skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did read the article. Both of them, actually. It was clear that most of the app is HTML5, CSS, JS. As originally stated in their previous post, they aren't keen on developing for multiple platforms natively. What they have released goes against the "write once, run anywhere" message that they've been selling for years. I'm quiet familiar with the tech stack they are developing on and so I know that while most is HTML5, there is definitely a development cost if they choose to go cross-platform. It's not as simple as you're alluding.
I find your comment odd (in that I am confused by it). The top comment (which you seem to take issue with) isn't any more useful to anyone than the OP itself. I took it as a bit tounge-in-cheek. You state that professionals make decisions based on merit rather than personal preference and yet the OP did the exact opposite. So neither the OP nor top-commenter are taking the 'professional' approach here.

FWIW I agree with pretty much everything you said in your previous comment (although perhaps not the first sentence).

EDIT: Or perhaps his last sentence irritated you? If he'd omitted "Now, get back to writing code!" would you still feel the same?
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Hamilton: The State of the Union Address
You laugh. A guy two doors down is wondering why a COBOL program that used to run just fine is now segfaulting.
I signed up during a 25GB free deal they had a while a go. I use it along side Dropbox and Google Drive and as far as I can tell it's as good as either of those.
Just thinking out loud here - Is it possible for you to determine whether the buyer and seller were related somehow ?
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Xkcd: Map Projections
The Age of Entitlement
The logical conclusion of what you're suggesting is a system where only outcomes are looked at and assessed, little about the person leading up to outcome is understood, and nothing is learned, because it's somehow unacceptable to understand individual circumstances. But surely you see that it's in our own collective interests to learn why things are the way they are, instead of just indiscriminately slapping parking tickets on everything that looks bad and hoping our problems will go away?
The X264 encoding graph shows "frames per second" and if it's higher then it's better. And probably he measured the other encondings the same way but mislabeled the graphs.
> Here, here!

Where, where? ITYM "Hear! Hear!"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hear,_hear

"Hear, hear is an expression used as a short, repeated form of hear him, hear him. It represents a listener's agreement with the point being made by a speaker."
We don't. People end up choosing the various lists they want to be on, so it wouldn't make much sense to do so.
Interesting that it's launched within seven days of http://getcampapp.com/... There was even an item about it this 'morning' on HN.
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I've had issues with tinnitus, yes. Mine kinda comes and goes, and I've largely learned to just ignore it. But I did some reading a while back that suggests that Melatonin may help. I sometimes use melatonin to help me fall asleep anyway, so it's hard for me to really isolate things and say if it helps my tinnitus or not. But you may find this interesting:

http://brainposts.blogspot.com/2011/09/melatonin-for-tinnitu...
Signed up. Goodbye DropBox. Thanks for posting!
Couldn't have said it better myself. This is exactly why legislation is a process that requires oversight and accountability. I'll never understand why people are willing to write the president a blank check.
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I think an important note would be to add that transparency is not a binary property.

For example, he mentions ClojureScript as a language that compiles opaquely. Fair enough; it's certainly more opaque than CoffeeScript. But it's still relatively easy to read the emitted code, much more transparent than GWT, which is the other example he mentions.
I signed up for DigitalOcean, thanks.
Max file size is 250 megabyte.
>> it can only confuse the student.

> I'm not confused.

You're not a student, the OP is.
Right now this is number 90 on HN. Just above it, I see

"85.Sexism is not funny, let's stop laughing (johannakoll.posterous.com) "

Whatever.
I already have a 25GB free account, is there anyway to upgrade it to a 50GB one?
OK, totally clear now. It wasn't at first clear to me what had happened to the seller. In any case, I think your decision to open source the app was totally reasonable, given the buyer's failure to pay for exclusive ownership. Just glad to hear the seller was taken care of. And thanks for the BSD license -- it's a generous license.
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Reminds me of the RSA response to their extreme compromise. Even quite some time after the incident the EVP & Chairman, Art Coviello, only would state how close "on the tail" they were to the perpetrator(s) thanks to their technology & skill. They're still a viable security organization, so apparently the market was easily able to disregard the core issues.
To those who are confused due to the myriad of OPs here, Swizec is the author of the excellent blog post that is the beginning of this interesting global thread.

(I bet you over engineered your startup, posted on July 2012 at http://www.zemanta.com/blog/i-bet-you-over-engineered-your-s...)

If you haven't read it yet, highly recommended, much better than my rant.
> Furthermore, it is not safe to override a method without knowing if it has been designed for overriding, and what the class expects of the overriding method.

This is true, but likewise, its not safe to parameterize functionality by passing callbacks unless you know what the function you are passing the callback to expects of callback functions (in terms of arguments, return values, and side effects.)

