skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying that trying to innovate on a successful product team is bad. I am saying that when someone's motivation for innovating is to further their own career and not to solve the customer's problems, then their ideas are going to be bad most of the time. That's when they're an architecture astronaut. They care more about getting their ideas implemented so that they can so "look at that smart thing I did". Meanwhile other engineers are doing things like fixing bugs and implementing features that actual users have asked for.
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In addition there aren't many lessons to be gleaned from the story. It might be entertaining to read but in the end it's as if you just wasted 20 minutes playing Solitaire.
In every sublime text thread there's someone praising Vim.

If you want a terminal text-only editor, and already have one like emacs, then you don't need or want sublime text.

Sublime Text does not try to work in the terminal and I love that it doesn't.

Very different use cases. I suspect you are simply a very subtle forum troll.
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Quick little weekend project. This week some buddies are working on a nice new layout for it and I'm adding a couple of features:

- Click to show seconds as minutes, hours, days etc

- Share button for Twitter, a la "I've uploaded 2.3 days worth of videos to YouTube!"

- Best / worst received videos (based views, engagement, etc)

I probably won't build much more than those items into this. This week I'll float it to a bunch of top youtubers I know and see if it spreads.

If there's interest the idea is to make a separate product that gives a deeper look at video and engagement data.

I'd love your comments!
If I wrote my own editor, I probably wouldn't need any customizations either.
I'm amazed at how fast this was done, seems like only weeks ago several people suggested this.
Knowing that the V8 team dislike javascript so much that they created Dart (and Lars Bak says this openly), it's hard for me to think about google including node.js to AppEngine
Open source contributions by location
You can't even be asked to read the first bullet point you are replying to?

#The crime of murder is an offense in both countries.
>> While the ad has great intent, it simplifies the issue a bit by implying that kids aren't calling in abuse because they can't find the number.

This a thousand times. It feels like something the scientist on the Simpsons invented -- very clever but utterly missing the point. I would be shocked if even a single child uses the poster as they're imagining it will be used.
I am the reverse of you, so I can't talk with any great authority, either. But every time I've used Photoshop I've gotten sick of having to create dozens of layers for everything i do- in Fireworks everything is it's own independent, editable vector object. I just find it far, far easier.
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Don't forget they claim the right without you stepping on US soil ever. So it's more like if Pakistan abducted someone working at Youtube from anywhere in the world, then took them to Pakistan to be tried against their local law. Ditto for Europe.
Do coffee shops really want this? We all use them from time to time to meet clients, or sneak in some work but I highly doubt most shops would want you building your business (by advertising your availability) around them.
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$5 for a sticker... Someone said profit margins?
If you don't want to be bothered, why would you be working on a coffee shop? Libraries (or pretty much anywhere else) offer more privacy for real work.
I don't think Joel got it right in a way that matters. What he said, with emphasis added:

"Nobody cared then and nobody cares now, because synchronizing files is just not a killer application."

The first part of the sentence is about the fact that no one cares about such architecture astronaut solutions. He may have gotten that statement right, but it's not the interesting part. The second part is the mistake: he's assuming it's because no one cares about file synchronization. But it's clear from Dropbox and even Apple's cloud solutions that people do care.
Will it help Inkscape?

Could Inkscape advocate Adobe to let Fireworks live to help SVG grow?
How is this different from what "git --diff" provides out of the box for .docx documents?
Require.js vs Traditional JS
Interesting that you're mentioning the "outsourcing" of academic projects.

While this seemingly has been "popular" in Europe for PhDs / doctoral theses for quite some time (in Germany e.g. some ministers recently lost their posts for that or similar activities), it has become an even larger issue in countries like India across all levels of academic studies - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4610739 for more info on that.
Right now it's only available for Windows version of Office 2010. Any plans to release it for Mac or for older Office versions?
Could somebody explain how DELETE can be idempotent?

Ex. "Request = DELETE ID 1"

First request, ID 1 is deleted.
Second request, ID 1 has already been deleted.
Third request, ID 1 has already been deleted.
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It is customary to reply to any benchmark game involving libraries and framework with "it's too simple; it's meaningless".

But would it be meaningless if you tried to gauge the differences in bandwidth and latency of two datacenters (e.g. provided by the same company) ?

Would it be meaningless if you tried to gauge the effect of a dumb vs. an intelligent routing mesh ?

