skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you are at an upper's house and praise their furniture, you could be ejected from the premises.

Have you performed any experiments to verify this claim?
JTypes: Create JavaScript classes with simplicity and ease
..or given that they like 1970s style abbreviated identifiers so much: "upt" and "spt"

Looking forward to writing: "let mut foo = upt .."
Then you're not the target market. If you have no credit card, it's very, very hard as a global website (i.e. not localized to the Netherlands) to accept money from you. So if that's the case, then they don't even want you as a customer, because you have no way of paying them.Giving you a free trial is then counterproductive.
Sorry about that. It's fixed now. Apparently this happened: https://twitter.com/rfelix/status/341487193224798208
Oof, I have that signal-vs-noise thing all the time, making it very uncomfortable and awkward for me to try to talk to people in loud places, to the point that I've sort of started avoiding it to avoid the awkwardness... Sucks.
Not everyone likes spamming their users.
I'm curious about how you would become a paying customer to a service if you don't like providing your details online. PayPal?

If you're never willing to pay then there is very little incentive for a business to want to support your needs.

In the UK, a credit card give you much more protection than a debit card and is safer to use online.
http://www.money.co.uk/article/1003471-how-section-75-of-the...
In practice there are also hybrids that try to delay long stop-the-world phases as much as possible, but still need to stop-the-world when compacting the heap, like JVM's CMS.

And I was under the impression that there already are GC implementations that never go into stop-the-world phases, like Azul's Pauseless GC [1]. There's also the new G1 from JDK 7 that promises to make pauses fewer and more predictable than CMS, while avoiding many memory fragmentation issues that CMS has (how well that works out in practice, remains to be seen, as it's not fully matured at this point).

Btw, I love how Rust is trying to solve memory management issues by reinventing the problem. That's what new languages should do, instead of reimplementing other languages poorly.

[1] http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/azul_pauseless_gc.html
How to Survive the Series A Crunch—From Someone Who Didn’t
Yes, but as has been mentioned by others, that is impossible. So either
one can use pentagons and hexagons (as I inadvertently did above ;-) or
just pentagons.

My goal was trying to get a hex grid, with roughly "ignorable"
distortion. I think the most straight forward way would be to use four
"pseudo" (irregular) hexagons, and wrap them into a cube (ie: four
"hexagons" made from a square and two triangles with 45 and 90 degree
angels). You would then have a "round" map that could be subdivided. It
would be far from perfect, but very straightforward -- and if mapped
onto a planet "north-south" (aka pointy-side up) -- I think it would
yield a similar distortion to what we are used to from various map
projections:

/\ /\ /\ /\ <- distorted sides
/__\ /__\ /__\ /__\ ________ _______
| A | B | C | D | / /\ |\ c /|
| __ | __ | __ | __ | / N /bb\ |d \ / |
\ / \ / \ / \ / /_______/bbbb\ | /'\b |
\/ \/ \/ \/ \aaaaaaa\bbbb/ |/__a__\|
\aaaaaaa\b / top down view
\_______\/ ("North pole")

When wrapped up into a cube, the south and north poles would lie at the
intersection of the four hexagons. Unless I'm tricking myself, this has
the interesting property that the distance from A to B and D is 1, while
from A to C is 2 -- whichever way you "circumnavigate".

Being hexagons, they could be further subdivided into hexagons (as for
most purposes this grid would be too coarse).

I'm not convinced it would be very useful as a "proper" map projection
-- but might work for a game.
RIP Atul, you will be remembered for ever. Thanks for everything.
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The gaming gaffa: How do you run an eSport team?
I've started taking a notebook with me everywhere and writing down whatever comes into my head. This includes ideas for projects, articles I'd like to write about, things I'd like to research later etc. Then when I have some free time I have a long list of interesting topics / bits of inspiration to create something with. I can't imagine making it public - I think the desire to self-censor would reduce the value of it. A lot of the ideas are rubbish and most of the stuff in there is only interesting to me but it's still valuable to have a record of those things.
Lazy persons get the crap they deserve with SPF13.
I use a simple text document in my Google Drive, it is pretty plain - when I have a new idea I write it into the doc and at the same time I go through all of the others and see If I have more exact ideas related to them. Also I check back occasionally to see if I am still interested in all of them (let's call it refactoring,heh).

