skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We absolutely do not use the genie to minimize apps (nor is such functionality even available in the program we use for our dock, Plank), and in fact we came up with our full screen button months before Apple made that design change public. For proof (or at least evidence coupled with my personal assurance) of the latter claim, see this mockup[1] which was submitted July 10, 2010. That's 1 year and 10 days before OS X Lion (the first release to feature similar maximize buttons) was released -- even before the betas.

Also, it should be noted: that window control control does not behave the way OS X's similar one does. Fills the screen but does not take the application full screen.

[1]: http://danrabbit.deviantart.com/art/Postler-170793979
If I were involved in upper management of a VC I would want to know as immediately as the information was found out, but I would also want to know that the founders were competent enough to discuss the matter in full with each other before making a decision.
Author of the original Association of American Publishers report posted a comment to Washington Post article with rebuttal of this interpretation of their data:

As the person who produced the AAP report quoted here, I'm not given enough characters in Comments to point out the countless errors in this piece. It misunderstands our basic data and, since our reports only track current vs previous year, quotes figures that come out of nowhere and are unrecognizable. It misses the widely-reported fact that Q1 2013's overall eBook growth slowed because of the Children's/Young Adults category: The Q1 lead-up to the Hunger Games film in March 2012 drove C/YA eBooks to extraordinary triple-digit growth; minus a comparable blockbuster in Q1 2013, C/YA slowed. Adult Fiction/Non-Fiction eBooks, however, grew 14% in the same time '12-'13 period.

Also, an essential point is missed: These are not retail sales numbers but, instead, publishers' net revenues coming from all their distribution channels including Institutions (e.g. schools, libraries) and Book Fairs. That also means, for instance, that with Borders' financial troubles no longer a factor, publishers have seen their net revenue from print stabilize which, in turn, affects their overall percentage earned from eBooks in these reports.

Finally, the piece's premise that an eBook is an eBook is an eBook is wrong. Each category within consumer books - Adult Fiction/Non-Fiction, Children's/YA and Religious Presses - has moved into e-formats at different points in time. Adult F/NF was the pioneer, starting years ago, and that growth has become more consistent as it's matured. C/YA, which entered later, is now in the midst of enormous transition. Religious Presses are more newcomers to eBooks. Lumping these distinct categories together and making broad generalizations makes little sense.

We release highlights of all our reports to media (including the Post). We're happy to share. But an article based on a non-journalistic blog that itself has only second-hand information does a disservice to readers, authors and publishers.

Andi Sporkin
Association of American Publishers

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/08/e...
It just works (for code written to Lua 5.1; it's about 95% compatible with Lua 5.2, which changed how modules work) and can pretty much replace Lua (either the standalone executable, or linking it as a library). The "alien tech" probably comes from how it works, converting Lua to native code. I can't say how difficult to understand, since I haven't really looked into the internals, but from what I understand, Mike Pall created a new way of looking at assembly language as part of LuaJIT.
> ... access to such systems will require the user also to sign an authorized use form.

As well as agreeing to such policies every single time they log in to a computer.
I'm a little suspicious of how much of this is press-piece fluff, given that they make the assertion that his algorithm reduces times by 40 minutes, which is 10%. This means that the average waiting time is 400 minutes, or over 6 hours.

While I've seen one report[1] that claims this, data from recent sources[2,3] give me median/mean times of around 50-180 minutes, which is much more reasonable.

Does anybody know which is right, and if there's a real paper that lists these findings? I'd be very surprised, as other commenters have noted, if such optimization work wasn't being done already.

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/01/13/emergency.room.ep/index...

[2] http://www.medicare.gov/hospitalcompare/Data/emergency-wait-...

[3] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/databriefs/db102.htm
I'm 44 now, and I know without any doubt whatsoever that my 16 year old self wouldn't listen to anything I had to say.

But you're smarter than I [am|was], so my advice to you is don't listen to others who don't build stuff. Or in a more positive way, only listen to people who actually build stuff themselves. Why the Lucky Stiff said it best:

