skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not being pedantic.

Implement the same toolset, layout(UI), and keyboard shortcuts as Chrome/Safari. The underlying code would obviously be different, but as a developer one of my biggest problems with Firefox is having to do a mental context switch every time I have to debug something. Things that bother me is the dev tools defaulting to the top instead of bottom and having to click little buttons instead of fat tabs to choose what shows up in the console. Make each its own tab.

On the good side, the FF dev tools are a lot faster than Firebug was. That's much appreciated.

Chrome and Safari should do this as well. My point is that they are more similar to each other than Firefox is.
I don't know if it's a EU norm but in France eggs are marked with a sequence starting with [0-3]FR, with 0 being the best quality i.e. free range eggs, and 3 meaning battery eggs.
It's a fair point. It's the same bottlenecking issue that plagues mobile devices. We can make multi-core and multi-ghz processors with giant, bright, high resolution displays, but we're having a hard time getting battery technology to keep up with this immense power draw.

The good news is, with these restraints being placed on improvements in technology, it gives incentive to further invest in research to making better batteries or faster storage devices.
OP here: Sorry about the broken link to the example app. I let the gun.io guys know. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.
Thanks. It was a weird encoding issue. I think it's fixed now.
Do entrepreneur's insecurities make business fail?
>Consider: young people would be taking care of old people even without social security. Social Security, in a sense, just brings those transfer payments onto the federal ledger.

It does more than that. It makes the payments unconditional and divorced from family. If someone's children are paying for their retirement, they're more likely to stay in close contact because of the continuing dependency. The grandparents are more likely to live in closer proximity to their children and grandchildren and impart their wisdom rather than moving to Florida to play shuffleboard on cruise ships. Parents who know they'll have to depend on their children in their retirement have a greater incentive to care about the success of their progeny, etc.

And that's assuming the payments go to the same people as they would under a state program or with voluntary individual action. Social security is very poorly implemented: The richest taxpayers pay the lowest percentage of their salaries in social security tax and then receive the highest benefits. Millionaires living in mansions receive larger social security checks than retired Walmart greeters living in hovels.

Moving things to the state level gives us an opportunity to rethink all this. Stop sending Warren Buffet a social security check and instead have him pay to subsidize living expenses for the retired working poor based on need. Let middle class families with successful middle class children handle their own affairs internally rather than having the government use force to take from the son to give to the father.

And let me ask this: If transfer payments did nothing and had no economic effect, what would be the argument for keeping them? If they have no effect then keeping them is just wasting resources on government bureaucracy to redistribute the money pursuant to the broken window fallacy.
You are asserting that the law firm's long working hours were caused by her med use.

Her drug abuse, obviously not. Drug abuse by young professionals? Yes.

The cocaine boom and the increase in law firm hours (from about 40 to about 60) both happened at the same time: the 1980s.
Will Republicans block EPA chief nominee Gina McCarthy?
We Are Bradley Manning
They Almost Called The iPhone 'TelePod'
Coming from a somewhat different viewpoint other than as a developer, I spent 10 years working as a full-time reviewer for one of the largest shareware disk vendors, Public Brand Software, and then later for Ziff when they bought PBS. (In fact, my first day at PBS was also the day Ziff took over the company...)

There was a lot of money being made from shareware in the 80s and 90s. I was involved in the Summer Shareware Seminars (later rebranded Shareware Industry Awards) and got to talk to quite a few developers/authors who were making mid-6 figure incomes from shareware, and of course there were a handful that had made their million(s). They were pretty aggressive marketers, though, and not the kind who just wrote a program, distributed it through the BBS ecosystem, and waited to see what would happen.

