skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're reading too much into it. "i18n" exists because, frankly, it's too long; it's a 20-letter word, one of the longest in common usage, and it's boring and time-consuming to type, and easy to mistype.

There is a long tradition in hacker culture to shorten and optimize things whenever possible, going back to the early days of Unix and C ("sh" for shell, "rm" for remove and so on). The reason i18n has a number is that it's awkward to abbreviate without; the C/Unix-style tradition of removing vowels to abbreviate would render it unreadable ("intrntnlztn"? "intrlzn"?).

Case in point: One of the companies I co-founded, Transparensee, has a very long name. Internally we started referring to it as t11e everywhere, including the domain names we use for dev stuff (t11e.com works as an alias for transparensee.com).

Edit: We also have l10n (localization) and m17n (multilingualization), incidentally.
OK, I'll bite: how do I go about finding the root cause?
Zooming that site is still not working for me in Chrome.
Mass web site infections leading to spam and porn
Yes, and that's great, but it doesn't invalidate the general trend.
Google to open retail stores in 2013
It is amazing how many people do not understand this.
Mutation testing with Mutant
Your right, I just have a bad feeling about something as massive as Amazon getting in on the game this soon.
i don't see how this could really work.

the tolerances required for legos to work are quite small. they mention this in the implementation section which says they use 2.5 micron measurement.

but 3D printers are not nearly so accurate. makerbot's page says their latest is 100 micron.

so if you print the design, it will have the wrong measurements.

what's missing here?
https://LastPass.com

http://Gotomeeting.com

http://Drive.google.com
I have steps 1 and 3 already, now its time to fire up ubuntu server.
Oh my god, I may have fallen in love with that PowerPoint theme...
Humorous, but very real in some. Since the queen is at the zenith of social standing, his statement is quite correct
$700 drone- video footage
Do you have any links to tutorials on getting LAMP up and running on a Pi?
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"So don’t join an accelerator unless you can win it." So we're basically in a situation in which self-selection rules now. In the future, if you made it through an accelerator and "won" it you were already in a position to do so. That means that the benefit of actually winning the round from the accelerator was minimal since you most likely would have succeeded anyway.

Given the massive difference in funding between an accelerator seed (tens of thousands) and the first raised round (millions) it seems like the accelerators disproportionately gain from having these self selected success stories.

Accelerators, more recently, really seem to provide business direction and a stream of well documented CEO advice which, for a lot of these startups, solves zero of their engineering or customer problems. It's not that the mentorship provided at the labs is not useful but rather that it seems to solve a less important part of the overall problems early companies have.

And to top it off, like the article mentions, the effort rewarded during an accelerator is often related to pizzaz, flash, and cool demos rather than core product. I hope the accelerators look to strengthen their offerings to seed companies and really incubate them rather than slip further towards the "gateway to VCs" which, at times, seems like the predominant movement.
More likely one will want to tail (unix) with the -F, over -f, so that logs -- files -- that are rotated out will continue the tail on the log that replaces those that rotate out.
Good tip. My biz isp sells them for $30/month. I'd get a linode first.

But with rsync, dvcs (I use hg), and even davcal (which I turned off for some reason I've now forgotten- I just use Google), life is pretty sweet.
>> Even good, idiomatic JavaScript code sucks for reasons inherent in the language.

Care to elaborate?
I am not the ultimate expert, but I have been thinking a lot about this lately (I quit my job on Tuesday and am launching my own startup), and this is how I see one great approach to doing it:

1. First things first, the time to get those initial 1,000 to 5,000 users is before you officially launch your startup.
For Ausobot (http://www.ausobot.com), I created a simple landing page (with LaunchRock). I put it out yesterday morning and as of today I have about 234 people signed up.

2. Neeharc's tip on betali.st is great too. I submitted to it on Friday evening and paid $15 to get the review expedited. I got an email yesterday afternoon though that they do not accept LaunchRock created landing pages so that would be one thing to consider. I am now in the process of creating a custom landing page.

