skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using instacart a lot lately and it's awesome. I really think this is going to big.
Very explanatory article. Keep up the good work!
Yeah, but that's why linux caught on.

That said, the real difference is that Microsoft's platform was better. It offered more power for less risk.
When you get disrupted never wait until your financials start looking bad because of the disruption. At that point you're already too late to turn the company around, because it takes a few more years to do it, and you're quickly running out of time.

Look at RIM. They were breaking sales record after sales record up until 2010, because of brand inertia in the international markets. So they thought things are just fine because the financials look good. But that's not what they should look for when they get disrupted. They find out if their products/services actually make sense in the new "era". If they don't, then it's just a matter of time before the financials start looking bad, too, as the world moves on.
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The comments on that article looks bogus...
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>That's an awfully liberal use of "bad faith". There wasn't any "negotiation" yet at all, it's just a meeting. Meetings go off-agenda all the time.

>Why should we care? I still don't see any ethics issues here at all. Hard negotiation isn't "bad faith".

You're absolutely correct that hard negotiation tactics are not bad faith. However, like you point out, there wasn't supposed to be any negotiation about an offer in the first place.

There was no negotiation. In fact, one party(Dalton) did not come to negotiate. The other party clearly did.

This was not just a meeting going off agenda. This was a calculated strategy to hire Dalton, and that's why this is a bad faith negotiation. Dalton did not walk into it prepared to negotiate employment, nor was he pitching for his product to be acquired by Facebook. But Facebook was clearly interested in it.

To be clear, the bad faith negotiation is really on Dalton's part, because he was forced into the negotiations. The fault lies with Facebook, though.
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What does IE have anything to do with this?

I was pointing out that from my perspective, the entitlement of web developers has gotten so out of control that disabling JavaScript is the best way of making the general web tolerable to browse.
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Also OP missed the ever-present:

defer s.Close()

I assume it should be:

defer func() {
err := s.Close();
// handle error
}();

But how do you handle the error? Say the method returned successfully until the defer, do you then 'unreturn' the success return value and set the error return value? Return both a success and error value? Or say it returned failure, do you trash that value and replace it with the s.Close() error? Create some ad hoc meta error that contains both?

Error handling in golang is a total mess all by itself... then you throw panic/recover into the mix and it just gets worse.

EDIT: forgot hacker news readers get offended by "Google Go" so changed to golang.
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What Sillysaurus said. I'm still confused by a) this is one area CL makes revenue b) Your service makes it more usable thus increasing demand = c) more revenue to offset any costs associated with load?
Oh the irony. You create a site based on a lie. Chiefly there is not one benefit to being in the 11k club. The club does not exist. Then when called out, you continue to lie. Even the mea culpa below is part fabrication. You do not to get to decide what projects are worthwhile or interesting. The marketplace does. When I started digging into it I thought it was either a scam or maybe an alternate reality game. Turns out to be some guys with a half baked idea.
9/11.

Kind of funny how a department setup to ostensibly protect us from terrorists is now involved in taking down websites and sending DMCAs.
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some people have problem with encryption. it doesn't matter how easy it might be for you, some people will have a hard time.
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I wonder if this style of negotiation tactic motivated companies like Spool, Face.com, Karama, Glancee, and Lightbox to join? It seems like Dalton's strong entrepreneurial spirit (or hard hardheadedness--however you see it) kept him from falling into that category.
If developers believe this technology will be important in gaming, then they will want a dev kit as soon as possible to remain competitive. Note that Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo sometimes charge for their dev kits.
I know about that, but that doesn't really count. I want to see if they are really going to make an ARM chip like Samsung or Nvidia, and start selling it to phone manufacturers.
They practically made the start menu less accessible, but when you see it, it's full screen, and each "app" owns a sizeable area of the desktop to spam you or try to grab your attention.

It's obvious that each "app" will try to have the start menu call out flashier than the competition. Your desktop will look like piccadilly circus at night.

Remember the stickers (http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/02/laptops-look-like-...)? The same thing, but on your desktop.
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Yep, I was wondering why "render" would need to be called multiple times.

I usually start off by doing that because I'm lazy, then something usually bites me in the ass (usually - oh hey, we need a transition effect).

And the end result is a bunch of "sub rendering" methods that get called in render ... and as callbacks from model change events. (It's awfully nice when you have to load everything off the server - no default state in the DOM.)
Hey dalton, I've posted my thoughts in this thread, and I'm also considering writing a blog article about this, but I have one meta thing to share with you.

This letter doesn't make two things clear to me: 1) what exactly it is you're upset about and 2) what you think should have happened. Because of this, people in this thread are making a lot of assumptions which are uncharitable and inaccurate, and you come across as looking more naive than I suspect you actually are.

