skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a bit torn. I love the controls in vim, the way you navigate and manipulate text is a brilliant system. It makes it more efficient and more "fun".

However, I really don't like the configuration system for vim. Reading the article above, I lost interest when he started talking about his .vimrc file and the plugins he used. It seems arcane to have to have these cryptic settings, whose functions aren't immediately obvious, and write them to a file. I understand that part of the VIM philosophy is that it's almost like a language, or that it's like programming your text, but configuration is just something that you (ideally) set once, and then forget about. Even if I do learn what "nnoremap <leader>ft Vatzf", if I need to set up my environment again, I'll likely forget what it is and why I needed it in the first place. And even if I configure VIM to have the things I want (for example, NERDtree for project navigation), it'll never look or feel as intuitive as having a graphical interface.

So it seems when people talk about VIM, it seems that they're really talking about two things: the control scheme (keybindings) and the editor itself (the environment).

Being an android developer, I use eclipse. I use the "Vrapper" plugin, which gives me vim keybindings in the eclipse editor. I love it. It gives me the vim navigation that I know and love, but the environment and tools provided by Eclipse. I think this is how it should be - the environment of the editor is best handled separately, and although you can add a ton of plugins and configure the crap out of VIM to turn it into an IDE, it'll never really be a proper IDE.

This is why I'm still looking for an ideal lightweight text editor/IDE. My ideal for linux would be Geany, but with Vim keybindings. I discovered Vico yesterday, which looks interesting, but is OSX only at the moment. Might be what I'm looking for, but we'll see.
When looking I found this article which pointed at TONS of studies:

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/artificial-sweeteners-insulin...
> That's pride talking. Pick and choose your battles. If you're going to pick this one, make it overwhelmingly compelling.

As I said:

>> Assuming, of course, you're sure you did everything right.

The rest of your post assumes that there is an issue to deal with. There isn't. If they're in the right (again, assuming), being mentioned on the internet doesn't mean they should pivot into crisis mode.

There's a HN post, most of which, including the top comments, is meta and five (5) tweets - all of which are boring knee-jerk condemnation, none of which ask for clarification. If it'd gone viral, if people, if customers started asking what the hell is going on, then respond to them. But at least until that happens, it's a non-issue, PR-wise.

> I've never heard of this company, but my first impression is negative. Turn that around.

Sure. I've also only just heard of this company too. I think their technology and value proposition sounds promising. If I was in the business of putting JPEG images on in the internet, I'd be intrigued.
Well do ribbons make it better for those users? Maybe a bit. But it's by far not an ideal solution to that problem. OSX's spotlighted help menu is.
I think I might have been misunderstood. I have no complaints with Mountain Lion and think it offers tremendous value.

My point was whether there had been a movement of developers to a new iOS/OSX based project e.g. like an AppleTV. Because it seems that iOS6 and Mountain Lion combined seem to lack the combined punch of previous releases.
Timetrak - iOS productivity app
> That's not true in the U.S. If he uses your site's gambling API, he is engaged in the business of gambling and must have a license. Since the U.S. generally does not allow online gambling, it is effectively illegal regardless of where the servers are physically stored.

It's perfectly legal for an individual or company in the U.S. to develop and operate gambling software. What's not legal is offering services to players in the United States or elsewhere where gambling is illegal[1]. Betable offers the gambling services to players, not the developer partnering with Betable.

Furthermore, Betable does not allow real money play by players in jurisdictions where gambling is illegal. Game developers in the United States (or anywhere else) do not need to be licensed since the regulated bits of the infrastructure are all developed and operated by Betable. We strive to meet and exceed the regulatory standards that we're subject to and provide a legitimate and trustworthy ecosystem for players.

> FultTiltPoker and Bodog were both hosted from offshore (and generally run from offshore), but that did not help their U.S. owners in the slightest when the FBI came knocking.

Full Tilt Poker and Bodog are both examples of online gambling operations that flagrantly and publicly disregarded regulatory requirements and/or the law, offering their services illegally in the United States or, in the case of Full Tilt, (allegedly?) defrauding customers. Unsurprisingly, the FBI took offense to these violations. However, there's really no comparison between those operations and Betable. As I said before, Betable does not offer online gambling to players in the US, which is the main issue the FBI took offense to.