3. I also created a simple Facebook Fan page, nothing too creative on it yet but the idea there is to use that to create posts that trigger engagement (www.facebook.com/ausobot).

4. On the Twitter side, the goal is to use the @ausobot to add like minded followers, and actively participate in discussions where I can add value. I am not sure what social listening tool I am going to use for this yet (inputs would be great). My current pick is DataSift. I was playing around with it at BNOTIONS (where I used to be a Director of Product up until Tuesday when I resigned / got laid off).

It allows you to filter tweets around specific tags. Use these tags to identify the users that your startup can add value for. Reach out to them proactively by offering something they can use. Since this is in real-time, use context to your advantage. If someone is trying to solve a billing related issue and you have a billing software, offer tips.

That's pretty much all I have. I don't like the idea of AdWords, I don't like the idea of paying for acquisition until I have proven the model.

Oh and finally HN of course. I have never been actively participating in HN, I do peruse the tweets though and I was currently trying to figure out how people post Show HN and what the rules around that were :) That's of course another avenue if the story gets picked up(?).

Good luck and would love to hear from others on this.

- Tehsin Bhayani
@tehsin681
www.ausobot.com
Founder of the Ausobot,
Your first personal robot.
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If someone knows how to tail -f and then clear the screen when using X11's xterm, that would be most helpful.
Despite some people in my office proclaiming themself "too hardcore" to use a git interface, I believe SourceTree is fantastic. When I used to work with windows, I used TortoiseGit -- which is decent, but lacks some of the more advanced niceties.

Committing portions or single lines of a file, remembering to push that pesky submodule, all becomes an order of magnitude easier and quicker with a decent GUI. The response to "but it can't do everything, so I'll stick to CLI", is simple. The 5% of the time the GUI doesn't cover exactly what you need, the terminal is sitting right there for you... it doesn't disable it.
> I formerly thought, "why would anyone want to use a GUI for Git? It's just a crutch so you don't have to use the CLI."

Honestly, I can't stand Git on the command line and always interact with it through a GUI. I feel like source control in general is unnecessarily complicated, but Git even more so.
It doesn't really layout well in my version of Firefox (18.0.2) - see the output here: http://imm.io/WxqQ and here: http://imm.io/Wxr8

You can't see what's happening and the box seems to be improperly sized and spaced as well as problems with the terminal-style text editing window. The text flows off the bottom and cursor is misaligned: http://imm.io/WxrS
I honestly don't know that the Chinese government is in the wrong here. If we look, historically, every developing country had to steal intellectual "property" in order to compete against the bigger players. Britain did it when they stole Dutch loom technology (and created massive tariffs in order to keep British wool for British industry), the US did it when they coaxed Samuel Slater to illegally bring British mill designs, and South Korea did it as well. While I understand the US's desire to protect their companies' interests, it seems really disingenuous to label a country an enemy for stealing IP.

The article quotes Stewart as saying:
If they did it fair and square, more power to them. But to cheat at it is wrong.

This seems really problematic to me: it's not like all US companies do it "fair and square," and as a sovereign country, it seems like China has every right to summarily ignore IP, or to establish morals that don't care about protecting foreign IP.
work (excluding production line blue collar jobs) expands to take up the hours worked for example back in the 70's the Uk went to a 3 day week during the power strikes funnily the output of the country did not go down by 3/5.
Javascript is popular outside the browser not because it's a great programming language, but because it gets us back to where we were before the browser became the dominant app delivery platform: it's now again possible to write your entire client-server app in one language.
I prefer tailing logs with less (rather than tail) so that the file is searchable (using '/ searchterm'). Then if you start following the file (using 'F'), your search term will be highlighted in the followed file.
Even the increments? Why wouldnt it be possible to do quarterly subscriptions?
Well, I think many developers know the feeling when working with a codebase which just feels like riding a dead horse...uphill, both ways, in the cold...and when you manage to refactor some part it starts to feel like it gets up on one leg and so on.
Lately I've been thinking about this a lot.

