skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great. I like that he put it on GitHub for us all to enjoy. A man among men.
similar, but using gpg, also interesting http://web.monkeysphere.info/getting-started-ssh/
nicely indented? Install jsbeautify plugin in sublime, on save, your codebase will be beautiful and consistent.

Brackets, semicolons, insignificant whitespace, var keyword, and named functions are some of Javascript's strengths. List comprehensions are nice, but be honest, how many times per year do you use them?

I'd take JS over Coffee any day
I do use icomoon, it's an amazing tool. I was just replying to the parents comment about how necessary these abstractions are:

"How many icons will a website need before an abstraction like this is necessary to manage them?"

I say they are very necessary.
Thing is, a lot of people eventually graduate from legos. The step from buildable toys to making your own furniture is just a garage corner away.
Considering the emphasis in the following sections, I think that you are correct:

"You'll look so accepting and humanitarian just by using Vim, that you won't even have to think about actual social issues. This leaves you free to go back to solving problems that really matter, like building apps that incentivize breaking up protests or apps that crowd-source date conversations.

Don't get me wrong: I know you don't actually care about human rights and social issues. All that matters is that you look like you care."

Also, is there an actual product here? This just looks like a webpage that is advertising Vim usage to me. Pretty sure the entire page is meant to be a joke, probably referencing/mocking some other page that I'm not aware of.
> writing coffeescript is fun, coming back to make sense of what you wrote months later is an absolute nightmare

if you document your code properly, there should be no issue figuring out what does what month later, I dont really find JS very readable,you often need to guess the intend of the programmer since there are little structures available.

> debugging it is a massive PITA

no problems with source maps.

I use Coffeescript because it's more productive than writing Javascript , on average i write 40% less code with it.I dont have to lint anything,worry about prototype inheritance done right and my code feels more descriptive than imperative,thus more readable.

The class system allows really powerfull metaprogramming. With nodejs and the source-map-support module, there is 0 issues. As for documentation there are tool that allow doc generation from cs source files, test generation for from cs classes ,etc ... There is a reason why there is all these transpiled languages around js, because most people just dont like writing JS code.
Nice work my friend, nice work!
Why you shouldn't use NDAs
Looks like he licensed it under the Apache license. This is great work!

http://clarkduvall.com/js/jsterm.js

Edit - Looks pretty extensible as well! - http://clarkduvall.com/commands/com1.js

Edit edit - Looks like it is on Github. Should've read the output before hitting view source -_- https://github.com/clarkduvall/jsterm
You haven't actually explained why you think static typing is such a problem... `Id` is still there. Use it when you want. But if I want to call "setText:" on a UILabel and documentation says it needs an NSString... That's pretty handy.
Relax, go have a cig.
He does offer a discount to get the update. Also, I'm sure you can still use CodeKit 1 if you don't want to pay for the update.
Since I switched to Redis, I had massive drop in resource requirements, saving me a lot of money. Thank you very much.

The keyspace notifications are great but I use NodeJS at the moment to listen to the events. When will it be possible to run Lua to remove the current point of failure? On the topics page, it says "In the future". Are we looking at years or months?
Use of promises also reduces the callback "hell".
Viewing this on iPad in landscape, the first line seems to be cut off (even after drawing the first line)
Hey jmbmxer, we're currently in talks with sustainableharvest to get access to all of their images and videos about their farms. We built this on a bus from Seattle to San Antonio so we haven't had enough resources to fully flesh out the imagery. We definitely have coffee experts on board, besides all being addicts ourselves our CEO is actually the owner of two coffee shops in Seattle! We'll definitely try to make more information visible and make easier to understand what we provide.
How digital music services may be fuelling a ‘superstar artist economy’
"Just give me a few minutes to upload my XCoins from my XWallet to XY-Exchange, convert them to YCoins, and a few more minutes to transfer my YCoins to my YWallet".

Either that or you keep all your coins sitting in said exchange so you can instantaneously convert them and pay out. And then lose them all permanently when the exchange has a security flaw.

Currency of the future.
"unless it was a large startup and the founder herself had gone to that school."

Small gripe, but "herself"? Better as "and the founder had gone…" Even him/herself is a good option.

"Finally, our sector is on top and these young people want to come and join us."

It's like saying "and these young women…"
> intended for use inside my house by my family and guests only

"Intended" is a description of your subjective mental state, not an objective quality of the broadcast.

> Are cordless phone transmissions publicly broadcast? Baby monitors? Burglar alarms? Home automation devices? Bluetooth headsets?

If they aren't encrypted, yes.
But there has to be some moral code involved.