Maybe it is meaningless, but you don't have the data to back that claim. At least the post provided the code so you can try for yourself.
May I know what does it do to be in the gccTLD list? Does it changes something for those website?
Me too! I've had a few 'why's there a weird cat sticker on your laptop' comments but it's also generated a handful of double takes / knowing smiles at University, and has sparked several interesting conversations on trains between Manchester and London, in one of which I was offered a job.
I'd buy that for a dollar; but five? Not so much.
It's in the interests of the smugglers that tight immigration controls remain in place, just as it's in the interests of Silk Road that regulations on restricted substances remain in place.

They need not lobby directly for these restrictions, they have other organisations that will do that for them.
The overlap of Word users and git users is small enough that it makes sense to create a simple to use tool for what is essentially the same task.
That's great! I'm guessing that a lot more startups are going to use a .io domain now since there are a lot of good domain names available.
Stay in Singapore. Build something for an Asian, or African, market.

Am I the only one who cringes when reading stories like this about the Valley? I do not want to be in a bubble. I do not want to take part in gossip or the popularity contest. I would much rather stay under the radar, out of the sights of competition, in an underserved market.
Wish they make it open source rather than killing it. The codebase is anyways not native adobe's.
Philosophy has

1) Materialists who beleive there is just the world as it is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume

2) Idealists who believe there is just the world as it appears. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz

3) Duality who believe there is the world as it is and as it appears. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant
To me, after learning a couple shortcuts, it's already there. Not a big deal to learn.

In fact I have set up my Opera browser to use ctrl-pageup and ctrl-pagedown to change between tabs.

It is that ingrained.

If you mean to replace package control, no, please no. I care only about a very specific subset of packages and I don't want the rest.
You're 2 years late, I've finished writing my book!

Joke aside, I think that's awesome. While writing a book and getting feedback from lots of people (tech review, copy review, etc..) it slowly became a nightmare to decipher, more than actually read, Word documents full of colorful revisions. I would have seriously loved a tool like this.
It is not about coding versus not coding : ) FROONT is about visually choosing web fonts, work with vectors right in the browser, see how designs perform on various screen widths as soon as possible! Using visual approach where it makes sense and speeds things up and coding to add something new to the project.
I can't imagine why somebody, be it designers or developers, should enjoy tweaking cross-browser issues, dealing with scrollbars etc.
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The part of rent-a-coder that bothers me is I'm sure it goes like this more than we'd like:

- Party A contracts with Party B on a big software contract.
- Party B sub-contracts on some of it to Party C, D, & E.
- Party E is a bit dodgy and does a bunch of rent-a-coder.
- Hey it compiles! It gets passed up the line.
- Party B is late and just passes it on.
- Party A is late and, "Hey, it works!" and delivers.
- Hilarity does not ensue.

My personal experience with this kind of thing is that the further away from the actual concerned party you are (in other words, the people who are going to use the software), the more likely it is that the software is going to be wrong.
It means that it's treated the same as a .com and no longer treated as an Indian Ocean-specific website I believe.
I think Joel's larger point is that most programmers are actually arrogant assholes who aren't as good as they think they are, so when they start these massive, architecturally complex projects, they get themselves in way over their heads and it ultimately fails. Actually-good programmers are humble enough to not try to arbitrarily force their white-whale architectures on their project mates and can engage in much more reasoned discussion that results in appropriate, incremental change.

Incidentally, that's what my handle is about: I remind myself everyday I'm just a moron who puts his britches on one leg at a time like everyone else. It's helped me stop caring about code and start caring about my customers' needs. The code I write is what is necessary and sufficient for the task at hand, and as soon as it is no longer necessary or sufficient, it gets deleted or augmented without argument.

And I do catch myself, "but I like this code", and I remember the handle. "Just a moron for hire". Yep, delete the code, it's nothing.

I've had people on message boards reply, "it's hard to take you seriously with your name...". Yeah, no shit. Quit taking people on the Internets so seriously, mostly because they have no impact on your life and you shouldn't let them rise to the level of giving a shit about them.
What has been your conversion rate so far using it? Since this is a marketing/sales practice, I'd love to know what the funnel looks like for this.
No thank you, I have other work to do now. That reminds me I have to drop HN and get back to work. So excuse my short reply.

An even better way to test your platform would be to offer future customers free accounts with reasonable limits to test their applications with real data and load. I realize you offer 20€ for free, but that doesn't cover a real test.
Couldn't we find a nicer word for "idempotent"?
How do I find these? I don't see any Google+ links on gwern.net.
Prose.io looks promising, but it's stuck on the loading screen for me
No, it doesn't. The JVM guarantees class initialization to be threadsafe (the lock is implicit), so you don't need mutual exclusion to access the reference - it's initialized before any thread could attempt to access it.
Awesome idea.

