skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Admittedly I am responsible for one of the more ridiculous and pointless comments on this thread (although in my defense it wasn't an attempt at being pseudo-relevant in the slightest, was just me being silly about the use of the word 'mystery', which always tends to bring out scooby-doo references in my head). However, what kind of response can you have to an announcement that any big company is releasing something, but they won't say what. I'll reserve relevance for when there is something to be relevant about, otherwise it is just the microsoft equivalent of the more vacuous side of mac rumours, and in the absence of any information I do find sillyness is preferable to sincere waffle about a marketing exercise.
I suspect you are right, however note that the proponents of this technology often claim that they can tell who you are even if you do these sorts of things.
Noted. We'll work on making this more clear and maybe direct people to click rather than use the hotkeys.
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Ah, gotcha. Yeah, that would have been incoherent.
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You can (and should) install LBE privacy guard. If you don't want an app to access, say, your contacts list, it gets an empty contacts list.
Storing graphs in a key/value store is trivial. Querying them is not. Gremlin is much more powerful than anything you can home bake.
I don't use any Microsoft products myself, but Windows Phone 8 seems great, and Kinect is one of the best toys a hacker could dream of. I for one am very excited to hear about big announcements from them.
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FastCompany still exists?

Who knew.
Thanks for shining a light on the amazing work and communities sprouting up all over the Midwest!
Here in Australia we have a couple of stores (Myer/David Jones) that have an in-store section for Apple products that are setup like Apple Stores, complete with touchable products. Just next to that section are the windows laptops, locked down and unfriendly. Normally the Apple section is far busier.
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Most people are users of the software, not developers, and so they hate the product because it's bad, not because it's written in Java.

Wait, you don't work for Amazon, so I'm confused...
Massive typo fail.

Fixed :-)
It started out so promising, with good observations that more people need to hear, then degenerated into indentured servitude.

If all else fails, how about we try the market? Make student loans dischargeable in bankruptcy and let the banks figure it out.
My Algorithms lecturer called it the "equivils" symbol, as in "like equals but meaning exactly equivalent to".

I thought that was a standard name until I tried to use it around someone from a different university. I had to google it to prove I wasn't crazy, and when google came up with only four random hits, I was forced to concede that I may well in fact be crazy after all.

I can't decide if he thought equivils was the best name for it, or if he was just trying to make it so we couldn't google solutions to his assignments...
If you look at Inman's articles, he lists hundreds of URLs, with scores of them being repeats of the same comic. This is a systematic problem, not a 'whoops, one accident' issue.
Yeah, it's not always a simple solution. And money is a factor even when people wish it weren't.
No, simply no. GWT is everything we should be running screaming from, and yes because its Java and yes because it lets programmers be lazy and not go out of their comfort zone and fucking learning JavaScript
Intensely interesting. I'm looking forward to more blog entries. Though not an economist, I've always lamented the way econometrics was starved of opportunities, and the way competing ideas could both thrive with no real hope of resolution.
Ask HN: Best way to word contact with owner of domain you want
Hi guys, I was wondering how you would recommend contacting the owner of a domain you are interested in. Brief summary: there's a startup idea I'm playing with and I came up with what I think is a great, clever name. I was sitting in a Starbucks brainstorming when it hit me and I immediately pulled out my iPhone and tried to visit the site. It wouldn't load—good sign! Unfortunately later I did a WHOIS and discovered the domain is actually owned by a man from India who doesn't seem to be using it for anything—it doesn't even have A records pointing at a server.

As such, I am considering contacting this man to express interest in his domain but as I'm bootstrapping this venture I can't afford to be gouged too badly on a domain name. I know the "if the name is THE name for your product, spare no expense" mantra but realistically I can't afford to pay $10,000 for a domain name just because they know I want it badly.

So, my question is this: how would you recommend approaching the situation in an email to the owner in a way that is respectable but also portrays professionalism in hopes for a reasonable business discussion?
Nice Ben, great to see this app continuing to get better. I'm really digging the Elements Dialog, would love to see that expand.
Fair enough but I don't see these "Microsoft sucks lols" comments you speak of.

I hope they are delaying Win 8 for at least a year.

Is that it?

Based on early Windows 8 feedback, Microsoft announce
the upcoming release of Windows 9! /s

Maybe this? Even if you ignore the "/s", I don't take this as "MS sux". He's simply referencing some of the critical reaction that comes with any major change to a product with a bit of humor on a post that isn't exactly conducive for a good discussion.

