skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate your engagement in this discussion, but you can't be serious now: Of course the iPhone was a game changer, but that doesn't reset everything to 0. Nokia's brand recognition, Nokia's relationships with telcos and their vast distribution channels... these things don't go flying out of the window just because of the iPhone, and it certainly wasn't a disadvantage.

As for Nokia killing Symbian: To publicly announce a year before you actually ship the next product, that your current products are now obsolete - huge mistake! I don't think there is any dispute on this.

But we digress: I strongly believe that if you do it right there is money to be made as an Android vendor (don't forget those emerging companies from China, Huawei, xiaomi,...), but there is no money in WP. Nokia did a brilliant job with their Lumias, but they just won't sell without the right OS.
Interesting perspective. I suppose this makes it easier to hone one's skills?
How do you know? Did you find the sourcecode somewhere?
Hi Danial,

We launched a private beta because we still have a heap of screens to style and cleanup, as well as some documentation.

We want to do installations with every one of our customers 1-1 in the beginning to make sure we iron out any kinks.

Thanks,

Keith from Buildbox
I use both Vim and Emacs, and in most contexts Evil-Mode within Emacs that emulates most of Vim's vanilla functions.

Emacs also has modal editing that allows for per mode based keybindings.

Where Vim wins out though on the keybinding game is with its grammar that enables a great deal of mnemonics and the ability to bind keys based on key sequences that do not all have to be prefix keys except for the last key in the sequence, which is the case with Emacs currently.

That opens up a lot more options for generating terse keybinds that are simply not possible with the way Emacs binding system currently works, and coming from Vim I found the system extremely confusing until I read how Emacs keymaps lookups work in greater detail.

That spills over into what is possible with Evil-Mode bindings as well to a degree because of the prefix key requirement with the sequences.

And in Emacs, because of its keymap hierarchy system it is extremely easy to have custom keymaps shadowed and overruled by a higher ranking mode mapping, which again coming from Vim is not obvious what is happening there and how to overcome that behavior.

Even though I now grok how Emacs processes keymaps, I still much prefer Vim's system that allows for any key sequences to be interleaved to make very terse sequences.

The workaround to the situation with long chord sequences that use the Meta and Control keys is that I will bind the frequently used command to the hyper or super keys which are largely not used by modes nowadays and are much less crowded as a result.

There is no inherent reason why Emacs could not move towards a key sequence rather than a chord sequence binding scheme, so resolving the quagmire is at least tractable.

I do use Emacs chords where they are reasonable though rather than changing states just to interact with a REPL or a VCS mode, and in the context of working with Lisp I always use Emacs' chords as paredit obviates the need for any of Vim's grammar, which by default lacks a sexp object or ways of transposing objects well.
>The sun is, but what about the raw materials needed to make the panels?

like silicon?
Errol Morris On His Donald Rumsfeld Documentary
I'd say it is more than slightly lit. It is lit enough to read by in a dark room--comfortably once your eyes are dark adapted.
I love cursing more than most people, but it doesn't belong in my code.
On Firefox, fails with

[15:54:39.366] TypeError: k is null @ http://hellorun.helloenjoy.com/js/three.min.js:412
[15:54:39.366] "Error creating WebGL context."
[15:54:39.368] TypeError: this.view is undefined @ http://hellorun.helloenjoy.com/js/hellorun.min.js:1

On Chrome, I see some rendered triangles, but just wireframe, and the game does not seem to work.
I'd be very careful to buy stock at LinkedIn. I'm not surprised there's high engagement as LinkedIn is full of dark patterns designed to drive engagement but this is bound to backfire sooner or later, many of which I'm sure you've all read about here already if not experienced. There are only so many frustrations users are willing to put up with.
I greatly disagree that empathy is innate. It's exactly what separates "teenagers" from young adults, and is very much a learned skill.
> At least in the case of marijuana, the cure seems to be significantly worse than the disease.

Agreed, I'm talking about justifying criminalization in an ideal way, not the current way.