I also took a break from corporate life for about 5 months now, and now trying to get back into it. I'm actually content with what I have, give me my laptop (which I already own) and my bookshelf (with probably more than 50 unread books), as long as I have money for food and house/utilities, I'm actually quite ok.

The problem arises when you are in a relationship and have a kid. It is really hard to 'convince' people (including the wife) the baby doesn't need 10 pairs of trousers or 50 plastic toys (He actually has a lot of hand me downs, and all of his toys, maybe 20 if the many, are handmade wooden ones).

Also, that vacation the wife always dreamed, you can't really do that. Or she wants a new fancy dress - nopes. Ohh the kid should go to private school (while I'm not fond of it, looking at public schools in the area, maybe isn't that bad of an idea), will the money be enough?

Yes, we can all live minimally, but we also have to agree, it maybe easier for us 'techies' to do so as a laptop is usually hours of entertainment, but trying this with a social life (girlfriend/friends/family) makes it really hard.

All this to say, I'm really sad I'm giving up my free time to work 9-5 again, but consulting isn't paying all the bills and allow me to provide a 'good' life to my wife and kid.
Very interesting. How is it pronounced? Asana like in Yoga?
I clear the screen with control + lowercase L, if I understand your question correctly.
Consider following files with less.
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned WePay for payment processing. Their api is excellent and they fill some specific needs that I haven't seen addressed anywhere else.
I definitely understand your argument and agree with it. Thanks for clarifying; didn't quite get the gist of where you were going with that.
"We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have."

Almost all of us are sheep and have a herd mentality. This makes it easy for big businesses and even government to sway our sentiments to manipulate us. From the education system to work place to media, everything is designed around big businesses generate revenues by pushing items we do not REALLY need. Material comforts and sensory pleasures do not fulfill anyone for long. How do we realize what we want will not truly satisfy us? How do we break out of this?

The hard way is to discover the source of satisfaction lies within, through meditation, questioning and experimentation. When we discover our true calling and use our talents to serve all selflessly (as much as possible), we can get a glimpse of true happiness. Till then we cannot help but be manipulated by society in its current form.
This is great news.

I was introduced to SourceTree for Mac when I started at my new shop and I've gotta say that I love it. I don't consider it a crutch so much as a part of a faster workflow. I enjoy the ability to quickly see diffs, to pick and choose what files I want to commit with just a click+drag, and generally moving through simple git things (push, pull, commit, merge, rebase, resolve merge conflicts) with the click of a button or a keyboard shortcut.

It's not as powerful as using CLI (you can't perform an interactive rebase, for example) but for the most part it fits my workflow of branching, merging, and pull requesting pretty nicely.
Scuola di Alt(r)amministrazione. Se la politica non si insegna…
Self hosting is fun and fulfilling. It's simple and cheap. The problem of course is replicating the services you already use. Web hosting is painless but email is absurdly involved if you want to make sure that gmail etc. accept your messages as non-spam. The rules are not made clear and there doesn't seem to be a universally accepted way of setting up email where you can say "this message I'm about to send will 100% be accepted by the recipient's mail server"
Awesome, great to see Instrumental (https://instrumentalapp.com/) in your list. I'm one of the folks working on it, would love to hear your thoughts on us.

Some quick reviews of some of the products listed:

* Lighthouse (http://lighthouseapp.com) - Bug Tracker - good for keeping track of simple stuff last I used it (~2 years ago), but Github Issues obviated its use for me.

* Pivotal (http://www.pivotaltracker.com/) - Project Management - great tool, not trivial to keep well managed tho. Easy to let your project get out of hand with tons of tickets, requires some discipline in its use.

* Trello (https://trello.com/) - Project Management - simple, fast. Really great for keeping tasks focused on a small team, I'm not sure how it would suit a larger team though.

