skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best text editor is the one which is easiest to do the desired tasks with.

That does not mean everyone should be doing the laborious "move hand to mouse, do visual scan, click" loop several times to initiate every action, because that often ISN'T the shortest path from A to B.

vim isn't unnecessarily complicated for the people who really need it. If you need to extend and automate and customize to any significant degree, you will need an editor which offers scripting that hooks into most of what it does, which is unavoidably more complicated than notepad.

That is apart from matters of taste, which aren't a matter of complication so much as "I want to use multitouch gestures to perform editing tasks" or "I love LISP as a configuration language" or whatever.
Preparing a technical talk
> The closest real-world analogy I can think of is this: you want to by a DVD but cashier is ignoring you. So, you slap a $20 bill on the counter and walk out with the DVD

Wrong. In your scenario, the DVD in question is for sale, and is clearly listed as such with a price and all. You know exactly how much it costs, and you give that much money. And the transaction occurs in a place that is designed for this very purpose. There is no confusion or grey area here.
Sure, why not, or waiting for ever and not watching it at all.

Issues: the marketing blitz and news don't wait for a few months, and the various communities around the show don't wait either, "waiting for a few months" means ignoring the marketing blitz (easy), deftly skipping all news of the show to avoid spoilers (annoying), being completely split from any possible community built around the show (annoying, and often a significant loss) and finally avoiding significant interactions with colleagues who watch the show, because they probably won't remember that you're not watching it yet when discussing the episode which just eared (downright shitty).

Meanwhile pirating the episode has none of these drawbacks, it's available hours after the broadcast on every country on the planet in high quality.
This study, which received a lot of attention about a year ago, is probably what he's referring to:
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=899663

"The associations between systolic pressure and sodium excretion did not translate into less morbidity or improved survival. On the contrary, low sodium excretion predicted higher cardiovascular mortality."
> risk of all art ceasing to exist

That isn't even a remotely realistic worry. Humans have been creating art and "giving it away" ever since they've been humans. There is a risk that more "expensive" art will stop being funded (though even that is a stretch right now), but there is no possible realistic threat that art will cease to exist short of a mass extinction.
Look, There's 2 France in your Map! :)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/149780/shared/2france.jpg
> I don't know what the Linux Foundation spends money on

At a minimum, Linus. What would you pay him?

Edit: Interestingly he doesn't appear in the Linux Foundation's 990.
The game as it stands, has large amounts of blizzard polish behind it.

Its fun in its own ways, and would have made a great single player game which could have been played offline or on a LAN.

Without the AH - and hence higher drop rates to balance - the game would have been fine.

You would have had the game balance and fluidity, plus the incessant "ooh shiny!" of D2.

All of the constraints imposed in the parent article trace back to the Auction House and the Real Money Auction House. Each of them is an economic constraint to ensure the RMAH is actually usable.

Edit: Well its bound to happen too - a single agency controls the bank, the economy and the laws/game play.
The kernel is just a small part of the software on a phone, of corse, and likely not the crucial differentiator either. Don't forget that Samsung probably uses Linux in a lot of other products too, e.g. TVs.
This is great, but what would really be nice to see is a way to get cost per particular instance, either based on instance-id or a particular tag.

You can to some extent do it manually, and breaking applications into different accounts achieves most of what you'd want to see.

But being able to see how much you've paid this month for front-end servers dedicated to application X, or load balancers for all applications, would be valuable.
Please don't mistake me: PHP-the-language is not well-designed. And we absolutely would never have gone down this road if we didn't have a metric ton of PHP to run and continue developing.

There are a few things PHP gets accidentally right, though, and one of them is the execution model. Each request starts with a brand new empty PHP environment; runs in a single thread to completion; and must keep persistent state off to the side in a database or memcache or what have you rather than in language-level objects. This turns out to have been a really good set of decisions. It lends itself to a nice tight development loop: instead of save/recompile/restart the server/test, you basically save/load the page. It's easier to remember what the heck you were doing when you get feedback on the code you wrote in 500 milliseconds.
reddit, pinterest, and craigslist come to mind as probably having a higher ratio. Instagram too, before Facebook bought them. Edit: And OMGPOP before Zynga bought them.
Germany Increases 'You Are All Pirates' Tax On Solid State Media By 2000%
Is it common to pay designers up front?
I've contracted many times as a python programmer for companies but I have never considered charging a 'deposit'.

I recently started my own company and I have been asked a few times now to pay 30-50% up front and to me this seems like a horrible practice but it is also my first time hiring a designer.
I had a phone with a terrible web browser, a tiny screen, and ridiculous charges for bandwidth before that. MapQuest likely had a terrible mobile site for it to talk to. I think it's likely that I theoretically had maps on my phone 8, 9, or even 10 years ago.

