skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As seiji explained, modifier keys are used to indicate that you want to do special things with links such as open in a new tab or download the linked document. A naive click override will ignore the modifiers and treat all clicks the same even though the intent is different.
Not well at all, snow covers road markings and doesn't always reflect back to the sensor, rain is similar. Puddles are invisible.
I'm normally not a screencasts kind of guy, but is there a good one for using the REPL to assemble, oh, say a web app in Compojure? I started doing a Clojure/Compojure tutorial the other day and I thought I was doing way too much restarting to get changes to take effect (using emacs/nrepl).
what should a for-profit company do, then, once its successful?
Is it possible to use this independently of other heroku services? We're on ec2, but this is a perfect fit.

Edit: If this is up to date https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dynos

Then heroku uses ec2, so it should be possible.
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Selling software via. amazon digital services
I submitted a request some time ago (3 months) to sell our packaged windows application on amazon digital services. It looked like a great opp. at the time due to amazon's huge customer base. Anyone have exp. with or feedback on doing the same? This is a fake acct. as I don't want to reveal my co. <edit> I am asking because I got the contract today.
This is not a comment specifically on Path -- I don't know anything about what they are doing or not doing.

But more generally: one of the most interesting parts of startups is the tension between "Don't Be Evil" and "Don't Fail". It would be good to be able to discuss this more openly -- "Don't Be Evil" by itself is too utopian. Many of the most successful companies in the world did things in their early days -- or later -- that new entrepreneurs would never even consider -- until of course their own backs are up against the wall.
If the interest on the loan amounts to less than what they'd pay in taxes then its worth it to take the loan and wait for said tax holiday. This is common advice for people too - take a loan if you can get more value out of your cash on hand than paying the interest on said loan. The article cites historically low interest rates -- that means it makes sense to take a loan even ignoring the foreign assets situation, if you feel you can use the money to generate more money than the interest.
Opera employee here. Anon for obvious reasons XD

Didn't work there when Trond did so I can't speak to his moral standing, but there's been talk around the water cooler about the lawsuit.

Several people who worked with Trond in 2009-2010 (and even before 2006) are still here and the impression I'm getting is that they're annoyed with Trond for taking all the credit for the work and ignoring all the work they put into the stuff he later handed to Mozilla.

He pretends to be the lone innovator but the truth is he got plenty of help. He took a healthy paycheck from Opera and then turned around and handed the results over to Mozilla.

My 2¢: He's going to lose the lawsuit.
It looks amazing, but I haven't been able to get it to work since 0.2.

alert('foo');

Produces 'SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier'. I'm looking forward to the kinks being ironed out.
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I really think Android should add another layer of protection here, similar to the "This app wants to use your location" prompt in iOS. I'd like to be able to install an app that might need to access my phonebook in some use case but be able to deny it when it attempts to access that information when I don't want it to.

For example, I'd want to be able to use the facebook app and many users might even want to have it scan their address books in order to find friends. However, if the app attempts to read my address book when I'm just checking someone's status update that is clearly not okay and I want to be able to block it.

The free pass to pillage my phone upon installation doesn't sit well with me.
Capital One 360, formerly ING Direct, has nailed this on the sending side. The sender needs to know the recipient's email addr and the last four of their bank acct # -- the recipient will receive an email which takes them to a page where they enter the full account # and, if those match, money transferred.
This whole idea seems totally mad from a distance but as a developer I'd love to be able to open complex files as DBs.

What would be the downfalls of passing around a DB as an image file? Does the compression suck? Does the performance suck? What makes this a terrible idea?

EDIT: to clarify, by compression I'm referring to the non-lossy type - I'm assuming that within the db you'd have already processed assets.
With the new compose interface, for the first time I thought of the possibility of switching out of gmail.

It is completely awkward and unintuitive to use, and still has glitches (like attachments display).
Going with your explanation, then what happened is the same as when any kid, boy or girl, whose parent is a well connected, relatively well off scientist, shows up at the science fair with the home made electron microscope, or the genetically engineered puppy, or the cloned javelina.

And yes, it would be good to give everyone, regardless of gender or age such opportunities.
My impression is that it's a underpromise and overdeliver thing. For example in a Mars prove, you don't know exactly what the soil will do to your wheels, what the thermal changes will do to your cpu, what the dirt will do to your solar panels, what the wind will do to your camera support and there are even the unknown unknowns. Probably most of them can be simulated, estimated or guessed.

And a 9 years mission that breaks after 8.5 years is a mayor failure that wasted millions of taxpayer's money. A 2 years mission that last 8.5 years is a successful result of good engineering practices.

Probably the Helium evaporation is too easy to simulate and they only put there the right amount plus 25% just in case. The problem is that Helium is a consumable, so the tank has a finite duration. You can't try to continue until something breaks.
How is it better than Octave (http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/), which runs most M-files and is free?

