skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree--I'm not sure how he was lead to believe this is best practice. If you mean to process the results of the query with a loop, its silly to enumerate over the query to create a List then enumerate over it again to modify those objects, which sounds like what he's suggesting is best practice.
A bash command is not a line, and a line is not a "command". But you can be pedantic if you want, I won't stop you. :)
Apple [now] uses the same components as everyone else, so I'd be surprised if Apple had significantly different performance. Their construction/build-quality is clearly exceptional, though I'll be curious to see if my [incoming] Thinkpad X1 Carbon comes close.
Apparently the parameter w=1 fixes the white space for the diff in the browser. Is there a way to make the pull request reference that?
Who is Vikram Pawar
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sorry pg. it is for a good cause. check me.
99% of them would not have bought the original product because their English skills are not good enough. They would buy a localized Chinese version, which is what the Chinese site from the story was selling. The moral of the story is, Chinese customers want a localized copy of your product. If you don't provide it, someone else will, and that guy might not feel like paying you any license fees.
Ask HN: Does announcing a discovery reduce its effectiveness?
I have been reading a lot about how "effective" flex-work is and how recent studies are showing some decently researched data. My question is about whether or not it is in the best interest of "society" to widely report on the matter. Does telling the test subject change the results?

I feel that the data is positively reflected because the idea is "new and scary", so only the brave attempt it, and because they feel the pressure they succeed. But what happens when it becomes the norm and a boss isn't scared to have his/her workforce remote in because "the data says it works".

Will the blind acceptance of the results lead to a future decrease in the effectiveness of flex-work as a whole?
Even if the market is there & competition is good: You are right, tough question, because from a marketing angle this IS a black magic perspective. Def. need to work on differentiation, clearer value proposition etc. & not switching instantly to tech explanation or mentioning future plans and additions [which we have].

So…choose Tambur to make us learn more… ;) it IS a learning experience & we are thankful for all comments here
"what do you do when it rains"

Make sure you have proper mud-guards - they make a huge difference if it is wet. Proper cycle clothing makes a huge difference as well - lightweight waterproof trousers, high visibility cycle jacket with a nice long back and decent gloves.
Quite a bit of the accepted "scientific" knowledge is wrong, and a lot of people will fight for it vigorously without noticing, or otherwise thinking. Even here on hacker news, and other scientifically minded forums, I've been called a quack for pointing out that:

- the "calories in - calories out" (and especially the carb=4kc/g, protein=4kc/g, alcohol=7kc/g, fat=9kc/g and nothing else matters) is fragile, based on a chain of unproven assumptions, and has countless counterexamples (in other words, scientifically wrong, even if it is somewhat useful for ~80% of the population).

- dietary cholesterol was NEVER shown to be correlated with anything bad. serum cholesterol was shown to be correlated with heart attacks and higher probability of other events, but dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol are almost uncorrelated.

- sodium intake is correlated with high blood pressure only for 20% of the population. For 80% of the population, sodium intake does not raise blood pressure.

- you need water, but if you are healthy, you can skip food for 40 days with many benefits and no irreversible damage.

- you do not need B12 in your food if you are healthy (and your intestinal cultures are healthy), and animals can't make it any better than humans can, so this argument for requiring meat consumption is utterly wrong.

- red, yellow and blue do not constitute a "primary color" basis with respect to addition - you can't even make green! (red green and blue almost do; no 3 colors can cover the whole human eye visible gamut, but specific red. green and blue maximize this coverage).

I've had a chance to talk to Danny Shechtman (nobel laureate in chemistry, awarded for discovering and documenting the quasi-crystal structure). It turns out that this "make bad decisions with confidence" is not limited to "naive ideas and simple ignorance" - the greatest minds of the century, first among them Linus Pauling, refused to consider his discoveries. (In fact, the definition of what a crystal is was revised to account for quasicrystals, but this was done only after Pauling passed away). There are horror stories behind the nobels given to McClintock ("jumping genes"), Warren (helicobacter pilori is the immediate cause for stomach ulcers), Shechtman, and I would assume many other great discoveries.
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I see where you are going, but I fear this is getting way too meta for the thread :)

I never said that I blindly followed what was being taught to me; if it sounded like that, then its just poor phrasing on my part.