No, there absolutely does not. The only way to filter your game usage through a moral filter is to subscribe only to things like honestandroidgames.com, which is akin to programming out all non-Christian TV channels in every TV in your house.
Apparently there have been some interesting advances in this area recently:

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/2/171675-a-new-type-of-ma...
Good point. I wonder if that's a startup idea there? Go to local city halls and gather permitting information to sell to retailers?
Really cool website!
a back end dude.
Agreed, was just about to say this. I worked at a startup straight out of school, but that was because it was a spinoff of a research project I was already working on.

However, I'm at a more established firm now, and the fact that I can spend time building systems properly and work on self-development is invaluable. I think working for a big company, even a giant bureaucracy, out of school, is not a bad thing at all, provided you can spend a few hours independently working on side projects.
> The Python runtime?

Why, Python, of course![0]

[0] - http://pypy.org/

(I jest, your point is entirely valid)
Bitcoin exchange CEO found dead in Singapore after suspected suicide at age 28
Because from space they can also take images of the Home Depot parking lots. (maybe?)
Building a Dynamically Loaded JavaScript Library without Require.js
It's all relative. We save you time, and make sure your service is always up. We work with you through any pain points you have. If your server goes down, and you lose an hour of your time. You've already lost that difference.

You also assume nothing is cached, whereas only if those were all uniques would that be likely. Which is generally unlikely.

Our price is based around quality. Both the fact that we grow with you, and the fact that we strive to make every task you need to do, ridiculously easy.
To pose a counter-argument: should all open-source projects avoid jQuery? For many projects, it's a huge time saver, doesn't cause issues, and plenty of people like it.
I totally agree that if you want more people to use your code, you should consider the implications of tools like these, but often the tradeoff is worth it.

You don't have to use my code, so I'm going to use the tools that I think give the best results.
I am still using a HP Touchpad webOS tablet mostly because of some apps that I think are just great. Among them the webOS Zite client I think is the most polished client for that service in any platform. The Android client doesn't come near in usability. I just hope it keeps working...
Do you have any Wordpress experience? I may have something for you.
I just browsed your post, and it looks beautifully written!

So you're saying there's nothing fundamental about the typical HS math sequence. I agree. But I also don't think there's that much of a compelling reason to change it, because there are going to be difficult portions no matter how you arrange it.

But I think it's not exactly true that ellipses and congruent triangles have nothing to do with calculus. Graphing ellipses is meant to help understand functional thinking, which is crucial to calculus. Those miscellaneous facts about triangles are as examples to motivate understanding of mathematical logic -- also crucial.

In other words, most of what we learn in math are really intended to illustrate underlying mathematical concepts with some level of concreteness. Otherwise, we'd just start with category theory in kindergarten and derive all other math from that :)

I can certainly understand the perception that these things are often taught solely as ends in and of themselves. I think that part of the challenge is that there is a tradeoff between taking the time to provide a concrete motivation for every math concept upfront versus saving time by dealing with math concepts in their own world to cover more ground. For instance, the seven bridges problem serves as a great motivator for graph theory (and is used very often for this purpose), but can we really afford to find a similar motivating problem for every single graph theoretical concept?
I mean, what's the actual fear? That you will be reprimanded for visiting the site by somebody who does not actually bother to visit the site to see that it isn't porn? Seems like a pretty easy thing to explain.
The most mundane question in the world - why not 2.9? New feature usually means minor version increment, yes?
Price recommendations for Airbnb hosts (StartupBus NYC 2014)
If you feel so, I hope you don't mind if someone like the police create live 24/7 tracking of your position. Any driving, any movement... always tracked.

If don't consider that a intrusion of your privacy, then that is up to you.
Asteroid 2014 DX110: Tiny rock will pass the Earth today.
Are you using Vimium on Chrome? I had this too, just went into insert mode.
David Foster Wallace' piece on television and advertising might be interesting in this context. I don't have time to comment further right now, but here's a link. It's well worth a read:
http://jsomers.net/DFW_TV.pdf
I've been developing in Objective-C for years now and I didn't know you could declare a method without explicitly stating a return type. I imagine many other people don't know that either, so I'd argue that saying -(id)doSomething; is more readable.

Now that I know, though, it has become syntactic noise for me.
So it's possible to cheat. So there's a hidden cost of going to see this movie - it'll make you pay more for lego in the future.
The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates
Yes, I think you are dead-on: https://atom.io/
"If Javascript appears scary, spend more time with Javascript so groking it becomes easier for your brain."

I knew JavaScript better than probably 99% of JavaScript developers. I was skeptical of CoffeeScript until I was forced to use it for a couple weeks, and haven't looked back since.
well that's what

PermitRootLogin no

is for
Peer5 Downloader: Peer-assisted file downloads using WebRTC
> I wonder if it is possible to come up with a more flexible moral code for game monetization.

