skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
complete list, clickable:

http://heeeeeeeey.com/

http://www.koalastothemax.com/

http://heyyeyaaeyaaaeyaeyaa.com/

http://eelslap.com

http://www.staggeringbeauty.com/

http://ducksarethebest.com/

http://www.omfgdogs.com/

http://burymewithmymoney.com/

http://www.republiquedesmangues.fr/

http://www.hristu.net/

http://www.ismycomputeron.com/

http://randomcolour.com/

http://www.sanger.dk/

http://www.fallingfalling.com/

http://grandpanoclothes.com/

http://www.rrrgggbbb.com/

http://www.everydayim.com/

http://r33b.net/

http://cat-bounce.com/

http://www.leekspin.com/

http://dandandan.net/

http://sometimesredsometimesblue.com/

http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/

http://www.something.com/

http://www.winkyface.org/

http://isitchristmas.com/

http://hectorsalamanca.com/

http://ninjaflex.com/

http://ihasabucket.com/

http://corndogoncorndog.com/

http://www.oppositeofpoop.com/

http://giantbatfarts.com/

http://chickenonaraft.com/

http://www.nullingthevoid.com/

http://www.pleasedonate.biz/

http://www.itisamystery.com/

http://imaninja.com/

http://willthefuturebeaweso.me/

http://www.drunkronswanson.com/

http://salmonofcapistrano.com/

http://www.watermelonduck.com/

http://www.ooooiiii.com/

http://www.wwwdotcom.com/

http://www.ouaismaisbon.ch/

http://iamawesome.com/

http://beesbeesbees.com/

http://www.pleaselike.com/

http://crouton.net/

http://www.clicktoremove.com/

http://dastardlydigitofdestiny.com/

http://www.muchbetterthanthis.com/

http://www.nelson-haha.com/

http://www.wutdafuk.com/

http://colinsgiraffe.com/

http://trololololololololololo.com/

http://theshortanswer.com/

http://unicodesnowmanforyou.com/

http://www.patience-is-a-virtue.org/
On the other hand, you can stick your feet into the slits for better leverage.
Although the leverage you could get by digging your feet in would be crazy. Silk sheets feel nice but are wicked slippery.
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Well I remember MS Sourcesafe being popular a few years ago.

Do hg people "share less" or are there simply less of them? IIRC github allows commits from hg as well as git.

And of course not everyone (in fact possibly only the minority) is interested in cloning and issuing pull requests on OSS a huge amount of programming happens internally in corporations where everyone will use whichever VCS is mandated.
There are several interesting comments on this article that relate to company hiring procedures. With the help of other HN participants, I have gradually compiled references to build a FAQ file on that subject,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4613543

which seems to be well liked by other participants here. To relate what the research says to what Salman Khan is proposing, it is a widely replicated finding all over the world, for many categories of jobs, that work-sample tests based on actual job tasks do much better at identifying successful workers than higher education credentials. Any employer that doesn't want to be a chump should hire most workers on the basis of a work-sample test.

What an institution of higher education could do to respond to what research says about preparing learners to succeed in finding jobs and doing jobs well is make various work-sample tests part of a graduation comprehensive examination. Currently higher education degrees are based mostly on "seat time" (so that the saying is, "All you need to get a degree is a heartbeat and a check"), rather than on demonstrated competencies for doing any useful form of work.

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/01/18/study_finds_la...

A college or university that says to the world, "Our graduates who obtain our diplomas demonstrate their competence with work-sample tests, the results of which we list on their official academic records" would rapidly gain notice from companies with research-based hiring procedures. (And why would anyone want to work for a company with hiring procedures that are contrary to the best research?)

http://mavweb.mnsu.edu/howard/Schmidt%20and%20Hunter%201998%...

http://geb.uni-giessen.de/geb/volltexte/2012/8532/pdf/prepri...

