skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NoScript continues to work fine and is much more functional than globally turning off JS. Anyone who intentionally turned off JS via the Firefox options will probably benefit from being forced to use NoScript instead anyway.
What makes you think it is windows only?

npm install -g typescript
Small Objects on the Lunar Surface
I find it interesting that the author blows off mirasol (a technology with working commercial products on the market) as if it's nothing, but spent the rest of the article talking about how great Amazon's hypothetical display is ... despite the fact that Amazon hasn't announced anything, much less demonstrated anything.
I definitely will check out the August one. Thanks for the tip, this is the first I've heard of HackerNest.
Tell HN: this is a startup I would use passionately if someone created it
(In case there are any legal questions, I hereby place this idea in the public domain... and I hope I'm not having a Michael Scott bankruptcy declaration moment.)

High-level description

* A site for line-by-line song lyric analysis/commentary
* Analyses are created and voted on by users
* Lyrics are (probably) imported by the site owner, so voting mechanisms on "songs to import" should be provided for more obscure songs
* The site makes money by providing links to purchase the songs (similarly to Pandora)
* Users who want to analyze a song can provide line-by-line explanations and commentary
* Users who want to understand a song can read a highly-voted analysis
* Users who have just fallen in love with a song can purchase it on the spot

If this already exists, it doesn't exist on the scale that it could (or else every Google search for "$song analysis" would lead to that site). The idea came to me tonight when I wanted to really understand Stairway to Heaven, and was able to write out an interpretation of it line by line.

And yes, I realize the irony of really getting Stairway to Heaven and then immediately thinking about a startup opportunity.
I'm using SlickGrid[1] in an internal tool. It uses divs and spans to display data, so there are certainly nice examples that do so.

1. https://github.com/mleibman/SlickGrid
tbh, I suspect the reason ebook readers have been declining in sales is because they all suck. I haven't yet seen one that supports even English and Japanese, much less math / standard comp-sci notation or a third language, or has reasonable typography support. Your average Android tablet does all that and far more, and the prices and weights have been driving down to where they're competing.

Add to that that your average Android tablet has far better support for formats, both open and closed (buy an Android, get B&N, Amazon, and almost every other ebook market. Buy a Kindle, get... Amazon), and you're left with the screen on one hand and everything else on the other, and surprise surprise, the other sells better.

but this frustrates me largely because I really really want a good e-ink reader, because I love reading on it and I love using it in sunlight and I love more than 12 hours of battery life. And nobody seems willing to hit even the "not a piece of shit" level, just "better than other ebook readers". where the heck did it go wrong?

--- </rant>

this would be nice to see, but I don't really see any evidence that the tech is right around the corner, much less prepping for release. Lots of words for a hypothetical.
Kindof true. I'd forgotten how much of a Mhz bump the P6 was -- It came out 12 months after the first intel Mac Pro (and ran at 4.7Ghz at the high end).

The P5 was a contemporary of the G5 (although the G5 was really a P4). But it wasn't quite the beast the P6 was.
This is awesome! I just submitted Coindega (https://www.coindega.com)
Cool idea. I might suggest creating a static version of your site and hosting it on s3. This will make it much more stable if you have a high read rate. Then you can point the new submissions to a app server or something. You don't have to get fancy with this or anything, a simple 'wget -r http://www.kickoffboost.com/' and upload that to a s3 bucket, etc.
Agreed.

It's little things like this that add up.
Dolphins have 'longest social memory' among non-humans
> But seeing tables being used for layout annoys me far more than the blink tag.

How come? CSS positioning is pretty unintuitive, and sometimes it's just easier to get something working with tables. If the end results look fine, what's the problem? Table-based layouts aren't in-your-face like the blink tag was.

Oh, and don't view-source on HN ;)
How do you carry on to the next bug-to-fix/feature-to-add when you're using Github Issues as your bug tracker? Or what if all you've got on your plate for the day is "review and merge everyone's pull requests to create our next release candidate build?" Or, even ignoring Github's extra features, what if you need to integrate a new prototype-stage third-party library, which is hosted on Github?

