skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would not make the mistake of trusting the law per se.

Law is far from being deterministic. It is merely a framework used for discussing concrete events.

This is what drove me away from studying law after having done it for three full years. You have all those reasonable and just rules that get thrown over board (by re-interpreting them or bending the meaning of words) as soon as they collide with a greater purpose.

As someone who has switched sides let me tell you of how lucky we can be that in computer science a zero is a zero and a one is a one.
I have one, it is called a dog.
A good friend with 20+ years of programming experience once told me "even putting a form that collects basic information, and sends it as an email, is hard." Shipping a software product, no matter how lightweight, is freaking hard.
* Clicking on the calendar itself does not work for the first item, shouldn't it focus the field and open the picker?

* Can't [Esc] to close the picker

* Not sure why the "Apply" button is needed when the date is set regardless of its usage

* The ability to drag from one date to the next would be rather nice

* Not sure datejs is a good idea as a base, it's essentially dead (has been for 4 years) and the localizations are in a pretty sorry state

* The reflow/columnification when changing the width of the browser looks pretty bad

* When trying to select a FROM date after the TO date, the selection is just cancelled without any indication or hint that something is wrong. This is compounded by the calendars not showing the current selection range. Hipmunk does that part rather well (though not perfectly)
Neat. Very similar to something we're working on for a client (http://www.actionfigurelabs.com).

There's probably no chance I live near you (Houston here), but if I did I'd REALLY love to grab a beer and chit chat about some of the battles we're both fighting with WebGL, and the different choices we made as a result.

And for anyone who plays with it, please forgive some functionality on Action Figure Labs at the moment. It's not meant to take web orders for another few days, as we built up the tech to show off at some local comicbook cons and take orders there.
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Regarding older founders. I'm currently working with one of the founders that is a statistical anomaly on the upper rage of the graph. Reality as I perceive it is far opposite from the case, perhaps this is why they are a statistical anomaly within YC.
Yes. This.

It's also a matter of what people are willing to pay for. Even (or perhaps especially) in commercially supported software, cleanups only happen if there is a strong business case for the cleanups. And if the cost of buying an extra build machine to run long complicated configure scripts is significantly less than the engineer time to re-engineer a new autoconf system from scratch, in many companies (and certainly most starupts) --- it won't happen.

The OP cares very much about code quality as a good and important thing in and of itself. But that view isn't shared by many business people, or by many programmers in general, for better or for worse. Some have argued that OSS code tends to actually be _better_ about code cleanliness, because it's public, and people do care about making sure that their code is clean. (I've never seen the proprietary source code for the Oracle DB, but there are many stories out there about how horrible it is from a code cleanliness perspective.)

Also, the OP seems to care a lot of lots of extra library dependencies. The big problem here is that a lot of people don't really care if their package uses perl or python as part of their build scripts/makefiles --- or even if their package uses perl _and_ python scripts. The OP cares, but for better or for worse, most people don't. And I would wager this is likely true at most companies where programmers are paid to maintain the source tree as well!
http://www.myrobotnation.com/ is similar and it has a much larger set of styles/parts/colors.
We might:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/post_1435_b_797188....
Ask HN: Memory usage and performance of Play vs Rails?
I am running on Heroku and I'm just doing due diligence to figure out what makes the most sense for me.

As an aside, anybody have a preference between the two having used both?
I've been banned for very politely writing anti-libertarian sentiments on this site.

I've learned that the Libertarians on this site will happily collude to destroy the account of anybody who condemns their religion... given that knowledge, why bother being polite?
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> Chrome updates automatically. So how does he/she avoid auto update?

Kill the auto-update daemon, remove it, prevent it from re-installing itself (by creating an empty "GoogleSoftwareUpdate" directory with write bits unset in place of the removed one). Done.
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Profitability is doubling every 18 months though ...
Herein lies a problem with communication. Someone takes the time to write you. Social conventions obligate you to respond (though you'd be better off if you didn't respond to most). Even if you choose to "put it off for later," it weighs in the back of your mind.

