skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love this! I can't wait to integrate this into one of my apps. Does it also have access to the native camera application?
I love how every Vim user speaks to non-Vim users as though they're novices that are just "not there yet." It's cute.
Yes, exactly. The nice thing about tech companies is that they're very casual, and really not caught up in "rules" about resumes. (That said, many resume rules do exist for good reason.)

List the stuff that makes you look better!
ML is noticeably faster and smoother across the board. That's a great reason.
Secrets to Faster HTML5
Perhaps the alternative is worse because businesses are routinely given tax breaks/benefits in the hopes that they'll create jobs? This corporate welfare rarely works, but is incredibly popular with some municipalities. You never see a mayor or City Council offering tax breaks to mom and pop businesses. The end result is megastores that have unbeatable advantages.
If you're still interested in realtime voxel landscapes, I'd suggest checking out this series of articles from (sadly now defunct) flipcode:
http://flipcode.com/archives/Realtime_Voxel_Landscape_Engine...
> Everyone who has used vi(m) has copied and pasted text in while in command mode and done who knows what.

If you are using vim, you should play per vim rules. When you are entering text, you enter insert mode. When you are done, back to command mode. Once you have that mental model, you don't try to c-v(or c-shift-v or whatever) in command mode. Also, if you are willing to try vim, grab a vim build with clipboard support and copy-paste from within vim(=+p paste clipboard, =p paste x selection, =+y{motion} copy to clipboard ... in command mode; or ctrl-r+ paste from clipboard, ctrl-r paste from x selection in insert mode)

> I find the concepts of modes jarring, even antiquated.

The thing I like about vim is translating intent to vim commands - delete 10 lines and then move to the top of the file 10ddG, delete everything inside these parens and put me in insert mode cib etc. Without modes, these won't be as short and sweet. You will be left with long key combinations - the way emacs does it.

> Emacs is better in this regard but I find Emacs's need to consecutive key presses (or a key press followed by a command) to be longwinded.

Isn't that obvious? If you always want to be in insert mode, how else will the special instructions be entered?

> The advantage of either is they're easy to use over ssh+screen (or tmux) for resuming sessions.

And they are very good at editing text, and majority of programming languages, though might require some configuration.

> For statically typed languages (eg Java/C#), IDEs (quite rightly) rule supreme. Static code analysis, auto-completion, etc are just so much better than text-based editors.

I generally am able to find something for Vim which makes language specific stuff easy.

Clojure - http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2501
Java - http://eclim.org/
Go - https://github.com/nsf/gocode
C - http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3302
Python - http://rope.sourceforge.net/ropevim.html

And a lot more...

> I tend to think the speed differences over not using the mouse are largely illusory.

Doesn't that depend on the task? What will be faster - ctrl-f on this page or clicking edit(or some menu)->find?

Also, for me, it is more about having my fingers on home row is the sweet spot and moving my fingers from my sweet spot is irritating.
Coding like its 1999
At least some of the recent Clojure implementations are based on ClojureScript's compiler, which from what I understand is relatively moduler: http://blog.fogus.me/2012/03/27/compiling-clojure-to-javascr...

Lisps in general are appealing to implement. Clojure's core language is about as small as Scheme's, and there are a lot of Scheme implementations too. The parts of Clojure that set it apart from other Lisps (STM, persistent data structures) aren't always ported. I don't think any of the recent approaches to targeting C (Clj->Scheme->C, Clj->C) include STM or persistent data structures. I'd be happy to be pleasantly surprised though.
what was the point of this article?
Where's the hubris?
Bunch of incoherent sentences strung together meandering around a non existent point that is never made.
I think Lechmere (regional electronics and homewares store in New England) was similar, at least for some products. You could play with a display model, but to buy one you'd take a ticket to the counter and pay, then go to a pickup counter to get the actual item.

It left the store shelves looking a lot less cluttered than they would have otherwise been, and I suspect also protected against shoplifting.

Always liked that store, actually. They sold all sorts of stuff.
Plucked HTML5 Audio Editor, and ThreeAudio.js Visualizer
You are glossing over the main point of the article; they don't have any games.

A gaming platform is only as good as its games.
The only problem with this is that people are really bad liars.
"We break things. Julie Uhrman has been in games for a long time, at Vivendi Universal, IGN, GameFly, and other places. Yves Behar is the award-winning designer of Jambox, One Laptop per Child, and many others. There are plenty of other people involved, but some of them would get fired if we tell you who they are."

Sounds like they have hardware experience
I did need a schemaless store for a project I was prototyping, but then I didn't see why I had to install MongoDB just to get a simple schemaless store. So, I wrote Goatfish:

https://github.com/stochastic-technologies/goatfish/
An insightful investigation, and a lesson to be learned about 'smart' CDNs. I appreciate the effort you put into this, and your skills to be able to dive in and understand the cause of the issue.
The pricing seems to be very reasonable. The only place I could find that was above 1 cent per sent message was Vietnam at 1.6 cents.

A regular table would be nice instead of having to search country-by-country.

Edit: a few island countries like Seychelles and Samoa are 1.2 cents.
You're probably both right but the OP is more interesting because people generally subscribe to your point of view. Which is the whole reason the OP's post needed to be written.
It helps with startup time. It's not that it produces worse code, it's that there's multiple levels of compilation. It stores the equivalent of -O1 on disk, and eventually some of the code can ramp up to -O3+. This is almost entirely to help startup time so that you don't have a bunch of code trying to compile during startup.
Yeah it does. We allow you to pull from both the local gallery and camera on both platforms.
Can Apple change the energy industry?
ODROID-X is like a quad-core Raspberry Pi for $129
Osborne'd Nokia's whole product line-up with the WP 8 announcement. Nokia's devices don't receive updates.
> it's one of those things like lock-screen that Windows still does better in some ways.

Right? Unless I'm missing something, my friends and I all use a hot corner to activate the Screen Off to be able to lock our screens when we leave our laptops since there is no Win+L or Lock equivalent. :/ I guess they just expect me to close it everytime I leave? I have lots of long running stuff that I normally don't want to stop just because I want to go to the kitchen or bathroom.
"We hope [they] will take this as a wake-up call, and not as a threat."

That's what they all say. Can't they discuss this with the companies in question, instead of hurting people by disclosing their login information?
I think its more likely that crime will be predicted by looking at actual behavior. Someone unidentified that is acting suspiciously in a place where no visitors are expected. That sort of detection is going to get automated and will become ubiquitous.
Co-Founder Interview: Michael FitzGerald of Submittable (YC S12)
I don't think the article's intention is to convince people it's a con or crush the enthusiasm. Their points aren't illegitimate and their arguments are fair - isn't it prudent to criticise them and see how they respond rather than let them continue unchallenged, especially considering the collective financial contribution involved?

Considering that they already have prototypes together, they've already apparently got something to show. As the article points out there are flaws with what they're offering and questions that need answering.

I'm sure most of the questions and queries can be answered satisfactorily, but the crux is the lack of confirmed titles, which they can't fix themselves.
But I don't know what "zoom" means in the context of a window. And the inconsistencies of my experiences with various apps didn't make it clear either. (e.g. the infamous mini-player for iTunes)

As for Shift-Click I tried it with Chrome and I thought you had made my day. However it didn't do anything different on Messages, nor Safari: it just stretched the window vertically. In my short survey of currently open apps, half were stretching vertically while the other was doing fullscreen. (be it Shift-click or plain click) Only Chrome acts differently.
Hey Patrick,

I have a question. Why is the title of your http://patrickambron.brandyourself.com/ brandyourself page "Patrick Ambron, Internet"? Specifically, why ", Internet"?
I'm new to Macs so I may be missing something, but I tried your shift-click approach in a half dozen applications (including Apple ones). It didn't maximize any of the programs. I suppose a separate software program may enable this functionality, however.
HELLO 311 LABS (Open311 apps)
Sure, there could be a short cut to make this particular example easy. But can you combine this knowledge and use it everywhere?

