skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I edit a lot of markdown documents with MacVim, because I use Gollum as personal wiki.
I would like to see the page I'm editing rendered without leaving MacVim or committing it.
Reloadlive does this.
http://albertomiorin.com/blog/2013/03/25/the-zen-of-wiki-wit...
3 things.

1) I kinda feel like AeroFS has taken so long to come out that Dropbox occupies a huge chunk of mindshare. It's almost as if AerosFS will need to spend a bunch of time answering the "why should I switch" question. That said, I would love to see AeroFS succeed as I am less than keen on Dropbox less than stellar handling of security in the past as well as their general security model.

2) This leads to my second point. AeroFS, please please work with 1Password to do whatever you need to get 1Password+AeroFS working. If this is available, I'm switching right away.

3) Mobile support. Yes, please.
Next up, hijacking DNS queries to external servers.
I believe T-Mobile does this in the US as well.
Americans drive a lot more than Europeans. I'm not sure if it's a totally fair comparison, but still a good point.
I think chc meant "you can raise prices with 30 seconds' notice."
You're making the sunk cost fallacy. The amount you paid for an asset is irrelevant to its present value, and equally irrelevant to whether and how much of it to sell.
You're probably right, but do you know of any heavily textured apps that suffer from slowness?

iOS apps don't use much more images than they did back in 2008, but the iPhone 5 has a lot more memory than the iPhone 3GS did.
I'm not too keen on the fact that AeroFS runs on Java as I would prefer to run Java free systems as much as possible (Go version would be nice =) but am willing to live with it if that's the only option.
They are not infinitely divisible, merely very divisible. Kind of like elemental gold...
It might not be the norm, but it's good to realize that it's absolutely achievable. Anything is possible if you really think you deserve it :) It's all about hacking the world.
its a pretty sweet deal :P

/me goes sharpen his .NET and applies cough
I pay $3 a month for 10 domains at dnsimple.com . Service is great and they have not had an outage in the 18 months that I've used them.
I don't think that rule applies to credit card thieves.
> There are several factors driving the bitcoin prices up, including people from European countries converting their money to bitcoin because it makes it harder to seize.

I doubt many people are stupid enough to trust Bitcoin with their savings.

The thing with Bitcoin is that identities are easily made, and transactions are hard to track. Nothing is stopping you from creating a whole load of transactions between addresses you own, essentially creating a lot of traffic and faking interest in the currency. I'm sure there are lots of Bitcoin bots out there propping up prices, run by speculators who bought low.
You may have reduced your effective book cost basis in the remaining 6 BTC to zero, but for tax purposes their (cost) basis should remain unaltered. This is important, because the foreign exchange gain (or loss) you recognize on the conversion of BTC depends on the exchange rate at the time of conversion and your cost basis in the currency units converted.
I just bought it; great idea and execution! Some feedback:

- Pause: say I set it to two hours and sometime later a client rings and we have a 30min conversation. A pause button would be very helpful.

- Full screen mode on 10.7: the bar isn't narrower than on normal mode.

- A way to set the default snooze length

Good job!
Something every dev should be thinking about, but rarely is.
If it makes electric cars more desirable and encourages research and competition, everyone will benefit as the technologies trickle down. The EV industry has needed a kick-start and the US auto industry should be energized by this rather than just racing to the bottom against foreign carmakers. More US jobs.

As a foreigner, I won't be able to afford an EV for along time but I think this makes it more likely I'll get it sooner, due to the technologies proliferating.
Yes, we use NAT traversal techniques where possible on the WAN, and direct TCP connections over the LAN.
With no retirement savings at all (terrible idea, by the way), something between $76k and $77k nets exactly $4200/month in California, after taxes, social security, etc. (According to PaycheckCity.com)

If you put back 10% into a 401(k), you need $88k minimum to net $4200/month.
You probably won't get it. Subeditors guard their privileges jealously.
The flip side to this lament is that those who can afford it generally are subsidizing it a bit more than those who can't. More in taxes, and they actually buy the product, directly subsidizing it.
They received 450M$ to build a luxury vehicle from scratch in two years. In the same program, other companies got 1B$ just to retrofit some fucking factory.
How are you arranging your gigs?
That does sound suspicious. I thought there were 71 total who bought the deal, but it does say "71 of these emails" which seems to indicate that it's a proper subset of the total emails that were to go out. It seems like an unusual coincidence.

Another possibility would be that the selection was based on when the orders were placed, and that the three of them all bought it at the same time because they decided together to buy it.
And now we're back to circular logic.
Why? After all those who could go but are banned are top resources for the HR department of Microsoft...
Uhm..last I checked gold was infinitely divisible too? your argument makes no sense.

