skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still believe that "3 seconds" was figure of speech for all practical reasons.

Switching is not just: [1. download GR OPML -> 2. upload to some Feed_Service_XYZ -> 3. Bingo!].

Not for a person who had curated his feeds over the years. Starred, tagged and have been using GR's sync services almost everywhere. He might be using it subscribe to new feeds on the web. Share. Etcetera.

But you might be knowing better(I mean about your comment).
That's ok :)

Yes a lot of support on Criticue which I used for a while to work on the design.

Its not. PHP for the front facing code, Python for most processing tasks, MySQL and Sphinx for the search.

Feel free to email me bboyte01@gmail.com for more details.
I know it's not exactly the same, but I couldn't resist the temptation.
The job is gone, but he definitely needs to retain an attorney. I certainly would, and I would proceed until there was a satisfactory settlement.
Normally I would agree with you but I heard someone on HN posted her address and said they were going to "slit" her. The situation has escalated quite a bit and includes actual violent threats against Adria.
The recursiveness of PythonBrazil sponsoring PyCon is confusing me atm.

(Refer to the last page in the sponsor navigation)
>The tech industry complains up and down about its inability to fight the "big money" of the media companies.

The case of the media industry is special because what they lack in dollars they more than make up for in airtime. Major media organizations can very easily make or break a candidate or an issue just in selecting which stories to cover.

This is starting to change with the internet, but there are still millions of voters whose primary source of information is cable news. Over time this is likely to change, the trouble is how to mitigate it in the meantime.
Intigi user. Big huge "less than three" at those guys. Use the product.
at the end, emacs always wins :)
Sure, but for the record, Sublime isn't exactly a "beginner-friendly" editor in the "click and drool sense". It offers menus for common operations, but I think of it more as Emacs But With Python than something I'd hand to a new user.
Aren't we "paying" them by 'being the product'? That's the faustian bargin, I believe. You let me use your tool, I let you profile the hell out of me...
AFAICT this is all we got, from a primary source, about the joke: "began making sexual forking jokes"

That doesn't tell me what the joke was, it could have been anything.

The rest of your comment is hyperbole and straw man. Secret police? Gimme a break, they're walking ads for their company and they agreed to a code of conduct before attending. It's pretty unreasonable to say that you need a second chance to act like a jackass in that situation -- if you didn't know better, you should have.

This whole conversation just underlines to me that this is social bullying masquerading as feminism or "professionalism."

Sure. That's a way more reasonable conclusion than "I have to show a little caution and discretion when talking within earshot of an audience whose boundaries and sensibilities are not completely known to me."

No. You're totally being bullied by people who expect you to have a little basic courtesy in mixed company.
If you intend to be a professional programmer for 10 years, 20 years, maybe 40 years, why is it a big deal to spend 2 years becoming adept at an editor? Vim and Emacs are both likely to be lifelong tools that will easily repay the difficult early days.
I meant her usage of it.
Sorry for the cliche, but the obligatory: http://xkcd.com/378/
>Don't touch the keyboard

>You can do EVERYTHING without the mouse

What are you using to edit text with? The power of thought?
That's Onswipe, and it's my least favorite thing about browsing the web from a mobile device lately. It's slow, the ads have become really irritating recently, and there's no way to preemptively tell a site you don't want to use it.
See No Evil: The Case of Alfred Anaya
That's my voice at the beginning. :)

I was really excited about the talk which is why I volunteered to chair the session. I was happy with the result!
Yeah.

I do not have to think about what I'm doing in vim, when it comes to normal text editing.

To be quite honest, getting up to normal-editor level with vim shouldn't take more than a month to become comfortable. Learning to move, yank, paste, and navigate windows is not hard and you really don't have to think about it.

More advanced usage I have to think about, but that's no different than if you had to think about what you were doing in sublime when you clicked search and replace and started typing in a regular expression.
increasing the default 90 characters linebreak to 10k and reformatting the content.
What a bizarrely meaningless statement. "I went to the shop like you asked. That note you left me about wanting milk, while accurate, is just that: a note."

