skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on whether you have used other version control before.

If you jump straight to using git in production , you'll experience a lot of "git anxiety" every time you run a command that you're not quite sure what it will do.

There's always the git book. http://git-scm.com/book

Realistically git isn't something that you can just pick up on an ad-hoc basis.

Best way is just to make a folder, fill it with some random text files and type "git init". Then you can practise, just make changes to files. Try branching and merging, try rebasing some commits to a different branch, try cherry picking from one branch to another. Make sure you get some practise in merging conflicting changes because that comes up annoyingly often in the real world (so pick a merge tool that you are comfortable using since git will plug in to a few but the default one is not the most friendly).

You can learn it pretty well from one machine, but it might help to setup a github and use another machine (or VM) to practise the "distributed" part (understanding origin/master etc).

Don't necessarily worry about learning everything from the get go, I have used it for about a year and there's still plenty of features I haven't ever had to use but make sure you understand what you think you understand.

When you are learning you'll find stuff will happen which wasn't what you expected, at this point you can start googling and will probably end up on a stack overflow page that will answer your question succinctly.

There will be times when you think you have broken everything, you probably haven't. At this point git log and git reset are your friends.
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This is assuming BMW et all stop any innovation. But they won't. They will offer an electric vehicle the moment it becomes feasible (and I am sorry but 200 miles range is still an exciting and expensive toy).
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Thanks and wow! Looks like I will only be upvoting for a long while.
Excuse my ignorance, but what's this for?
I honestly can't understand why anyone would use Eclipse when the community version of IDEA exists, but hey.
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Hey, fair point, so, I'm a huge believer of positive feedback, so what are your suggestions? What parts don't you understand? How would you rephrase it? Very open to suggestions :)
>Every purchase of a Windows license is an attack on Linux.

Oh, Linux community, shine on, you crazy diamond!
So how would you rephrase it? Open to suggestions :)
Can you be specific? For example, what exactly would a mobile app of hacker news provide above and beyond what can easily be provided by a web site?
> Regulations that are good for the consumer can ultimately be good for the companies that make the goods too, because they create a stable and responsible marketplace.

That's an excellent point, and one people don't consider enough. Almost nobody in the US picks up an item off the grocery store shelves and says, "Hey, is this safe?" That isn't inevitable, as China's scandals show: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_safety_incidents_in_the_Pe...

That kind of trust in the marketplace is incredibly valuable to innovators. If only some food is safe, then people will only buy new products from known, high-value brands.

A good opposite example is Facebook. At my last company we had some great ideas for useful Facebook apps. But in our user tests people had a strong learned aversion to the Facebook auth dialog; they knew that if they said ok, they might look dumb in front of all their friends.

As entrepreneurs, we wanted more regulation. We would have happily paid $25k to Facebook to be part of a trusted apps program where they vetted us and then gave us a seal of approval.
Awesome post. I -- along with many of my colleagues from grad school -- have had pretty similar experiences with academia (minus the outlook for a promising academic career ;) ). This sort of thing (very smart people abandoning academia) is going to continue to happen unless academia figures out a way to make itself more relevant.

academic |ˌakəˈdemik|
adjective

2 not of practical relevance; of only theoretical interest : the debate has been largely academic.
I like that they'll monitor the profile and alert if a price drops. Even if they don't have the lowest on there, it's a good trigger for me to shop around again.
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How would you rephrase it? Would love to hear suggestions :)
I think you nailed it. Notes apps that aren't developed with some strong UI guidelines tend to look ugly. It's a bit like web 1.0 in terms of UI - good developers can make neat and useful applications with it, but most of the stuff just looks bad since useful guidelines weren't there yet when the tools have first been developed.
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OK. Let's look at my argument. I posit that the core purpose of government is social order. I also imply that this is primarily provided through rule of law (police and legislatures) and sovereignty (military protection).

You state that it is difficult to have social order without welfare and social security, because the poor and elderly would be dying on the streets. This example doesn't dispute my core argument that government provides social order. In fact, it supports it, showing that social order is necessary and provided through government.

Remember, I argue that the core function of government is social order (which you seem to agree with), and that the primary means of providing this order is through police and military. I agree that there are other secondary means of providing social order (welfare and social security), but they can all be linked to the primary means of social order.

