skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You guys are on a different league, I made routinetap in spare time and I just don't have the time to spend on it as I want to. So much to do, so little time... In fact, I'm so cheap that I have a jvm running on the same linode for other stuff, I couldn't get enough traction to invest more time on it. Only now I found a guy to help me out with the android app, because I was so disappointed with phonegap-like solutions (tried trigger.io but performance is still lousy comparing to native, nevermind the css3 hw transition quirks...).

Anyway, I hope you guys can get things going, I think there's some things to be done in that area, specially in combination with statistics and social/gamification.

The best of luck!
It is a diagramming app so it is really more useful to add into a word doc or powerpoint. What use case were you thinking of for Excel?
Well, web tools to build online stores today are dime a dozen, and few good ones are actually free or priced flat (not as a percentage of business).

Percentage of sales works well when demand for tools exceeds supply.
Perhaps in the form of a thought balloon emitted from an anthropomorphic paperclip.
Do you understand the appeal of touch typing over hunting and pecking?

Touch typing is hard at first. You have to force yourself to learn it. But once you do, you don't have to think about typing anymore. Isn't learning to touch type liberating to your productivity and thought process?

Learning Vim is the same thing.
Most of the core pieces are open source in the slate gem: https://github.com/trobrock/slate, other pieces should be open source soon, like the ability to add new services.
Not to nitpick, but that (and another popular one http://www.techempower.com/blog/2013/03/26/everything-about-...) was a clever way to get people to techempower.com :)

Useful comparison anyway. Seems Go struck a good balance.
Free market works - if there weren't enough people to try this out, Google would've certainly paid people to try this out. But I am sure there are a lot of folks who find this deal attractive.

EDIT: Fixed typo
vim -y starts vim in "easy" mode where vim essentially behaves like dumb editor like Notepad++ would. And even in terminal (at least in OS X with iTerm2) you get mouse support for cursor positioning and visual selections.
You can edit these swatches with CSS, SCSS and Compass, or Stylus and Nib. Check out the editor:

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The additional description is feasible it's just a matter of time really. As far as number of reps, it's by each exercise within it so we can account for more scenarios.

As far as analytics...i'm excited with the ideas we have for that, we just couldn't make them happen for this launch
Well, he could just go ahead and back out. Which is separate from the discussion about the details of the ownership and corporate structure letting him back out, but still sort of successfully renders it moot.
"It is Google’s intent that the Pledge be legally binding, irrevocable (except as otherwise provided under “Defensive Termination” below) and enforceable against Google and entities controlled by Google, and their successors and assigns. Thus, Google will require any person or entity to whom it sells or transfers any of the Pledged Patents to agree, in writing, to abide by the Pledge and to place a similar requirement on any subsequent transferees to do the same." http://www.google.com/patents/opnpledge/pledge/
It's not enough anymore to just to take a patent case to Texas and assume it's going to be rubber-stamped.

Good to hear, if true. I wonder how much it has to do with having been called a "renegade jurisdiction" by Scalia himself. I would hope that would have given them pause.
Ballmer claims GNU/Linux users don't want to pay
I went to disabled iCloud on one of my Macs and I got this warning:

"If you turn off Documents and Data, all documents stored in iCloud will be deleted from this Mac"

Let's get past the jaw-to-the-floor, how-dare-you, !!!$$%#$## moment. They are morons and don't respect your data.

So, how do you figure out just what is in iCloud? I don't see an easy iCloud viewing option in Finder.

Doing some digging this is what I found:

- Open Finder
- Fire-up "Go To Tolder"
- Enter ~/Library/
- Go into "Mobile Documents"

That's what's on iCloud. You have to manually dig through it all and figure out what's there.

If you delete anything there it will be deleted from all of your sync'ed devices, including your local Mac. It will also end-up in the trash folder.

You could copy it all to a USB drive, memory stick, or, better yet, Dropbox. Then you can completely disable iCloud knowing your data is safe and iCloud will never cause you further grief.
TLABs are a partial step in that direction at the JVM level. You could also use object pools/factories keyed to the thread.

