skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry, never heard of most of them. And still as socialism progressed less and less were able to grow really big as your own timeline indicates.

The companies from your list are not innovative enough too. They are not like Benz that was first cars manufacturer in the world. Or Microsoft that was the first software company in the world.

Yeah, they opened a few stores more than others, or are one of a bazillion successful IT consultancies.

That's not innovation. And innovation is this what requires friendly tax regimes and little to no regulation. That's why it's not happening in the EU.
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none of the companies listed there have a compelling value add proposition IMO.

Does anyone give a damn about anything besides advertising and marketing?
This.

We have much more flexibility at lower limits.
.md is a special type of .txt file. Nothing wrong with having a README.md. Let the OS have a default for reading .md files. In Windows that may be Notepad or something completely specialized like markdownpad.com. If we are adding .txt because the target is novice users, then you should have README.txt so they can click on it.
That's ironic coming from a site where the header appears in Comic Sans to me because of some web font usage.
They address that in the article:

"By now you’re probably wondering how a person wearing one of our contact lenses would be able to focus on an image generated on the surface of the eye. After all, a normal and healthy eye cannot focus on objects that are fewer than 10 centimeters from the corneal surface. The LEDs by themselves merely produce a fuzzy splotch of color in the wearer’s field of vision. Somehow the image must be pushed away from the cornea. One way to do that is to employ an array of even smaller lenses placed on the surface of the contact lens."
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Let's change the first example to:

'riffraff is a symbol.

Does that remove the objection?
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Wordpad does.
Turning off the ringer on your phone is totally legit, though.

It is, but his stated reason for doing so is nothing if not totally insane.
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That was part of it. The main takeaway for many is that Dwolla is super friendly until you actually need to get your money out of it. I tried to get my $18 out of it but they insist on giving them a scan of my drivers license, a requirement that they didn't have at the time I signed up.
I wonder how useful these are. It seems like a lot of the functionality of Light Table is accessed through mouse interactions.

With that said, I could still use some emacs bindings :)
Is there any way to track both concepts with Git? The logical commit history, like what rebase will produce, and the physical Git history.

The reflog tracks this locally, but is there any way to push it alongside commits centrally so that the people who wish to preserve a physical development commit history can achieve that? I imagine it will work something like: by default, you see the logical history; but if you wish to delve into the physical history (including a history of who ran rebase commands, and when), you could do that.

Does this make sense and would it be valuable?
Ah, very cool. Oftentimes the crudest solutions are the best.
I hate them because they're an abstraction leak. The type of a file's content is different from the application that I want to use to manipulate it, which both are in turn different from the name I chose to give the file. That current file systems and the GUI representations on top of them are so badly designed as to confuse three unrelated concepts is a failing of software and as clear an indication as you could ask for of the triumph of Worse Is Better.
Zigurd, I get your point and I do agree that are diferrent ways on enumerating apps but you need to do some guessing. The evil part I think is that you can enumerate ALL apps without need to guessing.

And I also agree with you that there are legitimate uses for that, as you have for sending/receiving sms, but my point is: Users should be warned that this app is attempting to do that so they can judge where to install it or no, as you have for all other sensitive information.

I think all your points on both comments are good and valid and I'll update the post with that. Thanks for your opinions.
I have stopped using Opera, in fact, I will now actively discourage it from being used by others.
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Author here. I threw this together last night and today and is very much a work in progress. The goal of it is be more transparent when dealing with deferred objects throughout a large application. The approach was influenced by the mediator (pub/sub) pattern a bit in that you access the deferred by some central manager rather than dealing with references of deferreds all through your code.

I would appreciate any feedback.
I apologise for not recognising a reference to an 18 year old comic. :/
I'm in public accounting. We just arbitrarily raise our rates. At the end of the day it depends on what the partners are selling. Audit work has kind of stopped growing. Consulting could grow but all these public accounting firms are fairly risk averse as well.
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Well one of the challenges of both helium and hydrogen is that they are really very small molecules, and they tend to slip out through the smallest gaps. This is why the metalized aluminum skin was on the Hindenberg in the first place, and ultimately doomed it.

Lighter than air solids have the issue that if you remove the air from the spaces in those solids and try to hold it out you create a pressure differential that crushes them.

There was some speculation that given an ability to precisely manipulate carbon you could build dodecahedrons out of pentagons of diamond in a vacuum and then when you removed them from the vacuum they would have a net density lower than that of air, but the density ratio is so small (assuming you could build them) that you'r talking about a massive airship that ascends to maybe 3,000' on a cold day.

