skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it always seemed intuitively obvious to me that Japanese consumers would not be very receptive to any non-Japan-designed console unless

You hear people say this a lot, but based on my experience, it's basically bullshit.

Japanese people love non-Japanese stuff, and indeed, being foreign gives a product cachet.

However, they're also fairly different than American consumers. In particular, they're (1) super picky (in a way that Americans really aren't), about quality, but also style, reputation, etc, (2) not so price-conscious, and (3) maybe a bit more reluctant to take a risk on something unknown.

In the case of the PS2/3 vs. the xbox/360, the PS series had a huge name-recognition / familiarity advantage, and better support by Japanese game makers offering popular series. MS tried to prime the pump by pushing some "Japanese style" games heavily (and paid through the nose for prime placement in shops), but if you're a Japanese gamer who experienced the sheer massive volume of domestic content for the PS series, sticking with it seems pretty sure bet. Moreover, the high price of the PS3 was a bit less of an issue than with very price-conscious Americans.
also guru.com is very good place for dev works
If the author is using the free plan, Github's 'plans and pricing' indicates that's for 'open source' projects.

As far as I can tell, there's no way to turn off a 'public' Github project's download, fork, and pull request functionality. Indeed, those functions are emblematic of the service, and they're meaningless without grants to make copies and republish derivatives far beyond the legacy all-rights-reserved defaults of legislative copyright law.

IANAL, but placing code on Github, where those features are mandatory and expected, looks like an overt act authorizing related copying and modification — an 'implied license' — even without the explicit grants provided by a formally-expressed open source license.
"Sorry, this demo only supports Google Chrome"

The joys of web portability.
While I know they are in python, I have never been able to find any documentation about how to build plugins, and what they can do. Could you point me to such a thing?
forgive me if i've missed any sardonicism, but you might be interested in learning you are describing Flash in thorough detail.
Have you checked out Github For Windows? I like how it hides some of the complexeties of Git, and gives you a Git Shell with Git in the current path.
Hi,

this is indeed the idea of the game, you should combine the highs in a proper way that brings you to the top.

You can definitely go through all the 16 levels with no problems.

Towelie? Is the best character ever! :D

cheers,
That was incredibly insightful, thanks very much for posting!
This comment is amazing. It deserves a lot more attention in this thread. Thank you!
Thank you - our designer will be pleased to hear that :-)

We think we differ in many ways, but here's some of the current highlights:

- Airbrake & Exceptional are fairly focused on Ruby (although there are providers for other languages and platforms, often built by individuals outside those products). We wanted to make supporting other platforms a key focus and will have the app alter the display based on where the data comes from (for example, you'd have very different expectations of an iOS crash report than a rails crash report). I hope that makes sense :-) At present we have support for .NET, WinRT, PHP and have Ruby, JavaScript, Objective-C and more under development at the moment.

- We know that email notifications can be a pain. We've started life with what (we hope) is a much better approach. Email on first exception of a given type being seen, then again as thresholds change, or if recurrence is concerning. You don't get an email for every single error.

- Exceptions are a first step. We have fairly lofty goals but if we can nail a great experience for exceptions we know we'll be on the right track for other other information to help developers / operations folks.

That's just a simple run down and isn't exhaustive by any means -- we're just launching and your feedback is very much appreciated by me and the rest of the team :-)
And I believe that the new version "Sublime Text 3" will be called as "Sublime Text" by everybody (or might be "Sublime Text 2" version 3 :) )
If someone would: (a) develop a web-based version of it, (b) make it easy to use (hard part 1), (c) make excell (ab)users realize that they really need it (hard part 2 - maybe impossible? :) ), (d) make it extendable with multiple general purpose programming languages (python, ruby, ocaml or f#...) and (e) give a "personal/student version" for free to get people hooked on it, it would really shake things up in this area...

P.S. If you get filthy rich from my 5 point plan above, please remember to give me and my company a life-long full-support license for your software :)

P.S.2. ...or open-source it and become the Linus of financial analysis software ;)
I think you are sort of right. I think that maybe apple's console entry could become a bastion of $1, low budget casual games. Not because it couldn't handle the hardcore games market, but because the store will be setup with the same problem all apple stores have of low visibility and freemium garbage dominating the storefront. Also a ton of devs will port their already existing casual freemium stuff to this device. This is partially Apple's fault, but largely it is a problem of the wider market that Apple hits. They hit a ton of non-gamers with their products and those people then use the store and push farmville/zynga poker garbage to the top. Apple could address this with their store but I doubt they will. If they wanted to they already would have by now.

The other issue is that Apple products generally sacrifice usability for style, and in this instance that will probably mean a controller with no real buttons or something ridiculous in that vein.