In practice though, I didn't have them until June 2007.
The rule of any headline that asks a question: the answer is always no.

In this case, this greatly saddens me. Why haven't we banned fracking? We don't need the natural gas, but we need the groundwater its destroying.
I agree with that. My first instinct was to click the newspaper names, then I noticed the 'Go' column.
OK, seriously? Watercooler discussion is the rationale now? That's a reason to take money from the pockets from the 1000s of people who worked months or years to make something you like?

Really?
For many people TV-shows are a shared cultural event. Discussing the show is at least as big a part of the experience as watching it. Remove the shared experience and the show loses much of its total value.
There's also http://bl.ocks.org/ which is a similar concept I believe.
This was actually forshadowed by pg in 2005[1]:

The most dramatic change, I predict, is that VCs will allow founders to cash out partially by selling some of their stock direct to the VC firm. VCs have traditionally resisted letting founders get anything before the ultimate "liquidity event."

[1] http://paulgraham.com/startupfunding.html
> Programming a pong game would probably seem like genius level intelligence to many outsiders. Sure, most here don't think that, right? That doesn't mean you understand serious computer concepts and the sort of things that are Knuth's "Art," right?

But not programming a pong game and just learning from the book also doesn't mean you understand serious computer concepts. I've seen examples of it at my university. "Understand" does not mean "repeat it on the next test", nor does it mean "repeat the definition you memorized from the book". It means being able to manipulate the concept in your mind, to infer consequences, to think of alternatives, and most importantly, to put it into use.

So my belief still is that bulding stuff correlates with understanding more, than book-learning alone. (I'm not saying builders don't learn - they do, but not what they're told when they're told, but what they need when they need it).
> Is iPhone coming to Africa? (co.zw)

Well? Is it?
Samsung spends $500K in one hour on legal fees. Seems like a low amount to such a great foundation.
But I would say the nature of this post is more along the lines of X is only available as A-Z at 10x$. If X were available as X for $, I would but it.

There are 2 types of pirates out there. Some really feel they have the right to do so. Some do it knowing it is wrong but they have no other way to access the content and if there were a Paypal set to donate to support the show would do so.

Not watching the show or waiting for the DVD to come out really is not an option. Waiting is not the point we're discussing.
These media maneuverings is truly a game of thrones.
Designers get stiffed all the time; programmers have more job security because of maintenance. Also, software is something you can show working; people will reject a design for wholly arbitrary reasons.
Just to clarify, Time Warner Cable is no longer related in any way to Time Warner. They've licensed the name since 2009.

This clarification does not change your point, however. A conglomerated cable channel owner benefits from any one of their channels driving access to all of them. If HBO did circumvent the cable operator, they may be hurting their brothers and sisters in the process
This isn't really entirely accurate:

First, a single item of, for instance, 200 vitality, is not giving you a +200 to your vitality at lvl 60. Instead, it's giving you the difference between 200, and what ever the bonus would be on average eq that you can get easily in the game by being level 60 and killing a few things.

Second, levels do increase your survivability, in several ways:

1. You get vitality, every level, at +10 life per point plus any percentage bonuses you have
2. You get your key stat, every level, which increases your damage directly and indirectly
3. You become able to wear higher-level equipment when you gain a level, and of course, that equipment improves based on its own level.
4. You learn new skills, not just new skill runes, and both are quite significant. The higher-level skills are more powerful in many cases.
I was impressed by stuff like this in the 90s ;-)

What's impressive now is not the software but that the hardware is so cheap.
No, you get an interview that might lead to a job...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket

TCP sockets in Javascript are getting standardized.
The personal contact info of other individuals is not mine to share. They've entrusted me with their privacy, but it's theirs to continue to hide or share as they will.
Us freelancers oftentimes live paycheck to paycheck. Getting a delayed payment is more than an inconvenience, it starts a trainwreck of financial consequences. In my experience, if a client can't pay up front then they were going to have trouble paying on time later.

Not to mention that the transfer time can take longer than it takes to get the work done, especially if the payment is via echeck.

Getting partial - or full - payment up front takes a major headache off the programmer/designer, allowing them to concentrate on getting the job done.
I love the fact that CNet had to add a note that they updated the article that Facebook made a comment that they had no comment.
"Because D2 was so "easy", many many skill builds were viable."

Well said. Tweaking and experimenting, rather than constantly and tediously fighting for your life (which is rendered all the more pointless when you realize one amazing piece of gear can fix it for you).
Link for Michael Hartl's Rails Tutorial: http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book

Available for free online, though you can also pay for it if you'd like.
Founders selling a small percentage of their stock as part of a (usually late) financing round is pretty common. It's in the investors interest to see that the founders are focused on growth and not lured by an exit at an unattractive multiple. Letting founders take cash off the table by selling a small percentage of their stock as part of a late financing round keeps the founder focused on growth instead of creating liquidity for themselves. Secondly, capital gains tax on a stock sale is much lower than income tax that would be garnered by paying yourself a bigger salary.

