skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
dropbox is a hell of an amazing, slick product. Although I see it getting cheaper, I don't see it being turned irrelevant by the likes of iCloud or Skydrive (although Skydrive is making a decent job on being platform independent - but so far, it's just "another dropbox")
Maybe you're right, but you could just as easily frame it as the best of both worlds:

It's driven by the user's interests and it has the polish of a commercial product.
How would this effect sprite sheets and images used in with the canvas 2d API?
Still, not cool. It is not uncommon for someone to use my machine for a brief stint. Say we're about to go somewhere and I ask them to print the directions. I'd rather not have emails from 5 years ago pop up in an innocuous search.
Don't you think the reasoning behind banning troll stories might apply in this case as well? It's drama, not news.
Glad you like it! Big fans of yours! We might take a look but I suspect we will go custom pretty quick. We Use That is a side project for us so we plan on experimenting with as much as possible. Thanks for trail blazing!
You've hit the nail on the head. We're looking to make that sort of video as streamlined as possible.
Excel is really, really bad at what it does. It won because of Microsoft's former monopolistic position. Lotus was much better. Most of the heaviest users of spreadsheets just build their own internal "corporate" spreadsheet program.
An Introduction to Google Fiber Customer Service
We would love to have some bigger companies as long as they still try new things. For bigger companies we might do it by product. Instead of Google, Gmail and so on
Sorry, what exactly makes it "not a real lisp"? Maybe that statement is out of date, considering the addition of lexical scoping in Emacs 2.4.

Regardless, it seems like the author is able to build some real things. I know, for example, that you can run a simple file-directory server using elnode.
There weren't enough in the article?

It is a real lisp. I think the problem you're experiencing is that EmacsLisp has a long history. So some things that have been said were said a loooong time ago and are no longer relevant.

Take a look at the other articles I have on my blog... it's clear EmacsLisp is a modern, usable, language.
Some Curiosity's Photos: http://www.halitalptekin.com/yapay-zekali-curiosity.html
Actually, burner comes from the spy business, not specifically criminals.
And, as I say, a Wiki.
For me the killer feature of Steam for Android would be if they offered Android versions of games I already own the same way I can play all games with Mac builds on Mac.

Although the list of games that exist both on Android and Windows is small I can think of enough games on Steam (GTA3, Max Payne, World of Goo, Osmos, Anomaly, Popcap games, etc.) to make it an attractive feature.
What is the definition of a real lisp? AFAIK lisp is just a family of computer languages. Elisp certainly isn't the most powerful or full featured but it still seems to have most of the characteristics.
You read our minds
Wiretaps have little to do with actual phone numbers.
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Why not just have them log in as a guest? I haven't used other OS'es in a while, but on ubuntu that takes 3 or so seconds. That's a best practice you should be doing anyway even if your emails were not showing in search.
We didn't want to become too enamored with ourselves but i definitely think we will do a meta post.
Also, it was easier to do on a sound stage.
I guess I wouldn't consider Gnome a "heavy" desktop, at least not any heavier than Windows 7 or Mac OS desktops.

I don't think ~400MB for a window manager on a dekstop is a big deal in 2012 and being able to compose your desktop using javascript is a breath of fresh air vs using old arcane APIs. When you have as much excess horsepower as you do in a modern PC (for most tasks) it seems wasteful not to use some of it to make your life easier.
Do people really care about this? That might be the core problem.

That said, I really respect Dalton for going all out on it.
Than don't use it.
Just a suggestion, but I think a video tutorial demonstrating the workflow advantages would be incredible for the visibility of the project. I, for one, would like to see how you envisioned elnode as a self-contained productive development and administration environment within emacs.

edit: doh this is planned
http://bambuser.com/ was doing effectively the same thing during the Egyptian protests.
Agree

Increased competition for a commodity will decrease prices for the consumer.
Agreed - if they want to have a hope for general application adoption they will need to loosen their DRM somewhat.

Having to use their launcher is also annoying - while it's nice to have the majority of my games in one place, none of my non-Steam games require me to launch a store application before running.

I'm interested to see what they'll do, but I would be very hesitant to buy a productivity application from them as things stand.
There is some interesting questions here that is for sure. It was revealed that red light cameras kept a record of every license plate entering and exiting the intersection where they were 'looking'. Not surprisingly, you can exploit that data to figure out when a license plate has gone through an intersection, and with enough intersections get a pretty good idea of where it was at any given time.

