skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right about the funding thing, but this page is interesting to Non-Americans as well.
Cheapest Electricity Business Rates
Out of curiosity why would Kent Beck and Martin Fowler have "proper" HN street cred? I would have thought it safe to say that they had both have had revolutionary insight into their areas of focus.
It seems I managed to completely overlook the very 2nd sentence of your blog post, whoopsies.

Looking forwards to seeing Assembla develop further, thanks!
Firebug tip: log DOM events
It's the most exciting frontier to the general public though. Thank Sci-Fi ;)
The article seems to be a little old: "Netscape's browsers, Opera, some office programs, RealPlayer, etc."

Your comment "The only real difference is the emphasis on source vs binary, which is important but not as fundamental as the article suggests" reminds me of a line from someone about compiling kernels: new users use the default kernel because it just works, power users compile their own kernel and are able to eke out a bit more power, and experienced admins use the default kernel because it just works...
"Discipline is actually probably more a problem with Dedication"
What do you mean by 'tech savvy'? I mean, it looks to me like I (and most of my *NIX-using friends) wouldn't meet your definition, which is fine, you just need to know what you are trying to target.

It sounds to me like you are selecting for people with upper-class backgrounds that spend too much time on techcrunch; e.g. you want a elite school plus apple products and obscure startups. (I am a little amused that you put EMC and FusionIO on the same list as Etsy. Perhaps you are trying to separate the corp IT out?)

I mean, most of the people that pass your test that I know? They are businesspeople. Some of them, sure, I'd call technically savvy. but not most of them.

Really, if you are doing a means test, put an income range or net worth range or something in there.

I mean, first you have to decide what opinions you care about; Me? If I was asking people's opinions of various VC firms? I'd care most about the opinions of people that have actually done a funded startup. I would define funded in terms of dollars of someone else's money; say something like "have you been a founder (owned more than 10%) of a startup that obtained at least ten thousand dollars of investment money, not counting money you yourself put in?" something like that. (I think owning more than 10% is a more useful definition of founder than "there at inception" for this sort of thing, but I could be wrong.)

Of course, you could be trying to get a broader sampling of what people think of various VC companies in general, in which case, you can broaden your customer base.

But asking if you own an apple phone sounds a little bit to me like asking if your bicycle has a flywheel.

On the other hand, thinking it through, if you really are trying to get a broad "what do people that read techcrunch think of various VC firms?" kind of thing going, then your list of obscure startups is a good idea.
French TelCo. Orange bribes National Assembly with cheap phone plans
That's very likely because there are many serious studies about the effects of tobacco and alcohol on the fetus, but not that many for hashish.
This page appears to be positively ancient, referencing FreeBSD 5 and Red Hat 8, and a bunch of the technical differences are incorrect now; the Linux kernel hasn't used stable/unstable versioning in forever and is entirely on git, every GNU/Linux distribution has easy binary package dependency resolution and retrieval, etc.
"I have a great idea for an iPhone app. You'd develop it and we'll go 50/50"

<cue communal groans>
Ya i'm getting the same thing at te-4-4-gblx.sto1.se.portlane.net (209.130.172.178) every time.
Because the obvious response to 'how the budget works' is 'well then change the way the budget works'. I'm not sure if it's 'condescending' per se, but it did take away from the power of the letter.
Really cool, but on other Gameboy emulators I have used including the visual boy advanced, Z=A and X=B this is the other way around for any reason?
The diving one scared me a bit, I just finished my certification 2 days ago for open water (18m). It seemed odd to me that you were at 40m on your third dive when basic certification (PADI) required 4 dives. Not sure what it's supposed to take for 40m, but I remember it requiring some special steps (safety stop) if you go that deep. Would you mind sharing a bit more about that particular experience?
Seth Godin: Conservation of Anxiety
I used to be an Emacs user and felt rather mediocre about it, and then I tried Vim at the recommendation of a colleague and after some discomfort (like maybe an hour's worth), I was absolutely enamored with Vim in a way I had never been with Emacs.

