skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anyone can actually answer that, since it's anecdotal.

For the record, I'm a dude (in case there was any confusion given the context of this thread). Obviously, gender discrimination does not apply in my case.
I wonder if this will put smaller companies at a disadvantage. They have less resources and can't afford to rush to the patent office every other day, whereas larger companies have staff doing just that.
Typhoon: A new Dependency Injection Container for iOS
The disappearance of visible intelligence from the right doesn't justify your leftist position (or the implication of it). An unprincipled competent does more evil than a principled incompetent.
>The more you deliver above and beyond what your "contract" calls for, the more slack you get.

The biggest BS in this article. Your delivering does not correlate to slack you get.
You couldn't be more wrong. Just ask Paul Graham about how much of his e-mail was lost by google apps.
Coincidentally, universities are the absolute worst when it comes to "we own everything you ever do or think of" clauses in employment contracts, even if you're not a student or in a teaching/research position.

Those sorts of clauses really suck the fun out of life. "Gee, I'd have a hobby and share my work with the world, but my employer owns everything I do. I think I'll play video games instead. They can't take that from me!"
My day job is in a Chinese office of a multinational. After lunch, everyone takes naps. Some people even take them for an hour. From what I understand, post-lunch naps are common across the country. I think Chinese people understand siestas quite well. ;)
Loved Dexter's Laboratory. I missed most of Samurai Jack, but what I did see was good. Adult Swim is currently showing Sym-Bionic Titan on Saturdays at 2am (so that would technically be Sunday at 2am). It's pretty good too.
Disabling anti-aliasing is already recommended as a method to increase FPS on the Retina MacBook Pro for precisely that reason... unfortunately, the details still look ugly if you do that. Non-antialiased text also looks quite decent and is nice and sharp.
How is this constitutional? The IP clause of the U.S. Constitution gives patents to the "inventor", not to a person who jumps through bureaucratic hoops.
>Heat

Mexico is a large country with a huge variety of climates. Besides, it was just 20 degrees today in Tijuana (72F).
If you can do it from a terminal you should be able to add a build command and run the script with cmd+B.

This site has a pretty good run down of how they work: http://addyosmani.com/blog/custom-sublime-text-build-systems...
Appreciate the generous feedback & offer, lacker. The blog & GH are in fact mine.
Locked means you can't add information, you can still read it. If you needed answers, ask a new question. You're not supposed to ask your own questions within someone elses question, and that is exactly why some of these questions are locked.
This remix of ScalaQuery looks okay, but when I was evaluating the options back in 2011 I chose Squeryl and I don't see anything greater being offered here yet.

I'll check back in a few months.

Disclaimer: I have given presentations on and contributed to Squeryl. However, if I find something better I'll happily switch.. but it'd have to /really/ be better, not just "newer" or stamped out by TypeSafe.
Yes because nobody buys a car as an extension of their personality at all...
There's no shortcut to being an interesting and clever person. You gotta put the hours in

I agree, but would mention that where drugs have been useful in my life is in generating interesting avenues to put the hours into. As a shy and awkward young person who had difficulty relating to people outside a very narrow personality type, at one party where I had taken some acid, I had a mild experience of egolessness, where I became aware of all the people at the party as "real" individuals, who were all intensely fascinating people, with amazing stories and experiences and outlooks, with whom I could engage.
Of course, as you point out, the hard part is integrating that experience with the rest of your life, but you've got to have the idea first.
Dissecting Gmail’s Email Attachments
The console industry used to sell high-end wedding cakes. Now they sell wedding cakes, some sheet cakes, and occasionally a pre-boxed slice if there are leftovers. These are your only options for snacking in the living room. You order a wedding cake, go pick it up in a few days, and hope it tastes good.

They are about to find out what happens when piping hot cookies are hand-delivered in 30 seconds or less to the living room, for free.

The only thing Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo have going for them right now is that the iPhone and iPad are drawing away virtually all of Apple's not-inconsiderable attention.

Here's how it will work: Apple will release a $99 controller. It'll look like a SNES controller mated with an iPhone 3GS: 4" standard-resolution multitouch screen, D-pad, four buttons, two shoulder buttons, and a Lightning port. (Inside is NOBODY CARES. gyro, bluetooth, Wifi, iOS SOC, battery.) And, naturally, it will be the least embarrassing looking item in your living room.

You'll take it out of the box, type in your Wifi password, log in to iCloud, and THAT IS IT.

The Apple TV (of which there are millions already installed) leaps into action. All the plumbing is silently set up, the App Store icon appears, a free showpiece game immediately offers to install itself, and Apple connects a half billion users to the television overnight.