Let's say your sentence was like this:

"Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! 'nutheads' use vi?"

[Notice that word 'nutheads' is enclosed in single quotes.]

If I am on the letter h, I can press [ciw] to only replace nutheads word with my target word, it will keep the single quotes as it is.

OR

If I wanted to replace the whole word including the quote, I would press [ciW] (notice the capital W)

Now, can you use that knowledge of Ctrl + D in this situation in Sublime?
My experience with cars is the opposite which is why I only lease now. You get a brand new, terrific car every three years.
You seem to have a very "Web 2.0" viewpoint. Yes, all the consumer-facing web startups pimped here on HN aren't really doing anything where patent protection would be beneficial. But in the embedded realm, there are a lot of situations where software might merit patent protection.

E.g. my wife is pregnant, and we recently got an ultrasound. The ultrasound machine gave us a surprisingly detailed three-dimensional image of the fetus. I'd be willing to bet that the algorithms for generating these visualizations were not something you could whip up in a few weeks using Rails. Without patent protection, the maker of that software has to get into the business of building ultrasound machines. He can't just sell the patent to someone who builds ultrasound machines. I think there is a lot of value in being able to facilitate such specialization of labor.
I wouldn't jump to say "unkind" and "amoral" but computer related tech fields do attract very analytical thinkers, who are often more critical than less analytical types.
The reality is that flaws like that are seldom skin deep, and can bite you in other parts of the language, even where you don't expect them.

Lack of type safety in a dynamic language is one thing, but awful type coercion is a different beast altogether.
Why Tesla is disrupting the auto industry
And does it use the native accounts on the phone? DB, FB, etc? Or do you pull up a new authorization dialog?
UAV Battery Packs Could Allow Electric Planes To Fly Forever
A great line from the Short logic analysis: "At the moment, it’s costing them $1.43 to make $1, and it doesn’t look like it’s getting any cheaper."

This was the kind of thing that thoughtful business analysts were noticing in the weeks before the Groupon IPO: the company didn't have a sensible earnings model, even if it had "revenue" that dug it deeper and deeper into a hole.
I think you're taking "pay too much" too literally. He's just saying don't always try to by the cheapest garbage or chintz out on tipping.
yeah, I should tweak it somehow. This is what the (otherwise amazing) inkpot theme looks like: http://imgur.com/TaUym - can you tell that the dark, bold entry is selected?
A country of 5 million is now the 5th largest arms importer in the world
Ask HN: What's a good resume format?
Need to redo refresh my tired resume. What has worked for you in terms of layout and what sections it contains?
What drives me crazy is that sometimes running youtube videos in full-screen mode under Chrome will sometimes initiate the Lion full-screen behavior, and sometimes it won't. If there is a rhyme or reason behind it, I don't know it.
I think the distribution center was owned indirectly, through some sort of holding company; that was the linchpin of their whole argument.

Woot was probably just one of the things they were threatening to close down and move out of state if Texas didn't give them a break. And I'm sure they had an argument ready as to why Woot wasn't a tax nexus for Amazon as a whole; there's a lot of really arcane rules that go into determining nexus.

The real losers at the end of all this are going to be the tax-free states, who ended up getting a lot of Amazon (and other mail-order retail) business because putting a warehouse there wouldn't risk triggering taxation. But if the tax loopholes are closed, there's not a lot of reason to set up shop there. They are going to be the losers in the end, I think.
In order to be cost efficient tradeoff, a new refrigerator should save 100 bucks a year on the electricity bill, or roughly 8 bucks a month.