It's a procedure for handling harassment. It tells you what to do and what not to do. It's clearly relevant that the procedure was deliberately and knowingly violated.
I suspect there was a run on coins. Many people tried to extract at once, and Coinbase has no means of faking true Bitcoins.

If that's the case, they should be honest and try to fulfill coins partially, and make a commitment to fulfill the rest of the coins in the future. If there's a possibility a Buy order won't be able to be fulfilled, the user should be informed of that.

If the prices are too low, Coinbase should raise them-- not just match the latest price on Mt. Gox.

If Coinbase fails, it will be harder as a casual investor to get into Bitcoin. It's bank integration is spot on. I hope they resolve everything.
Google Reader tracked a lot of data about your feed reading habits, including but not limited to:

- Average items/day published by subscriptions
- Number and percentage of items that you actually read
- Number of items you actually clicked, per-subscription
- Time of day items are posted / items are read
- What subscriptions haven't updated in a long time?

You are right about it exporting starred content, by the way. None of this other data, however, is available for export.
I'm really excited about where these headsets are going. My one reservation is whether long term use will lead to strabismus or extra eye strain...
It is absurd to expect a business to not to shift its priorities.

Google did more harm to RSS technology by letting it deteriorate over years. Now that it's gone, I am very hopeful that RSS will evolve and deliver content in better and new ways.
"Media companies" is the wrong word to use--I was talking about movies and music. I just don't see the music and movie industry really leveraging the airtime they have. What they do have is excellent lobbying. My wife (former lobbyist) explained it to me thus: Hollywood and the record labels have convinced politicians that they stand for three things: 1) America; 2) jobs; 3) American jobs. They portray music and movies as the uniquely American cultural export, one of the few industries where the U.S. is still globally dominant, and an industry that creates hundreds of thousands of jobs. They invested in this lobbying campaign early and have stuck to it adherently. And what's the opposition to these American Job Creators? A bunch of internet nerds who want to be able to play DVD's on Linux? There is no compelling counter-narrative from the tech side here, just a bunch of handwaving and bellyaching about how much Chris Dodd makes from the RIAA.
Similar story for me, I'm 21 and due to bad computer and mousing habits I have quite nasty RSI/OOS in my wrists.

Switching to an ergonomic mechanical keyboard (kinesis advantage) and a keyboard-heavy workflow (vim) allows me to work as a developer.

I can tell how often I resort to using the mouse each day by the pain when I get home (I have a trackball on my left hand side and a touchpad on my right hand side to try alleviate this), thanks to not using the mouse all day I can often game for a few hours without too much trouble.

This isn't necessary specific to vim, however vim's modality and extremely expressive command language really minimize the amount of movement I need to do for any given action, no more emacs-pinky for me.
really? that's the problem? it's not wide-spread societal bias against women and beliefs about a women's role in regards to science and career? Come on.
Not sure why Google would block themselves server-side if they themselves wanted the current iOS 6 account-sync set up to continue. Apple doesn't really factor into it at all.

Google breaking off into their own Calendar app is a possibility, but its not clear cut that they would do this since there's a definite "stickiness" to having the Calendar sync option pre-checked as soon as the user adds his/her GMail account.
I feel you. I too hate fun.
Building a common web content parsing service
At what point are the big dongle sketches?
> I'm not going to mention salaries, but I'm a senior engineer with 20
years of experience and can command a pretty good salary.

Why is it everyone is still afraid or committed to upholding this "taboo" about talk regarding salaries? Companies LOVE this. What's fair? Fuck if I know. I don't know what anyone else makes but my close friends, and that's a tiny sampling.

