skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree on the whole coffeescript thing, really it detracts from what you are trying to show. But on to the real point of commenting; I am implementing a system using backbone because it is a requirement of the company I am contracting for. I am writing several..plugins..I suppose you would call them, to make backbone work more like angular.js. If you're having issues with backbone and have a choice, I strongly recommend checking out angular. it is quite amazing and very flexible. while it seems like it should be opinionated it is actually quite flexible on what you must do once you learn how it works. A great example is view compositioning, it has a very strong templating system using definitions to create your own element sections. I am having a really hard time liking backbone, if I have to write all this code, really I would much rather write my own library to handle this stuff. So just my point of view along with a suggestion on something that I believe can take you much further and reduce the time you spend on the b.s.
So this is graphical representation of gitflow... and tied to github... it sounds cool, I am a little suspicious how many people will really need this.
From angry comments I see this is not tied to appstore, kudos for that, hope more devs would do it like this.
What are people using LuaJit for in the wild?

Particularly interested in Android integration - has anyone used it for any projects? From my admittedly small experience using it, I love the language, and would really like to use it in some way practically.
There is already a standard called OAuth, which Twitter, Facebook, Google and most services implement, and can offer tokens that do not expire. It's not just an idea, it's how thousands of apps already work.
There's technically competent and then there's 'can sustain working as a developer for an indefinite length of time.' Some people are just not a good fit for being a developer. The worst though are people that have given it up but still try to maintain the cred.
The Microsoft employment contract has a one year non-compete clause. Microsoft has shown that it is willing to enforce non-competes and it is easy to do so under Washington State law.
I would pay Google but they don't care about me as a customer
Yes, totally possible! For example, see MoonScript, a CoffeeScript-like language that compiles to Lua:

http://moonscript.org/
Fair enough. I agree the fee can be steep to some. As a user, a counterpoint:

I hate going to random websites and giving them my credit card and dealing with whatever license key they give me.

I hate trials. Cheaper apps I can buy more liberally are nicer.

I hate crappy software that spews stuff around my system. Even though some apps can never be subject to sandboxing, I think forcing the rest to clean up their interactions with the rest of the system is an advantage of the App Store. (But I am biased in this particular opinion.)

I like having all my updates in one place.

I think the App Store generally has the potential to provide much better discoverability than the combination of Google and some crappy websites. Even considering the fee, I think that if people get used to it, the store can provide a better version of the "find some cheap/free software written by a small developer" concept.

I like that my mom is much more likely to use the App Store than VersionTracker.

I think the Store is only the death of an ecosystem insofar as it replaces it with a slightly different, but mostly just improved ecosystem.
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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Warshak

I certainly don't expect my mail carrier to hold my envelopes up to a lightbulb to decode the contents of my letters. Nor do I expect Delta to copy and distribute the documents in my briefcase when I put it in the cargo hold.

The fourth amendment protects my papers and effects, not only when they are on my person.
Hmm. I don't know if she is up to the level of Sinofsky but my comment was based upon the fact that everyone I knew that worked for her held in considerable respect and that is a rare thing within MS.
You may be surprised. Google has more legal resources, and less fear off illegal imprisonment. The government had wide latitude for breaking its own laws against individuals.
Yes, and Google fights them, and often wins.
it only means one thing :

Surface / WindowsRT / Windows8 = "big failure".

Not so long ago , he was seen as the next Microsoft boss , but firing him wont solve Microsoft problems , Ballmer is the problem.
Working in embedded software for aerospace is what drove me to make DiffPlug. When I built the Simulink differ, I spent a lot of time making it very general so that I could go after PCB schematics and layouts, some of the FPGA toolchain, etc.

I don't have any specific experience with PLC programming, but I bet some of DiffPlug could help your co-worker. The public API is still months from being stable, but I'd love to talk with your co-worker, I expect we have some shared interests. If he or she is interested, my personal email is ned.twigg@diffplug.com
would be great !
It has the fifth highest murder rate in the world.
http://reformsection5.org.uk/
You should, as Google has perhaps the best privacy record in the Internet industry among remotely similar organizations.
> Who's filenames aren't unicode?

Many filesystems don't support unicode or support only a subset of it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename#Comparison_of_filenam...

> Also domains and URLs can be unicode too.

Domains: it depends at which level you are dealing with them. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name

Internationalized domain names are stored in the Domain
Name System as ASCII strings using Punycode transcription.

