skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great call if his heart wasn't in it any more. You need to look forward to going to work and going home. Leave one out of balance and things fall apart.

I am curious about the culture there. FogCreek seems very family friendly. Did it not bleed over?
Many current filesystems implement journaling - essentially, a circular buffer where operations are logged before being acted on. Therefore, it's perfectly possible that a log entry of the deletion is still on the device, if it used a journaling fs.

EDIT: Also, the EXT filesystems have a 'dtime' (deletion time) property for inodes.
I disagree entirely, and explained why in this post. It doesn't accelerate development, it takes it over. Boostrap is not flexible. You write code their way and if you honestly want to customize the core, it's going to be just as much trouble as writing your own styles.

I would be a poster child for bootstrap if it did what you said (accelerate development but get out of your way when you need it), but it only completes half of the equation. It accelerates at the beginning, but then you are stuck with it.
What's weird is that it seems like people that started mousing on a different platform than OS X notice it far more than dedicated OS X users.
"Even as Groupon’s toughest critic, I can list scenarios in which it makes sense to run a Groupon. I cannot think of any scenarios where I would advise businesses to advertise on Yelp at these rates."

If I owned a small business I would want to ramp my customer base quickly since I would have a variety of other expenses which would be killing me until my revenue was high enough. (Fixed monthly costs like insurance, rent, utilities etc.)

Yelp is a service I and many other people are using more and more to decide where to eat, shop, even use the dentist.

Yelp is not charging for just an ad for a user, they are charging for an ad to a Yelp user who has the ability to put a yelp review up which can help drive business in the future.

It is important to get Yelp users to try your business so you can get those stars so you can get more customers. No business owner is worried about getting bad reviews since they naturally believe their service/food/etc. is the best in the market so that isn't a factor either.

So, yes on a CPM basis this is a terrible deal, but on a CPM basis for a yelp user the economics might look much differently.
I think that Facebook will continue to exist for a very long time but not necessarily match the profits that everyone expects. While Facebook has a poor user experience and could allow new competition, the network effect will keep it dominant. I think that both Google+ and Path are better social networks but I have had an incredibly hard time getting my friends to adopt either because they are ghost towns.
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The point here was that there weren't a huge number of standard libraries (for networking, IO, etc) that almost certainly would have been written in a blocking style.

With no legacy libraries to worry about, he could build a system entirely around non-blocking IO.
Gnash--the free flash movie player--plays those YouTube videos fine. Except it doesn't show the ads :) It doesn't really work for almost anything else expecting flash though.
Hmm, it looks like it's actually a gcc frontend that uses LLVM as its backend - more than just a command-line wrapper. But I hadn't realized that it wasn't standard gcc.
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Hi, i'm part of a tiny startup working on a subset of this problem, and would love to pick your brain on a few of the challenges you mentioned. If you're willing to help out with some advice, what's the best way to contact you?
There does seem to be a bit of a shift coming to Chef with the use of LWRP (Light Weight Resource Providers) as a way to have a library like interface to cookbooks. But its not as first class as a Clojure library.

There is also a new way of managing cookbooks more like the Ruby Bundler called Librarian https://github.com/applicationsonline/librarian
As Louis CK once said, dont say the N-word.

If you want to raise a point based on the word nigger, use it in full. Saying N-word forces the reader to translate, which is jerkish.

In reference to your point, bitch is not a sexist word in modern slang.
Thanks for making this well thought-out comment, first of all, but I think you missed the major point and the entire reason behind this article.

What you don't understand (and what I thought was clear in my post, but apparently wasn't judging by the flavor of most of the comments) is that bootstrap is not a baseline. You don't start with bootstrap and then build out custom code on top of it. You either use bootstrap or you don't use bootstrap. There's no skinning bootstrap - it is the skin. You don't start with it then change it to fit your design, you start with it, and then you are stuck and end with it.

This point that you didn't get was the entire reason behind why I made this post, and was the reason for the paragraph at the end, where I said that I was working on a different type of framework that you can start with then pull apart in a modular way as your product moves forward without losing the ability to write your own code or having to hack away at a core codebase.
Yes! I remember waaaay back then thinking about starting a company that would develop a client side scrpting language like Visual Basic. But then Netscape started talking about LiveScript and I figured they'd be too hard to displace.
I think it's a great idea and looks like it's well put together. You may have seen my criticism above about how to "login", this is more a criticism of FB, not fandalism (but change it, make it optional).

Also, fantastic homage to the Bee-Gee's on your Uke! Have you seen this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LrXlVPn0DI
How can the police not be held accountable? Who investigates the police? Other police. Who investigates other police? Other police.

