skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Transitioning a Facebook Page to Timeline
There have been a lot of these "help me find a technical co-founder" posts. All the ones I've seen have missed the fundamental point: without technology, your idea is worthless. Your technical co-founder is supposed to be doing all the work, sacrificing a quantifiable high-paying job. You're networking and "being authentic". And your contribution to an uncertain venture is "[if] needed, bring cash".
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There are always new articles like this about how this silly MBA type wanted to throw money at something and make a product or how that finance guy thought he could give you 5% equity for building his whole product.

As one of the people on the business end who actually get it, who roughly understands the technical challenges, who recognizes how much hard work goes in to a startup, I wonder what the percentages are of people like me vs those described in the article.
If you're wishing for conversations about these types of questions, you should listen to "The Partially Examined Life" podcast. http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/

e.g. http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/2010/06/28/episode-21-w... which covers the mind-body problem.
Yeah, IE7 is not going to be supported. As you see IE8 works somewhat, and going forward IE9+ is planned for full support.
Can you be more specific? Perl's utf8 support is IMHO the cleanest and most transparent. Generally libraries don't have to care at all about the encoding of the stuff they deal with. I'd be curious what trouble you've had.

(It's true that early versions of "use utf8" were horribly broken, munging strings silently at I/O time, but that was 10 years ago or more)
From their homepage: http://itasoftware.com/careers/work-at-ita/ita-engineering.h...

"We code in whatever language is best suited to the task, be it Lisp, C++, Java, Python, Perl, or XSLT."
Yeah, McCarthyism has a lot to answer for.
> Rails is a whole new way of thinking

I think that is fair statement, assuming an older article. Rails was revolutionary in the same way the iPhone was revolutionary. Neither contained anything groundbreaking inside, but the whole package demonstrated a better way to utilize existing technologies. It was a new way of thinking, and in both cases, many vendors followed in that thinking.

Or maybe I'm just full of myself...
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Why the so-proud rails-guy use wordpress in his blog?
Why do you say that? The content or the style?
Regular Expressions in form validation
Jesus was clearly stealing from the bakers and fishermen, who were robbed of over 5000 bread and fish sales that day. Damn socialist.
Yeah - don't do it at all, thats my advice. I learned to write some Rails about a year ago, best decision of my life. Yeah, I get its me, but I can't imagine doing it any other way. When you start your business it will need endless tweaks and changes, and there is nothing, I repeat nothing, like the ability to be able to hack them out yourself whenever you want.
Thinking about cultural infrastructure
Pirate Bay: The RIAA Is Delusional and Must Be Stopped
The lack of courtesy is due to the sheer antagonism which comes with the job. I dislike flying as much as the next guy, but I can't help but feel bad for the grunts carrying out such an unwelcome job. Distrust breeds contempt which makes the whole experience worse for everyone.
Exactly, it will be handled as non-retina apps on the iPhone 4 were handled - text and other system drawn elements will be in finer detail, app provided graphics will be upscaled.

This article is infuriating, having a retina display is not an excuse to cram more information onto the screen, its to make the same amount of information look much clearer.
I understand the Log2 concept of people able to narrow down something via binary search, but I have a question: don't the "facts" about a person have to divide the remaining population in half (or into smaller chunks)?

For instance if you know "Frank" doesn't wear a Rolex, that would not rule out very many people. So statistically, it would probably be better to know if Frank has red hair, as that could rule out a lot more people.

Also, let's say you have it narrowed down to four people, but the last bit of information is common to all of them. You now have to get another bit, and possibly another, correct?

EDIT: Felt like I didn't express my main point well enough: while you can certainly narrow down people with "bits" of information, information is most of the time not just 1 or 0 and can be fuzzy (or too common) to be useful in a binary search, although with the right bits of information it can of course be fruitful.

I'm really interested by this concept and also curious as to if anyone is employing it on a mass scale.
Abundance is our Future
Ask HN: Just got a C&D letter claiming trademark infringement..need advice
Hi everybody,

I'm looking for advice on a subject that I have no knowledge about and I'm hoping someone in the community can shed some light on the best way to proceed with this.

