skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The UX must be consistently slick

This point is useless, the entire number 4 in your post. First of all, if you're using it as a point, you've never used a Windows Phone. It's as stable as an iPhone (certainly moreso than Android), I've had one since April and have never had a crash, lockup, or misplaced UI element. You seem to be bringing that from Windows Mobile, which is hands down the biggest thing holding Windows Phone back right now. Technical people who cannot and will not distinguish between it and its unrelated predecessor.

This argument pisses me off because it's completely unfounded, yet I constantly hear people saying "Well, I have my doubts since it's a Microsoft product" without ever using it. The biggest hurdle to Windows Phone 7 is ignorant techies casting misinformation to the general consumer just because bashing Microsoft is a fun talking point.
According to my data, nginx and IIS have been neck and neck for months: http://underthesite.com/compare/nginx_and_microsoft-iis_and_...

Apache still blows them out of the water though.

(Ignore the pre-August data, it's before we had a real sample size.)
Yes, it's a nest, and it's a modeling problem. Few people really talk about inflow and outflow and flux-in-general, I think most just pick one particular issue and hammer at it until it goes their way. There's very little pro/con analysis among single issues, let alone pro/con analysis across the spectrum and over combinations of actions we might have the government do or not do. I'll charitably interpret your reply as saying that (clear AA benefits) - (clear AA harms) + (unforeseen AA plus/minus side-effects) > 0. I might even agree with that, but you've offered no argument for why that is since you likely think "It's obvious" and you've not done any exploration into the space of other possible side-effects or other ways of increasing black people's economic status. My problem isn't with the particular solutions people propose so much as it is with how these solutions get proposed and argued.
Earlier, nginx was used to handle just static content and passed the php stuff to apache httpd. These days people just use php-fpm instead so nginx can handle everything in a php based stack without needing apache.
Yes I agree. It is a device that does two things if I understood well:

- it replaces the USB connector of USB devices with a wifi "bridge"

- it synchronizes data on a USB device with cloud services.

So yeah, wrong wordings for a very handy little device. I want one! :)
The best thing I ever did in tmux, was to set a myTerminal variable in xmonad to "urxvtc -e tmux".

So every terminal window I open already has a tmux inside and I never have that "oh, it would be nice if I haven't forgot to turn tmux on" feeling.
I don't understand the references to Google in those graphs. There isn't a publicly available Google webserver is there? Or is it included simply because a lot of the most visited properties on the web are Google's?
There are some systems based on the Xapian full-text indexer, including my own 'mu'[1] which might be able to do this. It expects the messages in a Maildir, and it can handle > 150 messages per sec, on fairly slow hardware - so after a peak of thousands of new messages, it would take a few seconds to catch up. Tens-of-thousands per day would be no problem. There have been people using [1] for a few million of messages without any problem, but I'm not sure how well it scales beyond that.

[1] http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu, or 'maildir-utils' in debian/ubuntu
> You cannot eliminate determination of race in college admission

In many countries university admissions rely only on standardized test scores. Name, location and previous education don't matter.
Devops a Wicked problem
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This should be added to a FAQ somewhere. Took me ages to figure it out on my own, especially since the error msg is so generic -> http://pig-rabbit.com/tmux-and-launchctl
Cyber-bullying, child porn, piracy, etc, are all a red herring. It's virtually impossible to stop it completely unless the Internet was either taken down or completely monitored and controlled.

The first step to controlling content is to be aware of the content. Would they be happy for the government to look through their emails to prevent cyber-bullying, of course?
I agree that the context switching costs are quite high, reducing the time actually spent on coding. It might be better to focus on one language/framework for five straight weeks, for example, while still changing specific design patterns/recipes per week. It reduces switching costs, gives devs time to grok new languages if need be, and should result in higher quality code for each weekly project.

You might also let devs post fragments of their code as they work on it, and links to their github repos. The reason is that a dev who is really learning a lot, not just exercising existing skills, might get far off track if working in isolation, like a plane that takes off at a heading that is slightly off, and ends up hundreds of kilometers from its target. Plus, it would give more time for people to discuss/debate alternate implementations, and that debate itself would also be a great source of learning.
Really soothing to see these incredibly fluid WebGL demos when I'm used to jerky scrolling and animations in the browser.
Nave vs NVM for node.js versioning. which one is more recommended and why?
Currently using NVM, but just found out recently that there's another tool that also does the same thing (Nave). Not much documentation available out there, so would be nice to get inputs from some experienced node developers here.
I've read these exact lines before. Do you work for Microsoft?
You were able to change my mind on the issue with your well-written and detailed comment (I also had no knowledge to go on besides the chessbase.com article). So please don't think it was a waste.
I love the postrock/space-y sound it makes when you pause. Rotating around the frozen cat then feels like the space scenes in a bizarre rendition of "2001".
I wish someone capable authored a Haskell standard library replacement. It could have many improvements:

* Marking partial functions with some naming convention

* Polymorphic containers, with polymorphic "length" and other features people take for granted

* Removing monomorphic functions such as "map" and "empty" -- expose APIs almost always as part of generic classes

* type String = Text (Along with extra polymorphism it should not cause any trouble)

* Sane numeric hierarchy that matches the mathematical definition

* Fix the Monad/Applicative duplication mess (Also remove "fail" from Monad)
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Easy points: explaining errors in re-using random numbers
Republican debate: Mitt Romney stays race front-runner ~ Daily World News
Instead of trying to make the native copy/paste work, can anyone think of a way to set up key bindings in OSX to mimic copy/paste but store the text in /tmp/mypasteboard or something?

Would AppleScript do it and would that work in any application?
How ridiculous. If you want to run a steel mill out of your kitchen, that's one thing, but not allowing someone to write some code for a side business in a spare bedroom?

I own multiple rental properties and these scenarios are the least of my worries.

Plus, how would a risk check know what was part of your previous tenant agreement? Do people in the UK submit their previous lease with each application?
See here for a likely explanation: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=81954

http://www.nextthing.org/archives/2005/08/07/fun-with-http-h...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1913284
Yes. This app has so much potential. It can be expanded to include so many other political issues.
Nab a job at Google
This is true to some extent or another for almost all of the major news sites. Even if they just have comments, they're aren't offering them out of the goodness of their hearts, it's because it's a cheap way to boost impressions, sometimes dramatically. (At least, this is why they existed when I worked for one of them.)
Please refrain from making comments like this on HN, they are not welcome and the site owner does not want this kind of discussion on the site [1][2]

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3105036
[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3104144
As far as censorship goes, it starts with "terrorists" and the usual handful of bogeymen who only ever actually constitute a minuscule minority of internet activity, but it doesn't end there.

I think the back story is that sites like Twitter seem to have been a key component of popular uprisings in 2011, and this has probably not escaped the notice of even the most luddite politicians in many countries. If they can get a foot in the doorway with regard to censoring this type of communication then they can potentially head it off at the pass in the event that any similar uprisings occur in the near future. Ultimately it's about preserving their own power and trying to prevent democratic change.
Yeah. Except if he starts to work with multimedia. Edit video, make professional grade midi/audio sequencing etc. Which with Linux will be a world of pain and/or deadend.

Same if he wants to work with a CMYK design workflow, or in a professional DTP environment etc. A world of pain again and/or deadend.
If he's not a US citizen and he isn't in the US, what's he got to lose by continuing to distribute the plugin? Any judgement against him would be pretty much pointless.
I was running a UK company from Germany using:

http://www.companiesmadesimple.com/

They provide registration, a UK registered office address and mail forwarding to your address outside the UK. Each of the services costs extra and I'd estimate the overhead is around 300 Euros a year.
Stop SOPA Petition
Nice guide to working with named branches in hg
There is a worrying undercurrent of self sufficency worked for me, it should work for everyone in many us style right of centre commentary these days. I understand it's heart felt but

- most jobs don't pay enough to save. The average blue collar wage in US has not moved in nearly 30 years in dollar terms.

- most people (it seems) who push this view come from states that have lots of space few people and net inflowss of cash from the rest of the us.

In other words saying everyone should Save is a good idea but like saying everyone should be thin, we don't live in bodies or society adapted to make that happpen and it's not clear how to get there
I'm confused. Are you saying that the person you are replying to is only interested in aligning consumer action with consumer beliefs because of a shallow interest? He is explicitly saying he thinks a roughly shallow idea could be taken further...

Or are you saying we should avoid topics that could broadly be considered political? If this is the case I don't understand why you didn't reply to OP instead of this comment (and how that meshes with pg taking a stand on SOPA in general).

Or that you think the suggested application isn't of the caliber that ideas would have been in the old days pg refers to? I have only used hn for a year or so, but have read some of the archives and this doesn't feel correct. It's an interesting idea -- perhaps a browser extension that modifies sites like amazon.com?

Please explain what you meant; I am very curious. Thanks.
I would assume somebody in FB just said the lawyers "this guy is using our API in a way we do not condone, send him C&D so he would stop" and the lawyers made it as broad as possible since if they make it too broad nothing bad happens but if it's too narrow and the guy finds a way to wiggle around it it's their fail.
Nobody in FB probably cares if the same guy would ever post a status on FB or share a picture of lolcats. They just wanted the plugin to be removed. If they also spread some fear around so nobody else does it too - it's even better for them, even though it's not what they probably cared about too much.
>Users who also viewed this also viewed: Go Daddy Mobile

Oh, the irony.
Are they? What did Facebook disrupt? What did Highrise disrupt? What did google disrupt (in search)? Some technologies are disruptive, some aren't. Many are just a little bit better and that snowballs into a large advantage over time, especially in winner take all markets. Just because a company is huge doesn't mean it's disruptive.

