skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the things I immediately disliked about the Ubuntu Unity interface was that it wasn't immediately obvious what applications I had open. The visual cues have gotten better in more recent releases, but I still don't feel that Unity is quite usable without also running a dock (I ran Docky for awhile but more recently run Cairo).
From the reports that might be geographical.
Jif, like this file loads in a jif compared to a bitmap.
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If you have to pronounce it, you're working the Internet wrong...
It's easiest at the seed stage; Y Combinator for sure, and from what I've heard, a lot of people like 500 Startups and some well-known individual angels (but differ by sector).

Probably non-existent at the PE stage.

It also varies within firms -- it's down to the individual partner -- but the overall firm matters too (or else "your" partner gets blocked on doing helpful things).

The best strategy, IMO, is to get an early investor on your side who shares a lot of the same goals (e.g. YC), and then work with the early investor to find later stage investors who are compatible.

(There's one specific firm and one specific partner I really like, but I haven't taken investment from them, so I'm reluctant to name. I get better advice from him/them already than I'd expect from an actual investor, though.)
How data is shared between multiple activities in Android
> there is a 24-hour 3d scan complete with video and audio sat on a server somewhere.

i don't think that's happening. in its lowest power state, described as wake on voice, the device is listening (which is not the same as recording) for a prompt to power-on [1]. it validates what it picks-up locally on the device. only once it confirms (again, checking locally) a command to fully power-on, are other sensors enabled.

[1] http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/21/4353580/kinect-always-liste...
This makes a good point for Python syntax, where you can't by construction end up in situations like that.
It's hard to ignore something when you are forced to click past it every time you start up your computer.
The 'dominant' implementation is gc, not gccgo. IIRC, gc is based off the Plan 9 compliers which Pike et al write. gccgo is an alternative implementation which (generally) trails gc.
Equating ordinary swearing to "vulgar" is an American thing.

I find it rather uncomfortable to repeatedly see threads in which Americans judge others (and each other) based on utterly irrelevant puritanical values rather than their contributions hitting the front-page of HN.

Especially the utter irrelevance bothers me, this is not about stuff like government regulation or privacy or women in tech, where there are valid ideological differences to discuss.

This is just about shaming people because they have different values. It's pathetic. We might as well be engaging in celebrity gossip.
Not really. Look at everything in the C standard library: fopen(), strcmp(), malloc(), etc.
Anybody know of a decent reader that allows me to click and go to the comments of sites like HN?

Most of the times I first read the comments before actually going to the main link.
Most go programs that don't need to be linked with existing C libraries are using the gc compiler.

Currently there are a lot of really good C libraries that haven't been ported to go, so anyone who wants to link to those is using the gccgo compiler, but it will probably be less used as the native 3rd party libraries catch up, or the C libraries are ported (this is happening at a furious rate)
“Any code can be made to look good given an infinite amount of time to polish it and test it„

Sorry, but no. Some code turds are beyond polishing... All you'll get are polished turds.
Thank you. I had no idea that PNG was supposed to be pronounced "Ping" (I always say Pee Enn Gee)
And I was thinking about 3DV Systems' [1] product called ZCam [2]. I wasn't aware of the Canesta deal - apparently, MS cornered the market of depth cameras. Personally, I think this deserves some kind of regulatory anti-trust action. But that's just me.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2009/02/21/sources-confirm-microsoft-...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZCam
It's a standard libertarian meme. Resist the government long enough and eventually - eventually might take years - someone wearing a gun will come and arrest you. Since they're arresting you with superior arms to the point of perhaps pointing them at you, this means doing so is violent, hence everything the government ever does is 'backed by violence', hence everything they ever do to limit you in any way is 'violen', no matter how minor that limitation might be. It's one of the more tortuous aspects of libertarian rhetoric.
"you still have the underlying problem that people are doing things without thinking"

You can solve this problem?
This would be a great replacement for the fairly awful sqlite on android - accomplishes much the same goal, but should fit into Android a lot better.

