skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would they really want an easily tradable currency to replace giftcards? I don't know what the redemption rate of gift cards is, but I imagine it's much less than 100%, which is pure profit.

Also, people have an incentive to concentrate on the strongest currency. The one with the most mining is most secure against 51% attacks, and the one with the most users is most useful.
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Yes. Although the field of "academic papers" is significantly broader with a smaller user demographic than hip-hop, but if you could pull it off I would be an avid user.
I think the page on their site is probably more relevant:

https://swiftype.com/search-analytics

The visualizations look really clean!
quite welcome. and thank you, I'm in the bay area for the next few months, maybe we could connect sometime.
So? Why does it have to be computer parseable and checkable? I've never heard anyone complain about that before.

As for your other comment, DerpDerpDerp provides a good answer.
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We don't do horizontal scaling, correct. We have some great advantages of not doing that. We isolate your project, and give it as many resources as it needs.

The largest instance we can put you on is equivalent to 100 Heroku dynamos for instance. And we plan on growing that farther.

I have a blog on a popular host, and when I got hit by Hacker News my server fell over. Doing so caused me to lose a lot of the reads and garner plenty of complaints from here. It can be a total pain, and every time my posts appear on HN, I get scared inside if the project isn't on HN.

As for simplicity; it's not just the filesystem. The panel itself is easy to use, and we're continually adding more relevant features to help people just focus on staying in flow and working on their code.

If we can save devs any time, we've won. And I think we save them a lot of time.
No easter egg on 'rm -fr /'?
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You answered a different question. Are you using a verified consensus algorithm? If not, why are you making a distributed database?

You're not inspiring confidence in using anything but single node Redis.
Hm, what the article doesn't say is that Lowes are typically located near Home Depot. Definitely close enough to get a snapshot of competitors parking lot too.
Okay, this is a very valid point that laws can and make a distinction based on quantity.

However, in this point no such distinction has been made, and thus they should be treated equally. There is clear law on the "low quantity" case, and no distinct law on the "high quantity" case - so the same principles should be applied even for thousandfold or millionfold increases unless/until the lawmakers (not the courts) draw a line somewhere.
A very pertinent, technological example, for the unconvinced: copying one street from google maps, versus mass-scraping entire locations.
This one is great also: http://www.crockford.com/
And a cooler name.
I've yet to meet another noscript user who demands every site should provide roughly the same experience with or without scripts. Minimally we just want a webmaster to include a goddamn <noscript> telling us why we should temporarily whitelist her domain. And when something is pure text but requires JS to see any of it (as some blogspot templates tend to behave), we'll make complaints about progressive enhancement for that particular use case.

P.S. Your link is nearly four years out of date, and I bet the percent is higher for software engineers, i.e. the target audience of this page. Hell, for just Firefox users who use extensions, a quick estimate suggests 12%. (Number of users for https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/ divided by number of users of the most popular addon, AdBlockPlus https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/)
Curious isn't it? The best programmer at my company freaks out anytime he has to leave the CLI.
Wow! Thanks for that, his TinyCC might be the solution to creating something I want badly, a full C language version of Cokos ReaJS VST plugin creator. Any aspiring programmer want to take on a cool project? :-)
I would recommend the same "Leave", but make things clear with he could be a good start, just because is your boss is not the only-rule-decision-maker, express your anger if he get hot-head, punch that f%ckr. :)
I personally want Rails and PostgreSQL too. We've talked about it a lot and its definitely something we're keen on implementing :)
Until the cost of grinding glass comes way down, this won't be true.
The reason the GPL is annoying is that free license with an advertizing clause have existed for a very long time and are actually widely used. A quick look at the about box of various software will usually show you a long list of mandatory acknowledgements for various open source licenses.

The problem is that the GPL willingly refuses to permit advertizing clauses. Is there a congent argument about why an advertizing clause is a limitation of freedom? The GPL is more often than other free licenses putting restirctions on usage of diversely licensed software. It is an impediment. And, as we see, it has real-world consequences. There is more risk for freedom using bad software security than wielding to innocuous clauses.
I like the Team Fortress 2 model. You can buying things that have little to no effect to game play like hats or different looking/sounding weapons and many can be obtained by playing it or other steam games for free. It is equatable to the players and massively profitable for Valve. The Games remain a game of skill and not solely a money extracting machine.
There is a helper iOS app that allows for integration with Spotify/Instagram/Philips Hue, but that's not publicly available yet. Currently, it's essentially a proof of concept and you can say commands like "GoogolPlex tell me a programming joke."
Advertising affects you, whether you like to admit it or not. To steal a line from the movie, "you are not the special" (sorry couldn't resist).

