skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is git rebase the "prominent feature" you're referring to? If so, I don't see why you would justify using it in a way that is known to cause problems, even if you're using it for its intended purpose. To use a crude analogy, the `rm` command is a prominent feature which is intended to remove files, and we all know the obvious way to use it, but it's still your fault if you deliberately go around rm'ing your important files.
A significant number of devices on the web don't have keyboards. They use touch as their primary interface. Please support touch devices.
I dont consider those business'. Theyre organizations. Which is fine and they do great things.
Odd: Mega Removing Any File It Can Find That Is Publicly Indexed
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If you subscribe to my newsletter, you'll get an updated version of the gamasutra article that you linked.
I'm not posting this on HN because it contains some fancy new technology, or JS library, or because it's some revolutionary idea. Plot Shift is just a fun side project I've been working on for the last few months. It's the first site I've "launched" so I am eager to get feedback on the concept, implementation, etc.

It doesn't have nearly all of the features I'd like it to have, but in the spirit of lean/bootstrap/agile, I just wanted to get it out in front of people ASAP and I plan to implement features as needed.
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A messaging system should really be very attentive to performance. If it itself is a bottleneck, it's not possible to create anything that requires performance on top of it. And by performance I mean time constraints as well.
Ask HN: How do you message prospects during signup?
As part of our signup process, we capture contact information. We are trying to improve our onboarding process and conversion funnel with relevant emails depending on what the prospect has or hasn't completed. How do you currently do this?

We currently use MailChimp, Mandrill, MixPanel, HeapAnalystic and a bit of custom integration but would really like something more end-to-end.

We are looking to send different emails depending on at what stage of onboarding the prospect is, how many times we have contacted them before regarding the same topic, or how responsive the person is so that we can back off with emails if they seem to have lost interest.

Is there anything plug and play out there?
Why is it "questionable"? It seems mostly IO, not CPU bound. Java gives you platform independent access to memory mapped files and non-blocking I/O.
Is there a good "getting started with beeminder" guide? I tried Beeminder, and had no idea how to use it.
Open floorplans are great for hackathons and bugfixes for system integration in fire-fighting mode. It's disastrous for actual feature implementation.
I have a bachelor's degree in computer science, and I coded a few side projects.

And I'm considering going open source.
Youtube search is down
Speed Up Your Rails Specs
CanIUse update: Ten more features added
Either that or everyone at Lob is upvoting this like crazy.
>Am I assuming right that the joke lies in Spritz being a VC funded startup and squirt.io just a weekend hack?

Squirt.io was in stealth mode for 6 years!! </snide>
The tragic thing is that some of the Baltic states (eg Estonia) have shown nifty ways to make ID cards benefit the public, having keypairs on the card and application integration etc. But this is only useful IF we can trust the system won't be abused - which at the moment we really can't. In the west an ID system would be primarily used for making immigrants second class citizens and turning everyone into immigration enforcement vigilantes.
I am stalking Lob :) I respect what those folks are doing and may be a client/reseller soon. IMO the pricing now reflects what the end user is willing to pay but when it gets lower it will allow my company to integrate their services and resell them for a small profit (to fund the work). I'm looking for signs from Lob that they are going to be like Twilio, fanatically supporting users... constantly lowering the price and being dead simple/easy to use. They seem on the right track but trust is the most important part of API sales, again IMO.
I've tried several of these, and I really think jetzt https://github.com/ds300/jetzt is the best one. It has a progress bar, keyboard shortcuts, and I particularly like the way it wraps words in enclosing elements - like quotations and parentheses - when the word being displayed is within the enclosure.
Just can’t [a]wait (in .NET 4.0)
That would be more efficient.

The current web platform must have already been built or it was a template, so the current approach is more ad-hoc.
Seems most cultures have to go thru a "dirty" phase to go from 3rd to 1st world conditions. Considering the now-and-soon benefits, it's easy to ignore the costs of disposal decades/generations hence.

Helps that it's a sealed box. Stick it on a truck and haul it away somewhere suitable, or even just leave it buried where it is - the contents are not going anywhere, it should just sit there and be warm forever.
Modular Programming Versus Object Oriented Programming
Ask HN: How does one increase their reputation on SO
Trying to kill two birds here about interesting technologies - with an experiment.

I'd like to better understand 1) Github pull requests for document editing/collab, the examples seem very interesting - and 2) what it takes to get more rep on SO.

Not "write good answers".. Everybody knows that. I'm talking about the unwritten rules that maximize the time spent in gaining points. Max the time spent helping others, if you must look at it that way. SO points is very interesting to me as a currency, they do have value and alot of expensive devs time is spent in earning them.

If you have any really smart, helpful tips please join this experiment via pull request to https://github.com/dpweb/Getting-Reputation-on-Stack-Overflow

They should be white hat, in that they don't break terms of service or game the system directly, such as create a bunch of fake acocunts and upvote your own stuff, etc..