Myself and a partner registered a Canadian corporation last month called "Picket Fence Games Inc." We did a NUANS report (Company name and trade-mark search reports from Industry Canada) and it returned a blank report meaning there was nothing remotely close to it in Canada.

Last week we released our first game for the iPad titled "Animal Scratch for Kids" in the Apple App Store.

Two days ago we received a Cease and Desist letter from a US game studio that our company name is infringing on their US registered trademark (for International Class 9) of "Picket Fences" for goods or services in the computer games industry. They have proceeded to contact Apple that our company infringes upon their registered trademark.

The case they make is that their "Picket Fences" trademark is very similar to our "Picket Fence" company name and that the word GAMES in our company's name and website must be disclaimed from a trademark perspective because it's the generic term for our company’s underlying products.

We never intentionally meant to dilute the brand name of one of their games by naming our company as such nor did we know that we were infringing on a trademark. I know that in legal terms the above statement means nothing but I just wanted to say this wasn't done on purpose in order for us to benefit from their success in any way.

Our money as a small startup can be spent in better ways than dealing with the legalities of this issue so my questions to you guys are:

Do we realistically stand a chance of wining this case against this company? DO we even have a case? How do we make sure this doesn't happen again?

If this is the case for any trademark in the world and we are dealing with an App Store that sells to the entire world this would mean that any person in the entire world with a trademark could potentially shut down any company. How can we protect ourselves in such a case? Is there a world trademark search, and is it feasible to run?

Any help, advice or comments are appreciated. I left corporate Canada as a developer to do something fun and creative and get away from all the red-tape and legal crap and this just brings me right back...

Thanks,

Nik
There's something like a million pending patents backing up the system. I think their attitude is "screw it, just approve everything, and let the courts sort it out". If you call for a re-examination, they might think twice, because they'll look bad if the courts suggest they screwed up.
What kind of twisted journalism is this?
It reads like a article about new building materials to which they later attached some bullshit about bunkerbusting to leech of the anti-iran fear mongering machine solely because some of the scientists working on better concrete are from or in Iran.

We all should be glad that there are new building materials that could protect us from US terror bombings in the future.
I agree with you, we went through the same thing at work. Developers may be dime a doze, but good developers are difficult to find.

On the flip side of this, there's a good reason .Net developers are dime a dozen - .Net jobs are dime a dozen. It gives us variety and the ability to find another job quickly.

Also, I've found many times that the reason employers use technology like .Net and Java is that they have a bigger pool of candidates to pick from.
It isn't a huge leap forward conceptually, but the boxes to show scope are a whole lot faster for me to read than counting parentheses.
A variable that can only be assigned when it is declared, is not a constant?

main() {
final v = [1, 2, 3];
print(v.length); // => 3
v.add(4);
print(v.length); // => 4
}

There are constant expressions (and values) in Dart, though. For example, you cannot assign a mutable list (array) to 'final v' at the top-level, because it's not constant.

However, my real complaint is not that. They took the time to put int and double under a common interface, num. So, why not put concrete string and StringBuffer under a common interface, called string, and also have StringBuffer implement a monoid interface (for the + and operations).*

Then what happens when you want it as a key in the map? Really, string buffers and strings are different concepts. Even Ruby, with its mutable strings, has StringIO.

Edit: I hope this doesn't come off as rude. Just tried to clarify my original points.

Of course not, we're having a great discussion.
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Scheme is no longer used in the introductory EECS course, but that doesn't mean there won't still be a lot of MIT grads hooked on the Lisp family of languages. (I think ITA uses Common Lisp.)
The fact that they made HTML5 a first-class platform is encouraging. Even IE10 lags behind other browsers if you look across all of the APIs, but then it also has some features that a lot of browsers haven't done yet (like css3 calc).
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I thought the same thing, but I think its because I used up all the swords. It seems each weapon has a quantity?
HTML5 - Etiqueta Article
Safari also appears to prevent the alert. Must be built into WebKit.
Twitter doesn't allow that:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_recent_changes_to_t...
Well, then you need to implement your own discovery and routing mechanism. It might just be a web page a la ChatRoulette, but something is needed.