It wasn't "just a movie". The affect may be subtle, subconscious, or non-obvious, but it is undeniably there.

Disclaimer: I really enjoyed the movie also.
What's the use of this? I would imagine Facebook's end of year review was a clone of Vizify's idea? Anyhow, how was this idea be profitable for this startup to stay alive? I have never heard of it to be honest. To me this looks like http://osrc.dfm.io/ and FB's end-of-year review
I deliberately left dabblet out because command + shift + left (the shortcut programmed into my brain for 'select this entire line') closes the editor. Annoying as hell.
Chrome is dropping NSS for OpenSSL: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ML11ZyyMpnAr6clIAwWrXD53...
Why do people keep saying this? It's blatantly wrong, as mentioned multiple times by the JodaTime author itself.
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+1 for plunker next, hell yeah. Thanks for sharing.
That's good to hear. Thanks very much for your thoughts :)
And Ebay was the first mover in the online auction space. I'm sure we can cherrypick counterexamples all day, but in general the first mover enjoys an advantage those that come after do not.
Punching your boss would be a very poor response to this situation.
Unlike Warren Buffet, Carl Icahn only buys into companies he thinks are run poorly. Usually he is able to push the company around to make a profit. He also thought Apple was pretty poorly run but he gave up[1] trying to convince others of that.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/genemarcial/2014/02/14/whats-up-...

[1b] http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/10/us-apple-icahn-idU...

[1c] http://www.foxbusiness.com/investing/2014/02/11/icahn-apple-...
I guess that would depend on your definition of improve. He is really most interested in 'improving' the value of his holding in the company so he can make a tidy profit for himself and his investors. I'm pretty sure he couldn't care less if the target company really 'improved' after he has liquidated his position.

Edit: Also, one of the big things a lot of activist investors try to force companies to do is issue a larger dividend (or just issue one if the haven't) or buy back stock. These things are good for the shareholders not necessarily the company. It's important to remember that Icahn is a shareholder and is interested in taking care of shareholders not companies.
A research paper by four academics from different universities and published by the Federal Reserve in 2006 found no evidence that hedge funds destroyed value for the companies or were short-term focused.[1]

I have not gone through the whole paper myself, but it was noted in one of the books I read recently (I forget which one specifically mentioned it, I think John Bogle's "Enough").

[1] http://www.fdic.gov/bank/analytical/CFR/2006/oct/hedge_fund....
Mocking on the basis of the clumsiest possible option isn't very convincing, it's just lazy.
Looks like they are shutting Zite down:
http://variety.com/2014/digital/news/cnn-sells-zite-news-app...
Glad to hear it. As Luke noted, we've been using d3 more and more, particularly for this release. We've all been really please with its flexibility.
Wrong: I'm sure it is. I did it without tests and didn't go through the logic carefully since that wasn't at all the point. The design was.

Performance: could be. If your context is one where performance is paramount and trumps readability/maintainability, that may certainly be easier to achieve with less factored code. I spent zero time trying to optimize the code.

I suspect this design doesn't make that as hard as you make it sound, though. My team writes code in the style of my example, and we don't have problems optimizing when it's called for. Though we avoid optimizing at the expense of readability unless we see a real problem.

I find it interesting that you think my example is clearly "more complex" and "less readable". I, of course, feel it is the other way around.

The fact that you've worked (mostly on your own, going by the contributor stats) on this library for ten years will of course mean that you know your way around it.

As a visitor to the codebase, I see big classes and big chunks of code that require me to load a lot into my head and digest it before I can make sense of it. Breaking that up a little means I can make sense of a smaller piece of more self-documenting logic, then dig down to lower abstractions as needed.

If you're saying that you find your way around your code better than my refactored code, I believe you.

If you're saying you think the refactored code would be harder to understand for the average developer, I think you're dead wrong.
In other words, something akin to 95th percentile billing? Odd that you didn't use terms like that in the response. Most experienced hosts or ISPs would.
That second chart is most telling: https://twitter.com/shanley/status/440591732283961344/photo/...

