skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assembla isn't free for closed-source projects (http://www.assembla.com/plans?locale=en) unless there's a hidden plan. Apparently they made the change back in 2008 (http://blog.assembla.com/assemblablog/tabid/12618/bid/6986/R...), but this article was written today which is confusing. Am I missing something?

BitBucket (http://bitbucket.org) went free for private repositories a while back and recently added git support. That might be a better alternative today.
What's the advantage over insecticide treated nets? I see a few drawbacks: it requires energy to run, surely costs a lot more, and doesn't kill the mosquitos.
I have 20 years of experience in C++. C++ makes me more productive.

If I understand correctly, Linus is saying something I agree with: a bad programmer using C++ will write code that is harder to maintain than code written by a bad programmer using C.

Bjarne Stroustrup once said, "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off."

In his FAQ, he expands on this point: "What people tend to miss, is that what I said there about C++ is to a varying extent true for all powerful languages. As you protect people from simple dangers, they get themselves into new and less obvious problems. Someone who avoids the simple problems may simply be heading for a not-so-simple one. One problem with very supporting and protective environments is that the hard problems may be discovered too late or be too hard to remedy once discovered. Also, a rare problem is harder to find than a frequent one because you don't suspect it."

In my view, Linus is agreeing with BS.
A startup business is supposed to make money. Don't get caught up in the "oh, we'll worry about revenues later" nonsense.

If you have no idea how your startup will make money, get the job at Apple.
I wish I could upvote you even more - this is _exactly_ my criticism with the new Reader. The experience of sharing links has essentially split into two parts: I can share items with my friends from Reader to G+, but if I want to see anything my friends have shared (or if they want to see my posts), we have to go to G+. It's not cohesive anymore.

If they just added a place where you could view other people's posts in Reader, that'd be perfect. Let it pull from a Circle or something and that's it.
That's funny. I had the opposite problem with my Motorola Droid. The 4 buttons were too bright and distracting from the screen. I found an app for rooted devices that turns off the button backlights, which is fine, because I memorized the positions: back, menu, home, search.
Exactly. Plus, it reduces the cost of next day shipping dramatically.
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U.S. Report Cites 'Persistent' Chinese, Russian Spying for Economic Gain
What metrics did you use?
Most of all, I'm happiest the world is moving forward to recognizing and rewarding more modern and updated browsers with their usage, whatever those might be.

IE wise, I'm a fan of not having to code around the weak links. Currently, I use enough standard libraries not to worry about IE too much. Still, between different IE versions, I even have to deal with bugs
only specific to 6,7,8 which for some reason don't show up in other browsers.

The ability to use cutting edge stuff in modern browsers does get limited programming around the weakest links (IE) instead of the strongest.

0.02 :)
Let me clarify: I'm not Black. ;) He was just making an observation, like bad weather.

(And by the way, I understood Grammaton above to be speaking of racist attitudes, not institutional racism. Two different things. People overfocus on attitudes and slurs; but I don't wish to sidetrack from the more important issue of institutional racism.)
Technology and Happiness [Pt. 1] | mcgvr
> I gave my best effort to achieve .... And someone has noticed!

Perhaps if your campaign page had some verbiage about this font's special features and how it is really different than others, it would help more people to notice?
That's why I said "reimplementing" not "implementing": "/bin/true" script and "true" built-in being examples.
yes. so if you like that privacy, don't this system. some people don't mind telling the people at their coffee shop what their name is, and they can use this.
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Since that's your only feature, I would assume that's what he's talking about. Opera does not support html5 drag & drop.

Atlassian uses Google Gears as an alternative for browsers that don't support it, and I think there are other tricks to support it, but I'm not sure.

Perhaps browser feature detection would be in order, if you're not already doing this?
I can't tell if you are being funny or serious.

