skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the WebRTC APIs that both Chrome and Firefox are working on (and will likely start showing up in the 3-6 month time frame) is also likely to provide p2p message passing support.

And most importantly, the WebRTC APIs will be standardized and available on the web, not just for browser extensions.
> it's not an article-- it's a paraphrase

If they had bothered to paraphrase, it would have been much better. They didn't - they just copied.
Great event, devs should keep an eye on this too. Lots of work opportunities.
Are you implying that I'm not a real person? That my money isn't real? That my friends and their money aren't real? That all of the other people I've met who have done exactly the same thing aren't real?

I think you are confused about which comment represents an unrealistic oversimplification that doesn't reflect what's happening in the real world.
karamazov's comment was about the first line, which wasn't.

His prompted me to add the ETA, which is verbose to be clear and to address more than just clothing reversal.
And just to add something so it's not all about product. Imagine the surgeon who will do your next operation happens to have been sued for malpractice, and lost, on this very operation, by not one but three former patients. But you wouldn't know that by Googling his name, which you do, because rather than invest in training to better himself, he pays someone to SEO fake patient reviews of his excellent work, burying the negative reviews (which only a fraction of the affected patients take the time to write): these negative reviews could save your life or quality of life. But they won't. (This is especially true if you are very, very rich and can shop around for the true gem of a surgeon. Assuming you can find him or her...)
If you belong to a good private (or maybe a public one, too) torrent community, you'll likely end up finding more artists than the radio would help you find.

Just looking at new uploads, looking at top lists, browsing by tags, and going through by genre yields new finds. It's easy to listen to new/unfamiliar artists risk free, and most passionate music lovers do find a way of getting money back to the artists. At least in my own experience this is the case. I'm sure there are people who are 100% freeloaders, but I wonder if they'd have bought anything ever anyway.
Data Killer tuns hard drives into blank slates with the push of a button [video]
The describe_string_calculator function (the stuff on the left-hand side of the slides) seems like a pretty bizarre way to describe the spec: all it does is define functions, some of which also define functions, but none of which is ever called, or is even callable, as far as I know (maybe with some black magic). Suppose that custom delimiters didn't work: how would this help you discover that?
The hook was that it was a "Native Game Client Powered by Lua".

If you don't care about serious users, then you're free to choose appropriately. A lot of people do use löve; they must all have their reasons. I don't see how Moai is not relevant to this discussion, though.

People clicking on the comments may be considering writing a serious game; if not, they can play with löve and have fun, but if they are, I wanted to warn them about what I'd found.
Ask HN: What Should I Do?
Here's my situation. I'm around a year out of college and half a year into an awesome job as one of the first employees at an early stage startup ($105,000 salary, 0.5% equity options).

However, I see continuing to work there as a massive opportunity cost, given the current funding environment along with my burning desire to start a company. I could leave to try joining an incubator program, or use the little bit of money I have saved up to live for a year with my long-distance significant other (who is currently in an area with a far lower cost of living), while I try to get my own project off the ground.

What are your thoughts? Stay, or take the red pill?
I get that you're going for a mashup of "Easel" and "Easily" as in "Easily create Infographics!" The spelling, however, makes my mind go first to "Weaselly", which I imagine is not the association you want to create.
It amazes me how many people listen to others without understanding their motivation.

Peter is an investor - if he's able to monetize a model where a group of students drop out of college for a startup and on the whole make his fund money, he will do so. There is no fault in that but don't think he is looking out for the good of anyone but his clients and himself - its not evil - its a business model.

The unfortunate part is that many (but certainly not all) develop these critical thinking skills to question everything in the very institutions he is influencing young kids to drop out of. I know this comes off as "stay in school kids" but I'm more hoping that students will think for themselves and identify their own reason for dropping out before leaping.
Head of Time Warner unfamiliar with arse location process involving the use of both hands.
To me that's the value proposition actually. Invest in learning and collaborating now, then be ahead of the curve in a few years (if interested in getting hired) or be ready to capitalize and know how to hire and make software that only could've been made with it when it eventually reaches some level of maturity. I mean, those that grow it reap the best rewards.

Software is a product of the platform(s) it was built with, in the same way a novel is a reflection of the writer's language more-so than the writer. Microsoft's software is what happens when you use C and .NET; Google with C++, Java, and Python; Facebook with PHP; 37signals with Rails; etc. There are apps that will be built because they could only be built with a unified JS platform. There will be new kinds of software that directly result from the new possibilities of Node, CoffeeScript, Meteor, Firebase, Parse, etc.