Or, to be less charitable, and to assume some incompetence on someone's part (though not necessarily the developer doing the work)--what if you're trying to use bundle/npm install to set up a working environment for one of your codebases, but one of the dependencies is listed as a git ref of a repo hosted on Github?

And honestly, this is all assuming you would "just move on to the next [whatever]." Most people will take any excuse to procrastinate. :)
I just fixed it. Thanks so much for pointing it out!

I shared kickoffboost on hackernews just to see if anybody would be interested in this kind of thing. I'm getting so much traffic now and I was not prepared for it at all.
If you paraphrase most arguments here, we would end up with a conclusion that a YC-startup is no different from a random startup. There is huge struggle getting product/market fit, things are constantly in motion, rejection by VC's etc. Somehow that doesn't seem right. I'm sure the YC founders would negotiate pretty good terms for themselves (compared to a random startup) just because they are a YC startup. For people who feel the OP is naive etc., what exactly should he have expected (net delta) because it is a YC startup?
Have you been anywhere near technology for the past 20 years? POWER has been its name forever.
Companies which hire tens of thousands of people a year do not, in general, have less than two dozen employees.
Ask HN: What are the reasons not to go into computer science?
I'm a high school senior considering majoring in computer science. We obviously hear about the positives, but what are the negatives?
The FtanML Markup Language
There are still use-cases where using <table> is the cleanest way to achieve something without resorting to javascript (or a <div> soup tag).
> How is Soylent different from Ensure Complete?

One way its different is that it was on Fox News yesterday and millions of people had a chance to hear about it. Versus, until you told me, I never heard of Ensure before.
Glad to see a Brazilian startup getting accepted at YC.
Great website.
Just Signed up and Submitted our new online event ticketing system Yapsody.com on your website. Hope you approve it. :)
This kind of comment makes me cringe. Did you really have nothing positive to say?
Are there other similar sites that you could name (either for closed or open betas)?
Yikes. This is pretty inaccurate.

Rails.app (now Tokaido) is on Github [1] and is coming along quite nicely. Our designer used a build of it to get one of our Rails apps up and running quite smoothly last week. It was super slick and as far as I can tell, there's no indication of it being at alpha or beta stage. It already works great.

Not to mention that Tilde has been working on Ember.js and developing Skylight.io as well. They're keeping busy and producing A TON.

Usually I wouldn't respond to this kind of thing but I think it's a pretty tough sell to anyone that Yehuda isn't working his ass off with the rest of Tilde.

[1]: https://github.com/tokaido/tokaidoapp
This looks pretty nice. It's really too bad that it works with a Google service.
On the Happy Life
Seneca (First Century A.D.)

http://thriceholy.net/Texts/Happy.html
Interesting that the domain to the right doesn't display the smiley, but the link itself does.
The paperwhite is a nice display, and part of the benefit they claim is that the light guide combined with a matte screen reduces the amount of backlighting needed, thus improving battery life. That may be - but another big factor is the relatively anemic chip compared to phones / tablets / laptops.

All that aside, I really wish this kind of deliberately misleading comparison would die:

http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/kindle/dp/2012/KC...

Why are laptops and tablets and smartphones measured in raw hours, while the paperwhite is measured in weeks, where one day is half an hour? And then why plot them on the same graph, indicating that they mean the same thing?

A graph that wasn't intentionally misleading would show the paperwhite with a bar about 2x the length of the smartphone's - in practice, it gets about 11 hours at full tilt, and about 28 (that's 56 days * .5 hours per day) when conserving power.
You lose your life in the consumption of programming knowledge and development
1099.is An Online Tax Resource for the Sharing Economy
I hate they left Airmail out of this article. I switched to it from Sparrow about a week ago and haven't been very pleased so far. It kinda feels like what Sparrow may have eventually become.
Yahoo Gets A New Logo
A deflationary currency can be a bad idea as a monopolistic currency.

