skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One answer could be:

Given that success is a combination of problem, solution and another variables, the probability of someone finding the correct combination is very small. This is why the fly-or-die model startups like to choose is so cruel. Sometimes it looks like a startup is a lottery ticket and VCs are buying as many tickets as they can to secure the prize.

The probability of 1 zillion or just one person finding the right number is the same for each individual. What you could do is to become multiple tickets by pivoting or getting together with another individuals.
heh I too did one of these. http://encrypticate.com

Yours looks really nice.
If games are a bigger problem than guns, war is a bigger problem than games.
The press release is slightly better http://www.fujitsu.com/global/news/pr/archives/month/2013/20...

Basically it's a software solution that transmits over UDP with their own mix of algorithms to make it reliable, but faster than TCP. TCP is broken on mobile, anyway [1]. So, this should be good news.

[1] http://blog.davidsingleton.org/mobiletcp/
There goes a great saying:

The IQ Of The Group Is The Lowest IQ Of A Member Of The Group Divided By The Number Of People In The Group.
I highly doubt Mega would have a public directory. So I'd assume, yes. Just like the other ones like http://www.filestube.com/ does.
I thought the name for this situation was groupthinking : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink

"Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people, in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an incorrect or deviant decision-making outcome"
>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.

Apple irrelevant? Really. As for the quality of the new blackberrys the verge gave the best one a 7 out of 10.
It's when stories and comments like this come out that I realize just how alien America is sometimes.

Most of this comment is nonsense. But many of you can't see that because you're American. It's quite obviously nonsense when you're outside America. On THIS issue, your politicians are absolutely nuts, your citizens are absolutely nuts.

We can all tell it is utter nonsense because you can look at all the other countries in the world that don't have these weird mass murders at anywhere near the frequency per capita. All of them have violent video games. Few of them have massive gun cultures.

Yet Americans are seriously debating this. It's like some crazy countrywide delusion.

But it's not just your gun culture, it's something else. Who knows what part of the American psyche causes it. Perhaps it's the dark-side of the American dream. You have massive homicide rates compared to the rest of the stable developed world. When it comes to murder you're a backwards country. You're down there with Belarus and Georgia.

That's really, really weird. And it's not video games. Or we'd all be joining you.

So it's not really very complex at all. It's got nothing to do with video games.
Word has improved "track changes" and commenting. Definitely my favorite changes specific to word. Other than that, it can also embed videos (nice to be able to play a video instead of clicking a link to open a browser and watch the video...) and it can also finally open and edit PDFs.

Seriously though, check out the new tracked changes. Much nicer than before.
Yeah, I didn't do a great job conveying my perspective on what makes the true social graph. I don't believe social graph is just people. It's literally everything around you. Everything from TV show or broadcast you're watching or news you're hearing to even the environment and setting around us which is the weather.

Everything in life is connected - and that's the graph.
Awesome article. I feel like the most game changing part of chrome is that Google turned it into a web app, that is it is always up to date and you never have to install anything (compared to the mess that is IE 7-10). Everyone gets the next network improvements / security fixes. It is so simple and mind boggling at the same time. I know this isn't the main point of the article, but dealing with microsoft stuff recently really hammers this point home.
Thank you for answering so quickly. So where is this scraper getting the URL's from? A forum or something?
Those of us who have been using Linux long enough to have written or used visualizer plugins for XMMS had the joy of becoming familiar with the Fast Fourier Transform.
Exactly. A better mental illness safety net likely would reduce mass shootings. Tackling drug gang violence is more likely to have an impact on homicide rates.

See http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editoria... for discussion of an approach that saves lives year in and year out, but does not reduce mass shootings.
It was a nice service with the mail. But it was sent one day after the exploit was out in the open, which is too late, but better than nothing.
You can do any customization with <audio/> that you can with Web Audio. The element doesn't have to be in the DOM to play audio.

It's actually harder to provide custom UI for the Web Audio API since seeking and general stream navigation are a complete afterthought and their API makes them a pain.
I'm surprised at Prof. Lewis's surprise that people stop at McD's specifically to use the wifi. I'd have thought that everyone had done this on occasion, although of course for many people that is a matter of convenience while out and about rather than being their only connectivity.

Sure, Starbucks would be cooler but there aren't many of those in most rural areas.
Also, the misdirection seems to have worked on HN.
USA - strict laws against violence in games

Actually, laws banning violent video games have been ruled unconstitutional, see Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association[1]. The laws weren't that commonplace before the Supreme Court ruling, either.

[1] = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Entertainment_Merchant...
If you're progressing through Codecademy and feeling like you don't understand the material you've learned, I highly recommend working through Project Euler. The web-based curricula hold your hand through projects, which is great, but it's not a complete breakfast. Project Euler will exercise your general problem-solving skills, much like real-world programming.