Exploiting air density is a challenging path that has not had much success of late.
Hi,
I'm not the author of the benchmark neither I looked at the code. I just found it in the network and I though it worths to be broadcasted. The slides and paper explain the kind of benchmark.
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Definitely not. I'm saying it's never "right" in a moral/ethical sense, but when you're put in certain (fairly common) positions, the moral high ground is not a feasible option for most people. It comes down to whether you consider stability for those who depend on you more or less important than doing or refusing to do something based on whether you consider it right or wrong... that's something that's easy to judge until you're in such a position.
> That's ironic coming from a site where the header appears in Comic Sans

Which is odd because the site doesn't use Comic Sans. If it's appearing as Comic Sans to you, the problem is on your end.

Also, not sure how that makes it ironic.
1. Yea I agree, but this won't be their personal money that they'll be spending. Typically university clubs receive funding from sponsors which the club uses for its activities.

2. Yes, that works and it's what we currently do, but after they sign up, the officers (at least in my club) use that info for other things, and they have to go through it manually if they're not experienced with macros.

3. That's a great idea. I think the simple member list would be my minimum viable product, and then I could continue to bring in features such as the ones you listed.

Thanks I appreciate the feedback.
README files have been .txt for years... the only time I would expect an extension on one is if it's NOT a .txt file.

If you're a novice programmer and you're working with a library that has a README file you'll only be confused 1 time, after that you'll know. If your OS gets confused... well, that's your fault for your OS selection and you should be used to using "open with...".
Right. I thought we were only supposed to hate Perl and PHP.

I can't keep up with the dogma...
Being a security minded person, I tend to fall on the security side of secure/flexible. There is a point there that the flexibility is far more important than the security. Sometimes you just have to trust people. If you're not willing to let your work walk out of the building it's stored in, then perhaps you're not in a good position to higher remote workers.

I would personally reserve that level of paranoia for core secrets like finance, personal/public safety, and non-code assets worth large sums of money. Tech IP can be decompiled, disassembled, and hacked directly, if it's a web app. Design fast enough to stay ahead of the curve, have better capacity, and protect you brand image by actually being good.

That said, there are many measures you can take to protect code while allowing remote work. Setting up a virtual machine that allows an encrypted vpn connection, without the ability to copy/paste/save to hard drive, to allow the remote person to work on a server that doesn't connect to the internet outside of the encrypted vpn.

If you're truly paranoid about security, hire a security firm to design a full setup that would allow a remote worker. Just remember, it will be a pain in the butt for the worker, and it may(likely will) negatively impact his/her ability to work efficiently. It may also negatively impact worker retention.
The problem is that different paternity/maternity times makes employers view women as more hazardous. This also reinforces the sexist notion that fathers aren't as integral to early childhood development. I'm sure a new mother would love the extra help for another 8 weeks!

Also, lets say that you're a child adopted by a homosexual married couple and you only get 8 weeks. How is that fair to the adopted child versus 16 weeks for a birthed child?

Equality means treating people equally--including men and children.
I don't work on anything with a README that is for nontechnical users, and I don't produce technical material for anything other than UNIX. No one I work with that I care about pleasing uses it. I'd rather stick with the tried and true convention.
What I found most interesting about this is how outdated the Distimo data is. I have a couple game apps in the Games Trivia category, which is conveniently less popular. According to Distimo, in May of last year it would take roughly 600 dls per day to reach the top 25. We're averaging 1000 downloads a day with each game and neither has cracked the top 60. Amazing how much a difference a year makes. Anyone know if Distimo has done a followup more recently?

Thanks for another great article Trevor.
Interesting that the EXEC commenter breaks the law by saying they 'fired her'. askjigga should show that reddit comment to an HR expert or legal.
Ad targeting != Selling personal data. This is a misleading, linkbait title.
Because some people on HN have names that are ambiguous in sentence context. "gruseom" and "tptacek" aren't ambiguous; "the" and "noonespecial" are.
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While we're at it, let's add .exe to Linux binaries.
Do Opera employees have to watch their steps to a greater degree than employees in other companies? I think that if you stole trade secrets from any other company and sold them to a competitor, they would sue you as well.

All you need to do to avoid being sued is to not sell trade secrets to competitors.
>You really come off as an amoral jerk here.

I'm okay with this. I'd rather be calculating than have my head in the sand about the business models of social networking what-have-you applications.

>What if a casual hookup site texts your new girlfriend--even though you signed up a year before meeting her?

While I don't and won't have to experience this, your imagined relationship suffers more from lack of trust and honesty than "some dumb app does some dumb, annoying thing."

>"we do it for the money lulz" is a shitty and stupid argument.

Don't Straw Man me. If my code was going to be used for something I perceive as evil, I'd leave the job.