> Moreover, by using a gambling API on your own site, you place all of your bank accounts at risk of being frozen by your financial institution...

Betable manages all of the banking and accounting systems associated with gambling using its own accounts. Developer accounts are not used for gambling. Betable acts as the arbitrator of all gambling transactions.

1. In fact, with the recent re-interpretation of the Wire Act even that statement is now inaccurate at a Federal level, but that's another post.
You realize in some cities a few blocks makes a GIANT difference in neighborhood, right? Same zip code.

Being able to visually filter those out is a major time saver.
What is best for your career given that the future is -- by definition -- not knowable and that the past and present are not necessarily indicative of the future?

Go deep (specialize) just enough to be unquestionably proficient, but not enough to be one of the world's foremost experts. Go broad (generalize) just enough to be learned (well-informed) in discordant technologies, but not enough to be omniscient (all-knowing). I call this type of a person a "genspec", a generalist-specialist.

For example:

1. It's more useful to learn functional programming, object-oriented programming, procedural programming, etc., than to learn e.g., 3 different object-oriented programming languages.

2. It's more useful to learn embedded development, mobile development, web development, etc., than to learn e.g., three different mobile development platforms.

3. It's more useful to learn e.g., 3 different OSs than to learn e.g., 3 different distributions of a single OS.

Optimize yourself for change, adaptability, and continual learning of many materially dissimilar topics.
That's what's best for your career.
Pictures of the $211,223.04 raised by the OatMeal
"The company’s Canadian beta just started today"

Stripe is available in Canada? Is this a private beta or public beta?
One question about messages: Does it only work with iMessages or does it actually integrate my SMS when the iPhone is in the same network?
If you call current situation in financial industry laissez faire you obviously have no idea what these words mean. Yes, there was some deregulation in 2000s, but there was still huge amount of regulation and government control over the financial industry. None of these controllers foresaw the crisis of 2008, none of them objected to subprime mortgage industry - actually, most of the politicians sung praise to raising home values, better access to homewonership for the poor, and upcoming prosperity for all, and pressed the banks into doing more to help the poor take the loans to get on the property train.

Check out this book, promising ever-rising home prises in 2005:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385514344

Now check out the glowing reviews of this book, quoted on the same page, by no other than chiefs of Federal Reserve and Fannie Mae. You are telling me the problems happened because guys like these didn't have enough power? I've got a nice bridge for sale in Brooklin, are you interested?

>> Regulation doesn't mean nationalization.

For the guy on whose post I was responding it definitely does. Not only nationalization, but also removing democracy and rights of self-rule for everybody but people having enough of some "merit", which I suspect he assumes himself to possess in abundance. I am glad the problem with such suggestions is obvious for you.
We could easily argue that you could be ahead of the curve ^^.
Google Releases Android 4.1 Jelly Bean AOSP to the World
The about, download and development pages are fine since they appear to be loaded when first hitting the site (non-zero part of why the initial page load takes 4 seconds and 46 requests to complete). They also appear to be injected into the DOM at this time, along with at least the side panel navigation components of the other pages, strangely in p tags.

The readme is fine, it appears to load the content only when the page is accessed.

The examples section is OK, _after_ it loads, since the first time you click on examples it loads all of them for some reason, another 56 requests and several seconds. Some the examples do render slowly which is actually the most concerning issue since all the data has already been pulled to the client (minus a couple tiny SVG files which are cached), thus any slow down you see there is from the JS rendering the view and its not quick.

The documentation load time is terrible, 140 requests as it literally loads _every_ components JS file individually when you first hit the page. Again despite all the data being there already, switching between component documentation views is not snappy in many cases. Clicking on 0x.image for instance spikes CPU usage and takes over a second to render.

The two stand out issues are:

1) loading a ton of JS and nodes into the DOM when it isn't yet needed.

