skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do you think Steve Jobs would have wanted to sell Apple computers with Linux pre-installed? That seems like the exact opposite of what Steve would have wanted, and what he actually did.
More detailed backstory: http://9ol.es/LoseThos.html
Well, we already have all the SSO and authentication that we need in our current setup, so having to overlay another set of credentials could be a humongous hassle, especially since the people using the conference rooms are very non-technical.

I love Google Apps, don't get me wrong, but it wouldn't be fitting in my current environment. :-)

(We might just be able to set up "dummy" accounts that nobody ever notices or deals with directly; still very intrigued by this)
When I lived in San Francisco, in the mission, I hung out at Delores almost everyday. I would not buy pizza or ice cream from those guys as there is Bi-rite Creamery and Pizzeria Delfina right across the street, which are some of the best in the city!
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3917637

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4159552

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4619499

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4919677
Any time I've ever written HTML (which hasn't happened often) it's always been in a text editor, raw. Then again, I'm clearly not exactly a web developer.
NASA has always gone for the children. There's massive cooperation between NASA and the public schools, all over the country. NASA has, also, always been trying to market themselves. Visit any tourist trap and it's all about spin-offs, and dreams, and here's why we're doing this ... over and over and over, the same spiel.

Years ago I wondered why they were constantly trying to remind and justify the whys of their existence; now it's pretty clear.

When I was ~ 11 years old, my 5th grade classroom in rural Texas received some tomato seeds which had been exposed to space, and -- for science! -- I and other classmates grew some in our backyards and we reported back about how these plants grew vs normal ones. Many other classes did the same thing at the time.

Oh, by the way ... that was 24 years ago.
Or the opposite, Bitcoin is just hard/impossible for Russian government to be placed under its control.
Will this be part of Creative Cloud eventually?
Get ready: the day we fight back against mass surveillance is coming
You'd be surprised with how far you can get without dynamic memory or recursion...

Still, I agree with your general sentiment. That some of these are "advanced" topics is troubling. Too many programmers today don't know how a computer works. Our ideas of "mastery" are way too low.
I'm not lecturing you about anything. I'm merely telling you how the terminology you used is very ambiguous. Now, that may not be the case in the specific village that you may be from. But in general, when you're east of Manitoba, the term "West" specifically refers to Alberta, and to a lesser extent Saskatchewan. It does not refer to British Columbia, which, as I indicated earlier, is referred to as "British Columbia" or "B.C.".
That's what I was thinking. As I read, I kept thinking "but you're just making up terms and definitions and pretending that there's some objective standard."
Even for fairly standard tech terminology, usage drifts all over the place.
Because they want to be able to take their 30% slice. Not so mysterious.
We first learned of this claim a few hours ago. We've been in touch with MyPermissions directly and are waiting to receive more information from them.

At this point, we haven't been able to reproduce the reported issue or validate the existence of a vulnerability.
in the absence of a relevant plug for a library that i've written (shame), here's one for a library that someone else wrote

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/private-backend

tl;dw: next time you build a webservice, let your users use private drive, dropbox, or whatever accounts to host their data (or at least the data that doesn't get JOINed to other tables all over the place). one has to pay for data ownership, but it's not per-service charge.

the article's kind of a tease. it's easy to say things like "open" and "decentralized," but i guess if i want to know what specific implementations were discussed, i'd have to buy the magazine.
I don't think brainless game spamming is a viable tactic any more than buying lots of tickets is a smart lottery strategy. Each day there are tens of new "very small" games released on mobile, so you are still competing with a fraction of % chance to win.

That doesn't mean making many games is a bad idea. Rovio had made several dozen games before Angry Birds went viral. Halfbrick spent years barely scraping by before Fruit Ninja became a huge hit. Zynga of course had published many games before Farmville. NimbleBit were doing a game every two months for 3 years before Tiny Tower.

