skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it windows? I'm on windows too and it feels like it takes forever to load.

According to the console:

plugin init time: 0.726977
loading bindings
loading pointer bindings
found 1 files for base name Default.sublime-theme
theme loaded
app ready
pre session restore time: 4.48531
startup cache, total files: 94 cache hits: 94
startup time: 4.62067 (package setup was not run)
loaded 837 snippets

So indeed around 5 seconds to load.

I'm using all default stuff apart from choosing a different theme. My machine ins't SSD but is up-to-date otherwise.
Code quality clearly isn't important, or we would have better tools. More controversially, why should it be important? Software quality is ineffable, unmeasurable, and therefore impossible to manage. So organizations just kick the ball downfield and accumulate technical debt by the bucketload, and they're arguably correct to do so. The only people who suffer are the programmers, and they're plenty of those, and more every day.
Agree; very strange. Fine dining is a luxury, great software can pay for itself many times over.

Another way the analogy works, though: people hate paying for either with their own money. It's easier to spend when your company (or client) is paying for it.
You can trademark anything that isn't already trademarked, but you have to defend the trademark if you want to enforce the trademark.

Trademarks are a lot like patents, the due diligence when filing is on the filer for the most part. The agency only checks against the filings. So you can get a trademark for Hackathon, but if you tried to enforce it you would lose if there are prior uses by others.

You could get a Trademark in an alternate context. Like if you decided to combine a marathon with a machete and have a run through the jungle. That could be a new use for Hackathon that would be unlikely to cause confusion in the market.

That said I'm sure they will send some C&D's and scare some people in to not using the term.

The "Hon" trademark for a Baltimore restaurant springs to mind. Where the owner tried to extract money from the city of Baltimore, but she ended up dropping the trademark after community backlash.
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I was interested in getting an arduino for a while but wasn't sure what to do with it and was busy with other software projects. Recently, I got a pi at PyCon for free, then shortly after we bought some chicks for raising chickens for eggs. I put the two together and am building out a monitoring system for them, that includes a web cam, temperature sensor and remotely controlled brooder light. I like to call it a chicken pi :)

But, I think it just takes one small project to get you started. I've noticed that this has a snowball effect as I start reading more and talking to more people about electronics and automation. Lots of fun! It's all about hacking, learning and having a good time!
ts;dr: They monitor their server, they log stuff, they use Vim.
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Me too. Firefox 20.0.1 on Win XP, at the moment.

By comparison, login works fine in Chrome 26.0.1410.64 .

P.S. Deleting cookies in Firefox did not help.

P.P.S. Firefox Private Browsing window also does not work for me. Chrome continues to work fine (multiple logins, each time using an Incognito window).
domainx.tld cannot set a cookie on ebay.com. Did they just iframe ebay (with affiliate ID) and get caught? Or did they use some other method?
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asm.js is a universal VM with bytecode that just happens to be similar to subset of JS, but it doesn't have dynamism, doesn't have OOP, doesn't have garbage collection.

Firefox has a separate ahead of time compiler for asm.js that isn't a JS VM.
I didn't see any entitlement in the grandparent post, only an expression of hope :)

We ARE seeing lifechanging robots (example: Google self driving cars, there are less visible ones, but even my hospital here in Uruguay has one for surgeries). In my visit to BMW's factories, I was amazed by their robots.

They just haven't reached the masses yet, there isn't a Microsoft of robots ("one robot in every house").

Note: Microsoft's original vision "a computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software"
They "don't realize" it because its un-economic. If free trade is Pareto efficient (it makes everyone better off), it makes no sense that America would prosper more from Europe being a burned out husk than from it being a well developed trading partner. At least that's what free-traders tell us: we benefit from China becoming rich.
The schematics, bill of materials, and PCB layout files are freely available here: http://circuitco.com/support/index.php?title=BeagleBoneBlack...

What more do you want?
That same Seth Godin article was sent out on an internal mailing list when it was posted and I had a similar reaction. Fortunately I felt comfortable sending my (more professionally worded) response to the team and wasn't punished for it.

But this has always been a problem that must be avoided. People get tired of arguing and just want to push their ideas through. It's understandable but it's a mistake.
http://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue
More accurate to say to "put two fraudsters in prison". Hopefully they'll keep on putting fraudsters in prison.
This analogy works better if you are considering it as paying for software related consulting services rather than buying software "off the shelf". After all some of the worlds best programmers are working on software that is distributed for free.
Thank you, I'm definitely going to check it out!
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This worked on my home desktop but not my workstation. I get a new set of cookies when I try to log in, but I'm still not logged in. (Tried repeatedly.)

Edit: clearing cookies, then refreshing the page before trying to log in again, did work. (Thanks phaylon!)
This comes from the days when you would have to call the IT desk, and have them reset your password.
Don't open the ones from Oracle, they have smallpox.
Can you please provide a link?