If you're learning to code from Project Euler, you should be a student at my school, Hack Reactor. http://hackreactor.com
The Atlantic? Here's the answer: I went to David Miscavige and he fixed my DC-10 engrams!

Seriously, this magazine has lost so much credibility over their advertorial I think HN'ers should take a long break from upvoting their links.

See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/01/1...
> "And the "true multitasking" sort of works (pretty much as well as Anroid) only because they bolted 2GB of RAM onto the thing."

Well, yeah. So what?

As an iOS user I'm salivating at the thought of actually being able to IM people properly. Right now invariably it goes something like this:

[push notification: you have a new message!]

[tap on notification]

[IM app launches]

[go get a coffee]

[IM app launched! Retrieving your new messages...]

[go get a sandwich]

[here's that message!]

Real multitasking is a huge win, even a diehard iOS user like myself will admit. I don't care if they had to summon Cthulhu to make it work - but as long as it does, it's a great selling point.
Totally correct. Given Mark Zuckerberg's huge ambitions for Facebook, though, it's interesting to see him actually rule out one adjacent business that he doesn't want to go into.
As pointed out in Dan's answer, the phrase "grammar of a programming language" is not well-defined. Even "syntax of a programming language" is not well-defined.

Until someone defines those terms accurately, trying to answer the question is a waste of time.
Interestingly enough, the Verge review calls out the OS for being poor at handling multitasking, so it sounds like they don't even have much of a leg to stand on there:

"I don't feel BlackBerry 10 deals with multitasking or notifications as effectively as other platforms do (most notably Android), but it's not a total strikeout."

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/30/3929760/blackberry-z10-rev...
You could view it as a bet that Bitcoin is a sucker fad and the green paper folding stuff is where the smart money's at.
When I was 13, I was stumbling around in my mom's garage and found a copy of Ivor Horton's "Beginning Visual C++ 6". I still refer to this moment as the reason I became a programmer. Like the author, I tried to read the book for a month and got so confused that I knew that this is what I wanted to do for my life. So, of course, I put the book down, waited 5 years, and went to college.

I can't imagine what my life would have been like if I had been given an ORIC-1, or had any accessible way of getting into programming at that age.
Android's (quiet) killer feature
For most people/enterprises, no. But there are still many places in the world -- in the US, even -- with slow and/or spotty internet connections, so it would make sense for them.
And stuff get yanked for good reasons.
"whether any single-vendor operating system can enter the market now"
I'm not you can say they are entering the market now...
> Most of this comment is nonsense. But many of you can't see that because you're American.

You're not even trying to sound reasonable.. is there even a point in there?
This App Will Keep Your Secrets
Resharper adds so much values to VS, that's it's hard for me to work without it. I've been using resharper for about a year, and it's simply amazing. My productivity has gone through the roof (I've been using VS since 2003). Alt+Enter gives you the magic.
If you trust your buildpack (and its contents), and it contains all the gems necessary, you are safe to deploy.
Not to mention it would distract them from making the iPhone and Android mobile apps great, which is kinda important right now.

They need their best designers and engineers working on making great UI for the existing platforms, not building yet another dead-end mobile platform.
You won't get it unless it's up front. Common sense should prevail here, why structure it like this except they don't want to pay you?
Currently working in VS and Eclipse at my current gig. One thing that I definitely miss when working in Eclipse is the ability to move the instruction pointer around at my own discretion. Though, admittedly, I'm unsure if this is a limitation of the languages more so than the IDE. /digression
A new backend and optimizer for scalac
ATF's Milwaukee sting operation marred by mistakes, failures
5 Tricks We Used To Pimp Our Web Graphics Editor
I, too, would love something like this.

You're probably aware, but it's possible to host private gems in a simple static webserver. We have our CI server copy gems over and run a script that calls "gem generate_index -d /path/to/gems".

Completely featureless, of course. Lacks the newer rubygems.org api (so bundler is stuck downloading the whole index), and obsolete versions will stick around without manual intervention (which, if you have too many, is a pathological case for bundler's resolver).
https://github.com/harukizaemon/hamster is apparently quite good.
I spent $600 on a COMMODORE P.E.T., friends of mine got tired of playing the 10 or so games that came on tape when I got the machine. So I decided to write a complete ripoff of Galatic Conquest from Broderbund.

31 years later I'm still making games for a living. Love it.

But it al started with a need to play a new game, and no money.
Be c0ol. iT takse gut to take on the javacs in theys enterprizes. Yuo has tanken th furst step in Rubby enligtenmont in youse employmenter.