Someone should write a android/java wrapper for it in the same way Google has a built in wrapper for sqlite.
Unexcited? There May Be a Pill for That.
One of my earlier employers exhaustively tried many of these strategies including generous referrals. Ultimately it came down to just a numbers game. Pay a reputable tech-recruiter for resumes, hit the grind, and you'll find some diamonds in the rough. If you have 30k budget to offer tempting bonuses, you should just hire a recruiter.

Tech hiring almost has to be approached like the NFL draft. Companies seem fixated on playing the free agency aspect, making lucrative offers to known entities and depending on word of mouth and reputation. Waiting on a 'sure thing' can cripple your business.
They'd be better off interviewing and taking more chances on younger unproven commodities out of college without the rockstar resume and ego. A talented young engineer can become senior very quickly.
This seems horribly broken.

I do realize that recruiting fees for a dev may approach this amount, but HubSpot has to have a high enough profile to better attract talent than this.

What incentives are they giving people to apply directly? Why not hang a 30k bonus out there after you successfully complete six months as a dev? It's not like you couldn't hack this process anyway, unless that's what they're trying to encourage.
Other EU countries would have language barrier. Also IT salaries in UK, France and Germany are actually higher compared to Ireland.
Looking at my threads page I found that I lied: I used to brand-name today.

I suck.

And brands are unescapable....
My Chrome is Version 26.0.1410.65 and "Google Chrome is up to date," but I don't see it when opening www.google.com. I'm in Malaysia.
Takipi's agent records information which is relevant to the issues which are detected (exceptions, latency problems, custom conditions set by the developer).
The data and source code are then encrypted with your secret 256-bit AES key and stored by Takipi. This data is in turn decrypted in your browser and viewed by you at app.takipi.com.
You're right, I am blind. Its the very first bullet point too.
Sure, but how often does this happen in practice? I have worked with 'no convention'/'multiple conventions'/'mostly no braces for single statements' and have never seen this particular mistake. I can see how it would be difficult to track down, on the other hand, braces for single comments add to line noise.
So lots of us are pronouncing it wrong. Will anyone make an effort to change? I know I won't.
Actually it seems like a replacement for the PreferenceManager - that's the Key/Value store. Lots of people are using SQLite effectively as a regular SQL DB in their app, it's not going anywhere.
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There is no right or wrong here. The important thing is consistency across a project.
Not Irish, but as an Englishman I'd say it's maybe on a par with being called a Pom or a Limey (which offends me not at all).
I like the idea of it, but this is disheartening:

> There are 1192 people in front of you, all patiently waiting
on their free accounts on NewsBlur.
By going premium you can get full and immediate access to NewsBlur.

I get that they're trying to be able to handle the load, but it concerns me that they can't simply 'scale' their service like most modern web applications.
We pay very competitively. For example, these past two years we have reviewed compensation twice a year in order to make sure we're paying what they're worth. We based our decisions on multiple salary surveys and our own offers based on new college graduates and competitors counter-offers.
Why not get a friend to refer you and split the referral fee down the middle?
This is a signal that you're either paying under the market rate or your interview process is broken (or company culture is broken).
Actually, I wish Dart were a little less open and had more of a directed focus. Some one like a Linus needs to step in once in awhile and say "you're wasting your time talking about that feature because it's never going to happen."
I agree with this article, unfortunately many of us are so psychologically averse to the thought, that it would be very difficult and require a cultural shift. I can't imagine eating them (even when ground up, or even if they had a "better name"), but maybe my children or grandchildren will (or must).
http://goo.gl/b1dXA
Seems to suggest slightly otherwise, I remember seeing it on a commercial and just going slack jawed...WHAT?
It takes about 20-30 seconds to remove all the preinstalled metro apps from the start screen. By the time you have installed the usual programs like VLC they will grab all the file associations and you will never see Metro again, unless you want to.
>He's been living in the US for 16 years, so thats not a valid excuse.