Divisibility is not the issue, dilution is.
I would argue that devs only think about what their cultures encourage them to think about. These days developer cultures value "do more faster", so developers think about speed. Until that changes, privacy will be a second class citizen.
My first thought is, you don't have to grow like wildfire. From what I've seen, operations that stay smaller, tend to avoid stagnation.

Of course, I suppose keeping your company modestly sized does stand in the way of securing your "cool billion", which is apparently the minimum take for anybody who is anybody?
Ah so it does. Nice! I'll be giving this another go around in the morning then :)
Any plans for Java-free implementation of the client software? It's a pretty big and an unwelcome dependency.
IP Theft by offshore staff
> consumer products need to be "new and improved!" in order to give the customer a sense they are buying something better than the model from five years ago

Where is the proof of that? I feel that it's an "internet truth" where early adopters have the loudest voice. Yet Apple is full of cash earned on machines that look almost like their predecessors (iPad 1-4, iPhone 1-3GS & 4-5, similar for the Mac).
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

Thinking is creative. Now give us some insights from your thinking. :-)
XP and Vista look completely different. Not only was Aero introduced in Vista, the taskbar and Start menu were redesigned.

Vista and 7 look very different. The UI was cleaned up a lot, the taskbar was redesigned again, Live Thumbnails and multitouch support were added.

Let's compare that to OS X: most people won't be able to tell Mountain Lion (released 8 months a go) from Leopard (released in 2007), just by looking at the desktop.

Here are two screenshots. One is Mountain Lion, the other is Leopard. See if you can tell which one is which. http://i.imgur.com/VDVPvV2.jpg http://i.imgur.com/0fG7xNu.jpg
Yeah, I think blog + discussion, and then edit, and then turn into a book (which people can download or if they want to buy from Amazon buy, etc.) makes the most sense.

A lawyer's input would be really helpful for some areas; I'm pretty confident from an entrepreneur's perspective, and from a technical perspective, but while I generally am aware of the laws which apply to me, I'm not qualified or credentialed to give anything approaching legal advice.

It would almost make more sense to do in the Founders at Work style, where you have a domain expert work on each checklist/chapter.
I don't know about the Boston market, but graduating students are not getting $100k in most markets outside of SV and NYC.
"obtaining the students' consent to release their Wikipedia username (which could be a random string of characters with no identifying information) needs to be a precondition of the students' participating in the assignment."

Why?

"If a professor has 1700 students start editing Wikipedia and 85% of them are plagiarizing"

This is still a number pulled from the air.
I am completely agree with you, this is not proper bench marking as opcode caching is missing in php, benchmarking should be re calculated by configuring APC.
No Linux is not a trap, because it is Free Software.
Freedom is the contrary to a trap.
Alan Kay is 74, despite the fact that he looks 20 years younger. A couple grad students should follow him around 24/7 with a microphone, a tablet computer, and a digital camera and record any ideas he throws out there. He's like the Phillip K. Dick of computer science. He's shaped much of the perception of the world and his weakest works somehow surface 15-20 years later as tacit assumptions.
judging by the response of the tweets from seth himself, maybe this is just a hit piece? if it's sensational, let's let level heads prevail :)
They are not infinitely divisible. Bitcoins are divisible to 8 decimal places. This means that there are 21 quadrillion unitary elements.
Report: Apple to release updated phone this summer
I'd prefer the money go directly to the consumer.

1) It shows consumers that their gov't is supporting this. That's good for citizens to be aware of, regardless of whether you think this credit is a good or bad thing.

2) Ideally, it shouldn't matter but I don't trust car salesman to give consumers the best part of any deal. Consumers are generally not equal negotiators and I suspect sales people will pocket more of the tax incentive.

They can say the car is discounted to include the incentive but they may not apply the entire incentive to the discount. The more complicated a deal is, the less likely a consumer is going to get the better end of that deal.

That may be fine if you're favoring a completely free market but I prefer to side with consumers and favor protection when possible.
Wow, the discussions on this thread are very civil and polite. (I'm new to HN) Faith in the human race=restored.
Does anyone know of a legit way to short bitcoins?
We're doubling (to 4) our Product team at Livefyre, and seeking Technical Product Managers for our embeddable webapps. Your work at YouTube seems relevant. :)

All PMs, get in touch? ben@livefyre.com.
Qt Creator is a wonderful IDE. I've used many and never seen one better. And the Qt libs are underrated for non-gui systems development.
Considering the way the handle their customers (myself being one of them), they honestly wouldn't care.
Do you have a spec of your security model?

I really hope it's not a homebrew solution but something based off existing protocols. In either case, since the security and privacy is your primary feature, a full disclosure of hos it works inside is a must.
Lessons after five years of professional programming
I generally do my finances month to month, soooo:

$16,000 per month

$11,500 left after federal and social.

