skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh no. I said something against Apple.
(Unless there was something else objectionable)
It's an improvement over data sitting in a central silo waiting to be mined and monitored.

I think this is a perfect example of the subtlety of the issues. Let's imagine that Diaspora succeeds and Facebook, MySpace, and Google+ all adopt its federation protocol; in that case it's likely that all of those companies would have access to most of what you post, effectively reducing privacy.
That was supposed to be funny! But I guess the real LOL is on journalism.
Any details on variable capturing from outer scope? The same as C# (apparently capture all variables?)?
SMS food ordering, iirc.
Poll: Would your start-up bootstrap instead of raising money?
Would your start-up take on a short-term contracting gig <i>as a team</i> to finance yourselves instead of raising money?
Yes, if it paid 25-50% above market rate.
Yes, if it paid 100% or more above market rate.
Yes, if the project was interesting enough.
No, we would rather raise money.
I've seen nothing to indicate they've seen a profit since 2009
I'm surprised that they have never offered a paid, pro version of Twitter. Even features as simple as no-ads and access to their complete timeline history would be enough to entice some people.
Twitter is more than ripe for disruption. One of these days someone will pull a google on them. Between the super slow 'new and improved' interface to sending you spam (the whole point was that you only got the tweets from those you follow) and 'twitter is over capacity, please try again in a few moments' (which is a permanent fixture these days) I can't wait for the next iteration of this concept, as long as it is done by people that know how to really scale a backend.
sparkleshare is much closer to dropbox. Mac and Linux only for now, git back-end.
Or just one that simply works.

Business idea for twitter: paid access to the old, non ajaxified interface.
try { /* thinking for a really long time */ } catch (TimeoutException ex) { /* copy from C# */ }
So Google cuts them off and Twitter resorts to this? If Twitter is trying to keep people from flocking to Google+, this is not the way.
Yes, that's what I inferred from your comment. Because TechCrunch is so on-its-face terrible that a defense was was an interesting idea. But, do you have one? Or did you just an opportunity to snark about Fortune writing something negative about a competitor.

I am very impressed by your ability to harness the "consensus opinion of HN", as an aside. You'll have to teach me that trick sometime. ;)
Whoa, I'm excited to see Grove! I was just thinking how I really prefer IRC to Campfire/Hipchat/etc, especially when properly setup with a good bouncer and such. But that is annoying, and some people are scared of it, so there's a good business opportunity in making IRC really easy to setup well, possibly with the ability for people who are scared of IRC to use some fancy, approachable frontend. (Wimps.)
This is how Digg fell apart. I'm surprised they don't seem to be learning from others' mistakes. They must feel huge pressure to start pulling in profit, but this is not the way to do it. Surely they should be searching for a way to use their vast databases and trend knowledge to make money rather than just exploiting user's attention.
$13 isn't a lot to pay. However, if it takes an hour to save and itemize out of state invoices, in order to pay taxes on them, I'm going to guess that's less than you make per hour, so the entire exercise represents a net loss (other than the benefit to your conscience).

Many people spend way more on out-of-state purchases, so their sales tax bill would be in the hundreds or thousands of dollars. There's real incentive not to pay, unless you're itemizing those purchases as deductions on your income tax or unless you're making the purchases as an incorporated entity.

People get audited on their income taxes all the time. Businesses get audited. I have never heard of an individual getting audited for failure to pay state use tax on out-of-state purchases when they didn't declare those purchases on any official forms.

A few states don't even have income tax; in those states there are no state tax forms that the average citizen ever encounters.
"... My startup is dead. ..."

When I read posts like this, the full acceptance of failure by US entrepreneurs, startups & business, I lament this positive trait isn't acknowledged in my country.
Just my opinion, but there's no shame whatever in killing it dead, and it is probably optimal for both you and your users/customers. I take a salary to be the on-call ops guy for my services. If Notifo isn't paying the bills, the heck with that. A server dying at 3 AM in the morning is your problem if and only if you are getting compensated to worry about that.

You have a life to lead, at Twilio (or wherever) and all the parts of your life that are more important than working. The Notifo chapter is over. Much love to users from those days, but they don't get a moral claim on your time until doomsday because you happened to write some code that one time.

