skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would you need a start button on a server system? What kind of system administrator are you?
I would perhaps expect shuttles to have greater ease of launching and landing on Earth. After about 10 successful runs I would say we can mark the start of private space exploration.

This is the beginning but nothing is certain at the moment. I wish SpaceX only success though, they are working on something great.
> As an example, take Google's self-driving cars. Would you say the meat of their body of work theoretical?

No.
Sweet, they got Psychonauts in there?
What employers and (especially) employees need to understand is "employees" are nothing more than long-term contractors, under a contract which provides certain "benefits" in lieu of cash money.
But how do you know the intent of the other people around you? Maybe they're just making a joke. I think iloveanal sounds kind of funny. Do you ask them before conducting your deauth attack?
This.

1. I am a self-proclaimed geek & although i love the nifty way to clip only parts of a page is awesome, its confusing, even to me.

2. About being able to share whole page easily & quickly
Amdahl's law ( focus on the common case, 80% of use) would say there should be a fast, frictionless way to accomplish clipping of the entire webpage(which i believe is clipboard's common case)

Now a -ve of doing this would be to increase complexity - 2 options - either clip entire page or parts of a page.

But, you can do this with a well designed ui element.

3. i made this point on the beta launch hn thread, a lot of content consumption (article reading) happens on the ipad.

feature request : find neat content
(from the clipboard corpus, twitter, fb, g+, prisimatic)

the clipboard ipad apps then, download a list of the top 'n'(configurable param) of articles on hn,twitter,fb, g+,
to either
a. locally on ipad, so can be viewed w/o a n/w connection (reading on train, public transit usecase)
b. to my clipboard a/c on the cloud
c. both a & b
The flying crane is used to minimize the physical disruption to the landing site that using thrusters all the way to the ground would cause.

The crane drops off its payload, then flies well away from the landing site before hitting the ground.
This "my desktop should be a tablet OS as well" situation is boggling my mind.

I'm an avid Apple user, and I'm not a fan of the direction Lion went, and the continued direction Mountain Lion is going. I use a notebook because I want a notebook: a keyboard for easy terminal usage and more efficient browser hunting, a mouse or touchpad for manageable selection tools, drawing, etc. I don't think I've ever pressed F4 (Launchpad, I think it's called?) on purpose, especially when Alfred or even Spotlight do the exact same thing much faster.

Windows took this in a stranger direction: let's make it two completely different experiences, but make the unifier the most difficult thing in the world to find. I haven't played with this release yet (played with the previous 8 preview), but if there's an easy switch button (probably is the Windows key), I'm all ears. Otherwise, let's move on. I'm not quite sure who they're targeting here.

The Chromebook/box announcement that came recently is, I think, the most interesting take. Seems like Google's idea was to build Ice Cream Sandwich with the desktop in mind. But here, we lose real apps. I'll tunnel and use Vim when I need to, but Sublime is too powerful for me to pass on. If I want to play Diablo 3 or Portal, forget about it. Then again, Google's looking at a completely different market than OS X or Windows 8.
> Software engineering 'ideas' regarding modeling and testing have gone way overboard.

Maybe, but he also said specs and maintenance.
The ribbon is collapsed by default, come on now. It's there for tablet users and I'm sure you noticed the equivalent in Ubuntu is not tablet friendly at all.

Also, nautilus is easily the worst file management utility on any platform currently, most especially the gnome3 variant. Let me know when the Favorites, you know, actually work the way they do in every other file manager (including the gnome2 variant)
Agreed, working in game development, I've very rarely heard of people using the Codeweaver's approach for commercial Mac ports.

I think this is just a case of playing a game of mishearing/misremembering.
Lobster is a decent font however it's way, way overused. Just please for the love of god don't use it in your logo (Some YC companies have) at best it's going to look generic.
"This is the moment i choose my future platform."

What? For life? Why choose one? And why base it on a non-final release? o_0
Does this fit into the theory that when it comes to politics Americans vote out of spite. That Americans to a large degree vote against someone rather than for someone as a result of the limited amount of choices(2).
Looks interesting!

I'm an experienced programmer (15+ years), but have only a limited exposure to IOS programming. I was planning on learning on my own, but your course seems pretty helpful.

But do you recommend this only for beginning programmers?
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I'm not bashing Microsoft. Windows is my primary platform, all I'm saying is that I'm disappointed at how radical Microsoft is becoming.

99.9999% of applications for Windows are not going to look like Metro apps including flagship products like MS Office. So Metro is going to get in the way most of the time.

