skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Man with the Iron Fists 2012 is a very nice movie.In feudal China, a blacksmith who makes weapons for a small village is put in the position where he must defend himself and his fellow villagers.
http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/the-man-with-the-iron-fis...

http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/the-man-with-the-iron-fis...

http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/the-man-with-the-iron-fis...

http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/the-man-with-the-iron-fis...

http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/the-man-with-the-iron-fis...

http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/the-man-with-the-iron-fis...

http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/the-man-with-the-iron-fis...
The older iMacs looked great. At least in my opinion, thinner doesn't make them look better. Not worse either... just different.
Too little, too late? There's no zero sum game here. Perhaps you're conflating Internet-popular (which doesn't mean shit) with useful?
Using sqlite as the "this is just an idea" phase positions you better for scale-out/build-up if it becomes necessary. Helps keep your head straight but doesn't slow you down.

I say this as someone who worships Crockford for inventing JSON.

I've seen too many projects get fucked hard because they used flatfiles.

Edit: Seriously though, managing synchronization/atomic changes to flatfiles manually is a Bad Idea (TM).

It's somewhere up there with, "I have a performance problem. I'll use pthreads!" Now you have 1,02-SEGMENTATION FAULT problems.
Yup. That's what I said in the original post. This is a net-good for the startup community. It's not charity though, as they'd like to make us think.
I think the author failed to mention how this ties in with SASS/LESS mixins:

instead of writing obtuse HTML:

<div class="corner-box brand-color-bg pad-box-mini shadow-box light-text-color content-box"></div>

you could continue to write semantic HTML:

<div class="sign-up-callout"></div>

and then use mixins to separate the description of styling concepts and the implementation details:

/*implementation details*/
.corner-box {...}
.brand-color-bg {...}

/*style descriptions*/
.sign-up-callout {
.corner-box;
.brand-color-bg;
}

I suppose the downside of the approach is that you need to carefully maintain a dictionary that isn't too tied to implementation, e.g.

.red {color:red;}

but also not too abstract, e.g.

.box-callout {...}
.box-call-to-action {...}
Do you, by any chance, knows who is the owner of those? i would like to be able to contact him directly.
Ask HN: Any of you who keep a journal like to try a beta release of our iOS app?
> The extra syntax is not there for nothing.

You could say the same thing about everything old C++ compelled you to type. Or old COBOL, for that matter.

I'm more interested in what the C++ memory allocation style does to verbosity. Memory-handling styles are often more important than the traditional paradigms (functional, OO, etc.) in determining what's reasonable/pleasant to do in a given language.

https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/allocation-styles
Because it's highly relevant to the story I was discussing. Jobs had asked Sculley, head of PepsiCo at the time, Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your life? Or do you want to come with me and change the world?" Sculley then ran Apple from the perspective if his experience at a commodity company, driving the company to the edge of bankruptcy and irrelevance. It worked out well for me, I bought a lot of Apple stock at around $5 a share. But it almost destroyed Apple.

This quote has since been simplified to asking people in technical fields if they want to make fizzy sugar water. Familiarity with this story is widespread in the industry and not an obscure reference, and in this case I wanted to discuss both Jobs, Sculley, Apple, and the result of having a bean counter type person who is excellent at reducing manufacturing costs within a commodity company be in charge of a company whose entire value is based on not being a commodity.
Your critical phrase phrase being "... once you know what it does.". I didn't say it was hard, I said it required learning and experience to use. The OP claimed that non-expert python programmers could read it without that experience. The same is true for virtually all of C++ too.
If your eyesight isn't good enough to handle low-DPI, you may want to investigate the accessibility control panel.
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Whether or not its misogynistic is a distraction from the fact that its childish.
Particularly important is that they're just in Zone C, i.e. apocalyptic flooding required. They also kept hefty onsite fuel reserves, i.e. at one point a reported 30 hours before they needed their first delivery, then 5 days....

This site, the/a main one for the Huffington Post (Datagram), they're all in Zone A, when Zone B flooding was considered to be likely :-( http://project.wnyc.org/news-maps/hurricane-zones/hurricane-... ). I'm sure Manhattan Island datacenter space in Zones A and B cost less, but....

(I too use them for email and their siting has always been one of my biggest concerns.)
It's doubly in Microsoft's interest to settle. First, the troll goes away without a more expensive a jury trial to invalidate the patent.

