skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this kind of things is much more suitable to be implemented via macros because 1) it can be implemented with much nicer syntax not abusing function syntax and 2) it can be done at compile time (I mean true compile time, not in browser).

Consider the following syntax:

// values to inject
var registry = {
scope: ...
http: ...
}

inject http, scope {
http.get('/search', {query: scope.query}).then(render);
}

all of these can be done today with sweet.js[1] — see the example http://bit.ly/1bjdxWJ

[1]: http://sweetjs.org
Sounds like carriers there are incompetent then.

When I (UK) switched in the late 2000s, it took about an hour.
Globalstar's new service turns your WiFi device into a satellite phone
Five Tips to Get Your Organisation Releasing Software Frequently
Load Balancing in AWS: ELB Internals, Security and Troubleshooting
H&R Block Online is a web-based application. H&R Block At Home is a program that you install on your PC or Mac.
I run http://goodereader.com basically a website devoted to digital publishing, e-reader and eBook industry news.

Also, http://apps.goodereader.com which is our android/blackberry 10 app store, over 100,000 apps so far, in terms of sheer amount of apps, we're the 6th largest in the world right now.
War is a massacre between people not knowing each other in behoof of people knowing, but not massacring each other. (Paul Valery)
Slant (http://slant.co). I'm certainly biased, but I think it's slowly starting to get pretty useful for picking a tool/app/service etc with the collaborative pro/con UI. Example: http://www.slant.co/topics/103/~what-is-the-best-laptop-for-...
You're right, I've got the timeline a bit messed up. Anyway, I'm sure that the project met resistance at some point because of the competition with the mainframe business.
Working on updating http://mixbolt.com/ , DJ tool in the browser.

I hope it lets lots of people enjoy their music without having to download or pirate expensive software. I have recently open sourced it and looking for help on the project: https://github.com/adaline/mixbolt
The Extremely Reliable Operating System
Can you tell me where the downvote button?
AdPushup (http://www.adpushup.com), to help publisher optimize ad revenues.

http://www.adpushup.com/blog/adpushup-helped-publishers-doub... - This post helps explain what we do, much better.
How many people are going to these bootcamps with zero experience? From the colleagues and friends that I know who have attended them all are programmers by trade. All of them have many years in the industry. They go to get training in new languages and patterns and work is paying for it.

But if these camps are letting just about anyone in I would have a problem with that. You have to have a solid foundation in the basic of CS at least.
No one is saying that the very essence of in-app purchases is wrong. In fact we all agree that games are the most under-valued pieces of software. We honestly support monetization of games (hence everyone saying i would happily pay $X for full unlock). Of course most people would NOT pay that upfront and need to be... "convinced" to pay that amount.

What we ARE decrying is the negative affect on the GAME itself for this monetization. The gameplay element should remain unaffected from this. So IAP that gives you extra levels, extra maps, extra skins, are the perfect way to monetize on it. In contrast charging per turn (or for speeding up turns), or for lives, or even things that make your game "pay-to-win" are not only unethical but ruin the GAME. SO doesn't that ruin your " it's life, a quest, a mission" philosophy.

PS: My most hated line on play store or appstore is "greedy devs charging me money for content"
Helium (http://heliumhq.com) is a library for web automation. It's cool because it takes 66% less code and 75% less effort to use than the de-facto standard for web automation, Selenium.
In app purchases have ruined so many games for me.

I don't even mind their existing so much if they are a simple 'cheat' (and the game isn't impossibly slow to progress without them), but what bothers me is when they are the only way to get or do something (especially if the 'thing' is to progress any further in the game). I have quit games at this point when they no longer became fun for me, and I don't just mean fb/mobile games, but even proper (read: PC) games that used to be fun before that element came into them (e.g. Star Trek Online).
Autocompletion of make targets in the shell.
First, you assumed incorrectly that I was stating above GMOs themselves were unsafe. I echoed their statement of a GMO 'benifit' was to get/force farmers to use more chemicals (herbicides & insecticides) on crops, which many scientists ARE claiming to be unsafe for humans and the general ecosystem. (Not to mention using fossil fuels, but that's another topic)

Second, 'scientific consensus' have been wrong many times before. Eg when they said cigarette smoking was not bad.