2) slow client side rendering of the views, it shouldn't take a second to render a view when all the data is already client side. It could have just pulled a pre-rendered view from the server in that time.
Steam will still curate; this system only prioritized some games for review. It works a lot like the Steam Workshop.
Are you talking about being an Airplay source or destination?

AirServer functions as a destination already: http://www.airserverapp.com/

For a source, Airfoil works for audio:
http://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/mac/

It looks like a hardware limitation if you don't have the ISQV, you're SOL.
Clojure has the benefit of hindsight; it is one of the newest programming languages and it is not constrained by a published standard, nor does it need to cater to tens of vendors or any existant code-bases (Nearly every user of Clojure is on github ;-)
Jare, you nailed it. My only clarification on your second paragraph is that the RNG needs to be audited and certified in ordered to get your license granted/renewed. The idea here is that it prevents shady gambling companies from defrauding players.
Sorry, that didn't clarify much. Is "very much so buggy as hell" or "very much so fixed"? I'm confused :(
> Windows XP was a much bigger deal than Windows 95, being the first consumer release based on the NT kernel

I hung on to 98 until 2001 for gaming, but at that point most stuff worked perfectly on 2k. While it wasn't intended for "home" users, 2k was the preferred OS among my group of friends until XPsp2 or so.

I really don't get why the NT kernel wasn't introduced to the "home" market until XP.
Over 200 new features and plenty of behind-the-scenes refinements, all for $20 and 12 months after Lion. Sounds like they're firing on all cylinders in Cupertino.

http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/features.html
I've really enjoyed using light table.

I spent a few solid days using it while implementing a spreadsheet into a webapp (I wrote the algorithm in clojure and then migrated to clojurescript).

Immediate feedback and live tests felt natural.

Given my clojure is rusty it was helpful to be able to see how functions work with little test cases.

The lein plugin is a nice addition. I'm looking forward to seeing it trigger a refresh when project source files change.
ZFS file system. Fixing iCal and Address book by returning them to proper non-skeuomorph applications, maybe even adjusting the UI to the strengths of computers rather than bring in the inefficiencies of the paper tools we left behind.

Proper Mail.app plugins. Not limiting the notification system to App Store apps. Finder replacement. Maybe with something like semantic tagging replacing folders, complete with proper filesystem level unix support.

Even bigger pie in the sky features: distributed process migration. If you are at home and have multiple computers, why not borrow your desktops CPU to do heavy processing (say for photos or video?)

In other words, features targeting professionals, the opposite of Apple current strategy.

edit: these would be overwhelming to me
I live and work in Victoria, and have for the past 5 years. I currently work for a company that is hiring, and know of several others that are as well. Booming is, of course, relative, and probably refers to the difficulty everyone has finding talented devs (and wages are starting to rise due to that), rather than a direct comparison to the number of companies or size of the market. It's definitely not comparable to Seattle, or even Vancouver (and certainly not SV).

Wages aren't exactly the greatest, expenses aren't exactly the lowest - and there's a real lack of depth in both talent and places to work. On the other hand, there are plenty of people doing start ups because they don't want to leave - you just have to know where to look.

(also, sent you an email)
While I have traveled a lot for work the past few years, I have never used a single travel service like kayak, hipmunk, priceline, etc...

I go to one place for my tickets typically - the airline. My airline of choice is Virgin which has fantastic prices anyway.

When I had a client in Nome alaska, and I was there one week per month, I used virgin to go to SEA then alaska airlines from SEA on.

I know I am in a weird bracket, but i just never felt comfortable with any of the third party ticket services.

It reminds me of whenever i go to a farmers market. I never remember the prices at whole foods/safeway and I feel like I am not getting a deal, but am being fooled by the illusion of a farmers market.
iPad 1 = iPad 2010. iPad 2 = iPad 2011. iPad 3 = iPad 2012.

iPhone = iPhone 2007. iPhone 3G = iPhone 2008. iPhone 3GS = iPhone 2009. iPhone 4 = iPhone 2010. iPhone 4S = iPhone 2011. "iPhone 5" = iPhone 2012.

