skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alex3917,

You are arguing some very abstract terms (albeit, citing statistics along the way). As someone else who has known well many professional military persons in my life (although I never served), I can also attest the blurb in the Atlantic article reflects what I have seen. Yes, this is anecdotal information, however for certain purposes (like judging individual people) the weight of anecdotal information becomes important. It seems at least some others are coming to the table with similar information.

How many professional military (defined as in for at least a full hitch, and preferably longer) do you know? What kind of anecdotes do they provide?

EDIT: Let me change my definition of "professional" to mean officers Captain or higher (Navy full Lieutenant), NCO, or warrant officer.
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Go does that.

http://golang.org

http://blog.golang.org/2011/07/go-for-app-engine-is-now-gene...
In practice, the terms founder/cofounder/founding-employee are fuzzy and granted based on mutual agreement among those present. Every early pivot or talent-acquisition or rebranding or product launch could reasonably reset the 'founding team', if that's the spirit of the participants.

To limit the term only to the person with the idea overemphasizes ideation. To limit the term only to the person who first writes checks would overemphasize finance. Something great didn't exist; a group worked together; then it did exist. We might honor the leader or original spark as 'The Founder' but all the team are also 'founders' in a reasonable, non-hagiographic sense of the word.
I wonder how much of the speed gain can be achieved by subsetting JavaScript instead of creating a new language? Something like PyPy's RPython. This way they wouldn't need to reeducate people.
Here's some ideas we've used for our B2B app incentiBox (http://www.incentibox.com):

1. Tried Press Release company that says they will push your articles out to thousands of media sources - didn't work as well as we hoped, because they do just what they say: "push the article out in a feed", no guarantees it will even be picked up. I'd be careful with this one.

2. Contacted relevant bloggers - works pretty well. You need to find relevant bloggers so your web app is in line with their interests. Then they will likely write about you.

3. SEM - Google adwords. This can work, depending on the cost of your keywords. For popular keywords (eg. "Social media") this may be too expensive to see any results at all. It's a great way to test out initial response to your web app and test the overall market demand. Depending on your revenue model, if you can figure out how to set your adwords budget so that you have a low enough average cost of acquiring a customer, you can have great results.

4. Blogging - can be VERY effective if you keep generating relevant information/content, especially in the long term for organic search engine optimization. Don't dis-count the use of Twitter / Facebook, to promote your articles, re-tweet, etc. This takes time and you might not see results right away.

5. Try a social-media advertising app - of course we use our own product! Yes, a shameless plug, but depending on your webapp and target market (great for apps targeting the younger generation), investing in social media marketing may be a great way to get users. Check out our platform http://www.incentibox.com/ - you can set up contest or rewards program in minutes and get your visitors to help spread the word amongst their friends. It's always refreshing to hear that people signed up because of word-of-mouth!

6. Cold email / cold call - This imho is the best way to get INSTANT feedback. To start, call / email 20 ppl a day, and see if there's any interest. If yes, then it's a numbers game, and you should invest more time into this.

I would suggest trying all that you can think of for promoting. In the beginning it will always seem like guerrilla marketing - it pretty much is! But hopefully that will lead you to discover which methods work for you and which don't. Good luck!
This is exactly the kind of shit I'm talking about. What exactly is the methodology behind the CIA's death rates? Oh wait, they don't give one. I wonder why. Perhaps because many/most of their statistics are complete bullshit. Here is the comment I wrote about their 'literacy statistics' just a couple days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2961076
Maybe Jobs just felt that most non-profits are scammy and corrupt? Even (RED) turned out to be grossly mismanaged.
If I use pentadactyl's `gf` I get the source with the alert. If I right click I get the intended result.
Are they going to call it D flat?
Wow thanks, I've been looking for this.
"Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later."
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The primary problem with web development is not that javascript, css, DOM and dynamic HTML make for painful application development, even though that is the case. The main problem is having divergent implementations of HTML/DOM etc.. that results in having to test and maintain code for a dozen different browsers/versions. Google adding yet another language to the pool just adds to this problem.
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/go/overview.html
I mentioned above, I went to a fairly good highschool. We didn't have classes on Thursdays in my highschool. Instead we were required to participate in an unpaid internships on Thursday. I volunteered at the local metropolitan "science center" where kids went for field trips and people visited. It was awesome... Almost every other volunteer was a home schooler. My best friend was home schooled (met in college) and he is a concert level pianist and extremely well rounded. Nationally home schoolers get together fairly often and have "home school reunions".