A VC who has participated in an early round also often sells some stock in a late round to hedge their risk.
> The purpose is to test if you can read a passage and comprehend it. Has nothing to do with microscopes. Has nothing to do with "teaching science", as the writer asserts.

There are lot of comments here referring to the fact that this exercis used in original post was a reading comprehention test, not 'understanding of the microscope' test. It may be so, but it's still a bad test, and the mistake is on the test authors' side. Why?

Because one of the principles of testing is that you should control for any variable that you do not wish to test. Here, they didn't control for the "I know better than test author how this work, because I have (read a whole book about it || been using it since 8 years old || built one)" factor. And that, for many students, converts the test into a choice - should I write what they expect me to, or should I write how the world really is?

If we teach kids to always choose the first option, do we want to live in this world when they grow up and start running it?

So why not, instead, test reading comprehention on fictional topics (like operating a 'fluxklux' device), thus making sure that no-one can have pre-existing knowledge of it to interfere with reading comprehention?
In my experience it is common, and the percentage / structure depends on the total estimated price.
Your wish is my command! We introduced this feature last month:

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/05/monitor-estimated-costs-u...
Show HN: Post Video Updates on Your Facebook Wall - AirGoL
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First off, I will point out: this is not a leak of your contact list, it is a leak of your calendar. You might have a very different perspective of the kind of information you store in your calendar, as it includes (explicitly from the article) meeting notes (in which I can imagine someone even having stored a bunch of sensitive corporate information) and the date/time and location of your upcoming whereabouts.

That said, I will also attempt to answer your question as asked, partly as everyone else is responding to you under the guise "LinkedIn should not get this data", yet, I, generally agree with you: for most people that is the worry of someone who is paranoid. That said, I /can/ come up with legitimate (but unlikely) situations where I'd fear for someone's life based on an address book being accessible from LinkedIn.

However, to me the key problem here is "in plain text": it is one thing for a service that already knows too much about me and the people I work with to know a little more about them, or think about people hacking into LinkedIn (again unlikely), but it is an entirely different thing for everyone sharing the WiFi network I'm on to have my entire contact list: these are people who are actually in a position to take action.

It might be your ex-husband who has been stalking you ever since the divorce, or it might be the creepy guy that hangs out at the comic book shop who seems to have taken slightly too much of an interest in you. It could even be someone running a scam: they go to conferences, intercept as many address books as possible, and try to use the result for some kind of social engineering hack or even identity theft.

If you haven't yet, I thereby implore you to consider "what could I learn about my best friend if I had their entire contact list": looking at it from the vaguely mischievous and voyeuristic stance of it being someone else's data might make it simpler to envision why that person might not want you to know all of that information. If that fails, then try to think about it from the perspective of a thief or an evil employer.
Check out Patrick McKenna's btapp
https://github.com/pwmckenna/btapp

I think it's a good use case for WebRTC, but I have yet to look into WebRTC in enough detail to say for sure.

I think they still need work done on the DHT and how to store binary blobs. I think three.js has already done work on binary blob storage that may be worth looking at.
Of course it would lower the pressure temporarily, until the body restored blood volume to normal levels. But hypertension is defined medically as a chronic condition.
It's ironic that the amount in the form is in US dollars.

In much the rest of the world, it's already pretty much game over. A whole generation has learned to "pirate" these shows because it's the only available option.

This is the reality in 2012 outside the US: ordinary people in offices and on schoolyards are discussing TV shows that aren't legally available in those countries. It's not considered anything special anymore, it's no longer just a small "secret" club of geeks. It has become so common it's hard to imagine "legal" services will ever get a foot in the door after over a decade of neglecting these markets.
Napster Duo launch Airtime video chat app for Facebook
What if some great writers from HBO left to join a new "startup" with deep pockets and willing to bet on internet only distribution. And what if they create a big-budget show that's awesome like Game of Thrones. Would you pay for that "channel"?
a la carte cable will never happen (given the current power structure and regulatory environment)

which suggests the question, how long will the current power structure and regulatory environment be able to last?
Use the Webkit remote inspector on an iOS device
I'm a big fan of the nascent self driving technology, but vehicles in the first several waves of that revolution will still need a proper human interface.

And realistically, I think "dual interface" cars will own the general market (non-taxi, etc) for a long time to come. Anyone who enjoys driving once in a while on a nice piece of road (E.G. the 280 between Daly City and Cupertino) is going to want a car that also features a manual mode.

