skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no excuse why a movie ticket for a 7:00 PM showing should cost more than a movie ticket for the first showing of the day. If anything it should cost less because there are more people in attendance making the cost per attendee lower. Outrage! Let's get the United Nations, Interpol, and the Parliament to intervene!
I don't think this implies we are losing diversity. Internet makes easy to connect with like minded people and share information. That sounds good.
Like minded people around the globe becomes more alike? Maybe. But just in the field they share. And they started with similar interests anyway.
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I wouldn't say Chrome WebKit trounced Safari WebKit. The browser surrounding the engine was better. This means little wrt. to the engine.
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You also have to consider average selling price and DLC sales. Higher ASP + DLC could easily make a 360 version far more profitable for devs than a Wii version, even at half the units.
Perspectives - funny
Have you looked into buying in the UK or maybe setting up a deal with a supplier there?
This is awesome. Really powerful stuff. I wonder about one line:

"I hope that your initial interactions involve an immediate transfer of trust in your abilities, rather than starting off by always having to prove yourself."

I'm not sure I agree with this 100%. Shouldn't everyone have to prove themselves at first? Does anyone merit immediate transfer of trust in their abilities?
Oh, there are a lot of serious problems with iOS. After 3 years on the platform, you start to see that restriction-based badness all over the place. But one shouldn't forget that Apple has built an incredible product with one of the most secure OSs in the world and offers one of the best UI SDKs available. Those facts alone make me want to cut Apple some slack from being such assholes when allowing users to make more low-level decisions.
This is probably true, but remember that the single inventor has the option of publishing the invention rather than filing a patent application. The publication will then become prior art to any later filed patent application by another. The inventor may then file for a patent on the invention within a year of publication, but may have to overcome significant prior art that has arisen in intervening time (i.e., between publication and filing). For a number of reasons (that I'm not going into here) this may not be the best strategy in most, or possibly any, situations, but it does exist.
What's the reasoning behind not offering other bits of clothing like socks and boxers?

Also, do you get huge shipments of the exact same garments, or do you try to keep the offerings unique so friends don't end up getting the same clothes each month?
Looks great - nice work!

Looking forward to taking some time to properly look into this. Would I be right in thinking that there are some scenarios which won't work out of the box, like offline edits? Or does SDScaffoldKit add some extra magic to cater for this?

Thanks for putting this up!
Duck Tales was the first American cartoon series shown in post-Soviet Russia and it was incredibly popular over there. Every single kid that had a TV watched it in the early 90's, along with Ghostbusters the animated series, Tailspin, Gummi Bears, and Winnie the Pooh.. but Duck Tales was always the best and most loved.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp3Q1x4gKjw
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It isn't like WebKit is intentionally doing IE6-ish things, it's just that any rendering engine will have certain bugs. Developers try to work around these bugs, and if their is only "one" implementation, they'll start relying on its quirks. A good example in C would be storing a pointer in an int. It made perfect sense at the time, and it allowed people to be lazy. However it doesn't make any sense these days.
Most websites fall into the former "only need to add a small piece of JS functionality are using jQuery" category. A whole lot of websites include jQuery in default frontend templates and don't even use it on the public-facing website (Drupal, WordPress, other software that has a huge installed base).

Vague deployment statistics mean very little.
I used to setup a ramdisk as a flat file for / and /usr, and have it load unionfs style over the main filesystem after /sbin/init finished. This was around 2005. The system flew, and the only super large applications I was using installed to /opt anyway, which was on a spinning disk (I think Eclipse was the only one).
2. Very good. They ask for a decent set of measurements, collect feedback on every item, and remember comments like "I have big calves from running".

