skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here let me help you here. Your comment should read. "Pretty much everything we hear through the media is propaganda." There much better now.
> The problem with IE that made people come to hate it was that Microsoft broke the standards, left them broken for years and years and refused to implement anything new.

I always thought that was because the DOJ went after them. And MS said, roughly, "You don't like IE? You think it's 'bad' for everyone? Well, fine then. We won't touch it. See how you like that."

Point being, I think we were stuck with a shitty IE for so long primarily in retaliation for the Justice dept.'s anti-trust suit.

But that's entirely conjecture...
Interview: Why founders should take small steps
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Ben Horowitz's blog is normally along such lines: posts that have a general basis in fact, but represented in a highly misleading manner.
Business Lessons from the German Mittelstand
Blog discusses Best Technical Innovation – Top 20 Oil and Gas, Utility Companies
"death gotta be easy cuz life is hard" - 50 Cent
Leonard Nimoy reveals he has lung disease
It's funny to watch the Olympic coverage in Canada because it has been a steady stream of Russia bashing including lots of innuendo about corruption in building Olympic facilities and how they are not ready in time and how it is dangerous for gays (even though they visited one of the 3 gay clubs in Sochi" Of course all that was the senior journalists who have been bought by the establishment. People like Peter Mandsbridge who simply cannot be trusted. Then the athletes all arrived and a full team of journalists and the mood completely changed.

Everyone is gushing about how amazing the place is, how great the food is and the accommodations. Several people have commented on how this or that is better than it was in Vancouver. So now I'm thinking that maybe junior journalists still have some ethics in them and will do some actual investigations of stories.
I remember lifting the 'sds' string implementation from within the redis back in the day. Thanks antirez
I mean, the reasoning why ISPs might block such services in use.
it's written by entrepreneurs that the VC backed not VCs themselves. cross-branding
We've actually stopped using all pre-processor for everything we do for Segment.io[1] as well, and we're not beginners.

One of the biggest problems with them is that you immediately eliminate a huge portion of the people who are willing to contribute to your code if you select a pre-processor they aren't fond of. It's fine for app internals, but for sharing small[2] open-source[3] components[4] it's not a good idea—whether it's Sass or CoffeeScript or Jade or whatever.

The other problem with CSS pre-processors specifically is that they only work well with the monolithic app mindset. All of your CSS files inside the same `styles` folder, and all of them required by the "top of the monolith" `main.sass` file. Instead, using something like component[5] you get true dependency trees, so you don't have to go monolithic anymore. And trying to get Sass to work across a component-ized codebase is a real pain. Instead we use Myth[6] to "post-process" the built CSS.

Pre-processors are a leaky abstraction that comes back to bite you at random points the way all leaky abstractions do, and the ways are usually hard to foresee and thus hard to argue against when the benefits seems so clear.

[1]: https://segment.io

[2]: https://github.com/segmentio/toggle

[3]: https://github.com/segmentio/sheet

[4]: https://github.com/component/tip

[5]: https://github.com/component/component

[6]: http://myth.io
Where I work, my group has instituted "Fancy Fridays" where people wear bow ties, suits, button down shirts, etc. It's not mandatory (participation is maybe 20%), and no one from other teams really notices or cares. One of our RF engineers and one of our PMs likes designer clothes, but most don't. One software engineer dresses like a pirate (seriously). Tie-dye is somewhat popular. And of course, T-shirts and hoodies are common.

I've also interviewed many people wearing a wide variety of clothing, and no one cares about that either. If we judged interviews based on what people wore, drove, ate, etc. we'd never get any competent engineers. A good culture fit means they interested in technology and our product, not that they fit some (in my experience false) stereotype.

As for your test, if there is a big change in how you dress (in any way) after people know you, it will garner notice.
It's the money handling that is regulated, not the Bitcoins. You can trade Bitcoins for anything except money without any licensing (in the U.S.).

