is not production ready, yet. it will be simple and stupid, nothing more.

i need something lightweight and small. (a.k.a maintainable for me)
The cache is the only way it will display properly on my Android phone.
Did the smile change in appearance (e.g. look happier) as the slider went up the scale?

It seems you have another sweet spot at the $36 mark, despite the smile looking the same as $24.

Thanks for the insightful post.
Absolutely. The sad reality is that, to a lot of linux users right now (and I'm talking about people that know they're running linux, not android users), it's a black box.

Software is "packages" that you install with "synaptic".

Source code? Compiler? What's that?
Do you ride in the East Bay beyond MacArthur very often?
First off, Nice post. But I disagree slightly out of experience from my own toils with procrastination. I find that I, among many other humans simply want to remain in a state of comfort, whatever that means to each person. Every little thing that deviates one from constant comfort becomes a bump in the state of mind, this bump can be smoothed out in 1 of 2 ways, You can do what you should do, the task at hand, or you can put it off in exchange for a moment of instant gratification, or some distraction action. Now in behavioral theory, there is much less mental strife or tension involve in procrastination (initially), and if the competitor action to inaction a mentally or physically longer journey requiring more energy to complete, the natural response would be the shortest of the two. Instant gratification is powerful! Its a tug-of-war calculation between actions, we will do whatever we can do that's easier or more enjoyable unless we fear the outcome of inaction so much so that it out-ways the positives of the other. We are fundamentally powerless against this. For all you fellow entrepreneurs out there, we simply love building things more than anything else. My procrastination for example consists of working on projects or prototyping a new app. I will default to that when countered with options of going to the movies, eating out, or playing video games. One could argue however that fear of failure motivates one above all others to strive for success.
Just my 2 cents.
An event in Boston at MIT says on the bottom... "lovingly made in San Francisco." Totally awesome.

Anyways, wish I could be there! If only it actually were in California.
The menu item I'm talking about is "Help->Troubleshooting". The change being considered in the bug is regarding the "About" item.
Thats why I have Sprint. It does not have any data cap and Sprint service is actually pretty good in the San Francisco bay area.
I've been on trains where both doors in a car broke and the train kept going. The mechanic was fixing the door as the train went along, even.
I almost like what De Bono says, but some of it just doesn't click. For example:

3. What is obvious in hindsight may be invisible in foresight.

There is no magic in creativity.

It seems to me the magic of creativity is making your foresight see those invisible things. If there really were no magic, we'd have real AI by now.
Android was obviously heavily inspired by iOS, but most of the new features in iOS 4 & 5 seem to have been borrowed in the other direction. The stuff Google is doing with live widgets and the status bar in 3.2 is advancing the state of the art and it would be a shame to see this kind of real innovation stamped out.
Great news! Mozilla is finally accepting Chrome's good innovations. Now for a unified search bar...
I came accross this recently, along with some of the other papers guys from microsoft have put out about implementing functional languages within excel.

I have to remind myself that these came out prior to the 2007 & 2010 versions of excel, and they ignored the most important recommendations and went with UI based "improvements" instead.

These guys at Microsoft Cambridge Research are wasted as a talent, Its as if MSFT have "bought" them as a way of keeping ideas that are disruptive to their current streams of income under control.
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Vim has a command for putting Text Mate in fullscreen on OSX Lion? It really does have everything.
I'd actually go one step further than that. I agree with Einstein, who said “If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough”.
Very occasionally, to either Berkeley or Airport/Coliseum. Much less than when I lived in Berkeley.
Of note, this was the core feature of Heroku when they first started out (no need to know git/command line).
I suspect that hinges greatly on your definition of a functioning society.

To be honest I am not following your points at all well.
great. But perhaps a fork is still needed for editing multiple files and submitting as one pull request?

or the pull request would accumulate changes?

I cannot reproduce but I noticed a situation when I was issuing multiple pull requests and the previous pull request somehow got commits that weren't intended to end up there; so I begin to think that it was intentional.

(just asking because I would like to avoid creating a tmp github account just to try that out, otherwise I wouldn't bother you with silly questions)
Ask HN: How do you deploy your web sites?
Hello HN, I am curious as to how everyone updates their web sites.

Right now I use symfony(PHP framework) for most of my projects and it can deploy using rsync. I'm curious to know how others deploy their sites. FTP? rsync? capistrano? etc?

Anyone use some type of multi server deploy? CDN?

Thanks
It seems broken. While the guiding principles are interesting, there's a reason why stock-option plans have evolved to where they are today: all cases have been tried, and they are well understood.

