skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vim and emacs have captive user interfaces.

With many well-placed escape routes. Again, think of them as guidelines, not hard unbreakable rules. The overarching gestalt is to make tools that can be used by other tools. vim and emacs happen to be the user of other tools (acting as a shell) most of the time, but they can also be used as tools by other programs (mutt opens your editor of choice for composing messages, for instance). They also use all flat text for their configuration and scripting.

MP3 encoders like LAME write binary data files.

So? That's their job. Their configuration is done from the command line and via flat text. They are filters.

Again, the "flat text files" rule is not that you're not allowed to work on non-text data (that would be stupid; a lot of real world data, maybe most of it, is not representable as plain text). It's that when you have the option, you choose flat text, because it is easier to work with from other programs than yet another custom database or file format. Tools using tools is the UNIX philosophy. LAME is used by hundreds or thousands of other tools. It is definitely of the UNIX nature and one of the more successful examples of it.

You're viewing things as some kind of dogma. That's not UNIX-y. Solving problems is UNIX-y, and there are some good rules of thumb that have been developed over the past 30+ years for solving problems in ways that stand the test of time. The fact that grep, sed, and so on, are used more today than 30 years ago is a testament to the strength of those ideas. Just because some folks ignore that wisdom doesn't make it invalid.
I'm also curious about why companies might want to opt out of the news aggregator.

Although I'm wondering why companies even have a say in it. Isn't the aggregation involved fair use? If I start my own news aggregator do I have to ask publishing companies permission? I feel like I should be able to just aggregate them whether they like it or not.
I love Geany (for Linux and Windows)
http://www.geany.org/

I spent a while looking for a replacement for my old favorite PSpad when I switched from windows, and this was it.
The only thing I check on facebook is the pictures of the babies of my brothers :-) I only see my nephews once every 3 months, so facebook is great there! And occasionnaly I send a message to an old acquaintance from high school or get an invitation to go to some event. That is great.

But all the useless talk that make up 90% of the facebook experience... it's stupid the author is right there.
I also like vim but I sometime feel jealous of the emacs users for debugging and org mode.
> [Writers] ... are busily grafting the sophisticated, intensely aware literary language of Modernism onto the sturdy narrative roots of genre fiction: fantasy, science fiction, detective fiction, romance.

And McSweeney's (quarterly concern and, less so, internet tendency)! Hit and miss, but they have such a cheerfully aggressive attitude about pollinating literary fiction with genre fiction with a complete disdain for works of literature-for-literature's-sake.
> I have never signed any paperwork, I have simply built what they wanted and been paid.

You really need to talk with a competent attorney. And no, asking other folks what they did doesn't count because you don't know what differences between their situation and yours matter and how. Heck - you're not likely to see the differences. Besides, there's no guarantee that they got it right.

There's a chance that you don't own what you've written. There's another chance that any of your customers could give it away. And so on.

HN is not the place to deal with legal issues. We don't know the right questions or what the answers mean. We don't know what's possible. And so on.
Visual Studio + viemu for vi keybindings. The sum of the two is far greater.
You're standing on a good industry podium, least you could do is have an email address in your profile. You never know who might be able to sell your software for you on a commission.

Don't hesitate to shoot me an email :-)
It's interesting to read Guy talk about Twitter. Twitter's pretty new, and still pretty lawless, so you still get a lot of people really openly discussing how best to use Twitter to do nothing more than advertise, to self-promote, or to keep the great handjob circle that is the Social Media and SEO Community.

Whereas, in most media, this kind of mercenary, soulless, absolutely content-free (how to change the world? What are you adding to the world, besides a lot more plugs for bullshit people don't need—much of it so worthless that it's only about how to do further advertising on twitter!) discussion and broadcasting would be called spam, or junk, or commercial hackery, we seemingly haven't matured to that point yet on the web. As far as I can tell, some of us have really bought the idea that our ruling class—that is, soi-disant 'SOCIAL MEDIA EXPERTS'—should be composed of those people who actually have the least to say. They are Social Media Experts because all they blog or twitter about is blogging and twittering. And why is that? Because their interest, indeed their avocation, is in the medium itself: how to advertise, how to worm their way into people's attention. If they had some field of interest or expertise that they wanted to excel in, they would use their online presences to communicate about it. But they don't; so instead they blog about twittering, and vice versa.

