skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds like a very good (if not necessary) idea.

You can see a list of features on the development version of the site at: http://beta.plnkr.co/ These include:

* Real-time code collaboration

* Fully-featured, customizable syntax editor

* Live previewing of code changes

* As-you-type code linting

* Transparent translation of intermediate languages like Coffee-Script, Typescript, Sass, etc (with sourcemapping included where available). This means you create 'app.coffee' and ask for 'app.js' in your html and you are served the compiled version of 'app.coffee' as well as its sourcemap.

* Forking, commenting (not done yet) and sharing of Plunks

* Fully open-source on Github under the MIT license

Also, there is both a Google Group (http://plnkr.co/discuss) and github repo (https://github.com/filearts/plunker).

That being said, neither of these properly address your question. I will push out an about page as soon as I can.
Less than an outage in AWS-US West will :-)
Yes, it would. The heliosphere is not spherical, but the solar wind exists in all directions. The orbital plane is due to conservation of angular momentum, a completely different phenomenon.
I am desperately waiting for full launch . And, I am ready to sign up for whatever price.
> The Linux namespace stuff is evolving pretty fast, and I personally wouldn't trust it as the main line of defense for anything important.

If I recall, Heroku uses cgroups (EDIT: and namespaces) exclusively for multitenant isolation (and by the looks of this, dotCloud does too), so that's two big votes in the "if it's good enough for them" category.
The bulk of new creation in the future is going to be in IP, not physical goods. Most other countries have their own IP that they want protected as well.

It's true that developing nations (read: China) often don't respect other countries' IP rights. The US didn't either when it was still young. But eventually countries get out of that catch-up phase and start actually inventing things of their own that they want protected.
> Do you think people buy stuff because their currency is steadily losing value, or might it be because they need or want stuff?

So you think that people don't think twice about buying the newest PC or phone, knowing that they will be able to buy it in 6 months at a lower price? Ora that buying a home now can be bad or good, depending if prices are going up or down? I don't know your average Joe, but my average Jane knows perfectly well what inflation (or deflation) is :)

People buy stuff _because_ they need or want it, but they buy it _when_ they think it's a good time to buy it. Evaluating "a good time to buy" depends on many subjective factors, and (perceived) inflation is an important one.
Test Twitter Flight with Jasmine on Ruby on Rails
What was the printer? It certainly wasn't producing letter-quality output.
I'm not familiar with their toolbar. How does it scam Google?
Ok, then there is some other body who really wants to do grading instead of you - then let them, if they have the authority.

If you have already graded the student according to your conscience, then you've done your job properly; and you don't need to drop down to the level of rules lawyering - in any case, the grade mostly matters as the indicator of knowledge and if somebody wants a falsified indicator to flatter himself, then let him waste his time on that. The main (only?) value of grades is as feedback; if they want to waste that feedback, then it's their loss.
A Value Investing Approach to March Madness
Maybe I'm just emotional today but the "Acknowledgments" section for the accepted journal was touching. I can only imagine what it felt like to complete the work of a good friend.
Why I'd Rather Work For A Man Than A Woman
Doing a site:digg.com/news/ search on Bing shows a lot of pages like these:

http://digg.com/news/gaming/ing_bank_i_ilanlar

and even more duplicate tag and rss pages for "site:digg.com/tag/" and "site:digg.com rss".

These /news/ pages 302 redirect to many different sites (some are bound to contain spam or be of lower quality).

302 redirects for these links is bad practice. Some link shorteners (ab)use 302 Found (instead of 301 Moved Permanently) to hoard content that doesn't belong to them. The content for these links can't be found on digg.com, so they too use the wrong redirect and associate themselves with all pages they link to.

Besides that: Digg.com acts like a single page webapp for most of its content. There are no discussion pages or detail pages for the stories. The content that does appear is near duplicate to other content on the web, especially with popular stories, where many blogs just copy the title and the first intro paragraph.
Who needs loops nowadays? Just map, reduce, filter and imperatively-loop when needed (around 0.1% of cases?).
Lots of good points. For me I know that I can get lost in the weeds. But I also should have stated that I believe you need to take the time to learn technologies and skills properly - and there's a time and a place for that. But if I'm trying to build a project I'm focusing on getting that project done. If I run into something that might be productive to spend more time on it later then I'll set aside time later. But otherwise there's just too much to learn and my project won't get built.
How much can really be usefully gleaned from an engine that's spent nearly half a century at the bottom of the ocean? It seems like the long-term salt water exposure would obliterate anything useful for actual engineering. However, I don't know this stuff well, and would love some details on why I'm wrong if I am.
Hey swang - this is the first time I've heard of this issue. Are you getting an error code from the blog? Let me know here or email me, omar@priceonomics.com.
And those products that do scratch itches and grow and evolve tend to have widely criticized code bases.