Third, there is plenty of food out there now. The mains issues with starvation is logistics, greed, & power struggles.
We are working to make team management effortless and fun. Some of the features that make it possible: achievements, kanban board, online time counter, simple activity feed and dropbox integration. The result of this is called Hiburo [0].

[0] - https://hiburo.com/
I would not object to this. Play for free, see if you like it, buy the full version.

Some developers do do this, but it's much rarer than P2W.
Genetically Modified Organism Wheat. Why not just call it G.M. Wheat?
We run Versus and are just working on automated comparisons of JS MV* frameworks—check some examples:

Angular vs Backbone http://versus.com/en/angularjs-vs-backbone-js

Angular vs Ember http://versus.com/en/angularjs-vs-ember-js

React vs Backbone http://versus.com/en/react-vs-backbone-js

React vs Angular http://versus.com/en/react-vs-angularjs

Knockout vs Angular http://versus.com/en/knockout-js-vs-angularjs

Or compare any two frameworks by using the search on Versus.
Does it make you 28% more excited about web automation?
http://spout.co -- We're trying to make building finance apps alot less scary for the average developer.

To be honest I see no reason why the average person can't add p2p payments into their app or why an accounting software should have to wait years before adding bank syncing.

We're making all of this do-able in a weekend or even at a hackathon.

We just launched to a few live customers last week and already we have a backlog that we can't keep up with, but we're hiring to keep up with demand and we're excited about where it can go.

We'd love thoughts and/or feedback if anyone is interested!
At least ;-P
Perhaps I'm just rusty but age has only made me cautious. I'm responsible for a rather large and complicated UI framework that we use internally. The thing I've discovered over the last 5-6 years is that APIs are volatile as are JavaScript libraries, browsers and security concerns. It's terribly hard picking something that you can rely on. Even jQuery has enough breaking changes for me to have a week long task getting past 1.4.2 on our product. We have over 400 complicated web app pages that need testing to make sure we haven't broken any edge cases.

The learning curve is tough, the maintenance is tougher and the churn is terrible. It's a living hell on a large project. It makes me long for WPF or even Win32 where 20 years without significant reengineering is a good bet.

On the web, the basic DOM API is the most stable. Sacrificing convenience for maintenance these days is what I'm for. Screw the frameworks.
A media player in the browser, along with JARVIS like dashboard features like tracking space station flyover, keeping check on reddit, gmail, facebook etc notifications, moon phases, sun cycles, weather, sunrise sunset moon rise moon set notifications, torrent control and status notifications. All in one consolidated UI that is os and platform independent, runs in any standards compliant browser on any device/browser configurationon any device pc, hybrid touch phone tablet etc.

It runs offline, infact it keeps track of network connection changes and informs user if system goes online/offline. In chrome it also runs in background. I have implemented most of the above stuff other than facebook and remote control stuff. I plan to add bunch of other stuff, all I need is more time thanks to college. Anyone willing to invest? Lol.
http://gitsense.com

It's re-imagining how you can interact with your codes history and GitHub pull requests. I'm desperately trying to get the installer and docs ready. The installer for Linux should be available this week and the installer for Mac OS X should be available next week.
A Reintroduction to JavaScript
> These comments and stories keep appearing because Internet commenters see the word non-profit, and see the money the NFL makes and think some type of shady scam is going on.

Whatever else you might say, this does not appear to be the case for the person you are replying to and inserting it in there detracts from your own argument. None of that is helped by the fact that you reiterate points they have already addressed and acknowledged and the only facts you've added are that Roger Goodell pays taxes and that the NFL posted a loss. And I'm being generous, as this may be implied by parent post's discussion of maximizing the flow of funds out of the NFL.