Those are the first two "ghetto" hack solutions I can think of that wouldn't require significant code changes on a going-forward basis.
EU study shows music-downloads are positive
seems like instead of copy and pasting like that you would be better served pressing V and using some form of block navigation.([,(,{, etc.) see :help text-objects for more examples. or a search would work as well for some queries. /textToFind then enter and then navigate to fine tune your selection if it's off by a bit.
There is, "expanded access" or "compassionate use". http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ByAudience/ForPatientAdvocat...
You can tweak JVM but you can't tweak CLR. While it's not Java vs C# the language but the VM/Runtime and the language is almost tight together (Mono is an exception).
zsh + oh-my-zsh. Better than any GUI.

But thus guy lost me when he said he "wasn't any good at the Terminal". And using Spotlight over Alfred? Launchpad? who uses Launchpad?

Crazy.
Should the Department of Energy Fund Small Modular Reactors?
I really like http://sizewellplugin.com/ for this same thing
I am 99% sure that you haven't used contain=>false for cake
php this way all related tables are loaded to serve the related data.
As an owner of a Galaxy Nexus (TMobile) running the latest Jellybean, I suspect you've forgotten what it's like to pick the device up for the first time, if you claim the user experience is as polished for "normal" (non-tech) people. You also would be alone among the crowd of Android journalists who love the OS and talk about how each release is more polished, closing the UX gap. Skim any honest pro Android site for a catalog of annoyances remaining.

Here's one for a new user: Let's say I'm looking at apps on my home screen, swipe left or right to see more apps. Great. I install something new. Not on the home screen. Swipe left or right. Not there either. This is an actual problem for normal users.

I also don't like having to pull out the battery every few weeks because the phone is frozen when I picked it up off the dock. This can happen from any background app. In the most recent case, turns out it was the foreground app, a clock called "Alarm" that I had coming up when docked in the landscape dock. Switched to Daydream, that problem went away, at least. But having to unplug the battery before I can make a call, definitely an annoyance. Glad it has a removable battery though, disassembling and reassembling the battery saves me having to press Home + Power for 10 seconds.

Ha, here's another one, as I'm writing this.

I just took a picture to talk about the UX of finding and sending that picture, but when I went into Apps and swiped left to look for Gallery (seriously, we can't just call it Photos?), the phone froze. Now I'm looking at the first page of icons half off the left of the screen, above a dimmed set of the second page icons. It's still stuck there as I type this. But the phone isn't frozen, I was able to take a screenshot of the built-in Apps browser being stuck halfway between two pages:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/z04qqbn4a93sxlb/Screenshot_2013-03...

As I'm finishing this paragraph, it's still stuck. By contrast, I haven't seen an iOS device crash swiping between the app icon pages.

While finishing describing the above, the phone dimmed, and then locked, as it should. I unlocked using face recognition, and was looking at home screen. Tapped to browse apps, and ... still frozen halfway between two apps pages.

This is native core functionality, simply not working. And like now, these things happen when trying to do something useful. That's a user experience annoyance.
I think an admin approval would be a nightmare in terms of scalability. Why not crowdsource the approval system, with some sort of voting feature for user-submitted exercises?

check out myfitnesspal; they have user-submitted recipes. the recipes can either be private, or public with user-submitted confirmation on the ingredients/accuracy.
You shouldn't throw stones, one clould as easily accuse you of shilling: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ecopoesis
Excel supports task pane and content apps. So for a task pane app like this, it would be possible to make the same app work in both Word and Excel by modifying the "Capabilities" part o the manifest file. All that needs to be added is the following tag: <Capability Name="Workbook"/>

If the user experience is appropriate, then apps typically work very well in both Word and Excel without any changes to the application code.
Oracle seems to move to JavaFX. JavaFX is still at its infancy but it shows some promises: iOS + Android (soon), cross-platform installer on desktop OSes (Windows, Mac AppStore) that doesn't require JVM (JDK/JRE) to be installed first.