You are speaking like someone with little knowledge of and/or interaction with the homeschool population. You seem to have some severe misunderstandings about the homeschool community. I think you should alleviate this large hole in your knowledge before you berate a lifestyle you aren't familiar with.
Hey, here's mine why not: https://github.com/richtaur/dotfiles/blob/master/osx_setup.m...
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Here's one for Smalltalk. It's based on my .changes file - about 200K LOC, with all the lines containing '----' and $! removed. What's left is, I think, stuff that actually got typed into a browser.

You can definitely see $:, but otherwise it looks pretty much like English.
This discussion has been going on for a about 1.5 months. Even before that actually, but the discussion that led to this move starts here:

http://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=131275031209004&...

- PHP Internals Lurker
> The nutritional content of Greek yogurt

So, I'm Greek and like Greek yoghurt, but unless I am totally missing something, it is nutritionally pretty similar to plain (unsweetened) American-style yogurt. It's just drained; the name is Greek is literally "strained yoghurt", and you can get an effect that seems pretty darn similar to my taste buds by buying a typical American plain yoghurt (note: vanilla-flavored sweetened yoghurt is not "plain"), and draining it overnight with a cheesecloth. But then I mostly use my home-strained yoghurt to make tzatziki, so I might be missing some of the nuances if you eat it plain.
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Do any desirable economic conditions come out of a deflationary system? What I mean is, is there any economic outcome desired by any world view that is best served by continuous monetary deflation?

If someone wanted the social trend to be towards historic lifestyles, would deflation accomplish that? It's hard to phrase what I am trying to ask so I hope I am being clear. Imagine that someone wanted everyone to live like the Amish. Would persistent deflation accomplish that? Would persistent deflation produce a world where people spend less of their time feverishly trying to make more money and more of their time enjoying what they already have? Would persistent deflation reduce the rate at which we destroy the environment around us?

If inflationary economic systems reward those with money to leverage into investment returns, do deflationary systems reward those who do not? If inflationary systems encourage people to lend out the product of their labor to others to use to create their own wealth, do deflationary systems discourage this, and if so, would the result be that it would be harder for people who are at an economic disadvantage to better their situation? Conversely, would it be harder for people who are at an economically advantageous position to increase their wealth because investment vehicles are less numerous and more risky?

I get the feeling that some people believe that economic growth is an objectively desirable outcome; but must it always be? I do not know exactly how I feel about it, but I feel that it doesn't seem like it should be the given that others seem to believe that it is.
Read this and learn what Knuth did as his summer job in 1960 (he was 21 or 22):

http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/B5000-AlgolRWaychoff.html#7

here is the conclusion of the chapter:

"In 1961, the National ACM meeting was held in Los Angeles. The keynote speaker was Tom Watson, the Chairman of the Board Of IBM. Bob Barton was the second or third speaker after Watson. don and Lloyd and I were in the audience of approximately 1200 people. [...] "There are only three people in this room that really know how to write a compiler and I would like for them to stand up now. They are don knuth, Lloyd Turner and Richard Waychoff."
Peculiar: in FF5 I don't see the alert, but do see it in view source.
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Clickable:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2975387
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I'm going to perform the minor rudeness of predicting his response; if he knows military personel, I expect they will have been those that support his opinion: the lower-class more readily exploited for their service, those who came into conflict over money matters with the military establishment and felt (whether rightly or wrongly) cheated via some form of bureaucracy, and in general a selection not fully representational of the military as a whole.

I'd give myself bonus points if he included some visceral anecdote.
Step aside, Silicon Valley and Bangalore.

Bangalore? The two startup hubs that came to this author's mind were Silicon Valley and Bangalore?
Maybe it's about more than just the language. Have you actually seen a Smalltalk development environment? (e.g. http://vimeo.com/27850933 ).
I've only played with it for an afternoon, but this is a killer service.

It offers streaming of local radio stations, complete with title, artwork and lyrics for what is playing if available.

Then if offers Pandora-like artist based radio stations.

I see no reason to only use one of these services, but this is def a viable alternative to Pandora.

Is this a sign of the music industry starting to get a clue?
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For our cycle app alone, we have 300k downloads and at least several thousand active users per day (when it's not raining).

