skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"XML is a smooth fit on strongly typed languages. You can easily translate an exact type into a corresponding XML encoding and know the type of what you're getting out on the other end."

This is a characteristic of the encoding and decoding layer, not the data format. Haskell's aeson library [1] is a JSON serialization library that is perfectly well strongly typed. And yes, that's strongly typed with your local domain datatypes and a relatively-easy-to-specify conversion back and forth, not merely strongly typed by virtue of having a "JSONString" type here and a "JSONNum" type there.

[1]: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/aeson/0.6.0.2/do...
You piqued my interest, Jeff, so I did check out ninjablocks.com. They have a cloud service (ninjablocks.com/cloud) that appears that the whole heroku/pusher bit might be unnecessary. The hardware is open, so you could build your own, or they are also doing limited runs were selling them for $155 AUD ($160 USD, £100 GBP) for the basic device, more with sensors and stuff.

I suppose one could also use IFTTT recipes too, again to get around the server bit. Still, this is more DIY with websockets, so that's got a big cool factor.
A minor nit, changing the highlighting background color to pink is inappropriate for a football-themed site. Certainly a small design decision, but obviously intentional and confusing.
"You are not the CEO, you are the fucking janitor"
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4169206

As someone said already, it is not how you call your "company" or the position you have in there. The results should be the important thing.

The whole thing about Startups, definition, is that every single John Doe, want to say he is a hacker "just because he knows how to code", and want to say he has a startup "just because he has an idea, and a software/site based on it".

Well, definitions might be OK, but I agree with you. At the end of the day what really matters is how much money comes into your wallet, it does not matter if you are called "the janitor of the website".
Can you share any examples sites that have been built on your API?
LinkedIn confirms profile redesign, says more changes to come
HTML5: Don't Believe the Hype Cycle
Good point and something I should've written in the post. Text moving is not something needed very often, but I find using arrows in this case more pleasant than <gv or [egv. In normal mode, I'll usually use <<, because I'm already used to it.
Your stand is fairly unwarranted though. People know what "pointing your browser" means in this context as it is still a commonly used turn of phrase, even though it may date back into the long forgotten antiquity of almost 20 years ago.
Pickup lines should be like a startup pitch: creative and catchy.
If you're already well-off enough to not need income, or have a rich doctor as a spouse, it's quite reasonable to trade salary for equity.

Also, I'd love to take $50k/yr + 1% equity in an already successful startup. Say, Facebook.
Another idea: Contract for $200 an hour for 6 months and make $200,000. Invest that into the company, get 5 - 10%, and join as an employee to influence the outcome of your investment.

Even better idea: Do the same but invest it into your own company. Keep 99% and convince someone else to take 1% + pocket change to work for you for a few years.
I was referring to the MySQL default support for http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/partitioning.html
I'm not going to read any of the other comments before responding because I don't want to bias myself.

Create a LI competitor that can get me a new job and I'll use it. In fact, I'll be willing to pay you thousands and the company that ends up hiring me will pay you thousands.

The value proposition is pretty undeniable. The problem is that I doubt that there is really a technological fix to the problem of inefficient labor markets. It would take more social hacking than machine hacking to facilitate transactions.

Some hints at what will work:
1) Don't focus on employees or employers looking to fill traditional roles. Someone with the "expected" resume will have no problem finding a job and the potential employer will have no trouble finding someone like that.
2) Create a platform so that people can interact face to face in real life. The problem with a lot of tech people is that they're too trusting. Most business types want to interact face to face because "that's the way it's done." Why is it done that way? Because you can't record what people say in face to face contact.
3) Don't work with HR or recruiters. They usually don't possess the domain knowledge to think creatively about new endeavors.

