skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I looked at the "gestalt" Wikipedia article. As near as I can make out, you're saying that Google in fact highly tailors its search-for-geneticists, which has nothing to do with its search-for-bakers: it seems like a single whole, but isn't. But that patently isn't so. Patently, every niche runs off the same algorithms. Equally, bankers' circle of friends use the same facebook that teenagers' circle of friends use: it isn't multitudinous facebooks that seem to be one but are really quite different. Likewise jeans in jeans-and-a-blazer are obviously the same jeans as jeans in jeans-and-a-tshirt. iPad apps are built with the very same SDK and frequently have very similar UI/UX. There is literally nothing domain-specific about objective c. I will grant you that Amazon's cloud stuff is very different from its merchandizing operations, but beyond that I don't see where the big difference between shipping books and shipping dry cereal is, which is two businesses that Amazon is now in. In fact, if anything, Amazon's cloud services are the OPPOSITE of domain-specific: Reddit, which includes ZERO filesharing, is on it, and so is Dropbox, which is basically ONLY filesharing. If you look at what Amazon is actually exposing with AWS, you will see it is as generic and non-domain-specific as theoretically possible. Heck, they've even abstracted away the individual server! (So the last bastion of something that might separate a database-heavy user site from a disk-heavy backup site disappears). I would say that their whole movement is towards being non-specific.

You probably understand what you're saying better than I do, so please do explain. Because from where I'm standing, it seems the whole march of the Internet is in busting domain-specific-languages and approaches. Every time a cute hack with CSS hits the front page, it's proof that CSS derives its power precisely from not being a domain specific language. Off-hand, can you name a single domain-specific language or approach that has really 'won'?

You may know more about this than I do, so it is certainly a genuine question.
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Until I got sucked in to the whole iPhone "thing", which is how I met git, I generally worked in C++, on Windows, writing video games for consoles. (Am I allowed to raise an eyebrow when I hear of people who don't know a single assembly language?) This sector just doesn't really seem to attract command line fiends, at least not where I worked, and combined with the whole Windows "thing", that's naturally going to tamp down on people's potential enthusiasm for git.

But people in games probably wouldn't use git anyway on account of its poor handling of binary files, and limited scalability in the face of gigabytes of stuff. (I have a suspicion it might be a bit difficult to explain to many/most artists anyway. And a fair proportion of programmers too...)

Of course, this shows nothing more than that we both live in our respective little bubbles ;) But my impression, as a bit of an outsider, is that the HN hivemind is made up of the same people that frequent GitHub. That is, mainly (but of course, not exclusively) people who work with web-python-ruby-javascript-etc. - thus naturally magnifying the apparent importance of GitHub. But I suspect the HN population is not representative, and therefore GitHub's popularity amongst the HN readership probably does not extend to the programming population at large. And this is certainly backed up by my experience.

(All standard disclaimers apply.)
Installing Lua on a Mac is quick:

1) Download the source (http://www.lua.org/ftp/), and un-tar
2) Run "make macosx"
3) Optionally run "sudo make install" to place binaries in /usr/local

If you don't "make install", the interpreter can be run from the src directory.
"Cadillac To Release Self-Driving Cars By 2015" (no joke)
The synthesizer uses the Audio API on Chrome and Flash on all other browsers.
Hey man, not to be a buzzkill but your landing page needs a ton of work ... As is, only your slogan box fits in my browser window, and I have to scroll tons and tons while reading oversized text. When you make everything so big, you inherently de-value the emphasis that large text gives. You also have a TON of text, and I can't survey the page to see what I'm interested in. I'm forced to read through everything. Take a look at these resources:

http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/7177/What-Is-a-L...