The difference is that each (or at least most) of the games in these companies was developed with the belief that is was a game worthy of being made. To paraphrase Picasso, luck must catch you hard at work.

As for the untapped market, I don't know. There's lots of excellent non-predatory games of any type imaginable in the $1-$4 bracket for anyone who doesn't mind paying for quality. The mass F2P market seems more tailored towards people who don't want to pay, therefore predatory tactics are the only thing that can 'coerce' money out of them.
Congratulations! We've been happily using CircleCI as part our test/deploy workflow for a few months. Github and Hipchat integration works great, the web UI is easy to use, and ssh and parallelization are nice bonuses.
Worth reading.
We use CircleCI heavily at Wave. Love their parallelization feature - we brought a 25 minute test run down to 12. We could speed that up another 4x or so if we felt like throwing more money at it.
Congrats to Paul and the rest of the team! I have been recommending CircleCI to all of my dev friends ever since my first experience with it over a year ago.

We had a pretty tricky front end testing setup with our Rails app, due primarily to some bleeding edge javascript interactions that needed to be tested in a headless browser. It took ages to get right locally, so I had zero confidence that Circle would handle it. I set up our repo and promptly forgot about, as I was traveling out to SF for Startup School 2012.

While waiting in the lobby of YC for the pre-event dinner, I got an email from Circle (actually, from Paul) that our repo was ready and all tests were passing. PASSING?! Whoa. As I read it, I looked up from my phone and Paul was standing in front of me. I wanted to give him a hug, but I settled for a friendly thank you and a handshake. =)
> I'm building a news site alternative to Slashdot

Starting a wiki to help build a site to compete with Slashdot seems very retro. But maybe I'm just being cranky. I wish you the best of luck, though.
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We all know Brackets aka Bones.
We all love it.
Sublime sucks and Bones rocks.
This isn't news.
I have run a team where the QA manager reported to me. We did not suffer quality issues - because my responsibility & goals were to deliver quality products not just to release dates. So it really depends on business and upper management support in doing the right thing and setting the right goals.
I couldn't find a specific email address to send the application, so I just used info@pathable.com. Is there a better way to contact you guys?
As soon as flexible screens become a thing, your phone and your tablet become the same device; you just unfold it when you want a big screen.

In light of this, the size argument being made in this article is not really meaningful in the medium-to-long term, unless these kinds of flexible screens never happen. (But they are being actively worked on, so.)
Unfortunately I'm not interested in working on this code for the sole purpose of posting comments on this website. I honestly don't have that kind of time.
Depending on your flavor of WebEx, the cost is roughly $100/mo.

After one year you are a bit ahead with the Chromebox (~$1200/WebEx vs $1000/Chromebox) but I totally agree with your questioning of hangouts as a proven tool in an enterprise environment. Dedicated Cisco telepresence is in the magnitude of $15k to $150k depending on the feature set.
This will probably date me, but the first thing I thought of was Alterslash: http://alterslash.org/
100% unrelated but I noticed you put "we don't make the big money you seem to think we do?" with a question mark at the end. It's not really a question, now is it? I've noticed this typing behavior a lot online lately and I am not sure if I missed a crucial lesson in English or if it's a new-age kind of thing, or what. Not trying to be a prick, it just stuck out. I agree with your point on HP laptops in more ways than I can count.
What an incredibly strange trend that I keep seeing lately of externally using sprint numbers as version numbers. Actually labeling them as Sprint numbers prominently, I mean, instead of just v35 or v.35 or something.
There's still a lot (a lot) of folks (non-startups) who don't do everything soup to nuts so they outsource things like the design and development of the front-end to outside shops. These folks tend to build out the HTML without any CMS integration then delivery the full HTML for the client to integrate into their CMS/tools/templates.
It's truly astounding how the community has rallied against the beta changes.

When I look at stories from today and yesterday, viewing all comments (including the ones that have been moderated down), I'm seeing at least 90% to 95% or more expressing outrage over the beta site.