Sure it took them 10 years... but they did finally get to the point that they pretty much match the BLS number. So what is their problem exactly? They didn't get there fast enough? This just strikes me as one of those never enough issues. They got there... late... but there. But damn them anyway.

And as others have mentioned, we would need to compare this to a plot of all applicants for each year. More important than "percentage of funded companies that had 1+ female" would be "percentage of companies with 1+ female that got funded." Those are two totally different data points.
In my experience, the frontend is not really the best place to implement undo. The challenge I had was keeping everything in sync with the server across a multitude of different possible and sometimes complex operations (my case included splices on a time axis, with side effects). It was simply more feasible to just let the server handle it all than have code doing the same thing on both sides, in addition to having to design a web service API that optimized for data size across the pipe.
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Thanks! I'll have to look into it in the ACE-based editors. Since it's Javascript, I should be able to enable it even if the implementer didn't explicitly do so (unless they ripped it out).
It seems that antirez believes he's allowing Redis to approach AP and/or CP semantics by providing primitives that users can compose in ad-hoc ways according to their requirements.

Unfortunately, that's not a valid methodology to achieve availability or (especially) consistency.
hmm, using function declarations in a post-Crockford world? still good work though.
So a US prosecutor gets to throw a man in jail for two years on trumped up charges and before any trial say "oopsies!" and suffer no consequences.

Giving prosecutors enormous power and absolute immunity is a recipe for abuse, our justice system is fundamentally broken.
Actually I tried to reply to the question of the original poster. Now I'll try to reply to your question: consensus algorithms are only used to implement the strong consistency requirements of CP databases, like for example Zookeeper. Other databases that don't feature strong consistency like Riak and Cassandra don't rely on consensus algorithms. Redis also has a form of weak consistency that does not require consensus (the merging function is, in the special case of Redis, just picking the "history" that seems the most updated, plus other systems to try to bound divergence to a given fixed amount). You can read more about the exact implementation here: http://antirez.com/news/70

This is sometimes referred as "optimistic replication" in the literature AFAIK but I'm not 100% sure.
On that page all I'm getting is text:

"Pricing Tour Support Sign up Login"

No links. View source code shows html though.

This is on ffox latest and safari latest.
The first argument is: It's easier to find people that already know how to use a more popular language. I don't like this argument. Why not take it all the way and drop ruby for a more popular programming language? Or, if they don't know HTML/JS but do know ruby, why not write a ruby tool to generate HTML and JS? Taken all the way, there's no reason to ever use a DSL.

I think that if your coworkers won't learn something new that's their problem to fix, not yours.
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And what happens when the spike causes the reaching of request limit?
To be fair, that style works just fine as well, if you prefer it.

request url, ((response) ->
handle response),
(error) ->
handle error
Darn. Any way you'd be willing to share said helper app? If so, DM me on Twitter - @zachfeldman

I'd be happy to contribute/test stuff!
This is a myth. Screen readers have no problem with ordinary sites built with JavaScript. WebAIM did a survey of screen reader users, and 98.6% have JavaScript enabled when they browse the web.

http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey4/#javascript

People that use screen readers use ordinary browsers, like IE, Firefox and Chrome. They don't use special browsers, screen readers read the whole screen.
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Our wiki is brand new this week, so I am glad you like it! If you haven't seen already, you can click on the 'see it in action' button to see a gif that walks you through lots of the setup steps. We'll definitely think about your suggestion for the tour page though. Thanks for the feedback :)
> The problem is that the GPL willingly refuses to permit advertizing clauses. Is there a congent argument about why an advertizing clause is a limitation of freedom

The advertising clause is not a limitation on freedom. The 4-clause BSD license is a free software license; it just happens not to be compatible with the GPL (not all free software licenses are).

The reasons for this are very practical: not only does it place additional restrictions on the software (which is not permitted by the GPL), but if multiple 4-clause BSD projects are used, each project requires its own separate advertising statement (the 4-clause license does not permit combining these into a single sentence): https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/bsd.html

> The reason the GPL is annoying is that free license with an advertizing clause have existed for a very long time and are actually widely used.