This is fine and it will probably be successful, but it is not even going to be the same market that the xbox, steam box, or ps4 are hitting.
Looks nice, but the page is light on details: No documentation, no sample integration code, no screenshots of the 'Dive Deep'.

And the one information I'm always looking for on error reporting service webpages: Is this intented for desktop applications or web applications?
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Ooh like a "destroy the system from within the system" feature. I like it. Into the trello ideas board!

Thanks for the feedback, nice to hear.
FORGREATJUSTICE!

I'll get me coat.
Thank you for ServerBear, I use it all the time and send others to it often.

Can I give you a feature request? Can you track terms of service or somehow summarize them? I would love to filter/find hosts based on how liberal their terms are.

See also this comment/response from armored_mammal re: DigitalOcean's ToS:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5207693
To be fair, if you're going to lifehacker to help you set up github, you're probably not motivated enough to go tearing through github's faq. Quite frankly, you're probably not motivated enough to finish the lengthy tutorial they posted.
Yes, don't offer a number. They might make you feel silly for you not offering one but that's part of their tactic. Just mention your qualifications and that you want to be paid market rate or slightly above.

Also, apply to several other jobs so you have competing offers. Do mention your other applications if specifically asked. And in end-stage negotiations feel free to play the companies off each other, such as "Sorry, I'd really love to accept, but I have a competing offer that makes much more financial sense for me at this point. I haven't firmly accepted the other offer yet, as it's been a very difficult decision since your company has such a wonderful opportunity." But don't bluff and don't act like you're taking a bank hostage; be civil, honest, and prepared to follow through on what you say. And at this point, Joel's advice applies: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/11/26.html

But at the end of the day don't get too wrapped up in money or extracting maximum value. You have years and years to climb the pay ladder.
No, it'll be going for a vastly more lucrative market: everyone who is wildly overserved by the existing console market.

Consoles had three decades to break out of niche and they failed. It's time for the final disruption of the living room.
Intel Working on Internet TV Device for Debut in 2013
I think I was at the startup school event where she said this, she had a bunch of cute monster pokemon type deals to describe problems you run into with a startup, this was one of them. Engaging lady.
I was thrilled to see this show up in my logs. I've been working on the screencast for months and months and I was thinking about doing a Show HN. Now I don't have to. I'm happy to answer any questions anybody might have.

Here's the HN discussion from when the series was launched on Kickstarter last year: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3977240
The first to file was already the rule, at least in France, and in Europe too I guess. The US just closed a loop hole. An inventor hiding it's invention could invalidate a patent of a third party who may have invested to use it for business purpose.

In France, a prior inventor, who of course didn't disclose his invention otherwise it invalidates the patent, has still the right to freely use the invention without having to pay a license. But he can't license it and I think also make business out of it.

A really unfair difference between US and Europe's Patent rules is that in Europe the Patent protection starts at the time of deposit, thus prior it's valdation. In the US it starts when the patent is validated.

Thus the time between deposit and validation is an implicit patent lifetime extension which can be as long as 10 years for some patents ! Such long delays exist because it is in the interest of the inventor to delay the validation as much as possible. The pending patent also allows to license a potentially invalid patent or dissuade competitors to invest in the field because the pending patent is like a time bomb.

This is a really bad rule of the US patent system.
Thanks for the kind words about the UI :-)

We certainly need to surface more in depth information prior to needing to sign up (once logged in we have links to various provider pages but they should absolutely be public).

To help, here's some details that will get more visibly linked shortly:

http://raygun.io/raygun-providers/-net-framework-and-winrt

http://raygun.io/raygun-providers/php

It's a start but we will look at providing even more details (we need to also make the underlying API specification public so it's easier for folks to write against it themselves).

All our providers are on github here also if you're keen to poke around:

- https://github.com/MindscapeHQ

I hope that helps and thank you for reminding me to make sure that information is more easily discoverable!
Software maintenance - Clarity in Code
Wouldn't it be Sublime Text 2 Version 2?
Comcast to buy rest of NBC stake for $16.7 billion
Lifehacker saying such things does not surprise me as their quality of writing and target audience is much less hacker news in 2013 and much more mainstream. It would almost be more suitable to just relink the article to help.github.com as some others have mentioned.
This is a joke, right? Most of the boats are moored and do nothing. They rarely kill someone, or have a dangerous accident.

Anybody who has actually been to Venice can clearly see the difference. I mean, they have ambulance boats and deliver boats and garbage boats, but boats are not a problem. Most of the boats you will ever see are the bus boats, or gondolas.
Tell HN: Jawbone MyTalk Security Compromised?
Just got an email from Jawbone saying that MyTalk security was compromised. Can anyone else confirm? The email that I got seems to look legit.

"We are writing to inform you of an important security matter. We recently learned that login information for your Jawbone MyTALK account was compromised by an isolated attack on our system.

