skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tom Cruise is 5ft 7in
Poll : Did your Startup experience ruined your love life?
Excellent, thanks. I'm new to HN, a friend recommended I ask on here, but didn't want to wade in with a job posting without understanding how things work! I'll keep an eye out for Who's Hiring.
Lavabit down for hours; no word from Lavabit
If you have a local university try advertising there, be honest and clear about what are you doing to do, etc

good luck!
Isn't TDD all about writing tests before coding?
He is first and foremost social conservative, leaning libertarian on a few issues, and a state rights man on most issues (which isn't really about freedom. It's born out of a realization by reactionary southern people, that they can't get enough national support to implement their desired anti-freedom policies on a federal level).

For instance, he opposes women's right to abortion (except in certain cases), same-sex marriage, birthright citizenship, and any gun-control (the laissez faire regulation of killer devices in the US is, in my view, a huge infringement on freedom).
I think for app.net this can only be a good thing. Even if Dalton does loose some of the time he could be putting into the platform the early stage visibility it gets will be a huge boost to the community.

It is still a bit of a shame that those brought in to ADN via YC will be more of the same. I would love to be able to move some of the awesome people in the game dev community over to ADN.
(I actually don't use fish full time, been experimenting once in a while)

I believe Alt+. (or any kind of history substitution) hasn't been implemented by design. I don't have references handy but they should be easy to find.

Incremental history search is just type something and then up arrow.

The rest of your questions I don't know the answers but it wouldn't surprise me if there were none. Fish prefers to have a simple and coherent syntax to a concise one (though I agree the text substitution is annoying – it seems they usually put the subshell result in a variable and expand that in the string).

This helps understanding their design goals http://ridiculousfish.com/shell/user_doc/html/design.html
Can I suggest you nip off and read michaelochurch's blog about 1.3-1.5 programmers.

If you are not (as a Phd (in CS?)) delivering 5x your value and knowing that you are you are being underused or overpaid.
Trends in modern programming language syntax
Expages, anyone??
He fights against bailouts, sure. But he also fights against all regulation.
The conclusions of a $20m, 75-year study into happiness
"I believe in our product, but I don't believe in our business model." Then tell your business partners that THEY need to fix the business models so THEY can afford to pay YOU.

"I think my co-founders are idiots, that they fouled up their side of the deal," Ask them to give up some of their equity so that you can use it to motivate a replacement candidate.

"but I feel as though I've invested too much time and energy to bail now." Ouch, you're fucked. NEVER EVER let past mistakes ruin your future.

How about making a list of all the things you learned during this venture and a second list of all the things you can do in the future if you sever ties now. That way, if someone asks you in the future, you can explain on a positive note why it was the right thing to go.

However, all of these business projects also involve a lot of luck: I was once working on and off on a project for 3 years and gradually losing faith in the business model. And then all of a sudden, the project was reviewed without my knowledge by a local newspaper. We got a huge spike in traffic, sales started to explode and throughout one week, i was more than rewarded for all the hard work.
Yup, it is also a British bank, a pre-cursor to HSBC that created the first shadow banking system.

The UK has by far the largest network of control over tax haven jurisdictions, with the exception of the mighty Delaware.
...which can have its benefits, but can also go terribly wrong if you get lost.

(Case in point, Peter Norvig comments on a famous series of TDD blog posts that had the goal of writing a Sudoku solver, but ultimately failed:

"And I could see, right from the start, you put these two together, and you could solve this Sudoku thing. He didn’t know that so he was sort of blundering in the dark even though all his code “worked” because he had all these test cases."

http://pindancing.blogspot.com.au/2009/09/sudoku-in-coders-a...)
> unintentionally offensive

The problem is that there is a current emphasis againt those faux-pas when the offended part are women, while it is not the only case, and maybe not even the most critical for the better of human beings.

I'd say the cultural faux-pas that are really dangerous and should be avoided are those between remote cultures. If I offend a girl of my own culture or country by some behavior, at least she will not misunderstand it too wildly. But if I go to a remote place, I may unintentionally behave in a way that might hinder for a long time the way foreigners are perceived in this place. Then the consequences can be nefarious.

Let's give an example: I am French, criticizing is a kind of national sport. If I come to some Chinese guy's house, and see a contemporay painting hung in the living room, I might say "Oh! So you like this kind of painting? I really don't understand it. Is it expensive? What! That much for a bunch of strokes?"

But in places like China, where negativity is not expressed up front for no reason, this supposedly frank and personal impression can only be understood as the most brutal way to spit in your host's face, and it is speedily deduced that all foreigners are a bunch of brutes.

In short, if you are a dick at home, only you are a dick, and it is rarely unintentional; while if you are unintentionally a dick oversee, all your countrymen becomes brutes.
This needed to be said and I think they said it beautifully. Nothing else.
Definitely. I'm pretty moderate, but lately the Republican party (or at least a very vocal minority therein) has just seemed far, far too out of touch with reality to me.

