skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you use Japanese in a realistic environment, you'll find that having broken plurals or a dual form is no more difficult than trying to shift between different levels of formality while in the middle of a business meeting that is already complicated by its content.
Your comment contradicts current linguistics. There is no "correct" separate from usefulness in communication.

If someone wants to write a REST RFC, and people can talk about "RFC-6789 Compliant REST API" then correctness would reenter the picture.
I feel like I'm missing something.
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I'd like to see the ability to delegate the storage to other accounts. That is, I want XYZ app to use my parse account, not XYZs. It sounds a good place to hook in what I'd like to see around owning my own data and having universal access to it.
I have quite some math in my notes and like Gollum also for its integration with MathJax. I prefer the txt-based approach but a lot of math is more digestible when typeset properly so I switch between the txt and browser view.
(This is of course applicable to any txt-to-html based approach)
I doubt your "higher quality" product claim. Most photo printers today use pretty much the same machines, give you many paper options.

"Much better experience" is just a speculation.

You are a premium product indeed, price-wise.
Does anyone recommend animation course at www.animationmentor.com?
I like animation industry and I am very keen to get into it. I am software developer. I can not go for full time courses but I have found there is reputed online animation school called animationmentor.com

They charge high fees($19k) for character animation course of 18 months? Does anyone here who has attended or know doing this course is worth money in order to become character animator.

Thanks in advance.
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I was a relatively senior member at Expedia, and though there is an obvious bias, I think Hipmunk is a bit overrated. Here's why

(1) They don't own any relationships with suppliers. UI/UX matter, but any business owner will tell you that those relationships are where the money is. Hipmunk still has to give 50%+ of it's earnings away to those who own the relationships.

(2) Hipmunk's differentiating factor is its UI/UX, but frankly, I don't think it's all that amazing. Its structure and optimization are great for nerds like me who read hacker news, but try getting your parents (or people who spend big bucks booking travel) to use it. I have, and the resounding response is how difficult it is to use. Again, there is a market for their product, but I think it's designed by nerds for nerds

(3) 1 million flight + hotel searches a month is actually nothing with respect to the market, especially considering how much I see ads for hipmunk. Anyone can make a white-label travel site and pay for traffic.

I'm not trying to be a contrarian just to be an asshole. And Hipmunk might have great things in the pipeline, but for now, they're one of hundreds of travel sites in my opinion.
Well why don't you try us and our competitors and let us know what you think.
Command queueing allows the device controller to handle requests out of order. Since it has intimate knowledge of the hardware it can order requests for maximum throughput.
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Sounds like if range is limited you'd need an array of multiple launchers, strategically distributed around the office to provide the most efficient coverage.
You have a point.

There are less moving parts (or at least systems) than the shuttle. And the simple may also refer to what it's like for the pilot (process). From what I understand, it's a hands-free re-entry, and more comfortable than a capsule because it's more predictable and slower.
If there's any call to do that, you only have to buy a Mini for $600.
This looks very interesting, though I'd really like a "lite" version that just logs the error messages. I really don't want my javascript passed through a startup's proxy.
I would just say that people aren't used to it. Also you need to decide how you want to send the email. Once on signup (long-lived token, not recommended), once a day (weird, annoying), or on demand (user gets email instead of entering password).

I think it's interesting but in practice passwords are more secure and people are used to them.
obviously a scam when you say its not.
"leap"? I think us webOS devs just wanted free hardware to expand our apps beyond webOS, but many still remain (especially in light of all the people with webOS devices over the weekend).
I find it quite useful in Io, including chained expressions.
If you want syntax highlighting you should be using Vim, not Vi. On many (but not all!) modern systems 'vi' will invoke Vim in compat mode forcing you to manually reenable Vim's additional features. Some modern systems come with a Vi provided by elvis or even busybox, always check what you're actually using.
How about on the internet? If you can't find 5 prospective users online, then quite likely you don't have a market.
Customer Lifetime Value is a measure of the value per customer. So if acquisition rates are changing the value of the /customer base/ will change, but the CLV will not.
Multiple users have reported otherwise.
I would like to recommend this freeware lightweight structured text file editor. Definite upgrade over plain .txt files yet still extremely simple in every way. No browser/3rd party tool involvement needed. Its file format is human readable for the most part.

It supports all kinds of links in text: local, network files, internal pages (for wiki emulation). You can drag and drop links from web browser too.

http://www.horstmuc.de/wmem.htm

I never stopped using this program since I found it several years ago.
Skiena is an awesome professor too and teaches in SUNY StonyBrook but the sad part is he never teaches SB's algorithm course. Its an amazing book and recommend everyone interested in algorithms to read it.
I'm always amazed at people who embed YouTube videos on corporate websites, after agonizing about fonts, colors, etc. to get pixel perfect design everywhere else.