URLs: Unicode characters are not allowed in URLs. See http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1738.html and http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.ht...

only alphanumerics, the special characters "$-_.+!*'(),", and
reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used
unencoded within a URL.
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I think you mean "a sense of irony". Something you clearly lack.

Sorry I'm not "underkill" enough for you. But nobody has Clockwork-Orange'd you into reading this thread.

If you don't like what you see, close your eyes, look away. It will still be here when you're ready to open them again.

Thanks for the internet diagnosis though! I'll look into it!

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irony 1 |ˈʌɪrəni|

noun ( pl. ironies ) [ mass noun ]

the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect: ‘Don't go overboard with the gratitude,’ he rejoined with heavy irony.

• a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result: the irony is that I thought he could help me | [ count noun ] : one of life's little ironies.

• (also dramatic or tragic irony )a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions is clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character.
Is everyone missing the fact the investigator who started this was corrupt?

As an FBI agent he had full email access, as easy as could be.

Gmail has a backdoor and it's what countries like China use for an attack point.
Chrome could do that with one process as well as with 100.
An Amazon Engineer Had a Little Idea That Turned Into a Billion-Dollar Business
The official definition from Knight's seminal paper "A Descriptive Model of the Intra-Firm Innovation Process" [1]:

"Bootlegging: In some instances the innovator may be able
to implement a new idea by keeping the development under
cover from the disapproving power in the organization
until it is introduced. At that time it may be impossible
for the organization to reverse itself."

It's reasonable to consider the authority of a Wikipedia entry, but in this case I believe the maintainers simply modernized "under cover" and "disapproving power".

1: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/2351630
Wasn't Windows Vista beyond bad at the time? Windows 7's mission was to retrofit that. Adding more features (cloud, services, whatever) would have delayed the fix to the damages caused by Vista. He's probably more focused in delivering a solution fast then. On that he had succeeded. The lack of services in Win7 was more of a fault of the guy(s) causing the Vista fiasco in the first place.
Particularly fascinating, that as a long time daily (hourly?) reader of HN I've never even heard of Taobao before today.
Context switching costs far less than the time it takes you to press the key to switch between tabs, and is not appreciably more expensive for a process than for a thread.
come on , that's always personal ... that's called PR ! dont you think he has a contract that forces him to keep his mouth shut ?
A Microsoft Without Sinofsky?
It seems Gaga herself doesn't even know how the main stream music industry operates now. The record labels certainly a/b test the mixes on test audiences and choose the mix that rates better. That's why a lot of main stream pop (one example I know of for sure is Katy Perry) has a different mix engineer on almost every song.

They actually farm the mixes off to independent mixers who do the work. Then test the results. If your mixes rate well, you move up the labels artist hierarchy and will be offered more prominent artists to mix in future. So it is kind of a natural selection of mixing.

Some artist management by labels involves this at more than just the mixing stage. Song writing is also in many cases done like this. If you have the skills of Linda Perry, you'll bubble your way to the top. I'm not sure that Gaga does this process with song writing (does she write her own material?), but I'm willing to bet the label certainly does it with mixing. It's quickly becoming the norm in the industry.

Maybe Gaga knows this and that is why she dodged the topic by answering a question with a question.
Correct. And I'm not condoning uninformed self-medication in any way, shape or form.

But I don't have to feel bad or limit my investigation into the mysteries of the cosmos just because not everyone can handle it.

It's like telling men they cannot eat steak because babies can't chew.
How much do you pay per month? Do you use it for your cellphone?
>Not to mention they use forging instead of casting for the aluminum bodies

Apple currently CNC mills all their aluminum bodies.
"Nobody wants to be dubbed the future king while the current king is still on the throne. It’s the quickest way to the dungeon."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/meet-the-next-ceo-of-microsof...
That is similar to my poetry site -- http://www.literarycorner.org except mine has user accounts and publishing.
What a horrible idea.
I certainly hope people realize that this is simply an unsustainable model, nobody likes a cage, you can dress it up however you like, but in the end it's still a cage.

As users become more savvy in larger quantities they will eventually want to customize what they use, and when they find that they are not able to, they will defect to systems that allow freedom.

Just my two cents
I figured that much, but on the market I'm sure someone like Google/Apple/Microsoft would pay a premium to current valuation for 5% of Dropbox.
Take a look at Anveo, someone else said they had a lot of luck with them.

