skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By that same token, we'd consider Wordpress overkill for a blog too, right?

Well, a lot of the people using static site generators now came from Wordpress. Mostly because they fulfilled all the "requirements": Able to handle markup/scripting/deployment, no big need for all kinds of widgets and plugins, and the possibility of being subjected to overload (e.g. by posting here…).

One major feature of Wordpress and similar platforms is the editing/admin section, of course. Not everyone wants/can do everything with git. So I wasn't saying that there's no need for something like this at all…

Still, whether this is any worse than wordpress depends on the architecture, of course. Loading everything in client-side JavaScript doesn't need to be less efficient then generating it server-side. Good caching is possible, too.
(I am not an expert, this is just what I think) The problem is: you need tens of thousands of dollars for a single manufacturing run. You can either raise capital by selling equity (traditional investment), or raise capital by preselling your device using Kickstarter. (Obviously there are more options).

This is basically the best of both worlds approach. The getting your cake and get to eat it too: you get the capital AND keep all of your equity, with a healthy dose of knowing the demand of your product before beginning your first run.
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I'm Tudor from Romania (see article)

Being an "physically-outsider" to the US/SV environment, I must say that Ohours was and still is a great tool for getting my startup closer to the States. Although I read a lot of news, actually talking to someone every now-and-then makes me more energized and gets me closer to understanding the environment.

I think it was Molly I told that lately (after December 2011) I saw a decrease in people using the video-chat option in Ohours.

So if you'd like to speak/share/learn/meet truly new people/stuff, schedule some hours and you'll surely find some interesting people.

PS: Molly, truly great talk! talk to you soon..
I think someone was ordered to come up with these characters as punishment for screwing up something else.
This website http://domai.nr help finding such domain names.
Computer Science programs that are taken seriously are certified by ABET, which requires computer architecture and operating systems courses that cover most of the topics he lists.

Many employers (specifically Intel, but I've seen many others) specify an ABET-accredited BS program in education requirements for job openings.
Improvements in Jenkins You Don't See, by K. Kawaguchi, CloudBees
Nicolas DeLoof wrote a post about recent UI improvements in Jenkins the other day, but Jenkins also has more improvements than meet your eyes. So let me talk about some of these other improvements, to encourage you to upgrade...
Even though these "plans" were not enacted, this evidence could be damning in Apple's larger fight. I predict that Apple and the publishers will be fined. Hopefully the result of the DoJ's investgation is that vendors adopt a wholesale model, which will probably drop the price of e-books.
Good point.

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After playing with a language with a great type system (Haskell, not Java/C++), I've become more wary and borderline uncertain about my Ruby code.

My integration tests serve two purposes:

1) Runs the code in an repeatable and isolated environment to verify I didn't do anything stupid like misname a variable, or treat something nil as an object.

2) Validate my unique application logic.

I don't think #2 goes away with other languages, but #1 changes dramatically. I've written Ruby for years, so this isn't an "outsider looking in" opinion.

Whether conscious or not, I believe move Rubyists gravitate to testing because of both #1 and #2.

#2 can be satisfied with unit tests, but in my experience, the suite becomes a lot more flexible when validating it in terms of integration tests.
Definitely jokes.

I wasn't totally sure until I saw this: http://www.groupon.com/pages/kidz-club-games
I have seen fixed width websites before. But there was some design element (and good reasoning behind it) to justify it. For the most part these kind of websites make sure you can just ignore the white space.

But on google+, when they have a column on the extreme right (for chat), you can not ignore the damn white space. It is always there. It just looks a design push that had not been taught out completely.
That's a common problem with a lot of web frameworks. Every single one of them claims to make "web development" easier. They promote themselves by showing how well they solve some narrowly-defined and often imaginary problem (in this case - client-side updates), but completely side-step all the typical issues that really make web development difficult: user and group management, caching, validation, authentication, permission handling, stuff that prevents XSS, CSRF and injection attacks, version upgrades, dependency management and so on.

Anything can be made to look easy if you're ignoring real-life issues. Heck, you can do seamless client updates by refreshing all the pages on my website every second. It will be inefficient, but it is easily doable.
This has to be some kind of undiscovered April fools joke, or something some designer put together as a joke that went live.

However, worst kids club characters? or best!

Roll sounds totally radical. As someone who also loves homemade croissants, I can relate to this character.

Does anyone else think Glasses and e-m@le will totally have a crush thing going on?