It doesn't sound like they actually understand why it works. I hear what you are saying, but evolution and mutations have their limit. What if this is just as lethal as ionizing radiation for them?
The Conversationalist
Recursion abuse!
The problem I have it that C-x-b defaults to jumping back to the previous buffer. So I can just bang C-x-b<RET> and be back to where I was before. I can't find the same thing with vim.

It's a very rare use case for me to want to roll through all the open buffers.
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What part of this post sounds like bile and vitriol to you? I t reads to me like a clinical analysis, not an emotional reaction.
This is my intuition too. The iPhone model is a single app page swimming in a top-level sea with others. For some things, that's fine. But for many apps (browsers are obvious, but also games that have splash menus, anything with a folder-like hierarchy, etc...) there is a clear and obvious "back" metaphor. And iOS just doesn't do back.

That's not an excuse for Android apps that use it inconsistently obviously (though the framework is pretty good about making sure obvious implementations do the obvious thing). But on the whole I think it's a very good feature.

Likewise, "menu" is something that almost everything has and probably deserves a hardware button (or at least a button with a persistent location and presentation -- the Galaxy Nexus apparently has no "hardware" buttons outside the touchscreen).

The "search" button that so many Android phone have, on the other hand, is completely beyond me. Ridiculous.
I always write "int* foo", so you're not alone. I also prefer

{
else
}

too.
Marla Singer from Fight Club. Some people say that she does not exist. I say she does...
It looks like the author was talking about this: http://offers.assembla.com/free-git-hosting/

I'm not sure why he/she didn't just link straight to that page. I also have to vouch for bitbucket's awesomeness though. Their tools might not be quite as fancy as the competitors, but they're slowly improving.

Also, Atlassian's academic license is hard to beat: http://www.atlassian.com/software/views/bitbucket-academic-l...

You basically get their most expensive plan for free if you're a student. They do the same thing for nonprofits I believe.
I certainly do - it's easier for me to concentrate on what I'm good at, and just freaking go to the store and buy a laser mosquito barrier.
Except 112-0122 does not represent a valid US 7-digit phone number, because it starts with a 1, and local numbers can only start with 2-9. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NANP.
For applications and frameworks, other languages provide the abstractions in a less difficult to wrangle fashion. Ada is perhaps my favorite example but you actually don't even have to leave the C family -- Objective-C is very pleasant to use in such a role. (No, it's not just an Apple thing, I use it all the time for Linux and cross-platform code.)
Don't mind the haters here. Good luck to you!
Haha, that's really true. I rarely code offline, maybe it's just another umbilical cord that we should be examining.

Between having tethering and generally ubiquitous tethering, we should be good.

I think I want to try getting into VIM again. Is there a good resource site you like, where I can find a decent guide and some pointers on where to find some language dictionaries? Totally off topic but I'd appreciate it.
I'll do it. Thanks for this idea
I tire of having this rant being posted every three months on HN.

Linus is just having a strong reaction, the rant is more than four years old, Linus says nothing interesting about C++ and the same could be said about so many languages that its sad.

Additionally, any post about "this language is teh suxxance" - even when written by someone worth of attention - is generally full of nothing and adds little value to a community.
Sewa Proyektor 5000 Lumens
OK, I'll bite. In this instance, how is the "market" not deciding what he gets?
> how about the general amount of crime committed by said Black men? It is higher per capita, is it not?

It depends on what numbers you look at. In terms of raw imprisonment numbers the plurality of prisoners are serving time for drug and drug-related crimes and those prisoners are overwhelmingly black and Hispanic. However when you look at SAMHSA surveys and other research whites and blacks use & sell drugs at about the same rates.

Looking at violent crime on the other hand (murder in particular) blacks to appear to commit those crimes at higher rates, but in terms of raw numbers, those results are minuscule compared to the number of folks imprisoned every year (something like hundreds, maybe a couple of thousand per year IIRC).

I'm doing this from memory so I can't point you to the exact sources of this information (I'm one of the several thousand Massachusetts residents who lost power last weekend and I'm writing this via smartphone) but it comes from SAMHSA and BJS data (and to a lesser extent UCR although that's not quite as useful for these discussions). If you want citations I can provide them after power is restores on Saturday or Sunday.
The Internet weighs 50 grams
Getting Started with Python - More Advanced Dependencies
I mentioned you offer of a discounted license for all contributors if the font isn't open-sourced, and that offer is explicitly stated on the project page. I'm not doubting your trustworthiness at all!

I believe I've been fair in evaluating your decision to sell on IndieGogo instead of Kickstarter. At the same time, you're going to need 22,000 contributions of $10 to open-source your font. That's a non-trivial number, but you're guaranteed to earn money for your hard work because you posted on IndieGogo.

I wish you the best of luck! I can't afford to help you out, but I'd like to analyze your choice of marketplace so other designers can follow your example.
They plan to symlink /bin -> usr/bin, sbin -> /usr/sbin, and possibly /usr/sbin -> bin, to preserve compatibility with absolute paths. Those symlinks will almost certainly stick around forever.
Web App Performance Solution Tracelytics Raises $600K
Ask HN: What do you think are the possibilities of this app?
At some stage you have probably pondered on what to buy next on iTunes so you looked at the "most downloaded" lists etc. These lists are good but they aren’t the opinions that you value and trust the most!

With this app you select friends from Facebook which you think have good taste and only buy useful, interesting stuff on iTunes. We will then put their apps, music, movies and books into individual leader-boards so you can see what to buy next and make some useful discoveries!

I have been working on this idea and want to get opinions on it.
Is this useful?
Is the value proposition big enough for users to sign up (likely to be Facebook app)?
Are there any features you would like to see?

Thanks for opinions.
Google Barrel Roll
If you're using the free version of Fogbuzz anyway, you may as well use Kiln instead of Assembla. Hg is just as good as git.

I'd go out on a limb and suggest that if you are just working by yourself in pre-release development, don't even bother with a source code control. Use dropbox instead. It's simpler and faster until you get something up and running.

Once you actually need version control (as opposed to glorified backup) then you can switch for little to no cost.
What was the link to the amazing algorithm slides on HN a while back?
I remember looking through these algorithm slides (they were blue) about mazes, and graphs. Does anyone have the link? I tried searching my history and google, but I couldn't find it.
What actually is "outrageous" about those rates is what will ends up in the pocket of the poor sob who will be doing all the work... because it won't be an actual Oracle employee but very likely just some small contractor.

I used to be a consultant working for a contractor for Sun (all big names in consulting do this, however. saves their hr costs) and Sun charged the customer about what you see on that card; the company I was working for, however, would end up getting about or less than half of that.

All Sun was actually doing was providing a "project manager" I never saw and I didn't get remotely the kind of information and access to information that actual Sun techs would get and have. So ultimately they just sold their "good name" and passed on the work and kept the lion's share and when one of the projects went south (nobody effectively got the customer under control), they made sure all their contracts were water-tight and passed all the blame right down to us and we had to pay them back.

Consulting is dirty, dirty business and you'll be swimming with sharks much, much bigger than you when working for the average small, highly effective and flexible IT company. And yes, you will sell your soul more often than you shall like.
US military issues agile and open standards orders after ERP disasters
> It does in Debian, because they actually test that configuration. But you need to keep testing it because it keeps getting broken.

And more and more programs and libraries end up getting moved to /bin, /sbin, and /lib, because udev scripts and other parts of the root filesystem process keep needing more and more functionality. All that for functionality that people don't necessarily care about, and for which people can't seem to provide any useful justification beyond "historical reasons".
What i think about Hacker News comments people and their "way"
What's Googles take on this? Are they for or against automated content creation? Will they be kicking these sites out of search or letting them stay?
Shipping the Google in Google+
It's a joke that Perl has no good tutorials? I think that's what the article is trying to fix!
That might be too much like what he just did: http://blog.friendfeed.com/2008/01/another-new-friendfeeder....

(They sold to Facebook for $50MM)
Not your Grandma's XQuery
Presentation given about XQuery at XML Amsterdam 2011
You can't just hand-wave away market inefficiencies here. The man's fonts are being pirated--does that mean they have an intrinsic value of $0?
Would like to see an example of this - even if it's not all that impressive - applied to some non-data intensive area, i.e. someplace other than reporting (sports, finance, etc).
Tristan Walker's path through Silicon Valley's color barrier
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To be fair, if you look at Soledad O'Brien's track record it is heavy with race focused coverage. It's her bailiwick and if I were Michael Arrington I would have at least been alert to this fact. If a national level reporter with a reputation for covering race related issues comes to you and wants to discuss business incubators you can bet race will be part of, or in fact all of, the topic. Arrington should know better, given his own background.
I don't see her as cynically exploiting the issue, I see her as cynically exploiting Michael Arrington.

The issue at hand is a real one... the argument is how to deal with it. Personally, I think Arrington's arguments are good ones. I tend to agree with him on the overall situation and hope that this incident will result in a nudge in the right direction, with regards to how race in tech should be discussed.
Sweet, thanks! I would very much appreciate if you guys could somehow motivate the great data mining talent on your site to produce tutorials. I would be even willing to pay there for some training course because traditional tutorial providers (Lynda etc) have apparently not yet discovered this as a potential subject.
Because it provides a nice top-level split between /etc (configuration), /usr (package-manager's domain, read-only), /var (persistent read-write data), /home (user data), and /run (temporary runtime data). /usr contains a pile of directories other than /usr/bin and /usr/lib, which shouldn't necessarily spread across /.
Entrepreneurs are cocky jerks
Can anybody else distribute a foo installer, so normal restrictions would not apply?
Can analytics create people who can lead?
First of all this isn't a released feature. Secondly why must it be cross-platform to be useful? If it's mainly for sharing things between Pages, Keynote, and Numbers then there's no point having it on any platform besides iOS and OS X.
Forget Gen Y, just call us Gen Mobile
How to Market Your Product with Free Samples
Basically, Toura Mulberry uses PhoneGap as a wrapper around a "single-page" application that's powered by the Mulberry JavaScript/HTML/CSS framework. The command-line tools in Mulberry help you quickly scaffold the structure, content, and customizations for your app. The "builder" portion of Mulberry takes your content, prepares it to be consumed by the JS/HTML/CSS framework, and places it inside a PhoneGap project template so that it can be "built" for testing and submission to app stores.

This is all explained in a bit more depth here: https://github.com/Toura/mulberry/wiki/An-Overview-of-the-Mu.... Hope this helps :)
Is Subversion Ready for Enterprise Deployment?
I hope they find a large variety of intensities, wavelengths, patterns, etc. and then set all units to slowly vary their parameters in sync with each other over the years, so as bugs get used to old settings, the new ones get them.

Also... sudden gust of wind = mosquito trapped inside my bedroom?
GPUs, low-power pave path to exascale supercomputing
what did you find that is not working?
I know it's a controversial opinion, and I have gotten a lot of criticism, but I'm curious if people agree? I can't imagine what it would be like to be a founder with a "demanding relationship."

What about married founders. Isn't it very important to have an understanding wife?
Seconded. I watched the Enyo presentation and it blew me away- the fact that it might end up in some special level of corporate hell makes me very sad indeed.
Yea, back usually takes me to a cached version of the previous page. Still can't go forward because if that page is refreshed it's also likely expired.

Going all the way to the top and clicking through the pages seems to be the only option.
I saw a presentation on Enyo at CapitolJS, where I also announced that Toura would be open-sourcing Mulberry, and indeed, there are a lot of similarities. I too would like to get some clarity about what HP intends to do with it :)
How exactly does an installer that can write to any location on your disk fit into a restricted AppStore?

