skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't know that secret locations had access to high bandwidth feeds. It definitely wouldn't be too difficult to figure out where he was. I wonder what web service they used to conduct the interview?
guest@tomg.co:/$ make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.
guest@tomg.co:/$ make me a sandwich
No.
I wouldn't answer in his position either. If there's any internal record that he wasn't sure (and how could he be before the trial's over), and if he mentioned it to anyone who isn't a lawyer (no attorney-client privilege), then a definite answer either way invites a perjury charge.
And that's the interesting thing about Kickstarter – am I backing it just for the raw value of the product or because I want to see it actually get made? If the latter, am I willing to pay more?

In this case, personally, I am.
I think there is less here than meets the eye. We will hear about signalling because the new big seed rounds have added another option to the collection of plausible sounding excuses VCs use when they don't want to invest. But as with the other excuses, it will always be less of a problem in reality than it seems to be from what the VCs are saying.

If you judged by what VCs say when they turn people down, it would seem like the most dangerous thing you could do as a startup would be to start a company VCs couldn't add much value to.
Yes, he has a working prototype, check the video.
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Where do you publish papers related to computer, programming and the like?
Fish Oils
I'm not upset that higher pledge tiers don't include the rewards of previous tiers. This is not always cost effective, especially when you factor in T-shirt production and whatnot. I do believe however that the higher levels should give more value to the backer, where value can be reasonable calculated. Specifically, I take issue with the higher of these two tiers:

> PLEDGE $1,000 OR MORE - 10 licenses of Light Table and acknowledgement as a backer of the project.

> PLEDGE $5,000 OR MORE - 25 licenses of Light Table and acknowledgement as a sponsor of the project.

How can a pledging 5x the amount of the previous tier give you only 2.5x the value?
Perhaps, but part of this is demonstrating the demand for a product of this kind. If Chris reaches the goal for funding, but fails to release a product, hopefully the fact he managed to raise that much cash will indicate to someone else - Microsoft, IntelliJ, Eclipse developers - that there is real money to be made in reinventing the IDE.

I don't see it as chipping in $100 for Lighttable itself (which I do want), I see it as showing there is a very real demand for new thinking in IDE-land.
You should try out Sublime Text. I have used it on all three platforms and it works pretty much the same on all of them.
Day 2 of Oracle v. Google Trial
I was hoping this was about programmers in Arkansas (area code 501).
What Software stack (Or module set) do you use and Why?
I'm interested to know, who uses what on HN?
I use:

Ruby on Rails
MySQL
Linux

Although Im playing with:
node.js - server side
backbone.js - client side
sockets.io - interconnect
mongoDB
Show HN: Like jekill, but using bash (and bootstrap)
Article (and demo of results) on how my (new) web site is built.

tags cloud, layouts, includes, RSS, breadcrumbs, navigation, sitemap, archives by year (in reverse chronological order),... yes... can be done with bash.

I've to improve it, it's in alpha launch, feedback welcome.
One of (probably many) caveats to keep in mind is that how ad prices relate to fundamentals can differ a lot across markets. For example, in some markets companies are willing to take a loss on advertising (in the sense that conversions times conversion rate is less than advertising cost), because they value acquiring a customer highly. Sometimes they even are willing to pay more to acquire a customer than the (direct) lifetime value of that customer, if the goal is to build up critical mass to break into a network-effects-heavy market. At the other end, in some markets, prices are based on fairly short-term returns, so people pay $0.50 only if there's a reasonable expectation of > $0.50 in conversions.
Tried this, it's not really possible because Heroku deploys restart the server and make the site inaccessible for a few minutes (and often errors out requests).

Hoping Heroku will fix what I consider a major bug. Until then, I've resigned to having to redeploy to heroku in the middle of the night to avoid customers getting pissed.
Updates to Rich Snippets
Enterprises move very slowly, but, if Oracle starts trying to aggressively monetize Java, future deployments may end up using alternative technologies.

In Google's defense, when they started Android Java belonged to Sun. Sun never was as malignant as Oracle.

In retrospect, they should have acquired Sun (maybe Larry and Sergei would have to pool their credit cards). That Sun ended up being part of Oracle is a larger tragedy than DEC ending up being acquired by Compaq.
The strength of his past contributions alone is enough to convince me to donate. You can't throw a football in Clojure land without hitting a high-quality contribution of his.
I guess the point of the author is that no language can have a debugger as powerful as Smalltalk's, as having the code, the state and the tools live in the same environment is the only way you can go as deep as Smalltalk debuggers go.

If you're editing your code in an editor, running it in an interpreter and storing the state in your RAM, there's no way your editor is gonna be able to stop at a point of your stack to let you modify a piece of code live, or add a method, or override an operator, or change the class of a living object and continue as if nothing ever happened.
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You get to be a 'sponsor'. That's obviously twice as good as a 'backer'.