Thx,
Garbage collection is a big downside since it introduces an implicit level of uncertainty and unpredictability performance wise. For intense I/O I'd also go with C++ over Java in general.
If some folks were just trying to pay the bills, working in government or biotech would be fine. What kind of bills are we talking about? I think it's more that sex and photo sharing, at the moment, net an excess of wealth quickly and efficiently.
Thanks, so the answer is no, as long as that open source version is vaporware.

The reason I asked is that once they get purchased by, say, Google or Facebook, their cloud services will probably get either shut down, or severely constrained. I'm not interested in sinking resources into a platform based on question marks.
By the way, that's the best toy quadcopter I've ever used (sample size of 4), and to say it fits in the palm of your hand is overstating its size. Three or four of them would easily fit in the palm of your hand, or the quadcopter and its tiny controller: http://cdn9.modelairplanenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11...
Do you own a Phantom or Phantom 2? The latter, which is referred to in the linked article, uses a much higher capacity LiPo battery (5,200mAh vs 2,200mAh) and consequently has double the flight time. However, you are correct in stating that adding a gimbal and camera will reduce flight time.
I find that i'm not visualizing what I'm reading nearly as effectively. I think contextual clues of seeing words "in place" may be underrated.
You're describing basically a high-end consultancy or niche enterprise business. These jobs exist, and they aren't particularly hard to find, but you do have to go out and actively search for them. Companies like this don't make the news; they build personal relationships with companies in their industry and then quietly get contracts. You find out about them through your network; once you've worked in an industry for a while you'll know all the niche players, and probably be able to get a job there if you're any good.

I interned at one of these in college. I found it wasn't personally for me, because a.) the pace of work was too slow and b.) customers can be a bitch, with often conflicting requirements, and when you're a mid-size enterprise business you don't get to aggregate many customers together into a product. But for someone with a different risk/reward tradeoff from myself, they can be very pleasant places to work.
This sounds like what I do with Metasploit already just with substantially more cryptographic muscle lol
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When you see Waterfall, Agile as a process, yes they are dead in the software industries.

If you see them as a practice, it vary team to team, project to project, time to time. Agile is NOT dead. It was not there at all.
Chef Jamie Oliver Proves McDonald’s Burgers "Unfit for Human Consumption"
They aren't exactly low quality and nearly all tech news websites report from the same sources. Additionally we do have original content as well, but thanks for the tip..
I really enjoy your games and (especially) the tutorial side. Great stuff! But I have been a bit put off by the frequent plugs for your newsletter. Of course, you couldn't have known that before commenting here, and so I hesitated a while before posting this. But I figure it may be a useful data point.

In any case, I hope you keep up the great work, I'll certainly be following!
Yes, you're right. I was going to mention it, but I thought it would be understood.

Sadly, because sites are so bad on mobile, mobile browsers don't do pinch-to-zoom anymore, and that messes my html-only (no css, no js, valid html5) pages utility.
how is this different from skia - the cross platform graphics library for android and chrome?
Except A haven't stopped making things in spite of B's and C's and D's refusal to pay, because Z pays.
Plus, from the get go, if there was a price tag attached to it, C and D wouldn't consume, only B and Z. So the loss is only of B's copy. C and D convinced X that A's product is good and X pays, offsetting B and more value is generated because more people watched the movie.
I used to believe this was only theoretical and the both sides didn't offset; but piracy has not killed industries so...
Do you not pay for your car/bus and truck licences in the USA.

And dont forget its the bus riders taxes that help pay for those roads too.
That's mischaracterising my position, so I don't doubt you're puzzled.
This is exactly why God doesn't approve of a networking stack.

Wake up, sheeple.
The fact that you think glitch mob is dubstep leads me to believe that you are extremely out of touch.
What kind of demographics are you using? We use Seewhy for conversion management, but with the nerdier group, they are likely to run adblock/ghostery/requestfilter, which blocks all of these tags (like they're supposed to).
I found that while I could read and gather individual meaning from sentences that I couldn't grasp the meaning of an entire article from this. They all seemed disjoined somehow. My mind wasn't able to pause to digest what a sentence meant and how it linked back to the paragraph I was reading and the article as a whole.
By seeing the entire article my mind starts to make connections between paragraphs and then to the entire article. With seeing a single word at a time this was lost.

Also I found it hard to follow sentences between brackets for some reason.
Instead of worrying about the domain expertise you don't have, focus on how you can use the domain expertise you do have in a new domain. Some significant fraction of the healthcare problems faced in India, are just pervasive general problems from which healthcare is not exempt.

For example, getting an individual's blood sample in front of a diagnostician is a logistical or communication problem that can be solved similarly to any other information delivery bottleneck. It just happens to be carrying a stethoscope today.