That could provide the new college or university leverage to gain market share as compared to other colleges and universities. That would be enough for it to thrive as a new institution of higher education.

Yes, there are other reasons to go to college besides getting a job after graduation. But the research shows that many of those purported reasons are poorly achieved by current higher education practice,

http://chronicle.com/article/Academically-Adrift-The/130743/

and a new model of college or university might be able to do some outside-the-box innovation to also achieve better in that regard. Trying something new would not be a bad idea.
I dislike using coffeescript mainly because the language is too flexible. Being able to optionally omit a ton of syntax has led to some annoying problems that aren't obvious at first glance. This ambiguity is exacerbated by the way javascript is typically used (chained methods, nested lambdas, etc).

The other gripe I have is that debugging it is a pain in the ass since errors that come back reference the javascript code, not the coffeescript. Apparently this is a problem being worked on but it's still irritating.
Why it's so important to double check your data.
Those are the same concerns I have as well. For 3) and to some extent 2), you can research it and come to your own semi-reliable conclusion.

Thanks for the feedback!
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As a website broker, its always refreshing to see articles like this popup on hn. Selling instead of taking vc money isnt the sexiest option but its the right one for alot of companies and founders alike. Im on my mobile so I havnt had a chance to analyze craftjack to give my full opinion, but I can almost guarantee that for a leadgen site he picked the right option.
I'd love for a c/c++-based platform to overrule Java... but Objective-c isn't the right language:

- Apple is a company that likes to take control away from people, why give them more monopolistic power?
- You require a sub-decent xcode editor that only runs on mac computers. After spending around 2 years using xcode I can testify that its a piece of shit!
- Objective-c is overly verbose, horrible syntax (i.e. gluing the method name + first parameter).
(I ran engineering for a DRM firm for several years about the same time as Peter put this out.)

It was pretty stunningly apparent at the time that the Internet was very good for information sharing, that crushing Napster hadn't exactly stopped people from sharing digital media, and that trying to make media exceedingly secure and hard to use was not a winning strategy.

If you want a customer to pay for your product, you have to offer value - if it's both more expensive and harder to use, you've made adoption pretty unlikely. In '03, MP3 players were entirely prevalent, mostly didn't support useful DRM, and the music industry mostly sold little silver discs which came with no restrictions.

So it wasn't that the threat model to make music readily redistributable for free was "the smartest black hats out there figure out how to crack your crypto and DRM", it was "an average user rips a CD into MP3s and shares it".

As you might expect, it was frustrating to try to deal with the competing demands from Hollywood at the time. People mostly didn't bother attacking the DRM - they just went and created or file-shared to get the more usable files without the protection layer. But there was still a great deal of insistence that whatever content protection layer was put in could be a vault to keep media safe forever, rather than a speedbump to piracy. (Meanwhile, of course, CDs were raw bitstreams of high fidelity audio data...)
Clean design inspires confidence. I looked at BitBucket about 2 years ago, and just didn't have enough confidence in it, but recently created quite a few repo's on it and am using them everyday. The new re-design makes all the difference in gaining my trust.

At least that's how I see it.
> It's git that is unfriendly to others...

I have some code in Git with my custom patches, with upstream being Hg. `git-hg' works like a charm -- simple, clean etc. etc.. Dunno what you are talking about here.

Git provides git-fast-export & git-fast-import as two-way interconnects, with well-defined data formats.
I'm managing it all right.

I work < 40 hrs/week, and I stick to those hours. I don't bring my work home. I don't make my work part of my "self"; I'm polite to my colleagues, but not intimate. When I'm working on a tough problem I'll bring my full intellect to bear - but if the code isn't finished when it's time to go home that's fine, I'll shrug my shoulders and carry on tomorrow.

Life is good. I have enough time for friends and hobbies. I work hard and I enjoy my job, but it's not my passion.

If balance is impossible, maybe you're in the wrong job.
Thank you!