Not a valid excuse for what? Who said he has to be "excused"? To quote George Bernard Shaw, who told you the customs of your tribe in the US are natural laws?

>* Also, there's a difference between not saying please and being vulgar.*

As there is a difference between swearing and being vulgar.
The only reason I use RSS, is for offline reading. Which is why I can't use feedly, as much as I'd like to :(
Awesome! ;) Access your cloud with your NFC OAuth ring. Maybe it could need a little bit more security in case you loose it (a DNA checker... just kidding).
What’s really different about "Enterprise"
choosy websites choose gif.
Ah okay, thanks for explaining :)
Actually no, except for WebComponents it brings none of those features. Other than "fullstack" which JS already has before.

Every other attempt adds more layers and complexity and additional build times to web development, only Dart brings a clean re-write.
He's going to divorce her eventually, so he might as well break up now while it's free.
I wrote and host my own rss to email gateway, which I'm pretty happy with so far. Of course at the time the google reader shutdown was announced I hadn't been using rss for years so I started from scratch, feed-collection wise.
The sad part is that recruiters on the east coast are like rabid vermin, a plague upon the development community, which are only encouraged and emboldened by such postings. Please, give me the 30k, tell them to piss off. Want me to consider you? Hold events such that I would find out about/want to join your company. Tell me what sorts of challenging problems have you solved recently? What problems do you have now? Honestly, how much technical debt do you have? What will I be free to do?

If your developers aren't active in the tech scene locally or in enough diverse groups to have a constant flow then you're doing it wrong.
Ireland is in a recession so they are leveraging English speaking grads from a good uni and the Irish diaspora who might want to return home. Dublin also doesn't have to compete with the City for IT people in the same way London does

There is also the tax dodge aspect which it looks like the wheels are coming off in a big way.
Converting from MySQL to Postgres
You are absolutely correct. It's a numbers game and we're doing everything to tilt to our advantage. We don't use external recruiters for many reasons, but we do have an internal recruiter already. We are also working for the dev community through open source, sponsorships and events. Please check out http://github.hubspot.com/

I totally agree with a talented young engineer becoming senior quickly. This summer we have 12 interns/co-ops and we have hired several from co-ops into full time positions already.
This turned up recently on proggit too.

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1etfxi/sqlite_n... was heavily downvoted for saying its an order of magnitude faster than SQLite

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1etkix/unqlite_... raises concerns about the license, and there's a Global Lock in there too? The scripting performance gives cause for pause too.
There are a lot of examples in linguistics where the "correct" pronunciation of a word is not the common pronunciation, and so the common pronunciation becomes the correct one.

I've heard maybe one in every twenty people pronunce it as "jif", and when they do so it's not because it seems like it's the natural pronunciation, it's because they once read it was the correct was to pronounce it and want to hammer that fact home.

So I'm sticking with the hard g version.
Alistair Coleman added: ‘[Creator] of the Gif says it’s pronounced “jif”. Why didn’t he say so earlier, the gerk?’
Note that any static analyzer that is worth something will warn about this in C/C++. For example, clang will warn with the option -Wdangling-else (implied by -Wall)
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And there is a whole lot of people who don't know C inside out and don't want to dive in it.

One needs to explicitly manage memory, deal with raw pointers, ugly header files and all that stuff. No interfaces, too.
Big Data startup HStreaming creates real-time insights with Hadoop
I dislike the dock in unity as well - I find it's too in your face, but I've heard that auto-hide and a few other aspects have been improved in recent versions, so thinking of giving it another go. I do find it all very dark though, and generally preferring Mint.
Well, if this is pronoucned "jif" then that means it's also "rejex". And what kind of world is that.
Unfortunately I've interacted with the author of this project, Zander Brade, and he turned out to be one of the most untrustworthy designers I've ever encountered. Due to my past experience with him I have no intention of touching this site/project. Sorry, but I had to say it.
"What's my name?"