Here is an example: Let's say that we do not have any form of welfare or social security (America didn't for nearly half of its existence). When times get particularly tough, the poor may start stealing more in order to survive (notwithstanding the impact of food banks, churches, and other charitable organizations). If theft goes up, the government's primary means of providing social order is strained, because police must protect against more thieves.

Here is how I support my claim that police and military are the primary means of providing social order. Can our government exist without welfare? It has. Can it exist without the public school system? It has. A government that ONLY created and enforced rules is still a government. A government stops being a government if it cannot create and enforce laws, even if it provides all of these other things, will quickly fall into anarchy. Why pay taxes if there is no threat of imprisonment?
"kudos to the other French start-ups for finally realizing that the world doesn’t speak French"

Pardon, but I don't believe there is a language the world speaks.

"three companies out of the sixteen had their webpage in their local language"

Does the author mean that thirteen of the websites were in English, and is complaining about the remaining three being in a different language? Would the author hold the same standard to English-first websites to translate them in to a variety of other local languages? If not, what an astonishingly self-centered perspective.
Lotsa NSFW posts showing up when I tried it, careful...
Interesting approach.
Regarding the idea that users would need something to keep coming back to the site to approve an idea,as said previously, offering a reward might be the best solution, but, to prevent them going around and voting on everything, why not give the power of giving rewards to the owner of the idea?
vijay, I don't know why your reply shows up as 'dead but it does..You guys should seriously re-evaluate your value prop, cos I can already do the first 3 things you mentioned with Elastic Beanstalk, and I don't care about the last 3. Maybe provide an abstraction layer like heroku does?
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If you aren't in the business, you ARE the business. You are their product, your photos are their content.
You mean on the side column of the blog?
There are "user interface appliances" and then there are the general purpose computers that actually do the hard work of the internet. That Microsoft moved some "beige box" computers from one category to the other by adding secure boot is not really news.
The MKII MR2 turbo had both a trunk and a frunk. Not to the capacity of the Tesla, but still.
This is the problem with the OP I was talking about. Comments without any reasoning or insight, just "this is it". And this is why length of the comment is usually negatively correlated with comment quality.

You failed to tell why you didn't trust the numbers in your original comment. Was it because of Statcounter? Do you suspect they were cooked up by Microsoft? Or did you feel that it didn't jive with your real world anecdote? Or did you think Windows 8 is such a failure that such numbers are impossible?

"I don't trust those numbers" can mean any or all of the above including more, the replies have to guess what you meant.
It's been great. And I just realized I'm still on the free account so I upgraded to premium for the year. Keep up the great work (and stay in business, please :)!
I found the english not very easy to follow, was it automatically translated?
Startups also need to consider what traffic sources are arriving at their landing page. As a paid search guy, I'm sending traffic from Google PPC to landing pages, not home pages, and we're optimizing these pages all the time.

We leverage over a decade of experience and are happy to offer individual startups advice. (We also have a conversion optimization program available for a fee.) I'm also happy to summarize our best practices (for paid search anyway). We preach this stuff all day long.

- What is the search intent of the visitor for each keyword you're buying? Own this question by pulling search term reports as often as possible.
- Be sure the ad copy matches search intent

- Be sure the landing page matches the ad, which matches search intent

- Have a very strong offer that stands out from the crowd. This one usually takes a team to develop. Test different offers.

- If the all of the above are in line, get the @#$% outta the way! Don't fill your landing page with all kinds of unnecessary links, videos, white papers, history, about the team, etc. Just provide a nice big button to push them along the funnel.

- Some folks benefit from placing a signup form directly on the landing page. Others actually want to qualify the visitor a bit more by forcing a click to the next page. It all depends on you.

- Are you equipped to handle phone calls? Then provide a big phone number! And use dashes like this: 415-123-4567, not periods 415.123.4567.

- Test, test, and test some more. We swear by Optimizely for LP testing.

Hope this helps.
The range on the top-of-the-line Model S is 300, not 200, miles. And with Superchargers, it's no longer just a toy.
Steve Jobs would be so proud of MS if he were around to see this (aside from the fact that the UI is a disaster).

If he were around to see this, he'd consider it a stolen business model and start lawyering up.
Haha, don't worry, it pays for itself already! Thanks for the upgrade, I just got the email :)
Thank you for the answers and tips! Really appreciate it @lmm.
This is a great list. Thanks for sharing
A lot of people find a dark look and feel much less distracting. Now that we’ve added it, you can focus more on the code and less on the IDE.