Go back merely a week, and there are only a handful of such comments within the stories.

Although I rarely visit that site any longer, I don't think I've ever seen such a highly concentrated degree of anger from so many users over a website update.

I think the uniformity and the wide-spread nature of this displeasure is truly a testament to just how bad the beta site actually is.
From my experience, there seems to be two theoretical/computational research scientist types: the one who doesn't really care about the numbers but focuses on equations and what they really tell us, and the one who only cares about numbers. The latter is dangerous.
Google cache: http://bit.ly/1buD4wq since it's not up to handling (any?) concurrent users?
Any reason Reddit isn't exploring peer-to-peer image caching? Given how much time folks stay on Reddit and the disproportionate amount of traffic going to front page posts, when an image gets to the top, there should be tons of user connections open to allow for peer-based caching.
No, I think it is just beginning. I bought an iPad in 2011 and didn't even really know why, mostly because I felt I should know what's going on with this new class of device. I ended up using it all the time, and still do (though I bought a new one). The phone is too small to use comfortably for more than a short while.
"derpy" is a good way to put it. I think it meets the sensibilities of many young teens who find the game stupidly fun and it doesn't take itself very seriously.

There's probably an uncanny game design valley here. Abstract ideas that look stupid can be fun, as you iterate and add "polish" there comes a point when your polished game is just dumb and no-one will play it, so you need to add more game mechanics to it to give it more depth.
>>Talk about pretentious.

Yes, let's talk about pretentiousness. Like the pretentiousness involved in ignoring existing grammar structures that are accepted by everyone in favor of whatever you think works and then expect everyone else to conform your unique usage.

Take a good long look at yourself.
> This makes no sense; the fundamental rule of amazon bots is that consumers buying used books almost always buy the lowest-priced used book available. So the bot war would send the price down, not up

Consumers often take into account seller reputation. If a book is $20 at a seller with stellar feedback from a large number of customers, and $18 at a seller with very little feedback, I'll probably buy from the $20 seller.

What happened in the case with the two bots on Amazon was that one bot was pricing for a seller with a stellar reputation based on a lot of feedback. It was finding the low price from sellers whose reputations were not as good, and setting the price enough above that to make a profit reselling from the low seller if someone ordered.

The low seller's bot was using a strategy of undercutting the lowest other seller.

The amount the first bot was adding was more than the amount the second bot was undercutting by, so the net result was the price zoomed up.
If any of the Brackets team is reading this .. THANK YOU ! For one of the most ergonomic editors I've ever used. I really can't explain it any other way, but everything just is where I expect it to be. And I was really surprised at the JavaScript auto-completing !

My plugin setup is only to add jsbeautify and JSONLint.
Do they take 30% from banking apps?
Could be wrong here but from running some tests myself I get 0 size when loading images from cache but the content stays the same.

I think maybe it's backwards?
What most people do not realise is that it does not matter if Russia, China, the US or any country bans or criminalises bitcoin. All it takes is for 1 small country (like Singapore) to embrace bitcoin for it to be worth $1,000,000 a coin. The first country that wises up to bitcoin, starts investing in mining and other bitcoin infrastructure in a big way, and legitimises its mainstream usage as a currency, is going to reap tremendous benefits. And it's only a matter of time before this happens.
Someone brought up in another thread that you can still use banking applications. When you transfer money on something like BoA or even Venmo, Apple doesn't get a cut.
I'm surprised anyone is still using (only) T1s; business cable is a much better deal.
Because you people keep asking this question instead of buying a better and cheaper Nexus anyway.
The banking example is really great. Same goes for Venmo, Square, etc. Apple doesn't get a cut of those transactions, so the dispute must lie somewhere else.
One thing that bugs me about the final example is the markup is not indicative of the layout, which is something I try to adhere to. Screen readers will jump to content in the order of left sidebar -> right sidebar -> main content, while most frameworks float everything left and fill the space, so that a screen reader and the markup would read from left to right.
The parent question was asking whether or not speed tiers would go away if they charged for data by the GB. I'm saying they wont go away, at least not immediately.
They don't really. Any stream can be captured. So if I can play the audio or video, I can capture it in a format that I can share, drm just makes it a little harder.
Hey! I built one of those too! http://postcard-pals.com/

