skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would argue that it is a british factor, regardless of the name above the door it is based in the UK and as a result help the UK economy.

The reason for all those empty buildings is due to an old insurance policy (now illegal) that meant developers could build and insure against it being empty ... essentially the insurance company pays the rent if the building is empty and as such there is no incentive for the developer to actively let it out.

Setting up a line like this is expensive and unless you are willing to foot the bill for the factory setting up the line then it is understandable that most factories would decline the work if they thought the market opportunity was small of the business plan was weak.

Either way I think we both agree on this being a good thing but we don't know the context in which the work was previously declined
Arch Linux deserves a mention here.

http://www.archlinux.org/
>I personally don't see problem with that

But Apple sees a problem in that. When they do it, they consider it to be perfectly fine and give it names like 'inspiration'.

But when others do it they act like they were the first ones to bring it to earth and others are 'stealing' it from them.
Google Leaked Quality Rater Guidelines 2012
Lego for Men
Same here. I ran it until my device (HTC Desire Z, T-Mobile G2 in the US) was discontinued by the MIUIAndroid folks.
This is just plain sad to watch. No further comment.
Optimize your TDD workflow by writing Vim plugins
> as failures to express the meaning of the code clearly[1].

Or the language, either programming lang or nature lang, is a fail by design?
MW3: Shitty Teams -_- TAF
YEAH
Take this with a grain of salt, and some science on the matter.

http://www.iijiij.com/2012/09/01/science-shows-that-self-dis...
Alex Jacobson on HAppS
Android with an iOS theme probably. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gau.go.lau...
Sudan’s Dictator Wants Satellites to Stop Spying on His Crimes
unfortunately in china patenting someone elses design is valid and will result in apple having to settle with them. The rules and laws in china are very lax and poorly enforced especially when foreign companies go to court with local companies. Just look at what happend with proview and apple a few month ago over the ipad trademark
Technically it is possible to steal a copyright, by falsely claiming to be the owner. I presume you could do something similar with a patent.
For most people six pack abs aren't an end goal, but rather a means to get more attractive partners as a bonus on top of becoming fit. It's not actually heroic. In fact getting to the level of fitness where you can do "an hour or two of hard running" is MUCH harder.
I live in China. A friend of mine was recently assaulted in a bar. Family of the perpetrator came to the hospital with the policeman assigned to the case and pressured my friend to accept money in lieu of pressing charges. Depending on how much 'guanxi' the perpetrators family have, if he does press charges, documents and evidence may get 'lost' and my friends employer could get in trouble with the local government, lose it's license etc. Although I can't talk about patent law, I know there are really no 'laws' in the city I live in - everything is negotiable and rests on how much you can spend and what your standing is with government officials. I love living here, but China is a mafia state.
Ask HN: How should Mailrox support emails with responsive design?
Mobiscroll – The customizable HTML5 spinner control for touch devices
Not just that, China needs to draw a line in the sand or they will be seen as totally toxic by Western companies. That would mean less jobs, investments and ultimately http://www.fullissue.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Guilloti... for the leaders.

Doing this to Apple can get you in a few newspapers, and that's not good for China Inc :)
The constant framework churning? Examples?

I personally believe having a robust framework that constantly gets updates and new features is a good sign for the development community. Just comparing the changes happened in .NET to Java frameworks, I would to know how moving away from the .NET is a better choice. Is there any other robust framework that you are considering? I don't know any other frameworks that are robust enough. Python and PHP certainly don't have the any comparable size of "ecosystem" when compared to .NET. I use other frameworks when I have to, and this usually happens when I'm developing mobile applications (Object-C for iOS and Java for Android). So far, with changes in Azure, I'm pretty happy with what .NET has done and where .NET is going.