~$10,000 left after California takes its pound of flesh

$1100 for rent (I am frugal and live with a roommate), utilities, cellphone

$170/month for health insurance, $25 a month for motorcycle insurance

Rounding monthly spending up to $2k.

Roughly $8000 left over at the end of each month, meaning I stack up about ~3 months of runway for every month I work.

My biggest indulgence/non-required expense is Instacart. I justify the expense of Instacart as a way of incenting myself to cook from home. (And I do.)

A salaried programmer out here, if they live by themselves and eat out often could quickly find themselves living paycheck to paycheck. God help the people that have families, you need both parents working (now you're coping with the cost of child-care).

Here's how somebody else's story out here looks:

$90,000 a year in salary

$5,500 a month in take-home after taxes.

$3,000 for rent and utilities for a two bedroom apartment for the wife and kid (most people out here have fewer kids. Can't a afford a house for more than one or two).

$600 a month in groceries for a family of 3. If the programmer resists the peer pressure to eat out, the food costs can be constrainted to this.

$1,900 in slop month to month so far.

$150 a month in health insurance premiums (insuring a family is expensive)

$400 a month in car payments + insurance

If any of them are commuting any distance, easily $100 a month in gas.

$1250 left per month.

And you haven't bought your kid any clothes yet.

If you want a decent house in Mountain View (where I live) or Palo Alto you're generally looking at at least $1 million.
who the fuck thinks that this is an appropriate thing to say?!
to someone you don't know.
in a group setting.

0_o
No targeting does not work in my case. Not at all. The targeting does not get better. But I surf with JS disabled when possible (you'd be surprised how many sites actually work _better_ with JS turned off) and ghostery. I use duckduckgo and do not use any Google Service or Facebook, Twitter.
And yes I still enjoy a rich online live and have a lot of friends online and offline.
I just make an Asana checklist for each project I'm working on - it's a great way to track bugs, add lists of features, see how you're doing, etc. It's also easy to add collaborators if you add a partner to the project and want to manage features in one place.
A dramatic reading of SimCity2013 Amazon reviews
I don't feel particularly compelled to prove anything to anybody, but here's an anecdote:

I had to stop scanning my client checks using my bank's mobile app because I exceeded the $12k per month limit they instituted.

Now I have to take my checks to the bank like a prole.

Edit:

Since I know HN's humor parser is broken, the "prole" thing was a bit of humor. I grew up very poor and have memories of waiting in line at the bank with my mother when I was young.
We've actually just released a Java-free installable for Windows about a week ago (see release 0.4.173 @ http://support.aerofs.com/knowledgebase/articles/93285-relea...).

What we've done in the Windows installation is bundle a minimal JRE as a light-weight library. The JRE is loaded by AeroFS at runtime and is otherwise completely isolated, so no dependency exists on Java in Windows. Based on how well that has worked out so far, we'd like to do a similar approach for OSX and Linux soon.
Try Boxcryptor, probably even less hassle to set up?
Would it not make more sense to criticise Ive until AFTER you've seen a screenshot ?
You know, I tell people the same thing every time they ask me this, and they respond the same way every time.

Networking, a knack for sales, and a reputation for delivery.

You know this post is from an entity that claims to teach you how to do this, right?

http://signup.goodsense.io/

(I just signed up out of curiosity.)
We're working on it (a Java-free system, not a Go version, sorry ;)

See my response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5484566
'Sunk cost' implies an irreversible transaction. Bitcoins are highly liquid. Nothing fallacious about this logic.
It does not fully support C++11. For instance, I still get squiggly underlines for brace initializers in 2.6.2. Renaming is very unreliable. Code navigation doesn't recognize the standard library that's actually used according to the .pro file. Every compile gives me spurious warnings about missing directories on the Mac.

And the documentation is awful. I still haven't figured out how to make precompiled headers work with clang (but that may be my fault).
Oh how nice it would be to be able to run this on my Raspberry Pi's and have off site backups on the cheap. Since most of the people I know now have fiber I'd make a nice distributed system of RPi's to keep everyone's pictures safe.
"but for tax purposes their (cost) basis should remain unaltered."

You can elect (at least in the US) to use average basis (which is what you are talking about), FIFO (IIRC LIFO is not permitted), maximum capital gains or minimum capital gains. You can elect to minimize capital gains this year, but that comes at the expense of reducing the tax basis of the residual to 0
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"if you are more valuable than your replacement."

You mean if the company believes you are more valuable than a replacement. If you think you are more valuable but the company doesn't think so, you should be ready to quit and move on.
Now, whenever I buy something in Bitcoins, I always end up getting a refund after the vendor converts into local currency - which I then need to sell to get USD again.