So, whos is a few bugs? I has bet that DDT has crasehd his supr cool turboo charegd racecar and drived agin to proof his not afrid of anytang (DDT iz d a bomb). Yuse has a hng in ther an tell evbody how greta Rubby is.

Peepl will see, they is not stpid. Javacs is cowering in fear. Even Rubby bugs ar more scarier than ayn Javacs bugs!

(I membre frtsi time I saw a Rubby bug in my cdoe. IUt was a code smell bu t I kilt it wthi a desgn patren)
The problem with online reviews: Reviewer Agendas & Bias
IIRC, Freakanomics had a section correlating legalized abortion with a drop in crime ~18 years later. Also plausible. But, of course, not necessarily causal.
A Better Startup Ecosystem
Thanks for your personal beliefs. Who are you?
Facebook just needs to sell it's identity presence as a service to handset manufacturers.

If you can have your phonebook, and also lookup on Facebook all while in your phone.app - that'd be useful.
Ilya Grigorik delivers, again.
We used to use several different solutions with subsets of the projects, now though I use the solution load manager extension, http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/66350dbe-ed01-... which brings down load times significantly. It basically lets you specify how projects should be loaded, so most can be loaded on demand. We have ~150 projects in total, ~10 million LOC, and VS handles it almost as well as a small solution.
It's about 10 years since I did any software development, and I only bother with surface tracking of web-languages progress. So a lot of this is news to me. Also maybe some of the posted 'improved versions' provide what I'd like with this 'contenteditable' thing. It'll take a while to try them all.

Anyway...

So far I don't see one crucial feature: the ability to load an existing file, and edit it. Am I stupidly missing something 'obvious'?

Being able to edit text and save, but not load existing documents and edit them makes this a useless novelty.

I did notice one suggestion to load a doc then use a short js command to switch to contenteditable. But that's not quite there.

Ideally, a browser could be made to work like this:

* Multiple ways to get it started: bookmark, desktop shortcut icon, url to public or private html page containing the config script. Once working like an editor it should stay that way, for multiple file load/saves and multiple tabs open.

* An 'open file' for any existing plaintext or html file, loaded from local filesystem (via file selector popup or bookmark) or the web (type known url or use bookmark).

* Ability to switch back and forth between three modes on the same document: raw plain ascii (no formatting), minimal formatting (B, I, U, bullets), and full html formated display.

* A document 'save as' as plain text (formatting stripped) or html, to the local filesystem, OR (best feature yet) anywhere with write enabled on a public or private web server.

* Nice if also handles encrypted load/save, so the doc is never in plaintext except on the local machine.

With that, the big name 'cloud' services can go take a leap. I could use my own server(s), or ones I happened to trust. There is flatly no way I would ever trust large enterprise cloud services.

Also, a tool like that which would allow editing on ANY machine with web access and local file r/w enabled for the browser, would be very useful for... things.

It always astonished me that browsers did not provide the capability to natively edit the html they displayed. Such an obvious need, and you'd think so simple to implement, that I'd concluded the absence of this ability had to be a deliberate industry-wide agreed policy of capability avoidance. Which means, for political reasons.
Github finally fixed the issue with relative links in README
I personally feel that OneNote is vastly superior to Evernote.
IOS 6.1 jailbreak site officially launched, releasing on Sunday
I've lived in both the U.S. and Europe (and have family in both places), and see it as fairly complex. I don't really see Europe as having many solutions, though, except that I do like the European economic and social-safety model better. Europe does not do well at all with violence except in pretty narrow cases: monocultural to the point of being pretty racist nation-states, with a sort of extended-family village mentality. Once you try to have any kind of diversity in Europe, people get shot, even if the differences are pretty minor! Northern Ireland, the Balkans, the French banlieues, anywhere with mixtures of populations and cultures and you've got trouble. I live in Denmark currently, and it has low overall violence, but seems to basically consider multiculturalism the root of all evil, and everyone assimilating to fit within a narrow range of acceptable Danishness as the #1 strategy to keep everyone from harming their neighbor. Seems like a pretty depressing approach to peacefulness.

And on the high-profile mass-shooting cases, there's little difference at all: Europe has its Utøyas and Erfurts, too. There's a lot less drug-war going on, though, or at least whatever drug trafficking is going on is more out of sight.
There's a field known as "Instructional Technology" or "Learning Technology" that studies how to optimize instruction, training, and educational experiences. The difference that the author articulates is the difference between two major schools of thought in this field: Behaviorism and Constructivism.

The hand-holding, specifications approach taken by American College Board is an example of Behaviorism. While Project Euler's structured, incremental challenges are examples of Constructivism.