But adding a deflationary currency to an ecosystem that also contains inflationary currencies isn't the same thing as having a deflationary currency be the only currency available.
(views source)

as a <table> user, I feel vindicated :P
Ah, so everyone's boss is the sociopath who's good at whispering campaigns. Swell.
A new way to find lost items
Yes you can do a bare minimum but without progress you may lose motivation. After a while you get used to the slightly better feeling and slightly better sleep. May get bored with it only to go back to the occasional workout. That was me. I needed a more noticeable result.

Progressing to complex bodyweight exercises is trickier. Lifting weights properly is technical enough, planche, even headstand pushups weren't going to happen for me. I made every form mistake you can make with weights. Mistakes with complex bodyweight moves halt progress.
> I haven't yet seen one that supports even English and Japanese, much less math / standard comp-sci notation or a third language, or has reasonable typography support.

I don't understand this. My Kindle DX is fairly ancient at this point, but it seems to do OK with english-language books and some math texts as well. I really enjoy it.
http://rock.rapgenius.com/Led-zeppelin-stairway-to-heaven-ly...

You can click each line for annotations.
Interesting. Is there a higher level lang that ONLY adds type safety and compile-time checking to JS?
Show HN: Revolutionizing workshops in India
All snark aside, I wonder what the rationale was for doing this. It'd be a shame to load a website in a browser 20 years from now, only to see the site render incorrectly due to no-longer-implemented tags. Next, <center>?

It's tough, obviously, because we can't have cruft build up all over. But this seems like a fairly straightforward case that a browser could shim out in JavaScript by default. Blink is a pretty straightforward piece of internet history. It's not like <applet>, which, while also a piece of history, actually carries legitimate complexity/security risks.
Primary hardware: Dual 24", 1920x1200 monitors; IBM Model M keyboard (manufactured in 1990) still clicking strong; computer is a 4-year-old 2.67 GHz Core i7 920 (which is plenty adequate now that it has 24 GB RAM). Laptop is a 3-year-old Sony, purchased because it was the only model available at the time that was at the intersection of relatively small size (14" screen), highish resolution (1600x900), and Core i5.

Operating environment for both is Ubuntu 12.10 using xmonad as the WM; most hacking right now is in Clojure via Emacs.

Pretty happy with this setup, though I'd like a buckling-spring keyboard with a few more buckybits; I'm also contemplating a switch back to a Kinesis Contoured keyboard. The laptop will probably be looking at replacement sometime soon; Linux support for it has never gelled (power management and external monitors) though it's been generally adequate.
Was that an attempt at a pun, or a serious comment? I'm not sure I understand exactly what you're saying.
20 hilarious startup life moments
Gahh, this sentiment from product managers drives me nuts. IMO you will never have the best engineers work for you, because the best are very good at making product decisions / knowing the business in addition to excellent engineering skills.

To me this is the single most differentiating philosophy between great product managers and very mediocre ones.
Looks nice! Maybe site screenshots should be clickable to make it more likely people will open each submission?
He was talking about the combination of English and Japanese, not one or the other as individuals.
If I understand correctly, Ensure is not meant to be a whole-diet replacement, and Soylent is. However, I have not studied this, and I caution you to not take me too seriously here.
A lot of tissues to sop up our tears.
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Okay, I'll go for it. I'm very curious to see how the traffic will compare to Hacker News. Yesterday I put a link to my company (http://algorithmic.ly) in a comment and the response was overwhelming. I've heard that traffic from different sources can behave drastically differently in terms of conversions, and HN is notoriously bad with conversions, so I wonder how it will compare.
Microsoft Goes WYSIWYG To Broaden The Appeal Of Windows Phone 8 App Development
Awesome, thank you. I suspect there are things I would change if I could just wave my hand, but nothing is stopping me from creating my idealized version myself (aside from laziness and not wanting the stress of owning a website).
A girl I dated in high-school wound up with a degree in agriculture - she wasn't from a rural area, and none of her grandparents had even lived on a farm - at my age that's going back to the early part of the 20th century.