One thing I will say, is that finding the problems won't be done sitting at a computer. You've got to care enough to get out in the world and observe the messy details.

Good luck.
Really quick here --

Most of the communities that existed before the oil boom would have been fine without it. Some small towns were slowly dying, but the major players and what was effectively their suburbs (South Heart's relationship with Dickinson for example) left the region stable.

For those that were slowly circling the drain of death, they've been handed a fate even worse.
Yes this is ironic.

But let's not judge the article and assertion based on our preconceived bias against Goldman Sachs. I think that their conclusion “We would argue that bitcoin, and other digital currencies, lie somewhere on the boundary between currency, commodity and financial asset” makes a lot of sense.

Really, Bitcoin does have more similarities to a commodity than a currency (especially a fiat currency). It's fungible, untraceable, and unregulated.
A lot of it has to do with the bubble economy. A bubble economy doesn't create substance, it just focuses on returns. Ever since the bailout, money has been cheap and "tech" showed some of the best returns—second only two developing markets.

Google and Apple have record revenues and profits and are propping up everything else. Everyone, including Facebook, thinks they are going to be the next Google. And as long as money remains cheap, it will keep flowing into tech without bounds. You look at a company like LinkedIn—a company with a P/E near 1000—and you can see is clear as day. Even sustainable businesses like Amazon have had their stock price inflated through the roof with cheap money looking for a good return.

When the bubble pops things will reset in the Bay Area. Money will go somewhere else and only the companies which have real businesses will survive. Right now, money is still cheap. Investors will continue to invest in cool apps, and public companies will continue to purchase those apps with funds from the people's retirement to stay relevant. Just like with every bubble, the person on the hook at the end of the day is the average citizen.
Your game is amazing! I really enjoy it. Ported it over to Firefox OS so that people in 16 countries can be introduced to it. https://marketplace.firefox.com/app/2048~/
Not sure if you're looking for critique, and giving critique has sometimes been discouraged on HN, but:

It's pretty good for a week of work. Though there's a difference between being challenging and being annoying. Many of the level design elements could be classified as a "dick move." An example would be not making it clear the goal is to collect all the coins until after the player has bypassed some of them and reached the end.

In general the controls are too sluggish. It's as if triple buffering is enabled, or maybe quad buffering. If you're at a university, you should try to borrow a high speed camera and measure the time difference between when someone presses the spacebar vs when the character starts to jump. I don't know if it's a Chrome thing or what, but I fell off cliffs several times due to the input delay.

The gravity could be better. I'd recommend spending some time with Cave Story to get a feel for how to make gravity really work in the player's favor, rather than against them. In general it's a bad idea to make velocity strictly linear. Some acceleration adds to the experience and precision.

A checkpointing system would be good. I can see how most players will give up after getting mostly to the end and then dying. I think you should just restart players from the last point that they were on the ground without dying, that is, the most recent ledge that they were standing on.

It shows promise. If you're looking for feedback about how to advance as a game developer, one step would be to make sure you're not rewriting your entire game engine from scratch for each game. It's excellent that you're writing your own engines rather than trying to use other people's, so be sure to keep doing that. It's important for gamedevs to have an idea of the underlying principles and limitations, and the best way to do that is to write your own engines. I got the feeling that most of the week was spent on the engine rather than iterating on the gameplay or level design though. Teaming up with an artist or a level designer might be a good match.
I backed their Kickstarter, and have also met the guys and seen those airframes in person at their "Game of Drones: Flight Club" meetups in SF [0]. You're right that they still use normal propellers, and that those will be the weak spot when ramming into things. But the point is simply that the airframe itself is sturdy and nearly indestructible. They're designed to battle in the air against one another, which inevitably causes lots of falls and prop replacements. They're not meant to be "reliable" in the sense that they could fly autonomous missions repeatedly or serve other commercial purposes. They're meant to be beaters.

[0] http://www.gameofdrones.biz/#!sumostory/c2kw
All of YouTube is down for me (in Norway). Getting 502 Server Error on both front page and video view page.
The main threat that BitCoin poses is that it bypasses all existing financial institutions. The only way the financial industry is going to be OK with that is if they can find a way to profit more from BitCoin than they would have been able to otherwise.
I did wonder if its the disruption to local political machines that is part of this.
Amazon's War On The House Of Otto, Germany's $18 Billion Family
How a startup took a piece of Bezos's pie - Unbundling the Washington Post
One behavior I wish they copied from Sublime Text is how tabs are opened. In Sublime, if you single click a file, it will show you its content but will not place an open tab in the tab bar. A tab is opened only when double clicking a file or if you start to edit a file. I accumulate so many tabs when just trying to reference things in IntelliJ.
> but they are some of the most down-to-earth, dependable, hard working people I have met. They are definitely more "real" than many of the people I've met in the city.