When you don’t create things, you become defined by
your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only
narrow & exclude people. So create.
My problem isn't with welfare for those born disadvantaged, its with lazy hipsters.
Study (& enjoy) math ...that's what I'd tell my 16 year old self.
I think the assumption has been that their cups were much smaller or weaker than ours.
Without a question, the one with text objects. Productivity is far greater with vim. Actually to be fair, Sublime's vim emulation mode implements a few text objects, but the proprietary source means no adding our own.
For the Google Translate functionality, does this pass the request through an intermediary service or direct to the API?
This exact question was recently asked. Many comments from seven days ago [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6153368
"It will just happen" is advice for normal people, not you. Nothing will ever happen, not a single thing, that you don't work for. You have a chance to experiment and make mistakes socializing with girls and it's acceptable to even be rather crazy, and everyone will grow up and forget. Above literally all things, don't waste this chance. Going to a school program that has more men than women is a colossal failure of the kind of intelligence that actually matters. A relationship is the single biggest determinant of human happiness for you, weight it accordingly. Your window for finding one will end much sooner than you'd like so don't take for granted any little experience you ever have with a woman, because they will get rarer tending to zero.
Are there any examples of a "professional CEO" who replaced the "product CEO" brought the company around or took it to the next level? It would be an interesting research if someone collected these data and calculated this probability.
NSA "touches" 30X all relevant emails and 60X all ingested Facebook data daily.
it silently returns nil when accessing non-existent elements

Is that similar to what JS does with undefined, or am I missing something?
Which is exactly when websites want users confused.

I remember Real Player had a bunch of 'opt-in' email options, they where in a scroll box. By default the visible ones where unticked, but if you scrolled down there where pages of preticked ones.
Yes, looks like I jumped to commit hook section directly.
This quote opened and formed the theme of my college admissions and scholarship application essays. It worked.
Issue is wget.

>U.S. prosecutors pointed out that wget was not on the list of “approved” programs for use in facility where Manning worked.

I know it sounds trivial but it was an unauthorized tool run on a system that was supposed to be secure as that system was talking to SIPRNET. Above all the other things PFC Manning has shown the world, he's also shown that security standards & procedures around some of the most damning secrets the DOD & State department could stupidly put on one fileshare was unprotected. Ironically this stuff might have shown up in foreign intelligence circles even without the PFC's actions.
Mr. Walt Disney's Real Secret
I like the idea of syncing a TC volume into drop box. I don't like the idea of re-upping a 10gig file every time I change a word document.
I've been trying to grok the data coming out of the NSA yesterday and could use everyone's thoughts. I am by no means sold on my approach, but I've definitely put thought into it.

Feel free to critique / destroy / inform.
Don't try to be someone you're not. I spent a lot of time in my mid to late teens trying to be what I thought others wanted me to be.
Listen to dad. Hes right about everything, you'll realise when you're older. Be kind to mum, you owe everything to her.
64 bits to 56 bits?
I honestly don't know! I don't know of anyone who has tried Luna on an rMBP. I would encourage you to burn a copy of luna to a USB disk and boot into the live environment. You can play around with it and see how it looks, with no changes to your hard drive.

I'm sure other people with rMBPs will be trying Luna in the coming days, so hopefully we can assess what the current state of affairs is and make any necessary changes.

Speaking on behalf of the whole elementary team, it would be greatly appreciated if you gave it a shot and reported your findings to us via Google+, Twitter, or via direct bug report here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/elementaryos

You can use this guide to prepare the USB drive with Luna: http://www.maketecheasier.com/install-dual-boot-ubuntu-in-ma... The relevant steps are the first few. Obviously replace the filename of the Ubuntu ISO with the Luna one :)

I personally used that guide this morning to create a bootable USB Luna liveCD with the final ISO to install it on my Macbook Air, so I can vouch for its credibility and compatibility.
>Circumstantial evidence...

Circumstantial evidence is perfectly legal and does get many people convicted every day. One piece may not be enough, but you get supporting evidence and you have your case --it's a very basic tool.

Indicting savvy bad bankers is very very hard. That and when the investigative ranks (those who understand the intricacies of finance law, etc.) are reduced to a fraction of what they were makes it even more difficult.
This is proper journalism ^, getting analysis from people who didn't just read the abstract.
# 527 -

sublime-text-2-ruby-tests (git)
Sublime Text 2 plugin for running ruby tests! (Unit, RSpec, Cucumber)

$ 485 -

rails_tutorial_sublime_text (git)
Sublime Text 2 setup used in the Ruby on Rails Tutorial

:)
Never, ever drop out of advanced math class. You will live to rue the day.
We've got them coming! Some of the guys who work on the build process and the ISOs have cranked out some ARM builds of Luna. I don't think they're perfect quite yet, but I fully expect them to be available for download from the website as soon as they are :)
The second would work, if the functions were defined correctly.
Actively pursue girls and recreational drugs more than you are.
There is a key difference between making a feature seem different and actually re-engineering it. I assume you meant the latter, so I just thought I'd offer some advice on word choice.
If Canonical is successful in this new project I will certainly reconsider using Ubuntu. I can't comment on containers, I sort of know what they are and that's about it.
1. Broaden your interests as much as you can. When I was 16 the filed of information architecture and usability didn't exist, so as time goes on tech will be less about code.