I have been playing w/ an MK802 stick and it has a few issues.
Ehhh the point I think he is trying to make is a 'entrepreneur' in this situation would take out a personal loan, or hustle to get the 12K instead of giving up a significant portion of his venture.
Would it be possible to have it tell me there isn't anywhere in my area before I put in my credit card information. I don't know if that is a quirk of just the web widget or if the apps do the same though.
Well, Apple "fanboys" certainly like to talk about the experience of a software product.

There is definitely an emotional factor to software choice.
> Sorry for the brash tone of my previous posts.

I wasn't offended, just sort of confused. ;)

> Thanks for that. :)

No problem! To tell the truth I didn't really have a clue about real performance until I looked it up for that post. I use the hypnotoad (pure-Perl preforking non-blocking), server for Mojolicious for my projects, but those are mostly internal, so I didn't have to worry much about performance. I always figured I would look more into it when it mattered. I thought worst case I would deploy using PSGI on mod_perl, but I also knew from prior experience you can get pretty good performance from a pure-Perl solution.
This is great! Im going to see if they have something similar for Ruby (if not, then Python time it is!). Thanks!
What's wrong with getting a blanket from Google? (along with $175, actually) We always keep one in our living room, handy for occasional dozing on the couch. You can give one to a homeless guy and he will be thankful for it. After the earthquake in 1999 here in my hometown in Turkey, we received thousands of them from all around the world (got one from Greece and was thankful for it). Cats love them, you can use one for the floor to make a winter home for street cats... etc.
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Vagrant and Virtualbox made me rethink about issues of developping webapp on Windows. I mostly do Windows dev and sometimes I also do some webdev, so I can't switch everything to MacOS or Linux.

I'm just starting to use Vagrant, and I think that it's an awesome solution. Vagrant allows to manage headless virtual machine (VM without UI ). I have a headless VirtualBox right now and it uses 48Mo. I could easily run tens of them.

You can share folders with the host and serve files from the virtual machine in a completly prod like environnement. You can also isolate projects in separated machines. For those who think that a unix box is closer to prod think of how many conflicts you can have with tons of libs installed on the same laptop : python, ruby, php, node.js, mysql, mongodb, etc... It is really different from a prod machine anyway. And Virtualbox works better (faster ) on Windows because the shared folder implementation of VirtualBox is better on Windows ;).

I'm not sure how it will turn out for me as I'm not very far in this process, but it seems to be awesome for the moment.
Me too (Win7 x64 Chrome), but I could login without problems
My first impression was that this was some joke and that Google think open source developers are poor and need help keeping warm at night.
To be fair: Not everyone lives in silicon valley. Some of us have winters to contend with. I have blankets everywhere, because I'm not about to pay the required energy bill to keep my house balmy.
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Gifting blankets... This sounds familiar. So it has begun. The war against open source. Blankets laden with smallpox.
You should interface a potentiometer with the Pi to adjust the brooder light, only so you can call it a chicken pot Pi.
yep, this article immediately sprung to mind http://www.attendly.com/stop-complaining-about-the-lack-of-w...
I've organized a few hackathons in Germany and am pretty disgusted by finding this.

I've already contacted a few fellow organizers to find out what we can do about this.
Germans brothers called 'Samwer' copycat any existing successful website like ebay, amazon etc. Now they probably will trademark any single existing word. So typically german, just like chinese...
Not working on Firefox. Tested and working on latest versions of Chrome, Opera and IE8 for Windows XP.

Edit: Removing HN cookies (3 of them) made Firefox work again for me.
Works here too, thanks for the tip!
Since upvotes are invisible, I guess I'll have to make a "me too" post. So yep, I also had to login for the first time in as long as I remember on Win7 x64, Chrome 24.
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I was purposefully linking to that slide + the one after it.

Yes, there is a factor of around 4x slowdown between asm.js optimizations and without them, on the next slide. But even 4x slower than asm.js is quite fast, it's enough to run the Epic Citadel demo for example (try it on a version of firefox without those optimizations, like stable release - as others reported in comments, it runs ok). A lot of the work in Epic Citadel is on the GPU anyhow, say it's about half, so the difference is then only something like 2x.

2x is not that much, we have similar differences on the web anyhow because of CPU differences, JIT differences, etc. That's within the expected range of variance.

Also, asm.js code is faster even without special optimizations compared to handwritten JS (see for example http://blog.j15r.com/blog/2011/12/15/Box2D_as_a_Measure_of_R... and http://blog.j15r.com/blog/2013/04/25/Box2d_Revisited ). So even without those optimizations it is worthwhile.
You can't just say "No". You need to say "No, these are the reasons why, and here are my solutions". It's too easy sitting back and pooh-poohing every idea, and there are a lot of people that love doing that. Coming up with solutions is the right way to approach it, because people really don't like hearing "No".