> The idea that you can squash a market with inelastic demand is soundly dispelled by all current and historical attempts at doing so.

The demand comes after the addiction. Remove addiction and the demand is reduced.

> This is an outcome that clearly cannot be brought about by the war on drugs...

That's the current war, not the one based on evidence. What if the evidence showed that a different war could improve society on average and reduce hard drug usage? For example, instead of taking away a user's property and imprisoning them, you give them rehab and (if needed) job skills and actually find them a job, and any other assistance that costs less to provide than the monetary value of the drain on society they'd otherwise be?
The old maps still does that, but it does not pick the ones along your route and sort based on shortest trip. In any case, used to is not really useful.
Looks like you're probably running it with Ruby 1.8, and it's using the Ruby 1.9 Hash syntax. Try to run it with 1.9, either through something like RVM, rbenv or chruby, or with any other number of distribution installers.
What do you call a wiki coupled to a permissions system? That is, a CMS where:

- every logged-in user is a contributor+editor+publisher and so can just edit-and-post content as if the system was a wiki,

- but new users have to be created by some administator, or invited, etc; there's no "Register" link,

- and for non-logged-in users, there are no trappings of "wikidom" visible (e.g. recent changes page, sandbox, any revision of posts other than the marked-as-last-known-good revision, etc.)

I have a feeling that this is what 90% of documentation projects really want: something that's a wiki from the inside, and a CMS from the outside. Does this design have a name?
I actually want to try writing technical docs, but I can't seem to find a beginner friendly project/framework that I can pick up a small task and work on it. Do you have any suggestions?

Shall I try approaching people in Mozilla etc where they always have some work or wait until I find a project that I personally use and lacks some docs so I can try working on it individually? I would rather have some kind of mentorship but I do not think people will invest time in a random person over the internet.
Way out of line. It is pretty clear from your comments that you automatically think that anyone who disagrees with you is an idiot. That's funny given the lack of depth your thinking demonstrates so far.

Arguing that your opponent's argument is a "fringe notion" and throwing it in with another irrelevant example of a fringe notion is a pathetic excuse for a counter. You actually have to write a direct counter-argument instead of relying on dismissiveness and fallacy. But hey, acting like an asshole is definitely the easier way.
Erlang - A Brief Introduction
Windows is dead
Hi tfinch,

Thanks for your feedback!

Yup, you're on the money with your assertion. Because Buildbox uses your own infrastructure, you can what ever postgis version you like :)

I'll keep an eye out for you in the beta survey (if you did it) and try to get you on the beta soon.

Cheers,

Keith from Buildbox
I am a big Vim fan and promote its design for the most part, however with Lisp paredit and redshank covers text object movement, editing, and refactoring entirely so there is no benefit to using Evil-mode there once paredit and redshank is understood.

One downside though it that it will leave users wanting that in all languages, something which is sadly not available elsewhere as fluidly. I find myself thinking,"this is great, but what would really improve this situation is if it was inherently structured so that I could exploit that" in other contexts.
I wonder how comprehensive Google's agreement with Nestle is?

Today's marketing stunt is fun, but this is an OS name - it is going to live on in history for a decade or more, it is going to be checked into the android git repository. There will be reviews calling "KitKat" a smoking turd, people trashing and trolling it all over the internet. Tim Cook will probably get up on stage and lay into it at some point. People will be making icons and fan art based around it, and pulling all kinds of stunts that would normally catch the ire and get a swift cease and desist from a major company like Nestle.

So has Google negotiated with Nestle that they are not going to suddenly get "uncool" with this and go with the flow? If not, fun as it is, I feel like this could be something that ends badly. Proprietary trademarks and open source don't generally mix well, and when they do you need pretty robust agreements in place.
Happy to be wrong about this, but I wouldn't think that thermal dissipation in the case would make the case less hot. Where does the heat go?
Does having empathy mean having to deal with tacky Windows admins who make quasi-racist jokes and look over your shoulder at work because since you're 20 years younger than them, there's no way you could possibly know how to use a Unix-like operating system.
I always look forward to the Startup School talks and interviews that get streamed and posted on the web. Would love to see DHH and especially Andrew Mason again.
There's a science to it

I wrote this back in 2008: http://luckyapps.com/blog/?p=12

And this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6324442
"She then took... and needlessly delayed rulings, rather than to dispense with justice."