Even if Apple were to never refer to them by those names, it's such an obvious naming convention (so far) that it's surprising that so many people are missing it.
Add 7.5 minutes to your life just by watching this - Marojejian
You'd think somebody would have learned from the mistake of Modernism & Post-modernism.
How to start a movement - Derek Sivers Ted Talk
1/3 of old Flippa website auctions point to abandoned sites
Do you guys feel that if Pownce was never shut down - it would have been a pretty big competitor/threat to Twitter?
There's no room for an alternative to Twitter. Social media on the scale of Twitter and Facebook is a winner take all market due to network effects.

Is there an opportunity for Twitter to become the next MySpace?

Certainly. However, a Twitter alternative will probably never fly. Instagram is a great example of how to make Twitter the next MySpace. Find something that users do all the time on twitter and make it suck less. API revocation is not something most users know they have a problem with.
Love Stripe at our business! Best move we've made to date.
So if it's so easy, how do you make your first million?
Windows 95 could preemptively multitask 32-bit code. But its core was 16-bit, and there were many legacy 16-bit apps, all of which were cooperatively multitasked.
Daniel Clifford on Optimizing JavaScript for the V8 Engine
As for private debt being reduced to zero, wouldn't that require a drop in housing prices by something like 90% so one could just buy a house without a bank loan?

Which would, in my mind, be a Good Thing. At the very worst, we should be decreasing housing prices down to 2x or 2x annual income, which would put mortgages back in the 5-year or 10-year range rather than 30-year.

A normal family taking out a mortgage to buy a house should be able to look forward to paying off their mortgage.
Honeypot Analytics : 500 Pretty Passwords
Uhmm...I'm going to ignore your snarkiness and condescension and just present the below data from Google's Support page for Chrome plugins:

"
Your data on all websites

This item can read every page that you visit -- your bank, your web email, your Facebook page, and so on. Often, this kind of item needs to see all pages so that it can perform a limited task such as looking for RSS feeds that you might want to subscribe to.

Caution: Besides seeing all your pages, this item could use your credentials (cookies) to request or modify your data from websites."

I think it is not unreasonable to take pause when an extension asks for such permissions.
Agreed.

I think they have gone quite carefully on iCloud.

Beyond that, actual UI enhancements are minimal.

It's more iClouding Apps. Or App improvements. Less to do with the OS itself.
Exec’s "Justin Khan"?? Spelled wrong in two places?
from a moral standpoint, how does scraping the google cache of craigslist differ from scraping craigslist directly? it's the same information and the google cache is clearly filling in some "infrastructure of the interwebs" role here.
It's vastly better in the DPs. They haven't updated the beta _at all_ since it was released months and months ago.
This app has a new concept of time management that is really incredible!
Absolutely. It takes a few seconds to do a once-over of your website copy and a few seconds more to change it.
While you have some legitimate suggestions spliced in here, the majority of your post says to me "The feature they should have added is to change everything back to the way it was, and change the business strategy". This is not really a very good interpretation of the question, for obvious reasons.
Very much fixed. Apple doesn't ship crap software these days.
Quick Sync is not DRM. It’s a video de-/encoder.
back in the usenet days, it was generally[0] held that the first person to reach for the dictionary had implicitly conceded the argument.

[0] at least on the newsgroups i used to frequent
Sometimes some cash can help you execute faster on the plan you already have. As illustrated by the scene form "The Social Network" where Zuckerberg says he wants to expand to 100 schools, and Parker says "'I'll put you on two continents."
DC "Uber Amendment" would force sedans to charge 5x more than taxis
They've never been a capital-intensive business, so it doesn't make great sense to invest substantial sums. Its more likely to change the business to one focused on maximizing profit, rather than improve the product.

Try the analogy where a startup is like a band (I'm not the first to use this). After the band sells out, do you expect better music? As the cliche goes, their artistic integrity is compromised, the members start in-fighting, and the lead singer grows increasingly strung-out on fame and drugs.
You are supposed to call it "iPad". Done.