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2006/04/vocabulary_l...

http://designmodo.com/landing-page-examples/

Edit: I'm glad I didn't come off as a dick. Here are some homepages I like:

http://postmarkapp.com/

http://basecamp.com/

https://kippt.com/
Stock prices rise and fall based on the popularity of the brand. Sure earnings and other announcements nudge a stock up or down for a week or two, but it's really the reputation of the brand that keeps the price up. In this regard FB's biggest risk is people will get bored of FB. This is a risk Google hasn't had to face yet, as everyone still relies on Google for search, but FB is mostly for entertainment, and people will eventually get bored of it. Remember yahoo?
> just don't dine in places that expect you to tip. You'll be sending the message to the appropriate target, the business owners

How does that work? By telepathy?

> and not to the servers who have no control over the way the market is arranged.

It's _exactly_ the servers that need to unionise and get this archaic system outlawed.
Or she felt pressured and felt that a short relationship might be the answer to her woes. Or she might have felt a thousand other plausible thing that do not detract from the substance of this case; she and other women were discriminated against in substantive, measurable ways and when she sought help for she was sidelined.

Here's the actual text of the lawsuit;

In February 2006 Plaintiff and another Junior Partner,
Ajit Nazre, went on a business trip to Germany. Mr. Nazre
had the same job title as Plaintiff, but had been with
the firm since 2003, two years longer than Plaintiff, and
directed some of her work, including the Germany trip.
Mr. Nazre made inappropriate sexual approaches to
Plaintiff on that trip. She rebuffed his advances.
Mr. Nazre responded to her rebuff of his advances by
becoming brusque and distant. He also had strong
influence over how other partners at the firm would view
Plaintiff, specifically Ray Lane, a Managing Partner and
Mr. Nazre's sponsor and mentor. From March to October
2006, Mr. Nazre continued to pressure Plaintiff to have
a sexual relationship with him. Mr. Nazre falsely told
her that this wife had left him. When Plaintiff refused
his advances, Mr. Nazre engaged in offensive, obstructionist
and difficult behaviour toward Plaintiff. Plaintiff eventually
succumbed to Mr. Nazre's insistence on sexual relations
on two or three occasions. In October 2006 Plaintiff
informed Mr. Nazre that she would no longer have a personal
relationship with him. Mr. Nazre started a consistent
pattern of retaliation against her.

This suit will make a lot of people uncomfortable and that's a good thing.
SAP to Acquire Ariba for $4.3 Billion
Cool thanks very much for the feedback - this is exactly what I'm looking for!
Congratulations, guys. Will be very interesting to see the next version with security and pricing. Any more details yet?
This is extremely irritating— after I'm done eating, I like taking the time to talk with people and hangout without having the bill shoved in my face and the waiter asking us to leave (happened a few times).

Pure curiosity here, have you ever been waiting to get into a restaurant, wishing some people would leave so you may be seated? Wouldn't you be more comfortable hanging out in a lounge?
It reads like Nietzsche (all that Will to Power & slave morality stuff) updated for century XXI. (I skimmed the text by highlighting the word "goal".) Frustratingly, the Unabomber doesn't give any examples of "real goals". Does helping startups succeed count?
Mobile apps could use some real-time user analytics - iOS APIs available
I'm loving this sequence of events just for opportunity to see the cognitive dissonance of some HN commenters in action.

The FB IPO strategy was to wait for the peak (or "plateau", if you prefer) in their growth, collect money from the public and then, for the insiders, quickly cash out.

As for why they wanted to collect money from the public through an IPO, we can call it greed, but truthfully it was also the logical thing to do for the company. They knew were not going to grow revenues any further from the Facebook "business model". Revenues would slowly decline going forward. The novelty factor would disappear and advertisers would learn. But with an IPO they could bring in many years worth of revenue, by selling worthless shares to gullible investors, and extend the life of "Facebook Corporation". As long as Facebook has cash, they can stay "in the game". Like Microsoft, they do not need to innovate, they can just acquire or copy new players as they come along. They just sit and wait for the competition to arise, then quickly snuff it out, with cash.