Now fast forward to modern day, and the cost/time required to send an email is trivial. More emails get sent. Busy people get more inbound. Social conventions obligate you to respond, especially if it's someone you know.

We'd all be better off if the expectations of response were lower. That's why I like Twitter. There is little expectation or obligation to respond.
French press at the desk and a hot water tap in the commissary. It just works.
Are you going handle ordering and shipping for other companies? Like a cafepress model?
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Already discussed here today : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4407188
Sometimes people do.
If you use Bitcoin, there is a bitcoin denominated stock market used for funding already. glbse.com

Sites a bit slow but it's been up for over a year.
From the article: "It may also be that since the parties were both in the same industry, a fixed exchange ratio was thought more appropriate because the market would assign them equally in value, a common assumption underlying this choice."

Would some kind soul please explain what the author meant by "the market would assign them equally in value?" Thanks.
If you go directly to the domain, http://timetobleed.com/, then you can see an image of the post, along with a nice message to Rack Space.
While I agree with the rest of your points, anyone in their target demographic will understand those last references.
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Looking at things like this pitch deck and Gabby Douglas' post-medal interview, I'm amazed by how mature some people become while they are still teenagers. If I was pitching Facebook today as a near-30-year-old business school graduate, my deck would be only somewhat better than this one produced by a college freshman. Had I attempted it when I was 17 it would have been a total disaster.
I'll admit it, this one took me a long time and multiple reads to get the joke. well done.
Coursera is awesome. I'm 4 weeks into an introductory finance class and professor Kaul is doing such a good job of introducing concepts to us (I have no finance background).
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There's also http://preferredreturn.com/calculator that has the graphing you describe and the ability to add multiple rounds. However, the FF one has a better interface for convertible debt & early stage.
What exactly is a "social" company vs. a non-social one? Some companies are clearly in one bucket or another but I'm wondering what kinds of companies are near the boundary.
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Awesome, thanks! Added this and the other one to the post.
More often than not, what you want to convey is clear within 30s of deciding you want to reply.

But then you start rambling. Because rambling is easier than Just Saying What You Want (tm).
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Very funny pic
This is maybe one of the best funny pictures that I have ever seen. Read it and I am sure it will not only make you smile, but will make you laugh.
Well played! I was halfway indignant before I got it.
So that you could:

from java.util import Stack

Instead of:

from jnius import autoclass
Stack = autoclass('java.util.Stack')

http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/sys/imports.html#custom-i...
The neat use-case I see coming out of this is enhancing an onboarding process.

I work for a company which sells wine online, and a large number of people have strong preferences about the types of wines they like (red, white, chardonnay, half-cases, etc.)

It's useful to give people a survey - combined with an explanation of how the site works - as they are signing up. Even more useful is to use their answers to show the new customer a wine which is suited to their tastes. (If you like high-end reds, it wouldn't make sense to show you a half-case of inexpensive white wine to convince you to make you first purchase.)

And if our marketing department can manage their survey, marketing copy, and graphic design without having to ask developers every time they want a change (or if they can save me the time of writing a customizable interface) then all the better.

Onboarding. That's where it's at, yo.

The idea of surveys as a paywall mechanism (eg, New York Times paywall with a survey) is, at first glance, pretty unappealing, because paywalls are de-facto abhorrent. But we'll see; I may not mind filling out a 4-question questionnaire in order to read an article that would otherwise be blocked. Especially if I know that after filling it out once, I will never ever have to fill the survey out again.

And let's not forget about the adult industry! Instead of captchas... well, why not get some interesting marketing analytics out of the deal?

Interested to see how this evolves!
I've only been using 2x images for UI elements and logos. Photos still look fine at standard res (especially if 'Saved for Web' with a .25 blur). A recent project included a 25K 8-bit 2x sprite sheet, and a 13K 1x sprite sheet for LTE IE8. So not much of a difference if limited to elements that really need to be crisp.
I can pick other module... for example key-value.
Wich benefits I have with key-value module? I don't need "integration module" for this job. Compare
http://static.springsource.org/spring-data/data-keyvalue/doc...

and

https://github.com/xetorthio/jedis/blob/master/src/test/java...

