skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. I'm pleasantly surprised that all of my issues are actually being addressed -- I was thinking that I might be in the minority on these points. I need to be paying closer attention to the mailing list.

While I love that you are making major changes, I am sure that you are aware that the instability of the language is a problem for many people. I have been watching from the sidelines for a good while now, but aside from testing new builds and reading the developer blogs, I dare not start using Rust for anything. Niko Matsakis's recent blog entry about mutability was particularly disappointing as it seems such a basic idea should have been settled much earlier. I can appreciate the kind of experimental, agile approach to language design, of course; but while Rust is germinating, I have been forced to fall back to Go. I really hope the dust settles soon so the language can stabilize and mature.

As for the semicolons, I think a strict, well-defined rule such as the one used by Go is sufficient. Actually, Go is a bit too rigid about semicolon insertion for my taste. The following, for example, will not compile, despite the fact that the ending brace is expected by the parser:

house := &House{
color: Green,
floors: 3,
patio: true
}

On the other hand, Go is perfectly happy about:

import (
"fmt"
"io"
)

...but I have not looked into why this is a special case.
I have cleared all of Plato's Dialogues and i am currently interested in a decent map of all other original works.
Software keyboards double the effective screen size. They may be inferior in every other respect, but when your screen is about 4 inches diagonally, it doesn't matter. You're willing to trade a whole lot to be able to see more.
What if you have two folders, one for "Ruby Development", one for "Ruby in Jewellry". Auto-tagging is not a solved problem. ---> it can put this two folders on the list so i can choose from them without open the window "choose another folder"
Can anyone comment if airplay is disabled on pre 2011 macs? I'm going to be royally pissed if airplay is disabled because I'm missing some BS drm chip. Hopefully the era of "Jailbreaking" macs has not started.
The implication of VC is that you'll have to sell or go public eventually anyway, so you might as well take the pain and go directly to public if your revenues support it. The general rule being 5 years of $100mm/yr.
It feels like they took the widgets that I never quite got into using and shoved them in my face at full screen.

The new meto programs have no depth or maturity. I had the same problem trying to do serious work on android.

It wasn't worth jumping though the extra hoops to get the same stuff done.

That being said... a tablet is the best bathroom computer.
I have an iPhone 3G and an iPhone 4 here-- they both say "iPhone" on the back. I have an iPad 2 and an iPad 3-- they both say "iPad". I have a MacBook labeled "MacBook", a MacBook Pro labeled "MacBook Pro", and a MacBook Air labeled "MacBook Air".

I don't think I've ever owned an Apple product that had a number in the name, not that you'd know from looking at it. Some people just need something to complain about, I guess.

It should also be pointed out that Apple consistently does not use the definite article with product names in order to personalize the branding, going back to the first Macintosh. It's not the iPad, just... iPad.
Hmm, good point. In general I rarely use special prefixed CSS features, and the ones that I do are rarely worth the effort.
Nobody should pay for GitHub just because they need a place to dump their code. If you want free, unlimited, private git repos, just sign up for https://bitbucket.org/

GitHub is what you might choose if you need to work on projects with a team, and want best-of-breed collaboration and code review.

I use BitBucket to host all my solo side projects, and Github for all my open source code. I work with a startup, and we use GitHub for all of our private repos. I love using Github, it's awesome.

If I was starting my own startup, I would definitely choose Github. Bitbucket might provide all the important features, and you can host unlimited private code, for a team of up to 5 users, for free... But in the end, $7 or $12 a month is worth it for the beautiful service that Github provides.
The Dominant Factor Test is what most U.S. states use in determining what is and is not a game of skill. The Dominant Factor Test was defined in the 1973 Alaskan case Morrow v. State. The four qualifications as defined by the court in Morroware:

- Participants must have a distinct possibility of exercising skill and must have sufficient data upon which to calculate an informed judgment.

- Participants must have the opportunity to exercise the skill, and the general class of participants must possess the skill.