Also, I sense a very special episode where Swarmy and Pyles learn that everyone is a little different, but it's what makes us similar that really counts.
Comedian Jim Gaffigan Had Margaret Brennan Giggling On Bloomberg TV Today
> 2 Don’t listen to that voice in your head. You know, the one that always tells you: “Just 10 more minutes of sleep won’t hurt right? We will definitely get up after that.”

I listen to that voice every day. My alarm goes off at 4:30 AM, I doze for another ten minutes, and then I get up promptly at 4:40 AM. YMMV, but for me, that last ten minutes makes the difference between staggering out of bed feeling ill and half-zonked, and rising awake and alert.
It is. Most of the time this is expressed as test-to-code, and I suspect it was originally written that way before being reworded.
On that page then click the chapter title again and you will see the full chapter. It's set up like a blog where you first see a preview and then need to click on the title to see the full blog post.
If I had time for useless busywork at my job, I would get a new job rather than do the useless busywork.
Every time a random blog like this surfaces on HN I make a point of considering the source, by clicking through a few of the other articles. In this and many other cases, scratch the bland surface of the linked post and you'll find this kind of nutty political screed: http://www.kernelmag.com/yiannopoulos/1786/extreme-cognitive...

So handle with care.
Why an Accelerator?
Yeah but maths isn't fun.
I would gladly pay the Hacker Special price if we could get a prototype and SDK this month or early May. Any chance of this happening instead of having to wait until August?
You may not want to literally jump out of bed.

Most heart attacks occur in the morning.
The users don't have a choice for the most part

The migration of the monitor industry to 16:9 wasn't one sided. Given the option between 4:3 and 16:9, users overwhelmingly chose 16:9. Eventually the demand was so unbalanced that 4:3 became less common.

Really the notion that manufacturers, except for brave Apple, unilaterally decided to force this on users is completely asinine.

The GP claimed that it was "ridiculous". What horse shit.
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In theory, you could build a site that functions entirely with just HTML and client-side Javascript. I've done it before and, so long as you can expose a directory listing on wherever you keep your 'blog posts', you can just consume it with JS, perhaps transform Markdown into HTML (or just save as HTML).

You won't get an editing/admin section though, naturally, as you won't be able to save a file to the server from client-side JS. Something like this or Node bridges that gap.

Have you seen http://www.spintoapp.com/? It just launched here the other day, and might be exactly what you're looking for. (Jekyll as a Service, basically)
Who knows the secret key/has access to the system?
Just him - in which case what happens to my data if he walks under a bus?
Or all the admins/the board/the lawyers?

So a three-letter-agency guy turns up with a SWAT team, you only need one of them to decide to reveal the key with a gun at their head - or with the threat that child porn would be found on his laptop/20kg of heroin would be found in his apartment. Chain = weakest link.
Amusing, but this is where engineering thought differs: obviously your rediscovery of the 5:12:13 right triangle or whatever was precocious and showed a deeper mastery of the subject.

That said: your advice sucked. The 3:4:5 triangle is a better choice for obvious reasons (smaller numbers) and not so obvious ones (less sensitivity to measurement error due to larger internal angles).

The critically important distinction there is precisely that between, say, Haskell and Ruby. :)
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It's a conscious take on the Burger King Kids Club.

https://www.google.com/search?q=burger%20king%20kids%20club&...

Compare the logo and the character design.
"Whereas pointless posts on Twitter are only 140 characters, don't take up much screen real estate, and are easy to skim and/or skip, that's less the case with G+. I really want a way in G+ to filter out posts by those people that don't have anything to do with the shared interest."

The big/rich displaying of every link is as big of a problem as the filtering for me. After looking at the update, I appreciate how easy it is to ignore Facebook posts and thus quickly engage with the few posts I can in a given day. Just imagining my current Facebook news feed formatted like G+ is exhausting.
There is little to no conservative populism in Europe; in Europe the political spectrum ranges from centrist (the so-called "popular" parties, passing for right-wing but still very much statist-oriented) to the extreme left, which is widely accepted and part of governing coalitions all over the continent.
Hard drives sorted by $/TB. 3TB just made it to the top
I have tried nearly all of these, and the only thing that consistently works for me is forcing myself to go to bed by midnight, and preferably at 23:00.

On nights when I get less than seven and a half hours of sleep, it's like I'm a different person immediately after waking up: I don't care what my future or previous self wants. I only want to go back to sleep.

