skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you had any experience in sales? If so, you could title it "What Sales taught me" as my response to your post here: http://startupframework.tumblr.com/post/36886657978/sales

+1 for giving sales people some overdue respect. I too feel that there are few that just ruin the bunch, much like HR.
Before that time, git lacked http support, which means a large population behind firewalls couldn't use it. From memory, that happened sometime in December 2009, which correlates very closely with that graph.
No, the NES Zapper does both. It detects light level changes frame-to-frame as you describe, but it also uses the CRT beam timing to determine _where_ on the screen a target was hit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NES_Zapper

Also, even if the NES Zapper worked only on luminosity deltas, it could work on other types of displays -- but the response time (lag) of the display would have to be frame-accurate in order to detect the hit in time before the software moves on. (Software could compensate for lag, of course, but actual NES games don't.)
At the university level, there is also academic freedom and research.
One of the things provided by the CoffeeScript Redux project is source mapping, which enables line-to-line correspondences for debugging.

https://github.com/michaelficarra/CoffeeScriptRedux

http://ryanflorence.com/2012/coffeescript-source-maps/
Isn't that how WP scaling works, though? It creates static pages.
I'm learning the variable scope of javascript very thoroughly because it is powerful. I don't want to be hindered by shortcuts eliminating some of that power/understanding.
"Git... literally exploded." :)
I understand using that because it was what you had, but why would you choose to strip your prompt of useful information? (I'm not trying to degrade the idea here, just wondering what use case it provides. It could have a very good one.)

I've never had a difficult time telling the difference between where my prompt ends and where the result begins. I think too much grows absurd quickly, but a little bit of information is nice, I think.
In the end, its just syntax. Some like the python/ruby-esque mode and thus go for coffee.
Love the idea - hopefully it gets wings and turns into something longer-term rather than just seasonal. Getting more people involved in Free Software / open source is good for everybody.
Invisible Umbrella Repels Raindrops With Air
Which specific WebOS features have been fully implemented into Android?
Guess that's fair. It just stood out to me that the writer seemed to be calling out drug addiction, rather than the acute influence of the drug.
Using Python for basic coding is one thing. Understanding a web framework is another, it (django at least) requires an understanding of databases, http, html, css and javascript. Each of those could be it's own Learn X the Hard Way.
Yep, he's already thinking things through like a programmer, practice is all he needs really. I'd get him started on learning python/ruby/javascript or whatever and see if he enjoys it.
Most people who have their site go down aren't using proper caching so their Wordpress sites are evaluating the PHP and querying the MySQL database with each page load. This is extremely wasteful of processor cycles and memory, hence the site goes down when the server gets overloaded. The proper way to do it is to have caching in place such that it evaluates once and saves the result as a static HTML page. Then the static page can be served very quickly and efficiently.

It looks like this is what he is doing. I'd be willing to bet the site will stay up.
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Just like the idea of making Raspberry Pi for as many children as possible to spur a generation of engineers, the idea that the most popular computers will be closed, will have the exact opposite effect. You don't need open computers to just be available in a tiny corner of the world, and expect big innovations from it. You need them to be available to as many people as possible.
Though for the people who won't allow facebook apps posting stuff, please include a link here to your actual product!
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Apple introduces variable cost iTunes Gift Cards to third party retailers
Also, no images. I had to double check because I saw the drop shadow border but it looks like it's all CSS.
They can. Some people just need to put more effort on it than others.
superb! What else does a linux artist want :)
Not sure that the message really has sunk in. The way to a good reputation is to be good and exceed people's expectations. Not complain that the world isn't a good judge.
I love the idea, a lot of the suggestions were outside my wheelhouse but I might take a look.
Have you tried getting your voice heard in the standardization process?
No he's not. It's just the truth.
Well explained, interesting that Instagram used this pattern, i wonder how that vibes with how facebook is sharding that "other" datastore.
Facebook gave preferential treatment to Zynga only after they proved that they were the most popular. They had to fight their way there - it didn't start that way. It's still a bit dangerous to do so though because users' tastes may change, so good on Facebook for removing their special status.

As you said, Google+ had no such information, and gave companies special status out the gate before proving their popularity. If Facebook did the same thing, their top apps would probably look a lot different.
I don't think so, at least not without the government imposing laws that effectively banned them.

The cost of building a complete computer with an ARM SOC (think raspberry pi etc) is coming down to a level where you don't have to buy your computers from mega corporations.

If restrictions on other devices become more and more severe it will eventually get to a stage where it will start to bite Joe average (It won't let him look at all those pictures of ladies doing things his wife won't, or it deleted them all because he broke some obscure clause on page 63 of the EULA).

At some point Joe runs into his nerdy friend who has a weird looking computer that can do all kinds of things Joe would love for his computer to be able to do. Supply and demand does the rest.
Holy wow that is chauvinistic. McDonalds is an incredible innovator in efficient production of comestibles.
sigh I just knew when I wrote that that people would come back with examples that kinda-sorta have influence from other platforms. But I'm not talking about creating an app which uses cards; I'm talking about rethinking the fundamental way a UI component works. When Apple decided to rethink the way their notifications work they didn't look at the total landscape of ideas from around the industry or come up with their own; they just did it the same way their major competitor did it. When Android decided to rethink the way they handled multitasking they didn't look at the competitors and do something new; they threw lipstick on what they already had.

I'm talking about big concepts here.
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I was a big subversion fan until I took a systems programming position where the dev team used Mercurial. It took me a few weeks to really start liking it, but now I absolutely love it. It's great.
- Swipe to dismiss notifications (Windows Phone also employed this from the get go).

- WebOS Cards in terms of multitasking is pretty similar to the current ICS/JB task switcher and swiping to close an app.

Edit: I read your intial comment again and I realize my response doesn't address your initial issue.

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I think Apple / Google will continue to innovate (i.e. Siri vs Google Now) but to expect them to bring forth major fundamental changes to a stable, developed platform with a large user based is asking a bit much.
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If you want a lisp that compiles to JS, ClojureScript is also a good option. It's ready for use, and there's a lot of smart people working on making it better. The Clojure/ClojureScript community is also very good - intelligent and friendly.
Palladium - I remember that name. I only had my first computer for a year or two, but I remember how it freaked everyone out. I'm glad it died.

And isn't ARM's "TrustZone" pretty much the same thing, or does it have a more niche and different purpose?
Definitely. I remember checking out the BitBucket repo for pygments a while back and noticing how clunky the ui was compared to github. The new redesign at a glance seems like a huge improvement.
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There are different types of "learning"-scouring SO, rote repetition, understanding best practices, understand why best practices are such, and reading the underlying code.

For professionals who value their time I would posit that "just coding" using SO is not the most effective way to learn a language. It might help you in a pinch, so you can copy and paste a few lines of code, but may not explain why the code should behave that way. (Albeit there is quite a continuum of response types on SO).
it helps people improve what shows up when someone googles their name
I think the question betrays the authors bias and assumes too much; by claiming that "almost every article comparing mercurial and git" and saying "it seems like Mercurial has a better command line UX", the author is obviously a fan of Mercurial; neither of those points seem to be true. While I can understand the sour grapes at seeing an "inferior" technology win, it's not that clear cut. I haven't used Mercurial enough to really compare, but I can say that most of the supposed "advantages" of Mercurial versus Git seem moot to me. The CLI "UX" differences are negligible, it doesn't matter what languages they are written in, and git is ultimately more flexible due to less dogmatism.

Perhaps the question should be closed with an "already answered" link to this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1598759/git-and-mercurial...

Edit: Followup with some more links:

http://schacon.github.com/2008/11/24/on-mercurial.html

http://tomayko.com/writings/the-thing-about-git

http://blogs.atlassian.com/2012/03/git-vs-mercurial-why-git/
The future is here, and app engagement is a looming problem
"humans live, swim and breath in commerce. It was here before art-with-a-capital-A and it will outlive it."

Who is talking about commerce? It's about using emotion to lead people to make irrational choices. If you need rice and I farm rice, and I sell you some rice, that's commerce. It has however NOTHING to do with anything Bill Hicks ever ranted about. So don't flatter yourself I'd say, your insight isn't really one.

"The other thing to remember is that art-with-a-capital-A was largely an invention of the Romantic movement"

The idea that washing your hands is a great idea for doctors and in general is also fairly recent; so?

"in fact it creates a fictional view of the Artist"

No, it simply raised the bar. How can it be fictional if people existed and exist that fit the description? That's just wishful thinking on your part so you don't feel too bad for going back to sleep.
> Dunno what you are talking about here.

I clearly didn't, too, so I deleted the post.
requires TLS which means that if it were HTTP 2.0 it would require the deployment of certificates everywhere. That's an added expense for a web site operator. Unless SSL certificates are suddenly free and trivial to deploy

Get the browser vendors to stop being idiots, and treat self-signed SSL connections as identical to plaintext connections.

Or even better get them to implement a notary model [ http://perspectives-project.org ] (as a default rather than an extension), that doesn't allow for a single insecure CA to break the security of the entire web.
I have not but I am checking it out now. Thanks for the recommendation!
So? It's not like they, or I, would care. Consider them stricken.
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Reading Your Brainwaves to Make Apps
Actually if there will be some key Apps available, this might be of interrest for me. I'd opt for a phone that really works and does those things it is capable of very well.