I'm not sure what desktop users should really appreciate about Windows 8.
For clarity: soyuz is the name of a launch vehicle as well as a manned spacecraft (the Soyuz-TMA-M). The Soyuz spacecraft can return humans to the Earth and of course has the ability to return cargo as well, but since the space is taken up by people that capacity is extremely limited. The Progress can return a very tiny amount of cargo (about 150kg) to Earth using a specialty capsule that was last used in 1994.
gobama != G Obama

gobama = Go Alabama

Almost all of the entrees in Alabama were GoBama :)
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I've always been interested in building developer tools, I did it at the beginning of my career, 4 years ago, but I've always thought it was a "bad market", a "small one", "there's no money in it".

I've been, secretly, working on a tool while working at a startup and bootstrapping my own startup (my hours are 8am to 4-5am), for the past couple of months, but it has always been kind of a disappointment when I try to think on how to create a business out of it. With these investments - Meteor, 10gen, and the Github rumor - I, definitely feel more encouraged :-)

The plan is always bootstrap - of course - since I don't have a track record, I'm not a ex-facebook employee, nor went to a top CS school.

Since, I'm not from the valley, or any tech hub by that chance, I haven't been able to understand the "industry". I think I get it now, it doesn't matter what you make (money) and the fools that ask "What's the monetization strategy?", you just need to create something very cool that you and other people find useful. I might be wrong but that's my observation.
That makes sense. I was thinking of the stories about artists like Michael Jackson having hundreds of unreleased tracks in vaults or bands like Nirvana releasing compilation albums with unreleased tracks 10/15 years after the band ends. Starting copyright upon release would solve the problem.
On a sidenote, it's kind of sad that a programming layer just above assembly language created 4 decades ago has better macro support than some of the most popular modern languages.

I disagree. In Python, you have much more advanced metaprogramming facilities, depending on what kind of effort you wish to go to. You have the normal introspection, magic methods and metaclasses as you mentioned (which, IMHO, are in themselves already much more powerful than what you can do with the C preprocessor). But you also have access to exec and eval which lets you do all kinds of crazy stuff that isn't possible with C macros. Using operator overloading and classes, you can even create a lot of new syntax which isn't possible in C[1].

Finally, if you are really determined, you can even hack semantics of existing Python constructs by instrumenting the bytecode. For example, I saw a hack which adds tail-call optimization to Python functions this way (iirc as a decorator).

[1] One example is python-pipeline: http://code.google.com/p/python-pipeline/
No surprise it's boggling your mind if you haven't used it. If you want to stay in desktop mode, you can, with the minor exception of having a start menu that displays more stuff and takes up one monitor worth of space.

Windows key brings you to the start screen or from the start screen back to the app (or desktop) you were viewing. Winkey + D displays the desktop.
I don't think it's crucial to start early. Rather, there's a correlation--the sort of person to become a really good programmer or really good at CS is also very likely the sort of person to start programming at an early age.
I hate to be so negative but I have to agree. I know many people (including myself) who've already written libraries similar to Meteor (derby comes to mind).

This is ridiculous. Meteor hasn't even gotten any real adoption and it has no business model. Why create a business when you can just get investment on promises alone?
Nah, Frozen Synapse was natively ported by Ryan Gordon.
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so they have to make the dough, prep the sauce and toppings, stretch the dough, cook the pizzas? Is this a team of one?
That's language-specific advice. Go handles this much more elegantly. You can create a Celsius type very simply:

type Celsius float64 // Temperature in degrees Celsius

It's no harder to use than 'typedef' in C and similarly it doesn't get in your way, but you get a real type and nice errors when you screw up. There's no reason not to do it right away.
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Interesting how the donation numbers stack up across the different platforms with Windows a bit under average, Mac a bit over and Linux over 50% above average.
Decided to spend the last few hours making my own :-)

Now to decide if I should clean it up and go ahead and put it on the store. Does everything I need though and I solved my boredom problem this afternoon so it was a good day.
I hear you. I was about to say exactly the same thing 'cos I'm in Philly, too.
Thrun's code in his class is nothing like Norvig's, FWIW. It's practical in its way, but in a project of mine I'd want it tightened up.
I'm not sure there are many Bama fans in NYC!
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I was all, like, "Really?"

Google went all, like, "Really..."

http://www.spacex.com/press.php?page=20120530

> In the future, Dragon will use SuperDraco thrusters to land on a landing pad on ground.

This then led to looking up SuperDraco, which is on this Wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco_(rocket_engine_family)

And then we all know how wikipedia is. I'll be following links for the rest of the afternoon and probably shake myself out of it when I realize that I've been looking at Wikpedia articles for Marvel superheroes for 20 minutes.

[edit ooh, this is worth seeing too]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUUnYgo1-lI
A Dutch company wants to start building a Mars settlement by 2023
32-bit: 2.5 GB, 64-bit: 3.3GB

Why?!
There's got to be an app for this.
I see there is a surcharge for men.