EDIT: Okay, someone posted the website, and it IS Octave (http://www.vectera.com/howitworks). So, all the advantages are from the cloud part. I guess it might be nice for people who have to use multiple machines or want to check a simulation's progress on their phone?
People have already demonstrated this capability with modern human-driven cars. The only way you can avoid that would be to remove electronics from card to get back to a 1960s level.

The loss of ABS, traction control, and engine management systems would likely kill more people than any phantom assassination threat ever will.
Off topic but I did smile to see it's written in Go, and not Rust. I guess Rust isn't there yet.
Selling debt to buy back their stock looks like a pretty safe bet. Most of the debt is starting off below ~2.5% interest -- using that to buyback the stock paying ~3% dividends is immediately saving themselves money, in addition to reducing dilution and propping up the stock price.
Whatever happened to the debate around how in/efficient the blob storage format in SQLite was? Did that get changed in v3?

EDIT:

Found the official examination[0] on the performance of blob storage.

[0] http://www.sqlite.org/intern-v-extern-blob.html
I had permanent redeye and frequent allergic reactions when I was using Acuvue Oasys lenses. Some were pretty bad; I couldn't wear my lenses for weeks at a time and had to get $130/oz eyedrops to get rid of the irritation. After switching to a different brand of lenses the problems went away. My sister had a similar experience.
I get that it's still beneficial to take the loan. I was more asking about the situation in general, not in relation to this specific loan.

Is the only reason they're waiting because they think there will be a tax holiday? Or is there more to it than that?

One of the things I learned working on freemium games is that if you have too many sales, then people will only buy when there is a sale. I hope the US Govt has learned that lesson and never does another Tax Holiday.
Sell stuff - funding is not the key - sales is
> Of course, but when you see how many laughably horrible decisions our courts make on a regular basis,

Only if you let HN and reddit rashly interpret your court decisions for you...

> It's also already a prosecutable offense to lock your company out of a business related account, so what is the point of establishing more legislation?

Because by itself, the previous language created an ambiguous situation. All the new bill does is clarify that the ban on asking for login credentials for a personal account doesn't override the offense of locking your company out of a business-related account.
I get what you are saying, and I now agree that it's a net plus for employees.

However, I still worry about possible misinterpretation of the clause involving business use of personal accounts. I don't trust lawyers or judges. Sure, court decisions are probably correct well over 90% of the time, but that's just not good enough for me.
No I understand it perfectly, again you do not. Being a pirate depended on whether you thought you was getting paid or not for work already done. If yes, Privateer and you went through the legal means. If no, and if penalties it would be piracy as you'd go where the money is. Sorry but this is exactly how many of the notorious pirates got started, because eventually their sovereign nation had to do something.

Privateers could and did frequently board allied or neutral nations vessels who were flying false flag for safety and could be held liable for damages.
I think there is something to be done with an online mat lab product. Google has it right with Chrome OS, computer software won't be around in a few more decades. Everything will be in the cloud. So will matlab, but maybe it won't be matlab, maybe it will be you guys.

There are plenty of examples of companies that didn't get into YC and still succeeded. Kingmaking can only get you so far.
I would like to suggest this minor change:

create table layers (id text, parent_id text, sequence integer, uti text, name text, data blob);

become (Vec2 used for notation's sake to make the declaration simpler--just two reals):

create table layers (id text, parent_id text, sequence integer, uti text, name text, data blob, offset Vec2, bounds Vec2, rotation real);

This would make it really easy to ignore layers which have no component in the view space, or to compactly represent raster subimages.

"bounds" is the size of the axis-aligned bounding-box of the image. "offset" i a translation from the center of the axis-aligned bounding-box of the layer image data to the origin, and "rotation" is the rotation (in radians, CCW) of the layer. Order of application is rotation, then translation.

EDIT: Fixed missing def for "bounds".
It feels like when I'm trying to get a loan for a car and they won't give it to me because I haven't had a "steady job" for long enough, despite the fact I could buy it in cash with money for my side gigs, or put the whole thing on credit cards if I wanted to. It's two institutions whose values just don't jive.

Part of the problem is that banks often have to build their models off of data that isn't sufficiently granular. For example, most banks don't have the ability to distinguish between someone who misses a utility payment because they're absent-minded vs. someone who misses a payment because they're short on cash. Regulations compound the difficulty to some extent, but it's really primarily a data/technology problem at this point.
Search for "make shortcut with arguments" plus your OS and you should find something.
See http://www.thepowerbase.com/2013/04/github-graciously-helps-...

Women aren't frail damsels that need your condescending efforts, or need your overly protective assumptions that are mainly patriarchy disguised as a cape to help them cross a puddle that you can manage.

