skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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He always was in control of the tech:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F98Dss5f8o0
The steve and woz picture reminded me of this scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80zFQ57RbdM&t=37m40s
People pay attention to how you dress because it's the very first communication you make, before you shake hands or say "Hello". And there is no reason to open that conversation with the phrase "this is not important to me".
Windows Home Server is excellent. It backs up the 5 or 6 Windows 7 and XP computers in my house every night (incremental backup), and has decent customization options. I believe it also works with OSX.

You can then do occasional offsite or online backups of the entire Windows Home Server machine.
Andy Baio used to catalog embarrassingly lame April 1st pranks in a post titled "Internet Jackass Day". I've always been a bit disappointed the name didn't catch on.
For a while I was convinced he was basing his strategies on Football Manager (the PC game).
Because some social interaction is necessary, allowing anything less than constant total social immersion is "bending over backwards for Introverts" and anyone who desires such is useless dead weight. Anyone who thinks that it might be useful to have even ten minutes of peace and quiet to be able to type or think without interruption is clearly delusional, because all thinking is done as part of a conversation.
I think this is confusing two issues.

Firstly, no matter how much various techies might desire Android to be similar to the iPhone ecosystem and the way Apple updates it's products, it isn't going to happen because handset manufacturers can't recoup the cost of maintenance in the same way Apple does (via services - the AppStore / iTunes etc).

Secondly, where there is a hint of reality in the article, Google are freaked out by the relative success of Amazon with it's tablet offering vs the piss poor generic Android tablet sales. Amazon and Google are in competition with each other much more than Google is with the handset vendors so I could understand a pure play Google tablet to compete on the basis of it's services vs Amazon.
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My story certainly is one-side and there would have been lots of opportunities for my own improvements in the work I did.
I also suggest Bvckup (http://www.bvckup.com/) for continuous backups of directories.
Explaining why hard games are awesome and should not be missed.
I really do not like this writing style. Everything is presented as fact, without any attributions or reasoning or proof. This way I do not know what is an actual fact and what is just speculation and conjecture on part of the writer.

For example while reading the article I thought that Google had actually announced a tablet called play. Then towards the end I started getting suspicious, and did a Google search and seems like there is no such announcement. Play is just a name of a marketplace as far as i can tell.

I still am not sure whether there is an announcement or a rumor of a tablet called Play.

If you want to be taken seriously you should qualify the more drastic assertions you are making. You can use terms like "I believe", or "so and so announced" or "as my analysis below shows", etc. Even the more wimpy "sources say" or "rumor has it" is better than reporting rumors as facts.

Of course it does not seem that the writer is even reporting rumors as facts here. He is reporting wild-ass speculations or even fantasies as facts.
You mean like Gmail, Youtube, Books, Music?
I know I'm playing devil's advocate here, but perhaps as events play out I'll prove right...

Google won't stop producing Android releases with new Android features for manufacturers.

If they even thought it wasn't worth the effort just to hand it off to manufacturers to destroy, they would be putting their main properties at the mercy of two fierce competitors: Apple and Microsoft.

Android sucks. I'll talk about that in a different blog post.

Nevertheless, compared to nothing at all, Android is awesome for Google, for the casual phone owner (have you noticed that "feature phones" are vanishing?) - and that includes the teen demographic - and awesome for open source.

Android's open source strategy sucks too - note Honeycomb or the lack thereof. But Google is a white knight in shining armor compared to Apple...
I'm not the greatest speller.
Not sure if this was sarcastic or not, but the words are true. Boomers had it and continue to. Whats left for the younger generation is a world of fear and terror, where standing outside of the yellow marked line can and most likely will castrate you.
How about the actual facts:

http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Journaling

So yes it is periodic by default (in the millisecond range). However you can wait on any request until it has become durable.

As for replication, people seem to have some hate for that, but the reality is that a journalled system that has failed (any database/operating system) will take a large amount of time to come back up, replay/recover journals etc. Not that useful.
I through together a (rough) Cocoa version: https://github.com/dave-gallagher/OSX-For-Cocoa-Hackers

Binary: https://github.com/downloads/dave-gallagher/OSX-For-Cocoa-Ha...

git clone git@github.com:dave-gallagher/OSX-For-Cocoa-Hackers.git

It's not as robust as the script, but it lets you choose individually what setting you want changed, and also added defaults.
I enjoy Scala but I would say there is truth to 3 (phantom menace). Although tool support has improved markedly over the last couple of years I still get cases where the IDE is complaining about an error and I go nuts trying to fix it only to give up, run it anyway, and have the error just disappear.