But more importantly, the troll will take that intact patent and its now overflowing coffers and go off after Microsoft's competitors. So it's a twofer.

Bet on it.
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Meh. I prefer http://www.AudibleCoffee.com
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Congrats! You guys have a great service.
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Or diffs. Diffing in visual languages is a nightmare.
Thanks for the kind words Roland, awesome to see you here.

Yep, you're right - I think what Julien is doing is really great. I've been in touch with him via email too, been great to talk a little and looking forward to more conversation :-)

I think it's great that there are multiple offerings out there, to raise awareness of this kind of service is really key right now as we gain traction and as more and more people find that something like Buffer can be super useful for them. We've had quite a few competitors come and go along our journey so far, and I expect to see more and more. I think it's only a good thing.

Good thinking on ways to work together, I think Julien and I will chat for sure :-)
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Yeah of course, most terminals are at 80 characters, nobody can expect most Linux developers to have big ass monitors. It will be the standard for a long time, I'm sure.
No, just limit your popular science reading to books written by scientists instead of journalists.
Lehrer chose to distort subjects that are easily objectively verifiable, i.e., what Bob Dylan said or did in a publicly broadcast TV series watched by thousands of hardcore Dylan fans.

Climate change is verifiable, but not easily, and most evidence is unfortunately circumstantial. Furthemore, the significance of what this means is not settled, which makes the issue political rather than scientific.
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"const" doesn't help you in the presence of aliasing:

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>

template<typename T,typename U>
void print(const T& v, U& w) {
for (auto ii = v.begin(), ie = v.end(); ii != ie; ++ii) {
w.clear();
std::cout << *ii << std::endl;
}
}

int main() {
std::vector<std::string> v;
v.push_back(std::string("Hello"));
v.push_back(std::string("there"));
print(v, v);
return 0;
}

In general there are lots of ways to get non-const access to const data. You'd need a sophisticated form of whole-program alias analysis to eliminate the unsafety here. (Even if you didn't have the second "U& w" parameter, there are other potential ways that "print" could get non-const access to "v"; global variables, TLS, by accessing a member of "v", etc.)
I can vouch for the retina display making text significantly more readable to those who need reading glasses, even if the text is exactly the same size.
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Hey. I definitely encourage you to try Circular. If you want to try Buffer too, then if it helps then I'm happy to let you know we're funded and profitable, 7 in the team. Let me know if you have any other questions! :-)
I don't understand why people get offended when someone tries to find a motive behind something

“So, what’s the catch - is this just a marketing promotion.” There’s no catch, no strings attached, no BS -- we just want to do our part to give back to the community that made us successful and this is our way of paying it forward.

Clearly Braintree wants us to think they are doing it to do 'their part'. Pointing out that this might not be true shouldn't offend you. The parent is not challenging your intellect. He is just making an observation. I got a few negative comments on something similar I wrote about github http://minhajuddin.com/2012/09/29/github-is-not-really-free-... .

Am I missing something here?
From HN: "correlation is not causation"
I was about to submit this too. Wonder how it went for those that tried this hack. Can someone share experience?
How do we know that Google is translating client-side? Is there a link to a Google source to verify this? The app is only 10 MB, so it would be very impressive if they actually accomplished this, but I can't find verification anywhere.
I'm two months or more into my Windows 8 experience, and I love it.

Articles like this are just spread FUD in a desperate grab for pageviews.

Windows power users will likely have no need to ever touch a metro app. The only people that will be using Metro apps are tablet users, and the type of users that would add gadgets to their vista toolbar thing. (your average 40 something office drone).. and for them the metro interface is great, IMHO. It's graphically rich, and simplistic keeping the confusion levels of these typical users to a minimum.

For the rest of us, we just work on windows the same way we always have, except for now we have multiple task bars, and the os is faster, can mount cd images without software, and a few other minor features that make it a pleasure to use.

All this metro fanfare is manufactured hype.
http://www.healthboards.com/server-status/
now returns 404

Yesterday it was returning IP address list with associated medical condition of interest...
Thanks to WillBooth, you're now able to use the @ character. I've merged in his pull request https://github.com/xta/HalloweenBash/pull/5
Note that selling 1 million a month is obviously great for Android, but it's not even close to the same as say selling 1 million Galaxy S3's per month. Asus and Google have both basically said that they are selling the Nexus 7 at break even or a small loss. Google pretty much has to do this, but it's not exactly helping their bottom line in the same way that Apple selling 1 million iPad Mini's helps Apple's bottom line. At $130 profit per device (which is probably a bit low) Apple would profit $1.56 billion per year with the same sales volume, vs basically $0 per year for Google/Asus.