She did dispense with justice. It would make more sense to me if you removed "with".

And thanks for continuing to fight this crap.
b.) The startups being of "lower quality" has only to do with a watered down selection process. If you were to go to a YC dinner or demo day it would be immediately obvious that while there are plenty of mid-20s, male, american founders there are also plenty that don't fall into those categories.

Harvard "built a brand", but I don't see Harvard establishing franchises around the world to capitalize and satisfy it's "global ambitions". It's satisfied with trying to be a better Harvard, which is why it's brand persists.

In the same sense, YC could scale by getting more of those 1000x capable founders to apply the regular way and continue to improve on picking the best of them.
META App Idea Store
I read the sequencing more as "the most important thing to know, is the thing I didn't write. Read that. If you never make it back here, that's okay, this is just errata compared to that."
If you build a closed ecosystem, you and you alone are responsible for its value. As with other forms of leverage, you win on the upside, but there's also a lot to lose going down. LinkedIn is a closed, walled garden. It's gotten increasingly obnoxious (enough so that I've pared my legitimate profile down to its bare bones, and have a spoof one I use for research). And, well, we've seen any number of walled gardens implode spectacularly.

Logged into MySpace recently?
Hi shaggyfrog,

Yup! We 100% do iOS builds. If you have some spare Apple hardware about the place, you can hook Buildbox up to it, so you can start running your iOS and Mac builds right away!

Cheers,

Keith from Buildbox
Node compiler for .kit files
Reddit uses a hellbanning system like HN. Spammers and the like don't realize they are banned until they try to read their own posts from another account. The auto-downvote system along with score caching makes it a lot harder to tell if your upvote/downvote went through or not. It's just one of the many, many anti-bot systems built into Reddit.
I am confused by the suggestion that the word "love" would indicate happiness. Usually when I use that in source code, I'm being sarcastic. As in, Don't you love the fact that Google's API documentation is inaccurate?
NSA, Snowden and Wikileaks are real instances of entities that previously exited only in the sci-fi stories that inspired hacker culture from the beginning. Claiming these stories to be off-topic in a hackers forum is absurd.
I think we have two eras, each very different than the other.

The first is the immediate future where computers can not act as independent, autonomous agents. This is the era we are in today, and have been for quite some time. Some of the concepts described in the article could be used to describe years ago, from a different perspective. Free online education? Has existed for over a decade, arguably pushing two decades. And so on.

In today's era it pays to use machines as tools of great leverage. It means not only that you get ahead of other humans, but you get way ahead of them. Your wealthy, in good health, and very happy.

The second is the era where "computers" become independent autonomous agents. In movies they always either enslave or exterminate humans. I would expect a more quiet extinction, not in existence but in relevance. In that case, what a columnist writes in the New York Times just doesn't matter, because it would have zero impact on anything that was doing decision making. Perhaps there is a biological transformation in this period as well, where genetically modified humans split off not in to another species but multiple species. In that respects, homo sapiens could become relics at the zoo.

Its all conjecture, but I think one thing here is a certainty -- that machines become both independent of humans and autonomous, able to act, buy, sell, and build things all on their own.
This is how AutoRip works for mp3s. One album I purchased was actually _cheaper_ to get the CD + mp3 album vs just the mp3 album.
Hi azov,

Thanks for your feedback! We actually had a page that did that, but we decided to take it down - mainly because we want to finish our product fully before starting to compare ourselves to other solutions :)

Once we're out of beta we can put it back up.

Cheers,

Keith from Buildbox
Could linkedin use it's data for nefarious purposes? Yes.

Could some professionals ask to be compensated for being on the network? Yes.