I don't see any benefit or better programming experience or more features on top.

Other modules? You mentioned:

Spring Security/Acegi - Java EE do the job also. Seamless integrated with EJB and other technologies.

Spring Transaction - also.

I mean I see no reason to use Spring or any glue.

"ASP.NET MVC and Rails MVC": this is not Spring vs. Java EE question. I like Django and Wicket and it's much better as Java EE and, of course, Spring.

Map to function or to class - doesn't matter. It's same. Spring is same MVCM2. Why I should prefer write tons of xml crap, if I can use powerful workflow engine like Activiti, AristaFlow or jBPM or others? :)
I wouldn't say it has nothing to do with technology. I think (and the amount of comments on this story seems to support that) - many HN readers are interested in information transparency and possible clandestine agendas to against openness.

If there turns out that (any number of) intelligence services have a hand in this -- I should think that would have implications for hackers everywhere.

Even if most of HN is about legitimate start-ups and projects that in the end are not very disruptive -- I'd say that many readers would be interested in what it takes to come under the very real thumb of the various arms of eg. the US government.

But I agree that if this was about someone like Sklyarov[1] it would be a better fit.

[1] http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-270082.html
I like these, but how do you get the "value"? Im not a javascript guru, but is there an attribute or value I need to check?
Yeah. Only issue with it: reinvented yet another format language instead of using strftime's or UTS#35's (most annoying part: moment's format is confusingly close to UTS#35's)
Also, I'm not sure that of all of Gosling's achievements, I would point to Java-the-language (or the UTTERLY GODAWFUL initial libraries) as a particular exemplar of elegance. NeWS was much, much, much more interesting and forward-thinking, for one.
The problem is actually that most software projects are too complicated to setup. This is a kind of technical debt created by bad developers who think their job only involves coding, not maintaining the entire lifecycle of code. I bet these shops also have hard to reproduce builds and deploys that require dozens of human steps.

If your new dev process isn't some close variation of:

1) Install IDE
2) Checkout code from repo
3) Run dev environment setup script
4) Open project in IDE

then you're doing it wrong.
...I suppose that's an example of a business owner with unhappy employees because he's technically "correct" but completely ignorant of human psychology?
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Mobile bandwidth is somewhat of a red herring. While ubiquitous 4G isn't reality, most smartphones and networks are already capable of fairly high bandwidth.

Latency is the bottleneck you should tackle first when addressing mobile performance, not asset size - the world has already spent a lot of time optimizing asset size for web delivery. But phones are bad at handling lots of requests. Serving a single high-resolution graphic will have significantly less impact on page rendering speed (and even more important, perceived rendering speed) than a handful of smaller assets which add up to the same size.

For a real world example, a mobile phone can download and render a single large photo faster than the gaggle of javascript, css, and social network share icons typically presented next to it.

Many have examined and written about this. Here's a blog article that Google ranks on the subject: http://www.webperformancetoday.com/2012/04/02/mobile-versus-...
Point the finger at the devs who created the system. Batch files and bash scripts go a long way.
Except for the first prosecutor that handled the case (bearing in mind that Sweden has a remarkably poor record when it comes to prosecuting sexual violence).
Inverted AeroPress [1] (wow, today I learned there's a World AeroPress championship, and this method was the 2010 winner!), fresh ground beans with manual burr grinder [2].

