skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
same here. work slowly but sure, spend at least few minutes a day answering customer inquiries, spend weekend for coding, while keeping my day job. but reading funding news in HN and TC makes me sad and feel "left behind" :(
Did this a couple years ago: http://kimsal.com/shrinker/

Code doesn't work 100% of the time - it was a rough draft - no error handling - but it's up on github - pull requests welcome!
I would think that how localized the effect of the goto is would be far more important than whether it goes forward or back. Jumping back to the beginning of a function from the middle might be good. Jumping somewhere else, probably not so much.
I learned to program on an 8088 and then 8086, guess it wasn't too popular
Yes, my bank PIN is the least frequently used out there. I feel safe.

... uh... shoot. ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H
CARRIER LOST
It seems that, in @pg's terms, Hollywood intends to kill itself.

Whatever pg meant by killing Hollywood, the BBC stands the best chance of convincingly creating a new platform - beyond passive video and phone-ins, into something that is experimental, MOO, and possibly Open.

Don't move to Silicon Valley. Move to Shepherds Bush.
Startup idea list
Five years ago today this was the top item on HN (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=55974): Post novel startup ideas as comments and see how many karma points it receives. Who knows, one might be developed and you can take credit for thinking of the idea first.. It had some interesting ideas, some of which are solved or obsolete. Thought it might be fun to do this again.

(I run Wayback Letter, so that is how I know this odd bit of information - http://www.waybackletter.com/archive/daily/09-18-2012.html).
That's the exact case where I saw it in the PostgreSQL code. Re-doing join pruning when a join was eliminated.
My girlfriend wants a Winnebago type thing instead of a diamond, presumably so she can go somewhere if I become especially annoying. ;)
Perhaps yeah, it'd have a very similar effect.

It would perhaps also drive up orders early in the cycle, as people can't wait until the last few minutes when they see a project has been funded.

Personally I think the simplest option would be allowing a 10% "overshoot" fund, and beyond that the project automatically closes to new backers - this should ensure that despite the various reasons why the money wouldn't come through from individuals (credit card rejected, etc), a funded project would get it's full amount.
oelewapperke, your account was hellbanned 483 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2579179
It was actually 8095, he fooled us.
Dropbox iOS Update Brings Twitter And Facebook Sharing, Support For AirPrint
I remember there was a website that indexed the kickstarter projects that didn't get funded. Maybe there should be one for the projects that were funded but didn't deliver.

That might get kickstarter's attention as well.
How Ruby Borrowed a Decades Old Idea From Lisp
Or you have a case where a function must be restarted at a new state. Recursion is not always desirable here. intrafunctional gotos, used sparingly, are quite helpful.
Really interesting application of category theory, I'd love to see a nonlinear editor with a good UI. Don't know if the general public would bite, but I think there could be a niche market there.

As an aside, thanks @ColinWright for another high quality submission. HN needs more of these kinds of articles.
Introducing Socket.IO
How fast-food chains use the value menu to get you to spend more
It depends on the field of work.
Success! My aging eyes thank you.
Admit I don't have strong feelings either way but out of genuine curiosity, why is one thousand four less ambiguous than one thousand and four?

You could argue one thousand four is actually easier to misinterpret because it could easily (although incorrectly) be read to mean "one thousand fours."

edit: typo.
I wonder if hellbanned flags are in place, or rather they are weighted. So once you are weighted 0, the flag is removed entirely.
In Denmark we have J-dag, where the christmas Tuborg beer is released. Its always on a Friday and you can be 100% sure that every bar, in every city is filled to the brim with people drinking the first christmas Tuborg of the season.
I think Kickstarter could add a maximum cap in addition to the minimum funding requirements as some function of the minimum. This would minimize Kickstarter's risk of over-subscribed products (but would obviously make them less money in many cases) and push further sales into the regular retail world. This would keep Kickstarter closer to what I believe its true intention is - get products and art off the ground, not sell your first $10 million.

