skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you are just starting out and have no real leverage in the deal, sure. But it sounds like the GitHub guys were the ones holding all the cards in this deal, maybe they made sure the terms of the deal excluded that "general rule".
I don't know where to submit bug reports so i'll just write it here.

The "instarepl" stops evaluating all code as soon as there any what i'm guessing non ASCII characters in the buffer, even when they are inside strings.

Example:

(println "Some string with umlaut åäö")

Will stop the instarepl from evaluating, and there is no error.
Amdahl's Law isn't necessarily applied to parallelism.
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Will this work well for movies? I'm mainly trying to simplify the streaming for my 3 year olds dvd library from my iMac to a PS3.
The best practice for dealing with clones seems to be buying up the most promising clones in each of the larger countries. If there really are successful Stripe clones in other markets, I wouldn't be surprised at all if Stripe raised a series C next year and bought some. It's much easier than setting up operations from scratch everywhere.
Did you complain to the authorities? Every regulated cab I've been in has a hotline you can call for these types of things.
> Bootstrapping in business means starting a business without external help or capital.

Keyword: "starting". GitHub has long moved out of the "starting" phase, which has always been bootstrapped for them.
You don't need taxi-specific regulations to stop people being robbed and cheated. For legal matters you have legal recourse, and for customer service problems you can call the taxi company. Even if some regulation is necessary to protect the consumer, though, it's clear that much of it also exists to protect the industry. You don't need wide-reaching oversight powers or price controls to enforce minimum service requirements.

Looking to the future, things like smartphones and Google Glass will lessen the need for consumer protection by making user-reviews always at-hand. If you look at a taxi and see "Two stars, poor service" automatically overlaid, or if you get a list of rated companies when you try to call a cab, the market will be able to weed out bad eggs. This is a far more democratic solution than legislation.
it sucks when you see startups doing what you've been building solo for some time, but not yet launched... :/
Author has either been making some ridiculously inappropriate system apps or is about to start making equally questionable web apps.

Obviously languages can serve multiple purposes but the intended uses of these have almost no overlap.
I think your analysis is correct. It seems likely they will be forced to integrate and become a taxi service dispatch infrastructure provider. It seems a smarter move to accept how "sub-optimal" markets such as these have become and deal with unreality on it's terms than to resist the corruption outright on principal.
I apologize, I made the mistake of reading cultofmac a bit too literally. http://www.cultofmac.com/177259/why-cant-macs-older-than-201...
Looking for Larry and Sergey.
You can configure Gmail to not display certain folders in IMAP.
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That went away some time ago, when the latest redesign of the page was put up.
The headline here is totally sensational and factually incorrect. Has anyone actually read the linked article?

The proposed amendment sets the minimum for a sedan at 5x the flag pull rate on a taxi. So, in DC this would mean that the minimum rate for a sedan is $15 bucks. While I'm against government creating arbitrary and anti-competitive laws like this, it hardly seems as bad as forcing sedans to charge 5x more than taxis.
I need it as a source to stream my son's movies. Getting tired of using PS3 media server. I'd much rather organize the library in iTunes.
A private Twitter would be Google+, wouldn't it?
Speaking of features, does Thunderbird have a built-in Gmail-like conversation view yet? There's an extension, but eight years after Gmail, do people really still not want this enough for it to be a core feature? Many other email clients have it, and it's much nicer than a message list.

Disclaimer: I haven't used Thunderbird for years, but I'm not too satisfied with the clients I'm currently using.
Now that information is available in the About This Mac -> More Info screen.
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You also need to have a clear understanding of what you are trying to communicate.

One thing I am thinking about is the idea of a long sales pitch prepared (generally) and the actual sales pitch being essentially random access to it.
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> The price of taxis is held artificially high and really it is a loss for the consumer.

When does price fixing ever help the consumer? Honestly.
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I've actually started learning Clojure and finally started understanding Lisp (like) languages because of this. Clojure is quite the shift from my normal toolkit of Ruby, Obj-C and PHP, but it's extremely enjoyable (though light in online documentation at times).

Though, my normal development machine is down for the day and I'm stuck on my CoreDuo 32-bit MacBook Pro. I might be a bit of an edge case here, but no where on the site does it mention that the Light Table.app executable only has a 64-bit binary inside rendering it useless on this machine. Maybe as a kind notice you could mention such a requirement?
The Mac Pro takes this a step further: it doesn't even say "Mac Pro" on itself anywhere, even in fine print on the back.

Most people probably couldn't tell you if they were looking at a PowerMac G5 or a Mac Pro, unless they'd used one long enough to remember which drive bays and I/O ports they have (or took the side off to see if it has the giant "G5" CPU covers).

The new (Retina) Macbook Pro does the same: the label is gone, at least from the front.

I assume this is to make it less 'technical' and more 'appliance'-like: apart from some (old / non-mainstream) hi-fi equipment, no electronic item in my kitchen or living room has a model number visible during normal use, only a brand name or logo.
When github says "We are disrupting how software is written in the enterprise", the very first thing that comes to my mind is not catering to companies that won't give up IE6.
The question is, "which used iPad are you offering to sell?"
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Elected officials should be ashamed of themselves. What are they going to do when Side.cr or Lyft arrives in D.C. ? Ban private car ownership?
Suppose you are using very slow media and it takes a tenth of a second to retrieve the information. That's an acceptable performance penalty ;-)

On the other hand if you are using external storage, with indirect lookups in order to find the information, that might not be so great.

At the same time, networked responses are great. There isn't a problem with having a different node respond to the request, since this approach uses a sort of strange architecture and session state is shared between all nodes.
Still implemented as an add-on.
They can't integrate -- it's the whole point of the corruption, to maintain a cartel with limited supply, so as to inflate prices and profits. They don't want them to operate "within the rules" -- they want them to not operate, period.

No new taxis in D.C.:

The supply of cabs is limited by a licensing exam for drivers that's been closed since 2010.

http://reason.com/blog/2011/12/22/the-medallion-bill-is-back...

From an article about D.C.'s plans to establish explicit supply caps (quotas), like the ones already in place in NYC, SF, etc.
There is no way a VC would invest if there weren't SOME exit in the future, or at least a convincing story (independent of veracity) told to make it seem that you're open to an exit.

The exit could be M&A (although it would have to be $3-5b to be on-target, and in that range, you need to be able to IPO as a credible alternative when negotiating the M&A).
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Further, if Uber really wants widespread support on this, they should publish some data showing how many of their customers/rides would be affected under this law. How many times in the past year has a customer paid under $15 with Uber? (I'm suspecting not many, as a percentage of total fares, but that's total speculation.)
Thats not an issue of regulation. Theft is already illegal as is fraud. Telling someone they must pay more after a transaction is a violation of an implicit contract. Adding further regulation doesn't stop shit like that.
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It would help if you build a better product page, especially screenshots. It's easier to get people to download and try your software if you show them how it looks like and "sell" them on it via a proper copy on the web page.
Making every copy operation excruciating just to support the few cases where you might actually benefit from the fullscreen 3D copy visualisation with Dolby Surround Sound isn't a design tradeoff with which I've been particularly satisfied. It'd be fine if you could hold down Shift or something to say "please don't muck about". It's even worse when it's putting stuff in the Recycle Bin, at which point you really, _really_ don't care.

Your mileage is entirely welcome to vary, and perhaps the performance of this new dialog is such that I won't notice it as much as its Vista and Windows 7 counterparts. To be honest I couldn't work out the Windows 8 preview to the point where I could even find a file, let alone copy it somewhere.
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Yeah. I saw the announcement on reddit that it was free. Until then, didn't even realize there was a Python interpreter for iOS (Wasn't even aware that the App Store guidelines allowed it).

PS: For people who think HN is turning into reddit, look at the reddit comments for the same link. They're terrible.
Bravo to the decrease in downtime despite the increase in storage usage and diversity of active users like myself.

It looks like since I joined a couple years ago user acquisition has slowed down a bit, and the cost of operations might have gone up per active user.

2011 bookmarks/active user = 27M/16k = 1688 per user

2012 bookmarks/active user = 53M/23k = 2304 per user

2011 bytes archived/active user = 3.0T/16k = 197 megabytes per user

2012 bytes archived/active user = 5.9T/23k = 269 megabytes per user

2011 unique URLs/active user = 16M/16k = 1000 per user

2012 unique URLs/active user = 32M/23k = 1391 per user

% rate of change over previous year %

2011 2012

23.5M	26M bookmarks

65M	59M tags

13.2K 7K active users

2.8TB 2.9TB bytes archived

23h -7h downtime

13.5M 16M unique URLs
Interesting story. This is something I can relate to as I have seen in a number of occasions people presenting new projects/products without being clear about the end user benefit.

There's several ways to do it, but the "classical" one is to first talk about WHO your users are, and WHAT problems or needs they are currently facing without a reliable solution. Then, you bring your product, and you need to explain HOW it will modify their condition and solve their problem. Then, explain what your users will feel, what actual or perceived benefit they will get through it.

It's the basis of Marketing: Framing, framing, framing.
"Java - Too bloated for me and if I use it there is a possibility Oracle might sue me!"

I hope the author was joking. That makes no sense otherwise.
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Seriously, this was down-voted? Do you work for Uber?
"I won't consider Ruby because I tried Rails once five years ago and it had scaling problems."

Looks like he didn't seriously consider Python or Ruby at all.
I use this: http://cocoon.drinkbrainjuice.com/. It's in free beta right now.
Hmm, I wonder how many potential customers they have.
Competition between brokers and reputation systems thereof replace the need for certification/regulation by the government.

This behavior by the govt is pressure exerted by the desire for homeostasis of control. Shameful.
How does this change if it's public domain data, does copyright apply at all?

Thoughts on 'Trespass to Chattels' as it might apply here (or CFAA even)?
A four-year history of Internet browser usage in two minutes (video)
The problem with closed source and hosted options like Trello (even if free) is that couple of years later the company could close down the product. You have seen it with Google and Google is even larger and more reputed than Fogcreek. And the reason you always hear is that they want to focus on core areas.

You will now be left with an XML dump of you data (if the provider even gives you access to your data) and the burden to code a half decent alternative for you to use the data.

That is why I would normally prefer services that has their code open sourced like teambox. It gives you the comfort that if you can get hold of your data, you could run with it from the very next day since you have all the tools already with you.
https://github.com/teambox/teambox
They can integrate if they can make a successful bid to join the cartels or gain significant leverage with the uber-cartels ( governmental entities ).
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Never had Lion kernel panic. In fact, in about 1200 hours of use, I've had to reboot it only once to get it working right again.
Okay, fine - law of diminishing returns, the point still stands (although I deserved that for being a smart-ass).
Is there a reason most of the cables run in the Southern hemisphere? Nothing runs across the top of Europe/Russia/Asia.
Wait, wait just a minute. I thought a free market meant you were free to charge what you wanted? /sarcasm. This is ridiculous on so many levels, sounds like Uber needs to fight back and do a little lobbying of their own. The real issue here is that Uber has proven to be both cheaper, faster and more reliable than any NYC taxi service let alone any taxi service anywhere in the world. Perhaps instead of lobbying maybe these taxi super-lobbyists should be lobbying their own companies to pick up their acts. Then perhaps they wouldn't feel the need to resort to dirty tactics as opposed to doing what they should be doing like most people in business do when they feel threatened by a competitor: undercut the competitors offering.

Sounds like they've got plenty of cash to lobby that could be better spent improving NYC taxi services.
One of my primary objections to privatized health insurance centers around the fact that employers are left footing the bill. We see time and again that this does hamper hiring and employment. It's no coincidence that health insurance remains one of the primary sticking points in a shocking number of labor union disputes.
I commented on HN when this first came about:

> The entire modern TV media industry has learned how much money/fame can be earned from exploiting overblown controversy. It's the substance of about 90% of non-fiction TV shows these days.

Considering this case was largely dead-out-of-water and how easy the villainization was - the legal arguments was easily discredited and obviously flawed.

There's very little substance to be found here... or many lessons to be learned that aren't obvious to experienced internet denizens.

But what is on display is social media marketing at its finest and a perfect example of what modern entertainment has become.
Saying that you've had bad experiences with regulated taxis is not a counter argument. For all six of those, there is a number you can call to report them. And none of them are all that bad.

Get into an unregulated taxi, and you're at their mercy.
TaxiMagic seems to be operating without any government interference, by integrating with the existing taxi services.
what chrome on iOS really needs is access to the JIT. Till then, it will be much slower than safari...
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I just tried it with an h264 ripped dvd and it's ok, but it's dropping too many frames. I guess the ps3 media server lives on.
First of all, I love Uber, Sidecar and Lyft. I really think that they are the future of transportation.

That being said, it's not that easy to just blame the public officials for all the chaos. It is a reasonable danger to these services, there are so many unknowns. The reason why the cab business is regulated in the first place was for public safety, so that cab drivers wouldn't just ask for exorbitant prices, take your luggage hostage etc. Remember, you are still just jumping into a stranger's car. Regulation was introduced to remedy these concerns (I'm not saying they are effective)

Airbnb shows how regulation is a reasonable concern. Once you go beyond the early adopters, there are so many things you have to deal with like insurance, liability, cleanliness etc. We can't just expect the world to change in an instant and naively believe everyone in the world does good.
His name is Justin Kan. They appear to have corrected it, though.
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Absolutely, better to have a good language than something rushed.

As an aisde, I'm curious if the core design of the language itself has been/is done online, as opposed to working closely in an office environment? In my experience, technical design is something that greatly benefits from being present in the same room as other people. The second you have to sit down and actually write out paragraphs about how you're right about some issue, and debate about it democratically with a group of people, efficiency drops significantly. I guess my hypothesis is that a small team working in a single location could bat out a language faster than a larger distributed team, and that possibly Rust has taken so long partly because it is an example of the latter.

> The design we came up with is pretty novel

Is this [1]? The roadmap makes it sound like it's up in the air ("one of the larger unknowns") at this point.

[1] http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2012/05/31/muta...
How will they pull it off? Names aren't unique to start with.
I can't imagine the terror he must have felt lugging $200k in cash around in a duffle bag, with the whole world waiting to see.
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Thanks! Would companies using Betable need to get licenses from the same countries that Betable already has licenses from (which so far means the UK) or would Betable's licenses mean that users of Betable would be covered as well.

Edit: Just discovered the 50/50 revenue share. That's going to turn away a lot of potential customers.
Show HN: wikisocialreader,com, - Wikipedia/Open Graph mashup
My friend and I had some time between pitchers last night </wink>, and decided we're tired of forwarding each other interesting wikipedia articles. So we hacked together a Chrome extension - frictionless sharing of wikipedia articles to facebook:

http://www.wikisocialreader.com

We wanted to implement undo, but the waitress was quick and the beer was strong. If you try it, let me know what you think.
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> I'm not as powerful as Mozilla.

Neither am I.

> They are letting Google occupy whole the internet by not creating an alternative for Gmail.

Now that statement makes absolutely no sense.

They have ~20 million users after 10-18 years (depending if you count from the original Thunderbird or the original Netscape 2.0 which added a mail client). Gmail has > 500 million accounts, let's say ~400 million users.

With 5% of the users, they're not making a difference either way.

Furthermore, it's still an apples-to-oranges comparison: I suspect at least 50% (if not 90%) of those mozilla users have at least one Gmail/GoogleApps mail account set up in their TB.

The main problem that gmail solves for most people, and which TB can't offer (being a software product rather than a service), is a reliable mail service. (I wrote that already, but you seem to have not noticed that).

> They are letting Google occupy whole the internet by not creating an alternative for Gmail.

Services available for you that are not google: fastmail.fm, hotmail.com/live.com, mail.com.

Mail clients that are available for you that are not gmail: Opera Mail, Claws, Postbox, Evolution, Outlook, Mail.app, and a whole lot more (though only Opera is really cross-platform).

What's the problem again?
Let me know how your compliance audits go. I'm sure the pci dudes won't mind that "root" logged in from 20 different hosts.
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Show HN: Imagine a search engine that _Only indexed the top million sites.
I think this is a great idea, but Googling seems like such an inefficient method.

Using the email address to grab avatars from Gravatar, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter is a much better idea. Those customers have already publicly identified the picture and it would be much more efficient.

As a frequent flyer, the airlines often greet me by name in my seat, but that is because they have the seating roster.
Just to note that this was Inmans own money he used since at the time Carreon had tied up the money from indiegogo with red tape. Its nice to see him determined to go ahead with this regardless of Carreons actions.
Having talked to Ron's cofounder, it sounds like there are a surprising number of applications for SpaceBase outside of gaming. The TC article seems to focus on gaming but I have a hunch it's mostly that they're going after one vertical at a time.
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To be fair, they have been charging from day one, through other offerings. Although Trello is a free product, it's maintained by a VERY profitable bootstrapped company. They have a brand to protect. Killing a product used by half a million people seems like a terrible idea. It seems like they should integrate their paid products into Trello and cross-promote with paid services.

I'm usually right there with you on the "free vs paid" bandwagon. In this case, there does seem to be a clear disincentive to kill a product that would probably destroy the reputation of a profitable brand. I do think it's a dumb idea to count out ever charging for a product. If people are willing to pay, that should always be an option. Also, as a free service for business users they should definitely find ways to make users data completely portable. I'm much more comfortable using a free service if there's a data portability option.

UPDATE: There is already a data portability option.

"Portability

Your data is yours. If you ever want to stop using Trello, you should be able to download your data. All Fog Creek products feature data portability where applicable. We strongly believe in it. To export your data, simply open a card or click the board title, then Profile. click the 'Share, Print, and Export' button, and you'll find export options. Currently, we allow export to JSON which is a format that lends itself well to technical usages and cannot be loaded into programs like Microsoft Excel. It is, however, complete, and so does suffice as a backup."