Have the professionals on linkedin realized the above? No.
seems both access via apple Mail.app and web access is not working (I can sign into web iCloud site but clicking on Mail icon gives never-ending spinning wheel...)
clicky: http://www.mazeware.com/games/html5/m7/supercanvaskart.html
C++ -\the purpose of specifying captured variable in lambda expression
I could have sworn your point was that small-scale attacks aren't going to happen because they aren't as scary.
For sure. Not saying it's a poor choice. As a frequent buyer of used books on amazon, I was interested in the details and thought I would share in case anyone else had the same question.
Here's a handy little problem you can solve with road.li - There are 5162 KFC outlets in USA. Say I want to eat a chicken breast at every one of these locations. What's the shortest route that connects all 5162 locations ? Do a topological sort of all kfc locations and run road.li iteratively ie. route from kfc-1 to kfc-3 via kfc-2, kfc-3 to kfc-5 via kfc-4, etc. until kfc-5162 - that should be a bloody interesting map. KFC will fork out hard cash for that sort of thing.

Then try Domino's, Taco Bell etc.

http://ezlocal.com/blog/post/10-largest-fast-food-chains-in-...
I would disagree. The general principles for growth hacking always apply--far better than traditional marketing techniques do anyway. Growth hacking is, at its core, the art of building marketing into the product itself and then pulling in the initial customers/clients to kickstart that process.

But to go to your point PG has a funny line about cofounders. If you can't get a cofounder for your startup your idea will never blow up--because you couldn't even get one other person to agree to work on it with you for free
I would say that there are few enough "machines without antialiasing enabled" that you, not the author, should probably be the one worrying about solving the problem (with a user stylesheet, say.)
Ah ha ha ha. I am new here but I guess these chaps are trying to prove their "Hacker" credentials. BS.

(Update: Having seen ze HN login/registration page, I am beginning to agree. bows)
I agree. I love cursing, but I think it works best in more ephemeral situations. In conversation (spoken, written, or otherwise) it works great but in official records that will be often revisited (whether they are source code comments or commit messages) the cursing will eventually come off as tacky as the emotional context that warranted it is lost in time.

If I am browsing through source from 10 years ago, it may help me if a comment alerts me that "this fucking cockstain of a function broke prod", but really there is no connect between me and the emotion that warranted the profanity. I need more context, otherwise it seems tacky.

(I think that recorded conversation, although not ephemeral, retains the emotional context necessary for profanity to 'work')
First US-made Smartphone Just As Cheap To Produce
Hi krohling,

Yup, you're right! Your tests run on your own infrastructure, in your own office, under your desk, in your data centre, where ever it may be.

When doing risk assessment on secure systems (think banking, billing, etc), some people will see uploading source code to services like Circle as a security risk.

Have you ever committed a password accidentally to a repo? I think everyone has at some point. If your code runs on any server thats out of your control, you're now at risk. Because your password is now on some random machine in the cloud. Sure - probably a low risk of actually being compromised - but for some companies - this is very important.

Cheers,

Keith from Buildbox
The more annoying thing is the big YouTube embed that causes the experience to fall apart since the scroll does not propagate to the page.
"Something terrible has happened here": the making of the cult "Clue" movie
Anecdotally speaking, this is not true. My parents always joke that I was the "test subject" for their parenting experiments, and my (younger) sister is the one on whom they actually applied what they learned. Growing up, my life was pretty care-free. My sister on the other hand is definitely suffering from "helicopter parenting."

Gender probably has a lot to do with it. I'm a guy, so I don't have as much to worry about (whereas girls are perceived as more vulnerable to things like rape, etc.).
Bash Invaders
that is exactly right
The Ghost Messages of Yahoo’s Recycled IDs
Solar energy technologies, for example, will require half the current world supply of tellurium and 25% of the supply of indium, the report says.

http://www.euractiv.com/sustainability/rare-earth-shortage-h...
"What's the shortest route that connects all 5162 locations"

AKA Traveling salesman problem? Even with a few hundred cities that would be difficult to find the optimal solution, let alone thousands. You could find a decent to even good solution with other algorithms, though
I believe its learned, before the age of 4 or not at all. citation? here it is:

Wikipedia article on Empathy: "most children do not show a fully fledged theory of mind until around the age of four"
Maybe Stephan Elop will be the successor to Steve Ballmer?