I the long term I also think this is better for the campaigns - a lot of hardware projects seem to struggle shipping if they get a significantly higher number of orders than predicted. I'm sure in the moment it's exciting to see how many orders you can pull in, but painful in the long run when it is difficult to deliver on your promise, especially if you're planning on building a long-term sustainable business.
Procera AVH: A Pill to Restore Memory
Terminology apart, having read the page it seems what you offer is ways to analyze data about my visitors. That I could care about. So my feedback is: work on your headline. I don't think it clearly communicates your value proposition.
Yeah, but the problem with GOTO isn't at the GOTO end - that is usually very clear - in this case go here...

The real problem is at the arrival point 'where has the thread of execution come from, and what state is the programme in'.

Exceptions have the same arrival problem 'where in the code did this come from, and what was the state when it was thrown?'
Software Development tips and tricks
What's the horizontal line around xx12? He doesn't explain this.
It matters when fractions are involved. Try reading both of these:

100 2/3

102/3
Living together in this flat world
First of all, registering takes few seconds with twitter/github.

Secondly, it's not a must. Only you can register and share the collaboration URL with your 100s of students.

They can collaborate if they want to, or you can teach them in "Teacher Mode" - registration is not a must!

Hope that clarifies your doubts :)
I think this is a big waste of space if you're already following someone, what they're talking about should be the primary focus. I wonder if they'll start with the view scrolled down a bit how cover photos on Facebook do.
I have very little perspective here, but this seems like a low price for /. and SourceForge ($20M). The article states that last year alone the two sites brought in that much revenue, but I'd assume they weren't bought if the purchaser didn't think there was growth potential.
Appreciate for your comments, if you try it and provide more comments, that would be perfect :-)
Insteon is shipping $30 smart bulbs. They integrate with insteon's control stuff though, so the cost of using 1 of them is a minimum of ~$70-$80 (that's a bulb plus ~$45 for a simple switch pad).

They don't seem to have much interest in pushing for wide adoption (at least, they seem to want to sell $400 controllers, not $50 controllers).
I wonder if you could prepend your PIN with 0's. If the input is interpreted as a number, it might work. If they cast it to a string, it probably wouldn't.
http://xkcd.com/725/ and http://xkcd.com/386/ both come to mind...
I do not think that matters one bit. It’s pretty clear to me that morally, communication someone wrote with the expectation of privacy should not be made public unless there is evidence for criminal wrongdoing. You do not get to change the rules after the fact.

If you want all e-mails researchers write to be public, the researchers have to be informed about that beforehand.
As a moderate Muslim, I tried to make people understand that by the most extreme interpretations of Islam, what happened at the embassy was wrong. It was Muslim's ignorance in Islam, rather than extremism, that caused the incident. Even I, for a second, had to wonder what was the correct action to take from an Islamic POV, but after checking the Quran and Sunna, the prophetic sayings leave no room for guessing "He who deals unjustly with a person who's under a peace agreement with Muslims, who does not pay him his full dues or asks him what is beyond his ability, then I am his contender on the day of judgment".
And conversely, they wouldn't have been sold at 1x annual revenue if the seller didn't think that the future prospects were bleak.
Interestingly the red flags section would apply to programmers with only minor changes.

Probably to any profession, but programming is the one I know about ;)
Get two dishwashers and put your clean dishes in one of them.

Put a sticker on it marked "clean". Need a plate? Take it out of the "clean" dishwasher. Got a dirty plate? Put it into the other dishwasher. Other dishwasher full? Turn it on and move the "clean" sticker to that one.

Double buffering with dishwashers turns them into magic cupboards. I don't know why most kitchens only come with one.
Partially. I'm pretty sure if you write-off that donation you need to subtract the fair market value of that mug. A real accountant could speak better to that though.
I think you've got this wrong. Any firm that defects from the cartel will tend to gain market share at the expense of all the firms that remain in the cartel. Thus, its really the firms in that remain in the cartel that die. So the whole thing looks a lot like a Prisoner's Dilemma game played between the firms looking to cartelize.