Disk vendors could make a considerable amount of money, as well. PBS was no Mom-and-Pop affair. Thinking back on it, there were 25-30 full-time employees (office staff, order takers, tech support, reviewers, catalog editors, in-house disk duplicating staff, 20+ line BBS, etc.) I have no idea what type of revenue the company generated, but it was a bustling place!
My neighbor has 5 hens- he gave us eggs when we first moved in. I ate them, but honestly I could not get over the visible smears of poo on them. So for me, they tasted icky, but I'm sure it was entirely psychological.
So long as any plugin script is running, vim will block waiting for it. And if you fire off a background process and exit from your main script, any reference to the vim environment within your child process becomes useless, so you can't modify anything in vim from within there anymore. I'm not entirely familiar with the lua scripting extension, but this was my experience attempting the same thing in python. I mean, at the end of it, vim is single threaded, and after your primary script exits its state is being used elsewhere - if you could modify it from your child process that'd be major cause for crashage.

That and who has lua on their system (I mean, i do for Love but that's irrelevant) or wants to install it just to use a git/hg plugin?
Linotype rebrands to Monotype and we bring you a font gift in celebration
Porting Harmattan Apps to Sailfish Silica (and back)
Has anyone used the white label job board by Simply Hired? http://www.jobamatic.com/jbb-static/home
Inkscape: One progammer's journey towards art
They have openly discussed their intention to build an X-compatible layer on top of Wayland for remote windows for years, it is really sad that FUD has prevailed about how they want to take our remote windows away.
From @djoerd
Why does @CommonCrawl URL search (http://urlsearch.commoncrawl.org/ ) need 'tld.domain' format rather than 'domain.tld'? Read Google's BigTable paper.
You can't reply directly to comments of hellbanned users. Should've replied to OP.
Anectodally speaking, I've met kids who smoked regularily or even sold pot, and the were astute and interconnected. Try to call every pot smoker you know into your mind and check whether they seem casual and slightly disconnected. If it doesn't help, we'll come over and hook up the JTAG debugger and see what's wrong, maybe...maybe I've been doing to much computers lately.
Ever see the inside of a battery hen house? :|
Possible meme starter? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbhrz1-4hN4
Maybe a MacBook Pro with Retina Display?
University of Texas at Austin teaches Haskell to 2nd year students in a required course: CS 337 - Theory in Programming Practice.

Programming Languages is also taught in Haskell, but it's an optional course and languages varies by professor.
I've also (sorry!) written a blog about understanding monads as a design pattern http://kybernetikos.com/2012/07/10/design-pattern-wrapper-wi... It was motivated after I'd written a simple promises library and suddenly realised that promises are monads too.
I think there are phases of doubts:

Phase 1. Idea Strikes. Absolutely no doubts. The idea will kick ass and change the world.

Phase 2. Idea development, customer discovery. Doubt creeps in and starts to spread its tentacles. Now the numbers and figures start to play a role in the strength of the doubt. More optimistic figures weaken the doubt and fewer "likable" numbers strengthen the doubt.

Phase 3. The fight goes on. As orangethirty says: "Everyday".
My point is not "it is fixable". My point is you didn't look at the error and just decided "shit's broken". Your problem is with 99.999999% certainty a simple problem that is unrelated to cabal. The fact that it is possible to see an error does not indicate that there is some uncertainty about whether or not you will be able to install lib x.
I just started a stopwatch, and decided to try to figure out what you're talking about. After working on an online price calculator with more fields on it than a 1040EZ tax form, and then getting 2/3 of the way through a whitepaper PDF on how pricing works, and trying to figure out what kind of instances I'd need, I stopped at the 10 minute mark. I'm going to go resume work on my software now, but I expect I'm not alone in this.

Maybe I'm just doing it wrong, and there's an easier way to do this. And I'm certain that if I spent $10k a year on servers, I'd take this more seriously.
That's a bit ad hominem, no?