Maybe. But wordpress is just plain illogical. I heard people trying to use wordpress as an ecommerce platform. WTF? Wordpress is a blogging platform first and foremost.

WIkipedia keeps being an encyclopedia, linux keeps being an OS, mysql keeps being a database, firefox keeps being a browser, and so on.

Wordpress? It's a blogging platform that sometime have an ecommerce plugin tacked into it.
EA is not a person
Sure! It's Node.js (pretty vanilla Express) on the backend, but most of the heavy lifting is in the browser. After trying Angular, Backbone and Ember, we settled on KnockoutJS for multiple reasons (that's a whole post in itself), the main one being performance (though some may find that statement shocking).
I'm sure Rails would be less code and quicker to production.
That's not to say that it can't be done quickly in Spring - Java.

The whole 15 min blog thing is a good example of fast Rails, it's also a good example of non production ready i.e. maintainable and extendable, rails.
It's supposed to return an object that is suitable for turning into JSON, but it won't convert any of items members. JSON.stringify relies on the toJSON functions of the members to serialize themselves.
Really? Just because these documents were unclassified, doesn't mean UMBRA is no longer in use.
I find these topics to be fun, and I want to use them. However, I can't help but feel that if I use these design patterns, they might unintentionally obfuscate my intentions to my peers.

I have a code base, and I think my priority should be to remains as consistent with that code base as possible.

Am I wrong? Is this book just for entertainment? There's nothing wrong with that of course.
Where is Froont http://froont.com/
Adobe Reflow http://html.adobe.com/edge/reflow/
Jetstrap http://jetstrap.com/ ?
Yikes! That's terrible. I am thankful that I only hurt when I exert myself for long periods or too aggressively. Hitting the pavement does it too but I've been fortunate not to do anything like that recently.

I find the concept that the brain could cause pain to exist where there is no "real" (like sliced/torn nerve endings) fascinating and terrifying at the same time. I didn't even realize that was a thing that could happen 'til I read this article.
In a sense, yes. Luwak was just basically plain-old Riak with some support for huge files. CS is a full solution for storing large assets, along with multitenancy, role management, reporting, monitoring and pretty much anything else you'd expect from a cloud store like S3.
My sister bought the deli platter so I didn't count it.

With inflation it would be a bit more today.
Good! Be absolutely fearless. Intelligent, but fearless.

Regarding funding for your venture/s. Forget it. Don't do it. At least not at first. Save money and bootstrap one or a couple of ideas yourself. You will earn you honorary MBA that way. You have to be smart about business before venturing out into a larger domain (unless you have good mentors who can guide you).

Companies like Facebook --where the founders had absolutely zero business experience and zero idea of where the thing was going or how it was going to make money-- are exceptions to the rule. Most businesses require a reasonable grip of business management and the identification of a good business model from the very start. And even with that failure is far more likely than success. So, have fun with it and don't risk too much on each experiment. Once you find something that gains traction take a huge leap and go for it.
For the second edition, I think focusing on ES5 wherever something is actually included in JavaScript would be a huge improvement. Underscore.JS duplicates huge parts of ES5's own work for the benefit of older ES3 environments like IE8, Firefox 3 etc.
Rabbit's Video-Chat Software That Can Stream Movies
It's a white-labelling of dotCloud's implementation of Heroku's "slug" concept (https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/slug-compiler): basically, a SquashFS image with a known SHA, storing a precompiled runtime+libraries+code artifact that will never change, able to be union-mounted atop a "base image" (a chroot filesystem, possibly also a known-SHA SquashFS image), then spun up as an ephemeral LXC container. I actually use the idea in my own ad-hoc deployment process; they're very convenient for ensuring repeatability.

(As a side-note, this is an example of an interesting bit of game theory: in a niche, the Majority Player will tend to keep their tech proprietary to stay ahead, while the Second String will tend to release everything OSS in order to remove the Majority Player's advantages. This one is dotCloud taking a stab at Heroku, but you can also think of, for example, Atlassian--who runs Github-competitor Bitbucket--poking at Github by releasing a generic Git GUI client, whereas Github released a Github client.)
It was the ImageWriter dot-matrix printer that was released around the same time as the original mac. The pins in the printer cable were in the wrong place.
I agre, the UI is exquisite. Would love to learn how this was made.
These limitations are all slowly disappearing as web standards are advancing fast to fill these gaps. I think soon we'll be able to give trusted web apps permission to read/write to our file systems and reach out to more OS-level interfaces that our browsers have access to.

Web apps also offer advantages over native apps, like zero installation, universal compatibility regardless of OS, and the ability for publishers to put updates/patches out instantly.
Good testers are hard to find, and what's even harder to find are good testers who want to remain testers. The pay is terrible, the benefits are usually non-existent, and they're quite often placed socially at a lower level than the other game developers. Finding someone who is good at testing and doesn't want to be a programmer or a designer is nigh impossible in the games industry. Even if they don't want to be a designer/engineer, they want to advance their career which leaves them with the option of managing other testers, which as we all know, leaves no time to actually exercise their testing skills.

Until testing is treated like a real career, with architect-style career growth options, it will continue this way. Instead, testers spend a lot of their time growing their connections, internally and externally to the studio, hoping that a junior level designer/engineer position will open up. Because there are so many testers, it's quite cutthroat, so spending time at work "showing off" or playing politics is almost a necessity here for career advancement.
This article is good but misses a minor point: Wordpress was never intended to be MVC, the developers had probably never even heard of MVC when it was first developed. Wordpress is a bastard.

I've thought about how terrible actually hacking on Wordpress actually is, and truth be told, the horribleness is so entrenched that any kind of form or community effort to improve it would introduce incompatibilities with the ecology that are insurmountable. Wordpress is stuck.
I don't want to get into an extended discussion, but in my opinion, most web based start ups don't do innovation. They build a small service people want and then 'coast' quite profitably and happily on that.

The heavy duty R&D and innovation requirements start coming into play for different sorts of shops. E.g., enterprises or r&d-driven consulting shops. If you don't have R&D/innovating driving improvements to your products, you will wind up dead in the water.
India’s male startup entrepreneurs have trouble finding wives
Austin and I are both developers and we would love any and all feedback, positive or negative.
I've seen you write a variation of the same idea on so many Hacker News stories in the past few weeks. Maybe you should write a blog post explaining in detail why you think that this is true, and perhaps we can have a civilized discussion about it without resorting to name calling (UX monkey, slinging junk).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5393816

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5382167

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5393816

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5306823

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5306817

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5182105

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5138904

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5128165
It never explains everything, but it provides very important context to help understand what we do. Hopefully even you would agree that we are all influenced to some degree by "bio"; thus, understanding it provides context.
1974 is only 40 years. The terms "career politician" and "career bureaucrat" apply everywhere; someone recruited, say, right out of school, could easily still be working. That's to say nothing of anyone those people may have recruited.

Same goes for technology. What was done 40 years ago may not directly apply, but it might give clues to what's around today.
This is a very short-sighted view. While losing great devs will not put your company out of business over night, it may start a death spiral that it will be very difficult, if not impossible, to recover from. Hiring may be easy for you now, but once your start up starts falling behind the curve, if will suddenly look a lot less attractive to new talent.

> If there is a new piece of functionality required then smart developers will simply find the tools, frameworks, libraries, they need to solve that problem. They don't need this dictated to them.

What smart developers? They have all left to work for your competitor. Besides finding the right tools, frameworks, etc takes time, which is precisely what this article is arguing for.

> Are your customers still paying? Good, get over this aspect then

Your customers will stop paying when something better comes along. And it will come along because, unlike your company, others are innovating.

> You also are inherently decreasing their productivity by teasing them with new technologies that may never be used.

Maybe, but not by as much as you'd think. Looking into new technologies may often improve productivity with the technology currently being used (by bringing in ideas from the new tech).

> What about the increased costs (real actual currency HR costs) that are included in constantly taking your resources off the software maintenance

You don't have to constantly take resources off. Just occasionally. A day-long hackathon a year, and a couple of lunchtime sessions a moth is really not that much.

> I think this idea of innovation debt is a clear non-problem for me and most web based startups in my situation.

The thing about innovation dept, like architectural debt, is that it doesn't become a problem until it is too late to do something about it.
> And so I signaled that I empathize with his frustrations (because I do) but I can't participate in that discussion because it violates community norms I'd like to uphold.

I wanted to post this to your original comment there, but couldn't be bothered to make an account: "Get over yourself".

The guy was just (quite rightfully) venting about his frustration trying to get Ember to work, and the venting itself was still relatively tame. Besides, it wasn't a personal attack against you.

Pretending you're somehow above the discussion because of "the tone" is just lame, especially when there was nothing wrong with it. So much discussion is suppressed all over the world because people insist on latching on to how something was said, instead of whether there was any merit to it.
From the article: "While I spent a reasonable chunk of time in my cabin emailing and working, . . . "
He worked from "home".
> What's wrong with hot standby, log shipping and heartbeat?

It doesn't work outside the lab.

I know that's audacious, but there's been plenty of Heroku based services with outages because of just this. Automated failover to standby systems is very risky and IMO just never a good idea when it comes to your database servers. You also need a bullet-proof STONITH solution so you avoid the nightmare of split-brain on your database servers then. I mean who wants to have to manually consolidate customer data after a failure?

> I don't know how easy this would be with MVCC.

I didn't consider that. Good point. Still want it. ;-)
What about a web menu with sound effects?
This sounds like a reimplementation of virtual machines at the os layer instead of hardware layer.
Is it just that Garriott doesn't understand online games?
Yes, and given that women are more likely to pick raising kids, then it becomes important to partner with a man who makes good money. It seems like you agree with the person you're responding to.
History has shown that the NSA is 15-20 years ahead of the commercial sector when it comes to cryptographic research.
>universal compatibility regardless of OS

The browser becomes the OS for web apps, and in this case Webflow only supports one OS, Chrome.
Come build social wifi at Fon in NYC
Fon is the world's biggest wifi network built out of social routers. We have millions and millions of them deployed around the world. We are the main contributor to the open source OpenWRT project. But we have a great business enabling boring telcos to become sharing-friendly.

We are building a crackerjack, small team of hackers in NYC -- away from our Madrid HQ -- to prototype a next-gen wifi super router.

Come help us do it! Email amol.sarva@fon.com and we'll tell you all about our secret plans and schemes
> For iOS, a developer that can do the design work is worth much more than two entities who does not know the other side.

I believe this is very much true. I hate the fact that I'm still a lousy designer, but I'm hopeful that with courses like HackDesign[1] I'm able to improve myself. I realise I know what a good user interface feels or looks like, but it's just so much harder to develop, yet at the same time it's almost a necessary skill for an iOS developer.

[1]: http://hackdesign.org
The Rise Of Mobile Shopping & The Future Of Retail
There are an increasing number of retailers seeking to enhance engagement, from Levi’s Craft Of Music campaign, to Westfield’s Future Fashion events, exciting fashion start-ups like TheEdit @wearetheco and the Vogue-sponsored Fashion Night Out across London’s West End. Even pure-play online retailers like Capital One or eBay are increasingly experimenting with physical spaces and pop-ups to build engagement.

It may seem obvious, but physical engagement with a brand or community or product is the core advantage that a ‘shop’ - or increasingly ‘pop-up’ - enjoys over an online experience. Mobile computing is an agent in this physical to digital (or vise versa) journey.
Containerization has been around a long time. Probably the start would be chroot, which was developed further by BSD's jails, Solaris zones, and Linux containers.

Basically, these are all ways a way of running programs with a partitioned subset of access to the OS - in some cases, it may even appear to be an entire installation under that subset.

This (and many of the other mentioned solutions) adds to that by being able to capture and deploy an environment for running a specific app.
I'm not sure either. Weird.

I found it quite hard to extract anything from those articles. I think what it's trying to say is that if the ring becomes an issue then the relationship may be far from perfect anyway.
Previous times it has left:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4867577 (106 days ago)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4619731 (165 days ago)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4483757 (195 days ago)

Seems like we're still not sure it's left due to lack of agreement on what constitutes leaving:

However, Webber notes, scientists are continuing to debate whether Voyager 1 has reached interstellar space or entered a separate, undefined region beyond the solar system.
> expressing his opinion

He expressed his opinion that women are inscrutable and more susceptible to irrational impulses, but failed to provide any rational evidence of the same. This is sexist. The fact that it's "his opinion" and "his right to express it" buys him nothing in my book.

> consider turning off your computer

I'm fine where I am, thanks.
> This sort of feedback is not all that uncommon and at this point the Ember team has to be deaf, dumb, and blind not to know about it.

The kind of feedback that has a point?
It doesn't matter if they were banned - they didn't care about SEO in the first place.

All those old URLs they had for years? All disappeared as they wanted to start fresh.
The Java ecosystem had MVC a long time before .NET and a long time before rails mvc was even conceived. You seem to be missing a chunk of history.

Rails made MVC popular among lesser developers (bottom feeders, small projects, not much money - this may have changed now). A lot of organisations were using MVC as an enterprise design pattern a long time ago.

I think smalltalk devs were using the MVC pattern in the 80's and it's been in various Java enterprise stacks for a very very long time. It seems that everyone else caught up when being a low paid front end 'developer' became cool in the USA.

"Controller Model View Controller (MVC) is one of the most quoted (and most misquoted) patterns around. It started as a framework developed by Trygve Reenskaug for the Smalltalk platform in the late 1970s. Since then it has played an influential role in most UI frameworks and in the thinking about UI design."

- http://www.martinfowler.com/eaaCatalog/modelViewController.h...
"The Webflow CSS Playground currently works in Google Chrome and Chrome Canary."

Another fine example of how Chrome is the new IE6...