I expect that when it comes back down at 15% a day, the opposite will occur, and I will have to add a bit more.

It's annoying - I don't really care whether 1 Bitcoin = $USD 1, $USD 10, $USD 100, $1000, or $USD 10,000 - that's completely immaterial to me - I just wish it wouldn't move around.

It is interesting how more vendors who, for whatever reason are no longer able to accept paypal or credit cards, are transitioning over to BitCoin. It's certainly going mainstream more quickly than I would have thought.

This constant volatility is nothing but bad news though.
I'll say it again...

People seem to love talking about shorting Bitcoin, and a crash wouldn't surprise me all, but given Bitcoin's meteoric rise recently you'd have to be insane to actually do it.

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5421675 11 days ago, when the price was about $70)
Not true. VC funds have 10 year lives, depending on the fund obviously.
It does not imply anything about reversibility. It applies just as well to a liquid asset like bitcoin or stock as to an illiquid asset such as a house.

Two people each have 1 BTC. One paid $5 for it, the other paid $10 for it. Their present situations are identical, therefore the rational behavior is the same for both of them, despite their different purchase prices.
frankly, I think Visual Studio is a sub-par IDE for C++. Code highlighting is pretty bare bones. Debugging often misses stack frames and it regularly loses access to local variables. There is practically no refactoring support. The compiler has a weird non-standard feature set. Auto completion as usually not context aware. "Find usage" usually does not find every reference. I could go on...

When people rave about Visual Studio, they are mostly talking about C# development. And even there, they often talk about Resharper.

That said, install Visual Assist X and Visual Studio becomes quite a decent C++ IDE. That does not fix debugging or the compiler of course, but refactoring, highlighting, code navigation, contextual cues and auto completion are mightily improved.
Chinese government promotes patriotism with video game [video]
Depends how long ago "last time" was. I first used Qt Creator in ~2009, it's gotten a lot better over time.
The government is not their sole customer, and SpaceX is not the government's sole supplier for any space-access service.
Maybe he has had the pleasure of being someone that gets to maintain that "good" code. I know I have.. and at Comcast no less.
The refactors often rely on the fact that for every one of you (and me) there are 2x or more of new users who want something looking fresh and appealing, even if we see it as a regression (just don't go too far like MS did with Metro)
It's a rendezvous service. They help clients locate each other.
Can you suggest something better on Mac OS X?
The article about LTE patents present MPEG LA's patents as the best, so lets then list the actually patents in use:
http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-Jul...

Lets pick the first one on the list... Afterall, MPEG LA's patents is the best example of LTE patents, so any ones of theirs must be good.

http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Se...
A method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing specification for digital video encoding is disclosed. Specifically, the present invention discloses a system that allows the relative timing of nearby video pictures to be encoded in a very efficient manner. In one embodiment, the display time difference between a current video picture and a nearby video picture is determined.

A great patent. Very novel. Very clear.
Issue price is sort of arbitrary. Right before the Yelp IPO, they did a 4-to-1 reverse split to change the share price from $7/share to $28/share (rough numbers).
It depends on the number of transactions you are likely to see on your system. I love ruby, but there are areas where it begins to fall down.
@taligent: you’ve been hellbanned. All comments of the last 24 hours are dead, starting with your comments in the Feedly thread.
Ask HN: Who's hiring (April 2013)
Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome.
By the same logic gold miners produce money out of thin air too.

It's nearly equivalent, except the rate of production halves every 2 years.
What happened to Japan's electronic giants?
Do you feel you could have reached this stage from outside the Valley?
Please, please, please bring this to Australia for the Model S launch. I'm buying one on launch day if we have this option.
While 我一点儿回看中文 I hope you appreciate that a poorly referenced Chinese wikipedia article isn't really a contribution to this conversation.
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100% yes.

I stay in the valley for the sake of risk aversion and because I am planning to start a product company soon.
As an aside, your kids do not have to go to university in America.
It seems to me that the 'Jobsian' management style has some inherent boundaries in how large such an organisation can get. By that I mean if you have

a) a micro manager that wants to be involved in all important and medium important product and marketing decisions and

b) this micro manager as the actual CEO of the company

you will run into some limitations. There's only so much a man can review and decide on. Now, of course, Tim Cook is probably not that person, but the Jobs legacy seems to live on in how the 'second line' (Ive, Schiller,..) and everyone after them still acts.

In the longer run, from what we can see from the outside, only Ive has the potential to step into Steve's shoes when it comes to designing new product lines. I'm very curious about how he will manage iOS, at the least we're in for a few surprises in the near future I'd say.
Ugh, who gives two weeks notice to someone that's getting fired? At every company I've worked at, you don't even to return to your desk once they drop the hammer on you.