New ideas and innovation are what can kill a company like Facebook (or Yahoo, or Microsoft, or so many others). The way you stay in the game is by having the cash to purchase the work of the innovators who would otherwise render your business obsolete.
Up until February this year, Sony didn't manufacture any phones.
Not to take anything away from such a great accomplishment ... but i find it a little odd that you failed to mention your live-in boyfriend is a coding ninja. Either way ... hats off to you ... and keep it up.

http://nathan.ca/2012/04/html5-helicopter/
Not necessarily. AWS and Kindle/eBooks are already proven businesses with high margins, if the current growth rate on those businesses is maintained then the overall profit margin across all Amazon will improve. And in both cases Amazon is the leader in those fields (PaaS and eBooks). Also, Amazon has been spending a lot of money lately on expansion and hiring, once that's stabilized their profit will go up as well. Overall I'd say the bet that AWS, Kindle, and Amazon's retailing business will sustain double digit growth rates over the next several years is a pretty safe bet.

Also you need to factor in that Amazon has about $25 billion in assets, so their net market cap is only about $75 billion. Anyone looking at Amazon's revenue growth and the diversified foundations of that company can't be too upset at the seemingly high P/E ratio of AMZN. Facebook is also growing revenue like crazy, but their market is much different and there are a lot of open questions on whether or not they can maintain that growth (or even retain their user base). That doesn't mean that facebook is a bad investment, it just means that there's a lot of risk there and the stock price doesn't seem to reflect any of that risk.

Consider: Yahoo has nearly as many users as Facebook (700 mil vs 900 mil), higher total revenue, just as many experienced developers, and a similar business model (ads). Almost all of facebook's valuation lies at the feet of their reputation, not at any sound business fundamentals, and that's a pretty big burden.
You're right, and I had that very thought in mind that these are just allegations. And, anyone familiar with the justice system should be cognizant of that by default.

My point is that she's seriously jeopardizing her career and everything she's worked for professionally by bringing these issues to the forefront. Whatever outcome occurs, Kleiner Perkins will still be standing.

That is a big sacrifice for a chance at a "payout" or validating some feminist rhetoric.
Hipster CTO: outsource as many of your developer hours as possible
When I wrote that experiment (nearly one year ago), I started with 80000 but finally went for 30000 because it was smoother on my laptop. I just forgot to change the title when posting (it was a long ago, and I wasn't expecting it to get much attention).

If you want to benchmark the same page with 80000 particles, try this link : http://minimal.be/lab/fluGL/index80000.html
Still working! Security is our #1 priority right now.
The price listing is merely a consequence of the problem. It's moot.
Unionization. That'll fix everything. Sounds great.

My suggestion: next time you eat out at a nicer-than-average restaurant, ask the server what they think of your idea. I make a point of talking to servers, not because I'm particularly nice (I'm not) but because it's an easy way to get much better service in the future, access to tables on crowded nights, &c. I think you're going to find that restaurant servers do not see tipping as a cosmic injustice that they should pay union dues to stamp out.
That's also what I thought. But I couldn't find Raspberry Pi idle wattage anywhere, so I'm not sure if that's good or bad in comparison.
I agree - that's how I tend to do it these days.

Most startups fail (and I've taken enough of the crappy deals to find this on my own), so I've become a skeptic, usually doing a better job of analyzing their ideas and connections. I end up charging my full rate (which to me is more valuable than the gamble of equity) and then using it as capital for my own projects.
Please, check my post below for the truth about the numbers
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4009469
What he's saying is that it's a bare component. Generally a PC is a usable system.

One will still need to add a powersupply and case at a minimum. (And then you can plug in your power, keyboard/mouse/monitor, etc.)
If we assume dynamic languages are the future, then scripting is absolutely the right answer.

However, what I see is people using dynamic languages because they are what frameworks are written in, not because they want to use a dynamic language. I hope that LightTable incorporates a packaging mechanism such that we can have a Ruby on Rails package, for example, and the 60% of RoR developers who never tweak anything can be more productive.