- Skill or the competitors efforts must sufficiently govern the results.

- The standard of skill must be known to the participants, and this standard must govern the results.
JPEGmini appear to be scumbags
Inside Forbes: 'Aha Moments' From Its New Home Page
Unfortunately, you don't know what you're talking about

I am well aware of that aspect of the TOS. I'm unimpressed by it. I wonder if that will hold up in court.

I this case, it's clear Craiglist is acting in Craigslist's interest against those of the user.
After Snow Leopard, they changed to a development cycle consistent of two week sprints followed by a one week convergence period. Stuff that can't get in by the specified milestone gets pushed back, moved, or cancelled.

It actually makes for a nicer development model than the 'everything doesn't work for a year and then miraculously comes together 4 months before release' development model. For example, with Snow Leopard, XCode became garbage collected and was unusable for like 50 releases in a row.

Ultimately, while you get a slightly less buggy release that comes out on time more or less, the features seem less ambitious.
Closed My Startup 2 Weeks Ago ($$ probs) but Everybody Is Still Working. Harder.
Margaret Atwood on Wattpad and the value of taking risks
LibreOffice coming to Android
8.5 years on, Opportunity still ticking. Now there's engineering for ye.
Really? It was looking to me like the Mountain Pass mine would re-open and once a 'stable' supply was available again it would reduce investment in alternate supplies.

I've seen research into replacing rare-earths with other more common materials but haven't seen any serious work into underwater mining (except the fringe stuff where people are pulling gold out of seawater but that doesn't seem 'well funded' to me).

Do you know of any underwater mining projects other than the Scripps Institute and Woods Hole ones?
> - Usable on Windows XP and IE6 (most likely).

I'd imagine a company that needs VCS can handle multiple installed browsers or even virtualized OS:s.
Lamar Smith Proposes Expanding Hollywood's Global Police Force
Only players in places where gambling is legal can participate. So a US developer could make a game using Betable's API, but it won't be US players gambling.
How to build positive marketing stories that work
"The direction appears to be cheap upgrades, and merging feature sets between IOS and OSX so eventually there's one operating system that changes in unison."

It is believed by some that Apple will not be pushing their operating systems in this direction:

http://daringfireball.net/2012/02/mountain_lion

Specifically: "Mountain Lion is not a step towards a single OS that powers both the Mac and iPad, but rather another in a series of steps toward defining a set of shared concepts, styles, and principles between two fundamentally distinct OSes."
Putting Goal Theory Into Practice For The 21st Century Career Path
Great answer. Thanks.
Microsoft is not composed of morons, their engineering is world-class, and they're not out to ruin their business or their product line.

Microsoft miserably failed with a very second rate mobile operating system for over a decade. Their browser has been an also ran to a couple of small-teamed competitors. Their core operating system, despite being the linchpin of their business, has seen endless grand ambitions abandoned because of a gross inability to execute (do people forget how dramatic of a change Vista was supposed to be? They tossed all of that and re-branched XP, releasing essentially minor GUI changes to bring in the payday for another half decade).

Any argument that argues the technical ability of Microsoft starts on a flawed foundation. I have a lot of respect for certain parts of that company, but they have had some enormous failures, both from a vision and technical perspective. There is nothing that demonstrates that Windows 8 is the pinnacle of engineering.

EDIT: One of the most foreboding elements of Windows 8 is that an improved copy dialog gets play in ever commentary about the operating system. Seriously, just think about that for a while. Otherwise it's a thin veneer of a shell, inconsistent with the overwhelming majority of the operating system, that makes it a stellar operating system?
I wish top 40 wasn't top 40. But if you want to sing along to the radio, you have to learn the words.

It sucks, but there is zero alternative unless you want to boil the ocean.

Ubuntu switched /bin/sh from bash to dash recently. Many distros are starting to abandon init.

It will get better. Until it does, our hands are tied.
The death of the Open Internet by a thousand cuts starts.
It also works great if you don't mind burning all that time having to make the appointment, get to the store and then wait in line, just to end up dealing with someone who can't actually tell you which device you have, because his company never bothered to name it correctly in the first place.

Apple part matching in this scenario becomes much like the famous definition of obscenity- I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it.
Was that the demo day in Santa Monica in April/May?
As far as I'm concerned, the Ribbon UI sucks big hairy ones

I am not adverse to change, and had a very open mind about the ribbon in office, but it still hinders me far more than it ever helped. From observations of others there are perilously few who actually appreciate that interface tactic.
Android 4.1 source code released today in Android Open Source Project
We've adopted Trello wholeheartedly and have worked out a decent solution to what you describe. Our overarching board ("Software Roadmap") consists of "Epic/Story" cards. Each of these are large projects we expect to be broken down. In each description of the card is a link to a project board for all the detailed tasks, each of which one developer can work on. It's a hierarchy by convention. When all of the tasks of the project board are done, the card on the roadmap can be archived or moved to the "done" column. YMMV
I think there's a pretty straight-forward reason for this. If you've worked as a software developer for 10 years, you know what business domain you know really well? Software development. That makes it a natural place to start in looking for ideas to build a business.
I do not follow this logic. They have enormously succeeded from the moment of Github's inception to this point. Does it not make sense to invest in them if they believe they can utilize new capital to expand their platform?

In any case the money believes in them. And they are already vetted.
As chrisamiller says, cancer is generally not transmissible. One of the reasons cancer is so insidious is that a tumor is made up of the patient's own cells. Foreign cells, on the other hand, can generally be readily detected and destroyed by the immune system.

The reason tasmanian devils can transmit cancer is that they're not genetically diverse enough to differentiate foreign cells from their own cells. But that's the exception that proves the rule: tasmanian devils are unusual in that they went through recent population bottlenecks that dramatically reduced their genetic diversity.
Yep, push back once, and they'll try, try again until decisively checked... apparently, 2000 in front of the NY Senators wasn't enough ;)
A lot has been written on this topic: http://www.google.com/search?q=profit+share+vs+equity

Note that rapidly-growing companies often have zero profits.
"To make their output equivalent, you would have to construct an AI system more advanced than anything that exists today."

Umm......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Turing_machine
mid eighties till 1992 on Qedit, Emacs till 2002 then VIM to the present, no desire to switch for the next decade of coding :-)
> Gnome Shell and Unity make life hard for people who just want to use Facebook

How? I installed Ubuntu on an old laptop for my wife and she finds it as easy as ever to do email and Facebook because essentially the only app she ever runs is Chrome and it's locked in the Launcher. She doesn't even know that Unity exists so it's certainly not making life hard for her.
I derive value from GitHub's services and want to support them (and I do have a $12/month plan), but I wish it scaled a little better for smaller developers who want a tiny number of collaborators (ie, 2 or less) on a large number of small projects.

I have lots of private projects I'd like to host there, but the cost per repo is just too high - especially when they are all pretty small repos. $50/month is a lot to be paying for source control, so I'll probably be looking into bit bucket instead - that is probably a decent option for you to look into also.
Speech recognition anyone? AT&T opens up Watson API
Managing perceptions and product at RIM like Apple did
America Has Too Many Teachers
yes I indeed did misread your comment. Sorry about that! I read a couple of threads here and there and the number of comments raising this issue was increasing, so my eye only caught the inconsistency part of it. Sorry again.
I'm a German citizen living in the United States (SF Bay Area) since 5 years now and I think your post is completely overstating Germany.

Better education - Kind of, although most of the top universities are still in the US.

