skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't appear to be a code-dump to GitHub, which would be indicative of fading interest on behalf of the original developer.

The ReadMe, build process, and licensing instructions all point towards this being a well planned Open Sourcing of a product.

I'm pleased with this, and hopefully it will spur development of TM2, allowing it to truly compete with the up-and-coming Sublime Text 2.
Well TextMate was cool while it lasted. Good thing I switched to Sublime Text 2 a week ago.
It'd be interesting to consider the whole income statement of each individual, rather than just the annual revenue, which no longer has the $35K per year expense of college, while still gaining a significant education.
How the Mars rovers take color photos using black-and-white cameras
Switch to http://www.sublimetext.com/, It will be the best decision you ever made. Its what textmate 2 should have been
Unexpected. Just awesome.
Maybe. I only know what I read on HN.
My point is that the patent holder who invented the infrastructure should be enriched by their patent. but we have a gov't setting limits on how much they can charge to license their patent, somehow the design elements of the device are going to turn out to be worth more than the tech that enable the device to work.

I'm saying (poorly) that I think that reason should dictate that if apple pays X per device for the tech that enable the device then samsung should pay Y < X if found to be infringing on round corners and colorful icons.

I don't value the design that much more highly than the enabling tech. I was pretty satisfied with my old compact nokia phone - I had a midi of run to the hills as my ringtone. Life was good.
Whilst the site is down at the minute I can only offer conjecture. Basically, people waited so long for TextMate 2 to arrive, when the betas finally did land it was totally underwhelming. Sublime Text 2 had already started to replace TextMate for most Mac developers and finding out that the wait for TextMate 2 probably wasn't worth it probably just made people move over. I know a year ago everyone in my office used TextMate and now none do for pretty much these reasons.
Alright I suppose so. I've also switched to Vim a while back and yeah totally got my money's worth from TM1.
Erm, Objective-C probably isn't the problem, even NeXt used gcc for that (not sure how much of the current feature bloat isn't in copyrighted libraries).

But GNUStep isn't exactly up to par with Cocoa, never mind not exactly the default desktop environment. Porting the whole editor from Obj-C++/Cocoa to C++/KDE or C/Gtk would be a pretty huge task, where you'd better off starting from scratch anyway (as with a lot of GUI apps, it's mostly about the ideas, not the implementation).
You don't think it has anything to do with Sandboxing requirements in the App Store and Mountain Lion having an option not to allow non-App Store applications? I'm seriously asking, not trying to start a flame war here.
Do you get miffed when new phones come out every year requiring you to pay again for the new features?
I am not sure how to read the statement by Allan Odgaard. It does not include any hint on the future of Textmate: Has Textmate become open source abandonware or does Allan Odgaard intend to lead the future development of Textmate as an open source?

The latter would of course be great, the former rather sad from a user perspective since most former closed source apps do not survive for long after a switch to open source.
Judge in Google-Oracle case seeks names of paid reporters, bloggers
It's different (C2C), but probably would have a similar impact to a library (particularly given the scale we're talking about here—only 15,000 users).
Can't agree with you more. I had written the following about 3 months ago:

In an Internet 1.0 world "Facebook", would have happened via a 'social' protocol on the Internet just like SMTP, and Zuckerberg would have been a hacker icon just like a Tim Berners Lee.

And I went on to write:

PS: If mails had happened in Internet 2.0 world. We would have gmail users only mailing to other gmail users and hotmail users only mailing to other hotmail users ... but actually gmail would not have happened as Sabeer Bhatia or Microsoft would have been still ruling the mail world ;-) ... But thankfully it did not turn out that way, as there was already a protocol called SMTP!

