skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
where are you hosting and getting a box that big for so cheap?
AutoPager for Firefox already does this, but I think it needs to use heuristics or hard-coded rules for most sites: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/autopager/

And Firefox will pre-fetch links with rel="next" so that they load faster: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Link_prefetching_FAQ
Awesome. How did you like Asana?

I was really excited about their initiative when I first heard of it. My day job at the time really needed it, or something like it. But it was private, and PM wouldn't jump on anything without seeing it in action, so that had no traction.
I don't think you realize that Silverlight is XAML, WPF is XAML and Metro is XAML. It's all the same stuff.

With relatively minor changes we'll be able to run our Silverlight or WPF XAML in Metro and _continue_ to be able to run it the desktop browser (via the Silverlight plugin on Windows or OS X) or out-of-browser as a desktop app (on Windows or OS X).

To think that this is a deprecation is the contortion.
Thanks, I'll take a look. "Crowdfunding" was the word I was looking for.
The full power of F# async workflows can be had with the same syntax async/await has now. Basically async workflows could have been a more convenient syntax for let! in F# async workflows, in the sense that you can directly apply await inside an expression instead of having to insert a let statement:

... Foo(await m) ...

Instead of, in F#:

let! x = m
... foo x ...

It is certainly possible that the C# designers did recognize the possibility to make await work for any monad, but decided against it because it could possibly result in confusing code or worse performance.

If that's the case then it would be great to hear the reason from one of you who are on the C# design team and reading news.yc :)
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Where I am, K-12 teachers with a few years experience under their belt are making $80,000 per year and up. And yet, I am not sure we are any better off for it. It seems to me the problem is much more fundamental.

In high school, I had two teachers who did not teach; at least not in the way we believe teachers should. They provided problems to solve, but gave no guidance on how to solve them. If you ask them any questions, they would point you to the nearest computer with internet access or a stack of books. Despite that, I feel I cam away learning far more from those teachers than I did all of my other teachers combined.

One of those teachers was quite adamant that schools would be completely unnecessary by now. I think in many ways he was right. What he failed to take into account, perhaps because of the bias brought on by his teaching methods, is that most people never learn how to learn. Without that equipment, our vast educational resources are not useful.
Have you looked into Jekyll/GitHub Pages? It's less of a framework and more of a static site generator that uses your templates and content. It's not without some degree of overhead, but much less than trying to use a dynamic framework like Rails/Django/whatever as your blog engine.
I agree that they are unfair, though that alone won't get them eliminated. Part of the problem is that there is a huge imbalance of power between a low-level employee and a corporation. I guess many programmers are talented enough to say no to jobs, but a lot of people have to work for a while and endure many months of unemployment to land that first job. Once they do, they'll be hesitant to do something that might jeopardize it.

I suppose some people might say "so be it" - after all, we don't normally intervene. Two weeks of vacation with a forced closure over the summer and winter that eats it all up might seem unfair as well, but we (at least in the US) don't typically look to the gov't to force companies to act differently (though obviously we do set some standards, just not to the same extent you might see in Europe).

Even so, I think that non-competes are a terrible idea, mainly because they damage the economy and do harm everyone. They're also different from many other contracts in that they have a powerful effect on people who were not a party to the original contract. The employee may have signed an agreement not to work for anyone else, but the new company certainly never signed an agreement not to hire that worker!

The main reason I can see for enforcing these non-competes is the notion that companies will increase hiring and invest more in training unexperienced workers by providing reassurance to the employer that the person will not immediately take the skills straight over to a different company. I wonder how big a problem this really is. Even if it's a problem, is it a bigger problem than what we have here? This woman is now on unemployment insurance rather than creating wealth through employment and contributing to the tax base. As you can probably tell, I doubt this has much effect. I don't think that software patents cause much innovation that would not have otherwise occurred, but I do think they stifle innovation. I don't think that non-competes cause much hiring that would not have otherwise occurred, but I do think that they stifle hiring.

Interesting that the journalist here expressed surprise that the owner of the business enforcing the non-compete is actually opposed to them in principle. I don't think people in software are surprised. There are all kinds of things, from non-competes to patents, that we don't like but engage in anyway (to refrain on principle seems, to many people, like "unilateral disarmament" in a war zone).
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Keep it up.