2. Actually play with putting together hardware. The era of building your own PC is coming to an end and you should experience that before it's gone.

3. Life advice: Treasure your older relatives while they're still alive and tell them that you love them. Try to capture as much family history as you can and write it down.
Really, its one or the other by necessity. The things that make a language good for embedding are the opposite of what you want in a general purpose scripting language. Its also unlikely for any language to build great support for c unless thats the purpose of the language (ie, embedding).

Lets consider Lua. Lua uses a prototype based inheritance system and coroutines for concurrency and has basically no standard library. Anyone who uses Lua extensively ends up building their own object/class system in addition to filling out the standard library. This makes sense; an embedded language shouldn't force its object model on its host and it doesn't need a standard library. The host most likely comes with a standard library of its own. The lack of common building blocks and the reliance on external code means Lua will never be a general purpose scripting language because its just too damn hard to reuse code.
When I was 16, my parents were idiots. I'm 44 now, and they sure have smartened up a lot :D
Just installed this on an acer aspire one. Really nice out of the box. Seems very refined.
> I used to use 360mg before exercise

Being of a moderate calibre when it comes to ultra-endurance types of events, I'm curious as to why you would consume so much caffeine before exercise.
join the army after college
What horrible advice. Be yourself, and learn to be friends with women. If you want to marry just one lady for the rest of your life, you're going to have to be "just friends" with every other woman on the planet anyway.

And recreational drugs? Learn to deal with life on your own without having to rely on crutches. I've seen too many people destroy their lives with drugs (including alcohol) and many more who need a hit/taste/boost/shot in order to deal with the stresses of life.
I appreciate the suggestion. We (as the elementary team) did not actually create the video -- rather, a (very talented) fan created it of his own accord and sent it to us.

I agree that we would be well served by highlighting the features of elementary OS which are visually dissimilar to OS X, but frankly, Apple doesn't own light color schemes and multi-desktops. The latter has been on Linux long before Apple implemented them in OS X with Leopard in ~2005. Furthermore the "dock" wasn't invented by Apple (RISC OS had it first, iirc).

I hope I'm not coming across as overly defensive. I definitely appreciate the comments and I understand that you are expressing your opinions about what you got out of the video. But, as I've said elsewhere in this thread, we're not embarrassed by our dock and multi-desktop implementation (which, by the way, actually works rather differently than any other implementation we know of, particularly with regard to dragging apps around). We're proud of them, and we want to show them off -- aesthetic parallels to OS X or not.
Can anyone provide some specific examples of how this is a "copy" of OSX? I am someone who sparsely used Os X and is admittedly anti-Apple.

I'm trying hard not to assume the people in the thread saying it's a copy are more than just Apple zealots but it's difficult when no one provides any evidence.
Work in as many different countries as possible.

IT is one of the few jobs where you can travel/work easily. So do it.
Hey Natasham25, there's also a free plan that you can sign up for. You'll be able to embed it on your blog (for free) as long as the app plays stay under the limit.
Show HN: MVP for real-time event social feedback (Q&A)
God's official temple, whether you despariage it wrongly or not.

Suck it.

God says...

32:27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the
uncircumcised, which are gone down to hell with their weapons of war:
and they have laid their swords under their heads, but their
iniquities shall be upon their bones, though they were the terror of
the mighty in the land of the living.

32:28 Yea, thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised, and
shalt lie with them that are slain with the sword.

32:29 There is Edom, her kings, and all her princes, which with their
might are laid by them that were slain by the sword: they shall lie
with the uncircumcised, and with them that go down to the pit.

32:30 There be the princes of the north, all of them, and all the
Zidonians, which are gone down with the slain; with their terror they
are ashamed of their might; and they lie uncircumcised with them that
be slain by the sword, and bear their shame with them that go down to
the pit.

32:31 Pharaoh shall see them, and shall be comforted over all his
multitude, even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword, saith the
Lord GOD.

32:32 For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he
shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are
slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the
Lord GOD.
No one denies the importance of Lambda calculus, but you are confusing the notions of minimality, expressivity, and pragmatism. Worse, you can't seem to accept that others do not agree with your notion of an "ideal balance" of these things.

It's perfectly fine to not like a language, but it's inappropriate to be so over the top with it as to post in, quite literally, every story about that language.
The variant that you can't be sent to a won board or a full board is not vulnerable to this technique, and, to my knowledge, hasn't been solved.

https://www.khanacademy.org/cs/in-tic-tac-toe-ception-perfec...
Feedvenue is a real-time social feedback platform.
It allows event organizers to quickly set up events and empower the participants to submit their questions via web, mobile, phone, twitter or email, in a completely anonymous (or not - it's up to you) way!