Different tools yield fundamentally different results. Once a platform is "mainstream", it's to late, the big opportunities have already passed and the innovation is elsewhere. There's still a chance to be the "DHH of Node"; that spot's obviously already been taken in the Ruby world.
Only for some mockups. Worked fine. The biggest complains I would have is that the default themes do not look native.
Real life needs some serious mutexing.
Some more or less private trackers do actually promote artists explicitly (featuring select submissions). And even when they don't, people still easily discover new less known bands from searching by genre and reading torrent discussions—I'd say it works even better than radio. Although this depends on the community and submission guidelines of a particular tracker.
So you (tnw) posted the article without attribution, the original author sees this, he tweets about it and asks wtf and then you (tnw) fix it and then you (personally) go on a tirade about how it's how the industry works blah blah blah conveniently ignoring that he knew it was originally not attributed and you reply as if it was, now you're admitting that you did in fact post it without attribution? All you had to do was apologise when he complained to you. You were in the wrong, whether it was an accident or not isn't the issue.
Only the CLI utility in Play used Python, and the newest version has replaced this dependency with Scala/SBT instead. I imagine the original reason for using Python for the CLI was because it's pretty damn easy to do that in Python.
A Document Based Store have several advantages over traditional for ex. relational stores ...

Mongo core is c++ and can be utilized from any lingo ...

It is schema less but can be desribed with a schema . it is named collections and on the fly add a tables or rows, no migrations downtime etc.

scary for some ...

Closing into what the oodb concept was setting goals prior ...
I'm real, also I tried your experiment and the guy next to me also buys the stuff he finds and likes.
No, I'm implying that you aren't representative. If you tell me all the people you've met reliably or even routinely buy the music they download from torrents, I will charitably adopt the assumption that you haven't met many people.
Looks like we've got a troll here, just move along. Don't feed the tptacek.
I considered ruby and python, but decided to write it in bash. It's a little bit harder, but I did not want to have any dependencies on runtimes/frameworks :)
What is Good for Facebook is Good for America
My rough estimate: Within the next 18 months, there will have been so many YC-supported start-ups that HN will feature YC-affiliated news on all its thirty front page slots.
One might consider such comments as little more than posturing. Recall Steve Jobs explaining that the iPhone could not have apps because users would not tolerate a rogue app taking down the mobile network. However, his statements are so obviously false that he must either think his listeners are fools or be one himself.
The screen shots don't go all the way down to where the current version online has him credited twice. So it is hard to say if they were already there or if all three credits were added at the same time after being called out.
Remove the abstraction. Ask him what the last three albums he torrented were, and what the last three albums he bought were. Genuinely curious.
Student debt rises, and colleges confront costs
yes I appreciate many of you agree a quote should have been included rather than an attempted rewrite.

I agree, that would have been better.

However, calling us out for plagiarism does feel far too extreme when the updated piece clearly states the source of the facts. The original piece only included links without a name and that I agree is 100% wrong. I hadn't seen that original piece before we were called out on twitter and my reactions were clearly based on immediate emotions...never a good time to reply.

Again, will put all this into a single post soon.
Not a developer? Avoid sounding like an idiot
I'd prefer to have all the comments located in a single location (e.g. ~/.comments or ~/Dropbox/comments-<hostname>) rather than litter hidden files all over the place because I could (1) easily back them up, (2) share them (even across different platforms), and (3) allow multiple users to set local and global (shared) comments.

EDIT

Because I was bored: https://gist.github.com/2697095
Where are all the people defending "piracy" on this post?

How much effort were a few paragraphs that got copied vs how much effort does it take to produce a movie, or a professionally recorded song?
I have a theory on this point, after witnessing this effect in a few other places (emails from prominent writers, CEOs, etc).

Writers write so much that their fear of shipping their writing is diminished through practice, so they write, ship, write, ship, write, ship. They're in creative mode, just putting words on the paper. They're busy, so they go quickly, so that they can get more done. They know that when it matters, they can copyedit—or have someone else proofread.

On the other hand, there are those of us who will spend an extra 5 minutes on every comment we post looking over it out of perfectionism or OCD or fear of the inevitable, "You sound like a moron" comment later in the thread.

I've taken to really admiring the type-type-type get a million emails/comments/tweets/posts out a day style.

Move fast and break things. Edit later.
This doesn't change the fact that Zee was (pardon my language) a snarky asshole about it on Twitter.
They've basically turned journalism into Demand Media - churn out SEO'd, cheap, content with the added bonus of sites like HN, Reddit etc adding SEO weight when they're lucky. It's even cheaper if someone else writes that content and they just have to reword the important bits.

It's sad to see HN starting to vote up AOL, Gawker etc crap, and it's sad to see other blogs adopting that model because it works so well.
I think it's a bit more these days, but I spent about $60k on my aerospace engineering degree from Georgia Tech. That's a decent amount of money, but if you're a self-starter with some programming chops, there is no reason you can't work during the summers and the year to save up $10-15k or so for school.
CherryPy, Tornado, maybe others...
Thanks for the congrats, it means a lot!