"Where am I going?" (If you use Calendar.)

"Who founded Google?" (I just thought this was impressive.)
We're all going to die eventually, might as preempt that as well?

Why can't marriages be phases of our lives? Why try to avert failure by avoiding life?
Meatspace.
In what way is SQLite awful on Android? I'm just curious what your experience has been.
The world "vulgar" of course.
Is that "JIF" meant to be pronounced in English or French, then? ;)
In Japan, I never met the people pronounce it "Giff". Always we call it「ジフ」"Jif". Some pronounce git as "jit".
Because we pronounce "G" as "Jee".
PNG (;
At the time Jobs said that IBM was still very much the "blue suit required" IBM.

Their corporate culture has changed a bit in the past few decades.
Hi Steve. These are some valid points you're making. We are currently considering an on-premises solution for precisely this situation you are describing.
Please don’t refer yourself (feel free to apply the usual way, though)

This immediately signals to me that I wouldn't want to work there. Every other scheme like this that I have seen (admittedly, not many) allow you to apply independently and if successful, receive the referral commission as a bonus.
It means nothing of the sort. World order restored.
Swearing in a language other than your first counts a lot less. As if were to throw "merde" or "fick" around. In Sweden, while speaking Swedish, they will casually say fuck instead of "fan!" or "helvete!"
"someone can decide to start spoofing"

What kind of spoofing are you talking about? Attempting to spoof the headers is common, but no blackhole list looks at that - they blacklist based on the IP of the machine the spam is coming from.
A very uncharitable reading of the features seems to suggest that this is some strange bastard child of a hashmap, a scripting language interpreter, and a JSON serializer.

I'm sure it's much more than that, but one wonders where this stacks up compared to existing solutions.
You seem to be agreeing with me.

If "Googled" goes the way of "Xeroxed" then the potential value of "DuckDuckGo-ed" is as irrelevant as "Ricoh-ed".
JIF is already taken by JPEG[0], so GIF, with a hard G.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_Interchange_Format#JPEG_fi...
Tip for all founders with employees from someone who's worked for start-ups for decades: fucking delegate!

And I don't just mean the work, that's the easy part. Delegate parts of the decision-making process you don't have the time for to get into properly. Yes, even if it involves spending money.

If I have to report to, talk you through things on multiple occasions, have to keep reminding you of them, and all the while my team is waiting for a decision, that process does not only cost you a lot of time you should be spending doing other things, it actually often costs the whole company more money than we're actually talking about spending!

If you don't trust the people you've hired, you're doing it wrong.
I mean, I can only speak from personal experience, but I always call gif, jif, and it has nothing to do with whether its correct pronunciation or not. I just read it like that and could care less about the facts
You have to use Chrome 27.
They are rebuttals to nasty stuff people in this thread said that were upvoted to the top of the list. I think response to accusations should be given equal attention, esp when one of the criticisms was that "I don't respond to critics."
lol that is too true!
QT should be pronounced "cute", but I say "queue-tee".

Linux is pronounced with a short i, but most americans say "lie-nux". As a german I say "Lee-nux".

Xing is allegedly pronounced "crossing", but I say "ksing".
THANK YOU, this is a "hacker news" site not Marie Claire and we should not be the only people talking about peoples assessments of the beauty of their business plan or the beauty of their source code.

The analogy of women appearing to poorly evaluate their appearance seems to be lost on a population that suffers from the exact same cognitive malfunction WRT business plans and source code. There exist at least some rich business opportunities based on this analogy/observation...

