skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The advice about budgeting is good common sense.
On the other hand I feel that sometimes people address personal finance as a simple arithmetic exercise (income - expense), whereas I think it is sometimes better treated in a more algebraic fashion.

In other words identify the variables in your balance sheet (Hint: everything is a variable) and try to anticipate what happens as things change. Your finances are affected by changes outside of your control, for example the government or local authority can decide to stick your taxes up, changes in the commodities market can affect the price of staples such as a food and fuel or your electric company might read your meter and then slap you with a bill of double your usual amount.

This is something that I find annoying about the UK, whilst all of the high street banks offer some form of online banking none of them to my knowledge will allow me to pull out the raw data and play with it. I'm sure that using some fairly rudimentary statistical analysis I could gain much more insight into the implications of my financial situation.

For example, let's say I get a pay rise. I might be inclined to celebrate by going out and buying a brand new iPad or whatever. But maybe if I sum the amount that I spend at the supermarket each month I notice an upward trend that will wipe out the pay increase within 6 months. Does this mean that I am acquiring "good taste" in a few too many areas or does it simply mean that "cost of living" is increasing faster than inflation and I need to account for that.
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Cool! The wall around another walled garden starts to crumble! How many years before the carriers themselves start using open source code in their infrastructure because it's more reliable and robust?
I agree. Having had used GWT and other similar cross compiling to javascript type tools, it's often a huge problem in debugging than if you just write a short javascript code. No offense to the author but projects like these that try to fit a static language like Java/C# that run in their own managed environments into dynamic world of Javascript fail miserably.

I fear projects like these tend to attract programmers who know C#, Java but don't quite want to learn javascript and they don't even try to do it once they run out of runway in this tool. And, the code becomes undebuggable, bloated on the browser.

Nothing against other languages, they're amazing at what they do. But, javascript is, for better or worse, the language of browsers. And it's really powerful with established best practices to organize, debug code + great tools (thanks to Chrome Team @ Google and Mozilla).

From a programming languages/compilers standpoint, it definitely tickles my fancy :)
in addition to perfecting their shake to get every drop of water all over my bathroom floor/walls, my dogs (@TurdsAndTreats) also have a dive bomb maneuver where they drop and roll on any carpet or piles of clothes.
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> just another C-based language.

That would be Jacbl, or even if we changed it to "Just another C-like language" we could call it "Jacll" (pronounce like "Jackal"). Now I want this language :)
kqemu was originally closed source. Not sure why it was open sourced, competitive advantage went away?
> it tends to lack the design aesthetic of apps written by Apple fanboys who have been brainwashed with the Cult of Cupertino's desire for things to be functional, pleasing, and useful.

Pre-emptive counter-snark is something that seems enormously funny to you when you write it, but rather paranoid when you read it.
Looks cool, but need more docs and samples (for each feature)!
I live in Denmark, and can say there are many ways people do it here. Most common (from what I have seen as an American here) is to own a small business and use it to shift around ownership of things such as apt's and cars as tax on business is very different than personal...Google Danish car tax for more info on why.
I can't understand why this is a crime. Could you tell us (me) why it (creating new table on the fly) should be prohibited?
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So just put this in a full static page. Why the scrolling? And also color/font choice is quite terrible. No responsiveness for small screens. Apparently, he didn't follow his own advice.
Fun story. I'm old enough that this situation wouldn't happen with me and my mother (and, she's passed), but I found it a little creepy/weird that anyone would pick up "my stuff" and just start playing with it as if it were community property. Even my 11 year old knows to leave other people's stuff alone.

Am I alone here?
Yeah, that makes sense. I wasn't meaning to imply skepticism, just that I don't recall having actually seen a go/no-go number explicitly spelled out elsewhere, that 12% p.a. is the rough threshold delineating whether VC is worth it as an asset class, taking into account the risk/liquidity/etc.

I suppose going forward it mainly depends on what you think will happen to the stock market. Will the next 20 years see the resumption of the WW2-through-1990s performance level, or will they look more like the past 20 years, with middling to flat returns? If the latter, VC might become attractive at even lower returns compared to anemic returns in "regular" equity, but if the former, then it may become less attractive compared to a more liquid and diversified stock portfolio.
"... but when it is JavaScript that will be run by the browser then JavaScript is what you should be writing."