Based on similar reasoning, I've been trying to get into trying BSD lately, as a current and avid user of Linux. I wish that this article would have addressed a bit more about the author's subjective experience of using BSD, as this is currently the sort of thing that would be helpful for me in considering FreeBSD as a desktop OS. The main thing that I have to reconcile currently is the fact that BSD isn't on the bleeding edge like, say, Arch Linux. To give a specific example, until recently, mesa lacked full support for the Sandy Bridge mobile GPUs, and so I couldn't play Minecraft on Linux. Pretty much as soon as a version of mesa with support for Sandy Bridge was released, Arch had it in the repositories where other distros would have lagged weeks behind. Of course, I could alter my lifestyle so that I wasn't always using such new hardware or didn't care so much about being able to play Minecraft without using Windows, but that would require FreeBSD being worth it in some other big way.
"it's radical because it's really easy to use."

Subversion is especially easy to use if you have to go through an HTTP proxy which doesn't forward WebDAV requests.

Another reason I love Subversion is that it remembers what revision I started a branch at. Could you imagine using a VCS which didn't do that? You'd have to write down the branch number somewhere and manually create a forward patch list anytime you wanted to merge.
I think in Europe (at least in Austria) a PhD is a pretty huge factor for a job in industry. In my opinion this is a bad thing, but academic degrees are very important here. This does not especially consider the computer science industry, but it happens there as well.
There are some positions that are always taken by academics, for the sake of publicity and reputation. No matter what they can do, the only important thing is the PR-effect of a academic degree.
Baba Ramdev's agitation against corruption
>state provision of drugs

Why do you think provision of drugs is necessary to minimize harm?

If drugs were legal (and not heavily taxed) the prices would drop to a level that even indigent beggars could afford.

Are you saying that drugs specifically should be provided, or are you arguing that in general all basic needs should be provided?

Because if that's the case, I'm not opposed to a guaranteed minimum income of the type supported by Milton Friedman in lieu of the current welfare system.

Incidentally, I think that by guaranteeing a minimum income we would be free to remove much of the regulation that ineffectually attempts the same outcome--resulting in an overall reduction in the size and scope of government.
C++ objects in cppyy
'I just need someone to make it'
So because you've chosen a UI you like for Subversion, but haven't done so for Git (yet), git sucks, and by extension so does DVCS?

Even if you disliked all the Git UIs, there are some for Hg that are almost exact clones of their subversion counterparts.

Unconvincing.
Not a feature that I didn't like, but something that's obviously a train wreck.

I've ended in situations like that, but then boss saw it was unsustainable and a major overhaul was needed.

But if the company only goes for actively making the user experience crap for nothing I would consider moving
3 Spokes Carbon Wheels
Chronic methadone usage has a number of problems associated with it, the ones I am most familiar with (From my experience working with D&A specialists) is poor teeth - easily chipped and broken, cavities etc (? related to bone mineral density changes? I am not entirely sure) as well as the significant hassle of going to a methadone clinic and having to deal with the social crowd and second hand drug market that usually exists just outside a hospital dispensary (In aust many pharmacies don't dispense methadone because of the crowd they think it attracts, and those that do charge for it, which can be a couple hundred a week, vs. free from a govt-provided system)
However I did meet some people during my time at the methadone clinic that had what you are saying - a steady job, etc - but if you have a job and have to be at a clinic every day, which opens only from 8-1, and only serves 1 at a time, you better have an understanding boss...

with regard to 2, I don't know about methadone withdrawal being worse than heroin; worse here is perhaps relative; you are exactly spot-on regarding the aspects of both of them in terms of length - heroin withdrawal only lasts around a week, and incredibly you can't die from it, although it may feel like you will!
- as an aside, the only drug you can withdraw from that can kill you is Alcohol (Delirium Tremens causing convulsions and death)