It's also maximally in their interests to be clear about this: Notifo is going away. It will not be improved, it will not be maintained, it will not be supported, it will probably not be turned into whatever some does-not-do-this-for-a-living person thinks is an ideal way to continue providing service to them for free to far-too-cheap. If your notification needs matter to you, start transitioning now.
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apropos of the brainfuck reference earlier today, here is a brainfuck interpreter, written in brainfuck, visualized through the keyboard heatmap.

http://i.imgur.com/lSDYJ.jpg
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> Since Japanese has more syllables than any other tested language

The article claims less information is encoded in each syllable, not more (as would be expected if more syllables were available).

The Japanese syllabaric alphabets (hiragana and katakana) are larger than the roman alphabet, but the smaller alphabet doesn't mean that Japanese has more syllables than English. English syllables are written using multiple roman letters, and there are far more combinations possible than in hiragana or katakana (hiragana and katakana do allow small letters written between characters to modify the syllables represented, but even taking this into account, there are far more syllables possible when writing English).

On top of this, written hiragana or katakana maps unambiguously to the spoken language, but with English, there is more than one possible pronunciation for many character sequences, and the speaker often needs to know the word and sometimes even how it fits into the sentence to know which of several possible syllables to pronounce.
28..always been aware of Zagat. Who knows, travels, what you read, etc. Zagat rated over the last few years has definitely seemed to not be as indicative, as before, of the highest quality of restaurant.
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Eliminating oil subsidies won't cause the price of oil to go to 8$ a gallon. This person has almost no understanding of economics. Oil is subsidizetoxins in the Unoted States with respect to production, which is relatively small in terms of global supply. The price is governed by international supply and demand. The reason gasoline is 8$ a gallon in Europe, which is where I assume he derives his 8$ figure from, is because of gasoline taxes. The countries that subsidize the price of oil are oil rich nations and China. They do this to control any upheaval and inflation wrt food and other products that require petroleum as a means of transport. They are also generally authoritarian regimes, ie. Iran, Venezuala and China.

Please, this person is a moron.
also missing:

# hidden icons in dock are semi transparent

defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -bool YES
Only if Hurd had giant security holes.
The dual ad-based and paid ad-free model doesn't work. The existence of an ad-free version devalues the ad-based model. The most attractive customers will pay for the ad-free version so advertisers won't pay you as much. And you can't pay Twitter's bills on the 0.1% of users who'll pay $5 a month. Ad-based is the only viable solution. They'll lose a tiny minority of ad-hating zealots and profit meanwhile.
"The measure would switch the United States from the "first-to-invent" system to the "first-inventor-to-file" system for patent applications. That change would put the U.S. in line with other industrialized countries."

I hope that does not mean there is no longer prior art?
What if I invent something and just publish.
Now somebody else files a patent application for this.

I was the first to invent, but the other person was the first to file.

Generally I think the way out of this mess it to start to publish every little invention (however obvious it might seem). Then hopefully over time there will be no more room for obvious patents.
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It's actually one of Friedman's classic arguments, poorly articulated.

http://www.colorado.edu/studentgroups/libertarians/issues/fr...
This doesn't change much with respect to prior art afaik.
Sorry to hear Chad! Best of luck at Twillio. I look forward to the next time you wear the founder hat again.
Serious question

Are there any people who code on this website that would work for under $30,000 a year?
Quite a slippery slope they've embarked on here. It'll be way too tempting to turn up the ad frequency now if the quarter's numbers don't look good. Not a good move.
This is a good idea. Practically no one would argue against charitable matching, so it gives Tim Cook an early win with rank-and-file employees. As COO, many within Apple have not interacted with Cook, so this popular move helps establish loyalty and reduce leadership uncertainty.

In his first company-wide email as CEO he said, "I want you to be confident that Apple is not going to change," yet Cook clearly knows he is not Steve Jobs. This sets a marker to distinguish that his run of the company will be different even if he is going to try to preserve Apple's DNA.
Senate Passes Revamp of U.S. Patent System
Like AI, if you define innovation as something large enough then we'll never get there.

I think there's a lot in the small steps. It's only by implementing a framework ten times that it'll be done really well. In one language you'd never get traction for the later frameworks. If each community does one with knowledge of the ones before them eventually a great implementation will be created.
I really don't like keeping up with Twitter "stream". Just today I was picturing how much better it would be for me to consume the information if the folks I follow just discussed on some Google Group.
I was thinking of Java & Lua.
2)SEO. I think you're confusing SEO with content marketing. Content marketing, like having a blog with great content, is only a portion of SEO, albeit the hardest portion.
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If you're not already, use Devise.

https://github.com/plataformatec/devise

It's ballin'. Bcrypt by default, too.
The solution appears to be to push patents faster by having more people working on them. If this effectively solve the patent quality problem, it might be a good thing.

