skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that Congress could write a law that allows them to compel speech, and I agree that it might eventually be found constitutional. They didn't write that law, though, and speech that is both compelled and false is a different thing under the law than shutting up.

The government can't just order you to do whatever they like. That's what rule of law means. Nobody is obliged to obey someone's interpretation of the spirit of some law, just the letter.
Interesting.

Worth noting that the Azure SDK [1] was released on GitHub over a year ago with the same attributes. The move to Codeplex is concerning.

[1] https://github.com/WindowsAzure/azure-sdk-for-node
What about the model used by flightfox where the customer pay a fee upfront to find the best deal available? It would change a bit from what you are currently proposing but it could be a lead.

I know it can seem strange/hardcore at first but if you guarantee the best deal they can get, in the end you might make it work.

You could maybe offer this option at first and see how many people are willing to pay to ensure a good offer by hotel for a large group of people.
Gas powered water bucket carrying quadrotors are probably better at setting fires than putting them out.
I did look at underscore when figuring out how to design the library, along with many JS LINQ variants (http://ianobermiller.com/blog/2012/09/19/linq-for-javascript...).

It should be pretty straightforward to provide Underscore bindings for TypeScript.

One big difference in the library I was working on is that it is lazy, and modeled after .NETs IEnumerable. Whether this is a good thing or not, I'm not yet sure.
Thanks for the support. Feel free to email me: alex@dolisted.com with any feedback or questions.
> HN readers who dont know the person?

They up-voted it, didn't they?
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Easter egg on German Apple website: Search your ToS, get insulting AIFF file
If you search on the German Apple website for 'AGB', the German abbreviation for Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen or General Terms of Service, you get an AIFF file as your result.

The AIFF file contains a few seconds of sound in German saying 'Dummer Sack', literally 'stupid bag', a not to plesant term to call other people in German.

Step-by-step with actual search result:

1. http://www.apple.com/de/
2. http://www.apple.com/de/search/?q=AGB&section=global&geo=de

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http://www.apple.com/de/pro/profiles/otto/images/dummasackloop.aiff
When GO introduces C like syntax and interfaces, people who hate Java and C++ (which has everything and more) jumps into the bandwagon. Interesting!
Both are missing in mine, and I m in Malaysia ,,is there any fix yet?
Why does everyone want to take all the nice features of javascript, it being so loose and freeform and turn it into Java? I don't need interfaces and classes built into the language. That's why it's so powerful and lightweight. Prototypical!

People keep making the same mistakes, if you let them.

No thanks.
> The scope of a parameter, local variable, or local function declared within a function declaration (including a constructor, member function, or member accessor declaration) or function expression is the body of that function declaration or function expression.

This thing claims to be meant for "application-scale" JavaScript, and yet doesn't repair even JavaScript's most notorious error?

A suggestion to the authors. Purchase this book:

http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Good-Parts-Douglas-Crockfor...

... then go through the book with a fine-tooth comb, and every time it describes something as a "bad part" or an "awful part", delete or fix that misfeature in TypeScript.
...and "forcing function" is weasel words for "screw them before they vest". If you use the vesting date for any firing decision, that is a moral lapse.
In the name of the Dollar, and of Saint Ayn, and of the the Trickle Down: amen, amen.
I think it just means that Microsoft has overzealous lawyers.
I had suspicions from their choice of styling and typeface.
A minor complaint: the Dog, Cat etc. types and NOT "types of Animal" (as the author states)! They are just struct types which happen to satisfy the Animal interface. I think this is a very important aspect of Go.
Nvidia gonna release thr drivers doc after famous "fuck you" of Torvalds
I had the same problems with Offlineimap while running it as a long-lived background process, and wasn't able to find any clean way to resolve them.

Nowadays I have a cron script that kills any existing Offlineimap processes, and allows a new one to run through once. Works perfectly.
I noticed you mentioned scala on the server side. Does your comment about static typing being a hindrance apply to scala?

I would also argue that static typing provides a self-documenting benefit that is easy to forget, making it easier for someone unfamiliar with the codebase to understand what is going on. When I'm doing maintenance work I often start at the point of failure and work backwards, and it is very helpful when I can immediately identify what a variable is supposed to be representing.
I expand on this by remapping capslock to control. This is very useful and comfortable in vi and elsewhere.
Learning new things: Don't beat your head against a wall.
If I develop an RSI and a doctor tells me it was by a matter of a hundred keystrokes, I'm coming for Ballmer's pelt.
Congrats! I remember seeing posts from you now and then about how you were learning programming. (IIRC, your first contact with programming was for the demo to get your track jacket?) It's great that you kept at it.

My first task was to add a dismiss button on a Javascript popup. I thought the task would be easy, but each page actually has dozens of files of code fitting together to make a page work– style sheets, controllers, distributed all around the code base. (…) Instead of being off-put by how long it took, or being overly sympathetic, he just said, “Yup. That’s what development is. It’s very frustrating until it works.”

I'm currently in a similar situation, working on a project with a guy who uses libraries and frameworks I know very little about and it honestly frustrates me. I've had other things to do on the project so far, so I've postponed digging into it.