Apple wants out so people will not be carrying around irreplaceable wallets in their phones, then blaming Apple when they get robbed.
I'm confused by your question. It's true that Bitcoin can be infinitely divided, but that doesn't help unless the original unit is valuable enough to make those divisions useful. The current market capital of Bitcoin is pretty big, but no where near enough to run a real economy.
Going forward, instead of enabling a feature by default with a vendor prefix, we will instead keep the (unprefixed) feature behind the “enable experimental web platform features” flag in about:flags until the feature is ready to be enabled by default.

For the feature's we're talking about (JS methods and CSS stuff), doing so will mean that effectively no web authors use it. It's no different than requiring a plugin to view content. Anything hidden behind a feature flag might as well not exist, at least for those two categories.

For dev tools, stuff like that? Sure, feature flags are the way to go.
Reasonable discussion?
Nothing you said or listed was reasonable.

Read up http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201402/being-gay-...
Not so fast. Tablets have yet to impact businesses that don't even use computers much. If you're in general contracting, a waitron, a delivery person, a trucker, an auto-mechanic, a repair tech, an oil-field worker and a host of other mostly paper-based or "non-computer" workflows, the tablet will eventually enter this area. The implications of this change are through-going and only barely begun. And it's mostly driven by cost / capability factors.

Furthermore there are other businesses that are just getting started using the Tablet.

http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/15/hardware-is-dead/
I prefer always be coding.
JavaScript MV* libraries benchmarked with TodoMVC
Google Business support is very good.
Why I can't sleep at night... And it's ok
I believe it's pewdiepie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQz6xhlOt18
Glad to hear you found Brackets fun and easy to use.

As mentioned by kyrra, this is an issue with Chromium. We do have plans to change our communication with the browser to fix this (and other problems... like being Chrome-only!), but that's one of many things on the list.
That was actually the reporter.
Can't say I disagree... A lot of distraction techniques too.
Yes. That is why we did not hear about the untraditional girl who got to second place in Russia's American Idol type of program. It was the Russian people who liked her voice and voted her up there. Did I mention that she was an American and covered with tatoos? Actually she was born in Uzbekistan but grew up in America. Check out Nargiz Zakirova for more info.

And in the same show a native born black American girl who did not even speak Russian, made it into the knockout rounds. Her name is Karmen Moxie.
Direct soldering reduces manufacturing cost, increases ruggedness and reliability (with fewer connectors) and reduces size and weight. You could argue for a different tradeoff, but there are reasons other than greed why Apple would choose it.
LGB at least. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BKgdvjmFK4c/TwN5PxXVH1I/AAAAAAAAAr...
I have a non-geek friend who has a Note. She loves it.

She's already used to having to charge her phone every night, because while her old phone might've lasted 2-3 days it was easier just charging it every night.

She holds it two-handed, portrait, to text and interact with facebook, and did with a smaller phone too because she can type much faster that way.

She's comfortable reading on it.

It fits in her pockets fine.

I prefer my Nexus 4 + Nexus 7 as an approach, but for a bunch of people, yes, yay.
> What a sad and terrifying place America has become.

1 human error is not a statistic, nor does it represent the system in any way.

I still like America and I'm okay with this happening... The system took some time, but it ultimately worked. Which is a credit to it, and not a penalty against it.
A string of incidents starting not long after 9/11 revealed to me what a farce the system is.

The first was seeing old men in their 80s being frisked at TSA checkpoints.

The second was a close friend, mixed race and wearing a beard, who was repeatedly stopped for "random" in-terminal personal questioning and searches (that is, beyond the checkpoint). He was the only person I knew who got this kind of treatment, and the only obvious difference was his appearance.

And then there was this (1):

Washington Post: Sen. Kennedy Flagged by No-Fly List

U.S. Sen. Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy said yesterday that he was stopped and questioned at airports on the East Coast five times in March because his name appeared on the government's secret "no-fly" list.

Federal air security officials said the initial error that led to scrutiny of the Massachusetts Democrat should not have happened even though they recognize that the no-fly list is imperfect. But privately they acknowledged being embarrassed that it took the senator and his staff more than three weeks to get his name removed.