While you're sharing advice, why intentionally spread ignorance? "Fuck you, pay me" you say. But what if my asking price is unbeknownst to me below market for someone of my experience, work ethic, age, and talent? That has an impact on both me AND you. Think about it.
I love her article - but I don't understand how anyone can ever write a 1500 word story about a decline of the newspaper industry, and the business side of it, without mentioning "craigslist" as least once.

Craigslist single handedly wiped out the American newspaper's classified section, and with that revenue gone, pretty much shattered the business model of the vast majority of the dailies.
I'm sorry that happened to you. Even so, I wish you could see that the scenario you've described is not helpful for many people who are trying to imagine feeling unsafe in the situation the woman describes: a full auditorium, two dorky bearded dudes in a sea of dorky bearded dudes, and the sort of mindless unconscious chatter in which people engage while they're waiting for the windbag conference organizers to get to the fucking point. Had they droned on a few more hours they probably could have busted a few more neckbeards.

I'll stipulate that the woman was pissed off, but in no sense did she feel unsafe. When I search her post for the string 'safe', I find one mention of the dorky dudes' temporary feelings of safety and how that sort of thing leads to genocide. There is another mention of PyCon being safe in a general sense. There is no claim that she ever felt unsafe, and your focus on that adjective is unhelpful.
No, she's being to to speak up AND handle it behind the scenes. At what point in this conversation did you forget the fact that an identifiable picture was posted publicly to her 9000 followers?
Well, was the context of her remark made in a context outside the US?
That actually sounds pretty hard to believe - Amazon uses your email id as your username for one, as does iCloud. Both services have hundreds of millions of users.
I rock back and forth, depending on the languages I'm using. Emacs does more, but is in my experience more kludgy, even after having in aggregate spent many days customizing it (maybe it would rub better if I wasn't hardwired to the vi/vim modal editing/motions method). Vim feels cleaner and less annoying, but sometimes the easy integration with external tools tips the balance in emacs' favor. E.g. I use vim for Rails apps (where I didn't really feel enough difference from vim + terminal), but if I were writing Clojure, stuff like the repl integration would probably mean emacs.

Sublime is really pretty, and has great functionality out of the box.

Ultimately, vi/vim's contribution is the modal editing method (and derived things like motions), which can be transplanted to any other IDE or editor that cares to support it. But for the fundamendals - editing and switching between files - I've so far found vim to be the cleanest, most natural vim.
Reading this makes me glad that South Africa retains exchange controls for larger sums of money. The cash may be plundered but it doesn't get siphoned offshore, so there is a realistic chance of it being recovered when the political wheel turns, and the next faction takes power.
The blog's tagline seems very relevant to the origins of this post. Here comes a editor war...

In seriousness, though the author makes some good points, I cannot support his arguments that a mouse can beat a keyboard and that one shouldn't recommend vim because it is ugly.
The Y Combinator Startup Index
Just want to say sorry, I adjust my bra in meetings from time to time. Never realized it would make anybody uncomfortable. I'll try to cut it out.
You sure? Since 2014 is when no one can get denied and everyone has to have healthcare, I think there's some uncertainty in the market. If the system gets too many expensive cases, and not enough payees, premiums could skyrocket.
Besides ‘oh, how many times it will left it?’, I wonder why many find someone's (another) whining about google reader or new bugs in rails more interesting than this.
I actually think people who use esoteric tools are more interesting than people who think that one tool is the best. And I've been working professionally for well over a decade now.
Technologist. What a stupid word.
Valve? They're like the new Google in terms of being a popularly beloved company.
I actually don't think that I am reading too much here. If Adria had not felt personally singled out and targeted, why would she (as described) have been blushing? The fact that she felt that does not mean that she was - but the feeling is relevant to her subsequent actions.

What makes it all even trickier is that it is wrapped up in joking. Jokes can run all the way from light playing around with language, to allowing you to say things that you'd never be allowed to say directly. Where you are on that spectrum can be hard to tell. Often even people who are present will sharply disagree on where a particular joke was on that spectrum. And that is normal people. Geeks are not known for being the best with social cues, even when you don't think about those of us with Asperger's.