But it makes me wonder if that's how things should be. Often you're fine once you're beyond the breaking waves of setting up your environment and getting a grasp on the codebase, but before that, it can be very frustrating… especially, when you want to implement something, that you theoretically know exactly what you want and what you need, and you get slowed down by some problem with library incompatibilities or what not.
Apple has the world’s largest hedge fund: $117 billion
:e typescript.vim

:set ff=unix

:wq

fixes for me
Sure it does. Your question was how could companies founded by "tech entrepreneurs specifically" "not qualify as startups?" I explained that you were making the common mistake of assuming that all newly founded technology companies were ipso facto startups. In fact the test of a startup is growth rate, and while technology is a common means to that end, there are plenty of companies working on technology (for example, consulting firms) that don't have rapid growth.

Obviously my knowledge of startups isn't limited to those we've funded.

If you're really interested in the question of successful founders' ages and not just using this as an excuse to argue with me, you can learn a lot from publicly available information. Make a list of the most successful startups of recent times, and find the average ages of their founders. E.g. what was the average age of the founders of Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, Google, and Facebook?
Online Security and Development Tools
There's one and only one reason that I haven't ever switched to a terminal based email client.. HTML messages. I want to see images and formatted text, not an unholy mess of tags and other detritus the program can't render.

As much as I like Alpine, being stuck on the terminal is a total deal breaker. It's 2012 ferchrissakes - why are we using email tech that's stuck in the 80s? Why does "modern" have to be at constant odds with "simple and functional"?
Nah, you're generalizing. I know many JS developers and they all love Javascript in one way or another.
Which prevents folks from creating a better way of finding apps. It really annoys me when I end up with an 'iPhone' type app on my iPad.
I'm freakin' out that /. is exactly half the age of the CD.
Upto 10 digits, pi is sqrt(sqrt(2143 / 22)) .. and that is 9 characters as per his definition or 8 if you allow ()^(1/4) as an elementary operation.

3.141592652 vs pi ~= 3.141592653
>Its lack of support for threads has turned out to be a strength on the server side.

ummmm, can someone elaborate? I don't understand that statement.
Amazon EC2 EBS volume scheduled snapshots using puppet
Not a Facebook Like button snippet, as that goes in a specific place on your page.

This is for things like Google Analytics, Compete, QuantCast, AdWords/DC/etc remarketing, MixPanel/KISSmetrics PV events, ad trackers... JS code that tags your visitors for tracking and remarketing purposes, not code with output.
Right now I have that feeling you get when you build something you are quite proud of and then someone else comes along and does it far far better for free.

C'est la vie I guess. Onto the next thing, whatever that may be
If we're talking oil reserves, not production, then according to Wikipedia, Canada has the 3rd largest proven oil reserves in the world at 175,200,000,000 barrels. The U.S. is 13th with 20,682,000,000 barrels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oil...
Judge upholds San Francisco's plastic bag law (pdf)
Ask HN: Review my startup, www.dolisted.com
The site is at the MVP stage, looking for feedback on the idea, what would make it more useful for users and anything that causes headaches or confusion.
The QA Conundrum - How Can We Move Faster?
@jkalkundi - Kristi from Braintree here.

Currently, the instant underwriting process is only available to our US based merchants. We've made underwriting for merchants outside the US easier than many of the current international alternatives. But we’re still working hard to make sign-up instantaneous for merchants based outside the US and expect to be there soon. As you probably already know, international banks can often be much more risk averse.
Sweet. There's also Yandex +, Yandex Drive, Yandex Maps, YMail, and iYandex (expires on Nov 1, 2013)...
MIME html emails will have a plain text part that will be displayed properly. For pure HTML, you can always have mutt open them in a web browser.
But I don't use twitter. I guess thats a health risk!
Free copyediting: You've got a "grocer's apostrophe" on your more info page: photo's --> photos

http://www.maily.com/Learn-More
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Superfluous_apostrop...
Ah yeah, typo, updated.
As a .NET and JS developer underscore is definitely the secret sauce that means I don't miss linq at all. Lovely lovely little library.
Typo, updated. Should have been n * n
We use Snap, but frankly if you know one, you can learn the other in a matter of hours. One of the nice things about Haskell is that the API often speaks for itself, and for all their differences, their APIs are actually fairly similar.

Also, it may be of note that I am one of the core contributors to the Snap Framework.
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Arguably, the existence of a full and demo version - along with limits on features or usage period of the demo - will be all the "promotion" you need.
Great web site and Android app BTW. I've been using it extensively in the past month (booked 7 nights in different hotels).
I was quite surprised by the ease of use and great UI.
Great work. Keep it up!
By "by hand". I assume you mean using some sort of Intuos tablet with various pen and brush tips and some sort of curve-smoothing software so you can trace over the output of GNUplot, yes?
The most popular tech news in social media. The new digg?
I haven't been to Slashdot in years. I'm not sure I ever had an account there. This format for an AMA style post is much worse than reddit's. I had to click to expand nearly every first level comment reply.
Totally agreed. I tried to get that across in the interview for the article. It's pretty hard to say that the pay-for-ranking firms help users, and I think Apple's just taking a first stab at combatting them. I think there's a lot more they can do to improve the ranking algorithm in helping to combat these firms.

