skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is in a sense. For some reason, vi[m] gets more play on this site, but pretty everything you can say about vim also applies to emacs, with one critical different (and the reason I switched): vi* is modal editing. Every report I've seen on the subject says that modal editing is a no-no. As a vi user, after seeing this for the first time I realized that, indeed, it had happened to me several times that I thought I was in text mode but was actually in command mode.... oops. I type 80+wpm so by the time realized the mistake I had trashed my file beyond recognition and had overran the undo buffer. There was nothing to do but lose all changes and start again.

This can't happen in emacs because editing isn't modal (though commands are very contextual). vi* is certainly easier on the hands than all the cording but getting rid of modal editing means no more wasting time when your brain is out of sync with the editor.

Having said all that, I'd still pick a nice IDE over either of them, since the IDE understands the language I'm editing and can e.g. change from simple minded "mass edits" to actual refactoring.
You are correct, defining it in a manner acceptable to legal types would be very very hard.

However the fact that he felt he needed to hide what he was doing by using tumblr etc makes me feel that he knew there was a line (however blurry it might be) and that he was crossing it.
True visionary. Lucky for the rest of us, he has the determination & financial muscle to make his visions a reality.
Avoid the Lego aimed at girl-children, though. It's rubbish compared to the good stuff.
Why not D?
Did you even watch the video? He mentioned wanting to retire (or die) on Mars. He talks about the possibility of going to Mars regularly. Obviously he believes it's possible.
I'm not purely incentive (that would be much too simple :).

We must use any and all tools at our disposal to ensure the correct working order of valuable systems - such as finance (proper allocation of capital to risk is a great thing!).

Exploiting human desire, psychology, biases, irrationality and behaviour to create robust systems is a great idea! The are just some of the many tools that we have at our disposal to protect ourselves from abuse by "nasty" agents. This then allows us to move forward towards a more prosperous, robust and stable society in the future.

What I don't like is treating the symptoms (these financial hackers if you will :), instead of the cause (improperly checks and balances at centres of power).

Bring on the shame and the like - I'm all for it. But we should at the very least focus on fixing the causes (exploits in the system) rather than the hackers that exploit them (just like in security research).
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> However, PowerShell is still treated as a second class citizen in the Windows eco-system, and that is, imho, its biggest weakness.

I don't know about that. Microsoft operates NuGet (the .NET equivalent of NPM or Gems) and the way of downloading packages is through powershell (albeit a specially docked version inside Visual Studio).

I agree that it's treated as second class in that most utilities are not designed with it in mind first but I can see that changing over time. They are already excellent Powershell equivalents of Make and Apt/Yum by third parties. Third parties have embraced it pretty strongly.
This was true for everything up until the latest batch of MacBook Pros.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9228070/Retina_MacBoo...

I'll continue to use my five year old BlackBook. I just wish it could take more than 4GB of ram.
http://hallojs.org does this, it was on HN yesterday.
Ohk, so this idea pops up in my mind.

An application to direct calls from your speakerphones when you're at home (or office) [Can be done via NFC or Same Wifi connection]. Without sacrificing the quality of your conversation.

I'd love to see this feature in Android, quite possible.

Pros:

- You don't have to get up for a call every time

- Great Quality

- Hackable for Developers

Cons:

- You have to built a special hardware for that
The only way to achieve this would be to have no law enforcement.
Still running strong after 1,532 days without a code change.
I have had some long start times like the parent. Typically it's pretty short. I do agree, though, that not having that instance start time is a bit psychologically confusing... it's a shell, how could it not start instantly! However, typically if I'm developing I'll just leave one open at all times and it's not an issue.
I'm not opposed to accepting bitcoin if it's transparent as you describe. As krasin mentions the recurring thing is a sticking point. Here's the ticket:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/14
The rasterization of the Unicode character will be cached in the glyph cache just like the rest of the glyphs, so the GIF is not really any cheaper.
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>Men and women being different does not make sexism ok. //

So treating different things as different is wrong?
Exactly. Take entrepreneurship: the founder is rewarded financially if he/she succeeds but is punished financially if he/she fails. The banks, on the other hand, were rewarded financially when they made money for their clients (in the form of performance bonuses), but were bailed out when they failed to carry out their job successfully. This asymmetry is antithetical to capitalism.