This post is about a "mystery". If anything, I'd take the tone of the comments to be relative indifference about discussing this "mystery".
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You could be right.. all other sources were extremely tight lipped and would only state that it was down to a difference in philosophy. That was the only article I could find that actually had any indication of what sort of policies he was implementing there in the time leading up to him getting fired and so I am probably pretty guilty of making an inference based on far too little information.
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Yeah, I have some plans on how that will fit into your workflow with the rest of the guys. Will email soon.
If you change an interface, and someone else adds a new client to the interface locking does not help. So file based locking does not guarantee that merge conflicts won't occur.

Managing essential merge issues relates to success at dividing work up into highly cohesive, loosely coupled units. The accidental merge issues are not a big deal in good environments.
http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/
http://mike.verdone.ca/twitter/
https://launchpad.net/twitter-cmdline/
http://ruby-paypal.rubyforge.org/
http://oreilly.com/pub/h/2222

Apparently twitter and paypal ARE commandline programs!
Apologies.

I'm not happy that somebody who very evidently doesn't have a clue what they're talking about is the top comment.

When people stop upvoting complete and utter tripe (which is nutritious btw), my response stops being necessary.

I'd react the same way to any sort of ignorant pontification on clearly foreign (to them) material.

Raise a fool on a litter and I'll tackle the people carrying the litter.

I'm quite open to being proven wrong, but I don't expect to be.
All capitalists want Marxism - to stage their own revolt in an old industry and wind up on top as dictator of their own little command economy. We aren't so different, you and I...
Create two user accounts and run one instance in each? This is Linux...
Using something, then reaching a conclusion that is on the "next level" often have surprising similarities to conclusions made by people that haven't started using it at all.

See also: http://www.zenguide.com/zenmedia/index.cfm?id=303
Please Don't Soak The Rich...
Is it too much to ask people to stop blindly following the media in over doing it with shit like this, emphasizing "Apple's manufacturer" when in fact Foxconn manufactures for a wide range of companies.

This isn't even in defense of Apple or anything remotely even close to that, it just irks me that people would try to pull lame stunts like this.
I'd like to think the essence of a start-up is in the passion of its team to produce something new/fascinating/challenging ...

If you want to mainly establish a sustainable business model, just run a traditional service business. There's enough money to be made there.
An optionally dynamic, yet also statically typed language? Umm... no. It's hard to even imagine arguing about this.
Perhaps he was a conman operating a switch in his shoe. The stats were randomised generic averages ...
> Wouldn't it be much more efficient to create a view just
> once by setting innerHTML, and then update it using the
> DOM (setting attributes, classes, innerText, etc.)?

Funnily enough, it usually isn't. Especially in older browsers, where performance matters most -- setting a single innerHTML call with a bunch of HTML is far cheaper than doing the equivalent number of DOM-twiddling operations.

While it's entirely possible with Backbone views to listen to specific change events and only modify the smallest possible portion of the DOM, it's usually not worth the bother -- appropriately coarse-grained template renders are both more convenient and faster.
What if everyone was an entrepreneur?
Greetings,

Elec Eng turned Software Eng here, so I have some background in both fields. I'm going to make a couple of assumptions as to what you're using, but the comments should be reasonably generic. My $0.02:

1] Get yourself a 'decent' development kit for the micro platform you'll be working on. You don't specify manufacturer or type, but look for something that comes with all the cables, LEDs, drivers and other goodies, and a board that 'just works'. If you have limited background, you don't want to spend your time trying to get basic comms or drivers working, or figuring out that your LED isn't turning on because of a wrong or missing pulldown resistor.

2] In tandem with [1], try and find a well documented compiler toolchain. Gone are the days when the good toolchains cost several grand - GNU can crosscompile for quite a number of platforms, and plugs into IDEs like eclipse nicely. All this is reasonably well documented too. If this venture is being sponsored, have a look at reviews for paid-for software.

3] Learn how to use debuggers in embedded environments. This is a very wide topic, and depends on the debugger, what type of debugging the hardware supports, etc. If you haven't picked your platform yet, make this a large part of your decision process - if you're new to an environment, you'll need all the help you can get. Especially since it looks like you'll be doing communications heavy development, a good debugging and tracing infrastructure will help, unless you have access to logic analyzers.

4] Start with basic development on your board, just to get the hang of it and the toolchain. The development kit version of a 'hello world' program is a flashing LED. This will show you how to setup the micro, communicate with external devices, use timers, etc. Next look at serial communications, and then start looking at communication with more complex external devices using whatever bus they support, etc.

If you're willing to give more information on devices and requirements (or even design choices already made), I might be able to give more info.

4 weeks is a tight deadline if you have little to no experience, but having said that, modern development setups are substantially more forgiving to the newbie than 5-10 years ago.
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Thanks. That is the intent. Design prototyping, but with tools that allow the dev to build it more quickly.
Also, there's assembly. http://stackoverflow.com/a/6535590/131264
I had a funny satisfaying feeling to have a free Illustrator Licence for a minute.