The problem is that you can give an excellent developer an unspecified tool and they will make it serve their purpose. We need the ability to pass those productivity improvements down the food chain, which is where Emacs fails utterly.
It appeared for me around the time I hit 500. Since then I only used it once and it didn't feel anywhere near as maniacal as I'd hoped.
Microsoft released SOCL-a Social Network
In 1989 I ran a Unix system with 1000 users on hardware less powerful than this, why this kind of horse power cannot run something as simple as a web browser says more about the inefficiencies inherent in current operating systems and programming methods than they do about the hardware.
Well, that's looking like about 3 fps; it's a lot more particles, but it's also a lot slower, so I don't know how that balances out.
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Having directed large groups doing much, much, much less important things, the ability to run across the room and shout at someone when something goes wrong is still pretty indispensable. Plus it's fun.
Turnover among restaurant service staff is a huge industry issue; you'll find journal articles about it (there are, in fact, hospitality industry journals).
In what way is online-only play inherent in the game's design? Be specific. It may be inherent in a few niche features, like the Auction House, but the actual substantive design of the game? I don't think so.

In any case, DRM is by definition an access control mechanism. Limiting post-sale access to your content by means of a mechanism that remains under their control is DRM, whether that DRM is part of the game's design or not.

Also your mouse-and-keyboard analogy is not apropos. Mice and keyboards are conventions of PC gaming, and even if they weren't, you could buy them and be done with it. Ditto a console or motion controller, and so on.

You can't, on the other hand, go buy a Battle.net and be done with it. Blizzard has put a system in place that perpetually limits your access to the content you've purchased. That's DRM.
I'm not convinced those purposes really pan out, though.

Some alternative takes:

* A spectrum of competition can also be created the way it's done in any other industry: Expect a higher level of professionalism and competence from holders of higher-paying jobs, and attract more qualified employees by paying them more.

* A commission system can be handled the way it's done in any other industry: The employer sets the commission, and builds it into their price structure. This would be more transparent, since it means the consumer is being directly told how much the item will cost rather than being expected to do mental math to acquire its true price.

* Studies have shown there's not really a lot of correlation between the server's quality of service and the tip they get. It has a lot more to do with the temperament of the tipper, etc. It's not an incentive if it doesn't incentivize. And a basic demand for professionalism and courtesy works anywhere else. There's something fundamentally broken about a customer service philosophy that assumes your customer-facing employees need financial incentives to be nice to people. For one, it implies a poor opinion of the people who are doing the job.

* An straightforward commission would also encourage increased table turnover. Again, with more price transparency for the consumer, and more respect afforded to the server.
Facebook has 900 million users: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2403410,00.asp

Say we assume that all users have the same economic value to Facebook (an extremely unlikely assumption; it's most likely that the first billion have much more discretionary income than the rest). Assuming Facebook gets the remaining 5.9 billion humans (including all those without Internet), they will only be able to increase their userbase by 7.5X.

Assuming the world 'wants' businesses to have a P/E ratio of around ~15, Facebook either believes in the two above totally fallacious assumptions (they don't), or they anticipate rolling out new revenue strategies to create value.
Now that's just absurd, feeling entitled to receive extra cash for doing your job is ass-backwards. Taking an order, turning in the order, bringing out the order and then delivering the check is part of the job, any service that exceeds that deserves a tip. But feeling entitled to a tip for basically only doing what you're paid to do, is simply stupid.

I personally have no problem leaving a 5-10% tip of the sub-total at a restaurant for basic service, but feeling entitled to it is, I repeat, stupid.
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Never heard of Thimble, and googling doesn't yield anything, so I hope they'll announce something else soon.
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This a thousand times, and while we're at it please include tax in the advertised price. Growing up in Germany and the US, I find the US system incredibly deceptive and annoying..
Why are e-mail scams written in broken English?
AFAIK, no browser uses the name 'requestAnimationFrame'; everyone prefixes it still.
Price of testing on multiple flavors of web browsers: An internet connection & a few virtual machines to run versions of IE/Firefox.