On nights when I give myself eight or more hours to sleep, I will wake up on time without any external prompt (including the alarm). It's a lot easier to be rational about time at the end of a day than it is at the beginning.
Good idea but you cant trust anyone but yourself. The United States is a prison from now on.
The big iOS Gaming Blogs pretty much ignored us :) Most of those who mentioned us were flight sim related. It's easy for us to get featured in those sites since we're in a niche market.

One thing that helped a somewhat was to send them promo codes directly.

It's a painful task, sending all those emails and keeping track of those who replied, ignored, bounced back, etc... :)

What app did you guys release?

Good luck to you!
Unit testing didn't fully make sense to me until I played around with quickcheck (and eventually theorem proving in Coq). Unit tests vanish nicely to theorems and (empirical) proofs if your code expresses a succinct API. This is one end of the testing continuum.

I use this sort of stuff extensively when doing mathematical computing and statistics because there's usually a clear mathematical boundary. Once you're inside it, it's relatively easy to write down global properties (theorems) of your code's API.

The moment you cross that boundary your testing apparatuses have to get more complex and your tested properties less well-defined. Unit tests are hazier than quickcheck properties and integration tests hazier still.

This continuum seems to be precisely the same as the code reuse continuum. Highly abstracted, testable code with a shapely API is a highly reusable library whether you like it or not. Maybe it's being called by other code, maybe it's being called by your UI, maybe it's being called by the user themselves.
Well this is going straight to my iPod, https://groupon.s3.amazonaws.com/sponsorship-imgs/chicago/Ki...
Your logic seems a little off there.

Just because Andriod has gained a huge market share in China does not imply Nokia would have sold a lot of phones if they have gone with Andriod.
Will there eventually be compilers written? Or will ship controls be simple enough so that you can do it all in assembly?
The chips are programmed before they are put on the board.
Depending on the Android version and browser you're using, the webapp won't work properly. It's working on Android 3 and 4 stock browser, as well as Chrome Beta. Some browsers on Android 2 are compatible as well, like Firefox beta last time I had a look. Let us know which is your setup and I'll be able to give you more insight.

As for the rate limiting, we don't limit at the moment. If you really have a lot of data you want to push, let us now first so we can take action if needed to increase our capacity. Until now no limiting has been needed, and some users have been pushing a lot of updates for some months now.
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Any mobile platform will do. J2ME is still bundled in most dumbphones and it isn't too hard to move from Java to C# and address WP7. I gather Microsoft will do anything to get people started.
I agree. I think we're too busy cheering about how smart and progressive we are, making it so that games and iPhone stands can get crowdfunded, to realize that this is going to come back to bite us. In this case, someone outside the industry, like Taibbi, is a good sanity check, though he does have his own reasons for opposing it.
Yeah, that's pretty much the plan, only support the big devices. That also gives us an excuse to buy them all (who doesn't like unboxing a new toy :)

We'll probably get to it later this year, my main phone is a Galaxy Nexus and I'm bummed to not be able to fly with it :P
All I can say is that it's an idea. It's a shame there's no rationale.

I've seen teams that aggressively put all non-glue code in libraries, but I don't think that is what is meant here.
I would assume their client DB stubs invoke server RPCs. A few server hooks for your webapp would solve that.
Citation extremely needed here. Bytecode isn't a magic speed potion — the implementation is what will determine how fast it runs. For example, V8 ROFLstomps over the JVM-based Rhino JavaScript implementation.

At any rate, any bytecode the JavaScript VM people agreed to would almost certainly correspond very closely to JavaScript, so it's not clear that a standard bytecode would make alternative languages much faster. On top of that, the optimizers in current JavaScript implementations are highly tuned for JavaScript, so a bytecode-compiled program running on V8 might actually be slower than the JavaScript we have today.

Basically, without an implementation, this all sounds like pie-in-the-sky talk to me.
Yay India Graphic Design!
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We don't send email confirmation on signup. If you didn't see some error in bold red letters, you're set :)
I just switched from 1.9.2 to 1.9.3 specifically because it cuts Rails startup time in half.
Ah. Perfect. Thank you!
I borrowed mine from a Vernor Vinge novel - programmer at arms.
"What this really meant was that I could get an "All" view that excluded those circles holding people I'm only sporadically interested in, without having to play with the circle frequency slider thing."

So you're complaining that you can't get a filtered stream of posts without having to use the feature for filtering your stream? It's not like you have to do it more than once per circle you want to exclude.
I don't think that math is fundamentally different than band with regard to things you mentioned. Best mathematicians certainly get lots of attention from peer mathematicians. The equivalent of band trips are summer schools, where also lots of peer bonding happen. Inherent joy? Why, that's the whole point of doing math for me.
Of course! Even if I don't have an ETA to give you right now. We're adding many new services per month, prioritizing based on users requests.
This didn't seem like tips to wake up early so much as they were tips to stay awake after waking up early.

