skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They went a sunny-route through the panama-channel and not the route trough Kap Horn and the Kap of good hope, which is normally taken by round the world sailors. These routes have a high chance of storms, which come with clouds. 3 days of clouds would have rendered the boat unmanoeuvrable.

Nice experiment but solar powered boats are absolutely useless on high seas and better, cheaper and a lot more ecological (a lot of energy goes in the production of solar panels and batteries) alternatives (sailboats) have been around for ages.
>I see someone mention in an HN comment that a Mac appears when Javascript is disabled. I had totally tuned it out before but now it looks ridiculous. Why in the world would the primary choice be to download for Mac?

Because Mac has 10% share (US at least), Linux has around 1%, so most Git users use Macs, thus it would make sense to use it? In programmer conferences, for example, from Ruby, to R, to Scala to Python, most people come with Apple laptops. In campuses, it's even worse (or better, depending on how you see things.

Last but not least, even the creator of Linux and Git himself, uses a Mac (albeit with Linux loaded).

>Why would the only other platform download be for Windows?

Maybe because Windows has like 90% market share, and because Git was historically not well supported on the platform they want to attract users to it?

As for why no Linux download, well, because Linux users get it from their distro.

(Discl: I use Linux (Ubuntu LTS) for servers and OS X for my desktop. Cut my teach on Sun OS in the nineties).
hmm, doesn't play anything in my Chrome (19, win 7 x64). I do not have iTunes installed
and nothing in Firefox 15 (x64)
I did't have my headphones on, didn't even realize there was something playing This makes it so much more cool! Just one question: Youtube provides API to just get the audio?
Working in Chrome (19 Win 7 x86) and I don't have iTunes installed. Nice reflow on resize :)
He probably means "a fantastic choice" for people who like or have no problem with good quality fonts, not for outliers.

I see no problem with "body text". In fact even tiny sized text on the size is still very legible, like the descriptions of operations in the "About" page.
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They got you covered: http://www.opalang.org/faq.xmlt "What does Opa mean?"
Hi Alex, I am really impressed by your design skills. And having spent more than 5 years learning programming and doing programming, I agree with your point that learning designs brings an extra dimension to my work that another language will not.

Any advice for the design skills impaired developer like myself?
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My wife worked on this a bit with Adam (https://twitter.com/#!/acfoltzer) and Ryan. There is a pending submission to ICFP.

The reason they went with CUDA was to plug into Accelerate's existing framework without redeveloping the entire wheel. As meric mentioned, Accelerate is a pain to do anything with and you can bet dollars to do syntax that this package will generate the hard parts for you.

IIRC, ParFunk also has some nice framework in place for distributed computation (though I'm not certain it's completely in working order yet).
Never got to use burbn, but it's mentioned a couple of places that:

"Burbn was a mobile check-in app built purely in HTML5." then "When you checked in on Burbn, you could post a video or a picture."

how was this done? You can seemingly only do this with some versions of Android - certainly not iOS or Windows. Any more info on how they/he did this?
Good analysis Joel. Good to see you blossom into a successful tech entrepreneur (and a famous one now - the north west love you!). www.edocr.com must be one of the few tech companies to had the privilege to work with both OnePage and Buffer, and hopefully whatever you do after Buffer!

I am glad you did not take my advice on Buffer! You saw an opportunity (I didn't see) and went after it.

We should review edocr/buffer integration after we launch Hootsuite app! Will let you know as soon as we go live!

Keep up the good work mate!
Working good on my Chrome, OS X.
And I think it's a great project, will check out the github.
A suggestion would be to change the play-icon to pause and add some kind of progress bar to it when a song is playing?
i'm using the youtube api for searching the song, then i get the first result and i load the video in a hidden iframe :)
Computers don't understand.
Search for SICP. Check udacity, Norvig's course.
Here's a blog circling the topic:

http://www.harveysilverglate.com/TheSilvergLatest/TFD.aspx
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it's not necesary itunes for playing songs ;)
for the reflow take a look this jquery plugin, masonry http://masonry.desandro.com/index.html

thanks for comment!
Now you can contribute if you want ;)
That's not a bad list of things to strive for, but the whole concept of "this is what I know, I'm awesome, so this what it takes to be awesome" puts me off.