So by that logic, one shouldn't be writing C# that targets the CLR either, but should rather be coding in MSIL directly. Mmm, no thanks!
Well, he actually said "debugging code when it is running," which a lot of people find valuable. Of course you can debug anything in the looser sense of the term, but tools like debuggers make the process more productive.

And yes, many people are against Coffeescript too for precisely this reason.
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I have a lot of respect for the people at Lanyrd for one simple reason - I was going to signup for them but realised that they only supported Twitter authentication in the early days. They were asking for permission to do all kinds of things to my stream, which as I understood it later to be the only option at the time. I tweeted about it, they replied and said "sorry about that" then a few months went by. Out of the blue I get a tweet - hey we no longer require Twitter authentication! I couldn't believe it - really great case of tracking down sources of early negative feedback long after I'd forgotten about the issue and reminding me that they were still there, and still improving. Fantastic.
Yeah, when I saw the scrolling text I wanted to gouge my eyes out. It's straight out of 1999.

And for a country where mobile based access will presumably be quite common (as only 7% of the population has home internet), why isn't there a mobile site at launch?
Link... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18819338

And the update today http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19462661
Good tech info, but the 340px demo here displays perfectly

http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/#icon/icon-rss

so I suspect antialias is turned off below a certain font size in firefox - I cannot find a modern setting to change it though

all sizes except 340px are a little wonky in Firefox + Windows XP

Same demo in Chrome looks perfect for all sizes EXCEPT 20px and 12px.

So Chrome also has some kind of setting to regulates when it's turned off, but a lower default.
You can use the Chrome debugger just as if you had written the Javascript directly.
If I remember correctly this has been available out of the box at least since Drupal 5 up. Have worked on Drupal 5 and 6, don't remember using any custom module to do aggregation.
I too would like to know about such resources.
The question is how similar? Coffeescript has come a long way in keeping symbols similar enough to be debuggable and not polluting the javascript namespace. Once the code grows to a certain size, tracing from line number in error to a line of code in your source becomes non-trivial.

Also, since this has been a constant pain for me when using Google Closure compiler, how do you anticipate this tool working with existing javascript libraries? Hypothetically, can I port a C# application ( a reasonable/simple one, not with crazy winforms and stuff)? Is there a spec you're adhering to?
>when it is JavaScript that will be run by the browser then JavaScript is what you should be writing.

Of course, source maps will soon make this point largely moot.
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> Contributing to GNU projects as an outsider is a PITA.

Finally someone who has the guts to write this!!!
So true, so true ...
Maybe that's where source maps come handy?

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/source...
Almost everyone has a mobile in India. But not many use Internet on their mobile devices. Situation is changing slowly with the arrival of really low - end smartphones, though.
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Come on, we all know that isn't a logical equality.
Notice the use of the phrase "allopathic hospitals" in a database of number of beds available!
It always cracks me up how modern medicine is referred to as just another form of medicine, like Ayurvedic or homeopathic. The Indian government is clearly of the opinion that forms of quackery that are homeopathy and Ayurveda actually work and are worthy of tax payer money.
works in IE10 - so good for the future.
> On the "shoulders of giants" means we don't need to know javascript as well as jQuery.

Not necessarily. I like to view it this way: When you are learning a new language (English, German, Chinese, whatever), in day to day conversations it is useful to know some expressions, idioms, or terms, but you should also know where they come from and how to explain them, and not just how to use them.

Learning what "I'm pissed" means in British english is quite nice but if you say that to an American and responds "Who pissed you?", how are going to teach this person of the use of the word "pissed" in this context?

Similarly, a jQuery-only developer will find it difficult to understand and explain what he meant to do with some piece of code, let's say $.each. A "native speaker", ie. a javascript developer, may be able to offer some advice or corrections, like "you could use Array.forEach in this scenario". (Granted this particular example may not be so good due but you get the point).
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Bonus points for PhoneGap/iOS or Android development, Node.js, Redis, Mongo or Scala knowledge.

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Wait, so the process to discourage you from overstaying your Visa is to hold you in the country longer?
India currently has the so called "right to information" bill. That Bill outlines what information can be withheld. Now using the same bill government should ideally come up with "Duty to report" bill.
I too received a different image from the words. Something that captures the equivalent vision for math learners that light table holds for programmers. Not necessarily an emphasis on visual - sometimes that is right but not always.