Async/await is something I don't have too much experience, though. So far, I don't think the feature wouldn't be too useful for a complex system and expect the community to stick with how asynchronous programming has been done in the past (e.g. Begin/End methods and IAsyncResults) for such system. However, I think it's a really simple syntactic sugar that developers can take an advantage when they are developing rather relatively small applications, such as windows 8 apps.
Does anyone feels LFS leans a bit outside its own point ?
I felt like I was learning more about gcc/make/autoconf more than the OS itself. The relationship between packages, how the OS interacts with hardware was still obscure. After a successful first reboot I tried to build elinks and while it ran, it was broken in many strange ways (tty rendering, dns lookups failing sometime).

It's a inspiring project, but IMHO it could be split into two goals, toolchain/compilation and operating system assembly.
I wish I could see this kind of discussion in the wayland/name-your-compositor mailing lists. Currently it would be easy to implement a new attribute in the ICCCM so that applications that don't need foreground unredirection (ie: they actively want to be transparent, which is a minority) can signal so, but it looks like that with the unification of the window manager and compositor we are losing this kind of extendability.

I do realtime graphics with GL for a living, and I'm really sad at the state of the linux desktop, but especially worried at the future. GL performance with any modern distribution is worrysome due to the compositors, and removing it is the first thing that I need to tell any customer lamenting performance issues. Being unable to set vsync on a per-window/context basis is really a major problem, and the performance hit that you get is unacceptable. It seems that removing vsync is all hip these days for games and toys, yet tearing is unacceptable in any other context when you can actually get triple buffering with modern hardware.

Why are we optimizing for toys, when what matters are actual applications and everyday's performance? People don't seem to realize that while the GPU can be used as a general purpose computing unit, the usage pattern is vastly different. The process handling the screen often must have either higher or total control over it many times. You immediately notice video stutter and frames lagging.

But what do I know... I do the same with audio trying to squeeze decent latency with PortAudio and/or alsa directly, while people go through the pulseaudio pipeline...
I see it as the the cult of Apple's totalitarian grip on HN-discussion finally letting go.

It's already a few years past due.
Manufacturing is also pretty strong in the UK - it just doesn't employ many people so everyone assumes we don't do it anymore.
Why did you link to TED, but not YouPorn? :)
I live in China... money and relationships come first, justice is an afterthought.
Agree, being an owner of a Kindle Touch I am occasionally frustrated by its refusal to acknowledge I want to change pages. There are times where I simply turn it off and on just so I can page change.

Still, I think I have some gifts for Christmas. While this might not be enough for me to upgrade it will be a nice gift for a few relatives I know who love to read.

I am however more interested in their other tablets as children's gifts.

On a side note, I will give Amazon credit for making a resilient device. I left mine out overnight and it got caught in a full down pour. Found it on the table outside with water to the brim. Shook it out, put it port side down in the bathroom sink with a hair dryer aimed at it for the morning and the damn think still works as well as day one.
Python IDE PyCharm Now with Flask Support
When you visit a website, that website gets a lot more information about you than when you walk into a shop. All I want is that websites are limited to the same information as a simple shop. I published the following blog post last year which covers my thoughts on it: https://grepular.com/2011_EU_Cookie_Legislation_Opinion_of_a...

Shops don't know the last shop you visited, but websites do know the last website you visited (referrers). Shops don't assign you a unique ID the moment you walk through the door which they use to identify you on subsequent visits, websites do (cookies).
> It has existed for over ten years.

So? I haven't heard of it before, and I doubt if many of my friends have either. Programming landscape is very big now and everyone has a finite amount of time for exploring it. I could use your argument to whine about how so many self proclaimed geeks/hackers don't know about Lisp and keep reinventing wheels all the time.
are we talking about colorization? or the author doesn't know the difference about code comments and code documentation
Can you provide evidence that "patenting someone elses design is valid" in China? Lacking it, I find it very hard to believe that there's a patent system anywhere that doesn't require you to attest that the thing your applying to patent was invented by you.