They also have managed to bring in a crime problem that didn't previously exist. As 'real' as they people may be, there is a larger portion of them that are prone to committing felonies it seems. That's the problem people have with them.

And it's not a function of population either. Looking at Fargo, Metro area population 220k~, we see a crime rate significantly lower than that of Williston and even Dickinson.
I figured someone would take this tack (hipster warby parker bloggedy blog) in response to revulsion at this scene. But I agree with GP, it's gross and sounds like a living nightmare.
Intel's Move Into Networking: from Chips to SDN
Lessons Unlearned While Working At A Startup
> the notion that developers somehow intuitively know agile and management is ruining it is straight up BS

Not in my experience. If there are a bunch of PMs and managers, you're going to find that they keep right on doing management and PM stuff, no matter what Agile Manifesto they think they latched onto.

Management: "This project is going to take you 13 sprints."

Right away, you're in trouble.

Management: "What's with your burn-down rate? We're four days into this sprint and we don't see any progress."

What replaces management is micromanagement.

Manager in the middle of the daily scrum: "Okay, let's go around and get status from everyone."

Yup. Status. For management.

Management: "You need to drop what you're doing and work on feature X for next week."

"But we're in the middle of the sprint."

"Oh, that."

To make it really work, you have to start nuking job positions. And at a big company that is hard.
None of you know what inbox zero really is.
Anyone else find the graphics in the slides as almost too bad, that they aren't believable?
Mining Ultracoin
I grant that funding for the War on Terror has taken place. But I also don't think that a real, formal declaration of war has been approved.

So, is the USA at war or not? I suspect (but I'm only 52% certain) that we're not at war.

The follow-on questions (after "are we at war or not?"):
In what state are we? What are the legal ramifications of this half-at-war-state? Why hasn't the US Congress declared war since WW2? Is there some consequence to declaring war or not declaring war that they're trying to avoid?
Where I work, you prefix the name of your branch with your username, like "acchow/new-feature". This tells other people "do not touch this branch because its history will be changed by acchow".

Alternatively, if you use github, you can set access controls on forks to read-only and send pull requests from your fork to the main repo.
I did not sleep last night. I did not work the whole of yesterday (well, I resigned from my job yesterday). Please keep the game up till I start my new job.
From my understanding, the prices vary usually because they are including insurance up to a certain amount if things go wrong with the certificate.

SSLs.com (formerly cheapssls.com) has them for reasonable prices like this one you can get for 5 bucks a year (which is ultimately issued by Comodo).

http://www.ssls.com/comodo-ssl-certificates/positivessl.html
I've never heard of StepUp.io until now, but this is great content to get your name out. Some great sound bites here!
Sure, everything has to be regulated; but how do you propose to regulate and then how do you propose to enforce those regulations?
I think cubes are actually worse than open plan; in a cube you can't see that someone is working intently three feet away, and you don't see their death glare.
Cool, thanks for the pointers!
I was in error, I repeated this without confirming and looking at "market cap" pages led me to believe it was true.
There's some bug ending games early, so this is pretty much a button mashing contest. Also, when games end early, it doesn't properly declare the winner. I assume something's broken in detecting if the board has no moves: http://i.imgur.com/4XBGCzI.png
I get muuuuuch more than 6-8 minutes with my phantom 2 and gimbal. I don't like to push it, so my longest flights are usually ~15 minutes, but I always have at least ~30% battery remaining. In addition to providing power to the gimbal, the phantom 2 is also giving some juice to the gopro, and to a fpv transmitter.
> If you have any really smart, helpful tips please join this experiment via pull request to https://github.com/dpweb/Getting-Reputation-on-Stack-Overflo...

This is a classic example of self-reference -- the answer to your question is buried in your question. The way to "get more rep" on SO is to provide "really smart, helpful tips" with some steadiness and reliability. Or be funny. Or both.

It's very simple, not rocket science.
Kafka is mostly in Scala (which runs on JVM). Scala provides many attractive features to build scalable and type-safe code. And about performance, Kafka is used of LinkedIn and it process hundreds of gigabytes of data, close to a billion messages per day (reported in their paper in 2011), and the engineers claim that they're processing terabytes of data a day now.

Not sure on what basis you claim the choice of language to be "questionable", but keep in mind that Scala's type-safety and many other features are much more difficult to achieve in C/C++. Cleaner code is sometimes more important than some tiny gain in performance.

Also in terms of scaling, Kafka cleverly takes advantage of many aspects in their design to ensure low-latency high-throughput.

* Little random I/O

* Relying heavily on the OS pagecache for data storage

Performance-wise, Kafka can outshine some of the in-memory message storing message queues.

Source:
http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#design

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/srikanth/netdb...