skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am actually surprised that the battery only lasts 3-4h on a mbp on linux. on the x220 i get around 6h with the 6cell battery, obviously depending on use.
I have a T60 that I use as my primary laptop. They don't make laptops like this anymore.

I keep a spare T60 just in case this one breaks. They are pretty cheap on eBay, especially if supplies without HDD off-lease.

-sent from my T60
The mechanism is this "use strict" directive they added to ES5. This is my understanding.
The folks over at the (FASM forums)[http://board.flatassembler.net/] can probably help a bit too, 'though obviously they're somewhat assembly-oriented. A lot of stuff will carry over, though.
Mostly I've read 160k miles with one accident so far, a fender bender blamed on a human driver.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2390602,00.asp

"Sergey Brin, a Google co-founder who has taken the self-driving car and other special projects under his wing, has he wants the self-driving car to drive a million miles without an accident. The company has also patented a "landing strip" for the cars, able to orient it or transfer information to it via short-range wireless technologies."
I used to buy copies of 2600 at B&N, they currently carry nook editions.

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/2600-magazine-2600-magazine/...
Dude, I copy and pasted straight from Wikipedia. How exactly is that a thorough defense? I don't drink caffeinated beverages, so I haven't even got a dog in this hunt.
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Believe it.

Sortfolio isn't right for us anymore. Our attention is elsewhere. If we can sell it for a fair price (we consider $480,000 fair), then we'll sell it. If not, we'll close it down and move on. There's nothing condescending about that.
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TSA FUD or fact?
Do you have (and are willing to share) the credit card information on file for each customer? Or is the new Sortfolio owner expected to contact or otherwise prompt existing customers to re-enter their payment information?
I agree. Supporting both var and let sounds like a good way to maintain code compatibility and transition to something safer.
By using a coffeescript approach of ES.next to ES.prev compilation. There are several such compilers already, including one from Google called Traceur, and the one as old as Javascript itself, Narcissus. They have been using Traceur and Narcissus for something like "reference" implementations of ES.next, to try out how features work before adding them permanently to the spec.
I swap both CTRL and ALT keys and it makes life great. To type ALT I usually shift my whole hand, but that's okay, since I use CTRL 10x more often, at least.

I don't know about this whole CAPS LOCK thing... then you are stuck with only one key to hit, and I find it much better to press the modifier opposite the character key with my other hand, rather than scrunch up one hand.
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But it makes the code prettier
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No more drunk driving. Vastly more efficient shared transportation infrastructure. Greater freedom for people too old (or young) to drive themselves safely.
wireshark just fine when things are over ssl. all you need is the private key. you'd be floored at how lazy some people are with their private keys.
37signals is pricing this deal with the assumption that there will be a significant (>50%) departure of customers upon the deal closing, that cash flow growth thereafter will be meagre (<10%), and/or that the whole thing will collapse within a few (~3-5) years.

If we assume a $480 000 purchase price, annual cash flows of $212 277 (12 times the mean monthly, which is fairly normally distributed save for March 2012) growing at 2% a year, and abandonment after 7 years the investment yields over 10% (IRR) so long as cash flows crash less than 56% from purchase to year 1. In other words, if first year cash flows are at least $93 000 and grow 2% a year from there, the investment will generate a 10% yield after 7 years.

This analysis is stylised, but it remains that even if one takes a 1/4 drop in cash flow from purchase to year 1 and manages to lose 5% of cash flows each year thereafter, the investment will earn a 23% yield assuming abandonment after 7 years.
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"If nobody bids at $480,000 they will have to try to sell it at a lower price and it will seem like a fire sale."

It's not being sold for a lower price. It's $480,000 by July 1 or we close it down.
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Wow I wonder how many are this organized/anal about tracking stuff. My bills sit in a pile on the table until the first of the month, I pay them, and throw them in a box, never to be seen again.

What value is there in scanning your electric bill and archiving it digitally? When have you EVER needed to refer to something like that after it's been paid. For me, never.
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Oh come on! Don’t be so dense.
Every angel investment is "a calculated risk and semi-gamble."

Also, title is link bait, considering author doesn't actually provide any reasoning why you shouldn't be funded if you don't have an idea.

There are plenty of people I'd rather give money to even without an idea than the average would-be entrepreneur with an idea. A recent example: my friend Tikhon, CEO of Parse, raised money and started his company before they thought of the idea for Parse. I'm pretty confident my investment in Parse is going to make me a bunch of money, given their skyrocketing growth.
How are people going to magically discover said service? Or the signup page?

