skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But this is why a two-party system can be a liability. You artificially create an us-vs-them scenario, with the other side as the enemy, and any agreement with them on the issues is capitulation.

As a result, you end up with a scenario in which there is always one side with a majority, who are capable of doing whatever they like, and one side with a minority, who are left to scrabble for democratic scraps, pushing bills with little impact to feel as though they've accomplished something. The few bills that do pass with bipartisan support are usually so pointless or watered-down that there's little benefit to having them at all, or it's an issue important to the country as a whole (or, more specifically, their political careers), and so it's put through without appropriate debate or consideration.

With a three-or-more-party system (e.g. parliamentary democracies, such as the UK or Canada), you can end up with a result where even the 'ruling' party doesn't have a majority. This means that when they want to pass a bill, it has to be a situation where they can get the support of at least one of the other parties. While this still requires the same sort of give-and-take as a two-party system, it provides more options for bargaining. You won't approve my 'environmental impact' bill unless I approve your 'limiting access to abortion' bill? Well screw that, the other party just wants me to endorse their 'stiffer penalties for labour law violations' bill.

This seems to me to be a more efficient solution, and I've never understood why the two-party solution was the choice made for the US.
Circle (my CI-as-a-service startup - https://circleci.com) does this by default. For nearly any reason that you have a branch - for staging or deployment, for features, for tags, for bug fixes - there really is no reason not to have this.

Unless of course, everyone gets a notification for every build in every branch. Then you'll have practically every developer in your organization hating this feature! I'm sure Jenkins has a way of controlling that though.
How about rebuttal instead of a downvote?
I don't know who you're arguing with, but it isn't me.
You had me at "Hello."

I assumed something like this was buried in the depths of 240+ comments, thanks for raising it up.

Want a mailing list? Putting together something on mailchimp now.
There is. But sometimes it's infinitely more important that the right thing got done than that the right thing happened in exactly the way we wanted it to.

Edit: we're not talking about romantic relationships here, we're just talking about corporations. Most of the time it's a-ok to coerce the correct behavior out of a corporation, they don't have to be our soul mates.
Yes, if.

It's not a matter of nobility, it's a matter of putting my money in the areas where the a) the ROI is highest with b) the highest probability of realizing that ROI.

My experience has demonstrated that forecasting the ROI on a domain name is...well, I don't want to say impossible, but the projections are difficult to compose and they've not proven to be realistic.

Now, I may just suck at projecting the annualized value of a domain name, in which case the problem is my level of suckage.
Tesla was one in a million. For your ideas to work you would need to teach the entire 7 billion strong population of humans that we need to peacefully work together as a species. I'm sure you'll be met with great success. Until that day it is necessary to protect rights in a manner that lets people know they can do great things and not have to worry that someone will steal their years of hard work.

I don't agree with people filing this lawsuit. I don't think their idea is all that novel. I also think patents shouldn't last longer then it takes to recoup the investment.

TL;DR = People don't work that way, but yeah the patent system is currently ridiculous.
The idea really is to allow you sharing your stories with people you can have access to. I think the fun part of it is to see who owns what. And Twitter allows you to eventually get in touch with the person if you have any interest in the domain name or just want to randomly comment on it.
Rethinking web API development
This is awesome, I'm going to buy this for my little brother.

I can imagine expanding upon this concept to get kids to solve word problems. Present a simple word problem, give the player some variables/cards and operators to pick from, and let her arrange them into a suitable equation or three. Award points for reaching states like a fully isolated variable, which is basically the solution.

Maybe specific guided processes could be created for different varieties of problems, e.g. distance-time problems, simultaneous equations, algebra applied to geometry, combinatorics...each type of problem could be broken up into sub-components which the player first arranges into the right combination, and then returns to the original algebraic solving process as the final step.

Hmm. If my current startup idea doesn't work out, I might have to look into venturing into education. I always liked tutoring anyway.
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> I still don't like laptops

As is your right of course, all computers are sets of tradeoffs and if the tradeoffs don't fit you, get an other machine.

Hell, you could even like both. I like my desktop because it's fast, has a huge screen and has enough power to play games at high resolution without stuttering... on the other hand, I'd have a hard time bringing it to the office or using it in the train. So I've also got a good laptop.
Needing an IDE for Java in my experience has to do with two things: The amount of boiler plate and really good refactoring tools/autocomplete.

Building the project is not really that difficult, and make can be made to do it just fine.
Maybe this could apply to people hell banned from communities. Instead of a regular hellban, have a hellban community... Let all of the rolls play together.
Thank you :) We are getting an awesome amount of submissions for the survey, very very cool.
I like the part where people get so attached to a tool that they've learned that they reject change. Like your message. Comparing a preprocessor to a native element is asinine. Do you argue against JavaScript features because, given that it's a turing complete language, such things could simply be done with preprocessors?