Before posting this I took a look at your comment history to make sure I wasn't feeding a troll. Instead, I found tons of quality contributions. You're better than this, my fellow HN'er.
This Open Source Robot Bartender Pours the Perfect Mix
Are you saying it would work without code changes by increasing the timeout limit? We had to deploy new code to work with the new schemas, since the underlying models went through drastic changes. Having our code be compatible with old and new schemas simultaneously, as it is during most of our migrations, would have been extremely difficult in this specific case, which is what prompted this solution. I don't think this is a problem that could have been solved by simple timeout changes, but I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.
Lean Startup versus Smart Startup
Is it possible to downvote people? Why can't I do that?
I think this is key: "He and co-founders Mike Knoop and Bryan Helmig identified a real problem and came up with a usable solution."
Apple Computer Knowledge Navigator 1987
I'd actually be really intresting to know the actual percentage of drug consumers in finance vs. IT.
Not to take away from the post, anyone else feeling a bit of Vim overload in the past few days? I'm pretty much Vim'ed out with all the Vim related postings.
When I was a kid in the UK brown and white eggs were equally common. Now white is much more common but in the past few years you can buy brown and blue and so on in specialist places again.
Thanks, spent several months working on it.

We're launching a pricing page shortly!
How are spoofed packets detected?
I know ... another example of this: http://xkcd.com/927/.

The hope is that, eventually, this would be a place where we could aggregate the remote jobs featured at the various job boards (at least, the major ones: Authentic Jobs, GitHub, 37signals, Stack Overflow) in one place.
Why can't they just write code that reverses the input?
Why not push really long threads to the bottom? People will find the long discussions by scrolling to them. Indeed, they will know that they are there, just like now we know that the long discussions are at the top. The effect though is that now readers have to get past other discussions first. Basically, the order should be short-good, long-good, all-crap.

Also, while this may be a problem here, HN still has the best comment sorting system I've seen (but not measured). Comments have time to stay at the top and simmer down and if they are good they gain enough momentum. The only time this seems to be come a problem is when you get to a really popular thread after hours/days of discussion. Then you cannot get a word in edgewise.

An alternative solution could be that for every comment you make, you give up a bit of karma and you gain it back through comment upvotes (but not article postings). That way people will watch what they say. This may give some positive feedback to posters that harvest huge amounts of karma, but it will also prevent bad comments. On top of that, you could make your post stick up top longer by paying a blood price: for every 50 points of karma you get another minute guaranteed at the top of your discussion thread, or some such. Or just free market FTW: the person that bids the highest amount wins the top spot for that many minutes.
I found this interesting because I'm doing the opposite. I'm an artist on journey towards programming. I think best with shapes and colors instead of numbers; I've never thought about art from a programmers perspective.
How Apple caused the iOS Kindle glitch
Oh come on, that was comedy gold.
I'm not a huge fan of TDD either. Tests are helpful when refactoring or adding new features because you avoid regressions. Regressions are the worst kinds of bugs because clients get really, really annoyed with "I thought we fixed this the last 3 times" and "we already paid to fix this" type scenarios.

That said, I think the article has a solid thesis. Just because you don't practice TDD doesn't that mean building things correctly won't help you ship working software faster. If your code is brittle, write some tests around it, refactor a bit, and keep running fast. We can debate over whether you should always write tests first or only write tests to cover brittle and important features, but that's a "how much" argument.

The real problem is when you run into methodologies that always involve work-arounds, and you let the technical debt continually pile up for weeks or months because "you're a startup." This will cause you to run very slowly, and sooner rather than later. I feel that's Uncle Bob's real point, and it's a valid one.
Treklet, allows users to browse the web collectively.  Written in Clojurescript.
At the moment (and for the foreseeable future) it's all manual, though I've set up a number of IFTT feeds that help collect some of the jobs into my inbox.
Google, Please let me remove my credit card from your website.
Man and Van Waddon
This also needs "our slashdot clone of super geniuses is being ruined by comments such as this" pearl clutching from the admin.
Create a social network where people from rough areas can have access to psychological counseling via Skype or chat rooms. High crime areas as plagued with drug abuse, alcoholism and many other non-healthy addictions often due to inherited "mental illness", but they have no help. Also finding ways to keep fire arms inaccessible in these areas may result in lower crime rates.
I've been listening a lot of Hans Zimmer's music lately.
I told her she should write about it (I just created this account, she doesn't know I'm commenting on it here) ...