You seriously don't have to worry. And if your service is so amazing and wonderful that people are frantically sharing your signup then you have a very good problem to deal with.

Even then you can shut it down in an instant and even (shock, horror) email the people who you don't know and tell them you're really sorry but you're disabling their account because it's a private beta. And you'll let them know as soon as it's live. And they can get immediate access then.

Because if you're sending out invites you know who you sent them out to right?

As for it being a paid service, make it clear on the signup page it's free now but you'll be charging for it as soon as you're out of beta. No-one;s going to complain. Give a rough price if you feel like it, but make it clear it's rough.
You're making a mountain out of a molehill here.
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Cars are excludable and rivalrous property based on the fact they are physical objects that are of a size easy to possess and it is very hard in physical terms for them to not be so.

Patents, on the other hand, are excludable and rivalrous only in the tautological sense. They are defined within law as excludable and rivalrous, so therefore they are excludable and rivalrous.

Patents could be redefined in numerous ways that are not excludable and rivalrous, such as including anyone else who can give reasonable proof that they came up with the idea at the same time or independently. Also, it would not be that great a stretch to limit their transferability, so that they cannot be treated as a normal asset.
So if 37 Signals is more popular than you, what value there in paying $480,000 for a site whose customers may not be interested in it after 37 Signals leaves?
I still like the Thinkpad's trackpoint, and have the pad set to scroll-only.I can comfortably mouse and scroll without moving my hands from my typing position.
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Arrow-ize the buttons by adding "arrow" to the class list thus: "navigationButton left arrow", "navigationButton right arrow".

Make button "on" by adding "on" to the class list thus: "nagivationButton left on" etc
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I question whether this site it worth $480,000 cash, and here's why:

1. How much of the site is tied into the 37 Signals brand, and is the reason people pay to be listed on the site because of it's affiliation with 37 Signals and the Ruby on Rails community?

2. What's preventing competition from making their own similar service? Is there some barrier to entry or an unfair advantage?

So if this site is sold to someone else, will people still be interested in it now that it's no longer a part of 37 Signals? And what would prevent a competitor from creating a similar site for less than $480,000?
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oh hey, look at this. Someone on HN found some latent native URI parsing ability in the browser DOM
http://www.joezimjs.com/javascript/the-lazy-mans-url-parsing...
I think it is great that you are getting a lot of good feedback and constructive criticism from the community, but I just wanted to say thank you! I've been looking for a simple tool like this for a while, and Gmvault is perfect. I'm sure that you will add polish and new features in the future, but I'm glad that you released when you did.
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Love it, however I wish it wasn't AGPL as I really can't use that in my startup.
I understand that you're worried. Trust me when I say that you have no need to be.

The folks on the ES6 committee have no interest in harming you. The statement you quote from the OP is unnecessarily inflammatory.

Back in those heady days in 1995, Eich could have taken the politically easy route and made Javascript nothing but a poor man's Java. Instead, he took the bold route and gave us a delightful little Schemelike. Do you really think he regrets that? Javascript was a success because of its dynamism and simplicity. Nobody's looking to tear that away, or foist OOP on you.

That said, Javascript, as a language, has a few deficiencies. I dare you to find someone who will argue otherwise. The people on the ES6 committee are there because they love Javascript, and want to give it some of the conveniences that have become mainstream in the past fifteen years. Rest parameters. Spreads. Default arguments. Proxies (which are really cool). Modules.

I encourage you to get involved with this project if you're still concerned. But keep in mind that language design is effing[1] hard. C++ and PHP serve as a testament to that fact.

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Hi there, you can definitely install numpy and panda into a dotcloud app. Simply add them to a file called requirements.txt, they should be installed automatically.

You can run 'dotcloud logs' to access detailed logs of your app's deployment and activity, that might help.

Otherwise drop us a line at support@dotcloud.com and we'll be happy to help you out!
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It's all in the black box. After an autonomous vehicle crash, all of the decision making state will be available so no autonomous car makes the same mistake ever again. Unlike teenagers, which can merely be encouraged to drive appropriately.
16:10? Let's bring back 16:12. There's something deeply wrong when the iPad is the portable computer with the highest resolution. I stare at a screen all day most days and would happily pay extra to stare at a nice one.
Do we have a business?
Exactly, so you should expect some customers will leave once there is a sale, perhaps a significant amount. And if there is no sale they will be closing shop on July 1, so 37signals won't compete with your product if you build an alternative.
Is there a reason you are not going with a domain marketplace to sell this (eg: Sedo, Flippa)? I feel like posting on such sites would get it the exposure it needs to be sold.
While I definitely agree that Judge Alsup's instruction to the jury, "assume SSO is copyrightable," biased the jury for the next phases, I doubt he will find that SSO is copyrightable.

http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise22.html <--- precedent
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Hello,

In case you didn't notice, I recently made an app for reading hacker news on iPhones,iPod Touches and iPads called HackerNode.There are quite a lot of people using it now.