There are some which I share, some that I do not. :-)
"All our masons must be architects."
If people didn't abuse the reply all button I might be able to come to terms with email usage. Reply all button abuse makes email almost Facebook bad for me.
Education startup SOWISO launches first International product in Belgium
I do, but I keep them to myself until they end up being a thing. (Also posted yesterday about my process: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5810585 )
what do you usually do when you're inbox gets spammed with a lot of irrelevant information - you apply filters / labels. same thing can be done with Facebook, but for some reason people still treat it as a service that doesn't need any customization. you just login and out of the sudden quality information starts pouring down from all panels. it's not like that... it's just like with your inbox, even though your friends aren't really selling Viagra, but some of them aren't far either.

every post on your news feed has got a tiny "hide" link, which you can use to either unsubscribe completely from a friend's wall posts (yeah, keep those "how I met your mother" quotes for yourself bro), choose which kind of news you're actually interested in (pictures only, events etc.) or even choose how often you wanna see a person's posts ("all updates" or "most important"). if you get the tendency to disable a post that you don't like the moment you see it, then (on the long run) you'll end up with a wall that's at least 2/3 interesting or let's call it decent (facebook is not really hacker news). I'm not aware if this is the actual implementation, but would be really cool if Facebook would actually learn from the posts you hide and stop suggesting similar ones in the future.

I've got around 300 friends and had I not unsubscribed from a lot of them, my news feed would have been packed with wedding pictures of people I don't know, events I can't go to or causes I don't really care about.

just to end here, email has its purpose but that purpose is not social sharing any more. just like emails took over writting letters years ago, social networks should improve over emails in the aspect of sharing information with ease.
oh, and to the author: the facebook experiment hasn't failed - you just need to tell it what you expect of it.
I don't know why this got upvoted. There's nothing new added that you can't find on Jekyll wiki.
Yes, ubiquitous data capture is a great way to train the brain to provide you with stuff. Write down everything it gives you, even the duds, and you will be rewarded eventually.

Firespotting is simply a more social way of doing the same thing :)
Relative line numbers for LIFE! :D

d3j (delete 3 down) and y3j (yank 3 down) do the same things, but relative.
I don't even need to look at the relative numbers anymore really. For short hops I just guess. I'm right most of the times.
This isn't spam, its marketing to people who opted into receiving communications from you in exchange for a free trial of your service. As long as you stop shortly after the trial period there is nothing wrong with it in my opinion.

I actually really enjoy a good series of marketing communications from a product I'm evaluating to 1) show me how others are using the product 2) point out a product benefit I might not have notice 3) to remind me to actually use the product during the trial
Bankers bow to new masters: commodity oligarchs
Atul was one of my biggest gateways into Linux and FOSS in general. I'd venture that he was face of FOSS evangelism in India. Most of what he wrote was firmly opinionated and highly informative. He was also a massively interesting person to talk to, and I came away quite frankly awestruck by the man when our paths crossed occasionally during FOSS.IN 2009.

I am devastated by this news. RIP.
> trading sheep for wheat

Amusing example, since it is zero sum even if the two parties don't perceive it as such.
If they make decisions on where to put doors and windows they better know a thing or two about architecture.
My favorite equation
I had the same experience as the author and I quit Facebook. Highly recommended.
It's a pity that wasn't done with the initial deposits.
That's very interesting.

Maybe you could post about your process here: http://firespotting.com/item?id=948
Forecast Font - a web-font for creating multi-layered weather icons
You cannot cure ADD or ADHD. Not with our current drugs, and not with any known cognitive therapy. The article (and particularly its title) belittles those with the disorder, perhaps without meaning to do so, but it does it all the same. I understand the author was simply trying to put a name to a sub-clinical societal trend they have noticed, but they should not have used the name of a real and tragic disorder. Still, I found it to be an interesting and thought provoking read.
I use <line>G to jump to the absolute line. When you need absolute numbers it's mostly because of an error that gave you a line number. You need to jump to it, that's all.
MSc Thesis (260 pg pdf) - Software development in startups
How many do you have? :)
Ask HN: Who would you revive from history?
If you would have the power to revive anyone from history and have them live another 30 years, who would that be?

Please pick someone who you think would have a big impact on our world if he/she would be alive today.
Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Debian Wheezy
Tell me more about how you do this.
True - often "full stack developer" is synonymous with dilettante
15 minutes? You've put ~20 in the actual guide! Bad form.
I did not expect to see so many ideas. We actually have quite a few ideas in common, which suprised me. I'm going to browse through all of them, and comment as needed.

I'm also starting to consider posting all of my ideas there.
Afghan students flock to India's universities
Drobo makes 'reductions' ahead of Connected Data merge
Well, in addition to being very useful it is also broken and outdated. Sadly, the "alternatives" (facebook, google plus, etc.) fix almost none of the flaws and add some of their own (non-federated!)
Indeed that is one way to derive the same "football projection".
I'm not claiming any prior use of "Full stack developer"(TM) (haven't researched that), just that HN discussions often have a web-technology bias, where "designer" implicitly means "web designer", "low-level" means "in a VM inside a browser running on an OS running on a processor", etc.
I email my ideas to myself, and label them "Project Idea". I also include several tags in the subject in order to find them and filter them easily later on (i.e. game music learning).
Practical example of freedom? Having your bag searched before entering a museum (Paris)? Bomb detectors at a church (Vatican)? Stopped for random police checks (London)? Passport recorded by hotels to use the Internet (Italy)? If this is freedom, I'm not impressed. (Examples are about 5 years old, things may have changed, I hope they have).
I'm Max Williams, CEO of Pusher, and I wanted to add a quick comment to this.