At the very least, if you're going to embed youtube, turn off comments on the video :)

Vidyard looks like a great solution for a lot of people.
Well that would explain it wouldn't it.

Branding is already better.
I think you should have patience with this and be very careful to not let someone in just because (s)he's a HN reader. I, for one, am a crappy coder after five years in the CEO seat of my startup.
clickable: http://www.scirra.com
I don't think it's zero-revenue companies. I think it's group messaging apps that actually got traction and users.

Beluga
Kik Messenger
GroupMe

all of them got snapped up in short order. There is obviously a demand for the team and the userbase.
This post might be helpful: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=973060

Everything is a negotiated outcome, but good engineers are worth market salary in the absence of equity.

With equity, one rule of thumb I've heard is give 1% for every $10,000 cut the person takes. This implicitly values your company at $1m, but I guess most companies don't hire an employee unless the business is worth at least that.

Another rule of thumb I've heard is $50k for 2%-4%. Somewhat supporting this is Aaron Patzer (Mint.com founder) paid his early engineers $30k-$50k for 1% to 5% equity. See http://techcrunch.com/2009/10/08/startups-101-the-complete-m...
The point of code completion is not just to save typing (although that is desirable benefit), code completion helps you browse around a new library that you're unfamiliar with and read the documentation right in the IDE. I don't know how I would have gotten through the Swing/SWT based assignments in school without have the documentation right there in IDE.

It also depends upon the language you are using. I don't know if you're using Java or not but one can use all the help possible in catching typos while working in Java just due to the verbosity of the language. Programming in Java without an IDE is like working on rails apps without using any of the scripts and generators, it's doable you just have to write all the boring boilerplate code manually.
I see this as a talent/technology grab instead of a revenue play. Obviously, Skype will be able to integrate the technology and find a way to monetize it with their user base. There have been multiple companies purchased before they even launch a product. What's the difference?
I have a proposal for advertisers to reach the audience most likely to skip advertisements and stream or download shows:

Instead of expecting viewers to put up with 18 minutes of mindless advertising for every 42 minutes of actual content, just show a ten second long list of sponsors at the beginning of the show (along with their general product category), after the opening credits.

Example:

We would like to thank the following corporations
for sponsoring the production of this show. Please
consider thanking them as well, by purchasing their
products.

PanCorp - Maker of fine non-stick cookware
Net Net - High-speed ISP, gigabit speeds
...

Then, the creators of the show would plead with uploaders to leave that ten second clip in. Advertisers could then count every download as a successful impression, and geeks like me who aren't significantly influenced by traditional advertising would learn about potentially interesting products and services.
It's steep if you don't get someone to take on your project. There should be a money back guarantee.
Have an example? We should have the same fares as pretty much everyone else. There are some holes, but none in the US to my knowledge.
Indeed! That is why it is so important to include heterogeneity of the customer base in calculations. You tend to lose the flighty customers early so retention rates increase the longer a customer has been using the service.
Is it just me, or does the pricing seem a bit steep? (https://www.proxino.com/plan) The free tier buys you roughly 33 page views a day, which I'd expect to surpass just handing a site to a single user or two. At $100/100K page views (which is not terribly hard to reach), that's getting pretty pricey.
Price increases? We should have the same fares as everyone else online.
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Notational Velocity looks pretty cool, but is there an similar alternative for Windows?
I own this book. Recommended. It's much gentler (not necessarily easier) than most algorithms books.
Alright, I promise I will check it out. I admit I do feel a bit behind the curve for being a programmer for so long while never really having looked into vi in depth.
Your parent probably glossed over "robust" and imagined that Windows 7 must not actually support USB 3.0 yet.
When you say "all manufacturing is outside the US", you have a very interesting definition of all. You may want to check UNIDO's industrial statistics, for then you'd find that the largest manufacturer country is not China, Japan, Taiwan, etc… it's the US.
Goodbye, shitty "Car extends Vehicle" object-orientation tutorial
My interpretation is: "Without the source code, there is no way of telling if it actually is robust or not, regardless of what they say"
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This reminds me of the first camping announcement.

He spent perhaps half an hour, probably more, frantically adding surrealist images to the post. I imagined him excited as a kid, stuck in a creativity rut. Good memories.

Do you know how long it took him to write Camping?
It's worth noting this feature is used in hard drives, and was a Big Deal when it first came out (Google "NCQ")
Personally I'm using Dropbox for stuff like this, using PlainText on iOS devices, Notational Velocity (well, NvAlt) on my Mac and increasingly [Deft](http://jblevins.org/projects/deft/) from within Emacs.