Anyway, what's interesting is that this is all above-board and approved of. I can only imagine that the fact that these folks have such an avid fanbase, seemingly enthralled by their newest bloviation on how to 'add value' are really only hanging on because they would like some day to be doing the same thing. Some day, maybe, there will be a Webcock News in addition to a Hacker News, people will catch on to the pernicious effect that these people have, and they will lose their inexplicable prestige.

Oh, you know what: I just realized the other reason that Guy still has so many hip, social media plebs debasing themselves in his direction: he's got the money! I should become a Venture Capitalist; then I could find out if hackers give good blowjobs.
Read this a while back and remember enjoying it quite a bit. (He talks about vi + other stuff).

[Original source seems to be unavailable at the moment]:

Interview with Bill Joy, August 1984, Unix Review magazine
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:N14AkASeqMoJ:www.cs.pdx....
Introducing NLP - Joseph O'Connor, John Seymour,
Propaganda - Edward Bernays,
Tragedy & Hope - Quigley,
Evolution of Civilizations - Quigley,
911: The Road to Tyranny - Alex Jones,
New Order of Barbarians,
AA-1025
Solar Roadways get prototype funding from DOT
Biologists napping while their work is militarized
Download Portable Photoshop CS4  
Tentunya semua sudah mengetahui aplikasi pengolah gambar nan cantik ini di lingkungan Windows yaitu Adobe Photoshop CS4, sebenarnya untuk menggunakan aplikasi ini harus mempunyai lisensi dari Adobe.
I watched through the video. And the man in the end of the clip correctly pointed out - Murdoch is a free market believer, which renders most of his words nonsensical.
"The only guarantee of freedom is profit"...
I'd say opposite - "the only guarantee of profit (for society in long run) is freedom",
Of course you can't make off with someone else's preexisting detailed plans.

But what if you brought as much or more to the planning as others? If your multitudinous 'partners' want vast credit for concepts and feature requests while you handle all the details and execution? If they're treating you like a 'contractor' (your analogy) when you know you're the prime mover? If there's nothing but vague oral agreements about future possibilities?

I see it as: Zuckerburg realized he could better do what he wanted to do -- indeed wanted to do even before meeting HarvardConnection -- on his own. They parted ways after barely 3 months of informal collaboration (while also full-time students).

No doubt both sides fumbled a lot of the communication. They were undergrads, after all. What did they know about clear agreements, scoping development efforts, clearly assigning IP rights of side projects, managing expectations, the value and novelty (or not) of ideas? A lot less than they all know now, I'm sure.
What a great exercise!

It can be hard to think of what you really care about: starting that way often leads to trying to deduce what you "should" care about. What you hate, though, is easily accessible. Negative emotions are right in your face, and they lead straight to clarity about what you deeply desire, if you follow the emotional thread for two hops or so.
It's not exactly the same thing, but tarsnap works on a pre-pay model with a minimum payment of $5 (and then bills people for their backup usage in attodollars).

Given that some people make larger payments than the minimum amount, this keeps the payment processing costs down to a reasonable level (slightly under 5%).
I suppose that like approaching a VC firm, it usually helps to have a personal introduction. If you have a friend at a tech company, have him pass along your resume to the recruiter. If you were in LA, I could hand your resume to a recruiter at my company on Monday and you could start next week. If you emailed in your resume, you might get called in a few months.

