skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Extremely short-sighted move on Facebook's part. This is a move meant as retaliation to Twitter's API insanity but really, all it does is makes you look as evil as twitter in the eyes of the users. The only problem is that twitter itself has a much lower bar it holds itself to than facebook. And when facebook stoops to twitter's level, it has much much more to lose than twitter.
Great, now birds will get cancer, too.
One thing I miss from Eclipse, for Java development, is the ability to run unit tests (or a whole program for that matter) while compilation errors exist in the code. Intellij forces me to make all my code compile before I can try out anything - I believe I do less iterative development and make less exploratory changes to code when using Intellij because of this. I've found I can live with it, and do, because my team uses Intellij, but I sure do miss executing code that won't compile.

If you have never seen this feature of Eclipse, I encourage you to try it.
> enabling rapid navigation of huge codebases and helping me to understand unfamiliar code

Can you provide a link to a guide going over some techniques for using Eclipse to its potential? My inability to rapidly navigate large code bases using Eclipse is one of the reasons I dislike using it so much - I usually end up grepping in iTerm instead of trying to use Eclipse to search.
Back around 1993, I worked doing digital editing and post-production on Macintosh Quadra 800/840AVs which had 96MB of RAM and 40MHz processors.

A lot of the video work was done on co-processor boards (Media 100 and Avid), but almost all of the After Effects renders were done using the base Mac.

My first job was to supervise a render of an animated banner on a commercial, it took 48 hours to render 30 seconds worth of video. I had to be there the whole time to ensure that a crash didn't stop the render.

Things change and it is foolish to underestimate what CPUs and GPUs will be capable of. There are some pretty stunning games taking advantage of the iPad's GPUs, I would surprised if tablets in 5 years couldn't do what your professional workstations do today (the problem will be that professional standards will go up in the meantime and you'd turn your nose up at what you can do today).
Is the bootcamp geared toward complete beginners (and by beginner, I mean someone with a computer science background, able to program in another non-functional language)?
This is great. I'm building something exactly like this for internal company usage. We have a few different parts of the site that involve surveys (though I called them dynamic wizards). We occasionally need to tweak the flow so I have versioning capability added.

I initially started with a DSL that would generate everything for me but I decided a UI would be nicer.

Great job. Ours will never be available for public consumption and has to be tightly integrated into our site so it'll never see any kind of third party usage, but it's nice to see someone else doing it too!
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I don't really think you can evaluate government loans the
same way you would as a private investor.

So, there are different ways to isolate a core philosophical disagreement but I think this may be one of them. In a different context you will hear people say that "the government is not a household" because the USG can print money. OK, so call that one point of view.

Another point of view looks at the largest and most successful companies (like Apple, Google, et alia) and compares them to the smallest countries (like Iceland). Interestingly, you can do the math to see that Iceland gets about $5.6B of tax revenue with a population of 320,000, while Apple makes $156B with an employee base of about 73,000. This indicates that Apple is about 120X more efficient in terms of dollars generated per person; indeed, significantly more so in that tax payments are more on the involuntary side while Apple purchases are more on the voluntary side.

You can extend the same kind of analysis to Fortune 500 companies and many small countries. This is a very interesting exercise because no one disputes that the Fortune 500 companies can be evaluated by private investors, or that the countries have flags, fiscal policies, and the like. And yet the former outperform the latter by a lot on metrics like this.

So, that's the point of view that says that governments should be evaluated in the same way you'd evaluate companies. One not-so-bad way to think of it is that a citizen is buying a huge package of goods from the government, like cable bundling on steroids, and can only switch service providers by moving.

But, in any case, because we disagree on that point we'll probably also disagree on others. For example, the senior equity thing...are you stating the USG can exercise eminent domain and/or nationalize a company at will? I agree that in practice they have done this, but I at least don't believe this is a good thing.

Anyway, yeah, that's the crux of it: one group does not believe governments should be judged like companies, another group believes they should. Hopefully you can at least see our point of view even if you don't decide to convert :)
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Financial data API from Intuit
Main function of a car is to move a group of people from point A to point B. Tesla is getting good at it, provided point A and point B are not too far apart, and pint B has an electric charger available. And that is a pretty critical limitation so far.