3. Yes. You also get an email before each shipment and can cancel (like Amazon Subscribe & Save).
Any background on what the difference is between this, and the other op code caches already on the market?
I totally understand the difficulties involved, it would be impossible to start working worldwide from the very beginning. As with everything else I will have to wait for it to come to Europe. The problem is both the waiting time and the number of companies for which it isn't worth it to explore markets outside the US.
Soon: Eureka (as seen on SySf).
Exactly what I am after - thanks!
I have $10k to invest in a startup, what should I do?
I have $10k to put into a startup. I don't want to put it into a 401k, IRA, stocks, etc. I don't want it in the bank, savings account, or in my mattress.<p>I want this in a startup or a couple of startups. How do I start down the path of angel investing? How can I get connected with developers who are looking for some seed money?<p>What would you do with $10k today to invest in technology?
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Semitangent: I'm always interested in stories about startups using or considering between Scala/Haskell.
While I agree with much of this, I find the fact that it's signed "bitchwhocodes" remarkably hypocritical. If gender is so irrelevant, why put it up front in such an aggressive way?
Your opinions on what JavaScript libraries provide "the best compatibility" has little bearing on your original statement, that jQuery is not as popular as it actually is.
This is a serious question. Please...I would appreciate serious answers.
Our Tonido Personal Cloud software (http://www.tonido.com) and sync clients offers exactly the same (Like dropbox but on your own server) on all the OS'es (Windows, Mac and Linux). We also have awesome mobile apps for iOS, Android, Windows 7.5 and Blackberry.
And why should the developer have to care if I want to send something via Gmail, Skype, or carrier pigeon? As long as Android abstracts the data properly within the Intent, the target app should be irrelevant.
Theoretically yes, mono-culture is not a good thing. Having more from-scratch rendering engines would be good for the robustness of web standards. However web standards are hugely complex at this point and it becomes increasingly infeasible to implement from scratch. With WebKit at least you have an open-source pluggable engine, so you're not talking about branded product monopolies where one or two bad actors can foul things up for everyone. An IE6-like scenario is completely impossible with WebKit.
Thanks for that link. It also did remind me of one Australian company [http://www.biarri.com/about_the_team.shtml] that I explore from time to time. They seem to offer the most types of OR decision support for business, even with SaaS delivery.
On Hulu now, if you feel nostalgic.

I still have a VHS of DM episodes that I taped during the 80's , I still dig out the VCR once a year and watch it (with commercials) just to get the nostalgia hit.
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I'm not sure what you are saying. That people have jQuery loaded on their websites but aren't using it? If that's your argument, then that's now a wholly separate argument. jQuery having a huge installed base is what we're talking about, and is what John was referring to. Seems like you are changing your stance now that it's fairly obvious your assertion was incorrect in the face of research.
Given the choice to sell brand name goods at brand name prices, vs selling off brand goods at off brand prices, there's a lot more profit in premium brand products.

Of course it would be even more profitable if you could sell off brand goods at premium brand prices - but would such an offering attract enough customers to make much money?
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That's on the roadmap. We didn't start out with that because you run into the Kozmo.com problem (lots of human-powered service for a few bucks). We still have to make enough margin to clothe and feed the stylists making your picks :)

No it's not one-size-fits-all, every pick is personalized literally to you. We also keep track of friends through the invite codes to prevent #twinning.
Well that just settles it. Thank you.
The link to the previous post in the article 404s. Here it is: https://www.lucidchart.com/blog/2012/12/18/using-scala-expon...
Because we don't live in that future yet.
If I were a judge, I would be offended by this brief. Oracle's lawyers are so obviously oversimplifying the case, as the author says, it sounds like the kind of tale you'd spin for a jury. Rather than relying on this terrible, inaccurate distraction, I hope the court takes a very technical interpretation, and acknowledges the difference between a software API and the table of contents of a Harry Potter novel.
This is so true:

"You need incredible vision and conviction to be successful. You also need incredible timing and an absurd amount of luck."

Whether or not we'd like to admit it, luck does have a lot to do with success.
That's a little mean-spirited...I assume he meant to subscribe initially, so it isn't spam.
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I just want to know who the hell all these people are that need to drive 600 miles a day every day, with no opportunity to stop and charge.

Unless the only employment in the US is "taxi driver", I fail to see the issue...
To interject - there's a problem in any discussion about density. The frequent assumption is that either people live in skyscrapers or they live in the suburbs/exurbs. This is not true. Most people who live in a small or medium sized city live in single-family houses, and that's true for the ~100,000 population cities covered in this study.

Also, cities of this size don't tend to have rapid transit systems, unless they are part of a large metro area. Instead, they have buses or sometimes trams. Your use of "rapid transit" suggests that you are using a 'Big City, USA' like NYC or Chicago as your reference, and not a medium-sized city like Green Bay, WI. This study did not examine the policies appropriate for a big city, but it's rather obvious that NYC can't handle even one car per household.

In any case, the debate isn't in restricting the kind of vehicle you can buy, but in how much a medium-sized city should subsidize your ability to be able to drive to and park downtown, compared to the other things it could subsidize.

For example, is it better to require more free parking through zoning laws, or to have more space for shops and restaurants though with more limited parking options? Is it better to have free parking, paid fixed-rate parking, or variable rate parking?

If "better" is defined as "enable growth and development" then this paper suggests that more free parking is not the optimal choice.
Model S isn't that expensive, if you factor in the long term costs. Quoting from (http://teslarumors.com/USA-Residental-Energy-Cost-2011-by-St...):

Based on a price of $3.75 for gasoline, a 15 mpg vehicle will incur a cost of 25 cents per mile, while a 30mpg vehicle will incur a cost of 12 cents per mile.