Another way in is to have an X-factor. If you have some special skills apart from hacking, find a company that could use those skills. In my case, as a former SAT/GRE/GMAT/LSAT instructor and center manager at Kaplan Test Prep, I was a tempting choice for a PHP Programmer at one of Kaplan's biggest competitors.
"Netscape and Enron promised to revolutionize their industries only to crash and burn"

Hard to believe they compare those two in the same sentence. Netscape made a great contribution to the early days of the consumer internet where as Enron was a complete scam through and through.
The End of Religious Wars
If you don't do all that, what do you do on facebook?
Coda love it, used to use textmate
1. It would be cool if...
2. Could it work that...
3. Let's get started!
The urls are different
The credits system is a good way to go, because you can get people to spend more when it doesn't feel like real money (a la Microsoft Points). Amazon Payments provides an easy way to do it too: https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business?sn=devfps/agg...
No, it doesn't. See comments here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=791586
He's not broadcasting. You have to subscribe to him to see the messages.

Do other people spam Twitter? Can Twitter be spammed? Is Twitter spam annoying? Should those people be hunted down and ejected from Twitter? Of course. What does that have to do with posting repeated useless things to your own Twitter stream?
I think that there are reasons that this article should be here, but "but still" is a terrible one. That's the kind of attitude that causes sites to decline in quality like Digg and Reddit. Criteria have to be rigidly enforced or things will go to shit.
Autism/Asperger's is a spectrum disorder; there's plenty of wiggle room, especially in adulthood.
My partner and I built a product, and we're currently selling to higher ed. He's been selling to higher ed for seven or eight years now, and I've been peripherally involved in selling to higher ed for four or five. I'd love a chance to chat about it, and my email is in my profile.

Without knowing more details, your price feels reasonable. You need to put together a solid, total package, and don't forget 18%/year in maintenance. If your clients are getting funding from an outside source on this, you need to grease the skids. There are people who do nothing but set up and administer grants. If you can hook up with one of them, you're golden.

The best way to learn to sell is to do it. Try to find yourself a mentor you can talk to about it, and just go for it. If you can learn how to effectively cold call, you can rule the world.

There are lots of crappy sales books, but there are many good ones. I like SPIN Selling by Rackham; it's researched, reasonable, and most other solution selling books that came out afterward just repackage Rackham's results. I like Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Red Book of Selling. It's mostly about maintaining a positive attitude while people are telling you no. This is necessary, because selling is a goddamn emotional roller coaster. Watch out for books aimed at the hard sell. You can't hard sell a university.

Good luck!
It's already usable from JS.

$.get("/time-thingy/utc/" + whatever, function(date) {
alert("your UTC timestamp is " + date);
});

Not to be snarky, though, but this seems pretty silly. What major web framework doesn't have natural-language date parsing? There are BSD-licensed C libraries that do it. Why remote that?
One other thought on pricing. I'm in a similar situation (niche market, expensive software, big clients that take a long time to sign). This can drain you and so you want to do everything you can to get cash coming in quickly.

Rather than just charging $20K in one fell swoop, can you turn it into a web application, and charge $1-1.5K a month for it? It depends on which number you'll have a hard time getting approval for, but it may be easier, especially if you give them the option to cancel any time, or at least within 60 days, etc.
Add in the combination of Resharper and Visual SVN, and it walks circles around anything else.
I don't understand, why do you not have intellisense at home?
The Express editions have intellisense, right?

http://www.microsoft.com/express/
Codewright. Very satisfied (since '01!). Too bad Borland killed it.

Ultraedit isn't bad, but it's not in quite the same class as Codewright.
First thing I tried was "today"

Got back an internal server error, and then got back 1pm tomorrow (even with the correct timezone).
gedit is a nice editor... I used it before switching to emacs... Some of the emacs modes offer a nice bit of additional power that gedit is lacking, plus gedit requires more dependency on the mouse than emacs.

but for people who are asking about textmate for linux... it's called gedit.
Read "If.... consistent...." -- There's your mistake.

I lived in LA for 23 years. Consider: Traffic means that a sometimes-20-minute commute can take 3 hours. And while you can sometimes predict sort of when it will take longer than it should, you can't always. Everyone has to be a lot more flexible. The alternative is to be willing to show up at every appointment an hour or two early... but most people aren't.