She had started out as a math major.

The biggest negative for a young person is pursuing something they have no passion for. The dilemma of college for most young people is that they have little idea what a field entails until they arrive on campus and start taking courses - and even those who do have applicable knowledge of the reality still don't know about many of their other options.

So why do you want to major in CS?
Fascinating! Although, as a cautionary data point, selling "all you can fly" didn't work too well for American Airlines:

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/05/business/la-fi-0506-...
My problems are mostly how easy it is to get lost if you're dealing with nested tables within tables (especially inside templates), and that they have to be completely read before rendering... although that may no longer necessarily be an issue with modern browsers.

I find divs and spans easier myself but I guess, yeah, at the end of the day if it looks fine and it loads fine then it's fine. Too much pain from hand-coding too many tables has made me twitchy and curmudgeonly.

Oh, and don't view-source on HN ;)

Oh, i'm aware...
It's just too bad html doesn't provide elements that handle nested lists. If only. Ah well.
I always tell folk that programming is a great job, if you love it. If it's just a job, it must be a terrible job. All day, behind a desk, fixing bugs, or getting ui pixel perfect, or doing the write-build-test-debug cycle over and over again.

So if you're considering it because you already love programming then (for me) there were no down sides. (I even met my wife there.) if you are considering it because "all the money is in computers" then rather pick something else.

Yes, many, ( most?) will make a reasonable amount of money, and there's always the carrot of the big payday for the very very few, but when it takes 2 days to find and fix an obscure bug, which turns out to be a , instead of a . then suddenly something like duck farming sounds like a more fulfilling way to make a living.

If you love it, go for it.
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The last time I used windows a bit (I think it was around the Planetside 2 launch...), I noted down this:

# set up for putty:
# From: http://mshnitzer.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/export-putty-setti... comment:

reg export HKCU\Software\SimonTatham putty.reg
reg import putty.reg

I'm not sure what's the standard now, but I also always set "use ssh protocol v2 only" -- and you probably should too (on the off chance that you have some ancient device that doesn't handle version 2, you should probably make an exception in that profile).
I like MTPuTTY - http://ttyplus.com/multi-tabbed-putty/ - and I'm curious if you used this or another version.
What about the Japanese Paperwhite? I came close to getting one last December but decided to hold off. The people I've talked to who own it haven't mentioned having any issues. That being said I sympathize with the rest of Groxx's post which is why I'm still hesitant to purchase one. The math type point probably sticks regardless.
Actually, a new one every day for a month: http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/57582020969/kicking-off-30-days...
Just created it. Want to be the first to post gear there?
As an outsider (no opinion on OP/wycats), I'm curious why the Rails.app is being developed under the name "Tokaido"? I remember the kickstarter campaign coming up on HN/twitter a while back with the Rails.app branding and was curious why I never heard about it after. Even the github repo readme doesn't mention rails?
Added Pentax, thanks for the suggestion!
So brave to name a title like this, you have a lot to learn
Your standards for a good e-reader are well outside the norm. Most people simply want something that's small, lightweight, convenient, and easy to read plain text on. The Kindle is all of those things, and cheap to boot. It's a shame that you can't find an e-reader that suits you, but for everyone I know (myself included) the Kindle has made reading much more accessible and practical (especially if you commute on public transport).
I've seen this before, it was immensely helpful for moving from a multi-window workflow to a single window with tmux. The tmux docs themselves are a bit obtuse and don't do a very good job explaining the various concepts tmux uses.
What do you mean? My Kindle (latest model white backlight one) supports English and Japanese books.