Eventually we'll have cars where a hidden steering wheel unfolds from the dashboard and pedals rise from the floor. And parental controls to prohibit your teen from accessing them ;)
Similar to kiba's comment below, but perhaps a step in between, it would make sense for car designers to look at other similarly complex machines that require the operator's constant attention to the outside world before innovating blindly.

HOTAS (Hands on Throttle and Stick) as a concept has been adopted almost exclusively in fighter aircraft - and extended into Formula 1 and Indy cars as well - for this exact purpose.

The modern car dashboard design is beyond stupid, almost criminally so when you start to see 12 inch video screens placed underneath the windscreen in such a way that the driver has to take his attention off the road to use pretty much anything in the car.

Tactile feedback isn't going to help much if you are fumbling with controls floating an arms length away between you and the passenger.

There is plenty of room on the steering wheel for all of the car's functional controls, especially if you make use of a HUD/windscreen visual menu and multifunction controls. I almost exclusively use my 5 button steering wheel control to manage my entire audio experience while driving right now.

I'm not sure how many people will need to be killed before something like that becomes the norm. Of course, seatbelts and airbags both required their fair share of human sacrifice before the car gods decided lowly operators warranted them, so maybe kiba is onto something. :-)
How long is the project? Do you have a bad reptutation for paying on time?
New ultra thin flexible glass
EDIT: I was wrong.

Your diatribes would be much more effective if they either had a bit more research behind them or did not succumb to poe's law. - saulrh

Good critique, thanks.

- http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poes_Law
It would be horrible. Most people's jobs are producing things and experiences that are discretionary.
Then donate the discs to someone who likes to collect physical media.
This is cool, but is there really a demand for this? Didn't we almost universally switch from textured, real buttons to glass interfaces over the last 5 years?

Maybe it's just me, but I'm not exactly pining for my old blackberry's keyboard. My display/interface iPhone isn't perfect, but this just isn't a real enough problem for me. Is it for you?
ipv 6 launch, on the 6th day of the 6th month.

666

Yes, the nerds are still in charge of the net. Thank satan.
Wake Up The Discoverer Inside: An Amazing Application For Adventurers
Best Practices for iOS Software Design
> step 1 would be making sure that they understand the instructions for the kits

That's not the point of hacking.

If I were to get some students to play with robotic kits, I'd give them the parts, instructions and let them do whatever they want. If you remove the "discovery" part, you get something not much different than standarized test itself. If you have kids follow instructions precisely, well, they may as well just watch how it's done on youtube. They won't learn much more from it anyway.
Not watching the show is absolutely an option. Not one human being is obligated to watch any television show. I think what you mean is "these people really want to watch the show", and that's true. I know some people who really want to take oxycodone. The government won't let them buy it from a pharmacy legally, so I guess they should be justified in stealing it and then leave a donation for what they think is fair compensation.

Waiting for the DVD to come out is also an option unless you know for a fact that it will never happen (which neither of us does). It's not going to kill anyone to wait 6 months to see a show. Maybe they would lose interest in the show by then and not buy the DVD, sure. If that's the case, then who's going to care? Maybe it's not an ideal option, but it is an option nonetheless.
While what you say may (or may not) be right, you have completely missed the point of the speech and its lesson by focusing on the question of how to become successful. The point is, if you do happen to become successful, don't think you deserve it, and don't forget to repay your debt to those who aren't so successful.

This is not a lesson in self-help, but one about one's place in society.
Well it is definitely a reason why the alternative offered isn't a good one. lots of things people do have "silly" social reasons, so don't dismiss those factors out of hand. Also, "taking money from the pockets of others" is an incredibly biased way to frame the discussion, and doesn't help at all.
The text is copied verbatim without attribution from Node's wiki; I think they should at least link back to it:

"API changes between v0.6 and v0.8" : https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/API-changes-between-v0.6...
It's interesting that GoT is relatively low budget for what it is, roughly $60 million a season or thereabouts.

Netflix dropped $100 million for a season of House Of Cards, so it's entirely possible we'll see more of this kind of thing out of them.

And I'm firmly convinced the right people could raise GoT scale budgets through crowdfunding. The right time and talent just have to come along. It'll happen in the next couple of years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=7n2m-X7OIuY#t=2m00s

Try and keep your head out of the main stream media's asshole.
In what way is money not being taken from the pockets of others?

The rationale that someone wouldn't buy it anyway doesn't hold when the argument is that they want it so much they can't wait for it.
That's what Linux package maintainers do, no one seems to have a problem with it.

Public code is public. As long as the licenses are followed and/or credit is given who cares?
showtime has pretty good content but i'd definitely pay less for it. have you seen hbo go? full seasons of all hbo content + great collection of new release movies.