One example of problem in Jason's plan: if you go IPO, you immediately owe 5% payments on the full valuation of your company, to your employees. Where is this money coming from? The money raised during the IPO? Fine, but how many shares did you float?
I wrote this, but I wasn't ready for prime time hacker news. I think it needs another revision ;-) -- definitely interested in feedback on the first pass.
As a full-time software developer who recently took a three-month intro course to welding, I can certainly take this moral to heart. Good welders (and other craftsmen) are able to successfully channel years of knowledge and experience through their eyes, wrists and fingertips, balancing an incredible amount of variables to end up with a good product in a short amount of time. They can also make pretty good money.

After my experience, I've tried to apply the lessons I learned from welding to my full-time job, and I've become a better developer as a result. "Measure twice, cut once" is a mantra that should apply to every field. At the same time, it's easier now to recognize when something isn't done right and it's time to refactor or rewrite. Good welders, like good developers, do it right the first time :)
I question whether one second-hand tweet is a useful data point.

I have ridden BART most workdays for the past 7 years. I have encountered trains with stuck doors a several times, and on none of those occasions was the train put out of service. In fact, they even have pre-printed stickers that say something to the effect of "This door is not working; please use other door." I have seen these perhaps half a dozen times since I began riding BART regularly.

Note that these doors were stuck _closed_. It would be an obvious safety hazard if the door was stuck open - in that case I can well imagine that the operator would not move the train from the station.
Is this a tangential question or a response to something you feel the article implied?

The way I read the article is "Teenagers are going to have sex. Parents can either treat their children with respect and become emotionally closer with them by acknowledging this and accepting it, or pretend their children aren't sexually active and cause both parent and child to become more emotionally distant from the other."

I see the attitude taken by the Dutch family similar to the approach I see many European families taking towards alcohol with youth. If children are shown alcohol is something neither dirty nor evil but rather something to be enjoyed in moderation, the child is more likely to grow up respecting and enjoying alcohol and less likely to abuse it.

Same with sex. If a child grows up with his closest role models showing sex isn't shameful or evil but instead natural and wonderful, he's more likely to grow up and have mutually respectful relationships.
Nexus Tablet?
That is a good one too. I completely agree with that too.
This looks like it is actually based on a kind of design-patent (Geschmacksmuster) we have here in Germany.
Apple patented the IPad look.
Those are the charcoal images (they include them in b&w so that they're more general).

Those patents only have to be formally correct and are not tested for e.g. prior art by an institution. This happens in court if the patent is actually used.
Given that even the tablets the romans scratched their numbers in had round edges and were sometimes very slim, this might not be so good for apple...
Nicolas Boileau, French poet, said basically the same thing in the 17th century:

Ce que l'on conçoit bien s'énonce clairement,
Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisément.

(Whatever is well conceived is clearly said,
And the words to say it flow with ease.)
That's a little different, pow.cx and rvm are running installer scripts to get other scripts into place on your system and add them to your .bash_profile.

This is having you run through a bunch of rigamarole to download and compile source for a plugin, and then triggering textmate to install said plugin, when you could achieve the same effect by distributing the binary plug-in and having the user double-click it.
Got PHP developers? Why not an MVC framework in PHP. Using Wordpress for anything but a blog is a disaster.
Another vote for London!
It's important to note that it's only in reference to desktop Linux. We still have flavors of *nix beating the pants off of Microsoft in mobile and server space.
Correct. NeXT and BeOS were respectively an over-engineered and under-engineered OS with a really good looking UI on top.
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Could be interesting to also apply this scheme to the company's yearly earnings! That way everybody would get something out of it, and it wouldn't focus the company so much on an acquisition/IPO.
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As they say, a picture tells a thousand words, and that was the only picture that compared both tablets side by side.

Usually the courts don't take kindly to being lied to, especially leading to a emergency decision prohibiting the sale of devices. Lets see what happens.
Excellent case for not giving root.
This might sound kind of trivial, but the lack of split panes (and no hope on the horizon) is what finally pushed me over the edge to learning vim. Haven't looked back :)
This is akin to how a society comes to understand something and why genius ideas sometimes take so long to become accepted. I believe "context" is the underlying principle here.

Arthur Schopenhauer said, "All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

If you present a truth to someone whom doesn't have sufficient context for what you are saying, it may seem outrageous and ridiculous to them because the gap between their understanding and the insight you presenting is too great.

They would have to build up their understanding of the context around it until it expands to a point where they find a connection to what they already know. Then they can start to relate to it and eventually they may see it as self evident.

Jeff Jonas has a great metaphor for explaining context in terms of puzzle pieces and how it relates to big data (see this short TechCrunchTV segment - http://www.techcrunch.tv/watch/s4ZnZyMTrtWTaKSxWF2WEPPXkBtMj...).