Our industry doesn't need yet another pointless, embarrassing ethics/integrity campaign when the people writing the code don't care.
Thanks for the input and keeping the conversation going. I respect you have your opinion but I want to address some points (just to specify, and you're of course entitled to your opinion either way):

I'm not putting her at a higher standard than a man and I don't think anyone else is. If a guy did this, I honestly think even more people would freak out.

I am speaking for women in tech and I absolutely do not have anything similar to apologize for, simply because of this fact:
She said she is speaking for women in tech and she did something stupid. I'm speaking for women in tech saying Adria don't represent women and say you're doing something for women (you're a "hero") when you're actually doing something very wrong. If you want to represent us, apologize then. So yes, that does tarnish us to some degree. She needs to take responsibility for that. If she didn't proclaim to represent us then it wouldn't be a problem to me. I really don't see how that can be argued and why you're as offended as if I ruined someone's career/life at pycon. But it is your opinion.
If there was a separate allowance for recovering from childbirth, that would make sense.

For example, 16 weeks for a woman who adopts vs. 8 for a man who does exactly the same thing is just discriminatory.
The conflation of file type and editor is orthogonal to the use of file extensions as type metadata. I agree that including the file's type in the name is suboptimal, but in a world where we're constantly sending files from one environment to a completely different one, it isn't entirely unreasonable either, as file names are the one truly universal way of identifying a file, and a file's type is part of its identity.
No need to apologise. As it is, drcube's comment is just noisy rubbish.
8 weeks for fathers is very good.
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Besides being a joke based off a classic Dilbert cartoon, Windows really is broken, at least in this one specific area.

File extensions should only be used by people. The OS should have other ways of knowing the file type. And ".txt" is redundant. The default assumption should be "text" and only other file types should require extensions. IMHO.
Did Hitler or Stalin used "explosives, range and airpower" to move people to concentration camps? How you imagine this? Let's say there are 200 houses in a neighborhood. You know that in house #47 and in house #186 there are families that are Jewish/suspected anti-communists, etc. You need to get them out to the concentration camp. You do it by bombing the whole neighborhood? Let's say in Berlin or Moscow? Please explain how having weapons would NOT help families in these houses. Because what I'm telling you and what history tells us is that Secret Police (NKVD/Gestapo) will be sent there with guns to get these people at the gun point to their destination.

And number two: let's say you are a President of the USA. Let's say you do something really evil against the will of the people. Like - theoretically - sending all Mexicans to the camps. You say Mexicans are armed or not - no difference. Interesting.
Interesting, I guess the thing about the WiiU is you've almost got two devices in one, does the game pad need jail breaking independently? Or is it just a display as far as the console is concerned?
Why does Zuckerberg want to destroy decent paying tech jobs?
You never look up things you don't recognize? I care to look things up every day, and before the web I used physical dictionaries and encyclopedias on a frequent basis. Some people may never feel that inquisitive, but quite a lot of us are, and I'd imagine most people on HN are like that.
If it has a "format", add an extension. If it's plain text, it should be redundant.

README for text, README.md for markdown, README.rtf for RTF, etc.

That some operating systems can't figure out what to do with a plain-text file is not the issue here. Hacking on an extension to appease this seems messy.
The idea of a minimal technical hurdle is important in free software. If we adapt everything from our free world to look just like the Windows world, Windows users will never notice that there's something else better. It's important that free software give itself some competitive advantage over nonfree software, especially for its users.
Fair enough, but try picking up any other computer science book from that era and I bet there isn't a single one that has aged as well.
.io is now in the list. See http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&....
Mission: Allow anyone [or anything] connected to the internet to move money quickly, safely & at the lowest cost possible.

Fantastic mission statement: clear, concise and it sounds almost impossible to do.

Although they didn't like my take on it when I was at a certain unmentionable payments company, it was my intuition several months ago that a price war is inevitable in this space. Whatever company initiates it will be the one that gains enough momentum from the tail to scale efficiencies best. Namely: any and all efficiencies that are "left over" after price for fellow companies in the space to compete on (great support, a beautiful API, etc.) Dwolla's aggression here shows that they understand the future of money transfer.
Forget about AR contact lenses, I'd be stoked if they made a lens that is safe and comfortable to wear and doesn't have to be thrown out every 2-4 weeks. :)
Agreed, Trevor, good content. And maybe you're going to address in part two, but how does the presence of IAP factor into your considerations. In other words, not just profitability but doesn't business model also matter? Or do you just assume free/paid/freemium apps will be required in any niche and plan accordingly?
Strawman. And anyway plenty of software developers (and other engineers) won't work on armaments.
Will Dwolla bring back support for bitcoin transactions?
I would also recommend The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger.
It just so happens that Opera announced the financial results for the 1st quarter today:

http://www.newsweb.no/newsweb/search.do?messageId=326699

At the same time, they published a report on usage of their mobile browsers:

http://business.opera.com/smw/2013/03/

Record profits and revenues, and 20 million new users from February to March. Doesn't exactly look like a company in trouble to me.