It might not be all about profit for everybody, but $1.56 billion buys a lot of R&D, advanced manufacturing, etc. which puts Apple in an even better strategic position on both the product and operations side of the business, which continues to drive profit.
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Buffer does the stuff very good actually, I use its free tier and I couldn't even approach to its limit, personally. But having alternatives is always very good and apparently you spent really good time on this project. I'd love to hear a blog address where we can follow your stories about your development of Circular.
Continuous Development, a part of the Continuous Integration concept?
> Meanwhile, a digital agency designing a micro site for a client with [existing] assets and branding probably isn’t going to [benefit from Bootstrap].

I'm curious: why not? One of the major struggles I've seen at big companies and startups alike is the "6 different shades of red" issue that LESS helps with. Another common issue is every page being designed with a different layout because each section is created in a silo -- Bootstrap helps there with the grid and standard-issue components.

In the end, I suppose this isn't all exclusive to Bootstrap (you can make your own style guides and use your own grid). But it seems to me that Bootstrap - or any CSS framework, really - gives you some common ground on which to communicate with your designers.
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It just moved to http://zevo.getgreenbytes.com/ although I haven't tried downloading it from there.
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"Ads in apps is a lot different than ads built into the OS."

If those apps come pre-installed, what's the difference?
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I do agree with you that their choice of label is rather confusing/doesn't fit the best. However, I can't think of a short descriptor for bootstrap that describes:

"BootStrap is a set of generic, reliable, compatible and stylish CSS classes that you are free to use."

Actually, I'd really prefer that right there to be on the front page.

In fact, I'd really love it if most product descriptions were expanded a bit to provide more info. Hmmmm... I think I may write about that.
"Security breaks when humans are involved"

Pretty much sums up life. It's gotten to the point that zero-day exploits scare me less then users writing passwords down on sticky notes, clicking on random links, or letting random people in the building.
You're making an ad-hom attack for making ad-hom attacks?
Observing your body and changing positions whenever they become uncomfortable is far better for your long-term health than is a well-engineered chair.

I now rotate between a standing desk, a normal desk, a couch (only when reading/exploring - typing here is tougher), and the floor, and all of my back problems have disappeared.
Unfortunately, anyone with an email address and a phone number can call themselves a recruiter. And because $15 billion in fees is up for grabs every year in the USA, annoying/dirty/spammy tactics are the norm, rather than the exception. You'd be surprised about how many people calling themselves tech recruiters think "Rails" is a form of transportation :)
The article's headline is inaccurate. From Harvey Anderson's blog post (http://lockshot.wordpress.com/2012/10/30/windows-eu-ballot-s...):
"Cumulatively 6 to 9 million Firefox browser downloads were lost during this period."
The issue is that without the state to subsidizing it and if the content is freely available through other intermediary companies, then there is no apparent way to cover the costs of media production.

When you write what appears to be "I think all currently viable options for funding serious news production are inappropriate", then it doesn't sound like you value news content. That is honestly an attempt to not strawman you, just a (perhaps confused) understanding of your seemingly untenable position. If an alternative to state funding is viable while still allowing free aggregation and distribution by arbitrary third parties, I am definitely interested in it.
(This must be the comeuppance for talking abstractly about abstractions. Heh.)

For starters I shan't cop-out and claim Haskell is primarily a research vehicle. So it's succeeding in some sense. We'll live.

So here's my take: Most people yield defeat at monads. And then the few that survive find that they have to face iteratees and co. Rage and tears don't even begin to express it.

You're right, there's no guidance about iteratees. Material on this issue, not unlike monads; not unlike space complexity tradeoffs in lazy evaluation; hell, not unlike almost everything about haskell, is all over the place. And that sucks balls.

Do I have a solution? I'd counter, isn't this the price to pay for being on the bleeding edge? And I'd contribute this: there used to be a time when people felt a greater affordance to try anything half-baked, fiddle with it here and there, and BBS to others about it. Over the years there's this expectation creep that everything has to be perfect like an immaculate birth. Perfect! With guidance included!