Phono uses XMPP for this (IIRC), which opens the window for really cool integration with existing endpoints.
You are very correct when you say that but I have been opposed a lot of times for trying to use classes like .small, .medium and .big for font sizes.

I understand that they take the meaning away from standard elements but I feel that classes give more meaning to an element.

p.small and p.big are all the way more logical than styling them according to the container that encloses them.
Being an Astronaut and Cooking in Hawaii
They're like guys who microwave a ready-meal, then strut about like they're Gordon Ramsey.
How many of those issues go away with infinite storage, atomic storage operations of arbitrary length, instantaneous computation and communication, completely deterministic executions of operations, completely reliable machines, etc.?

My point was more that the parent posts examples were problems that really are more engineering than theoretical in nature.
Everything else seems correct, though. There will be more detail in same sized images, and 720p movies will take up much less space.
He wasn't stealing food to give it to the starving poor, he was helping immature people get access to entertainment when waiting or doing without would do them no harm at all. There's no moral high ground there. What he did was illegal, and wrong.

You didn't say how it was wrong and what harms it cause.
Ha - thanks, I realized how much I was lacking in artistic ability with the logo...hence text-only... :)
Related: http://weblog.bocoup.com/javascript-webrtc-opera-mobile-12/
The only problem with that comparison is the first six example results have nothing to do with "Ruby on Rails".
Is it a good select to buy Casio Exilim EX-H5 camera
To expand on another reply, it would probably not be a good idea to market these as pets. As soon as people start keeping a species in a terrarium in their home, some of them will escape. They might be fragile and die, but they might also cause massive problems for native insect populations.

Now, marketing them as pets to residents of Lord Howe Island might be a good way to get them to accept repopulation...
No, I went to XP.
This is awesome! Thanks for the great work.
To educate you on brogrammers:

http://www.quora.com/Brogramming/How-does-a-programmer-becom...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q...
Brain is rather CPU....multitasks with priority...
What versions of Ubuntu have this larger (faster) setting?
I think you're wrong here. Being able to compile to Javascript with good performance is a primary design goal.

Of course, there's no reason a language can't both compete with and compile to Javascript, like CoffeeScript for example.
The scale is off on that comparison too, actually.

turnip 1.00, node.js 0.18

Not only is Node less popular than Rails, it's not even as popular as turnips.
Apple's next iPad to be named 'iPad HD' instead of iPad 3, report claims
For free services, I think it's understandable that Google wants to profit from the data they collect. I'd prefer they didn't, but to a point I'm willing to live with it so long as there are ways to opt-out to some degree. Not prepared to give them a blank cheque.

For me, migrating from their services doesn't seem warranted given the changes. From what I've seen it's relatively easy to minimise the impact. That said, moving to paid/alternative services, probably a good idea, this just isn't a trigger for me.
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Path - San Francisco - http://path.com/jobs

Looking for server/infrastructure engineers, mobile engineers (probably any platform but especially Android and iOS) and ops engineers. User relations, product managers and designers, and other position available I'm sure.

Email jobs[at]path[dot]com
Tell them Travis sent you.
What Is Public Relations? A Complete Breakdown
Let's assume you keep spending the thousands you do spend per year on buying the same games, movies and music, but that you also pirate things where you feel the value does not justify the price. Who's lost out? You've got something for nothing.

There is a significant body of academic work demonstrating that much piracy has this form: it does not displace a sale. Piracy may therefore be providing a net benefit to society.
Computer science != Theoretical computer science.
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How does purposely providing your user with a worse experience does no harm? That goes against any UX lesson or advice I've ever seen.
I'm sorry, but that's the most entitled and ridiculous position I've ever heard presented on the issue. As if copyright violation is somehow necessary to prevent social maladjustment.

Where I grew up, we got two channels. Later, when we erected a huge antennae, we got two more. I didn't know what "Nickelodeon" was. So what did I do? I asked kids about the show they described, and I went to a friends house who had cable to watch it.
Seattle WA, Permanent positions.
Currently working with five different companies all looking for PHP developers.
- The worlds largest video chat platform. It's used to host "cam girl" sites so anyone interested must be okay with adult entertainment.
- Casual Gaming company is looking for an eCommerce developer to build out their online platform
- Profitable startup in the project management SAAS space.
- Company that focuses on education. Hosts study guides, book summaries, quizzes, etc..
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I'm getting bored with Javascript.

