skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From 2000 high of roughly $56/sh to a final price of $13.65
We are talking about two different things.

You are referring to "redemption" and I am referring to a grace period.

Redemption comes after the domain is deleted which is after a any grace period.
People who aren't concerned about exposing their amazing Javascript and CSS to the world probably don't have very amazing jobs to begin with.
I love doing this. I usually find that two hours working at a coffee shop is worth four at home or in the office.

It's also especially good when the place has no WiFi (a rarity these days) and I'm too lazy to tether my phone.
Wouldn't Microsoft need a majority in the board to do so?
Nice Idea! Purchased in the MAS.

Since you seem to want to make it better, Let me give you a few suggestions. I like where you're going, but get the sense you want to improve it, so in that spirit-

It feels more like an RSS reader than a dedicated app.
Because it doesn't have deep API integration (or even write support), there's not much that I get that I don't get with a dedicated HN RSS reader.

Take a look at Envelope for Reddit for an example of how you might do a deeper integration. Beyond adding posting support, you could also build on the fact that it's a client-app, and add additional local-only feature, such as killfiles or filters, etc.

Low-hanging fruit would be to display comments inline, rather than just linking off to the website, and letting you read/reply/post to individual threads.

GL, I hope you keep going with it.
Increasing the tick size hurts high frequency trading by making it costlier to rapidly enter and exit positions.
Because its easier to turn the other cheek if you think the person currently screwing you over will have it eventually catch up to them.

I don't think everyone who says "karma" is really referring to the interconnected balance of all the things in the universe. I think they just mean, "Golden Rule, bitches."
The latest JavaFX release, which is the new way of building java desktop apps, encourages you to bundle the java runtime in your app, which gives you a lot of benefits including avoiding the problem discussed here. It's a wonderful platform I encourage everybody to look into.
Relevant and hilarious. Good find!
It does that, but that's not the important point. The fun part comes with the GIR files, that abstractly describe the classes, functions, members, constants and what have you in XML. Which means your language bindings are inflated from that description. That minimizes the effort to build and manage bindings for libraries developed on top of GObject.
I think it makes sense that you're continuing to think about it :-). Your definition of a good question is reasonable, I think. But it doesn't take much reading on tech forums (yes, even HN) to see that some questions, like "Which is the best programming paradigm" are really battlegrounds for religious wars. As engineers our goal should always be to use the best tool for the job, but without a defined "job", we retreat to personal preference and experience.

I think there are various alternatives to try to mitigate voting being a popularity contest. One is to remove any claim of the question being about the "best, given no context". The question might be better phrased as "Which Raspberry PI OS is right for me?", where the "me" is defined by the reader. Then the quality of the answer would be determined by whether in the answer, it qualifies the assumptions. Something like: "Premise: You want to control small hobbyist mechanical and electrical systems using the onboard GPIO" and "Premise: You want to use the PI for media sharing."

Another option is to abandon a simple upvote system in favor of qualified thumbs-up. Like "This answer is ✓ Clear, ✓ Insightful, ✓ Accurate". Unfortunately that wreaks havoc on your pretty charts, unless you find a way of unifying those votes into a single score. And I'm also not sure it aligns well with your desire for collaborative, continuously improving answers. If it's not clear, or accurate, it should be edited!
I went to this university and took several of Professor Cooper's classes. He was a great guy and he seemed really passionate about his Mersenne project.

One thing that was annoying however was the prime finding software was put on every lab computer possible. It was suppose to pause when a user got on a machine and resume when they got off. This seemed to never be the case though because they would all run terribly slow and when you checked the process list the prime software would be pegging the CPU. After reporting the problem several times I simply added a line in my bash file to kill it when I logged on.
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Understood. Thanks.
There's a value exchange conversation currently taking place, where we're hoping to exchange services of value, but i acutely realise that value-exchange is sometimes a good idea, but not always.
I support this answer. The reality is that outsourcing the devops work is simply moving from IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service, e.g EC2) to PaaS (Platform as a Service, like RDS, Heroku). You just won't deal with infrastructure, servers, network or operating systems anymore.

You will lose the ability to customize or use obscure frameworks.

On the other hand, you will simply have to do operations such as "increase the number of web workers", or "add more replication for this DB" which are high level.
I think that the very evidence of his investment is, in fact, a reason to trust him slightly MORE than a randomly-selected human.

Let's translate this into another domain: the very evidence of Wall Street's investment in mortgage securities is a reason to trust them more than a randomly-selected human. Does it still seem reasonable?

Even if people take action collectively, without any centralized incentive structure, green companies will profit.