The key to more women in tech is outreach and education, not patronization and tales that they are frail, and need protection and special treatment.

You can have the last word, but next time, try reading the link I share with you.
That's basically it. They are trying to get some tax exemption. And its not only Apple (Google or Amazon are in the exact same position).

My suspicion is that the current "we will manufacture in the US" has to do something with it (Both Google and Apple have announced plans for this), probably some kind of agreement in Washington about capital expenditures being exempt for taxes.

I don't think this is poor planning. International sales grew fest and they found themselves in this situation. If you ask in any other country (esp. in Europe) they'll probably tell you that that money shouldn't be taxed in the US as it was made by selling products on local markets and siphoned away using financial tactics that are frowned upon (selling straight from Ireland, usually).
"We're sorry to hear of your issues and we would love to engage..."

If you can't send anything except this daft, goofy, unbelievably annoying tweet, maybe you need to find a different way to "engage" with upset users.
I found it cool when you guys pitched it to us, I still find it cool today!
Why is it hard to see the value in making a product that competes in an existing profitable and developed market space, but does so better/cheaper/more conveniently? Isn't that a significant portion of the startups in YC? E.G. Hipmunk - simply a more user friendly flight search and hotel booking? Mariusz shouldn't have to spell it out for YC in this case.

If the issue is as Mariusz describes, he shouldn't be blaming himself, but rather YC instead for not seeing the obvious market potential in fairer pricing. Either YC missed something obvious or the reason YC turned Mariusz down was for a different reason than stated.
You skipped a step. LOLz.
In venture capital deals, not every founder will be a Zuckerberg
Yeah, and had clearly never come to grips with for expressions. And his coding style was either deliberately chosen to make Scala look weird, or really suboptimal.
That ship has pretty much sailed with EXIF and embedded metadata anyways, right?

This would seem to be more targeted at digital content creation (and toolchain application interop) than a normal-use file format.
What about OpenRaster? It's used in open source apps like MyPaint and Gimp.

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/OpenRaster
Extreme Gaming at 146 FPS with AMD CrossFire and triple display setup
Horrible experience with Iwantmyname.com
Yesterday I moved to iwantmyname.com and wanted to buy a couple of domains from them. After I bought 2 I wanted to buy the 3rd a .io domain and in the meanwhile I had to transfer some funds from my bank and ofc the transaction with iwantmyname.com failed. Ok that is fine, I got an email saying that the transaction failed and I looked at my dashboard and after that moved to other busy things and forgot about it. Meanwhile the strategy with the .io domain changed last night and I did not need that domain anymore.
Everything ok until now ... but I get an email today saying I have bought the .io domain and sending me the invoice. They have charged my credit card.
First I didn't even knew that they were storing my credit card info...why the hell would you do that anyway? As an experienced developer and a security freak I got really mad. I saw after on the dashboard that you can select to erase your credentials. Again I really do not understand why are they doing that?From what I know they could be storing them plain text or even if they are encrypting them I do not trust it...and the problem is not that I do not trust it, but that the site is really vulnerable and insecure...if someone hacks their database I bet they crack all the data because I know how hard is to secure sensitive data.
This is the first issue with them...but the second and most important issue...why the hell wasn't I informed about being charged? I do not recall giving them permission for recurring payment.
Iwantmyname.com should put their engineers to work because their security design is really poor. It is a recurring transaction for my bought domains because I know that my xxx domain will expire in 1 year and I am ok to bill me when it expires after I purchase it, but when a transaction fails why the hell would you want to retry billing? That is low low programming.
I read a lot of good feedback on HN about them...has anyone had other bad experiences with them?
Or it could be that YC knows Mathematica and/or matlab are thinking about launching a cloud computing service. Mathematica definitely is and it will most likely ROFLstomp whatever these guys and other competitors are coming up with. Computer algebra systems and numerical analysis aren't just topics you can sprinkle with "Cloud" dust and have it come out right. Unless these guys have years of experience, YC probably made a prudent decision.
There's obvious market potential in building a nationwide chain of stores and outpricing Costco by 1%, but an angel investor isn't going to be interested in giving you a billion dollars to make it happen. You have to have some "hook" that makes them believe you'll be able to rapidly achieve profitability and be SO much better than the competition that you have an unusually high chance of success.
Yes, and Ruby on Rails users are just hipster kids who consider installing modules to be 'coding'.

Herp, and if I might be so bold, derp as well.
Would you pay money for it?
One hundred percent men
The thing is, now that it's been more than a year since Steve died people are looking for the first cracks. I myself believe that right now they are simply moving on momentum, I don't really think they have any thrust left. I hope I'm wrong though. Just a gut feeling.
Stupid question: "import matplotlib" is failing despite matplotlib being installed on my system (OS X) and working fine when I run python from the command line. I'm guessing it's something to do with my PYTHONPATH not getting imported properly. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?