Better attitude - Nope, not in my opinion

More open-minded - Nope, not in my opinion

Less harassment for being weird/nonstandard - Nope, not in my opinion

Healthier food - Yes, I agree on that

Better transport - Yes

More cultural things to do/see - Always depends on the area and there's enough to see in the SF Bay Area

Better solutions to the growing underclass problem - I only partially agree here. There's a reason why the Euro is on the decline in the last couple of months. Europe has many problems still to solve. Of course, the US also has many problems, that's why I partially agree.
When beaten back, even in the miniscule way that they have, they reveal more and more of their priorities by attrition. The elements that were in SOPA/PIPA/etc. that aren't in this, we can figure are the things that they're secure with, or that they don't care about. Regardless, there's plenty of business intelligence in the selection criteria between then and now.
The Oatmeal's photos of $211,223.04 in cash
Yes, yes. Most important.

From here on out, no more undersea cables. I won't have my data associating with riffraff of this sort. With such undignified origins, who knows what these cables might be capable of?

Now underground cables are a completely different breed entirely. Its installation is an altogether more dignified affair.

The soil is carefully tilled by refined gentlemen wielding silver spades and wearing freshly-pressed tuxedos. They carefully lay the cable down into its final resting place, whilst a full orchestra plays a requiem ever so softly in the background.
thingverse is a pretty popular free distribution channel for 3d-printable objects - but there's no way to integrate forks. So people copy an object & improve it, but there's no way to put that fix back into the main line.

Getting these people to use github would be awesome!
They probably saw their hit count go through the roof as tens of thousands of HN readers all clicked on the link hoping that Apple was releasing official support for Python-based iOS development.

They'll get more than a few sales out of this, but the submitter still needs to be smacked over the ambiguous headline.
On the other hand, one of the worse ones was the fiasco involving OS/2 2.0, which was much closer to NT than Win9x was and for example could have been used to legally attack DR-DOS. Why did it take 10 years after Intel released the 80386 before 32-bit programming became popular? I have a thread about it here:
http://www.os2museum.com/wp/?p=516&cpage=1#comment-3413
[fFtT], still works even with comma mapped to leader.
I think this is a pretty drastic way to interpret Rocketr's blog post and the subsequent HN thread. Something I've been trying to tell myself for years is write that post, because even if I'm wrong, I can always trust the internet to correct me. Whether that response is friendly or not is entirely up in the air, but it is up to me to field it and respond accordingly.

The problem isn't with admitting personal mistakes, the issue is the trend of writing a blog post with a message that's trying to tell the reader what to do or what not to do in a scenario that is entirely subjective or otherwise specific to a certain business model or team composition. This very entry is exactly that and to be honest, I'm a little worn of these types of posts; they're either depressing, narrow-minded or just straight-up finger-wagging for the sake of pageviews.

When we tell people not to try, we're keeping them from failing. When we tell people to keep to themselves, we create a society of bottled feelings and paranoia where we're constantly looking over our shoulders while talking behind people's backs.

What Andrew got out of writing that post was community feedback about what else he could or should have done as well as another response from PG. What the community got out of that post is invaluable, even to someone like me that has zero plans to make a pitch anytime soon.

At the end of the day, no one should hinder their natural inclinations to be social and curious or honest for the sake of learning out of fear of looking like an ass, and the internet as a whole needs to do a better job in embracing that mentality and responding appropriately so that we can all just live and learn.
Sure, and I agree, but it was buried in a whole bunch of really bad Business Writing(tm):

However, Thunderbird is one of the very few truly free and open source multi-platform email applications available today and we want to defend these values. We’re not “stopping” Thunderbird, but proposing we adapt the Thunderbird release and governance model in a way that allows both ongoing security and stability maintenance, as well as community-driven innovation and development for the product. This will mean an eventual shift in how we staff Thunderbird at Mozilla Corporation – we are still working out details, but some people will likely end up on other Mozilla projects.
If "a lot" == "a tiny minority", then yes.
This is a fun thing to think about.