That being said, I took this approach at one of my previous jobs, a fairly well known enterprise software company in the Valley, and I got blackballed for being too negative. We were working on a project and there was simply no hope of it ever working. The technical lead on the project was over-arrogant and under-talented, and essentially built a system that wouldn't scale. I brought this up a bunch of times, and gave solutions on how to fix it, but they were all rejected by the technical lead. I was told by my manager that I was being too negative and was given a poor performance review, which really rattled me, so I gave up the "good fight". 9 months later, the project was canned because of scalability issues.

So this "Cult of Positive Attitude" really does exist, can be pervasive in a company to the point of being toxic, and sometimes the best solution is to just leave, which is what I ended up doing.
I'm impressed by neither. It's cool for her that she won but neither her gender nor her age should be really worth of mentioning (in a sensationalist manner).

Just look at what 15year old kids did with the demo scene in the 90s.

Not diminishing her (or anyone's) achievements but that kind of article is usually written by people who think that computers are hardcore black magic and only prodigies and people with a master in CS are able to program them.
No sleeves.
Still annoyed HN doesn't allow logging in via Google any more, myself. The login functionality just seems to get worse and worse every time they touch it.
If you erase your cookies for news.ycombinator.com, does it work then? See the menu: Tools; Preferences; Privacy; Remove individual cookies (or something like that, I translated it).
Clever use of materials and construction - like the laser cut carbon fiber.
There is the free "Cryptography 1" course on Coursera ( https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto ).

I'm taking it right now. There's a lot of maths and theory, and it's quite a difficult course, but it's been a great way to learn the foundations of cryptography.
Why not add a link as the 3rd step in addition to the invite code? Once the app's installed on a user's device you can pass through the code via a custom url scheme and avoid the possible drop off of having a user mis-enter their code. (you'd probably still want the code there in addition for users reading the email on a non iOS device)
That post was a giant straw man.

Replace positive with constructive, and you get closer to what people who preach this way of thinking are really getting at.
It's a bribe !!! ;) seriously , no string attached whatsoever , it is a gift and that's great.
I humbly disagree, if you say to the user that the username was correct but the password was wrong then you have leaked information to the user that they should not have access to. i.e. If email is used as a username and I go to a porn site and type in my wifes email address and a random email and it comes back 'username right, password wrong' then I now know she has an account there which she was trying to kepp secret.

It's not only bad from that point of view, but also the attacker now knows you have a account there and so could try social engineering techniques to gain access to your account, it basically provides a attack opportunity that it doesn't have to.
This is really cool! There are some really amazing features packed in there. After browsing the website a bit, I didn't see a whole lot regarding mobile deployment. Is there a builder/packager included that targets native iOS and/or Android, similar to GameClosure, CocoonJS, directCanvas, or Ejecta?
To fix the problem you will need to clear the cookies on firefox for the domain ycombinator.com, hope it helps you.
The app's restaurant network currently covers greater Boston but will be expanding soon.
The air here is terrible. The environment seems polluted almost beyond redemption. I'm not sure it's worth it.
I assume it's based upon the idea of sending plague-ridden blankets. The sic being there to denote that they are actually sending blankets; it's not a metaphor. That said, it's not a great usage.
Iframe of the affiliate link. eBay sets the required cookies.
Seems to be working for me in: FF 19

(Really need to rebuild that ...)
Ack. Just go back in via IE, thanks for the hint.

However I could log back in on my other machine with Firefox after, but only after getting a different external IP from the ISP.

My bet is that they are experimenting with some sort of anti-spam/sock-puppet protection thing and it's misfiring.
Why isn't there an open source standard game engine built in browsers (compiled to .exe itself)?
Most of the books are cheaper on Amazon even after the 50% discount...
So how do the large, financially successful, restaurant companies like McDonalds etc. fit into this analogy?

Should we be looking to make and sell "cheap fast food" software? What about cooking at home?
PG has repeatedly said that HN, despite its size, is still an experiment, so there is no support channel, I'm sure when he has time he will look into it.
Notifications are better on the app than on the web widget, but I don't think we've built one to tell you there are no places near you before you enter in your information. We'll add this though, it sounds highly useful.
I'm down. I also hate saying "frontend" and "backend" too much. It sounds kind of dirty. "She's working hard on the frontend while I try to find these holes in the backend!". I always have to pause before using these terms to see if the sentence will be funny.
All part of my plan to make "Hackgasm" the next big thing.
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Will do on both counts! John is my advisor :-)
> P.S. Removing news.ycombinator.com cookies didn't help.

Same here. FF 20 on Linux.
My Big Question about women in technical fields is more about why, in general, I see so few women who are genuinely curious about the world in which they live. I have never heard a woman posit aloud how they put the graphics on the field of a football game, or how Facebook knows that they might know someone, or, fuck, how a microwave works.