Edited to add: this is the first time I've properly tried LightTable and oh my god what a gorgeous piece of software. It's glorious. Just.. yeah. Job well done! :)
To be fair, not only Apple has been lobbying for a tax holiday, also parties like Google and Cisco. Both those companies are sitting on cash in tax havens, but I haven’t seen the market act bearish over it.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-29/google-joins-apple-...
How much of your life are you selling off?
SSN to receive money from Dwolla!? Holy cow. Yes, I like the ING solution very much as well though for repeated (but not recurring) transfers, the need to re-enter the bank account number gets a bit cumbersome.
I had a lot of fun with that. Well done. It gave me a similar feeling as the first time I played fallout (original) but with more of an oregon trail style gameplay.
That's absurd. For many years I used my xbox without connecting it to the internet at all.
I never understood the right-hand rule in college, but somehow your explanation made perfect sense to me. Thank you.
If I can just use sqlite, than I don't have to open an archive, parse xml, and otherwise get into a bad mood (see their file layout here: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/OpenRaster/Dr...).
I think you're missing something in your comment. There's no change between the two lines, and no reference to offset or rotation.
they should continue to make great products and build upon their past success. you may not understand the tax angle on their cash, or perhaps you don't care. but i don't think making a profit is mutually exclusive with social responsibility, and i think paying taxes on profit is the deal we signed up for by operating businesses in the US.
Feedback: With nocript I got no info on the screen at all until I allowed parsecdn.

Maybe leave some kind of <noscript> thingy?
> OpenRaster is an open exchange format for layered raster based graphics.

How's that going to work for vector images?
Thanks for the reminder - just uninstalled Path.
Excellent post. One of the top reasons I don't let employees work more than 40 hours a week, and start kicking people out of the office at 5:30 (if they're still there).
Why not XCF?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCF_%28file_format%29
Thanks, stevoo

we will consider this!
"MATLAB in the cloud" sounds a lot like IPython + PiCloud:
http://blog.picloud.com/2012/12/23/introducing-the-picloud-n...
> How could I possibly find a quote that doesn't exist?

In any other circumstance, that might be OK. In this case though, she has written just ONE blog post about this incident. Obviously it makes sense to start there. She has given many interviews too about it, and commented on other websites. You could have left that for later.

Source http://butyoureagirl.com/14015/forking-and-dongle-jokes-dont...:

<blockquote>

Women in technology need consistant messaging from birth through retirement they are welcome, competent and valued in the industry.
Let’s unify the message to our daughters and to the women developers we work with:

“We want you to be here and we will do our best to welcome you into the world of programming.”

What has to change is that everyone must take personal accountability and speak up when they hear something that isn’t ok. It takes three words to make a difference:

“That’s not cool.”

</blockquote>

I am given to understand that katherineparker does not believe that she's one of these women who need to be massaged from birth to retirement, and katherineparker wishes Adria, being some kind of evangelist, had stopped "representing" women in general in this manner. That's cool. I absolutely refuse to massage anyone.

> You have made a false claim about what Adria Richards said.

False claim.

> You keep repeating that she represents all women.

Odd. KP said the opposite. There is definitely more matter for me to go on about. Just not the will.
This is really cool, I love the Vim bindings. Well done, I look forward to following this project as it progresses.
I don't think it's condescending; I think they're just trying to say that anyone can accomplish anything even if it seems the odds are against them. Would you be just as offended if it said "teenage boy?"

The second statement you call out is important because -- and I wish I could find the interviews -- many female entrepreneurs admitted that it was difficult to get funding for projects that didn't have a female skew. That is not to say that gender-biased ideas aren't valuable, but pushing women to work on women-centric issues is already a problem.
An issue with small midwestern towns is that there is not usually temporary housing available, unless it's a college town.
hey dear 3, and thank you for your information.

working on it right now :)
As a recently graduated student... ohmygod I wish I had this in college (only because I don't use matlab daily). The tutorials are lovely and I don't have to haul myself to a lab to run it.

I would have paid out of my own pocket in college to have that convenience.
mouse over the declaration line and scroll left.
> The article fails to mention while they have huge sums in the bank, it is overseas so they can't bring it back without paying taxes

Well I just read the article and I was pretty sure that's exactly what it said. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're saying?

EDIT: For reference, straight from the article:

"By raising cheap debt for the shareholder payouts, Apple will also avoid a potentially big tax hit. About two-thirds of Apple’s cash — about $102 billion — sits overseas in lower-tax jurisdictions. If it returned some of that cash to the United States to reward its investors, the company could have significant tax consequences."