Seriously the boorish comments about "no support yet" are like listening to fat client advocates in the 90s.
Because our interests are not aligned.

Because you have to earn intimacy.

Because my sharing is not reciprocated.

Because I don't trust you.
Who knew that IRC keep APIs running...
Vernor v. Autodesk says otherwise.
We've run quite a few tests on different browsers to ensure it doesn't happen. Can I ask you which browser you are using?
To me this makes the case for using a cross platform framework for mobile games, such as Gideros, Moai etc. If you can achieve 2x revenue with 1.2x effort it definitely seems worthwhile.
There is no disconnect. I am just saying that how much harder it is to hire when your company is not Google, Facebook, Dropbox etc..
"...[customized and unique user experience] builds the visitor’s trust and helps you gain better traction."

Ditto this. If you're not focused on personal experiences, it is hard to (1) build or sell a product that people actually want and more importantly (2) engage in meaningful relationships with customers.

I'd love to see more digging in on #2 (relationships) in particular. We came from the relationship-angle, and only recently started leveraging that with more powerful targeting (http://www.olark.com/targeting).

In my opinion, a meaningful two-way customer relationship still trumps a simple "deal popup". However, targeting is a great tool for focusing our attention and cultivating those relationships :)
It's not 100% what you want, but with 2.6 DUMP/RESTORE commands you can pretty much do a good deal of what Diskstore used to do inside your application.

Well also add to the mix a bit of RANDOMKEY plus OBJECT IDLETIME. If you want to know more reply to this message or write to the Redis ML and I'll provide some detail.
The Aggresive Nature of a Mail Chimp
It doesn't mean they're devious. More likely, it means somebody with more authority and more intelligence simply didn't know about the problem until there was a public outcry.
I'm curious, do you browse exclusively with JS disabled (if so, why)?

Or did you just try it for testing purposes?
+1. Archiving is a huge part of my workflow, which is similar to that of the folks above me.

Pretty sure all versions of iOS >= 4 (and new-ish versions of OS X) support Archive when you tap the Delete icon, so it's not something I even think about anymore.
Good call. Would love to see it integrated.
Hometown — Just Launched My Startup
The first time, your graph ("yellow brick road") just freezes. You then have to pledge $5 if you want to unfreeze and try it again. If you derail from the yellow brick road again then the $5 is automatically charged.

Gory details at http://beeminder.com/money
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Quite the opposite, I think. You've answered your own question by regarding the MVP and "registering company" as two distinct entities, thus implying that registering the company is not part of the MVP, which is what you should be spending your energy on right now. I should also note that this advice is not set in stone, as forming the company could be part of your MVP, depending on the specifics of the business you are trying to build.
This is Beeminder, so pricing is at https://www.beeminder.com/money

You can "play" for free, as long as you're on track to meet your self-imposed goal.

If you set a goal, and then fail to work on it, you get one free "reset". If you fail again, you can either pledge money to reset again, or create a new goal (leaving the old, failed goal as a badge of shame).

It's a clever system, which acts to strongly reward setting realistic goals.

The only thing is, you have to be a bit careful if you're the kind of person to push yourself too hard. I set a beeminder to practice piano every day, then kept increasing the practice time, and eventually just burned myself right out. Go easy.
I'd take the iFixit recommendation with a sack of salt. Their business model relies on being able to sell components and tools that can open up laptops. With the new Retina MBP, they can not do much, hence they are bound to rate it lower.

Apple's task is to create a laptop with the features they think users will like, and not have to worry about the support for third party component vendors. If you think iFixit is your source for recommendation, don't buy the MBP. :)
In defense of the much-ridiculed train simulator, Railworks
This seems to entail that it's helpful (or at least not harmful) to incentivize companies to ignore complaints. Because if there's nothing they can do to satisfy you, there's little point in them going to the trouble of dealing with you, is there?
So why not make the twitter handle an optional field for each entry? People could still use twitter to get in touch, and those who don't use twitter would not be excluded.
Are you sure you're not just substituting "I" with "the user" in there? I'm going to give Disqus the benefit of the doubt and say that they have user tested their new design. By what criteria do you say that "the user" (which is a neat getaround for saying the unprovable "all users") doesn't care for these things?
I really can't put in words how much I admire Linus!

If you know Linux's history, met the community or if you've tried Linux... it's hard not to fall in love with it.
Mastering the Big Data Explosion with MDM
As long as they don't have the false and shocking "we NEVER make mistakes!" attitude towards their ban software that companies like EA, Valve and Bungie had, then that's neat.
Very true. Can't wait for this to realize, however, this does seem like a cool idea. Working with amazingly large amounts of students and academics, I would _prefer_ remember them, even if this meant a bit of rote learning.
Visualization of gTLD Applications
It's all text is the lowest form. Renaming a method by mass replacing text won't always yield the correct result. A tool that understands the language represented by the text can do a much better job. Also right-clicking on a method name, clicking rename, and getting a preview I can manipulate seems far more efficient.