This site (http://www.refrigeratorefficiency.com/efficiency-matters/ref...) seems to think that is plausible.
> Consider Upgrading
>
> Consider replacing refrigerators that are more than 10 years old. The efficiency of modern refrigerators can be over 40% greater than older models. This can save $15 per month on your electric bill.
IOS Version Stats
Why No Second Hardware Startups?
Given that emacs (and I expect vim) can do all of that and then some, for languages both static and dynamic while taking a fraction of the resources of a monolithic IDE and permitting to use the same editor across all your projects, it seems that your only actual problem is that the default configs are not to your taste.
What people might fail to realize is that Nokia knew that WP 8 was coming. They probably knew as soon as they started making WP 7 devices. That's why they've shipped what like 2 or 3 devices on it?

Nokia didn't get thrown under a bus any more than RIM did by their own platform. No, both RIM and Nokia could have seen the iOS/Android writing on the wall 2 or 3 years ago for sure, or even 5 years ago when the iPhone launched.

Instead, they buried their heads in the sand and hoped that iOS and Android would be a fad that would pass. Instead RIM and Nokia might have just been a fad for a few years. Already happened to Palm. Already happened to Windows Mobile.

The only reason Nokia went with Windows Phone was the billions of dollars in platform payments that Microsoft made to keep Nokia alive long enough to make the transition work. That might not have been enough money and MSFT might need to outright buy Nokia to keep it afloat, but the good news is that by the time they do that Nokia should be cheaper than Skype was when Microsoft bought them.
Wikileaks wins case against VISA
macvim for objective-c? That sounds like a PITA to set up properly.
Yeah, it's confusing. If your email provider is supported, your browser talks directly to your email provider, without Mozilla in the middle. We don't want your passwords, honest! :)

You can try out the supported email provider workflow by signing up for a dummy account at eyedee.me, and then using that account to sign in at, say, 123done.org.
Who's a content aggregator?
Github's New Profile Page
Also feels good to have vim bindings inside of emacs using evil (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/Evil).
I use it almost exclusively on my 11" air. With limited screen space it is very helpful. And swiping directionally between fullscreen apps is more intuitive than cmd-tab.

But it is total garbage on a large screen, so I don't use it when docked.
The brain excerpt is very odd. One billion neurons? It's more like 100 billion. One trillion synapses? It's more like 400 trillion to 1,000 trillion. That's one trillion to three trillion synapses per cubic centimeter of brain on average (obviously areas have various synaptic density).

It appears the cited article is only talking about "memory neurons" and related synapses, but that's extremely unstable ground.
I understand. I guess I feel that I can't tell which cameras are security cameras anymore. Do they have to be mounted on a ceiling in a corner with a tinted dome? EDIT: If I install Prey on my PC, does my PC camera then qualify as a security camera?

Some people might have felt uncomfortable

Art is supposed to provoke an emotional response, be it positive or negative. I love it when people walk up to a painting a say something like "This painting looks very angry. I don't like it at all." That's exactly what art is about and only people who are comfortable with being uncomfortable will fully appreciate it.
I scanned the thread and surprised no one mentioned the reason I use Zappos so much:

Free returns.

When buying a new model of shoe, I order at least 2, sometimes up to 4 different sizes. Try them all on, then sent back the ones that didn't fit. This has a few downsides: slight hassle of printing shipping labels and dropping off at UPS, as well as the capital outlay of paying for all those shoes. But to me, this is so vastly preferable to dragging myself to a mall or a department store that it's not even a contest.

I wouldn't recommend this for higher end shoes however, anything above $150. Both because then the capital requirements start getting onerous, and because fitting (at least for men's shoes) becomes such a crucial component you may go through more pairs before you decide than a single credit card can likely afford on Zappos :>
It doesn't use the native accounts yet in the interest of development time. We still use the mobile specific auth screen for services that support it though.

We plan to support those in the next release.
How is it a false dichotomy? Look at the retail marketplace and it's a wasteland. You have Walmart at the low end, aggressively disrupting entire manufacturing industries in their quest for low priced goods. At the "high" end you have Amazon squeezing out B&M bookstores, electronic stores, etc. Amazon has demonstrated a willingness to tolerate extremely low margins (1-2% if not negative) to achieve marketshare. How can a small business compete?