Jumping on your slightly irrelevant analogies, it is like iPod 5 with a batter that can only hold charge for 30 minutes, and can only charged at Apple store.
We built an in house solution for communicating with quickbooks. We implemented the soap service and communicate with it via a message queue. The biggest issue we've run into is that the web connector is polling the soap service, so you can wait as long as 1 minute for a response depending on how often the web connector is set to poll. We implemented a work around that forces the web connector to poll more often, but when it is in this "synchronous" mode, the quickbooks file is held open and cannot be closed. I am curious how your api gets around this? If you have a good solution, I think we'd definitely be interested in using your api.
God i love the phpStorm IDE so much, I was a user of the text editors for a while. But the debugging support in this ide for PHP is just amazing. It integrates with mercurial nicely too. The recent black color scheme is just a nice surprise. Well worth the price.
In my experience, that's not the case. In the case of English, the main difficulty was (is) learning the pronunciation of every word, because the English spelling system isn't very helpful (to put it kindly). As you advance, the problem is then to get a good grasp on usage/pragmatics; that is, there are tons of syntactically correct ways of saying the same thing, but only a few of them sound "natural". Grammar was never a big problem for me.

In the case of Japanese too, the problem is not the grammar. Japanese morphology is simple (e.g. nouns are the same in singular and plural, verb conjugation doesn't vary with person) and very regular. The big problems are 1) acquiring the vocabulary in the first place, which is hard because the writing system is even less helpful than English's 2) and remembering all those words, which is hard because for the most part they don't resemble either my native language or English.
What makes you think 1% is too low (assuming we don't count android)?
Remember that 1% is still a shit load of people.

And of course if you are at all involved in tech you probably don't have a really representative sample.
The W3C has a crypto API draft at: http://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/
Do users have to be registered to vote? How will you bring in the non-developer person to sign up to LaunchSky? If I was building a SaaS type app, this would be awesome because my target market would actually be voting. But any other type of app I'd like the avg consumer to be voting.
The attack is not windows licenses being sold, it's the new 'secure boot' thing.
Another anecdote for you: I'm posting this from Debian running on an iMac. (I gave OS X a good try for about a month when my work got these boxes, but I'm far more efficient with Linux.)
One thing that's tough to get right is timing email updates, and I think that Prismatic's default is great. If I get too many emails from you, I'll filter you out of my inbox (<cough>Quora</cough>).

I also enjoy that the updates selectively target a few of my interests, as opposed to struggling to cram everything into a single email.

That aside, the profile page is very buggy. The interest bubbles doesn't seem to be useful in any way, and the list view will keep stacking your interests if you click it multiple times. Under my profile, where articles (apparently?) should be, nothing is displayed. They only show up when I click 'Read.' I also don't understand the point of having a clickable 'username', only to have it change the text to 'Your Profile.'
Does anyone know why the app needs permission to manage Google Contacts? The rest of the permissions make sense, I just don't get this one.
back to IRC we go...
We've discussed the idea of gaming good vs. bad support.

Think: Angel investors, but with their likes/sign-up instead of money.

Still, this won't be an easy one to crack, but we're committed to providing feedback/support of actual value, as well as a pool of potential users, to people coming with a new idea.
> Perhaps it could be better put as 'Why doesn't maths concern itself with readability like programming does?'

Readability is a personal opinion in some ways. I guess I have grown up using mathematical symbols in Physics classes since middle school so those symbols didn't feel arcane to me when I hit my first real math classes.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/08/06/20984...:

"One of the adverse consequences of the /3GB switch is that it forces the kernel to operate inside a much smaller space.

One of the biggest casualties of the limited address space is the video driver. To manage the memory on the video card, the driver needs to be able to address it, and the apertures required are typically quite large. When the video driver requests a 256MB aperture, the call is likely to fail since there simply isn't that much address space available to spare."

As I said: there are trade offs everywhere. AFAIK, Linux has not found a magic way round this. For example, http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/173.14.12/RE... states:

"The NVIDIA kernel module requires portions of the kernel's virtual address space for each GPU and for certain memory allocations. If no more than 128MB are available to the kernel and device drivers at boot time, the NVIDIA kernel module may be unable to initialize all GPUs, or fail memory allocations"
I see several fatal flaws that are already addressed by other services, like Kickstarter and focus groups:

1. No reward for participation (bad for users)

2. No promise of a finished product (bad for users)

3. Users have no personal stake in anything they "support" (bad for developers)

4. Highly biased and narrow audience (bad for developers)

What people think they want and what they'd actually pay for are often very different things. Contrary to your title, this seems like a great way to encourage developers to build even more crappy apps that no one will ever buy.
The limit to what we store while you're not connected.- i.e, if you're on a trip for a weekend and you come back, you get all of your messages fed back to your client the next time you log in. This clears your limit back to 0, effectively.

On ZNC - definitely good feedback to have a "How it works" page or something of the sort for those who are interested.
In general its a nice service, it seems to cover all the IRC bases.