I know they don't get too much love on HN, but it would be cool to see this done for a set of enterprise integration patterns.

See:

http://www.eaipatterns.com/toc.html

http://camel.apache.org/enterprise-integration-patterns.html
What nonsense.

Relationships gone sour can cause mental illnesses to come to the forefront, regardless of venue. Facebook likely isn't causing psychosis any more than telephones and divorce have for decades.
My UI/UX design company developed our own tool to replace Photoshop for our rapid prototyping and UI design work. It is publicly available by now. http://www.antetype.com

We switched from Photoshop to Antetype company-wide now and we don't miss it (It's still here for Icon Design though). We also felt Antetype superior to Fireworks as it has ways do deal with dynamic layouts and prototypic interactivity.
Here's an idea: If SOPA had passed maybe they would have just blocked MegaUpload at the border instead of going through with this lawsuit.
They probably won't care unless you are making an online version of starbucks.
It means that Google will treat it as a worldwide website, as opposed to being country-specific. This means that .io domains are more likely to show up in US search results, and will no longer be given priority in "the British Indian Ocean Territory"[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io
Rentacoder used to have a disclaimer (they may still, I haven't looked in years) that the site could not be used for any thesis or "final senior project"-type project that would determine whether or not someone received a degree.

I always found that oddly specific - they clearly acknowledge that people will use the site to pay someone to do class projects, and get better grades by doing so, and they very much don't care so long as it doesn't determine whether the buyer graduates.
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Youtube paid channel subscriptions
well, intergalactic shipping costs more than you'd think...
There really must be context for this. They can't be claiming that every country needs to follow every other country's laws, or even that that holds on the internet. At the same time, they can't be claiming that every country should respect their laws, right?

I don't understand how I should interpret this without context, but at the same time I can't imagine the context that wouldn't make it horrifying.
Great to see the contrib in action.
Aimed at all the people in China! Think of the money!
that’s a perfect summation of why i love fireworks as well. i often find it difficult to explain exactly why, but it has more to do with the way you get things done than any particular feature. i sort of grew up with it, and as such, find it very natural; have tried to adapt to similar programs but struggle as they completely break my workflow.

and i sort of saw this coming for a while now given its somewhat odd positioning in adobe's product portfolio (overlap with photoshop, illustrator) and the lack of meaningfully updates over the past few iterations (though, as mentioned, there really hasn’t been much room for improvement for a while..). i’ve looked for alternatives, but sadly, can’t seem to find anything suitable.. on the plus side though, i imagine current versions should be perfectly capable for some time to come.

it is sad day indeed though.
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Efficiently Querying for Nearby Things
1337 days, as it turns out.
In a similar vein these completely wooden clocks are somewhat interesting:

http://www.lisaboyer.com/Claytonsite/Claytonsite1.htm

I have mostly completed an "Horologium" and then intend to finish the simple perpetual calendar. The "Celestial Mechanical Calendar and Orrery" is more of a retirement project, with nothing to compare against its hard to tell that its about four feet wide by two feet tall, full of cams and gears.

I tend to cheat and cut my axles outta brass on my metal lathe, but the projects "officially" can be built completely out of wood.

It turns out from personal experience that its pretty easy and fast to cut wooden gears to shape, but a real puzzler to sand them and finishing is a huge problem because most finishes look nice but gum up the works if any gets on the contact area of the teeth. From the outside the challenges simplistically look to be reversed.

Folks in an "electronic" business like this need a "non-electronic" hobby and butchering wood is more or less mine at this time, although I mostly make furniture not clocks. If you're willing to follow the rabbit hole deep enough, woodworking turns out to be about as deep as computer science. If you think you know everything there is to know about woodworking, you probably don't know much about woodworking. Ham radio is like that too.
not really good comedy but better than nothing
Actually, if the high school shooters where using one of this fully 3D printed gun that will destroy itself after a couple shots, instead of a more durable metal barrel, the shooters would have been stopped and neutralized sooner.
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Also, one of the last commits (patch 924) is a HUGE deal for someone like me who has written plugins in python (global, window and buffer-level options can be now set using vim's python API). Let's hope mappings come next!
Thank you Google!
Prepare for new copyright crackdown: GDP to treat artistic works as investment.
The Ubuntu Home Screen
It's still there in skydrive pro. Sometimes the idea is ok, the realization just takes awhile. Sharing documents in office is something that the enterprise users want to do even if we don't get it.
Wow this is timely for me, yesterday I was thinking about doing exactly this. I had no idea it could be done in so little code.