This is how Richard Feynman approached problem solving -- he wanted to connect new ideas to what he already understood and understand the context of everything around it:

"It's not quite true that Feynman could not accept an idea until he had torn it apart. Rather, the idea could not yet be part of his way of thinking and looking at the world. Before an idea could contribute to that worldview, Feynman wanted to turn over the idea, to see why it was true, from any angle that he could find...In other words, he wanted to connect a new idea to what he already understood and thereby extend his understanding" (http://www.freakonomics.com/2011/04/08/how-richard-feynman-t...).

Once you surround a new concept with enough puzzle pieces, it attaches to what you already know and then eventually it becomes obvious.
Some context your analysis is missing:

37signals is older than any YC company. In its current incarnation, I believe it's older than Facebook. It is clearly not on the same trajectory as the typical company we talk about on HN. It is not a flavor-of-the-month, or even of-the-year, for Fried and DHH.

and

Supply and demand probably does give them an edge on employee comp, but from friends I know who've worked there, they're making market wages. People aren't taking jobs there on the promise of hockey-stick upside. It's a pretty amazing work environment. You should see the offices. Place is nuts.

You don't have to take them up on their comp plan, but it's naive to write comments as if there was something wrong with it. Most YC companies would be very poorly served indeed by the comp plan 37signals laid out here; those companies are all on VC shoot-the-moon trajectories, and a stake in a liquidity event is a big chunk of the reason you'd work at any of them. In 37signals case, you have to start by defining what a liquidity event even looks like.
"There's no a priori answer: democracy is how we decide."

Yes, but simply because the majority votes to take a certain action does not make that action utility-maximizing (the losers might lose more than the gainers gain). Of course, even if it is utility-maximizing (which is probably unmeasurable anyway), many would still object even if they were among the winners because it violates some rule of justice, is unfair, or other similar thing. I'm not so much sticking up for the people getting less utility from "public goods" than they would from a private good that is a close substitute, but for the people that get disutility from "public goods" even if they cost them nothing. I'm sure I'm not the only bleeding-heart civil libertarian that would pay good money in order not to receive such "public goods" as killing foreigners for living in a country whose government we disagree with, locking up peaceful individuals for ingesting illegal substances, or subsidizing behavior we find abhorrent.

"But if that's still too much governmental interference, then tax haters are able to select from a wide variety of third-world countries. I might suggest Somalia, where effective tax burden is zero. There being no effective government at all, of course."

This counter-argument proves too much. Couldn't someone denying your preferred tax policy suggest that you (or Buffet) move to a country with higher tax rates rather than they having to move to a lower tax country? I find the "if you don't like it, then leave" argument less than persuasive.
I really like the use of DTrace in #if 0'd out code for identifying the highest priorities on porting. Having faced a similar task that seemed impenetrable at the start I would have really liked to have this technique available.

Nice work and congrats on the port.
So how does that dovetail with the other story that Google swooped in to buy MMI when they heard Microsoft was a prime contender?

http://gigaom.com/2011/08/15/guess-who-else-wanted-to-buy-mo...
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"Broken". They're a 30-odd person web app company in Chicago. They aren't going public. They're throwing off cash at a rate that allows them to buy supercars. They're not selling. Why would they? What the fuck good would "options" do any of their employees? Options don't mean anything unless you go public or sell the company.

Believe it or not, most companies don't sell or go public.
PwC and E&Y seem to incent employees just fine.
It's quite possible for a small amount of additional tax to have a big impact on the expected value of investing. When you invest, you don't know you're going to make a specific positive rate of return; you have to make a guess as to whether the net benefit is positive. Depending on your risk profile, it might just be slightly positive net expected value, in which case adding just a bit more tax makes it neutral or negative.

BTW, if you're talking risk-free investment, that's around 2% now, not 20%. So the question is whether to invest $1 billion and earn $20 million. which would be $17 million under the existing capital gains tax (15%), but if you raised capital gains to match income tax rates it'd be less than $14 million. Which doesn't seem like much of a return on a billion dollar investment.
What does root have to do with this?
Ask HN: What are Google's standards for employee performance?
How does Google decide which employees are doing good and which are not? Other than then obvious for their job description in terms of education/degrees, what do they look for when hiring new people?
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This is like an anti-comment. No part of it makes sense.

The employees do not own part of the company. They're promised a bonus in the (unlikely) instance of a major liquidity event.

Granting them that bonus in no way injures any other element of their comp. This is so much the case that Fried says most of his employees have probably forgotten they even have this bonus. That's not what you say when you're using a comp scheme as leverage with your employees.

You have no idea what 37signals people make, how profit sharing and incentive comp work, or why people choose to work there. But you feel just fine snarking about them because they don't fit into the "first engineering hire gets 5%" shoot-the-moon mold we normally talk about on HN.
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