Within IT, there are certainly adamant followers of both schools of thought. But, as with many facets of life, the middle ground is normally better than either extreme.

For example, would you like your next pilot or ER doctor to have ONLY learned the Project Euler way? (If you say yes, you really need to stop what you're doing and read "The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right" by Atul Gawande.)

On the flip side, when you come down with some extremely rare condition, do you want your doctor to have ONLY learned the American College Board way?

Similarly, programming and computer science have facets that are best addressed through Project Euler challenges, and others that are better addressed through CodeAcademy hand-holding and lessons based on detailed American College Board objectives.
The stereotype is the exact opposite, though I have no idea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rote_learning#By_nation_and_cul...
This is one of those anecdotes that just pollutes discussions, allowing people to cheer on their biases. My anecdote is that Visual Studio deals with very, very large projects with gusto (albeit far below the absurd "hundreds of millions of lines of code" scenario described by someone else, which if in one solution borders on insane). The CLR has worked ridiculously well for years on end with nary a hiccup in sight. And so on.

Visual Studio isn't perfect, nor is any IDE (Eclipse...xcode...Geez, turn on the coffee machine because we'll be spilling complaints all night long).
It's an ideological product. Ideological products can work if the psychological benefits to adhering to the ideology outweigh the price premium, e.g. Tom's shoes. App.net, it appears, espouses a libertarian hacker ideology. It got a lot of people excited in the libertarian hacker community - there is your hype. The psychological value, however, has failed to clear the price premium.
I'm a bit confused about Go's grammar. I thought I read somewhere that Go could be parsed by a CFG.

But when I looked into it just now, the introduction to the language spec [1] says "The grammar is compact and regular ...". But how can the grammar be regular? According to Wikipedia "regular grammars" describe languages that can be expressed using regular expressions. [2][3] Wouldn't matching parenthesis and braces require at least a context free language instead of regular?

[1] http://golang.org/ref/spec#Introduction

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_grammar

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_language
If the search results just went to the side I think I would have enjoyed it more. Still fun but with constant break in the action it becomes annoying :/

Cool idea though!
This engineer saved Facebook
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VS is the only large scale IDE I know of that refuses to add a search bar for options. Both Eclipse and Intellij IDEA both have it. Trying to deal with finding what you want in the myriad of options VS has is tedious. Also changing syntax colorings without something like resharper is also taxing.
This is hilarious, but a symptom that the boss is very bored and avoiding the real work.

First of all, profanity is not taken so seriously in other countries, so "angry" is a relative term. Probably because to kill someone in those countries is a much more strenous physical task, so you can say "fuck you" as many times as you want to your neighbor without risking to have a bullet in your leg. Chicks impressed and nobody was killed... perfect civilised way to solve a small problem about property boundaries.

f-words in those countries can express humour, angry, frustration, irony, and even a sense of victory over the evil code when you solve a bug. We try to avoid profanity in presence of childrens of course, but not a lot of childrens are expected to jump to read source code, so... adult territory, sorry boy.

And finally, profanity can be very useful. If you need to put a landmark you need to find a rare word, short, not commonly used as name of a variable, nor a reserved word or one that another script will put automatically in your file. They are a relief and also an, easy to remember, way to mark a frustrating line, and these comments are easily stripped in the final version, so if you have a "shit" floating around a subroutine you know that something smells still in your code.
I'm pretty sure I've read on an msdn blog that visual studio was 100 million loc total. I would be very curious to know what kind of projects you're working on.
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I always visualize them being offset in Z.
Like if you're looking at a car transmission from the axle direction.
That was in 1.0 and 1.1. Gone in 2.0+

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms379563%28v=vs.80%2...
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I was a child when Jurassic Park came out. I went to get books on UNIX to read. I was left very very disappointed.

Thanks, Spielberg.
LifeHacker: Why Hasn't Everyone Moved to IPv6?
True story: A close friend of mine took Ayahuasca with a shaman and was then committed to a psychiatric facility in New York for almost a week. She was badly shaken up by the experience. I guess she didn't have good support, or she wasn't suited to taking it, but obviously the experience turned out to be horrific. So be careful with decisions like this...
Well, in the Tom's shoes comparison, if I want other shoes, they still cost money. Comparing to what I would consider fairly fashionable shoes (which I would include Tom's in), the premium is not too great.

On the other hand, App.net is a matter of paying at all vs not. The threshold from free to even $1 is quite large (see: iOS App Store)
Then that's a strange quirk of iOS- Android handles it just fine. The point is that they aren't the only OS with "true multitasking" out there.
AeroPress. Yup, you want it.
I still wish it was as prominent as the Nexus One's light was, though. It's never been bettered.