If she had asked him for an interview on the topic (for free obviously) this would've been a non-issue. But she thought she would give him a byline, not knowing of his fame.

He became famous for interviewing pol pot when she was about a year old, and although he is well known in south east asia circles, he's not exactly a household name. The article is freely available now (if you care to read about basketball in NK), she just wanted to offer a wider audience with near zero extra work on his part. With the offer of $100 for a future online effort.

So she asked and got put on blast.

It's interesting how that works. It was a weird way to wake up this morning though.

TO YOUR POINT ON MICROPAYMENTS:

Yes, I think there is a per transaction fee for credit cards. Bitcoin couldn't work flat out because it only supports 350,000 total transactions a day and piddly little tips would eventually crush the blockchain. I think paypal could do it if you just tipped out of your paypal balance. Dwolla.com does do it... but no one has an account.

I have to say I agree with the people who argue people should be doing a lot of this for the love, but love doesn't pay the bills. I really like Stewart Lee's take on it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udqMA4YRQCk

Long listen, but he advocates for a lot of government funding for the arts. Likewise a lot of in the trenches journalism is sponsored by small orgs (pro publica, xyz foundations, etc) The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, etc just chip in a bit extra to publish some of that work.

This specific case was about already written, already available content.

If this was huffpo they would've just thrown quotes around it and put it up with a little link.

/rant
No one is disputing that Bitcoin is deflationary.

What's less clear is how damaging that actually is. If you are looking for a way to preserve value, then being deflationary might even be beneficial. There are plenty of things that are deflationary (i.e. limited in supply), such as gold, stocks of a growing company, or real estate in Manhatten. Does that make these things worthless?
Potential New Groupon CEOs--Who's best?
Thanks, that was indeed a great read. You might also enjoy this, which is fairly recent:
http://fabiensanglard.net/duke3d/index.php

And the article links to other promising articles at the top, though I haven't checked them out.

The general question remains: how would we go about finding similar stuff?

Oh, one more thing, if you don't know yet, you will find great gems in Raymond Chen's blog, http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/

Not everything is archeological (a lot is still interesting though), but the articles often link to a whole bunch of other articles, which in turn do the same. I suggest, for example, http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/06/29/10325... . I deliberately chose a later article in the series, since it also links to previous ones.
Achievements are generally a tack-on. There are many more interesting ways to make a player feel achieved through playing a video game.

Using a centralized system makes them even worse because they break immersion. It's akin to your DVD player showing "Did you know?" popups throughout films you're watching for the first time.
patio11 is Patrick MacKenzie:
http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11

He's minorly famous for his essays on how engineers can be better at marketing. A lot of it is about, but not limited to, how to properly A/B test your product.

A patio11-style would do some of the tasks mentioned here ( scroll down to paragraph that starts with "“What is it you do, exactly?” ):
http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/12/29/bingo-card-creator-and-o...
And therefore shouldn't be washed? Seems like you made a pretty good argument for washing them to me...
I tried searching, but I couldn’t find a single thing about accessibility on this page.

As someone who does not rely on accessibility tools, I have a lot of problems writing and debugging accessibility-compatible services, though I do try. I have a blog and a project that I am trying to make aide the experience for people with accessibility tools, but I still have no idea how it “renders” on their end. Nor do I know if I make a typo or write something that would not get validated by a test suite.

Here are some of the measures I include that Firefox does not appear to assist with:

1. rel="next" and rel="prev"

It is actually incredibly sad that only Opera supports this—from what I can tell. Even Google seems to screw up the "next" and "prev" articles in search results for my blog.