The only outlier I see in retail is Apple, generating huge amounts of revenue from their physical stores.
Hiten Shah on the current fundraising environment
I agree that the founders/early investors of Groupon acted quite suspiciously, cashing out billions of dollars in value before the IPO and at the IPO - which tends to mean they would rather have cash than shares in their own company.

But the sad thing is that all investors invested with their eyes open to it. You can't call it a Ponzi scheme because everyone knew of Groupons profit challenges BEFORE the IPO.

This is just IPO greed / tech bubble meets reality, if anything. Groupon was never worth what the people who bought the shares thought it was. Speculation is not illegal though. If the shares doubled/tripled post IPO, they would have all made off like bandits, so I feel no sympathy for them.
for opengl testing:

If you just want to make sure that your changes aren't breaking something that is already working, you could have your code automatically create an image and then compare that image file with what you have verified as correct.

This assumes that the output for a scenario is deterministic and it requires that you hand-inspect new images if code is changed that will affect the output.
I am sorry if you get the impression that we are trying to suggest that Vim can do no wrong.

Your original comment was exactly how I felt when I was learning Vim. I also thought that Vim is obtuse and it gets in my way. And now after using Vim for over 3 years, I now know why Vim is the way it is and I was sharing my epiphany.

By all means, use the editor which makes you most productive (you are already ahead of 70% folks who don't even care to find better editor). But at the same time, if you think that Vim is crazy, at least listen to the other side of an argument with an open mind.

PS: I also replied to comment by 'recursive' on the Ctrl + D shortcut.
To be honest, I feel this has a good outcome for environmentalism as well. Same day delivery putting physical retailers out of business means less overall driving.
Totally disagree about "jeans, kitchenware, cars, food, electronics". All of those benefit greatly by quality (and thus cost). Medecine is a special case since so much cost goes into development (sorry, I don't believe you on the bulk of it being marketing).
Bing Seeks to Drive Innovation with Bing Fund
This article has changed(or at least I hope) my life. I'm installing Vim today on my Windows Laptop. Does anyone know of a good guide for beginners?
Hub Ventures Debuts 7 Startups That Want To Change The World
Microsoft have never needed to appeal to a retail customer.

So long as you can say to corporates: you want your staff to have access to your MS email system on their phones? Then they just need Windows Phone with Windows Phone corporate Email Server - just sign here.

Exactly what RIM did with Blackberry and BES

The question now is - is it too late? Are companies happy enough with connecting to corporate email from Android and iPhone to just let their users use what they want - or are they going to buy Windows Phone handsets for everyone?
Most people have read this before, but maybe some of the kidlets here haven't seen it.

http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html

464gg for the greatest chapter about an OS ever written.
Worst purchase experience ever.

First, they declined my card which I've been using with Google Wallet forever. Then, they didn't tell me WHY they declined it. So, I go and update the info (which didn't need updating) and place another order. Declined again.

Now I have 2 pending transactions showing in Google Wallet and there's NO WAY of cancelling the order from Wallet or Play. So, I have to call their stupid call center and get them to cancel both orders.

I'm not even sure that I want one of these things now.
Define "software patents".

That "very plain language" only excludes business method patents i.e. "...on a computer" or "...on the internet" patents. These are not computer algorithm patents (for example, a new sorting or encryption algorithm). The term "software patent" does not denote a distinct class of patent.

Computer algorithms are patentable in the EU. I can think of many, many examples of computer algorithms that are patented in the EU (e.g. crypto patents, compression algorithms, codecs, etc.).
> your Emacs using friends begged you to change your mind

Stay classy.
Thanks Cliff. Yes, SafeEyes (we are ex McAfee as well) and similar software based solutions are painful to manage across devices. We are already working towards addressing the DNS setting issue by not only providing instructions on our site but also coming up with an application that automatically configures the wireless routers. We believe this will make it easier than ever for people to use Securly.
Leveraging lsof to Troubleshoot Network, Filesystem, Native Library, etc.
Nice. Very nice.

I even tweeted it. With TwitVim, naturally. http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=2204