I know, there's Org Mode, but I'm more a free-form guy, same reason why I never used one of those monstrously popular GTD applications…
A 30-second time slot in a medium-sized market will cost roughly $5 per 1000 viewers (http://www.gaebler.com/Television-Advertising-Costs.htm )

This means each user is worth $0.01 per minute of commercials. The average American watches ~4 hours per day, 25% of which is commercial advertising, which comes out to 30 hours per month of commercials. That's 1800 minutes of commercials.

Answer: $18/month, average. Roughly.
Isn't this trivial to implement?
As with anything, after you start practicing you stop making beginner mistakes. If you switch to Emacs or Vim today, you are going to typo things that Eclipse would have auto-corrected for you. That's because you've never practiced typing correct code from memory. But use Emacs or Vim exclusively for a month, and you'll see that you are much better at programming than Eclipse is. You'll write code more quickly with fewer errors.

Also, using autocomplete to explore APIs is one of the worst programming practices I can think of. The docstring for one method is not nearly enough information to tell you why you should call the particular method of the particular class that autocomplete suggested. In order to be sure you've made a good API use decision, you need to read the documentation and code for the library, and then decide to use it. Anything else is a hackish shortcut that will surely waste more of your time than it saved.

And, if you can't remember the names of methods you know you want to use, maybe it's time to refactor. Or practice remembering. If you want to be bad at programming, Eclipse will make your life slightly easier. If you want to be good at programming, start programming and stop commanding an autocomplete tool.
They've posted here[1] and elsewhere they're focusing on point 1 a lot, they're trying to cut out the middle men.

[1] http://hackerne.ws/item?id=2914125
In my case I always start with Hipmunk, find a schedule I like, then I check southwest.com and end up buying a similar flight at about 75% of the other airline price.
I'm hoping Asana largely solves these problems. I've been using it for about a week, just for personal projects and my work tasks, and it works wonderfully.

I can put links in comments and descriptions and easily reference them later, in a really usable way.
OneNote (part of Office since, I think, 2007) is actually great for keeping structured notes on meetings, projects, etc. I know a lot of programmers don't run Windows, but if you're not fazed by letting Microsoft handle the details (i.e. your stuff gets put on SkyDrive under a Live account), it's not a bad way to go. I set it up on my work machine after I'd been running it on my home computer for a while, and I was pleasantly surprised at how easily it loaded the notes I've had from past projects.

Disclosure: Microsoft intern (in a completely different division, and I've been using it for longer than I've been here). My opinions are mine. :)
> at the end of the day something like Rails enables you to come a lot closer to "good design, good programming" than many other systems currently in use

The same thing's been said about PHP.

And sure, PHP ruins programmers like BASIC does - not at all, if they've some brain cells they can rub together. But it does teach shitty habits which can take time and effort to forget.
Looks great, and I'd like to sign up, but having single-use invite codes and putting them on Twitter is kind of a pain. I tried 3 or 4 that didn't work, so I guess I'll sign up if I ever see it around again.
"or perhaps your a dev tools business"

Your / you're error in published article.. ugh
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I doubt anyone would be threatened enough by foam projectiles to try to circumvent it. Now, getting someone else attacked for no reason is a different story. That would be amusing.
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Yes, early computers in Japan used katakana only. They were half-width (normally they are written in a square box) so as to be compatible with the Latin alphabet. This is also how telegrams were sent, starting from when Japan began modernizing in 1868.
It varies wildly.

The old rule about remembering to pay your soldiers goes. Cutting salary has consequences to your ability to attract and retain talent and equity is worth $0 until some hypothetical point in the future.
The argument about Amazon is wrong - it may account for 3% now, but it's still a work in progress, a growing business. Much as the e-commerce business was unprofitable for most of the early life of Amazon, because it was still growing.
Also, it would be much better if this led to a blog post describing the application. Stats on fb. Right. What kind of stats? Stats regarding what?

For the record, the first screen after the "allow" one is an advertisement. The application is supposed to show a graph with the number of your friends against the average number of friends the fb population has (it didn't work for me) and a pie chart with the gender of my friends. There is a menu bar, a rather easy-to-spot DONATE button and advertisements every time you navigate from a menu item to another. Yeah, definitely not a scam. :D

First time I wish I could downvote.
1) Not sure what you're basing this claim on, but it's false.

2) To each his own, I suppose, but I have conflicting anecdotal evidence. Hipmunk passes the "parents test" with all of our parents :) And as for "people who spend big bucks booking travel," I can point to the huge amount of email we receive from assistants who use us exclusively. Maybe we're not everything to everyone, but we're at least making some people very happy.