On a personal note, being able to browse through a catalogue of blog posts, forum posts, etc. with just my Space bar, as Opera allows you, is amazing and something I am surprised others haven’t copied.

If you want to try it, you can check out my blog linked in my profile on Opera; you can use it either from the pages with several posts displayed or on individual permapages. This kind of navigation creates an entirely new experience, and in some cases it also defeats a lot of tedium, such as when I am reading through fifty pages of forum posts—especially if it is a high-activity thread for, say, a live event where I have to keep up with new posts.

2. WAI-ARIA

In other words, the `role` attribute.

3. .link-skip

How, if at all, does my HTML/CSS actually work on accessibility software? Maybe my implementation is a completely rotten experience, but I wouldn’t know.

4. Testing for colours

Be it colour-blind people or people with poor vision. One functionality could be contrast inspection where a font `color` is compared to the colour of its background. Since you already have the requisite tools for modelling element-layering, this should be fairly trivial to automate as a test.

Another functionality could flip the colour scheme to show what the site would look like with different types of colour-blindness.

There is much more to be done in accessibility, but I don’t really feel anything has changed in web-base accessibility in the last five or maybe ten years. I guess I wouldn’t know, because the tools available aren’t that great at the moment.

5. Noscript testing

+++++

I really love the continuous integration that Travis CI provides (when I can get it to work, which isn’t right now). I would love to be able to automate this process to the extent possible.

Perhaps I could provide some kind of testing recipe that is either automated or provides the tools I need for a certain task—and only those tools—so I have, say, an accessibility-specific testing environment.
The real cost of South Africa's most expensive website ($15m)
Not only is that not cheating, it's actually completely reasonable in Haskell too! You can use ST to have as much mutable state as you like; the awesome thing is that the state is guaranteed not to leak--from the outside, the function is just as deterministic as one that doesn't use mutable references and data structures.

The big idea about Haskell isn't to avoid all state. Not at all. The big idea is to control state. Haskell expects you to use state if it makes the logic clearer or the code much faster.

What you do not do in Haskell is use state for program organization. You avoid global state as much as possible. This means that communication between disparate parts of your program are explicit--you don't have implicit dependencies everywhere. This is definitely a good thing.

I think one of the problems is that people without much experience in Haskell interpreter "purely functional" too strictly. It just means you do not have state by default; you can still use it where it makes sense.

The good thing about not having it by default is that it forces your program to be simpler and more decoupled and it lets the compiler and libraries make many more assumptions about your code. All sorts of awesome features like STM and data parallel Haskell depend on having this sort of control over side-effects. But that's all it is--control. You can still have state and side effects; however, unlike most other languages, you can also not have them.
Be careful :) The node driver lets the developer set the chunkSize which can be up to max BSON document size (16MB at the moment). So you might want to keep that in mind.
Or a reimplementation of the algorithm in VimL ;)
Honestly, I find the culture of "top comment contradicts the OP" a bit weird and unauthentic in a sense.
I don't see him have worked on any successful startups, or anything that had a good exit.

Since when does one have to work on a successful startup or
have a good exit to have opinions on the best way to start projects? I work at a BigCo and have started a couple of projects.
DLC?
We make it easier to get postage via API. Existing postage APIs are difficult to integrate and have lots of errors. We take care of that and provide a RESTful JSON API with client libraries.
It seems to me, that with source maps in the browser, the browser should be able to PUT the original source file, with the correct file hierarchy. So, downloading assets.min.js, editing models/Foo.coffee, PUTting models/Foo.coffee.

That would be really something.
While I know that some of the pages of my home page are in the crawl, they do not show up with the following query:
http://urlsearch.commoncrawl.org/?q=nl.utwente.cs.wwwhome%2F...
nor with:
http://urlsearch.commoncrawl.org/?q=nl.utwente.cs.wwwhome%2F...
(no, this is not only an ego search problem ;-) )
i am think about posting this!