Have been living with Android now for a while and realized that there are few apps I actually really use on a regular basis. Phone, Calendar (CalDAV please), Mail (IMAP please), Browser (Opera), Maps, Terminal, Compass (yes, I actually use that sometimes when checking outdoor locations).

All the other Apps are optional and I would not miss them.
One thing I loathe the most on actual smartphones is the battery life. If RIM manages to get some hardware out that will last a couple of days usage without having to load, then I'm interrested.
What makes you think he considered himself artist, or ranting on stage, or making jokes, art? Quotes please.
1. It takes time to implement

2. Google probably has to deal with HP patents

Their intent is pretty clear though by hiring a lot of the key Enyo people.
the login link, which is probably not served from cache is VERY slow for me, so that's probably your answer.
I like CoffeeScript. It makes writing some things in JavaScript a little bit easier and maybe even a little bit faster.

However, I don't like _using_ CoffeeScipt. It immediately shuts out the other 85%+ of JavaScript users who aren't familiar with CoffeeScript from reading and understanding my code.
My reading is that those restrictions are only for games off Facebook, not all applications. Interesting that they would make that distinction.
Pretty fun to play! There is a slight typo in the instructions. You wrote "or" instead of "of" in "the upper corner or your area"
The video does have a fully working prototype?
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Man abuses CCTV camera before walking into lamp post
Without trying in jsfiddle, what does this alert;

var i=3; function x() { alert(i); var i=5; } ​x();​

and why is this powerful? I agree with you mostly, but I don't like this 'feature'.

Edit: hoisting yes, but why, besides compiler optimization is it more powerful for the programmer than if it would not do hoisting, or, why is it in a modern language like JS?

Edit1: I'm not in favor of coffeescript I used Javascript most of the time during my work day, I was just seriously wondering, if not for low level optimization why it would be a problem to have global scope until local is defined.
Agree, Facebook will easily recover but Zynga has a bigger blow to deal with. Already shows by their stock value dropping 13%.
And require SSL certs, which cost how much again? It's quite an expense for hobby sites, non-profits, and such.
Tool's "Eulogy" wasn't about Bill Hicks. They actually quite liked the guy, put his face in their albums, and quoted him frequently in a positive light.

Regardless, I agree with your points. It's not always bad to sell something if you want to get the rest of your works heard. It's all a big game, and most people have to play to some degree to be able to do what they love.
Bedsheets...
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"try talking to an actual professional artist"

Well duh. However, I see what you did there. Why the arbitrary qualification? Why does it have to be a professional artist, why not an albino one, or someone who only has 8 fingers, or an artist period? Oh right, because then your argument kinda falls on its face.
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I've been accused of writing linkbait-y titles in the past, such as "CoffeeScript isn't a language worth learning."

https://github.com/raganwald/homoiconic/blob/master/2011/12/...

So I suppose I'll have to just say that looking at the article itself and argue the content rather than the packaging. So here's the premise: A bunch of great JS developers aren't also CS developers.

Possibility #1: Correlation == Causation. Writing CoffeeScript rots your brain and makes you unfit for writing great Node.js code.

Possibility #2: Writing great Node.js warps your brain such that CoffeeScript is unpalatable.

Possibility #3: Writing great Node.js code means you're very comfortable with JS itself and your tool chain, and thus you look askance at any switch.

I'd say that both #2 and #3 are far more likely than #1. Neither of them imply that you shouldn't use CS today if it seems appealing.
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How do you use RSS, 4 very short questions
Nah, you're just infected ^^
I agree: someone "makes the magic". But what if it's like hydroponics and gro-lights were during the worst Federal excesses of the "Drug War"? Anyone buying a real computer (not an appliance) needs some kind of licensing and/or certification. Manufacturing real computers requires certified and licensed manufacturing and a different certification/licensing for design? The pace of progress would slow dramatically. Since fewer and fewer people get into programming, we won't have wild and crazy folks who try new and interesting things all the time. No Moxie Marlinspike. No Jeff Bezos. No Marc Andreesen. IT would become like making airplanes, hidebound, rigorously engineered by crank turning second-raters. It would never ever change, except in terms of marketing, like cigarettes.

This would be ideal for the status quo, and maybe even for a lot of consumers. It would certainly be ideal for the corporate interests, the few that survive.
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CoffeeScript Redux project seems interesting. Thanks!
I love CoffeeScript. But then, I am well-versed in JavaScript. People who don't understand scope, lambdas, prototypes, etc. should stick to JavaScript, as CoffeeScript obscures some of that. You really should understand what's going on behind the scenes.

Which makes it all the stranger that experienced JavaScript developers seem to avoid it, while less experienced ones embrace it.