We changed from Bushi.do to Cloudfuji mainly because we had difficulty getting the bushido.com tld, and it just wasn't worth it. So, we did the scrappy startup thing, rebranded and launched. As an unexpected benefit, the 'cloudfuji' name has been wide open on most properties, so we haven't had any problems there.

Happy to answer any other questions.
Chaotic macroscopic system + non-determinism at atomic scale = non-determinism at macroscopic scale.

So, e.g., the temperature at the tip of the Eiffel tower on Jan 1, 2014 1pm is non-deterministic.
It's amusing to me that you construe my comment as inappropriate, but not this guy telling a room full of technical conference goers to tell their wives "Shut up, bitch!" I haven't even use a swear word yet.

Of course this comic has the right to say this. Of course the company has a right to hire him. What I'm saying is that, in America, if a company did this, they would face the consequences. If people are offended because your company appears to support misogyny, you will lose business and "but he's a comedian!" will not suffice as an apology. At least, if you have been projecting an image of corporate neutrality. I suppose if your brand identity is, we're a bunch of brogrammer morons, it probably would help your image. But we're not talking about a company like that, we're talking about Dell.
They're called typos. Everybody makes them — even professional writers. In writing that's intended to make money, they're usually caught in editing. If you yourself write without ever producing a typo, that's nice, but it's not really all that important to the craft of writing — much less to owning a business that employs writers.

At any rate, I don't see any reason to expect perfect prose in an informal context like a comment thread. As long as you're understandable, what do you gain from spending more time on nit-picky details?
"Nobody rationally torrents a CD rip and then goes to the store to buy the real version."

I think the comparison of the article went a bit over your head. It's all about music/artist promotion, and nothing to do with sales. Otherwise we shouldn't be calling it "the new radio", but "a new radio". Unrelated: who is still going to the store to buy their music? and how often are they actually "CD rips" anymore?

The best example of this "radio" analogy is Dubstep. Soundcloud, free digital downloads, artists practically give away all of their music and leave the option for purchase on iTunes and Beatport. Most revenues are from touring and commercial uses of their music. And "cultural progress" is trotting on.
API Innovation at the Edinburgh Festivals
Do you honestly not understand why even your "ninja-edited" version of the post is not acceptable?
I taught myself to program (which I have no degree in). There was no way I could've taught myself aerospace engineering (which my degree is in).

Not everything is like the software industry. Indeed, most things aren't.
Getting started with RESS
It would be sort of funny if you included copy/pasted comments from HN in your PR-cleanup post.
Hence the "drama".
If file sharing is "the new radio", then by implication file sharing should serve the same role in customer acquisition that the radio did. But it doesn't. That's my point.
Update: image credit added after I posted this. Still, the image should be removed, this is copyright infringement.

TheNextWeb is infamous for plagiarizing images for that section. Take this article, for example: http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2011/05/23/stylish-techno...

The image at the top of the article is taken from this Dustin Curtis blog post: http://www.dustincurtis.com/press_on.html (the filename of the image is even Screen-shot-2011-07-10-at-12.08.40-PM-520x245.png). There is no reference to Dustin Curtis's blog at all on the page, either.

It is ridiculous that they find repeatedly doing this to be acceptable.
Thank you, I've been struggling to remember his name since I heard about this! That sounds like exactly what this would be like.
Think Twice Before Starting A Company
You might check this out: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/window.setTimeout
It would be great to see what you built with it. A video would be cool
When it comes to prototyping, anything goes - you should be optimizing for the speed with which you can deliver and market-test a product, and you should choose the tools that allow you to do so. The trick is having the discipline to pay back the technical debt that accumulates as a result of the fast, informal prototyping work.

I think the OP did exactly that, realizing that Rails is the better long-term solution for their engineering activity. I wouldn't say they "moved" from NodeJS to RoR, because that implies that that they chose a new technology to solve the same problem - they didn't... they chose NodeJS for prototyping and RoR for production.

I had the same experience transitioning from a prototype RoR app to a production app also written in RoR - I still did significant rewriting to improve testability/test coverage and make it more RESTful, but I didn't need to switch frameworks to do that.
Record-setting 2012 warmth largely confined to North America, western Europe
To me, it's not about the Twitter drama; it's about the way The Next Web poorly cited this piece and revised it without fixing the issue people had with it in the first place.
I think "Mail Boxes Etc" is probably our UK equivalent of UPS Stores. Amongst other things, they can do packaging and labelling and act as a broker across the various couriers. I've had good experiences with MBE but I've only used them to ship high value items internationally - I don't know how cost effective they are for other stuff. And obviously, they're still at the mercy of the couriers (though you can at least tell them which ones you want or don't want to use).
May not be to everyone's taste, but it is at least worth mentioning Spring Roo. There is an integrated eclipse based IDE (STS) available as well.