I like how Nassim Taleb put it: "the incentive system put in place by financial companies has produced the worst possible economic system mankind can imagine: capitalism for the profits and socialism for the losses."
I know. It's a tragedy.
Splash screens are never good UX. Why not load a content-less DOM structure whilst loading the data so the user can get familiar immediately, the same way iOS apps work.
You'll be fine with the uprectangle and the downrectangle!
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"Rose also pointed out that Digg once got an acquisition offer for close to $80 million ($60 million plus earnout) during the site's heyday. While he was personally willing to take this offer, the Digg board decided to turn it down."

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/kevin_rose_at_disrupt.p...
Also known as the Sam Vimes Theory of Economic Injustice:
http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Sam_Vimes_Theory_of_Economic_Inj...
> I set a reminder(thanks Siri) to check these stats later that night.

Thank you, alarm clock! Thank you, spoon! Thank you, hammer!

In any case, thank you for the post, and thank you even more for keeping this kind of service running for so long :)
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Very well put. And, as hard as it is to capture all those nuances in an equation or a model, the biggest problem is that there are too many theorists, and common people, believing that the "real market" is the one that comes out of the theory - with its completely unrealistic homo economicus - and not the real markets, those which develop in the real world and are so much more complicated, non linear, and working on human reactions.

A theory can be useful in dealing with complex situations. But believing that the theory can become the reality is the same mistake that marxists made.
I think the problem solves itself quite elegantly:

"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."

-- Steve Wozniak
Flattr is for content. Gittip is for people.

Flattr is optimized for making tippers feel good. Gittip is optimized for making tippees a living.

Flattr takes a 10% cut. Gittip is drinking its own whiskey.
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I hadn't considered that some posts may fall into multiple categories, but I'll give it some thought. In the mean time, just choose whichever category works better.
Short answer: No.

Long answer: You're right, and I want to expand beyond GitHub. Here's the ticket:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/80
More like an Overcoming Bias hipster, the post I linked however is one of the excellent-content posts from post-migration. (Even the comments are interesting, I especially liked those by lindagert trying to describe what it's like not having the ability to mentally visualize anything.)

But fair enough point about your reply being a counter-example, I stand corrected. I interpreted your reply as more akin to "your observation about general human behavior has absolutely no merit because not every human follows the same pattern, just look at me", rather than a formal logical counter-argument to an informal assertion made outside of a proof that not only personifies nature without the usual caveats but also to which a more charitable interpretation of being a comment in a discussion (not an attempt at a proof) would not apply the universal quantifier reserved for formal arguments. I guess I should have interpreted your reply more charitably as well, but in the other direction with respect to being an attempt at a proof.
Would love to see examples of this working, especially in higher scale production systems. Are their pointers to good examples?
They could also define an arcsecond unit, and each device would carry its typical (configurable and overridable) distance of use to internally convert to pt, and then DPI to rasterize to px.
If you say don't blame only the hackers, I agree. But the hackers that - knowingly and selfishly - violated the law must be punished, not given a free pass because it was the fault of the system.

Then you should also improve the system; the two things aren't mutually exclusive.
Everytime someone says this on HN, I've gotta give my obligatory "why are we doing more as a 'group'?"

Sure, it's great that one person has lots of money and some vision, but why aren't more people pooling their resources, both time and money, to accomplish more?

Ok, I'll keep it short this time. Back to surfing HN. Enjoy.
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> Think about the reader -> I've often heard people say "write for yourself"

Here's the truth, everyone who tells you they're writing for themselves is lying. If they were writing for themselves, they wouldn't publish it publicly.
One should also beware the insurance industry - it has essentially the same incentive structure.

Sell cheap insurance while times are good - take profit/options/stocks and leave.