My main gripe with CoffeeScript (there are a couple, but here's one) is code organization/readability when a method takes multiple functions as arguments.

foo ->
bar()
baz()
quux()
, (error) ->
throw error if error

That does look a bit odd, and you run into these a lot when you're using caolan/async. You can avoid this by avoiding anonymous methods, but with so many callbacks in Node.js that is probably less readable.
Where does Haxe fall down for you? Not many people I know have ever looked back after using it.
Bill Hicks wasn't talking about this. I doubt he would have any disagreement with an artist promoting their own work.
I don't wish to complain but does that look like an infinite loop to you?

Programs are just algorithms, a flow diagram is just a different programming language
Polar ice sheets continue to melt, but climate-change deniers thick as ever
The example I mention was clicks on a CPC platform, but the EPC from the ad remained higher than any other option for 9 months - long enough for high accidental clickthrough rates to be noted and corrected for.

Another blogger I know has tested layouts and settled on the same floating banner for his Clickbank ads - thus, conversion-tracked.
Running

ab -n 1000 -c 20 http://pipress.vo3.net/wp-login.php\?action\=lostpassword

Seems to have killed it. The site came back when I killed the process.

Sorry jstalin but I had to do it! For science!
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Yeah, a lot of the controversy seems to be (as ever) over genre classification. I hadn't really thought about it before, but I think I mentally file Skrillex-style music near "industrial dance" and some of the glitchier kinds of EBM.
This stuff is getting solved, for the particular example you can use n-th child in modern browsers[0].

[0]http://www.quirksmode.org/css/nthchild.html
Could Minecraft be the next great engineering school?
No, that's precisely the feeling I get every time I see an article/comment/blog post saying something along the lines of "why is git winning? Mercurial is superior because it's easier to use, won't let you change history, and it's written in Python!"
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It's kind of hard to fault them when it took an eternity for RIM itself to realize what a domain of rim.jobs would imply.

Not that I'd ever accuse The Register of having too much class regardless.
Hey, I am the guy that wrote jHERE. You can find out more about the HERE maps API usage terms and limits here: http://developer.here.net/web/guest/plans
Good on ya, mate. Not only issuing an apology, but taking positive steps to make things right. If only more people had that strength of character.

Now if I could just get you to reconsider releasing GasCubby for Android... :)
Always cool to see how people handle automation.

I wonder if they considered implementing this within another framework? Seems like this would make an excellent chef recipe.
I used to really enjoy writing in CoffeeScript, but lately I've been finding that it's much more difficult to read after the fact. As TJ put it -- "word soup".
Nodejs and Coffee are surely a nightmare. I've tried using async to improve code readability but it still doesn't fit well with coffee.
> I think Apple / Google will continue to innovate (i.e. Siri vs Google Now) but to expect them to bring forth major fundamental changes to a stable, developed platform with a large user based is asking a bit much.

I don't expect them to. What they are doing is taking only proven successful features from each other, and making very minor tweaks otherwise. This is what incumbents do.

I'm lamenting on the fact that we -- programmers, power users, enthusiasts -- will likely have no where to turn in the near future as the "losers" of this cycle start falling off. We won't have the option to install an open source OS on our phones like we have with PCs.
Congratulations! I have a question if you don't mind. Out of the 1MM in revenue, how much of that was profit? Were you spending money on traffic generation?
Not by default and especially not once you start adding any sort of add-ons. A typical wordpress site will hit your MySQL database a TON.
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Feeding data from SnowPlow to Bitdeli sounds like a great idea.

1. It does, although it is an undocumented feature. You can send a list of events instead of a single JSON object to the Events API.

2. Bitdeli doesn't need an event type but it needs a user identifier. The event type is utilized with the data sources that provide it, like Mixpanel, but for instance our integration to the GitHub commits API doesn't expect that events contain a type.

A good starting point would be to create a super simple card that does something with the data from SnowPlow, like

https://github.com/bitdeli/bd-rawevents-event-volume/blob/ma...

that just counts the number of events received over time.

Let me know if you want to give it a try - I am happy to extend your trial as long as needed.
they're not standard APIs, they're Google's API. Having an open source product doesn't mean the process is open, or the APIs are standardized.

The reason why they're not standardized and that nobody pushes for a standard too is simple. Most of them are very much tied to Chrome itself, instead of being tied to features, and have no sense being used by another browser.

This looks like a much more sane API: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI

Incidentally, it comes from the guys who actually changed the "IE 6 only" to what it is today, incl. the chrome dominance that resulted from it...
I just love JavaScript
See also: cookie-monster.js https://github.com/jgallen23/cookie-monster
undefined, of course. What's confusing about it? The function hoisting?
Ask HN: Any Boston area developers interested in working on a project together
Short version: I need some development help. Have a prototype site and a little bit of revenue.

I'm a realist, not looking for "here build my idea help", looking for someone who can add insight/skills and also just implement things to basic guidance.