-- EDIT --
This image http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/9791/422a.jpg
shows the biochemical effect of opiate withdrawal. This image shows enzyme activity levels in a specific part of the brain associated with perception of pain - Pain relief is correlated with the initial decrease in cAMP formation.
However within a short period AC increases leading to cAMP returning to normal levels, and thus the return of pain; amplified by sudden withdrawal of the opiate - now AC acts uninhibited, there is a massive increase in cAMP and thus the 'pain' of withdrawal is experienced as physical pain, as real as being cut open
Spending more dollars does not feed starving children. Hunger is not a problem that is caused by a lack of food, we have plenty and also plenty of resource to feed every living person. Hunger is a political problem, caused by corrupt, malfunctioning government, or no government at all.
Good to see people trying something ew, but isn't this just a bit of 'it doesnt do what I'm used too, so it's broken'

"Funny thing. Adding arrays returns a string. Subtracting them returns NaN. Again, JavaScript devs will explain why. Maybe even try to convince you that it’s perfectly fine behaviour. It’s not"

Things like this in all languages, are what separates pros from tinkerers, in my opinion. It can be confusing, sometimes there are no good reason for this, other times there are.

I like JavaScript for all its quirks. It's the quirks hat have allowed it to be used in ways that were never envisaged.

To the OP, if you find something that doesn't work like everything else would, have a look at exploiting that difference before trying to make it conform

Otherwise nice post

Disclaimer: JS Dev to the core
Web vs. iOS. Choppy vs. smooth. Free vs. paying.
I'm just annoyed at the quality of the web, the accepted standard is all choppy

and not smooth. Most of the web would be completely unacceptable by iOS standards.

Yet we continue with a remarkably similar state to our past.

"Well if the web is soo choppy, point out some examples"

Sure. Off the top of my head...

Github: We love reloading pages.

Linode: "Unleash your inner geek" ..

...and find yourself complaining on HN about the <img> tags with no width and height attributes! (http://www.linode.com/tour/)

Design principal: Humans are very sensitive to movement,

so please make sure your pages don't twitch when the user loads them. Let's up the standards of the web.

The fact that iOS is soo much smoother than the web doesn't contribute much to why iOS is soo much more profitable,

but you can the fact most of the web is choppy doesn't help when we want users to pay for our web apps.
> destined to be a noisy mess just like everything else that currently exists

Subjot (http://subjot.com/) would allow you to subscribe to people based on topic, but they shut down recently.
Apple requested 40$ royalties for every samsung phone sold
So maybe it is the DDoS. And the VPN and Tor networks are routing differently, ie reaching a server under less strain? Is that a possible explanation?
Agreed. It describes how Linux kernel development (recently?) moved to BitKeeper. That places it between 2002 and 2005.
My only problem with split articles like this is when reading with Pocket(Read it later) I end up having to follow the rest of the links and add them individually.

Give me the offer of a full page article please.
The theme change was really unexpected. Nearly made me close the browser tab.
> The only way I could see this happening (within the next few years) is if Google makes a Firefox OS-alike.

Hmm... it could be designed for the web from the ground up, and they could call it Chrome OS! ;P

(edit: I know what you mean, but considering how much the design of Boot to Gecko seems to have been inspired by Chrome OS, I found your comment somewhat funny.)
>What Ouya is, is a free emulator for older games. And an OnLive box. And an XBMC box. And by default of running Android, a Netflix box.

So a regular XBMC box does that better, and does it today.

>What I don't get, is the immense hate it gets. I don't see anyone calling it "the future of gaming", except maybe the press people behind the product? And that's kind of their job. The derision it gets from people who seem to think they're on a Crusade to teach the unenlightened that they're being bamboozled is weird. It's a game console, primarily aimed at a tech-savvy audience that doesn't mind hacking their toys, and even soldering them. And yet I haven't heard that audience reach even the levels of annoyance of an iOS/Android argument. Much less one that needs to be told (repeatedly) that their toy WILL NOT change gaming! ... Who pigeonholed the OUYA as a flagship in the revolution anyway? Marketing? So air your screeds at marketing people. Not those who enjoy tinkering with computers.