Model S gets 3-5c per mile in most states.
Clearly you have some kind of issue with jQuery but just because you don't like it doesn't make it any less popular, useful or prevalent. Here's a fun drinking game - open up the top 1000 websites and do a shot for each one that uses jQuery. You will be in hospital by about #20 I think.
Agreed. Also what you call yourself is different from what others call you...
I don't recall characters being killed off in the Transformers cartoon show. A good chunk of the classic characters were killed off in the first ten minutes of the theatrical movie though. After watching several characters get killed in the span of thirty seconds, keep in mind we had never really seen this before, they then top it off with killing one of the most beloved characters in the series.

I was a kid at the time. I was shocked. I cried. About a fictional cartoon robot. I didn't feel that way again until that jerk Whedon killed Wash.

The result was that since the reaction to all this was rather severe, kids were devastated, that they actually changed the storyline in the GI Joe animated movie they were producing at the time. Duke was supposed to be killed in that movie but changed it so that he actually survived instead. Of course, they show that he survived by just adding in a background voice at the end of the movie saying that Duke was going to be okay! If you watch the scene where he is injured, with the idea he wasn't supposed to survive, you can tell by the way the scene was animated that he clearly dies right then and there.

On a side note, most of the time none of the GI Joes would be killed in the comic book, just faceless Cobra soldiers. But I remember one comic where a few of the Cobra soldiers commit mass murder by shooting up several of the Joes that were being held prisoner in a pit. As usual, older characters to be replaced by newer ones to freshen up the toy line I suppose.
How is iOS less modern than it's competitors? This article lacked examples.
Have a look at some of the crowdfunding platforms
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I sort of regard lifehacker as a web site for teenagers and hobbyists nowadays, so I'm not particularly surprised at the quality and tone of their technical work.
"In other words, as far as he cares things other than jQuery don't have a right of existence."

I don't think he made that point at all. He is merely reflecting on the fact that jQuery has the most market share and by a long way.
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The V8 engine [0] compiles Javascript to assembly. Maybe it uses some other intermediate representation internally, maybe not. Why would you want to use bytecode for some random VM as internal representation?

You can run Javascript anywhere [1], why would you want to compile it to some portable bytecode?

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V8_(JavaScript_engine)
[1] Well, there are restrictions, just like there are for Java Bytecode.
You need to be an "accredited investor" to invest in startups (assuming you're American).

I would look locally to find a startup you find interesting and join as a co-founder, where you bring capital among other things.
1. We keep track of friends via the personalized invite codes to prevent just that. Even if you don't use those codes, every item is picked for your body shape, skin tone etc. so odds of that happening are low.

2. Already answered :)

3. You can also set preferences in your dashboard to NEVER receive categories (eg you can turn "jeans" off).
This was around 2006, which, IIRC, was pretty much at the peak of Firefox's startup bloat issues. I'm also inclined to believe that he was on an older machine, because this would have also been IE6 days, which was definitely much faster to load than anything else(due to MS basically building IE into XP).
This was on the market for a long time as a binary. Now you can read the source and see how it works
This looks useful, and I have also looked at ownCloud.

A little off topic, but I feel reasonably secure keeping sensitive information on Dropbox and Google Drive by using a little trick: I have scripts for different work flows that ZIP and GPG encrypt material and copy (overwriting previous version) to Dropbox and Drive for backup.

This is not so convenient in that I can't access encrypted material easily on my droid phone and iPad.
Well, everyone has to be exposed to something before they can learn how it works.
1. Four of my friends have subscriptions, the only items we have all received were a pair of dark jeans.

2. The fit has been excellent for me. I am a slim build between small and medium so I get shirts in both sizes. They know their brands and how they run.

3. They have a settings page with on/off switches that let you opt in or out of all clothing items. You can even send the stylists pictures of clothing you already have and ask them to find something that matches.
The number says 300 million, but my actual website stats, of over 1 million uniques per month, show it less than .75%
Wow, nice to see the variety, but most of it is really tacky and tasteless, in my humble opinion. This is going to look really dated in 10 to 20 years.
From Wikipedia:
By January 2013, Acer's Chromebook sales were driven by "heavy Internet users with educational institutions", and the platform represented 5-10 percent of the company's U.S. shipments, according to Acer president Jim Wong.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebook#Sales_and_marketing

Can anyone provide market share numbers? I'm not looking for "kool-aid" marketing, but data driven decisions. The kind that Google does. For example:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/business/24unboxed.html?_r...
The movie ticket represents a claim on some very limited resources (i.e. space inside the theater).
You've got to pick parents with the right level of awareness for this. My Mum is the same, but my Dad calls his phone a Gameboy, and refers to all other non-TV electronic devices we own as "The Machine".
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In general I don't want to spend time reading source of software I use. If I'm downloading a script from a trusted source, I like to be confident that I'm getting the right script.