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There was a system kind of like this in the movie Minority Report. It takes place in a future LA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjBC2xD-rh4
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When you don't reveal the company name you tend to look like this guy: http://www.meetup.com/New-York-MongoDB-User-Group/messages/2... - maybe do some A/B testing and see whether you get better candidates or not.
Yes - and we could replace the rubber/tarmac interface with a steel/steel one for even better efficiency.

Highly automated steel-wheeled vehicle on steel tracks with continuous electricity supply along the way... I wonder how we'll call that.
When explaining what is actually permitted, the page will note many texts that ignore the supposed rule.

When explaining what is actually forbidden, it will be noted how urgently this should be corrected, as widespread usage of the prohibited form indicates gross ignorance.

A little consistency would be nice. :)
Eh, it seems to be borne out. The w3c seems to be more hot air than effective body: whatever the browsers decide is standard is standard.
What's up with the angle quote /usr in the title?
We use Jira with the Greenhopper Agile planning plugin at our startup and that's freaking awesome for planning iterations and releases. FishEye and Crucible are great for code reviews. As soon as we hit 10 users, Atlassian will have an additional paying customer.
Wrong.

Silverlight is typically used to write LOB apps. You know, desktop apps.

So long as that use case is still supported Silverlight developers will be happy.
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Are you going to pay your own wages too?
I'll bet that you're thinking that this will have to wait a decade or two, until every car on the road has a new generation of computers installed. Look up a Mercedes product called Distronics Plus and a company called Autoliv. These guys are already mounting stereo cameras and long-wavelength IR (heat) cameras on production luxury cars to detect turn signals, pedestrians, and license plates of other cars. When 50% of cars have radars linked to their cruise control, it's a matter of iteration to let them share data, then to characterize the remaining vehicles on the road based on the aggregate observational data.

Your '95 Civic may not be announcing its velocity, but when the car behind you and the car in front of you have both read your license plate and agree on your speed, you may as well be.
They are reasonable in some cases.

Take a consultancy for example - I'm paying the consultancy firm 5-10x as much per day for you as an employee. So I offer to hire you at 2x your salary and still save a fortune.

No consultancy could ever let their staff near a customer.
It also requires a little more automated on-board control than cars currently have but not an unrealistic amount.

That's going to be the biggest problem. Automatic driving of cars isn't a technical problem where you need to tweak something, it's a legal problem.
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I like Noise Bridge's guiding principle: "Be excellent to each other." (which is a quote from Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure).
One of the other benefits is that a car controlled by a computer should be able to draft off the car in front it. This should significantly improve gas mileage. We might even design the shape of cars specifically for this since aerodynamics don't matter as much at slow speeds.
will_paginate has been using these attributes for quite a while.
I heard about RavenDB but doesn't seem to gain a lot of followers among .NET developers. MongoDB seems to be the choice for .NET communities.
I interviewed for a job and got accepted. There were no contracts until I was hired, gave my 2 weeks notice at the former job, and then on the first day was presented with a non-compete to sign just as "routine paperwork". I didn't sign, but had already gave notice at the previous job. Luckily I was single, with no family or debt, and found a near-minimum wage job as an electrician's helper. That was 5 o 6 years ago, I shudder to think what I would do now in this economy. What happens when you are presented with a non-compete after a day or week of being employed? If you quit, can you get unemployment benefits? It's a hard situation. I live in Louisiana, btw.

An edit to the above: I tried negotiating in a respectful manner but didn't have much leverage after quitting my previous job and being told "What are you, a lawyer?"
I don't have complex needs, but I like Redmine [1], and run it on a local box.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redmine
I would hope that MS's solution for some mundane problem has changed since 2001. 10 years is a long time (especially for development tools/frameworks)... and I'm glad for the innovation that has happened over the past 10 years even though things were tried and later thrown out. Failures are part of the process of innovation.
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This is what regulation is for. Banning non-competes means companies don't have to feel like they're at a disadvantage for doing the right thing.
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"Another example is if you write a book for a nice market, totaling 20,000 potential readers. And you predict that for the price of $9.99 you will reach 35% of that audience."