Honestly, I have no idea. In the end, these levels are primarily oriented at companies or other groups (education?), not individuals. What's one person going to do with 25 licenses?
What you are really proposing here is to take away competition from the market. This would mean that you need another way of assigning the winner(buyer or seller, in case there are multiple ones wanting to buy the same stock); Some ways of doing it: randomly, alphabetically, shoe size, networth etc. You get the drift... The question is, will it be fair?

In capitalist systems winners are assigned based on open and fair competition, but then again there are other political views and systems.
Here is an amazing talk on Content Centric Networking from Van Jacobson ( of VJ header compression fame)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6972678839686672840
http://www.sublimetext.com
Could the overwhelming aspects be automated? I can see where you would need to design the initial shirt and verify its quality, but isn't the rest just exporting a portion of your database and giving it to a t-shirt printer that ships? (or maybe they don't do that for you?)

Or is the problem that people are manually doing something that cafepress or zazzle provide might provide?
A word of caution... :) I had a similar experience with Obj-C and decided to give smalltalk a try. After a brief struggle and period of wetware refactoring, I can longer stand to work in anything else.
My experience with Clojure up to now is very positive, although I have to agree with you that the missing support for documenting data structures is a big problem. Hopefully it will be added soon.
Are you saying that Sublime Text doesn't run well on Windows? I know it runs just fine on Mac and Linux.
CurseMetrics: profanity in your repo
Ignoring the usual "vim", "emacs" etc., do try Sublime Text 2, if all you're after is an editor. So far it's proved unfailingly excellent for me :).

FWIW Chris stated in a previous post that Lighttable would be built on embedding CodeMirror, which, being web-based, should make creating cross-platform builds much easier.
Well, you get your logo on the home page for a year, which could be very good advertising if the project becomes big. However, I have no clue how much the advertising would actually be valued for a typical company.
Cross platform is probably exactly the reason more native code isn't being written.

You get more surface area for your app and you don't have to worry about if the platform you are writing for will exist tomorrow.
Check out Amber! It's browser-based!

The online ProfStef tutorial (which is based on Pharo's ProfStef tutorial) is quite comprehensive: http://amber-lang.net/learn.html
Tim: In what way can O'Reilly Publishing benefit from or emulate Khan Academy to disseminate the educational materials in your books. Further, have you thought of putting together a curriculum using the Khan Academy model teaching your materials to enable upcoming generations of developers/entrepreneurs?

Do you think programming should be a basic element in education i.e. reading, writing, arithmetic, programming.
I spent several years as a Smalltalk developer and now I'm a decently proficient Rails developer. SmallTalk is about as close to coding perfection as you're ever going to get and the IDE just puts it over the top. If you havn't coded in your own debugger, dropped stack and started coding all over again you've missed out on something wonderful. I hope someday, someone will be able to resurrect the greatest OOP language I've ever known and make it relevant on the web.
This case is not similar at all.

Sun's objection to Microsoft's JVM was not that they implemented it, but that they implemented something which was clearly not Java (due to incompatibilities/incompleteness/etc.), but which Microsoft called "Java" anyway. At the time, Sun made no claim whatsoever (that I'm aware of) that third parties could not legally implement JVMs.

Oracle is now making the claim that third parties cannot implement their own JVMs without paying Oracle for a license, on grounds that copyright to a language or API specification extends to the right to forbid implementations of those specifications.
Twitter Reveals Innovator's Patent Agreement, Makes Pull-to-Refresh Safer to Use
If that is true, does that mean anyone will be free to implement any programming language developed by anyone, regardless of the designers' wishes?

Looks like there be will no monetary incentive in inventing a very innovative languages when the big guys can just come in and re-implement it and not pay a cent.
I just got my Verizon 4G JETPACK mifi device today. Still has a 5GB data cap :(

I am not sure how fast ill hit that limit - but I hit that limit on my T-Mobile MyTouch 4g in about 5 days previously...
Do you have a Work in Progress limit?
This one point has me sitting on the fence with taking my app to production on Heroku, or using Amazon EC2 directly and eating the time to build Chef scripts to provision servers.
Sounds like most of the OpenFlow concept is a no-brainer improvement, but when they talk about using it for centralized control, that is worrisome.
Focus on Finishing
I think that's excessive paranoia on Google's part. It would be interesting to look at actual Android customizations and see if any of them would be affected by a GPLed JVM.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper...

:)
The premise is wrong. Plenty of native code is being written, just not by "app" writers. The UX domain has been ceded to interpreted/managed environments (with a few holdouts: ObjC apps on iOS being the biggest one) and it isn't coming back.