That said I agree that, as cool and well delivered, it's against the fluid/responsive web we're in.
Ah. The "commenting to point out insanity upvotes by default" paradox. Quite ironic. Quite.
Imagine how that would make life for developers, forced to deal with the combinatorial explosion of revoked permissions.
Picture yourself riding an elevator in a tall office building, when the clock strikes midnight. The elevator controller has its time synced via posix time. The controller schedules when to stop running the elevator motor by reckoning from its last known position and projecting forward according to its estimated speed. Normally this calculation is performed 10 times a second so it's a smooth transition.

But when the clock jumps back abruptly by 1.0 s, the controller gets confused. Its next control loop update cycle is now scheduled 1100 ms into the future instead of the normal 100 ms period. This delays the motor shutdown signal and even causes the controller to miss the top-of-position sensor. The elevator car slams into the roof of the building. The cable snaps and all passengers contemplate Einstein for 10 s as the elevator car freefalls to their certain doom.

Well they would have, except that cable elevators have had mechanical safeties for a backup system since the 19th century.

OK, so instead:

Picture yourself receiving life-saving radiation therapy, when the clock strikes midnight ...
I found this very odd, though somewhat expected considering I've been seeing lots of similar warnings. If any Googlers happen to see this... pass it on!
It might be ad hominem out of context, but I don't feel it's improper to question the motives of someone working for a company that would most likely benefit from a decline in javascript in the app space.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem#Questions_about_the_...
Look at how weird and curvy the Turkish guy's ears are! So weiiiird!
It's not the midwest, but Tony Hsieh, founder and ceo of Zappos, is running a $300mm investment to turn Las Vegas into a tech hub. Apparently a big piece of the investment is his money too. $50mm is allocated for startup funding.

http://www.inc.com/magazine/201202/tony-hsieh-zappos-excelle...
> If they don't have a time limit on it, how can they claim my undergrad degree is driving my income 30 years later?

How can you claim that with any equity model? If you get 3% equity for being an early employee, you have a 3% claim to it forever (unless you sell), even if you can't realistically claim to be still driving the company's profitability 30 years later. That's just how equity models work. Now, you can critique them (Marxists, for example, make exactly that critique, that long-delayed dividends have lost any real relationship to the original service performed), but for better or worse it's a widespread model. I don't see why it'd be any worse with equity-for-education. Like a startup, you're betting that an n% equity stake is a fair risk-adjusted compensation to give a funder in return for them providing some up-front funding right now, and shouldering the uncertainty w.r.t. whether your future earnings will ever be sufficient to repay them. Sometimes it means you end up paying much more than the education is worth; other times, much less. Same as with VCs and startups.
Interesting last point there. Ties into what I'm thinking will happen with certain gTLDs, namely that the gTLD will set rules and structure around how that gTLD can be used.

For example, .tel, domains in that namespace all have the same structure by design. I don't believe a .tel registrant can change their DNS in order to do otherwise.

This is a good thing to an extent - DNS for most people is a huge hurdle preventing them from establishing their own online presence, now more so due to IPv6. If new gTLD provide tools to get .author's or .lawyer's presence up and running in an effective and fair way, great.

But overall I am discouraged by this possibility as its a nail in the coffin of the open internet. It's akin to the review process in mobile AppStores, really stating what you can and can't do within the confines of a gTLD. Not something I'm looking forward to becoming comfortable with on the web.
You write "worse than gcc", but Go has been included in GCC since version 4.6: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.6/changes.html
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The arduino is pretty good due to the amount of resources available. If you want to learn the hardware side if things, then a beginners bundle from Adafruit might be good. You can also buy a bunch of sensors from one of the major web stores.

It really all depends on what you will be working on.

Also look into what brand microcontroller you will be working on. The Atmel side is a bit different from the PIC in terms of tools and learning curve.

Also, is it an ARM focused position? Then you might look into something like the mini2440 board. It is affordable and has good support. The andahammer.com people have some good data on it.

You can contact me if yo like. I do embedded. email on profile.
That's your problem right there ;) When you're using CoffeeScript, you're absolutely supposed to generate all of your JS files. -- For the same reason why you don't run all of your JavaScript via eval() while you're developing.