The broader point--that the US supports a moneymaking enterprise by means of tax breaks, stadiums, etc. in ways that have questionable financial benefit to the public at large--does not appear to be well-addressed by your arguments.

FWIW, I don't think you'll find many people here who don't know that "non profit" doesn't mean "no money." And even if they did, there's nothing wrong with comparing what the public spends to what they get. There are plenty of ways for people to get "double" taxed, after all. Doesn't mean we don't have to pay them.
Red Hat, Intel, etc. -- People whose salary is earned by developing Linux.
Whitepaper: VoIP vulnerabilities
State of Perl 6 – JVM, grammers, parallelisation [PDF; Slides]
You are most certainly misinformed, and most of your comments here appear to be ignorant of the excessively creative dodging of the law the US has engaged in since 2011.

The Taliban prisoners have not always been afforded full legal POW rights. What do you think the category of unlawful combatant is all about? You quote a bit of that in another comment, but appear not to comprehend what you're quoting.

Taliban prisoners were begrudgingly [allegedly, according to official statement] afforded POW privileges, not legal rights of POW status. There is a vast difference between the two. The privileges include meals, communication, and some other humane things. But the entire purpose of the unlawful combatant designation was to deny the legal status of POW altogether. This was done with disingenuous arguments denying the Taliban recognition as the government of Afghanistan, as well as denying satisfaction of other requirements under the Geneva Conventions that would require POW status. The Bush administration was adamant about denying Taliban captives POW status.

There is no requirement that unlawful combatants be released after hostilities are ended, nor has there ever been an offered picture of what it would mean for hostilities to end. Were these prisoners declared as POWs, they could never have their detainment and crimes reviewed, presided over, or decided by tribunals. That violates international law.
ZikMe (http://www.ZikMe.org) a universal music database, it will provide open and editable information under Creative Commons license.

As we think information is the most powerful tool ever, we plan on radically change how we learn and discover music, and that is cool !!
For all the reasons mentionned in this thread (interface consistency, performance, ...) hg is far superior to git.
But, as long as git would get the cool tools - namely, gitlab / gitlab-ci - people won't bother looking at hg.
I started a new project with collaborators a month ago, we had to chose git mainly because of gitlab, as it would ease the process of managing consistently our codebase in a visual and simple way, not to mention the continuous integration goodness that comes with gitlab-ci.
There is, to my knowledge, no close equivalent for hg.
Full-stack dev that came up through the front-end ranks here - I'm in my early 30s and have been doing this in some form or another for 17 years. I started with Perl and C CGI scripts, worked with Java Swing (on the desktop) for a while, had a brief foray into MFC, did a whole bunch of PHP in college, switched to Django/JQuery while working on my startup, and now use a whole bunch of Google-proprietary techniques along with the native browser APIs.

I've found that the best way to stay sane is to ignore the hype. After having worked with a dozen or so technologies, I can say that knowing your preferred toolkit well matters a whole lot more than which toolkit you know. Nowadays I usually tend to prefer whatever is native to the platform (vanilla JS for web, Java for Android, Objective C for iPhone), because it will perform better, there are fewer opportunities for bugs to creep in, and you can access more of the platform functionality without waiting for frameworks to catch up.

It was actually uTorrent (remember that?) that caused a major shift in my thinking: before that came out I was all like "Yeah, frameworks! Developer productivity! I want to squeeze every inch of convenience out of my computer!", but then here was this program that was a native Win32 app, no MFC or Qt or Python or anything, and it blew the pants off the competition because it didn't use a framework. I didn't want to deal with Win32 at the time, but Web 2.0 was just getting started, and within a couple years I was doing a startup with Javascript games, and I found that if I wanted acceptable framerates in a game I couldn't use JQuery and had to learn the native browser APIs, and the difference between them was incredibly stark (this was pre-V8, when no browser shipped with a JIT, and I was getting about 2 fps with JQuery and about 15 with native browser APIs). And once I'd used the native APIs for a bit, I found they weren't actually that bad; they were more verbose and less consistent, but not in a way that seriously slowed me down.