People can do perfectly well if they are lacking in some of these areas, especially if they bring something else valuable to the table.

Also, I don't agree with the assumption about younger and senior engineers. Whether you focus is on technical or soft skills should be a personal thing, not a function of age. This exactly the attitude that tends to force older engineers into management and out of technical roles.
Should users be forced into a responsive design?
do you have flash installed? the songs are played in a hidden iframe with the youtube video embed, thanks for comment!
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I hope it will work someday cause it doesn't for now..
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i've create a README file, thanks for the suggestion :)
https://github.com/miquelcamps/pin/blob/master/README.md
Haxe is a complete multi target compile system that just put out a service rolling server compiler. At present I do Android and C++ (both windows and linux) compiles out of it from the same code base.
I really don't see how this has anything to do with Haxe or why both would be joined at the hip for longevity.
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I checked I'm still waiting, they take their time getting the information and preparing a legal response for the exclusion of anything they can't show you. Unless you've been doing some major things the FBI doesn't really keep track. The majority of your data (if its captured) stays with the NSA. However they really don't care about your data personally, they use data mining software to detect emergent patterns etc (they're the biggest 'Big Data' client there is). However it could be interesting to check it out hence why I have. I will admit I did steal a pack of gum in my youth o_0, hopefully they won't prosecute.
I did watch the session a while ago and now remember it wasn't too successful, but I selected it there because I think security is important and did have good points in there. Many books, articles and presentations tend to leave the security part out of their scope. I did push the security session down the list :).
I would think interacting with an institution would tend to decrease trust in it.
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http://doc.opalang.org/manual/A-tour-of-Opa

The tour page above is fubared for me on Opera Mobile 12. The right pane won't scroll and is obscured by a large semi-opaque overlay.
Hope they do the same as meteor... They were dual license, one GPL, one commercial. But a lot of people rejected to use it. So they changed to MIT.
I happened to pick this up last week :) will dive into it
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I'm glad web companies don't take patents seriously enough to file one for everything they do for one, and second they don't enforce them. If they did, there would be no more "Pinterest for this..or the Netflix for that" and so on.

I really do believe the web is better off without patents and letting companies copy each other, and I think the same would be true for software companies, too, and maybe many other industries as well. Copying leads to competition, leads to further improvements and new ideas through combing old ones. Besides, wholesale rip-offs will always be criticized by customers anyway if they go too far, who wants to take their business to a "clone" anyway, when they could go with the original.
I think the substance was pretty good. There's no need to nit-pick on his English - especially if it isn't his first language!

His English isn't that bad, and nothing about his post shows any evidence that he isn't an experienced programmer.
I wanted to do in a very simple way because the youtube player is a little ugly hehe.

if you want you can show the youtube player in a corner you put this css in the secret's div on the footer :p "position:fixed;right:0;bottom:0;width:420px;height:315px;"

thanks for comment!
I like the redesign however it has some slight readability issues.
1. By reducing the contrast of the text font the text becomes harder to read.
2. BY selecting a font with a narrow text-width the text becomes more difficult to read.
Suggested Improvements:
Use a darker font for post names.
Use either a dark font or a dark background to create contrast for items on the menu above.
However, I approve of the emphasis placed on the post's author and number of comments. In fact if it was your design plus the minor additions I would gladly use it via some add-on like Stylish.
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"declarative programming languages(SQL, XSLT, regular expressions, etc.)"

Is it just me or are semantics really shifting?

There used to be a time where 'declarative programming languages' was a group name for Prolog, Mercury and friends.
These days, it seems to mean things like CSS, HTML, ...
which are not programming languages in my book.
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one size fits all, eh? maybe when everyone's obese by default. rings the alarm bells immediately here
Thinking of piracy as a tax is not really a very good way to understand things.

