skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate your self-reflection on your comment and would say that your frustration is probably more with the fact that people (as an aggregate) don't learn as quickly as we would like. I offer this thought to you:

Not everyone has read pg's essay, even if they have, they may have forgotten it's contents, not agreed with it, or simply decided to ignore it while pursuing their startup ideas.

Listening to an interview, even one that repeats most of the same advice, can still be beneficial because it is a reinforcement of a lesson that still needs learning and because you may identify better with the Submittable guys as fellow founders after hearing their voice, than with pg as a distant ex-entrepreneur-turned-investor with his more dry prose.
Maybe the goal isn't to monitor their people as much as gain admin access passwords to every major open source project? As talked about prior, backdoors in open source seem like a real concern. Even if source code is public for open source projects, how do we know a precompiled binary actually matches the source?
Note the word "considerably". There is only one single task in which perl takes a considerable amount of time longer than Ruby.
no way Netflix would use this service...they'll stick with EC2 and do their own encoding.
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Counterpoint: this post [1] on HN front page at the moment contains the sentence "Never heard of a yml file?"

[1] http://www.crowdhoster.com/
It's not necessarily superior, but it can have a big impact on streamlining your workflow. Pulling a file from SkyDrive directly from within the application (or "opening" it directly from the SkyDrive website), and being able to save directly to the cloud version with Cltr+S or the Save button is extremely useful. It doesn't require having a third-party software like Dropbox downloaded (useful if you're not on your own computer), and it doesn't require downloading and editing a local copy before re-uploading it back online.
Is Keek worthy of all the hype? 6 Million New Users in 30 Days
I have been hearing an increasing amount about a Canadian startup named Keek. You can read their latest press release at http://www.newswire.ca/en/story/1100299/keek-raises-18-million-registers-6-million-new-users-in-30-days

I'm a bit skeptical of this platform and its potential and would love to hear what more informed hackers think about this new platform.

I guess they have a lot of traction but is it sustainable, monetizable and really adding a lot of value to the ecosystem?
This is one feature that Eclipse don't have since you have to refresh everytime there is changes outside the IDE.

Every time someone says VS blows Eclipse I wonder what VS have that Eclipse don't. When I dabbled C# few years ago, I find the textual support for refactoring and such are much lacking in VS IMO. I haven't tried Resharper though.

My brother applaud VS for its WYSIWYG, but you rarely do that when you program in Java.
I agree there's a ton of sexism in games, yes. I don't see them as so outrageously different from our general culture as to be the source of a unique problem, though. Certainly not as the explanation for why the U.S. has such unusually high levels of violence for a developed country.

I mean, American culture and media are full of sexism, some of it pretty absurd. Beer ads are super-sexist, for example, and those are allowed to be shown at prime-time to children, despite peddling both sexism and alcohol. And the treatment of women in Hollywood is extremely problematic as well. I'm willing to believe that games are even more sexist than the already pretty low bar for media in general, and that's something worth criticizing game developers for, but it seems strange for a Senator to single them out. I would be really surprised if Lamar Alexander is the one to lead a general charge against sexism in the American media.
I agree just because of VsVim alone. :)

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/59ca71b3-a4a3-...
Ok, i don't get it. Can you show me the formula i should be using?

Or even better: Try to explain in detail why on the overview page perl is claimed to be slower than Ruby, when in a direct comparison it is not.
I could swear I read this exact same comment, word for word, in the last few days on HN.
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Arguing that good parenting obviates the need to restrict violence in games is like arguing that good driving obviates the need to wear seat belts.

Just to be clear, I am not arguing for restricting violence in video games. I am pointing out that demanding eternal vigilance from everyone is generally an ineffective solution for systemic issues. Indeed current trends towards single parents and two working parents trend towards worse parenting on the whole - not better.
I ended up on this page recently: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

Is this what you are looking for?
On the other hand, violent games may actually reduce violence, because people with violent tendencies may be using the games to get their "fix" in a way that doesn't actually hurt anyone.
I had never thought about it that way. We've found ourselves in a situation where we're more embarrassed to be caught watching something with nudity than violence because we made assumptions about other people that may be incorrect.
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but ... does it blend ?
We don't have hundreds of millions LoC, but we have a couple of million. We solve the problem you are describing with svn:externals, pulling in the DLL/PDB from other project/solutions as needed on svn up.

I agree it's not as comfy as having everything in one big solution, but being able to count your compile time in seconds as opposed to minutes makes it worthwhile.
The Factory Floor: Picking (and Maintaining) a Partner
>The example you point to is dubious to me. The study seems to be working as intended: if you have a drug that doesn't work better than olive oil - you don't have a useful drug.

Why not?
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Well, the idea took shape when a few people at my work place wanted to form a private group of marathon training group, but didn't want to use work emails or meetup.com as it was too expensive for such a casual group. That's when I realize that there is an audience for casual interest groups where people just want to communicate through threads in a conversation and not worry too much about maintaining it.
US: Huge number of guns, access to violent games
Rest of world: access to violent games

US: lots of gun deaths
Rest of world: not lots of gun deaths

So either
1- lots of guns = more gun deaths, or
2- lots of guns combined with violent games = more gun deaths

No way to tease out the two variables, unless there are places with lots of guns and no violent games that we can look at.
Well, yes - I meant it as shorthand for passing a screening test, since that is what they all talk about. Passing a screening test for mental illness will have a lot of false positives, and a lot of false negatives.

"Mentally ill" is one of those mysterious designations, anyway. No one really knows what it means. Is there a set of symptoms such that if you have them, you're definitely mentally ill, and if you don't, you definitely aren't?
TCP is plenty fast when tuned for the latency of the link. You just need appropriately large window sizes.
Apparently they already built 300 in the first batch, and they plan to make 500 in the next one. This is going to disrupt bitcoin mining, badly.
I've been using it for a while. There was a beta version available for free, and I believe most enterprise customers have had access to the final RTM version for months. I know that some MSDN subscriptions include a production license, and I was able to purchase a consumer copy from Microsoft's Home Use program last week, as well.
Right now a lot of the folks on App.net are worried about the future of App.net. This conversation (from a week ago) was interesting:

https://alpha.app.net/po/post/2549224#2546963

Some highlights:

steven_aquino
I'm still confused as to why ADN is doomed.

jonf
@steven_aquino cause only 6% of the users post on a daily basis, and we've only had 7,000 new users in the last 3 and a half months compared to 23,000 the first 3 months.

jonf
@steven_aquino are 2000 users enough to keep it going?

lkrubner
@alicia @steven_aquino - is ADN doomed? Where do you think we are on this curve? http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/03/the-startup-curve.html

alicia
@lkrubner Trough of sorrow.

alicia
@duerig The more we wait, the more we can't replace the people who drop out. You don't wait for the story to be complete; you do it now because every delay costs.

saket
@orian @duerig @alicia @steven_aquino @jonf After the original push for funding, my feeling is that ADN has turned away from focussing on "an ad-free social network" and is putting greater focus on ADN as an API for new social services.

blenderhead
@saket @orian I think a more pressing issue is new member retention. Take care of that and word of mouth takes care of the rest. I still feel it’s hard for most folks to jump in to the flow here without current user-initiated engagement.

konrad
@saket @orian In a way, app.net feels like “the old internet” to me. What Usenet was in its heyday, before Endless September. So app.net really is infrastructure – and the people who are there is what is actually appealing.

saket
@mattischrome Thanks. :) To boil it down: either aggressively market/drive/promulgate the user community, or the API & get those killer apps built so new users get pulled in. The seeming waiting is killing ADN.

saket
@po I'd agree if there was some magic social service being developed that'd make ADN the hot new place to be on the internets. Maybe that dev is walking around somewhere, or that project is being built right now. But I'm here for the community, not the API

saket
ADN and it's API seems to be built on the concept of "build it and they shall come". It's not a bad ideal, but what to do if no one does come?

po
@saket Then that's it. It ends. We save $36 a year :)

alicia
@teawithcarl I don't see the level of effort needed, which is leading me to think that Alpha was created as a test, not meant to be permanent. Perhaps its demise is factored in. And that's perfectly okay. ADN is more than Alpha. 2/2 @duerig

bashfulpixie
@prometheus so if impression is Twitter and ADN are the same, why pay for one when other is FREE? That is the problem: Non-ADN users thing ADN is just another twitter, with a LOT fewer users that costs money to use. So question is: WHY?

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There are 2 ways to interpret the above conversation:

1.) App.net is doomed because its growth has slowed and it still has less than 30,000 members.

2.) App.net has a bright future because its membership is so dedicated and smart and working hard to figure out how to make it a success.
I think its the blogspot theme with the gears in a box that your thinking of.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/

It isn't the same but Mega uses their animation in the same way.
The $210/day for $1,300 only holds for a single incremental device. Since the network produces a mostly fixed number of bitcoins per day regardless of the hashing power thrown at it, there are severe diminishing returns for running a lot of these devices. I think the current math is that if you ran 300 of these, each would only be producing $100/day. 600 and each would be producing $70/day, etc. (Pre)selling them scales much better and is far less risky since it insulates them from the fluctuating BTC/USD exchange rate and the possibility of competitors diminishing their share of the network down the line.
It's sadly far too common for .NET developers to carve up their solutions into far more projects than are necessary. This can seriously slow down compilation times.
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Are you failing to remember Apple was once in a position in the early 90's when people were calling for the company to die already? In investors eyes as well as the general public's eyes, Apple had no hope and now look at them. Blackberry have released a phenomenal phone, arguably one of the best smartphones to come along in a very long time.

Just because you're planning on moving from the Blackberry platform doesn't mean everyone else is. Unless you speak for the general system administrator crowd, you're making baseless assumptions. And this is nothing like the Palm Treo debacle, Blackberry have not only developed a powerful and beautiful operating system but have built a phone that is of a much higher standard than Apple's increasingly irrelevant phones. Blackberry have just stepped up their A-game, nobody could have released a better phone than this at this point in time, not even Apple.
Actually, MS has contributed significantly more than $20k worth of developer time to git / libgit2 over the past months, all open source GPL code
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Can't the same be said of yum or apt or whatever system facilities? I used Python for a couple years with many third party packages and RPMs worked fine. Why does each scripting language need its own package manager? It's madness. They all have the same fundamental needs, don't they?
> I actually disagree completely. Ortiz is a US Attorney. Her office is entirely aware of the legal issues.

Well for starters, legal issues are not computer code, even the law is open to interpretation. Even trained experts in the law are known to disagree as to its meaning, especially for laws as intentionally vague as CFAA.

However, even assuming their expertise in the law, the U.S. Attorney's office are not automatically experts at the technology and what the use of the technology means (as we are so often reminded here on HN).
"Our true social graph is what affects every single innate decision and action we make and take, as well as structuring the way we are influenced."

This simply isn't true. If I decide not to go to the beach because it rained, I just based my decision on something that has zero to do with my "true social graph."

I think this might actually be where your deeper mistake in reasoning is - the assertion that relevancy is based solely on your social graph. The fact that this is NOT so is exactly why Facebook does NOT show me content that is most relevant to me - it simply shows me content that was shared or created by my friends and family. That in and of itself doesn't make it relevant to me. It simply means: "hey here is a piece of content and you happen to know the makers of or someone who likes it."

The tricky part is determining what relevancy really means. I think this changes in different contexts.

And finally, I also simply cannot agree with this statement as it stands: "implicit personalization of everything on the web will become reality and nothing will nor should be static content." I really do hope that the latest New York Times article on the conflict in Mali is the same text regardless of whether you are I read it - i.e. that it's static and doesn't change.

I think reality is a bit more nuanced than what sweeping statements allow for.
Sorry but I don't share your view. I am using IDEA everyday (Python). It's great, but it's a HUGE memory and CPU hog (although IDEA 12 is much better). I always lament VS...
FWIW, the Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML corroborates the first pronouncation.
And I remember reading that the drop in crime was correlated with the disuse or ban of leaded gasoline when the cohort was in infancy or young childhood.
If a single project is several hundred million lines of code, VS probably isn't the problem.
Frankly, i'm not convinced there's any point in investing time on improving the benchmarks there, considering the overall comparison directly contradicts the detailed comparison, by putting perl in a worse position than languages it outperforms.
Can someone clear this up for me?

How can I download someone's private uploads? Is the key to "unlock" the file embedded in the URL gibberish?
We have a solution with more than 80 C# projects, and visual studio 2010/2012 handles it fine on modest hardware. I usually hit shift+F6 to build just the current project when I'm iterating on some change. This builds very fast because our individual libraries are small. It doesn't really feel "wrong".
Your image wasn't loading for me, so I updated with the correct (for me) URL. http://jsbin.com/amunug/7
I'm not sold on the argument that customers even desire the ability to produce long-form text content on a touch-based device, or that it's ergonomic to do so. Touch-screens are great for reading and basic editing, but beyond that I'm skeptical; the line-of-thought that leads to "word processing... on a tablet!" seems haphazard and reactionary.

Additionally, I'm reminded of the old Dvorak-vs-Qwerty keyboard layout wars that would occasionally flare up on Slashdot. Eventually, most people realized that it was a neat idea that wasn't practical and moved on. I think that's where this is going.
hmm that's a little strange. Haven't had this problem before. I'll look into it - Thanks.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man" - George Bernard Shaw
I prefer the term skeptic, and I think it's quite reasonable to be skeptical of a $1300 device capable of generating $210/day with still no proof. I think the skeptics will be much calmer once he plugs it in and verifies that it does what it says it does.

EDIT: Now confirmed on Jeff's blog: http://garzikrants.blogspot.com/2013/01/avalon-its-alive.htm...
The "bouncer" metaphor seems to be describing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol#S..., which we already have. Is it really possible to do that much better?
I couldn't tell you what the major "advancements" in Wordprocessing have been in 20 years. I haven't had Office installed on my personal computer in about 10 years, but when I use Word or Excel they just feel like... well, spreadsheet and wordprocessing tools. Excel still feels really inadequate and slow compared for processing complex and large datasets. Word feels like a slightly different UI of wordprocessing software I had on Windows 95.

The changes for so long have felt like they haven't done anything really positive. If i need to write a letter, I just use Google Docs. If I need to tabulate some simple data, I just use Google Docs. I just don't get it.

Powerpoint still feels smooth to me than Keynote, but Keynote looks better in output generally. Pages almost always produces better looking output than Word for me for some reason (although I'd rather just use LaTeX for real document layout). Numbers by Apple is a mess compared to excel and not worth using.
For fun.. I need to get a job in the web industry though as that's where my talent and interests lies.
Anyone know if there is a way to convert a TFService repository from TFVC to git? I'd like to convert a new project, not yet started that id full of the backlog and test cases, etc...
Are there any hosted SelfStarter services that work with bitcoin?
I keep in mind that Congress, as an entity, is as complicit in this as the next guy.

Individual members may take some (partway) useful initiatives. Nonetheless, keep your eyes open form the propaganda and ass-covering.
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They really need another acronym. I thought you meant another POSA[1] is coming.

[1] http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/POSA/
WP8 suffers from similar problems, including the schizo approach to capitalization.
$ bundle package

Places the gem binaries in vendor/cache, as noted. SCM those.

"While installing gems, Bundler will check vendor/cache and then your system's gems. If a gem isn't cached or installed, Bundler will try to install it from the sources you have declared in your Gemfile."

http://gembundler.com/bundle_install.html

Heroku uses this tree lookup AFAIK.
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> If I remember correctly, certain regulatory environments require that an audit log be kept of who saw which file and when.

Okay, let's say that's your environment. How do you prevent Mole Manny (who is a legit developer in your organization) from pulling down all the files in his project (as he's entitled to do), and then copying it over to his $super_sneeky_storage_system?

We've talked a lot about this where I am and we've concluded that to ensure a super-tight environment we'd have to do a slew of really heinous lockdowns (epoxy usb ports for instance) which would likely not really do much against moles but slow down and anger legit users.
Other media is temporary entertainment of an escapist sort. Viewed/read and forgotton.

Video games are immersive environments. Roleplaying continues for scores of hours. You might spend longer in one game than watching all of Star Wars put together.

And you are the protagonist in a video game! You are PERSONALLY doing all that misogynistic violence. Its fun! You get points!

I think video games are fundamentally different than all other 'media', to the point that video games aren't media at all. They are closer to a club, or a school, or a gang experience than they are to a book.

And I've played hundreds of games. I have a room at home dedicated to the playing of games, with machines arrayed around a large round table with power strips mounted below, built for the purpose. So no I'm not here to slam games through ignorance.

But we do our cause a huge disservice when we pretend not to 'get it', when we paper over the real differences between our hobby and other entertainments.
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I'm glad to hear that at least one organization has done the right thing, and started the process of moving completely away from Ruby and Ruby on Rails. It's just the responsible and sane thing to do, given how the software and the community apparently can't be trusted.
Ok, so what we're really saying is, I want a vt100 emulator.
This question was asked here on HN sometime in the last couple of months (I have a distinct memory of this), if you want to Google up that thread for its responses.
Gevent tutorial for Python developers
Yet another excuse to not get tough on gun control, all thanks to a badly worded Second Amendment.

The reality is without serious gun control the massacres in the US will continue.
I guess that part I just don't agree with. I feel much more immersed in novels than in games, myself. Games are just escapist entertainment, whereas novels have changed my worldview, stuck with me for years, and made me feel I was there. I can't think of a game that has been more than entertainment for me, and I've played quite a few also. Heck, even in sci-fi situations, Ender's Game felt much more immersive than Doom. All that stuff about "demons from hell" and "being on Mars" in Doom I just saw as sort of silly skin on top of what's fundamentally some abstract gameplay. And it's hard to take the skins of Counterstrike or CoD any more seriously than that.

More to the point, though, the scientific evidence that games change behavior more than other media just isn't very compelling, despite lots of money spent trying to prove it (some of it in the positive direction, as people with "serious games" grants try to prove that games are uniquely positioned to enact positive behavior change).
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Exactly. I just think it's funny after the Samsung spectacle the last time.
And not just being killed, but being dismembered while still alive...
These idiots are widespread throughout business. And with younger employees, it is often assumed they will not stick around (no family to support, incentives to travel) so how much of your time do you want to devote to building them up if they're just going to take that knowledge elsewhere?