I'm wondering though if there is a bigger offering here somewhere, something which would basically provide a termination point for all of your real time interactive communication sessions. Paired with a set of tools that let you connect to that termination point from a variety of devices might unify a bunch of services that are currently fragmented.

For example, the various chat clients that federated AIM/Yahoo/Jabber were a way to terminate all your chat context and then to attach or detach from it at will. They still didn't get the "Oh I left my gmail running at home so your gchat went there and now opening gmail at work I don't know that you're wondering why I'm not responding" problem.

Clearly federating IRC, Chat, Twitter, and SMS could have some interesting benefits, especially if you're able to re-connect, back up the timeline to the point where you disconnected, and play back to present.

Anyway, IRC is but one piece of that puzzle.
Structural search & replace

That one is pretty important for me.

In general, Eclipse works pretty good. And it looks incredible when compare to NetBeans and other free IDEs.
Apologies: downvoted, when I meant to upvote. Can someone please remedy that?
Nope. The problem with the Surface is not that "it doesn't solve a problem". The problem with the Surface is that it came into the market (1) late, (2) with little differentiation, and (3) without a substantial price advantage. It is Marketing 101. Change any of these factors and it would have been a success.
I have been in the oposite position, where I came from Eclipse background, and had to use IntelliJ. Lets just say that I wasn't a happy camper for a while.

IntelliJ might be a tad better usability wise, but Eclipse has so many extensions, tools and more as it is the default IDE for a lot of projects/ecosystems.

I think it is a matter of preference, and what you are used to.
This I agree with 100%. If only thr rhetoric were dialled down more elsewhere. I'd take Linux users more seriously then.
What if one's humor goes off wrong, which is often the case in these situations?
Yes, the bootcamp is targeted towards people who have experience programming but zero experience with Erlang.
Tweeting on behalf of users is bad
Addicted to likes? Facebook Demetricator may be your solution.
GitHub is unresponsive as today, again.
I think their powertrain business has always been profitable. It just would have taken a lot longer to build up to the point they are now.
It makes me wonder what the 5 whys are. :)
We'll probably split support in some way.

NOT SIGNED UP: likes/up-vote; something basic
SIGNED UP: the above + "i'd use it" + feedback; still have to figure out how to effectively incentivize these users and keep them coming back for more.
Thanks! It seems like an obvious thing, but thinking about "operationalizing" intuitions computationally really helped me hone in on what I should be focusing on with research. My advisor Dan Klein was really awesome at teaching that.
What kind of paper do you use with this? It looks stronger than regular printer paper.
Well, I have used Linux at home since about 2006 or so (Ubuntu 6.06 being the first release where I decided not to dual boot with XP).

I would not say that there is a lot to learn especially except for some of the plumbing (networks for instance) that works differently.
I like the flatness too, but still prefer roundrects. They'll never go out of style.
Everybody is trying to get citizenship in the west because the west has destroyed half of the world. Read about why your country (and the west in general) is so rich in the first place. Read about why places like the DRC and Latin American countries are so poor and conflicted. All of this prosperity is built on the blood, sweat and tears of countless people. All empires are the same - rotten at the core. So it was with Stalin's Russia and Britain's empire and Hitler's Germany and Spain's empire and France's empire and I could go on and on.

So, sure, everything's peachy if you just keep your eyes on your house. As soon as you start to look around you'll find that your smile will drop through the floor.
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BMW has been making ActivE (all-electric 1 series) for a while now. They are not released to general public because, well, the technology is not good enough yet - and BMW is not under pressure of bankruptcy.
The Google Contacts OAuth authorization includes both read and write permissions, though I'm sure the intent is just to get emails to invite friends, share stories, etc.

https://developers.google.com/google-apps/contacts/v3/#autho...
We will send you an email before billing your card. We're also very open to fixing issues around accidental billing - sometimes I forget to cancel in time as well.
Its a bit presumptuous to say that Tesla is so different. Sure, they are attractive at the moment because of unique niche they are filling. If BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Lexus, Acura, etc all sold an all-electric vehicle with similar range, Tesla's differentiation becomes much less unique, and normal competitive factors come into play (scale, marketing, etc).
It appears to still be invite only. I applied ages ago and never heard back, so I assumed it was defunct or they just thought I wasn't cool enough.
Really interesting article, especially since I'm an assistant prof idly considering the same sort of move. How much of a "business model" did you have before commitment -- did you have enough connections that you were confident you'd get funding once you had the idea mapped out in detail? Was UMass still a viable safety net, or were you fully committed?
I am sure they do already, they breath, eat and drink from the same planet as us.
Have you contacted support? We are not having any known problems today and our traffic patterns look normal.
As someone who got his start in SaaS (though we didn't call it that then) offering this exact service, Amazon is going to be very annoyed with you once they're handling DDoS attacks on your behalf.