I imagine that the large companies will keep filling hundreds of patents per year since they aren't as affected as a single patent shop.
wow, those suggestions are a great way to screw over so many people, all over the world. bravo
I have a hard time attributing a new language coming out of Google as NIH syndrome. If you take a look at some of the people employed at the big G (Gosling, Kernighan, Pike, Guido, Thompson, etc.) who were responsible for creating and nurturing some very big languages being used today, I would be surprised if new languages weren't being created.
I don't recall people having a problem with Digg's in-stream advertising. It was much more well received than the giant background advertisements they had previously been going with. Digg's downfall had nothing to do with the way they monetized; their shtick simply became a feature of larger, more attractive products.
Object Pascal?
Nothing too crazy in here.

Surprised by:

* The 25k in what appears to be merch. Inclination: that's silly. Is this some crazy Kickstarter thing someone can explain?

* The ~8k in fees to LUXr, a "1 day a week for 10 weeks design residency for early-state startups". "Radically cheap", eh.

* The 1k trademark filing fee.

* That they actually spent $6k in a year at Rackspace. How many uses did they have? And ~$100/mo at Sendgrid?

On the other hand, these people paid themselves less than 1/3rd market salary, even after you account for the housing allowance.

And what do I know? I've never tried to start a social network (there's a reason for that, but...). Maybe 25k in merch is what it takes.
How does restricting transfer of copyright affect this? Is it that hard to get around? An artist wouldn't be able to completely sell the 'rights' to his work but he could certainly work out an arrangement whereby some record label or studio or publisher, etc., agrees to distribute his work for him in exchange for a portion of the proceeds. The only difference is that after the deed is done, the artist still owns the work and can work out a similar arrangement with someone else, should he choose.

This isn't uncommon even now, actually, but especially with yet-unknown artists publishers will often push pretty hard against it, and usually get what they want. I think removing it as a possibility would be good for artists in most cases.
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I have Dan this Saturday. A day of brainstorming the re-architecture of my website. No coding. Just thinking.
One of my issues is the "fixed" toolbars moving around or disappearing while navigating. Glad they've improved this, even if it's only for iOS5 and the platforms that support overflow properties natively.
For the case of near-line storage I believe this would work. I understand why you would need this in that case.

At that point you'd simply have to address pricing. With some napkin math I just paid $15/TB/month (for duration of warranty) for near-line storage. I'm taking liberties here with assumptions (no power or cooling but this offsets the cost of longer transfers to the cloud vs internal to your data center). I'm also not factoring in personnel costs.

For consumers I have absolutely no idea what the pricing would be like. $15/TB/month seems cheap and I would probably be expecting something between 25 and 100GB for that same price if you told me what your product does.
Clever and true... I didn't say I'd view it in the terminal, though!

curl http://jcs.org/tmp/nothing.html | vim -
thx @gruseom 2 things I didn't know, source of the quote & bowdlerized: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bowdler
I fail to see how this holds any water at all, considering that music is free for a substantial number of people.
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> This doesn't seem like a totally unfair valuation to me.

Based on what calculation?
I'm totally one of those people. When I'm on a call, I quickly open up TextEdit to jot down notes, and then transfer them to Evernote or Basecamp after.

Neat idea!
You don't have to view the output in a terminal, though - generally I wouldn't if I was really trying to look at a file.

Server side user agent discrimination is a good point. One has have the option to send his or her own lies regarding that, though. There's always a a way to follow whatever script path to its various ends...
As far as the $25k for merch go, I believe that they had to spend quite a lot to fulfill their Kickstarter promises. Somebody had made the calculation that it would end up being fairly significant.
Sigh... Yeah, just evaluated this, Sencha, M-project and a bunch of others on Android 3.2 tablet and decided to stick with the native UI.

There is enough jerkiness and little things that make it annoying to use. Heck, Sencha ended up displaying a big giant white blank rectangle covering most of the screen. And these are their own demos (!).
Twitter was my RSS for a very long time. If they start injecting ads as content now, i think I'll close my account since it is no longer serving it's purpose. A bit of a shame really, i liked my spam-free Twitter.
There's a JVM language out there that initially allowed try-statements without catch or finally clauses, e.g

try{
//for a short time only to decide
}

But one of its despots, five years after the language was first released, changed the syntax to make a catch or finally clause compulsory, e.g

try{
//for a short time to decide
}finally{}

Because I had used these standalone try-statements a lot, I had to go thru all my code and add empty finally statements to them all.