(Above screenshot: http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/d... )

I can't tell if we're being punk'd. I'm expected to take that screenshot as an example of a less distracting user interface for creative work? My condolences to anyone using the presumably more distracting previous version.
Every site wants to be the aggregator, no-one wants to be aggregated.

Or as Spolsky put it: "Smart companies try to commoditize their products' complements."

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
"I think UEFI Secure Boot is a shuck and a bald-faced Microsoft anti-competitive tool." <- DAMN RIGHT!
The new compiler mode is very good. Non-intrusive and it really speeds up things, especially on a non-ssd-disk.
One tip for them would be to allow a user to upload driving record and insurance coverage information from the company a user is currently with.
So let me get this straight. TC only covers startups that have raised money, and uses that as a metric for whether or not the story should be written?
I want to like IntelliJ IDEA so so much. In the same way that I want my primary computer to run Linux and all my code to be in some dialect of Lisp.
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My current viewpoint of what I want a non-technical co-founder to do:

1. Business to Business relations

2. Keep funding coming in. I want to focus on the code. Not term sheets or emailing investors.

3. Keep the board in the loop and happy

4. Make sure that what I'm building is viable, marketable and monetizable.

5. Keep me in the loop for these things. I don't like being in the dark, but I don't need every detail or to always be in the room for every meeting.

I want to code, create and focus on technical challenges. Going to lunch with angel investors isn't a good use of my time if my non-technical founder can do it instead.

Why did I choose to work with my non-technical co-founder? Because he has great perspective, ability to raise money (proven in the past with several companies), experience as an investor, a giant network and experience with companies of all scales from startup to publicly traded companies. Plus, he stays out of my way for technical things.
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Great point, Tibbon -- I didn't even touch the fundraising side of things.
I don't think this hurts Twitter nearly as much as it hurts Instabook, it only clears the path for Twitter to have less competition for direct photo uploads, which it wants. The people who get hurt most are the people using Instagram who like sharing through Twitter, but they're not the customer anyway.
Apple needs to allow for off-Appstore installs (off by default is fine). Then they need to have a program like Steam's Greenlight where the community chooses what should be considered.
Does Porsche call it a "frunk" too? I can't stand that word, it's cute, but awful. Sounds like a word I might use to describe a particularly pungent cheese.
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The problem with relying on that method is that finding life on mars could be like finding life at geothermal vents; deep down in hard-to-reach volcanic pockets. If you don't poke around some of those areas before bringing masses of earth contaminants to the surface, you could easily screw up future searching.
I agree that they are not keeping everything.

I've looked at my own traffic and how much content useful for storing I'd have and it's probably less than 500Mbytes per month. And that's counting downstream and upstream.

But net is not the only thing NSA is interested in storing - banking, other records, communications over satellites, etc goes in there as well.

What's truly scary is people are sort of "meh" about this. Or they don't believe that this is really happening, as most of this thread seems to be the case in point.
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Romney founded Bain; I think most would argue that makes him an entrepreneur, no?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bain_Capital#1984_founding_and_...

Regarding the clean energy investments, I think we will both see qualitative aspects of this differently. I don't think you dispute that $90B was spent on green energy, and there were several very high profile busts; similarly I don't dispute that most of those companies are still going concerns, or many of the points in that link.
The Tesla on the other hand is sexy. A bigger concern is how Tesla will expand from this market.

The Nissan Leaf just isn't a good deal. If Tesla can beat range anxiety in a package that costs $20k or less, then they'll have a winner. Sexy still sells with econobox cars. (Fiat 500?)
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BMW will surely innovate in some regards, no question. But the real issue is if they can keep up with Tesla and disrupt their own 3 Series market. BMW is likely not to release or innovate on a new product that will cannibalize their main source of income (3 series sales). They're probably incrementally try to improve the 3 Series. And they'll release sub-par electric cars like the i3 and i8 (http://www.bmw-i-usa.com/en_us/bmw-i3/) that won't hurt 3 Series sales.

What BMW doesn't see is that Tesla is gunning for the 3 Series market with the GenIII car. Tesla is confident they can make a substantially better car than the 3 series (or Lexus IS, Audi A4, etc) in most regards and make it priced competitively. I don't think BMW is taking Tesla seriously... they're more focused on existing competitors.

If Tesla succeeds in making a substantially better car than the 3 Series that's priced competitively, then everybody in that market (BMW 3 Series, Mercedes C, Lexus IS, Audi4, etc.) will be in catch up mode. And that will the story of the decade in the car industry... how a scrappy Silicon Valley startup did the impossible to the auto industry.
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As much this reads as FUD, I agree.

That's what I was getting at with my "Breaking Bad" comment.

A sort of "total depravity" is already a big part of pop culture, so it'd be easy to ignore false positives of people crying wolf.

What I was getting at is that what they're looking for is kind of a big unknown. If media about illegal things is so popular and they ignore it, it leads one to think that data being mined is possibly being used in a fashion similar to a personal agenda.

That's what's truly dangerous about monitoring at this scale. It's not so much that it's happening it's that they're creating something that could grant someone almost god like powers.

If I were to make an analogy, I'd say it's like a man buying a pistol to protect his family and then his child finds it loaded in a night stand.
Curious since they made a big port onto Eclipse, was it unworthy in terms of evolution ?
So... First year folks are 2+1. So does that mean on the week or Thanksgiving (or Christmas) you guys are like "See 'ya newbies, we'll be back in a week."?

Or maybe the 2+1 was for the first year you were a company, as opposed to individual's tenure?
Let's not blame the victims. Fundamentally, there's nothing morally wrong with sending a naked picture to a partner. Of course they're taking a risk, but you take a risk letting someone into your house. If the person you let in rapes or murders you, they're the one in the wrong. Likewise, if someone publishes your naked pictures alongside your contact details, they're clearly in the wrong. And you should have a legal recourse against them.
> I'm not sure to what extent Linux has "take over servers" though

15-20 years ago for a lot of functions a big UNIX box would be installed. More often than not, that box is now a Linux box. Linux didn't so much as push Microsoft out of the datacenter as replace UNIX.
25K weekly users...thats $600 a user, which pencils little http://skimfeed.com at around $9 million :)

Any tips on how to score investment? Do you focus the pitch on the tech, the idea/potential or the current product?

Any good reads for getting started with pitching?
It's not about the structure. It's about the sigils. I have no idea what Xi means in the context that it's used, but if it's named in English it's very easy to understand.
Same thoughts here... been trying to move exclusively over to IJ since 4.x series but two (really dumb) things send me back to Eclipse every time: Javadoc formatting and Web Project module support.

I mean "really dumb" in the sense that these things shouldn't be so important to me, but as someone who writes a novel's worth of documentation inside his code, subpar Javadoc formatting doubles my workload.

The project model thing is my own problem trying to mentally map the whole project/module/artifact abstraction IJ has... I don't understand it, never have, doesn't seem intuitive and mostly just frustrated me.

I think more of this has to do with the layout of the project properties dialog than anything combined with my own mental reluctance to understand what they are proposing here.

That said, the code quality of the product seems to be excellence. Very smooth, no surprise exceptions during use (Which is par for the course in Eclipse).

Some day I'll sit down and figure it out, but until then I will continue to be confused and stick to my simple, flat, POM-defined life in Eclipse and cry every time I load up 4.2 and wonder why I am doing this to myself (if you haven't used Eclipse 4.x series yet, you don't understand how much pain there is waiting for you).
Me and @mitchellh built this as a side project.

Really appreciate any feedback, and we're happy to answer questions here. Thanks!
Depends on how much state they seeded it with. It's pretty common for MT to be seeded with 32 or less bits of entropy.
Really helpful stuff. Realizing, I never saw those footer links!

Thanks @jgrahamc.
example.com also exists specifically for this purpose.
So what are they doing, technically, that makes it hard for the twitter app to display an image inline? That URL just points to an image, so I'm not sure what broke here.
They recently merged in the Launchpad support to master
Very nice! I'm curious how well it scales for long surveys. I used to work at SurveyGizmo and some of their customers would build epically long surveys, sometimes dozens of pages.
It helps, thanks - but our problem is a different kind: We find it hard to write a good, selling copy; It's pretty much the only reason we don't have a proper landing page yet.
Replace Insurance with $Entrenched_Incumbent and you've nailed it for any industry.

Competition creates a price efficient market, which is the enemy of high margin businesses.
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The screenshot shows a debugging session. Both the debugging panel at the bottom and the project panel at the left can be collapsed. So it's not that bad.

But in general, yes, i agree in that Intellij IDEA's interface is quite overloaded. I haven't tried any language-specific version of the IDE, like PhpStorm or PyCharm; maybe those are less loaded, IDK.
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Momentum and apathy.
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