This young girl was simply curious and inquisitive. It wasn't about brains or interest in technology; it was about asking questions and wondering.

So again I ask: why are so few women and girls inquisitive about their world?
I'm using my original beaglebone as my 'home automation' server. It's been a while since I work on it though.

http://alvarop.com/2013/02/automation-progress-light-alarm-a...
with OReilly can't you just enter the ISBN and get the book for $4.99?

edit: This is through registering your(already purchased) print books and then purchasing the corresponding e-book.
Nachtleben.de seems to have also some kind of IT recruitement branch: http://www.young-targets.com/imprint/
I do agree that it is independent of glass, but glass is part of the ongoing trend of extensive recording of our lives with and without our consent. Technology changes everything and as you are saying, people need to adapt.

It's interesting that the most recent presidential election in the US was influenced by a video recording of one of the candidates taken without their knowledge (the 47% comment by Romney). I think it's safe to say that this happened in 2012 because video recording devices are more common and smaller and that google glass and similar devices will only increase that trend. It's kind of like how the Nixon Kennedy debate being aired on TV changed american politics forever. And how "video killed the radio star."
Check you email. Great start up idea. Donate blankets. I'll get the domain and look for some VC money. We'll need a developer.
I'm not sure if spreading android like fertilizer to techy users that are likely to have them already is environmentally defensible.
I'm sorry you had such a worthless experience. What learning methods seem to work best for you?
It didn't help in my case. Nor did the cache and cookie purging.
This is true for some cases but not all. For example if you have a CAPTCHA on your registration form but not your login form.
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I think talking to someone on the phone in English to someone who doesn't speak English, but gets the message in his native tongue in real time would be super awesome (English speaker speaking to someone who hears Japanese and the Japanese speaker speaking back in Japanese but the English speaker hears English).
For some people, that's enough. Not everyone needs 15 copies of the same book.
"Germans apparently allow all sorts of English words to be trademarked."

Like "Apple"?
Interesting video info graph about mobile app trends
Mobile app consumption in the U.S. has reach 127 minutes, compared to 168 minutes for TV and 70 minute for web browsing. That means that people are spending almost double amount of time using mobile apps than browsing the web. If this fact is true, it is definitely something worth considering...
I think that says more about the people you're hanging around with, rather than women in general. I know plenty who are genuinely curious about such things (and you can find a plethora in the news, university faculties, on message boards, etc.)
I too had to re-login for the first time in, well ever, today. I'm running Chrome on OSX.
Yes you're right. Thing is, I used Safari 6 to check it out which has WebGL disabled by default. The site offered a download immediately instead of hinting that I might have to enable WebGL.

The fallback is quite a good idea, but it should've detected that I do have a modern browser which simply might be misconfigured for the game experience.
I had the same issue not being able to ssh into the shipped OS. While updating to the latest OS, I ran into similar issues writing the latest version to the eMMC memory and also thought I bricked my board. The external SD port and the eMMC Flasher images really are a "get out of jail free card."

This board is a beautiful little piece of hardware. I'm really looking forward to tinkering around with it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5649758
It didn't work for me at first, so thinking that I had somehow failed to clear the cookies I tried it again and was able to log in.
Note that the BeagleBone has a 100Mbps phy.
Poor analogy. The economics of software production are totally different. You can't feed the entire world with one meal.
There have been reports of Russian too! Perhaps geolocation has gone awry?
Chrome works fine for me.

But I can't login via IE9 (Vista SP2) either.

Though from the last browser stats share on here, my issue only potentially affects 3 users.
Why would you install one-liner extensions for GNOME-Shell?
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I had to clear my cookies a couple days ago on Chrome to log back in.
Getting really sick of this corporate bulsh*t
I'm not sure how large your definition of "large" includes, but Bronto Software[1] were / are bootstrapped and are doing pretty well.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronto_Software
I was wondering when they'd include this
I can't see any connection to the Samwers or any of their companies in this case.
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I can imagine having wireless internet everywhere. No need to worry about dead zones. Imagine being lost in the middle of nowhere but having some wireless internet to call for help or guide you out. It would be pretty neat.
Any recommendations of must-have O'Reilly books? 5000+ items is a heck of a lot to look through in one day.
Yeah, you can get ebooks for $5 if you 'own' a hard copy. And you prove that you own the hard copy by typing in the ISBN.

Also, they spam out 50% off coupons for ebooks every week.
Just attach another "[sic]" and you are good.
Whenever I type in the correct password, I'm redirected but I'm still not logged in.

Debian Linux 7.0
Iceweasel 10.0.12

I'm using Konqueror as a workaround.
wow. of course! that worked like a charm. this just made my week :)
That's a good idea - we'll give that some thought as we work on streamlining our login flow (which is probably a good topic for a future post)