The comment was this one:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3949048

Edit: Added more relevant text
Linking to content behind a pay wall is really annoying...
I came to the same conclusion about using Amazon payments for everythingfunded.com (my crowdfunding site). After testing on the sandbox and moving to a production payment account, I got the same letter. "We are currently not on-boarding any new crowd funding/social fundraising sites at this time." So after some comparison I moved to Wepay. They can handle a 'marketplace' or three-party transaction and I liked that stunt with the block of ice.
"The company blamed changes to Facebook's algorithm"

This is what caught my eye. yes Zynga is primarily based on fb but aren't they supposed to have their own back since they have gone public with multi-million dollar IPO ?
Since we're using movie analogies, let's say that app.net has decided not to "end the party early" because there is no party to begin with. (That quote is from "The Social Network.") App.net has a very similar business model to the first online community, the WeLL. The WeLL is still around after 25 years.
Thanks, SublimeText is certainly a possible candidate. For the moment, I can still use Textmate 1. That gives me some time to test other editors including SublimeText.
Please don’t do that. That’s just confusing the issue and highly misleading.

The f-number is a property of the lens and nothing else. The S/N ratio of the sensor is independent of that.

It’s correct: smaller pixels tend to have a lower S/N-ratio, which mostly means that you can’t turn up the gain as much as with sensors that have larger pixels (you can’t increase the ISO by as much) and you will see more noise at the same gain.

But that’s no law of nature. It’s possible to have a crappy large sensor and an excellent small sensor. It’s the sensor that matters here – and there are many more variables involved there. Sensors with pixels a certain size don’t have a certain S/N-ratio only depending on pixel size. And any exact mathematical formula (like f-number scaling with crop factor) doesn’t make sense there, not at all.
Hey Ross, looking at your video, I believe you missed setting up the forwarding address in gmail after clicking the confirmation link. If that were the case, then the email would never be forwarded by Google (and never make it into your SupportFu account). Thanks for taking the time to make the video and giving us feedback!
Anyone else find it funny that 2 of the 5 are working on education related projects?
This sort of thing is probably obvious to a lot of people on HN, but I've seen enough remarks of the form "why didn't they stick a color camera on Curiosity?!" that this seems like a valuable resource to link to your friends.
can I use this product without signing up
The original TextMate isn't on the App Store and I'd have to think the number of people who go into the Security settings and disallow running of non-App Store signed binaries is vanishingly small.
I was a bit confused as to what Founder Dating was. It's not actually a single "meet up," but rather an online community.

We opened up Founder Dating for SLC in just a few hours. I love the program, and those behind it seem super sharp. The reasons I'm a fan:

1. 50/50 tech/biz. Everyone knows the ratios are usually not this way, but something awesome happens when tech founders aren't outrageously outnumbered.

2. Exclusivity. This might not be the right word, but having some control over who is in is very valuable.
Half of it?
Is he not in the US?
Isn't US capital gains tax 15%?
Surely that means he kept 85% after taxes.
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I have to be offline at multiple times, unfortunately. Some of the HTML5 clients are getting (like Todoist), but not so completely that I'm comfortable about it.
HAVING a paywall is really annoying.
Could you clarify? Do you mean that it's harder to make these things smaller? Because that's not what "Economies of scale" refers to.

Even if you are trying to make a point about the long run average cost of console production, I still don't see the direct connection and I'd like to know what you're getting at.
I don't know how long ago you paid for it, but I paid £35 for my license 3 years and 1 day ago (August 8th, 2009)

3 years of use from a product, plus we now have the almost-guaranteed support and speedier development because of it's Open Source nature. I think it was worth the money.

If you paid for it last week, I can understand frustration.
It was a bit amusing to read that section, since I think a lot of the comments were highly off-base about a college experience (at least my college experience).
Also worth noting, another agency recently attempted to redesign the Associated Press logo with similarly weak results - http://www.objectivesubject.com/work/project/associated-pres...
Who gets sued when someone swerves to miss the girl and hits someone or something else?
Neither of those men had prior convictions.
Textmate 1 came with a promise that you would get a free upgrade to Textmate 2. http://wiki.macromates.com/FAQ/TextMate2

Here the developer talks about regretting the free upgrade: http://old.nabble.com/TM2-to28405435.html#a28707277
Are you aware of any that have revenue? If so, please reference it.
> Is the world really worse off with Youtube the way it is?