A friend and I actually wrote this exact service, you'd get a number and forward it to whatever, and depending on the who was calling and when (with some rules you would set up), they would either ring through, be prompted that you are busy/sleeping/meeting, or go straight to the cellphone voicemail.

The problem is cost. ALL calls would have to go through this system, (which have a per-minute cost if they aren't over VoIP), so our minimum monthly price for this servce would probably be $15+.

Do you think you would pay that much? Most people loved the demo we showed them, but were hesitant to pay more than a few bucks a month. But, if you think differently I'd love to hear more.
> notch above typical canned pop

Sure. And there are at least 1000 notches above that.
Thanks guys. I agree, it was a blast. Hopefully we'll all be seeing each other at other hackathons in the future.
FWIW, 20% time was always controversial. I was part of 'the surge' (a big hiring wave that peaked in 2006 and then died off) and a common complaint was the low number employees had 100% time (they could work on what ever they wanted) and high number employees had to get their manager's approval, and their manager only approved it if it was something the manager needed doing.

Given the nature of that particular 'perk' it was really hard to quantify it for the employee handbook. I came to believe that it was a sort of test, kind of like the tests in Starship Troopers where if you did something that clearly was going to be a Google product or feature then you got points for that, but if nobody could figure out what use it would be, you got penalized. And the option was like either +1 point or -10 demerits (i.e. very unbalanced).

So over my four years the strictures on what was or wasn't 'acceptable use' of your 20% time got more and more constrained. I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if the language had morphed into 'if your really a star performer we'll let you pick your next project' rather than the oft misunderstood 20% to do whatever you want.
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SO has serious content problems of which nofollow is not one of them. SO cant decide if it wants deep content or shallow content, and it has mostly ended up being shallow (and massive amounts of incorrect deep/shallow content), links outside of SO are a major PAIN, as SO is in the format business not the content business. If the "answer" is not in SOs format which sometimes barely ranks above commenting, then its a bad thing. If you have blogworthy content dont bother posting it on SO, its a waste of time and in the Q&A format of SO its also a nuisance.
This is awesome! I've actually been working on something similar to this for awhile. Definitely a great hackathon project :)
I got curious and looked into this. The relevant effort seems to be this, a new backend for the ClojureScript compiler which compiles to Lua instead of JavaScript:

https://github.com/raph-amiard/clojurescript-lua

http://raph-amiard.github.com/ClojureScriptLua.html
Don't use Google paid services. All of them have horrible support
Increasing efficiency increases consumption , as more activities become economical to more people. ("Sunday drives", commuting to work, etc)
Specfically, that pause was the part of the Hayes AT command-set that was patented. Therefore lots of manufacturers who didn't want to licence the patent but wanted to have 'Hayes AT compatible' on the box just didn't bother implementing the timeout-cancellation bit.
As an aside, I've noticed many of the factors and symptoms you note in members of any sufficiently large corporation. Perhaps in a microcosm of society, the frictions necessary to create psychological tension are amplified with respect to the size of the corporation and the degree of isolation.

In the case of Microsoft, this phenomena may be more pronounced. Software engineers/developers exist in a smaller subset of society than many other professions, and the compounded relative geographic isolation in Washington may make it difficult to see the forest through the trees during times of professional conflict. This is not to say that Seattle is by any means isolated, but the tech community there is indeed smaller than that of Silicon Valley, magnifying the overall degree of professional isolation.
Contraception is, historically, a recent development. Without it, a man and a woman rather fond of each other tend to produce children; all involved, including society at large, have an interest in keeping those parents together - hence the institution of marriage. Strange how the obvious has been forgotten.
> You should, as Google has perhaps the best privacy record in the Internet industry among remotely similar organizations.

This means very little when Google still has to comply with subpoenas. They don't really have much of a choice, pressed up against the law.
I've had mine for 3 weeks, and so far I haven't been any more distracted than I was in my last Japanese semi-luxury sedan. The most common actions (media pause, volume, skip and climate control) are on the wheel, and using the map with multitouch is much easier than using a joystick or wheel in an Acura, Lexus or BMW.
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Well, you could email the YC crew asking for their personal addresses... or you could ask them if they were watching your video.
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Gas prices increases follow oil price increases. Gas prices don't decrease much following oil price decreases.
Well, yes. The books on my bookshelves - I own those. Nobody can take them away from me without burglarizing my house. Ebooks, on the other hand, belong to whichever giant corporation provides the reader, and if that reader has any whisper of network connectivity then my "ownership" of those books is subject to whatever pressures might motivate that corporation to revoke my access. It is not the same thing at all. I don't care how much better ebooks are supposed to be, if I have to deal with some megacorp to read then it is not a solution for me.
This complements some of pg's essay, especially "Cities and Ambition" (http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html; "Practically every fifteenth century Italian painter you've heard of was from Florence" ) and "The Word 'Hacker'" (http://paulgraham.com/gba.html; "I lived for a while in Florence. But after I'd been there a few months I realized that what I'd been unconsciously hoping to find there was back in the place I'd just left. The reason Florence is famous is that in 1450, it was New York").