It's the police.
Thank you. I didn't expect that to be such a controversial statement. Allow me to clarify: the share of apple's revenue generated by its pc business is rapidly falling. It has been supplanted by ios devices.
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I'll just suggest that you need to be far more explicit about what you mean by "hate speech". Take, for example, this comment of mine:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3416977

According to me, it's just a data-driven counterpoint to a claim made about the Finnish education system. However, according to at least two people in that thread, it was an expression of white supremecism.

Would I be forbidden from using NHPL software if I were creating a site visualizing the TIMSS/PISA data I cited?

How can I determine this without actually getting sued and going to court? (Compare to the GPL or most commercial licenses - where it's pretty clear whether I'm violating it or not.)
Never, ever underestimate the ridiculous amount of time, energy and willpower you invest to raise children. Just because billions of other people do it doesn't mean it isn't the single most demsnding, time-consuming thing that will ever be asked of you.

Perhaps you plan to outsource to a very understanding wife / girlfriend / grandparents, but if you want to do it yourself then bear this in mind: Jeff's was the only option on the table.
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Generally, chasms between people's ideas of how things should be, and reality, are to be celebrated. It's where radical innovation comes from. Why does it frighten you?

Average people are boring. They are generally fodder for mediocre businessmen to exploit, using tried and tested methods. Facebook is just the next big thing in a long line of bullshit firehoses. Only this time, it enlists your real friends, rather than the imaginary friends you aspire to have and relate to (i.e. celebrities).

I can understand why people do it, but I can't grok why one would expose themselves to the concentrated brain poison that is TV and Internet advertising. Particularly North American media, with its saccharine hammyness and oppressively idyllic world view rammed through your throat.

Every time I accidentally browse the internet without adblock or watch broadcast media, it genuinely offends me. I mute video ads and cover up the window so they don't even get a chance to put their idiotic jingle and brand name in my head.

That puts me far away from Joe Average. That's okay, so do my work and interests.
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-GigaOM named us one of the top 5 companies of the YC S11 batch (out of 63).

-We just raised capital from truly helpful VCs and angels in an oversubscribed round.

-Market salary, equity, health insurance, parking, equipment, relocation help are a given, but more importantly, as an early hire you’ll be driving the decisions that affect the lives of users from more than 128 countries.

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If Apple is driven by profit, then the main purpose of Mac, iPod, and even iPad these days is to sell more iPhones (brand halo and integration). Isn't that crazy?

Macs were only 14% of revenue last quarter ($6.6B/46.3B). By contrast, iPhones were 52% ($14.4B). And Macs have ~28% gross margin, while iPhones have ~60%, so they add even less than 14% to the profit picture.

While any other PC manufacturer would die to have Apple's Mac business, it's mouse-nuts to Apple.
No, it was inspired by Steve Jobs:
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-02/bieber-no-steve-...
I've been using Evernote to handle a lot of that. Between the web version of Evernote, apps for Android, iPhone, and iPad. It is always available. Not just for coding or IT either. I started using it for recipes as it is so ubiquitous.
Relax? Start another company? Jeff has just had twins.

This has nothing to do with relaxation, or for that matter vesting schedules.
There's no abuse, the "+" is only a reserved character in the query component of the URI. In the path component, it's a normal character like any other.
Don't use Yelp advertising. The problem is that you pay this crazy rate, then when you search for your business name (even verbatim), they throw an ad for your competitor above the search result for your business. Way more effective for a business to use Adwords and get like 100,000's impressions for the same price. Also the staff at Yelp advertising don't know shiat. Throw them a mildly technical question and they'll answer it like a politician.
"So the probability of accidentally completing a tuple is very, very small (1 / 2^64 for every ack)."

Which means, due to the birthday paradox, that you should expect your first collision around 2^32 tuples. Process a few million tuples a day (that's only about 25 per second) and you should expect your first error within your first year.

EDIT: I'm wrong, see the explanations below.
Its better the op take on his little piece of the pie, and not the whole world. It really is an uphill battle since the powers that be are expert in making ~4yr old tech totally obsolete.
Hackers claim Symantec would pay $50,000 extortion
Most major new projects seem to come with non GPL licenses...
Actually, it is true. In particular, profit-wise the Mac business is tiny, less than 10% of profits. They could shut down Mac and you would barely notice in their next earnings statement.

I wish it weren't so, because I love my Mac. But Apple's future is iOS, not Mac OS. Maybe someday they'll merge and it'll all be one thing?
Grandparent said hackers make up a small fraction of Apple's customers, not that Apple is unpopular among hackers.
...and no Broadcom subsidy.