With videos of Curiosity being taken down for copyright infringement? With "the little guy" having to wait up to a month for anyone to prove wrongdoing, and in the meantime their video goes offline? I'd say that's pretty bad, yeah.
This model does not scale!

Few college dropouts are bright up to be selected carefully to go through this process. To do this en mass would be a disaster.
> "Which is quite likely to be when their customers' data..."

Who would hire someone who only has W3Schools knowledge? Are we really worried about them?
I know that solving problems people have is hard, and worthwhile. It takes a long time of concentrated effort to get good at it for specific domains. That includes picking the right problems, and then either picking the right solutions or coming up with them in the first place.

But here's where my contention lies: Making those choices is hard. But you should be able to explain the logic behind them (or how you came up with a solution) in a few weeks.

To give an analogy: The first task is like acquiring a map of a territory. That needs painstaking surveying of the whole area. The second is describing a path you took through that territory. You needed the whole map to choose the right path, but describing the path should be faster than acquiring (or describing) the whole map.
It's fascinating to me that so many people think of the Ouya as a potential rival to PS/360 - I don't. I see it as a completely different beast.

Funny, from Day 1, I've always looked at the Ouya as a cheaper Boxee Box that also plays some games as gravy.

If it can do MAME or Final Burn (which I expect some enterprising hackers will have made a reality by the time Ouya's available for the masses), even better.

I'll probably pick one up when it's released to play videos and music, and hopefully there are some good games on it, especially if that Namco-Bandai relationship turns out to be real. If the games all suck, it's no loss, because I'll still have XBMC. If the Ouya team's paying attention, they'll also make sure Netflix is available on day one too.
No, Amazon dishes out -20 to all amazon.com IDs. Other countries have other numbers, e.g. -21 is amazon.co.uk.
looks well thought out. good work
I suspect the success of SublimeText was a big part of it too. Everything TM2 promised - today, and cross-platform to boot.
no its not. We've probably gotten a good solid 4 years usage out of textmate1 before we moved to Sublime or Vim
you can get beyond the paywall by copy/pasting the article title into google (almost all the time)
The WSJ decides what's behind the paywall...
That's true, and it's true of black & white art more generally, but even there, you don't have blocks of pure black. You have pure black lines on white or cream-colored paper.
I recently also switched to Sublime Text 2, and while there are still a couple of hiccups, overall it has been an awesome editor to use. It's global search is blindingly fast, saving me tons of time while developing. Definitely recommend switching when you have a few hours of free time.
HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4361390
No. The only dieting advice you need is to keep your calorie content in a reasonable range (roughly equal to expenditure to maintain weight, less than expenditure to lose) and make sure you're getting enough nutrients.

It's possible to lose weight on a Twinkie diet. The person who did also improved his cholesterol levels: His LDL dropped, his HDL went up, and his triglycerides went down.

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/dec/06/health/la-he-fitness...

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/...
How is traction measurable?

[edit] What I mean is, we've witnessed startup after startup with millions of users that go bust. The only way I know of to measure "traction" of a _business_ is revenue.
TextMate 2 at GitHub (Google Cache)
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Marco talked about the current status of TM2 on Build and Analyze a few weeks ago[1], and from what he said, it sounds like it has some structural performance problems that weren't getting addressed. In addition, he said that requests for bug fixes and features were constantly getting rejected by the developer, which to me hints at either a loss in interest in the project, or a lack of time to devote to developing it.

[1]: http://5by5.tv/buildanalyze/87
I actually like the coldness of StackOverflow. It facilitates a culture that conditions the participants to look things up before we go typing. From a first-person perspective I kind of appreciate it.
Don't quote me on this but I don't think the later versions of Obj-C run on gcc, but llvm/clang. Whilst thats available outside the Mac realm it depends on whether it's specifically modified.