Scala, on the other hand, still allows standalone try-statements. And Scala and C# also have a better closure syntax than that language, and are more worthy to be copied by Java 8.
Over five years, but your point is well-taken.
Patrick -- are you going to change the name of Appointment Reminder now? I think I remember you posting that you had notiphone.com registered for it - but went with the boring name option instead of clashing with a new yc company.
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Sorry to see this go. "Create a Notifo plugin for automation platform" has been at the top of my second-tier TODO list for quite a while. I hoped to be a big commercial purchaser of Notifo services. There's definitely a need for a unified notification system, but I respect that you need out and need a way to pay the bills. I only hope that the other services are as easy to interface with and support as many platforms as Notifo. Good luck in the future!

Edit: if there's any way for a paid option to keep Notifo going as a zombie process, please let us all know.
What in particular? (Java isn't my primary language, so I haven't been following this.)

Do you mean about how lambdas are implemented from a bytecode standpoint, or other types of issues?
What benefits does an empty try block give you? You can always use braces to separate a block without try at all.
(and remember, this only even becomes an issue when you have two or more inventors with overlapping claims)

If you believe Kevin Kelly's book What Technology Wants, that is practically inevitable.
Well, if someone is willing to pay 400M for 5% of the company it certainly seems like it's worth 8B total. This is how markets work. How else do you propose we put a value on things?
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So, theoretically, I could run a patent troll shop without having to file any patents?

Just hire some engineers and scientists have each of them working on dozens of different projects (very slowly), and I can file an interference against anyone who later decides they want to make those things. Right?
Devise has too many features that I don't really need. I followed Ryan Bates's advice - use nifty:authentication generator.
I know apps can invoke kernel syscalls directly, and I'm sure you could name a handful of apps that do this all time. But are you really doing that in your mp3 player?
I pretty much arrived at the same conclusion when trying to translate various songs into Spanish. You can say sentences normally in about the same amount of time, but you can't fit Spanish versions of an English phrase in the same meter...generally you have to fudge it, and even then it doesn't always work.
I think you don't understand what Google intends when they release a new product.

Do you want a company to 1) only brew products (with a business model) internally until it is ready to ship, or 2) develop and release lots of things and see what works or not?

Google leans towards #2. They don't really care if they can make money off of something, if one of their engineers is interested in something they're allowed to take that risk. They put lots of stuff in the wild and if it doesn't stick then they kill it (or in most cases leave the source to the public - see wave) - or try to make it profitable (look at gapps).

Yes, a lot of things coming out of Google die, but that's only because they're putting out lots of things all the time. The day they stop putting out unproven stuff and only release v1.0 products is the day they lose their innovation edge.
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But for a small function (which a lambda typically is), the syntactic overhead of "new Runnable() { public void run()" swamps the actual logic. When I read this version, it's hard for my eyes to find what work is actually being done because there are so many braces and brackets and words. The big deal of lambda syntax is that it lets you focus on the code that does the work (the doStuff) instead of the adapter (the "new Runnable() { public void run()") that the library needs around that code.
Prior to reading today, I would have said "I might change the name of Appointment Reminder at some point in the future, but have no specific plans to do it in the near future." I think that's pretty much still true.
I would love to find the original paper and examine the actual measure of information they used. i have found that my mother tongue tamil which are known for the speed, has a greater range for context-sensitive interpretations compared to English.So much so that i prefer English in any communication related to work.
The loss of first to file means the end of American independent innovation. May God save us.
Most people are unaware what exactly causes problems in the patent system; all they know is there might be something wrong with it. And here is a bill that they claim will "reform" it. The details, and effects of those details, are lost to the general public.

It is all too likely that this bill will benefit patent trolls and large corporations at the expense of everyone else, but there is no way the public will attribute these effects (which will happen years later) to the politicians who voted on this bill. It's really sad.
Checking the screen for smudge marks is also a good way to break this system quickly.

As for the 12 quintillion combinations... I have no idea where that number came from either.
You can use it to suppress exceptions.
Thank you. You've almost single-handedly convinced me that it might be worth my time to do real research during my CS education. A lot of those sound interesting.
They're founders, and I bet there are no shortage of founders around here who've worked for under $30k on their startups.
You can run a web browser on either. Everything from there is UX.

SaaSy should work.
Yes! Doing it now. It's not that bad, once you set the right terms for yourself and the projects you take on.

You can also sell fruits and vegetables - but that's another story. So far both are working for me though :)