As a user and as a developer, I really hope these changes help move some of the blatant junk off the Top Lists.
It's pushing her away from what every other bit of software on her system, including the OS itself, has trained her to do

But that's not true if you're the kind of user that uses VIM regularly, since many CLI (ncurses) programs use the same keys. And even on the web: Gmail, Google Reader, Google+, Reddit, Jira, Tumblr, Tiny Tiny RSS and others support J/K for up/down navigation.
It's scary someone posted this and in their mind it was useful.
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Using their own platform instead of a commercial competitor that is also closed source is concerning?! Would it also be concerning if github hosted their open source projects on github instead of on codeplex?
I put time in when I feel like the tool may solve an issue or problem I have and when I think there will be a ROI for the time I spend doing it.

This seems like a pretty reasonable justification to me. Having spent a lot of time authoring emails in different tools, I'm comfortable with what I have. If what I have does what I want and the other tool that people are telling me is better has a disclaimer like the above, then what exactly am I doing wrong?

I'm all for trying out new tools and I spend hours doing so every week. I have to pick and choose what it is that I utilize. I wasn't arguing that the tool might not be valuable for some folks, just that it did a very good job of un-selling me, very quickly.
The language support in VS is really great, and getting better with each release. Go to definition, code outlining, folding, type information on hover, intellisense; all these make writing code much less easier and error prone, especially if you are used to writing in a language like C# or Java in a good IDE.
Songs of hard drives, robotics, and retro gear
MicroConf 2012 Videos
> I find it slightly odd that it's "pitched" to marketers

Marketers are who typically need to tag a page with -- Google Analytics, AdWords/AdRoll/Retargeter and a half dozen other remarketing services' tags, Quantcast/Compete, KissMetrics/MixPanel, Omniture or other ad trackers... the list of tags for tracking visitors gets quite large just to effectively create and track marketing results.

This isn't a generic JavaScript delivery platform. You wouldn't put AdSense or Facebook Like code in it, as some suggested, as that has to be placed where you want the output to be. "Tags" refers to JS code that tags visitors for marketing purposes; no output.
A terminal still can't render images. Unless you're doing some level of framebuffer shenanigans, that is, but I'd wager most people work on a GUI with terminal windows, not full screen terminal VTYs.

We've got this wonderful invention called the graphical user interface.. why not leverage it?
Microsoft is doing a lot of community trust building steps that I wish Oracle / Sun were doing, I wonder if people take it seriously and if Microsoft will be ever "Cool" again in the startup / hacker community, or is taken as PR attempts? I personally like it.
Obesity among baby boomers is more than double the rate of their parents
"MySpace was dangerous and full of predators. Facebook’s stark one-size-fits-all layout (the digital equivalent of suburban tract houses) was “clean,” while infinitely customizable MySpace profiles were “ghetto” and covered in “bling”—and, later, the digital graffiti that spammers leave on abandoned profile pages"

Call it what you want, but Myspace is ugly and allowed people to make it really annoying when viewing their profile page. This is why I left.

If I was in a bad neighborhood and I was getting robbed every day or saw graffiti all around my neighborhood, I might leave too. I don't know why this is painted as a bad thing.

I feel like this article is implying that the Myspace "ghetto" was created by mostly black and latino users, which just isn't the case. I also don't see Facebook discriminating against anyone.

It's not just the whites that left Facebook..everyone did.
If I could have seen that there would have been some value outside of what I currently use, I'd totally look into it. I too am more likely to spend some time messing around with editors, IDEs and other tools than I am email clients though.
Google+'s Very-Well-Done Interactive Ad Layer
> The move to Codeplex is concerning.

What's concerning about moving the location where Microsoft hosts their code?
MIME html emails should have a plain text part that will be display properly and should contain essentially the same content.

One or both of those fail often enough that I have mutt set to display the HTML part, using w3m to render it as text.
You could use Ctrl+C which works great for getting out of insert mode. Also Ctrl+J can be used instead as Enter. It also does work great in bash/zsh. It took me some time to switch but it was totally worth it.
Caution: Switching caps lock with control was needed as prerequisite.
You never know when the person you're bitching at on HN has a law degree. But now that it's clear that you don't: your objection is silly and the person you are objecting to knows more about this issue than you do.
Are you being ironic by using all random suppositions to refute my random suppositions?
There are a couple of companies that are doing this commercially (TagMan, for instance) who might be a little nervous now that Google has entered the space.
With a name like Camus, how can you not be a fan of javascript?
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No need for having two apps clogging up the store - have just the app, and have the paid version unlocked via IAP.
What makes you find it so useless? I think it's a pretty decent post.
I didn't even know that one; thank you!
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Same situation here. There's no indication if the reply is from OP or not.
The error about ^M suggests it has DOS line endings. Try converting the line endings.