skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmmm ... I hadn't really thought about it before, but it shouldn't be too hard to turn Twitter into a torrent tracker. This exercise is left to the reader ;)
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OpenMarket are looking for Java developers to work on mobile messaging/payments platforms.
We offer hard problems, lots of autonomy, an engineering driven culture and full control over product delivery from design through to deployment.
See http://www.mxtelecom.com/uk/careers/roles/softdev for more details or contact me directly at neil.johnson //at// openmarket.com
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Pretty easy
Why Buy Online?

* The reason that we can offer a lower price than retail store because:
* We do not have any cost on store rental
* Some of the items do not come with fancy packaging
* The lower the cost the more savings to customers

Australia Based

* All items dispatched from Melbourne CBD every business day
* Australian Registered Business
* Money Order, Bank Deposit, Cheque, Credit card and PayPal Accepted
* Payment can be made via commonwealth bank branch even you do not have any bank accounts
* All items in Stock
Taxes helps the poor at the cost of the rich. Good deal if you ask me
I would just like to throw in that the major obstacle to my finding an editor on Mac OS X has been the pricetag involved with most of the more popular editors. Sure, $60 isn't much if you already have a stable programming job, but I am a college student (which is financially the exact opposite of a stable programming job), and as a college student I am generally highly adverse to paying for things (especially software, since I "grew up" as a programmer among Linux and OSS).

That said, TextWrangler is a decent option if you aren't in the mood to spend money. The only thing I miss about other editors from TextWrangler is an actual file browser that works like Gedit's instead of "you can only have one file open from the file browser at once."
Agree with the conclusion. I used TextMate for a while. Then I came to Sublime Text 2 and think it's the best editor ever.
Could anyone explain to me the trend to write HTML in some other markup syntax? I write HTML in HTML. Going from one markup language to another seems like an extra unnecessary prereq.
What is so bad about the C standard library? What would you change?

I find it lacking a lot of essential features -- can you believe strdup isn't part of the C standard? -- but simplicity and minimalism has always been C's strongest point.
Every upvote for this article is someone who disagrees. You don't have to stand on a soapbox each time you click on "flag"
Archlinux.. Everytime I re-install it and see "make command not found" is a priceless moment for me. You really build your own OS over time.. installing only what you need. Everything is kept simple (simple as in there's not 10 levels of abstraction to change a keybinding or whatever). Maybe the most important thing about arch is the package manager (pacman); it's simply great.
Also, I think you mean "anyway".

You object to his dialect, but not to his sentence fragment? :) There are some interesting discussions on "anyway", "anyways" and "anywise" out there, but all three forms have been around for centuries.
Oh, something great about Arch also is the documentation. It's awesome; the best I've seen so far.
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Shares owned by people outside the US would not pay any capital gain to the US gov on any dividends.
now this it is probably time to look for a distribution that doesn't think of it's users as mindless drones easily distracted by empty shiny things

Well it.... did... make it to the Top spot on...ummm.. HN....

Oh well, I always thought archlinux has a interesting philosophy of simplicity and I also like rolling releases
The Sublime Text 2 developer is wonderfully responsive. I've emailed suggestions twice and they were both implemented and in short order.

I was disappointed that discussions on the Mac-centric 5by5 podcast network framed BBEdit as the only place to go from TextMate. Granted, BBEdit has a history of not being abandoned, but it's clearly near the end of its evolution while bright new things like Sublime are blazing forward.
This is true, but a live one in the hand may be worth more than $500K in the bank. It all depends on your own estimation of the probability of eventual success, and your ability to accurately make that estimation in the first place.
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It is faded, but it needs to fade more.
Interesting to see how everyone uses a completely different set of apps
Lack of real string type. String manipulation is a pain and you have to allocate everything by yourself which result in inefficient and dangerous code.
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Markdown is wonderful for simple documents often read in plain text.
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> I emailed the buyer as well and he's decided to pay again for the previous transaction ;)

That alone should be enough for PayPal to issue apologies all around. Good luck with that.
All the Apps are great here but be sure to check out CallTrack - it adds an event to your Google calendar for every phone call you make or get with numbers and length.
> operating system implementation of POSIX, or dynamic library loading, all the subtle things with different binaries formats, and so forth.

That is the real pain point. I embed Spidermonkey on not just Linux, but also Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX. While they are all "POSIX", they all have their peculiar issues which make it harder to dev with or write OSS. Autoconf, while hardly the best option, usually allows enough tweaking to get by in these strange worlds. Solaris is usually the nicest of the pack, while AIX is usually the odd ball. Submitting patches to OSS is easy enough to support these systems most of the time, but the annoying part is that things usually regress again quickly and so you're left constantly bug-fixing when things should "just work". Part of the mess could be avoided if vendors all rallied around GCC/Clang/gdb and redirected their compiler efforts to optimizing open compilers for their hardware. Maybe POSIX needs to evolve faster -- if you view an autoconf test for something as an inconsistency that POSIX could standardize away.