Most of the Wii U's best controller ideas are co-opted, the overall controller complexity is a scant third of anyone else's, it retains all the power of touch controls, it requires no complicated setup whatsoever, all the game state is cloud-backed, dozens of touch-resistant game genres suddenly find a home in the lowest-walled garden of any shipping console, customers can add more controllers if desired, and the whole panoply of mobile software can infiltrate the last screen standing.

The Apple TV is a freaking trojan horse, if Apple wants it to be. Nobody else has the UX to stave them off, or the ability to hit the price points Apple can, or their sheer distribution power, or their sheer brand power, or anything.

Free cookies. Not nut-and-raisin filled wedding cakes. Which one is your kid going to reach for?
Why does this question even exist?
> its currencies are real because they say they are and have the power to force behind them

No. Currencies are real because people trust they'll have value tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, as Shakespeare said. Otherwise, the old Zimbabwe dollar would be in use, as opposed to being dumped after the hyperinflation.
"The Dems, to their "credit", don't promise to be civil libertarians either."

Only 1 or 2 republicans are talking about civil liberties but they are being disproportionately effective. Transforming an existing party is the only realistic direction, given the control the 2 parties have over the process. The activist dems are probably silenced by the success of the mainstream dems.
I am just curious - where are you getting the console costs from? From what I know this information is highly sensitive and even most insiders don't have an access.

Also, what scale do you use to compare costs? From the fact that you call Kinect (sold ~18M [1]) "one of the most popular consumer electronic devices in history" and Move (sold ~15M[2]) "has not taken off" it appears that either you are using some kind of highly non-linear measure or are better informed than almost everybody else.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinect#cite_note-18-million-1

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS3_Move#cite_note-15_million-4
Bad, horrifically bad. An insider can find a trade secret, that may not even be recognized as a trade secret, and leak it to another company for patenting. The true inventor then gets their business shut down.

Another failure mode is that computer spies steal the IP via a software security flaw, then patent it as their own independent reinvention.
I agree, but the easy evolvability of a spreadsheet is a weakness as well as a strength. When you lower the barriers to entry this much, you get "developers" who don't have much experience with development. This is a good thing when you are creating simple spreadsheets that deal with minor matters. It vastly lowers the cost and speeds up your ability to get answers to questions that aren't worth a lot of resources.

It's a bad thing, though, when it is used for a very consequential analysis. If the right answer is very important, you have to do what it takes to make sure it's the right answer, regardless of the tool you use. It's okay to use Excel (I love it), but you really ought to have an "expensive" developer using it.

I was doing a contract for a financial firm, and I prototyped my solution with Excel. They were so pleased, they started using the prototype immediately and begged for additional features. I complied, but told them I should do some serious testing first. They were confused by this. "What is this 'testing' of which you speak? Are you saying it doesn't work?"

I tried to explain "testing" to financial people who had been using Excel for years. They weren't buying it. "If it works, it works," they informed me. I had to sneak my testing in to the new feature dev schedule.

At a later point, I told them I couldn't add anymore features until I had refactored what we already had. Of course, if they didn't understand testing, they really didn't understand refactoring, but I had noticed similar functionality emerge in multiple locations, and I wanted to put it in one place, test it, make it unmodifiable by users, call it from wherever it was (or would later be) needed, and use my testing system to make sure the spreadsheet still produced the same tested outputs from the same inputs after each refactoring.

These experienced Excel users were quite sure that this "refactoring" nonsense was all gobbledygook that had nothing to do with Excel. "You don't have to do all that stuff if you use a spreadsheet; that's why people use spreadsheets."

Again, I think Excel is a terrific tool, but as self-serving as it is to say so, I think that if you are using it for very consequential analyses, you really need to treat it like a "real" software development platform and use "real" software dev people and practices for your development.
we are neurons and synapses? is it not perhaps the case that neurons and synapses are simply arbitrary inputs into our true selves? which, like any input, could be configured, removed, or entirely replaced.
The FUD surrounding Microsoft Windows is misplaced. Microsoft Windows is a quality product. It is the desktop computer with the Apple OS at far distance. I can understand Win3.1 and Wind95 were frustrating. I regularly saw the blue screen of death because screwed it up with several game installs. I never had an issue with WinXP or Win7. It looked decent, the apps worked. For XP, I have seen others that go several viruses. They were regularly on suspect porn sites. They never received the security updates. They never setup a username password and they installed any application they could click on. Is it really Microsoft's fault that some dumb users ruin their experience because they trust any website they visit? Plus, that was mostly Win95, maybe WinXP and never Win7.

McDonald's isn't a quality product even though it is mass produced and a lot of people like it. Why isn't quality? Because analysts have questioned the quality of the meat in their products. Is meat? People who overeat the food might develop illnesses like heart disease and diabetes. That is a low quality product.