However when Rand Paul talks I listen and consider carefully what he has to say. I don't always, or even usually, agree with him - but I respect him and his principles. I can't say the same for many other current Republican leaders.
Definitely think app.net benefits here as they rely heavily on the acceptance of the developer community and early adopter types that make up YC companies.

I think the new part-time partners provide a nice diversity of experience. It seems to be a little more on the consumer side, though Andrew Mason's experience in building a salesforce might add insight into enterprise sales but it's hard for me to know that from the outside. imeem and App.net on Dalton's side of things probably caters more towards the business development and community side of things, if I'm not mistaken.
I like MDD, money driven development. It usually works wonders ;)

I mix between TDD and not writing tests until after a section of the code is done. It really depends on what I'm trying to accomplish. If I'm spiking things, I tend to just write tests to confirm my work and make sure I'm sane. Other times I know exactly what I want and write the tests first then code. Really just depends on the situation.
I have seen this _exact_ news story 4 times so far - in 1998, and every five years thereafter. Hey, recycling is good for the environment, right?
Isn't that backwards? You don't want to work with clearcase, not big companies from what I read. I work at a $very_big_company and use git (and hg/bzr in some cases).

There just happens to be a correlation between those two sometimes.
Google in Poland does work on interesting work from what I've read... search and gmail for example.
Maybe, but that only takes out one of five attacks. The remote server still has access to all your private data, your backups are still weak, and plugins can still access everything.

Blockchain.info is also behind CloudFlare, so you have to trust them too.
Definitely. I'm not a big fan of TDD myself. I think that an advanced system can add a lot of the same checks, leaving you to do just the scrutinous testing via e.g. QuickCheck.
I didn't think it was too much to ask that if you were defending him you'd know his stance on those issues. But I clarified for you since you asked.
The classic games getting spiritual sequels on Kickstarter
As a long time bash user, I thought I can give a chance to fish. But after 30m later, when I see this [1] I went back to bash.

[1] http://serverfault.com/questions/164305/how-can-i-set-enviro...
Because its something only rich companies can afford to do---so for the same reason people dislike the 1%, people dislike multibillion$ companies dodging tax responsibilities. The rich should not be exempt from the law.
“SpecialisRevelio” Macs use Harry Potter spell to unlock secret “backdoor”
If your company is large I assume you have some budget. You could consider creating a fun and challenging recruitment campaign which will go viral. Something like WibiData did http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/01/this-startups-new-hire-appl... Ideally it should contain puzzles which will accurately and reliably help to assess the required competences but that's quite hard to do and seems to be unnecessary if your main problem is sourcing.
Maybe stating the obvious, but did you try attending related meetups? node.js, angular, backbone, etc...You can at least get to know people who work with those. You might convince them to join, or they might know someone looking for a job.
You've added why YOU think they are wrong, that doesn't make them wrong.

>You may disagree with my viewpoints, but the point of this comment is to show I have well considered reasons for not liking them.

Maybe you need to consider further.
Yes. Quadrupled revenue over the last few months and are now 6 full-time people. Primarily bootstrapped apart from TechStars.

http://drifty.com/
Just because someone is against having a massive federal government doesn't make them a corporatist. I suggest you compare the donors that Ron Paul had in his campaign vs. Obama and Romney to find out who the real corporatists are. You could also count how many corporate lobbyists Obama has appointed to positions in the federal government.
Leaving it behind
All I learned from your two posts was that you are very angry. ebbv is listing actual positions of the Pauls on various issues. If you think he's wrong then call him out on them.
It's hard to believe that poll isn't heavily biased towares "yes". Looking at the results it's almost as if over 1/3 of startups are profitable which is pretty far from the stats I have seen before.
I was lead tech (and first hire) at a hardware startup which launched two unsuccessful products then ran out of money (despite some seed funding).
After that I left.

Revenue and margins yes, but far from break-even.
Other option: Yes, one of them :)
Profit is funny for the startup scene. When first starting out building my company, my co-founder and I were often focused heavily on "profit" when talking to VC's and pitching.

At a demo day we had a meeting with a partner from a big fund and pitched him. He turned us down and told us why but was kind enough to have a follow-on meeting with us to talk further about our pitching strategy and general business strategy.

One of the key points I got out of speaking with him was this: VC's (institutional, not necessarily angels) generally want to see high-growth and not high-profit. If you've got revenue coming in and you're "profitable" on it, then you need to be growing more (spending it). To the point that most VC's believe you should grow so fast that you never reach profitability until you exit OR decide to "level out" the business.
Interesting. This seems like the very definition of "a feature, not a product" yet you have revenue. Are you forecasting growth that will support you full time?