100% right. Although a lot of the technology we built for our service providers was new, the business model was not new at all. There are dozens of leadgen companies in the home improvement space as well as dozens of lead management tools, but none of them are providing an integrated product that both sells leads to service providers and then improves the way they follow up with those leads (thus increasing their satisfaction with the leads, which increases spend and lowers attrition).
Well because of anti money laundering laws they still need an ID-check before they can open the account.

The good news is that germany started issuing ID-cards with RFID, that can be loaded with a certificate, that will enable you to digitally sign contracts and identify yourself, so the trip to the post-office will no longer be necessary.

On your Project: With upcoming SEPA payments it will not matter anymore where your bank is registered, since transaction times and fees will be the same for all transactions within europe. So just register yourself as/partner with a bank in a european country that offers the most favorable banking-laws/ banking infrastructure/ whatever. In regard of germans, they really want to know that their money is "safe". Especially now in the euro-crisis, so make sure that the depot insurance of the country of your choice is of a comparable quality to the german system. (And maybe dont settle for a PIIGS state, as germans have a strong distrust in banks and politicians in those countries)
It actually checks for flash support, and removes any flash websites from the potential list... so its a good experience all-round.
Different Rails databases per branch
Gem based on this article: http://blog.railsonfire.com/2012/11/27/Git-Database-Branches.html
TL;DR: Several high-profile Node.js developers seem not to have used CoffeeScript for any of their public projects (unless you count forks). In addition, some unspecified expert Node.js devs (perhaps the same ones, perhaps not) made an unspecified joke involving CoffeeScript on a podcast. Therefore, all the great Node.js developers hate CoffeeScript.

I'm not arguing what the article seems to circle around to near the end - that CoffeeScript is worth trying - but its nominal premise seems a little shaky. Perhaps those developers simply feel as I do, that Javascript syntax is fine and there's not that great of an incentive to switch. I actually like braces and semicolons, and I definitely prefer function literal syntax to arrow syntax.
The Rise and Rise of Location Apps
1) Tools to do that certainly exist. Nobody really cares about them to make them nicer.

2) Git is trivial to extend. If something for git doesn't exist that does not suggest any sort of arrogant attitude from git, but rather just a total lack of interest from both the developers and the community.
>using information that the vast majority of people don't care about

You quoted the wrong person here; I never used those words.
So, after decades of near-monopoly power, ignoring standards, breaking compatibility, "embrace-and-extend", dirty tricks and worse, now that they're eating their just desserts, their response is to attack the developers who suffered under their mess?

Pathetic.
Google now includes medications directly in search results
From my own tests the native browser on my Nexus S (Android 4.1.1) renders in a manner more consistent with desktop standards than Chrome and FireFox on the same device.
I used to write code for medical devices. One of the things I learned during my time at the firm was that some hospitals are better than others. Like.. significantly better.

So the question then becomes: How do I, as a consumer of healthcare, tell them apart? Well, patient survival rate and causes of death are never published (hospitals hide behind HIPAA to avoid revealing this info, even in aggregate). But one way we found (empirical & anecdotal evidence, so treat accordingly) is to look down the ward and see if the nurse-call lights flashing for more than a few minutes. If the patients are pushing the bedside button and not getting attention from the care-givers, find yourself another hospital.

Another good way is to see if the staff are frequently washing their hands and cleaning the equipment that can be moved from room to room (the plastics used typically have silver ions in them, but that's only partially effective at killing the wee beasties).

Family involvement is also critical. If you're wonked out on drugs, you really need someone in the room watching the staff to ensure they do things correctly, and that the bill doesn't get padded with goods & services that weren't used in your care.
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"most often never understood how it is supposed to work"

This is a BS argument.

Yes, everybody got it wrong, Git is wrong, SVN is wrong, it's CCs broken model that's correct.

" you need an army of administrators to make it work"

Yes, let's sink an awful amount of money in a half-baked software that needs all kinds of 'helpers' to work properly.