Peers vote on questions and the most popular get pushed to the top.
Don't worry about duplicate questions or the same few people monopolizing the entire question and answer process!

Now you can see in real-time what your audience wants to know, what topics interest them, and what the crowd sentiment is towards you (positive or negative), so you can better tailor your responses.

The presenter mode makes it painless to organize and address the most popular questions, all updated in real-time as you're presenting. No more time-consuming presentation coordination and administration!
This is really interesting, because me, my partner, colleges at work and friends are all buying more ebooks than we've ever done before. All our work books are now digital and the older generations in my family all now own kindles (and use them).
Insider's View Of The Administration's Response To NSA Surveillance Leaks
I'm with you on the no-DRM, if I do buy a DRM eBook I have to be able to remove the DRM (defeating the purpose).
The most important attribute that young programmers lack is empathy. All of the weird-sounding miscellaneous advice you get really flows from it. Commenting the "why" rather than the how, documentation, adhering to coding conventions, these are all just manifestations of being kind to the maintenance programmer, which is empathy. Making the user interface attractive and usable, providing helpful support and performing rigorous testing are just manifestations of being kind to the user, which is empathy. Cultivating articulate expression, in code, speech and writing, is empathy for those who must start from scratch to understand you and what you've done. Egoless programming is empathy for your coworkers. So you can throw away almost all of the specific advice I have mentioned and instead focus on being empathetic, and you won't go astray.
> 3. Easy to mess up your system with no hope of fixing it

That's the main point of them making decisions for you. The more opinionated the software, the less decisions the user has to make, the harder it is to mess up the system.
So am I correct to assume that, according to this description and the other answer, that this falls under the 4th amendment and since the person in question initially answered questions they implicitly gave up this right and are thus accountable when they decide to stop talking?
Don't waste time in grad school unless you want to be a professor.

Work out a little, girls like muscles.
Learn to learn. Find out and become aware of how your focus & energy level shifts through out the day and allocating those time in well spent manner.

Deciding on what experience will likely increase % of you working with high quality people on hopefully, meaningful work. Check out one of gazillion on going opensource projects that interest you.

Read books, learn to find good books, repeat

and of course do allow some balance in life, not everything should be about being 100% productive man.

gl
get more friends and leave the computer alone from time to time
In this interview[1] he states that his degree is one that he designed himself (which his college allowed), and that he used his programming classes and experience as the second of two foreign languages he needed for his Linguistics degree (the first being Classical Greek). He calls this a, "hack".

He talks about schooling after his undergrad, but doesn't go into what that was.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNAtbYSxzuA
> I would also not learn Objective-C, but that's more of an opinion than anything.

wouldYouMindExplainingPlease:whyYouAreNotFondOfObjectiveC:withAnExample:orMaybeTwo:
Show HN: Ultimate TicTacToe for Android
It's not a new discovery. I've been using this for over a year...
This makes me happy. I don't know what God thinks.

God says...
thou our God, who didst drive out the inhabitants of this land before
thy people Israel, and gavest it to the seed of Abraham thy friend for
ever? 20:8 And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary
therein for thy name, saying, 20:9 If, when evil cometh upon us, as
the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this
house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry
unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.

20:10 And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir,
whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the
land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;
20:11 Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy
possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.

20:12 O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might
against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we
what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.

20:13 And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones,
their wives, and their children.
Thanks - yes I was aware.

I thought that Whalesong was a Javascript code generator rather than a VM ?

Unfortunately JS performance on iOS rules that out for our purposes.
It seems no one commenting here is actually from Palo Alto.
It looks like this might be an interesting competitor/test ground wrt Gnome 3 (and beyond). They're using Vala heavily, and they don't have any strong committed user base yet -- and therefore no need for backwards comparability.

Also nice to see a project that goes beyond simply building on top of Linux -- rethinking how apps are open/closed/minimized is a great example of this.

I doubt I'll ever use it for anything other than fun, though. I need my legacy apps, I can't work with a mouse (due to RSI and efficiency -- I've become addicted to xmonad like tiling wms, and vim/vimperator keybindings).

But if they can provide a solid alternative desktop experience, that's great!
It's okay to quit things you don't like.
You're disagreeing with something I'm not saying.
I would tell myself to not be afraid of publicly failing. I had, and sometimes still do have, a really hard time putting myself out there. So, do not be afraid of the judgment of others; if you are proud of what you're doing then that's all that matters.