It's ugly in terms of the UI but the infrastructure is there.
That's a good point.

99% of wordpress bloggers are just going to consume widget delivery bandwidth and make exactly zero sales.
1% who actually sell will go for services that cost them less.
And these would be the ones who are either flat fee (possibly monthly) priced or free.

Today is the great business model to offer base functional services for free and charge for perks and extras.
This was at Tesco, if the queuing is short enough perhaps you don't need to buy so much stuff in one go and if delivery gets cheaper then online purchasing gets more attractive.
This is the thing I've never understood. Building a house that doesn't need to spend as much energy(money) heating and cooling is a better house. Just the same as a toilet that uses less water to flush is a better toilet. These aren't part of a UN plot to control your life, it's just a smart decision.

Secondly, regardless of what someone might think of climate change, you can't get around the fact that the Earth doesn't have infinite resources and is neither an infinite wastebasket. Something has to change about with how we do business to fix that fundamental issue.
This day is in past actually.
Not sure why you'd spend $60 or whatever Tower is when SourceTree is free anyway. I'm not sure that Tower does a single thing that SourceTree doesn't.
I'm curious to learn what drove you to do this, when it seems much more convenient and conducive for people to take advantage of services like several others have mentioned (Runkeeper, Runtastic, MyFitnessPal, even Nike+) that combine a web app with a mobile app. You get largely the same functionality on the web that you provide, plus social options (sharing workout plans & achievements, etc) and curated regimens put together by experts/professionals, _and_ you get the convenience of a mobile app with an ultra-simple touch UI to carry around in the gym for guiding you through each exercise & recording the results.
Because we're dealing with more than a single datapoint. And nobody's predicting that the earth will get hotter than the sun.

Christ. If the subject was anything but global warming, reasonably-minded people would all come to approximately the same conclusion from the data we have. But no, tribal politics.
Ask HN: How do you (employers) hold on to millenials?
There's a definite need for this, but what's the business model? I'm wary of ad-supported services, because they tend not to last.
Not quite sure I understand your point re: the cost of the frameworks, above the bare standard library.

Do you mind breaking it down for me a bit please?

Cost in dollars or cost in hardware utilization or some other cost?
It's funny that Silverlight is now dead. Also, when Ballmer says something - do the opposite. Should be a good rule of thumb by now.
Actually, if you are in 'insert' mode in Vim all the time "you're doing it wrong". Vim shines when editing and tweaking existing code. You should be in 'normal' mode almost all the time, where you do your "thoughtful, creative, deliberate process" by reading and navigating the code base, and reformatting, moving, copying and deleting code, to get it just the way you want.

If you are just doing straight-ahead typing, you're right, Vim won't help.

The book "Practical Vim" has a nice analogy with how artists work. "Pause with your brush off the page." Painters do a lot of things besides applying paint to the canvas. "The painter does not rest with a brush on the canvas. And so it is with Vim. Normal mode is the natural resting state."
Google Image Search...as amazing art
I'm no expert, but I think certain languages/frameworks are better suited to be behind certain servers when high concurrency is tested. E.g. from http://nichol.as/benchmark-of-python-web-servers it seems django would be better served behind gevent.
> having lived here I know that Delray represents a huge cost savings and a 10 min commute.

If you work in Palo Alto or Mountain View, you can live in Santa Clara or San Jose and significantly lower cost. Additional commute is 10-30 minutes

If you work in SF you can live in Oakland or most of the East Bay (think El Cerrito, San Leandro, Hayward, etc)
I'd love to use this, looks like something that'd suit me. Unfortunately I'm getting

"We're sorry, but something went wrong.

We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly."

when I try and sign up.
It depends, it's value is to some extent determined by an expectation of the amount of businesses that will begin to accept it for some things which is a factor again determined by it's expected value.

In other words it will hit an equilibrium value where the price modifiers in both directions balance each other, but nobody knows what that is.