Why? Because they're actually solving a problem, or because they're gaming the system? You admit carbon credits are being gamed. Al Gore is therefore one of the gamers. How is that supposed to increase my confidence in him?
Not really - a lot of HFT earns money from liquidity provision, where a higher tick value would increase profitability, since they're entering and exiting trades passively attempting to earn the bid/ask spread.
Manufacturing is hard and it takes time and stuff goes wrong that a quick recompile can't fix. Although 3D printing etc has made things easier to get started it is still a very long a difficult process to get the product launched and in the market is sill just as expensive and slow as it has always been.
Very valid points. Thank you for re-assuring me and helping me to think about things differently as well.
Exactly! For $2bn out of $24bn they can talk but not much more.
why on earth would they run it as you user?
> He taught me early on that what really matters is gaining happiness by helping others around you. If you have a talent, use it. If you are dreaming of something, build it.

That's a great quote and great life strategy, thanks!
Anyone know what this means for shareholders?
Absolutely fantastic. Thanks for taking the time to develop.
But... numbers are an infinite, artificial construction, there always will be a number exceeding current computing powers by any wanted factor.
ah nvm it says Microsoft, will pay $13.65 a share
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The more objective the discipline, the less you see that, because metaphorically, the light is too bright to hide. Mathematics is, arguably, the most objective discipline there is, so I don't think you see much of this. Particle physics is the most concrete of the real physics, so you see admirable scientific discipline there too, for instance, with the recent FTL neutrinos.

As you get fuzzier and fuzzier, you get more and more blabbering, until, ahem, eventually the "science" consists of little more than blabber; I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader as to where to draw that line.

http://xkcd.com/451/
Non-core international divisions are more likely to be spun out than killed for nefarious purposes.
I'm curious, are other Java implementations (e.g. OpenJDK) really that bad? I mean, quite a lot of influential/resourceful companies are behind it, are they unwilling or unable to improve it?
I wonder if taking out a student loan puts people in a mindset where they are more willing to take on debt?

If you're already borrowing some thousands of $ for an education on the basis that you will "make it back when I graduate" what's a few more hundred $ for an iphone?
There's a lot of big words without substance in these quotes, but the most meaningful part is that Dell's transforming to be a "global IT solutions provider".

So the usual "it worked for IBM" strategy most hardware and infrastructure companies ends up with when sales go south, with mixed results.
Can't read the article. Paywall block.
Of course the beauty of it is (if you have a Model S) you can help with the mapping by fork/pull-requesting changes on GitHub: https://github.com/timdorr/model-s-api
I think they were asking for examples of white-knighting, which is not what your story was about. Not that it wasn't worth sharing, it just didn't answer knowtheory's question.
Mersenne primes may not be infinite ;)
I'm going to stretch my definition of a startup and say Michael Arrington and FusionGarage.

I'm not up to date on whatever happened with it, but Arrington announced on TechCrunch the CrunchPad, kept everyone abreast with its development, and when it came time to launch FusionGarage decided to go it alone and cut him out (allegedly).

Also, you can stretch it even further and use Jonathan Coulton's latest spat with the producers of "Glee"

I think it happens, we just don't hear about it as much.
I think that's not really what microsoft is after.

But if so, would the other board members care either way about Ubuntu/Linux?

And even if they do they could give in on this to get something else.
I stand corrected, excellent explanation, thank you.
When I think about it, people in SF should know better; but based on personal experience bad offensive remarks happen a lot more often than most people would think for such a progressive city. It's one reason I hate the thought of working in the city again.

The last part better explains it. It doesn't change the fact that it was sexism, but I categorize this one as stupidity and awkwardness instead of malice.
If we meet aliens, we should exchange Mersenne primes.
I guess they get $13.65 per share in cash and that's it
Hi! This couldn't have come at a better time as this is something on my ToDo list. However the bookmarklet isn't working on my site. The URL is www.randomdailyness.com. Any insight would be awesome!
I'd demand my "time" back.
Google+ Hangouts are infinitely better. Here's a writeup I did on the benefits: http://slant.co/topics/what-is-the-best-video-chat-service/o...
I'm using gnome shell and I love it. I moved to it from awesomewm, so that gives you an idea of the type of user that I am. They made some bold moves on UX, and I was surprised I was agreeing with them. There's a tiling wm extension, shellshape, that has advantages over awesome (!). I'm happy with the move. This is just to say that gnome is not targeting grandmas and teenager with their redesign. If you were used to gnome 2 desktop (which I hated) give 3 a serious try.
(Especially considering that we're all gonna hafta get off the oil soon anyway, when it runs out.)

