skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it definitely is not for everybody, everywhere, every time :-)

I just wanted to point out that danger depends on lots of things.

Many people on the photos I referenced probably are well on their way to or over the magical 10.000 hours of practice riding a bicycle. Most car drivers, similarly, will have lots of experience driving in traffic with cyclists. Also, if you look closely, you will notice those not on bike paths often are in the middle of a road that is not wide enough for a car to pass them. Cars, in that location, do not go faster than bikes. It also does not look particularly busy there.
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And then...

For the quarter ended June 30, Microsoft reported a loss
of $492 million, or six cents a share, compared with a
year-earlier profit of $5.87 billion, or 69 cents a share.

Whelp, there you go.
It seemed like an aside, but the issue of being at the mercy of the people who provide platforms and other foundational technology really resonates with me.

("Building on top of a platform is a foundational risk, and if your platform decided one day that it doesn’t like what you are doing, or likes what you are doing so much they want to compete with you, it’s Very Bad. Your platform partner can easily damage your quality of service, or simply shut you down. If that happens, your business is dead.")

Have I missed an explanation from Dalton or the App.net crew about how what they're envisioning will be different? What protects a developer from being at their mercy for uptime, timely bugfixes, continued development, and so on?

Actually, on a more general level... what can platform/tech providers do to provide those reassurances? I can't seem to think of anyone who's done a really stellar job of it.
Awesome news Manu, congrats!
Interesting - and I suppose obviously your history can be mapped onto a line with some loss of expressiveness, if you view it strictly as time. As long as the more detailed history is available, I do not object to exposing it that way as well or (necessarily) even primarily; I just wanted to be sure it wasn't being restricted unnecessarily.
The point of this is to make sure you recognize a number as the magic number it is when you see it scrolling by in a debugger. Preprocessor directives have this problem where they don't survive the preprocessor stage.

Its not just a meaningless joke, it has an actual raison d'être. Of course there might be less offending choices, but this hardly ranks among the top of the problems that plague open source development (communities).
Android was leading the way in this (best sharing between online services etc). This looks like the first other OS to "get it" and push hard to integrate with the cloud. I think in some ways this surpasses Android.

Mean while we have iOS that's just congratulating itself for allowing photo uploads to twitter, meanwhile my Android phone has integration with services I've never even heard of.

And MacOS and Windows... nothing. Stupid silent sitting on the internet.

It's nice to see some real innovation in the Linux camp on the user end front.
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Don't confuse human management with project management. In my opinion, you should have two separate people doing those jobs. Your manager should be managing interpersonal issues, team communication, and making sure that tasks don't get dropped, but deciding what direction to go in should be up to someone else - perhaps the team as a whole deciding through consensus, perhaps an outside editor.
It seems they managed to integrate the desktop controls with the web apps - you get unread message counts from Gmail on the messages menu and can control Last.fm from the sound indicator (and, presumably, from its kebyboard bindings). I imagine Google Calendar reminders are included.
Too bad Ray Ozzie couldn't see an elephant if it was painted purple and dancing in front of him

Talk about the biggest corporate fumbler in history.

Of course, he was the "Lotus Notes" man
"Puerile sniggering at breasts contributes to the continuing impression that software development is a boys club where girls aren't welcome"
This is a primary building block of such articles.

But in fact magic numbers are kind of art: good art shocks you a little - or a lot; more for people who are less free.
Who gets offended by big boobs? People who think they are religious, as if Jesus had anything against boobs; people who think boobs are strategic weapons that should be controlled; people who are afraid of any life because life is non-professional; people who try to close their eyes on the existence of two genders; and some women that are insecure.

I feel sorry for the latter because I don't want any woman in the world to feel insecure. But for all other people, it's like they had this demon inside and we're exorcising and it tries to escape the host body by ripping its way outside. It's a good thing. Maybe they'll become less religious and more spiritual; maybe they'll become less restrictive; maybe they'll become less "professional" and more skilled; maybe they'll be forced to acknowledge woman and man.

I don't think it helps insecure girls, I even think it might actually harm them, but is this the reason to harm art? It never was.
Who is responsible for insecure people? It's society.
Who should be punished for that? Not artists, mind you.
It's only funny until he gets a Cease & desist letter from Yahoo Lawyers for misuse of the brand, logo and buying a domain with a trademark in it..
I think the whole point of this is not to use the browser.
Not until we have displays with ridiculous dpi.