Key being the ability to fiddle in real time to gain an intuition, as the brain is optimized to do. Computers give the closest tool for estimating the abstract to something tangible.
My goal was to add some value to the conversation, not convince you or others that you didn't like the phone. It's not about your opinion, it's about Apple and the state of the art at the time, and what they did to change it. If you have some relevant info about why it was great, paint that picture for other HN'ers who might not have used it.
> Android 4.1 is just about acceptable as an alternative to iOS. The user interface is rather less polished

If you're still not satisfied at this point, there's not much that can be done. Looking at any review of Jelly Bean by a major tech blog will tell you they're satisfied with the interface and that it's on par with iOS.
Maybe, but with the endless number of reporters sleeping with the people they're reporting on or sleeping around in the industries they're reporting in, I think a degree of celibacy may not be such a absurd idea.

Every third establishment licking journalist is sleeping with some high level Democratic or Republican functionary or a Goldman VP. I wouldn't be surprised if tech turned out to be similar.
It comes with metadata for jQuery and jQueryUI, so obviously those libs can be used. I know of people using Node as well (and I hope to include that import lib in the distribution at some point).

As for porting an existing C# application, it will probably not be trivial, but the back-end stuff is most likely possible (as long as it doesn't have external references). Personally, for my own stuff I tend to compile stuff like DTOs and helpers to both Javascript (running on the client) and regular MSIL (running on the server), but that code has been written with this intent from the beginning.

I prefer to regard working with this to be writing Javascript but with tooling from 2012 instead of 1995.
Except css and fonts are already non-blocking in modern browsers?

The problem is fonts aren't loaded until the renderer sees the need for them. This is especially annoying in Firefox. I was thinking of trying to force the renderer to load the fonts earlier in the <head> area on some invisible elements but it may be too smart and know they are invisible. But maybe the body itself can be temporarily assigned the webfonts.
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I came across a similar project on /r/csharp last week. The project's called Blade, and is available here - https://github.com/vannatech/blade
Don't Fall in the Alignment Trap
One of these things is not like the other.

Yes, there are things which are culturally acceptable, but technically against the rules. Just because you get away with murder, and don't get caught, that doesn't mean murder is OK.

It's quite clear that plagiarism was badly enforced, but anyone who admitted to it would have been severely punished. Most of your examples are completely different - they are things that nobody cares about, even if you get caught.

Arguably, it's a terrible system if severe crimes are routinely left unpunished. Either the penalty should be lowered, or they should enforce it better.

So while I don't just blame the students, I think it's a sign that the system is fucked. The students are part of it, as are the lectures, and universities (do they fire lecturers who don't try to catch cheats, the same way they fire unpopular lecturers?), employers (perhaps they should test graduates to see if they are actually competent?), and society in general.
I'd expect an article titled Front-end engineer's manifesto to have better UI than this. First thing I assumed was that I could use up, down in my keypad to navigate through slides. Then right, left. Figured scrolling is okay.
The sidebar that's supposed to show me how far I've read isn't apparent. The font choices and responsiveness coud be better.
Reinventing scrolling isn't good. I'd have been fine if it worked for me on Chrome, it got stuck in page 4 and 5 and I had to press j/k few times to get moving again. If there's a tool that takes care of kind of stuff and frees you to do important stuff, why not use it? On that point, checkout impress.js for this kind of stuff.
"...of free and open source software."

Not everything you write has to be free and open source.
Just because a major tech blog says something is true does not mean every man and his dog will agree, especially over something like UI polish.

I personally think it's much better compared to a few generations ago, but still has a few more rough spots than iOS.
It's certainly interesting that it's more comfortable for you to use Page Down instead of two finger kinetic scrolling. I only find myself using the Page Down keys on Desktops instead of the mouse wheel. Well as I said, it's basically a matter of taste.

Btw. how are the screens these days? I've read that the resolution is quite low, but do they at least have good contrast / color spectrum / brightness / viewing angle? I'm asking because my father wants to buy one again (low res is actually a plus there).
Saltarelle is way more complete, though.
I don't see the problem.

- If I had written Javascript, I would have to debug the Javascript that is running in the browser.

- If a tool writes Javascript for me, I have to debug Javascript running in the browser.