One interesting startup idea is the obvious analogy that "everyone knows" that some programmers and their source, and, some businesspeople and their biz plans, will be 100x more successful/productive than everyone else in the field, YET at the lower level of the bell curve almost everyone agrees anyone can improve whatever it is they've got with a little study, practice, and effort. So where's something like "codeacademy" or "coursera" for style for those of us who want to take a online class in "how not to look/dress like a dork in 2013", or "shoes, what to wear in 2013". The killer problem would be not turning it into a manufacturers or retailers infomercial which would make it smell fairly useless, even if it was actually good advice. Where's the massively collaborative github where we figure out how to dress ourselves stylishly?
Makerland, the conference for Makers
Jif FTW
Why not take advantage of every safety net you can?

People are fallible, mistakes get made.
I think watching what Google itself does with Dart vs Closure is going to be an interesting tell.
But the referent of the "bro gamer" slight is not the game as you seem to be arguing, but the gamer.
In the standard there is a notion of "significant prefix length". ie, your symbol names may actually be truncated. In C89 the minimum guaranteed length for exported symbols was 6 (IIRC) which explains why the libc symbols are so terse. Adding underscores would greatly reduce the number of significant characters (of course, all of this is mostly obsolete these days).
And on the review pages they stuff a lot of high-star reviews with the same text such as:

> Since the announcement of Google Reader being discontinued, I have enjoyed this easy app. It also has a simple, attractive interface. Highly recommend.

and:

> Feedly has managed to create a visually appealing RSS reader, that also focusus on a clean simple visual style that is intuitive to use.

It's really weird.
So you follow everyone with 30K+ followers !?
Newsblur: it does everything I want, and I've been impressed with the improvements to the system of late.
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Are you sure you don't already? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine
I think the easy way to do this is not eat them in their regular form. Mix them up and add them to a recipe. You might not want to eat a spoonful of beetles but if they're ground up into a sauce, you'd never know.
I say "giff" and "rej-ex". Do I lose Internet points?
I've done a lot of very stupid things in my career. Only 17, still learning. I'm super sorry though that you feel this way:( Maybe mail me zander.brade AT gmail.com and I can try make it up.
How about: "gitt" vs. "jit"
I'm working on a serverless chrome extension rss reader. It's still in development but if you'd like to try it out or help out, please have a look: https://github.com/nissimk/brassReader.

Check out the code.
Go in chrome to extensions page
set developer mode on
load unpacked extension point it at the checked out folder

If you're logged in to google in another tab, press the button with the cloud on it and it will pull in all of your feeds.

Thanks for the look.
Motorola beats attorney-owned patent company at trial over Bluetooth
A European and multi-lingual version of facebook that doesn't enforce American puritanism rules on porn etc and torrents, would be more popular, like tumblr.
Also surprised at the number of people who call nginx "en jinx" instead of "engine x"
True, but the flip side is that in Python automatic indentation cannot possibly work.
Can't you just hit the little multi-box icon on the bottom right always (to the right of the home icon)? Then swipe an app away to kill it.
Embracing Change: On single-page application architecture
The box is too big not to have decent processing inside it.
I can imagine eating them. but I'm not much of a foodie to start with.
"It furthermore states that commercial licence must be acquired for closed source applications."

I love the description of the scripting language as "Turing complete" based on "JSON". That is the first time I have ever heard turing complete used to market a programming language!

The scripting language is incredible, I have never seen a more verbose way to program. It is a scripting language, yet seems to combine JSON, PHP and C standard library functions with C type casting. Look at the samples: http://unqlite.org/jx9_samples.html

I am speechless, the description of the project is the most vacuous collection of buzzwords imaginable.
"Built with a powerful disk storage engine which support O(1) lookup."
"Support Terabyte sized databases."
Of course with a global lock and after taking a look at the scripting language I have reason to doubt the claims made
I'm French and I never heard someone pronouncing it "JIF".
Here's something else you can hate:

http://lee-phillips.org/gmailRewriting/
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If you like c compilers, also check out
http://bellard.org/tcc/
and
http://bellard.org/otcc/

The later is a c compiler in about 1kb of source code! It's quite functional and can compile itself.

The first link is what came out of it: A compiler so fast, that it can boot Linux from source code in a few seconds:
http://bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html