3 years will see the majority of new computers on ‘retina’ displays.
A good manager can make a big difference in productivity. Most software shops, though, don't have good managers - it's too easy to get promoted into it without any experience, or to just flit from company to company without ever learning how to do it well.
If I had my own company, I'd work a lot harder to get the best managers possible.
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who hires B's?
My biggest worry is tying the HTML and JS engines too deeply into the desktop and end up with drive-by exploits that can do more than a browser would ordinarily be able to do.
This is nice, but they need a smaller instance that costs less that also has SSD. Until then, I'm not going to blow $5k a month on a system like this.
Link? Or a name?

I'm talking about review from Mobiletecreview.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVK-9cPRTLw
Is there anyway to tie it to the team instead of just the developer?
How about some 0xC0FFEE?
Not a Microsoft insider but from what I've heard it's mostly coming from ScottGu and the rest of the DevDiv folks.
You realize the overhead is simply in row mapping right? Naturally this problem only exasperates with more rows.

Like most heavy ORMs it's not obvious what SQL a complex LINQ statement emits where it's common to fall into "pits of failure" where it converts to multiple sub selects or the worst case N+1 queries. I'm personally not a fan of Heavy ORM's their an abstraction over a simple DSL and EF remains unnecessarily bloated and complex.

BTW we do measure + profile, and EF is amongst the worst performing ORMs out there. Please provide benchmarks to the contrary?
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Don't disagree at all. There is a proverb says that "The constraints of the horn determine its music." This is true for company organizations as well, how a company is organized determines what it can and cannot do. When we moved to the SF Bay Area my wife worked for Xerox and saw that every day. At Sun Microsystems, when the 'portable' launched, we joked "You can make any kind of computer you want as long as its a workstation!"
>You rant about non-correlations and such, and then end your post by jumping to a conclusion of your choice

You want to stick around for the decade of training in between?

The 'stain of Earl K Butts' is the outrageous corn and grain subsidy.

That really is the biggest problem, by a massive factor. TV is probably second.
+1 I have done 'brew install postgres' for a long while but I just switched to running this app. I run a lot of data stores on my MB Air (postgresql, mongodb, couchdb, mysql, and more rarely hbase and cassandra) for development. Having postgresql an easy startup app is a little bit more convenient. I also like the CouchDB server Mac app, unless I need bigcouch instead.

Thanks to the developers who put the app together.
Interesting. It looks nice enough, but I wonder how well it will be able to differentiate itself from Android?

I guess, at any rate, it's good to have some more competition in the mobile space.
Worked for me in chrome.
Having been involved in various online activist forums including high-profile Anonymous and Occupy groups as well as low-profile environmentalist and political theater groups, I'm pretty sure this kind of thing has been going on for a while and not just for supposed terrorists groups. And sadly it can be very effective. When an online forum has dedicated professional accounts that post 24 hours a day 7 days a week (meaning there are multiple people operating them) and they are very familiar with all the internal group dynamics and personalities, and they use multiple demoralizing techniques from subtle misinformation to playing off different personalities to crass attacks, the effects can really destroy the cohesion of a group and drive people away. It's a struggle figuring out how to combat this.
Gore-Tex is a great case study. A couple interesting articles: http://blogs.wsj.com/management/2010/03/18/wl-gore-lessons-f... and http://www.commonsenseadvice.com/human_cortex_dunbar.html
She starts at Yahoo tomorrow? https://plus.google.com/118207880179234484610/posts/f4cP7uVz...
Exactly right and one of the main things I missed about Ubuntu on my desktop over Android on my Xoom was Android's seamless integration of "cloud" data and the operating system. In comparison desktop OSs feel like a collection of silos. I'm very excited about the future of Ubuntu and am beginning to think that Canonical actually do "get it".
Hey dataisfun - I really believe in the importance of quality business people (after all, I'd like to think that I am one)

However, the fact of the matter is that most technical people can, over time, "figure out the business stuff" to a far greater degree than most business people can "figure out the technical stuff".

In Silicon Valley and tech in general, engineers are in incredible demand and opportunities to learn how to develop entrepreneurship/business skills are everywhere. The point of the story is to illustrate an example of what "business guys" need to do to establish the trust and respect of someone who is technically skilled.

Also, I have run into very few arrogant, holier-than-thou developers in my time. Perhaps that would change my perspective to be closer to yours.
wow, would like to do a redis benchmark on one of those !
The roots are the underlying discontent that motivates radicalization? Western diplomacy is not going to eliminate mid-east discontent any time soon, I agree.