If you are a current user of my app and would like to request any features, please do so here. This thread will be used to request features from within the app too.

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I don't think they're worried about summer vacation money.
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It is possible 37signals doesn't have the information, but the gateway does and would be willing to transfer the credit card numbers. Either way, this is critical detail that needs to be worked out.
They'd have to tread carefully. Would suck to have an entire university banned from Google services ;)
Exactly.

Most of the rant was idiotic, basically "leave js alone". Well keep programming without the new features if you want, its not like they will force you to use let and co.

And those tired "less is more" and "lets not add features lest we complicate the language" are inane...
the investment will generate a 10% yield after 7 years.

Except 7 years ago the most popular social network was called MySpace. The iPhone, Twitter and ycombinator did not exist (amongst other things). Rails 1.0 was released that year.

Why would a niche job board, detached from the brand name that was its only asset, prevail through 7 more years of internet time?
Nice to see that Penultimate is going to come to "other devices", I'm assuming that will include Android.

I moved all my bookmarks to Evernote after the new owners broke^wenhanced delicio.us and haven't regretted it once.

All I need now is a native Linux client for Evernote...
That's odd. What version of Windows are you using? Last time I used Cygwin (XP or Vista, can't remember), the home defaulted to the Windows home.
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My problem with a numpad on a laptop is where I center myself. If you center on on the keyboard so you aren't typing "side-ways" then the numpad means you're head is tilted to center of screen or you're looking directly at the left of the screen.
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The brand value because of the 37 signals past cachet. The same reason brand x can be owned by random hedge fund company and people will still buy it.
The public writeups have strongly implied that if I use nginx as a proxy and own all the backend servers, nothing "bad" will happen to me. Is that not the case? (I just want to understand the bug, not debate whether upgrading is the right thing.)
> If Oracle wins what does that mean for java and it's developers.

That's an important question, but the issues are even bigger. This isn't just about Java. If the judge finds that APIs are copyrightable, it affects a lot more.

For example, Microsoft has a promise not to sue over its patents on .NET. But if APIs are copyrightable, is Mono in infringement of Microsoft's copyright? Safety from patents is suddenly not enough.

Another example, Android uses Linux kernel headers, the API needed to access the kernel. The wide assumption has always been they are not copyrightable, so you can implement userspace apps that are not GPL. But if APIs are copyrightable, that might be less clear.

The bottom line is that this judge is going to decide, by himself, whether APIs are copyrightable. It's going to have a huge impact on our industry if he says "yes". It's scary to think about the amount of power he currently holds.
This is fine, as far as it goes. However, when I do this, I feel like I'm being yanked around from one area of the code to another. What I really want is the opportunity to take a few steps back and spend some effort getting things back in shape. If, as you say, both types are needed, I think it would help if an organization valued both types and allowed them to do the type of work they find fulfilling.

If I get a new feature working, but I do so at the cost of adding more technical debt to the project, I don't feel fulfilled at all; I feel I've done a net disservice to the world, and especially to whoever comes onto the project after me.

Being the type of developer interested in keeping things clean and meticulous, while being pressured to always sacrifice quality for speed, seems like a recipe for stress and burnout.
Even better - not only will the code/telemetry equipment that made that mistake be replaced, ideally the design/implementation procedures that resulted in that mistake in the first place will be reviewed. Given how frequently it will be used, I'd hope to see the same level of methodology we see with Space Control Software. See: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/06/writestuff.html for a nice article on this sort of software. I like the following comment: "Bill Pate, who's worked on the space flight software over the last 22 years, says the group understands the stakes: "If the software isn't perfect, some of the people we go to meetings with might die."
IE omits the leading slash from the pathname, but its easily fixable.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3939454
Effectively, SEC regulations like Dodd-Frank impact large funds worldwide, because you're subject to them if you have more than a small number of US investors. (I think it's 15.)

That survey isn't particularly good data. For one thing, it conflates Fund of Funds with other hedge funds, which is pretty questionable given that they're really a separate class with different fee and performance expectations.
I don't see what is actually of value in this deal for someone to merit a 480K purchase:

1. Site code - Sure you are getting a head start since you don't need to build from scratch but the site doesn't do anything special that can't be duplicated.

