skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you come from a static language background and you keep expecting a type-checker will save you from doing silly things like adding arrays to strings, you're always going to hate Javascript.

Hmm funny I come from a dynamic language background and never had a problem with the language telling me adding an empty list to an empty list should somehow be empty string. That is batshit crazy. Those are not silly things those are basic 101 strong type system checks that very dynamics languages like Ruby and Python can do.
They don't have "users" in the same way a free blog site has users. I see no reason to be negative in this case.

If your favorite taco stand owner sells out to taco bell, the owner should be free to celebrate. You won't be able to get his tacos in the future, but it is not like he broke some implicit promise to always sell you tacos, nor are the tacos he sold you in the past somehow tainted now.

Shutdowns are only a problem when users make an investment in the platform.
Heh, good point. Actually, if you zoom in several times, the page looks much more reasonable.
Companies don't get acquired thoughtlessly, and I'm fairly sure the founders understand the implications for their users.

I'm sure a lot of thought went into this, and one way or another they are going to have to announce their decision. It makes sense that they would approach this from as positive an angle as possible. I mean, what's the alternative? Are you going to announce to your users that your promises will go unfulfilled, and that they can consider themselves shafted henceforth?

Yes, this news is being spun in a positive light, but I think that's both reasonable and expected in these situations.
Twitter Debut Seen Setting Tone for Startup Valuations
I'm not sure exactly what you're envisioning, but I've been working (on and off) a side project that sounds very similar. The name I have is InfoStream (not Trademarked), and the domain is infostre.am (not currently in use). I will E-mail and tell you more about what I was envisioning in terms of my project, and we'll see how it matches up with your vision. If we have a match, maybe we can work on it together (or maybe I can contribute somehow). The problem I came up with was Monetization, specifically on the Twitter Platform. Twitter seems to be the best source of real time information, but when they introduced API 1.1 and the (IMO) extremely gray 1.5 rule (do not replicate the core twitter experience) I placed this project on the back burner. It just does not make sense to dedicate time to a project on a platform that will likely pull the plug [1]. In many ways, the vision I have (InfoStream) is replicating the core Twitter experience. I find Twitter's approach towards filtering data (lists) and presenting data to the user (single context feed) to be extremely weak, and ripe for innovation. Yet delivering this information is the core Twitter experience, and thus even though I think I can provide methods to deliver information better (more contextually accurate, more valuable), this is not what Twitter wants. So I end up where lots of other people have ended up; Could build something cool on Twitter, but it's just too unstable from a Developers perspective. If you can think of other Sources for real time data that are not as controlling, more trustworthy, and/or easier to Monetize, I'm open to trying a different approach. Unfortunately, I don't think Twitter is a good choice. And I am hoping that an IPO will change things (but I'm not sure).

[1] http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130417052642-32...
This feature is documented: https://developers.google.com/gdata/samples/spreadsheet_samp...

In fact, it's a core feature of GData: https://developers.google.com/gdata/docs/json#Request

That's not to say the API will never change, but if it does, it will be documented here: https://developers.google.com/google-apps/spreadsheets/

(Disclaimer: I used to be the Google Developer Relations engineer responsible for Spreadsheets, but that was ~4 years ago.)
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DISCLAIMER: This is not a personal attack but a demonstration of the character.
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I absolutely adore this app, I've used illustrator for +10 years and I honestly feel that manipulating beziers through direct input in Inkpad is not only a more pleasing, and intuitive, experience but in a lot of cases a more effective method of creating vector art. I frequently use it throughout my design process (and occasionally for the entirety of it).

You should be extremely proud of the powerful a tool you've created, and I hope that this transition to open source is positive for the app and for you and your team. I can't wait to contribute, even if it's only by way of design suggestions.

I'm pretty sure I've emailed you with glowing compliments before but I can't tell you enough how much I love using your app.