Do black or Chinese people have to pay extra, too?
One thing you're wrong about- RE brokerage is under heavy fire right now and is being attacked by many, many startups.

The strongest moat that’s defended residential RE brokerage from disruption is the interdependent nature of the business. Because both the buyer and seller are represented by agents in most transactions, brokers must collaborate to close deals at the same time as they compete for listings. Buyers’ agents have an incentive only to show their clients homes whose sellers offer them a standard 3% commission. To attract more listings and still retain interest, sometimes seller’s agents offer to cut their own fees while still offering the full price to the buying agent. The reason that this approach hasn’t become widespread and significantly whittled down commission standards is that the vast majority of sellers’ agents are also buyers’ agents, meaning that both parties have a vested interest in preserving the commissions on either side of the table.

Because of this solidarity among buyers’ and sellers’ agents, the only way for the brokerage business to be hacked and rendered truly competitive is for one half of the equation to vanish. Either FSBO listings will have to become so widespread that sellers’ agents largely disappear from the picture or property search, negotiations, and closings have to be made so simple that buyers’ agents fade to irrelevance. But when one side crumbles, both sides do.

IMO, it's far easier to hack the buying-side process than the selling process. RealDirect and DotLoop are interesting in that they try to essentially automate the process of selling a property yourself (RealDirect by providing appraisal services, submitting listings to MLSes, and curating marketing channels etc. and DotLoop by standardizing legal docs/paperwork), but these companies face an uphill battle in convincing sellers that they are every bit as talented at receiving top dollar for their home.

IMO, the best way to hack the industry is to streamline combine a Trulia/Zillow/StreetEasy proprietary MLS with DotLoop's standardized legal/paperwork management system. The one missing piece is data-driven appraisals accurate enough to convince buyers of their worthiness. Nobody's quite got this down yet, but Kwelia seems to be closest. The trouble is that not enough sales data is available to accurately correlate prices to location/amenities/property info. Although most US cities maintain public data mines that contain title documents, many buyers mask their purchase prices with evasive chicanery that reads along the lines of "sold for $10 and other goods of significant consideration".

All that being said, your model of offering perks is an interesting way of convincing attracting clients to an existing brokerage. Partner with some furniture suppliers/local businesses to offer some exclusive discounts and I think you're onto something.
Your post brings up a great point, and I hate it when I can't open links in new windows (Harvest invoice/estimate list, I'm looking at you!). But I wonder if there's a way to handle it in a more abstract fashion -- in the sense that you let the browser tell you if a link is to be opened in a new window/tab, as opposed to hardcoding various keyboard buttons.

For example, does your technique handle middle-clicks (clicking on the middle mouse button, which is equivalent to shift-clicking)?
What a jerk! Cincinnati is a great place to have a startup.
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We're looking for people with all ranges of experience! For students new to programming, we'll cover much of the basics before the class, so you hopefully won't be bored when the class proper begins.
Haven't seen it yet, sorry. I've read the book but wasn't excited enough to make a beeline for the movie. Probably will see it sometime though.

From what I've seen of various shorts about the movie, the archery looks pretty good. I don't think she spent 6 months practising but she obviously spent some time on it with a good coach (a US Olympian, so she knows her stuff). The only thing they get wrong is that longbows aren't as accurate as they're portrayed, but that happens in every movie with an archer and it's just artistic license really.
That's a good question. Microsoft's solution in the past has been to simply not try to be bold. It's worked well for them so far and it probably will for the foreseeable future. Metro UI is their attempt at being bold, but they also can't risk alienating their core users in the process. Whether or not they will accomplish this, seeing how hard they're pushing the new UI, remains to be seen. But I understand what they're trying to do.
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Yeah, for some people the cost is just too high. I used to enjoy regular lucid dreams—I’m always dream-aware—but it’s not worth it to deal with fatigue and sleep paralysis.

I regularly have episodes of sleep paralysis anyway, almost any time I sleep on my back. The kind with terror, hallucinations, coming out of it bellowing and attacking things that aren’t there, the whole bit. So unfortunately lucid dreaming isn’t for me.

It’s all kinds of fun though, and I miss it. :(
Best I can do:

http://www.freddesign.co.uk/2010/04/archive/the-differences-...

... which suggests that Akzidenz didn't come into modern use until the '50s.
Another one I noticed is "Obama's Network", which is in DC not too far from the White House (but definitely not at it). It's classified as pro-Obama, and if it were anywhere else it probably would be, but given the location I'd say it's just a joke designed to surprise passersby.
"you just need to create something very cool that you and other people find useful."

No. You need to convince investors that whatever you have is "cool" and "useful", even if it burns money.

Derby is cool. Express is cool. Knockout is cool. There are so many cool, free, open-source libraries. It has become crystal clear that getting investment is about being on the inside, having a hip website, and valley celebrities saying good things about you.
The WOW compatibility layer couldn't account for 700 MB.