If it took a powerful senator weeks or months to fix the problem, I knew it was hopeless for us mere mortals.

When I was in college many years ago, a punk band called the Dead Kennedys released an album called Bedtime For Democracy that had this famous piece of artwork (2). It was a cartoon representation of the Statue of Liberty, crawling with Wall Street thieves, jack-booted SWAT teams, Madison Avenue shills, and other cons and clowns. There were tears coming out of the statue's eyes. Take a look at it zoomed in if you can, or buy the LP with the full-sized cover. I liked the DKs for their music and lyrics, and the cover went right along with the band's brand of socio-political satire. Nevertheless, at the time I thought the image was a little over the top.

Not anymore.

1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17073-2004Aug...

2. http://punkygibbon.co.uk/bands/d/deadkennedys_bedtime_cd_uk_...
So, I'm curious which of the terrorist screening databases - "Consular Lookout and Support Systems", "Interagency Border Information System", "TSA Selectee List" "TUSCAN", "TACTICS" Mr. Kelley did intend to sign Rahinah Ibrahim up for, and why. Clearly it was at least one of them, since the ruling states that he filled out the form "exactly the opposite way from the instructions on the form".
I'm not sure that conclusion is warranted. Here's what we know:

1. Loads of companies were doing it.
2. When this company wanted to do it, their counsel said it was illegal, so they didn't.

Given those facts, we can't say that the other 200 companies were simply flummoxed by a too-complex regulatory framework. They may just have well had their own meetings and said, "This looks fishy, but everyone else is doing it, and we get more money." Or maybe they did no due diligence at all, and just did it anyway. Once caught, obviously many people would claim an honest misunderstanding, whether or not there was one.

Frankly, I'm skeptical of the whole, "the jail sentences were handed out arbitrarily" angle. It seems the opposite of arbitrary -- the person who instituted an illegal policy in multiple companies was punished. The law may be complex, but when you're making C-level salaries, I'm sorry but you're expected to figure out if you're committing a crime or not.
Think what you will about his conclusions for action, but I don't think anyone has laid out the shape of the problems with "developer shortage" better than michaelochurch: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/corporate-wor...
It's a minor release. The Django 1.5 and 1.6 release announcements got a lot more comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5287890
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6682754
This is a powerful reminder that the entire state secrets privilege was invented to cover up official incompetence[1] and obviously has not strayed very far from its origins. I'd like to get rid of the unconstitutional no-fly list but it's even more important to remove a privilege with so few benefits and such great potential for abuse.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Reynolds
Thanks! About OpenGL I don't know if I'm a good example to follow, in my case I mostly needed to understand how to setup, send vertices to OpenGL, set colors, activate blending, once I figured that out I abstracted that stuff away in a Processing-like API (setColor, drawRect, translate...) so I could forget about all that stuff. I figured things out mostly by skimming through this book [1], looking at the Processing code base, OpenGL tutorials, Stack Overflow... For the odd texture I still use the Texture2D class from Apple's examples. Note that at the time there were not many good OpenGL libraries for iOS, now things are different, OpenFrameworks works on iOS, there's Cinder, etc. Had I started a year later I probably could have skipped all that stuff instead of building my own library.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Mobile-3D-Graphics-Kaufmann-Computer/d...
[2] http://processing.org/
For the people that said things like

"I'd pitch in if their Kickstarter wasn't so blatantly what I didn't want. Cloud services? Come on"
"I can't get behind that cloud services idea."

You guys have a really short vision.

The idea of thorium is 2 things:
-Making cloud services applications is really not difficult at all. The thing you need is a working os with working network services. The idea is that Thorium would help ReactOS mature as 90% of the hard work, would benefit ReactOS also.
-If Thorium becomes reality, the ReactOS people could start providing cloud services. This means steady income.
If thorium were to get big enough, they could conceivably keep on going without even needing donations.