I should note that, as I've posted elsewhere in this thread, I agree there are good reasons to reduce fossil fuel consumption that are independent of the climate change issue. (Among them are national security and foreign policy: as I've noted in other posts, if we were smart we would have made eliminating our dependence on foreign oil a national priority in the 1970's.)
Well, on the other hand, if you try to prove it using this kind of bruteforce exhaustive search you may be in for quite a long time :)
Try clicking on the link to the article here, appears to circumvent it:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Dell%20to%20Sell%20Itself%20...
I'd add j/k keyboard shortcuts and the ability to view comments within the app. Otherwise great work!
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I'm reminded of the book title "The difference between God and Larry Ellison". (God doesn't think he is Larry Ellison.)
We do use sprite sheets for almost all of the icon-sized images (there are hundreds) in the application. And those sprite sheets are big enough to not get inlined in the CSS. The images that do get inlined are generally odd-sized--though I suppose that automatically generated sprite sheets could manage that for us as well.

Exposing CSS is much less of an issue than exposing Javascript; that list was speaking about JS and CSS generally ("why a build process"). The post goes on to describe why CSS specifically is worth paying attention to.
-350 (min student loan payment)

Ah, there's the part I forgot about.
MapBox is an amazing company. This new editor is very early alpha but already excellent and usable. Good editing tools should be a huge boost for OpenStreetMap. Funny that OSM is getting a modern editing tool before Wikipedia.

The Javascript libraries they're using are interesting. D3 is a big part of it, but equally notable is that there's no conventional slippy map library like OpenLayers or Leaflet. Instead they're doing something simple with d3.geo.tile, a relatively new component.

Particular attention is due to MapBox's OAuth implementation ohauth, purely client-side (no server proxy): http://mapbox.com/osmdev/2013/01/15/oauth-in-javascript/ They also use RTree (for spatial indexing), Lo-Dash (an Underscore alternative), and a few extra bits like JXON for XML, the async library Queue, and Bootstrap tooltips.
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I've also found that adding these sorts of limitations to my work environment—no Wifi, for instance—can really boost my productivity.

I download local copies of documentation and APIs for reference and then set up at a coffee shop near me with no Wifi or power outlets. I find it's most useful at the start of a project when I have trouble just getting something down, sort of like staring at a blank page when you have a paper to write in college.
It helped me, and they (the analogy and OP) seem like something very hard to explain briefly to someone not versed in linear algebra.

Edit: clearly it's possible though, as the other replies attest to.
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In his article about not stealing ideas, Grega Stritar mentions karma and being a good person by not stealing. Yet for some reason, he also chose to use an unlicensed watermarked image from iStockphoto at the head of his article.

Perhaps I am reading to much into it, but it really seems to undermine his credibility and trustworthiness in this regards. He claims he is not willing to steal ideas, but he is willing (apparently) to steal images?

Where is the line actually at?
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CSS source maps would also be a good solution.
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Not just industries.

"Dear European country X, would you kindly remove all my personal data from your databases" is probably not something they want.

Guess an opt out app for the tax database would be an all time bestseller though :P
I also use namecheap, they're great. One thing I like about them compared to GoDaddy, which I used to use, is that the control panel for a domain is tiny yet does everything I need. The number of different control panels, all of which took forever to load and were horrible to use and navigate, is one of the reasons I no longer use GoDaddy.
> But if so, would the other board members care either way about Ubuntu/Linux?

Of course they would care if it brings profit.
Silver Lake is buying for $13.65 a share:

> Under the terms of the deal, the buyers' consortium, which also includes Microsoft, will pay $13.65 a share in cash.

So the stock probably won't sell above that number, but won't be far off from it until the deal closes. Since it's a cash deal, after the deal closes you'll probably be compensated with cash (your shares would disappear from your brokerage account and you'd gain the equivalent cash value).
In a world in which computers chips are ubiquitous and connected it is almost impossible to avoid this kind of risk. We implicitly trust numerous companies who could have left back doors in a system. I trust Android more than the random ASIC in my phone or the proprietary software in my router.
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How do you even know that's going to happen? MS has invested in Facebook and that didn't lead to them replacing PHP and Linux with Windows and C#
"Life is hard, and it’s most certainly unfair… perhaps more so for our generation than any previous."

Uhm, have you ever heard of World War II? I'm pretty sure the MacBook-toting hipsters you describe have a slightly easier life than those people had to serve in Vietnam or World War II.
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I haven't been as heavily invested in the Android ecosystem in a while but I can't help but get the feeling that the writer of this article had made a decision about which version he thought was better long before he set out to write an article. Its unorganized, highly subjective and in some places nonsensical--yet very long.
What OS was this? Processes like these (Folding, Seti, etc) should be "niced" on *nix-like OSes to have the lowest possible priority. Not sure what this looks like on Windows, but I imagine it's possible.
This is why I mentioned calculating the proof, not finding a new one :)
More specifically, Microsoft is loaning $2 billion to the consortium of interests buying Dell, as is Michael Dell (~$3.5B) and Silver Lake (~$1B).
The wall is the "standard" store. Pretty much like Apple does, because you can also jailbreak an Apple and this doesn't make their ecosystem any less of a walled garden.