Try using `coffee --watch` instead.
You mean exactly like how it's going to be on iOS when 6 lands? Developers are smart. They'll engineer their apps to live if permission is revoked.
I know this is tangential, but where in the hell is her shoe?
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Also, about 1 in 400 companies that seek venture capital end up raising a VC round. The country will be in severe trouble if only 1 in 400 people who seeks a student loan receives one.
Just happy that M$ is showing more love of Linux. I never thought a new version would ever get out!
I work at Google, but not on the Angular team. Our team has deployed angular.js: places.google.com/manage. Angular's also used extensively in internal projects.
I get hit by this all the time. Many times when I'm talking with my girlfriend I realize that what she wants is not for me to leap into "problem-solving" mode which I naturally tend towards, but understanding/empathy mode (similar to the "That's frustrating" example in the post). Realizing that during a conversation dramatically changes the flow for the better :)
I have tried several javascript mvc frameworks: angular, backbone , javascriptmvc (i'm serious, the name is javascriptmvc) but time and time again I'm always drawn back to backbone, as this is a post about angular, one thing that turns me off about angular is the high lock in/dependency towards the framework.

They have a lot, I mean a lot of functionalities built in, but with that comfot comes the price if you want to use any other jquery/javascript library plugin that's available out there. The only option you have is to "angularize" the plugin before you can use it. This is different from backbone, almost like the name suggest, it's bare bone, there will be more boilerplate code but you get more freedom and most if not all the plugins that are available to you from your js libs can be used as is. My suggestion before going all out to ANY js framework, know how the application would behave beforehand.
Sending an email voicing your disapproval is not really 'lynching' now is it?
1. Don't overthink it or assume any dollar amount. You're only causing your own problems/stress.

2. Try to get an email (maybe off WHOIS) and email the guy to see if he is even interested in selling.

3. Go from there.
Not strong? Look at the cheap app versus the overpriced one - this is exactly the meat of the Apple vs Samsung case.
Angular's agnostic to which testing framework you use. We test our angular app with a headless v8 running http://code.google.com/p/google-js-test/.
I think it's ok to take ideas and information as being somewhat independent from their creators. Bad people can produce good ideas, just as good people can produce bad ideas. I might feel very uncomfortable with Shockley's views on genetics and reproduction, but I'm happy he co-invented the transistor. Similarly, I can read Reagan's letter and get something out of it without needing to consider his acting or political career.
You may be interested in reading [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_from_a_Father_to_His_Da...] - letters from India's first prime-minister Jawaharlal Nehru to his daughter Indira who later became India's first female prime-minister and the only one to have imposed a state of emergency.
Let me help you out so you don't feel belittled or insulted. Serious Work is anything that will ever leave the confines of my experimental system to be used, viewed, or edited by anyone else. Doesn't matter if it's a trivial script-like tool or if it's a complex app.
Ask HN:Does anyone make money off sites like Code Canyon?
Title says it all. I'm just trying to think of different ways to supplement my income, and side work is tough (deadline wise) when I got two kid under two. I'm proficient in iOS, php/mysql and the typical HTML/CSS/JavaScript stack, so I figured it would be cool to make some money off helpful plugins/classes.

So, does anyone use Code Canyon or similar sites? Have you had much success?
I would have googled "three horizontal lines" but interesting post nevertheless. From the maths prospective;

" A symbol with three horizontal line segments ( ) resembling the equals sign is used to denote both equality by definition (e.g., means is defined to be equal to ) and congruence (e.g., means 13 divided by 12 leaves a remainder of 1--a fact known to all readers of analog clocks)."

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Equal.html
I'd just point out that I'm not complaining about something trivial, e.g. open braces on their own line, or a matter of taste, but something fundamentally weird, unexpected, and almost designed to mislead.
GWT's RequestFactory feature particularly stands out as a huge productivity win for CRUD apps. Also, many of the weaknesses commonly associated with Java are diminished now that Google's excellent Java libraries (Guava, Guice) have become more widespread (with GWT versions also avaiable).

But I think people try GWT once, realize that the built-in widgets and panels look terrible and never look back. But some of the features that they don't get to trying are the features that really makes GWT worth using (the EventBus, RequestFactory, UiBinder, the excellent localization support, etc.).

GWT also doesn't preclude using any other JavaScript libraries. JSNI (writing native JavaScript within GWT Java source) is relatively easy -- I don't think it is uncommon to pull in JQuery in a GWT app for its effects, for example.
haha that's the first thing I notice too, of all the money she has, she couldnt afford the right shoe
Fair enough. I think you get the main idea, though, which is that the "vibe" regarding exercise of copyright is influenced by many specific and often important details, even if not every person is always able to clearly articulate those details.

Glossing over those important details is what makes the behavior appear inconsistent (or "confused" as the previous poster suggested).
[Googler here]

There's little overlap between Closure Library and Angular.

Closure Library is a grab bag library full of useful functions that you can pick and choose from and integrate into your own code. Kind of like a standard library.

Angular is a client-side MVC framework that gives you two-way databinding and custom views and dependency injection.

Indeed, in our angular project, we use both - Closure Library for useful functions and advanced compilations, and angular for MVC.