Message me if you want to discuss further. I won't invest (at least probably not), but I will be your first customer.
With apologies for hijacking the thread - I tried resetting my password for my existing account today, but have had no luck to my gmail address getting anything, and there is no other contact information on the website... help?
What are Americans Reading? (Election Heat Map 2012 According to Amazon.com)
I think we are both telling the truth as we saw / see it. It might come down to machine, configuration, and type of jobs.
It's "make something people want," not "make something people will think is noble."
I love this post. People always ask you "Are you doing a startup? A hobby? A side project?". I always respond "I just wanna make revenue, damn it, call it whatever you want".

There's this website called MyFitnessPal.com. Has over a million uniques. Run by just 2 guys from their own house. No coverage in TC, VentureBeat, or any startup publications. Yet they probably get more visitors and more revenue (and less employees) than 99% of the startups covered.
Are you against the funding because you think 9gag will fail and YC will lose money on the deal, or because you think 9gag will be successful but you wish it weren't?
That's useful indeed - I have both kj and jk mapped to Esc in my vimrc.

https://github.com/mmozuras/vimfiles/blob/master/vimrc#L75
& Suarez's third book, Kill Decision.. I read that in two days flat. :o.
I believe it would be faster because indexes and such are maintained per-partition, so you should not get that slowdown as the table size increases (assuming you are entering data into new partitions.) Additionally, the complexity would be the same as having one big table -- it logically is one big table, the only difference is in your CREATE TABLE statement.
I read that in the article (she mentioned learning that same lesson), and can't believe anyone would ever not do this. Would you really not have thought of finding that out had you not been given this advice?
I'm not seeing this at all for my use case. Unless I've figured it wrong, if I were to use this for an offsite backup of my photos, my ISP's Acceptable Use Policy limits my rate enough that I'm seeing only about a 10% penalty beyond normal transfer costs. See http://n.exts.ch/2012/08/aws_glacier_for_photo_backups for some sample "real-world" numbers.
Sack's comments really did surprise me when I realized he was serious - I thought it was a joke the first time I read it, and laughed. There's just so much inefficiency and scale in the world left, who could take it seriously?

There was big firm that made a similar bet on the internet (KPCB), and it ended up costing them quite a bit - in addition to everyone chuckling a bit whenever someone mentions "the (x) is dead!".
I believe they were referring to porting bootstrap to Stylus (rather than SASS)…
It's a nice idea, but I don't buy it. What I like most about vim is how few unnecesary moves I make with my hands - in particular my wrists stay in the same place all the time; reaching for arrows would require moving the whole forearm, which I don't like and which breaks my flow.

Also I'm curious about this quote from OP:

I just might remap hjkl to split navigation,
because I use hjkl less and less, favoring
navigating in other ways. Sounds crazy, I know ;)

Can you elaborate on your habits that cause it?
CSSPiffle Pitch Deck in HTML5 and CSS3
I don’t understand .ly (and other cutesy TLDs)
Salary negotiations are [partly] about knowing the value you'll bring to the company. If you aren't able to explain your value how are they supposed to compensate accordingly?
I'd like to hear more about the insanely vague "Health Insurance" on both sides of that spreadsheet. Looks like a complete match and no problem, right?

I went from an established company that offered an awesome family PPO plan ($0 monthly premiums, 95/5 coverage, $750 family deductible, paid vision/dental) to a startup that offers a way worse one: ($780 monthly premiums, 90/10 coverage, $3000 family deductible, no vision/dental).

You can list "Health care! Woo!" on both sides of that offer, but I bet it's way more detailed than that or completely missed in the equation altogether. My personal difference in line items is over $14,000 annually.
ah yes. mouses. i knew there was another input controller...

(not to be misunderstood, i use mostly hjkl and ctrl-d and ctrl-u (half-screen up and down). and i find the mouse uncomfortable.)
Ah, full cycle back to /. :)

Not that that's a bad thing. Its moderation system has always been its strong point.
I use my up/down keys to move between visible lines (rather than real lines, which is what they and j/k do by default). This can be helpful occasionally when you have lines wrapped for something that's text rather than code.

" up/down move between visual lines
" instead of actual lines when wrapped
imap <silent> <Down> <C-o>gj
imap <silent> <Up> <C-o>gk
nmap <silent> <Down> gj
nmap <silent> <Up> gk

(You could also map j/k to just do this if it's something you use often, but I prefer not to.)
"Take this question from Stackoverflow: Database development mistakes made by application developers [3], a question I spent some time answering and that people seemed to appreciate the answer to (based on comments and 1000+ upvotes). It is closed as "not constructive". This is hardly a unique phenomenon. We've all seen many interesting questions posted here that are now closed or locked and who knows how many have been deleted."

This is a rant that's needed and one that SO needs to open themselves to receiving. Their stance on this is just wrong.

I'd actually bookmarked several of your posts (among others) because they were so valuable. So it enrages me to no end to click those bookmarks and find that the entire discussion is simply gone.

To recap - a high quality contribution whose value was validated by dozens of individuals (or perhaps even more) was simply deleted.

The problem starts at the top. As you can see from Jeff Atwood's post below (codinghorror) , even the founders of Stack Overflow don't understand the value of their own platform to their customers. They had a preconceived notion of what StackOverflow Is and they are going to stick to it, users be damned.

I don't mean the bash them, but if nerds want to see a prime example of why they take orders from non-nerds (whom we like to think of as "less intelligent" than us), this is exhibit "A". And if you want to know why StackExchange will fail everywhere else, this is exhibit "A". No other group of users will put up with that crap.
For one person? $500 should be fine. We feed our family of 5 on less than $800 a month, and we don't do anything processed/preserved/packaged. There are economies of scale at play, but home cooking for one doesn't need to be over $500 unless you want it to be.
I believe many VIM users overestimate the importance of using h,j,k,l in comparison to numeric modifiers. Holding down j to scroll down the page is no more "right" than holding down the down arrow, in my opinion.

The following made me considerably faster:

* Relative Line numbering (For Vim 7.3). G/gg stop being convenient for frequent line movement once your file goes beyond 100 lines. Doing math in your head to figure out if line 589 is 16 lines from 605 takes way too much effort. Append this[0] to your ~/.vimrc, and then CTRL-l will toggle relative/absolute line numbering. So in relative mode, you see a line is 20 up from your cursor, and 20k takes you there with no guessing or holding down keys.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/3418841

* Learn the following: f,F,t,T. Combine them with c and d.

* zz => make current line appear in middle of the screen.

* H,L,M

* w,W,b,B. Combine with numeric modifiers (5dW)

* CTRL-u, CTRL-d, CTRL-f, CTRL-b

* % for block highlighting. Works well with curly braces by default, you may need to pick up extra plugins for ruby/python.

* g; will cycle back to the last places you were in insert mode. g, will cycle forward.
PG defines a startup as a business with very high growth potential.

According to my accountant, the IRS defines a startup as a business activity that is not yet profitable, but you're actively working to make it profitable.

By either of these definitions, not every new venture is a startup. This is just semantic. I don't think "not a startup" should be an insult.

EDIT: I see from another comment that Merriam-Webster defines start-up as a fledgling business. IMHO this makes the English language a little less rich, since you could just as easily say "new business", but it is what it is.
That seems really odd. You might consider opening a debit card at a better bank? My bank charges 2.5% with a minimum charge of 1 cent.
Where do you live?!?!

I spend around $200/mo on food, $250 tops, in Manhattan. Mostly yummy healthy stuff from Trader Joe's.

Or did you mean $500/mo for two people?
Well, they do have an API, so if you're willing to get your hands a little dirty, I don't see why not.
Definitely agreed. Correlated with being the best batch yet!
This idea may have a lot more impact than anyone may possibly conceive today. "infrastructure" company rarely get the credit, but they are a true catalyst for innovation. I think clever is one of those and I really hope their work change education and help others change education. A truly laudable goal!
With the almost unique exception of xhtml. But that's actually the only one I can think of.
How to Get Lucky in E-Commerce
Interesting. Do you know what happens to the folks who take all cash vs. one of the other offers?
A Hitchhiker's Guide to Upgrading App Engine Models to NDB
Podcast: Long-Term Location Prediction becoming a reality thanks to big data
HOVA: Hovercraft Built In A 48-Hour Hackathon
Yes it could although the wikis don't contain the other alternative questions or the dialogue which make Q&A sessions involving several people who know the subject well useful for other readers. For many questions (particularly open ones) there are many answers, and no right answer for all circumstances, so there is no clear division between this question/answers and other longer more specific ones as to being opinion or fact - they're mostly a mix of both.

Because people will inevitably continually ask/answer these questions and many similar more specific and yet still open ones and see the resulting debate as useful on any QA site, it might be good to have a more structured way of moving them to an FAQ section on SO, without destroying all the ad-hoc relations and rewards that users have built up using your QA format (i.e. not turning them into a wiki, which doesn't really suit them and loses all the attribution, comments, discussion etc).

It feels a little draconian at present sometimes when useful answers are marked as 'trivial' or 'not constructive' when they clearly are constructive, but are constructive in a direction SO didn't anticipate.
I think its just a matter of redoing the copy. At first I didnt realize it was a competition between the 5 shirts, I thought it was just an incentive deal to offload some inventory. I would walk through the process first, and bring up the least popular shirt part last.
No, because they have successfully demonstrated that they don't have "little chance of scaling"
thought the same thing. In addition, once you're retired you have social security and medicare to help out (let's assume for a moment that we'll actually collect ss and medicare, I don't want to get into that debate). When you throw those on top of 92k a year, and no longer have dependents at that point (you're retired), that's not a bad retirement amount. The real question is whether people can save 10k a year for their entire working life....
i have not been asked, but there are so many nice movements, that i hardly use hl. these might as well be remapped. i value k and l very much though.
Thanks for the links! However I am thinking about a different article. If I remember correctly I found it somewhere in the Haskell Wiki. Wikibooks have also a similar article on the subject: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Category_theory
I'm not so sure.

I think of it like art and artists in the United States. It's too expensive for most artists to live in Manhattan or New York City in general, so many of them will live in places where the cost-of-living is lower. Online showcases, write-ups from art critics, social networks, and independent shows will help them show their works.

However, to continue to grow their name, New York City still has the greatest concentration of buyers, curators, dealers, etc. To get at a high level, the big cities in the world are inescapable.

Likewise, I see other places where it's more affordable to start a startup but ultimately the pool of talent are where the funders are, which is the Valley. And so when the startup hits a certain size where it needs to grow it's team, well it has to decide whether it's feasible to get people to move to their location or to move where the supply already exists.
To be fair though, Dropbox is way better than any other backup solution consumers usually use. Personally, I've never seen data loss occur on Dropbox, but I'm sure it can happen - it's just way less likely than the average user messing up their own backup.
These comments read like a game forum, rather than HN.
I always feel awkward with things like this... I'm more interested in building cool things and making them open source and/or interoperable than I am instantly trying to revenue-ize it. I'm so tired of all of these apps that do the same damn thing with (insert some random useless gimmick) that will never amount to much because they're all competing with each other for critical mass because their products are largely useless without a large-enough network.
What is the value of the product(s) that it's displacing?
Awesome, thanks for the info. I am checking out some of the benchmarks now.

Why do you think it is that simple models often win? Is it due to the experts no participating or is there a lot more low-hanging fruit than I previously thought? Or just that simple models are easier to use and reason with for humans and thus easier to get right.
I agree with several of the posts below, but I have to take it a step further. I'm not sure you can or should call it a major in the traditional sense. It cheapens the idea of a degree if we teach people trade school curriculum and give them degrees. I've encountered a lot of these people, and it's the reason a lot of people from private institutions (Baker, Davenport, Phoenix, etc) get passed over for jobs.

If people really want a degree in MIS or CS, then the curriculum should reflect that. If they can't handle the material, then I think the college should look at the possibility of offering certificate programs in specific areas.

A student who understands theory can generally go out into the world and adapt. A student who understands how to make a web page using specific languages and specific steps and can't go much beyond that hasn't learned the things necessary to be given an associates or bachelors label.

Question: Are the students capable and don't have the prerequisite knowledge? Maybe the college needs to consider an entry exam and remedial classes on basic computer use, theory, and logic? If they aren't actually capable, then I stand by what I said above. I think the college should consider certificate programs like, "Web Programming with .Net and Javascript".
This looks nice. We do pick-em with Yahoo! every year and most of our participants hate Yahoo!.

I'd like to see examples/tour of what the premium features are, especially when I'm gonna be comparing it to free alternatives.
Good information about how in-memory db's are more than just a 'fast' relational database; thanks!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.android.ke...

Works just fine with version 1.x files
zz is nice. but i hardly need it with

set scrolloff=5

with which i always have 5 lines context below and above the cursor.
Try logging in or committing some code. It's up and down right now. http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/github.com.html
Awfully similar site to app.net, no?
Specifically it's because Apple likes to take the Research and Experimentation Tax Credit for operating system development. The R&E credit requires that you work on a new product and not on simple refinement of an existing product and its features. There are a lot of subjective factors involved in qualifying and Apple felt more secure by requiring some money to upgrade. The big advantage was not the income but the big fat check from the federal government at the end of the year.

The R&E credit is a pork barrel scam for big companies with clever accounting departments, of course. But if it's there, why not take it?
"previous full Retail(i.e. $500+) Windows licenses"

By $500+, you mean "less than $250", right?

http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-GLC-00182-Windows-7-Ultimate...
Do you integrate with existing LMSs? Or do you work with schools on a partner level and integrate with their specific SISs?

I love this. My company is in the midst of integrating with LMSs and it's brutal.
I got used to better ways to navigate in Vim - RegEx pointed out quite a few of them - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4414502. I would especially emphasize f,F,t,T and w,W,b,B,e,E.
It's weird that I'm the only one saying this but the purpose of HN isn't just for getting publicity/visitors. I know that, when I view "Show HN" posts, the only ones I click through are the ones that (a) seem interesting, and (b) seem like they are wanting to feedback for specific things that I think I can address. I like supporting the community as much as possible but a "hit" from me for a service/site/product that I'll never use is a waste for us both, right?

So #1, for me, if that I looked at your two submissions* and they don't do those things. "Show HN" works better when you are asking for help/ideas or seeking to be a part of a community. I know that your second post ends with the feedback request but, if that's what you wanted, you buried the lead, plain and simple. Both of your submissions read like press releases (and not very good ones). If you posted the same links/descriptions over on reddit, I'd guess the reddit hits were made up of 14950 spiders. That's just not text that inspires anyone to click.

And #2 would be that you don't have clickable links or even spell out a full http:// address in your posts. You are thus forcing people to type it in the address bar, or to click the title and hijack off of HN to the site. After years of being here, I can tell you that it's always better to put the links in the description as well as make a comment with a clickable link. For whatever reason, pg doesn't make description URLs clickable but does make them clickable if they are in a comment.

All of that being said, I wouldn't be against a wider tag/attribute/categorization. I don't think there are enough "Ask HN" and "Show HN" submissions to warrant a separate forum for each though.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4333014

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4354876
Don't you need some sort of licensing to use NFL team names and logos? A lot of places just refer to the "Chicago" team or the "San Francisco" team, and I assume this is for licensing reasons.

I can't tell really what your site looks like without signing up, so I don't know how you're using the marks. You might want to make sure that the NFL isn't going to shut you down. I'd hate to start up a group and then have it get shutdown mid-season.