Now, they might do things like sign contracts between each other to prevent defection, or buy each other's stock to make defection less profitable than profitable than playing along, but then you have to worry about disruption from outside the cartel. Or you could forcibly cartelize industries like FDR tried to do with the National Recovery Administration if the government really wants an industry to be profitable when it wouldn't otherwise be.

And when I think of successful cartels in history I think of DeBeers and OPEC and... well, those are the only two I could name that lasted longer than a few years.
Easy testing for time-dependent code - Node.js
Twitter Gives Muslims A Voice, A (Seriously) Funny Voice #MuslimRage
If you want to include the efficiency of the entire electrical pipeline, then you need to do the same for the gasoline/diesel engine.

How much energy is used for the extraction, refinery, transport, and distribution of gasoline/diesel fuel? I suspect 26% efficiency for gasoline would also be extremely high compared to reality if those costs were factored in.
You're conflating meanings of the word "personal". It meant the email address assigned to the professor. He's not an elected official. Somebody's payroll being underwritten by tax dollars doesn't, on its face, entitle the public to their "personal" communications. It's a ridiculous notion especially in this case because this attack group wanted the emails to smear all parties involved. The court was wise to protect a reasonable expectation of privacy on the part of the staff at the University.
Sprint bought Virgin out a few years ago. They license the branding.
Account inactivity. Cards were never used.
Burning Man and the Default World
Mark says right up front that his advice only fits for a specific type of business:

> My businesses have had hundreds and now more than a thousand employees. My world has been limited to starting, building, growing and running businesses that are never going to make the Fortune 500. My dreams were never to build the biggest corporation in the world.
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Programming Like Kent Beck
"Asaba",the excellent Ryokan (the Japanese style hotel)
This. Not to mention, if I knew my emails on my University account would be subject to public scrutiny, I'd just use another email account for all of my dealings.
IMHO the only acceptable use of a goto statement is to break from a multiply-nested loop in C-like languages. Even there, it is likely that a refactor can eliminate this. It's usually a sign that there is a simpler or more elegant way of doing things.
>Firstly, Banks do set the pin first, and the vast majority of people probably never change it.

That's certainly not the case at my bank. I live in Canada, so perhaps things are done differently here, but when I was issued my card they made me choose my PIN.
$20M in revenue, but how much in profit? Slashdot and sourceforge can't be cheap to host.
Personally, I think the "Padgram" font is nice. Didn't work well for "Instapin" - made the "I" look funky - but looks suitable for Padgram. I'd tighten up the space between the "P" and "a", and between the "d" and "g", but that's just my own nitpicking.
Verifiable and reproducible publications are all the communications you need. The public pays for their research, not their emails.
And extremists will often go where the ground is fertile. In fact, I recall something about the US sponsoring a campaign to this effect in '79: Go to Afghanistan! Join the Jihad! Fight the evil imperialists for the glory of Islam!

In retrospect, that might have been short-sighted.
Great post, and I agree with the idea that good design makes a huge difference, but I would have like to see more conclusive data. Seemed a little superficial and also like you believe the $50 icon was the source all the popularity.

I would have looked at how many people shared the app after the redesign, how many people invited friends, how many more ratings and reviews you got, how often users performed an "action" everyday, how many days elapsed between log-ins (compared to before), the percentage of "active users" vs user base etc.

Keep up the great work!
A Tour of the Acme Editor http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4533156
The icon reminds me of Instagram. Is it possible that something as simple as that did increase the downloads?
100km on a side? That some super-storm. More typically, a few km on a side.