This effort seeks to replace the radicalization option with something else. What's wrong with that? There are lots of discontents in the world, and not many of them kill other people.
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Google Docs has both of the shortcuts you mention working correctly and many more so it is definitely possible.
Which they are unfortunately required to do in order to maintain the trademark. :-(
In one way kickstarter is a modern form of the penny shares market. It is also a easy way to ask for small bits of alot of people instead of large bits of a few people. You also in many cases garantee the outlay needed to do a min run of your product on outsourced production lines. In a way, helping you to kickstart your company and in that it's a great name and approach. Is it selling dreams, how do you define a dream. Is it buying a ticket to see your favorite team play or paying the same amount or less to get a product/service at a great price of something that appeals to you. Both are supporting somebody else and in return you get entertainment and the rest is a bonus. So maybe your buying a lottery ticket in many ways, but the odd's are way better. As long as there is protection from scamming thru fake projects and the like then all is well. All pretty clear and good allround.

Think of it as a geeks shopping channel.
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There are plenty of startups that have been successful on the .NET stack. The one that pops to mind first is Stack Overflow. .NET & XNA are pretty popular in indie games due to exposure to the xbox. There are many examples, but they don't tend to over lap much with the crowd here at HN.
That was posted three days ago. She therefore started two days ago. (Hopefully someone runs into this comment tomorrow and gets recursively confused about what happened when.)
Nope, this will never catch on. The minute they realize that the exact same principles they use to subvert al-Qaeida propaganda can be used against their own propaganda, they will have to shut down the program. You can't teach critical thinking, humour and satire to your army and not have them use the same tools against you.
Shouldn't there be some easy, non-Brew/non-app way to install this type of stuff on MacOS?
This is also wildly more secure than a wildcard certificate, where if someone nicks your private key your entire domain is compromised, but with UCC only select hosts' security could be compromised. I believe it's also supported in more devices than SNI (since X.509v3)
In my announcement of this project, I argued that Github & Dropbox are the best examples I can come up with as examples of healthy, innovating platform companies.

I believe our approach is different in that App.net customers are developers+members paying for a service that is provided. This is different than customers being advertisers, and developers+users being treated as a product, or at worst collateral damage.

I think this all boils down to business model choices and financial incentives:
http://daltoncaldwell.com/an-audacious-proposal
buy their way into ads you mean. They bought their way into search via the Yahoo deal. and of course Google bought their way into search by paying firefox and others who distributed the google toolbar... everybody tries to do it I guess
This loss is b/c of the aQuantive write down. This loss has nothing to do with Apple (not to say Apple's success isn't influencing what Microsoft is doing.)

From article: "Earlier this month, the company said it was taking a one-time charge of $6.2 billion, almost exactly the amount it paid for aQuantive, an online advertising company it bought in 2007 for $6.3 billion."
Looks like this is already happening:
http://www.webgl.com/2012/06/webgl-game-cloud-party/
dont wanna lose karmaz :(
And the stock is actually up after hours. Go figure.

Edit:

"The server and tools unit delivered fourth quarter revenue growth of 13 percent and the business division, which features Office, was up 7 percent. Microsoft's entertainment and device division saw revenue jump 20 percent largely because it now includes Skype."
> Finally it is clear that Apple's record profit is at Microsoft's expense.

this is not clear to me at all
Yes - I think "interesting" is the right word here. To me it somehow looks like a mix of elements of Windows Phone, Android but also iOS - But I welcome the idea of having a html5-friendy mobile ecosystem, even if the design is yet questionable.
I guess people should read less xkcd and more http://wumocomicstrip.com/

To not only get smarter but also crawl outside of their bubble.
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Nope, you can go sans filter. It's actually the first option - you have to scroll past it to get to the modifying filters. You can see it in step 2 here: http://help.instagram.com/customer/portal/articles/168150-ta...
Uh, desktop web shortcuts? Didn't I have this in Windows 98 and IE 5?
Have you play it and record your performance. Now they can spoof the game with a computer player that intentionally mimics your performance.
Wow. This is a pretty dumb article.

This is worse then some of the shit on reddit.
I think our main problem is the layer and layers of internal systems that we are required to use but that are painfully out of date versus whats available on the open market.
Manu invested in Torbit and is on our board. He's been great. One of the things I've grown to appreciate is that he wants founders to continue to lead the company. With Manu you don't have to worry about being replaced with adult supervision. That's not true with all VC's.
This will definitely lead to more people using Postgres on their OS X setups, but what I wonder is whether it will lead to an overall better quality of development.

Let me try to articulate my point, but I could probably use some help:

I suspect that the sort of developers who were writing apps and using SQLite locally but deploying with Postgres were the sort of developers whom will still use shaky and poor development and deployment practices regardless of whether or not Postgres is available to them locally.

Orthogonally, I think that the kinds of developers who will actually take the time to follow best development and deployment practices probably wouldn't want to use an app like this - not because it isn't a nice and helpful app, but because they probably want to install the full always-on server bundle via 'brew'.

That's my guess anyway. Does this mean the app was a bad idea? No, definitely not. But I don't personally expect a huge uptick in Heroku deployment quality because of it. At least it definitely won't be for lack of trying!
How should I store and analyze event metrics?
You certainly have strong opinions for someone with no idea what they're talking about. Here[1] is the official backbone documentation. Please, point out the "Controller" objects.

While you're looking for that, maybe you should consider leaving the explanation of a technology to people who have taken the time to learn something about it.

[1] http://backbonejs.org/
Ha! I was planning on writing a Flickr photo "liberator" this weekend after I recently learned there is no way to download all my original photos in bulk, even as a Pro user.

Signed up for a beta invite, hopefully now I don't have to.
Not currently, there are extensions for Chromium and Firefox but it doesn't appear to work in Chrome yet.
Incredible! Obviously my comment has no credibility in the US. It's incomprehensible in Europe to incur such costs.

Have you guys thought that you have such high costs because the massive US insurance industry is taking a cut?
If you send me the CSS (by comment or email from my profile), I know a few people that work at Goddard, and might have a better shot at getting them to add it :)
this looks like redirect spam, trying to push the techupdates domain
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If you are on OS X 10.6 or 10.7 (Snow Leopard or Lion) there is a pre-installed font named Menlo which is very similar to Vera Sans Mono.
From what I understand, all of this can be done entirely in javascript, mitigating any security issues of queries going over the wire.
This is something that might highlight the serious deficiencies of the current HTTP model and drive discussion of HTTP/2.0 with real examples.
tl;dr: Another re-hash of the fact that Apple might have to post something about the Galaxy tab ruling on their website. No new content, perspective, or information.

BLOGSPAM.
Error: Failed executing: make install-world (postgresql.rb:67)

Now I have 2 options. I can continue googling this error and trying all the random solutions (fyi, none of them worked, and I spent a solid 2 hours trying all of them) or I can install postgresql.app and get back to doing actual work. I chose #2.
It's seems like Dalton's proposal would need to be some sort of protocol like Git, SMTP or Usenet. I don't see how a paid Twitter could possibly do what he describes.
Sure. Most of our work is actually for corporate clients, so not commercial apps found on the market under our name, but a few examples of commercial apps are:

iOS:
Construct-O-Set : http://itunes.apple.com/za/app/construct-o-set/id373042556?m...
Wining and Dining SA : http://itunes.apple.com/za/app/wining-dining-south-africa/id...
22Tracks (Netherlands & Belgium only) : http://itunes.apple.com/nl/app/22tracks/id397202887?mt=8

Android:
ExpenZa (only available in South Africa at the moment): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=coza.appositio...
22Tracks (Netherlands & Belgium only) : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fonkmobile...
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Actually, lettuce-stepping Burger King employee was fired thanks to 4chan
I can't help but feel that they are leveling the books on any bad or potentual bad area's and might even put all the Win8 production costs into that quarter as well. Motivation being that you have win8 and other goodies comming out and your now in a more comfortable position to imply look the news windows 8 must be good as we have not made a lose this time. That is nomater how well sales actualy go. I suspect the upgrade price is tempting for people to try dual booting it as a alternative to there current flavour of windows choice and trying it out. But clearing out any damaging impact onto the accounts and bunderling them into one bad month prior to your new OS will only help make the new OS seem better that it may or may not be. This and cheap upgrade price I suspect I can see how the next quarter goes and how that can only help promote windows 8 at a share level as apposed to user level. Which they cater for with a cheap upgrade price. Also better to get a bad period out of the way now before RIM falls as the bad market internet will suddenly all turn onto Microsoft as its next target to say is doomed. Sad how markets work nowadays.
It's the internet. We like cats. Cute cat pictures make the internet work.
"how well it will be able to differentiate itself from Android"

I think, two reasons:

1. Its a browser, so no native code. This will attract more developers. Building apps will be easy for web developers.

2. Companies like HTC, Samsung. They will try to go with this and not with Google's Android.
Or the Google lawyers for the top menu and the search results.
I know this is a prototype, but if each app is going to load in a new Firefox window, with the full chrome, no thanks.

If it opens a new window without the chrome (or at least without the tabs), it might be ok.
Yes good point, the first prototype of an older game ran on mac/windows/linux/android/iOS and browser using impact.js, phonegap, titanium etc. All the usual stuff still obviously works too :)
Moderation is often a side effect of paleo diets, isn't it? Traditionally structured diets with high carbs, moderate protein, and low fat, similar to "Case B" can work well too (see: Japan). However, it's easy to overeat on such a diet compared to paleo.