I see no reason why one couldn't setup a bunch of web cameras looking out windows and some OCV software to watch for patrol cars going by. A simple P2P protocol and you've got the basis for creating a persistent state diagram of where every patrol car is at any given time. I think making such a system would certainly get the conversation going about distributed surveillance.
Tried a more descriptive title but too long and then i think it got modded. With so many yc companies it might have seemed like too much pandering.
Random tangent, but I wonder what procedures NASA goES through to scrub all living organisms from the robot itself if one of their aims is to see if they can detect life on the martian planet.
Maybe it's just the photos, but it has a real "cheap plastic" look to it. :(

Edit: They mention carbon fiber materials, but does that mean the body is carbon fiber?
I simply replied: "Fck Zynga"

If you want to block out offensive words, you should be writing "Fuck Z*nga".
Linux founder Linus Torvalds delivers a smackdown like no other
...right, so why cant starbucks negotiate with banks, much like mcdonalds does?
Yes, as I said at the end, that's coming. Hopefully this week. It was important to get Elnode 0.9.9 out first.
I wonder if eating away at the current atmosphere of venus is more or less technically challenging then the task of creating an atmosphere from scratch on Mars. Since Venus also has way more mass, I'm guessing humans would feel more comfortable there then on Mars.
Before they do anything, I hope they'd get rid of the BLACK theme. Anytime I access steam, my eyes burn.
I loved Newsmap.jp, good to see others still find it practical.

But here I can't turn off certain feeds, can't manually refresh, can't change color. Definitely need these things to start with before it can really be considered usable.
Rolling things up into a single response here:

1. Emacs Lisp is a real Lisp. Full stop.
2. That said, Emacs Lisp is based on MacLisp (no
relationship to Macintosh), which has dynamic scoping,
not lexical scoping, and which is not a member of the
Common Lisp family.
3. And *that* said, Emacs Lisp has long had a "cl"
package that adds many Common Lisp niceties, and,
since 24, has had optional lexical scoping, bringing a
more Common-Lisp-like experience to all aspects of
elisp.
4. And all of *that* said, this particular package I
regard as a convenience, not a way to write a website.
There are many tools a devoted Emacser uses (org mode
and Planner mode, to name the two big ones) that want
to vend web pages, and this would be a great tool for
them, but I'd hardly recommend using elisp for a
"real" website.

It's completely worth learning elisp, and I think discounting this because it's "not written in a real Lisp" is bizarre, but you'd be right to look more towards Clojure or SBCL/Clozure (depending) to write a "real" Lisp website. That's just not what this is aimed at--and where it is aimed, I think it can be enormously successful.
Odds are good he held the stock for more than a year and a day.
Do you recall why other popular licenses at the time (apache-2.0, MIT, BSD(new), etc) were rejected?
First, most of the design work you are referring to comes from the print world, which has some differences from designing for a screen. Second, part of the reason that modernist styles were critically acclaimed is because they managed to pull off something very difficult. They violated conventions and still managed to create successful designs. This doesn't really change the fact that not using black and sticking with a more natural style is good general advice, just like the techniques of professional race car drivers don't really apply to the average driver.

Naturalism is a more forgiving guideline for people without a strong design background - it will help them produce better design work, partly because they have a baseline of comparison in their everyday environment.
From the article:
> When I say "apparently" I mean I have no idea if they really are American (actually, I doubt they are).

Also, Emil Protalinski is a he.
Careful, you will disturb the seamless synergy of holistic lifecycle design.
Are you saying Kiwi gun control laws are stricter than America's, or Canada's? Here in Canada there are two basic classes of firearms a citizen can acquire: restricted and non-restricted. Non-restricted guns include shotguns, bolt-action rifles, center-fire rifles, and most semi-automatic rifles. This requires a safety test and license to acquire. Restricted firearms include handguns and some semi-automatic rifles such as the AR platform. This requires just a further test and different license.

The reason I ask is that some states, namely California, Mass., and the like have far greater restrictions than Canada, yet gun crime is generally not an issue here. Hell, in Switzerland, every male does mandatory military service and is given a fully-automatic assault rifle to keep at home upon completion, and they have a very low rate of gun crime.

>some types of guns are for one reason, and one reason only.