Having your domain name expire is pretty high on the list of most embarrassing things to cause issues. The reality of the situation is that registering a domain comes quite early in a company's history, before you have some of the information management systems in place. In our case, the reminder emails went to a single individual, who somehow managed to miss them. We have changed the contact details, and will be doing a post-mortem to make sure similar scenarios are covered in our integration tests.

It certainly doesn't indicate any lack of care for the reliability of the service. It's simply the result of a ridiculous administrative failing.

I am very sorry for any inconvenience caused.
This strikes me as dangerous advice that's very business centric instead of focusing on how customers think and act. Contrary to what every business owner wants to believe, their business isn't particularly amazing or magical and customers have no problems abandoning them during evaluations if there's the slightest conversion obstacle. Not letting customers try out your service before entering credit card details? Yeah, that's a major obstacle. Better check out the competitor's product that's easier to use.
Marketing term for web monkey jack-of-all-trades.

Does it fly in interviews to claim you are an expert in absolutely everything? Just curious.
I asked a similar question on the IRC and got the answer that they are aiming for Microsoft C compiler so it would work with natively with system as much as possible. MinGW has some slight issues when launching application IIRC.
You've included bootstrap-responsive, which is making the site look silly on anything less than maximised (1280x display), fyi.
I remember laughing at the story about the judge who asked "Who are the Beatles?". Now I find them a very wise person indeed :)
I seem to remember a lottery that was run in 1984 - the Orwell book.
Yes, it's PC only.
The desktop OS must stay
"I actually really enjoy a good series of marketing communications from a product I'm evaluating"

Said no user ever. As people interested in the business of software I think we're all a bit damaged when it comes to how much marketing nonsense we're ready to accept.
Perhaps you can watch these videos of police brutality while you are waiting for the official statement from The Ministry of Censorship.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqQjPHtAZ6c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPsPC4TPAMc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XThjR-7F0io

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQHOo2rOmWc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y409ZrNLFqM

Of course, just because the cops are assaulting unarmed civilians doesn't necessarily mean they are wrong.

(edit: added one more video)
Bullshit. Maybe somewhere, in some country - maybe in yours - it's true. In many, many, MANY! (realize this) other countries politicians are a different breed of people, for generations raised in vastly different conditions; they see other things than others, they eat differently, they think in a way that is not comprehensible for many "normal" people in their countries. And that's only a tip of an iceberg, as there are external influences as well, which complicates matters further.

...on the other hand, would it be better if politicians were just a reflection of "who we all are"? I doubt it...
Yes, life is that binary, either you're with us or with the terrorists, either you do your dishes or you don't. Wat.
Just put in my one good idea: http://firespotting.com/submitted?id=cdvonstinkpot
I keep a few notes in Asana. Have started a few projects but then think of a new one and the current one becomes stagnant. And repeat.
I agree that his piece isn't well-researched, and the title is sensationalist, but I share most of his experiences and sentiments. I hope a more quantitative research around this area does emerge though.
How does one get experience with 'Server, Network, and Hosting Environment' while not on a job?
>Make the decision now to start doing your dishes after every meal

Or I could just.. not, considering it harms nobody and then I don't have to do chores immediately after eating my dinner. I get the impression the writer has a case of OCD here.
Pre-vim, one would get quite proficient at judging line distances, e.g. 11yy, through practice. Mind you, that was probably helped by text being a fixed size on a serial terminal and bigger than much text today. However, I do wonder if the article is over-promoting movement by lines. Movement commands like ), }, ]], and good old / should be readily considered as well.
The problem is at it's root. Obviously it is not an invention or we would have heard of Skynet at news. Since this is clearly not the case, any claim from the patent owner is simply an arrogance. If the patent has been issued this just proves ignorance on USPTO part.

The ultimate point is that if all you have to do to receive a patent is just an idea, then the patent system is broken.
The patent should protect the implementation, not the idea.
I would be more likely to sign up for full price. "Free trial - just add credit card" is a massive alarm bell for me.

In my experience, this type of free trial often means you want my credit card details so that you can make it as awkward as possible for me to cancel and maybe place dubious charges when I'm not looking.

That experience makes it difficult for me to sign up for a similar free trial.
I open-source them: http://willgrant.org/category/idea-dump/

Need to do some more soon...
It seems that it will be

> I'm a firm believer in open source software and open source technologies. I can guarantee you that Light Table will be built on top of the technologies that are freely available to us today. As such, I believe it only fair that the core of Light Table be open sourced once it is launched. At some level, this is an experiment in how open source and business can mix - it will be educational for us all.