Both of these, really, are the same principle: its not safe to call code without knowing what the code expects of you when calling it.
How will your email flow get lighter? :-)
Always appreciate bugs being filed. I did a little pondering on the ticket the other day. Since we're using update-rc.d, we're likely talking about debian package install, which means that we could probably set the defaults correctly with update-rc.d, someone just needs to do the research and patch the init scripts or the debian packaging. So it's best for the bug to be open.

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s-sy...
https://github.com/opscode/opscode-packages/tree/master/debi...
https://github.com/opscode/chef/tree/10-stable/chef/distro/d...
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I personally use digitalocean for hosting http://en.wikipins.org/ and would like to say that I am very happy with their service and SSD IOPS - something that took me 6hrs. on EC2 takes me ~45mins on digitalocean hosted machines for a half (or less) the cost.
This reminds me https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palpatine
I've already got a 50GB Box account through a free promo a while ago...but the account has file size limitations unless you pay for an upgrade. I'd assume this deal has the same restrictions. I forget the upload size limit, but it was enough to keep me from actually using them for my personal needs.

I pay $25/year for 25GB of Amazon cloud storage, which includes unlimited music storage and no upload limits. I'm happy with that deal for now.
There are as many different answers as there are end of the world novels.

If we're just wanking along, what to me seems most likely is a 'Fall of Rome' deal where things gradually get worse but no one fully realizes it because it happens so slowly.

One doesn't know they're living in the ruins of an empire, it's just the way things are.
I'm guessing he intended to mean it would be nice if there was a week without necessity for the word, rather than the word itself being entirely bad (it's over-used, but I agree in this instance it was apt).
Signed up, the desktop client seems a lot clunkier than Dropbox (I use Windows 7 for those wondering)

I don't really use any online backup service all that much -- all my docs are in Google Docs which I guess is Google Drive now and I'm a single dude so I don't have hoards of kids videos & photos. After seeing this and signing up I was planning on installing this on my mom's computer (currently she's using Dropbox -- down to 2GB after not wanting to pay for more than that) but don't know if I'm going to follow through just because this seems so clunky and un-intuitive.

Odd, it seems Dropbox somewhat perfected the model of "here's your folder (it's blue not manilla so you remember which one it is) just put your stuff in it and we'll back it up online and sync it up with the blue folders on your other computers" -- the "Default Sync Folder" is a real bummer.
No fair precomputing with bounds known in advance on N.
So what if you are selling fitness subscriptions? Check out this video and tell me it is not funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuF4_cWghGY (no women inside..)

He says something like: "After I started in FitnessDK i got so popular, that the only way I got get some alone-time is to take a fish-shower".

As long as you don't put a specific gender in a certain role or use them to show that the other gender is superior, I don't think showing a human body is sexism.
Latin should be a fine language for Twitter, as wedging a lot into not many words. A lot of Spinoza's paragraphs in the Ethics would certainly fit in 140 characters.
I assume The Witness is cross-platform (including MS platforms) and self-published?

Also, I never got to thank you personally for Braid - It plunged me into introspection and little did I know, I was exactly like Tim, a villain thinking of themselves as a hero.
Well, exactly. This is why the app fails in its basic model: it doesn't help you past that awkward first step of signalling interest. Even after getting a mutual thumbs up, you still don't know if there's a real hookup there.
begs the question -> raises the question
I feel your pain and while my startup doesn't exactly monitor those issues, I try and monitor them by proxy. How? I am tracking what users are saying about the company, I also break it down by type of comments - support, uptime/downtime, price. I am trying to avoid that 'spammy' feel by making it transparent with all the data being publicly collected and sourced to social media. I'd love to hear your feedback because avoiding the 'spammy' label is what I am trying to fix in that industry.

http://reviewsignal.com/webhosting
Agree, actually Aline is a hackernewer too, I have seen her writing about recruitment.
I was Born in a Cross-Browser Hurricane
Last time I checked, file size is capped at 250mb for the free tier.
Git Annex can store to it, and it enables automatic file chunking.
VBA should be replaced by VB.NET or (Iron)Python.
Hi (I'm Stripe's lawyer). Litigation discovery is something that any company needs to think about when crafting its email policy. But whether an email goes to a few individual recipients or to a broader list won't impact whether it needs to be disclosed in discovery. The seemingly private email between two or three co-workers will almost always persist in someone's inbox for a very long time, and ultimately be discovered.

In most cases, the kinds of emails you are talking about -- where someone says something that can be mischaracterized or otherwise damaging to the company in the future -- are a result of poor judgment. And that's where I think Stripe's policy has a distinct advantage. When people know they're sending things to a broader group of recipients they tend to be more thoughtful in how they communicate and just avoid saying many of the imprudent things that would be troublesome in future discovery.
The user interface is not as intuitive as Dropbox's.
Box, at least on the Mac, doesn't integrate es nicely as Dropbox.
The web interface is very unintuitive and overstuffed with features as well.