3) We do re-target quite a bit, and that's probably what you're seeing. Most of our growth has come organically, which again speaks to the fact that we actually do help people find planes / hotels in far less time than our competitors, including Expedia.
What model of rocket launcher were you using?
What language is so different from the ones that your familiar with that you need tools? Autocomplete doesn't help you learn a language, it just auto-types the names of methods that happen to be available in a certain class. It doesn't tell you that you've selected the right class or right method on that class, though. That requires understanding of the code you're writing and the code you're using. And at that point, you might as well be using vim.

Typing is easy. Programming is hard. Optimize for programming.
There are screenshots at the originally posted link, http://wholemeal.co.nz/projects/fulcrum.html
How are we having this conversation in English, then?
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I spent a day a couple of years ago writing an app to solve this kind of problem, and more. File format is plain text files stored in directories. Every directory becomes a tab; every file becomes an entry, with the first line in every file being its title. Along with plain text files, .log files are kept; these keep a log of every edit to the .txt file.

Nothing is ever deleted. No edits are ever lost; the whole undo stack is always there, and if you undo to a particular point and edit it, it just becomes a new revision on top of the old undo stack. There is no save / load - the app uses the directory it was started from, and saves when no edits have occurred for 5 seconds.

It's a combination of notepad, brainstorming log, todo list, and general notes. I keep it in sync across multiple machines with dropbox.
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Got it. I just sent a working invite to your email. Enjoy.
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Actually a USB bus doesnt know much about the hardware, but can forward multiple simultaneous (SCSI) requests and if the hardware is fast it can deal with them in whatever order it wants.

If you benchmark an SSD with and without queueing you get very different speeds; with hard drives there is still a difference, although not as much.

EDIT benchmarks (Intel SSD)

no queuing, 4k reads: 3965 iops
depth 4 , 4k reads: 16,900 iops
depth 8, 4k reads: 25,700 iops
depth 16, 4k reads: 32,600 iops
depth 32, 4k reads: 38,800 iops

The benefit decreases with larger reads, but still exists.
TAP has been the testing protocol for the perl core since the late 80s :)
Hulu does that AND still sticks commercials in, paid or not!
I agree, it is really pricey. At $1 per 1000 page views, it is more than I spend in total on hardware and bandwidth.
The difference is the price. Most talent acquisitions don't go for $85 million.
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Would have signed up also, but Im not going to hunt around and try a bunch of invite codes that may or may not work.
The fact that things like this happen make me crazy. I know we're all looking to make products that sell tons, but what about products that will save even 1 life? Couldn't some machine vision combined with automatically engaging breaks have helped? There must be something we as innovators can do.
True,but it only takes a startup with nothing to lose to enter the market and undercut everybody.
A good name is brandable, memorable, and relevant.

Strict use of keywords is usually only relevant.
I remember something like this from close to 10 years ago. My memory is vague, but I remember a program that offered to let me chat with other users on sites I was visiting. I also remember there was never anyone else with the program on any of the sites I visited.
I'd like to be able search/browse the available projects before signing up.
You may be right about the relationships, and without that Hipmunk is vulnerable, but I think you're dead wrong about the UI.

The fact that old people don't "get" it just means they are used to the old UIs regardless of how crappy they are (a lot of them still call a travel agent due to sheer annoyance at the complexity of booking flights online). Most people do want the information that Hipmunk puts at your fingertips, and over time it will spread by word of mouth, and the younger generation who easily groks this type of UI will replace the aging population who hasn't grown up with deep data visualizations in their every day life.

Not every flight search is terrible on Orbitz/Expedia/Kayak, but I've done a few where all I could see was shit flights for pages and pages of results, and one search on Hipmunk yielded an obviously superior and amazing itinerary for $10 more.

Hipmunk may be weak on the pure business side, but they are one in a million on the UI side, and I predict that strength will take them places.
Actually, after reading the entire article that is exactly the impression it gives.

-edit- A quick google also leaves the impression that Windows support for USB 3 is new.

http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+usb+3+support
Ah re #1 - I was under the impression that you were actually using Orbitz inventory for hotels (flights are through GDS I assume - but barely make money anyway).
re #2 - yah totally subjective and I have no data besides anecdotes
re #3 - again I have no data to support this. Just generally incredibly suspect of any growth that comes from SEM (though there's clearly cases where it's worked). Good to hear there's some retention, though.
I've read Skiena's book(first part) and CLRS(about 15 chapters) and I think CLRS has much more to offer. The number of algorithms, rigorous proofs, and explanation that CLRS offers are not comparable with Skiena's.
I would suggest Skiena's for start but for a more thorough understanding a switch to CRLS is essential.
Just booked my first plane flight ever 1 week ago using hipmunk. Took me about 5 minutes to do so.