I'll post a few of my illustrations in the hope that other designers might see the potential of this tool and start using it too:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24117106/yh/Ibis%20small...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24117106/yh/corin%20ston...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24117106/yh/reclinging%2...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24117106/yh/Sweeno%20scr...

I assure you any perceived simplicity in my images are a product of my style rather than any limitations of the app :)
Yes, there are a lot of broken websites out there.
I wonder if that is the source of the street's name...
I think you're onto something. Just imagine if the _sender_ gets to pick the snap sponsor from a list of 5-10! Double-monetization.

I disagree with the "snapchat is worthless" analysis of the original article. Perhaps from the point of view of the current monetization needs and mechanisms, but my feeling is that snapchat's "ephemeral" model, like it's users, is a young and fresh approach. They will invent something new. Of course, they may also die out like so many others, but it's pointless to say the indusrty shouldn't be that way. The developers may aspire to greater goals, but the consumers still dictate what they want.
NaN is mostly equivalent to the _mathematical_ concept of undefined. It cannot be equal to anything, even itself, because there are multiple mathematical operations that can result in NaN that are not equivalent in value. Considering their result equivalent would be in error.

in a NaN === NaN world, (1/0)*0 === 0/0 is true.
Ask HN: When will you sell your Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is currently trading higher than it ever has before. If you're holding onto Bitcoin as an investment, how high will you let it get before you sell?
I'm happy to see many other XPath fans here.

But as far as the OP, this seems like a case of worrying about the code instead of the data structure. This would be easier to address before the lines are transformed into HTML. Which I assume is not how they are stored.
1 and 10 are equally far from infinity. The ratio of the respective distances goes to 1 as x goes to infinity [1]. To put it in terms of time, both now and (now + 10 seconds) are equally far from forever.

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=limit+as+x+goes+to+infi...
It's perfectly appropriate, provided you're not Jewish.
Sold Team joins Dropbox
Sounds like another one for http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
Maybe it's how you phrased it. "Be X", "Be Y", etc.

3, 4, 5 and 7 are hard to modify, either by behavior or with medical intervention.
GOSPEL ARTIST POSES NUDE!

Evon Latrail is the author of a children's book "When Mommy Went to Heaven". She wrote/recorded a few songs; "Lord Bless My Enemies" and "It Is Time" happens to be two of the titles. She even has a song entitled, "Can't You See (Abortion Is Murder). She went Pro-life after having a abortion! Really???? Now here is a photo of her posing in chocolate as a "Swamp Girl". The word Hypocrite is floating around somewhere. This story has made front page news in the local paper. How can this so called "Gospel Artist" be a role model if she's posing news? For more on this story.....Go to Google or YouTube and search, Evon Latrail. I seen the picture on Google!
The big difference, of course, is that Sold doesn't have regular users. It's not like Reader shutting down and all your saved articles disappearing into the void. Users who completed a transaction got paid.
You're not supposed to use ==. It's there only for backwards compatibility.
Excited to hear they will have a mode with trackballesque momentum. If the back paddles were also capacitive they could emulate the trackball through both sides design that sounded pretty great for continuous movement.
This too is the future: no apps will be global, but multiple fairly similar apps will carve out geographic niches, some larger than others. I can't really say which app should be valued more, but I would tend to think the one with the American teen audience will have more monetization opportunities (more disposable income and less discernment--or susceptibility to adverts).
interesting assumption. The blueAir the largest one, by far.