The Proview case is a tangent - Proview (claimed to?) have had the iPad trademark (not patent, but ignoring that...) since 2000, well before Apple. From what I've read, the lawsuit was about whether Proview had in the past sold the Chinese rights to it Apple or not.
The other side: I would not spend $X billion and risk bankruptcy to invent something that can be stolen 48 hours after I patent it. Do you see the problem with that argument? You're hurting consumers when you don't allow companies to profit for a while from the technologies a company risked everything to invent.

Xerox patents have a limited time, they (maybe) can be licensed or exchanged with other patents licenses. Or, gasp....a resourceful company can invest billions to come with a new way to skin the cat.

>> And when it gets into the realm of shapes, then you have an incredibly broken system.

The biggest lie told by Samsung's shills to hide the details. If that was the case Apple would have sued everyone making phones with round corners. Samsung has a habit of waiting to see what sells and then clone them to get all the benefits without the risks.
Almost all of the arguments are applicable to ZF2 too.

-- "Standalone components". Check.
-- "Using by big companies like BBC". Check.
-- "Community". Just check StackOverflow for zend framework. Check.
-- "Here to stay". It's the Zend company. Check.
-- "Innovations". Just check the source code of ZF2 and be amazed. Check.
We certainly see some confusion from the "app" in our domain. We think of our name as "Buffer" rather than "Buffer app". So I think "an open source Buffer" would make a lot of sense, and might remove this confusion of whether it's something built as an app for Buffer. Love the thinking here, by the way :-)
> I would never have the final product made in China.

But you are aware, that FoxConn, who are a major company in the production of the iPhone have their HQ in Taipeh, which is, coincidently, in China? Other products made by FoxConn are the iPad, the iPod, the Kindle, the PS3 and the Xbox 360. Major customers include Motorola Mobility, Nokia and Samsung Electronics.

To put it short: The final product isn't always made IN China, but almost certainly made by a chinese company, employing chinese standards.

EDIT: To make things a bit clearer, the country Taipeh (Taipei) is in is obviously Taiwan, officially called Republic of China. Just to let you know where the "China" came from in the above written.
Just one problem: a Tesla left unplugged or even charged by inadequate current for a month will irreversibly destroy its own battery and the replacement cost is most of the car's value.

I wonder if the power hookups for refrigerated containers are beefy enough to keep a Tesla charged…
I consider myself a solopreneur. I run http://bbguard.com.ve which is a panic button for BlackBerry users that live in dangerous cities (main focus in LatinAmetica)

My email is in my profile. Would love to connect.
Is ZF2 rewritten from scratch ? I have a fuzzy memory of ZF1 being quite php4ish in its design.
>He is arguing against putting scientists in government because the Nazis had scientists.

This doesn't comment does not merit a response, but no he is not.
It'd be interesting to see how many will renew.
No doubt - the various tree methods all have their drawbacks too (more to manage when manipulating the tree).

It's all going to depend on your usecase but in general these sorts of path operations tend to be more read and less manipulation. You'll almost certainly get much faster lookups if you're not using recursive queries (as you can normally just use an index).
A proposal to enforce the 20% of C++ you actually use
That's why he said that he's not trying to discredit other frameworks, he's pointing out the selling points for Symfony2. I like both ZF and Symfony2, they are both very different frameworks and are fun and easy to work with. It's just a matter of personal choice.

Fabien deserves some credit for being so open, it's open source, people should use what they like. And if they don't know what to choose it's things like this they should be basing their choice on. I'm waiting for matthew to write the counterpart :)
Haha, definitely enjoyed the comments from your friends. We'll run through some more A/B testing with copy + images after this feedback, so thank you!

Our conversion rate is decent right now, but it can always get better :)
The to-do list problem
The fact that Dieter Rams is flattered doesnt make it a false comparison, au contraire, it means he sees obvious "influence". Also how can daringfireball's opinion be considered an unbiased source.
Then again, they didn't sue apple, eventhough Sony makes smartphones. So it seems to me that it's not unfair to point at Apple for following unconventional business practices.
Agree.