Whoever it came from, there's some hype that needs addressing, otherwise people are going to be disappointed and angry when it arrives. Do all of those 60k people realise they're getting what's basically an xbox360 with fewer games but open? You wouldn't think it to hear the media reports.
The dangers of being a product instead of a customer
SVN is not only a UI. If you get deeper into how scm's are implemented you should be able to appreciate the differences and tradeoffs between SVN and git. For one, git completely fails at bigger repos. It is just the reality.
I used a happy hacking keyboard for years, and I absolutely loved it. It was small, allowing me to keep the mouse close by and had all the keys in the right places.

At some point in time I got an Apple keyboard, which has about the same size and flatter keys. In the beginning I hated the flat keys, but now that I got used to it, I absolutely love it.

Did anyone read the literature with respect to high/flat keys? What is the verdict with respect to ergonomics?

Did anyone recently purchase a Happy Hacking Keyboard? How is the build quality these days?
You mean smartphone. My old Nokia 1200 did have two weeks battery time.
I'm getting the same from 149.11.24.18 (home Internet connection, Spain) and te-4-4-gblx.sto1.se.portlane.net (from a US-based VPS).
Sounds like 'validated learning' to me, see http://theleanstartup.com/principles
Melinda Gates seems to support the idea of birth control in Africa.

http://www.ted.com/talks/melinda_gates_let_s_put_birth_contr...

Edits:
She doesn't want it for population control.

By empowering women to decide whether or not they want to have children, it will still significantly reduce the birth rate.
Indeed the memories I have of Mandrake and RedHat is a package management nightmare, where not enough things were in the official repos, urpmi had to be installed after the fact, you had to add many third-party repos and/or many standalone rpm packages. Often you'd end up with X.rpm needing Y.rpm v1.1 and Z.rpm needing Y.rpm v1.2, and you had to be really cautious not to screw up your system.

Now the argument that with BSD and ports you have no library problems because you compile everything from source and the ports are all centralized is, well, wrong. Say you install X and Y which depend on libZ; you then upgrade Y, which pulls in a new libZ, which breaks the unchanged X (since it has been built against the earlier libZ). That is, unless you rebuild X to link against the new libZ. Even heard of Gentoo's revdep-rebuild? Hopefully this is mitigated on FreeBSD (and conversely made comparatively worse on Gentoo) because base components do not get bumped like that, so most things link against the seldom moving base and you're done (whereas on Gentoo, you have fun bumping libc or libxml).
Ubuntu One for Mac
Robots and psychology...
Why, the ability to look thru form and other sports based statistics is great if your moving into high-frequency-gamberling, no wait I see what they did there.

That said it is known that host countries do better as tehy also said "According to Goldman, home countries outperform their expected haul by 54%"

Makes you wonder when betting shops and banks will end up converging.

But if they were that good and knew there were right based upon some solid maths that they would be able to predict the results then they woud of put there own money were there mouth is. Banks and GS don't do that, they only like to make the predictions and put other peoples money weer there mouths are. Same as a casino in many way, playing the odd's at your expense, only when you win they win and when you lose they win.
Manufacturing isn't the only outsourcable work, though. Customer service, programming, and other things less easily replicated by 3D printing and robots will still be outsourced for a while yet.
Dropbox
Dropmark
Droplet
Dropsend
Wow, that's comforting
Zynga: The dog might be heading to the pound.
Diamorphine is used medically. Pretty sure that isn't cut with anything.
Am I the only one who immediately associates apps/services starting with "Drop" with Dropbox?
Meaningless. Goldman Sachs got the prediction for New Zealand completely wrong along with many other countries. WSJ correctly predicted NZ's total number of medals including the exact number of golds. Maybe I should write an article about that?
the link is sometimes down, you have to reload it a few times, then it will work.
How Long is Too Long?
Derek, first of all, we welcome your dear new baby to this world. Congratulations!

After reading your latest post I was wondering if one day you will comeback to your home town in California and try a Radical Exclusion. Sleeping deeply a couple of nights, letting your subconscious know that you're back home, start to write for days and see what come out of it.
I think you're seriously underestimating the amount of work we need to do...
I suspect going through a page of 1-point stories is a more valuable contribution than going through several pages of 2+-point stories.
I laughed when I saw this.