high five
Inline blocks have other issues, like spaces between the elements messing up the layout.
Because it's unregulated and any problems then lands at Apple's door to adjudicate so they don't want these headaches because to do so requires setting up channels and systems and policies for the local, state, federal, and international areas of contention but the lack of profit incentives makes this a simple decision.

Do I get a MBA now?
I've been debating about whether to close my LinkedIn account.

In the nearly seven years I've had an account I've had two interesting contacts, both within the last year. Maybe this acquisition is part of a notion to change that?

Aside from a personal blog / GitHub are there any respectable places to maintain a simple, professional-focused presence online?
I think that's what the site is banking on. That initial investment of time and effort is their way of building a serious community.
I feel like we're reliving the late 80s and early 90s in gaming. I keep seeing new game ideas and getting a lot of nostalgia, like, "yeah, that's something that might have even been in an arcade, or on a PC back when SVGA was a thing."

I love that "the people" can immediately jump back through several generations of graphics or locked in gameplay tropes and still have fun. Jonnathanson's right, there's not a single audience out there, but it's good to see lots of people, whatever portion of the gaming population they are, getting some enjoyment from a lo fi experience and making a successful dev along the way.

Why is that exciting to me?

Because I lived through shooters killing adventure games.

And while I love a lot of shooters, and there's been an adventure game renaissance, it took a long time, and that was kind of a tragedy.

But this isn't just about adventure games, there just needs to be space for lots of genres to thrive. And tech limitations (currently on phones/tablets, then on everything) sometimes seem to help this along in a weird way, people pursuing lots of different ideas to package the most fun in a really constrained environment, without just jumping into a 3d environment because an engine is available for licensing.
I found myself annoyed that after the beautiful and charming video you hide the "APPLE ONLY" bit behind the first scroll-down. It is not a big thing, but it has soured me a bit on any future products i might see with the name little eyes on it.
I'm enjoying this so far although a couple of things have made me scratch my head in the example code allocating a vector.

int create_vector(struct vector *vc, int size) {

vc->data = 0;
vc->size = 0;

if (vc == NULL) {
return VECTOR_NULL_ERROR;
}

/* check for integer and SIZE_MAX overflow */
if (size == 0 || size > SIZE_MAX) {
errno = ENOMEM;
return VECTOR_SIZE_ERROR;
}

Accessing the fields of vc before the NULL check seems like an error. Also, would it not be simpler to change type of the size parameter to size_t so that it's the same type as the size field of the vector struct?
What happens when you pick a town with a good ISP, which then gets bought by GiantEvilCo a month after you move in?

I don't think voting with your feet and mortgages is a solution. Perhaps forgoing entirely? When Charter dicked me around in 08, I went back to dialup for over a year before DSL became available at my house. Screw 'em. I can still read HN and text-based websites at 56k.

Which isn't a whole lot slower than AT&T is giving me now. But at least they don't treat me like a subhuman ATM like Charter did.
"Once the SEC decided that most technology company stock option procedures were not as desired, the jail sentences were handed out arbitrarily."

really?
There are a lot of things that I think are morally completely correct that I still wouldn't necessarily be the happiest to see on the NYT.
There was one meme, and it was just a picture of a dog.
I think this is spot on. I am not sure how long it will take but there will be a big revolution in screens, like the CRT to LCD one, in the next 20 years and it will be around flexible and expandable displays. Possibly what we know consider to be a screen will be totally changed.
...this is only just now being realized? The site took a dive quite some time ago, with Rob Malda's departure it was effectively quite dead and buried. Now this - is their "Digg" moment.
So please don't tell people that the most important factor in becoming successful is to go out and buy lottery tickets.