Typos: various effects caused by the interface used to write down language (so, broadly comparable to ink blotches), genuis, betwween, [2]

Mis-spelling: caused by spelling a word different from a standard[0], whole → hole

Mis-speaking/hearings: caused by not producing or processing a word according to standard, or commonly due to losses in transmission, cogenital defect → <traffic noise>genital defect (not sure why that was the first thing I came up with, but I'm sticking with it)

Mis-understandings in ASL: I assume these happen when the movement for a certain sign is similar enough that it can be performed or read improperly. I guess ASL was designed/evolved in a way that minimizes this, e.g. by maximizing the contrast for for common neighbours (otherwise efficiency will drive in the other direction).

What's fun about this is that these three classes of errors are almost direct analogues in their respective domains, but they probably lead to very different kinds of errors. Typos are basically arbitrary, but "comprehensible" if you know QWERTY. Mis-spelling and mis-hearings both result from the deviation from a standard or from transmission losses[1], and are often easily comprehensible. I assume the same is true for mis-understandings in ASL for people who know ASL -- but the character of being comprehensible gets lost in translation.

YouTube sometimes offers the combination of speech recognition plus machine translation. That's a close equivalent to machine translating sign language: audio/video recognition followed by machine translation. I don't think I have ever seen it work on a YouTube video, not even close. And I'm guessing ASL translation is more difficult: transcribing audio is probably easier than recognizing signs, and for audio there is an obvious target domain for transcription (ie. written English/phonetic transcription); whereas I'm not sure if there is any standard way to transcribe ASL, is there a "written ASL"? Come to think of it, there has to be, at least for "meta" tasks like dicussing or teaching ASL in printed form.

... okay so what was I going to do half an hour ago?

[0] but often in line with intuitive phonetic rules; you might go as far as calling standard English spelling another unrelated scheme ;)

[1] arguably betwween and genuis are also transmission losses; a more extreme example for interface transmission losses (same source and target, different interface) are showcased on pages like damn you autocorrect

[2] http://bash.org/?5300
Pinboard Turns Three
Hey... I assume you're referring to 0xDB.org. That may be a bug in pan.do/ra (the application), rather than in OxJS itself. We fixed some memory leaks recently, but may have missed some.

If you care to provide a few more details (via e-mail, or using our bug tracker), we're definitely going to look into it.
Stripe Raises $20M From General Catalyst, Sequoia, Thiel
AirPlay mirroring relies on Intel Quick Sync Video support in your CPU: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quick_Sync_Video
If anything it may be a CPU/GPU restriction that holds you back.

Modern Intel CPU's have a quicksync feature which is H.264 encode assist in the HD 3000 and 4000 GPU. These features may be required to make airplay mirroring work.

Similar hardware is in the A5 chip in the iPad 2 and up, and iPhone 4S and up.
Kim Dotcom's extradition hearing delayed (till March 2013)
DRM Chip? What did that crazy rumour come from?
The game that can give you 10 extra years of life
That's EXACTLY the problem right there. You know what's probably the single best feature on OSX that nobody else has? The spotlight help menu. You never ever have to hunt for a command on your own again - and it even shows you where it is and what hotkey it uses for the next time you need it. It's both letting users discover and empowers them to use a product to its full potential at some point.
It's growing like square? Wouldn't it be better to grow like exponentially?
Profit share is always going to be a really bad idea for you in building a new company.

How can you rightly invest your time in a project, and want to see it succeed if you are always looking out for the short term gain, rather than the long term future of the company.

The correct decision might be to reinvest everything for a year. But this reinvestment will never ever ever (cannot stress this enough) be returned back to you.

You will always want to see as much money be removed from the company as you can. Because any costs or reinvestment, immediately hurt your personal bottom line, and, if you are wanting to drain your new company, then it's always going to fail.

20% Profit share is a really bad deal.
Ideas aren't worth anything. It's the execution. What are you bringing to the table? What is your cofounder bringing? Can your partner execute his idea without you? Can you execute without your partner?

Insist on equity, because otherwise you are a dead weight since you can never allign the companies better interests with your own.

If your partner does not realise this, then he is stringing you along.