But maybe you know something I don't.
>I think it's our jobs to make sure we don't promote poor practice and un-ethical behaviour.

No, it's our responsibility as decent people. I don't need to sign some online pledge to keep myself from pushing people in front of trains. If I was the sort to harm others, why would I care about some meaningless online campaign?
No. This is marketing spin. Your data is NEVER DELETED. I'll bet you paychecks that FB has archives of all their users data.

One example: a person committed a crime and stored evidence on FB. FB retains user data forever. They might not make it public, but the data is not deleted.
Kudos to Yahoo!! It is shocking how little maternity leave is provided by the average company. I have a friend who got 8 weeks, took 8 more without pay ... she was so pissed off that she used part of the leave time to find another job. The company lost a top notch worker for being so stingy with maternity leave!
Why? What's wrong with encoding metadata about the content in the filename?
Yikes! What field are you in? For most STEM folks, TeX seems to be pretty standard. I'd really love to see a collaborative TeX editor (web based?). Better yet... a collaborative emacs!
Using that logic, let's get rid of extensions entirely.

All applications from now on shall just be named EXECUTE.
Wow, We were one day from migrating away from Heroku because of this exact issue. I even made a custom Postgis build for dotcloud that also has extensions such as HStore. https://github.com/resmio/postgresql-on-dotcloud. Guess we have time to reconsider now.
One step closer to Sight (a short futuristic film from last year).

http://vimeo.com/46304267
Again, that's the norm six months into a console, Nintendo or not. If it bothers you, don't buy a console at launch and just wait a year or two for more games to be available and the price to drop.
Yes travel time includes time to walk from the Cell tower (considered the "source" and "sink") to the stops.

We could generate passenger level stats for the sample we observed, but have presented it at the route level for now, since its targeted towards operators.

Yes, the improvements reported are from adding of new routes (the article title suggests that we "redrew" current routes). The new routes are generated from "frequent" patterns we see in the data. Haven't looked specifically at alternative modes, although there are several reasons to discourage jitneys.
I wonder if Path will end up being used as a model of what not to do for start-ups, there's been that many missteps that it's hard to separate the network from the issues.

Overreaching use of customer data, check ("But everyone else was doing it!"), and then saying "it turned out the customers didn't understand this", spamming contacts, a CEO who come across as somewhat of an arse at multiple opportunities.

If I was a VC I'd be so nervy about investing money in a business that's repeatedly getting caught out doing some seriously shady business practises.
Ask HN: How do you email your users?
Simple question. Ther are many tools out there including Postmarkapp, mailgun, sendgrid, mailchimp etc. If you have a bootstrapped app (<1000 active users), do you still use these services or use your own SMTP server through your host?

EDIT: I am more interested in transactional emails such as user registration confirmation, password resets, payment confirmations etc. Not worried about marketing stuff.
This is a much better-reasoned response. Like I said, excluding people is not inherently unreasonable. You almost always have to exclude someone, and you're free to define that "someone" in whatever way suits you best. But it isn't something to make blustering declarations about, as though you're taking some great moral stance — it's a practical choice that everyone has to make.
README.md or README.markdown which IIRC is the proper extension for markdown files since .md had already been claimed by some other (now most likely obscure) file format prior to Markdown's rise to stardom.
I think this is the first time I've seen anyone whose question could be answered by RTFAing, but... RTFA.

http://clay.io/blog/an-appeal-to-google-make-io-a-gcctld/

> “If no information is entered in Webmaster Tools, we’ll rely largely on the site’s country domain”

"If no information is entered in Webmaster Tools" -> "It's possible to enter information into Webmaster Tools"

He later says:

> Even if ccTLDs and gccTLDs were treated exactly the same in terms of ranking, Google does not take into account the Geographic target set in Webmaster Tools. Own a “.io” domain and want to target towards US searchers? It doesn’t work.

With the evidence being that socket.io is only a 19th in a search for WebSockets, which I think so sorta shaky, but there you go.
They're selling your personal check-in data to retargeters, which is fine if the TOS specifically stated that they're doing this, but it doesn't.
That's true. A "publish" button makes more sense!
So, did anyone tell you / did you find out that they signed up for Path as a result of the SMS spam? Did it turn out that you really did have photos to share, but forgot?
Because it then prevents me from changing the filename the way I want to. Because legacy garbage.