* Airbrake (http://airbrake.io/) - Error Handling - You didn't have this in your list, but it deserved a mention. It's okay for server side error handling, its client side stuff leaves something to be desired though. More often than not their hosted JS lags on load, causes your page load times to go up as well. Doesn't currently offer a supported hosted version.

* Stripe - (https://stripe.com/) - Billing & Payment Processing - Does just about everything right imo. Great documentation, great interface, website is well engineered. Analytics / reporting would be awesome tho.

* Intercom - (http://intercom.io/) - Support/Help Desks - I seriously love Intercom. For managing a team of people doing outreach to users, it is awesome. I view it as a fantastic tool for triaging retention.

* Uservoice - (http://uservoice.com/) - Support/Help Desks - You didn't mention them either, but I thought I'd add. They are pretty great, even for small companies. I think their sweet spot is a larger support team tho. Great interface.
How did this get posted? I Posted this last week.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5221484
It sounds like you might like to use tail in conjunction with `watch`
This whole test says more to me about the performance of non-blocking MongoDB drivers than it says about the underlying performance of the frameworks/languages. The python tests lacked a non-blocking driver. Why not use the PostGRES drivers ? That would give a much more accurate and fair treatment.

And for the record, I don't care one way or the other which is "faster," just make a damned test where one isn't given such a clear leg up.
Great ideas, Thanks
Any suggestions for option number 1. I have found some really interesting articles from HN but i am always on the look out for some good RSS feeds
"darling"? "made up evidence"? Are you employed by Microsoft?

Others may have provided this URL:
"What We Know About Spreadsheet Errors" by Raymond R. Panko
http://panko.shidler.hawaii.edu/ssr/Mypapers/whatknow.htm

The European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group:
http://www.eusprig.org/

Grammar correction:
"if he was dead." <--- _were_ dead, _were_ dead!

Luckily he's very much alive. From Nicholas Taleb's website at http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/jorion.html

"My refutation of the VAR does not mean that I am against quantitative risk management - having spent all of my adult life as a quantitative trader, I learned the hard way the fails of such methods. I am simply against the application of unseasonned quantitative methods."

Use of a paradigm that has such a high error rate is, at the very least, an "unseasoned quantitative method".
The article gives a vim plugin, but what about emacs? (I'm a vim user, but I've come to expect an emacs equivalent)
Speed comes with refactoring (most of the time).
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> When speed is zero, distance is zero and energy/distance is infinite.

1. Not energy/distance, but energy/speed.

2. Notwithstanding the cart's labeling ("Wh/mi"), its values aren't predicated on a division of energy by speed. "Wh/mi" doesn't literally mean mean "watt-hours divided by miles per hour", it means "the relationship between watt-hours and vehicle miles per hour".

> Personally, I'd wager they followed the old scientific adage: "If you wish your function to be linear, sample two and only two points".

Yes, except the chart isn't linear. Just for fun, here's a polynomial function that matches the chart's results reasonably well:

f(x) = 0.03165008148658699 * x^2
+ 0.2559872636164877 * x
+ 106.19966024840329

Here's the resulting chart:

http://i.imgur.com/rLmaN90.png

So ... no division by zero. BTW I worked this up with the help of Sage, my current favorite, free math tool:

http://www.sagemath.org/
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Totally OT rant here: more and more I'm seeing certain grammatical mistakes crop up that disturb the hell out of me. I understand that the first two 'w's in www are for 'world wide,' and that not everybody is a native speaker of English.

But these things are creeping into native speakers' use also. They are:

1) Confusing the words 'lose' and 'loose.' Lose is the word you use when you mean the opposite of 'find.' It is also used to mean the opposite of 'win.' Loose is something that is the opposite of 'tight.' There is no 'loosing,' (EDIT: a1k0n corrects me here, see his comment below) there is 'loosening,' however, as in what you do to your belt after a large meal. OP makes this error.