I want to say that this is due to the decline of leisure time. But that can't be the whole story.
Battery life seems to have held steady for the HiDPI/Retina Macbooks and for all the tablets we've seen. So the real sacrifice is in weight and thickness.

Linus's rant is compelling, but as the owner of a 2011 MacBook Air, I'm not completely sure I want to add 1.5 pounds (the difference between the MBA and the 13" Retina MBP). Granted, complaining about 4 pounds sounds ridiculous, but having something you can effortlessly carry from room to room with one hand is pretty great.
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Good move by BrainTree.

As much as I love Stripe and their innovative moves, the bulk of my business's transactions have been handled by BrainTree over the last 4 years. That includes both SaaS subscription billing and third-party payment aggregation (we do niche ecommerce, take a transaction fee, and ACH to customers). Our transaction fee is below the (now seemingly) standard 2.9% which adds up when you get to hundreds of thousands of dollars or more in processing. BrainTree's support is great ... I'm talking Rackspace-level great.

Some of you talk like BrainTree is an old-school behemoth which is being disrupted by Stripe, which is silly. News flash: BrainTree is not PayPal. Obviously they are all competitors, but I see nothing to indicate that BrainTree can't keep pace with Stripe moving forward.

I do use Stripe for things–and I do love it. But we wouldn't be where we are today w/o BrainTree.
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The statistics you present do not show that you are worse off for having a college degree.
I did a part-time Ph.D between 2004 and 2009. I had a plan for what I was going to research, but in the end ALL FIVE chapters of my dissertation ended up being work that started out as side-projects. Along the way, I got to name two new dinosaurs (and revise one of the best-known old ones).

So needless to say, I am a big fan of side-projects. My experience is that I attack them with an enthusiasm that's rarely present when I am doing scheduled work. Often the momentum that that gives can get them to the point where they have enough substance to be wrestled over the finishing line relatively easily.

(Of course that experience won't translate directly to the kind of work you living from.)

Details of my dissertation here if anyone's interested:
http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/dino/pubs/#diss
Thanks for the clarification -- I'd never heard of circular/tampon before so I wasn't aware of what had happened, hence my question.

I'm even one of those people who never figured out what buffer app was for despite all their posts on HN.
On Android, voice recognition is built-in to the OS. On iPhone, they don't have this luxury and the app is relatively small, so I'm thinking almost all of it is done on the server. A link to a Google source verifying this would be nice though.
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This comment makes me very happy.

The core product can't be based on a misconception like this.
Some good examples of startup Demo videos
Or you can opt out of the portions you don't like.
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I once got 7(!) separate recruiter calls for a job at a company I was fired from years earlier, for the position I had at the time. You'd think they'd do a basic search to make sure the company name they're recruiting for isn't already on the resume!
I'm not sure how using a grid system or something like bootstrap is "pushing presentation into markup".

Regardless of whether you use bootstrap or not you are always going to be specifying CSS classes which describe the presentation of elements, not sure how else it can be done?

Screen reader software will generally ignore anything that it doesn't understand or deem irrelevant.

Whenever I have tried screen readers they will say "ok, there's 3 divs with content here. Let's read them out one at a time or just read the headings and wait for the user to select one". How they are arranged in a grid will be irrelevant to the software.

Does bootstrap present some particular problem for screen readers?

You are yet to explain what you think best practices should be here.
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You should find someone else to go through it with you. An outside voice pointing out possible cuts is often a breath of fresh air and helps crystalize things.
I've been using both C++11 and Python lately. While the new C++11 features add a lot of value, I still find it frustratingly verbose for some things. For example, finding an element in a collection:

std::string type = "foo";
auto it = std::find_if(
channel_widgets.begin(),
channel_widgets.end(),
[type](const std::shared_ptr<Widget> &w){
return (w->getType() == type);
}
);
if (it == channel_widgets.end()) {
std::cerr << "widget not found" << std::endl;
} else {
std::shared_ptr<Widget> target_widget = *it;
std::cout << "widget found." << std::endl;
}

versus (for example):

type = "foo"
matches = [x for x in widgets if x.get_type() == type];
if matches:
target_widget = matches[0]
print "widget found:",target_widget
else:
print "widget not found"

I may be missing out on some C++11 feature for doing this better. (Or even some Python feature for doing this better!)