At least that's my first impression of Box, when compared to Dropbox.
To quote Jamie Zawinski: "At the end of the day, ship the fucking thing! It’s great to rewrite your code and make it cleaner and by the third time it’ll actually be pretty. But that’s not the point—you’re not here to write code; you’re here to ship products."
Seriously though, the PS3 is a no-brainer at this point of its life-cycle. Awesome Blu-ray device, Netflix, Hulu, etc and add PSN plus into the fray and you'll never pay for a game again.
My first thought: I see no reason not to switch over from dropbox, it should take me about 10 minutes to switch. I could even run both at the same time for redundancy.

My second thought: from an investing perspective the danger in this space is the easy commoditization. This will lead to high competition and low profits, with hopefully some differentiation on quality (especially dependability).
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Yet another illustration of the unintended consequences of authorizations by Congress for war (obviously, in this case, an unavoidable war, but still).

The order to authorize internment camps was the result of two forces:

* Intense and direct recommendations from FDR's entire war staff and intelligence apparatus, which believed that there was an unacceptably high probability that Japanese and German populations would engage in sabotage during the war

* ENORMOUS public pressure, particularly in California, to eject Japanese citizens

The Japanese internment debacle is a blemish and a tragedy, no doubt, but it's not an illustration of an executive power grab. The whole country shares the blame for it.

The lesson I take from it is the same as the lesson I take from drone strikes blowing up wedding parties: Congress should be extraordinarily careful and guarded in its authorizations for using military force of any sort.
good for family photos. 250MB file limit...can't really use it for much.
> 90% of driving is commuting, it is decidedly not long-range trips.

Would you buy a second vehicle to accommodate your needs for the remaining 10% of your driving?
Most of them are, I replied a few comments above you in this thread because my startup's goal is to fix the pay to play hosting review space. You seem to have experience dealing with it and I would love to hear your thoughts.
tl;dr - "No city has ever thrown a parade for a local company that has had a great quarter or year."
I already have 50GB from the LG promo by signing up from my Nexus 4. I guess this is only for new accounts?
I don't think that the code the author listed for Paul Graham's Accumulator Challenge is correct. The challenge specifically states that its for a number not an integer, and its any incrementation, not addition. I'm not very familiar with Go, but it seems like the Go solution is not as general as the solutions in Lisp and other languages, where any operator and type can be used with the accumulator function.

I'm sure there is probably some way to implement the same thing in Go using duck typing. Just wanted to point out the difference though.
Thanks for the info. I'll have to check this out.
I'm the OP of the thread you linked to. This patch will hopefully appease some of your concerns:

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/2278

Do you know if the following is single-threaded? I'm not familiar with python.

numpy.sum(1./(numpy.arange(1,10000)**2))
You can make an argument that 37 Signals is still keeping with their web app philosophy. For their new iPhone app, it's a web app with an advanced native wrapper & navigation functions.
This came up in my HN feed today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5206245

Help me out here. Is this funny? or just ageist, sexist and racist all at the same time? I need to know if I'm supposed to laugh or be offended.
But on the other hand, higher density of users mean a large opportunity to use wifi offloading to complement the capacity. This of course depends on exactly where you measure and what exactly you are measuring due to short range of wifi (and on the capabilities of your measure equipment).
It strikes me that excel appeals to people for exactly the same reasons that lighttable appeals to developers. You put numbers and equations in and instantly see the results. If you need to do something complicated you can build it up, one step at a time and see how the numbers flow through the system. You can even try different scenarios by just tweaking the numbers.
Is T-Mobile going to have an LTE network in US?
Why would you prefer those to Python? (And to every other language?)
I remember a time not long ago when skepticism of government was considered healthy, even here on HN.
Pity that blue manilla folder is the same folder as every other folder on mac
It's very difficult to 'mess up' Latin word order. Just because something doesn't read like Caesar or Cicero doesn't mean it's wrong. Latin allows for a lot of rhetorical flair -- Horace's word order, for example, can be incredibly jumbled, but it's perfectly correct. The tweets are probably fine, just like Milton's English is fine.
HPMOR can tend more towards fiction and less of this rationality stuff, but that's why it is a fun read.
Really wild point. So malicious, but i guess in the same sense that would be a "clever" way to "pay yourself". The seller is someone we have worked with before and has multiple listings with Apptopia (and has had them for a few months now). They also have separate payment profiles. So if they are the same, they have gone through great lengths to hide it...

Still good to keep an eye on. Thanks for making me think through it.
Then those private companies shouldn't be in charge of critical infrastructure.
True, but when looking at review averages, having a large body of users matters.
Absolutely. A truly cool app written in VB.NET is more interesting than FizzBuzz in Haskell.
This has been the case for me for the last couple of years. I used to see promotions like this constantly (even going back to when 8 free GB was on offer instead of 50), and as a result I have a small collection of different file storage services that add up to an okay amount of storage, mostly due to the couple of 50 GB promotions.