Price of testing on multiple android devices: Thousands of dollars to purchase new phones without a contract.
Why does there need to be a sign in page at all? How does that benefit the user? Shouldn't I be able to come to the page, choose a topic, and start practicing? If I want to save progress, or customize something, then I might want to create an account.
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Retailers win case against Kelora for Faceted Search Patent
What part of "it's not extra cash" is so hard for people to understand? It's not extra. The labor market for restaurant servers in the US is organized around the idea of tipping.

Think of tipping instead as a commission, except instead of the provider paying it, the customer pays. When a car salesman moves a car, we don't think of his commission as an "extra". Base pay for car salespeople is commensurately reduced on account of commissions.
> Last year, we switched a 55k loc Spring MVC (with JAX-RS for the json api) over to Django (using tastypie for the api side and celery for offline tasks). The result ended up being little over 8k loc of Python.

While comparing loc, take into account the fact that there were no unknowns - you are simply porting functionality. You generally don't have to solve a problem when you are re-writing a Java codebase in Python, just pythonizing the existing java solution. I would wager if the same system was re-written in Java, it would shave some bloat(provided you are re-implementing and not adding features).

With that said, 55k to 8k is still very impressive.
There are some laws about this in most states of the US. If a restaurant charges a "x% service fee", then you must pay that fee. Deal with it. If they claim "x% gratuity is included in the check", then you can ask not to pay it.

I frequented a restaurant that did the latter. The problem was that they did a bad job of advertising the fact & would sometimes go as far as to not give an itemized check. I personally felt like I was being duped. This led to customers tipping on top on a tip & when customers found out, there was a lot of rage on Yelp et al. They repealed the auto gratuity.

Point is, if you are going to do this be loud and clear about it.
I actually got myself into some trouble when I said that a Blackberry isn't really a smartphone by today's standards at a friend's party. Someone else there was apparently pretty proud of her Blackberry, and seemed willing to defend to the death her Blackberry Curve that she got for free on contract. I had to back down from that statement for fear that I would be bludgeoned to death with an outdated business device.

This has almost nothing to do with your point, just that there are rabid fans for everything you could think of.
I might be misreading pantaloons, or perhaps incorrectly applying the principle of charity. If so, my mistake - I genuinely didn't understand what he meant.

The government absolutely can pass a law that prevents scarcity...

To some extent, yes. The government can redirect resources from other uses towards some fixed use. But the extent to which this is done is still fundamentally limited. For example, you can't significantly increase the amount of medical services provided for at least 7-8 years, which is the amount of time it takes to train a doctor. (You might, however, redistribute medical services from some people to others.)

Although I generally believe the burden of proof is on the people arguing in favor of taking action (e.g., ensuring "universal access"), I'll link to a post where I argue we should tax education rather than subsidize it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2454363
Here's a sequel article: <http://masanjin.net/blog/how-to-rank-products-based-on-user-....
For what it's worth, I wrote a simplistic Osmos clone last year using 2D canvas drawing (not WebGL). It's fairly inefficient, but anyone's welcome to hack on it and make something cool with it.

http://stepheneisenhauer.com/demos/browsmos/
This was a skunkworks project from a 2-person team in mozilla labs doing some thinking around how to get user keystrokes out of the browser-navigation workflow. The extension can be slightly laggy, but when it hits the preview is cool.
Build the "USS Enterprise" in 20 years, for 1 trillion USD
A lot of people seem to be extrapolating "stranded in the desert" into a scene out of Survivorman or some Hollywood movie or The Little Prince.

Alternate title: "Mechanic camps not far town, repurposes broken car as motorcycle"
If you're interested, here's a nice piece of related work:

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webgl/million_letters...

Also, a paper about pure-GPU implementation:

http://www.2ld.de/gdc2004/MegaParticlesPaper.pdf