When a catastrophe happens - go bankrupt and allow the government/people to socialize the losses for improper risk management. They also take advantage of socialized protection such as national defence, fire-fighters, police officers and ambulance drivers. They don't have to pay for them in proportion to the reward they receive for their services (society pays for them). Hence their risk is mitigated by society whilst privately profiting from our shared risk.

Insurance is a great thing (no doubt about it!) - but these moral hazards exist in many systems around the world and they must be addressed.

This is also why insurance is so highly regulated - the ability for financial impropriety and abuse is just too damn high!
you mean "on the Web"
> "I want this item to be as tall as the subjective inch if a person holds a ruler one foot away from them."

Sounds like you're looking for arcseconds.
OP wrote in another message that "her account got temporarily disabled within a short time of her posting that comment". Is that possible for non-Facebook employees to effect somehow? If not, then it was one of your colleagues, not a troll.
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At least you always can use css version if there are some font issues:
http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/css-triangle/
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"It may be a curse, but there is no better alternative for many of the things it can do."

What things are those?
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Powershell creator's deep UNIX background is evident in its design - they have actually fixed many important problems with most UNIX shells. Some of which are:

- Moving from a text stream manipulation to structure content. No more worrying if separators need to be escaped within the content each time.

- More powerful programming constructs like: Lambda functions, parallel assignments

- Signed scripts

Even though it might not be superior to other shells in every aspect, Powershell's tighter OS integration and OOP approach makes it one of the best shell available on the Windows platform.
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Pray there are still smart human beings to override the machines:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
That sounds more like a good way to show you are doing a bang up job of incarceration.

Berating the legislature to eliminate as many unenforceable laws as possible seems like a better way to make law enforcement look more effective.
Would it be possible to have a tunnel like that and somehow fill it with air instead, then accelerate the air to something like 2x the speed of sound outside? That was my first association when he said "there are other ways to store energy than batteries". Then you arrange the whole thing in a loop. You could have some sort of carriage that just gets carried along by the airflow.

Anyway - the part about electric VTOL aircraft got me really excited. I've been annoyed that no one has tried to do VTOL aircraft with fans yet. If it could be made electric too (I'm assuming on-board generators or fuel cells here), that would turn a lot of things on its head.
Ah but you see here is the kicker (and I totally understand your point).

When designing systems you must severely reduce the ability of "nasty" agents to take advantage and exploit you for personal gain.

We should also enforce standardized punishment for those that successfully exploit the system.

LIBOR left the gate wide open! That's 10x more important than punishing any one person that just walked in (and they should be punished - I don't disagree). But focusing on the people is the wrong mental attitude to adopt.

I keep hearing things like "So and So has $100 million dollar salary and he should be punished for bringing the house down". I really want to hear things like - "Who the bloody hell let this happen in the first place?".

That's all I'm saying. Punish hackers all you want but if you want true robustness you must rectify the exploits present in the system.
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Thats a fair point and I would agree in cases where the landing page won't change or there are not too many variations.

Our ExtJS application has a fairly complex layout and the landing page is dynamic depending on the user type/configuration so there are many variations on what the front page could look like.

We have a fairly large download of 1.2mb for the application once it's compressed so we wanted to show something to users who are on slower connections. I think it's a fair middle ground in our circumstances.
I think that is a great counterpoint to the story about the problems single founders have running 24/7 web apps.

It isn't clear though- is this a paid service?
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oh wow, now that you mention it you're right ... PowerShell does take a long time to start up. I tend to leave a powershell window open for pretty much my whole session so I guess it's not a huge deal for me. But yeah, when starting up I definitely notice it.
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Most asian parents speak to their children in their native tongue, most likely the same for all immigrants, including hispanic. I know many friends whose kids spoke only their asian language until they hit preschool where they learned english. Kids pick up languages very fast when they are immersed in it.
I agree. The polycoms with secondary microphones pick up those guys in the background you care about.