Microsoft Windows is a quality OS. A lot of people like it. A minority don't like. They have the top leaders of UI design and OS engineering working on the product.

If Windows is not a quality product? Then how do you define quality?
The unstated assumption here is that the patent office actually does the work to see whether anything related was published prior to granting the patent.
Loss of ego. Personal death. Seeing ALL, the "connectiveness" of everything.

This sounds like an extreme version of some of the experiences I had while meditating (usually after the 30-50 minute mark).
These experiences for me typically vanish as soon as I come out of meditation. But something sticks, as if the mind is reminded of the experience at random times. Those times feel like "seeing the matrix". You're suddenly here seeing the intricacy of everything.

There have been Buddhist monks who after trying LSD suggested that it could be some kind of "accelerator" on the spiritual path.
Responsive Typography Ends Need for Reading Glasses
Well hon, welcome to the mobile industry. Here's your complimentary chalice of mercury.
Bottom of this page: https://www.digitalocean.com/features
"We provide service from New York, and Amsterdam."
My interpretation of this piece is that we're putting too much focus on online activism when we should be doing offline activism to change the world.

I agree with this, but at the same time, someone must fight for the internet because information is knowledge, free exchange of information is free exchange of knowledge, and as we all know, knowledge is power.
And now, someone should create an AI capable of mimicking XKCD humor, and viola! Automated xkcd!
The great thing about remote management interfaces over the internet is that anyone can try to take control over the internet. Whether it's simply a video camera or a power station.

See that pesky internet part.

I really hope ICBMs don't have remote management interfaces over the internet for "convenience".
Make testing of web applications developed in Google Web Toolkit a regular task
The only validation that matters for the success of your startup is validation from your customers. And the list of things customers want is endless. Reporters, investors, bloggers, commenters on HN are second order at best, and most of the time don't really matter. There's no fixed pie you're competing for in startups.

If you don't believe me, try looking at which YC startups have the most "external validation" after demo day (a lot of blogs publish "top 10" lists, so that might be a good place to start). Then look at those same startups two years later. You'll find the correlation of "external validation" and real success is near zero.
I'm so far removed from hardware pricing these days that I didn't want to pretend that I knew how that business functions while pontificating about it on the internet.

Also, to be fair to airlines, they have immense labour costs.
I've used Request Tracker, I actually installed it at an all-Microsoft consulting firm ( http://www.pcubed.com/ ) around 2005.

Pcubed loved it, most of their consultants were out in the field and email was the only tool that we could guarantee that they all had access to. yet we could ensure that everyone involved with a client was included in any conversation about the client. Yes most would just filter these into folders so that if need be they could look things up, but what really made the difference was being able to manage meta-data and ticket state around the emails so that we could see that risks were mitigated, issues addressed.

Virtually no-one used the web interface in RT (except admins to configure new client emails and add users), and that was no surprise to us. We wrote a custom backend that would pull the data and dump it into SQL Server and then SharePoint and Reporting Server... for a Microsoft shop these were the tools they wanted, user controlled reporting capabilities and visibility in the place they were most likely to look (SharePoint).

RT is good, but it is a bit long in the tooth... have you seen http://copyin.com/ ?

http://copyin.com/

https://angel.co/copyin

CopyIn is not an RT clone, but it does provide group based email addresses, with a web front-end, wiki-spaces for those groups, and so on.

It's about a year old, started by a YC alum who is on here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=petenixey ), and currently in a closed beta, but from what I've seen (a demo) it brings a very fresh approach to this whole problem space (email-centric group awareness and collaboration).

I'd say it's worth anyone looking to implement this stuff to ping Pete Nixey and see if they can get on the beta.

And as others are asking for disclaimers, I work for neither RequestTracker nor Copyin, having only implemented the former and seen a demo of the latter. Pete is a London based founder and I've met him quite a few times. I gain in no way from you choosing to use Copyin, but perhaps we all gain by a nicer tool emerging and getting established in this space.
That's strange, I developed it by testing in Chrome first, Firefox second. It has always worked for me in Chrome on all computers I've tried. Which version of Chrome do you have?
Brilliance.
Ah thanks, there it is. Shame, I was hoping to get a node in Japan as well.
She's incredibly mousey, and her personality is so over the top quirky, a detailed biographical account would come across like she's a fictional character written by a clumsy simpleton who is trying to write a serious novel but can't get his mind away from the scripts he's written for after-school animated cartoons. Like, people would read it and say shit like, "I can't suspend disbelief for that. Maybe don't try so hard? Like, don't make her a germophobe like Monk with the agoraphobic/Fluttershy thing and on top of all that, and then the whole 'Flowers!' thing like she's the baby skunk from Bambi. And then you even add the Anime girl trope with shoving stuff piled to the top into her closet. Who's going to believe all that at once?" (Actually there's even more stuff I'm leaving out.)