If you spend too much time reading Scala blogs, you may get the impression that 6 (the type babel) is how many people write scala. A lot Scala bloggers like to write articles that exploit or examine clever aspects of the type system but it can be pretty impenetrable at times. At least to a blub like me.
Getting Cozy With Underscore.js
Poll: Spotted the Polls/Karma Link?
Anyone else noticed how polls have become a quick vehicle to boost karma ?
Ahh.. I saw what you did there!
I stand by my definition that 9.5 hours in a work day is far from intense. This applies to corporate culture, small business culture, and especially startup culture.

I won't lower myself to respond to personal attacks which fill the rest of your post.
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What do you mean by lack of Honeycomb? It was released with ICS, so not in a timely fashion (Honeycomb seemed like a rush job), but it is certainly available.
How much do passports cost? What proportion of North Americans don't have passports?

What proportion of people signing up to social networks have bad intentions? What proportion require pseudonymity and have good intentions?
You can have the entitlements, we have a chance to change the world. For all the hippy protests, and idealism, and futurism, that generation did SQUAT.
Note for those who do not know, Tcl already provides the ability to do cross platform non-blocking TCP servers.

Look at the Tcl "socket" command.

Very basic file server in 8 lines: http://wiki.tcl.tk/23621

Simple HTTP server in a page of code: http://wiki.tcl.tk/4333
Why Can't Startups Find Designers?
Look, we are at both ends of the spectrum, trying to reach for the <div align="center"> (tentative coder humour). I could suggest that we exchange emails, doing something like "corresponding". I'm ready to share my load of experience in exchange for and outside viewpoint. jef at 5m dot ca
OP here.

Totally appreciate feedback on writing style. It's valuable to me.

FWIW, though, the very first sentence of the post links to this WSJ article about Google launching a tablet:

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB1000142405270230340470...

I have a (likely unfounded) bias against writing "I think..." or "I beleive...". I think (!) it comes from being railed against by an English teacher to be less wordy.
There is so much irony around "agilistas" applying practices like these carte blanche.

Let's create a new buzzword: POPS
People over process, stupid.
Honestly. It really depends on the complexity of the company you have. Most tax software is going to be for windows only. Mac has very limited software for Mac because enterprise is traditionall windows.

The short answer is. Save yourself the trouble and just use windows software.

Sorry :(
Where did you notice any sarcasm? The numbers and facts mostly speak for themselves.
Sounds jolly. I guess the best thing to do in this future hellworld is invest in some yellow road paint and a pair of shiny metal underpants. Will there still be ice cream?
Startup Funding Roundup: These 10 Startups Raised Over $59 Million This Week
As someone who pairs 90% of my working time, I can't help but smile at the Bitbucket Flickr gallery:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/bitbucketspooning/
He's actually a poster-boy for the limits of tech: despite all his whiz-bang technowizardry, he's a crap, overrated manager.

What little he won, he bought it with millions and an incredible stroke of luck in one Istanbul night. His Liverpool was terrible but had a few charismatic players at the absolute top of their game. No wonder Benitez lasted only a few months in his next high-flying job (although to be honest, it would have been a poison chalice for almost any manager).

I predict he will keep doing badly as long as he insists in being a coach. His skills in tech do not compensate for his evident lack of footballing knowledge.
and you have completely missed the point of my post. (I downvoted you)
I really wonder where you found “some_obj open_!” ... that looks like Ruby.
> I don't see why they can't raise stamp prices to 60 cents or so. That would cover most of the shortfall.

Why do you believe they'll sell the same number of stamps if they raise the price? When GM was in trouble, would you have posted "I don't see why they can't raise car prices by $1000 or so to cover the shortfall"?

USPS sells an overpriced product. If private companies were legally allowed to charge less than the post office to stick mail in your mailbox, the post office would go under in a heartbeat; the only reason they survive at all is that they have a legally-protected monopoly on non-urgent mail. But even monopolists can't charge whatever they want because there are substitutes for every good. People who send a lot of mail will notice small price increases and be ever-more-prone to switch to alternatives (fax, email, web, phone...) the higher the price gets.

In short, raising the stamp price might raise revenue, but it also might lower revenue.
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so, brainstorming is useless?

Sitting around and talking about an idea is useless?

The entire point of the article is not to discount these things because they are useless, but to discount them because a small percentage of the population find them uncomfortable.
Its an April Fools joke.

3) was true until a few months ago. Or maybe its because I switched from a remote source repo mounted via Samba to a local flash HDD :-) I have been using Eclipse trouble free for a few months now, no issues whatsoever, except for some magic required during the initial maven setup.

4) Is an issue Scala outsiders complain about, but I have never seen this as an issue with people actually using Scala.