Which leads me back to what I was saying. Adria seems to have felt personally targeted. Quite possibly she was. Quite possibly she was wrong. But as long as it is plausible that she was correct, I simply can't support the lynch mob here. Though - as I've said before - unless the man in question had prior history with his employer, firing him was a management mistake.

That said, I've personally encountered more "prior history" cases than managers who would make that bad management mistake. Which says that his firing suggests that there was a prior history. And if there were a prior history, then the odds that Adria was reading the situation correctly go up.
>Never thought vim was that hard to learn (and I first learned it when I was a teenager and nobody helped me. I switched when someone on a MUD made fun of me for using pico.)

I'm pretty sure as a teenager is the best time to learn such tools. :P
PyCon reserves a few spaces in the expo hall for community organizations and open source projects to run a booth free of charge.

PyAr (Argentina) also wanted to run a booth to interest people in heading down there, especially because the conference occurs close to PythonBrazil, but we were full when they asked.
One could use something like a copy-and-pastable session/state string/encoding (that a user should keep secret, if secrecy is important to them) at the bottom of every important page that a person might want to return to (rather than in the URL or the invisible, and therefore unmanageable, cookie). If they care enough to save it, they have an account (ex, they don't have to fill in their shipping info for the 9th time...). If they don't care enough to save it, it can be automatically deleted after a period of inactivity. (This was a common solution to "saving state" in older video games without persistent memory. It wasn't "too complicated" either. People used it, if they wanted to get back to that difficult boss level.)

A login is a continuation, or a state/session key. So is a link/URI. There's no need for a mandatory "account" just to be able to pick up where you left off, even if it's to continue checking your email. (Though one could opt-in to further "protect" pages with passwords, biometrics, non-invasive mucus swab samples, and so on...)
At a 7% return you'd still need about $1.5 mil. And that's assuming that your hopefully more conservative investments in retirement earn 7% a year and over that 20 year span there is not a crash... This includes about 3.5% per year for inflation.
No, I happen to be the woman who actually enjoys hanging out with her current colleagues - who all strangely managed to grow up past puberty.
This is also why some of us love/despair-over Thinkpad's. The Trackpoint is amazing once you are used to it.
In honor of my grandpa
I have seen here people sharing all kind of unique stories and great articles and I decided to add here my story too or it would never be told.

It all started in 1979 in the Czechoslovakia when my grandfather decided to leave the communist Czechoslovakia and emigrate to the Sweden. He prepared the whole escape plan, prepared family and told to his best friend that he decided to emigrate. And what his best friend did? He went to the nearest police station and told everything. One week later my grandfather, father and grandmother went to the boarding control on the boarders between West Germany and Czechoslovakai, with only necessary stuff and with all money hidden inside wheels of their car; prepared to leave their family and life they had lived. Unfortunately, their names were there long before they came. Afterwards, my grandfather spent almost 4 years in jail, my grandmother 4 months and my 17 years old father 1 month. Half of their property was confiscated by the government, my father was expelled from high school and grandmother fired from work.

Almost after 30 years since that happened, my grandfather was admitted as a political prisoner and got refund from the government of the Czech Republic. On the beginning of 2011 he came to and gave me a half of the money and told me - Go for your dream. In May 2012, in age of 23, I got my l first job, here in San Francisco, in Silicon Valley.

To my grandfather, who passed away after long illness one month before I fulfilled my dream. Thank you.
One of the talking points I hear a lot about VIM is that you can do a lot with keyboard. All kinds of fancy shortcuts to move, delete, paste text, etc.

I've used VIM (casually), Sublime Text, and other IDEs. Currently I'm using PhpStorm and I have to say, that thing has keyboard shortcuts that do all kinds of awesome things. Jump to a function by name, jump to the next function, duplicate the current line(s), move current line up/down, select current word/line, open file by partial name, jump to function declaration.