I've come across my fair share of freeloaders.

What gets me is that they never ever see it like "you do the work for nothing, you take all the risk, and I reap half of everything you earn, and if you don't make a fortune I want everything you have".
I find it quite amusing that so many self-defined "Linux power users" can't use anything that isn't pretty much an exact copy, UX-wise, of Windows 95.
The core critical point that I have about subversion is that you'll likely ruin your perfectly working code by the having to "svn up" before you can "svn ci".

In git it's the other way round, you can go back to your working version and start over with fixing a conflict.
The article is from 2008. Things change.
Sorry, the converter was totally broken for the last few hours. Result: Totally random .gifs. Fixed that, should work now.
Your answer implies you have a high ego as you consider the questions below you and only interested in satisfying your own intellect/ego instead of working in a team that gets shit done... read shipping products.
If that's the case I'd like to know why. Maybe there is a limit of available flags? Or maybe because on the release day of new Apple OS I flagged 20 articles on the home page related to that event? I can only guess.
I tried to buy something from Fab. I failed.
I agree, though the extend of that depends on what you put on the machine and it's use.

On a typical server, with less that 100 external ports installed, FreeBSD will rarely need to rebuild libs, because most of the stuff links to the base.

On a typical desktop, with > 1000 ports installed, things get very messy. And the legacy package management of FreeBSD shows its limits. Things are improving, mainly with a move to improved binary tools, but it's been behind linux for a long time.
Isn't a fad that survives not a fad, by definition?
In what way does it 'fail' at bigger repos? It was designed to handle the largest and most complex OS repo that exists.

For me the most amazing thing about git is how it is built out of very simple blocks. Each commit or object is a simple hash of it's contents. Which is just brilliant really. That's why it so fast and avoids any potential data corruption.
There is absolutely no comparison between the android ecosystem and the XBMC ecosystem. Android has many orders of magnitudes more apps than XBMC does.
Great bullet point for very limited market. You'd target more people with dedicated facebook button.
Start up the country - Team GB's success can be replicated in the economy.
Stories about pushing limits gets me motivated and a lot of the "life-glimpses" in the post resonated with me, but the part about the Muslim conversion ceremony made me think: That is far more serious than physically pushing your boundaries.

A conversion involves your whole belief and truth system, and will affect you eternally as you have accepted the faith's beliefs about the afterlife and rejected other faiths.

Such a decision should not come as a result of other people's expectations or an eagerness to push boundaries.
Ubuntu 12.04 user. But having been through multiple linux desktop starting with Fedora 9, am now tired. For my next box i want a basic linux kernel + bash + Xserver + xmonad WM. nothing fancier.
How about pre-hiding comments from HNers who are well-known shills for tech companies?

If nobody does that project, maybe someday I will.
The rise of high frequency trading: making money from milliseconds
I got my basic PADI with only one real dive. (+ a few quick tests). Then I went straight for my advanced PADI, and this was my 2nd dive of my advanced class. It was just me and the instructor, and I think he was breaking the rules, unfortunately. I wasn't asking for it!
Social networks aren't free
Arch Linux is geared up to do this, pretty much.
Redesigning Wikipedia: The Athena Project
We are talking about the fastest spread pf a truly disruptive technology in the history of mankind prior to mobile communications. Why was anything too slow.
On a decent PC it's negligable.
Same here. Rejection therapy seems to deal with that kind of thing a lot. I enjoyed some of the posts here: http://rejection.posterous.com/
You aren't the person courts worry about when talking about trademarks...

I don't know the history of iZettle or Settle, but it seems like iZettle is much further along. I don't know about UK trademarks, but iZettle applied for their US one in 2011. I didn't find a "Settle" mark at all in the US. Given all of that, and that they are both in the "payment processor" category, I could easily see a court siding with iZettle on this one.

Still sucks to have to change a name though...