Scaling is definitely an issue if you're getting a lot of complaints, but this is certainly great early on when each 'fan' (or hater) of your product can have a significant impact.
I'd be happier to use Iubenda if its beta-access system didn't make me feel so violated, by requiring me to literally share it on every social media I can in multiple ways.
usually easy enough to find, by digging around in the old disk box at the back of your computer cupboard ;)
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Just received an email from Diaspora, they are alive?
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There's been big news in the social networking world recently, and we can't help but be pleased with the impact our work has had on two of the biggest developments. We're proud that Google+ imitated one of our core features, aspects, with their circles. And now Facebook is at last moving in the right direction with user control over privacy, a move spurred not just by Google+, but more fundamentally by you and thousands of other donors, as well as hundreds of thousands of people who've lined up to try Diaspora* -- that is, by all of us who've stood up to say "there has to be a better way." We're making a difference already.

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We'll make the social web more fun than it is today.
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This also gives you the freedom to do what you want online.
Our ecosystem provides the commons, the connective tissue for an evolving social web.
We're not gatekeepers, so our ecosystem will always support the latest apps.
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Actually, if you look at the context, this reinforces my point that RAM is the limiting factor. Nick mentioned this to reassure some other user worried about Google lowering the RAM limit. As long as Google is being conservative WRT oversubscribing RAM, the instance RAM limit is the true measure of the cost of an instance.

It's not about how much you use, it's about how much you could use.
The first one is BRILLIANT. I've been wanting this forever. The one thing that I miss from being a Windows user back in the day.
I reckon you're right. The involvement of Gilad Bracha suggests that V8 plays a big part - probably Google are extending it so that V8 can compile Dart to machine code and run it, same as it can JavaScript. This would be cool for server-side apps.

Probably there's a CoffeeScript-style transcompiler too to convert Dart (or a subset?) to JavaScript for execution client-side in non-Chrome browsers (any V8 browser could "speak" Dart directly)...
Python. And if it's not fast enough, C.
The same death rate figures are cited by UNICEF:

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/usa_statistics.html#78

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/iraq_statistics.html#78

The World Bank lists the same figures too:

http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.CDRT.IN

Wikipedia also has the same death rate numbers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_United_States#D...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Iraq#Death_rate
> hat the go language achives to us, just nothing.

Maybe for you, but not for the hundreds-thousands of people using it.

> Technology is not consist with web apps

What?

> all of the new web languages doesnt have a mature ide like Eclipse or Visual Studio

I'm going to assume be "web languages" you are talking about Python, Ruby, Javascript (on nodejs), and Perl. Most people get along fine with the existing tools. Many people don't even like ides like VS.

> me to use vim or emacs, i dont have enough time, i am not an idiot to fuck my brain with those useless shortcut keys.

Not sure how learning fast, easy shortcut keys would 'fuck your brain'.

> but real world dont have free time to play with these toy languages.

False. Developers in the 'real world' work with cool new languages, frameworks and tools every day. If you're not willing to learn them that's your own problem.
I'm extremely excited about this project. Quick question: does anybody know if the foundation is planning on coordinating lesson plans, source code that people build for this, etc. I think starting an entire community around this could be great.

I'm reminded of the fantastic community that surrounds TI calculators/MSX Computers/Amiga Computers/Atari STs etc..

See http://www.ticalc.org/ as an example
Not surprised E resonates with the HN crowd =)
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I think the languages that are out there are fine, Python, Ruby, JS, Java, Go, etc...

An innovative framework that utilizes an established language for web development would be more beneficial, IMO.
Google should probably start coordinating these product names: http://www.google.com/doubleclick/publishers/dart.html
OS X keyboard is so slow for me, so I set this one

defaults write NSGlobalDomain KeyRepeat -int 0

To make it blasting fast almost like in Linux (Gnome).
Oh, it's far worse than that. Until Google---a company who's focus is far from this product---can demonstrate years of responsible management of these sorts of products they're going to be radioactive for anyone who has other options.
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What would be interesting here would be a difference analysis or regression giving the preference for any given key in a given language. E.g.: '|' is highly predictive of shell, '$' of perl, '()' for lisp. Might be fun to do in R.
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Exactly. Especially if it's a server-side language. I'm really hoping that we're coming to the end of the era where we use server-side languages to generate static HTML, and I hope we're closer to the end of the creation of new languages to do that. That problem is solved. What's not entirely solved is how we make client-side interaction with server-side systems work better. Backbone.js + Sinatra is a nice start, but then you have browser inconsistencies and awful client-side debugging.