Clarifying in the thread is good, but it's damage control. I'm not sure if you wrote the letter when you were angry, or if it was originally written to people with more context, but I just wanted to share a part of why I think this thread is going the way it is.
Duly noted. Post on Swizzling and the new Objective-C literals are forthcoming :)
Knockout is awsome. Check it out. You can grasp it over the afternoon and examples of advanced ui-s are interesting and concise.
We used Facebook's APIs and Open Graph in our app discovery service.
It was built and released before Facebook's App Center was announced, and Facebook dev-relations employees had previously been supportive of our endeavor.
I don't think checked exceptions are stupid. I think Java's checked exceptions are bad, because the type system around them is too weak.
I think tdavis is referring to this example from maciej's post, where inserting 'y' into a tinyint field silently converts it to 0 instead of throwing an error:

mysql> create table demo(int tinyint(1), bin binary(1));
mysql> insert into demo(int, bin) values ('y', 'y');
mysql> select * from demo;

+------+------+
| int | bin |
+------+------+
| 0 | y |
+------+------+
Worked at a bank, had content filtering. All branches had 'net access through HQ. I worked at HQ in IT. Out at a reasonably remote branch to upgrade software, walk into loan manager's office, he announces "if you see Playboy in the access logs, it wasn't me."

We didn't get notifications about that stuff. Maybe the VP of IT did, but I think it was just statistics. But we just had to check the logs when we got back to HQ. Of course he tried accessing Playboy.
Dev kits usually cost money - even from established players. They're not selling dev kits in the sense that they're getting a profit from the sale. I bet the dev kits cost $300 to make, so they're charging $300 for them. The Kickstarter is a fast way to make that happen.
I agree. This post comes across as very self-serving. He attacks Facebook for not being something they never claimed to be, and then offers a competing product that fulfills that need. Gross.
Back in the 90s Apple had MPW (a command line development environment) and AUX (its own UNIX implementation for 680x0 Mac hardware). Both featured Commando (type a command followed by an ellipsis and hit ENTER and visual dialog would appear letting you condfigure the command). When you clicked OK (or hit return) the resulting command would be typed into your window.

MPW also allowed you to differentiate between target and command windows very easily, so you could keep your favorite commands handy and have the output funneled to other views.

Not Lighttable, but a lot more useful than man pages in 99% of cases and pretty darn nice.
Not sure if anybody reads comments five days later, but thanks for the suggestion and the offer! I appreciate it.

Why do you suppose it's so hard to publish about them? A general lack of interest?
Having competition is a good sign, it means there is a market for your wares. The question will be implementation. In the app store there are many clones, but the polished ones stand above.

Good luck!
I've found netflix's offering of old History channel programs to be pretty good. They are from the heyday of The History Channel (late 90s, early 2000s) when HC was making high production-quality shows that were actually about history. It's better than the live channel content.

It may be limited in how much content it has, but I've been watching it on and off for a few months and I still have a lot left.

I would recommend the old HC shows to anyone remotely interested in history. The 13 part mini-series on the US revolutionary war is the pinnacle of depth and production-value that you just can't find anywhere else, especially not on live TV. National Geographic also has high-quality stuff, but I have explored it less.
Stupid headline nitpick: the DHS's goal in this case is not "Hey guys, let's stifle free speech", so it is dishonest to word it as "DHS <doing something> to stifle free speech". It is true that free speech in this case is stifled, so it would be less deceitful to say, "DHS stifles free speech by <doing something>" or "DHS <does something>, which stifles free speech".
You're right. All Cortex A9 chips are the same. What might differ is the fab process. A company could make it at 40 nm, another at 32nm and another at 28nm, so you would get further optimization from that as well.

Apple's A5X SoC is 50% bigger in surface than Tegra 3. Considering the Tegra 3 SoC contains 4 CPU cores, and Apple's A5X only 2 CPU cores, plus taking into account all that extra space, I could see how A5X's GPU easily doubles Tegra 3's GPU in size, if not more. That's where the performance increase is coming from. Hopefully Nvidia and others will be smart enough to build bigger chips with in the next generations.
When you do, please recommend one of the techniques/libraries that properly generate super calls.
Thanks for the details and clarifying the stuff going on "behind the scene".
http://mahout.apache.org

http://machinelearning.reddit.com

http://mloss.org

http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596529321.do

http://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Intelligent-Web-Haralambos-...

http://www.amazon.com/Mahout-Action-Sean-Owen/dp/1935182684/...

http://www.amazon.com/Collective-Intelligence-Action-Satnam-...

http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Hackers-Drew-Conway/d...

http://www.amazon.com/Machine-Learning-Action-Peter-Harringt...

http://www.metaoptimize.com/qa

http://stats.stackexchange.com
...and assigning to a variable is only a primitive because we were brought up that way.