I have no issues with getting out of bed and getting productive when I wake up; the issue has been waking up at all.
AFAIK, PNaCl is heavily deemphasized in favor of vanilla NaCl.
This is passionate, noble and wrong. Or at least a false-dichotomy.

This is a defense of pure mathematics. Pure mathematics can certainly be a thing of beauty and that elegance is the draw which pulls in most mathematicians.

But applied mathematics are also a powerful tool. One needn't love the elegance of pure mathematics to appreciate the utility of applied mathematics.

I mostly like applied mathematics, though I appreciate pure mathematics. I like physics and applied computer science. Exploration into them wouldn't be possible were it not for advanced mathematics, but I usually only learn new mathematical concepts when it's demanded by the application that I'm studying. That's not the "wrong" way to appreciate mathematics and the implication is that I've almost always already answered, "Where am I ever going to use this?" before I learn add new mathematics to my toolkit.
There's a ridiculous amount of potential for episodes about a sentient swarm of bees.

How will they reconcile many humans' fear of them with their need to be loved and understood as intellectual equals?
This seems to be almost the opposite attitude of the people behind Jester: http://jester.sourceforge.net/
@dhh was talking about this on twitter before he made this post. And I think @dchelimsky has a very fair point that @dhh ignores: testing is all about effort to eliminate some amount of risk.

Test x but don't test y can't be universal. Risks are (often radically) different in every app/team.

(from https://twitter.com/#!/dchelimsky/status/190096365794230274 )

@dhh and 37Signals have a different perspective on acceptable risk for their own product (which they maintain every day) vs developers writing software for someone else/handing it off to someone else. 1 dev to 1 project vs 1 dev to x projects. As a consultant, my acceptable risk level is very different than an entrepreneur trying to push out a MVP and I think testing will reflect that.
For you coastal folks, I recommend... dawn patrol surf sessions!
Are Newer Games Excluding the Disabled?
What Does the Instagram Acquisition Mean for Startups? A LOT
The importance of your credit card is that it links the account with you.

Unless they are going to spend a gazzilion $ putting their own cell towers across the country with their own backbone then their partner telcos have your location = so does the NSA.

And unless you are only emailing people/visiting sites in their system then the other telcos have the end points of those links. Calyx could hide the originator of these packets, but in that case they are no different from any other VPN - and I have a lot more security from PATRIOT (or MPAA) requests using a VPN owned by a Liberian company run from a rack in Estonia than I do with one run out of the USA. Ironically your best 'security' at the moment from US wiretaps is to use a VPN owned by the Chinese government.
I've not used the Rails ORM so I can't comment on how good it is or how easy it is to debug queries (peer behind the magic).

*The ORM automates things like tersely expressing the object associations I've built, leaving room for fewer syntax mistakes.'

Maybe it depends on the system you're working on however mitigating syntax errors seems like a small benefit. For me the SQL for most projects is fairly static i.e. once a given set of queries has been defined and tested they can lie there untouched, so once I nail a query and it performs the way I like I hardly ever need to go back and touch it again. However the performance penalty of sitting behind an ORM is ever present, for each query (at least for a cache miss). Personally I just don't like having 100s of lines of code sitting between:

model->get(('model.field' => 'value'));

and actually receiving the data.

It just seems so.... unnecessary.

of course YMMV, and perhaps the benefits kick in when you're working in a team (I'm not).
#fuckyeah geoff!
100% agreed. Rails people have started to complain about difficult/slow tests because Rails (a framework, not a library) makes your life hard. From my own experience, you don't need all the Rails magic to get started on a project, and once you do, it just happens to be a completely different magic that you need.

Hence I try to divide my projects into lots of application agnostic code (the libraries that need to be unit tested), and little application specific code (the glue code that needs to be integration tested).
Awesome product! Great to see another startup using Kickstarter to get going.

I started mine two days ago, I'm trying to raise the money to pay Twilio fees for giving my intelligent journal to 10,000 people in developing countries. Can't wait to see the success you guys have, Kickstarter is a great platform!

That being said, I think a Kickstarter is much more appropriate for physical products than it is software products. People like being able to get physical things, and being a part of the process.
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Wicked exploit found in Linux WiFi
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