and i wrote wrong! i don't have a sharp one. the silent one is from sanyo! it also has the ONLY truly silent humidifier included, though very low volume as it is only used for the ionizing shenanigans.
Dynamic typing (a type belongs to the value, not the variable or "slot") is not same as weak typing (a type may get silently messed up). Python is a good example of dynamically but yet strongly typed language. There exists a good argument against the whole notion of "strong"/"weak" distinction (mainly because it is not a bipartite property, and well-defined type coercion can be regarded as safe) but the main idea holds.
Can someone who understands the strategy behind fundraising explain why they would want to raise at such a high valuation? To be clear, one point left out of the article is that the $3.5B - $4B valuation is a rumored valuation being "considered" by the startup (Their most recent round of funding valued them at $800MM). When I read about the "rumor" my immediate thought was: Snapchat leaked that to the press to gauge the response from potential investors / acquirers. The thing I don't understand is: what is their goal here? It seems like raising at a 3B+ valuation limits their options for an exit to either an IPO or an acquisition by one of maybe 3 companies. Raising at such a crazy valuation also seems extremely risky considering the volatility of apps in their space and the fact that they haven't even begun to explore monetization. What am I missing?
I'm not affiliated with the company, but Visual Website Optimizer offers the ability to do A/B tests between different URLs - rather than just variations within a page (which it also does).
Here's the underlying rules of how "x == y" works: http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-11.9.3

Weak typing and automatic coercions lead to some confusing results, but JS fares better than PHP.
so I take it you're for facebook documenting as much of everyone's lives as possible - for historical reasons?
Technocrats don't pray often, but......
Opinion... I hate that the only person who will see the number of results is the OP.
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What I like most is that they position themselves as a utility for one's app. I don't have to worry about them trying to impose their branding on my customers and it's one less thing to worry about, which is especially nice as it's a service that most companies did not automate before I imagine.
The tab identifiers are actually listed in the Spreadsheets API, inside the "worksheets" feed: https://developers.google.com/google-apps/spreadsheets/#work...

As a historical note, these identifiers used to be part of the URL, long ago. The newer version of the Spreadsheets frontend doesn't use them, but they're still used by the Spreadsheets API.
Avoid heart disease - die of cancer! Honestly, I would take the massive coronary event any day over the slow, miserable death that cancer involves.
Here's another classic ... even 2006 looks so dated today: http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060703/multimedia/50_science...
Extremist is a relative definition though.

When reacting to people and teasing/making fun of them or deriding them, keep this in mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allport's_Scale
I have avid shorty cantilever breaks on the front. As good as discs when dry and better in the wet.
AFAIK, the original homepage for "Black Hawk Down", which was a long-form serial newspaper story before it became a book and a movie, still looks as I remember it back in 1997:

http://inquirer.philly.com/packages/somalia/sitemap.asp

Back then, it was one of the most sophisticated news and multimedia packages. It still is today.
Thank you for a refreshing dose of the truth!

When you shut down the product, an acquisition is no good for the users, plain and simple. It may or may not be a personal success, but no matter what, it is the end of the vision that you and your customers shared. They were your supporters, your believers, and the lifeblood of your product, and disguising your celebration as everyone's is an indignity to them.

I sold my company and shut down my product because the right opportunity arrived at the right time. But I didn't frame it as a triumph for them. My words, from the acquisition email: "We’re excited...but it’s always bittersweet when something good comes to an end."
My favorite library strangeness is:

> [1, 4, 9].map(sqrt)
[1, 2, 3]
> ['1', '2', '3'].map(parseInt)
[1, NaN, NaN]

cf. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/262427/javascript-arrayma...
Many of them don't go into detail because 99% of customers don't give the slightest fuck. Show genuine interest, strike up conversation, and you can sometimes get a lot out of them.

In any case, service life in cars is usually determined by a couple key things: The design of the system, driving conditions, and service. You may feel like you're being blown off when the mechanic says "obey the service intervals and avoid short trips", but that's 99.9% of what you can do to make the car last.

(Special corner cases are widely-understood and well-documented, such as the impact of very high operating temperatures in automatic transmissions during towing)
One kid getting dinner is obviously no big deal, there is however something percieved to be wrong with it being normal for the rich to buy access for their kids to business opportunities. You are probably right that it is massive overanalysis considering the subject, though at least it wasn't a free lunch.
I used to hate when conservatives and Republicans made Real Americans arguments but this issue is a litmus test for whether one is on or not on the hot air balloon of the current, out-of-touch, Silicon Valley elite, or whether one is down here with the rest of us for whom gravity and reality apply.