You can get a nominal Java CRUD app up in short time with this.

I had been out of Java for a number of years, but we wanted to start w/jvm back end. I was surprised at how much of Spring complexity it encapsulates, it has worked quite well for us so far, although we are still very early on in the process.
At research universities, undergraduate tuition represents a very small %-age of the university's revenue.
I haven't used Moai myself; that's good information. Thanks.

By the time Moai was released, I had already created my own Moai-equivalent C/C++/Lua framework. I've written a game on it already, and one other developer (a company I used to work with who asked for access) is using it, but I haven't released it to the public.

When I discovered Moai I was a bit skeptical about it; they've written all their Lua bindings by hand, which isn't terrible, but they're bound to Lua 5.0...meaning that you can't drop in LuaJIT and have scripts run 3x-100x faster. Since I had my own library already, I decided not to switch.

And their model seems to be (like löve) that you have a monolithic build that just runs Lua code, whereas I prefer keeping the C++ build process around so I can drop into C or C++ easily, adding or removing modules as I need them. For instance it appears they have TWO 2d physics engines as part of the build, along with lots of other libraries that I may or may not need, resulting in 6+ megabytes of binary, while mine comes in comfortably under 2Mb.

Auto-generating Lua bindings makes this easier as well -- if I need to add another library, I just drop it in and run my binding generation script; other than adding any new source files to the various projects, that's it.

But strictly considering löve vs. Moai, I still have to advise people to lean toward Moai.
That case is hardly applicable. It's a copyright claim on phone book entries, otherwise knows as a table of data.

You would still have to cite your sources, even if you copy the data. And any annotations are not part of the dataset. These annotations would ble equivalent to the article text, which was copied pretty much word for word.

Here in Norway they would expel you from all higher education for a minimum of 12 months for such plagiarism.
I also see it "rebuilding font cache" on every fresh start. Is anyone else seeing that? Very annoying.
Meanwhile, native code was emulating an NES at full speed on a 60Mhz Pentium 1 back in 1997. http://bloodlust.zophar.net/NESticle/nes.html Its nice that we can finally do in browsers what required assembly 14 years prior, but it's not exactly satisfying...
Have fun with Racket! :-)
Everyone learns to think one way or another, and it continues well past 18. The human brain is still physically developing at 18.

So since you're going to learn to think after 18, a good college education provides the shortest cut to learning to think WELL, based on the accumulated experience of thousands of years of human history.
Good point, I didn't even notice, was looking primarily at the right hand side.

Democratic control of the executive would bias it somewhat, but not nearly to the degree that it is. Totally biased agenda here.
In the US, that would be mypoints.com -- or airlines, hotels, etc. have sites that allow you to earn miles when you shop through them. (American Airlines' is called https://www.aadvantageeshopping.com/ -- a truly horrible URL, but I have gotten many miles posted to my account from that site.) Mypoints gives you lower payouts but you can redeem them for all kinds of gift cards, etc. AA, et.al., give you higher payouts but of course they are in harder-to-redeem airline miles.

As far as I know, though, Amazon doesn't participate in any of these, as they don't like "middlemen" dealing with their affiliate program. Wonder if refer.ly will have similar issues down the road with Amazon.
you should read that again, he was saying that they DIDN'T cut and paste, but the original author reacted as though they had
Hahaha! I've been there too. :)
What form of "customer acquisition" are we talking about then? Are you not including merchandising/performance revenues?
Agency fees are outright illegal in Scotland, although many agencies charge them anyway, hoping people won't challenge them.

There's currently a campaign to raise awareness on this.

http://www.reclaimyourfees.com/
Just because relativity showed Newtonian physics to be wrong about how the universe worked doesn't mean we can't use the latter as a decent approximation under appropriate constraints. Similarly, we don't really need to calculate the probability of the Sun teleporting over Wall Street when valuing Facebook's IPO.
IMO, things like a good ORM(or ODM) are still way too far off in NodeJS. I am aware of mogooseJS, but it is very far from the power provided by ActiveRecord and Mongoid.

Also mocha is powerful, but if you have a look at capybara and rspec, they are much more powerful and friendly.

The final thing in my opinion is the speed of development. With rails you go to devise, and you have authentication. I am aware of the presence of a similar authentication system for nodeJS but I am not very sure if that works with mongoose js and is as extensible as devise is. And then there is the rails console, which makes trying out things real easy and fun.
Unpaid internships ought to be nonexistent for programmers with a reasonable skill level, as such programmers are in short supply. Just in case, here is the direct link to the Labor Department regulations mentioned in the article,

http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.pdf

to remind readers here that if it looks like work, takes up time like work, and doesn't produce an educational credential like going to school, it should be paid like work.
How’s Gold Rush Panning Out? 70% Of Mobile App Users Pay Little/Nothing