Be selective of your clients and cut loose quickly. There are people who will sign up for your service just to go shit-talk on EFnet, and the wrong person will result in your entire service going down.
It depends on the state. If your state has crappy regulations, then you're probably right.

If you're in NY, CA, or MA, you're probably in good shape as those states have strong regulations.
has the c plugin been resurrected? last time i looked, it was dead. which is a pretty major gap in an ide (i buy each release of intellij idea and use it for python, java, clojure, but i still switch to eclipse for c).

nope - still dead - http://plugins.intellij.net/plugin/?id=1373 http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-

(also, the very latest eclipse looks really clean - i was surprised and impressed when i started it up the other day).
I imagine that most birds, especially those in the city, don't live long enough for cancer to be a significant cause of death.
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Sqardius allows you to share and view pictures around you, and save them for others who will be there later.

Here the link: http://www.sqardius.net
In the UK it is possible to switch between academia and industry, so long as you are satisfied with fixed term contracts in academia.

Recruiters tend to get confused when someone turns at their doorstep with a PhD ("which marks did you get?"), and academics tend to not have a clue of what's the benefit of industrial experience (in spite of being effectively "agile" product managers themselves when participating in, say, a European Framework project).
Automobile manufacturers already offer petrol and diesel engine vehicles. How is this any different from a cannibalization perspective?
It seems to me that there is a significant group of users out there that are web app groupies for lack of a better word who will more or less express an interest in anything as long as it is pre-launch or early in the launch cycle. Since these folks are usually not your actual target market, their feedback is pretty worthless unless you're just looking for whether you fit neatly inside a web x.0 box. It seems like a website where people posted ideas for websites would be almost guaranteed to have a high population of these folks.

Of course I'm probably not your target market so my feedback is probably pretty worthless.
I love that the name is a play on the amazing movie "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum" +1
Hey, I love you guys and think you're going to take over the world. Signed up Shopify to do fundraising for my nonprofit (your terms are generous with the nonprofit discount), and was part of the team that recently did the Auctionhouse App for the Shopify Fund.

Love what you guys are doing. If you ever want feedback from someone using/viewing your service from many different fronts, drop me a line.

If anyone's considering Shopify, go for it -- amazing amounts of functionality without any difficulty configuring it, super fast to hit the ground running on a project that needs ecommerce, and tons of power under the hood if you want to expand. One of my favorite services I use.
> For example, can you scrape an inbox and list of Facebook/Github/Tumblr/RSS/Twitter feeds to get a single high-sensitivity greatest hits from all monitored news feeds

You've missed the point already. The web is vast, on the whole filled with 99.99% crap. But .01% of something large is still very big. You cannot list the interesting things a priori with a few feeds. Prismatic is about learning about what you actually like to read and giving it to you. It's got the smooth/sleak usability of Google reader (read title, keep smashing J when something isn't worth reading, essentially letting you skim/reject more than 10 uninteresting articles/minute), but without the low recall "enumerate every site I think I am interested in" subscription model.

It's compelling and awesome.
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Random, but I love that the name is a play on the amazing movie "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum" +1
I totally misinterpreted that. My apologies.
Ask HN: Do you have "cyber liability insurance"?
I'm in the process of getting business insurance for my small online venture (basically a hosted online CMS grossing ~$20k/mo.). My local insurance agents can't seem to understand my risks or my out-of-state server/data locations. Seemingly savvy agents are recommending "cyber liability" coverage for business interruption hazards like data center hardware failures, hacks/break-ins, or catastrophic user error.

Do you use "cyber liability insurance" or some other form of business insurance for your online venture? Have you used it to make a successful claim in the event of a disaster?

(I'm not asking about your application's redundancy or disaster recovery capabilities.) Thanks!
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"We experienced 18 minutes of complete unavailability along with sporadic bursts of slow responses and intermittent errors for the entire day."

Well, I can say we experienced worse than that. Our private repositories were unavailable starting at 9am until 4pm PST.
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I didn't mean Android.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_adoption#Measuring_deskto...
How not to release a product
Eclipse is simply better for many use cases.

But thank you for your condescension.
If you aren't already, you should definitely try running Windows inside Virtualbox. The only reason I boot into Windows these days is for games.
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Developers are a commodity (700k+ apps) so the prices go down. Unsurprising and good for the consumer.

Are you proposing devs stop competing and fix prices in order to keep our jobs? (I am a developer)