Thorium is an excellent idea.
Thorium is what ReactOS needs.
If the kickstarter gets funded, apparently it won't which is a shame, but if it does, those 120k are easily converted into 240k in some months, by selling cloud services to more people.

Look a little farther than your noses.
That's actually not an example of a strawman. It's certainly a ridiculous position (X could be used for crime, therefore ban X), but I'm not sure what you'd call it.
Selective enforcement of laws on the books is one of the worst corruptions of the modern era. If its never going to be enforced, surely the legislation can be struck from law.
I wasn't there at the beginning, but I've been working on Brackets for a year.

We want Brackets to be awesome for web developers and designers specifically. So, how cool is it to be able to extend the editor you use every day using the exact same tech you're already used to? (And, of course, you can edit Brackets extensions in Brackets...)

This is likely part of the reason there are more than 200 extensions available for Brackets today.
I read the underscores like a "u"... so i guess a mnemonic for this formula could be SuT 'N HuT... sutton hut?!

Maybe some other letters would make the mnemonic more interesting :)
Definition of Quantified Work
Just LG I think many people would say, actually.

I've come to the point where I think the acronym is silly. I think right now we are up to "LGBTQIAPK". I may be a little out of date on that.

The fact is, some of the issues between the groups in the acronym are shared and some aren't. At one point in time, banding together for them was probably useful if not necessary. Today I think each group would be better going it alone, as they all have very unique concerns.
That's what Wine is for; ReactOS borrows a ton of their code. I do wish there were more progress with Wine on Windows for 16-bit apps at least.

Wine can't run Windows device drivers, but that's a pretty narrow use case.
7 years and 4 million dollars to get on a plane is not working. It absolutely represents the system: There's no way to handle human error, which we all know happens.
BitTorrent Sync is the wrong foundation for this revolution. It should be open source from top to bottom.
Failure to Understand Bitcoin Could Cost Investors Billions
Could you explain what the implications are? I can see it going really bad if the simple dev/urandom is shared, but what are the practical risks for dev/random? (apart from the simple dos on host/all containers by draining)
Sorry it made you feel that way, it's nothing personal against non Apple-y things :) I hope to be able to ship to Android too soonish.
Right you are - video credibility restored!
I'm sure the people who were forming up an Apple lynch mob 30 minutes ago will be by soon to make amends and give blockchain what for.

whistles

They should be here any minute, let's just give em a few.
Funny you should mention that, because we're actually changing from Scrum to Kanban so we do not have sprints in the same sense that we had them before.

I think this numbering was started because Brackets is "pre-1.0". We'll see how our version numbering changes after we release 1.0 :)
No, it's not emotion in this case. The paper you linked begins with 100 repetitions of "did you know that the law actually is about children?". To which I have to answer: yes. And more importantly: yes, of course. That (hiding anti-gay legislation behind supposedly anti-pedophilia legislation) is a known strategy. It's actually one of the most disgusting things about this kind of legislation because it sends a message of "the state approves of using gay and pedophile interchangeably". Also the article seems to suggest that everyones afraid of all gay people getting arrested in Russia now. That's not at all the issue. What people (afaik) are afraid of is citizen-on-citizen violence against gay people getting an official stamp of approval. Because hunting pedophiles is protecting children. Please read the following section a couple of times:

> Public actions designed to promote pedophilia, sexual relations with minors,pederasty, lesbianism and bisexuality shall be prohibited.

You see what is missing? Gay. Lesbian? Bisexual? In there. Gay not. Why? The subtext is: it's implied by either pedophilia or pederasty. Yes, those are techniques you find also among American conservatives fighting gay rights. But you know what? Those images and stereotypes can be found all over the world, for centuries at least. But making laws that turn those stereotypes official? Yeah, that's a problem. Not the people being convicted by those laws. The precedence such laws create.
List of Bugs JQuery Fixes
Still working on it! :)
In my opinion Google Hosted Libraries[1] are the best way to go if you're serving "big" commonly used JavaScript libraries to folks.