Build times are high compared to Java projects, though this could simply be because I am using scalac instead of fsc to build projects via maven. However, compilaton is incremental, so crazy build times should never occur in practice and the IDE highlights mistakes in less than a second.
In my case I got $4000 someone was only willing to buy for $3500. It just depends on the vehicle.
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There's a good book about this:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Pinch-Boomers-Childrens-Future/d...

... by a serving UK cabinet minister (so I guess it didn't do a lot of good).
there is a difference between killing someone's browser, and making him feel like a fool.
There's a much more substantial article in esquire about this:

http://www.esquire.com/print-this/young-people-in-the-recess...

It was submitted recently but didn't make the front page.

If I think about this stuff too much, it makes me want to burn things.

It's going to come back to bite the boomers in twenty years when the youth feel absolutely no obligation to support them. I and a lot of my peers are planning to leave our home countries specifically so we don't have to spend a single penny supporting the twilight indolence of that morally vacuous cohort who literally ruined the world for their benefit, after spending their youths supposedly saving it, and their middle ages talking endlessly about how great they are for having done so, all while they carved chunks out of their children's future.
The ‘So What’ Of The Quantified Self
I was honestly looking forward to the BB phones based on QNX/BB10. I'm hoping RIM doesn't abandon the consumer side entirely before releasing BB10 phones.
Damn google, I don't want to look at it, I want to play it!!!
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This kind of thing will continue in any government system wherein the current body can borrow large sums of money now to pay for perk's now with little to no consequences now. Eventually someone pays the price but the bet is that someone will be around when the current beneficiary isn't.
Tech Tower at Georgia Tech: http://g.co/maps/ncaqd
One of the other interesting changes in this release from my perspective:

* Do not include the authenticity token in forms where remote: true as ajax forms use the meta-tag value DHH

This doesn't really explain accurately what happened. It's not that the default behavior changed; rather a new option was actually introduced to allow you to easily do this if needed for fragment caching a remote form without making it cache a stale authenticity token (used to protect against CSRF attacks).

From the core mailing list:

Rails 3.2.3 also introduces a new option that allows you to control
the behavior of remote forms when it comes to `authenticity_token`
generation. If you want to fragment cache your forms, authenticity
token will also get cached, which isn't acceptable. However, if you
only use such forms with ajax, you can disable token generation,
because it will be fetched from `meta` tag. Starting with 3.2.3, you
have an option to stop generating `authenticity_token` in remote forms
(ie. `:remote => true` is passed as an option), by setting
`config.action_view.embed_authenticity_token_in_remote_forms = false`.
Please note that this will break sending those forms with javascript
disabled. If you choose to not generate the token in remote forms by
default, you can still explicitly pass `:authenticity_token => true`
when generating the form to bypass this setting.
The option defaults to `true`, which means that existing apps are
NOT affected.
Ubuntu, GNOME and Design.
You didn't ask a question (was there a question mark in your post that I missed?). You did, however, make an assertion which I corrected.

In an honest, respectful discussion that would occasion a response along the lines of either: "Ah, I didn't think about it like that. Let me see about adjusting the line of my reasoning," or, "No, your correction is invalid because..."
I forgot. HN is filled with introverts and rather than use logic and intelligence to vote on comments, use pure emotion.
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The dog statue is the statue of Hachiko outside Shibuya station http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachik%C5%8D
The entire point of the article is not to discount these things because they are useless, but to discount them because a small percentage of the population find them uncomfortable.

Funny, that's not what it said when I read it.

Those things can be useful but, since other (opposite) things can be useful and even necessary as well, practicing them to the exclusion of all else like you're suggesting is stupid and counter-productive.
I know the commits are in the commit log, so yeah, you can dig out Honeycomb if you want...

I'm referring to all the drama when Honeycomb was _shipping_ on tablets but the source wasn't released yet.
For all means — learn the language — you can only profit from it whether you decide to use it or not.

In my experience, the language is built by people who really want to make things work. They do all the painful work to make even the most exotic corner cases work as people would expect it. So developers can be confident that the language doesn't break down suddenly, like when you overuse Generics in Java and just hit the wall where the compiler decides that it won't let you do that for no good reason.