The New 1%, the out of touch types, look at things like this and think they are somehow progressive, based on an Econ-101 understanding of "efficiency" (which is not well-defined for sociological problems). The rest of us, who've actually had struggle in our lives, find it disgusting and perverse, because it makes a mockery of the hard work of such a massive number of people out there.

Also, that scholarship is probably going to go to some middle-income-but-highly-connected child of a Stanford professor or a diplomat, and not an actual poor person. Just sayin'.
Well, more specifically table-based design. It Just Works (tm).
To be fair though, snapchat isn't old enough to be "lame" while facebook is, and snapchat isn't doing anything to piss off users yet (which they will have to in order to monetize most likely).

We'll see if snapchat can hold the throne after serious monetization.
nobody has dvd subscriptions anymore. it is harder than torrenting.
Still doesn't change the fact that 15 years ago "we"(as in, programmers, industry, whatever) were much, much more efficient with limited resources than what we are now. Some people consider it a good thing, some of us consider it a bad thing.
I'm making an investment in the platform by using the platform. You don't think people have a right to complain? See: World coming to an end when Google discontinued Reader, a FREE PLATFORM.
The worst part of this is that it's retroactive, so adding a robots.txt that denies the wayback machine access causes the machine to delete all history of the site. This is really annoying for patent cases where the prior art is on the applicant's own website: they can go and remove the prior art so it's no longer available (which is why examiners make copies of the wayback content before making their reports).
While I agree that fitting 10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag is not possible, which device's iteration/selection pressure is greater?

What's the difference between gaming 3 years ago on the desktop, vs the mobile platform?

I don't even enjoy mobile games usually, but to me it seems like the signs are written in the sand for anyone to see.
This Kickstarter campaign reads like a What Not to Do If You Want Your Kickstarter Campaign to Get Funded.

23 minute video that isn't specifically created for the Kickstarter campaign? Check.

Very little explanatory text? Check.

Reward levels at different price points with identical rewards? Check.

Basic spelling errors (their != they're)? Check.

Campaign started by someone with a dog as their profile pic? Check.

I hope this project succeeds. I don't think this Kickstarter campaign will, though.
You know you're on HN when people are defending this broken aspect of JavaScript, yet hate on the same broken aspect of PHP.
I didn't realize they were still working on it, saw no E-mail so I deleted the Video without looking at the stats. Oops!
I'm full of excitement and hope
...who is paying to keep that online?
The website from my favorite late night show in college is still up. Last updated 1999:

http://www.etropolis.com/fishmasters/fishtop.htm
5 and 7 could be achieved by taking a statin (or a PCSK9 inhibitor) lifelong. This has not been clinically trialed–it is only my (and others') extrapolation from the genetic data.

3 and 4 can often be achieved by succeeding at #6, but certainly this is not true for type I diabetics nor for people with MODY or other non-metabolic-syndrome-type diabetes. Dietary discretion is difficult for almost all of us, it is true.
Well, I'm fucked.

Grandfather was in decent shape at 40 when pretty much all his arteries clogged. He is now 87 with half a single artery left in his heart. He is not what I would call "living" as much as existing.

On the other side, my mother, grandmother, and great grandmother have intense high blood pressure with no understandable reason.

Well, I figure I may have till I'm 50. Though I hope doing biking marathons would train my heart even a bit to help.
Isn't the iPhone 5(s) resolution 1136 x 640? Unless you know about the upcoming ultra-retina display... ;)
Why were we so fascinated by black backgrounds back in the 90's? I know I was guilty of it.
I have the same sentiments. As a user who relies on a service, it always feels very much a "we just got a huge wad of cash, we care more about this than if you used our serviced and paid for it, we're rich and fuck you if you used our service!".