Being entrenched in the corporate culture, if you tried to sell my department on a brand new "speakerphone" that required the use of my cell phone, or was enhanced by my cell phone, I'm going to ask why my phone isn't corporate issued then, if I have to use it on all of my work conference calls.

If everyone used their own phone, then you might as well dial into a bridge, and I think that's a solved problem.
I was thinking along these lines .. but instead of moving the air, remove it from one side of the train, and then allow atmospheric pressure to force it through the tunnel.
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The thing is that unattractive men observe attractive and/or rich men doing these things and so get an idea that they can do them too.

The difference between being arrested or getting laid can be the difference between being John Doe or Bradd Pitt.

Can they not resist? Testosterone is one hell of a drug.
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Good news: the startup time is largely fixed on PowerShell 3 (Windows 8). Most of that startup time ends up being PowerShell trying to load all of the snapins on your system--and you can have a LOT of them if you're a developer, since there are snapins for IIS, SQL Server, and remote management that come more-or-less out-of-the-box in that scenario. PowerShell 3, rather than actually loading all of these, simply notes what commands they export, and only bothers actually loading the snapins if you actually use them. Up side, PS on Windows 8 takes less time to start up. Down side, commands occasionally pause a second while PowerShell loads whatever snapin happens to have the commands you just tried to use. This ends up being a pretty good trade-off in my daily work, though.
thanks for the insight. i like the way how Cloudflare works and goes their own path. well done. keep up the good work.
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I'm amazed at the number of different hacks people have employed to solve this, just goes to show its the simple things that make the difference.

FYI, this illustrates the solutions impact pretty well:
http://cl.ly/0C0C1j3U1e2G0a193F35
This is the original source of the * approach to box-sizing. The OP is a ripoff.
Or the "Would you like to see more?" facebook box that popped up when I was two inches into the article.
em's are relative yes. However at least on the web there is always a default that you are being relative to. It's this default that should (and is currently) generally configured to be readable.
The GIF is 111 bytes. A CSS triangle might be smaller, but it's probably not much of a win.
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I liked much of your message but your "cure" is worse than the disease. A "free for all" world only benefits the big players. With the current system, as bad as it is, at least the little players can file patents and possibly get bought out to acquire them.

What truly needs to happen is the governments need to recognize that for the markets to work properly we need to promote small and medium size businesses over mega corporations. Megacorps don't need any protections as their size is protection enough. For example, if you hit a small business with a $1million fine you've killed them. Hit big Oil or a mega bank and they most likely made more money off what ever you're fining them for than that tiny penalty.

Given that, I would say we take patents back to what most people that believe in them think they should be about: protecting the little guy. A patent should only ever be applicable to an entity under a certain size. Alternatively, to get a patent you should have to prove that you've invested so much in the development of a patent that not getting it means you're going out of business (e.g. Apple betting it all on the iPhone).

We need to be promoting small businesses, where as right now all legislation seems to give more ammunition to the big companies that already have all the tools.
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- Personal projects, if any (NOT CLASS PROJECTS)

When I was going through resume workshops at the end of college, they recommended putting class projects, so long as they're actually worth a damn. CS 101 fish tank in java? No. Senior design project for a nonprofit? Yes.

Of course, my resume format for those was:

+Info

+Education

+Experience

+Skills | Projects

+Misc

So with that, I didn't actually list out what I did in each class, like some people seem to do.
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Gives me a bit of a "ghost in the machine" feeling here. You created something interesting on a whim, gave it life, and sent it off into the world. Unbeknownst to you, it chugged on, somehow successfully urging people to use it. It did this mostly on its own.

I'm sure there's a white paper or talk on the life developers give their software...
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I think that this is the kind of cronie-capitalism that Ayn Rand and her modern day followers attack. Their idea is that capitalism is good in a purer form where large inefficient businesses are simply allowed to fail.

In fact this is a major theme of "Atlas Shrugged," that the government supports weak businesses run by cronies of political leaders.
A millimeter (which I rather often call “milímetro” or “millimètre”) is also too late. By the way, the SI uses powers of ten.
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