Or is that because I bought it in Japan? The US model does not support Japanese text?
I'm not trying to be overly pedantic, but I was curious if I was misusing the term. Wikipedia says that in the US, "the term Member of Congress applies to members of both houses, the terms Congressman and Congresswoman usually refer only to members of the House of Representatives."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_of_Congress
Oh please.

On the one side we have a commercially competing entity arguing against HBase and on the other side we have an individual "defending" HBase who never contributed a single line of code to open source HBase promoting their own closed source solution.

HBase is a "Sparse, Consistent, Distributed, Multidimensional, Sorted map" and at that it is pretty good.

Other stores are either not consistent or not sorted by default (which means you cannot do range scans). Some can be configured to do that, but then suddenly all those nice claims made by the commercial entities backing them just vanish.

If you do not need consistency and range scans, then do not use HBase. If you do need those HBase will be a excellent fit.

Some of the most heavyweight entities on this planet have committers to HBase (Facebook, Intel, Salesforce, to some extend Twitter, etc) as well as commercial backers such as Cloudera and Hortonworks.

Disclaimer: HBase committer here.
Yahoo: Kicking off 30 days of change
WaPo or Tumblr, which would you buy for $250mm?
I haven't yet seen one that supports even English and Japanese

Ah yes, that famous mass market requirement.

much less math / standard comp-sci notation or a third language

Even better.

eBook readers have been declining in sales because they can't offer the features that tablets can. Simple as that.
How to copy to system clipboard from tmux output after mouse selection?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12287432/how-to-copy-to-s...
Bookmarked! We may submit our product on here once I consult with the rest of my team.
Nice compilation of images. very funny :)
Solid alternative: http://ckknight.github.io/gorillascript/
Have you got any wireless connectivity issues with the Macbook Air?
Opened it, and immediately hated it.
Let this day go down in history as the day we declared our independence from the tyrannical Mozilla organization and their corporate-interest driven and oppressive removal of our freedoms and ability to customize our browser. We shall not be stricken down by their restrictive and non-representational releases of firefox... instead we choose to be empowered by the option to disable things such as javascript, and tabbed browsing because we understand these options to be self-evident truths for all browser users.

I am tired of having my freedoms stripped from my browser without any representation into the process. As a user of the browser I was not adequately informed of the upcoming changes nor was I given an opportunity to choose not to upgrade.

THIS MUST END

Contact me for further information, the revolution begins today.
Lawmakers Issued License Plates That Make Them Invisible To Police/Traffic Cams
I wonder whether it's a matter of market saturation. There are two basic camps of readers- those who are willing to try and prefer e-readers, and those who simply prefer books. I fall into the latter, and try as I might to change, I just have never really wanted to own an e-reader. I want to want one, seriously, but every time I go back and look into getting one I just realize I don't want it. E-books are no bargain compared to print and I don't think the reading experience matches a real book, so really the only benefit is convenience and ability to store multiple books in a compact tablet which doesn't carry much weight either, I'm afraid.

So my point is that I wonder whether the market is reaching a point where those who wanted to try an e-reader made the purchase and are happily using their Kindles and Nooks and the rest don't give a shit. I would be very interested to know what percentage of Kindle buyers are repeat customers or own one and are buying one for a relative. I'd bet it's high compared to tablets.
I already hate it.
Sometimes I wish there was a way to down vote fluff pieces like these.
This is the exact workflow we use at my company as well, and we've all grown to love it.

I got a new laptop today, and because we do all our dev on a remote server via ssh, tmux, and vim, it only took a few minutes to get my new machine set up for development. All I had to do was download iTerm and copy over my private key and config file! So easy.

I've seen this referred to as "Unix as an IDE". Big fan.
But why would you want that? The whole point of moving from <table> to <div> for layout was that using <table> wasn't semantic and was the wrong tool for the job. But <table> is the right tool for displaying tabular data. That's its entire purpose for existing. Using <div> to display tabular data is a regression.

Edit: typo