Personally I won't work in a company that uses CC anymore, and it's been only bliss since then.

Sourcesafe is bad, but it's a different kind of bad. And it makes even CC look good.
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The actual read/write speed should be awfully slow. His screenshot estimates that 322mb will be transferring 18hours!
I worked at a company where we migrated from CVS to Mercurial in 2009 and then to Git a year later. I would say that the general move to distributed source control away from CVS/SVN style centralised systems picked up steam from 09 onwards, and for us Mercurial won over Git initially because it had better Windows support.
While I loved Mercurial's more simple command syntax, moving to Git was a no-brainer after we'd been bitten by Mercurial's poor handling of large binary files and Msysgit had improved the Windows support situation. This blog post (http://blog.extracheese.org/2010/05/why-i-switched-to-git-fr...) from 2010 would seem to suggest that others had a similar experience.
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"...they can reason better..."

I think one of the results of going to university is that people learn critical thinking. Obviously, increasing the ratio of critical thinkers to the intuitive people in a society puts that society in a much better position.
This doesn't change that much for Zynga, they've known for a while that it's mobile or bust for them, and all their acquisitions and movements show they've bet entirely on that.
What are you talking about? The UI guy behind webOS, Matias Duarte, is now the Android UX Director at Google. There's a good interview with him in the first episode of On The Verge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K4HImSqR1k
1) A few things, notably server push.

2) curl and wget will probably eventually add support. telnet not so much, but then again you can't really debug HTTPS or even HTTP/1.1 (with chunked encoding) with telnet.
Or maybe a whole new sets of positions will be invented.
As far as I can tell, those charts don't break down the usage between iPhone and others. Doesn't matter though as your first point trumps it.

But good point about the reverse commissions arrow. I'll have to go check what current commissions are on the iPhones vs previously.
But because nesting is a pain-in-the-ass in coffeescript, I've become used to breaking down code into chunks and invoking functions which ultimately makes code more readable solving many other problems.

I do agree on the debugging aspect. I always have to go back to the compiled javascript to understand errors. Can you please point me to solutions being worked upon in this regard? Open source?
I looked at mercurial once. I didn't start using it, because it has a more complicated vocabulary than git.

Git just has a directed acyclic graph and pointers to the nodes of it. That's all. End of story.

Mercurial has the concept of a branch, a tag and so on as seemingly separate axiomatic things. It's not as stupid.

I like stupid.
This one is great because it helps to know where you are on the screen based on scroll. A pain to implement in JS.
I don't see that. Sure - popular "computers" are not fully re-programmable, but to say they will go away entirely is probably not true. There will always need to be someone that "makes the magic" and, IMHO, this cannot be done on a locked down device (nevermind the fact that developers wouldn't put up with a computer they couldn't debug).

As long as there are folks like you and I that wish to have a computer (as traditionally known) there will be vendors catering to our wishes.
There is no need to use the buggy HFS instead of the stable Ext3 on Linux. The backup will be in a disk image anyway...
I second this warning. I've never used a Raspberry Pi, but I've used netatalk for years on a Linux server, and after I upgraded OS X 10.7, my backups to it would get corrupted once every month or two. I think it's not so bad if you have a wired connection, but wireless backups from a laptop (which can get put to sleep at any moment) just aren't reliable, for me at least. Also, it would constantly index my Time Machine backups over wireless, which takes forever and made my Macbook Air's fan turn on.

I suspect some of this is due to limitations in netatalk's AFP implementation, but I've never compared to a proper Time Capsule
I like how instead of giving a procedure to produce the whole answer he created an induction-style algorithm that, given part of an answer, produces the next output.

Looks like "The mathematician's solution to Fizz Buzz"
Even used like that, there are clear advantages to using git to preform that model rather than SVN. To really get the proper "just like SVN" experience you would have to find a way to make git suck at branches and merging, at the least.
"it's fairly obvious that something can have artistic merit and be designed to promote something"

doesn't constitute an argument either, does it. So there's not really anything there to argue against; just an assertion. Meanwhile, to me it's "fairly obvious" that this ain't art, and therefore "the fuck" is perfectly sufficient.