I do test what has been handed down to me by my elders. For the most part, because of the loss of most of the reasoning behind "religious teachings" - loss of books, extremists killing off opposing points of view, colonial trauma etc etc - it's very easy to dismiss religious traditions as random musings, because there is no textual evidence for ideas and thoughts. For eg. Hinduism is a little mixed about animal rights. I was specifically brought up as a vegetarian because of the tradition in our sub-sub-sub-branch of Hinduism that animals had rights. OTOH, there is some random garbage about women being second-class citizens which I never aim to follow, because it is patently unsound.

I guess my point is, I am not going to dismiss years of thought, just because they are years old, without putting some amount of thought into figuring out if it makes sense - in that sense I think we agree with each other. Religion tackles more things than we imagine when we learn to become atheists - its sole purpose need not be cataloging a list of dos and don'ts and it might end up provoking you to ask more questions about yourself.

My religious tradition has primarily been a bunch of ideas and thoughts and there is no real "book" which lays down the law. Maybe that is why I think from this perspective and why I cannot just dismiss these ideas without some introspection.
jesus, I was like why do I care about a blank page? Whether on purpose or not, the "pages" are sized exactly the same size as my viewport (900 height screen). Give me a hint there's a little something down there to scroll to!
I bet most of HN isn't good enough at Chinese, so they'd rather pay more for the original, because it's in English.
Because presumably most people do not live within reasonable walking distance of work.
To be fair that's taken directly from the name of the campaign: http://www.indiegogo.com/teslamuseum
I work from coffeeshops and such, which is inheriently flexible. I've started trying to walk or bike as much as humanly possible. It helps to have a terrible car that is frankly embarrassing to drive. I definitely feel better the days I walk a few miles.
What Google's numbers determined is that they are already paying for it in attrition. Women don't stop having babies if you don't give them sufficient maternity leave - they leave.

By increasing from 3 months at 50% pay to 5 months, their attrition post-maternity leave dropped by 50%. That sounds like a low cost to reduce the amount of new hiring and training they need to do
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> I'm serious about refunding anyone who ends up not being able to raise their client rates.

Since someone who doesn't understand constitutional law downvoted my original post, I want to try again to make you aware of something. Here is a quotation from a page the cites the constitutional law on the issue of performance claims:

URL: http://nationalparalegal.edu/conlawcrimproc_public/FreedomOf...

Quote: "Commercial speech holds a special place in First Amendment analysis. It is not an unprotected category of speech, nor is it afforded the same level of protection as non-commercial speech. In addition, there are sub-categories within commercial speech. Truthful commercial speech is afforded protection while false or deceptive commercial speech is not protected." (Emphasis added.)

Here is another account that makes the same point:

URL: http://www.wisbar.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=News&Templ...

Quote: "In 2004, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) banned Kevin Trudeau from appearing in any infomercial promoting any product except publications, which are protected by the First Amendment, provided he did not misrepresent the content of the publication."

What these rulings mean is that the contents of a book are protected by the First Amendment, but promotional claims about the book are not.