Walmart started as one store, don't believe you can't compete with them, I see mom and pop shops sell products in the same categories as Walmart and win.
Come on, let's stop the Node.js ridiculous hype already.

1. It's JavaScript!
JavaScript is a terrible language. The fact that you need to read "JavaScript: The GOod Parts" in order to use the damn thing is an indicator of that.

I don't care that it's supposedly "lispy."

2. Code re-use at every level

Does any project actually do this? Is there any sort of front-end library that actually works both in Node and in the browser? It seems like more of a pipe dream to me. An awesome idea, for sure, but never actually implemented in practice.

3. Strong, responsive and enthusiastic community

This is moot if there aren't good libraries available. There are, but other platforms have far better ones available and I wouldn't count this as a plus for Node.

Maybe you're talking about Reddit or HN headlines, though.

4. Large productivity gains in HTML & CSS using Jade & Stylus

Never used them, but finding a library or framework that works for you is awesome.

5. Wealth of hosting options: No.de, Joyent’s SmartMachine, Heroku, Nodejitsu

You can say the same thing about PHP too. That doesn't make it a good reason to use it.

6. Make your developers famous

Seriously?

7. Developer happiness

HN fame?
Astonishing and depressing. Apart from the obvious American political ramifications, the weak-sauce generalization one might derive is: organizations make mistakes. Sometimes big ones. It's never too late to mend them.

Most of the organizations people here are involved with don't make the kind if mistakes that rend families, crush souls, and sour geopolitics, but the admonition still applies.
There is also the 29-minute long "Art film", "The Way Things Go". Basically 29 minutes of a Rube Goldberg machine, including a lot of pyrotechnics. Pretty interesting stuff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Lauf_Der_Dinge
John Brockman interviewed by the Guardian
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> "MS dropped roughly 100 million on marketing. They sold less than 100,000 units on launch week."

And I'm wondering how anyone in MS marketing is still employed. You just blew $100m on promoting a product and sell 100K units - how are you not fired? (out of a cannon)

Where did all of that money go? I remember seeing a single TV ad at WP7's launch, and nothing more. In comparison, Verizon practically plastered my local transit system in Droid ads for that launch, and guess what, people were talking about it.

Between Seinfeld and this, I'm not sure why there hasn't been a complete and thorough house-cleaning in MSFT's marketing department.
Great bootstrap, but there seems to be a problem with inline labels in Chrome (Ubuntu 10.10). Twitter's labels work fine though.
I played with CSS a bit and the labels don't like Lucida grande, obviously: http://imgur.com/XJ51Z
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> On what legal theory could FB hope to receive damages?

Possibly: Increased costs of support to 130,000 people using unapproved software in combination to Facebook, who get weird results from the software when Facebook updates something and blame Facebook not the software, and who bitch and moan to Facebook for support? (Obviously most people don't bother with support, and they just complain to friends.)
I am not familiar with what happened there, but the way you describe it, that is not "spreading around" a team, but moving an entire team to a new project.

Spreading around a team is like spreading around a kindling fire. Moving it to a new project is like adding fuel.
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This may all be true but Microsoft has something that neither Google or Apple has... that is skype. Once skype is integrated fully into Windows Phone; it will be the best communication device off all of them. Skype is the communication tool of businesses. Once skype in rolled into the basic functionality in the same way as: MSN messager, facebook and text messaging, it will be dropdead simple to make a skype call or message with someone as if you are text. Microsoft will steal the market share from Blackberry and the other mobile phones for business and then expand from there.
No it is not public, but it still serves a lot of sites, which is what this measures.
I'll make the same comment I did over on the blog:

Pro: I like the metaphor. Bearing in mind that one must defend against the unknown tricks and traps of old code certainly is useful.

Critique: One thing I'd change is the implicit gender assumption -- my team is 50% female, a relative rarity.
I get the same effect by using a different shell: terminator

Monday morning: Fire up terminator, hit Ctrl-Shfit-O, Ctrl-Shift-E (3 windows, a 'main window' and two 'sub-windows' that are side-by-side), fire up a build in a sub-window, Ctrl-Shift-N to move to the 'main' window, fire up "vim -O sources/*" .. and .. I'm done with window management for the week. Seriously great way to organize the flow of my main tools!
I was using the one-message-per-file approach, but keeping millions of small files in a filesystem is quite a challenge: I have to worry about available inodes, and listing/manipulating these files takes minutes!
I think it's nyan cat song slowed down.
Yeah, but he's a nutbag, so there will be other issues if he does become president.
Good point recoiledsnake; "IIS takes most of the profits" would sound their arguments.
You only have to register for VAT if your turnover reaches about 70,000 UKP [1]. I guess there are many people reading HN who will be running a business that will not immediately reach this level. Incorporating a limited company is not the only way for them to set up a business, which was the impression given by the article:

"If you're trying to create a business, rather than just create a legal outlet for your freelancing, you will need a Limited Company."

I am just suggesting people weigh the alternatives of limited company vs sole trader. The minimum viable form of business is the sole trader. It is possible to convert from sole-trader to limited company at a later stage. Certainly consult an accountant and consider the cost and tax implications of both approaches.

When there are going to be multiple owners of the business from the start I would agree that a limited company gives clarity to your relationship and is probably better for this reason.

[1] http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/vat/forms-rates/rates/rates-threshold...
I don't use tmux, but terminator instead. Where tmux is a terminal multiplexor, terminator is .. a terminal! With amazing split-window abilities ..

So I work like this: a "main window" in terminator with my vim session (in which vim administers its own windows - great with cscope integration and so on) and two sub-windows. The two sub-windows are for doing things like shell hacking on the project, another for builds, and so on.

To cut/paste between the windows, when necessary, I either use tee to put things in /tmp for easy ":r"-ing in vim, or I just use the window manager clipboard. In the 'main editing window' where vim has its own windows for each file and so on, yank/paste work great - to go from shell to shell, mouse-select/mouse-middle-button work great.

Debugging, you say, with line-by-line code inspection? In a sub-shell: 'gdb -tui' is awesome. I also build most of my projects such that ':make' returns a proper vim clist that can easily be easily navigated through standard vim bindings..

I don't use tmux, screen, for the simple reason that I like the flexibility that having terminator manage the windows gives .. Check it out, in case you're interested.
"Why do you believe a black applicant has higher future potential than an equally or more qualified white applicant?"

Let's assume intelligence (and therefore, future potential) can be accurately represented by a number, which we'll call X. Now let's say the GPA of students is a mix of the quality of their education as well as their X number.

The assumption is, black students, who have the same X number as white students, will have lower GPAs, because the education they received is worse. This is due to systemic bias, cultural reasons, etc. Therefore, a black student who got a GPA of 2 is equivalent, in their X number, to a white student who got 3. That's why the GPA most be normalized.

Obviously, my argument rests on the belief that there is some inherent trait which defines intelligence, and therefore future potential, which is deeper than the GPA. This may or may not be true. It has a ring of truth to me, since smart people with worse educations will certainly have worse GPAs.
Relax! You have a killer product! So you made a bit of an oversight, big deal. You made the right choice by limiting it to a limited area for now. Promote the shit out of this, build in some easy ways for users to promote their events to friends and it will have a chance of catching on.
Real author appears unknown.

My version is that it's Ricardo Cabello Miguel[0], he supposedly has tweeted it first[1], and the source code of the cat feels like some of his projects'.

[0] http://mrdoob.com/
[1] https://twitter.com/#!/mrdoob/status/146879933640228865
What I think pg is refering to is making shallow political comments. (The comment you linked to is in reply to a post containing the f-word twice.)

The OP is suggesting features for an app, it's a totally different thing.
This looks like a BBC ad, doesn't it?
We'd absolutely be happy to share (parts) our code, and often do.

I've heard other companies give prospective employees a week-long project on a consultancy basis - I think this is a great method of determining if there's a mutual fit. Unfortunately, it's a bit unrealistic to expect most candidates to be able to drop current commitments for a week.
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I agree - you can memorise answers on a fairly generic level, but digging deeper in a relevant area, or talking about edge cases, exposes whether a person really understands what's going on.
70k is monthly net profit. I know working for money is not good, but my business model is limited. It's local. It can't grow anymore. For example, Google can grow, Facebook can grow, etc. they can invent interesting things by the time. But my first startup gets already boring and I seek something more interesting. I dont want to stuck in an office working whole the time on it.
I tried to read this, but it had so many of the standard ill-informed "skeptic" talking points that I gave up. I hoped for better from Rutan.

Since many of his claims are the same old baloney, you can find responses to them here:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php

Or just cut to the chase, with some simple back-of-the-envelope calculation from a physicist:
http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/08/recipe-for-clima...

From the latter: "The chemistry and physics needed to understand that anthropogenic climate change is an expected phenomenon are not that hard. In fact, it would be difficult to make the case that burning fossil fuels on the scale that we have done should not increase CO2 concentrations by something on the order of 100 ppm total and recently 2 ppm/yr. Likewise, given the observation of increased CO2 levels in the atmosphere and our understanding of the role that CO2 plays in the thermal blanket, it would be hard to argue why the surface temperature should not rise by a few degrees Celsius."