One of the major upsides is that it's so heavily used, that a user probably already has it cached in their browser. At least that's the idea, not sure of actual numbers.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/devguide
Market capitalization. Basically the amount of outstanding shares (bitcoins) multiplied by the value of each share. The current bitcoin market cap is around 10 billion USD. The reason why this is not enough is pretty simple; first of all it won't allow you to make BIG payments (if you need to transfer more than 10 billion dollars you can't do that), second of all: no company is going to like having half the total amount of 'money' of the entire economy, it's only useful when everyone has some. If one or a few players control the majority of the bitcoins, nobody else is going to want it. We're not talking about gold which has intrinsic value, we're talking about bits and bytes that only have value because some people agreed that it has value. But it will only have value as long as it's somewhat distributed, if only Satoshi would have had bitcoins, nobody would have been interested.
Stallman: Stalling Democracy
> My love affair with the tablet isn't over: I love how it lets me browse the web, read books and magazines, and watch videos in bed after a long day. That's probably how most people use their tablets — secondary devices, mainly for entertainment.

That is how most people use their computers.
Open-sourcing our recruiting process [Next Big Sound]
No Flash. It's HTML, JavaScript and LESS for the stylesheets, plus Chromium and native code for things like file access and the native menus.

The "how is it run?" question is answered here, where the native code lives:

https://github.com/adobe/brackets-shell/

We do as little as possible in the native code.
@tsm, thanks for the feedback. The purpose of this Ask:HN is to help us validate if there is a market for our product, and your comments are appreciated.
It's an SFCave ripoff!
Campaign websites in 2014 aren't always what they seem
An equation for intelligence: F = T ∇ Sτ
> We teamed up with HP, Toshiba, NEC and Fujitsu, all of whom spent millions alongside Microsoft, and failed to create a bona fide category at the time. Why? “Tablet PCs,” as they were known, required a stylus (versus today’s touch-interaction model), and more importantly, only had a few tablet-optimized apps. We now know that’s a recipe for disaster.

Yeah, and even more importantly they cost $2000 to $3000, and were very big and heavy.
What is the best programming language to learn in 2014?
Interesting! Multi-cursor is one of those things that I personally tended to use only from time-to-time when Sublime was my primary editor (I'm on the Brackets team, so you can guess what I use now).

Regarding multi-cursor in Brackets:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/brackets-dev/FLMlU3P...
Spot on. I work in medical informatics and my brother is a doctor. Doctors have a unique way of distilling information. My brother likes to say "does it change management?" aka, is a piece of information important enough to change outcome.

The problem I have with virtually all medical information related startups revolves around protected health information (PHI). How does a startup get it? How does a startup attain a level of credibility, both financially and technically, where an organization that has access to a patient population - like a physicians group, hospital, etc. - get the opportunity to prove their product. Unless you make your case directly to the patient and get them to give you their data, any sizeable organization is going to be extremely reticent to part with their PHI for political, legal and, of course, general technical ineptitude reasons. Not a trivial problem, I can assure you.
Great post, it is high value business stuff like this that I read HN for.
Ask HN: How to make very small amounts of money ($500ish) working remotely?
I would describe myself as a pretty okay software developer. I'm definitely competent, I'm passionate, but I don't think I'm good enough to land a 80k job in SF at the moment.

What I would like to do is make a very small amount of money ($500ish a month) programming on the side that would support the side projects I want to run.

What do you think would be the best way to make that kind of money reliably and with as little time investment as possible?
To use some real numbers, let's assume Bitcoin replaces US dollars.

Once they've all been mined there will be 21 million Bitcoins (and assume none have been lost)

There are approximately $10.5 trillion US dollars in the world (http://money.howstuffworks.com/how-much-money-is-in-the-worl...)

10,500,000,000,000 USD / 21,000,000 BTC = $500,000 per Bitcoin
I agree with you and I want to add that in my view, the idea of something which is so clearly a front-and-center human rights issue, cannot easily be "overblown". Violence against people, discrimination, hate-based crimes - these are all things which rate fairly high on the "worth covering" scale of news media.