I think the real question is always the same: where are the excess geniuses gathering now? Where will they gather tomorrow? And is there even a reliable way to answer these questions?
A wingman is the other pilot flying a sortie with you, supporting you in a dangerous mission. The bar-cruising friend only wishes he could be that awesome.
A while ago, I came across a test posted here on HN by a researcher at Duke.

He was trying to determine if entrepreneurs are more inclined to take risks than other types of people, as part of an ongoing experiment designed to elicit "what it is" that makes entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs.

Some time after that, in a moment where, I've got to admit, I felt pretty defeated by the difficulties my friends and I were encountering in our startup, I ended up writing a poem.

Not sure how or why it happened, since the words seemed to just 'appear' as if out of thin air, but the end result is something that speaks a great deal - to me at least - about the "whatness" of entrepreneurs.

It takes passion to create something that lives outside yourself, and courage too. The same two qualities which the ancient Greek poets prized above all others in their works.

Makes me wonder if modern-day founders would've been poets in earlier times lol.

Good luck with your project!

--The Bouldrèd Night--

The bouldrèd cliff jutting faintly upon far-off lands a' horizon's light
Shows but a whisper of might, but 'ere the closing day foreshadows
Defiance borne roughly upon the humble spot of soul and bras.

What power's this come thundrèd forth from falling skies?
Keen eyes all watch, yet but few allow the self to see and tell.
Many lights, born free, bear out their sights in visions
Birthed of other men's ambitions - with scarce looks not in
Augury of pomp and silver for their avariced jailer's
Searching leap upon the newly-minted throne, gilt of old.

How strange is this? That we should bear ourselves
Towards despair, and walk, 'ere the gallows,
Hooded, our shackled soul wound round the neck in dreams,
False-true, abandoned free of vice for Clarity's comforted
Embrace of those acquainted, once met, never cared.
i believe it's the 5th highest in the Americas, not the world - https://www.osac.gov/Pages/ContentReportDetails.aspx?cid=123...
That case is precedent only in the 6th circuit. It is not the law in the rest of the country.

As for your mail carrier: that's different, the postal service is affiliated with the government. Also, while you may not expect Delta to copy and distribute your documents when you put them in the cargo hold, that has nothing to do with the 4th amendment. The Bill of Rights is only a restraint on federal and state governments, not on private parties.
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I don't speak or read Chinese, but my guess is that not all of these sales were online, that for many (most?) the payment occurred in retail stores.
The cars aren't just assembled in the U.S., they're built here; Tesla does a lot more radically vertically integrated end-to-end manufacture than any other car company. Other than a few ready-made components such as the batteries, the touchscreens, and the Mercedes steering columns, they make almost all of their components from scratch from raw aluminum.
What? I was accepted by YCombinator?
I am so stoked...I go to tell this to all my friends.....yeeeaaaaaaaaaaa
China's web, while accessible via the "regular" internet (vs things like Iran's and NK's version of the internet) is really an internet all to its own.

The average citizen in China does not use any foreign websites to do anything [citation needed]. All the services you and I consume online are replicated in China by Chinese companies. From Gmail to Yahoo!, from Facebook to twitter, from Amazon to eBay, from CNN to FOX.

It's really no surprise you haven't heard of this (I haven't either). Very few such Chinese sites even attempt at marketing themselves out of mainland China (notable exemption being the original Alibaba marketplace to great effect, Taobao is apparently a different site by the same group). It's fascinating how the internet has so effectively bridged other cultures while keeping others at arm's length - even when connected and technically accessible.
Taobao is awesome. The barrier is a bit higher without being able to read Chinese, but with someone to help you navigate the final portions, it's a damn good deal. Way more relaxing than going to the markets and getting mobbed.