I think it does take a certain amount of security and confidence in one's own abilities to do this, because it definitely makes you uncool. I've been in Hacker News threads where people are like "No. What the hell are you smoking?" when I suggest that you might not need a JS framework. But the folks who matter to me respect my abilities enough to pay me generously for them, and not staying up-to-date with the latest and greatest gives me time to cross-train in other fields like compilers, machine-learning, data analysis, scalability, UX design, management, and other skills that I've frankly found significantly more useful than yet another MVC framework. If I need to use a framework I'll learn it on the fly; I've done that for several projects, and (after I learned my first half-dozen MVC & web frameworks) it's never taken me more than a week or two to become proficient in another one.
Companies, particularly startups, need warm bodies in order to get investment and/or sell their company. If those bodies also happen to make a great product, all the better. If someone doesn't have the background, they can be made out as prodigies. As long as there is something resembling a product, x number of developers, and maybe some patents, certain types of investors don't seem to care. Developers are self taught by necessity. Someone decided to conflate this with the idea that self teaching doesn't really take any time at all. People who invest money don't study development so believe a six week course is all it takes, and sometimes it is if the product is a flashy but basic startup showpiece app.

In my opinion this is the market that boot camps are preparing people for.
Yes, Makefile syntax gets somewhat obscure after the simplicity and power of target definitions and variables (e.g. http://mrbook.org/tutorials/make/).

Yes, Make does a poorer job at some of the tasks (although spawning a webserver process isn't one of them).

But I don't think having to write a plugin for EVERYTHING (http://gratimax.github.io/search-gulp-plugins/) is a sustainable answer.

P.S. I am sorry, I searched for "recursive makefile dependency hell", but I didn't find an explanation of what that is. It would be useful if you could provide some stories. I have been using Make only for two years, so maybe I haven't run into the exact problems yet.
Correction, we need good soil husbandry.

Super saturating soil with herbicide will only help western farmers, as its expensive, So is buying GMOs, as they tend to be mules (that is they do not breed effectively and the farmer needs to buy more seed every year)

the people that really need this are the third world, and they need cheap practical husbandry skill (rotation, water management, sympathetic planting, soil improvment)
http://tech.eu because where else would people go to find out about cool tech and startups coming out of Europe without having to weed through too much crap?
$100 Ghetto FPV Quadcopter (http://seedmediacreative.wix.com/teamghettosheep - It's a cheap DIY tutorial how to build your own FPV (first person view)micro quadcopter which weighs under 100grams.

The tutorial includes:
-Video Transmitter build
-Video Receiver build
-Controller tray/holder build

I'm hoping to build a tiny 2gram on-screen-display (OSD) module that displays altitude & flight time.
Also hoping to try Flir Lepton thermal camera too, but Flir are probably waterlogged with emails.
Rebooting Trust? Freedom vs Security in Cyberspace
Atlas of US Historical Geography Digitized
Estonian-founded Transferwise "a strong IPO candidate"
This really doesn't bother me. What bothers me is how much of my RAM is likely to page out to disk somewhere because it's oversold and if the CPU is being hammered with context switches and cache waits. If that's zero, this argument is moot as my datasets will run entirely from RAM and I'll pick a VM that has the capacity to do this.
That's true, it fills the need for consumer all discovery much better. On the more technical or server admin oriented side, though, apt and it's ilk fill a need that Apple's App Store does not try to… namely, I can go download the something like memcached, PHP or Postgres and all sorts of related libraries and modules and have them installed immediately in. Version configured for my system, integrated with central configuration and init scripts, and updated and tested for security regularly.