If you need to be more specific, the model numbers are as follows:

MC705ZP/A – iPad 3 Wi-Fi only 16GB – Black

MC706ZP/A – iPad 3 Wi-Fi only 32GB – Black

MC707ZP/A – iPad 3 Wi-Fi only 64GB – Black

MD366ZP/A – iPad 3 Wi-Fi + 4G 16GB – Black

MD367ZP/A – iPad 3 Wi-Fi + 4G 32GB – Black

MD368ZP/A – iPad 3 Wi-Fi + 4G 64GB – Black

MD328ZP/A – iPad 3 Wi-Fi only 16GB – White

MD329ZP/A – iPad 3 Wi-Fi only 32GB – White

MD330ZP/A – iPad 3 Wi-Fi only 64GB – White

MD369ZP/A – iPad 3 Wi-Fi + 4G 16GB – White

MD370ZP/A – iPad 3 Wi-Fi + 4G 32GB – White

MD371ZP/A – iPad 3 Wi-Fi + 4G 64GB – White

They have unique identifiers. The product you walk in to the store and buy is "iPad".

What is the question?
It only works with iMessages. You're right though: SMS functionality (somehow) would be pretty awesome.
Peter Norvig: The 100,000-student classroom (video)
This is why I don't use vim.

As nice as it may be, there are just too many other text editing tasks I have to do outside an editor I can control and none of them grok modal editing.
Are they going to put the next Half Life 2 episode on there? That would surely get the go-ahead from fans.
> I guess one way to deal with this would be for the aftermarket industry to start working with model years as is done with cars.

Which is also how Apple themselves handle most of their laptop models, eg the "MacBook Pro (Late 2011)"[1] or the "MacBook Air (Mid 2011)"[2]. This would seem to be the most sensible solution.

[1]: http://support.apple.com/kb/SP644
[2]: http://support.apple.com/kb/SP631
Skeumorphism is about taste. You just don’t share Apple’s. Simple as that. As long as it doesn’t impact the UI there is nothing wrong with skeumorphism.

Every app can use the notification system. They only can’t use push notifications if they are not in the App Store. Not terribly relevant for the desktop.
Android 4.1 source code released today in Android Open Source Project
That must be why iPad doesn't have user accounts.
Frankly, if the only punch Mountain Lion packs is "breaks way less", I am first in line.
You need to think like an electron. Create conductive paths for static electricity everywhere you can. Tables, shelves, floors, racks, desks. The floor we have is specifically designed for clean rooms. As I understand it, it is epoxy mixed in with carbon to make it somewhat conductive. In order to install it they first clean and acid-wash the existing floor. They they scrape it to make it rough (to improve adhesion). Then they apply flat copper conductors crossing the room in various directions and generally ending near grounded wall outlets. Finally, they apply multiple coats of the conductive epoxy on top of the whole thing. The copper foil is longer than the width or length of the room. The excess is connected via a thick wire to the grounding circuit. The floor becomes the foundation upon which all else (in terms of static control) is built.
Still filing some radars against this, including the lingering text formatting issue in Mail.

If this follows the typical pattern there will be some sys update right after public release.
So, with this $100M, they can really dominate the code hosting market?

There's a reasonable case to be made that they're either going to or already dominate the code hosting market anyways, depending on how big you define it. The only way $100M makes sense is if they're expanding into one or multiple other things.
GoInstant acquired by Salesforce for $70 million
Uhm, Podcasts App? Lion?
Do you feel the parts you did interact with were helpful?

Perhaps they didn't do a good-enough job of selling the benefits of the course to you? And so you weren't dedicated enough. Is this possible?
Maybe the ribbon helps new Office users with discoverability, but for a power user like me, it gets in the way and slows me down. For instance, in order to change the font size of highlighted text in Word, I have to keep coming back to the Home tab, even if most of my current work involves a different tab (such as Page Layout or Review). Another way of viewing this is that the Ribbon forces me to work within and switch between certain modes (Insert, Page Layout, a general mode corresponding to the functions on the Home tab, etc.). These modes don't match my own working modes very well. With a toolbar/menu combination, I wasn't forced into these modes as much. Common processes, the ones currently placed in the Home tab, were always right there on the toolbar, and I didn't need to switch back and forth to use them.