Then again, we could say the same thing about nouns.
Ticketmaster apologizes for beer fest presale disaster
I too think it will happen. This post illustrates that

a) the web is not really a welcoming place for large walled gardens,

b) if you want to build on someone else's infrastructure, pay them, so you become their customer, so their goal is to make your life easier.
Padmapper used to scrape Craigslist, but stopped after a cease and desist letter. While buying the data from a service that scrapes search engine caches may be unreliable, my understanding is that it's legally much more defensible.
The language is "Go", not "Google Go".
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Thanks for cloning Get It Now after using it. ;)
Thanks and yeah, I saw Joe's Goals. This is similar except it's a bit more flexible (more than just yes/no, for example).
And they do their own delivery. It's nothing at all like Amazon, except perhaps for the user.
This is not working for New York for me, didn't show up at all, but it was definitely working in Gainesville, FL (where I'm at now), popped up right away. Are there certain cities it will not function in, for whatever reason?
Of course it's a tradeoff, but there's only one choice guaranteed not to piss off your users. It's an easy decision. Don't look at private data.
HTML5 & JavaScript == Super Web
Something like this:

# /bin/echo "Hello World" >&-
/bin/echo: write error: Bad file descriptor

You get this kind of thing for free with exceptions.
1) I am unhappy that I wasted my time and energy building on a platform that encouraged me to do so, and within the matter of months changed their mind. This is the same thing that makes me unhappy with what Twitter is doing to their ecosystem: http://daltoncaldwell.com/what-twitter-could-have-been

2) Once Mark Zuckerberg gave personal blessing, he shouldn't have changed his mind. I have an interesting email thread along these lines.
Really??? None of us know their motives for sure, but I think it's more than plausible that they did this TO stifle speech.
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I'd need to be able to talk with them to see if it's actually the thing they have an issue with before I would nuke that project. And yes, I started and continue this project because I wanted to solve a problem, and I find it fulfilling. Money isn't a strong motivator for me.
I guess, though I still don't see the ethical takeaway: "Don't go to meetings with Facebook, you never know when they might try to hire you for cheap!" just doesn't have the dramatic impact I'd expect from the kind of argument I'm reading.
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Maybe the people actually running the business actually know what they are doing.

A lot of people are having trouble with the idea of what's best for HBO not aligning with their own self-interest.
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Studyhall.com officially launches today to take on Blackboard and the industry players. Released only to Harvard, Yale, Georgetown, Cornell.
The first bullet point refers to a Forbes article that I think puts the advice in context. It's not so much "be nice," as it is "don't be nasty."

It's quite possible to simultaneously be honest about a toxic work environment and to do so as a professional.
Nor did I. He was likely trying to describe the self-entitlement of the younger generation. Which I totally agree with. You/we are not entitled to anything and you/we are not special snowflakes. I think that's all he meant to convey.
Some additional context:

The Great American Beer Fest had Ticketmaster handle presale tickets this year (available to Homebrewer's Association members), and it was an absolute disaster.

A form validation error prevented members from buying tickets for the first two hours of the presale. At the same time that this was going on, the general public was able to buy tickets through the Ticketmaster mobile site. As a result, most of the tickets for the "members only" session were purchased before actual members were able to make purchases.

See the twitter rage at: https://twitter.com/i/#!/search/realtime/gabf
I tried browsing for a few minutes, but I got bored quickly.

Pretty much I'm convinced the site & app will be successful. :)
These dynamics are part of what is referred to in corporate development as the Golden Rule - he who has the gold, makes the rules
If you call the US "IP cops" for a perceived violation of IP or copyright, then the response will probably involve DHS.

The Department Of Homeland Security (DHS) is the home of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), and ICE has had responsibility for the enforcement of copyrights, intellectual property and related. ICE has had that role for a while now, too.

Which means you see DHS listed on various postings.

Here is one of many previous OMG-DHS-WTF kerfuffles:

http://www.quora.com/U-S-Department-of-Homeland-Security/Whe...

Waving the latest round of DHS enforcement in front of nerds is probably great for the clicks, but not really all that newsworthy.
Some bridges need to be burned. There is this sickness in business that is a kind of pervasive dishonesty. Apart from just being wrong in a moral sense, this is also counter-productive: it ruins the utility of reputation.

Sorry, are you complaining because people are denied an avenue by which to slander others? The utility isn't ruined. You just have to look at it a different way. "Good" people will probably have a good reputation because sharing praise is almost always safe. Bad people will probably have a vague reputation. Doing things this way lets people be rewarded for good behavior, while people who have made mistakes get a chance to learn from their mistakes and "start over".
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Remember one huge thing in this equation: HBO doesn't deal with subscribers! HBO has no subscriber database, hardly any customer support, no sensitive personally identifiable data to keep track of. The cable and satellite companies have to deal with all of that. That's why HBO isn't really interested in selling direct to subscribers.
apoorvamehta: thank you for your prompt, articulate response.

The logistical challenges look daunting to me. My recollection is that the problem of coordinating and optimizing deliveries in such a point-to-point system with time constraints is NP-hard (I could be wrong about this, but that's my recollection). Then one has to deal with all sorts of real-world problems like order-fulfillment errors and substitutions (intentional and otherwise), constant shrinkage of merchandise, etc.

Obviously there's some price at which the service can be profitable, but I'm not sure it's $4. (Consider that the former CTO of Kozmo, Chris Siragusa, has been running a one-hour, point-to-point $3 delivery service for a number of years, MaxDelivery.com, but he has kept the service restricted to a relatively small, dense area in lower Manhattan, making the economics worthwhile.)

In any case, I sure hope you're right!
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You mean if this was 10 years ago. I haven't heard anyone use Microsoft and monopoly in the same sentence for years.