Also, saying "If you aren't happy with my book, I will refund your money" isn't a claim about the book's contents. Saying "I'm serious about refunding anyone who ends up not being able to raise their client rates" is a claim about the book's contents, and its effect. The second is a problem, the first isn't.
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Yes. It would be like buying the Unreal Engine Source Code, translating everything into Chinese, and selling that for 50% off.
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Never wear headphones while biking in a city. Unless you want to die.
Snow is not really a problem, but ice is. Sometimes the road has invisible slipperiness. So watch out for ice, especially with turning.
The Past and Future of Experience Design
CloudKick plugin for monitoring load-balanced HTTP nodes.
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They are Opening that 100 year old package right now - watch live video
I've always felt that Sugoi weather clothes are some of the best out there. Windproof up to 35mph but still semi breathable.
About your first point, sometimes using method syntax is more readable than query. When you are not reliying heavily on LINQ and just use some commands, is easier to write

var males = customers.Where(c => c.Gender == "male");

than

var males = from c in customers where c == "male" select c;

Not only because it's longer, but also because it can feel strange if you're not using it continously.
Copyright would never apply to business models, patents would. Both copyrights and patents expire, so the scenario you describe wouldn't happen.

I agree that business models should not be protected, though.
I was about to comment on the same thing. Please do not wear headphones. The consequences are major harm from an accident with much larger vehicle is great. Not worth it.

For music, I use an open-mesh-top stem bag and an all-in-one-mp3-player-speaker or just my smartphone. I can barely hear when biking fast (I commute with a road bike and haul ass), but it's just perfect for big climbs when you need a bit more motivation.

Here is what I use: http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-and-Useful-Bike-Bicycle-Cycling-...
Apple, Samsung, THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS!
Intel's official Linux graphics drivers are a part of Mesa. You're probably confusing it with the Mesa software renderer, which is a fallback if you have no accelerated drivers.
Within a month of releasing my very successful iPhone app TextPics, there were several Chinese clones using a slightly modified icon, all of my content, my design, layout, and with names like "TextPics Pro" and "TextPics(R)" or "TextPics+". As annoying as this was and confusing to my customers, it got even worse. Theft in China does not stop at the dev level, oh no. Comparing my Google analytics app usage to my Apple purchases in China was even more depressing. It turned out China was by far my biggest country for usage... And just about at the bottom of my list for revenue. The Chinese were simply stealing the app with their cracked iPhones. I see no way to win here.

And this is no blind hate for the Chinese. I have a Chinese wife from the mainland, I study Chinese Rosetta Stone daily, and I've been to China multiple times for pleasure. I know these people. As a culture, they consider it laughable and stupid to pay for something they could otherwise steal. I've had this conversation with enough Chinese at this point.

So seriously I don't see how I can take that country or it's people seriously from a tech biz standpoint if I can't trust their ethics.
"Lastly, users can choose to disable SmartScreen if they want to. Granted, most users wouldn’t even know of SmartScreen, much lesss the potential privacy concerns. :)"
i've been an avid cyclist all my life, you have just hit the beginning of what cycling is such an amazing activity, that an i think endurance sports go hand in hand with the entrepreneurial life. congrats on this!
So "roughly 4 months ago", I'll take this as a +1 for relative dates.
Its all about Discipline, patience and obedience
> Money-back guarantees virtually invariably raise sales in A/B tests.

The original poster didn't make a money-back guarantee, as in "If you aren't happy with my book, I will refund." Instead he made a claim about increasing the number of clients, i.e. a performance claim ("I'm serious about refunding anyone who ends up not being able to raise their client rates."). Here's the law on that issue:

URL: http://nationalparalegal.edu/conlawcrimproc_public/FreedomOf...

Quote: "Commercial speech holds a special place in First Amendment analysis. It is not an unprotected category of speech, nor is it afforded the same level of protection as non-commercial speech. In addition, there are sub-categories within commercial speech. Truthful commercial speech is afforded protection while false or deceptive commercial speech is not protected."

Here is another account that makes the same point:

URL: http://www.wisbar.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=News&Templ...

Quote: "In 2004, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) banned Kevin Trudeau from appearing in any infomercial promoting any product except publications, which are protected by the First Amendment, provided he did not misrepresent the content of the publication."