I'd love to see people tackling that problem instead of inventing Yet Another Framework,

But then, maybe Dart is something client-side. Of course, then only Google's browser would support it and we'd go back to pretending we like JavaScript while writing in CoffeeScript. :)
Ain't no such thing.

Javascript programs can be relatively pure now, and even Haskell isn't truly "pure."
In that situation, it ought to be possible to take an inquisitive approach: collect evidence, consider the plausible scenarios, and make a decision. The teacher would commit to being more attentive. The parent and child would discuss honesty, the "boy who cried wolf" scenario, techniques for avoiding bullying, and consequences if the child is found to be the aggressor rather than the victim.
I'm unsure of what Amazon's long term plan is. Is it their hope that Congress deals with this on a national level and makes it workable? They just don't want to deal with the mess on a state by state basis?
I'm sure this was in the works before Jobs left. Even with its entrepreneurial culture Apple is too big to roll something like this out in a couple of weeks.
I always figured Jobs was trying to maintain a neutral position with regards to charity, contributions, etc. It's hardly uncommon for people to donate to personal causes anonymously to avoid the politics and potential perceived tackiness with what's intended to be a generous act.
Agreed. They are great to build things, but money is like playing with fire. It is not a good idea to have this as your first project.
Brilliant.. I'm smiling. And will definitely be buying a few as soon as I can get my hands on them - plenty of educational and home uses spring to mind!

The especially nice thing is that last week when Raspberry Pi were mentioned here (a couple of times) there were some quite legitimate comments along the lines of "we've heard of the low cost PC before.. but they are all vapourware". So it is great to see a product that is all but on the market :)
Google gives HTC patents so it can sue Apple
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This is actually old news if you read Fabien's code review pages. He has had links to the ios source on there for a while.
How online video domain whitelist/blacklist work?
At many video providers (vimeo plus /iframe embed) you can whitelist/blacklist domains where videos are allowed to play. How does it work?
So does this mean Amazon is going to allow CA affiliates again?
Show HN: Non-dev learning development. Shipping my first project: Favsi
Hi HN,

I'm happy to finally ship my first development project: http://favsi.com. Favsi is a site to share lists of random stuff. Things you probably wouldn't post anywhere else. Like:

• Favorite cheesy ninja movies
• Favorite original NES games
• Favorite songs to sing in the car

There's been lots of list-type apps cropping up lately: Bagcheck, ListGeeks, Listry, and probably others. Mini-trend?

Some Background:

By trade, I've been mostly a business guy [shudders] at startups, but have been working to change that for awhile now. I started learning Ruby a few times last year but had trouble sticking with it. It was tough to see how the stuff I was learning would turn into an actual product.

Early this year, I decided to jump straight to learning Rails. That actually really helped. The more defined structure and near-instant results of getting something running were huge for me. Building that momentum helped me finally start to understand how fun (and addictive) development could be. Rails is a gateway drug.

Favsi is not a huge technical achievement, but it's been amazing for building my confidence to make stuff and dive deeper into programming.

Thanks for all the inspiration/support/guidance HN.

Cheers!

Justin

http://favsi.com
>"Sometimes we are [portrayed by the media as] plagued by PTSD and associated terrors. [...] The reality is very different."

You've misrepresented what he said in that paragraph.

"Most of all, we are often portrayed as mindless automatons that are incapable of independent thought. The reality is very different."

He made no comment on the prevalence of PTSD.

edited to remove unnecessary harshness
clickable: http://favsi.com
I know most here won't like the Facebook thing (I'm not joining because of it), but I think its fairly deviously brilliant marketing tool. If I were them I'd be okay with losing some signups with the flip side being getting the viral marketing done for free.
How to use permission marketing for game development and publishing.
Nice, you'd be surprised of how many people would start using Git because these kind of articles. No complications.
The previous discussion of Michael's death is at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2971971
I'm kind of suspecting this started off as "I want to make a simple kernel module", not "I wonder how I can make my computer rickroll me more often".
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After a long search i found this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4314635/how-do-vimeo-yout... . Looks like the only way.
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iCaltrain is my favorite Caltrain app, but I really like the scrolling on yours!
Web programming is certainly fragmented by divergent implementations, but the conclusion doesn't follow from the premises. Adding another language doesn't automatically add browser compatibility problems.

Who knows what "structured web programming" is, as Google defines it? For all we know, Dart could be a unification framework that compiles to browser-independent JS/CSS/DOM. In which case, the Dart would be very good for reducing implementation fragmentation.
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