Business is only able to sell copies at monopoly prices because the government gives them that ability through copyright law -- copyright is effectively a negative tax, a subsidy: the government gives businesses money the free market would not otherwise provide.

Since current copyright terms are almost certainly, in general, too large, piracy is working as a corrective: it brings actual copyright 'protection' back towards economically defensible and efficient levels.

One might feel there is still wrongness in piracy: that it is unfair, that some pay and others get things for free. But there is a very substantial amount of free-choice here: people are not at all strictly forced to pay and strictly prevented from free access. People can make a choice.

This seems like it might be, or at least suggest, a rather more functional kind of market than the standard conception. Instead of access being set bluntly and by guesswork by governmental law, it is decided by each individual according to their particular circumstances.
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That's a dangerous tack to be taking. Samsung is big enough to patent a lot of things and do precisely the same thing to Apple.
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This is great stuff, good job. The world needs more free tools like these. Would make for a killer product too...
I hate to be the one to tell this to you but what your ex boss probably tried to tell you is that you are not the kind of guy who can be excellent at both. He didn't meant that nobody could, if he has two cents of common sense. Whether he is right or not is for you, and time, to decide.
I agree. Google provided a medium through which people with limited funds could market. Nothing like it before.

Still, there is a lot of space in this area. The web is currently focused on selling to first time buyers. Very little about follow up sales. My first product focuses on that. Launch soon, but will talk about it in a few days.
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We won't drop OCaml! We love it ;)
We are adding new backends to Opa - for glorious benefit of other people.
If you look at the docs you'll see it's not trying to replace CSS and HTML (thankfully). CSS and HTML are still used. There just appears to be some extra sugar around HTML templating (and it checks your HTML at compile-time).

The 'one unified language' therefore just refers to using a single language on client and server, and as it happens it's a JavaScript like language, so simply in terms of languages used it's not all that different to using JS on the client and server.

The main selling point of this appears to be strong static typing.

Edit: Also yes, glad they are rethinking the licensing.
that hasn't been true since long time now, especially so since ICS

That's plain out wrong. I'm on a Galaxy Nexus with ICS.

Scrolling and responsiveness are still major issues.

In 2012 I expect my phone to respond instantly and scroll smoothly, in all but the most extra-ordinary situations. iOS demonstrates how it's done.

On Android ICS my touches still incur a random lag that prevents me from tapping "by muscle memory" like on an iOS device. And I did spend multiple days removing all bloat, running the absolute minimum of background apps (JuiceDefender and a tool for the LED).

Likewise most apps can't even scroll a text list smoothly for whatever reason (lack of hardware acceleration perhaps, but as a user I shouldn't even have to think about this).

If you know any Android device that will survive a head-to-head comparison with an iOS device then I'd be curious to hear about it. I've bought the last two supposed high-end androids (Galaxy S, now Galaxy Nexus) and while there has been a noticeable improvement (largely due to the ridiculous CPUs that we get now) the overall situation is still a joke.
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Interesting observation. I'd also add that learning Prolog would be a much more self expanding experience than the languages listed. I've yet to encounter another paridigim with such a leap in it's learning curve.
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You are fooling yourself if you think the iPhone is always smooth all the time, every device experiences hiccups at times.

When I read such claims I can't help but wonder, have you even used an iOS device recently?

It's a night/day difference for the constant touch-lag alone. On iOS the screen "sticks" to your finger, on android it runs noticeably behind and even the simplest screens choke.

I can't remember having ever experienced an unexplained "hiccup" on iOS. An app may take a second to open/close/switch. When something loads then there might even be a brief pause. But these are very rare and expected.

That's a fundamental difference to android where random, unpredictable chokes are the norm.
Edit: Oops didn't notice you were a developer.

I think comparing to complex combinations of ' and "" is a bit of a straw man, as JavaScript developers use templating languages like Handlebars/Mustache so that really isn't an issue!