Who knows if this is the "root cause" -- I doubt it. But it certainly contributes to the "lets play it by ear" philosophy you find predominant in LA.
You only need 1 tutorial to discover vim, and it comes with the program and requires 20 minutes.

For me "discover" means "edit without the mouse." Once you do that, you're hooked - you can discover the voodoo magic at your leisure, from then on.
I've really enjoyed emacs... with the help of @technomancy's emacs starter kit:

http://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit

The starter kit serves as your .emacs.d and comes with some useful modes and easy customization.

I'm not yet maximizing all of the modes, but I am more productive than I've been in other editors, especially when it comes to switching between many open files with a few keystrokes.
Who you know is incredibly important in tough times, as byoung2 states. If you know someone in a company you're interested in, you're in a far better position to get access to an interview, at least.

Depending on your experience level and your offline personal/business network of connections, getting in on something like http://www.linkedin.com/ can be quite beneficial. It takes time to set it up and grow your network, but yields great potential in finding a way to someone inside companies you're interested in - and not just HR departments.

All said, LinkedIn isn't a short-term solution though.
True, I should have mentioned that!
Please learn what "begging the question" actually means. It does not mean "asks the question."

Sincerely,

Pedantic Philosophy Student
The HN submission is a wee bit inflamatory (the bill gives "Obama" the kill switch) The actual title of the article is "Senate Bill Would Give President Emergency Control of Internet".

Aside from that, surely there's a more appropriate (i.e. technically credible) source for the HN readership than Fox News.
Speed Dating for Hackers
This is what stimulus money should be directed towards.

And why isn't there a mandate to pain commercial flat tar roofs white yet?

We're so slow to adopt these ideas. Ideas which exist and can be implemented with a little effort.
It's a culture thing. Steve created a much more ambivalent relationship to external developers than the usual love affair most tech companies strive for.

Microsoft has always been about the ecosystem, for Apple third-parties are always a threat to a smooth user experience. When the video driver on your mom's PC crashes, does she blame Nvidia who wrote the code or Windows?
I wonder how long will it take for the theremin PCB schematics to be found on Pirate Bay :-D
I use aquamacs at home on my Macintosh, and GNU emacs on Windows XP at work. I have switched back and forth between emacs and vi/vim over the last 25 years because they are both great editors and have various advantages and disadvantages. I had been using vim back when I was using Ubuntu at home because the fonts looked better on vim than on emacs. Now that I have a Macintosh and can run aquamacs, I switched back to the emacs world. I admit I'm a sucker for pretty text.
Can we just let the whole Fox News vendetta go for a bit? Please? The web is full of all kinds of sources -- that's why we double and triple-source interesting news tidbits we see.

Continuing to trash one or the other sources that don't fit your ideals is just so much noise to everybody else who don't share your views. Hell -- for controversial articles I check sources on everything. So it's not germane to the nature of the story, which should stand (along with the title) on it's own merit.
Eclipse for Java. Zend Studio (built on Eclipse) for PHP/Javascript
I spent an afternoon wandering around the NetBeans profiler and have not opened Eclipse since. It has spoiled me.

http://www.netbeans.org/features/java/profiler.html
Apache killed netscape, not microsoft. Netscape's bread and butter is webserver, not a web browser.

Or so I heard.
Ikea changes logo to use Verdana font, designers angry
Yeah, I'm at Hacker Dojo now. Interesting it's still on Hacker News. It's my first time. There are about 7 people here or so. It's actually surprisingly quiet, kind of like a library, but I'm still in the front section. the back area is huge and I expect that is where most of the socialization will take place.

All in all, though, it's very nice here. Got a lot of hacking done.
Seems like very subjective results.

In my experience being a demanding prick is an often successful technique in defining social peking order.

Oddly though, it does seem common for someone with a cutup personality to butt heads with a demanding prick.