I had a look at Julia and as a result I think that there is some solid value in designing a language whose performance can match C if needed yet use dynamic typing when convenient.

I just don't know what to do next: CoffeeScript or Dart?

Both improve on Javascript. CoffeeScript with a cool syntax. Dart with performance.

How can I have both?
I'm upvoting you for the use of the word "extincted," which apparently the OED says is kind of ok:

http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=2004324
You could also argue that wasting all of your time watching TV shows directly impacts your future. Basically anything we do now directly impacts our future.
If even a small portion of the US' population had any idea what socialism actually was, maybe we wouldn't all be going bankrupt from our asinine health care system....

It's all about framing. "Safety net" versus "Wealth redistribution".

For the record, I prefer that the American adapt the McDonald business model to medical care for increased safety and economy of scale. Copy what the Indian did with eye surgery and heart surgery, not what the European did.
I imagine rewriting a large code base in any language to be very expensive, I doubt somebody can justify such an expense just because a bunch of new hires don't want to use a language. Companies don't rewrite java apps in lisp because a new of college grads don't want to use java.
This is really a fantastic idea... partners should be lining up. More and more services have http hook support, but I'm sure people don't want to (or don't know how to) run a server just to turn, say, a json callback into an e-mail that goes to their sales department. Similarly, all of these companies building callbacks don't want to provide a custom scripting environment / rule editor for customers to write this code. Seems like a great bit of glue.
Could you automate a patent troll using a variation on the SCIgen software and effectively ddos the entire patent office with nonsensical gibberish?

Am I bad for thinking of such things? ;)
If I download a small artist's music illegally but then spend the money on going to see them live, how is this any different to buying their music except that I've got something for nothing? What about artists who have become big because of all the free marketing that the Internet offers them?

As with many things in the real world, it's a murky situation..
We are on Paul Graham's Hacker News, this is already in the canon:

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
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This is so true. And the comment about academics is well taken as well.

Having had many, many experiences on Usenet back in the day where I would post something, someone would pick out some quibbling points, and I'd respond with more clarity, and they would pick at that, and I'd respond again. Until we had like 4 or 6 postings which ended in "Oh, well if you put it like that I guess." and knowing I had basically said the same thing half a dozen times, lead me to the same conclusion as jerf here.

What ever you write, some fraction of the audience won't get it. And some fraction of that group may be inclined to respond. Outside of actual trolling, it is the nature of communication. Especially words only communication, that it is imperfect.

Once I realized that I tend to be more like raganwald in that I read something, and if it doesn't make sense to me I try to read it again and see if I can figure it out, like a puzzle.
How Google’s new privacy policy may harm our discovery process
As someone who has been searching on/off for a business cofounder I don't think you're giving enough credit to what a bizdev cofounder can do. I need someone to blog about the product/industry, to start cold calling customers and set up meetings, to write copy, to work on the demo video, to set up ad campaigns, to form the corporation, to help with the UX, etc.

Writing the code has taken up about 40% of my time. The other 60% could have been done by someone with no coding abilities at all. There is more than enough work to go around in a startup.

Oh, and if this sounds like you my email is in the profile.
Really? That would imply there's only 730 people living in a given zip code (365 days in a year * 2 genders). Unless you mean birth date.
Domain Optimization - The Facts and the Myths
It is obvious to make from SEO high priority, but that doesn't mean you should only focus on building great content forgetting about the other important branches. One thing that people usually forget about is domain optimization which is vital in order to succeed among search engines. Here are some of the facts you should consider when optimizing your domain name and also some myths you should avoid.
Good work, but I think good for Google apps users (only?)....
HNHiring.me: A pleasant interface for the monthly hiring posts
I appreciate the feedback. It was just surprising to see the article with significantly more relative traction get buried while others I've posted without seem to still be here.

I hopeI was fair in my analysis, given the data I had at hand. Still think its worth posting to Hacker News, just with a grain of sand.

I'm pragmatic, which is cool because if Hacker News is not what I said, its only a matter of time before I come around.