2. Brand Name - I think it's more about 37signals being behind this rather than Sortfolio being an awesome product. I don't know how many customers are going to actually use this when 37signals drops it.

3. Customers - See point 2. Why do I need to be a customer of just another portfolio site?

4. Design - Any good designer can reproduce this or create something completely new for you.

5. Steady Cash Flow - I can't even believe they mentioned this as a selling point. Steady cash flow AFTER you integrate your own billing solution.

I would be very interested to see someone estimate out the cost of just cloning this/hosting/advertising. I feel like for less than the purchase price you may get more value and then you just advertise directly to their market.
If HN understood this article they would have buried it by now.
Fair point, 37signals may also expect the whole thing to organically fizzle out within a few years (updated).

Let's constrict the time frame to 3 years from purchase and continue the abandonment assumption. Assuming 2% annual cash flow growth we cannot sustain more than an 11% initial crash before yield falls below 10%. With -5% annual cash flow growth this number drops to 4%. The investment is probably not reasonably viable with a 3 year time-frame.

Note that a more nuanced analysis would ask for a more rigorously thought out required rate of return (in this latter case 10%).
Several states have consumer protection boards set up for just this sort of thing. I know because I filed a complaint in CT against a contractor who did faulty work.

My complaint along with a few others were compiled, leading to a hearing where his license was revoked. Additionally, the state had a fund set aside for people who lose money on shoddy work (up to 15K). We were one of the lucky ones, as he only cost us $3K (which we got back). Others lost 10-20K.

Bringing it around to the topic at hand, a code inspector for 'code' is an interesting idea. That said, I'm okay with devs/agencies being held accountable for their coding work -- as long as clients are likewise held accountable for paying on time, proper briefs, etc.
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Given that investors were already paying ~2% management fees during the life of the fund, paying a few points a year while the VCs try to liquidate the remaining assets doesn't seem like that big a deal. The remaining assets are probably less than 10% of the original fund size in terms of their cost basis, so you're talking about an ongoing fee that's less than 10% of what they were already paying.

The alternative would be to fire-sale the assets when the fund closes, which would probably cost the investors a lot more.
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I liked it better when it was Haystack, it meant something to me.
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I'm a new-ish programmer looking to start game development. The problem is, I have no idea where to start. I really don't like python that much, and can't decide between using C# or C++, I tried downloading C# but [1] this has windows phone emulators, and tools for XBOX and takes up so much space. Is there an installer just for windows? If not c#, should I start with javascript, or c++?
Really? I usually design parts of the architecture in my head while driving and then go and just write them out.
So you have to "install" this app to chat? How is this better than IRC? Personally, I think grove.io has much more features.
To understand why MySpace was designed like it was, perhaps it's helpful to look at the man behind the orginal MySpace: it's the guy behind Demand Media.

They own the domain name registrar eNom and Google SEO operations like eHow.

His idea is to churn out millions of pages of primarily machine-generated "content".

Very little human input is required.

This is enough to fool the search engine that it's what people want. Because the generated pages reflect what the search data says people are searching for.

But as anyone who has opened one of these pages knows, it has a certain "feel" to it. It vacuous. It's cheap.

It's also effective.

He earns a few pennies by having gotten you to look at the page, and once that's done, it matters little what you do or what you think next. Mission accomplished. In the aggregate, this design makes him money.

If you understand how a company like eNom makes money it also arguably fits with this sort of mass production idea.

It may be that MySpace was designed around the idea of mass production of "user-generated" pages. As a sort of fly trap to catch web surfers and searchers, similar to the way eHow or eNom would. Get users to help generate the pages. Not much input is needed. Just a little.

This is just how I see it. I could be wrong.
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I've had a really good experience with Sanebox for the last few months, actually. It seems to do a much better job filtering my inbox than priority inbox alone. Granted, it takes some initial training over the first week or so, but I've been a very happy customer.
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Has anyone else migrated toward a heartfelt love of trying to understand a complex, ill-defined problem space, codifying it and designing a solution in preference to actually coding it?

To be honest (and I will probably get flamed for this), I have come to see a good (difficult, interesting, ill-defined, many-sided) problem requiring significant research and some prior gut-feeling (especially re: maintainability, what might change in future, etc.) as the best part of programming, and a lot of the actual coding as a kind of necessary drudgery bereft with mind-numbing, tangential minutiae.
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I'm working on something like this. Keep posted for the MVP announcement coming soon.
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