Most modern projects using permissive licenses use 3-clause BSD, MIT/X11, or Apache, all of which are compatible with the GPL. In this day and age, choosing a 4-clause BSD license is a fairly conscious decision to make the project incompatible with the GPL.
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Of course it's simplistic. A gang is made up of criminals and criminals are defined by the largest occupying gang. Gangs are like government startups if you will. They offer protection and services and represent themselves with flags and other branded accessories to distinguish themselves from competing enterprises. Fortunately in this market customer consent isn't entirely necessary. It's an industry where the market share is determined only by what you can extort or point a gun at. Taking neighboring turf is risky, but highly profitable. The higher ups will send the low ranking gangsters to serve a higher cause such as brotherhood and civility, and ultimately serve bullets to the neighboring gangsters (as identified by their distinguishable uniforms). Sure they may die, but they did it serving a greater cause. Of course, all parallels drawn here are merely coincidental.
It is a real cli. What it's not is a unix shell.
I can't speak for all of them but I use Xamarin at work, and it absolutely does translate to native look and feel for the app. Although once you get to the GUI layer, it's not much more than a thin C# wrapper for the native OS framework and you have to write a lot of platform specific code. But everything else is cross-platform. And you're coding in C# and not Objective-C (or Java), which is a more predictable and less verbose experience, at least for me, and I've made half a dozen apps using Objective-C.
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It's still an important filter though and I think should have been mentioned. For people that think they want to get into startups but are unaware of the realities of the salaries, benefits, bonuses, number of raises etc, becoming aware of that is more important than deciding where you can help.
It is not sad at all. These guys are talented and have been working on a product that very few people are really going miss. Hopefully they are now going to be working on products and projects that people actually care about.

Sad is when Napster shutdown.
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I totally agree. I think the point most people are trying to make here is not that this _is_ illegal, but that it should be made illegal.
Lots of pessimism in this thread let me try to even it out a little.

I personally backed this when it was on Kickstarter for $35 and do not regret my decision. I have used FontAwesome in the past as well as a few other free alternatives. While the javascript-less-ness of FA is nice (Iconic has a webfont), the quality of the icons themselves and their level of customization comes no where near Iconic. Many people have mentioned the multiple colors on 1 icon but I haven't seen anyone talk about the ability to easily theme all icons with just a couple lines of css, which makes the multiple color thing more appealing.

Additionally, Iconic is available as Webfont and PNG if so desired. They are also working on a number of additional features that I find interesting (bottom of the features page https://useiconic.com/feature-index/), specifically ExtendScript for Illustrator and then generation via Grunt.

I am pleased with my $35 purchase and have no reservations about paying the $99 for a commercial license if it fits the project (like any icon set you choose!)...However, for those who haven't had a chance to try it I really wish there was a cheaper/free option for experimenting.
... used a particular hacking method called a sequel injection to exploit ...

Are the legal docs not proofread?
Perhaps 'OpenSpray' to keep with the theme?
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Background info on me:
- Founded a few companies;some successful, some not
- Mid 30s, 2 kids, wife mortgage, VP job
- Decent 'hacker', former developer, current marketer, not to be trusted with developing solid code base

- Last startup: because of my other obligations I attempted to do everything as solo-founder during evenings and weekends. End results: Nearly 9 months to build useable beta; competitors started popping up around 4 months into my build; by launch, I was exchausted and lost most of my motivation...

TODAY:

I have a idea (probably my best/biggest yet) and am ready to begin prototyping. What I'm trying to decide is this:

I have no cofounder prospects, I still have obligations and while I technically "can" build a working prototype, I'm going to be slower than most / sloppy.

I am willing to commit my own funds; can raise some funds through business development grants/loans/etc.

So, the questions is: Does anyone have advice experience with:

- Outsourcing the development work of a start-up to freelancers or production houses? What are my rights, how exposed to the risk of stolen ideas, etc am I?

- Bringing on an unknown co-founder and/or hiring someone to build this as an employee before I'm even a full-timer...

- Or advice on what you'd do in the same situation.

Would love to discuss and am willing to share as much as possible...

Thanks.
The lack of visual clutter like brackets, semicolons, the var keyword, and the addition of significant whitespace are some of Coffeescript's strengths.

Some others are loop variable initialization, better hasOwnproperty checks, destructuring assignment, null soaking on objects, string interpolation, and array ranges.

I've never found a good case for named functions over function expressions, other than maybe arbitrary order of source code. Even then, I usually put functions at the top of my files before they would be used in the script's execution. But to each their own.

I don't use list comprehensions that often.

I'd take CS over JS any day.
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Apple computers are still just as open and customizable as they have ever been. Arguably more so, since OSX came along with a proper Unix.
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