[EDIT] Am I wrong?
Not sure what OS you're on, but I use Mac OS X's Sticky Notes to remember commands that I don't use often. I use a single note for each tool and I write down the commands along with a brief description. So all I have to do is bring up my notes, find the tool I'm using and browse for the command.

I'm sure there are more elegant or geeky solutions out there, but this works for me.
Most photo-cameras use FAT for SD cards so I expect journaling is not that common. Don't know if the same applies to 'professional' video-cameras though.
Reposted here since it seems the page linked is no longer visible (at least for me).

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Apple’s great GPL purge

Posted on 5 February 2012 by meta
Apple obligingly allows you to browse and download the open source software they use in OS X. Since they have listings for each version of OS X, I decided to take a look at how much software they were using that was only available under the GNU public license. The results are illuminating:

10.5: 47 GPL-licensed packages.
10.6: 44 GPL-licensed packages.
10.7: 29 GPL-licensed packages.
This clearly supports the idea that Apple is aggressively trying to remove all GPL-licensed software from OS X. While the removal of Samba and GCC got some attention, the numbers show that there’s a more general purging going on.

The 29 remaining GPL-licensed packages aren’t too healthy either. Lion apparently ships with bash 3.2. That’s from 2006. The current version is 4.2.10. Why no upgrade? Because Apple’s shipping the last version of bash that was under the GPL version 2.

The message is pretty obvious: Apple won’t ship anything that’s licensed under GPL v3 on OS X. Now, why is that?

There are two big changes in GPL v3. The first is that it explicitly prohibits patent lawsuits against people for actually using the GPL-licensed software you ship. The second is that it carefully prevents TiVoization, locking down hardware so that people can’t actually run the software they want.

So, which of those things are they planning for OS X, eh?

I’m also intrigued to see how far they are prepared to go with this. They already annoyed and inconvenienced a lot of people with the Samba and GCC removal. Having wooed so many developers to the Mac in the last decade, are they really prepared to throw away all that goodwill by shipping obsolete tools and making it a pain in the ass to upgrade them?
Agree, was disappointed to see the paraphrase go unattributed.
Yup. Only option would be to fork from the last GPL2 release and evolve it as GPL2.
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I second Evernote. While I don't use it for this particular problem, I use it for TONS of other things. I can't even tell you how many apps this single app has replaced for me.
I'm also kind of lost on what problem this is trying to solve. Connecting bands to fans? Connecting bands to bands?

Personally, I've seen a lot more musicians switching from myspace to bandcamp than facebook or soundcloud (though I think soundcloud has gotten a lot more traction in more electronic scenes). Last time I tried was a few months back but the interface in facebook was simply terrible for posting music.

I think that tightly combining social and music is not really so important. Bandcamp provides a beautiful and easy way to present, give away, and even sell your music. You get a professional URL to your work with only a tiny bandcamp footer which can be shared (organically and via like buttons, etc). In some ways, combining bandcamp and facebook/twitter is the unix philosophy in action.
Its also a stable base. The iPad might or the iPhone might die off to some competitive product, Andoid or whatever, but, as long as PC = Windows, there will be a large market for Macs (no, most people wont consider Linux)
The birthday paradox doesn't apply. All that matters it the value at the time the ack is applied, so it's always 1/2^64 (because the xor of any number of random numbers is still random).
Oops...

I accidentally down voted you. It's very hard to browse HN and vote comments on the iPad...

Thanks for the plugin.
As I read it I found myself wishing I could hear Dijkstra's reaction.. and lo:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD638....

I mostly agree with him that the paper is poorly argued (I have no love for formal verification). However he ignores the most salient point that it makes: that the effort of verification must be applied everytime a programmer makes a change to a codebase.
This is nothing new. A number of large companies avoid GPLv3 because the potential of losing IP is too high; it's a difficult license to interpret, and the legal implications of some of its clauses haven't been fully defined yet (eg. what all is covered by "convey"?).

So, I wouldn't say that them avoiding it suggests anything sinister like some of the posters are mentioning... they're probably just playing it safe.
>> "Miller was charged with a single count of resisting arrest. ... 'we do not understand how, absent some other underlying charge for which there was probable cause, a charge of resisting arrest can stand on its own?'

That's settled law. The cop's mistake wrt whether an arrest is valid is not a defense against a resisting arrest charge.

Supposedly you get to make up for the unlawful arrest later.

I'm not claiming that this is good (or bad), just that it is fairly settled law.
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Dijkstra's response: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD638....
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Seconded, the Mac acceleration curve is terrible.