In the course of this attack, limited user information related to your MyTALK account—specifically your name, email address, and an encrypted version of your password (not the actual letters and numbers in your password)—was compromised. We took immediate action to protect your login information. Based on our investigation to date, we do not believe there has been any unauthorized use of login information or unauthorized access to information in your account.

To help protect your account, we have disabled your old MyTALK password and you can no longer use it. Please reset your MyTALK password by following the instructions below. To help ensure that your information remains safe, we recommend that you do not choose the same password that you use to log in anywhere else, and change your password on other sites where your old MyTALK password is used."
Yet another case of DRM harming legitimate customers more than pirates. Meanwhile some guy in China is selling Windows DVDs with that stuff patched out and a full version of Office already installed.

There's absolutely no way I'd pay for an abusive experience like that, so I'll stick with GNU/Linux as well.
Kudos to lifehacker for writing "how to use git with github" and not just instructing people to install the github Mac client and calling it a day.
Tip (not really ontopic): learn Vim, then use whatever editor or IDE you want with Vim keybindings mode or a Vim-emulating plugin - you'll end up with an universal set of keybindings you will learn once and use everywhere and you will be able to be productive in any editor and any IDE (yeah, there are always limitations, nothing emulates Vim perfectly and this is way I advise you "not to learn too much of real vim", just the most usefull keys, but nowadays there is at leas one good vim mode/plugin for any other serious IDE or editor, including ST2).
I'm glad they included the hindi version of the title theme! It was a great hit in India too, where they were completely, but artfully, dubbed into Hindi
It is safe, but because they have different rules. Vehicles must give way at all times, so they will drive around you. And drivers are aware of what is going on, because they have to be. I think driving in Vietnam is much safer than the US.
Yeah, but if they are told to meet a specific EBITDA, and the parent is charging expenses to the company, it would be in their interest to charge enough that the earn-out doesn't pay. If the parent gets to write checks with the company's money, then the earn-out goals should be on gross revenue.
I personally also don't know how to farm, so I can somewhat relate. My hope would be to find some books on farming...
I love collaboration while planning and talking about how / why to implement something; however, when I want to actually build that idea, I'm typically much faster when I just throw on some headphones and go for it.

Admittedly, I've never pair programmed. Sounds like two bros writing a screenplay in a coffee shop and high-fiving over every rad idea they jam on.
Have you tried reducing the frame rate in the demo to see if the same effect is true for 30 fps as well?

Also, I wonder if a simple square is enough to prove the "sameness" of motion blurs across different framerates. A fast camera pan across a landscape may yield different results.
Hyperinflation doesn't so much make a currency unreal as simply worthless, Zimbabwean dollars were still Zimbabwean dollars, and the government was still charging taxes in that currency and enforcing its laws and systems by fines in that currency, but it becomes a little bit of a moot point when as you point out the currency is devalued, there's no real way for governments to stop that.

That surely hasn't stopped them from trying, either in the Zimbabwe case or all throughout history, governments are extremely fond of making ridiculous proclamations to support their currencies whilst undergoing hyperinflation to very little effect, but when the great majority of people refuse to listen to you anymore and you have no credibility it ceases to matter.
Apples and oranges. Cities can't sustain themselves without agriculture and products from outside of the city. If I never go into a city, I will never use their public transportation. If you never leave a city, you will still use public roads in order to eat, even if you never actually step foot outside.
Guess it depends on the individual use case. Escel is great to use for data stratification and basic data analysis. One of the biggest advantages of Office 2010 was, at least from my poijnt of view, the abolishment of the 64k line limit. I never got on terms with Access and having to look at huge amounts of data right out of SAP got me in trouble with this limit before.

What Excel should never ever be used for is a real application, e.g. for production planning, if there is such a system in place. I've seen myself what damage, even if it's hard to quantify the amaount, this can do. But this is not a problem of Excel per se and more a use / user issue.

Agree that this is dependant on the size of the operation. For a small machine shop doing everthing in Excel is absolutly OK. For bigger operations, well, not so much.
Now PVS-Studio supports C++Builder XE, 2010 and 2009
Any tutorial for Windows users with git should probably introduce cygwin or powershell while they're at it. Git in a GUI can only get one so far and having to deal with cmd.exe for anything is a nightmare.

A typical Windows users might only deal with GUI stuff, but I've seen many break down to use a command line to root their Android phone (via adb and fastboot) that would have no reason to use a command line otherwise. Just need a good reason to use it and shown they don't have to fear it.
Yep. Still the bastion of democracy.
One of my concerns is that it gives the upper hand to large organization with the resources (including perhaps labor costs fixed to a certain degree by virtue of staff attorneys; also, filing fees) to file early and often.

Further entrenchment of IP as the purview of those who can afford it.