If you're able to reach 35% of your total possible audience at $9.99, then of course you're not going to make more money by slashing to $0.99. But where did the 35% figure come from?

How about I pluck the figure 1% out of the air instead? And pluck 50% out as the figure I'd reach at $0.99? Suddenly the economics look totally different. I'm now making 5 times the amount at $0.99.

Unless he's got any particular basis for his figures, mine are just as valid as his (and based on my personal buying habits on the iPhone, mine are not entirely unreasonable. I have spent far more in total on $0.99 apps than I ever have on $9.99 ones and I very much doubt I'm the only one. I know books are different, but there's no fundamental reason why you couldn't see a similar pattern).

I'm not suggesting that authors definitely would make more money. But basing your argument on what seems to be a figure plucked randomly out of the air isn't a good way to prove your case.

Oh, and whilst we're at it, why does the long tail apply to $0.99 books but not to $9.99 ones?
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Is NAnt still around? I thought MSBuild caught the wind and run with it.

I think you're onto something with your statement that Maven might not worth in .NET since there aren't many 3rd party libraries that you would include to your project. That is probably tied to point #1: relying on Microsoft to provide everything.
Meh. Dawkins is harmless and says very docile stuff all the time. I honestly don’t understand people who are offended by him. Really?!
Outlawing non-competes would make employers less likely to hire because they're not just about trade secrets.

They're about encouraging employers to make the investment in a new employee, knowing the time and effort put into that person isn't going to be easily transferred to a competitor.

That said, you can negotiate a non-compete, either doing away with it completely, or changing the terms.

Non-competes generally have at least three limiting features: industry, time, and region.

You can negotiate on the industry side: from "same industry" to "company's direct competitors".

You can negotiate on the region:"the Northeast" to "New England" to "metro Boston".

And you can negotiate on the time: twelve months, to six, to three.

I've just thought of this, but I think it would be fair it limit the non-competes based on the time worked in a position in a company. Less than one month and more than five years in a position, the non-compete clause goes away. Or the terms change.
Snowballing negativity in here, geez. I like it.. and from the look of the shots on the site, I think it works really well with the look of the site and the "softer" quality of the app to be honest..@michaelpinto, many of those logos would be considered stodgy in the software space if they were released today, and have been redesigned since.
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Hopefully they don't get shipped to Bentonville. I like that this is the first blogpost by walmartlabs, you have to start somewhere.
Even if Metro does not allow Silverlight plugins, it is still using WinRT, which is using XAML UIs and more importantly developers can use C# to write apps against it. So the knowledge isn't entirely lost, it's just transferred.
Peter Jones would not have invested regardless of what whey wore. The lack of a suit was the excuse to easily dismiss the pitch. Investors simply care about ideas and how much revenue can be generated from the idea plain and simple.
> "A single AWS instance is not reliable, and isn't designed > to be particularly reliable."
> Source?

Reading the AWS EC2 forums for any length of time or launching your own EC2 instances into production and watching them fall over from time to time.

All arbitrary, but I don't think anyone that has deployed on EC2 with more than a handful of servers would ever describe it as an overly stable service.

> Why would you feel more comfortable running a single instance outside of AWS? Your safety is just an illusion.

In theory, absolutely agree. It sounds like you were agreeing with the OP to be honest, but just getting pedantic about single-AWS instance vs single-dedicated instance in another hosting company.

Sure, best practices dictate trusting a single point of failure is not a good idea.

In practice, my dedicated deployments (at RimuHosting if that matters) are infinitely more stable than my EC2 deployments and I think that data point is worth something -- not going to bet the farm on it, but I'm also not going to treat my dedicated servers like I would flaky EC2 VMs.

> Running on a single machine is never safe and AWS is cheap enough and comes with enough tools (ELB, RDS, maybe EBS) to allow you to become truly redundant and single fault tolerant.

You are agreeing with the EwanToo from what I can tell...
It should be noted before the usual MS flames roll in that Silverlight is an umbrella product name for the underlying technologies. The same underlying technologies that encompass WPF and Metro.

