skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It looks like a media organizer with the complicated sidebar. Once you switch off that side bar (I assume you can because the second two screenshots don't have one) it looks like the good-old simple VLC player.

I think they may have just put these screenshots in the wrong order. If the simple player screenshot was placed center stage, and the sidebar / drag and drop screenshots had lower priority people would be like: "It's modern redesign of the controls, and there's a sidebar too if you fancy it."
heh

Yeah well I don't have any specific grief with academics, but it does strike me as ironic that those who are supposed to be the beacons also often seem to be the most risk averse.

I can of course only speak for Denmark and a little for the US (having worked there), but there doesn't seem to be any correlation (nor causation) between high academic merits and entrepreneurship.

Which I guess once you think hard about what entrepreneurship really is makes some sense.
The prize should be awarded for either finding a solution, or proving that no solution exists.
was safe-search on? you shouldn't have gotten the Wikipedia zero-click if it was on. please let us know.
This one bit me the other day and forced me to switch JavaScript compressors because the one I was using (it was python-based) didn't get the IIFE (http://benalman.com/news/2010/11/immediately-invoked-functio...) right when appending files together.

In this blog posting Jacob writes:

The majority of lines however don’t end with semicolons because they simply aren’t necessary and I prefer the minimalist aesthetic. For me, \n character is enough and the semicolon character is redundant.

He then points to the izs blog posting about it:

http://blog.izs.me/post/2353458699/an-open-letter-to-javascr...

Jacob calls it more 'minimalist' however it does require you to know (and think about) the rules of when Javascript accepts a newline as a line terminator and when it doesn't. In terms of cognitive minimalism 'semis-everywhere' wins. @izs even acknowledges that part of the advantage is forcing the developer to learn:

To the extent that there is an objectively “better” choice, it appears to me that the minimal-semicolon/comma-first style is slightly superior, both because it is fundamentally more scannable and because it encourages programmers to better understand the language they use.

and later:

If you don’t understand how statements in JavaScript are terminated, then you just don’t know JavaScript very well, and shouldn’t write JavaScript programs professionally without supervision, and you definitely should not tell anyone else how to write their JavaScript programs.

He excludes the possibility that you might understand the rules and still prefer to put them everywhere. So all people who disagree with his choice (which he admitted was only slightly better) tend to get categorized as people who don't understand JavaScript very well and we get a new holy war. The fact that all of the JS noobs are lumped on one side of the argument means it's not cool and we can dismiss a well reasoned opinion as ignorance.

All this being said, I personally don't care strongly one way or the other.
The pilot episode on GSM security was my favorite one.
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People also download music, drive over the speed limit, and call in sick to work when they're perfectly healthy. The past three presidents have all admitted to trying illegal drugs. What's so surprising?
if you like me believe that physical borders mean less and less, then I thinks it's easy to see why the parent commenter said what he said.
"The possibilities to make the FBI or CIA or some corporate private investigator look very stupid are endless.."

You can try to mess with the FBI, CIA or any other three letter agency if you want, but I wouldn't recommend it.
I have created a repo at
git://github.com/rajivnavada/bootstrap.git
that addresses this issue in the Makefile.

Basically, I added a 'proper' target that 'bootstrap' depends on. This target simply adds the semicolon to the end of the file. Hope it helps those of you having problems.
You can use semicolons in python. You have to use them if you want multiple statements in one line..
I used a Mac for about 6 months and loved it, however as soon as I switched back to using Linux (Ubuntu 10.10 at the time) I forgot about it.

On Linux, I just get stuff done. It might not be as slick as OS X in some regards, but I find it a lot less distracting and much simpler and straight-forward. So unless you specifically need something from OS X, e.g. Photoshop, I'd definitely recommend giving Ubuntu or similar a try :-)

I ended up selling the Mac - annoyingly it didn't retain its value and after 6 months (and no new models coming out) I sold a £1000 iMac for £500. Ah well :-(
Well they were smart enough to realize that that's enough to convince most people.

I can see his point in the context of marketing and pundit-ism.

In the context of anything actually intellectual this is all just silly but the author isn't interested in or speaking to that world.
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Plus, it's one of the highest educational impact positions you can imagine. We're hiring all types of devs -- mobile, frontend, backend, whatever you want to call yourself. Big plans ahead.

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I agree that there is a problem to solve. But I'm not sure if this approach does anything other than shift some advertising money around. Does it really change the equation or the size of the pie? I don't think so. Whether or not it's minimally disruptive depends on how it is used - like all advertising.

It's perfectly OK for a startup to do advertising stuff, but I agree with jrkelly that this is not what the world needs engineers for. It's just a way to make some money and I wish them luck with that.
So where is this global wireless electricity transfer technology, after so many decades? Are copper wire producers still killing this technology, every time it shows up? Or was it only Tesla, that could invent this, and we lost this technology forever, because nobody is as brilliant, as Tesla?

I accept Tesla was genius, but even he could have been wrong a few times in his life. Some of his unfinished inventions to this day sounds impossible, and we certainly have much more knowledge about physics, than he had.

I don't think a few monopolies can stop progress, if the invention is really great.
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Psychologists would probably refer to these as fluid (intelligent) intelligence, and crystalised (knowledge) intelligence.
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I haven't actually bought anything or sold anything there. But I check it once in a while to see how fast people have developed profitable websites, in which niche, using which link building methods, etc.

IMO it's valuable knowledge for somebody who wants to make money on the web.
Sorry, I find it a difficult to believe that Apple would release a laptop that would catch on fire if you spilt a cup of coffee on it - I suspect your story has been sprinkled with a touch hyperbole. Evidence, please :)
The update section in that link makes it even worse. Mr. Morin is stating that technically he was right because Path.com wasn't collecting data at the time he was interviewed. Which means this was a calculated move to add this "feature" at the behest of a something (a VC or an itch to increase the feature-set maybe?). A facing saving gesture at that point might have been a blog post detailing the change in privacy policy/ToS. An apology now means little to me.
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I'm a C++ programmer and that's actually the thing I miss most: DDG does not know the difference between 'C' and 'C#' and 'C++'.
Ask HN: what visa do most European's use for Y Combinator?
I have searched in a number of places and have not found a definitive answer to this - surely they are not using the Business Visitor as part of the visa waiver program as they would be doing too much work
After two decades of Unix use, in 2000 I switched to Apple and OSX - the only reason I considered it was because of the design of the Titanium Powerbook, which I saw in those days as an amazing piece of hardware design, which - amazingly - gave me a Unix workstation in a fantastic portable package. I simply couldn't believe that Apple, of all people, were delivering what I'd wanted for years - a smart, functional, fully working Unix workstation in a portable format.

So I was very happy for a year or two, and am now on my 4th Macbook Pro. The Macbook Pro (17") has come to represent everything that I desired in the 80's and 90's for a Unix workstation.

But: only because I'm running Linux on it. Mac OSX, sure, has its time and place - but when it comes to putting the power of this amazing bit of hardware to good use, nothing beats having a proper Linux distribution onboard. Proper memory management, proper user security model, proper levels of abstraction between a user program and a system service, and so on. Its simply an amazing bit of gear, now that I've set it up right.

Oh, though .. how I wished SGI had gone a different path, and released their Indy laptop to great fanfare. How I wish they hadn't been usurped by Microsoft, it would be so, so nice to have an SGI laptop in the 21st Century ..
several thoughts as i was reading the article, if you look at jason calacanis' show "this week in startups", the intro to his show has a quote that says something along the lines of "think about your biggest idea and then go for it full speed!" that one resonates the most with me, i'm sure that quote was pulled from somewhere else. anyway, my point is that i've been and am in the same boat as i have a shedload of ideas, implement some of them half baked (i.e. no marketing/sales follow through), and then move on to others for various reasons. but when i read your article, it made me think about this because it seems that lots of your projects either you or your partner lost motivation, e.g. wanted to work on something else.

will/motivation to me is one of the most important things when choosing an idea to execute. of course business model is important, but if you have an excellent business model and you are only 80% interested, then chances are you will fail.

ideas are a dime a dozen, put your efforts into the one that you feel most passionate about from a personal level. not to say that you wasted time on any of the projects because i'm sure you gained a lot of experience, but focus that energy on the one thing and you'll go a lot farther than all of the 10+ combined :)
to search cplusplus.com just type !cpp <query>, to look for videos use !v or !yt, to look for images use !i or !gi
Adding semicolons is also an ideology.
Actually, Haskell lets you do it either way. It's the best of both worlds :)

This code:

do a <- [1,2,3]
b <- [4,5,6]
return $ a + b

can also be written as:

do {
a <- [1,2,3];
b <- [4,5,6];
return $ a + b
}

or:

do { a <- [1,2,3]; b <- [4,5,6]; return $ a + b; }

I've even seen it like this:

do { a <- [1,2,3]
; b <- [4,5,6]
; return $ a + b }
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The introduction of free CSS3 forms comes in the market with that same idea. On the net there are plenty of examples for this kind of free CSS3 forms.
If your Mac freezes every few days, you probably have a hardware problem (or you've installed some third party driver that's messing things up).
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I agree, for about 95% of my searches the results are vastly improved, but I still run into the occasional search that's just a spam minefield. Recently my boss asked me to look into purchasing windows licenses, and between the google spam and the awful microsoft.com experience (everything requires silverlight, which I can't install, and half the links opening .docx instead of just a webpage) it was far too difficult. /rant
Please don't confuse Gladwell with a social scientist. Its somewhat like confusing Bob the Java book writer with James Gosling. I agree that a lot of social science is garbage, but there are many smart people studying it, and its a much harder area to keep your everyday opinions from affecting.
"13yearoldinabikini.jpg" probably cannot be classified as a pornography. Most of the things they banned were probably legal (I can't imagine there really was a true child pornography subreddit). But I understand having these subreddits around was a slippery slope and some content might have been over the edge. And as was already mentioned, it's hard work to control it post by post. Especially when some askreddit post accumulated the infamous reddit-hivemind and they went on reporting every single post in "targeted" subreddit (whatever the content).
He's not changing anything, and he's not relying on weird browser implementations - it's part of the spec.

I hate unnecessary semicolons too. Though I deal with them by including them everywhere, but making them hard to see in my editor ;)
Interesting. As you have probably guessed by now, I'm not a Rails developer and therefore did not know this. I was surprised to read about this after your comment and find that Active Record went the lowest common denominator route with this and therefore gave up any native foreign key integrity support.
JavaScript doesn't need them any more than Python does; they're used almost always simply because people don't know the (simple) rules of when statements end.
MITx: Circuits & Electronics
Bootstrapping: Spend money on unnecessary things
Validate your startup idea by asking 3 simple questions
Sorry if I gave off the wrong impression, but I'm not related in any way with Cloudability. I just thought it was a cool service.
are you saying restify doesn't allow piping?
"Show HN" should be one of the nouns. ;)
Wikipedia says that comes from Anne Herbert in "The Next Whole Earth Catalog". Are you sure it has an anarchist connection?

It's probably inspired by this earlier quote from Gilbert Shelton's wonderful "The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers" comix:

"Dope will get you through times of no money
better than money will get you through times
of no dope."
JavaScript also permits you do it either way. That's what this whole argument is about!
Yeah, it's better to write "remarkable", which is an analog property.
thanks! I'll try that
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I think it's a hasty generalization to say "smart people ask questions". It's more general to say "smart people get to the bottom of things, unless it's obviously an intellectual tarpit (hello postmodernists)."

That's why they ask questions. Even if they hate doing it, they have to find out, at just about any cost.
That's what I thought too, not talking to your co-workers is a bridge too far and the consequence for doing the meditation is that everybody in your company will know you.
But there is a lot of truth to what he is saying and I often find myself in the distraction loop he is describing. If you plan out your day more structured you will get more result, I agree on that. He is also describing what our bosses expect from us, writing code most of the time. But we often read HN, facebook, twitter... We need breaks but I indeed handle them unstructured.
I will take some, but not all of his advice.
one really important aspect of DDG is that I use it to route my google searches. To search for german google I have to go to google.de (type the whole url). With the bang syntax I can just type !gde and it takes me there. Same for Amazon, !a takes you to .com !ade takes you to Amazon.de.
I have used DDG for a while now and by now I've got a feeling of what DDG will find and where I should go to Google so I rarely do duplicate queries.
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ViewState with dynamic properties in ASP.Net Webforms
Guilty as charged for immediately assuming that the problems of the MySQL family apply to other databases. Thank you for pointing out that PostgreSQL does not necessarily have all the same limitations.
> it is the only one of its kind in the US

Wyman-Gordon also have a 50,000-ton press.
Why it redirects me to google.com when i search for !ruby?
You miss the point.

He's not saying this person found out something about him that he didn't tell her.

He's saying that this person was able to pull things out of him in conversation that other people normally wouldn't, and that he doesn't quite know how. He's also saying that she engaged him in a conversation about it in a way that was useful to him.

I don't see him claiming any kind of mystic powers or anything - just that this person was very good at pulling information out of him through conversation and summarizing it in a beneficial way.
Yep, there are some Go services at Google that handle a staggering amount of traffic. I hope to be able to discuss one of the services publicly later this year. (Yeah, confidentiality is a drag.)
Proposal: don't say "lifestyle business", say "smartup"
I'm proposing this term to replace the pejorative "lifestyle business". We need a more positive term for the kinds of businesses that 37Signals, Kalzumeus, and UnicornFree are doing.

Startups depend on huge cash infusions for many years before achieving profitability, if ever.
Smartups fund themselves almost from day one.

Startups do anything and everything to achieve hypergrowth, which paradoxically leads to tolerating sloppy code that doesn't scale. Smartups plan for steady growth. They get it as right as possible the first time, without getting bogged down with analysis.

Startups often end in face-saving "talent acquisitions".
Smartups are closed down when they stop being profitable, but it's okay because nobody lost all that much money.

Startups have a broad variance of outcomes. You could exit with millions or be badly in debt. Smartups look for opportunities where the expected revenue per hour worked is very high.

Startups offer free services and hope to make it back with targeted advertising or premium features. Smartups charge for the service they provide.

Hence, startups need millions of users, elite operations talent, and so on. Smartups are happy to focus on a few thousand people from a bargain ISP.

The main goal of a startup is to generate a perception of momentum among investors or acquirers. The main goal of a smartup is user satisfaction.

Startups are injurious to the founders' personal relationships and health.
Smartups require sacrifices like anything else in life, but leave you with greater autonomy than before.

P.S. Michael K. Smith, an early tester at Apple, coined the term "smartup" but he probably didn't mean it the way I want to use it. Danese Cooper mentioned it to me and I just liked the way it sounded.
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It may be an old saw but I sure never heard it before. Thanks.

I'm curious about anarchist thought on libraries, mind telling me more?
I'm staying with MPlayerX because of its non-intrusive, simple design. This toolbar too bluntly tries to mimic hardware video players, and takes worst from them.

“Play”, which is about the only useful control the toolbar except for the slider, is located in the lower left corner between two “Move” buttons. On a 17' screen, it is too easy to miss. This makes it useless. I would hate to skip a couple of scenes the moment I wanted to pause just because I missed about 16 pixels.

I can't see the point of “Stop” button. It's not a home video player. If you want to stop the video, just close the window. If you want to pause, just pause. You don't need a stop.

Then there are these “play order” buttons. Come on, do you really watch 20 videos in row? There's a YouTube for that. Useless.

Equalizer?

It's painful to see so little space left for the slider. People use toolbar to scroll through the movie! Finding the exact scene will be extraordinary difficult because unneeded buttons take most of the space.

Do an experiment. Release a beta version that tracks each click. Generate usage heat map for all controls on the toolbar. Make most used items large and simple to hit (place them in the center). Get rid of the rest.

I'm also staying with MPlayerX because of its preferences window. Last time I checked, VLC's preferences were complicated as hell, and there were three different ways of setting subtitle font, none of them working.
>a ton of kids/teens

>A lot of kids

Yes, I was one of those kids, but most of the kids I went to school with weren't readers and never went to the library for fun.

In a densely populated area if 1% of kids regularly vist the library, it will be packed. Still--most kids don't.

I also wasn't implying that libraries are without merit. The OP implied that the internet wasn't beneficial as an educational tool because most kids don't take advantage of it's potential. I merely pointed out that the same was true for libraries.
What distro do you run?
CSS is not "very, very hard" - I learned Rails after HTML css, and its simple as pie. I wouldn't classify myself as super smart. I just think the structure is such that is straight forward, <div class="something"> to .something {}

If you can code, then you should really be able to write CSS... and if you can't code, I don't think any of these products are really targeted at you anyway.

Edit: tpyo
Also, 11.37 tests do not work with valid_sign_in (using session authentication), but works with the controller.sign_in method introduced in 1e.
For this very purpose (trusting Google in certain searches) my default search engine is Google's Feeling Lucky. If I want regular Google search I use 'g' keyword (I got used to it as it was default in Opera since I can remember). Also, when you mistype or your search is just bad (Did you mean?) the Feeling Lucky won't redirect you.