Source: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table
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NR Narayana Murthy's letter to Infosys's top brass
Drop us your CV anyway: join at dropletpay dot com
I carry a notebook everywhere with me and write down every idea I have during my "creativity hour". I have a nice large stash of ideas in it now. No I don't share my ideas, not because I'm selfish, or I think they're worth money (every personal project goes up on GitHub), but because they're personal projects with no real worth to anybody else (at least at the conception phase). When I think of an idea that will change the world, or if any of the ideas turn out to be any use to anybody other than me I'll be sure to share it.
Samsung unveils 8-inch and Intel-powered 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab 3 tablets
Samsung has added two new Android tablets to its Galaxy Tab 3 range, introducing new 8-inch and 10.1-inch models that complement its existing 7-inch device.
University, home network, cheap hosts, ...
Turkish PM Erdogan just called Twitter a menace.
Also the content creators on whose sites ads are placed (and to whose sites the search results point), surely?
Carl Friedrich Gauss. I am amazed how often his name comes up in Physics&Mathematics. Probably he would need some time to get on track but still it would be awesome.
Well not in my case I think as I'm in France.
Yahoo to Scan our Email for its Target Ads
Somebody who knows everything, but not really ;)
Requiring credit card details is a good way to make people distrustful of you. In my case at least, I am extremely wary if I'm asked for them, because it always seems that the free trial is not actually free and the site owners want me to not come back but end up being billed unwittingly.
You have some cool ideas there, consider putting them on FS :)
Tell me about this "creativity hour" :)
Game music learning sounds like a cool domain for ideas. Do explain?
Consider posting them on Firespotting then, good way to un-stagnate your ideas :)
Polite translation: Take the time to learn how to setup vim yourself and it will reward you 10 fold.
There are currently no positive comments of note. Rather than moaning about an accurate negative one, why not make a positive comment worth upvoting?
It's surprising how poorly paid developers are in this country, even in London. In Bristol I was able to earn £25k after graduating, but from what I've heard a lot of companies are now offering lower, around £17.5k to £20k if lucky. A lot of programmers with five years experience are still on around £25k, whereas a post-doc in Cardiff will be on around £32-35k fresh out of their PhD. Hell, friends of mine that went into sales instead of uni are on £40k, a salary I'd probably struggle to get in the next five years, even as a senior dev.

What I also don't understand is that salaries are getting lower, and hiring is getting harder. Anyone that has hired will appreciate how difficult it can be to get good developers. Given the long hours and need for learning in development it's shocking how low the salaries are, and how it's not talked about more often by UK developers.

The last time I was solely responsible for hiring was at a start-up that had just been acquired. I said that £25k was the bare minimum we should be offering for a junior to mid-level developer. We hired a really good developer, who now leads that team and landed another couple of pay rises (probably now earning a fair bit more than me). The start-up was acquired based on a product largely created by the developers, so we needed a strong developer to take over and I guarantee that if we offered the same low salary that others were offering the product would have been run into the ground.

It's really bad. In my mind, developers across the board should be on £5-10k more than they are, across the country. Hopefully within the next few years the tech industry will push towards better compensation, instead of thinking a drinks fridge and a ping pong table will win other twenty-somethings with no other commitment in life than to they hand their rent to.
Sounds like a good plan. People nowadays are far too exposed to media everywhere. News is 99% indoctrination or just flat out crap filling the hole between new horror-stories. Social media has even lower quality except for a few select sources.
But the signal-to-noise ratio in social networks is low enough that it's only a waste of time (just like TV).

Now, that doesn't mean i did what the author did. Respect for that, i'm a little envious of him.
Synonym: Loch Ness monster, unicorn, "that dude your boss keeps raving about as the mythical man even though he's a 400K/year pipe dream he can't afford".
Relying on this kind of financial data for an early stage company is always a bit risky. AFAICS, this is for the year ending March 2012, when we were significantly smaller than we currently are. We only turned on the ability to pay in August 2011!

Those financials have very little bearing on our current position. For the record, we're now profitable and growing healthily.
We're Not Ready To Teach Kids To Code
After MSN went bad with WLM and Skype(its awful, online list seems to be random), it is last place where most people talk. And it is mainly used as messenger/email hybrid platform. Around my friends, it is main reason why we are still there...

So I kinda agree. Almost no stories what pick my intrest. Only win-to-share post and not relevant post.
I'm drowning in them.
It would seem that no one has addressed the idea that maybe the product doesn't hold enough value to the user to continue after a trial, I really don't think these sorts of metrics are applicable unless both the business model and the product are virually idential to his.

There are too many factors to consider, what is the product? being the most important, how is it sold to me, what is the closing process?

What this post says to me is: we want our users credit card details because there is a likelyhood they will forget to cancel their trial and we will at least screw them out of one month subs.