EDIT: Here's a perfect example of something which should be "easy" and standard in POSIX. Getting the stack base address of your process. (search for XP_UNIX)

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/90575e23ea93/js/s...
Only if you click on it [link], then it gets faded because it's been visited.

HN uses a <font> tag in the source, which is overridden by the css for links. I reckon a <span> tag with inline css would work better.
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They have little reason to suck it up and pay these taxes. It's easy to book of shore 'profits' and with an occational tax holiday there is huge incentive to do so. Just create a a 'paperclip' in an offshore company and bill the US company 1billion for it and you get to avoid paying taxes what joy. Then wait a few years and bring that money home on a semi regular holiday.

PS: Or we could say on Dec 31 there will be a one time 50% tax on any money in offshore accounts and you can clean up this mess real quick with them quickly moving all that money back home.
> Though the studies found that money brought home in 2004 ended up benefiting a narrow set of shareholders, support is growing in Congress for the tax holiday as companies expand their roster of lobbyists.

It's really sad how U.S. government policy is now so openly for sale to the highest bidder.
I have been using 11.04 on my home machine and it feels very solid if rough around the edges. Only problem I had was with FontForge crashing under Unity and working fine with Gnome classic.
Do I have to develop for a niche market?
I've used a few web analytics packages over the years, and they've all been a pain to work with. I want to develop a system that's dead-simple to use/install. The issue, though, is that the more I read about forming a startup, the more I hear people say that I must develop for a niche market if I want to succeed.

Would you say that "really simple web analytics" has a much higher chance of failure than say something like "really simple web analytics for physical therapists"? Is it always the case that "X for everyone" will always have a much harder chance of becoming profitable as opposed to "X for Y profession"?
Dyn.js - invokedynamic-based javascript implementation for the JVM
Seriously, if you want value of money, learn vim or emacs, they kick any $60 worth editors.
Even in the documentation department?
I purchased my Civic hybrid as insurance. At the time, gas was $4.65/gal, so I decided to take the chance. Turns out that it was the peak in 2008. You win some, you lose some. The Civic is still a nice low maintenance car with a 10 year, 100k mile battery warranty.

When we needed a second car last year, I went for a VW Jetta TDI, and it has been a very good decision. The car averages 34 MPG with my mixed highway and arterial road commute.
I'm running a Samsung Galaxy S2 that I've rooted. Here's my most commonly used applications, all of which I recommend:

* Smart Keyboard Pro: https://market.android.com/details?id=net.cdeguet.smartkeybo... -- Allows me to use a Dvorak keyboard on the phone, but even if you don't use Dvorak it's still a great purchase. It has a lot of options to make your typing more efficient that the stock keyboard doesn't have.

* The Kindle app to read books. Now I mostly use it to read .mobi files I've downloaded instead of buying things at the Amazon store, for which it works brilliantly. I wish it allowed copy/pasting of text though.

Google Reader for RSS/Atom

* GMail application for GMail.

* The stock Mail application for work IMAP, although I'll test out K-9 mentioned in this thread

* ColorNote for taking notes / shopping lists.

* live logcat for the novelty of having a l33t boot sequence (and getting rid of that annoying Samsung boot-up sound): https://market.android.com/details?id=eu.chainfire.livelogca...

* Root Explorer to manage root-only files.

* Skype to make video calls

* ConnectBot to ssh from the phone, although I haven't found out how to enable landscape mode in it, which is annoying.

* Listen for podcasts, although I haven't found out how to make it auto-download say the last 3 podcasts of everything I subscribe to.

* BBC News and Al Jazeera video for some world news

* Gh4a to browse GitHub

* AdFree to block spam

* Screenshot to take screenshots

* WolframAlpha for any sort of conversion / math queries.

* A PushUp / SitUp / Squats app (all separate apps) for managed stationary exercise. Although I'd like to find something that I could turn on and would give me instructions for a general N-minute workout that could be done at home.

Things I wish I didn't have to use, or don't know how to do, but haven't found out how to replace / do:

* The default Samsung camera application. There's no way to turn off the shutter noise on it, and it'll plain refuse to take pictures if the battery is low.

* The default task switcher, which often doesn't list the application I've just switched from (even though it's still open)

* The default system clipboard which doesn't seem to have a history / search feature like Emacs's kill ring.

* Having the default Samsung apps installed on the phone. I tried to use Titanium Backup PRO but it didn't work for removing or freezing them.

* Having something like Gesture search which searches across the entire phone but doesn't require me to draw on the screen, I just want to type a query.

* Sometimes the phone will go into some sort of voice command mode. I haven't found out how to disable it.

Lastly I plan to write an application that hooks into the "Share" handler for text/plain content and extracts the content of the clipboard, scans it for a URL, and pastes that to the clipboard.

I've found that quite a few apps have a "Share" functionality, but no "copy the URL of what I'm looking at to the clipboard", and I haven't found any existing app that works around this.
http://ida.dk/english/comeworkandliveindenmark/livingindenma...

Yeah it does seem like a good deal. If the government can indeed make good on these services, I think that is good.
I agree. As someone who has had their business PayPal account frozen and eventually (permanently) disabled, I can tell you that you'll get no response from them that will give you closure.

PayPal is a silly, silly business. You only stand to drive up your blood pressure if you go back-and-forth with them. You'll send passionate pleas for an explanation, only to be met with robotic responses.

Frustrating does not begin to describe it.

Move on and find another processor if you want closure.
Actually, our MBA completely botched the risk portion of his calculations, which are built on a completely incorrect premise. The 20% probability of getting $2.5M does not translate to 100% probability of getting 20% of that amount, i.e. $500k.

He wrote: "Let's see how you, the founder, should make out if successful." This means that the whole scenario depends on the plan succeeding, so his calculating the risk-adjusted return is incorrect. If successful, the founder will get $2.5M; if not, he'll get anything from 0 to that amount. Also, there is a non-zero chance that the company will be worth $100M after three years; shouldn't that be included too?
TRue. Add to that, reality is a distribution of outcomes, not just a single percent chance. Nobody's mentioning the 'tail of the curve' where you make $1B in 7 years. And everything in between. Integrate P(evt)*Yield(evt) over all outcomes for a real valuation.
Where is the link to Ubuntu website?
Or you know, (re)install linux and use any of the great text editors available on that platform. I think linux is the best platform for CS types in college.
More fun would be if the "suspect" reports it to the local police, who end up running a sting operation on what only later they find out is the FBI.

(Which happened in an episode of the TV show "Benson." I feel old now. :) )
I use 10.04 LTS on work machines (by which I mean, machines at my workplace) simply because things stay the same on it and I'm not going to get calls saying "this huge colourful bar has appeared on the left of my screen, what on earth is it, and furthermore where on earth is my Thunderbird menu bar?". We have a lot of older users who are not especially computer-literate, so an interface that doesn't change is valuable to us.

The machines are also fairly ageing, and don't support the composited desktop. I did test Ubuntu 11.10 beta on one, but it was so slow (with what I assume was Unity 2D) that it would be unusable for day-to-day work. All we use at work are Chrome, Thunderbird, OpenOffice and Audacity - why would we need Unity? Why can't we turn it off?

For me, Ubuntu definitely peaked at 10.04 and I'm going to be looking elsewhere in the near future.
> I can name ten(s) of cities in the United States that absolutely die the moment 5-6pm strike, but were couriered money in by suburbanites during the day and would have zero infrastructure otherwise.

Citation please.

(This should be interesting.)
Not to Godwin the conversation, but I'm guessing that the OP was referring to Hitler's pre WWII rise to power.
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There is a This American Life episode about this with two stories about this FBI strategy. The weapons provided in both cases were inert.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/387/a...

http://www.fbi.gov/newyork/press-releases/2010/nyfo101810.ht...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemant_Lakhani
I've been on a Mac a few years and tried a few editors, so (for what it's worth) here's my 2c. Main use case is scripting and Rails development.

Smultron: Used this a bit. not bad but I didn't really take to it. Missing a number of features

Vi: still use it regularly, but I don't have much skill with it. Extra handy for quick editing of a single file (I use the command line a lot so vi is convenient)

Aquamacs/Emacs: Gave this a shot but really had no idea how to use it. Gave up in the end

Netbeans: Been using this for years and found it mostly the best fir for my needs. Looked around when Orace took it over and ended up with...

Rubymine: Excellent. Great fit for me, although I'm still on 3.1 as the newer releases run like molasses on my aging macbook. It's a bit heavyweight, but it has a ton of really useful features.

Kod: Showed great promise as a Scite replacement but seems to have been abandoned. (Scite was what I used in Windows for years. fantastic once you change the default fonts)

Texmate: Used the demo, couldn't see what it offered over netbeans

GEdit: Used this all the time in Linux and was surprised to find it runs fine out of the box on the Mac! Great for reading extra large files like long logs etc.

Textwrangler: For some reason I really can't get to liking this. I give it a shot again every now and then but it just doesn't seem to work the way I do

Coda: Looks lovely but I just couldn't get over the price.
While it's taken flack for Gnome Shell, I switched to Fedora when Unity was coming down the pike and have been very happy (and actually like Gnome Shell).

And the Gnome people seem to have gotten at least some of the message gurkendoktor mentions in another thread - they have screenshots of the core features of the product in action and videos showing how different UI flows work.
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> I don't get why the fact that TDD drives good design is a bad thing.

TDD does not in and of itself lead to good design.
Any code can be inefficient if performance wasn't a concern while writing it. I'd say in that case C string manipulation is more efficient by design because you see how many times you are copying something around. When things are abstracted away in something like std::string then you can wind up with code that creates multiple unnecessary copies by accident (e.g. forgetting a '&' to take a reference). Yes, it is more dangerous, but that can be a tradeoff with performance. For example, assume you have a std::hash_map<std::string, int>. There is no way to insert into this without one string copy (C++11 changes this to make zero-copy possible).
I don't consider paying taxes to a bloated and inefficient government to be the "common good".
Mmm, I don't know. I'm going to vote for ignorant management.
Yes. I don't have many specific complaints with Google Search. However, as companies get larger they often look "upward" at upper management and investors instead of looking "downward" at their customers. What I mean by this is they are often more concerned with pleasing their bosses, meeting revenue goals for investors, and generally not rocking the boat. This presents a great opportunity for small companies to disrupt the market.

You should definitely read "Seeing What's Next" by Clayton Christensen to get a better idea of where the weaknesses can be found in companies that dominate the market. A focus on semantic search certainly sounds like it could be a good area for a new entrant to gain some ground. Good luck!
Mass production and magnification is a qualitative change.

Neal Stephenson knows better than he shows in this article.

The
>>There's no way to turn off the shutter noise on it,

Use root explorer to find the sound files (sorry I can't remember where they are off the top of my head)
rename them or just delete them and restart your phone.

You need make sure you get all the focus/shutter files.
FWIW: I use XCode for all Objective-C development, TextMate for almost everything else, and BBEdit to open large files (IMO the single biggest area of weakness for TextMate). I've tried other editors, but 3 covers everything I need.
I find it significantly quicker to write/edit the first draft in Markdown, then switch to HTML for final tweaks and formatting.

Do others keep their final versions in Markdown?
Given the population sizes on Google and Facebook, and the sheer number of people in the UK who have been objecting the National ID card schemes, then a very significant portion of the latter's population is on social media.
How many of these phones are going to get a patch or updated firmware to fix this problem?

I'm going to guess either very few or none, as most people won't notice/care about this issue, and HTC isn't making any money off supplying updates.

Imagine if Microsoft forced Dell, HP, etc. to handle software security and updates on Windows for PC's they've already sold - it would either never happen or not happen correctly. Swap the players and that's where Android is today.

(yes, I know about alternate firmware - how many non-geeks are capable of using it and have devices that don't have technological blocks like signed bootloaders to prevent it?)
Like vim and emacs.
facebook messenger, dropbox, chrome to phone, alogcat.

incidentally the stock galaxy s phone app does allow me to tun off the shuttet.

also run my own app, a live wallpaper water simulaytion linked to online weather. com.heyesjones.rainwallpaper
As long as you've read up on the subject beforehand, their forums are also really helpful. A few times, I've asked a question on the Ubuntu forums and been met with dead air, but while the people on the Arch site can be a little short with people who ask questions before searching and reading, if you obviously have, they're more than helpful.
> and is probably just a wrapper on apt-get

Not at all.

Juju is for quickly assembling servers or clusters on AWS or any OpenStack-compatible platform. The charms are what you use to define what the machines provide and what they require to work in order to let juju assemble the whole thing for you. I was with some of the guys working on it until yesterday, at the PythonBrasil conference. They made a couple presentations on it.
"When logic clouds reason"

Lets take this up a notch.
If a open a startup today, statistically my chances of a $500K exit in two years (like his) are pretty slim. Lets say 20% ?

So, if I go for it I have a projected $50K/year for next two years. Or, I can go work somewhere and get $100K/year.

Ergo, starting a startup is foolish.

Anyone hiring ?
The title of the article should be "Google, Apple now powerful enough to hold the entire world to ransom". Given the numbers in the article, that's ~$520 billion of tax revenues they're withholding from the state, and ~$1.5 trillion of liquidity they're withdrawing from Ireland or wherever (someone check the numbers?).

The thing going for the US is that it's still a good place to spend that money, otherwise they wouldn't be contemplating repatriation in the first place.

Arguably, if these companies steadfastly hold on and do not repatriate their funds without a tax holiday, their shareholders should punish them for only making imaginary money... not that it'll hurt them in a real way.

If the US were to grant this tax holiday, they should've set a 0% (or 5.25% or whatever) corporate tax rate to begin with. At least it'll be fair to everyone.
Since vim and emacs run fine on OS X, do you mean GUI ones? I think Linux is the worst platform in terms of GUI experience.
Well, I'm really happy they managed to convict him to no less than 47 years in prison, I'm sure that the United States is much safer now.

For an encore they ought to lock up everybody else, that way you can be sure that you've caught all the terrorists too.