I see why you're doing it the way you are for the static HTML checking though!
IIRC The HTML5 version of burbn was a mobile browser app, which was actually rewrote as a native iPhone app before Kevin and Mike realised that it was too cluttered and over-run with features. This then lead them to removing everything aside from photos, likes and comments and rebranding as Instagram
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a much wider set of maps based non-geographic country data existed at the worldmapper project[0], e.g. gdp[1] and violent deaths[2], it's a very interesting site although the visualization is not the best possible imvho.

[0]http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/index.html

[1]http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/display.php?sel...

[2]http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/display.php?sel...
Those market shares - both among the general population and among developers, which are themselves very different - are completely irrelevant.

The share that matters here is mostly among "developers using NoScript". I wouldn't be surprised in the least to know that Linux has that share.
Hehe, I suppose that someone who's mastered the art of design is called a White(space) Knight. And someone who's mastered programming is called an Internet Sorcerer.
Or English isn't their first language. That was my impression. Granted, I bailed partly because of the grammar, too but that was after realizing it was a mixed list of soft skills, not algorithms or tools or whatever. Once it wasn't what I expected, the writing didn't help keep me.
I think you need to know enough of both to be excellent at one or the other. Design freedom and constraints in software come from what code allows. Code structure is all about the interaction design (and somewhat about visual design as well).

That said, if you want to do both you'll inevitably work on smaller projects, you won't have the time to do more and get to market in reasonable time. You'll also refine each skill at half speed — 10.000 hours each to become expert.
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> There are a few places in the US where going up to someone on the street and saying "not your mother's version control" will get you stabbed.

The alternative isn't "Not your mother's version control" but rather "Not your parents' version control". Neutral should be the norm. Not a big deal, but there is a lot of subtle sexism in tech and it adds up at the end of the day.
No to mention "C", the worst of all.
Git itself has one of those names. Personally I think anyone who is offended by those names can go use something else.
Do not EVER EVER give up your skill set. You can rule the world if you can code AND design. Quite your job. Be your own boss. Find one client that can meet your expenses and the sell like crazy to rest of the world.

If I was half as good at coding and competent at design I'd be making 3x more per year than I am and the start ups I've tried of the years would have had a fighting chance. If you're stuff looks like crap no one will give it a chance.
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Many aspiring entrepreneurs seem to think there is such thing as a 'get rich quick' startup - when the reality is far from this (see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3908088)

Additionally, films like the Social Network seem to propagate this myth/stereotype.

So great job Joel for hopefully helping to dispel some of these myths.
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>字 means "characters"
Not exactly! Single 字 has meanings in Chinese, but single character generally has no meaning in English.
Mathematically, I agree. Psychologically, many people are paying for the fantasy and it may be what helps them cope with an otherwise pretty tough life. The idea/fantasy that "all this could change one day thanks to the lottery" may very well be worth the ticket price to those people. I'll hold my judgment and not call them suckers on this basis.
I think because I'm a programmer I rely less on spellcheck than non-programmers, because what I write is full of words mashed together as one (spellcheck if flagged by Firefox's spell checker (and BTW the "if" in "spellcheck if" wasn't flagged by anything)), and words that just aren't words (ngninx). I don't usually add those words to the dictionary, because I'm afraid of writing to a non-programmer and having something pass through that shouldn't.

I treat spellcheck as a real-time shoulder sirfer (surfer), and I generally hit Reply/Send/Make-it-so even though my messages are full of wavy red lines.
How do you search the musics on youtube ?

For example, I did search for "samurai collection" on pintunes, and I could play the entire music "Duel - Kiyoshi Yoshida".

But I didn't find this music anywhere on youtube!!
If I search for "Duel - Kiyoshi Yoshida" or "Duel - samurai collection" I don't get the music in question.

What is strategy do you use to find the music?
All big companies WILL buy support as that's what they do.

No they won't. MIT license lets them use the software for free. Why woukd anyone pay anything if it can be used freely?