I'll let you know if I see any pigs flying.
I can lean a Kindle against the pillow, which is much harder to do with a book.
"Not too difficult" and "is actually done by your typical technically naive person" is a few worlds apart.
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I have no dog in the os fight. I'm happy to use any of the big three (if you can count Linux among the big three ;)). I'm unlikely to be bitten by Microsoft succeeding. Quite the opposite, since they would have to create an extremely compelling experience to dig themselves out of the hole, I would probably benefit.
k, brb, building a git sarcastic tool
Works for me... changed.
This is very nice, really cool. Would love to learn from it, but I can't find the source code. : /
> would we really want to pay to jail that many more inmates?

I would much rather have some of these people in prison than in society. Bomb makers, drug lords, and other violent types absolutely deserve to be put in prison (regardless of the internet's incessant whining about the drug war).

edit: As an observation, whenever any sort of political thread comes on HN, the comments overwhelmingly tend to be paranoid horseshit. This is not a judgment about the parent comment, just the entire thread in general.
True. Also, I'm more wowed by offices that aren't MTV. The density of cool is a lot higher at e.g. Santa Monica or SF (and NYC, I presume, though I've never been).
>> The idea that you can squash a market with inelastic demand is soundly dispelled by all current and historical attempts at doing so.

> The demand comes after the addiction. Remove addiction and the demand is reduced.

To me the latter statement reads like: "If you can create a perpetual motion machine then energy would be free"

This is the very problem, using impossible potential ends to justify means.

>> This is an outcome that clearly cannot be brought about by the war on drugs...

> That's the current war, not the one based on evidence. What if the evidence showed that a different war could improve society on average and reduce hard drug usage? For example, instead of taking away a user's property and imprisoning them, you give them rehab and (if needed) job skills and actually find them a job, and any other assistance that costs less to provide than the monetary value of the drain on society they'd otherwise be?

Maybe I'm just a pessimist, but I don't see anything that's at all hinted at a remotely workable solution that would have such an effect. You seem to be assuming that we can somehow overcome all of the imperfections of past policies but do not offer a clear, strong novel mechanism by which that can happen. In the meantime our current policies are enormously destructive, and I see that as the more pressing issue. Really, solving addiction and substance abuse is a problem that is not very closely related to criminalization policies, but it's those criminalization policies that are leading to broad 4th Ammendment violations, police militarization, and unnecessary deaths and incarcerations.

[edited to remove the implication that no solution was offered, but rather that a new solution wasn't offered that could reasonably be expected to end addiction and substance abuse in a significant way]
Remembering The 'World's Most Dangerous Amusement Park'
Yes, but statistically that will be mere noise, just like I love love love this algorithm or this algorithm works hand in g love with that other one.
Why Tablets Are The Future Of Mobile Gaming?
I think when you're boycotting a huge company, you can just avoid them where possible. If you can't tell if the company is a vendor to a vendor, that's ok. It doesn't need to be a material impact on their financials -- just the marketing and PR value which keeps the issue in place is important, and maybe it keeps smaller companies from playing along, too.

I'd probably not buy transit from them, certainly not when given a choice (I'd obviously still peer/etc. if I needed routes to ATT), too.
"The one WEIRD startup tip discovered by a Palo Alto mom--and why YCombinator HATES her!!!"
I see your point, PG could focus on relentlessly increasing the quality of each batch - if his aim is too just establish a high quality brand for no other reason than he likes to (the elite college model).

However, from a purely profit perspective, PG would stand to make a lot more profits from scaling. After all, Walmart is younger than Harvard by hundreds of years, but makes a lot more money.
FISA Court Rolls Over, Plays Dead (Forbes)
Free-to-Play is A-OK