The best thing about Scala imho is that they deliver. People are constructive and when valid issues are brought up, they will be fixed. (Better IDE support, more documentation, faster compilation, smaller standard library, better performance ...)
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I dislike the idea of authors submitting their own articles. It could be argued that the point was to produce an interesting debate on the subject on HN, but:
1) there is no news here, only speculations, which are, as hristov said, badly put in a matter-of-fact way
2) the title is misleading to think that the problem is in the platform, not the brand, which is in fact discussed

As far as Android branding is concerned, I would say that the brand is still solid, it seems that the "android phone" idea is becoming widely spread (and the only idea that can parry iPhone, since Nokia is taking a nose dive, and Windows phone is not living up to the expectations), and changing to something new at this point seems like a bad idea. Sure, Google could even push "Google Tracktor" brand, but why waste all the marketing and re-starting, when you could go with "Android certified", or similar term that will be familiar and clearly note the prestige of the new product in some way?
I think "delusion" is somehow needed for anyone to have the balls to start a company. The odds are so much against you. Everyone around you who never became entrepreneurs themselves will never understand what drives you.....you are just simply a different kind of animal.
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Yeah, that's pretty harsh given that you haven't tried it. Of course it could be better with more work put toward it, my point was that the platform has made it a pain. Whereas things that worked on the first version of the iOS SDK still work well, the same hasn't been true of Android (mostly the screen sizing). I unfortunately don't have time to update it with new versions of android. I don't dislike Android, but I don't like it as a dev platform. The bad reviews I see of the iOS client are actually mostly unrelated to issues with the client. This is in contrast to the Android side.

In any case, I was mostly referring to the email feedback I get about the two versions.
Great makes a lot of sense thanks for expanding. Like you touch on I think price is the big issue for most people who aren't looking to build for 15mm/month but are just looking to sleep at night knowing that getting to the frontpage of digg, reddit, techcrunch, hackernews, etc won't sink the ship.
I always compare those who program in PHP to those young teen who are rushing to Justin Bieber Concerts ,and to the cinema just to watch Twillight ,and they are so exited ,but they ignore that there is a hole world out there ,where music is not judged by appearances,and movies are not judged by makeup and love scenes,and where there is some powerful programming languages that let you enjoy building a scalable ,powerful projets in some hours.
Awesome, thanks - I'll take a look at doing this.
At this point it feels like the next version of Javascript should just standardize CoffeeScript syntax and add a few much needed features CoffeeScript can't currently do because of JS limitations.
(1) I don't like this button on face book
With every new edition of Adobe products we get more posts on http://adobegripes.tumblr.com/ to enjoy :)
One thing is true: implicits. Do not let new scalable programmers use them. When used with type classes, magic. When used as "helper" or "convenience" convertions, disaster.
A different take on the matter: http://boldanddetermined.com/2012/03/29/why-you-should-dress...
At my current place of work I have the choice of working in a 2-person office or on the (semi-)open floor. Working on the open floor can be frustrating with the distraction, but it has natural light. Working in an office is productive but without the light it's depressing.

My current compromise is to enjoy the natural light on the floor and use earplugs when I really need to concentrate.
An acquaintance of mine who once worked at a mexican restaurant told me that there was hardly any profit made on the food -- the profit came from the drinks the restaurant sold along with it. The taco as a loss leader ;-)

Same with inkjet printers nowadays.They almost cost nothing ($35), but when you run out of ink, you realize where they get their money from.
Here's the TL/DR:

If you want to increase your chances of finding a designer for your startup, you should
* Hang out on designer sites like http://dribbble.com or http://behance.com, not just Hacker News.

* Stop looking for someone that can do logos, web design, UI design, and even code HTML/CSS and JavaScript on top of that.

* Consider hiring someone with less experience and letting them learn on the job.

* Don't limit your search to the US, there are tons of great designers abroad too.

* Look at hiring a freelancer if a full-time position is too hard to fill.
The Oldenburg spoonbridge sculpture in Minneapolis: http://g.co/maps/z3wby
Challenge
translation: fill in the missing yellow part so that "Hello World" is printed
translation: fill in the missing yellow part so that "Hello World" is printed
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Tokyo, Japan:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Tokyo,+Japan&hl=en&ll=...
"There are varying definitions of "functional"-ness."

I wonder if there are varying definitions of "object-oriented"-ness.

Also, I hear clojure is a true scotsman while scala is not.
Yes, it's pretty expensive, though DUMBO is more expensive. But you can get a lot farther out in Brooklyn without saving much money. Williamsburg, Park Slope, Ft. Greene, Carroll Gardens, Downtown Brooklyn all seem about as expensive as Brooklyn Heights, while being farther away from Manhattan and without as much subway coverage. My thought is: if you want to spend less than $2000 for a one-bedroom and live in a nice neighborhood with subway service less than a half-mile away, it doesn't matter where you live. It's not going to happen.
Nothing for Baltimore, as far as I could find :(
That's quite a leap of judgement. Of course building a company will be a lot more intense. That's absolutely no indication that he's not ready. Besides, intensity has to do with the rate at which he works and nothing to do with how long he works.
This is spam generated using a markov text generator, not an ELIZA-style phrasebook.

It's not really "black-hat NLP", since the generator has no concept of semantics, only n-gram probabilities.