That's accomplished by the author publishing a sha256 hash and me following this workflow:

curl http://scriptname > scriptname.foo
sha256 scriptname # visually verify that it looks right from the web site
chmod 755
./scriptname.foo

Of course, if I'm downloading from an untrusted source, I review the script and any commands I miss.

Note that, e.g., Calibre, has their Linux update procedure to be as follows[1]:

sudo python -c "import sys; py3 = sys.version_info[0] > 2; u = __import__('urllib.request' if py3 else 'urllib', fromlist=1); exec(u.urlopen('http://status.calibre-ebook.com/linux_installer').read()); main()"

I'm sorry, but I don't see any verifications that calibre has not been rooted and malware installed. It's not HTTPS either, so I won't even get an SSL warning for a MITM attack.

To decode the Python: that command/script downloads a script from the internet without verification, and executes it as root.

[1] http://calibre-ebook.com/download_linux
Among people gullible enough to download and run executables containing random unknown content, the blogger has now lost some personal credibility, but the good news is the gullible will continue to download and run executables containing random content because they see the story as an individual social norms violation, not a miserable systemic failure. The blogger was successful in that had he not submitted a rm -Rf and then publicized the story, the problem would not be discussed at all, but it was a failure in that the story only resonates with those who already don't care about security.
4MB of RAM in the 80's! Nice to have you aboard Mr. Jackalope Rockefeller.
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The external validation isn't just outside the tech field though - the desire to work for a well-known corp isn't just to impress mom and dad.

The tech industry, to put it bluntly, has no idea how to hire people. Credentialing is everywhere, even amongst startups. Do you know how many startups eyes light up when they hear about well-regarded-big-tech-corp on my resume?

I've since graduated out of big software companies, but my time spent there continues to pay dividends in the startup world today. It is the way it is, for better or for worse - but one thing is clear to me: there are perfectly rational reasons to pursue this kind of credentialing besides "so the proles who don't get it respect me".
I'll go ahead and definitively say "no it wouldn't make money" selling off brand goods at premium brand prices :)
Lets not forgot the millions of American's who cannot charge a car. I don't have a garage and my HOA does not allow fixed structures outside. There was a discussion about changing HOA rules, but it costs thousands of dollars for an attorney, plus residents have to actually vote on it. We can get 3 people out of 200 to attend an HOA meeting.
That is because there are a lot more people using 4G in Japan then HK. Which only recently rolled out.
It's her twitter handle and looks like it's one she's been using for a good long while. Pretty sure she's just signing her work.

Your comment reads a lot like a tone argument. That type of discourse is derailing and generally unproductive. :)
you won't convince people by trying to essentially argue the problem is in the people and not the cars

That sentence concisely explains the sense of distaste I had while reading the article.

I don't have an electric car yet because the value proposition just isn't there for me. I'm not satisfied with the tradeoffs I'd have to make. To try to put put the onus on the reader to get out of his "get off my lawn" outdated mode of thinking is wrong and condescending.
Large and small companies, most somehow technology-minded, but not fully.

The ploy is easy: if they set up the org, they have full control over it, even in the case that everything goes downhill and all of us get hit by a bus. Most people nowadays have seen a tech project going downhill with the freelancer leaving with the keys for the castle.

No technological argument. At all.
Regardless of gender, a game developer is not a great career unless you're high up in the company ladder. Too much stress, being forced to work crazy hours without extra pay starting months before deadlines, not great pay etc.

Once the novelty wears off, it's a hard crunch. http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html
But cars replacing horses didn't cause any of the problems in its intermediate state. They intermingled on the same roads quite well.

The transition from traditional cars to driverless cars will be smooth, insofar as the cars are intermingling. But the supposed additional benefits that idealists like to portray as inevitable are nearly impossible to intermingle. The only way that they can appear is through a forceful transition...eg banning non-driverless cars.
PHP to Scala, sounds like crawling to running to me.
The author's big miss, IMO, is discarding the number of design choices that may appear to be aimed at helping new users, but also simplify mobile use-cases (big tap targets, one clear way to get from A to B) and prevent the accumulation of detritus and the effects user self-sabotage, that tend to accumulate on PCs and Android devices.

iOS remaining large problems (no 'services', no way to change defaults, awkward inter-app workflows) are unrelated to 'teachability' of the core interface, as they're almost all concerns that only crop up for power-users or normal users who are months or years into their new device.

And they're solvable even if Apple clings to the big candy-like buttons, no widgets, skeumorphic app design, etc. So that bit is neither here nor there.