Strangely on some installations it doesn't seem to come into effect. For example, I have never noticed it on a MacBook using the touchpad. And I could have sworn it was not there when I first installed Snow Leopard.

But right after installing Lion I had to spend the first few hours hunting down utilities to get the mouse back into a usable state...
Thank you for sharing your story. I tend to do this (attempt to transfer my failed dreams onto my kids), and it's helpful to have such a powerful reminder of how selfish and unfair that is. Thank you.
If you open-source your drivers, people can see all the patents you're infringing. Supposedly.

Also, our shader compiler is magic. You wouldn't believe how amazing it is.
Is it a photo or a video camera? I expect a professional video camera to use something other than FAT, which can only hold files smaller than 4GB.
I third Evernote. I keep a single note for each largish task or smallish project and add points for each new thing I solve. It's great to come back to 6 months down the track...I remember doing this before, but how did I fix it then?
Broadcom would probably give you GPU documentation under NDA as long as you don't release any code you write and you don't tell anyone how bad their GPU is.
Well, that's true only insofar that _all_ non IOS customers are making up a smaller fraction of Apple's customers. Within the PC/Laptop Crowd, I think the technical enthusiast/Hacker group is pretty important to that product line. They certainly put a lot more effort into their Terminal Application than Microsoft does. Does Microsoft even offer a Terminal Application? I typically download SecureCRT/Putty. Also - Does microsoft come with SSH?

I guess the point I'm trying to make is "Hackers are important to Apple, insofar that that Macintosh PC/Laptop line is important to Apple."
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>explaining that she knew their daughter couldn't see her father for yet another night in a row, but just wanted to spend 15 minutes with him.

Dude, reading that just makes me want to cry. I may be an IT enterprise schmuck doing java development for the man, but at least I have a life outside of the 8-5. Man I have so much to be thankful for: a job that's 5 minutes away from where I live, pays me very well, and I can be home for lunch with my girls every day and home for dinner before 5:30. I'd love to have my own startup (hence the HN trolling) but not at the expense of my family. I guess the lifestyle-business/startup is where I'll end up eventually.
It's look like it's just a base for creating nice wordpress themes. It's not intended to learn much I think.

Anyway, it has really great style. Very good looking components and very useful to get started easily with a cool site, not necessarily a wordpress one.
No, the birthday paradox very much applies. The chance of success for your first ack is (2^64-1)/2^64. The chance of success for your first and second ack is the chance of success for your first ack times the chance of success for your second ack, ((2^64-1)/2^64)^2. And so on for your third ack, and your ack.

By the time you reach your 2^32 ack, your chance of having all successes is ((2^64-1)/(2^64))^2^32, which is < 0.5.

EDIT: My test program seems to indicate that I'm wrong, but I can't see the flaw either in it or in my reasoning. Can you explain why the birthday paradox doesn't apply here?

EDIT': In the birthday paradox, it would be ((2^64-1)/2^64)) * ((2^64-2)/2^64) * ((2^64-3)/2^64), etc.
> The lesson of Moneyball is to 1) do what you love/what you are good at and 2) purchase undervalued assets.

> This is the same strategy that Warren Buffet has been using for decades.

Buffet has been using govt and others to produce undervalued assets that he then buys. (Did your CitiGroup investment have a govt guarantee?)

He also pushes tax policy that directly benefits him. (Hint - the "millionaire's tax" that he's pushing doesn't apply to him. Same with the estate tax - virtually none of his estate will be taxed. He sells insurance to other folks who will have to payit.)

Guess who benefits from delaying/killing Keystone XL? (Buffet's railroads aren't nearly as efficient as pipelines.)
Heh, I've been using the gcc command on my mac since I switched and I, quite literally, have never come across a program that wouldn't compile for me. That level of compatibility is... well... staggering. heh.
I don't think so either, but editing the form on Firebug or WebKit's inspector is really easy. And the text area is looking nice, really similar to text fields :)
tl;dr: organizations using '90s languages that forbid you to use features from the '90s are bad and you should leave them. Note: I understand that C and C++ are still great languages/tools for certain tasks/toolboxes, but a blog post about management not letting you using the STL is perhaps relevant only to the Mil-Aero crowd. [Or am I wrong?]
I don't really see any malicious intent here. I've started avoiding the GPLv3 myself just because it makes code that I publish harder for people to take advantage of. What's the point of me writing some code if it's only going to sit on Github, as if it were ment for some sort of museum?

Apache and MIT Licenses are generally my goto these days.
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something bad is going on with the css http://i.imgur.com/ohl2e.png

btw 3 emails after just signing up is a bit too much, isn't it?
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Hype & vapor-ware, we've seen all too many times.