When I'm working on a piece of code I want the comments to fade quietly into the background.

Some sort of toggle might be useful though. Finish editing your code, hit key combo, comments take centre stage, check they still make sense, return to usual state.

Being able to bind this to certain actions such as save or build might be useful too.

But not in my face all the time please.
lisp was too high too early. let's rediscuss this in 50 years.
The sum of max bids would indeed be far less misleading. I am almost positive that that sum divided by 88 to show the average real offer yields an extremely unimpressive figure, which is the sole reason why they went with this other method.
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” - Zig Ziglar
Hey - please listen to reality rather than me if you're converting well :-)

You might have two diverse market segments too I guess..
As far as regular comments go, this is probably true. But then, comments serve more than one purpose. Not all comments are there for those special edge cases.

For example, what about docstrings? That is, comments that contain documentation that is supposed to be sufficient even if the code is not available? I daresay those should not be emphasized.

Or what about instructional code that is written to be read by people with less than perfect knowledge of the programming language or problem domain?

In the end, I think highlighting keywords like TODO, FIXME or NOTE in comments would be a better solution.
> To build an intelligent to-do list it will take more than polished pixels, so please start putting more intelligence in your to-do tools. Your users will be thankful and will hopefully have much shorter to-do lists.

After trying many things, I have now switched to Trello. Using it I've become convinced that "intelligent to-do lists" are a fallacy, what we need are dumb todo lists. Something not much smarter than a whiteboard or a piece of paper.

For reasons I don't understand, those just work.
When was that? Could you quote some threads from the past that display "Apple's totalitarian grip on HN-discussion"?
Got it.

A "Buffer" is pretty generic in software though, so this wording might be confusing also. You could say RabbitMQ is an open source buffer as well :)
The title of this article post "Why Symfony (over framework X)" is highly misleading when all of the arguments that are suggested for choosing Symfony apply also to ZF.

It is also missing a substantial disclaimer, in that the article is written by the founder of the Symfony Project (if you weren't aware)... Anyway... I'm not going ot argue on the merits of which framework is better, (I use both and think they are both fantastic, but this post is grossly misleading if you are trying to do a subjective comparison).

- ZF employs a use at will philosophy. You don't have to use any components or the full stack if you don't want to.

- ZF is also used by many large companies. How is this different to Symfony? (clue: It isn't).

- ZF also has a huge community, it also has a huge demand for ZF developers. As does Symfony. Both IRC channels have several hundred users connected always.

- ZF, also embraces the "don't reinvent the wheel" philosophy (where possible). That's why ZF never tried to implement an ORM. What's the point when Doctrine exists. The only reason it wasn't include in sources is because of mutually exclusive licences.

- "Symfony tries to bring innovation to PHP"... This is a little facetious, but ZF also does the same. Symfony and ZF both have a minimum PHP version of 5.3... Both have started to make the lifes of developers as easier as possible with composer/phar. ZF also uses Dependency Injection...

Background: I use both Zend Framework and Symfony on the same project. Why? Because they both use the same use at will philosophy... So to say "Why use Symfony" or "Why use Zend Framework" over another framework... is misleading again, because ultimately, you are never restricted to a single framework anyway, you can still pick out individual components... The only real choice you have is which MVC/Application you want to use.

Just added this submission also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4488582
The problem with comments is people misuse them. Comments should explain decisions, not code. Why are you doing this? Not how, I can see how from your code if it isn't crappy. If I can't see how from the code, you should improve the code.

And by "you" I mean whomever wrote the code I'm looking at. Usually my past self.