I ask because I seem to have 100's of ideas like this but feel like they fall into the 'feature' category, rather than a full business.

Anyway, good luck with it, the site and features look great!
8. A separate documentation viewer from Xcode itself so that command-tabbing between code and documents is possible and I can remove that weird purple icon DashCode uses from my Dock.

I use Command-` to toggle between code and documentation in the Organizer

Alternatively, I drag the organizer window to another desktop and use finger swipe gestures to quickly switch.
Source Code Typography
Google doesn't compete with anything in UK so they can afford to lose that competitive advantage.
/sbin and /usr/sbin, as well as some folders in /opt (e.g. for Android development).
The problem with this poll is that all the folks who are unprofitable will keep quiet and all those that are will share it proudly :-)

Useless poll
Besides, honestly everything is futile anyway. So you can go play Frisbee golf with a group of friends, or stay at home in the dark drunk. At the end of the next century it doesn't matter, you'll both be dead. Happiness is fleeting and an illusion when seen. Get use to it.
yes please! would love to have a setup like yours on windows
I just can't wait until they begin supporting the VP9 codec in it. I presume this is the main reason why they haven't launched 10-way Hangouts with 720p resolution yet. VP9 should help with that.

I'm not sure I understand why they can't even offer 720p recording for the videos, though, even if they can't do 720p streaming right now.
I hadn't seen that before, thanks.
I've found one simple rule works well for the teams I have been on. If you can afford to re-write the entire application from scratch (considering time and money) then you can afford to skip unit testing.

On a side note. You will never learn TDD from a video. If you want to learn TDD, get very familiar with testing in general, pick a domain you are comfortable with and then force yourself to write tests for everything before code. Repeat 2-3 times and you will be better at TDD than 80% of the people who are presenting on it.
Yes, but leaving out the SMS feature in the app still leaves their IM system fragmented. SMS is essential in places where data plans are prohibitively expensive.
Wow, that's pretty amazing. B2B or B2C? SaaS? Where do your revenues come from (monthly subscription, advertising, etc.)?
Where did I say anything about Obama or Romney?

They are both far too beholden to corporate interests as well.

But Obama is right on more issues than the Pauls are, IMHO.
..i think one of the reasons the thread got so toxic was over the (apparently true) allegations that the post was being heavily flagged - and early on.

according to op (of original thread) it appears that the flagging occurred almost immediately, so the argument that some may be flagging due to the toxic nature of the thread doesn't make much sense to me.
Saying that your family had gambling problems is anecdotal. Seeing someone in a hospital bed with a tube down their throat because of smoking is an argument you could have made too. There are going to be outliers with every vice (alcohol comes to mind too), I'm just saying that we shouldn't always jump to prohibition.
From the introduction in the article, about the merits of TDD:

As well as the simple fact that your code will be more reliable, it forces you to write your code in a way that is testable, which in turn will make it loosely coupled and modular.

One of the major drawbacks of many current unit testing tools is that in some contexts they can have exactly the opposite effect. If you expose implementation details through your modules’ interfaces that would otherwise be hidden, just in order to support your unit tests, then that makes your code less modular and potentially more tightly coupled.

It could be a direct exposure, for example by adding public methods to a class that allow tests to access otherwise private fields in languages like Java or C++. It could also be indirect exposure, for example using a dependency injection scheme to initialize everything so you can substitute test dummies for live code, but then using something at the top of the tree that essentially has to know everything about everything in your application in order to set up all the injected parts.

These things happen to a greater or lesser extent depending on many factors: which tools you have, how dynamic your language is, and more. However, I would challenge any claim that using something like TDD necessarily implies that your code will evolve a robust, modular design. Extensive unit testing can promote modularity in some ways, but it’s definitely a two-way street in most contexts today.
Regulation is exactly what enables corporatism.
I don't run omz or many scripts for my zsh configuration.
It would also be pretty sweet to have the ability to move exercises around. I tend to throw in pull-ups and other stuff at the end (with things around the house). Possibly even creating custom 7-min workouts that fit the guidelines of upper/lower/upper/lower, etc.

EDIT: but this is an awesome thing, regardless
I think the main appeal is the button action, the keyboard layout is pretty standard
My mother never once licked me. This must be why I'm not rich and successful.
How about actually reading the whole thing? It works so much better that way.

I suppose that all companies when exceed some size become something like this - as Paul Graham stated in his essay this is because of effect of scale.
While they could just get valuable information from private communication without making it public.
Yes, that pissed me off, too. The messenger is now basically the old G+ Messenger, and not Gtalk.