2) Using apostrophes for plural. Apostrophes are used to show (a) possession and (b) contraction (leaving letters out of a word). Writing "I'm buying two car's" is incorrect. Replacing your car's winshield wiper blades is ok. So is leaving out the car entirely when drawing a 'toon.
No harm in requesting Atalassian to port SourceTree to Linux. Given this port, they may already be working on that.
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Sumo Logic (http://sumologic.com/)

Their free tier (500MB/day) is far more generous than mentioned services.
Lua sometimes drives me nuts, but it's such a humble little language that you can't hate it for too long. There are alternatives I would have preferred, like the Lua-inspired Squirrel (http://http://squirrel-lang.org ), but Lua is the most well-known and is written in plain C, which is likely appealing to a BSD project. I'm interested to see if this gains any popularity and if the other BSDs show interest.
There's a person devoted to basically (as I take it) re-designing the Lisp Machine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine) from the bottom-up on modern hardware (in the "let's design (say) a microcontroller using modern hardware assemblage/etc. tools/knowledge" sense) - the blog is at http://www.loper-os.org ; from the blog:

- posts tagged under 'Hardware': http://www.loper-os.org/?cat=7

- posts tagged under 'LoperOS': http://www.loper-os.org/?cat=11

- the 'About' page (an interesting read, but not sure if it's the most concise/on-topic expose to the project; but it presents the author's frame of mind / angle of approach I suppose): http://www.loper-os.org/?p=8
I have been talking about this with a friend recently, but the author managed to put this down with much better words. Great reading.
Small, fast, and easily embeddable in C programs. It's been popular in videogames for years but hasn't seen much usage outside that industry, so it's always interesting to see it used in different ways.
add TideSDK and PhoneGap for the native-feeling trifecta
AT&T And Other Internet Providers Still Not Delivering Advertised Speeds: FCC
Type "reset" into the terminal command line
I know basics of Javascript, but really want to take it to another level now.
So thanks for offering this training, I'm interested, please send me the joining link.
git gui allows you to do most of the advanced operations you mentioned (partial commits), and it has the advantage of coming preinstalled with git itself, which means that if you master that tool, you can find your way in pretty much every other situation (new machine, deployment server, etc..)
They may remove it because many people do yearly who'd do quarterly, but that's just speculation
Lua is multi-threading friendly. It is allowed and easy to run multiple VMs in different threads in the same process.
It's worth noting that one of the code changes he talks about is going to have a big impact on UI:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/WidgetLayout

With the previous code, the dialogs couldn't flex or expand, so they had to be sized for the longest translated text. Which, as you can imagine, was not only ugly but poor for usability.

It is now much easier for them to redesign dialogs for UX/UI reasons.
What's the point in bringing this here? To make a few people even mode sad?
And sometimes the code is actually quite good (not saying that's the case in LibreOffice, I have no idea).
I am impressed with how frequently Asana, Trello and Stripe have featured there.
Not a JS lib but for JS devs CouchDB/CouchApp rocks. Fully JS webapps with no db/app server distinction. Why does no one care about it anymore? Add BigCouch for scalability.
The Algebra of Algebraic Data Types, Part 3
A little bit OT but if you have an iPad you can enable additional gestures in the settings. This allows you to switch from one app to another app by swiping with four fingers across the screen and it allows you to go back to the home screen by pinching five fingers together. This allows you to still use the iPad even with a broken home button.
This is our current list; I'm ignoring ones we've stopped using or haven't really started using properly yet.

Github - obviously

AWS - obviously

Ylastic - easier AWS management

Sendgrid - mail delivery

Stripe - payment processing

Pingdom - external uptime tracking

PagerDuty - ops alerting and scheduling

Xero - accounting

JIRA - task management (the hosted version at Atlassian)

Desk - support tickets

Crashplan - personal machine backups

Google Docs/Mail - everything else

Others have been mentioning Fabric, Puppet, Graphite, Nagios -- we use these but they're not hosted services, so not sure they fit.