skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
what you describe does sound like it worked out well.

my opinion is that there is enough demand for good programmers for the market to determine good wages/benefits. the usps union in question is working on a new contract. rumor has it they are agreeing to a whopping 3.5% raise spread over 5 years. the last annual raise was 1.2%!

there are a large percentage of "obsolete" CoBOL programmers that weren't transitioned properly to web applications. many of whom perform non-technical/light-duty tasks. the mostly younger folks carry the majority of the load. it's mostly a result of incompetent management whom never enforce accountability.
How long ago did you use it? They've redesigned the UI which is far better than the old one. Although it is true they're not as good as GA yet, it's only because the team is small. The codebase is a pleasure to work with should you need to customize anything, which you cannot do in GA.

In short, Piwik wins in terms of control hands down. If you don't need live analytics, don't want to store the data, want somebody else to blame if anything goes wrong, then go for GA. Not that I hate GA, I use both; normally GA to be my go-to backup if anything went wrong with my analytics server.
Few people are saying that $60 is too much.
Many people are saying, I paid $60 w/ the promise of an upgrade to X. I expect that commitment to be honored.
Not sure if it relates, but another git integration plugin for Sublime: https://github.com/notanumber/gitst2
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I use eclipse every day and would never defend it against almost any disparagement.
I realise that it's not the most reliable source, but I read a rumour [1] that Apple offered $800m to acquire Dropbox and they declined. It's possible it simply wasn't enough, but perhaps they're not interested in selling.

[1] http://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/09/dropbox-may-have-decline...
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I love how the use of "hacker-news orange" (#f60) instantly makes things look hacker-ish now! (Might just be for me)
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Great App, just tried it on my HTC Evo.

1 thing I noticed is that if its a new post, there is text 'discuss' or 'x comments' following the submitter, which when clicked taked u to the actual site posted and not the comments.

*to get to comments, depress the post for 2 seconds
sounds like the Not-Invented-Here anti-pattern:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Invented_Here
Can't wait to see that new iPhone also if Tim Cook could match the level of how Steve Jobs presents Apple products on his keynotes.
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Not just you -- that was totally the idea. Nothing says 'hacker' like that particular shade of orange. It also helps because I made this site for the HN community (for the most part, figured only you guys would understand it). What better way to identify with my fellow HNers?
Earlier, I read a pretty interesting mozilla post about the problem with non-AMO addons.

> it was quite eye-opening when I learned that only 25% of the 600 million add-ons in use every day in Firefox 4 and later are active on AMO.

http://blog.fligtar.com/2011/09/26/add-on-compatibility-prog...
Funny, one look at the name made my cringe and shudder :)

I like how something as simple as a purposely misspelled name can elicit such differing reactions in the (esp. hacker??) community.
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3. Now run the antivirus scan on this myfile.com file.

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You can also place the myfile.com file in a ZIP or RAR file and run a scan on it so as to ensure whether your antivirus can detect the test string in the compressed archive. Any antivirus when scanning this file will respond exactly as it will do for a genuine virus/malicious code. This test will cause no damage to your computer even though the antivirus will flag it as a malicious script. Hence it is the safest method to test the proper functioning of any antivirus.
I just have to keep away from this site...I am just going to pretend this is a dream and it doesn't really exist.

Otherwise I will spend so much money and so much time playing with the awesome things there that I will end up broke and unemployed in under a year.
Just an "observation".

You would have to ask the DOJ about anything else.
See http://www.w2lessons.com/2011/04/economics-of-dropbox.html and HN discussion http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2470263
Thanks, very informative. (And depressing.)
Wasn't Ruby invented in Japan?
I guess most of my beef is with "You're Cuking It Wrong" for giving such a poor example, which I think only furthers your point that we tend to develop bad code with cucumber and then tell clients that this is how they should be communicating.

I've seen this with developers who are trying to practice TDD with cucumber features, and so they _engineer_ the feature as well as the steps, often in a DRY effort, and we end up with this creature that's neither a good scenario nor good code.

I use cucumber because I feel a good feature conveys enough of the business value (the why behind the feature) to guide development decisions, while leaving development/ui/ux teams to autonomously determine the _how_, and at the same time conveying objective acceptance tests. This communication gap between requirements and specification has always plagued engineering, so I find the user story a nice compromise for web apps. This compromise is only effective, however, when the communication channel is there, and as you point out in your post, it often isn't.

I'm curious what your thoughts are in terms of bridging this gap so that developers build what the product owner has in mind. It's one thing when everyone involved is a great communicator, but how do you play the game when, for example, you have a client who says something like, "As an admin, I want a button in the upper left corner, so I can click it and be brought to a list of posts"?
Kind words ;)

Glad you found the stuff there so interesting!
Perhaps a simple layer between English "force multipliers" and Japanese speakers would prove to be a good solution?

Ideally, you would probably want the Japanese programmers using the exact same frameworks as the rest of the world- reinventing Python in Japanese would boil down to duplicated and thus most likely wasted effort.
Has solar reached a point where further price declines are not highly likely? If not, then most people I've talked to would hold off on going this route.

If prices will decline significantly in a year, then it would make sense to wait and deploy solar systems until further price declines are unlikely.
They claim that it's not what others are doing, but coffeescript is doing it, and it's quite possible that ECMAScript will get it in the future.
That sounds like a cloverleaf interchange... Once a very popular choice to build because it only requires building one bridge, now less common because of that problem and because they use land very inefficiently.
Quoting from the post:

I hear the weeaboos across the world now screaming “what about Ruby!”, but Ruby just proves the point. A Mormon Japanese dude (read: English literate, world-focused, non-Otaku, non-loner mindset) coupled with an excellent framework that gained fame world-wide (Rails). It’s nice that there are great Japanese Rubyists but they are not responsible for the popularity of the language.

The Japanese in question is this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumoto .
Consider how many hours of productivity where wasted watching TextMate block the UI thread all the time. I've probably wasted hours in the project-wide search alone. The lost time vastly exceeds $60.
Look up "Dr. Michael Burry" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Burry) -- he's famous for having done it by foreseeing the housing crisis.

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The point that parent is trying to make is, emacs and vim are free. emacs and vim are each much much more advanced editors than textmate.

I tend to agree. Also, the textmate 2 debacle shows the inherent weakness in basing a large part of your productivity on closed source software. What if textmate 2 never came out? What if textmate didn't work on OSX 10.9, or what if in 5 years OSX is no longer a reasonable platform to develop on at all? I know that Emacs will be compiled wherever I land, and that all my extensions and configuration will go with me.

It's foolish to lock yourself in to a specific vendor for something as important as an editor (if you are a programmer). Feel free to be foolish, it's your right, but it is foolish.
update: An older Cliff Moon's talk about polyglot systems (Erlang and Scala) is available at http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Building-Polyglot-Systems...

Disclaimer: in spite of thinking that Akka is a very cool framework, I think it can quickly become something like Spring, that is, a humongous framework that tries to solve everybody's problems.
Why can't I verify my vote?

Get a print out, then go online, punch in my number and confirm my vote.

Wouldn't this solve a lot of problems? Of course not everyone would confirm their vote, but I am sure the math can be done to see if everything checks out. Just like exit polls.
> Dude's running a business, not a charity.

So everyone should give him more money than he originally agreed to take to provide a product? Sounds like an, uh, donation.
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I think Alan could make money writing a book about the development of TextMate 2.0. I'm curious what happened and what lessons were learned.
Not true. It is right twice a day. ;)
There's no "loophole" - but the US tax code doesn't all you as a homeowner to use the accelerated depreciation deduction the way a third party for-profit business can if they own the system and lease it to you or sell you the power it produces.
It's a known problem to preannounce next generation products. Once you announce that the next generation is coming out soon, the value of the current version is discounted in people's minds. Hm, should I buy the 2011 model now, or wait a couple months for the 2012 model. The problem is when, unlike car models, the 2012 model doesn't come out when one expected and is indefinitely delayed. This can put a company in a position where sales dramatically slow down because people are waiting for the imminent next release, but the release is not forthcoming. More than one company has gone under in this conundrum. The solution to extricate oneself from the mess is to announce that the next version is free for all purchasers of the current one. Then people waiting for the next version will say hey why not I will get the current one while I am waiting rather than wait. These people only purchased because they were assured they were really buying the next version, and the current one was to tide them over. It is similar to when you buy a car and it is delayed so the dealer gives you a loaner car until it arrives. Customers would be quite disappointed, having bought a car and lent a loaner, to find that the dealer felt the loaner was good enough for them and if they want the car they bought they should pay a second time.
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I agree with your math but disagree with your conclusion :)

this is why Google is funding it -- getting an 11% return is great if you have giant piles of cash sitting around doing nothing. Those margins become substantially thinner if your cost of capital is 7%, 8%, 12%, etc.

edit to add:
BTW, there's some great research that suggests when people "do the math" and figure out how much energy-efficiency/renewable energy technology will save, that they usually require ROI's of 50-100% -- i.e., "if your fluorescent bulbs/solar panels/low-flow shower head won't pay for itself within a year, i won't bother". It's sad, but it's a real obstacle.
Residential is the most profitable part of the solar market because residential rates are by far the highest, so your PPA or lease revenue, even at a discount to grid, is still fairly high. Sure it costs more to install residential than commercial or utility scale, but the higher revenue more than offsets this. Also all PPA or leases are long term arrangements where the provider includes an escalator of at least 2% a year. If utility rates don't rise at least that fast, the long term contract is a bad deal for the buyer.
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It seems so silly. Apparently, you could come to the US to scope out the requirements, but you would have to do the actual work outside the US. The US doesn't want you here for 2 months, staying in one of our hotels, buying groceries, going to restaurants, or buying our gas. That might actually stimulate our economy.
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Great site! Congrats on launching!

And from the comments, I suppose some of the next few features you may want to add would be:
1. a way for users to recommend products
2. a way for users to LIKE and DISCUSS products
There is a difference between NIH and loosing 3 months a year translating documentation. How much time would you loose if 100% of ruby documentation was written in Japanese, and any question you had you had translate to Japanese to get it answered then translate the answer back to your native language?
An evenly-weighted average over each student's separate score bakes in a lack of collaboration or competitive advantage. The most outstanding "producer" was mathematically barred from compensating for even two poor ones, much less giving them assistance. This wasn't socialism, but communism (imposed across a wing of prisoner's dilemma cells), and the author of such a piece ought to know the difference.
I use ZH to keep my pulse on the market and HN to learn tech market fundamentals.
Damn I should of applied for the grant. I use a similar system to kill fruit flys around my various fruit trees.

Quick How-to

1. Cut 600ml bottle.

2. Invert top into opening (see pic).

3. Tape with red and yellow (i read somewhere that fruit flys are attracted to it)

4. Fill with something 'sweet', some honey or even apple cider vinegar.

5. Add a dash of detergent. (maybe some white oil)

6. Hang on fruit tree near fruit.

The flys go in, they land on the mixture, detergent sticks to them and they drown.

I have never seen a bee in there.

http://imgur.com/EcyZM
It's cultural -- there is excessive NIH in Japanese corporate culture. They see using a framework as showing some sort of weakness. Managers are rewarded for reinventing the wheel.
Thank you! Feels good.

1. Absolutely. I've been getting great suggestions through multiple channels (in this thread, through Twitter, my personal email, etc.). It would be great if visitors could suggest something right on the site.

2. That would be ideal. I might end up creating a comment system similar to the one on HN. Something barebones that just works. I would very much like to add some interactivity to the site.
Dude, awesome!

- I would suggest feeding in some of the dev kits from Digikey.
The Parallax devices are pretty spiffy, as is the XMOS XCore.

- What about a magstripe reader?

- Include a Lisp book... On Lisp or perhaps Practical Common Lisp? ;)
i dont get it, whats so special about stats ?
dont al engineers take a stats class and then end up not using most of the concepts ?
Also OT, but, as a PC guy who LOVES EditPlus, is Textmate similar in features?
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Cool!

And I think the same backend could be used to do readability checks for documents, website copy and other stuff in general as well.

That might be more useful imho.
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Just present an optional payment screen, maybe a pay as much as you want scheme, to those who are upgrading.

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You need to enter the following in the test file

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

ie ignore the "EICAR Test code" bit.

Anyone familiar with disassembly want to give a quick breakdown of what the code does? Never mind, wikipedia has a handy link to exactly that:

http://thestarman.pcministry.com/asm/eicar/eicarcom.html
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I'm not sure if this is related but...

I remember when the PS3 was first shown at E3 many years ago, one of the big selling points that Sony was advertising was how difficult it was to program for it. They happily extolled the fact that it would be a 10 year platform because that's how long it would take programmers to learn how to program for it.

Meanwhile, some big 3D devs like John Carmack were talking about how nice it was to develop for the XBox 360 because everything felt so familiar and MS already had a mature toolset available for people to use.

I don't know if this dichotomy is a reflection of the blog post or more a reflection of the games industry at that time.
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Yes, Ruby (programming language) was, but Rails (a force-multiplying framework) wasn't. Also, anyone can correct me if I'm wrong, but my observation was that Rails adoption was not nearly as strong among Japanese Rubyist as it was in other places.
It's not so much 'junk data' because it isn't perceived as data in the first place. It is still a good design decision because someone used to Fahrenheit wouldn't like seeing it was freezing outside, nor someone used to Celsius that it was boiling.
Great ideas! Thanks for contributing -- I hadn't thought of that. And yes. I think the site is going to need a Lisp book. Possibly Haskell as well. I want to keep the normals off there as long as possible. ;)
The part you are missing is how do you get such an obviously fraudulent company listed in the first place?
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I'd like to hear more about the Trilithium Platform, Sony's internal Javascript engine that has access to its 8 cores. This is the kind of stuff that'll make people take JS applications more seriously.
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Yep. You only have to download the update if you don't want to wait the up to 8 hours before your browser pings the update server and discovers there's an update.
what OS? what extensions do you have installed? I'm very interested in your freezes. can you say more?
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Nope, it was a big deal both times. This is confirmation bias on your part, simple as that.
Gladly clicked "yes" to send Mozilla memory usage. Hope that helps them speed it up on OSX!
Yes, that's correct. Ruby is much more widely known that Rails, although I have the feeling that is changing.

A few years ago Cookpad (http://cookpad.com/), a Japanese recipe site with millions of users, switched to Rails. That may be contributing to a change in awareness locally.
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Indeed....

However, any kind of shorting strategy involves not just an expectation that the market will go down some time in the future but instead requires that you say exactly when.

Especially, if the stock that you are short begins rises, you may be forced to buy back the stock you've sold - the traditional "short squeeze".
http://wiki.fool.com/Short_squeeze

Basically, playing to a down market is inherently harder than playing to an up market. It can be done but it is harder. Just another way the video is full-of-shit as many folks have mentioned.
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This is the problem with kids these days.

We can argue as much as we can about generational differences. These days you can do a lot of things without knowing much about it before hand. That's the kind of advantage internet offers you these days.

If a person is unable to leverage this to his advantage, I feel sorry for him. And I see no reason why others shouldn't do this just because he can't.
I turned it up when I was looking for a git plugin, but decided that I didn't quite like its design decisions. In Sublime it feels like doing as much as possible to take advantage of the command palette and fuzzy search is the way to go.