This pattern of acquire and shut down makes me careful of which services I invest in using. If there is no paid plan I get very nervous. If it is VC backed and free I get nervous. I'd rather support a business and help them stick around and work on their product.

One product I was very upset about was an online collaborative editor that I was gearing up to get our team to use, which was suddenly acquired by Google and shut down as they didn't want any competition to their soon to be realised collaborative editing in Google Docs.
From Geek to Manager
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IANAL. But, although in principle, providing an easy opt-out shouldn't really matter with respect to copyright and so forth, as a practical matter it seems as if it does--in that, if you at least vaguely care about your website not being mirrored you have an easy way to prevent it. An organization like the Internet Archive simply can't afford (in terms of either time or money) to take a more aggressive approach to mirroring.

To be more specific--short of granting the Internet Archive some sort of special library exemption--what if I were to say, create a special archive of popular cartoon strips. What's the distinction?

[EDIT: The retroactive robots.txt situation seems less clear but, like orphan works, also depends on the scenarios you care to devise.]
I'm not sure why so many teams go for the extremes - either zero planning, or planning out the wazoo! For most situations the best methodology is going to be somewhere more near the center.
GitHub Silly-Usernames
Is that Steve Ballmer talking when you load the site ?
funny, in the old school economy this would be a failure.

oh crap, i couldn't run my company, the business i have built. i have failed my employees, my vision, my customers. all for naught, i got swallowed and now i am an employee.

but in web/tech bubble? hooray, i flipped this shit for cash. so long suckas.
What are your thoughts on this short guide on how to transform a geek into a manager?
These make a lot of sense. Just wish the mercenaries will not turn around and be the new robbers collecting protection money every year.
This happened to me with cars & funny noises. I noticed a noise in my first car that, two years later, turned into a spun bearing & rod knock. Ever since I pay super close attention to every noise my vehicles make! Problem is, vehicles make a lot of noises, even when they are operating correctly. Drives me crazy
Let me add:

"Because of that we're joining $totally_unrelated_product. And damaging the ecosystem that allowed us to get to this point."

It bears repeating that every time one of the acquire shutdowns occurs it makes users that much less willing to take a chance on a small startup. Even a shutdown like this that isn't screwing over existing users reminds everyone of the pattern.

Hmmm, maybe I should start ending this, or every message, with "Sarbox delenda est".

(Sarbox must be destroyed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthago_delenda_est) ; more specifically, this last nail and quite a few others need to be removed for the casket that the normal IPO was interred into.)
"Americans have a hard time understanding this."

Because most of us don't speak German!
Oooh the memories. I was 16 and getting into HTML, but had to time-share the PC with my lil bro who loved playing this. Hence, I hated this game :D
Isn't the purpose of the law to shape society into what we collectively think it should be like?

Under this reading, the mechanics of how you choose what to punish don't really matter, so long as the result is closer to what you want.

Granted, we might want to live in a society where thoughtcrime isn't a thing, and this might shape the laws we create, but collective processes can be considerably less rational than that.
Replace == by some other comparison operator like < or > if you prefer. The weird coercion rules still apply.

>>> '5' < [6]
true
Ahh lan gaming over fiddly IPX networks. Fun on a bun.

Maybe after MTM some doom2 or even some quake for those with Voodoo Rush cards?
This is not about truth or absolutes, relativity is just not relevant. It is simply that where the line between sarcastic or extremist points of view is indeterminable, they necessarily tend toward the facile and/or ridiculous - and the correct response in this case is humour.

In regards to your example, the broad assumption that they ever were regarded as such is predicated on the fact that they tend to present their findings before their research. Extreme findings, if they are facile, ridiculous, and also kind of funny, deserve derision in the absence of research to back them. Once the research is presented, the minutiae of proof of cause and effect shifts the relative position of the audience to occupy previously questionable ground.

Wow, I obviously put way too much thought into what was a just stray musing ;)
PDF source didn't work for me, here is a more direct link:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.0243v1.pdf