Think it more like how the value of a futures contract might be determined.
Mortars might, but not artillery, including Naval artillery. The gun fires a shell, not a bullet, which can be designed to cause different types of damage upon whatever it hits e.g. High Explosives to blow stuff up, Armor Piercing to penetrate through armor plating before detonating its minimal explosive load, etc.

The U.S. Navy had mostly moved away from Naval artillery due to the rise of guided missiles with their much longer range, but they are investigating railgun systems which may give advantages compared to missiles.
I don't know, there's a huge difference between self-service, in which I do something for myself instead of relying on an employee, and the idea presented here: doing something for someone else which normally would be performed by a paid employee. I care about getting gas into my car or getting myself groceries, and as a not-very-social person, I see some value in just doing it myself (edit: or at the very least, I don't mind). But what do I care about joe schmo down the street and the jazzercise DVD he ordered from Walmart? I am not remotely interested in dropping that off to him.

Maybe if Walmart wants to pay customers to do it? Just lump that in to their shipping fees? But then they're kindof employees at that point. Or at least something like a contractor.
Shop drop and locket.
Even in a non-Vim text editor, I dislike moving my hands off the keyboard. It's not a productivity thing for me; it's a preference thing. As a web dev (and I hate that most of the interactivity I have to program is mouse-based), I prefer to bring up the dev tools using the keyboard shortcut, and then another shortcut to focus the command line.
It certainly looks nice from the outside; I'm getting rails errors when I sign up however :)
Passenger wouldn't be my choice personally, but I don't think there's anything non "idiomatic" about it. Engine Yard, Cloud 66, etc. use passenger in their PaaS configs, it's been very popular (on the wane now, but still), etc. It seems fair enough and the differences aren't going to be the sort of order of magnitude change which would really matter on this sort of thing regardless.
I thought it was statistical filtering and crowd-sourced spam tagging (like Google's spam filter). I maintain a mail server for a client and Spam Assassin (edit: and greylisting) works well enough without blacklists enabled. Throw in a couple of extra Bayesian filters via procmail, and you're doing about as well as Google does.
Why should it grow exponentially after the fact it is proven to work?

Fixed that for you. Those reasons are all much older than this sudden jump in value. Even if they weren't old, there's no way they're pumping the value of Bitcoin by 500%. If something's too good to be true, it probably is.
How about some standardized workout routines such as the wendler 5/3/1 or a form of the conjugate system. Also since you can share workouts can you share results? Can you share workouts with entire groups?
> not as easy in execution as conception

Nobody said it'd be easy
> Doing UI in Java is too clunky for me no matter what library I'm using though, so YMMV.

For sure. C#, Java, C++ are all clunky. Maybe it's the nature of the ecosystem.

This is one thing I hate about GWT: it offers tons of upside (sprites, bundles, i18n, unit-test in JUnit IF using MVP) but the downside is in the area of big-consideration of pain point.
I am almost positive I have video of this aircraft. I took night video (1/13/13) of an aircraft near the Everglades, the aircraft moves so fast it appears that I am moving, but I was stationary. When I get home I will upload the video and add a link here to see if people agree.
Charlotte Hacker News Meetup - April 6, 2013
The local chapter of Hackers & Founders would like to invite anyone in Charlotte, NC to our spring meetup:

http://clthackers-spring-2013.eventbrite.com/

Anyone that reads Hacker News is a welcome attendee. Beer and BBQ are free, just bring your good stories and ideas.
Oh for sure. That doesn't speak to its huge rice in price, though. People aren't going to switch to Bitcoins simply to buy things they would've just bought outright with real world currency, anyway. That's a hassle.
Alfred is using Spotlight under the hood. The searching is basically no better. I prefer Quicksilver which has a much richer search capability.

Alfred 2 has some nice workflow features though, I've been experimenting with it.
How many months or years does that process take?