Sure: come up with your own moral preferences and (1) as a producer, don't make games that violate them, and (2) as a consumer, don't pay for games (or IAPs within games) that violate them.
Understanding the Customer Decision Process:Why Good Products Fail
A good question. My assumption is that even though it's considered public knowledge, there is still a cost for it and it's not electronic.

For instance, in my state and/or township one can go to township office and request a copy of all the property taxes for any piece of land, no matter who owns it. It costs something like ten dollars and in return you get a hardcopy with a bunch of numbers on it.

Assuming the process for getting copies of new permits is similar, the biggest downside is cost for the information and paying for some intern or whatever to type it in. Even if it's five dollars plus intern is decent chunk of money (I have no idea what the profit margin is on lumber, etc). And then you have to factor in the cost of the promotion which will eat into yet more profits.
Would you agree that the ideal number of gangs to occupy a territory is 1? Because if you had two, they would fight each other, and if you have 0, you might get something worse than the last gang? While I'd disagree, I can't really fault that logic.
Do One Thing Really Well: An Interview With David Heinemeier Hansson of Basecamp
Ask Slashdot: Does Your Employer Perform HTTPS MITM Attacks On Employees?
But

$ curl http://clarkduvall.com
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 631 100 631 0 0 6981 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 10516
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Clark DuVall</title>
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/images/favicon.ico">
<meta name="description" content="Clark DuVall's website o' fun!">
<meta property="og:image" content="http://clarkduvall.com/images/image.png">
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/css/style.css">
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/commands/com1.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/config/config.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/jsterm.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/analytics.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

So

$ w3m http://clarkduvall.com

$

Just sayin'.
What is more interesting in this, the acquisition or that it will get immediately shut down?

Is this just an acquihire to get Yahoo the data engineers good at social graphing, or is the tool now just for in-house use?
The only metric used by them 'request' is not explained neither through the website nor FAQ found on Github! Good luck with taht. And i really hope it does not mean, what it means. If so it's darn expensive. perhaps more than MT.
Why can't I pinch and zoom anymore on my iPad? And why is this a thing now?
Curb: Meet The Startup Bringing Real-Time Visibility to Energy Consumption
Unfortunately, your site shows me no content except for a black page. You appear to be loading the site entirely from javascript, so it won't work on computers that don't have javascript (like mine).
US Accuses Sprint Of Fraudulently Overcharging For Surveillance Requests
Go for it. Nothing is stopping you from doing that. It's just people will think you're a weirdo for doing it.
Can we Improve the Wikipedia page on forking software?
This looks a little dead to me. I'd love to see the HN community flesh this out for young devs to more easily understand what's involved.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_(software_development)
I saw some good places where cuts might be made, I doubt the entire video in one pure take. A behind the scenes video would be great.
Top of HN, many content-free "nice!" comments, and posted by a new user. Has HN been gamed here?

On the other hand, my comment was going to be "where's the tab completion?" so I guess my own comment counts as content-free.

Might as well add; nice job!
I thought the story was going to be about Lowe's using satellite imagery of neighborhoods to decide where to target marketing about new roofs, outbuildings, lawn care, sidewalk maintenance, etc. So yeah, using it to watch their own parking lots is... not creepy at all.
OnePlus Announces SoC for CyanogenMod-powered 'One'
Interestingly enough most of her hours are spent in DC by a large margin. City with second most hours is graced with only a third of the time DC gets.
Nope, but whats wrong with html or something that resembles it closely enough without the whitespace active stuff and extra syntax. I'll give you the answer ... nothing.

Haml feels like just an unnecessary abstraction on top of something (html) that was just fine to begin with. But a lot of engineers seem to like it, so I think its great for those people.

> So called "front-end engineers" who can't understand haml after 3 minutes have no business calling themselves "front-end engineers"

Gotta love the arrogance of the remark :)

Remember that there are tons of people that aren't classically trained "engineers" that have to work on apps around the world, lets spare a thought for them ;)

More seriously, I don't think the argument is them understanding haml. The problem is the learning curve. Its not that steep but having to look up how to do stuff that you could just type right away from memory in plain html every 5 minutes, slows you down, and people want to move quickly.

Theres also the fact that when haml breaks you get a Rails error vs the way html breaks which is that the display just looks all wonky. Lets not underestimate that.

> Is HAML really that hard?