[1] http://sprudge.com/aeropress-champion-marie-hagemeisters-win...
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Hario-MSS-1B-Mini-Coffee-Grinder/dp/B0...
As a hardware designer I'm worried about this more and more. PCB technology hasn't really advanced all that much in the past ~10 years, although the line rates are going higher and higher. Back in the ~100Mhz days a 1ns edge was about 6 inches long in HR370-based circuit boards, which was long enough to barely matter. Now, at 10Gbps, your bits are half an inch long, and your high-end harmonics are on the scale of your via lengths. PCB design has gotten appreciably harder in the past few years as a result - maybe three years ago, when I laid my first 10Gbps traces, I remember thinking that this was bleeding edge stuff, and some of the techniques we used were pretty exotic for the time. Now, 10Gbps is run-of-the-mill and 28.05 is on the horizon (maybe even coming into town!). It seems like we've really taken up all of the slack in PCB tech and I wonder what will happen next. Maybe academia's optical dreams from the last millennium (silicon ICs with on-die/co-die optical xcvrs) will finally be realized. Without a revolution in the way PCBs are processed and designed I doubt we'll be able to push much past 28.05Gbps in copper.
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The startup that wants a 1,000+ store distribution?
I wrote a response to this article last night -- not addressing the problems causing the delays in the first place, but ways to free yourself from the stressful feeling that you're wasting your life:
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it would be nice to have an example that you could run through several times. i tried the football example once and then wanted to see how it handled incorrect answers, but wasn't going to start searching for cookies to delete just to re-enable it...
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It looks like the primary function of the button is to alter something on the page via the toggles function, but I guess you could check if it had the active class or not.
Glad you liked the idea!
The idea with forward is that you could then have a list of the most forwarded messages to show people what can be written and make them want to try too !
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iCracked (YC W12) is hiring a backend engineer to help us repair the world
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... You use the exchange for exactly that, exchanging bitcoins, not holding them. Yes an exchange may possess your coins right after you convert your dollars to BTC, but you can just put them in your own account to be held for free.... That wouldn't give the exchange much time to do anything with your money.
I wasn't speaking about the law, I was speaking about moral behavior. Consent which is anything less than enthusiastic should be frowned upon, at the very least, by all of us.
Thanks for the interest. Google Consumer Surveys does have a similar model to ours. There a few things that differentiate us now:

1. Our minimum spend is only $10 vs. $100 for Google; lower minimum brings in a group of people who want to get a "quick read" on an issue (e.g. ask 100 people an opinion on a new logo design or tagline)

2. Starting soon, we'll be offering advanced behavioral targeting. For example, you could select a target audience of active young mothers, Honda car owners, or online shoppers.

3. We're allowing multi-question surveys (up to 4 questions). Each respondent answers all questions in your survey, which enables cross-tabulation of responses (e.g. looking at how respondents who answered "Yes" to question 1 respond to question 3). Google is currently focused on 1-2 questions at a time.

In the coming months, we hope to differentiate ourselves in other areas, in particular data quality.
Another good approach to small elements like these is using icon fonts. For example, GitHub recently changed all of their nav icons from sprites to a custom icon font called Octicons:

Say Hello to Octicons: https://github.com/blog/1106-say-hello-to-octicons

The Making of Octicons: https://github.com/blog/1135-the-making-of-octicons

Edit: I realize icon fonts are mentioned in the Smashing Mag article, but GitHub's articles are considerably more thorough.
Java bytecode is very compact and used also in embedded systems. Java can be predictable.

Can you show some benchmarks compare java w/ jit and other languages?

I love another language, but Java is better choice.
I was intimately involved in those discussions and decisions.

There seems to be some underlying assumptions of omniperfection hung of the "cathedral" meme in these parts. That is simply unfounded in both theory and practice.

Second, cathedral vs. bazaar is not really about governance, but about architecture, and they are two separate power-structures, although most organizations, including FreeBSD, mingle them, to their own disadvantage.

We can argue if attempting M:N was a wise or a factually based decision, but that has nothing to do with cathedral vs. bazaar, certainly not in this particular case: What happened was that M:N came first and that was that.

Only once it clearly transpired that it could not sustain its promises in practice (partly because every thread programmer assumed 1:1) did the actual decision making aparatus of FreeBSD kick into gear.

In Linux, (which is much more cathedral than FreeBSD) or OpenBSD (at the time even more so), that decision would probably have been executed practically instantly, but in FreeBSD which is mostly consensus driven, it took some time (and angry words etc.)

But overall the libkse vs. libthr saga has almost nothing to do with cathedral vs. bazaar, because architecture was not the driving force at any time during that saga.
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Interestingly I see different sites in different browsers. I don't see pages http://toys.dreamforge.me/users/sign_up and http://toys.dreamforge.me/assemblies in Firefox for instance...
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Super! Really happy you like it - we'll be in touch about the delivery.