VIM may have lots of navigation but when I want to find the declaration of a function I'm calling, I hit CMD+B in PhpStorm and I get taken either inside the file or another file where that function is defined. CTRL-J shows me a popup with the documentation for the function, CMD+P shows me the parameter list.

Personally, I think IDEs can provide a lot more shortcuts that do a lot more meaningful actions on complex code projects than VIM.
Does anybody know who fired the guy? I'd like to know who I'm not doing business with anymore, that they cower to bullying so willingly instead of protecting and teaching their engineering family? Even if you believe that what they did was wrong, that punishment speaks more of cowardice than justice.

If anybody knows the name of the guy, you are a derp guy, but get me your resume so I can help you get a new job.

(And yes, I'm a lady, and no, that shouldn't be what makes you take my view on this seriously).
I have an old Lego phone collecting dust somewhere that sprang instantly to mind when reading this. Great post!
Google's mission seems to have changed. Looks like their focus is now more towards organizing "Personal information" than "World Information".
I'm not so sure how effective their defense is: I get a memory error on that page now.
Additionally, does anyone agree with this bug report (or is the current behaviour expected) at the bottom of http://sublimetext.userecho.com/topic/52275-down-arrow-doesn...

If so, what can be done to make it more visible?
Why I Prefer Alphabetically Ordered CSS Properties
This is really the seachange. While it won't be popular for glibertairans at HN, the future is startups from 30-40 somethings who know what they're doing.

I've met so many brilliant rocket scientests who could not take the entrepreneurial risk because they had pre-existing conditions or insurance for three kids to think about.
Do we just need more lobbyists?
Emacs can be pretty pretty--perhaps not actively pretty, but very elegant in a minimalist sort of way. I'm pretty happy with how mine looks[1], for example.

[1]: http://jelv.is/emacs-blackboard.png

Also, have you tried Evil? Apparently it's a very good Vim-emulation mode for Emacs, highly recommended over Viper.
Interesting article. I accept that the seeming overstatement of "about two years ... [to] be proficient" differs case by case and may be an average or worst case scenario. Still, the next argument that "The argument that Vim is more efficient is dubious and untestable" because "developers are commonly on machines where the trackpad is a micro-hand movement away" seems to miss the critical point that moving away from the keyboard tends to break trains of thought, at least for me and other programmers I know. This is critical because it takes a while to load problems and solutions into your head. It's like building a house of cards. Looking for the mouse cursor slows down that building tremendously.
I'd like to see it, but I have a hard time buying that this could happen. There is a lot of history and inertia at play with MS, that argues against them embracing an Open world.

I actually think Yahoo could be a bit of a dark horse here, but it's hard to guess where Marissa Mayer's head is at in this regard. Yahoo have actually done some cool stuff, in terms of Open Standards and Open Source. They were early with embracing RDFa and Microformats, for example, and some cool OSS code has come from Yahoo, including, IIRC, Hadoop. But obviously a lot has changed at Yahoo since then, so I dunno what to think about them right now.
Good effort! It's very nice to see the list on one sheet instead of following links on crunchbase or angellist. What was the methodology for coming up with the overall rank?
Even if the mouse were quicker on average for long jumps, the moving of the hand from mouse to keyboard feels like more of a combo breaker, more distracting. Speed is very important, but equally important is for the editing experience to have a low attention footprint to leave more space for the train of thought behind the changes being made.
Thank you for replying.

As I said, I didn't want to take sides. My comment was purely addressing the idea that, because the speaker did not intend the comment to be sexual in nature, that means it was a "fabrication". I do agree with you that the appropriate course of action was to speak to the two men and ask them to cut out the comments.

That said, I disagree with your absolutist position. Yes, anything you say could potentially be considered offensive by someone, but that's not the point. The point is whether it could reasonably be considered offensive by a reasonable person. And yes, I'd have to say that saying "I want to fork his repo", followed up by "large dongle" phallus jokes, is a reasonable candidate to be considered offensive by someone.