But you are right, if an IDE wasn't built for a task you're SOL and you can likely compose something together on the command line to solve it.
To be fair, "FLAWLESSLY running Debian" is quite a tall order considering that Linux support for newer laptop drivers is typically pretty slow and even if the drivers exist, it's likely to have some wonkiness that kills the "FLAWLESSLY running Debian" qualifier.

I'm not a MBP owner, however, an OS running off of a variation of Unix is probably a huge boon in terms of Linux compatibility when compared to the other laptops out there made to run Windows.
After Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Critique. As if my inner chastiser wasn't hard enough to deal with :/

Sorry, this will only increase my stress. It is not the solution. Just like the emails weighing down on you.
Should we hold you to the same standard, then? That you're not allowed to fix your mistakes after they've been pointed out to you, because you're aware of every mistake you've ever made and nobody should ever have to tell you what you've done wrong?
Not to sound like a jerk, but I would really like to see the math you used to determine that learning one text editor versus another increases your earning potential.
Diablo II's levels provided more than just stat boosts: there were skill points, and likely changes in level-based mechanics underlying damage taken by player characters.

D2's uniques and runewords were more common and reliably useful than D3's legendaries. Finding good uniques (e.g. Stone of Jordan[0]) led to big jumps in character power unmirrored by a level or two.

I don't agree that items were less important in D2 than in D3, but suspect they're presently much harder to obtain in D3 without turning to using the auction house. This is probably intentional.

[0] http://classic.battle.net/diablo2exp/items/normal/urings.sht...
Please, if you don't like the idea of this, comment on https://gtldcomment.icann.org/comments-feedback/programfeedb...

This would be all sorts of horrible if it passed.

It's bad for security, it's bad for usability, it will probably break stuff, it's unfair. There is also no benefit to it.
would like to see that, please post it
you are a piler: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_live/b/windowslive/archiv...
Exploring and Dynamically Patching Django/Python Using GDB
It accepts a GET
No, maybe. A very qualified maybe.

I've tried the UDRP route. You have to have an extremely solid case to get the domain name. Furthermore, the domain name must be very very specific.

So if I've got a business called "Chris's Midwest TV Repair" and we've been in business for 25 years. If someone's squatting on chrissmidwesttvrepair.com then yeah, I can probably UDRP them. But I'm in the TV repair business, so I really need to spend my time finding something else to do before I'm buggy whipped, but that's a tangent.

If I'm just a startup trying to get a domain name, I have no case for a UDRP, nor should I.
This beeminder thing is cool, they should make an app so I can limit how much time I spend on things such as Reddit or Hacker News.
I think that exists and it's called 4chan.
Here is someone who has nothing to hide: a naked man, without a family, with no money, and no possessions.

With but a few extreme outliers, everyone in a civilized society has something to hide.
I think redis-cli --latest is surely the best way. It polls the redis server, tells the user. Then maybe redis-cli --latest update-cli could do the actual update ..
> Unfortunately they never did bother to fix it.

As a former owner of a 3G, they did (attempt) with iOS 4.2.1, which significantly improved the situation over the absolutely dreadful 4.0 and 4.1 series. It wasn't back to 3.2 levels by any means (there's only so much you can do when the phone had barely 30MB of RAM headroom when released — and yes, I think AAPL are stingy fuckers on their RAM, the original iPad looks like it has the exact same issue with iOS 6) but it did make the phone work again.
Retina MacBook Pro full of Air-style proprietary parts
I'm not sure if I can bring myself to buy another Apple laptop
Technology hype curve — The Endeavour
Appreciate it. I'll avoid the site.
This is one reason I seldom log in with Twitter/Facebook.

I just don't trust apps, and this is a good reason not to.
Even if they authors try to make it "Not Spammy" I don't trust their implementation, and the incentives are in the wrong place.

Thanks but no Thanks.
Build and test iPhone/iPad apps without a Mac
The second one would be great. The first one would make the build process depend on having internet connection. It's a very annoying thing if you build your packages in isolation.
All those points just seem to be issues of scale, though. IS the principle any different?

More importantly you can't buy a piece of land for $10 and sell it for $50K a few years down the road.

You absolutely can. Perhaps "a few years" needs to be redefined to a decade or more, but land speculation is absolutely possible and done a lot.
The case against the MacBook Pro with Retina display
Gmail's Archive function is (or at least was, 8 years ago) its best feature! If you're not using it, you're Doing It Wrong.