"Quoting a comedian is not really an argument."

Oh yeah, because a comedian is by definition funny, and not ever insightful.

Good thing people don't react in a butthurt, predictable fashion, or anything. Haha.
I am currently volunteer teaching in a high school and found a few bright ones that are eager to learn. What's the best way for them to apply?
Is that only in NY? I know in MA and NH, there were some huge sexting scandals. Girl's were texting naked pictures of themselves to their boyfriends. The girls were getting charged with distribution of child pornography, but they were going to charge the boyfriends for possession as well.

Notice when the controversy is about our "normal" kids, all of a sudden everyone thought the law was too harsh. For everyone that thinks any criticism of CP possession laws is support for pedophiles, do you support every 17 year old girl becoming felons for sexting their boyfriends?

Text messages are push, so how would you defend against this as a receiver?
However software is becoming commoditised, while hardware is now appearing to involve quite a degree of inventiveness, a characteristic following from the growth in low powered ARM devices, among others.

You can get a Som board with a Texas Instruments Omap 5, say from Phytec, running, well Android or Linux, or maybe a Exynos 5 running, well, Android or Linux. Or a plethora of others doing the same thing, like Raspberry Pi.

From the hardware viewpoint, it could be said that you do indeed eat the OS.
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Somehow online gambling seems like a great fit for Zynga.
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"Time Capsule for $25"

A naked Raspberry Pi costs $35. Add an enclosure and shipping, it will be closer to $60. That doesn't include storage.

Time Capsule contains a 2TB hard disk. The same WD drive retails for $170 at Amazon.

That brings our total to $230, for a product that doesn't work nearly as well as a real Time Capsule and for which you won't receive service and support from Apple.

Or you can just buy a Time Capsule for $299: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD032/time-capsule-2tb
Besides Console2 mentioned in another comment, there is also ConEmu (https://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/), which incidentally has support for Clink (again mentioned in another comment!)

PS: There is also a somewhat extended version of Console2 here by a different author: https://github.com/cbucher/console which I like.
There are legitimate ways of doing standardized testing. I suspect the professions of engineering and law can be useful guideposts. There have been discussions before on how engineering as a whole is like or unlike software engineering... I'll leave that bone of contention alone.

But I don't think Khan is suggesting that every profession be so assessed: just that, if an assessment is merited, just put it out there as available rather than required.
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And this is the problem I have with CSS selectors. What you just described is ridiculously fragile and will send shudders down the spine of any developer experienced with wrangling projects that have tangles of inappropriate coupling, but in many cases, there simply isn't a more elegant solution. Your options are:

1. Implement a sane (albeit less powerful) view hierarchy system, foregoing basically all of the CSS selector stuff, and applying styles individually. The framework will be big and unwieldy, and you'll take a performance hit, but you'll be able to maintain the client code.

2. Bite the bullet and implement it the ad hoc way, comment the crap out of it, and hope that whoever comes and changes something later will remember to read those comments.
The edge matters for investors. Yes, Apple can continue to trundle along making about what it does now for a good long while, but their stock is generally priced for growth (although that has been changing lately). In the meantime they have have Android (and eventually probably MS) swallowing their market from the low end up.

To me it seems very similar to what happened with the desktop market.
I would rather make the real world work more like college..
The internet is still pure magic to me. Sure I have understanding of the tech but the personality and connectivity is just overwhelming when I pause and really think about it. Sure there's plenty of junk, but it's all part of a huge overall societal benefit.
How is it scary from an intellectual properties perspective?

LucasFilm is very nice with their properties, permitting just about anything to be used unlicensed so long as there isn't a profit being made (they even support people doing it sometimes)...