But that's exactly what perseverance is in this context, buying more tickets. You can't win the lottery if you buy no tickets, and the more you buy, the more likely it is you will win. You can't have a hit game if you produce no games, and the more games you produce, all else being equal, the more likely one will be successful. Luck plays a dominant role and you can't control opportunity, but you can increase your exposure to it by continuing to show up.
Are there other issues than the spaces-issue? This one is a non-issue for me, since I use Hiccup[1] for Clojure, which collapses all whitespace for me.

[1]: https://github.com/weavejester/hiccup
Ask HN: Why not use variable-width fonts for programming?
Should all the programmers agree that they will not tabulate code and indentation interval will be fixed (i.e. one tab or n spaces no matter what, no alignments), would there still be a merit to prefer monospaced typeface over variable-width?

I've been programming for a long while, and all that time have I used monospace fonts. I haven't approached the subject empirically, and neither have thought deeply, but as is scratches my mind, I thought I'd ask this to people who are more experienced and knowledgeable than me on the subject via HN.
And he needs to know that the outside opinion is actually the same opinion that would be shared by a potential prosecutor / judge / jury. And he needs to have enough intuition to know that something smells fishy. And that it is a bad fishy smell, not a good fishy smell.
Although I rarely visit that site any longer, I don't think I've ever seen such a highly concentrated degree of anger from so many users over a website update.

Digg is the only one I can think of -- weirdly coincidental that the link taking you to the new design on the main site is anchored as 'new digs'.
There's Adobe Edge Code CC - I thought that these were pretty much off the same code base?
Oh, fuck. I hadn't even thought of that. That's disaster.
in this scenario, what would you do? As a business co founder with just idea and no product build yet, how would you attract someone technical (CTO) to cofound with you?
What are your favorite subjects to decompress with?
I'm looking for some productive subjects unrelated to my daily work to decompress with. Any suggestions (links to MOOCs welcome)?
This is not to troll, but Nimrod (which has been mentioned a few times on list) is a language that looks something like mainly Pascal or Python and builds C code that will be subsequently compiled with a soft-realtime garbage collector or without (it does code elimination, GC included, if you are clever). If you are nuts you can opt to force using the Boehm GC with it, but do not expect great things out of it. There is also Rust. I am sure if you spend time on HN you have heard a lot about the latter.
Yep, that is definitely error
A few weeks back I saw here on HN a very enterprise-y looking service (from Amazon, if I recall correctly) that allowed employees to access company applications (think pre-configured versions of Word etc.) from whatever device they had available. It was like the next-generation VPN, which sounds like what you're getting at.

Sadly, I can't seem to find the link now.
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Are you thinking of Aaaa!: A Reckless Disregard for Gravity?

http://www.dejobaan.com/aaaaa/
> unlike many other countries your work visa in Israel will be tied to one company.

To be fair, this is true of the US too - in fact it's even tied to a particular location. To work at a different location within the same company requires a visa amendment (basically reapplication): http://www.murthy.com/2012/09/07/h1b-amendment-requirement-f...
I have no idea, because I've been programming all my life. :/

I'm not even saying this perspective is correct, I'm just saying that's what people think when they hear stories like yours.
Source code is available, and you can use _any_ password.

Inb4 not reading before posting
There are plenty, I'd just advise you to avoid websites that speak about patents, etc. Ideas can be stolen by some website planting some malware into your system.

Try sites like entrepreneur.com, bplans.com, etc. Each part of the building process is a big market within itself, so maybe you should try researching them separately. If you're in a university or you are an alum, you could also speak to people that deal with these kinds of matters (perhaps the electrical engineering department and the business management department).

Be careful what you say though... All the best.
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It scrolls down, but I never see an actual example of the product.
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