I'm glad to be proven wrong -- I'm not well-informed on this. But I fear it, both from my own limited thought exercise, and out of concern for the types of legal changes that are able to make it through the Federal process, these days, generally speaking.
You are assuming I live in the United States.
Weirdly enough, they are available on Netflix in Sweden (http://i.imgur.com/QhWX8WN.png).
Nobody has heard of gitorious?
SciPy does have some sparse support.

http://www.scipy.org/SciPyPackages/Sparse
Iran's 'laughable' fighter jet caught out in Photoshop blunder
I never said it doesn't run in a VM. JavaScript is not bytecode. When the code is run, I grant you that you that the JIT will compile to some sort of bytecode. But you can't take that bytecode and run it under any virtual machine.

As for bytecode "running faster", that's entirely up to the JVM implementation. Given a feature complete JavaScript bytecode, I don't see why a JVM needs to be faster than the JavaScript VM.

You may be conflating the JIT nature of JavaScript vs fully compiled Java apps. With JavaScript, it interprets (even compiles) as it gets the JavaScript code, whereas Java code is already compiled into bytecode.
“The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary."
— Nassim Taleb
Winston, Siri's little brother, launches in App Store
You need either an amazing memory (to remember all the code), or a Braille screen that supports all those annoying signs like { }.
The downside is going to be no code overview ... to help with that the braile reader should support | like ribbins: this way you can set the space/tab symbol to | (in programs like Vim).
This will allow you to more easily follow indentations.

After thinking and writing about it, I'm more concerned about other applications, cause to write code you just need a text-editor. Browsing, Office, ... is going to a far more painful experience...
While this is true of bank, ecommerce, news, etc, sites, it doesn't apply when the author is just sharing something he's playing around with.
I'm glad to see so few commenters dismissing the subject because of their own lack of perspective, and so many commenters articulating their experiences so well.

The Internet--which incidentally owes its current incarnation to so many acid-dropping individuals--has provided many forums (fora?) for truthful discourse about these substances. Those who have had experience with LSD together have a voice that is going to drown out the insane, fearful rambling propaganda of the prohibitionists. It's safe to say we've reached a tipping point, and it's only a matter of time before we recover our freedom to explore our minds. Respect.
For what it's with an older version had a polling option that checked for updates every 10 seconds that was removed in a later commit.
Wrap up: Apple CEO Tim Cook's Goldman Sachs Conference keynote
I'm curious: where do Chinese office workers take naps? In their chairs? Do they have beds?
Very cool stuff but I have to disagree with the general idea.

I've been doing SEO for 8 years and I have to say that I came for the fun and money but I stayed for the challenge and algo changes.

I remember how, 8 years ago, it was all about "5% density" and link stuffing. Today is content quality, social signals, link profile (not just quantity), contextual co-relations and so much much more...

I think that I only truly fallen in love with SEO when Google started using rel=canonical. This is when it really became a game of poker and not a "hungy hungy hippos" with links in it.
ahahah, yep you are actually right. A big difference, probably the only important one, is that you could read, and modify, the source using the same medium (the browser). So the gap for people to play with that is almost zero. This is probably one of the forces that have allowed the Internet to become what it is today.
That image refers to Office 365 University, which is a subscription product. The article is not refering to Office 365 subscriptions, other than:

"Depending on your needs, you might find a single outright copy of Office Home & Student 2013 is more economical than an Office 365 subscription -- but not if you can't keep using it after you next upgrade your computer."
LucidJS: a lightweight, dependency-free event emitter library
Probably different reasons for many people. Timing is hard for some people (family, job, school...) The uncertainty is hard to cope with for others. Money issues make it hard too. It's easy to doubt yourself when things don't go right the first, third, and 8th time you've tried it.

The question that entrepreneurs need to settle before starting is,

"1/10th of all businesses fail. Would you go through 9 failures just to get that one big success?" Maybe your 10th business is a hit and the first 9 were just a test for you.

In another view - from my generation's superhero:
"Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death."

School is blamed way too much. I went to highschool on both coasts of the USA (Massachussets and Washington,) in relatively rich areas of the state/country, so we're not talking about inner-city here. Free-thinkers at these schools were not beaten down or broken, at a minimum they were treated the same as everyone else, at a maximum they were handed opportunities from connections, local companies, clubs, etc. Even IF schools mercilessly beat down free-thinking, these are not the people that would become entrepreneurs. You have to be able to think away from the norm to get into this scene in the first place. These kinds of people probably aren't affected that much by school's instruction in this sense.
I'm still surprised that NYC's business-savvy mayor hasn't introduced congestion pricing yet. It's successful everywhere it's been tried so far, but people are very resistant to it.
No, it couldn't. That's a comment, and only a comment. It can't be anything else. Do you have any other examples?
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