I think what I'm saying is that the problem with comments is semantics, not UX.
Zing Backpackers Hostel
Zing Backpackers Hostel is a brand new hostel located in a beautiful tree lined street in Sydney's backpacker district. We offer youth hostels at cheap prices that suits budget and of good quality and with all the facilities.
Amahi is hiring a mech engineer with some design chops to lead an exciting project related to our software! jobs at amahi dot org!
.NL Becomes First TLD To Pass 1 Million DNSSEC-Signed Domains
And yet you have no problem with it?
I am aware of that :) I don't say it's impossible if you have enough resources (like Apple). For a small(er) company it's very hard to do it though. Even if you go there. For instance OpenPandora.org has had a lot of miserable quality from the casings coming from China. They moved production to Germany.
Yes, It's written from scratch but ZF1 wasn't php4ish too. It couldn't even work on PHP4.
What's interesting here is that you would like as an extension the one feature that I think Buffer chose to exclude from the start to disrupt other pre-existing "Twitter schedulers" by being more easy-to-use :)

But anyways, it would be pretty easy to add this feature to Tampon. I've been thinking about it actually!
Yeah, I love using my Apple shaver, and transistor radio.
If Google are willing to invest in your startup then why the hell would you turn that down?, it's like turning down a BJ from a supermodel, because she demands you do it at her house.
I liked LFS, it was the first distro I ever installed that didn't annoy me with "What? What's all this crap been installed for?!"

But the lack of a package manager prompted me to move on to Gentoo. I keep meaning to give it another go, never seem to have the time..
Well. It's very nice project. Thanks that, I've learnt quite much about building essentional environment. However it's tough as hell. I know pretty much about Linux and Operating Systems, low level programming, but it was just impossible to me to succeed some time ago. I admire anybody who can build it properly. :P

To people who want to give a try I'd say - sure, do it. It's worth it, but don't expect it's going to work. :)
Yet it wouldn't be unjustified to claim that, when an ipod looks like a braun radio or when instagram looks like a polaroid, it's a new product attempting to capitalize on previous brand awareness (even if they are not the same business).
Show HN: my personal news reader, now public - SkimFeed.com
Those methods are far from foolproof. Lots of sites that do greylisting for example, will give a temporary failure before the message even reaches the server that actually knows what addresses on the domain are valid.

Also none of the e-mail systems I've operated in the last 15 years or so will let on whether or not the user actually exists until at earliest when you have committed to sending a message, and many of them wouldn't even then (instead accepting the message and sending a bounce) to reduce the spam harvesting.
In communities where the majority are incredibly passionate about the topic there's inevitably drama. It's part and parcel of the process.

Although it is amusing that the whole 'MINSWAN' has departed the community slightly, given that was a big motto for a lot of Rubyists a while back and part of the reason why learning Ruby was so fun, everyone helped everyone (mostly).
Indeed. And one of the reason for the why, beside just understanding the context and getting a more complete picture, is to allow further developers to add code at the same place because it was meant like that in the original code. Great comments helps to know if a new module should be written, or if the addition fits nicely in the existing picture.
I had some server IP address banned by hotmail by doing that. Because this is what spammers do to check their emails list.
Symfony2 was great and it's still great. It's "the state of the art" for "how a good PHP framework should be".

But announcing a minor version upgrade on the same day with a "Omg, i was waiting for this framework for 3 years!!" framework is not cool. It's some kind of "news hijacking".

By the way, sorry for my bad english.
That was the goal, but it's not happening. 13.04, yes. Promise.
I want to buy a script rock.
Did Apple,Google, Facebook, Twitter or Microsoft use an incubator company? Why do people think they are required to be successful?
Different devices, decades apart. Let us know when Apple sues someone for making a toaster that looks like an iPhone, 30 years later. :)
OpenVPN is an SSL based VPN that can do either UDP or TCP, but defaults to UDP.
Sorry, but I don't feel like hunting specific threads.

I just remember back in the days (before I quit HN and then later rejoined) people would get down-voted to heck for speaking against Apple, people would get slow-banned and people would get stern emails from PG if they spoke too crossly against Apple when Apple did all the questionable things Apple constantly does.

You take my word for it or not. I think it qualifies as "cult of Apple's totalitarian grip on HN-discussion".