But yeah, you're right the Cocoa aspects are the bigger overhead, I should have been more clear.
Is no one else bothered by the proliferation of the large "shelf" in front of the keyboard, as the prevalent/ubiquitous laptop design paradigm? Combined with a sharp front edge.

I see that it allows for a larger trackpad. But, I find such shelves pressing into my wrists, particularly when I don't have control over the height of the work surface. And that is damnably uncomfortable.

P.S. And as I've stated before, I remain dubious about the chicklet keyboard. A separate concern.
So now when someone posts a video of the police breaking the law the police will be able to track them down.
If that carefully curated content is good, I'm OK with it.
Given that agricultural land use in the U.S. is ~50% and urban areas are around 3% or 4%, some big disruption would probably result in far more abandonment than it would conversion.
High school - 1985 or 1986, I wrote an interpreter (in BASIC) that looked and acted like the BASIC we'd boot up off the shared drive (some odd TRS-80 networked set of workstations). The BASIC interpreter that I wrote worked mostly like the regular BASIC, but would give some random extra output. Came in to class early and booted everyone in to that BASIC, and watched as people took forever to type in their code, then run it, and have it not work - things like 5+7 came up as 3. The teacher was flummoxed, and we essentially wasted the class that day.

Looking back, it was quite a jerk move. I was trying to be clever (well, I was clever), but it didn't get me any more status with anyone - basically just reinforced the geek status I had (which wasn't a good thing to have in 1985). I was bored, but that's a pretty lame excuse. I think I ended up with a C- in that class ("intro to computers I"), mainly because I never flowcharted anything.
> If its processed and has things that aren't food in it, don't eat it.

This is wrong. It's nonsense, because humans aren't magical. We need a certain amount of nutrients, which we know, and calories, which we also know, and beyond that, we're fine, with rare exceptions. Anything else is unproven.
Evolution is not scientifically controversial and you can't teach biology without it. The political fight on this is not some recent invention of educators, but is just the current battle in a religious propaganda war for the right to dictate reality that has been going on since before the time of Galileo. Not mentioning key subjects to keep the religious happy is not a responsible approach for people who want sciences to be taught properly in school.
Slightly, yes.

If you program for your day job you're using your editor something like 2,000 hours a year. I paid for TextMate something like 5 years ago... given that I used it for approaching 10,000 hours since then...

A text editor and a computer have such an amazing return on investment it makes anything else pale in comparison. Even if you're paid $50,000 per year, your $50 investment into TextMate made you $250,000... or paid for itself 500 time over. (Edit: Sorry, I mean 5,000 times over.)
So you think open-sourcing is a death sentence? Care to share your reasons? (genuine question)
Don't blame the link blog
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Well, I think before I'd expand to a big multi-core cluster, I'd look into my options ;)
I've been using Textmate 2 for the past week or so and I still prefer 1 + missing drawer. For me, the only thing Textmate 1 is missing are split views (something 2 is missing as well).

I wonder if there is still enough interest in the app where people will contribute all of the community's desired changes -- I hope there is.

Am I one of the only Textmate users who feel that Sublime isn't the right "upgrade"? I much prefer Chocolat or Vico as they feel more like native OS X applications.
there's E the text editor, which the last time i checked was a TM1 clone
You can't currently pay for version 2 - it's in alpha, and isn't close to being released. And, as mentioned above, owners of version 1 were automatically supposed to get a license for Textmate2.
And the mechanism for appreciation on Stack Overflow is not thanks. It's +1 votes and selected answers. Those appreciate mechanisms drive the site and ensure the person who helped you helps many other people.
From casually looking through the src tree, core looks to be mostly c++, with obj-c++ glue.
It might make sense if you were setting the computer up for a non-technical user that might install trojans. It also might be the default in the future.
Almost 7 years for me.
A jack of all trades "might" work, but honestly it depends on the person. Someone who understands the full stack is usually not be someone qualified to be building scalable fault-tolerant pieces of server side infrastructure for a company.