Also, the aftermath of the flood rushing downstream might produce as much havok as the original splashdown.
This compiles and runs OK in Java...

class Hello{
public static void main(String[] args){
System.out.println( true
? "yes" : "no" );
}
}

In order to work without semicolons, Groovy's grammar must restrict some things that work in Java. Semicolon-less mode in Groovy has a price.
A university email address is a personal account. A lot of older academics will only have the one account that they've been using since the 80s.
They are basically internet retirement communities. They have a stable population until the population starts to die off. Except with a normal retirement home, there are always new old people joining. No sane person under 45 really wants to be around the /. "we hate everything" crowd or whatevertheheck sf.net turned into.
You're putting words in my mouth. Nowhere did I draw a line in the sand - you're attempting to do that for me.

And I'm a little unclear why you feel like playing "gotcha" with me here anyway...
And if every Fortune 50 company jumped off a bridge?
Any defecting firm will also lose a great deal even with the market share gain - hence why there were so few long term winners after the dot com boom. You'll notice that a lot of the firms that did this have survived and raised prices above inflation utilizing monopoly power - just like I stated above.
Bye bye /. .. you will be missed.
Dribble is too expensive for just about any startup ;-) I did my own design (but thats sort of my job). It's no App but the logo involves a camera as well. Doing something/anything with a camera is difficult as everything has been done. Here's my take (upper left): http://royaltyfreemodels.nl/
If you have some time, you can go to Brazil (eg state of Bahia, near Chapada Diamantina where many diamonds are found), talk to people in the villages (Spanish works, Portuguese is better) and buy a raw diamond they found.

Polishing will make it smaller by about half, and at least I cannot judge the purity and value of a raw diamond just like that, but the story and experience of getting it and the knowledge of its ethical origin are enough of offset that in my opinion.

edit: If anyone needs directions, just ask.
> Re-read the blog post. He's speculating the attack used DNS. (Though he has no proof.)

You may want to re-read it yourself:

"The attack on Saturday used one such amplification technique called DNS reflection."
Then your argument about hiring the right talent is moot. You went with what you could afford and were fortunate with the result however paying $50 for a logo on eLance isn't great advice for other startups.
Unique monthly users:

* Slashdot: 3.7 million
* SourceForge: 40 million
* Freecode: 0.5 million
I don't believe it exchanges any of the elegance. You can do the same things in CoffeeScript that you would in JS, just with less typing. That being said, a knowledge of how the browser will execute your compiled Javascript is crucial.
Startup Economics
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I think you're right. The cheapest possibility would be crowdsurfing something like 99designs.com
Good! This is just a better example of why SMS and non-encrypted-and-authenticated connections for two factor are silly. If you use an HTTPS web app for two-factor (or a pin-generating app, no network required) you should be reasonably secure - unless some Android malware is in your phone.
They must be trying to set a record for how many corporate overlords they can have. Andover.Net, VA Research, VA Linux, VA Software, SourceForge, Inc, Geek.Net, Dice, ...
I bet quite a few end up in coffins.
He never says what "odd things" happen. He just organizes blocks and then marvels at what it looks like in a completely boring way.

He spent all his allotted time making the figures, apparently, and took no time to thinking of anything interesting to say about it or describe these "odd things" he teases in the title.
I liked gosub :D
Good Lord, are you me?

Or at least did you work with me? Exactly that same thing happened at a place I used to work at, about three or four years back.

I hope you worked where I worked and we're just ships passing in the night, and not that this story is just so common.
Maui - a different linux distribution
I'm curious as to what Twitter's direction with these changes are

The old style, which I prefer and find very functional, focuses on the content (the individual tweets)

The new style, focuses on the profile of the author itself, and not their content. Very Facebook-esque direction to focus of the persona instead of the Tweet.
I can't think of an example i've seen where Anonymous-like breaches caused anyone but the actually breached companies to reflect on their security (Sony didn't even react immediately, they got pwnd three times). Releasing personal information just isn't a threat to companies in the era of Facebook.
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Thanks, hadn't thought about that scenario. I have a feeling it's going to start bugging me as well now...
Last time I checked on average when you include extraction, refining, and transportation a higher % of coals energy ends up in the battery's than does Oil's in the gas tank. Initially, oil took little energy to refine etc, but we have started doing things like tar sands and cracking which take a lot more energy than earlier methods. While there is still some easy oil out there, Oil is worth 10x as much as coal vary energy expensive Oil starts to be worth extracting.

PS: If you compare solar cells with Bio fuels it's vary one sided with electric cars far out in the lead.
>> People who have injuries or are otherwise unable to stand can certainly sit.

How do you think that makes us feel?
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Splitting hairs now, but coal for the grid also has extraction and delivery costs - probably not equal to that of oil, but if you start from the earth for one you need to start from the earth for the other.
I'm quite surprised at that; they have a fairly good database and if you don't have a telly they will usually knock you off it after asking.

Nice emotive use of 'hatemail' though. Personally, I very much hope the BBC sticks to its existing funding model.
It's been awful ever since the narrative on there was almost entirely changed to "freedom and rights from the point of view of socially awkward software engineers". You cannot curate a community based on negativity, bile and cynicism and expect it flourish.
I don't think that's true. Here are two recent/upcoming Android 4 devices with 320x240:

Samsung Galaxy Chat B5330 http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_chat_b5330-4866.php

ZTE Style Q http://www.gsmarena.com/zte_style_q-4602.php

A couple of more devices which are reportedly coming soon: http://goo.gl/F411K

These are cheap phones, though I imagine you'd get a much better deal if you spent the same amount of money on a used Android phone.
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Thanks for the nice words @rglover. I'm wondering do other people know about your projects or is it a personal, stealth thing? Also I don't think that is helping @wiradikusuma. Is funding something you are actively pursuing? I wouldn't worry about that, build something with a little revenue possibility, or at least something that people will enjoy using. Then you can still eye the whole funding news?
It's not hard to measure the efficiency of nuclear or solar; it's just not as useful as directly comparing two systems that run on fossil fuels.
Agreed, for languages like C. It's not just error paths, either. For example, to break out of an outer loop inside an inner one you can label the outer loop with OUTER and use `last OUTER` in Perl or `break OUTER` in Java/JavaScript. But in C you have to either use a goto or (shudder) tinker with the outer loop control variable and break from the inner loop.
Not sure about sourceforge. It lost its lustre to github, but there are still a lot of good project there.

freshmeat/freecode is really great. Lots of great software there (I liked the old name better)

Browsing the freecode frontpage is far more satisfying than the HN page because it's all about real code that does something and very little hype and BS.
I believe spaghetti code happens more because of training. Programmers that are not trained to think in an OO way tend to produce spaghetti code, when a simple decomposition into objects would suffice.
Plunker has existed for a while now: http://plnkr.co and has its own little micro community. The editor (with real-time collaboration too) is at http://plnkr.co/edit/
I think the problem has its roots in a totally different place. The roots of the problem which are distribution of the information and the interpretation of the same.

Considering the outburst of the voilence actually is because of interpretation of the some people. As the education system is bad maybe worse since the education does not have progressive values(i have not seen their education system and this is my guess). May be they are not at all educated or literate at all. Then the interpretation is then made for the general people by some dude who wants voilence . Also the media through which the information is distributed may be another set of idiots who distort or interpret things falsely .

A very example of a bad media can be seen in India where the news channel itself promotes superstition . I think America cannot win the war against terrorism unless it fights the roots of it -- education and media.

I think unless they stop sending soldiers and start sending teachers and administrators , there is no hope of freedom from religious fanatism .
I would still suggest trying. If you're not satisfied with what's offered, you can reject it, it does no harm. And Elancer has many options to try.

But if without trying, devs will never be able to make an satisfying icon (at least for me). We cannot stay there waiting for Apples to sentence the app's death.
Why does your submission get to the front page with 2 points, while mine[1] doesn't (mine also has 2 points and was submitted earlier)?

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4537519
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