But under those apps sits a huge middleware, system management, driver, kernel and firmware stack. This world is very much alive. It's just a well-developed field without a lot of innovation happening in its tools. System s programmers don't spend a lot of time writing about the super-cool new environment of the week.
If they play their cards right, they could be worth more then all of them. If you think of what they've really done, its create the real possibility of duplicity in the virtual space of a brand.

Meaning, unlike a brand webpage, twitter account, facebook page, etc. in which the brand tightly controls the message, with pinerest, they become just custodians. Because they cannot control the message, and they cannot control the virtual space, they can only influence it by ensuring that the brand or product, does or delivers exactly on the promise.

It could be the single most important reputation and sentiment index for products and brands.
It may be helpful to think of Alice trying to unload ten different stocks each at $10, every day M-F.

With HFT, some trades will go according to your first scenario; others will go according to the scenario you responded to. On net, Alice sells all her stocks to Eve and gathers in $100 every day.

If Eve stays home, instead Alice unloads perhaps six of her stocks to Bob at $10.05 each, and is still holding on to four of them. She doesn't want to end the day with $60.30 and four stocks she doesn't want, so she unloads the remaining stocks to Chuck and nets $100.10. Except that Chuck takes Mondays off, so on Monday she might end up selling to Chris and only finish with $99.90.

So what Eve (HFT) really accomplishes here is she grabs 10 cents of Alice's potential profit on most days or 10 cents of Alice's loss on Monday. Alice is happy with this arrangement because she gets the certainty of getting her $100 each day for the minimum effort. Eve is happy because she's grabbed an average profit of 6 cents per day (40 cents for T-F, -10 cents for M) in exchange for taking on a little bit of risk.

The real loser in this scenario is Freida, who is trying to do the same thing as Eve but is a little bit slower.
Fuck any article that starts with a talking pop-up avatar.

I am not interested in anything you have to say now - and closed that.
Cool, I have no doubt it’ll require a team. Offer a few more specifics on the Kickstarter page. How many people? Time frame?

I say this to help your efforts – more specifics mean more likely support, imho.
This certainly takes things further than my simple SemicolonScript idea, nicely done.
http://rodhowarth.com/semicolonscript/
Can you please make this configurable? Instead of ;, we can use : @ * etc or something like language of smiley's :)
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Paywall startup Piano believes it can fix publishers' problems
I'd like to know too, but I'm not skeptical of the 200k figure. If this is going to work then it's not going to be a solo effort, so let's say one or two more devs and someone to do QA or support or design or whatever and this budget is looking pretty tight.
Only in some (read: insane) datacenter designs. You don't need spanned layer 2 domains unless you're doing crazy things like long-distance Vmotion. There's almost always a better way that invites less pain.
I think you both overestimate the amount of freedom in having your own startup, and underestimate the amount of freedom in a good role at a larger company.
Came in here looking for this, and was pleased. Thanks.
To the cloud ... Not. Article finally exposing faults in cost savings myth...
All social platforms need time to find their own voice/posting behavior. Think of how Instagram evolved it's own etiquette instead of being yet another place to dump your photos.

I'm with Google here. Allowing people to use the API and cross-post might get them short term wins but will cause long term harm; they will be commoditizing themselves and worse, not giving themselves the chance to build an organic community.
Think "centralized control over all the routers and other devices that make up a company's global network" (as opposed to hundreds/thousands of routers all making their own decisions)

This is not about Dr. Evil-style centralized control of the whole Internet.
How much caffeine is in chocolate?
That architecture sounds like a DoS nightmare. Now you can run out of Apache processes much faster! I wonder if mod_spdy has any built-in mitigation for this.
Make a living doing something you love. If you don't love programming then do something else.
I had this exact thought when the semicolon drama started days ago.

I'm a fan of removing ambiguity in code. I parenthesize when not necessary so that intent is clear (someone in the future will hire a complete newbie to read and "fix" this code.) I want the statement to end here --> ";" and anything else is an error - now the compiler can inform me when a mistake is made. I ask what appear to be the most asinine questions because when you say "smooth ass ride" there's a difference between a "smooth-ass ride" and a "smooth ass-ride."