Full disclosure: I tell a lot of jokes :(
I think the jokes have more to do with not being able to take much seriously though than it is me trying to exert some type of social dominance. If I'm trying to exert anything its something along the line of: "hey lighten up."
Also, it handles time ranges, subject, verb, multiple time selections, and timezones of the person you're scheduling with. I've been using it for a long time already and it's pretty good at handling crazy stuff like:

"Meet with sam@gmail.com and jim@gmail.com next wednesday from 3pm to 9pm or first thursday of next month from 4pm to 8pm"

This creates an event that allows sam & jim to choose between these 2 dates. If presdo had an api to extract this information, I'd be on board!
I am concerned by the public's changing mood, in regards to entrepreneurs. In the 1970s the American government began the process of deregulation, which allowed some important innovations in the industries that were deregulated. Transportation was probably the first big industry effected, followed by many others.

My impression was that there was a stretch when some combination of the public mood and the government's emphasis conspired to encourage small startups. The 1980s and 1990s were clearly good in this respect.

The mood of the last decade has been increasingly punitive. An increasingly harsh attitude toward flexibility in the law has been evident elsewhere for some time, but in the last 10 years that attitude has increasingly been expressed in the field of business. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is the most evident expression of the new trend - what once would have been treated as a civil matter is now treated as a criminal matter.

At some point during the next 30 years I expect breakthroughs in biology to allow for a new wave of startups, if the government and the public allow those startups to exist. In matters relating to health, it is worrisome to consider what a punitive legal attitude means - a medical treatment that fails to perform leads to jailtime, rather than a lawsuit.

I think it is urgent that everyone who cares about entreprenurial culture in America to make the argument, to their friends and to strangers, that innovation in business depends in part on tolerance, and that, in practical terms, this means most matters of conflict should be treated as civil rather than criminal cases.

Once upon a time, before the mid 1800s, most Western countries treated bankruptcy as a criminal matter, rather than a civil one. The liberalization of bankruptcy law was one of the factors that allowed our modern economies to gain the dynamic nature they now enjoy. I would guess that most of us know someone who has tried to do a startup, failed on their first attempt, and then later met with greater success on successive tries. Tolerance of failure is the first pre-requisite of a dynamic economy.

Since the public seems at risk of forgetting this fact, we all need to make that case, to whoever is willing to listen.
Picky, and it looks like the post's title writer (but not gizmodo's) realized this, but it's not exactly a theremin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theremin
Good point, maybe we just have less money in Africa :D

A Macbook Pro is currently going for around $3500(USD), so its really hard for me to convince myself its worth it.
Putting American bandwidth caps into context
Thanks - what is scrubbing? I assume processing is the fee to be paid to the credit card transaction facilitator (not sure how they are called)?
Thanks, didn't know about Amazon Payments offering that kind of thing. Very interesting.
Are API providers blocking EC2/GAE IPs?
I was thinking more as a web service, so JSONP is for cross site XHR.

I assume someone would not have a good NL date parser for their environment, or won't be able to run it for some reason, or would simply prefer Chronic.

A lot of stuff that seems pointless ends up being useful, and vice versa. Assuming it's on Heroku's free plan, it costs nothing to run forever, so why not? If it helps 10 people, it already beat most web pages.
India loses Moon satellite links
I hate not reading stories on HN that are insightful, informative, or thought provoking.
Don't forget Enron was a different company before the 90s too; it's only when they started lying, manipulating the market and committing outright fraud that they became a scam.
Lure in with FREE, and make functional with standard features that already beat the competition. And charge for additional services innovative, fun, and attractive services.
You know, that's exactly how big companies treat bad PR. They'll just blame it on the employee, then fire the employee. The downside of Twestival is that it's all volunteers... sounds like the organizers need to man up and fire the volunteers.
Whats all the fuss? The average consumer would never even notice the difference. Looks the same. And for that matter, why would the company spend the money to make the change throughout the organization? Sounds like a waste of money, for little positive impact, and more negative response than is necessary.