Except she's actually un-self-consciously like that and just thinks of herself as "a normal girl." I doubt you'd actually be able to imagine what that's like, except that it's a little bit like living with an Italian Greyhound, but a lot more complicated, and sometimes she talks even less. I'll never meet anyone like that again, and I'm kinda sad and glad at the same time.

She probably thinks the same about me. (My quirks are completely different, though.)
Regarding the first point - have you seen crossing the traffic in Saigon? They mostly don't have traffic lights, but pedestrians nevertheless cross the streets.

With computer in charge it will be even more safer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CU1PR4d1wM
The patent still goes to an inventor under first to file. All that changes is how priority is determined when independent inventors are vying for the patent on the same invention.
Usually the idea is to create a much bigger business by partnering up with a large company with a lot of resources. The buyer may offer access to a larger market, expose your company to more to customers and so on.
Parallel invention by different parties should simply be a sign of unpatentability to begin with.
Heh, I was actually thinking about how Coderbits would be an excellent replacement for the traditional resume.

It looks really good, nice job. Just need to add a "Make a PDF" option for those pesky companies where hiring is done by MBA/HR @#%#### and it'll be complete.
What, no love for Goof Troop, or Histeria? No, that was when you could tell they were out of ideas.

But seriously, does anyone remember Freakazoid? I only saw a few episodes, but I remember it being very funny.
There was the free Planet M.U.L.E., from 2009, which had online features and updated graphics.

Here's some videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LiqbEvEnrg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1W52wQUkKc

Unfortunately, the website for that game seems to be gone.
Ubiquitous does not imply concise across. Which is not the case.
What I chose to do is a touch more difficult than simply doing nothing.
Beautiful product, and congrats on the launch. How is this different from Airbrake, or exceptional.io?
Being Mean to your Users
like everything, apply a cost and reward analysis.

i was the first technical employee of a now well known, but still very much young and growing startup. i predict this credential will prove more beneficial than "software engineer, google" for a number of reasons.

incidentally, i was so young and isolated when i started working for startups that i didn't realize it was taboo or scary until it was too late. i wasn't optimizing for credentials; i just needed a job man.
A complete introduction to Git can be found at http://learn.github.com/p/intro.html. I know you mentioned that you're comfortable with Git, but some of the information there may be of some use.

GitHub has a series of help articles, which could be regarded as a manual of sorts. They're at https://help.github.com/
> South Korea has much less land and much fewer resources

Try parking a car in Seoul. We are still talking about cars right?

> Ditto for Ireland, or UK

Have you been to these countries before? Really? Car usage is anything but cheap there, it's definitely moderated compared to the states!

> Russia has land and oil

I'm sure cars are cheap in Russia right? Why did they have to block used cars being sent from Japan to Vladivostok?

I really wonder if we are talking about the same thing (that cars are cheap to buy and use vs, ANYWHERE else). Even in Iran you have to buy the car before you can take advantage of cheap subsidized gas.
Apple wasn't at all interested in cell phones either, in case you don't remember.

Ask Blackberry how far not worrying about Apple got them.
Why are startups hard?
Well, the theory behind a patent is an invention that is not obvious to one skilled in the art. As an example, if Alice designed an improved engine and is the only one to patent the design, it wasn't obvious to other practitioners of the art of engine design. But if Alice and Bob both submit patents for the same engine design, and Alice and Bob are independent of each other, then the design wasn't that unique.

I don't know ... it was just a thought.
Really? Your shining example for crossing traffic is third world traffic? I'm sorry, I fail to see how that's safe at all. And even if it were theoretically safe (it isn't by the way), I fail to see how that maw of scooters, motorcycles and cars would inspire confidence in any pedestrian that they could cross the street and emerge on the other side with their limbs intact.
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I guess it because nobody know about Sublime Text 1 as popular application - Sublime Text 2 it's like the first known name of this app.
the post seems like a verbose attempt at "do what makes you happy". what precisely is being debated here?
No, they don't believe in a place, they believe in a concept. This is another case of not arguing the same thing.

They don't actually believe it's a place that exists per se, they believe it's a libertarian domain - not a platform for conducting warfare. That warfare is connected with the term doesn't imply they believe in strict definitions of territory. It's more a metaphor of "Us vs. Them" mentality.
That's interesting. I bet that companies require acquihires to have a higher percentage of success (where I presume success here means the team staying, since the product is often shut down in acquihires). I wonder what M&A people would think would be a good percentage for acquihires.
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