They are trying to become a channel just like Ubuntu and like every man and his dog seems to be doing lately. At this point their interests and those of the users don't necessarily align 100% of the time. The same applies to Google, Apple, Ubuntu, and a bunch of others really. If you just want the best possible desktop environment and nothing more, I'm sorry but that's not their priority now and compromises will continue to happen in that regard.
Way to edit your post when I was midway through responding :-)

We're relatively unconcerned about our website's (home page) source. Our actual application can be seen at https://www.lucidchart.com/demo. There you'll see a single large Javascript file served from Cloudfront, plus a few third-party-hosted files that we couldn't reasonably CDN (like Google Analytics and some other third-party APIs). There are also three CSS files. One is the bulk of the data (194KB over the wire) which is sent over the CDN. Then there is a separate file for jQuery UI (which will soon be removed) and one that is shared CSS with other parts of our app.
Several of us had root access to the few Linux boxes in the CS computer lab.
I've used Dells for a number of years and been pretty happy, but this does have me a bit worried. I was really pleased the one time I did have a problem, while living in Austria, with a machine I'd bought in the US: very quick service and no hassles to fix it, so the fact that it's a big, global company turned out to be pretty positive. I'm not sure who else I'd go with...

More than anything, I'm amazed and dismayed that tablets are far surpassing the screens they put on laptops these days: http://www.google.com/nexus/10/ - why won't anyone who's not Apple make a decent screen?! They've gotten worse, as my current machine does 1920x1200, and you can't find those anymore.
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This is one the largest LBOs in history, the largest since the financial crisis, and an audacious in swimming upstream against technological trends. There is still a 45-day go-shop period during which Dell will entertain competing bids, though without Mr. Dell's stake this is unlikely.

The deal structure is interesting, with Silver Lake contributing cash, Microsoft a $2 billion loan, and Mr. Dell simply rolling over his stake (though his fund, MSD Capital, will contribute some cash, too). The rest is debt financing from Barclays, Credit Suisse, Bank of America, and Royal Bank of Canada.
Thanks for this article. It has helped me to better understand the product manager role.
A cash payout representing a 25% premium to the price before news of the deal leaked earlier this month.
I would highly recommend against News:yc, if only because of it's meager integration with read-later services. (Exclusively IP.)

Although it is, from what I've seen, the best client on iOS, it is still inferior to and more laborious than the web experience.
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It sounds the primary motivation behind this project is exactly that. The intention is to push our ability to compute to it's limit.
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Good for GIMPS, 2⁵⁷⁸⁸⁵¹⁶¹ - 1 has a nice ring to it! GIMPS is one of the largest distributed computations in the world and have been tooling away finding primes since 1996. SETI@Home gets most of the credit for popularizing this kind of distributed computing, but GIMPS has been at it for even longer and has delivered consistent results.
Many years ago, when I was coding 16 hours a day with regularity, I suffered from horrible carpal tunnel pain on both wrists. My solution was two-fold.

First, I threw away the mouse and switched to a thumb-operated trackball (Logitech or Microsoft).

Second, I designed and fabricated my own desk. The easiest way to describe it is that this desk has a cavity into which the keyboard and trackball fit. With this design my wrists were fully supported and my hands drooped into the cavity to naturally make contact with the keyboard and trackball.

This worked wonders. I took a two week break from coding while designing and fabricating this desk (MIG welding and woodwork). By the time I was done the inflammation on my wrists was gone. I went back to coding long hours. The pain never came back and neither did the inflammation.
I wish I had this plugin on emacs. So far, there's no "Command-T" nor this beautiful completion.

Yes, yes, there are hundreds of plugins that offer more powerful stuff.. but I miss so much Command-T.
Javascript has the advantage that most of the millions of web devs out there have used it or a language that compiles to it at some point.

By comparison python is a relatively niche language.

It also has the advantage of allowing web devs to port their web code over easily to a desktop app.
I think you are at the right site and should post something here.

I know this won't be well received, but know that i intend to help. "withhold some details" just screams of a corporate lawyer who will have a low probability of putting together a team. Kind of like a blinking red light that your unfamiliar with the tech space.

It comes from the misconception that the ideas are what makes a great company (usually it's the team and then a good idea). It is very rare that any company is alone in a space. In other words, you can bet ten companies are strategizing on your secret idea as we speak.

advice: no one has a problem with ND if it makes sense. Make a post of what you need that is generic and ask for related experience. "Willing to pay top dollar. We need three data miners familiar with social media". Use the best responder and ask for recommendations of putting together a team.

or do what other New York firms do, pay the local VC's for their network.

Hope that helps.