I'm thinking along slightly different lines: a short syllable for each key, optimized for easy pronunciation in frequent combinations, so I can speak the commands really quickly. I figure it won't be any harder to learn than Vim was in the first place.
Details here: https://www.bea.gov/scb/pdf/2011/06%20June/0611_artistic.pdf
Are the response times faster because the company and its servers are both based in the EU? So, really the response time charts are showing the benefit of simply eliminating a cross Atlantic network hop? So, is this a solution for companies targeting EU customers?
What he's saying (I think) is that MegaUpload wasn't simply a service provider.

They got their hands dirty and actively participated in paying to "seed" their own service with popular copyright-protected movies, TV shows, etc.

IIRC they also paid for data center services hosted within the U.S. to ensure Americans had quick access to those services (including the deliberately-seeded IP-regime media files).

You'll note that the Feds aren't going after Google Drive, Youtube, Dropbox, iCloud, whatever Microsoft's cloud offering is called, etc., and yet those services are just as capable of uploading media and hosting it publically.
Great to hear! Thanks!
Two years ago almost to the day, I was sitting in a gym waiting area while my 6 year old son was attending a baseball clinic. I had a 1400+ page Wrox programming book that I was going through when a guy walked up to me and said, "Hey - are you in IT?" His son was attending the same baseball clinic.

Long story short, I am still working full time at the investment bank I've worked at for the last 7 years but I have also been working 15-20 hours per week for him from home on nights and weekends on side programming projects. This has gone on for 2 years now and is exceedingly lucrative.

Don't discount the happenstance meetings in public like this. Some of the people you meet will be crackpots with an idea and nothing else, but experience will help you filter them out.
I find I work better in places with hustle and bustle. It doesn't mean I want to talk to other people or be interrupted.
I've been running the sticker, "Hi, I build software. Come talk to me!" at a high end coffee shop in my town (Nashville) for 2 weeks and it's generated 3 good conversations. I would say I'm very satisfied with how it's gone so far.
It probably helped that every Github Pages site started going to username.github.io. I'd imagine a variety of repositories became harder to find, which'd be noticeable at Google HQ.
It works on Office 2007 too.

We have no current plans to do 2003 (too many hacks required!) but we could potentially do a Mac version if it turns out that we've made something people want.
Is the major advantage of ORBX.js is that it can be decoded by leveraging webGL? isn't that also possible with VP8/H.264?
BTW HN has been unusually slow these past days, got frequent nginx errors, too.

Turned off SPDY in browser for the moment, let's see if I get any more nginx errors.
Hearsay is when you repeat someone else's testimony that you (supposedly) heard. Instead that person should make their testimony directly, in their own words.

The assertion you replied to is a simple assertion, not hearsay. Just look at the income MegaUpload received from each file hosted and correlate to whether it is infringing or not and you can prove or disprove the assertion.
Can you do one of these for Windows keyboards?
The part of reading rent-a-coder that always depresses me is the rampant contract cheating. It makes me wish that by facilitating that activity and taking a piece of the action, sites like rent-a-coder incurred civil liability to the colleges and universities whose assignments are being bartered.

I'm not quite sure how to work that - maybe sue them as some sort of accessory to fraud, though that would probably first require the university charging cheating students with fraud.
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Sounds like a conspiracy theory. How do you begin to tell the difference between an innovator and a career whore? You mean, because their motivations are wrong, their ideas will be toxic if seductive also? Is it really so easy to judge?
>(no public schools, let sick people without insurance die, can't afford food then starve, etc)

Just want to emphasize (I see your little tacked-on afterthought there) that just because a libertarian doesn't believe the money to do these things should be forcibly extracted from the taxpayer's pocket doesn't mean that they believe people should be left to die. They simply trust non-governmental entities to capably care for their fellow men. It's about the proper role of government, not Darwinism.

As an example, consider Social Security. The government told us that they needed to save our money for us, since we were too stupid to do it ourselves. And now they've spent it all. lol?
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He wasn't wrong then. The world has changed. A user has far more computers now than she had then.
Indeed. It's a very clunky word, not least because it's unclear which syllable to stress.

I've variously heard people say both i-dem-PO-tent and i-DEM-po-tent. (In the latter, the "o" in "po" gets reduced to a schwa.)
I could have used this in the past three months! I suppose after summer I might put it to use again during school. I haven't tried it yet, but the title sounds very promising. Nice work!

PS. Heads up: Mind the guidelines:

> "Don't abuse the text field in the submission form to add commentary to links. The text field is for starting discussions. If you're submitting a link, put it in the url field. If you want to add initial commentary on the link, write a blog post about it and submit that instead."