And as I type all this, I begin to create a connection between all those txtspk hooligans and semicolon haters. Anyway, I'm happy that Semicolon now exists.
According to the nginx Twitter, they're targeting a May release: http://twitter.com/#!/nginxorg/status/192301063934705665
Ok, I will probably hold off on contributing then. I had alpha access for Sublime Text 2 for $60, and that seems reasonable to me. A $50 400 day pre-order is a little more than I can handle.
Someone should ask Wolfram what he thinks about this. ;)
This is what investing is like.
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'Action needed' to meet UK's cookie tracking deadline
Persona is on Kickstarter.com
If you're talking about that terminal embedded in the page, it's fake.

function Ls() {
function a() {
$(document).bind("Ls.Init", b)
}
function b() {
var a = ["How.I.Met.Your.Mother.S01E01.I.am.joking.got.you.mp4.torrent", "node-v0.6.12.pkg", "porn", "me.jpg", "index.js"],
b = "";
for (var c = 0; c < a.length; c++) b += a[c] + "<br />";
$("#terminal").append(b + "<br />"), $(".command").val("")
}
a()
}
Apple Pressures Beijing With iPad Snub
Maybe the Go language will become cross platform enough to get people back to a compiled language. iOS and Android could use Go libraries? I was watching a Rasberry PI video and wondering how fast Go would compile on them. A "modern" C would help get people back to compiled languages.

Btw, would a Go to C compiler solve the platform issues?
> "Is it because native code is much more difficult to write? That shouldn't be an excuse."

That seems like a perfectly valid excuse to me. All other things being equal, if it's more work to write an native app, why would you? And with the incredible improvements in the Javascript ecosystem, "all other things" are indeed quite often equal.
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I came across the service that cross-posts to G+ by accident. The funny thing is I can't even remember its name right now!

I couldn't turn it off if I wanted to (and I don't; I have no desire to "engage" on G+, but the narcissist in me likes knowing as many people are seeing my posts as possible).

I turned it on as an experiment to see how the people who have "circled me" on G+ would react.

The reaction has been mixed. On one hand VicG used it as an example of what not to do. A few others have made snide comments.

On the other hand, I've picked up hundreds of new circlers and gotten some interesting (to me) comments on some of my posts/tweets.
Cool. Thanks for checking it out, there are a lot of little things that we need to do in order to get it polished. So much to do, so little time. Again thanks for the heads up and if you have any more feedback or know anyone who might want to use our product, please put us in touch! :)
Nasrallah was an interesting person to hear interviewed (though I obviously don't agree with everything that he says). The NYT omits to really mention that you don't hear interviews with him in the west because (AFAIK) it is questionably legal to do so with the leader of a designated 'terrorist organisation'.

Assange asked some difficult questions. I do wonder whether questions were 'agreed' in advance though, or heavily edited, as Narallah turned them around very quickly.
I was wondering if you had some compelling (magical?) communication that shifted your clients attitudes, but you're basically guesstimating based on past performance.

I didn't see where a star rating equated to effort. I'll look again.

Thanks!
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I wrote a blog post last week that echos this sentiment. Funny how (many) people who (and tools that) espouse agile actually fail the first tenet of the agile manifesto.... (not meant as a plug but for those interested in reading .... http://www.thetaboard.com/blog/why-im-haking-thetaboard?r=37...)
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Physicist Takes the Officer's Point of View to Prove His Innocence
Personally, I don't see this. If you spend the time making sure that your application spins up nice and fast then the only downtime is from when Heroku decommissions the old version of your application and the new one starts up.

I'm generally only seeing a lag of a few seconds at most, and no lost requests. I would look at your code and see what improvements you may be able to make.
The current pricing structure is discouraging backers, in my opinion. You tell us that when it's released it will most likely be pay-what-you-want, but if we pay early and support the project we are pushed into $50. I can guarantee you that if you do pay-what-you-want, your average isn't going to be $50.

I don't know what percentage of backers are the kind that do it merely to "support" a project, but I would guess it's not more than 10-15% of all backers for a given project.

The rest want some value for their money beyond feeling good about backing. You state you chose $50 for a license because that is what you think it is worth. I think you'll find out that what you think people will pay you for something and what they are willing to pay differs by a factor of 2-3.

So most of the people that want what you are going to make, even a little, probably don't want to spend more than $20 or $25. The difference between that and $50 is made up from goodwill, but that's really asking a lot of people.

I would recommend making some more tiers between $5 and $50, where everything above $20 gets a license. This way you capture the people that just want the product, and give others the ability to show their goodwill as well.

This isn't the kind of project that really needs swag. Nobody really wants a t-shirt. If you do something like promise to list backers (and their associated tiers) in the "credits" of the app, that would probably be great for most people.

edit: typos, and wording
Cubric: Deploy WSGI apps to EC2 or Rackspace with ease
Extended Progress bar
This plugin is a javascript Progress Bar with the following features:
1) Overflow: enables the current value of the progress bar to exceed its defined maximum value
2) Dynamically change any property
3) Toggle between normal mode and infinite mode
4) Control of labels position, font size, and color
5) Events binding ability
Yes, but the same chilling effect that it would have on adoption of JVM-based solutions could transitively pass on to whatever builds on its stack.
BeagleBone has node.js support, too:

http://beagleboard.org/bone

https://github.com/jadonk/bonescript