If you think of your inbox as a to-do list (where the most basic task is "read this"), then the most common pattern ITDBG (In The Days Before Gmail) for managing your to-do was using read/unread as your done/todo flags.

This was annoying; when reading an email that can't be actioned right away you'd have to go back and mark it as unread. Trivial, but it always felt like there was a better way.

When Gmail launched with it's Archive feature, it was definitely an "ah-hah!" moment. Now the read/unread flags had no hidden meaning, and your to-do list was simply whatever your saw in your inbox. When you action an email, away to the archive it goes.

Reaching inbox-zero is a gloriously satisfying moment. Why yes ... I WILL read some google news.
You can do that! Choose a "Set a Limit" goal...

Here's me beeminding my time on Hacker News: http://beeminder.com/d/hn
While I agree with the point, raw budget comparisons are not a valid way to make it; terrorists also aren't defending such a big piece of land (and sea), and are more narrowly focused in scope as well.
It means that they don't have/follow clear procedures, so it's a matter of luck if your request is processed this or that way.
This is effectively what a VAC ban does, isn't it? I can't imagine why else you'd play on a non-VAC-secured server.

(for reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Anti-Cheat)
I think about social consumer web MVP. That is why I can do MVP and have users without registering company. And when it occurs that this idea could be ok then I will register company. But I do not know if this is right decision.
I am in this ship too. I was looking forward to change my old macbook white for an ultrabook running some distro, but the reported software problems and some other problems specific to the utrabooks I tested (bad trackpad, etc) made me buy a new macbook pro. It was hard to me to resist to a great hardware allied with a good unix-based os.
Does this work with Priority Inbox? I don't even had a 'Read' counter...
"If I have nothing to hide, you've got no reason to look."
More ideas: http://www.ideaoverload.com/Find-ideas/#Finished
I haven't heard of anyone working on equity crowdfunding. It's like kickstarter for startups, only you get actual stock in the startup. The JOBS act, signed in April, allows for this. Previously, only "accredited" investors could get in on that kind of thing.

Whoever makes this kind of site will have to jump through some hoops, so that will rule out 95% of the possible competition right up front.

Interesting Forbes article on it:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwasik/2012/06/06/what-you-ne...
posted a domain but i don't see it in the list? :(

edit: the timestamp on my entry on http://friendsdomains.com/istanb4u says '3 hours ago' but i just posted it...double sad face
Sounds like CS 1.3 to me. Their so-called "hackers arms race" is what got me into coding in the first place.
No, that is its beauty :-)

Seriously: there is something to be said for the claim that mathematics is the search for beautiful tautologies.

Like javelin throwing vs hunting, running vs outrunning a predator, or painting vs making a portrait using paint because that is the only way to do it, there is a difference between being doing math and using math to reach a goal.

I think it would be very nice if one managed to give kids, even those with little mathematical talents, a glimpse of that difference.
I agree with you on this, but it seems like most (if not all) of the students in the article have zero traction thus far. Hence the overly abstract and idealistic descriptions of their projects. A fair amount haven't even started college.
And you make the classic mistake of faulty analogizing.

I totally acknowledge that it takes domain knowledge to come up with a good solution. However, I specifically ask this question because it looks likely to me that that doesn't apply in this particular case. An app that uses a hierarchical display of symbols to allow input of language seems to me like a natural, intuitive approach to allowing a user to generate speech. I believe if a few people were to iterate on an app for this purpose, they'd probably have come across this approach pretty quickly. In other words, I'm saying this is more an archetypal case of a broken software patent, rather than of a specialized domain invention that just happens to use computer hardware.

I could not have come up with the equation e = mc^2, but I believe I could have come up with the basic idea of a hierarchical icon display used to input language without years/decades of research. It would have been even easier for a speech pathologist to achieve that in this era of software and programmer abundance, even if PRC had never developed their system and gotten their patents.

(Of course, if I've misunderstood the scope of the patents involved, I apologize.)
Indeed. Looks like it will serve no actual computing purpose for the consumer "owning" it. But the article makes it look as if it's supposed to be there for antivirus capabilities.
My three personal least-favorites:

.DOTAFRICA (what is this I don't even)

.CASHBACKBONUS (by Discover Financial Services -- wtf?)

.TRAVELERSINSURANCE, .NORTHLANDINSURANCE, and .NORTHWESTERNMUTUAL (three-way tie for the longest applications)

And dishonorable mention to every company that's applying for their own business names and/or trademarks. Which is, by my best estimate, probably at least half of the total applications.
UEFI Secure Boot: Big Hassle, Questionable Benefit
Awesome! I knew these descriptions exist. I heard through the rumor mill that google had identified 12 distinct types of emailers too.

I am a piler. I agree with responding to email appropriately, but it is definitely just going to get left in my inbox.
Close. It's not clear if cheaters are actually informed they've been sent into no-man's-land.