Not necessarily. The vast majority of what most people call assault rifles (which aren't; assault rifles are by definition select-fire) are used for sporting purposes only. The fact that they could be used were there ever to be a fecal-fan collision doesn't detract from the fact that almost all owners use them for hobby shooting.
It makes me happy that there's a fair chance electronic music royalty Boards of Canada went there. They supposedly lived on the NE coast, and one of their ancient uncovered tracks is called Buckie High.
Could someone who has an answer to these concerns post a link for the rest of us? For instance, what restricts app.net from limiting access to the API in the future, or from upping the price severely once it's gained more traction?
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Instacart (YC S12) aims to be the Amazon Prime of grocery delivery
Show HN: Pentweet. Very simple tool to post 140+ characters on Twitter
I don't know about you, but when I'm working, especially doing some form of research I can easily visit in excess of 40 websites or so a day and probably hundreds a month, having to pay up for each individual one could get expensive not be mention it would be a serious inconvenience. And how do I know if a site is worth signing up for if I have no idea of it's content?

Remember the site expertsexchange.com? The Q&A site that put their answers behind a paywall, now remember how stackoverflow ate their lunch with a few small unobtrusive adverts.

I actually do find plenty of useful content on small websites, phpBBs & blogs through google. Sites with unique content tend to rank well especially if you are searching for specific terms.
i've not written any posts on typography.

some may called the closed counter on the "k" charming, others unreadable.

me, i like to try out different typefaces. sorry if the free information wasn't as readable as you'd like.
He is, and he did:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ngd5e/i_am_neil_degras...
Windows Is Its Own Biggest Threat to the Future of PC Gaming
Girouard noted the funding is different than a loan because there is no guarantee of repayment.

That's how loans are supposed to work.
Well, probably because:

Them: "Hey dude, can I use your computer real quick for a second."

You: "Err, hold on a second, I need to do something..."

Them: awkward silence
Finally a way to search gmail. It's great for mail, but the built in search is terrible.
Tim Cook of Apple may disagree with you. He was reported to have met with Gabe Newell of Steam in April.

http://kotaku.com/5901821/did-tim-cook-and-gabe-newell-meet-...
Not to be overly recursive, but here's an Ars Technica writeup that digs into some of these issues wrt Burner (and points to this thread): http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/08/burner-wants-to-help...
Hmm. Thanks -- the link in the article looks very different now. Yesterday, the document had various ads inserted in it, and was framed by "Download" links and various other buttons that demanded a Facebook or Twitter login.

I'm not seeing any of that now, just the button you mentioned, which works.
It sounds like ísl-enska, a term used when someone translates directly from Icelandic (íslenska) to English.

In Icelandic you would say ".. tilraunum hans um hæli í Ecuador" or literally ".. attempt of his at asylum in Ecuador

and

"sem mótmæli gegn tilraunum hans" -> "as a protest against his attempt"

Given that a handful of Icelanders are working for Wikileaks (Kristinn Hrafnsson as an example) it could very well have been written by one.
A Police Officer with the NYPD represents the NYPD to the public. They should be dismissed if they acted in a way inconsistent with their policies.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is very similar to what color.com ended up doing, right?
I'm actually developing weeZeel, a Social Web OS, or if you prefer a Social Remote Desktop

http://www.weezeel.com/
"With today’s generation of on-demand mobile video apps, users also have the option of adding filters, title cards, and other crap before posting video." (Ryan Lawler, Author)
Hey, give this a try. Let us know if your feedback. Its web based and free right now to try.

www.getroller.com
Frankly they are likely resolving more usability complaints by switching to XFCE than they are generating.
> Why is that relevant?

Because it means that there's no "we couldn't afford to do it right" excuse.

> Actually, it's easy to imagine such an upside. Consider 800x the lifetime median income of a US worker.

Double or nothing on a company that size is a stupid bet.
The Venus photos are simply awesome (the probe definitely deserves more recognition :-)), as are those from Mars. It's a shame we can't just hitch a ride to either of the planets to explore them and see them with our own eyes...
Spaceship House Is a Labor of Jilted Love
That would be too much to ask, isn't it :). But you can figure out some pricing from the twilio's website
I'm not really interested in some new adventurous experience. I'd like to help build something like a new colony on Mars, even if it's far down the line and all I'm really doing is taking care of the first steps of on-the-ground planning.

It's a claim that has the safety of there not actually being any plan or need for me to prove my claim. But for what it's worth, I've also taken the same attitude towards startups I'm impressed by. It's not really about me and what I want, so much as there's this big thing that I want to happen and if I can shovel some dirt and bring us a step closer, I'm in.
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If you use Chrome, just CTRL+SHIFT+N (or CMD+SHFIT+N) and open them in their own session that auto-expires when you close the window. Then whatever they're doing is safe for them and they don't kick you out of all your accounts. And it takes a fraction of a second to do.