Morally speaking, the judgement of a patient (and the physician he has chosen) must not be impeded even for an instant. The FDA renders individual judgement on these matters irrelevant, and the result is often death and slowed medical progress.
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Slate is my preferred way of managing windows on OSX.

https://github.com/jigish/slate
Right, it becomes automatic thought->fingers edits. So yesterday, when I was dealing with some javascript on a webpage, i had a realization that if I did some restructuring of my closures, the code would be smaller and simpler to understand. As soon as I was thinking my fingers were already setting a couple of marks, and putting various lines at various indent levels[1]. Then I thought, these need to be grouped together by indent level, and the reordering was happening, again almost background. I never once thought get rid of this line here and put it here. I thought, ok move this line down a few, move this chunk to the outer scope. Put these lines in a separate function.

Yes I could do this slower/more methodically with other editors, but I tend to think visually, so I visualize the text transforming as I think about the code. The power of vim for me is that I have a language of text transformation that can be simply translated to commands at a speed near to me thinking it.

Much like when typing documents, words in head -> text on screen doesn't involve a lot of "and now i press 'a', now i press 'b'".

[1] at one point this would have been a conscious decision, but since I try to maintain consistent indenting to help define scopes, and since vim has a lot of good indent/unindent commands, I had a realization that this could help refactoring. After some practice it became automatic since its a simple << or >> in normal mode to change indent level. Now it has become a wired pathway in my head, so I just think, "oh this goes up a scope" and the actual steps of "so dedent which means press <<" never registers.
we're looking into this
The only transgenes in use for plant crops are for pest resistance. I don't know if they have anything for growth habits or metabolic engineering. All of that is done with classical breeding, and I might add that recently breeders have been breeding towards less resistance to drought; high response to irrigation and fertilizer means less energy "wasted" as roots leaving more for seeds.
The idea of rigging a clinical protocol to titrate out placebo responders and redo the study on successively more favorable terms seems like a new variety of intellectual corruption.

They're not more favorable terms. A drug which has no effect will still perform identically to a placebo. What changes is the level of noise, and hence the sensitivity of the test.

The spread in placebo responses (the standard deviation of the binomial distribution) is sqrt(N p (1-p)). For N=100, if 20% of the sample has a placebo response, the s.d. of this is 4%. If you have only 5% placebo responses, it's half that: 2.2%. Higher signal-to-noise ratio. You find that more drugs work, because it's easier to tell if they work -- not because you're corrupting the test to show that work when they actually don't.
Doesn't this compete directly with Instacart and eBay Now?
It might be useful to get former employees opinions. I am sure rachelbythebay will give you unfiltered answers about what her experience was like with Google. Former employees jobs don't depend on toeing the line.
I have an Aspire One Netbook (Edit: different model, mine is a 722 with 4GB Ram, 1.333 dual core processor, 320GB HDD) like the OP and run Xubuntu on it which works perfectly fine (in case someone is looking for alternatives to Fubuntu).

Might give Fubuntu a try some day for kicks, wasn't aware it existed. I'm perfectly happy with Xubuntu though, I also run it on my beefy desktop.
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Java (JVM) > JavaScript (Node.JS) > Ruby-Rails
Assuming you are looking for a Unix/Linux person:

1) Good understanding of the user-land + kernel layers - filesystems, inter-process commn (pipes, shared memory etc..), process vs threads, memory layouts, networking (tcp/ip sockets etc..).

2) Experience in kernel development is a big plus but not mandatory.

3) If using C/C++, good understanding of the language features, esp. debugging tools like gdb.

4) If using Java or VM-based languages, apart from language features, good understanding of the VM tunings and its limitations.

5) Scripting - bash, awk, perl/python/php etc..

6) Protocols - HTTP, and others. Good understanding on how to build web services.

7) Performance and debugging: tcpdump/wireshark, /proc/* tunings, firebug, etc...

8) An exposure to web development on the client side - html, css, js. Not necessarily being a guru here but understanding the full stack from the client onwards. It can influence the server-side architecture (handling various ajax requests etc..)

9) AWS services - something to consider (this is how we started with our start-up).

10) Not to mention, a passion to understand the 'big picture', and how to optimize the various resources effectively.
I love SourceTree. I've tried several other guis, only one I keep using.
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