Again, what are all the objective "benefits" of haml that necessitate having to learn this new abstraction? I can tell you why I use Rails over Cakephp, but what is the problem that haml is trying to solve exactly?
Still play that stupid bird? I develop this simple game in one month
On the issue of having a presence on campus: if you're not one of the really hot start-ups, putting up a fall recruiting booth at Harvard probably isn't going to sway those kids who have offers at Goldman or McKinsey as an alternative. However, it can be quite valuable to cultivate relationships with professors at local schools a rung or two down. There are brilliant kids at those schools who won't get the time of day from pedigree-conscious Wall Street, and professors are often quite well placed to identify them, based on interactions over a semester. It's a win for them, because they love being able to hook someone up with an inside lead on a good job, and it can be a great way for a start-up to get pre-vetted candidates.
TDD is Behavior Specification
We do need to add it to the website, and to our brand new Github FAQ we're in the process of building. But a request is a http request. :)

Thanks for your feedback.
Why would it be a phase? This has been happening since the very first video games were created. It's exactly what an arcade is. We like to look back at games like Pac-Man with nostalgia. And it's easy, since you get to play that game for free anytime you want today. But that game was efficient at separating you from your quarters back in the '80s.
Hmm.. I wouldn't be interested then. Seems like this is geared more towards the non-HN audience: people who need their hands to be held.
Hindenbug
What charges does that leave remaining?
But what gives them the right to regulate a market they did not create?
Show HN: Password-Protect My File
And there was me hoping that Vizify could magically transform any text into something that could have been out of Viz magazine.
Not that I disagree, but if you were being charged per-request it would behoove you to use a CSS sprite sheet instead of 10 different images.
Is it legal or even possible to prevent these scanning devices from working by having say a ring of infrared LED's shining on your license plate to prevent a camera from being able to capture it?
Unless I am missing something the advertised rate on the site just now is 2k for 2 hours at the most expensive.
Good news for him. But I kinda wanted this to make it to the supreme court so the question of linking could be more summarily decided.
Agree'd. Although, to reach this conclusion, you have to first shed the commonly idiotic notions of anti-government anti-social stupidity, and recognize the utility of a public-private partnership.

Anyway, I think from a "infrastructure" point of view, BTC is not good enough yet. I'm finding proof-of-stake systems (peercoin / NXTcoin) far more technically useful than BTC... in particular, the fact that they're "greener" and don't waste electricity like the current mining rigs do.

The ideal system probably would be a decentralized proof-of-stake cryptocoin with regulated exchanges.
Ask HN: Is anyone building anything big with Meteor?
So http://madewith.meteor.com/ is full of demos, and Google only returns examples of very small apps.

Are there any examples of complete/large-scale apps built with Meteor?
For those of you who didn't get it (I had to google what w3m was), his point is that the site context is all rendered by JS, without any fallback static text content. Besides the obvious accessibility issues, it's also not good for SEO.
> I think Coffeescript is not as much a 1-to-1 mapping to javascript as HAML is to HTML

In my opinion, the opposite is true – HAML adds a lot more than CoffeeScript. As a very experienced front-end developer, this example from the HAML documentation is completely inscrutable to me:

%div[@user, :greeting]
%bar[290]/
Hello!
Some years ago I wrote up a pretty lengthy piece about how emotional manipulation is the core of all television programming -- I think it was on Kuro5hin.. but I can't seem to find it any more....

Humans who are (intentionally) not taught how to think critically are easily manipulated via their emotions.

Anyone who thinks that there is not a war on your conscious, fought through your pavlovian emotional responses has not been paying close enough attention to the world around them.
This App Detects Awkward Motion/Gesture, Calls Your Phone
How many customers, how quickly was she growing? If you can't turn 10 customers into 1,000, then 100,000 quickly, you're wasting your precious time and are probably better off at Deloitte.

I've sold apps and had customers, but not at the scale that would let me quit my day job.
I like that this is playing into the algorithm, rather than playing into the automation machine.
my point is given the success of all these javascript only mobile plateforms, it's not going to happen.If one wants to develop js apps,the web is here and free.That's why these weboses make little sense.
This is a complete hypothetical, but how do you feel about consumable hats?

I'm thinking something like you spend real dollars on a hat (or other item) that does nothing but change cosmetics, but disappears after a week/month/quarter/year.
True, but then my statement wouldn't be meme-y enough :)
When I see a Twitter account that is following hundreds or thousands of others I immediately discount their value.

Oftentimes I find these accounts when they follow me, hoping for a follow back, which I see as an abuse of the New Follower notification system and tantamount to spamming.
At least that is what I suspect. I was surprised by how few "hey, that guy just followed you back" messages I got.
Thanks btrautsc! The smart social reading experience sounds interesting even if it didn't work out.
A great result for Todd and team! Having worked with the people at Vizify I know they'll do some great stuff at Yahoo!
No secondary sexual characteristics bolted to the torso.
Tastebuddy, food recommendations from people like you
Congrats! Go PDX!
yeah I am aware of it, but my mom does not ;)

on a sidenote, you have entered pretty much competitive market with tons of 'major players'. Deep down in our hearts we all know, what 'quality hosting mean'. They are all the same. some of them suck much other less. They all have down time. It's only up to you pay more or less for having almost same service from any of them. You are only good for them as long as, you have steady traffic than spikey ;)