I was working on setting up my Mac for Python/Flask development last week and installing MySQL resembled installing it on windows... Time consuming and it required reading documentation and searching just to get it to work. You can ameliorate that by installing MacPorts, homebrew or fink but those truly are third party and ridden with dependency problems. They feel like a 2nd rate apt.
> means that normal users shouldn't really need to install binary drivers if they have a recent ATI GPU.

> There really shouldn't be any reason for all but newest ATI GPUs to not work out of box.

So you don't have any problems if you have a recent ATI GPU, unless you have a recent ATI GPU?
I am working on a site for adding local adverts: http://oglos.info/

I am trying to create unique, simple and compact navigation. It's an early version of my page but I'd appreciate all hints, suggestions, directions etc.
Proof that something has happened before a certain point in time – Bitcoinproof
"What I wanted to know is who are these experts, why are they giving their expertise away for Internet Points (tm) and is this detracting from their actual work."

While I don't know about this exact post, for most academics, such theoretical exercises are their work. 'Projects' like this are nice and small and contained. They also give you the opportunity to get 'real' questions from people who aren't as close to the material as you are, almost like 'customers', so if you use a question like this in a lecture, it's almost sure to capture the interest of students better than other textbook examples. While I don't teach many courses, I've used examples derived from hybrid 'real world' / theoretical questions as examples to explain our products.

That said, I've surely spend time on questions that will never pay themselves back in such a way. You never know up front which ones will, so it's like playing the VC game - you 'invest' in 10 questions, with the knowledge that 7 will be duds, 2 will break even and the last one will (hopefully) be a home run.
Trickle has a similar concept - you can add a 'fallback' to a node: https://github.com/spotify/trickle/blob/master/src/examples/...
Facing criticism in Entreprenuership﻿
https://retred.org is a repository of (right now historical) events. There wasn't a good place where you can view and (soon will be able to add/edit) historical facts, not to mention cutting it up in various ways to see how things relate.
High-rise, high-viz. Where problems are solved there's money to be made
https://surfer.io/ because people should own the images they share
http://notegraphy.com

Because a simple tool to write & share beautifully is attracting a lot of people (+250k iOS users) and generating a different way of sharing text (+600k notes, now 12k daily). Also, technically speaking it's a nice example of technology marriage: the web and the native app enviroments. Android version soon, if you want to test drive, /android and suscribe.

I never got bored in the project. I've designed both iOS and the web applications and also helped to code LESS/HTML and SVG to create the base product and automated many things. It's fun as hell.
Heard of the video game Starbound? http://playstarbound.com

I'm pretty heavily involved in Minecraft reverse engineering, and I've started a new website for reverse engineering Starbound. Dissecting the networking protocol, file formats, or whatever else fits in, it's fair game for the site. Come help out? http://starbound-dev.org
How often do you have so many dependencies in a web app that you actually need something like RequireJS or Browserify?
Canonical doesn't contribute a whole lot back upstream.
Not at all. However, any responsible guardian of someone drinking underage should be subject to the appropriate penalties for neglect. It's not a child's fault when they make an error.
The result is the same -- information not getting to the people. It doesn't have to be a total lack of any news coverage for it to be a blackout.

If the intent is suppresing some news story (because lackluster coverage can also have other causes), then reduced coverage is a pretty effective way of creating a media blackout short of issuing direct censorship orders and preventing everybody from publishing anything at all.

The strategy is to control what the public discussion issues are --ie. what everybody on mass media is talking about--, not to stump every inner page single-column article or 30-second mention.
http://www.linkafy.com
Control your home from a tablet. One app, multiple mobile platforms.
An Internet of Things mobile application and Platform as a Service for appliance manufacturers.
"write a program that copies standard input to standard output":

org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.copyLarge(System.in, System.out);

I despise the Java language as much as the next dev, and the core library is drastically underfeatured - But if you can't manage to copy one stream to another because you don't use libraries, you have no one to blame but yourself.
I am interested. Do you guys cover european banks?

FYI, your signup for a private beta makes it very hard to click send. there is like 1 pixel on the send-button that actually triggers the action.