A better wish would be: I hope that your tool outputs nicely formatted and easy to debug Javascript.
Once the debugging tools are able to keep everything abstracted then you no longer need to dig down. Example is of course writing assembly.
Very interesting! I've been wanting to investigate this kind of thing for a while but just don't know where to start. Can you point me to any resources that will give me a good grounding in investment? In what way did you invest in real estate? How do you choose what to invest in? Would love for some direction here, would be very much appreciated
Please change the title. I thought this was about loading CSS asynchronously. Turns out it's just the name of the web page.
I hope he makes a shed-load from this. I wouldn't begrudge him any of it, given his contributions to the software community to date.
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Thanks Erik! I haven't touched Script# due to the fact that development stalled and it (was) closed source.

Looking forward to seeing how this performs.
>Samsung paid for their travel and accomodation when they went to the event, but they are independent reviews

Only if the word "independent" has decided to become a synonym for 'sassy' and leave behind the boring 'disentangled.'
if you really want cheap, try making a Linux computer with a cardboard box, duct tape and Ubuntu Feisty like this guy http://www.methodshop.com/2007/07/cheapest-linux-box-ever.sh... it's slightly ghetto-fabulous, but it gets the job done.
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Yeah there's no logical equality to machine code and C++ but still people use debuggers. I don't think this is something that cannot be solved.
I don't really get this. Surely JavaScript and C# are so hugely different that any converted code would be horrific? Wouldn't it be simpler to just write JavaScript in JavaScript?
I've sold software with a crazy markup too. Something like 100,000,000%! Because it's very cheap (far less than a penny) to duplicate the software, but I sold it online for $99.

Pharmaceutical companies do the same thing. It's not the pill that's expensive, it's designing it. Same with software.
I've heard this term only in the last week too, and still unsure of what it is..
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Well, it appears that other people received the comment well. I thought it was fair and relevant. However, it is tedious to read threads that have been hijacked by this kind of sniping.
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A BS name for a marketer.
That's a good news, Sequel is a really nice product, it's a good news for PostgreSQL users.
I program both C# and JS on an almost daily basis and am pretty well versed in both. I have to say that JS is great for adding scripting to pages but for large apps it's a nightmare (especially when coupled w/ the dom).
I totally agree that JavaScript can easily end up being a huge mess especially when project grows. Using more strict language like C# can help on that. I have to try this, good job!
A growth hacker is a trendy (and some say useless) name for a marketer who focuses on user growth, who can also write code. Growth hacking usually involves "hacking" existing systems or data for high-impact user growth actions (example: what AirBnb did with craiglist can be considered growth hacking)

(Edit: grammar)
I guess ultimately there are just not many apps that are really necessary, apart from browser and ebook reader. Web apps are winning after all...

That said, are there any good children apps for Android? I mean apps for toddlers, no questionable "learning apps", just nice pictures that move when you touch them? It's the only thing that makes me think an iPad might be worthwhile to entertain my kid.
Its another (idiotic) term for marketer
I wonder if this could easily be combined with the recent hacker cell networks, like ShadyTel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF4NjbIEbW8#t=64s and NinjaTel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r83PKVXJ_K0
Thanks very much. That issue was a pretty tough one for us - we ended up investing quite a bit of work in fixing it so we could ask for read-only permissions when people first sign in and then ask them to upgrade to write permissions only if they attempted to do something that required them (like clicking "follow" on another user): http://lanyrd.com/blog/2012/twitter-read-only/

It was worth fixing though - only a small number of people really cared, but they were the kind of discerning user that we wanted to reach. Plus it was clearly the right thing to do.
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A coder on the customer acquisition team.
Because it makes it obvious that you're being paid to claim to like things, likely in proportion to how convincing you are.
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I think that is a major question the documentary should make you ask; is it worth it? I mean, it makes it pretty clear that to achieve that level of greatness requires huge sacrifices that come from complete devotion to a craft. Missing that point takes away a lot from what he achieved and also puts it into perspective.
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interesting.... since when did Cambodia start caring about intellectual property issues
I know her and have talked over FB to her personally. Her experience was terrible and can only be attributed to the pressure Samsung was putting on their PR people. Being one of the main sponsors of the olympics is expensive, so they were most likely throwing a lot of pressure around and people weren't able to think things through... too bad.
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While it's a big technical achievement, in a world when companies are talking about 4G LTE bill of materials of $50 [1] for a picostation(roughly 20mhz) and vodaphone setting targets for $100(my guess for a full device) , where does this fit in ?

[1]http://www.rethink-wireless.com/2010/09/07/picochip-femtocel...