You'll still be using the same XAML/C#/etc
Anyone wants to bet they'll find some way to "enhance" it?
The pentadactyl add-on (used to be vimperator) for FF does this, ]] for next, [[ for previous. I believe it first checks for 'rel=' links, then links that contain 'prev', 'back', '<<' or similar snippets.

Hopefully this catches on, and we can use this instead of every site trying to have its own keyboard shortcuts (j/k or left/right or z/x/c, that last one being especially stupid for non-qwerty typists).
Interesting. I use Windows Live Messenger with my normal email address - andrew@ducker.org.uk.

I also use XMPP through GChat, through apps for domains on the domain ducker.org.uk

I wonder how they're going to deal with that...
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This is one of the two things that got me to order one last night. Being able to build with it on a breadboard makes a huge difference compared to the arduino. I've got a number of fun projects to do that the breadboard makes more fun to start. (Particularly things with model trains and monitoring window sensors).
Having used Windows 8 for the past day or so, I'm definitely warming up to the Start menu being replaced by the Start Metro screen. It feels very similar to Ubuntu's Unity launcher. That said, for the times that I know I'm only going to be quickly launching an app by typing the first few letters of its name, I wish they had an optional "mini" panel for it, possibly with its own keybind. Dock it onto the left side of the screen, or make it a front-and-center popup like Alfred/Gnome-Do/Quicksilver/Launchy.
I had a partner organisation insist on Jira for their project a few years back. It'll obviously have changed since then and much might be down to user-specific customisations, but I hated it. Awkward, obstructive, poorly thought out workthrough that mostly involved jumping through hoops and provided us very little actual value.

My main memory actually was of poor fit and finish. Just a tiny thing but every time I logged in, no matter how, it offered to remember my login. Every time, I clicked that box in hope. It never once worked.
Then you should probably stop f*cking Arrington.
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Arrington's involvement with Crunchfund and the winner's coverage on TechCrunch makes me doubt if TechCrunch can ever claim to be unbiased now
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Great explanation. Can't wait to finish downloading Windows 8 to start playing with it.

Asynchronous API that will really make a difference for the end user, right? There won't be any more waiting for UI to unfreeze :)
That's an absolutely ridiculous policy for them. No support person should EVER ask you for your password.
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I've used Jira, Confluence, and testing out FishEye. We use Crowd for single sign on stuff. I really like fisheye because we have tons of different projects on different repositories. Confluence is nice although it took some getting used to. Jira was awkward, but we're still running Jira 3 and we'll be upgrading soon. For what it's worth, Jira is the best issue tracking software I've used on the web.
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Bit your tongue. You only have to change your hand position if you have the modifiers mapped wrong. Ctrl goes next to "A", Meta is below slash (some keyboards have this as an Alt already, sometimes you have to remap it). The modifiers are on opposite pinkies.
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This article completely ignores spaceX's launch systems, which seem to be much more cost effective than the Shuttle. The last line pretends as if there's nothing between Virgin Galactics sub-orbital plane based system and this massive behemoth.

I don't know the industry well to say whether spaceX can compete with this thing, but they've shown great scaling so far... and good reliability at much better cost effectiveness.
It's worth noting that this is not a new idea. In the late 60s there were at least a dozen research projects working on this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramis_(personal_rapid_transit)

Maybe technological advances have made it more feasible. I guess we'll see.
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It's not a year's salary. It's a year you can't work for a competitor. You can work for anyone else, just not a competitor.
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How do you know you wouldn't have picked up the same trait from another source?

It's not as if that teacher is unique in advocating simplicity.
Incredibly interesting to watch, especially notable areas of A/B testing. They did a lot of testing with exactly how to display their media mentions.

I'd love to see this for sites that went through multiple pages of transitions.
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Joel,

Is there a place we can make feature requests?
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Kickstarter is just frankly one of the most ridiculously cool things to have shown up on the web in a long time. It's such a beautiful thing to put an engine behind all of these really interesting, passionate people and make it possible to crowd-fund their dreams.
I see all of those things on Google+ all the time. The thing is they are all posted to specific circles and not publicly. A 41% drop in public posts is only somewhat meaningful. Of my family members that post on Google+ most of them moved from posting publicly to posting privately to specific circles once they figured out how it worked.
I love the idea, but I'm afraid airships always have, and always will be, the future.