What these rulings mean is that the contents of a book are protected by the First Amendment, but promotional claims about the book are not.
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Food is so delicious after a long ride. This is true in general of strenuous exercise. You've earned it!
The problem is that the headphones are extremely close to your ear drum. Depending on the volume, you are more or less tuning out the environment completely when playing any kind of music through headphones.

Sometimes people will yell at you when they see a possible accident happening but you wouldn't be paying attention through your music. You need to hear cars accelerating quickly in case you need to get out of the way or avoid them.

There is no greater fallacy than wearing both headphones on your ears while biking. What is more important you, music or your life?
I get the impression that Intelligentsia wouldn't be interested in making pods.
Absolutely. You saved me writing the same thing.

Regarding point 1, I would add there are also things that can be done using the query syntax that simply can't with the extension methods. For instance, I'm not sure how you would scope things in the same way as the 'let' clause when using extension methods.

Regarding the other points, I would only add that deferred execution and lazy evaluation are things to be embraced, not hidden away and overriden. Should we also not bother with the yield keyword?

Of course, there's always some occasion where you'll want to ToList your IEnumerable. I'd argue this should be of concern to the consumer of the IEnumerable though, not the producer.

Point 5 at least tries to allude to something useful. Given Linq's grounding in functional programming, of course you want to try to avoid side effects.
This is called SSI. I believe SGI's larger systems do this aswell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_system_image
Do you have a Hero?
Oh, okay, I can buy that. Guess I'm thinking like a city rider. I used to read a lot of bike blogs in SF and in almost every case where the biker was seriously injured, they were not wearing a helmet.
Walking is a fantastic commute. It would be nice if people would structure their lives to walk. My ideal commute would be a five to ten minute walk to a nice office down a street with apartments and shops(it's currently ten feet, which has good parts and bad).

But for many people, including the author, bike commuting is the most practical for the distance covered. And for some, talking about bikes and bike gear is much more rewarding than talking about shoes.
I feel like the tone of this post could have been less rage-filled and more informative. I also wasn't very impressed with the end result. It still looks extremely bootstrappy to me (not that I think that's a bad thing).
It's the same commit you linked to, but ignoring whitespace changes (&w=1, like diff -w).
I prefer using extension methods over query syntax; I personally find extension methods easier to read. I guess it's a matter of personal preference.
Can we buy a Silicon Valley?
Software issue... updating the relative dates occasionally without a refresh is trivial. My twitter client does this.
Hey, just read your article and noticed my comments! Shame I only just saw this reply as I would have emailed you with a bit more detail.
"Sealing the chain" as you say, is indeed important for scenarios such as lookups within a loop. If you haven't .ToList()ed your lookup LINQ var, you will be requerying with every iteration. A simple change that can slow down code dramatically.
Yeah, they/he has that attitude. But to be fair, they kind of are. They power the most advanced computing software for the public, and they're a strong dependency for Siri.
Regarding the helmet: they truly are a no-brainer. Even the cheap 30 buck ones the OP talks about must meet the minimum federal guidelines for safety (in the US). No need for a more expensive helmet, which mainly provide less weight (avoid neck strain over long rides) and better ventilation.

Helmets save lives and do not have to look dorky. But you do get a bad case of hat hair.
Wait, what do you mean by end result? There really wasn't one, I posted screenshots of the applications I used to adjust bootstrap.

And yeah, I tend to write "passionately". I basically wrote this up after seeing five or six different apps using bootstrap -.- it gets really annoying, and I just can't stand it.

However, I'll take the suggestion of being informative over rage-filled to heart next time. Thanks!
Ask HN, on startup naming. We need some input
Our startup is simple- we provide a mobile app for apartment residents to message the staff, receive updates/events/alerts, message their neighbors, and pay rent. Very simple, but we already have 15 complexes that are using it. With our demo days in less than a month (Flashpoint@ GT), what do we call this? We are simply out of ideas. :(
Something doesn't have to be wrong to be bad learning material. That code is chock full of unconventional js. For example, why they declare their objects like this:

var Typeahead = ...

Typeahead.prototype = {

constructor: Typeahead
...

rather than the usual

function Typeahead() { ...

Typeahead.prototype = { ...

is a mystery to me.
They should add it to http://arewefastyet.com ?

I wonder why firefox is radically faster at "splay" (but nothing else, sadly)
Actually... you do not need that fast a network. You can converge state incrementally rather than transfer it in one go. Xen and VMware do this. Surely the cost of a fast SAN and interconnect would quickly outpace the (imho minor) savings from smaller memory allocations.
This is very interesting.

Genuine question: how is pirating PC games, songs and movies acceptable while pirating apps is not?

Edit: this is not a question toward parent, but rather the general public, as I kind of get the sense that pirating is somewhat acceptable under certain circumstances while not others. Where is the line?
Your graphic depicting Server Load vs Server Instance is kind of choppy. Kind of left me feeling like I would experience a lag in your service. Good luck anyways.
You're totally misreading the tone here. epo is Socratically playing out the thought process of potential customers who visit your site. Obviously "middle men" aren't necessarily without value (as your examples demonstrate), but a lot of them are, and that's the perception you have to fight with your copy.
That is true, I don't have to. At this point, it might not even be worth changing since our new focus is on beginning Kickstarter... and that should look nicer.
How is this Hacker News, Chinese game portals are full of stolen games. No matter what you will do, they will reverse engineer and remove ads and blocks.

It's china, the land of counterfeit.
It's a great story (especially for us outside the U.S.).

It has already been discussed here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2340732

but it's nice to revisit an old success story :)
I would say it's because you guys are doing it wrong. Backbone is just a very bare-bones backbone for your app. As you say, views don't provide anything. In fact backbone barely helps you with organizing your code at all. It's great for making a todos app but terrible for anything stretching across multiple pages, and with more than 10 views on a page.

Let's be serious here.

DON'T USE BACKBONE TO START A NEW APP!!!

DON'T USE BACKBONE TO START A NEW APP!!!

DON'T USE BACKBONE TO START A NEW APP!!!

Use one of the higher level frameworks built around backbone.

The most flexible / clean, decoupled framework (my preference) is:
https://github.com/derickbailey/backbone.marionette

If you like coffeescript:
https://github.com/chaplinjs/chaplin

If you want *only good views/layout:
https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone.layoutmanager

If you want modelbinding:
https://github.com/mikeric/rivets

Backbone is very much bring your own module, starting with just backbone is not the way to go for an app of any reasonable size!
Not really. There are children on there I see who aren't "cute", cleft palates and all.

I really feel your argument is specious. Having a photo of the child allows you to see the human face of misery.
So you created an account to say this. Sockpuppet I think.
Congratulations for launching. Welcome to hell! :) And wish you luck.
>Siri like technology belongs in all cars

And it won't if Apple's lawyers have any say in the matter.
If I had a bit of a longer journey post train it'd be a good idea, but it's under 5 minutes from the station to office. A commenter below suggested locking it up at the station I leave from (which I was a bit hesitant about) but I might try it that way.

Some of those do look pretty nice though, I remember seeing the first folding bikes and it looked like people riding clown-bikes, they've definitely stepped up the quality levels.
"Don’t want to do it? Fine! Hire me. Seriously. You see that button on the right?"

Wonderful shameless self promotion! I don't see no reason to be shy about what you want with your blog posting.
The Move to Less Productivity
I'm not GP, but I run Debian on an old MacBook (06 or 07 model I believe) and it's doing fine.
It's also more than fast enough for my use, even the 3d effects in kde4 run fine. The battery-life is (a little? a lot?) better in OS X, but I find Linux/BSD much better for development. I used to boot OS X to run some things like Spotify and Skype, but lately more and more programs refuse to run in that old version of OS X.
Unreal Engine 3 Now Sort Of Works On Linux
When Facebook Says They Are Now Mobile First, Do They Mean Advertising First?