Perhaps x64 built-in drivers plus their x86 equivalents? I'm tempted to download both, extract, and compare.
It seems that the only people who click the start button are people who don't use Windows all the time. Commonly used apps go in the launch bar and infrequently launched apps are found by hitting the Windows key and typing the name. Nothing in Windows 8 changes that workflow for me.
Something seems fundamentally wrong here. If I middle-click or ctrl-click on a link, the browser shouldn't allow the site to interfere with that, accidentally or otherwise. Those shortcuts represent part of browser chrome, just like the shortcuts for the URL bar, the search bar, and the back button.
Michael Crichton called this "the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect":

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/65213
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Whoa.. a combination of my two favorite things, technology and pizza. I need this job.

A nice high hydration dough with a 3 day cold ferment. San Marzano tomato sauce.
Meteor works a lot like Heroku, and that's the monetization strategy.

Currently you can push your Meteor apps to their servers and host/run them for free. But eventually they're going to charge, have add-on services, etc. Just like Heroku, but because these are the guys who built Meteor, it should be better.

It will be interesting to see if anyone else tries to host Meteor apps at all, Heroku/Salesforce should be watching closely.
It can and will.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Server_2012
It's obviously a metaphor for the company itself.
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People who talk trash about the ribbon simply have no idea how average people use their computers. There is immense value for most people by having available functions in your face. If an option is hidden, only the most adventurous users will ever find it. UIs should be functional first and pretty second.
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This definitely varies per school. At my university, almost all of the CS classes involve a significant amount of programming. (For reference, all the EE and CS people have one major.)

We have a slightly weird structure: everybody takes the same intro courses but then you can do whichever advanced courses you like. So this means that everybody (even pure EE people) get programming courses going from Scheme (SICP) to assembly. (And the CS people like me also have to do a bunch of EE.) Then, most of the advanced CS courses all involve a healthy amount of programming. The only exception is the algorithms/theory sequence, but most people don't do all of it and everybody (except EEs) do some other programming courses as well.

I think the main difference is that the program I'm in is part of the engineering college of a school that takes engineering rather seriously.
The website in no way makes this clear, but I think you can video chat through your Skype account using the built in IMO app.
The most unrealistic thing about that wasn't the interface itself, it was the 10-year-old girl who says "This is Unix, I know this!"
Now I'm curious to find "FBI naming policy chapter V: computer networks"
It's using Metro as well.. http://www.engadget.com/2012/05/31/microsoft-outs-windows-se...
Thunderbolt is well en route to being about as ubiquitous as Firewire.
The article also hits one of my pet peeves about BLS stats: referring to "the unemployment rate" without qualification. U3 and U6 unemployment are distinctly different things - the main difference is that the average person's idea of "unemployed" includes a lot of able-bodied willing-to-work individuals who are counted in U6 and ignored by U3. Unfortunately, when someone talks about "the unemployment rate," they're almost always talking about the U3 measure of unemployment, because that's the one that presidents, senators, and congresscritters trumpet (on account of their incentive to understate unemployment).
When I mentioned "Hackers," I was thinking more of the 3D UI they were navigating to search for files on the mainframe.
actually, old (~ pre-70s) sf cover art is a particularly bad choice of examples - the covers often bore very little relation to the actual contents of the book.
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I'm working for the wrong company.
We're not SF. We'll never be SF and that's just fine. We have a vibrant and enthusiastic tech community here in Cincinnati. We have a great city that's doing all the right things to attract and retain talent, too.

If there's one thing we're doing poorly, it's making those points known. After Queen City Merge, we started working on Made In Cincy to create a unified presence of tech startups, agencies and individuals. We're out here, doing good work every day.
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I agree, except:

hackers ⊈ developers

Hackers are not optimizing for performance or readability.

I've watched a few penetration testers at work - they have to have a very broad knowledge base and work at speed. They're not sitting around wondering if their query is going to work in 1s or 0.1s - it just doesn't matter.

Awesome to see 'real' sql in action though.
I guess they'd say that you can configure remote desktop to forward events from "special" keys, thus opening start menu with keyboard.
I'm trying really hard not to scoff. This is pretty much a standard way of doing any sort of embedded content in any templating system or language that has ever existed. Ever.

I'd recommend running the child HTML through some sort of validation to clean up the markup or otherwise ensure it doesn't alter the content that follows it in the template.

Also, depending on your userbase, it may be easier, or actually recommended, to use something like Markdown instead. It won't let them shoot themselves in the foot like HTML or a rich text editor will. I've seen content that was heavily formatted and styled that looked atrocious in the template, do to the template's parental styling or just poor user taste.