The one thing to be careful about with Box is the limitations they put on access; The promotion I got some time ago for 50 GB has a file size limit of 100 MB and doesn't allow download of folders with a free account. This makes it impossible to store a few large files and inconvenient to store many small ones (though WebDAV access makes the latter less of an issue.
Clutch pedal in, until the revs drop.
This is very similar to a project I attempted to create called Ember Boilerplate (never released), which was a play on Backbone Boilerplate (https://github.com/tbranyen/backbone-boilerplate) and (https://github.com/backbone-boilerplate/grunt-bbb). Mine failed to be released, because I don't think I addressed the concerns and needs of Ember developers.

Very glad someone who is entrenched in the Ember community could provide the same necessities and insight to the same problems I was able to fix for Backbone developers. Tools like Brunch and Yeoman attempt to accomodate all libraries, which is an admirable goal, but I feel like developers who write applications in a specific framework every day are more keen on providing necessary defaults.

Perhaps soon we'll have some agreed upon common ground: (CommonJS modules, template pre-compilation, image optimizations, source maps, etc.) and leave the scaffolding and defaults to specific projects that address the needs and desires for developers using those frameworks.
Are you talking about this? http://www.lawfareblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/White-...
So we should federalize electric companies?
DigitalOcean does not currently offer IPv6.

http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocea...
That makes sense. I figure since most of the pages are web views, it wouldn't be that difficult to release an Android version when/if needed.
The problem is the bi-directional information sharing between private companies and the multiple levels of government -- it should be one-way (private companies -> government).

There is a very large potential for abuse and we will have no recourse.
Even with straight web browsers it's never 100% "write once, run anywhere" as any good web developer will know. You will always need to account for the idiosyncrasies of every browser, screen size, and system, and in the case of 37 Signals' new basecamp app, I see it as being no different. They most likely needed to gain access to some native apis and take advantage of a more reliable method of animating the page swipes.

And re-read your first post. You are suggesting that 37 Signals has done a 180 degree about-face, which is really unfair especially since you do actually understand the tech.
Who keeps Latin alive these days other than niche uses like this?

When I was in high school the top three languages were Spanish, French, and Latin. We had more students take Latin than German and other languages!

To me it has usage in understanding the bases of words and scientific terms. It makes guessing the meanings of things whenever you're visiting a country that uses a Romance language easier. Other than that I'm not sure why this is taught so widely in American schools.

Don't get me wrong, I'm very glad it is since I took Latin for six years and was an active participant in state Certamens, Latin club, and JCL events. I'm just amazed that students would even choose that over a living and more productive language.
Hehe, this is why I need to work on our message.

Lightermail allows you control when and from whom you receive email (from the global level to individual TLDs to specific senders). The who and when are highly configurable. You can also combine your unimportant email into summaries to reduce the actual quantity of email that lands in your inbox.

There's more of course, but that's the gist.
Fix2x.sh – automatically create/resize 2x and non-2x images for IOS
> but payment alleviates conscience.

That's disgusting.
Permissive user input validation
It seems to be a promotion with Dell. Dell often has little perks like this for employees.
Are you listening, America?
Website to review websites www.pagernk.com
There's nothing out there that let's you review websites.

If you own a website then you'll love seeing feedback and comments from your users. If you loved or hated your experience with using one get to share that with others.

With that simple idea pagernk.com started. Let me know what you guys feel. Thanks!
Doubtful. Box has been running 50 GB promotions for quite a while.
"For life". More like for 18 months until the company goes bust, taking all your data with them.
My experience has been that experts in techniques get entrenched in techniques and have a hard time seeing beyond the numbers.
I would never trust Box. A long time ago (probably when they were starting up) the service made me realize that you can upload whatever you want for free but when it comes to download, you'll be SOL.
How does KVM compare with Xen? Can you over-subscribe ram with KVM?
And then, too often, you need to speak to the sender to find out what the email actually meant in the first place, only to find out that it had no relevance to you.

I like the info sharing and should lead to increased efficiency, but its something that IMHO needs very careful scrutiny.
Bingo. This and the ease-of-use/approachability for non-developers are why Excel is still absolutely huge in the finance world, and why it's not something you just "grow out of" when you start hiring developers.
Box.net has a 250MB file size limit for free accounts. Dropbox does not have any limits, AFAIK.
He said "flourished". The state of being implemented by some basic government-funded research is almost completely disconnected from the time when commercial interests took the idea and ran with it -- causing it to "flourish".
If you use keys, no password is sent. An option to not send password by mail (for non-key-based launches) is on the coming-soon roadmap: http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocea...