skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We were lucky to find some early beta customers like Airbnb, Uber, and Listia, who were all looking for what we were building and willing to take a risk with a startup. In general, getting the first two or three customers is one of the hardest parts of building a B2B startup. Might make a good blog post one day!
That's a small puzzle. :)
Please could you give us some details about your circumstances & repo at https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN ? I test with quite a few repos and your performance experience with the Win beta is unusual - viewing files in the working copy should usually average well under a second. Do you have very large diffs for example? Info about the repo you are testing with would be very useful, especially if it's public. The Mac version of ST went through a lot of tuning over the years so we'll probably have a bunch to do on Windows too, your assistance would be welcome :)

Steve Streeting, SourceTree dev @ Atlassian
I didn't think of that. You may very well be right. My initial reaction was that Mayer is a micro-manager & too heavily reliant on a bureaucratic process. Your comment, however, puts this approach in a different light.
The dissents are of particular interest.
It just seems to me that if "kill the bill" is the sole entirety of the message, then there is no way to move forward on the issue. Your 2nd paragraph makes a lot of sense, but as far as I know has not been offered or endorsed by any of the opposition groups. If I'm wrong please let me know.
Gotcha. I figured it was either a puzzle or an error (ie "I don't know what the contact email address for this job is yet, so I'll enter some gibberish...").
That's a very loose definition of ads. Advertising typically implies that it's the restaurant promoting itself.
I've worked for neither company but my thought was the same as yours.

Anyone who licenses software from Microsoft knows that lately their most important objective is increasing licensing revenues.

Changing products to increase licensing or changing them to enhance a different revenue stream is six of one, half a dozen of the other for me.
TortoiseGit completely abstracts away the concept of index. Great for those moving from TortoiseSVN. Horrible for git users.
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It didn't say anything about why it is so special?? There are tons of HTML5 client side charts already in existence such as jqplot, highchart, fusionchart..so please let me what makes it so special please.
This is something a lot of people miss. No one minds Google shuttering Reader for good reasons, but they failed to communicate said reasons, and left us to speculate. That speculation has settled on things that make a lot of people feel bad about where Google is heading.
I'm under the impression that Google Drive is a money-making enterprise. Reader was not. In light of that, my question wouldn't be whether this will be canceled, but would be how much you will pay for depending on access to this API when they decide to rationalize the rates.
I'm involved in academic publishing, and this is exactly what will happen. Publishers will simply stop selling the cheaper international versions. Those cheaper prices aren't sustainable, they only exist because the investment in the book is already made up for by the US/first world market. The cheap international pricing is subsidized by the more expensive markets and the international sales don't (historically) cannibalize the US/European sales. If that changes and the international copies flood the US market the international copies will simply stop being created. They aren't (economically) worth doing on their own.

You can complain about publishers all you want, but the net result of this change will simply be less affordable textbooks sold to the developing markets. Maybe that's just a short term result and new entrants will figure out how to profitably target the developing world with high quality material, but the short term affect will be a decrease in those low-cost editions sold overseas.
> You wouldn't pay someone a percentage if it increased your rate by 20%? That seems a bit of a strange concept. Curious as to why not?

Because nothing is free. Adding an extra layer to the sales process costs more than 20% of my time. I can't speak for rglullis, but I'd only accept 20% it if I was incapable of finding additional clients.
1 million active users is not "popular" in Google terms. So-called tech "influencers" like to believe that they are more useful/valuable than any random user, but guess what, you aren't.
Someone who leaves his car door open & his car running is obviously practicing poor security. But it doesn't take "some twisted logic" to show that a thief is still culpable for the crime if he takes the car. I don't think the analogy breaks down in any essential way when applied to the current discussion.
Either way, good on them for doing the right thing.
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I think being paid is pretty integral to the concept of an ad.
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I think this is how more textbook publishers are going to go.

My wife bought a "textbook" for a language class and it was, and I kid you not, 300 loose pages with binder holes punched in them. See, it's a textbook AND a workbook! And sure, some of the pages were workbook pages. But there's no way any bookstore would buy that back as soon as the shrinkwrap was broken.
No labels/legend support for the pie charts? I haven't checked it out too closely but it seems like it would be good to have the percentage labels and what they represent out of the gate.
It seems to me that this SCOTUS has actually had a pretty good track record on civil liberties and these underdog kind of cases (Citizens United notwithstanding)
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Beucase an evil boss take down this one, so we must love it.
It's so awesome that it is a key competitive advantage for the author's company.

"This little charting library will make us MILLIONS!" </dr. evil>
Maybe Toronto will fill the void? Try North by North East http://nxne.com/
Co-founder here. We know this is getting to be a crowded space, but we hope you like our take on the problem. Feedback appreciated!
I tweeted this idea back in December 2011: https://twitter.com/capotribu/status/147730720192872449

looking forward to receiving shares as a thank you ;-)
Wow, yeah. Document fragments seem to be even faster than my original createElement. I'm really going to have to re-evaluate how I'm creating new DOM elements.
Have you successfully developed any iOS apps using the approach you describe (native UI, JS back-end)? If so, how did you embed a JS engine in your app and bridge between that and ObjC?
Don't even bother reordering the chapters.. just change a few of the homework/exercises listed in the book. A cursory check will confirm to people that they have the same version and then it bites them later on.

At my undergrad, there were some profs concerned about files of old tests.. the obvious solution is to vary the test. The more subtle solution is to use the same test but switch which numbers are where. It still trips people's "I've seen this before!" feeling but if they try to memorize it, they're sunk.
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Looks pretty good here. OS X 10.7.5, Chrome 25.0.1364.172.

http://i.imgur.com/sNdqQox.png
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I want to build an online project management web app. Is that a good idea? Is the market big enough to have yet another PM app?

My client's marketing team (15+ people) have tens of basecamp projects and every single one of them hates it... Have we just been brainwashed to "think" that basecamp is awesome when non-techies actually don't like it but don't see a viable alternative?

If I go forward, do I focus on small teams and compete on price? Or do I go for larger teams (which I think basecamp is too limiting for)? How about a free site with a marketplace to buy add-ons?

Do you like/hate basecamp? Why?
That seems less of a polite way of saying, and more like a butt-covering lie. Am I supposed to understand from 'misunderstand' that the company might be climbing down from a stupid mistake it made, or actually be misled?
The level of hate here seems unwarranted.

I've posted a lot on this subject on HN, but ultimately this isn't something that needs to be debated. Anyone can experiment for themselves. Try eliminating grain (esp. wheat) from your diet for a month or so and see how you feel. If you want to go all out, do a whole30[1]. If you see no benefits, then stop, nothing lost. If you're like me and your weight and cholesterol levels drop, then yay. Debate on this topic is less productive than empirical investigation.

[1] http://whole9life.com/category/whole-30/
For anyone looking for an open source alternative to this: http://sharejs.org/

Similar to the Realtime API but without Google or the social integrations.
To say that people aren't forgetting reader would be calling the game in the first inning. It isn't even actually shut down yet. Check back in a year when everyone has switched to other news readers and the world hasn't ended.
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I'm kind of wondering how this will (or can) fit from a deployment set of concerns (cross-silos, compliance & audit, handling CDNs, etc.) into large-scale environments like eBay or Paypal and whether the fraud models are appropriate for most that do business online. As a crude example, I might care about fraud in blog spam from SEO blackhats, which is not the same as credit card fraud patterns but both translate into real dollar loss for some businesses. Granted, the founders are ex-Googlers so perhaps this was done yesterday, but the way they present themselves and with their current customer list they make it look like it's mostly for direct financial transaction based sites. I'm suspecting things are overly simplified but I find it pretty hard to believe that inserting some Javascript snippets into a page could actually help when fraudsters could eventually start bypassing that JS (see: web scrapers). The API docs seem awful naive in number of possible cases.

With that said, congratulations on the launch, I know this is not an easy problem to handle and I think you actually have fulfilled a major goal of ease-of-use for online fraud detection systems. The only comparable systems I've heard of are ridiculously expensive beasts of enterprise software or custom-grown for the company with incredible barriers to entry. Best of luck to you guys.
Thanks for the update. Maybe folks copy it to Pastebin for anonymity or redundancy in case it should disappear. Possible that it was copied from an e-mail before it was known that the contents would be made public. Appreciate the link!
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Started my career on dBase II, then III, then Paradox, then Foxpro (and VFP). Eventually on to DB2/2 (OS/2), Sybase, MSSQL, now all PostgreSQL.

The FoxPro / xBase market was very nice to me for about 6 years. I am happily surprised to see this still exists: http://www.dbase.com/
Is there something similar for other languages?
I second this, my first impression is definitely that the design is confusing and not attractive.

Secondly, I'm really not even sure how this site would benefit me. You need to make that clear on your landing page.

You need to sell your idea, and sell it well if you want users.
best marketing campaign? I guess I am not seeing what you're seeing. To what are you referring to?
The guy joined Microsoft as a Partner, Partners got it good at Microsoft, 500k/year (range is around 300k to 1 million a year) average and they were exempt from the yearly 10% mandatory cut the rest of the workers are exposed to.
Looks like http://www.expert-24.com/ had a change of heart :)

Source: https://workfu.com/nick
The usual reason for slowness on OS X is one of the following:

1. Lack of HDD space (10%+ is benchmark to keep OS X's dynamic defrag happy)
2. Low memory - ST has to launch git & hg binaries and low memory affects those tasks especially
3. Running Mercurial on the App Store version on 10.8 - this is a little esoteric but it's down to Python precompilation and slight differences in versions. You can resolve that by using the system Mercurial instead of the embedded one for now.
This is a reply to those below you, because I can't reply to them specifically.

Word of mouth is considered the best form of advertising you can get. Almost 100% of the time it's not even paid for.
Storytelling is about simplicty
No, they don't. Gevent and eventlet can simply use this instead of their own event loops. In addition, they could install their own event loops.

Tulip separates API from event loop mechanism.
Thanks for the blast from the past! FoxPro was leading edge in its time. I'm also a fan of SQLite; it works great for my website. Who needs bigger iron (on a single machine anyway) when SQLite can insert a million+ rows a second?
Even when there is surplus income in an inflationary system it makes zero sense to save it outside of an inflation protected vehicle. It makes more sense to simply spend it and borrow when you are short. This isn't "ill will." It is a natural consequence of inflation.

It only makes sense to save when there is enough income that the risk of losing savings from a) bad investment or b) inflation is lower than the expected payoff.
Released -> Taken Down/Died -> Re-released.
That was a very insightful read, thanks.
That's not how it works. Typically you have a referer ID in the URL which tracks the source.
hint hint hint: echo 'am9icytiNjRAc2lmdHNjaWVuY2UuY29t' | base64 -D
http://www.oesmith.co.uk/morris.js/ is better anyway
This is very likely derived from Google Docs, not Wave. The spreadsheet app has been based on this approach (immediate synchronization via operation transforms) since way back, and the document and presentation apps were rewritten to the same approach a few years ago. It sounds like they're now simply opening up that backend for third parties... which is pretty cool, actually.

(Background: I worked on Writely, the original Docs word processor. I wasn't involved in the work described here, but saw some of it happening. It's nice stuff.)
Absolutely. American spend more time communing than ever before. That's a lot of time spent steering that could be spent swiping.
Is Flippa [0] not an option?

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What do you consider "large data set"? It seems to choke with over 1200 data points (just take a simple excel sheet with A1=1,A2=2,...,A1200=1200 -- im guessing there's a hardcoded limit somewhere)
At a glance I think it beats those by being better looking, open source, simple data structure, simple setup. This seems to me to be the quickest way to get a beautiful and interactive line chart onto your webpage.
When I click "certify as an investor" I automatically get directed to sign up for early access, with Facebook.

I am hesitant to enter my information, because I don't know what the certification process is like. It would be great if you could add this information somewhere? I highly doubt I qualify so it would be for nothing.
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For those interested to know more about this...we rebuilt TransferBigFiles.com from scratch, wrote a new multi-threaded chunked uploader (which accomplishes 10x upload speed improvements - should be the fastest you have ever seen on the net) and simplified the site tremendously with a new user interface. We also updated our storage to be a hybrid solution that uses both our own servers as well as Amazon S3.

The new site has been up for just over 1 day and we are seeing that the typical user is now transferring 5x as much data than they used to. :-)
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No, its not the point. Did you even read the article? The article is making a claim that the specific "diseases of civilization" (heart disease, cancer, diabetes) would have been equally prevalent in primitive societies IF people had actually made it to old age.
There is zero discussion or argument about the fact that people died of random shit that is today easily cured. The argument is due to the fact that the people that DIDN't die due to random pathogens/violent acts/etc DID live to comparable levels of old age, and the author doesn't get that. When more than half of children die before age 5, it skews the life expectancy statistic the author is citing to claim that there were no old people around to get heart disease or cancer. This is completely incorrect.
Any plans on working with major e-commerce platform providers?
And Windows Github client feels really strange, even comparing to Mac's one. Like, I am expected to be, a degree of magnitude dumber or something. Which would be fine, if I did not switch between Windows and Mac every day (Work/home) and got a shock every time...
You needn't love the project to consider this a win.
Grouping useful stuff together:

The opinion itself:
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/11-697_d1o2.pdf

The dissent is perhaps most interesting.
This is all under the heading on their docs page on "Getting Started"...

Getting started
Add morris.js and its dependencies (jQuery & Raphaël) to your page.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdn.oesmith.co.uk/morris-0.4.1.min.css">
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/raphael/2.1.0/raphael-min.js"></script>
<script src="http://cdn.oesmith.co.uk/morris-0.4.1.min.js"></script>

Um. No, don't think so. Too much over-head
Agreed, just like you can be a celebrity and not have any skills whatsoever in the entertainment or reality TV world. I think their message isn't necessarily about celebrity status but about the quality of work. It says they've done code reviews and reference checks on the 10x site, so they are saying that they've vetted the talent. My guess is that the types of people represented are probably not what one would consider celebrities, as many can afford their own support staff (assistant, scheduler, accountant, etc.).

As an aside, there is some value to hiring celebrity status folks, regardless of their coding ability (helps with recruiting, name recognition, company status, etc.).
I agree. And I still don't know if he runs XP at all, of course.

But being turned off by the '3+ years old OS' requirement is .. just odd.
Holy crap, this is true visionary...great idea and excellent execution! Hopefully everything goes through on the government-side so that anyone can invest in these startups.

Question, though: Is the plan to allow any company to sign up in 2014 or will there still be some moderation in which companies can sign up?
Looks like LaunchRock has sacrificed their UX and value proposition on the altar of monetization. Selling domain name registrations is a decent monetization plan. However I think they need to bring back the primary value-prop communication before trying to sell the domain ( like asking to marry on first-date ). They could even charge $5 for a year of their service up-front, then charge $15 for domain registration etc and continually up-sell users into more services. The approach LaunchRock is using today will most likely loose too many people at the top of the funnel. The appearance of .co restriction is disappointing also ( did they get bought by the .co company? )
Twisted has excellent APIs. Its Transport and Protocol abstractions in particular are extremely handy.
What differentiates your service from existing fraud detection services like CPA Detective?
I'd love to read such a post and best of luck!
Glad to hear it! I had a lot of fun coming back to campus. Good luck to you too!

carl @ sift
Need interactive canvas diagrams instead of static charts? Give Go.js a try
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This looks awesome! Can this integrate with PagerDuty for critical errors?
^^ hahaha
Hey Devon -- thanks for the thoughtful comments!

Most of our customers do use Sift Science for financial fraud, but because it's a machine learning system, you can train it to detect other types of bad behavior like spam. We have customers in production using us to detect spam, fake inventory, and duplicate accounts. If you have a use-case that doesn't quite seem to fit, let me know and we can figure out how to train our system to recognize that type of behavior: brandon@siftscience.com.

If a fraudster bypasses the JS, we still have REST events such as transactions (or any other custom event sent from the backend). Seeing a user who has REST events but no Javascript events is a suspicious signal in itself, so fraudsters can't circumvent the system by just turning off JS.

FWIW, we're on some pretty major sites that we can't announce, so we've gone through a bunch of compliance, audit, security, and other concerns already.
I'm upvoting your comment for your professor. Please serve as proxy and go deliver the upvote to him. He sounds like "good people".
I would still place that as a community project (or community service project), which is used as a loss leader for their commercial (support) offering. And, according to recent controversy surrounding their desktop search, some would argue that they are moving to their users being the product.
the operators sign up to be publishers with ad networks who pay them a cpm rate for all the impressions they generate.
What should you open source in your company
It's not easier than nothing. You don't have to do ANYTHING in mongo. In any reasonable sized web app with a well designed ERD changing is going to result in you stopping coding and doing some ALTER TABLE, DROP INDEX, etc commands before you can start back with the coding.

Also when you want to create a report you can just write a script aggregates the data and fills another collection on the fly without creating the table first. You can even try out 6 different reports at the same time, without issuing separate create table statements.
Yes, via email. At least one customer I know of is doing this. A proper integration is in the works.