"Hey, can I borrow a piece of paper?"
"Sure, just grab a page out of my teenage daughter's journal that she's not using. Flip through until you find one"
Carl Sagan On Mars
For sure, you totally hit the nail on the head - the solution presented for svbtle is not an optimal choice for a production, user-facing web application.
ctrl-shift-n: here you go.

But more seriously it really depends on what appears in that search results and for which queries. If it's done properly it only triggers when there's a very relevant mail matching the query, which would be unlikely from just a casual search from a friend.
Also if just the title is shown, it doesn't reveal much.
I would say that it isn't worth letting the differences between emacs lisp and common lisp stand in the way of learning lisp (or Emacs).
Ok, let's talk two scenarios. First one: real world. We know how this one turns out.

Second one: Greece was never allowed into the Euro and off the Drachma. So what happens? Well, the lack of productivity in the Greek economy means the drachma stays and goes continually down in relation to the Euro, which we'll presume is the dominant currency-zone Greece wants to import from. The result is that Greece is forced to take responsibility for its own behavior much earlier-on, and without damaging impact on anyone else. At some point, the Greeks, in this scenario, simply cannot import much anything from Northern Europe, but their land, labor and capital become very cheap for external investors. Then, if the Greeks are at all smart, they get exploited for a little while to make foreign capital spend itself improving their productivity, until they can either become self-sufficient or balance their trade via cheap exports.

As Greek productivity improves, the drachma becomes more expensive, allowing the Greeks to then import more on the strength of their own economy rather than by borrowing from someone else.

It's simply a known fact in economics that separate macroeconomic policies and environments demand separate currencies, or else you get a financial crisis of some sort.
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anyone else have this experience: reading this article on an iphone only to notice that the thing in my hand - perhaps the most successful consumer electronic device in the world - was as close to jet black as anything else I'd seen today? :\ ... what about black turtle necks - are those OK?
My thoughts exactly - Venus seems like a better place to start interplanetary exploration with - as I understand, if you could cool it down to an acceptable temperature, you could walk on the surface with just a breathing apparatus, right?
Greg, Wouldn't it be a better idea to release the app for free and then use in-app purchases for the numbers? That way you would not scare away the people who just want to download and see what it does. People may argue that $1.49 is nothing, but why lose potential customers.
> It seems to me that the best thing for us as a species is to let robots that do the things robots are good at, like translating in physical space, moving objects, manipulating matter, et cetera

But I like walking around. I don't need or want a robot to do that for me. I am more than my brain; I am also my body.
I'd like more than one usb3, so I can do external to external disk copies.
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While we were a division of SCO, SCO weren't that relevant to us. They bought IXI to ensure stability in supply of their desktop. SCO distinguished itself from other Unix vendors by having a friendly desktop including for administrators and their tools.

IIRC our business was something like 3% of sales on Intel chips with the rest being RISC, although SCO itself isn't counted in that since we didn't sell on the platform (corporate took the software and customized it to their needs).

SCO definitely considered Windows (NT) to be the competitor. However SCO was considerably cheaper than the RISC workstations and operating systems. The changing usage patterns are what led us into the browser space, into making Motif look like Windows so when displayed on Windows it wasn't jarring, and then our foray into letting you access any app via your browser which became Tarantella.

OSF (you didn't get the expansion quite right) was a pawn in the Unix wars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_wars GUI issues in the Unix variants were the battleground in the early nineties, and finally petered out in the late nineties when Windows "won".

Our (IXI, not the SCO corporate parent) major product of the time was X.desktop which only ran on Unix systems using the X window system. ie it was Unix based apps to make Unix easy to use.

We then moved into "client access" which meant terminal emulators, X servers for Windows and file access (VisionFS) which were Windows based programs to make it easy to use Unix systems (except VisionFS).

Finally we did Tarantella which made it easy to use apps from just a web browser, and it was irrelevant if the apps were Unix or Windows.

Tarantella was eventually bought by Sun which was eventually bought by Oracle, but the product is still for sale. Some details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Secure_Global_Desktop (Disclosure: I was the architect for the non-gui protocol parts of Tarantella)

VisionFS is what I am most proud of - details at http://www.rogerbinns.com/visionfs.html
Some power users with 2880x1800 MBPs are using them at 1920x1200. Sounds crazy but I looked at it and found it almost bearable.
The device pixel ratio is simply the conversion ratio between device pixels and css pixels. It is on the device makers to determine how to interpolate image data into CSS pixels in the browser. There are many devices that have non-integer based DPRs. From what I recall, earlier devices even have DPRs of 0.75