Node.js is so easy to screw up, so difficult to debug, and little things can take down your entire application.

The combination of the language itself in addition to the type of people who typically would choose Node.js over other more proven options would make me worried that a blind choice is being made based on language alone and not proper evaluation or understanding of the other options available.

Personally I believe it is far better to be a language-agnostic company that thinks of different server side components as services, which might be in different languages instead of trying to use a tool just because they know the language already.
The app gives the impression that it is only taking into account Fat, Protein, Carbs, and Calories. What about vitamins and minerals? Can it make sure that I'm getting enough Vitamin D?
Thus is born another startup idea for someone to tackle:

Wanted: a dedicated backend for crowdfunding that other businesses can leverage for their crowdfunding projects.

The only two competitors are Paypal and Amazon Payments, and they should be easy to beat because they are actively turning away legitimate business.
Here's the text of Allan's post -- their site isn't loading very quickly right now.

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Today I am happy to announce that you can find the source for TextMate 2 on GitHub.

I’ve always wanted to allow end-users to tinker with their environment, my ability to do this is what got me excited about programming in the first place, and it is why I created the bundles concept, but there are limits to how much a bundle can do, and with the still growing user base, I think the best move forward is to open source the program.

The choice of license is GPL 3. This is partly to avoid a closed source fork and partly because the hacker in me wants all software to be free (as in speech), so in a time where our platform vendor is taking steps to limit our freedom, this is my small attempt of countering such trend.

I am also a pragmatist and realize that parts of the TextMate code base is useful for other (non-free) applications, so I may later move to a less restrictive license, as is currently the case with the bundles. For now, please get in touch with us if there are subsets of the code base you wish to use for non-free software, and we might be able to work something out.

Anything related to the code base, including contributions, can be discussed at the textmate-dev list or ##textmate on freenode.net. Pull requests can be sent via GitHub but if you plan to make larger changes, it might be good to discuss them first if you want to ensure that we are interested in accepting a pull request for such change or simply want advice on how to go about it.
I'm pretty sure if you're using Textmate you can figure things like that out.
Wall Street firms are not "addicted" to faster trading: they NEED faster trading to keep up with the competition. That's not news. For as long as financial markets have existed, market players have been in a never-ending technological arms race, constantly seeking to get information and execute trades faster, hopefully gaining a temporary advantage until the competition catches up.

Leaving aside the hyped-up nature of this Wired article, there is a legitimate debate, ongoing, as to whether automated high-frequency trading is beneficial or detrimental to society. On one side of the debate, there are economists, regulators, and market participants who sincerely believe markets normally are, or otherwise tend toward, equilibrium, so allowing more trading motivated by profit, regardless of whether it's automated or not, makes markets more efficient and stable, which in their view is beneficial to society.

On the other side of the debate, there are many critics (e.g., the late Benoit Mandlebrot, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, economist Steve Keen, Keynes biographer Lord Skidlesky, etc.) who believe markets are never in equilibrium, and can unexpectedly 'spin out of control' just like other highly complex, dynamic systems, so it's a terrible idea to have market stability relying on the second-to-second behavior of automated trading systems that can make decisions and act on them much, much faster than humans could ever react to a market debacle.

In my view, the second group is right, but if anyone here disagrees, I'd love to hear their thoughts.
How US tweets about 'good morning' and 'fuck you'
Not wrong may be but definitely not logical. Its like saying "I am miffed because I paid $500 for 32 MB of RAM 10 years ago while I can now pay $100 for 2 GB of RAM". Different times, different technology.
The snag is that running searches on other people's profile will alter that profile. The results will be less accurate over time.

Not to mention they would get some very strange things popping in Google Now! Oh, it's a tangled web we weave...