Also if they were going to do this, they should've done it across all Gtalk platforms at once, so nobody feels the "fragmentation" between the services. I heard it will begin being rolled out to Gmail soon, but still. It all should've happened in day one.
I agree it's the sentiment, but I'm not sure how many of those means are only available due to wealth, and how many could be used by many small companies if they knew about them. It's not like creating a company in a tax haven is particularly hard or expensive.
I wish someone would write a CoffeeScript for C++.
Hi, this is my article. I am not really sure if it is allowed/correct to self submit the writing, but I wanted to try.

I tackled the human side of leaving a long time job, without talking about the reasons or my future projects. Because that is what comes from my insides and that is something that is often left aside on this kind of articles.

I am not a experienced writer, feedback is greatly welcome.
Update: I posted a link to some source code that implements the Shazam algorithm:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5724442

About the patent lawsuit thing:

As I understand it, Shazam sold their patent to Landmark Digital Services, which are a part of BMI the record label. They kept an exclusive license to make Shazam-like software for phones.

You can imagine BMI wanting it to make money from how a service such as Youtube fingerprints and detects copyright infringement...

And it was this BMI company that were trying to get this blog post explaining the patented algorithm removed from the internet.

One post from the BMI lawyers to Roy in the Netherlands was particularly broad bullying:

> Mr. Van Rijn,

> The two example patent numbers that I sent you are U.S. patents, but each of these patents has also been filed as patent applications in the Netherlands. Also, as I'm sure you are aware, your blogpost may be viewed internationally. As a result, you may contribute to someone infringing our patents in any part of the world.

> While we trust your good intentions, yes, we would like you to refrain from releasing the code at all and to remove the blogpost explaining the algorithm.

> Thank you for your understanding.

> Best regards,

> Darren

> P. Briggs

> Vice President &

> Chief Technical Officer

> Landmark Digital Services, LLC

Roy gave a great talk at Devox about this: http://www.redcode.nl/blog/2012/03/devoxx-2011-talk-freely-a...

I think I heard that Shazam recently got the patent back. I speculate BMI found no-one to license their fingerprinting tech for copyright infringement.
They (Google, Amazon, MS, Apple, and every other large multinational company) don't have a choice, their competitors are doing it and stockholders could possibly sue for not preforming standard tax avoidance methods.

A company losing billions just to make a questionable ethical point (which most people don't even care about) isn't really worth it.

The only way to prevent the "double-Irish" and such schemes is for the US government to step in and close the loophole. American taxpayers and business help fund these large companies and get them on their feet, then we allow the company to funnel all of their profits through other nations, that needs to be fixed.

Why doesn't congress step in? Are they being paid not to? Does nobody see a problem with public officials being paid by large corporations and organizations to vote for a law which might be against the best interest of the nation and the majority of it's citizens?
No but your entire argument is weakened when you use loaded terms like "fascist" or "liberals".

Ultimately paying taxes IS a moral issue since at least some of the money will be used to pay for human services i.e. health, education. And so when companies deliberately avoid paying taxes it does in a small way equate to a reduction in the quality of life for at least some of the population.
You will be waiting a couple of weeks then! It's beginning of the month kind of stuff.

HN doesn't tend to take too kindly to none-ycombinator job postings, it goes against the spirit of the site, but as someone else mentioned, puzzles and challenges tend to bring the eyeballs to your site.
Dubai Police Adds $1.4 Million Supercar to Its Fleet
Getting Started With Javascript Debugger in Chrome
Does "return unless x is 5" really do what I read?

return unless x is 5

"reads" like

if( x !== 5 ) return;

but I guess it's more like

return (x !== 5);
Actually the data is anonymous, while the comments aren't.
feedback welcome.
According to the record of rankings provided above it was over an hour before it got flagged enough to affect its rank.
Former colleagues told me that Samsung is also known to put two teams on a task, tell neither that another team is working on said same problem, then whoever succeeds is a rockstar and whoever fails is 'restructured'.

Korean companies aren't the easiest to work for, I should know I also just left a large one, but the Koreans work harder than any other group I know. Just a shame they work harder not smarter because they waste so much time.
What's so hard about typing 'env' in front of the line? `env EDITOR=vim crontab -e`

Also, why are you changing your EDITOR on a one-off basis, that shit should be permanent.
Even if Google puts Hangouts in all the new Android OS releases, and with some upgrading it manually, they'd still be much better off buying either Whatsapp, Viber or Line, to get a solid base immediately of such "SMS alternative app" users.
> The rich should not be exempt from the law.

This is kind of a funny statement. In most cases, the rich are still within the law; they've just figured out where to (legally) spend the right money to circumvent more annoying legislature.

I'm not commenting on ethics at all here, just that our legal system has these "features" built in for people with enough cash to use. The real WTF here is the structure of the tax system and the governmental bodies that try to oversee it.
The rich should not be exempt from the law.

Yes, but pvnick specifically said, "assuming you're doing so legally".