Also, does this mean I'm free to distribute my malware installer through the AppStore? After all, it's just an installer.
I'm okay with Perl decreasing in popularity. It's okay for a thing to serve its purpose and then bow out.
I was expecting the finally to be a joke. Apple took two weeks to identify a bug and release a beta version of the fix.
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A Facebook memcached server uses 384 GB of RAM. That's a lot of poke requests.
Not a hacker by any means, but I think any entrepreneur should have the same qualities.

If you are even asking this question, especially for others to decide for you, you should just take the Apple job.

The start-up will only be a success if you KNOW it will. You cant be predisposed to having any doubts. You seem to lack the confidence and determination required to be an entrepreneur. I'm sorry if it seems I am being harsh, but it takes more than an idea to become successful with something like this.
It seems Apple enjoys digging themselves into a PR hole with all these ridiculous lawsuits. A lot of negativity can destroy a man, and it can destroy a company, too. I think they should focus on the positive and constructive things, especially now that Steve is gone, rather than pursue this path.
Which is exactly why Amazon should've bought WebOS. As far as they're concerned, Kindle Fire users buy Kindle apps, not Android apps. Under the cover, Amazon could've picked any platform. At least with WebOS, they control the whole thing.
Amazon must have concluded that people with Kindle hardware would be more likely to buy books than those with who have Prime but an iPad which uses the Kindle, Nook, and iBook stores to name a few.

Maybe they'll loosen that restriction after the holidays when the free Prime trials from the initial round of Kindle Fire sales will have expired, potentially adding many new Prime subscribers.
"Between 1930 and 1967"

You're going to have to do better than citing stats that are 44 years old. All this proves is that 44 years ago, there was a problem, which is not exactly a point of contention among most sentient beings at this point.

"you've made a huge generalization and I'd say that it's your bias speaking (not racism)."

Seriously? These are not obscure statistics I'm talking about here. Here, check this one out:

"As of 2005, statistics show that offending rates for blacks were more than 7 times higher than the rates for whites."

Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#Char...

Or how about:

"These specific facts about the Bell shooting are just a few of the hundreds of thousands of data points that reveal a hard truth: any given violent crime in New York is 13 times more likely to have a black than a white perpetrator. While most black residents are law-abiding and desperately deserve police protection, the incidence of criminal activity among young black males is off the charts."

Taken from http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon2007-04-02hm.html

And that was with five minutes of Googling. I'm not making some wild, off the wall assertion here. This is a well known and exhaustively documented fact.

"I'd say that the situation of blacks in america is directly tied racism, slavery and the like so yes, it is due to racism too."

I figured you would. Slavery ended 150 years ago, so if you want to assert that some 7 generations later it's still having effects, I welcome you to provide data to that effect. This, right here, is the problem in a nutshell - the minute these facts are mentioned, the hue and cry of racism and slavery goes up, and all further thought on the matter stops. The causes of this situation are complex, and reducing them to one dimensional truisms does no one any favors.
Hubris doesn't look good on anyone.
I meant to link to the free plan - yes it's kind of hidden. Must have copied the wrong link.
I don't agree that cross-platform is a requirement. For example, I haven't touched a Windows-only PC in years. Also, Dropbox can't sort out access control precisely because it is cross-platform. That's just one example of many downsides of supporting all major platforms.
Not here (Chrome 15.0.874.106 in W7)
I just tried running the code in an iPhone 4 with iOS 4.3.5 - got a invalid selector (_setWebGLEnabled). Worked just fine with an iTouch 4gen with iOS 5 though... Has anyone tested this on a device with iOS 4.2+?
It's not a bad start, though. I'm pretty sure that this number will go up over time.
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Yes... The whole site is HTTPS but the disqus comments are served by HTTP. I need to make the blog section be served non HTTPS - this is #1 on my list of things to fix.
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An INSEAD professor built an automated system to do something similar, though the quality of the output leaves something to be desired: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/business/media/14link.html...